Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiSoccerthon 2022 in South Sudan (ID: 21957348)

statusNot funded

Rapid Fund

WikiSoccerthon 2022 in South Sudan

proposed start date2022-11-25

proposed end date2022-12-20

budget (local currency)2600000 SSP

budget (USD)4000 USD

grant typeGroup of individuals not registered with an organization

funding regionSSA

decision fiscal year2022-23

applicant• Lomoronald

organization (if applicable)• Wikimedia community South Sudan

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Applicant Details

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Lomoronald

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Yes Sure;

1. Romeo Ronald L (User: Lomoraronald)

2. Woja Emmanuel (User:woja Emmanuel)

3. Yangi Elizabeth:

Organization

Wikimedia community South Sudan

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.

yes, the Wikimedia community user Group, and WikiforRefugees

Grant Proposal

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

WikiSoccerthon 2022 in South Sudan

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.

@wikisouthsudan, twitter, facebook and Instagram https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_South_Sudan

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

In South Sudan today there is limited curated, freely accessible, and reusable content on notable people in the sports arena of south Sudan. South Sudan has one successful basketball team in Africa There is also a gender digital divide in terms of participants and online content created, so by creating articles and improving the ones already existing we shall be able to create content that represents all the people in the sports arena of south Sudan.

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

We shall be able to have an Editathon, and Photo Hunt with both old (experienced ) and new editors that shall be trained during the events, and hence join up during the possibility to add and improve photos, and articles about Sports in South Sudan.

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

- Training of newcomers

• Photo Upload session and photo hunt

And networking sessions between new and old comers

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.

Other (please specify)

WikiSoccerthon

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

Yes Sure;

1. Romeo Ronald L (User: Lomoraronald)

Romeo is the program lead for the program which entails Project Management Training Event coordinator Reporting, Romeo is also in charge of administrative work related to grant application, monitoring, and financial reporting

2. Woja Emmanuel (User:woja Emmanuel)

Woja is part of the diversity and content creation team. He is a lead for the Diversity team, and a journalist in charge of blogs and PR In these events, he assumes the same roles as Project Management Training Event coordinator Reporting

3. Yangi Elizabeth: Purchase and Logistics

Woja is the communication lead for the user group in charge of emails and social media channels

And all the other members

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, Age (regency), Language, Socioeconomic Status, 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.

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.

Advocacy, Human Rights, Diversity

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

Gender Identity, Socioeconomic status, Age, Digital Access

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?

Youths (18-35 years) who either are sports lovers or generally love writing, and a couple of training and programs we have offered a couple of these youths have shown interest and hence the suggestion of this proposal. these are south Sudanese youths mainly in the capital city Juba.

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

These events and programs shall be on secure premises, which are deemed safe and secure We also have a safe Guarding Policy that shall guide the instructors, trainers, and participants during the sessions

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.

We had a couple of internal meetings as a community to decide on how the project shall be run and as well developed a couple of ideas that are being represented here on the proposal, and this is why the community has since been prepared to collect lists, names, Sports institutions, clubs and people that are notable and have them ready to be profiled during the Event.

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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Ensure Equity in Decision-making

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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

1. The Extent of the Content Divide, before and after evaluation with researchers or journalists in our follow-up meetings

2. The number of female sports personnel who are never documented and refer to the extent of the gender gap on Wikipedia

3. the effect of filling the content gap and how that contributes to the development of more content

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
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17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary

Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	There shall be a gender equality based on our former trainings we had more men than women(female) we would love to give a chance to more women to join us in this event	30
Number of editors	At least 25 editors to be, retained to continue documenting the football personalities in South Sudan	25
Number of organizers	Woja Emmanuel and Lomora Ronald shall be the organizers of the program	2

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project

Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	We shall create 20 articles on Wikipedia	20
Wikimedia Commons	We shall upload 30 photos of sports personalities on the Commons	30
Wikidata	We shall add 50 wiki data items	50
Wikipedia	We shall improve 10 existing articles by adding photos and grammar of sports personalities, institutions and clubs in South Sudan	10
N/A	N/A	N/A

17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

We will expect 20 articles of the foot, basketball personalities, clubs, and institutions to be documented, we could only be limited by internet connectivity which has been an expensive yet tiring aspect but with the grants, we can be able to handle that.

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.

Dashboard

Financial Proposal

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

2600000 SSP

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

4000 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MP3nuxSeDzVk5WIywObsVXabDA1rfdbGeDTuhRgKOdg/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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