Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Hour Initiative/DigitalSkillsforYouth 2.0 Edit-a-thon (ID: 22066829)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Joy Agyepong
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
StellaAgbley EdapaAnnie Patketeku Kezia Somuah EveryRaysoe
- 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.
Wiki Hour initiative (ad hoc community) Wiki Women's User Group Wikimedians for Sustainable Development WikiData Community
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Hour Initiative/DigitalSkillsforYouth 2.0 Edit-a-thon
- 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.
After a successful maiden edition https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki_Hour_Initiative/DigitalSkillsforYouth_1.0_Edit-a-thon/Report and given the feedback received to continue the skills training, we are happy to share that some of these students trained recently gained admission into the University so we wish to extend skills training to young girls who are new entrants in the research department. The project aims to consistently empower the youth, specifically women/girls aged 13 -21 years on the importance and benefits of using Open Educational Resources while in school or preparing for the University. This is a pre-university approach which follows the pattern of YaliChecks on media literacy is continuous [1] the edit-a-thon will house young students from Junior and Senior High Schools. It will also look at having media institutions and representatives to build the capacity of the youth on digital skills. Recruit new editors from (Public and Private Institutions) Increase youth skills knowledge on research, gender gap and Women historian Improving WikiData items Create missing WikiData items Increase digital skills for young girls on linked open data Make uploads to Wiki commons on missing photos of women on WikiData
These are possible and attainable because we hope to assign a list of these articles to all participants and offer assistance. Alternatively, there will be a writing contest to test their skills on the platform prior to the end of all training and edit a thons. Thus, organise one (1) training and (1) edit-a thon, Virtual check-ins and a contest for the editors. Edits will be tracked using a dashboard.
The edit-a-thon has diversified topics such as gender gap, arts, music .This will in turn ensure active and effective contribution of young girls in rural and developing communities to bridge the knowledge gap on WikiData and also use wikipedia as a research tool to curb misinformation.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Recruit new editors from (Public and Private Institutions) Increase youth skills knowledge on research, gender gap and Women historian Improving WikiData items Create missing WikiData items Increase digital skills for young girls on linked open data
These are possible and attainable because we hope to assign a list of these articles to all participants and offer assistance. Alternatively, there will be a writing contest to test their skills on the platform prior to the end of all training and edit a thons. Thus, organise one (1) training and (1) edit-a thon, Virtual check-ins and a contest for the editors. Edits will be tracked using a dashboard.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Our main approach is to expand the scope of the project to other deprived areas or regions. Edit-a-thons and on-line training seeks to house young students from Junior, Senior High Schools and one selected University whose focus is on open educational resources. Another Strategy is working in tandem with media institutions and representatives to build the capacity of the youth on digital skills.
- 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.
Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Teams are not salaried roles, these are volunteer members from previous projects, new students and wiki hour team. Joy Agyepong - Team Lead/Advisor StellaAgbley - Lead Facilitator Patience Keteku - (University representative) Kezia Somuah - (Past Trained Student) Anita Gyekewaah - (Administrator and reporting) -off- wiki volunteer EveryRaysoe - Partnerships off-wiki volunteer
- 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), 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.
This project seeks to ensure active and effective contribution of young girls in rural and developing communities to bridge the knowledge gap on WikiData and also use wikipedia as a research tool to curb misinformation.
- 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, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, 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?
The project will be announced on all social media, WhatsApp groups and each partnered organisation will announce it on their various channels. That notwithstanding, a telegram group has been created for all Ghanaian participants of the edit-a thon and further announcement will be shared via social media accordingly. To add, we hope to use channels like radio stations and partner networks to further announce the project. Collaborators and support are listed below: Women Trust Ghana Global Platform Ghana Youth Opportunities Ghana Students will come from the Women Trust Ghana organisation and research students who are new entrants of University.We hope to have our student representative to coordinate those efforts accordingly. Feedback surveys will be used to gather any information pertaining to the project for the two months. Then the team will have a meeting to address any issues, share reporting and conclude on the next steps.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
Wikimedia safe space policy would be applied for all training and physical edit-a-thons. Participants would be informed of the safe space policy before the events. We will create these awareness each time we engage with participants, be it online or in-person. Also all forms of harassment would be met with corrective actions.
- 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.
Due to the facilitation we would require from groups focusing on women's contribution internationally such as Wiki Women, WikiData Community and Women in Red gender gap efforts, we have currently discussed our intention with the group here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiWomen%27s_User_Group#Planning_Digital_Skills_for_Youth_2.0_in_March_2023 Wikidata Community [2] to add to the diversity of skilled resources such as online training and list of articles tagged red on Wikipedia and Wikidata we wish to advance with the youth.
- 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.
Women Trust Ghana will provide us with young girls from their organisation, the Wiki Women User Group will support us with facilitation, Youth Opportunities will strategically publish our events to strengthen communication, Global Platform will also help with publication and list of articles of women who do not have WikiData articles yet.
- 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.
Improve User Experience, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
1. Recruit new editors thus young girls from (Public and Private Institutions) virtually and in-person
- 2. Increase youth skills knowledge on research, gender gap and Women historian
- 3. Improving WikiData items from art, to musicians, feminists and inventors
- 4. Create missing WikiData items
- 5. Increase digital skills for young girls on linked open data and provide research knowledge skills
- 6. Provide organisers and team the opportunity to build their capacity on project management and reporting
- 7. Solve digital access needs in the rural communities
- 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.
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The goal is to organise one in-person edit-a-thon, a training and virtual check-ins with different meeting times organised in order to meet participants who have different backgrounds and per their availability. A week-long writing contest will be organised to encourage the creation and improvement of articles on Wikidata and Wikicommons respectively. Locations will be one rural area in Pokuase and Legon concurrently. | 30 |
| Number of editors | We plan on having over 50 participants both online and physical representation. Although our main target is 25 we hope to achieve more. From previous project, teachers joined so we will give room for expansion to at least have more teacher and retain over 25 editors accordingly. Same location as above applied. | 30 |
| Number of organizers | Groups to meet for the training, including the trainer , facilitators and off-wiki volunteer members. | 6 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | The Wikidata items to be created or improved | 300 |
| Wikipedia | Images and content from gender gap related campaigns/ topic to be linked and to improve respective wikipedia pages on women | 100 |
| Wikiquote | Quotes of female writers to be improved | 100 |
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- 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.
Program and Events Dashboard, WikiData structured games portal and articles/items would also be listed on the contest page.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
50226 GHS
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4073 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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