Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Introducing Wikimedia projects to Esan West LGA (ID: 23099934)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Hackesan
- 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)
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.
Introducing Wikimedia projects to Esan West LGA
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-07-01 - 2025-08-31
- 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) Wikimedia projects awareness with focus on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
- 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)
Esan West is one of the eighteen local government areas (counties) that make up Edo State in Nigeria. Despite its wealth of cultural heritage, history, intellectual potential (home to Ambrose Alli University and Glorious Vision University), and youthful population, it remains largely invisible on Wikimedia platforms. Furthermore, amongst the most important cultural identities of the people of Esan West, [Igbulu attire|Igbulu attire] doesn’t have an article on the English Wikipedia; notable towns and people are either not well sourced/undocumented or are stub articles such as this, this, this and this.
This is as a result of the lack of awareness about the potentials of Wikimedia projects among youths, educators, students, and cultural custodians in Esan West in documenting their culture and history for visibility on the internet for the democratisation of indigenous knowledge. Moreover, there is limited participation due to the absence of localised mentorship, skills training, and community-building activities. This knowledge gap risks further marginalisation of the Esan content in the global knowledge movement.
To bring about change, calculated awareness drives and hands-on training (physical and online) focused on editing and content creation with a focus on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons contributions. To ensure sustainability and continuity, a community will be created to provide mentorship and support, periodic online meetups and editathons. We will explore collaborating with student unions in creating fan clubs in the university within Esan West.
- 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 planned project activities are:
Awareness and Recruitment: Awareness drives using social media to promote the project to prospective participants and pre-assessment selection of participants and partners (higher institutions). The participants will be onboarded and introduced to the Wikimedia projects: Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. Highlighting the Friendly Safe Place Policy, will provide participants with the project goals, action plans, and deliverables.
Training Sessions: Training will be both online and in-person, to be facilitated by experienced wikimedians and involve offering practical training on Wikipedia, Wikidata editing, and how to contribute multimedia files to Wikimedia Commons and policies governing content contribution.
Edit-a-thon: Participants will gain hands-on editing experience focused on adding reliable references to Wikipedia articles, Wikidata Items and Commons uploads, enhancing the visibility of Esan West’s cultural heritage, and ensuring active contributions to Wikimedia platforms. Top contributors will be awarded gift prizes.
Surve: There will be post-training assessments to measure participants' knowledge and skills acquired and measure the overall impact of the project. This process will also identify areas for improvement, ensure that the activities remain responsive to participants' needs, and help guide future Wikimedia training initiatives.
Mentorship: A WhatsApp group community will be created to serve as a platform for continuous engagement and support to participants during and after the project phase. Further strengthen our resolve to not just create but also sustain a community of open knowledge enthusiasts.
- 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. Hackesan is the project lead and language revitalisation enthusiast. He is an experienced Wikimedian who has participated in Wikimedia training, such as the WikiForHumanRights campaign and African Legislators in Red.
2. Levi Kambai is an experienced language revitalisation and documentation expert. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Tyap Wikimedians User Group and will be available for an in-person training on Wikipedia Content Policy, Notability Guidelines and Article Creation Process.
3. Atibrarian is an experienced wikimedian, a fellow of the Wikipedia in African Libraries (WikiAfLIB), and a certified trainer of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom (RWiC) programme. He will be available to facilitate during the physical training on Five Pillars of Wikipedia and Understanding Referencing and Source Reliability.
4. Meritkosy a fellow of the Wikipedia in African Libraries(WikiAfLIB). She had participanted in several AfLIA led Wiki training for African librarians - Basics of Wikipedia Editing Learning Circle, African Librarians Week, 1Lib1Ref - Wiki Loves Libraries Nigeria, African Youth Month 2022, Wikidata Training and others. She was the project lead for “Wikimedia Awareness and Training in Federal College of Education”, "Upskilling academic librarians in Gombe State on Open knowledge practices through Wikimedia projects" and “Open Knowledge Practices Through Wikimedia Projects for Librarians in Benue State University, Benue State Nigeria”.
5. Offi gems is a volunteer Wikipedian to support the training, participants documentation and follow up engagement
- 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)
Our primary target are residents of Esan West LGA of Edo State: students and youth, educators, and historians/writers in general.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
Yes
- 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.
The general friendly space policy for Wikimedia events will be summarised and read at the beginning of each event. The event will adhere to the Wikimedia-friendly space policy during the event. The Wikimedia-friendly space policy and UCoC will be distributed to participants (age between 18 years and above) before the event starts. The event also promises to be safe and conducive. Furthermore, all local laws and regulations that apply to the young attendees.
- 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.
The Wikimedia User Group Nigeria community has been notified about the project through their meta page here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Introducing_Wikimedia_Projects_to_Esan_West
- 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)
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)
Did the project create awareness about Wikimedia projects in Esan West?
Did the project train new editors to have the required skills to edit Wikimedia projects?
Was the project beneficial to the target participants in acquiring new skills and knowledge to tell their own stories?
Did the participants contribute contents to Wikipedia and it's sisters' projects?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 55 | This number consists of both prospective participants and organizers |
| Number of editors | 50 | The numbers of editors both new and returning editors if any in Esan West LGA |
| Number of organizers | 5 | The total numbers of the event organizing team |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 60 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 150 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract 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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- 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)
The Event Organizer tool will be utilized for participants management, and the Outreach dashboard deployed to track participants contributions and impacts across target Wikis.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cG-FsDKVu3ZxoTLNyj0mKJxSZiN_L0gOGzTVqMnb4O4/edit?gid=0#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)
2495776 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.
1650.81 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
Endorsements and Feedback
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Community members are invited to share meaningful feedback on the proposal and include reasons why they endorse the proposal. Consider the following:
- Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
- 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.
- Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
- Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).