Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Africa Côte d’Ivoire Fan Club (ID: 22894684)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
kamboo19
- Organization
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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 Loves Africa Côte d’Ivoire Fan Club
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-03-01 - 2025-08-31
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Cote d'Ivoire
- 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)
In Ivory Coast we consume a wide variety of dishes every day. The 2025 campaign of Wiki Loves Africa, through the theme "From farm to plate" offers us the opportunity to Understand where our food comes from, the different ways in which food goes from the farm to our plate. How do our food products (rice, cereals, tubers, vegetables, fruits, nuts, meats, fish, shellfish, etc.) arrive on our markets, then in our kitchens, and finally, on our plates? Is our food of good quality? We will answer all these questions and document it all through beautiful videos. By knowing where it comes from, we will be able to better appreciate our Ivorian food as it is cooked and served. We will also try to highlight the farmers who cultivate, as well as the traders who regularly supply our markets, without forgetting the women and men who cook these delicious Ivorian dishes on a daily basis, at home or in restaurants. This will be an opportunity for us to present the culinary specialties of Côte d'Ivoire and their preparation in the kitchen. And also, above all, to highlight the agricultural, pastoral and fishing products that go into the composition of these dishes. And all this, through very beautiful videos of excellent visual and sound quality, in order to enrich Wikimedia Commons and fill the gap in video content on Wikipedia, relating to Côte d'Ivoire, to Africa.
- 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.
We still remain faithful to our previous action plans. Wiki Loves Africa Côte d'Ivoire Fan Club, will focus on video and photo taking activities under the theme « From farm to plate » of Wiki Loves Africa 2025. The images will be uploaded to Wikimedia commons and will be used to illustrate articles related to Ivory Coast, and Africa on Wikipedia and its sister projects, and also on other Wiki categories. An exhibition of the best images will take place to encourage participants.
- 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.
The team is entirely composed of volunteers. kamboo19 (Bouba Kam’s) as project lead and Numerik-3325 (Mansita Konaté) as co-project lead.
I entered the Wiki Loves Africa competition for the very first time in 2020 and won the Best Video prize of Wiki Loves Africa 2020. See here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2020/Winners
My participation in 2020 allowed the creation of the Best Video category for subsequent editions of the competition. I am therefore a pioneer in this category.
In 2021, I once again won the best video prize in the Wiki Loves Africa competition.
See here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2021/Winners
I won 2 prizes in total, which allowed me to acquire filming equipment for my short films, TV series, and feature film projects (currently in development).
In 2022, due to work obligations, I was unable to submit my video within the competition deadline, but I still managed to make it available on Wikimedia Commons where it was chosen and published as the Media of the Day, in June 5, 2022. Watch the video here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Foyer-et-habitat-realisateur-bouba_kams-wiki-loves-africa-2022.webm
During 2022 and 2023, I had the honor of being part of the international jury for the Wiki Loves Africa competition.
See here my nomination as Jury 2022 and 2023:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2022/jury
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023/jury
In 2023, with my collaborator Mansita Konaté, we organized the Wiki Loves Africa competition locally in Ivory Coast, with the aim of founding a new community made up of Ivorian videographers and filmmakers.
The organization of the event was possible thanks to microfinancing from Wiki in Africa. Wiki in Africa really encouraged us in organizing the competition.
During the event, we trained nearly 13 young people in videography and photography. Our group, Wiki Loves Africa Côte d'Ivoire Fan Club, won the prize for Best Video Collection in the WLA 2023 competition.
See here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023/Winners
and here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023/Results_and_best_practices#Key_specials
See also here, a video summary of our training: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023_C%C3%B4te_d%27Ivoire_Fan_Club
and here our report: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Bouba_Kam%27s/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2023_C%C3%B4te_d%E2%80%99Ivoire_Fan_Club/Report
Furthermore, during the Wikiconvention 2023 in Côte d'Ivoire, my collaborator Mansita Konaté, film producer, and I, director, have extensive experience in the field of cinema, television and audiovisual. We specialize in producing films, reports and television shows. It is this expertise that led us to cover the French-speaking Wiki Convention held in Abidjan. We wanted to put our know-how at the service of this event, and to this end, we produced two reports retracing the activities of the Wikiconvention 2023. We collaborated with young people that we had trained during our first participation as a local organizers of Wiki Loves Africa 2023. These young people demonstrated their skills during the French-speaking convention, putting our teachings into practice and capturing exceptional images that enhanced the event.
See here, the images of the Wikiconvention 2023: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikiconvention_2023_by_Bouba_Kams
About Mansita Konaté: Mansita Konaté started the Wiki Loves Africa adventure with me, since my very first participation in the Wiki loves Africa contest in 2020. She encouraged me to believe in myself and submit my video. This is how, with Mansita, I worked on the theme of the WLA 2020 contest and took the necessary shots. I was able to win WLA 2020 and WLA 2021, thanks to the corrections that Mansita Konaté made to my videos, during post-production.
In addition to her passion for Ivorian cinema, Mansita Konaté runs a blog that has more than 638,000 page views, with almost 200,000 unique users. Her blog is called Afriqueetoiles.
- 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 contest is open to anyone in Côte d'Ivoire, Ivorian or not, Wikimedian or not, with videos and photos of Côte d'Ivoire related to the theme « From farm to plate » will be welcome.
Before and during the activities we will engage participants, as follows:
We will use word of mouth to reach our target audience. We will use the printed posters that will be displayed in town, in libraries, universities and schools. On the Internet: We will create and enhance social media pages, to reach our target participants (electronic posters, banners, etc.). We will also use traditional media such as local radios if possible. A Whatsapp group has already been created to allow new participants to register and to retain and interact with our former participants as well.
We will organize physical training workshops to help our participants. I myself and Mansita, will be actively involved in the training. After the activities, we will maintain frequent communication with participants via phone calls, sms, and setup training programs from time to time and encourage them to continue adding content through various wiki projects.
- 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.
We discussed this in the WhatsApp group dedicated to the community, analyzing our previous participations in Wiki Loves Africa. And we also discussed a draft strategy to adopt.
- 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)
Advocacy
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Digital Access
- 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)
This time we hope to learn if we can implement strategies to see, if we can bring on board, novice sound engineers, novice musicians and lyricists, for the audio category of Wiki Loves Africa 2025.
And we hope to improve ourselves further in the effective and sustainable development of our community.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 17 | Existing and new recruited participants |
| Number of editors | 17 | Number of editors |
| Number of organizers | 2 | Number of organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
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| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 102 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
17 Videos and 85 Photos
- 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)
We are learning how to use tool forge and other collecting data tools from wikimedia.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Budget_WLA_2025.pdf
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
592338 XOF
- 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.
947 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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