Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Wiktionary Wikipedians 2024 First Half Proposal Activities (ID: 22363614)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Abubakr1111
- 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 Wiktionary Wikipedians 2024 First Half Proposal Activities
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-01-15 - 2024-07-16
- 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)
Other (please specify) Hausa Wiktionary Wikipedia 2024 First Half Proposal Activities
- 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)
After making a critical reflection regards to our implemented projects, we saw the need to build on the processes established, the focus of this project is to make a future plan and trajectory that will enable and support us achieved a variety of goals, as a growing community we believe longer plan activities would be much applicable to our context.
- 1. Our primary strategy from previous completed project was collaborating with academic institutions Wikipedia affiliates that work in tandem with our course, and to utilize Wiktionary as a resource tool in academic endeavors. Our partnership with Hausa Language Department of Kaduna State University and the support from NCPUG has giving us a head-start and has yielded a positive impact. 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. Hausa Wiktionary could serve as a means of mass media literacy with the recent introduction of New Education Policy in Nigeria, primary education in mother tongue is getting it foot. it's the right time to build on these to achieve a sustainable Hausa language community within Wikimedia projects.
- 2. Empowering community members by enhancing their skills and contributions, increase retention rates, attracted interest from the academic community and encouraging consistent engagement among new and experienced editors in content creation, curation in this six months project. Through this a greater amount of content will be created that is worth encyclopedic. We plan to introduce the community members to various Wikimedia initiatives, broadening their knowledge on other contribution opportunities.
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- 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.
- 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) An admin in Hausa Wiktionary and event organizer will lead this project. Salisu Adamu: An admin in Hausa Wiktionary will be in charge of planning of the project and organizing, delivering training sessions. Fatyutea0803505: An active contributor in Hausa Wiktionary. Will support and assist during in-person events and communication to all participants both online and offline. User:Project lead on training users on audio files and images upload in Wikimedia commons and how to link the audio files in Wiktionary.
- 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)
We shall identify most active, motivated, and knowledgeable contributors and invite them to this future project and events, providing them with opportunities to take on leadership roles within the community. We will add new participants to the existing WhatsApp/Telegram group to encourage continued discussions and collaborations. The target participants are existing members from the Hausa Wiktionary community, and anyone from Hausa community who can contribute will be engage. New volunteers recruited from the Hausa Language Department of Kaduna state University as we encourage learning and sharing knowledge among existing editors and newbies.
- 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.
- 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)
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | ||
| Number of editors | ||
| Number of organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| 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)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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)
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)
- 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.
USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
No
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- Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
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- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).