Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Africa in Zimbabwe 2025:Farm to Plate (ID: 22892467)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Sichelesile
- Organization
Wikimedians in Zimbabwe
- 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)
N/A
- 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 in Zimbabwe 2025:Farm to Plate
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-02-22 - 2025-05-24
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Zimbabwe
- 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 increase the representation of Africa’s cultures and traditions on Wikimedia Commons and other platforms to tell the story about our the continent. This year's theme, "Farm to Plate" will give our community members and other creative individuals as well as professional photographers from Zimbabwe the chance to showcase the rich delicacies, food, cooking, restaurants, farm products, farm machines, agricultural practices, food transformation and processing in pictures, videos and audios. We plan to achieve these and more. In Zimbabwe we want to retain the previous participants and engage new participants to increase the Zimbabwe participation on the Wikimedia.
- 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.
22 February - Opening session - Launch of the WLA campaign, Introduction to Wikipedia and creating accounts. 08 March - Do's and don'ts of Wikimedia and being familiar with the Wiki space, introduction to Wikimedia commons and photo hunt 19 April - Virtual meeting for assistance 03 May - How to take good pictures and using editing tools and photo hunt 17 May - Photo uploading 24 May - closing ceremony
- 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.
Project lead - Sichelesile Masvingo Lead - Hope A Ncube Harare Lead - Beatrice Kaseke Bulawayo lead - Phantomassassinbb2811 Trainings logistics - Jerry Mathema and Siphethangani Njini Technical Support - Sindiept
- 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)
National University of Science and Technology (NUST), United Theological College and Reformed Church University These are the 3 sites where we will be having our activities and the target are both staff and students. The campaign is open to photographers and all Zimbabweans who which to participate. The Previous participants are already planning on having clubs there that will make the follow up even after the campaign. Meet ups during the campaigns will have online and in-person sessions that will include live discussions, group activities and making the incentives of keep sakes will save as motivations.
- 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.
N/A
- 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.
Through the dedicated WhatsApp Group.
- 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)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 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)
Geographic
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
We hope to increase participation from new people who saw the last campaign we also want to learn a lot from the local photographers on producing the best pictures and farmers and food processors that will definitely tell us a lot about Zimbabwe so as to fill the gaps in the free knowledge encyclopedia - Wikipedia. Would like to learn about involving stakeholders that have to do with the campaign and these include, photographers, farmers and food industries.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 60 | 20 from the 3 different places |
| Number of editors | 60 | 40 new editors
20 returning editors |
| Number of organizers | 7 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 60 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 120 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | 20 |
| Wikimedia Incubator | 20 |
| 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)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 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)
Dashboard For other relevant tools we will need support
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VTt_hXzOQOqrq-OMNTDMt7jrNHWFnABo8X7Iy6DZctw/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)
3000 USD
- 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.
3000 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
Endorsements and Feedback
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- 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).