Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Redlinks hunt (ID: 21972801)

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statusNot funded
Redlinks hunt
proposed start date2023-02-11
proposed end date2023-03-11
budget (local currency)1200000 NGN
budget (USD)2724 USD
grant typeGroup of individuals not registered with an organization
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• Sanusi Gado
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details[edit]

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Sanusi Gado

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Uncle Bash 007 Alameen khalid200 Abubakar Yusuf Gusau

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.

Yes. Hausa Wikimedians

Grant Proposal[edit]

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Redlinks hunt

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.

Redlink is assigned to a topic or biography in need which is not existing on Wikipedia. This project is aimed at sorting out and creating such articles needed from redlinks which are identified in different articles on Hausa Wikipedia. These project will thus reduce the number of redlinks on Hausa Wikipedia Pages and as well fill the gap for such articles on demand, being marked with redlinks.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

I have organized Wikipedia awareness in Zaria before and registered a number of newbies. This project will engage these newbies in an editathon that will inspire them to keep contributing to Wikipedia. A list of articles in redlink will be drawn and participants will be guided on how to create those articles or translate if available on English Wikipedia.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
  1. We will organise two in-person trainings, and an online training on Zoom. The online training will serve as an introduction to the project and some basic approaches like Redlinks and links meanings and significance on Wikipedia. Why Redlinks are created, and how to create such needed articles.
  2. An editathon will commence immediately after the training.
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.

1Lib1Ref, WikiGap

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

I Sanusi Gado with the assistance of other experienced editors Alameen khalid, Uncle Bash and Abubakar Yusuf will lead the event.

  1. I will manage expenses and logistics
  2. Alameen khalid will manage online awarenesses, mailing lists, contacts among others
  3. Abubakar Yusuf will lead the in-person activities, invitation and calls
  4. Uncle Bash will train newbies on how to make contributions to Wikipedia.
  5. We will all serve as jurors of the contest.
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, Language, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), 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.

This project will focus on filling the gender gap by calling on more female participants in contributing to the free encyclopedi and Hausa Wikipedia. Topics being assigned with Redlinks tend to be significant topics that needs to be filled. This project will fill these gaps

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 , Advocacy

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Gender Identity, Age

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 participants are mostly students previously registered and trained on Wikipedia. This project will tutor such newbies on how to create articles and/or translate articles.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

We will implement the Universal Code of Conduct and Friendly Space Policies.

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 announced and discuss on our talk page and our Whatsapp Group. https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kofan_al%27umma

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

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
  • At the end of the event we hope to change the redlinks (needed articles) on most Hausa Wikipedia pages to blue (created).
  • We hope to guide our Newbies to gain more experience in editing Wikipedia
  • We also hope to motivate them to keep on contributing to WIkipedia.
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 Data
Main Open Metrics Description Target
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17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants We have experienced editors to carry out the project and of course a suitable number of new editors will be introduced in light of our online and offline campaigns. 30
Number of editors This is the number of editors that will be available during the events 20
Number of organizers This is the number of organisers for the events. 10
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikipedia This consists of number of newly created and translated articles found on Wikipedia with a redlink. In which me and my team will work hard to see the gap is been reduced massively. 250
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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 a hashtag tool to measure the contributions made on the proposed topic.

Financial Proposal[edit]

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

1200000 NGN

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

2724 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u_VzFkRxe9pStf0XHvhA00dYQlHXK8ZV4zfqfveTL88/edit?usp=drivesdk

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

Endorsements and Feedback[edit]

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Community members are invited to share meaningful feedback on the proposal and include reasons why they endorse the proposal. Consider the following:

  • Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
  • Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
  • Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
  • Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
  • Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).

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