Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Wiktionary Harmonization and Community Initiative Activities (ID: 23550226)
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Applicant Details
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Abubakr1111
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Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Hausa Wiktionary Harmonization and Community Initiative Activities
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-11-01 - 2026-05-15
- 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)
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)
Language is an abstract system of words meanings and symbols for all aspects of culture, language as a means of communicating values, beliefs and customs. It is the means by which culture and its traditions and shared values may be conveyed and preserved (Shaefer 2006). Language is in fact, the foundation of every culture. As Hausa Wiktionary serves as a means of mass media literacy,we plan to engage Hausa Wiktionary Wikimedians from October 2025 to May 2026, on a variety of vital activities that build on past successes;https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Files_Linking_in_Wikitionary/Report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Referencing_and_Categorization_of_words_in_Hausa_Wiktionary_for_Standardisation._(ID:_21917421)/Final_Report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Hausa_Wiktionary_Wikipedians_2024_First_Half_Proposal_of_Activities_(ID:_22363614)/Final_Report while introducing more sustainable initiatives and approaches to community engagement and content creation. Our short term basic activities project have equip editors with basic editing skills in Hausa Wiktionary, we aim to build the potentials of editors to harness and harmonize their skills capacity towards more complex and dynamic ways of navigating and contributing to Wiktionary. challenge is editor retention and skill development, though we have succeeded in recruiting a number of first-time contributors, their retention for participation remains challenging due to limited internet access, lack of long-term mentorship events, and competing personal and academic commitments.
Addressing Content Stagnation, Contribution to Wiktionary is still limited we strive to solve problem of stagnation in content creation,Hausa Wiktionary currently has couple of thousands of words entries, the fact remain there is no single, definitive number for the total number of words in the Hausa language because the count depends on the methodology used to define a word, with estimates varying widely based on factors like the inclusion of proper nouns, derived forms, and borrowed words. Linguists focus on features like Hausa's rich derivation morphology, which allows for the formation of new words from existing ones, as well as its extensive borrowed vocabulary, particularly from Arabic and since the colonial period, English (in Nigeria) and French (in Niger) have competed with Arabic as major sources of Hausa lexical innovation. Our local community base approaches are grounded on this aspects of change.
A. Community mobilization and engagement: Increase awareness and sensitization through communication channels for wider offline audience, on campus campaign and public awareness as a recruitment strategy for new contributors that unaware on how to contribute to global knowledge in their own language and ensuring their alignment with broader Wikimedia movement goals, and improving content accessibility and representation for Hausa speakers. Challenges is to maintain processes being establish and to further engage our teeming volunteer community empowering new and existing editors on skills development, include assigning topics for impact to work on, this initiatives is aim to keep participants appraise. We are positive this long time frame project can solve this issues to bolster our community motivation for a long time volunteerism during and after the project. Pairing new editors with more experienced contributors, providing peer learning support to align community members on initiatives and innovative ideas of contributing to Wiktionary, community enlightenment on ways to contribute despite their day to day commitments, for a sustainable editors retention of Hausa Wiktionary Volunteers, and boost our Outreach activities. We believe this will create a stable foundation with community structures, platform of community ownership, sustainable partnership and collaboration in with Hausa Language Department, Faculty of arts Kaduna State University for their expertise in mentorship, access to academic resources, this journey has demonstrated the community resilience, Also to strengthen collaborations with other Wikimedia affiliates especially the Hausa Wikimedia User Group for resource sharing, and to allow us maximize impact and avoid duplicated efforts and ensuring alignment with overall movement goals. The aim is to have a structured, coordinated and organize contributors of Wiktionary with inclusive, diverse perspective in content creation, curation for preserving Hausa literacy digital, and as as tool of educational resource for researchers, students and learners to the global community.
B. Leveraging and improvising on available resources and Wikimedia tools: Guidelines pages created https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rukuni:Shafukan_tsare-tsare will help new and existing editors to serve as guidance to understand and create words that are worth encyclopedic, and to further align with guided rules and policy of Wiktionary General Contribution policy set across all Wikimedia Projects for Wiktionary. Assigning editors with topics to work on, making availability of resources such as brochure and creating new words from (Ƙamus) Hausa dictionaries.https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=1cTQoo3IfU4lES_mfF3SvgBs2xuKCDgb6 #, and expertise from Hausa linguist experts and series of trainings. Also leveraging on educational content under a free license or in the public domain to make Hausa Wiktionary worth encyclopedic, quantity, quality and reliability.
C. Anagrams and Synonms: To train editors on how to recreate words using anagrams system in searching and creating new words. An anagram as a word created by rearranging the letters from another word. For example, from the Hausa word (Bagaruwa) from it we will extract words like (Ruwa, Rawa, Aga, Garu, Baga, Aruwa), availability of this section will help in content creation and development. adapting anagrams will help editors extract new words from existing ones easily and with fun and will improve vocabulary and user experience. we hope to train editors on how to leverage on the use of anagrams to make easier to find missing words in Wiktionary. A section of Anagrams will be created in words. Synonyms section will be added to make words more understanding.
D. Cleanup and community Initiative: editors skills development in terms of categorization of words. Example: https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rukuni:Nahawu https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rukuni:Suna creating of Etymology for borrowed words, unity of homograph words, Creation of hyphenation words that are lacking, Synonyms in words formation, Hausa is known to be rich in proverbs as a heritage this will be provided to applicable words, linking files (audio, images) to applicable words among range of community initiatives. Completing of Hausa Wiktionary words created by inexperience editors in Hausa Wiktionary there are many words that are created partially and their explanation is not properly elaborated,some were created in plurals,some words were created in English some in Arabic language, some were created in small letters,some words are hooked letters but written with plain letters and without hooked letters the word is entirely another different meaning. some are without references, link and sections.This project is aim to massively solve this errors in Hausa Wiktionary to have conceptual words in their standard format and meaning and vocabulary, hence harmonization of editors skills and capacity building is a nexus to achieving words content that is rich in quantity and quality in Wiktionary.
- 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.
Hausa Wiktionary Wikimedians community will focus on activities that build on past successes while introducing more inclusive and sustainable, community base approaches to community engagement and content creation.
Training and community mobilization: We plan to arrange a series of in-person refresher trainings/meet-up that will actively engage our community. These workshops both in-person and online, are designed to equip participants with Wikimedia projects and provide essential training. The in-person/meetups workshops are scheduled across four (4) events in six months and six (6) schedule online events to facilitate project discussions, provide insights into upcoming developments. One in-person/workshops in every two months interval to track and measure level of contributions from participants before next event. The scheduled is for participants carry out assignment/task, participate in online courses and participate in in-person events. Mentorship and support will also be provided to community members through team leaders, as an emerging community with semi experience editors, interactive sessions with newbies and existing editors will be organize one-on-one in tackling their editing challenges and problem solving this will promote community interaction and networking this is with the goal of encouraging and sharing knowledge in the community.
- 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.
Abubakr1111 (Facilitator) I'm Administrator in Hausa Wiktionary I will be project coordinator and trainings facilitator.
Salisu Adamu: (Co-organiser) Administrator in Hausa Wiktionary. As a volunteer, has lead in projects, and also facilitate in several collaborative Wiktionary projects https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Hausa_Wiktionary_Outreach_and_Content_Initiative_(ID:_22159749)/Final_Report https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Hausa_Wiktionary_Enrichment_and_Community_Engagement_Activities_(ID:_22022702)/Final_Report. will partake on facilitation of training sessions. monitor and tracking of contributions after the event, manage the Outreach Dashboard. Fatyutea0803505: She is a volunteer in Hausa Wiktionary, has served in the organizing team, will lead in events planning, mobilization, and communication to all participants both online and offline.
Hauwa Abdulrazak: Role to assist participants with hands-on editing during the workshops, provides guidance on Wikimedia policies, tools, and supports online follow-up.
Fatima Shuaibu:She is an active volunteer, will be in charge of welfare, communication technical related issues session and guidance to participants during events.
- 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 for this project are existing members from the Hausa Wiktionary community, the most active, motivated, and contributors, majority of the existing editors are female whom have shown great enthusiasm, we hope when they are engage more the gender disparity is improved. And anyone from Hausa community who can contribute will be engage. volunteer students, staff recruited from the Hausa Language Department of Kaduna state University. Participants are added to the existing communication channels WhatsApp/Telegram group to encourage continued discussions and collaborations, for follow-up, updates, questions to ensure retention and sustainability.
- 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 discussed the idea and deliberate on the Hausa Wiktionary community WhatsApp group relating to outcomes of our activities and the way forward. And the community members are duly informed about this project.https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Tattaunawa:Babban_shafi and any Hausa Community members are informed for participation. https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kofan_al%27umma
- 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)
Language
- 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)
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)
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
How effective is our strategy and approaches in sustaining and skills harmonizaion and engaging editors beyond the project period?
How best to manage the established partnerships for sustainability?
Did we improve the credibility, reliability of Hausa Wiktionary to serve as an educational tool?
To know contributory factors and ways in sustaining editor retention in our community?
Did new and existing editors have the skills and motivation to continue contributing to Hausa Wiktionary and Wikimedia projects?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 80 | Our target is to reach 80 participants from Hausa Community and academic students |
| Number of editors | 40 | To engage 25 existing editors and accommodate 15 more from the academic setting. |
| Number of organizers | 5 | Organizers comprise 5 for the Wiktionary training sessions. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 500 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | 4000 |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
Content of new words to be created 2000 and target of 2000 words to be cleanup and polish improved. multimedia files(audio and images) and link to Wiktionary.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wiktionary | 2000 words cleanup and improved | 2000 |
| 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)
We will make use of outreach dashboard and WMF Hashtags to monitor, track editors contributions.
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)
4145000 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.
2695.86 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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