Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Love Women in Northern, Nigeria (ID: 22820860)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
inyor4mr
- 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 Love Women in Northern, Nigeria
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-12-10 - 2025-02-10
- 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)
Wiki Loves Women
- 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)
The change we're trying to bring is increased participation of women in Wikimedia projects, specifically in Northern Nigeria. Currently, women are significantly underrepresented in these spaces, which limits their visibility in content creation and curtail their ability to contribute to the free knowledge ecosystem. This gap not only reflects a broader gender imbalance in technology but also perpetuates a lack of coverage for topics related to women’s issues, achievements, and history within the region. A practical example, in the just concluded first WikiConference Nigeria one women was represented from the northern-Nigeria.
The Main Challenges are:
1. Cultural Barriers: Northern Nigeria has deeply rooted traditional and cultural norms that often limit women's involvement in public life, technology, and educational initiatives. Many women may feel discouraged or unsupported in engaging with digital platforms like Wikimedia.
2. Digital Divide: Limited access to technology and internet services is another challenge. Even though access is improving, women in rural and underserved areas still face significant barriers to digital literacy and technology use, which hinders their participation.
3. Awareness and Engagement: A general lack of awareness about Wikimedia projects is another obstacle. Many women, especially in Northern Nigeria, are either unaware of Wikimedia’s opportunities or may not see it as a relevant platform for them.
4. Skills Gap: Even when there is access, the lack of skills in digital literacy, writing, research, and online collaboration may deter women from getting involved.
5. Representation and Safety: There’s often a lack of female role models in these spaces, which can lead to feelings of isolation. Moreover, online harassment and gender bias may dissuade women from contributing to open platforms like Wikimedia.
Approaches to Achieve Change:
1. Awareness Campaigns: Organizing outreach programs, both online and in communities, to educate women on the value of contributing to Wikimedia. This can be done through collaborations with Wikimedia Hausa User Group and Tyap Wikimedia User Group which are major language in the northern that are wikimedians.
2. Training Workshops: Hosting digital literacy workshops and edit-a-thons that specifically target women, focusing on building their skills in content creation, editing, and understanding Wikimedia’s platforms.
3. Creating Safe Spaces: Developing women-friendly spaces where only female contributors can feel safe, supported, and encouraged to share their knowledge without fear of bias.
4. Role Model Amplification: Highlighting female contributors who are already involved in Wikimedia to serve as role models and inspire other women to join. This can be through a mentorship for two month specially for just the women bring women experts on Wikimedia projects.
By addressing these challenges and using these approaches, I aim to not only increase the number of women contributing to Wikimedia projects in Northern Nigeria but also ensure that women's voices, stories, and perspectives are well represented in the global knowledge ecosystem.
- 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.
Mobilization and Sensitization: The project will engage only women in different sectors be it academics students who are open knowledge enthusiasts passionate about Nigeria. It is expected that trained participants will further create awareness and promote Nigerian women in all sector of economic on various Wikimedia projects. Training and Recruitment: We will recruit 50 participants from the Hausa and Tyap Wikimedia communities in Northern- Nigeria, comprising 20 new editors and 30 existing editors. The training will enable them to create and edit Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items, Wikimedia Commons and wikivoyage. A mentorship sessions will be given to them to expose them. Both new and existing editors will be provided with the necessary tools and information to effectively contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Guide participants through creating Wikipedia and Wikidata accounts. Educate participants on core content policies and general editing principles. Train participants to create new items and improve existing ones on Wikidata. Instruct on creating and enhancing articles on Wikipedia. The outreach dashboard will be utilized to track all contributions made by editors during the edit-a-thon. Weekly reimbursements will be given to the top contributors. Prizes will be awarded to the top four contributors at the end of the campaign to motivate participation. Activities: Edit-a-thons: We will conduct edit-a-thons to train 50 participants in performing both minor edits (adding citations, Wikilinks, categories, infoboxes, and descriptions) and major edits on Wikipedia articles related to Nigerian women in various sectors. Data-a-thons: A series of Wikidata training/data-a-thons will be held to raise awareness about the available data on Nigerian women, identify data gaps, and instruct participants on using the Wikidata query service to track items. Participants will be trained to run queries, understand existing data gaps, and create or improve identified items on Wikidata. Outcomes: Generate diverse content on Nigerian women doing well in their varioys field. Also increases northern women participation in the wikispace. Enhance the representation and documentation of Nigerian women on Wikimedia platforms. Mentorship where we invite experts in wikimedia to talk to them about challenges of women and wayforward/There will also be a partnership with Association of Women Librarians in Nigerian, Kaduna state chapter and Rotary Queens of Kaduna, this group will help recruit new editors, and this partner will help publicize the project and its objectives to the participants from their establishment, which will boost their interest in participating in this project.
- 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.
Inyor4mr (project lead) She is a certified Librarian of Nigerian and founder of Wikimedia User Group Nigieria, Kaduna network, holding a position as one of the executives in WUGN Kaduna network. With her extensive knowledge and experience, she has successfully coordinated various Wikipedia projects including but not limited to initiatives like “Wikimedia awareness among Librarians at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Kaduna, Wikimedia Kaduna Connect. And co-facilitated Wikipedia needs more Women” Among others, Her commitment to nurturing engagement and knowledge dissemination through these projects reflects her passion for leveraging Wikipedia and open sources as a powerful educational and information resources in Nigeria, She was one of the core organizers of the Wikiclimate Campus Tour Nigeria project, she is a Certified Organiser for the organizer lab. she is a Local coordinator for just concluded Wiki for Human Right Nigeria, 2024
Linason Blessing (Wikidata Trainer & Reviewer): She is a Certified Librarian, she has participated in various Wikimedia projects such as WikiLoveAfrica, WPWP, Co-lead WikiCred for information Literacy in Nigeria, WikiGLAM Awareness for Libraries, She led the Wikipedia awareness for Library and Information Science Students in Nigeria and led the Wiki Loves Libraries 2.0 in Nigeria, she is part of the communication team for the recently concluded Inspire Inclusion Campaign for the Africa Wiki Women, and also the Reviewer for the ongoing Wiki for Human Right Nigeria.
Iwuala Lucy (Vikivoyage Trainer): is a member of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and an indigenous language activist who has actively participated in series of projects and campaigns that promote and create visibility for African-related content, enhance African-related articles, and has created Wikidata items and promote visibility for African Scholars on the online encyclopedia.
Carolynseaman(communication and Mentor) She is active on Wikimedia and one of the executives of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Abuja Network. She is advocate of gender equality in Nigeria film Industry. She is passionate about promoting participants in wikimedian also. Tesleemah (Wikipedia Trainer) Tesleemah is a board member of Wiki Project Medicine and an host on Wikipedia Teahouse, a platform to help newcomers on Wikipedia. She was the project lead of Wiki and Health articles in Nigeria 1.0, the project lead of Wikimedia Awareness in Akure. She was one of the core organizers of the Wikiclimate Campus Tour Nigeria project, One of the participants of African growth pilot organized by the Wikimedia Foundation, she is a Certified Organiser for the organizer lab. She is an experienced Wikipedia editor with over 100 articles created and was a training Associate with Free Knowledge Africa. Outside Wikipedia, Tesleemah is a medical graduate with over 6 years of experience who has worked with different health-related organizations such as Optometry mails, Food and Gene initiative among others. Her role as the Admin of a group of Medics with over 800 medical students and health professionals will help in recruiting new medical editors who will contribute towards the project. As an experienced Wikimedian who has organized and facilitated similar Wikimedia events recently, Tesleemah will play a crucial role as the project lead organizer. She will oversee the planning, coordination, and implementation of the project activities. Additionally, Tesleemah will bring her expertise to lead some of the training sessions, sharing her knowledge and insights with the participants. Her experience and familiarity with Wikipedia make her well-suited for guiding the project's overall direction and ensuring its success.. To ensure a more inclusive implementation, we will collaborate with active Wikimedia contributors who are passionate about the Hausa, and Tyap languages Wikipedians. These community champions will help raise awareness about the WikiLoveWomenNorthern, Nigeria project within their respective language communities, promoting the initiative and its objectives to potential participants. Educating participants on the polices of their various languages. These members are: Friday Musa is the co-founder of Tyap Wikimedia User Group. He is active editors in various Wikimedia project like Wikipedia, wikidata and Wikimedia common, he is passionate about knowledge sharing and promoting the minority language in Nigeria. he has lead so many project and co-facilitated others. Abubakar Ali Gwanki is a dedicated wikimedia contributor and Hausa Wikipedia Administrator that joined wikimedia since 2016. he has led various impactful projects in Northern - Nigeria and He is passionate about promoting free knowledge on African content, earned the best indigenous language contributor Award atq the just concluded Wiki Conference Nigeria, 2024.
- 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)
This campaign targets new and existing Only Women Wikimedia from Nigeria . During the planning stage, the project team will facilitate the campaign and will be briefed about the project and relevant resources to guide the implementation will be shared with them. During the campaign planning stage, we hope to create awareness before the implementation for prospective participants by creating awareness about the project on various social media platforms using E-posters and banners to promote the program online. During the project, the team will be actively involved in the training and ensuring that the participants get the act and art of contributing to Wikipedia and its sister projects, Wikidata and WikiCommons. Also, the training is set to have two Physical meet-up and four online training/ Office Hours to ensure that editors are properly guided on how to promote women participations across various Wikimedia projects during the editing contest. To ensure the sustainability of the project, during the events, new participants will be recruited. After the event, all participants will receive updates about related Wikimedia campaigns/programs to encourage continuous participation during wiki events. All Participants will be added to the existing messaging channel and mailing lists for follow-up, updates, questions, etc.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
Yes
- 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.
The General friendly space policy for Wikimedia events will be summarised and read at the beginning of each event to remind the participants and the organisers of the importance of a friendly space policy. In addendum, we will make the following 24 hours phone numbers available throughout the events; The organisers, Local venue security, Local law enforcement, Local sexual assault hotline, Local emergency and non-emergency medical services, and Local taxi company will be available
- 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.
As lack of women participation from Northern - Nigeria during the just concluded wiki conference Nigeria 2024, I discussed with one of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria executives and I have informed them at the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria for their suggestions and inputs. The link can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Wiki_Love_Women_In_Northern%2C_Nigeria
- 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)
Content Gender gap
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Gender and diversity
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Gender Identity
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
From this project aimed at increasing women's participation in Wikimedia projects in Northern Nigeria, we hope to learn several key insights that can inform future initiatives and help us better understand the unique challenges women face in this region. These insights can be shaped into specific Learning Questions that the data collected will help answer: Learning Questions: 1. What are the most effective outreach strategies for increasing women's participation in Wikimedia projects in Northern Nigeria? 2. How do cultural and societal norms influence women's willingness to participate in digital platforms like Wikimedia? 3. What skills or training are most essential for empowering women to contribute to Wikimedia?. 4. How does the creation of safe online and offline spaces impact women’s continued participation in Wikimedia? 5. What types of content are women in Northern Nigeria most interested in contributing to Wikimedia? 6. How do female role models in Wikimedia influence other women to contribute?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | 20 New Editors and 30 old editors as participants for the project and all will be women |
| Number of editors | 50 | 35 out of the 50 participants brought together for this project, we expect a minimum of 35 editors to join and sign up on the dashboard |
| Number of organizers | 7 | 5 team members volunteer from Wikimedians with extensive experience and knowledge of wikipedia and its sister's project and 2 volunteers from the Hausa and Tyap Wikimedia Language communities. Their expertise and knowledge will help the implementation of this project. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 70 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 70 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | 50 |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
A minimum of 70 Articles on Wikipedia including language Wikipedia, 100 Items on Wikidata, 70 images on Wikimedia Commons
- 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)
Summary x Sigma Hashtags x Outreach Dashboard Pages Created and Global account information.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dY7pBPs_UdRWwgHnMmzYdHx_M-2rsQsRRQgUanU-s_E/edit?usp=sharing
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
3742178.9 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.
2286.03 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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