Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Trans Awareness Month Celebration edit-a-thon in Nigeria 2025 (ID: 23553135)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Hadassahlove
- 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)
I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Wiki For Human Rights Nigeria and I am the co-lead of the organization whose aim is to provide and support LGBTQ+ topics on the Wikimedia projects.
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Trans Awareness Month Celebration edit-a-thon in Nigeria 2025
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-11-01 - 2025-12-24
- 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) Wiki Loves Pride, LGBTQ+ inclusion, Wiki for Human Rights
- 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)
November is recognized globally as Transgender Awareness Month (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_Awareness_Week) and in 2024, we initiated the first-ever Trans Wiki Awareness campaign in Nigeria (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Rapid_Fund/Trans_Awareness_Month_Celebration_edit-a-thon_in_Nigeria_(ID:_22757213)/Final_Report), which engaged over 70 participants and led to the creation and improvement of more than 50 Wikipedia articles on transgender-related topics.
The main challenge we are addressing is the limited visibility and representation of transgender and non-binary persons in Nigerian digital spaces, particularly on the Wikimedia projects, where their stories, history, and lived realities remain under-documented. This invisibility contributes to broader societal erasure, stigma, and misinformation about transgender people.
This year, we aim to build on last year’s learning to make the initiative more impactful. Our approach includes partnering with at least three transgender-led organizations to strengthen community ownership and outreach, training transgender and non-binary persons, alongside allies on contributing to the Wikimedia projects and organizing a month-long TransVisibility Contest that will engage contributors across Nigeria to create and improve articles related to transgender topics, ensuring wider participation and sustained impact.
Through this, we hope to not only increase the quantity and quality of content about transgender people on Wikipedia but also empower marginalized voices to tell their own stories and foster inclusivity within the Nigerian Wikimedia community. And will ensure the safety of participants by partnering with foremost Trans organizations in Nigeria.
- 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 program will kick off with a press conference and announcement about the edit a thon by October 25, 2025 and thereafter the contest will start on November 1st 2025 with the intent to make every Wikimedia contributor contribute to the Wikimedia project around trans persons in Nigeria and across West Africa.
Thereafter, we will have a various training programs with the 3 partnered organizations to train various transpersons across 3 cities in Nigeria.
FEMMEHIVE, TRANSGENDER NIGERIAN SUPPORT, Queer City Media, and The Initiative For Equal Rights will be our partners throughout this program.
November 1: The contest will be open. Between November 15-25: The in-person residential training across 3 cities in Nigeria. November 31: The trans contest closes. December 15: Results of the trans contest announced.
- 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.
Hadassahlove - Project lead
Kaizenify - Advisor and trainer
Justice Okai-Allotey - Trainer
Wikimedia LGBT+ - Resource partners
FEMMEHIVE - Partnered organization
TRANSGENDER NIGERIAN SUPPORT - Partnered organization
- 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 Transgender and intersex persons living in Nigeria and across west Africa
- 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 announced this project in the discussion page of the Talk:Wikimedia LGBT Usergroup. And also announced on the WhatsApp group for Wiki For Human Rights Nigeria
- 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)
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)
Provide for Safety and Inclusion
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
What strategy to use in ensuring more Wikimedia content about trans, non-binary, and intersex persons in Nigeria and across West Africa
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 300 | We expect a total of 300 participants which include those that will join through the in-person trainings, virtual trainings and online contest. |
| Number of editors | 100 | Participants from the training and also from the online contest. |
| Number of organizers | 10 | About 10 different organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 300 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | 500 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 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 outreach dashboard to measure 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/1wmtXPgZXoOJundC8et6u-vMKwbKH87Snk6zFsxqqhcU/edit?usp=sharing
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
2638494 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.
2518.22 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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