Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Africa 2025 campaign Collaboration in Nigeria (ID: 22887753)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Nwonwu Uchechukwu P
- 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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- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Loves Africa 2025 campaign Collaboration in Nigeria
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-03-01 - 2025-04-30
- 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)
Wiki Loves Africa
- 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)
Wiki Loves Africa aims to redefine the African narrative using media and to also to give emerging Wikimedia communities an opportunity to interface with the open knowledge movement. Wiki for Senior Citizens Nigeria, Igbo Wikimedians, Tyap Wikimedians and Igala Wikimedia community (who first participated in 2024 without funds) will collaboratively participate in 2025. The theme for the 2025 contest is Farm to Plate and will provide an opportunity for submission of media that portrays the planting, cultivating, harvesting, processing, crops, farms, raw food, process food, cooking, serving foods e.t.c. Basically, elements that shows the process of food production in the raw form from the farm to the final product in the kitchen. Participants will be encouraged to submit on Wikimedia Commons, photos, audio, videos, graphics etc., in line with the theme Farm to Plate which will be used on Wikipedia, Wikidata and other sister projects. There will also be capacity building events and training to improve quality of submissions and ensure that they are useful within the open knowledge space.
- 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.
Trainings - Mobile phone photography, Quality photos, Encyclopedic videos etc Webinars - Wikimedia Commons basics, Introduction to Categories, etc Workshop - Image editing tools, Video editing, Sound editing etc Photowalk - Visiting locations to take photos in line with the theme Farm to Plate
- 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.
1. Ogalihillary: Wiki Loves Africa facilitator, Igbo Wikimedians Commons Hub community lead and Wiki Loves Africa 2024 organizer for Igbo Wikimedians community. He will lead the Project and ensure a successful campaign from the collaboration in 2025.
2. Oby Ezeilo: Founder Wiki for senior citizens network Nigeria, an experienced Wikimedian and experienced organizer of Wiki Loves Africa photography contest. She will play an advisory role for the project and also the organizer in the Wiki for Senior Citizens Network Nigeria.
3. Kambai Akau: Co-founder Tyap Wikimedians User Group and local Organizer Wiki Loves Africa. He will be in charge of logistics and also manage the tracking of the project. He will also organize the project in Tyap Wikimedians User Group.
4. Nwonwu Uchechukwu P.: Igbo Wikimedians Commons Hub project facilitator and one time winner of Wiki Loves Africa in the Igbo community. Experienced jury member for Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Monument in the Igbo community and international juror for Wiki Loves Folklore and Wiki Loves Monument. Also a regional ambassador for Wiki Loves Folklore and Africa Wiki Women 2024/2025. She will be organizing in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group.
5. AgnesAbah: Founder Igala Wikimedia Community. She will focus on communications and also she will be organizing for the second time in the Igala Wikimedia Community.
- 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)
The campaign is open to participants from the Igbo community, Senior Citizens in Nigeria, Tyap community and Igala community. Participants outside the community that wish to participate in telling the African story are also welcomed to join the campaign. All the communities have active WhatsApp community platforms, we will be updating the communities through the platforms.
- 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.
After extensive conversations and cognizant of the successes recorded locally in the 2024 Wiki Loves Africa campaign by the 4 communities, though Igala Wikimedians community and Wiki for senior citizens network Nigeria organized without funds, members of all 4 communities have discussed off-wiki and agreed to participate in the 2025 Wiki Loves Africa campaign collaboratively. This would help us put foundation's resources to good use and leverage on our existing relationships and collective experience to host a hitch-free Wiki Loves Africa 2025 campaign.
- 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)
Geography
- 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)
Age (diversity of age groups)
- 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)
1. The effect of multiple collaboration on established Wiki Loves contests. 2. What becomes of a new community after hosting a successful first event 3. Impact of mentoring in project organizing and coordination.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 75 | |
| Number of editors | 50 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 700 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- 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)
1. Outreach dashboard 2. Ptools 3. Commons category
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hl-TPOQR7DgMeynrd16d0Q0P_6gjV_m6Gb6mjogfwOg/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)
5723000 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.
3421.19 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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