Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Africa 2023, Tyap Wikimedians Special. (ID: 22026715)

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Applicant Details[edit]

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Steve Kally

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Kambai Akau Zbobai Friday musa Valtino44 Bello Lydia

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.

Tyap Wikimedians User Group Wikimedia User Group Nigeria

Grant Proposal[edit]

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

Wiki Loves Africa 2023, Tyap Wikimedians Special.

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.

We want to make the 2023 Wiki Loves Africa more beautiful, colourful and expository, by participating in the competition to take so many pictures in relation to this year's theme (Weather and Cimate) to add them on Wiki Commons and also use in Tyap Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Yoruba Wikipedia, English Wikipedia and other Wikis. It is also open for so many users around the world.

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

We will expose more about the "Weather and Climate" of the African culture with the following:

Six professional photographs will be involved using high Digital Cameras to take several images.
About 1000 quality images will uploaded in commons that will depict this year's theme in a typical rural setting of Kaduna state, Nigeria, specifically Kachia.
100 beaitiful and quality images will be used to edit by all participants on Wikipedia.

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

We will organise a two-day training event where all participants will be trained on the strategy, thereby travel to the selected area (Kachia) to take photographs. New editors will be taught how to edit on commons as well as participating in the event internationally.

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.

Wiki Loves Africa

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

The team will consist of 10 persons, six experienced editors and 4 new editors, namely:

1. User: Steve Kally- Stephen Kalad Jonathan is the Team lead for this exercise and a Photographer, also a an editor of the Tyap Wikimedia commmunity and Wiki Commons.

2. User: Kambai Akau - Kambai Akau Levi is a Co-organiser and the Community Director, He is an experienced Wikiemdia editor and also a Photographer.

3. User: Zbobai - Zwandien Bobai is a Co-organiser, a Photographer, an editor in Tyap Wikimedia community, and a Hebrew Scholar.

4. User: Friday musa - Friday Musa is Co-organiser for this event, he is a Photographer and an editor on Wiki commons and Tyap Wikimedia Community.

5. User: (Valtino44 - Valentine Didam is a Co-organiser for this event handling logistics and travels. He is a Photographer and an editor in the Tyap Wikimedia Community.

6. User: Bello Lydia - Bello Linda is a co-organiser for this event, she is the Secretary of the Tyap Wiki Community, an editor in the Tyap Wikimedia Community.

7. User: Kuyet44 - Eunice Buku is a volunteer participant for this even, she is also an editor for the Tyap Wiki Community.

8. User: TimWobin - Timothy Bako is volunteer participant for this exercise, and editor in the Tyap Wikimedia community.

9. User: Gwazahh - Aaron Bulus Gwazah is also a volunteer participant.

10. User: Obed Ephraim - Obed Ephraim is a volunteer participant, and a Tyap Wikimedian. The rest of the four members will be made open for interested members within the community.

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.

Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), 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.

Using this high quality and beautiful images, We will bring the world close to the weather and climate of the North West region of Nigeria, where there are so many untold stories.

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.

Culture, heritage or GLAM , Climate Change and sustainability, Diversity

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

Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background

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 target participants are from Tyap Wikimedians User Group. We will make advertisement using e-fliers, on the Tyap Wikimedians User Group Discussion page, Telegram and Facebook where the participants engage the most.

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

We will ensure all health and security measures are adhered to as reflected in our budget. Covid 19 prevention measures will also be adhered to, First Aid will be made available, local security will be contacted for clearance before travelling. In general, we will adhere to the Wikimedia friendly space Policy.

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.

My community, Tyap Wikimedians user Group have been duly informed about my proposal both on our discusion page and on our social media handles, discussions have been held and they showed strong support. Below is the link:

https://kcg.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wukipedia:A%CC%B1na%CC%B1nwuai_sot-%C3%A1%CC%B1niet#Wuki_Cat_Afi%CC%B1rika_2023_a%CC%B1si%CC%B1_Sot_%C3%81%CC%B1nietnta%CC%B1m_Wukimedia_nTyap_/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023_of_Tyap_Wikimedians_User_Group

The larger Wikimedia Usergroup Nigeria has also been informed, here is the link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023,_Tyap_Wikimedians_Special

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, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

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

Participant are able to participate in International events as it affects our geographical conditions, and also to see new editors on Wiki Commons add images on Wikipedia and other Wikis.

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
Increase contributions on Wikimedia projects	There will be 50% increase in the number of contributions from Tyap Wikimedia Community in Wiki Commons at the end of this campaign. Five persons have been added to this project that are new to contributing on Wiki commons from this community.	5
Support local organizers in implementing the campaign	We will collect and use Wikimedia best practices and guide, we will design and share organizers’ guide and best practices one month before the campaign.	6
Promote the use of freely-licensed media files from Wikimedia Commons on Wikipedia articles	After all the uploads have been completed, a selected number of 100 hgh quality media files will be selected and used ok Wikipedia pages by participants.	10
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17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	There will be 10 participants and all are returning participants.	10
Number of editors	All participants will be editing during the event to achieve the set goal.	10
Number of organizers	Six among the participants that are experienced Wikimedians will be the organisers. Three will handle the logistics and travels, while the other three handle the training and technicals.	6

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikimedia Commons	Participants will select quality images and upload them on Wiki Commons, and also using the category for Wiki loves Africa 2023.	1000
Wikipedia	Participants will extract pictures from Wiki Commons and add them to pages on Wikipedia.	100
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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.

- If at least 1000 high quality pictures are selected and uploaded on Wiki Commons using the Wiki loves Africa 2023 category.

If at least 100 of these pictures are used on Wikipedia.

Financial Proposal[edit]

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

1194000 NGN

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

2769.7 USD

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

Wiki Loves Africa (Tyap Wikimedia User Group Special).xlsx

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dzC1s_NRmSbI_kgUHpzRtrvUZJ5aoIly/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=105168988595441448319&rtpof=true&sd=true

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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