Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Nupe Wikimedia Community (September 2025 - February 2026) Semi-Annual Plan (ID: 23444946)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Nupemiyo
- Organization
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- 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)
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Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Nupe Wikimedia Community (September 2025 - February 2026) Semi-Annual Plan
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-09-01 - 2026-02-28
- 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)
Other (please specify) Capacity building and Edit-a-thon
- 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)
We are striving to revitalized, document, and digitally preserved the Nupe language
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupe_language) and culture on Wikimedia platforms.
The community carried out several projects such as:
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Nupe_Wikipedia_Awakening:Inspiring_Awareness_and_Incubator_Advancement_in_Niger_State,_Nigeria_(ID:_22446264) which lead to recent approval from the Language Committee (Langcom) as seen:
(https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Main_Page/en),
the Nupe Wikipedia project has gained recognition, but much work is needed to build a sustainable and active contributors network, grow the body of content, and raise awareness within the Nupe-speaking population. Haven gotten our own sites created:
(https://nup.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatacin_feregi)
We still need to put more efforts to bring in more women editors and retention of existing editors in our community and include more local folks from yet to reach areas to ensure that our community is giving needed attention in addressing gap when it comes to gender diversity and inclusion of all.
Challenges and Problems:
1. Low Awareness and Participation: Many Nupe speakers are unaware of Wikimedia projects or the opportunity to contribute to the development of Nupe Wikipedia.
2. Participants find it difficult to navigate the Nupe Wikipedia when it was in the incubator stage, but with the recent approval navigating it will be easier.
Approaches to Achieve the Change:
1. Community Training and Capacity Building: We will be organizing trainings, followed by edit-a-thons, to equiped participants with skills in Wikipedia editing, translation, and content creation in Nupe Wikipedia.
2. Content Creation and Improvement: We will focus on developing high-quality, reliable, and culturally relevant articles in Nupe Language.
3. Mentorship and Community Growth: We will create an online and offline for mentorship where experienced contributors support new editors, ensuring sustainability and knowledge transfer.
- 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.
During this period we aim to host a total of 7 editathons/trainings: Three (3) would be aimed at recruiting new editors. We will give emphasis to involving a reasonable number of female partcipants. The other four (4) edit-a-thons would be centered toward capacity building trainings to our participants. This will help in ensuring proper measure is taken in editors retention.
Breakdown:
1. Intervals between each training and the next would be 3 weeks i.e, after every one training there would be three weeks of contributions and engagements from the facilitators before we would host another training, the same goes to the subsequent trainings up to the last one.
2. We will engaged in a capacity building to horn their skills and increase their knowledge and understanding of how Wikipedia works and how they can effectively contribute to it. This would also give us the opportunity to address any challenges or concerns they may have during this time.
3. Newly recruited members would have continous supports and engagement for six months nonstop from general community activiities and that would help them in skills development and in getting use to Wikipedia editing as well as having to meet with the existing editors and make friends for forming a harmonous environment. The overall activities would be 7 events with 4 aim at capacity building and engagement enrichment and 3 aim at recruiting new editors and addressing gender diversity and inclusion. Two (2) from the total events will be online and the remaining five (5) physical trainings.
- 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.
1. Misbahu Umar (username: Nupemiyo) will be the project coordinator and will lead all the activities related to the project.
2. Ibrahim Yakubu (username: 787IYO) will be the co-organizer and will help to mobilize new participants around the project and in organizing the planned activities.
3. Jamilu Musa (username:Jameel35) as a female expert in communications will serve the role of communications and outreach in the cause of this project.
4. Umar Umar (username: Umar Ahmad2345) he will be responsible for the welfare related stuff like making contact with the drink supplying vendors, food bookings and similar tasks.
5. Haweey7575 she will be task with handling the hands-on tech related session to guide the yet to be recruited technical team of Nupe Wikimedia Community with the knowledge of how to operate a projector, sound system, router connection and their maintenance.
- 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 for this project are the general members of Nupe Wikimedia Community, interested staff of media organizations and institutions, linguists and students of various educational institutions. Men and women of different backgrounds and age group will be considered part of the participants in this project.
- 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.
We planned the activities together and discussed them in the community's dedicated Communication platforms
- 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)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Gender and diversity
- 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)
1. In what way did the activities help in bringing in new female editors and participants from Nupe diverse backgrounds?
2. How does the activities help in the development of your community's growth and participants retention?
3. How will the planned activities keep the community members engagement?
4. What's next after this implemented activities?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 100 | We aim to host 100 participants in our physical training: 20 participants per training |
| Number of editors | 60 | We aim to retain 60% percent of the participants as editors |
| Number of organizers | 7 | We aim to have 5 organizer from the existing Nupe community members whom most are the founders and 2 more from other groups to poster collaborations, guidance and ensure synergy between the languages to ensure smooth cooperation in the future. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 500 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 200 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
Each of the 20 participants in each training will have to make 5 edits per training and that would give us 100 edits per training on Wikipedia giving the total of 500 edits in the 7 training events. The facilitators would guide the participants on how make meaningful contributions to Wikimedia Commons and encourage them to contribute to these projects.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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- 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)
Dashboard Tool, Hashtag Tool, Google doc
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)
4717565 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.
3056 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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