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Hausa Community Health Articles Trans-Athon
proposed start date2023-10-28
proposed end date2023-12-28
grant start date2023-11-10T00:00:00Z
grant end date2024-01-12T00:00:00Z
budget (local currency)2234993 NGN
budget (USD)2890 USD
amount recommended (USD)1718
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2023-24
applicant• Sanusi Gado
organization (if applicable)• N/A
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Applicant Details

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Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Sanusi Gado

Organization

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Main Proposal

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

Hausa Community Health Articles Trans-Athon

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2023-10-28 - 2023-12-28

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)

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)

As we all know health is one of the critical and booming issue in Africa, 70% of people living in Nigeria and precisely northern Nigeria don't have access to qualified health Facilities. Including Doctors, Nurses and Hospital. In most times, the ones we have are almost every time on strike or not available, this causes so many children death, pregnancy miscarriage issues and many other related health problem issues. Wikipedia is a source of reliable information to our people globally, I want to use this opportunity to make health related articles that concerns Women and children available in Hausa Wikipedia in other for our community to use them and educate themselves. This will include general health articles and also polish the other health articles we have to an easily readable form. Below are some of the articles we intend to work on..

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera
2.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoebiasis
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoebic_brain_abscess
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isosporiasis
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid_vaccine
6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera_vaccine
7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_trauma
8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound_healing
9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leprosy_stigma

10. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_medication 12. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epilepsy_syndromes#Dravet_syndrome 13. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anise 14. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningococcal_vaccine 15. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_trauma 16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal_trauma 17. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traumatic_cardiac_arrest 18. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_trauma 19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_recovery 20. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cachexia 21. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_rehabilitation 22. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac_rehabilitation 23. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_cessation#Further_reading 24. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_erasure 25. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallucination 26. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxidrome 27. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_in_children 28. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_(circulatory) 29. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinal_cord_injury 30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterine_incarceration

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 activities we intend to do are as follows.

1. Organise a translation edith-A-thon both online and physical. This will serve as a means where by our community members will translate health articles. Also, the in person event will be means of creating awareness and sending waves to our community on what's there for them to benefit.
2. It will be 2 online events and 1 in person event making it 3 events in general.


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.

1. Sanusi Gado: Lead organiser

2. Gwanki: presenter and an translation expert
3. Alameen: Logistics support

They are all from Hausa Wikimedians User Group and they are volunteers

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)

1. The target participants are the Hausa Community.

2. We will engage them Through WhatsApp group as it's the effective means of communication here. And also follow up on them on WhatsApp
3. Social media awareness, Facebook and Twitter.
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.

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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 have discussed with the project lead group whom among them are community leaders in Hausa community, and also we discuss with other relevant community members.

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)

Education

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Socioeconomic status

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

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17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

1. How effectively participants can edit health related articles.

2. How well we can polish health related articles to a readable form with reliant sources.
3. How well our community can be able to benefit from these articles created and made available.
4. We will also like to learn the impact of the campaign and awareness of the project.
18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics Target Optional description
Number of participants 30 This is the number of people that will be participating in the project work.
Number of editors 20 This is the number of editors for the project work
Number of organizers 4 This is the number of organizers to see the project go through successfully
Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia 30
Wikimedia Commons 30
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abtsract Wikipedia
Optional description for content contributions.

This is the number of health related articles to be created and polished

19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

No

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics Description Target
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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)

Hashtag tool because of familiarity

Financial proposal

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21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sJPZT5J6gd-3tg0xufD8zIkWPiM-Tco_qGiR8BdnNBQ/edit?usp=drivesdk


22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

2234993 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.

2890 USD

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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