Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Lexical Alternatives:A Guide to Word Variants in Hausa (ID: 22965762)
This is an automatically generated Meta-Wiki page. The page was copied from Fluxx, the web service of Wikimedia Foundation Funds where the user has submitted their application. Please do not make any changes to this page because all changes will be removed after the next update. Use the discussion page for your feedback. The page was created by CR-FluxxBot.
Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Hamza DK
- 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.
Lexical Alternatives: A Guide to Word Variants in Hausa
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-04-15 - 2025-05-10
- 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)
Wiki Loves Women
- 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)
The current project highlights the comprehensible and challenges posed by the problem of lexical variation in the Hausa language as follows:
1. Regional orthographic differences like in (British English: ‘colour’/ American English: ‘color’)
2. Variant vocabulary (e.g. lift and elevator – chips and fries)
3. Word choice based on the context of which it’s used.
These variations often lead to:
- Confusion among learners and users of the Hausa language
- Inconsistencies in written and spoken forms of the language
- Practitioners having a hard time understanding terminologies that are specific to a given context
To tackle these challenges the project will do the following:
1. Document and catalogue: usage of different lexical variants – regional and contextual
2. Celebrate lexical variants and provide the context of each
3. Provide concisely illustrated regional language lexicons to alleviate people from word variations
4. Provide a room for contributions so that users can fill in the gaps or mistakes
5. Create an easily retrievable source of variant details
By addressing these challenges the project seeks to:
- Foster an understanding and communication of the language
- Assist language learners and users
- Foster coherence and clarity in language used in writing and speaking
It is in this spirit that Wiki users will be able to feel the impact of the change in Wiktionary aiming at widening the scope of coverage of lexical shifts which will serve to benefit language users.
- 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.
In terms of this project, “Lexical Alternatives: A Guide to Word Variants in Hausa”, it coming activities have been outlined as follows:
Research and Content Creation:
1. Find and make lists of different lexical variants (regional, contextual, and vocabulary differences)
2. For each variant researched, write explanations, examples of usage, and notes of the context in which each will be required
3. Sort out categorical variants (geographical, topological, grammatical types, etc)
Wiktionary Integration:
1. Add new entries under the lexical variants observing the guidelines provided in Wiktionary
2. Enhance current entries by adding variant information on them
3. Compose housing for the uniform appearance of the variants
Community Engagement:
1. Work with editors and linguists specialists of the Wiktionary concerning feedback and content
2. Work with language learners and users for feedback and testing
3. Self-delivery of the project ideas through discussions and forums in Wiktionary.
- 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.
Our team is made up of:
- Hamza DK, Project Lead, I'm specialize on how to manage and navigate group interactions, I also have the ability to plan, structure, and lead meetings, workshops, and other events. I'm experienced editor,
- Gwanki an experience editor of the year , He organises several events and a very good dedication editor (Volunteer)
- El-hussain14 , is an experience editor that organize and facilitate several event. He is from Northeast Hausa speaking region.
- Dr. Salisu Sani, Researcher, with a specialization on language/linguistic area from Department of Hausa, College of Education Katsina. He will represent the alternative words used in Hausa and method of used (Contractor)
- Malam Hassan Muntari B.sc Hausa, from Ahmadu Bello University (A.B.U) Zaria he is a Linguistic Expert and resident native speaker of Hausa language. He will be talking about the regional alternatives that are in Hausa (Contractor).
- Mrs. Mariya Isma'il Senior Staff at Government Day Secondary School Dutsen Kura, a professional class teacher, She will lectured on regional spells differences, Variants vocational, (Contractor).
- 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 of this project are the editors of Hausa Wikipedia and Wiktionary in particular those with an interest in language linguistics and lexicography. This includes: - Editors With Long Experience and Have Edited Language Articles And New Editors Ideate Within The Language , Editors With Different Language And Region Backgrounds.
Use of Participants before activities:
With regard to the targeting of participants, we shall make an announcements on Hausa Wikimedians User Group on WhatsApp.
Participants during activities: In the case of the activities we will Conduct online regular workshops and edit a thons in order to generate and debate content – Collaborate through various platforms, Google docs to give and receive feedback on the work done – Participate in discussion sessions and question and answer sessions in order to interact with the audience
- 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.
This project is a collaborative work with Hausa Wikimedians User Group We contacting two co-founders Mustafa Aliyu User:Em-mustapha and emailed Ammar Abdulhamid to Support the collaboration of the grant ,and other members in our Hausa Wikimedians User Group Whatsapp. I also discuss about the proposal in our Hausa Wikipedia Discussion Page, Facilitators from different region willing to contribute.
- 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)
Not applicable
- 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)
Improve User Experience
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
We hope to learn and respond to the lexical differences. Below is the scope of our project.
Objectives
1. To document and catalogue variants
2. To appreciate and contextualize every variant
3. To provide a language lexicon for each region so as to lessen ambiguity
4. To provide for user inputs to bridge the gaps and errors
5. To ensure easy access of the sources related with the details of the variants
We also expected :
1. Communication and understanding of Hausa language shall be improved.
2. More assistance shall be enhanced.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | Numbers of expected participants. |
| Number of editors | 20 | |
| Number of organizers | 4 | Four organizers and Three linguistics expert. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | 500 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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 will be using the Wikimedia Foundation outreach dashboard to track activities .
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)
2070000 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.
1380 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
Endorsements and Feedback
[edit]Please add endorsements and feedback to the grant discussion page only. Endorsements added here will be removed automatically.
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).