Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Kelantan-Pattani Wikipedia Outreach (ID: 23759132)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Mirlim
- 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.
Kelantan-Pattani Wikipedia Outreach
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2026-07-01 - 2026-12-31
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Malaysia
- 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)
Kelantan-Pattani Malay is widely spoken in Kelantan state of Malay, and Pattani region in Thailand, yet the language has not reached the official level since it’s usually in spoken form.
The change that we are trying to bring is to spread awareness of the importance of Wikipedia in minority language (Kelantan-Pattani Language) to provide free knowledge for everyone, to guide how to edit pages on Wiki projects and to involve the public to preserve the regional language through the projects.
The challenges are how to actually attract people to contribute in Wikimedia Projects, especially in this case Kelantan-Pattani Malay Wikipedia. Even after a guidance being held, people eventually do not contribute at all after it even though they do have information on how to edit or create pages on Wikipedia. Also, we want to encourage people to invite more and more people about the existence of Wikipedia. Also the language has multiple writing systems and doesn't have unified orthography, making the reading material in the language very rare.
So, the strategies are:
1. Provide the community with awareness of the importance of Wikipedia, and preservation of the local language (which is Kelantan-Pattani Malay).
2. The workshop starts small-scale, involving Islamic Education Campus Teacher Education Institute (IPGKPI) students, collaborating with other Wikimedia’s club (IIUM Wikimedia Club), also providing them with some goodies and a booklet that contains tutorials on how to edit a page, which requires costs. This is important as people would want what they get after a program. The collaboration is to ease how the program is being held, besides to tell the participants how the club plays the roles in developing the Wikimedia project. Eventually, the awareness would grow if the workshop was successful.
3. Spread the accessibility of Wikipedia by organizing programs that provide guidance on how to edit articles or pages in it. For example: Jju Wikipedia held Jju Wikipedia Outreach (https://w.wiki/Hav4) that involved participants; the Wikipedia has its consistency that it has approved recently.
4. To reach consistency, encouragement is required from participants. Competitions will boost it, so the participants have to reach a certain target to get prize provided by the facilitator, e.g. Betawi Wikipedia held a competition (https://w.wiki/HavU) that the participants who reach a certain target would get a certain prize. This also would be applied to participants who could invite the most people.
Thus, the prize has 2 categories, the top contributors and the most invited people about this Wikipedia.
5. Therefore, meetings will be held 6 times, once a month so that participants can be taught from time to time, in addition to maintaining the community's active contribution.
- 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 activities are: 1. Invitement: to invite more participants as possible, to create account for new users 2. Workshop: to guide participants how to edit or create in Wikipedia, e.g. content translations into Kelantan-Pattani Malay Wikipedia (Incubator) 3. Competition: to encourage participants in editing pages, and inviting more people (basically follow up after workshop)
- 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.
• AMIR MUSLIM (Wikimedia username: Mirlim (https://w.wiki/HfWg) - would lead the project to ensure proper project implementation from start to finish and to ensure timely submission of reports.
- ARIF IRFAN (Wikimedia username: Danggoo (https://w.wiki/FePb) - volunteer to provide a venue for the workshop at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
- SYAHMI SYAHIRAN (Wikimedia username: Syahmisyahiran28 (https://w.wiki/HfZh) - would provide learning support to the participant and assist in account creation for the new participants.
- 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 is the native speaker of Kelantan Malay that resides at Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia. The engagement would be achieved by introducing Wikipedia before the activities occurred, then by guiding the participants how to contribute to it. The follow up would be by creating a Whatsapp group so the participants could refer if any, also would be planning for the next workshop to other communities.
- 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.
I sent a message to the Wikimedia Community User Group Malaysia talk page as linked here: https://w.wiki/HfXF
Also here’s the messages via Whatsapps to the community representatives: https://www.canva.com/design/DAG__Cfa4rw/HaBe3bRF8iIyrAlRLbhXCg/view?utm_content=DAG__Cfa4rw&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h9bf215562a
- 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)
Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
We hope that from this project, we able:
- To measure how many people usually participated, so we could estimate for the next project
- To know how people actually want to contribute actively on Wikimedia projects, we could encourage more people thus spreading the importance of free knowledge.
- To experience how to be an organiser that contains participants, so we could organise another workshop later smoothly.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 30 | 30 participants |
| Number of editors | 25 | 23 new editors, 2 others |
| Number of organizers | 3 | 3 organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | 30 |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
30 pages
- 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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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 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 actually are not sure about this, and need support for it.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14n0A2aYlJskyy--3myDCO4SJjQly55XtD2tMZldPZB4/edit?usp=sharing
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
14976 MYR
- 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.
3796.87 USD
- By submitting your proposal/funding request you confirm that you have read and agree to the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy, and the Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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