Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Moore Wikimedians Community/Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 in Ghana (ID: 22024233)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Musahfm
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Musahfm Hasslaebetch Alhassan Mohammed Awal
- Organization
Moore 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.
Moore Wikimedia Community Dagbani Wikimedians Usergroup
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Moore Wikimedians Community/Wiki Loves Folklore 2023 in Ghana
- 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. https://www.facebook.com/MooreWikimediansGH?mibextid=ZbWKwL
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
This project seeks to contribute folklore images, videos and audios of different cultures from Ghana. It will also:
- 1. Add or improve content on Moore Wikpedia (Incubator) and Gurene Wikipedia (Incubator)
- 2. Recruit new editors
- 3. Engage existing editors
- 4. Upload Photos on Wikimedia Commons
- 5. Create/improve Moore and Gurene Wikipedia articles
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Workshops: We will organize workshop training sessions to introduce new participants to Wikimedia Commons and build on the knowledge of existing users.
We will also train participants on how to create Wikipedia articles for the various places we have visited and add relevant references.
Photowalk: We will embark on a photowalk to capture photos of folklore in which Gurene and Moore Community members will participate.
ISA Capmpaign: At the end of the contest, we will use the ISA tool to tailor a campaign to better depict the captured images so that they will be more useful.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Photo Walk Three (3) photo walks will be embarked on with a maximum of twenty (20) people participating in each walk. The walks will focus on taking photos, audios and videos of various cultural groups from the northern part of Ghana where Wikimedia activities are less covered. Focus shall be on their food, music & dance, rites, games, work and festivals.
List of potential Folklore activities to visit:
- 1. Mud houses; which are common in the northern Ghana are being constructed between January to March (dry season) when there are no more rains.
- 2. Funeral events; Mostly organized between January and March (Harvest season for farmers) in most parts of northern Ghana.
- 3. Weddings; Most traditional marriages are organized during the harvest season.
- 4. Maʒeema ni in Tamale. where they process animals skins into leather.
- 5. Machele ni; Local blacksmith centers
- 6. Savelugu and Vitting Shea butter processing centers
- 7. The palace of Gundonaa, a female king in Dagbon.
- 8. Bolga basket weaving center in the Upper East Region of Ghana.
- 9. Bolga Tanga pottery production center in the Upper East Region of Ghana.
10. Smock weaving centers in Tamale and Yendi 11. Local farms.
Feminism and Folklore Contest
We will also organize a 2 months edit-a-thon contest (Feb 1 - March 30) to create at least 100+ Moore and Gurene(Incubators) Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items related to feminism and folklore.
Moore Wikipedia (Incubator)
- 1. The Moore article must be of readable prose of about 100 words or roughly 3 sentences.
- 2. The Moore Wikipedia article must have at least 4 references.
Gurene Wikipedia (Incubator)
- 1. The Gurene article must be of readable prose of about 100 words or roughly 3 sentences.
- 2. The Gurene Wikipedia article must have at least 4 references.
Wikidata Wikidata items must have the following:
- 1. English Label
- 2. English Description
- 3. Moore Label
- 4. Moore Description
- 5. Gurene Label
- 6. Gurene Description
- 7. At least 4 references
- 8. Instance of (P31)
- 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.
Art+Feminism
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
User: Alhassan Mohammed Awal - Communication Manager at Dagbani Wikimedians User Group. He will be the main coordinator and liaison for this campaign User: Musahfm - He is a co-lead for Moore Wikimedia Community. He will facilitate the Moore community activities. User:Dnshitobu - Co-lead for Gurene Wikimedia Community. He will be a Facilitator and lead for upload sessions. User:Ruky Wunpini - logistics. User:Dhee jah - Graphic design User: Alhaj Darajaati - Photo Judge User: Achiri Bitamsimli - Photo Judge. User:Hasslaebetch - Photo Judge User:Uprising Man - PhotoJudge
- 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.
Content Gender gap, 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 project is going to be coordinated between two different languages who are geographically spread across Ghana, Togo, Code I’voire and Burkina Faso. These communities have diverse but interrelated cultural practices and ethnicities. With the goal to capture the cultural representation of these two groups, we are not only to unearth the similarities between these cultures but would put them on the internet under open license for researchers and viewers to freely access.
- 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.
Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Age, 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 communities are members from the Moore and Gurene Wikimedia Commuity. We will engage them on their various talk pages and social media platforms especially Whatsapp where majority of the members are. We will send a notification via the Dagbani Wikimedians mailing list.
These communities are presumably very new to Wikimedia projects and less than 10% of the speakers have heard of Wikipedia as a tool to promote, digitize and revitalize languages via its sister projects.
We will keep our participants more engaged in the varieties of the things we will be doing so that we will have a bunch of choices to make. We will be doing Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia commons and using tools like the ISA campaign to vary the interest.
- 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 the event.
- 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 Gurene Wikimedia Community Talk page Dagbani Wikimedians mailing list Moore Wikimedia Community Talk page 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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
The walks will focus on capturing photos, audios and videos of different cultural groups from the northern part of Ghana, Burkina Faso and Code I’voure where Wikimedia activities are less covered. Their food, music/dance, games, work and festivals.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | This represents the total number of photos that will be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons. | 200 |
| Wikipedia | Total number of articles that will be created on the Wikipedia(Incubator) of Gurene and Moore languages | 120 |
| 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 | Total number of participants expected to take part in the event | 60 |
| Number of editors | ||
| Number of organizers | Number of organisers to ensure successful project | 3 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Incubator | The articles created or improved on the Gurene language incubator | 60 |
| Incubator | The articles created or improved on the Moore language incubator | 60 |
| Wikimedia Commons | The media files uploaded to commons | 200 |
| 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.
39400 GHS
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2706.78 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10BIKPfqifGF0yQIVDSjIrAeCSzzRQm25CFxuC5HDMQ0/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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