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Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Gikuyu dictionary translation Kenya (workshop) (ID: 21990576)

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Gikuyu dictionary translation Kenya (workshop)
proposed start date2022-12-01
proposed end date2022-12-31
budget (local currency)250000 KES
budget (USD)2064.73 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionunknown region
decision fiscal year2023-24
applicant• Ngangaesther
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

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Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Ngangaesther

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

yug

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.

Wikimedia community user group

Grant Proposal

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M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Gikuyu dictionary translation Kenya (workshop)

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.

The project will run for one month. We shall introduce participants on how to translate English words to Gikuyu words. The event seeks to raise awareness and provide capacity building on the Gikuyu dictionary. Ngangaesther and maheakim will do the training and orientation for the participants and guide new editors who will join up on various occasions.


1st week (in person): I shall guide the participants on registration of Wikipedia user accounts, orientation to understand how Wikipedia works, and the purpose of the project we are working on.

2nd week (online): The participants will begin the translation. I shall set a target of the words that participants are supposed to translate in a day (a minimum of fifty words). l shall further be having evening online meetings with the participants to recap on the day's work.

3rd week (in-person): We shall have a physical attendance meeting with the participants, to continue editing. This will give us more time to cover a bigger part of the assignment. The venue shall be at Kenya National Library Murang'a.

4th week: This will combine both online and in-person meetings. The first three days of the week (Monday -Wednesday) we shall have online editing. The last two days of the week (Thursday & Friday) we shall have physical attendance meetings to finalise the editing and share the experiences gained and brainstorm on how to create awareness in Kenya about other native languages joining the movement.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

-Increase outreach toward under-represented minority languages

  • Increase open content in under-resourced minority languages
3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

-Create awareness for the Gikuyu language Open resources in Kenya.

  • Recruit new Gikuyu contributors for Wikipedia, Lingua Libre
  • Expand the Gikuyu-English dictionary
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.

Other (please specify)

Lingualibre
5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

-Ngangaesther, trainer: volunteer under the Wikimedia Community User Group Kenya

  • maheakim : trainer
  • Bonygaithori, trainer: a journalist interested in local languages and Gikuyu
  • Yug, advisor: will help in monitoring the project from start to end of the event.
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.

Geography, Language, 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.


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.

Culture, heritage or GLAM , Open Technology

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Linguistic / Language

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?

Users who can translate English words into Gikuyu words

10 participants 2000~4000 English-Gikuyu bilingual entries

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?


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.


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.

Yes

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.

Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?


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 Data
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17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants
Number of editors
Number of organizers
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
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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.


Financial Proposal

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19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

250000 KES

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

2064.73 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.

No

Endorsements and Feedback

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  • 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).

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