Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Photo walk for Wiki loves Monuments in Ghana 2022 (ID: 21914657)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
kwameghana
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
N/A
- 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.
I do not belong to any group for now.
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Photo walk for Wiki loves Monuments in Ghana 2022
- 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. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Ghana has been organising Wiki Loves Monuments for a couple of years now and so far the experience has been great!. This year we realised there are still more monuments left to be added and with new ones we have discovered which are not Commons. We also going to improve on the old photos by recapturing them professionally to meet the standards of the international competition.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
1. We shall be hunting for photos to enrich the contents concerning Ghana on Commons.
2 A call for professional photographers will be made to come and help in the photowalk. With this call, new recruits of volunteers will be made to join the movement.
- 3. We shall use social media platforms dedicated to WLM in Ghana to promote the international competition and our photowalks
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
1, We will use a tool developed by the Products and Resources Manager of User Group Wiki Movimento Brasil to help map the monuments in Ghana.
- 2. The old list of monuments will be updated with new ones.
- 3. 10 selected photos will be pushed to compete on the international stage.
4 .These selected photos will be posted on our various social media platforms for promotional purpose.
- 5. New Articles will be created and old ones improved with the photos.
- 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.
Wiki Loves Monuments
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
1. Alikotoselorm - Assitant photographer - will help in the capture of the monuments.
- 2. The rest of the team will be an open call
- 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, 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.
- 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, Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Not applicable
- 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?
Our Target participants will be professional photographers and amateurs who are passionate about free knowledge and will be willing to travel with us to the various monuments.
Definately the call up will attract new volunteers who have not idea about WLM and the foundation and so an edit-a-thon or zoom will be used to engage them
Social media will only be the sure way to do follow ups on participants or a phone call.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We shall be each others keeper during our tours and keep in mind to adhere to any safety protocols.
- 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.
All the communities in Ghana will be alerted through the various whatsapp groups and mail list. In one of their meetings I made the OFWA community aware of us organizing this project.
- 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
If no:
- 12.1 What was the reason for you deciding NOT to develop a joint proposal? How will you guarantee coordination efforts to make sure that you are not duplicating efforts and that you can maximise your work and joint impact.
- I am not aware of any proposal aligned with mine. As far as am concern I am the only person organizing WLM this year in Ghana.
- 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.
Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
The aim of the projects is add new content and improve on old ones so at the end of of day, I will ask myself if;
- 1. New participants can add new content on any Wikimedia projects especially Commons?
- 2. New participants would develop constant interest in Wikimedia 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Number of Participants in the photowalk | We are looking at a new participants and just a few | 4 |
| Number of photos | 100 or more because we might find new monuments which are not listed in the Local monument list. | 100 |
| 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 | No. of Participants expected for the Photowalk
No. of Participants expected for upload session |
4 |
| Number of editors | Number of participants in edit-a-thon | 4 |
| Number of organizers | I am the main organizer | 1 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of targeted photos but it can be more | 100 |
| Wikipedia | Number of targeted new and improved articles | 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.
I believe that tihis proposal will measure to the core metrics because the project is attainable looking at the places will be visiting. We are few and so the project will be much effective and successful.
- 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 shall use the Programs and Events Dashboard tools.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
11570 GHS
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
1310.72 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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