Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Translation Workshop In Hausa Community (ID: 21963203)

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Applicant Details[edit]

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Musa Vacho77

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

1. Anas adam

2. Aliyu yusuf

3. Abubakar Gwanki

4. Uncle Bash

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.

Hausa wikimedians usergroup

Grant Proposal[edit]

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

Translation Workshop In Hausa Community

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.

There are many changes this project seeks to bring.

1. recently there has been massive complain by the administrators and international community in the hausa community that most of the editors did not know how to translate properly, most of translation lack proper check up and thorough looks ending up unable to be readable. this project seek to address that. it will bring the editors and teach them how to translate and also how to revisit the page go through it and make sure it reach standards.

2. Hausa wikipedia lacks vital articles that help in rising pageviews. articles that people are most interested in. ranging from topics on Science, Culture and religion, Social science and philosopy, Theatre, literature, art, society, cities, explorers etc this project will cover them

3. There are some certain topics that each standard encyclopidia should have this project will make sure hausa wikipedia translate them atleast 15 articles on each topic philosophy, social scientist, explorers, inventors, cities prehistory, bodies of water, mountains, valleys, and desert.

4. there will be inperson and online trainings on how to translate, and make proper touching to make sure the article reach standard.

5. this project seek to address translation tools awareness and what to do after translation and also make awareness to the users on how the translation tools works and what to do after the translation, to make an article readable.

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

This project will address this problems using below strategies.

1. online training on how to translate and get familiar with the translation tools.

2. online workshop or edithaton to put the trainings into practice.

3. in-person training for the by experience users.

4. in-person workshop and edithaton on translation to the users.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

1. trainings.

2. tools awareness

3. workshops.

4 online and offline edithathon

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.

WikiGap

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

yes we have the following team.

1. I Musa Vacho77 will be incharge of organising, coordinating, and exercuting the project.

2. Abubakar Gwanki will take care of online tranings, and workshop.

3. Anas adam will be presenting in inperson event on trainings.

4. Aliyu shaba will also help in making awareness on the translation tools.

5. Uncle bash will be heading oganising the online and offline event.

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, 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.

Recently there is an observation by the German wikimedian in person of @NikosLikomitros that some vital articles are missing in hausa wikipedia space whom those topics are important and considered necessary for every wiki space. topic likes Culture and religion, Theatre, art, literature, society, cities, philosopy, etc. this project will make sure those topics are covered in other to generate the attention of the general public to visit the main hausa wikipedia space.

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.

Diversity

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

Gender Identity, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background

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?

1.semi experience and new editors from hausa community

2. via our whatsap group

3.through whatsap this is because is easiest and most effective means of communication here.

4. most new editors in hausa community starts with translating articles before getting familiar with creating a fresh new article. by helping and training them to how to properly translate without being seing their work deleted, this will serve as a motivation for them to stay. because most of their translated articles ended up being deleted. because of the translation error, unfamiliarity with the translation tools and sometimes the articles cannot be readable because they are not being properly edited after being translated.

5. we will also create an easy avenue to retain them by giving them access to experience editors to asked questions and get clarification on what they dont know.

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

By adhering to

1. Universal code of conduct.

2. Wikimedia friendly space policy.

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.

1. we discuss this on whatsap group with other hausa community leaders and administrators.

2. it has been informed on our whatsap group yo the members.

3. it will be duly informed in the community portal when the link of the project is available on meta for properly community feedback and endorsement.

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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

1. we will like to see the changes by the editors in translation.

2. we will like to see how those important topic now covered in hausa wikipedia pages increase the page visitation.

3. we will like to see how well users get familiar with the translation tools.

4. we will like to learn how often new users used translation tools.

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
N/A	N/A	N/A
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17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	The participants will be semi experience users, new users and anyone using the translation tool in the community.	50
Number of editors	atleast there will be 15 arctiles translated from each of those topics ranging from, theatre. society, art, literature, cities, explorers etc	15
Number of organizers	there will be 5 organisers from hausa community leaders and administrators.	5

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	15 translated article on Science	15
Wikipedia	15 translated articles on Society and social science	15
Wikipedia	15 translated articles on Art and Culture	15
Wikipedia	15 translated articles on Philosophy and religion	15
Wikipedia	15 translated articles on Everyday life	15

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.

1. Hastag tool

Financial Proposal[edit]

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

2010416 NGN

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

3000 USD

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

Translation Workshop In Hausa Community - Application.pdf

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fkZ-7DuFBXHXJpen-C9eUS1PAtXide2lWNlkoMI39z8/edit#gid=0

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

Yes

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