Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Folklore and Feminism and Folklore 2025 in Ghana (ID: 22896253)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Alhassan Mohammed Awal
- Organization
Moore Wikimedia Community
- 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)
I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
I'm the founder and Lead coordinator for all activities of the Ghanaian Educators Wikimedia Community
Main Proposal
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Loves Folklore and Feminism and Folklore 2025 in Ghana
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-02-10 - 2025-03-31
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Ghana
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Feminism and Folklore
- 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)
This project aims to unite a diverse group of over 60 newly recruited educators, including education directors, officers, and teachers, to contribute images, videos, and audios of Ghana's rich cultural folklore to Wikimedia Commons and local language Wikipedias. The current trend where the viewership and use of contents of the local Wikipedias keeps reducing is a worrying situation for me. It makes no sense to create and dumb knowledge on the Wikipedias which are not being utilized. I think it is so because the right people are not being involved in the process and there hasn't been enough and appropriate advocacy approaches to promote the acceptance and utilization of the information put on the Wikipedias. By empowering educators, the project seeks to create a sense of ownership and leverage their influence to integrate locally created content into educational institutions and society at large. A significant challenge is the absence of images in many articles on indigenous traditions due to a lack of contributions to Wikimedia Commons. Educators, through their teaching experiences, possess unique knowledge about where relevant cultural materials can be sourced. This project equips them with the skills to effectively contribute to Wikimedia projects, and enrich the knowledge repository with valuable resources that complement teaching and learning materials. The campaign focuses on changing the narrative by involving educators as key contributors to documenting indigenous folk cultures and women in folklore, especially those from marginalized groups in Ghana's northern regions. This approach also aims to address the gender gaps prevalent in local Wikipedias. The project will collaborate with 3-4 Ghanaian language Wikipedias, encouraging participants to contribute to Wikipedia they are most comfortable with, including incubator projects like Likpakpa Wikipedia.
- 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.
Workshops: We will organize workshop training sessions to introduce the over 80 new participants to Wikimedia Commons and build on the knowledge of existing users. We will also train participants on how to create Wikipedia articles for the various places we have visited and add relevant references in their respective language Wikipedias.
Photowalks: We will embark on a photowalk to capture photos of folklore in which the Ghanaian Educators Community members and other marginalized groups like the Anuful and Likpakpa members will participate. Three (3) photo walks will be embarked on with a maximum of twenty (25) people participating in each walk.
Feminism and Folklore Contest
We will also organize a 2 months edit-a-thon contest (Feb 1 - March 31) to create at least 100+ Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items related to feminism and folklore to the Likpakpa incubator and over 300 articles each to the live Wikipedias such as the Dagbani, Moore and others by the Educators who belong to these languages.
The articles must be of minimum readable prose of about 100 words or roughly 3 sentences.
The Wikipedia article must have at least 4 references.
Wikidata
Wikidata items must have the following:
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At least 2 references and
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ISA Campaign: At the end of the contest, we will use the ISA tool to tailor a campaign to better depict the captured images so that they will be more useful.
Feminism and Folklore Contest We will also organize a 2 months edit-a-thon contest (Feb 1 - March 31) to create at least 100+ Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items related to feminism and folklore to the Anuful and Likpakpa incubators and over 300 articles each to the live Wikipedias such as the Dagbani and others by the Educators who belong to these languages. The articles must be of minimum readable prose of about 100 words or roughly 3 sentences. The Wikipedia article must have at least 4 references.
Wikidata
Wikidata items must have the following:
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At least 2 references and
Instance of (P31)
- 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.
All the team members here are volunteers and shall be responsible for the implementation of the project. User: Alhassan Mohammed Awal - Is an experienced organizer of Wiki Loves Folklore and Feminism and Folklore campaigns in Ghana in the past years. He will be the main coordinator and liaison for this campaign User:AFA IBRAHIM. He will be in charge of the facilitation of training activities and Wikipedia Judge User:Hkulu- She will be in charge of Communications. User:Abdul-Fazaz - He will be in charge of logistics. User:Mzz afraw - She will be a Photo Judge User:Tahiru Hamdalatu- She will be a Photo Judge. User: ALHASSAN MOHAMED NURIDEEN- He will be a Photo and Wikipedia Judge
- 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 target participants are members of the Ghanaian Educators Wikimedia Community. They are a diverse groups who shall be contributing content to the various language Wikipedias (both live and incubators) in Ghana depending on the language and ethic groups they belong to. They will be engaged on the talk and meta discussion pages and social media platforms especially WhatsApp which is commonly used in Ghana. The “thank you” to contributors in their edit history shall be utilized for editors to feel appreciated and valued and to stay motivated to keep contributing.
It may come as a surprise but the Educators Community members who are made up of education leaders and teachers are very new to most Wikimedia projects despite the efforts of other usergroups and affiliates. Less than 10% of the speakers have heard of Wikipedia as a tool to promote, digitize, and revitalize languages via its sister projects. We will leverage the power of the education leadership for spaces in their forums to engage more with participants on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata and to recruit more volunteers into the Movement.
We will keep participants more engaged in a variety of ways as the prevailing opportunity may demand so that we will have several choices to choose from. We will be doing periodic Editathons on Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and using tools like the ISA campaign and other quick editing tools such as quick statements, Wikimedia Commons games among others to vary the interest.
- 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.
The community's WhatsApp group The discussions page of the Ghanaian Educators Wikimedia Community on Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ghanaian_Educators_Wikimedia_Community/Discussions_Forum
- 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)
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)
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Improve User Experience
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
The photo walks will focus on capturing photos, audios and videos of different cultural groups across Ghana but with focus in the northern part of the country, where Wikimedia activities are less covered. Their food, music/dance, games, work and festivals. At the end, I want to learn if some of the articles related to the indigenous folk cultures and traditions on the various language Wikipedias (both live and Incubators) have quality images that give them beautiful views and aid better understanding of their content? I will also focus on the contume of female biographies that are added to the Wikipedias and as a result of the project and as to whether they are significant in closing up the gender gaps?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 81 | This includes team members, the Educators Community members and the marginalized Likpakpa ethnic group |
| Number of editors | 75 | |
| Number of organizers | 6 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| 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
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
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| 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)
We will use the WMF outreach dashboard tool to measure the metrics. We will also use the CampWiz tool to measure the number of quality articles Finally, we will use the glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous/ to track the number of Wikis that made use of the images uploaded.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
57600 GHS
- 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.
4074.1 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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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).