Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki For Librarians (ID: 22185130)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Kmensah4545
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
N/A
- Organization
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- 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.
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki For Librarians
- 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.
Wiki For Librarian is a project that seeks to train and empower Librarians in the Asante Region of Ghana, as a Librarian myself and a wikipedian I have intentified a gap in the librarian space where most of the works that are in the library are not properly documented despite the fact that we have tools that does that we are not able to achieve the expected goals using those tools of accessibility but with wikipedia and its connection of projects we will be able to catalogue most of the works found in the libraries.
What we intend to do in this project is to have is to have 6 month training and edit a thon engaging librarians of various communities by having an introduction session to the wikimedia community and provide them with the necessary skills that will enable them contribute to the knowledge gap.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
1. Partnerships - We will be looking at partnering various library institution and universities that are keen on library actvities to partake in this project.
- 2. Training & Skills acquisition - We will be looking forward to train the librarian on how to contribute to wikipedia, wikidata and wikimedia commons. These training will be a 2 month long intensive meet-up for them to acquire the necessary skills needed to contribute to the project.
- 3. Creating a community - We will be looking forward to create a Library community keen on working on activities of wikimedia projects.
- 4. Contest - After training and edi-a-thon we will have a contest where will engage participant. Certificates and gift vouchers will be given at the end of the event.
- 5. Cataloging - We are keen on having intensive training on wikidata where we will be looking at cataloging books and other library works on wikidata
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
1. Training & Skills acquisition - We want most of the librarians who will be interested in the project will taken through a series of training where they will acquire the skills needed to contribute and close the gap.
- 2. Course Creation - We will create a course structure for the participants and also we will be looking at creating slides that will be of relevance for the training
- 3. Community Developing - Developing and growing an engaging Library community to close the gap.
- 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, Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes I do have a team going to support with actvities and engagement.
- 1. Kmensah4545 - Project lead, managing and ensuring project goes right
- 2. Pambelle12 - Communication and social media engagement
- 3. Joris Darlington Quarshie - He will be in-charge of handling technical activities for the project
- 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, Geography, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance)
- 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.
Most library content in Ghana can't be found structured on wikimedia project, so with this project we will be able to catalogue works in the library using wikipedia with keen interest on wikidata.
- 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.
Education, Advocacy, Public Policy
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Disabilities
- 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?
Our target participants are librarians in the Asante regions and participant who are interested in activities related to the Library community.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We are looking forward to contribute to activities around libraries and also improve upon the skills of participants through cataloging and more.
We will also create a safe environment for participant who will engage in this project by supporting them and engaging them.
- 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.
Communities will be engaged on this project through various social media platforms like whatsapp and telegram. Also, we will be creating a meta-page to highlight the project activities
- 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.
Yes
- 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.
1. Ghana Library Authority - Advice and provide us with support on how we can engage
- 2. Knust Library Community - Provide us with participants for the event
- 3. Kumasi Technical University Library - Provide us with participants for the event
- 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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, 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?
What I seek to learn from this project is how Librarians in Ghana can contribute to this project, how they can engage and by their contribution and also understanding activities around wiki's.
- 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 | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participant | N/A | 30 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | We will be looking forward to engage with librarians who will be interested in the project. | 30 |
| Number of editors | Participants who will be keen on taking interest during the edit-a-thon after going through the rigourous course and triaining | 30 |
| Number of organizers | We are three in the team and we will be putting our skills together to engage and ensure the success of the project | 3 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Contribution to wikipedia during the project | 100 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Image contribution during the project | 100 |
| Wikidata | Keen interests in cataloging activities of libraries around wikidata | 100 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 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.
The tool that is will be used to guide most of our engagement is the outreach and event dashboard
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
56297 GHS
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
5000 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SuEL_IZCkQpxdecJj7QIMNrywoUC4lGteAqrwTWYdMs/edit?usp=sharing
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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