Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Kusaal Wikimedia Community/Translatewiki.net (ID: 22067730)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Musahfm
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
User:Musahfm User:Engr Winnamzua UserSadik Shahadusadik
- Organization
Kusaal Wikimedia Community
- 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.
Dagbani Wikimedians User Group Kusaal Wikimedia Community
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Kusaal Wikimedia Community/Translatewiki.net
- 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.
https://twitter.com/Kusaalwiki
https://web.facebook.com/kusaalwikimediacommunity
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
We want to build a full language support for the Kusaal Wikipedia incubator, create more articles and localization of Wikipedia and sister projects by translating all the most important MediaWiki which serve as one of the requirements for a new language Wikipedia request. We want to build the foundation that the Kusaal communities may leverage on to start new projects in future. We want to introduce new editors in the Kusaal Wikimedia Community to Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
We will do so by; Recruiting new editors for Kusaal Wikipedia incubator Introduce members to the basics of Wikipedia Training new editors to translate the most commonly used words in the Kusaal language. Increase skills for existing editors
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will be organizing online and offline training workshops to equip the community with the skills they will need to be able to participate in translations.
We will use this project as an opportunity to translate all the most commonly used mediawiki messages into Kusaal on Mediawiki using translatewiki.
We will invite interested groups and organizations to participate in as translators or advisors.
We will reach out to students and teachers who are currently learning or teaching the Kusaal language.
- 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.
WikiGap
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes. User: Musahfm - He is a co-lead for Kusaal Wikimedia Community. He will co-ordinate the entire project Shahadusadik - Will provide technical and general support Dnshitobu - Resource person User:Bugirbiig - Kusaal language and translation expert Engr. Winnamzua: Logistics Sir Amugi - Communication Manager at Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
- 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, Language, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 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.
The goal of this community is to bring to limelight Kusaal language through the Kusaal Wikipedia incubator and to work towards getting live on the wikimedia projects. Translating messages on Translatewiki would go a long way to localise the user interface of the Kusaal Wikpedia so that editors in the Kusaal language can edit articles, communicate and relate very well with Kusaal Wikipedia and on other wWikimedia projects.
- 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, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language
- 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 members from the Kusaal speaking Communities across ghana. We will engage them on social media platforms especially Whatsapp where majority of the members are. We will send a notification via the Dagbani Wikimedians mailing list.
Recruited editors will trained via online and in-person sessions. Training of editors will be done via online and offline.
These communities are presumably very new to Wikimedia projects and less than 5% of the speakers have heard of Wikipedia as a tool to promote, digitize and revitalize languages via its sister projects.
- 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 safety protocols and adapt it for the event and also couple it with some local rules that will guide behaviour and conduct of members.
- 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.
African Wikimedians mailing list Kusaal Wikimedia Community Talk page Dagbani Wikimedians mailing list The Wikimedia related Telegram channels
- 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, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
to translate all the most commonly used mediawiki messages into Kusaal on translate Wiki.
To set the pace for the localisation of the interface of Kusaal wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation projects
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Translatewiki | Translating Mediawiki messages on translatewiki, especially most important messages | 1000 |
| Wikipedia (Incubator) | Total number of articles that will be created on the Wikipedia(Incubator) in Kusaal language | 20 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of total participants to attend in-person workshop | 20 |
| Number of editors | Number of total participants who will actually do the editing/translation | 20 |
| Number of organizers | Volunteers that contributes towards a successful event | 2 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Translatewiki | Total number of messages to to be translated into Kusaal on translatewiki. | 1000 |
| Incubator | The articles created or improved on the Kusaal Wikipedia incubator | 20 |
| 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.
We will use the WMF outreach dashboard tool to measure the metrics.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
28700 GHS
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2263.47 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KCDnvzFp3QB0Zi20yZ-ZHflC3wQntUjeFKCbrx06zOk/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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