Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Fulfulde General Wikipedia Awareness Kaduna (ID: 21955361)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Salihu Aliyu
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
N/A
- Organization
N/A
- Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.
1. Fulfulde Wikimedians User Group
- 2. Hausa Wikimedians User Group
- 3. Wikimedia Nigeria
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Fulfulde General Wikipedia Awareness Kaduna
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
Local
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
- R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
We plan to carryout 7days Wikipedia Awareness to promote fulfulde Wikipedia in Kaduna the capital city of Kaduna state and the second largest city in northern Nigeria and center of learning there's so many schools, colleges and academy in Kaduna. We plan to carryout this project to promote fulfulde Wikipedia within the whole Kaduna city and also to raise Wikipedia project and it's sisters project more especially fulfulde Wikipedia this is because there's a lot of Native Fulani speakers in Kaduna but most of them didn't know what is wikipdia projects and it's sisters project means and don't know how to used Wikipedia as a academy field of research and studies. We will be walking all over the Kaduna city especially the major schools and historical areas there's also 2days training we will train our new editors and existing editors on how to create, edit and improve Wikipedia contents, there is also radio awareness. I believe this will promote fulfulde Wikipedia and Wikipedia in general this project will also attract lots of Fulani people especially within the schools it will also make them active Wikipedia editors. We already have connections with some Fulani leaders and schools in Kaduna.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Our main strategies during the events will focused on promoting awareness about fulfulde Wikipedia, creating an account for the new users and improving the skills of our existing editors.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will be walking over the Kaduna city 7days trips, visiting major schools and colleges sharing of pamphlets that contains information about Wikipedia 2days training for our participants. I myself will also introduce Wikipedia and it's sisters project to Staff, students and our participants other facilitators will be with me and help me to organise and manage all the trips and workshop.
- 4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.
Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
I have volunteers team members, they will help me to organise, engaging the participants and the events during the trips and training, and our team members are doing well in editing Wikipedia projects they are very experienced editors. They are native Fulani speakers most of them are journalist and authors we will also invited 2 lecturers from Kaduna state university and kadpoly to help us in organising the the trips with the schools. This is the list of the schools we will visit during the 7days trips, they are as follows:
- 1. Kaduna state university
- 2. Kaduna state Polytechnic
- 3. Dialogue college
- 4. National Teachers Institute
- 5. Federal Government College Malali
- 6. Shabab College
- 7. Beijing International Secondary
- 8. Sardauna Memorial College.
There is also live program with Vision FM for promoting Wikipedia Awareness in Kaduna.
- 6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
Our project will focused on Promoting fulfulde Wikipedia and also we will be focused on creating an articles that are related to Nigerian local government areas, fulfulde cultures. There is no local government areas in Fulfulde Wikipedia this is the reason why we will be focusing on creating an articles about them.
- 7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Age
- 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?
The targeted participants are native Fulani speakers especially Staff and students within the schools that we will visit during the trips and some Fulani leaders those that show their interest in contributing to the wikimedia and it's sisters project.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The wikimedia friendly space policy will be strictly adhered to the participants before the event starts. We will also provide a good space and materials to help our participants during the events.
- 11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.
We will let our participants to know about the event trough our social media handles like WhatsApp groups Facebook groups, and Telegram. We will spread the information about the events on Fulfulde Wikimedians User Group Discussion page on meta.
- 12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
No
- 13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
- 14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
1. We learn to have new editors and get the required skills
- 2. We want to learn that our awareness reach more than 80% of Fulani people with the visited schools
- 3. We want to learn that all of our participants become an active users and give a huge contributions to wikimedia movement.
- 4. We want to learn how Fulani people use Wikipedia in their daily research since it's very reliable
- 5. We want to learn that our participants will make sure that Wikipedia is an academic field of research, study and and reliable information.
- 6. We will learn how bring fulani volunteers to the fulfulde Wikipedia
- 16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| People reached | Number of people reached | 500 |
| Increase in page views | Increase in page views in Fulfulde Wikipedia and in general | 100 |
| Number of events | Number of events and trips | 9 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of Participants | 50 |
| Number of editors | Number of editors | 25 |
| Number of organizers | Number of organisers | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Number of articles to be created | 300 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of total photos to be uploaded | 100 |
| Wikidata | Number of New items to be created in wikidata | 100 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
- 18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.
1. We will use Hashtag
- 2. We will use WMF outreach dashboard
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1310961.41 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
3110 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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