Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Fulfulde Wikimedia awareness in Federal polytechnic Kazaure. (ID: 22349352)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Fulani215
- 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.
Fulfulde Wikimedia awareness in Federal polytechnic Kazaure.
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-01-15 - 2024-02-16
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Other (please specify) Awareness and workshop
- 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)
Fulfulde Wikimedia community user group is an Wikimedia affiliate that is operating all over Nigeria especially in northern part of the country with over one hundred editors, but looking at the current situation of Fulah Wikipeadia, its quite unfortunate, most of our articles need to be improved, most of the biography of notable Fulfulde peoples are not on Wikipedia, our existing editors need to be retrain and require more skills in editing Wikipedia and also how cite a good reference from a reliable sources, more editors need to be recruit in other to upgrade the level of Fulfulde language globally and also to contribute to free knowledge body at large, I feel obliged in carryout First Fulfulde Wikimedia awareness in Federal polytechnic Kazaure, considering the number of Native Fulfulde student in the institution. Federal Polytechnic Kazaure is one of the prestigious tertiary institutions in Northern Nigeria which is situated in Kazaure one of the biggest city in Jigawa state, With thousands of students across the country's six regions, studying in the various colleges, faculties and hundreds of lecturers and non-academic staff it would be a good place for advocating and promoting Wikimedia movement projects. Unfortunately, despite the advantageous advancements in the community, there is an absolute dearth of editors, not to even talk of projects that seek to promote Wikipedia in the community and this is definitely associated with the reason of not having a campaign planned to touch such a mixed of thousands individuals. As institution with highest Native Fulfulde speaking student, “FULFULDE WIKIMEDIA AWARENESS IN KAZAURE” will help in bringing those student on desk to contribute and expose them to know more about Wikipedia and give their best in editing Wikipedia not only in the college but in the entire Jigawa state and Northern Nigeria.
- 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.
The planned activities that will be done to develop and deliver the project “Fulfulde Wikimedia awareness in Federal Polytechnic Kazaure” are:
- 1. Recruitment and training of editors: I and my team will identify the participant through partnership and collaboration with the College Deanery Student Affairs to develop a authentic training material on Wikipedia in both online training and in person training to support our participants.
- 2. Native Fulfulde content creation and improvement : we are going to identify the key contents that are related to notable Fulfulde people through collaboration with expert in the field of content creation and improving the existing ones by monitoring our editors to provide them with skills and knowledge. And these can only achieved through proper awareness, monitoring and evaluation.
- 3. Physical training: we are going to have two days one in one interaction with our participant to teach our recruiting editor on how to edit Wikipedia and also bringing our existing editors together to learn more skills on how to edit Wikipedia and cite a good reference from a reliable source. After the physical training we are going to carried out and Edit-a-thon in which the winners will be awarded with certificate of excellence and spot package to encourage the remaining editors: a WhatsApp group will be create and utilized to encourage them to edit and attempt to questions arising from their newfound journey. Thereafter a one- day physical training, as the last day of the project, will be convened with the purpose of reviewing the works of the participants, clarifying where necessary, entertaining questions and clarification of anything seems unclear to our Editors.
- 4. Two days series of online reinforcement training: we are going to carryout 2 days online training for our editors in other to properly equip them with the needed skills about how to edit on Wikipedia, Wikicommons, wikidata, etc: with the help of the two days online season our editor will brave much more understanding of the Wikipedia and clear almost all of their weakness.
- 5. Photos upload in commons: Fulfulde is a language that is spread all over the continent of Africa, Particularly west Africa with diverse culture, it so disheartening to state that many of local photos of Fulfulde culture are not in Wikimedia commons, through this project we are going to identify morethan 300 native Fulfulde local photos and upload them in Wikicommons so that Fulfulde culture will be seen everywhere in the world and also help people to learn more about Fulfulde Monuments.
- 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.
Yes, i have a strong team and experienced volunteer’s editors that dedicated their time in promoting Wikimedia movements from both Hausa Wikipedia community and Fulfulde Wikipedia user group and also from Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, my team have a vast experience and also possess all the criteria for training young editors.
- 1. Fulani215 (project lead): I am a Native Fulfulde speaker and also a volunteer Wikipedia that participate in many Wikipedia program both online and offline, train more than Fifty Wikipedia editors from Kano university of science and technology Wudil, and also organize first Fulfulde Wikipedia awareness in Kano University of science and technology Wudil (KUST). I will be organizing the events.
- 2. Mamman AA (project communication lead): is an Native Fulfulde speaker from the federal university Kazaure and also a volunteer Wikipedia editors with vast experience in organizing and facilitating experience, he will serve as a communication leader that will make sure each and every members of Fulah wiki is been informed through our Discussion page, social media, and some of the Fulfulde organization like Native Fulfulde coalition group (NFCG) Meyyeti Allah Gattalhuree (MAG) among the rest.
- 3. Ardido Ardake (project Manager): she is a Native Fulfulde speaker, an experience editor, a Teacher and also a program organizer that lead a Fulfulde Wikipedia team during the Hausa Wikimedia movement strategies in Gombe State, and also participate in many Fulfulde program at national and international level, she is also among the Meyyeti ALLAH leaders. She will be responsible for managing the events and make sure that all the planned activities went successful.
- 4. El-hussain14
- 5. Aleeyuadam123
- 6. Hadiza Salihu
- 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)
Lecturers of the college, Staff both academic and Non academic, students especially Native Fulfulde speaker's, University club and other Associate members.
- 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.
I and my team members have discuss about the events with the community members at our Discussion page and also in our social media handle's, Mamman AA discuss vividly with student deanery affairs about the project and they are over excited because the project will promote Fulfulde language globally, and also contribute to free knowledge at large. I myself and Ardido Ardake discuss with chairman of Miyyeti Allah about our planned on carryout first Fulfulde Wikimedia awareness in Jigawa state, he welcome the idea looking at the number of Native Fulfulde speakers in the state. Below is our social media links: https://chat.whatsapp.com/CIIw19AA9zdBQzYOfyrNo3
- 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)
Geography
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Age (diversity of age groups)
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
When this project is successfully implemented, we are hoping to see the following questions yield a positive result (answers):
- 1. Is the Fulfulde Wikipedia get more and more new users and editors?
- 2. Is our existing editors acquire more skills in editing Wikipedia and how to cite a good reference from a reliable source?
- 3. Hoping to see morethan 300 local Fulfulde photos are in wikicommons
- 4. Hoping to see all of our editors in Fulfulde become acting editors
- 5. Hoping to see all of our participant have basic knowledge on how to contribute to Wikipedia and its sister projects.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 60 | The project will cover 60 participants. |
| Number of editors | 50 | The project will train and recruit 40 editor's and the remaining 10 will be returning editors. |
| Number of organizers | 6 | There is going to be 6 experience editors that will share their experience in making sure the project goes as planned I.e 5 of the facilitators are Native Fulfulde speaker's from Fulfulde Wikimedia community while 1 from Nigeria Wikimedia User Group. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 250 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 300 |
| Wikidata | 300 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | 50 |
| Translatewiki | 50 |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abtsract 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 |
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| 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)
We are going to use WMF outreach Dashboard to track all the activities during the events, we are going to use Google form in taking our new user information to open Wikipedia account for them, and also we are going to add all the newly recruit editors to our social media handle for continue supporting and answering any questions from them.
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)
945000 NGN
- 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.
2070 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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