Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Introducing Wikipedia to Universal Wikimedia Fan Club (ID: 21988232)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Seini.coe
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
User: Seini.coe
User: DASMON
- Organization
N/A
- Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.
I am the founder of the Universal Wikimedia Fan Club(UWFC).
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Introducing Wikipedia to Universal Wikimedia Fan Club
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
Local
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
- R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Universal Wikimedia Fan Club(UWFC), a recently created Wikimedia Fan Club that has been successful in getting volunteers together through a survey we conducted on people's awareness of Wikipedia and its sister projects. We, in our own have been able to engage volunteers through which we have been able to recruit 32 and successfully guided them to create their user accounts. Here(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Wiki_Club/Operations_and_community_guidelines) is a link to the volunteers who successfully created their Wikimedia user accounts. With this new recruitment, there is the need to introduce them to Wikipedia and its sister projects to get started contributing to the various Wikimedia projects. This project seeks to:
- 1. Create awareness about Wikipedia and its sister projects.
- 3. Introduce Wikidata to club members
- 4. Recruit new editors for the various Wikimedia projects
- 5. Increase skills for existing editors.
- 6. Train new editors to contribute to Wikidata
- 7. Create or improve Wikidata items.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Meetup: This approach allows for people with similar or same interest to meet online or in-person to deliberate on a topic. We will use this approach to discuss about Wikimedia and its projects since it is great for such discussions and deliberations. It is also suitable for people to socialize and connect with one another.
Workshops/Trainings: This approach or strategy allows new users to gain new knowledge and also rekindle what they already know, that is, they refresh their minds on what they already learned. It is an effective approach since we will have in attendance experienced editors and those that are fairly new. Ideas are shared among colleagues during workshops and in this way, participants would not only gain new knowledge but also socialize and get to know more about their co-wikimedians.
Editathon: Editathons are usually the quickest approach to use if one wants to complete a task early. It is very participatory and engages participants more. Participants will be enthused to work more as they see their co-participants doing the same. Again, this approach will allow participants to communicate among themselves and finally address issues among themselves that relate to the event.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will have a session to guide newbies who are without user accounts to create accounts for themselves.
Participants will be introduced to Wikimedia Foundation and its projects using the discussion approach. Through this Wikimedia Foundation will be promoted.
Participants will be introduced to Wikipedia and its sister projects with an emphasis on Wikidata, where they will be given a practical session on Wikidata.
We will have a hands-on session on creating/improving Wikidata items on Senior High Schools in Ashanti Region, Ghana.
We will have one-on-one sessions where participants will have the opportunity to ask questions that border them with regard to their skills.
Mentorship sessions will be instituted where completely new participants will be assigned to experienced Wikimedians to mentor them after the various training sessions. This is geared towards retaining volunteers and keeping them active.
Participants who are without user accounts will be assisted to create themselves.
Here is a link to the items that we will be working on: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10zkeKHjFVjZCoB7HaMZiSj8vnXf7nvNNOh9hCZjEepg/edit#gid=0
- 4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.
Other (please specify)
- Introducing Wikipedia to Universal Wikimedia Fan Club
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
User:Seini.coe - He is an experienced Wikimedian and will lead the project.
User: DASMON - Support in training
User: AbdGaf- He will be in charge of logistics
User: Hardi19899 - He will provide general I.T support
- 6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Geography
- 6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
This project will introduce participants to Wikimedia projects placing emphasis on Wikidata, it will extend to creating/improving Wikidata items for Senior Schools in Ashanti Region, Ghana. Through this project, 100 schools will be documented on Wikidata increasing content on Wikidata.
- 7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Education, Advocacy, Open Technology
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Digital Access
- 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?
The target participants are volunteers from the Universal Wikimedia Fan Club. Participants will be mainly newly recruited volunteers, they will be engaged through the use of the workshops and edithatons. We will continue engagements via a mentorship program that will be instituted to retain and keep participants active.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We will educate participants on the WMF Friendly policy and adopt it for this project.
- 11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.
We have had discussions about this project in physical meetings and on our club's WhatsApp platform.
- 12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
No
- 13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
- 14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
1. I would like to learn how the project can increase content on Wikidata.
- 2. I would like to learn how participants thoughts about Wikipedia have changed.
- 3. I would like to learn about the impact of experienced Wikimedians being assigned to support newbies during the hands-on session.
- 4. I would like to learn how the project will overall make Wikipedia and open knowledge better.
- 5. I would like to learn about the participant's thoughts about being mentored after the project.
- 16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of events | Total number of events | 4 |
| Number of participants | Total number of participants that will take part in the project including new recruits. | 35 |
| Number of new editors recruited | This represents the total number of editors that will be recruited. | 5 |
| Number of new recruits to create their user accounts. | We anticipate having new recruits attending the event hence user accounts will be created for them. | 5 |
| Number of Wikidata items that will be craeted/improved | The total number of Wikidata items that will be created or improved at the end of the project. | 100 |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Total number of volunteers who will take part in the project. This includes both existing and new recruits. | 35 |
| Number of editors | This includes both existing and new recruits | 35 |
| Number of organizers | This represents Team members who will be directly involved in implementing this project. | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | Total number of Wikidata items created or improved. | 100 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
- 18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.
Wikimedia outreach dashboard and some other metrics will be collected manually.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
16600 GHS
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
1543.6 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VSl9coS9UE2fcsN0f4NC7E-M8ZaX76GLfok-nKWUCg0/edit#gid=0
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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- Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
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