Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in Ruhengeri (ID: 22058216)

statusWithdrawn

Rapid Fund

Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in Ruhengeri

proposed start date2023-03-15

proposed end date2023-04-15

budget (local currency) 

budget (USD)0 USD

grant typeGroup of individuals not registered with an organization

funding regionunknown region

decision fiscal year2023-24

applicant• MrTallBoy

organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

MrTallBoy

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

N/A

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.

Wikimedians of Ruhengeri User Group

Grant Proposal

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

Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in Ruhengeri

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

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.

Meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Ruhengeri_User_Group

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

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

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

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?

there are a team of volunteers in Wikimedians of Ruhengeri User Group who are ready to implement this proposal.

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.

Geography, Socioeconomic Status, 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.

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, Human Rights, Climate Change and sustainability

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

Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Disabilities, Linguistic / Language, Socioeconomic status, Age

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?

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

We will adhere strictly to the Wikimedia friendly space policy and Universal Code of Conduct to make sure that everyone is exercising all the rights they have.

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.

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?

Yes

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

Yes

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

This joint proposal would increase participation in this year Wiki Loves Africa

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.

Improve User Experience, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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

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
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17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary

Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	total number of people who will participate in project.	25
Number of editors	Total number of people that will at least upload a photo on WikiCommons	25
Number of organizers	all organizers will work together to coordinate the project both online and offline from beginning to the end.	3

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project

Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikimedia Commons	Number of uploaded photos	250
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
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.

Outreach Dashboard, We will create the category that will also help in measure photo metrics.

Financial Proposal

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

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

0 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.

No

Endorsements and Feedback

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Community members are invited to share meaningful feedback on the proposal and include reasons why they endorse the proposal. Consider the following:

• Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
• Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
• Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
• 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).

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