Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Niger Republic Wikimedia Awareness and promotional Campaign for sustainability and development. (ID: 22008897)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Bajoga2021
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
User:Binmaleeek
- Organization
N/A
- 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.
Niger Republic Wikimedians User Group
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Niger Republic Wikimedia Awareness and promotional Campaign for sustainability and development.
- 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://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Niger_Republic_Wikimedians_User_Group
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Niger Republic Wikimedians user group is a new user group that's is the process of development, a development through compaign and awareness to have members that will volunteer in building The user group to be recognized as an affiliate, as well as to enroll people from Niger Republic to the Wikimedia movement. The change we are trying to bring about is to involve Niger Republic people into the movement as mentioned, thereby recruiting new participants, training and grooming them to become active contributors with better experience, this is important to have volunteers contributing to open knowledge thereby saving the world from information inadequacy. This project will be carried out through promotional campaign and awareness both online and offline, so that to make the people of Niger Republic understand the use Wikimedia active s, output/input contribution into Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and Wiktionary, engaging them will help to build their skills that will improve information in Wikimedia movement at large. Wikipedia campaigns has never been taken place in Niger Republic, therefore, this project will bring the change of knowing Wikimedia movement effectively. In this campaign, new users will be recruit , while the minimal number of existing users will be taken along to help in volunteering. Additionally, articles that are less improved will be developed through this project and new articles will be created as part of this project.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
- Recruiting 100 new editors across different states within Niger Republic. This will allow full participation of peoples from different states within Niger Republic.
- Promotional campaign on social media channels to reach relevant communities.
- Creating awareness on Wikimedia projects among participants in Niger Republic. Many of the participants may be familiar with Hausa/English Wikipedia but few are aware of other existing languages Wikipedia especially the Hausa Wikipedia as well as other Wikimedia products that promote free knowledge and open access to information enhancing the need for this approach.
- Participants will be train on contribution skills to various Wikimedia projects, a training that will focuses on; creating Wikimedia accounts, understand the core content policies, and understand general editing principles, performing minor edits among others to improve content about people, places, organizations of Niger Republic on Hausa/English Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikicommons.
- Giving out prizes to top 7 contributors as incentives to motivate them at the end of the campaign.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
The main activity is the Edit-a-thon after the Trips.
Activities to be carried out are as follows:
- Online promotional campaign using fliers and videos in social media channels (Facebook, Twitter and Instagram).
- Trip: we will organize a walking awareness trips in different streets and roads, to promote Wikimedia, This will give us the opportunity to enroll people to the upcoming training session Edit-a-thon. Pamphlet will be shared to people in the streets.
- Edit-a-thon- we will organize a training to register and mentor users on how to edit and contribute in Wikimedia Projects.
- Content creation during Workshops.
- Wikimedia sister projects detail explanation.
- Niger Republic Wikimedians user Group building, sustainability and development growth to Wikimedia movement at large.
- 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.
Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes, I Bajoga2021 will lead this projects with the help of Binmaleeek as facilitator, other Wikimedians will be included to help in seeing success of this project.
- 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.
Language
- 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 aimed at promoting and making awareness of Wikimedia projects to the people of Niger Republic, so it will be an encouragement if articles related to locality are improved during the course of the project which will help give a way to the new potential recruit editors grabs their opportunity to edit content they are most familiar with, that's article related to languages.
- 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
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic
- 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?
We are targeting people from Niger Republic, people that speaks Hausa and English as a first or second language. We will engage participants by enrolling them during Trip/compaign to participate in Edit-a-thon we intend to carry. We will have their phone numbers, emails, usernames, contacts, WhatsApp group is created to keep on training them and to answer any questions their have in mind that help in improving their editing skills
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The General friendly space policy for Wikimedia events will be summarized and to be read at the beginning of each event to remind the participants and the organizers of the importance of a friendly space policy.We will adhere to the Wikimedia-friendly space policy during the event. Participants may not necessarily have the skills as they are new but I believe that most of them will bring smartphones, laptops, and other supportive devices that will help in carrying out this project.
- 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.
We have made an announce publicly on social media channels related to Wikimedia to have interested users, also we announce through the link below in our user group discussion page.
- 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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
I aim to learn how to coordinate and manage participants within Niger Republic environment in the activities of Wikimedia movement, and to build Niger Republic Wikimedians user Group with them. How to effectively improve content gaps on Wikipedia and its sisters project. I hope to learn from participants to enhance Niger Republic engagements and priorities skills that improve contributions of editors as well as sustainability of new editors in various Wikimedia strategies. To see whether the project can grow the Niger Republic Wikimedians User Group by adding new fresh Editors.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Creating awareness | We will create awareness both online and offline in order to promote the wikimedia project objectives | 100 |
| Training new editors | We will recruit and train new editors on how to create articles and improve existing ones. | 50 |
| Creating articles | New and existing articles that will improve and grow wikimedia projects will be created and improved. | 100 |
| Creating social media platforms | WhatsApp group, Telegram and Facebook page will be created after the event and add those that already picked interest in Wikipedia. | 5 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The target participants are people from 18-40 years. | 50 |
| Number of editors | Number of editors | 30 |
| Number of organizers | Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Articles to be created in Wikipedia or improve with information or references. | 100 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of photos to upload as part training editors on Wikimedia Commons uploads. | 300 |
| Wikidata | The lexemes and Wikidata item to create or add as part training editors on Wikidata. | 50 |
| Wiktionary | The words to be created in Wiktionary. | 20 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
We will track users contribution.
- 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.
-outreach dashboard: To register and count edit and articles.
- Wmf hashtag: to tags users contribution and edits.
- Glamorous tool to count the number of images uploaded and linked.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1500418 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
3386.73 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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