Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Music Preservation Workshop (ID: 22279581)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
AYM8818
- 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.
Hausa Music Preservation Workshop
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2023-10-27 - 2023-12-27
- 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)
The idea of this project is to be able to preserve our musical culture. In Hausa community we have musicians dating back to early 19's but you rarely or in some cases find any of these music in Wiki Commons. Wikimedia serve as a means to preserve, use and utilize knowledge. Music is part of way of life of people. So we are taking these advantage to preserve some of our music date back. This is because some of them are perishing due to lack of proper documentation
Also this project will pave way for other editors to be able to contribute towards the music aspect in our community and culture.
This project will also undergoes a research in other to find out the number of Hausa music content that are already in the Public domain and are having free license in other for them to be used in the Wiki Commons.
These project will feature musics from
- 1. Dr Maman Shata
- 2. Dan Kwairo
- 3. Barmani Choge
- 4. Sani Sabulu
- 5. Dan Maraya Jos
- 6. Haruna Uji
- 7. Dan Anace
- 8. Mai Daji Sabon Birni
- 9. Ahmadu Doka
10. Sabo Saya Saya 11. Hassan Wayan. 12. Gambo
- 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.
We planned to carry out 3 activities.
- 1. Online event to create awareness and to bring the attention of the community towards contributing in the musical aspect of our culture and also to enlightened on the issue of licensing in other for the community members to be able to know exactly what to upload.
- 2. An inperson research workshop to be able to gather the music to be upload and also to be able to list down the number of Hausa music that are in the public domain or are having free license to be used in the Wiki Commons.
- 3. And in person event to be able to upload those music and serve as a means of preserving them and also means of utilizing the music knowledge in the community. As this project is one of its kind.
- 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. AYM8818: lead project team
- 2. Anas Adam: research expert
- 3. Uncle Bash007: logistics manager and presenter
- 4. Alameen20: communication matters
- 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. Our target participants are Hausa Community in the Wikimedia movement.
- 2. We will engage participants via WhatsApp as it's the means of effective communication in the community. We already have a WhatsApp group where we already discussed this idea with the team and members of the community
- 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.
1. We have an organised WhatsApp group already, firstly I discussed it personally with the team. Then from there I extended it to the general WhatsApp group where the whole community were duly informed.
- 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)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Improve User Experience
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. How well we can preserve our music in the movement.
- 2. How well we can bring the community attention on this angle.
- 3. How we can come up with a research result that will guide us in uploading a relevant free music files to the Wiki Commons.
- 4. How effective our community will use and link the music files to various Wiki sister project.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 30 | These are numbers of participants at the various events. Both online and the in person |
| Number of editors | 20 | These are numbers of participants that will contribute to the project, these numbers will be train and be aware of what to upload in regards to license to the Wiki Commons. |
| Number of organizers | 4 | These are numbers of event organisers of the project, including the research, planning the events and carried out the online awareness |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 15 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| 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)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | ||
| Wikipedia | N/A | |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 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 will create a folder for them, the music. And use the and also used the outreachy dashboard
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)
2099718 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.
2730 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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