Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Wiktionary annual contest 2026 (ID: 23641281)
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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 annual contest 2026
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2026-01-20 - 2026-04-01
- 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 annual contest 2026
- 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 a meeting held by the Hausa Wiktionary sysop (admins) reviewing the previous concluded Hausa Wiktionary annual contest in 2024, the Sysops come up with an amazing idea to organize another continuous contest towards 2026 to keep the contest going. The goal is to encourage more participation from the community and to expand the resources available on the platform. By introducing new themes and challenges, the sysops believe they can inspire creativity and foster a sense of collaboration among contributors. For the year 2026 Hausa Wiktionary Contest the theme for the contest will be announced in the contest page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hausa_Wiktionary_annual_contest_activities
For the year 2026, the main goal is set to achieve attraction and full participation among Hausa Wiktionary editors in what they have learned for the past four years at the different workshops, training, and meetings held, as well as to expand the scope of the contest through social media handles.
The contest was planned to attract editors with amazing winning prizes, awards, and recognitions, for them to know that their contributions are valued and honored. The contest has goals and objectives, which are as follows:
- The primary goal is to bridge the gap of inadequate contributions, making sure that editors in Hausa Wiktionary are actively participating, contributing, and engaging for an impactful development on credibility.
- Part of objective is to create social media handles for Hausa Wikitionary content and to create social media channels for the contest, this will make Hausa Wikitionary explored to the Hausa community on media.
- Unleashing the skills acquired for the past four years; this is significant to extract the capabilities of editors towards contributing to Hausa Wikitionary on what they have learned, attracted by the prizes set and recognition.
- Setting winning prizes to honor contributions and recognizing individuals performances for motivation and rapid growth of Hausa Wikitionary.
The Hausa Wikitionary contest will be held annually as usual, started in 2024, and we have achieved almost all of the goals set, Hausa Wikitionary editors will compete to improve Wikitionary in the Hausa language while adhering to Wikitionary's editing guidelines and competition rules. The primary goal of the contest is to create comprehensive Wikitionary Guidelines pages that will assist, direct, and guide Wikitionary editors when editing Hausa Wikitionary. Throughout the contest, editors will adhere to the Wikimedia Wikitionary universal guidelines for Wikitionary editing. To encourage them, the contest will offer them the chance to win incredible prizes that will improve their editing skills and multiply their efforts to improve words in Wikitionary. The contest will be held annually in Hausa Wikitionary and will be overseen by Hausa Wikitionary administrators, who will review the results following the event. Furthermore, participation in the contest requires the current number of Hausa Wikitionary editors, whom we have trained and mentored as administrators. Furthermore, the contest will provide them with the necessary information, resources, support, appropriate skills, and capacity-building engagement to help them rapidly expand Hausa Wikitionary. The contests will also include training sessions to help participants improve their Hausa Wiktionary editing skills. The contest will change the goal of collecting a large number of words in Hausa Wikitionary. It will also provide Hausa Wikitionary editors with data, prizes, recognition, and stipends. The first five runners-up will receive gifts, awards, certificates, and recognition.
There has never been a contest before we started in 2024, currently there is no taking place or ongoing in Hausa Wikitionary, as a result we planned to keep the contest active and better in 2026, this will solve the problem of lack of practicing and lack of making contributions to Hausa Wikitionary to support and motivate editors. Moreover, the fact that there are so many editors in Hausa Wikitionary especially the ones we have trained, we want to make sure that we demonstrates a method of motivation that will be unleashed to encouraging editors to advance Hausa Wikitionary. There are now several administrators who will be reviewing the contest. The primary challenge and problem we are attempting to solve is to provide editors with assistance, such as data support, throughout the contest and to win incredible prizes that will boost their efforts in contributing to Hausa Wikitionary. Furthermore, we wanted to address the issue of a delay in the rapid increase of words in Hausa Wiktionary.
First, local Hausa Wikitionary administrators in the Hausa community will design, create an annual contest page for Hausa Wikitionary editors to register for participation, the page will serve as a general page for the contest. The page will include necessary documentation and information that will improve the competition guidelines and approaches. Second, Wikitionary guidelines pages will be improved to help editors understand the fundamental needs and in-depth skills required to edit Hausa Wikitionary by adopting that skills which they have acquired.
Secondly, this year we have a well planned strategy to create social media handles channels for Hausa Wikitionary page and for the contest, the pages on social media will be used for campaign and promotion of Hausa Wikitionary words and its activities on Facebook and Instagram only.
Thirdly, training will be provided in the Hausa Wikitionary community to improve the user experience both online and offline. A campaign will be developed and implemented throughout the community to contact existing editors in the Hausa Wikitionary community, this is different from the above mentioned of creating social media platforms, as this will serve as a means of campaign reaching out to editors of Hausa Wikitionary on-wiki.
Fourthly, Awards and prizes will be set categorically from first runner up to third, with special prizes like most images linked, most audio linked, most referencing, and most video linked. Making the prize awards seven. Editors will only said to be a winner when he follows the editing rules, guidelines and contest rules, in accordance with the Wikitionary editing rules and regulations, also based on the rules set for the contest to place as established by the Wikimedia community. The winners will be shared on social media platforms and will be announced on WMF Diff.
In light of the foregoing, we intend to invite the current editors of Hausa Wikitionary to participate in the contest, which will provide them with an unparalleled opportunity to be encouraged and exposed to contributing to Hausa Wikitionary while also winning incredible prizes and learning skills that will improve user experience. As Hausa Wikitionary administrators, we worked tirelessly to improve Hausa Wikitionary by developing new features and combining them to make Hausa Wikitionary more better.
We planned to make improvement to the contest general page to look comprehensive and a guiding page for the coming contest and the next contest to come consecutively. Also to create 5 newly guidelines pages for Wikitionary editors and to improve another four, as well as to organize contest-related events online and offline; part of which will be a meet-up with several Wikitionary editors to discuss the progress of Hausa Wikitionary and to establish effective collaboration that will improve Hausa Wikitionary activities, the meeting will be hold in three different occasions, Details about the above four activities can be found here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hausa_Wiktionary_annual_contest_activities
- 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 following are the planned activities accordingly, the activities are from the start of the project to the end with a details in the planned activities
1- The core organising team will start by making campaign about the contest in appropriate channels to let editors know about the upcoming contest. 2- An online meeting will be scheduled to discuss among participants, hear their voices, ask questions on one, as well as make a clear explanations about the contest rules, prizes to win and anything related to the contest, this will allow absolute transparency and a sense of comfort. 3-Workshop will be organized to meet in person to train other newly editors that lack experience on the basic method of technical skills on how to contribute to Hausa Wiktionary. 4-The contest will start according to the selected date by the organisers with a specific end date, through the start and the end date, the core organising team will work tirelessly to measure metrics, follow participants' contributions, and start compiling learnings and other aspects of the contest. 5-From the beginning of the contest to the end campaign on social media handles will be publish to make the contest effective and notice, both on social media and on-wiki. 6-After the end of the campaign another meeting will be held online among organisers and selected jurists to discuss the rules set for the contest on words created by participants reflecting rules of the contest, and also to discuss ways of judging the entire contest. 7- Announcements of the winners will be published online and in the wiki through the social media channels on Facebook, Instagram, Hausa Wikitionary portal, and WMF diff. 8-Data support will be provided to participants during meetings, workshops, and for the jurist as well to support our course to achieve effective results and impactful outcomes. 9-General page for the contest will be created where all necessary information about the contest will be provided for transparency and balance. 10-Survey will be conducted at the end of the project to gather information that will be use to make corrections, make changes, provide improvements in the contest in current situation and near future, this will be based on participants' inputs
- 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: An Administrator in Hausa Wiktionary will lead this project
Salisu Adamu:Administrator in Hausa Wiktionary. As a volunteer, has lead in projects, and also facilitate in several Wiktionary projects. Will handle the training sessions, monitor and tracking of contributions after the contest .
Anasskoko: An administrator in Hausa Wikipedia will serves as a judge in the contest.
- 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 are members from Hausa Wiktionary community, the most active contributors. And anyone from Hausa community who can contribute will be engage. Participants are added to the existing communication channels WhatsApp/Telegram group to encourage continued discussions and collaborations.
- 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 informed our community members about the planned project through Hausa Wiktionary discusion page and our social media channels
- 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)
We will learn how continuous contests can motivate editors and sustain active participation within the Hausa Wiktionary community. This includes understanding what types of incentives and activities attract more contributors and keep them engaged. By creating and improving Hausa Wiktionary guideline pages, We will learn how to design clear instructional materials that make editing easier for both new and experienced contributors, enhancing the usability of Hausa Wiktionary. We will learn how to effectively use social platforms (Facebook and Instagram) to promote Wikimedia projects, highlight community achievements, and attract new contributors. We will learn how to plan, execute, and evaluate an annual Wiktionary contest from developing fair judging criteria to ensuring adherence to Wiktionary editing rules and Wikimedia movement principles. We will learn how to build a sustainable model of engagement, motivate volunteers, measure impact, and expand Hausa Wiktionary’s visibility and credibility,ensuring the continued growth and improvement of the project across future editions. We hope to see Hausa Wiktionary guidelines pages created to assist and guide editors on how to contribute. We are excited to see how brave Hausa Wikitionary editors will be as they compete for incredible prizes. Through participation in this contest, we hope to learn and provide analysis on the rapid growth of Hausa Wiktionary by providing a statistical report Wikimedia Xtools. We are looking forward to creating an overall experience, understanding, and statistical report that will be shared on the Wikimedia diff blog post.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 100 | Our target is to reach 100 participants from Hausa Community |
| Number of editors | 50 | To engage 50 editors |
| Number of organizers | 3 | 3 Organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 1000 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | 2000 |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
2000 words will be created and 1000 audio files and images will be uploaded during the contest
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| 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)
We are going to use outreach dashboard,Xtool 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)
3520000 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.
2426.08 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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