Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki In-Class Workshop For Librarians In Fediral College of Education (FCE) Zaria (ID: 22193919)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Umar-askira
- Organization
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- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
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Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki In-Class Workshop For Librarians In Fediral College of Education (FCE) Zaria
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2023-08-31 - 2023-11-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
1Lib1Ref
- 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)
This project is all about creating awareness of Wikimedia projects among librarian in Federal College of Education (FCE) Zaria Kaduna read more. The project will also help the librarians and library students of FCE Zaria to promote their active participation in the forthcoming events. Erroneous information can result to ambiguous. Librarians are the overseers of information and will contribute in adding credible and reliable sources to Wikipedia articles. This will go a long way to engendering Wikimedia projects - Wikipedia - in school as well as to emphasize the importance of open education resources, adoption, and utilization in teaching and learning.
Furthermore, this project will attract more Academics to open access/knowledge initiatives and contribution of quality encyclopedic contents, references (1Lib1Ref), and GLAM (history, culture, tradition, languages, and valuable images) to Wikipedia and Commons to enhance the visibility (openness) and access to information. The overall plan and focus is on the college Librarians and Library. The main targets are FCE Zaria librarians who are also academic members and library students also get involved.
We will leverage on Sister Wikis: Wikidata (To add more Items), Wiktionary (Words description), Commons (Upload More Pictures) and Translations
- 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.
I will be developing and delivering one online and two off-line trainings and will be carried out as follows:
*Awareness Drive: This is necessary to stimulate Wikimedia projects among the college. Various stakeholders and department will be visited within the schools. Posters and flyers will be utilized for far reaching promotion and recruitment amongst the students.
- Training: After the awareness drive and recruitment of librarians and students, training sessions will follow both online and offline to ground the prospective participant in basics and advanced contribution activities to Wikimedia projects. The trainings days will be as follow:
- Day 1: This will entail "how to navigate Wikipedia space and safety tips". Prospective participants will be guided to creating Wikipedia account, confirming their account, registering on the dashboard and signing up on the project page. Furthermore, they will be exposed to basic editing activities.
- Day 2: This serves as the hands-on practical session, the participants will be taught how to create new articles from scratch, contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wiktionary and Commons. Edit-a-thon: As stated earlier, there will be an edit-a-thon for the participants to put the knowledge acquired in use. At the end of the Physical Trainings, certificate of participation and awards will be provided to the top contributors. And will also be closing session of the physical trainings and certificates of participation will be given to participants and branded souvenir for top contributors
- Day 3: This session will be an online session which will serve as an onboarding session. An experienced Wikimedian in person of Em-Mustapha will be handling this session. This will help to create Wikimedia projects to the academic community and the need for their involvement as academicians.
- 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.
- Umar-askira (Project Lead)
- Hajiya Rahatu A. Haliru : (Spoke Lady) she is an experienced Wikibrarian, and a fellow of the WikiAFlib Cohort 2. She is a Librarian at the Ahmadu Bello University Library, Zaria and has participated in series of online contests such as Wikidata for Libraries and Librarians in Nigeria, 1lib1ref 2021 & 2022, etc. And she organised a Successful
at Ahmadu Bello University read
- Dr. Nkem Osuigwe : (Resource person) she is an experienced Wikibrarian facilitator and Director, Human Capacity and Training for the African Library Institutions and Associations(AfLIA) who has worked on different online training programs of AfLIA as a mentor and content developer. She will be doing a presentation on the Relevance of Wikiglam among Librarians and Library students in Federal College of Education (FCE) Zaria.
- Em-mustapha : (Virtual Trainer) He is the co-founder and coordinator of Hausa Wikimedian users group since 2019.
- Maske Senior (Dashboard Manager)
- Eeshmah Azzat (Welfare)
- Saeed Zazzau (Media & Technical)
- Haleemxi (Welfare)
- Ishaaq Zazzau (Decorations Manager)
- Ibnu Izzil (Venue)
These are experienced editors for . And are consistent in participating and facilitating all events related to Wikipedia both ON&OFF-WIKI. I will invite other editors from Hausa Wikimedians User Group to support us in the days of the events. I will take the main part of the events by training the new editors engage them in contributing to Wikipedia after the events rendered.
- 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)
6- The target participants are the librarians and Library Students of the Federal College of Education Zaria, in most cases librarians are also the theoretical pillars of Education in College while library students are the taste of library in the school community. That is to say, the major target are librarians and library students in the school community though not ruling out other prospective participants. The school community will be communicated by delivering an official letter to the institution’s management to let them know about the programme and the benefits to the school community. And to ensure effective reach. Flyers and wall banners will be given out to librarians/academics and student forum of the school. For follow up during and after activities, a WhatsApp group will be created specifically for prompt communication. To ensure continuity, sustainability and continuous development of members’ capacity.
- 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.
There have been social media groups we have been using to inform our community members on all wikipedia activities. they are:
I Prefer to use these social media group to inform the community about this project because most of the community members often visit social media handles actively.
- 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)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
- Did the project create awareness among targeted community?
- What is their perception of Wikipedia?
- Did the programme meet their expectations?
- How to effectively recruit and train new editors for sustainability
- Did the project improve their digital skills to contribute to Wikimedia projects?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 45 | 20 Librarians, 10 Library Students, 5 Experienced Editors from Hausa Wikimedians User Group and 10 facilitators. |
| Number of editors | 20 | Facilitators are experienced editors and others fro the participants |
| Number of organizers | 1 | I Umar-askira will organize the event with the help of my Facilitators. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 30 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | 50 |
| Wiktionary | 30 |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | 30 |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | 10 |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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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)
I will outreach dashboard to measure and track the participants activities during and after the events
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TPKrX1JK-y-sZSjWnC8hvDGLdpHmLsxqVIm5LhhD2uA/edit#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)
2226500 NGN
- 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.
3288.98 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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- Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).