Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Fulfulde Wikipedia Women Marathon (ID: 22587219)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Hajjare
- 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 Wikipedia Women Marathon
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-06-03 - 2024-07-15
- 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) Edit-a-thon
- 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)
As a female contributor and organizer of two successful projects advocating Wikimedia projects to women and leading them in carrying out hybrid trainings/edit-a-thons which results in the creation of over 2000 contents across four (4) Wikipedia language versions plus Wikidata and Commons and also recruited over 60 female contributors from northern Nigeria, a region where Wikimedia needs more advocacy and awareness among women as there was little to no knowledge about Wiki projects just as how it can clearly noted by everyone that there's a huge gender gap difference between male and female contributors/volunteers across Wikimedia projects from northern Nigeria. This problem has been my concern for a long time, and the reason behind this motive to organize this event in a bid to change this narrative in Fulfulde Wikipedia and Fulfulde editors because like several other small Wikis, Fulfulde Wikipedia suffers lack of coverage in terms of gender gap ranging from female contributors to women related contents. There is currently fewer than 300 articles related to women with less than 10% female Fulfulde Wikipedia editors. There's no doubt that among the key factors that led to this is the fact that Fula women could be wary of being introduced to participate in activities involving the opposite gender especially when they lack proper knowledge of that which they were introduced to or when they understood men are likely to take greater portion in the activity, this is something inherent and natural to a typical Fula woman, as they are so accultured to shyness and tradition. I took played roles from Welfare Director to Communications and Outreach Officer and other roles in projects organized by Wikimedia Fulfulde Community and have learned about all these from some of the women we reach out to during such activities. This made me to believe that if we can achieve having a women marathon where only women would be trained, then we can be able to change the existing narrative. This is due to the fact that solutions to some of the problems of gender balance related to some communities in Africa can only be achieve when culture and values of the affected communities are clearly put into consideration while bringing Wikimedia awareness. This, I believe, would help us achieve a greater cause in recruited many female contributors for Fulfulde Wikipedia and also help create more women related contents. And we hope to make it a recurrent event that be repeated annually so as to keep this balance that we hope to achieve through this project.
- 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.
I planned to carryout online and offline awareness campaigns amongst women to know about the project and also organize an edit-a-thon/training to train them on how to translated women related contents from other languages (preferably English) to Fulfulde Wikipedia. I will also introduced them to Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons to help them learn how to link the translated article to their respective entities on Wikidata and how to fetch their corresponding images from Commons and insert them to the articles translated.
The activities would go on like this: 1. Preparing list of women related contents for translation to Fulfulde Wikipedia 2. Three days awareness campaign to advocate Fulfulde Wikipedia to Fula women 3. Two days edit-a-thon/workshop: the first workshop would be the introduction to the Wikimedia projects while the second would be introduction to Machine Translations and how it works on Fulfulde Wikipedia. 4. Certification and awards for the participants and introducing them to Wikimedia Fulfulde Community for retention, meet other community members and furtherance of knowledge.
- 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 contacted the following experienced editors to support me in making this project a success: 1. Musaddam Idriss, is my community leader and a long term Wikimedia volunteer. He is a well experienced organizer and coordinator of similar projects. He would be in my team to help me coordinate and plan the activities in accordance with the project period and in areas I may find some difficulties. His presence will also help connect the participants of this project with the rest of the community members in the mean time. 2. Zarerh. is my fellow female colleague from Wikimedia Fulfulde Community and have been playing roles in the previously organized project. 3. Harandee is also part of the experienced editors we have in the community. She would help will online communications and technical support during the physical trainings. 4. Hajjare; myself have been an organizer of two successful hybrid projects where I trained women of multiple languages. I have also serve the role of welfare director, communications/outreach officer and maintain the tracks of participants' activities within the Wikimedia Fulfulde Community projects. I led two similar projects and was a huge success.
- 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)
The target participants are completely women who have interest for volunteer works, knowledge of internet space and also have passion for writing as a hobby or helping the humanity. They could be of various age group, the only requirement is the passion and ability to read and write in Fulfulde language.
- 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 expressed my intent to organize this event in the prospective community group of Fula editors on WhatsApp and also informed my community leaders. Some of them are even attach to the project as facilitators in order to help make the smooth implementation of the activities and to help the participants learn from their wealth of experience.
- 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)
Gender and diversity
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Linguistic / Language
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. Did Women Marathon helps in enriching Fulfulde Wikipedia in bringing more female contributors and more content related to women? 2. How does the Women Marathon helps in changing the Fula women perspectives about participations in Wiki related events? 3. Are the community members ready and happy to adapt the Women Marathon to be one of the community's annual events? 4. In what way does this Marathon affects the participants performance, negative or positive?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | aims to reach out to 50 women as participants |
| Number of editors | 25 | aims to get at least have of the women as editors |
| Number of organizers | 5 | There will be 5 organizers four from the community and the other one a woman from Tabbital Pulaaku International. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 300 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 |
| Wikidata | 50 |
| 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
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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)
Dashboard Tool
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)
1360000 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.
928.82 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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