Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/SheSaid 2025 in Nigeria (ID: 23438030)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
King ChristLike
- 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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- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
SheSaid 2025 in Nigeria
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-09-01 - 2025-12-31
- 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)
Wiki Loves Women
- 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 Wikimedia community still faces a large gender content gap. There is the underrepresentation of women on Wikipedia and its sister projects. There are thousands of women in diverse fields including STEM, politics and leadership, religion and culture, activism, education, health, who are notable with meaningful contributions, but are totally missing or poorly documented. A number of the existing articles, items or quotes are not quality-sufficient. There is still a low participation and contribution of women, especially from underrepresented regions owing largely to insufficient training. The available content on various Wikimedia projects are trapped in offline sources, while some are yet to be translated into other indigenous languages other than English. These challenges pose a risk to the amplification of women’s voices, and the movement strategy generally. The SheSaid 2025 Campaign in Nigeria will join the global effort in changing the narrative by increasing the visibility and documentation of women significantly. Through wide spread publicity/outreach, participants will be recruited from the Nigerian communities. Our main approaches are impact-focused, community driven, and inclusive. Edit-a-thon, workshop and training sessions (both physical and virtual) will be organized with focus first on source reliability, creating new and improving existing Wikipedia articles about notable women, creating new and improving Wikidata items about women, and lastly, documenting new quotes and improving existing quote articles about women on Wikiquote. To support local language visibility and multilingualism, articles will also be accurately translated from English language into other Nigerian languages, using the content translation tool. In addition to the trainings, resource materials will be developed by the organizing team and distributed to participants to aid their contributions. For sustainability, participants will be shared into small groups after the campaign under close mentorship. This will ensure continuous application of their learnings from this project.
- 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.
1. Communication, Outreach and Publicity: Graphic designs, instructional videos, digital materials, and other helpful resources will be distributed across several group chats, social media platforms, and mailing lists for wide spread coverage to the targeted audience and participants.
2. Training: The project will deliver three virtual training sessions carefully spread across three months and lasting up to two hours each. There will also be a physical training event on a selected day in each of the participating communities.
3. Contest: The campaign will conclude with a contest, and the top three contributors will be awarded gift vouchers. The initiative to incentivize participants will also help promote continued participation in the movement.
4. Mentorship: A structured mentorship program will be designed for participants in small paired groups to further improve their editing skill, organizing skill, give room for discussions and future collaborations.
- 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.
Our local activity will be organized within a global framework, with several experienced editors who can support our work. The drive will be globally organized by the Wiki Loves Women team. The global team does provide communication material (e.g. social media visuals, postcards and bookmarks), communication channels and is organizing online training and support for participating groups (office hours, one-on-one, telegram group, etc.) Key people for mentorship are User:Anthere and User:Islahaddow, and key communication support is User:Afek91. Several formally participating people, including administrators on Wikiquote, already indicated they will join again and can further help, more in depth. Our team includes:
User:King ChristLike: Experienced editor, event organizer, and sysop on igwiki. Has clear records on Wikidata, English Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Wikiquote. Role: Project Lead and trainer
User:Emmanuel Obiajulu: President, Wikimedia Nigeria Imo State Network Role: Facilitator/Trainer in the Imo State Community
User:AgbesAbah: Lead, Igala Wikimedia Community. Role: Facilitator/Trainer in the Igala Community
User:Accuratecy051: President, Wikimedia Nigeria Abuja Network Role: Facilitator/Trainer in the Abuja Community
User:Akwugo: Member, Igbo Wikimedians User Group. Member, Wikimedia Nigeria Anambra State Network Role: Facilitator/Trainer in the Anambra State 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)
This project primarily targets individuals with interest in contributing to women advocacy initiatives, open knowledge and Wikimedia projects. This includes both existing and new editors who will be recruited, trained and engaged.
Communication and outreach will be employed through various community group chats and other social media platforms. Engagements will include office hours, physical event, interactive virtual workshops and training sessions, with resource sharing. Participants will be followed up in small groups under close mentorship, ensuring continuous application of their learnings in real-time.
- 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.
I have informed all 4 participating communities on their respective discussion pages.
- 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)
Content Gender gap
- 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)
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)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. We aim to have achieved a recruitment and training of new editors, in all four participating communities, who will further contribute to the movement under close mentorship. Existing editors will improve their editing skills in article/item creation, improvement, and source reliability. We intend to build a growing community with continued contribution beyond this project.
2. We expect new and meaningful content to be created about women, helping to bridge the gender gap and improve visibility.
3. Through this project, we expect to further develop and build our project management and organizing skills as facilitators, from activity coordination to resource management, to editor support and mentorship.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 100 | New participants: 25
Returning participants: 75 |
| Number of editors | 100 | New participants: 25
Returning participants: 75 |
| Number of organizers | 5 | This includes the project lead, co-facilitators and trainers for the four participating communities, who are experienced event organizers and active volunteer editors. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | 300 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | 200 |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
This includes the English Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia, Wikidata, English Wikiquote and Igbo Wikiquote projects respectively.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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)
The Hashtag tool, Event metrics and Outreach Dashboard will be used to track all contributions made by participants. Also, a survey form will be shared at the end of the campaign to get feedback from participants, measuring impact from their learnings and experiences.
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)
6218811.57 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.
4050.54 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
Endorsements and Feedback
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- 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).