Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/R@/Bibliothécaire III (ID: 23561523)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Azogbonon
- 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)
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Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
R@/Bibliothécaire III
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2026-01-17 - 2026-03-17
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Benin
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Not applicable
- 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 aim of this request is to continue the capacity-building of documentation and archive professionals, begun two years ago. We want them to become relays for promoting the pronunciation of words and names in our local languages, as well as Benin's cultural heritage. With their support, young people will be able to create free content, such as audio recordings in local languages and photos of cultural events in reading centers. These productions will enrich Lingua Libre, Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikipedia, giving greater visibility to our languages and cultures on the Internet, while developing the digital skills of our communities.
Through this project, we aim to promote the true pronunciation of places, names and events in our local languages, and to strengthen the involvement of documentation and archive professionals. They, in turn, will be able to train young people in their centers in collaborative digital projects. The project also responds to the need to transform libraries and documentation centers into living spaces for learning and sharing knowledge, and to fill the gap in resources adapted to documenting and transmitting our languages and traditions using accessible digital tools.
- 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.
The project includes in-person training sessions to introduce participants to the use of Lingua Libre and to recording the pronunciation of words, place names, villages, personalities, and events in local languages. At the same time, trips will be organized to Ouidah with documentation and archiving professionals to document the Vodoun Day festival through photos and videos. This content will then be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons during practical workshops.
Online activities will complement these actions during and after the project. These will include a meeting with a librarian and administrator of French Wikipedia, who will share his experience of balancing his profession with his contributions to Wikimedia projects, while involving young people from his reading center. This approach will serve as a model to motivate participants and ensure the continuity of contributions.
Trained professionals will accompany young people in libraries to introduce them to Wikimedia projects and the creation of free content. All of the productions (audio, images, and data) will enrich Wikimedia Commons, Lingua Libre, Wikidata, and Wikipedia. Links
- 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.
- User:Azogbonon: Project leader and main trainer
- User:Chiemelacebelae: Trainer
- 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)
Participants are mainly documentation and archive professionals (librarians, documentalists, archivists) from Benin's libraries, reading centers and documentation services.
As this is the third edition, we are keeping in touch with past participants. To recruit new participants, we'll be using the same method as for previous editions: publishing an advert in the press, with a contact number and e-mail address. This will enable us to talk to candidates about their availability during the project period, and to better understand their motivation. This approach helps us reach a larger number of people and work with professionals from different parts of the country.
After the activities, follow-up will be provided through the creation of an online group, remote follow-up sessions and accompaniment directly to their workplaces. We will also encourage their participation in regular contribution activities to keep them motivated and measure the impact of their actions in their communities.
- 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.
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- 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.
Our approach has always been collaborative. Beforehand, we exchanged views and suggestions with the target group via our discussion groups. At the same time, we informed the community by posting a message on the project's discussion page to announce and present this third edition. This dual approach enabled us to involve both the professionals directly concerned and the wider community in the various stages of project preparation.
- 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)
Not applicable
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Open Technology
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Geographic
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
With this project, we want to learn how to better involve documentation and archive professionals in Wikimedia projects and see the effect of their role with young people. We're also looking to find the best ways of showcasing Benin's local languages and heritage through free content such as audio, photos and data. This project will help us understand how to make libraries and documentation centers real places for communities to share and create knowledge.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 20 | We will collaborate with 15 former participants as well as 5 newly recruited contributors. |
| Number of editors | 15 | The 20 participants will contribute throughout the entire project period. |
| Number of organizers | 2 | The project will be coordinated by two organizers. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 20 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 120 |
| Wikidata | 150 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
We will use Lingua Libre (a collaborative online project that allows users to create a multilingual audio corpus) to record the pronunciation of place names, indigenous names of people, objects, and words in local languages. These recordings will enrich Wikidata and Wikipedia. Thanks to photo shoots organized with documentation and archiving professionals, we will also produce images that will be used to feed Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, and Wikidata. The aim of this project is to give professionals the skills they need to continue this work in their professional lives, in libraries and reading centers, by regularly involving users.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikisource | Last year, we worked exclusively on Wikisource. So we may return to it this time around to allow new participants to contribute as well. | 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)
During the activity period, we will use a dashboard to track each participant's contributions. This tool will allow us to evaluate the evolution and progress of their contributions.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zsfifM5SmQpNVT_yOeRIZ5ao7DOpZy-NE-aN0wtOAGg/edit?gid=0#gid=0
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
1592475 XOF
- 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.
2843 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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