Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki4Inclusion Campaign in Tanzania Phase 2 (ID: 22916373)

statusUnder review

Rapid Fund

Wiki4Inclusion Campaign in Tanzania Phase 2

proposed start date2025-02-07

proposed end date2025-04-07

requested budget (local currency)11895446 TZS

requested budget (USD)4872.91 USD

grant typeIndividual

funding regionSSA

decision fiscal year2024-25

applicant• Rwebogora

organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Rwebogora

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Main Proposal

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

Wiki4Inclusion Campaign in Tanzania Phase 2

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2025-02-07 - 2025-04-07

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Tanzania

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) Gender and diversity

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)

Wiki4Inclusion Campaign in Tanzania aims at bridging the gap of including people with disability in a digital space and increasing Swahili language contents to Wikimedia projects relating to people with hearing impairment. This proposal concerns Phase 2 (two) of the project after a big step that we have made in phase 1 (one) [1] which includes launching of the project for the first time in our country reaching out to the underserved communities of people with hearing impairment and sign language interpreters. As being narrated in our previous report [2], we intend to make the project sustainable and more engaging to our target groups, that why we are seeking support to implement planned activities to be implemented in our next move, and this is what is expected from our collaborators and beneficiaries like Patandi Maalum Secondary School, where we established our club and being challenged to make the initiative sustainable and not an one time event. We wished for this opportunity and we are ready to take advantage of it by providing more trainings and enrolling other members after the first intake. So, in Phase 2 we are expecting to:

1. Provide more trainings to our group and club members (Wiki4Inclusion Dar Group, most based in Dar es salaam region and Wiki4Inclusion Patandi Maalum Sec. School Club based in Arusha region). [3], [4]

2. Recruit other new editors (or members) to our group and club, this will be the outcome of other physical trainings and editathons which will be organized and facilitated by our team which consists of experienced Wikimedians and sign language interpreters. At Patandi Maalum Secondary School, we formulated a club with first intake of 23 members, so in Phase 2 we are expecting to add another intake of 20 or (20+) participants. According to statistics, the school has 257 hearing impaired students till the end of academic year 2024, so we expect to train most of them if not all in phases with other schools in Arusha and other regions in our country.

3. Add more images and  videos to Wikimedia Commons as well as improving Wikidata

items.

4. Introduce and contribute to Swahili Wikiquote which is in Wikimedia Incubation as an initiative to add more contributors and contents for it to be moved to the main space. We are planning to translate

articles from English Wikiquote to Swahili Wikiquote. For instance, working on this category [5] concerning disability.

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.

We are planning to organize two ( 2) trainings and edit-a-thons in Dar es salaam and Arusha regions for our group and club members as well as newbies. Our Phase 1 milestone and coverage can be viewed here: 1.[6] 2. [7]

We shall train newbies and members on how to contribute on Swahili Wikiquote which is still in Wikimedia Incubation as an initiative to add more contributors and contents for it to be moved to the main space, but also on how to contribute to Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Also, we are planning to add more images and videos to Wikimedia Commons relating to deafs and Tanzanian sign language. These will generally be found in project category:[8]

As we have identified that hearing impaired people need attention and time to digest things, we shall be available to extend sessions under the same budget as we did in Phase 1. Also, running periodical online sessions to guide and assist most of them with the need.

Moreover, revisiting and having small training sessions after the main sessions for our club members.

In addition to the above activities, our group of facilitators in collaboration with experienced Wikimedians shall have clean up program for generated contents to reduce burden to our admins.

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.

The campaign will involve the following team members who will work as volunteers:

1. User: Rwebogora - Project Lead, Coordinator and Trainer - A social scientist by professional and an experienced Wikimedian who joined the movement in 2019 contributing to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons and other sister projects, having experience in editing, training, organizing, facilitating, mentoring and photographing. He has participated in different Wiki projects and contests (local and international) such Wiki Loves Africa, Isa Tool Campaign, WPWP, SheSaid 2023 in Tanzania, Afrocuration Project in Tanzania, Africa Wiki Challenge, African Women on Wikipedia and WikiForHumanRights just to mention a few. In 2024, he has been mentioned as the first Tanzanian to reach 100,000 (100K) edits on Wikimedia projects. [9]

2. User: Anuary Rajabu - Facilitator (Dar es salaam) - An experienced Wikimedian, Swahili Wikipedia admin and a founder of Wikimedians of Tabora.

3. User: EdwardJacob42 - Organizer and Facilitor (Arusha) - an experienced Wikimedian trainer, facilitator and organizer from Arusha region whom we worked with in Phase 1 making sure our activities at Patandi Maalum Sec. School were well organized and facilitated in assistance with other Wikimedians from the region such as user: Idd Ninga and user: Ester Eddyngton Koka.[10]

4. Beatrice Chiluka - Sign Language Interpreter - An experienced sign language interpreter and a Deputy General Secretary of Tanzania Sign Language Interpreters Association. Chiluka is an active team member in sign language interpretation who worked with us in Phase 1 and ready for Phase 2. Example of her work:[11]

5. Meshack Chishomi – an experienced sign language interpreter and a teacher by professional from Tanzania Sign Language Interpreters Association. Replaced Rafia Salim who traveled for an academic field work in another region. He played a big role in session interpretation and video creation for Wikimedia Commons. For instance, [12]

6. User: Olimasy : Technical Advisor - A telecomunication engineer by professional and an experienced Swahili Wikipedia admin.

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)

Our target participants are hearing impaired people and sign language interpreters. These includes secondary schools students, universities and people from deafs and sign language interpreters associations. Also, we target hearing impaired people and sign language interpreters who are not in associations. We expect to include participants (beneficiaries) from Phase 1 (One) and enroll new members and editors to our group and club. So, our number 1 participants will be participants from Wiki4Inclusion Dar Group and Wiki4Inclusion Patandi Maalum Sec. School with addition of new intakes.

We communicated the idea of having a continuous session since the beginning of our project and this ready us to formulate communication channels such as having social media accounts and groups like WhatsApp and Telegram group and for secondary school students who are not on media platforms we are getting in touch through their teachers.

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 have discussed the idea of having Phase 2 of the project with fellow members in our community as well as team members. Also, i had a discussion with the ministry of education officers in Arusha (Meru district) as well as school administration officers of Patandi Maalum Secondary school on how to make the project sustainable and having continuous sessions was among agreed mission which also ready to formulation of a club for easy organization and tracking. This will apply to other special schools in Arusha and Tanzania in general. [13]

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)

Other Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Education

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Disabilities

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

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

In Phase 2, i hope to learn how impactful the project will be after the implication of the sustainability plans and laying of a foundation in Phase 1 as well as best and creative ways on how we can support people with hearing impairment.

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics	Target	Optional description
Number of participants	80	Expected 40 participants from Dar es salaam region and 40 from Arusha region.
Number of editors	80	Editors from Dar es salaam and Arusha regions participating in our trainings and edit-a-thons with a few of experienced Wikimedians facilitating the process. For instance, clean up.
Number of organizers	6	6 experienced organizers from our team including trainers, facilitators, Techno engineer and sign language interpreters.

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia	50
Wikimedia Commons	50
Wikidata	50
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote	50
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 Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
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)

We shall use Outreach Dashboard and Event Registration Tool.

Financial proposal

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RR0925tg5HHm490Giyi48H9hKK8WkvdgTlfYH73Ywa8/edit?gid=0#gid=0

22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

11895446 TZS

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.

4872.91 USD

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Yes

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