Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Kare-Kare Language Localization on Translate Wiki and Building a Community of Contributors on Incubator (ID: 22590097)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Majalam
- Organization
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Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Kare-Kare Language Localization on Translate Wiki and Building a Community of Contributors on Incubator
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-06-15 - 2024-08-15
- 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)
According to Wikipedia, there are over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. Out of these, not more than 7 languages are active on Wikipedia. Kare-Kare (also spelled as Karai-Karai) is an underrepresented language spoken in northern region of Nigeria. The language is spoken by hundred of thousands speakers as a native language, yet, it could possibly become extinct due to limited online presence and proper passage to the future generations despite the fact that the Kare-Kare people has worked on achieving standard writing system and have some few publications in an attempt to ensure that the language is revitalized. Sadly, most of the Kare-Kare speaking community are not aware or have a little knowledge about Wikipedia and that the Kare-Kare language is in the incubator which is the right place to put more efforts in ensuring knowledge sharing and culture preservation. Keeping in mind the above challenges, I plan to organize an awareness campaign to let the Kare-Kare community know that the language is on the Incubator and they can contribute by creating articles in Kare-Kare language. This is a huge step towards ensuring that this language is well documented and well accessible on Wikipedia, the global encyclopedia where gap in knowledge sharing in many languages is giving due consideration.
The introduction and training of Wikipedia in Kare-Kare language community will provide a valuable opportunity for knowledge-sharing and preservation of the Kare-Kare language and culture. We believe that this project will have a positive impact in Kare-Kare community and contribute to the diversity of content on Wikipedia. Overall, the project will also help recruit and train participants, who will be nurtured into active volunteers and contributors.
Our recent efforts has helped us in achieving the the following developments: 1. The Kare-Kare language is activated on Wikidata and currently has over 800 lexemes as can be seen here: https://ordia.toolforge.org/language/Q3438770 2. Collaborations with Wiki technical teams is made and there currently an ongoing work for developing the Kare-Kare language keyboard. The tested version can be seen here: https://ime.jague.net/examples/index.html 3. The Kare-Kare Wikipedia was nominated among the wikis that would their domain soon. 4. There are closely 200 well written articles on Kare-Kare Wikipedia on Incubator. Some can be seen here: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wp/kai
- 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.
We will adopt the following strategies to achieve effective results:
1. Training and workshops: To ensure that the participants are equipped with the necessary skills to contribute to the Wikipedia incubator, we will organize 2 days training and workshops.
2. Collaboration and partnerships: We will collaborate with experienced editors from Hausa Wikimedians User Group and Fulfulde to help their wealth of knowledge and experience towards making this project a success.
3. Translation efforts: We will also encourage the participants to translate articles from other languages into Kare-Kare to increase the representation of the Kare-Kare language and culture on Wikipedia.
The following activities will be developed and delivered as part of the project:
- Organise one (1) time in-person and one (1) virtual workshops on creating, improving, and translating articles to Kare-Kare Wikipedia on the Kare-Kare Wikimedia Incubator. https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/kai/Sh%C3%A0fi_Maiw%C3%A0a, develop online tutorials and resources to support participants in creating and editing Kare-Kare Wikipedia on Wikimedia Incubator, establish a mentorship program to provide ongoing support to participants and host edit-a-thon to encourage participants to contribute to the Kare-Kare Wikipedia on incubator.
- 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. Majalam: is a long term volunteer of Wikipedia with editing experience that cut-across Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Translate Wiki and Incubator among others. She has attended sevaral online and in-person Wiki events organized in various part of Nigeria where she developed her passion for organizing and introducing the Kare-Kare Wikipedia to Kare-Kare people/tribe.
2. Maydala: a male Wiki editor would serve as a facilitator. He will serve the role of dashboard manager during the projects.
3. De-Invincible: would be invited as an experience editor and organizer to oversee and help with mobilizing the participants as well as in guiding the other facilitators in organizing the planned activities.
4. Msaleesu: will serve the roles of communications/outreach and welfare activities in this project.
5. This would be a leader from Mbeno club for reaching out to targeted group of people
- 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 are Kare-Kare speakers from northern Nigeria. We would invite members of the Kare-Kare Language Development Committee, Mbeno Club as well as students, activists, writers and educators to be part of participants in this project.
- 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.
We currently are fewer than 8 contributors, so we have a group on Whatsapp where we used to discuss on matters relating to the development of Kare-Kare language on Wikimedia Incubator, so I let the other contributors know about the project through the group
- 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)
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)
1. What is the reaction of Kare-Kare people when introduced to the Wikimedia projects? 2. Do the project yield a positive outcome in the end? 3. What are the challenges faced during the implementation? 4. How does the newly recruited participants feel about having their language in Incubator? 5. What would be the next step or future plan?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | Targeting at least 50 participants |
| Number of editors | 30 | Targeting at least 20 new editors and retain the existing 10 editors |
| Number of organizers | 5 | Targeting at least 5 organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | 200 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | 200 |
| Translatewiki | 700 |
| 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
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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)
Outreach dashboard tool
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)
1375000 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.
984.38 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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