Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Wikiquote SheSaid 2023 (ID: 22258384)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Uncle Bash007
- Organization
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- 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)
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- 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 Wikiquote SheSaid 2023
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2023-10-30 - 2023-11-30
- 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)
Wiki Loves Women
- 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)
In recent times, there has being some instances where young Women are not giving their full rights to politics in Nigeria [1] and many more, also; a lot of Hausa traditions are against many Rights of Women, more especially in marriage and politics at national level. Furthermore, there is still a large gap between male contributors and female on Wikipedia (Women reperesent only about 12% of total contributors. This project is aimed at bridging this gap by creating awareness among young people and especially youths to contribute to Wikipedia Projects as well as to value and honour the Rights of Women by promoting the voices of prominent Women Leaders and quotes relating to freedom and right of Women in Nigeria, across Africa and the world at large. Plus, Hausa Wikiquote which was verified for test on Incubator since July 2022 still has less than 500 articles in total (360 at the moment). This project will also aim towards developing the incubating page to be approved as a Project. We will target women associations to work with us in the course of the event.
- 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.
- Online campaigns - via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram where we will call for participation which will target the females and flyers containing Women quotes will be shared
- Online meet up - After call for participation, there will be introduction to Wikiquote, WikiLovesWomen and SheSaid Campaign on GoogleMeet App, we will invite a Female or Gender Activist to sensitise on Women Rights. We will also use prominent social media activist in sharing the voices (quotes) about Women Rights
- Offline Campaign - Where interested participants will be engaged in training and writing competition about quotations from prominent women and thereby promoting them
- 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.
Sanusi Gado Mahmoud Idriss Criteria Manaf25 Usman Ahmad Isa
- 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 local women associations in our community and graduates who are on their National Youth Service Corpse orientation course in Katsina (only 18yrs and above)
- 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.
We have announced it on Hausa Wikipedia talk page and different handles on social media https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kofan_al%27umma#Hausa_Wikiquote_SheSaid_Campaign_2023
- 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)
Gender Identity
- 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)
Through this project, we wish to achieve the following: a). add women visibility on Wikimedia projects (Wikiquote) by adding quotes of or relating to women and promote them on various social media handles. b). we also want to add number of female editors on WIkimedia and therefore encourage them to be actively involved in Wikimedia activities. c). we also wish to develop Hausa Wikiquote (on Incubator) to be fully approved as a WIkimedia Sister Project. Which since it's creation in July 2023 has only 358 articles with only two major contributors. see from main page d) we last but not the least want to sensitise and improve Women Rights knowledge among youths https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wq/ha/Babban_shafi
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 200 | Number of people to be reached via social media 200+ |
| Number of editors | 50 | Number of people to be engaged actively during event 50 |
| Number of organizers | 5 | Number of organisers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | 1000 |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | 100 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Articles to be created | #SheSaid articles to be created 1000 | 1000 |
| N/A | N/A | 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)
Wikimedia Dashboard tool Meta Wiki page
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1e7q-ZCpwAyv4D0XKY23GMHAM1ObbUdIGMfad3LhsaBY/edit#gid=0
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
1745000 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.
2263.55 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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