Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Reiterating The Significance of Retention in Developing Communities:A Follow-up Training for Fulfulde Wiki Women Marathon (ID: 23540816)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Hajjare
- Organization
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Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Reiterating The Significance of Retention in Developing Communities: A Follow-up Training for Fulfulde Wiki Women Marathon
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-11-08 - 2025-12-20
- 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) 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)
It is known fact that volunteer retention over time is quite challenging especially women due to several factors including cultural, social and economic factors while some were due to lack of follow-up for continuous engagement or support. We organized the first edition of the Fulfulde Wiki Women Marathon last year in 2024 which focused on advocating Wikimedia projects to Fula women and that led us to laying a strong foundation in introducing and familiarizing Fulfulde speaking women to Wikimedia projects including the Fulfulde Wikipedia and its sister projects, helped us in creating awareness and building their confidence to participate where they diligently translate biographies of women from English Wikipedia to Fulfulde Wikipedia thereby helping them in bridging both content and gender-gap in terms of contributors and contributions. Part of the last years goals or aim is to make this effort a recurrent event that can be repeated annually as an adopted Fulfulde Wikimedia Community local campaign that would be care of by women in the community so as to emphasize the efforts of keeping the gender balance and encourage the women volunteers to display their talents, share their experiences and skills and become sources of inspirations for more women to carry on their foot steps. Pulaaku or a cultural shyness is a well known trait exhibited by Fula people especially women, and only by approach of women centered project that we can fight this inherit habit and make productive use of Fula women in building a free and inclusive community where women voices could be heard. There are many experienced women Fula editors who can come up with meaningful ideas to organized events that will be help in sustainable development of our community but they are afraid or shy to show their interests that is part of the problem we hope to achieve solving through this project. And this time, we want to deepen and expand our impact by recruiting new and improving the skills of our previous active contributors in the first marathon through introducing them to: 1. Fulfulde Wikipedia lacking images especially women’s biographies to improve them by adding images from Wikimedia Commons 2. How to link the Fulfulde Wikipedia articles about women to Wikidata and create or improve the existing Wikidata items related to women. 3. Encourages contributions to de-stub articles by expanding short articles from the previous event with more content and references. 4. How to make use of Content Translation tools using the newly added features and also introduce them to the section translation tool to help them in expanding the existing articles.
This follow-up training will help in many ways including; increasing the skills of the participating editors, rejuvenating the editors and creating sustainability in the Fulfulde community.
- 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.
I planned to carryout one (1) online and (2) offline awareness and edit-a-thon/training events to train and retrain women on how to make meaningful contributions by translating contents from English to Fulfulde Wikipedia.
1. Awareness campaign: to help recruit new and engage more previous participants 2. Physical and Online workshops: 1 online and 2 physical workshops 3. Awards/certification: to motivate the participants 4. Registration form: to collect participants information for future engagements, communication and retention 5. Leaderships: with the help and approval of the Wikimedia Fulfulde Community leadership board, we will use this second event to nominate among the top most contributing participants the Fulfulde Wiki Women Ambassadors, this will go beyond motivating the participants but also help push more women in doing their best to acquire such title. They will be task will roles of encouraging women participants and follow-up after the event.
- 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.
I am an active Wikipedian for nearly 4 years with over 2 years of experience in organizing Wiki related events. I will be taking part in all the trainings as one of the resource persons and I will be supported by the veteran Wikipedians of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community including some officials from the leadership team. The team will include:
1. Hajjare; is the project lead and have been a Wiki events organizer of hybrid projects where I trained women of multiple languages and Fulfulde focused initiatives, I organized similar project in the previous year and was a huge success. I also served the volunteer role of welfare director, events manager where I maintained the track records of the participants activities within the Wikimedia Fulfulde Community projects. I was also one of the juries of local WLE events in 2024.
2. Musaddam Idriss : our community leader and a veteran Wikimedia volunteer with his experience cutting across various Wikimedia projects. He is a certified trainer of the Train the Trainer programme by the Wikimedia UK. He is also a well experienced organizer and coordinator of vaarious projects. He would be in my team to share his wealth of experience, help me coordinate and plan the activities in accordance with the project period and in areas I may find some difficulties. His presence will also help connect the participants of this project with the rest of the community members in the mean time.
3. Sa'eedert : is my fellow female colleague from Wikimedia Fulfulde Community and have been playing roles in the previously organized projects in the community and has won over 5 writing contests in her name making her a well experience in using Content Translations Tools in translating English Articles to Fulfulde. He will be among the training facilitators who would teach hands-on-keyboard sessions.
4. Harandee: a housewife and a passionate female editor, as a dedicated Fula editor who passionately promotes women's participation in Wikimedia. Her roles would involves mentoring and inspiring Fula speaking women and students to participate in the project, thereby enhancing diversity and inclusivity in the community.
- 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 are completely women and students who have interest for volunteer works, knowledge of internet space and also have passion for writing as a hobby or helping the humanity. They could be of various age group, the only requirement is the passion and ability to read and write in Fulfulde language.
- 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.
I expressed my intent to organize this event and discuss the idea in the prospective community group of Fula editors on WhatsApp and the group of the previous participants. There is also going to be another announcements on the community village pump.
- 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)
Sexual Orientation
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Advocacy
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Gender Identity
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Improve User Experience
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. What impact your follow-up event bring in bringing in new female contributors and more content related to women? 2. How that you host a follow-up event, how effectively the participants can edit Fulfulde Wikipedia articles? 3. In what way did your project bring positive impact in your community? 4. What was your overall success in this project?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | aims to reach out to 50 women as participants |
| Number of editors | 25 | aims to get at least have of the women as editors |
| Number of organizers | 5 | There will be 5 organizers, 3 from the community, 1 female organizer from Hausa to foster collaborations and the other one also a woman from Gotel FM. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
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| Wikipedia | 300 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 |
| Wikidata | 200 |
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| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
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| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
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- 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
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)
2680000 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.
1742.37 USD
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Yes
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