Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Empowering Malawi:A Rapid Fund Proposal for Sustainable Wikimedia Impact (ID: 22441483)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
nmunthali
- Organization
N/A
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
N/A
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Empowering Malawi: A Rapid Fund Proposal for Sustainable Wikimedia Impact
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-04-01 - 2024-06-03
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Malawi
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Not applicable
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
Limited community engagement- The Malawi community faces challenges in terms of limited engagement and collaboration among the contributors. This results in the contributors working in isolation in providing content. Content Creation - Due to minimum and low collaboration of the contributors, the content that is created can result in duplication or not complete content as per requirement as each contributor will only be able to share their area of expertise. Awareness and ownership of the platform - There is need to someone to conduct awareness and be able to create groups that will be creating and providing content to provide the required content that is informational, educative and entertaining to the users
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
Conduct community empowerment workshops to enhance skills for the Malawian Contributors, making sure that they understand Wikipedia Editing techniques, collaboration skills, project management and more Conduct content creation campaigns, launching contests, and collaborative initiatives to enrich Wikipedia with diverse and high quality articles. Involve communities on the content creation, using influencers, to reach out to everyone Provide seminars, webinars, and community outreach to raise awareness for open knowledge within Malawi Monitoring and evaluation of all the processes that are being carried out in the project, making sure that we are able to track progress, assess impact of activities, gather feedback and be able to provide Wikipedia on updates of the project. Provides solutions that we make sure that the project is still running, through the provision of mentorship, creating new relationships for collaborations and community involvement.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
Engage the existing Wikipedia Contributors and new interested contributors and engage them in enhancing Wikipedia Editing skills, leadership and collaboration ideas. Collaborate with Schools, communities and organizations to involve students and professionals interested in contributing to Wikipedia projects work with local influential people that will be ambassadors that will encourage people participation and raising awareness
The engagement of the participants shall include, use of social media, community forums to announce upcoming activities and create awareness, generating interest among the participants, bringing together those that are already contributing and the would be content providers to have a question and answer session that will encourage collaboration among participants. Creation of workshops and events will be shared all over the social media to make sure participants share their experience, insights, and contributions. Provide surveys together feedback, areas of interests and improvements with the overall user experience. provide online forums where the participants can always interact with one another, sharing ideas, seeking advice and collaborating on projects. Providing mentorship programs that will bring in the experienced and new participants together and pair them on projects on the Wikipedia platform to provide ongoing support, guidance and skills development.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
N/A
- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Content Gender gap
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Advocacy
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Identify Topics for Impact
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | ||
| Number of editors | ||
| Number of organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
MMK
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
Endorsements and Feedback[edit]
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Community members are invited to share meaningful feedback on the proposal and include reasons why they endorse the proposal. Consider the following:
- Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
- Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
- Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
- Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).