Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves For Rural Works (ID: 22590894)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Ange Dusabe
- 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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Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Loves For Rural Works
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-07-01 - 2024-10-31
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Rwanda
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Organizer Lab
- 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)
The overall aim of the Wiki Loves Rural Works project is to increase the amount of freely licensed material related to rural works in Rwanda in 3 districts: Muhanga, Rwamagana, and Bugesera. This is essential as we seek to document, preserve, and share: NGOs, institutions based in rural areas; jobs works related to the process of creating, inventing, and manufacturing culturally defined items, make-up, creative art industries, hairstyles, music industries, dance and celebrities, tailoring, woven materials production, agriculture and more. By encouraging contributions from media that showcase these elements. This project is instrumental in addressing the lack of documentation and global recognition of rural works and empowering the rural community to actively contribute to the global knowledge commons. This approach is important for Rwanda and very important for other countries around the world: Africa, Europe, Asia... Every country in the world has rural areas. Here you have the research
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/rural_population_percent/ This shows the rural population, percent - country rankings, my country Rwanda is on the global rank 6 with 82.28%, and there is a deep gap in rural work documentation on open access. Depending on the minimum to no number of rural works on Wikimedia projects, this project will have a positive impact on reducing this gap, and over 100 visible rural men and women will have a Wikipedia page. This project will bring Wikipedia editing and awareness to citizens in rural areas, which will create great potential. Identified individuals from different institutions/NGOs and other economic sectors (agriculture, commerce, education) will become editors and valuable contributors. Recruiting new Wikimedians, especially those from different institutions in rural areas will create a great impact, we will organize an edit-a-thon to fill the knowledge gap on Kinyarwanda Wikipedia about the above-mentioned pieces of information that we are lacking on Kinyarwanda Wikipedia as well as on en/fr wikipedia. This will enrich the encyclopedia, which will lead to unleashing the potential of everyone to access neutral information and the implementation framework of this initiative.
If Phase I of the project is successful, more people will know not only about Wikipedia, but also about Wikimedia Commons, and new users will get involved in the projects. It will start in Rwanda, and we plan to extend it to the international level at a later stage.
- 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.
This project will spread awareness about Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons among people in rural areas. We look forward to partnering with various NGOs, schools, and private institutions in rural areas where we will work with their volunteers who are willing to learn about Wikimedia and how to contribute to Wikimedia's various projects, especially Wikipedia and Wiki Commons. We will attract new users to Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia and its sister projects. We are planning a 2-day training where we will teach participants about Wikimedia and the different ways they can contribute to Wikimedia's projects using the skills obtained during the Organizer Lab course. And contribute to the Movement Strategy recommendations: Invest in skills and leadership development. After equipping our participants with various ways to contribute to Wikimedia projects, we will launch a two-week Edit-a-thon competition focused on uploading images to Wikicommon and contributing articles to Kinyarwanda Wikipedia and fr.wikipedia/ en.wikipedia contributions are welcomed which will focus on increasing the visibility of open-access rural works.
We will have a physical session to reflect on the activity we have worked on and get feedback through the survey filled out by the participants on the challenges they faced and their willingness to continue contributing to Wikimedia projects, we will recognize the 5 best participants of the campaign and award them the gift cards, 2 special awards will be given to the best contributors from an underrepresented group and we will also provide certificates to all participants. Participants will receive ongoing mentorship and support to ensure that they are able to successfully create and improve articles on Wikipedia and contribute to other Wikimedia projects such as Wiki Common, and Wikidata. These activities will be carried out in a phased approach, with awareness-raising followed by recruitment and training of rural citizen editors from various rural institutions, followed by impact measurement. The project will also have a monitoring and evaluation component that will run throughout the project to ensure that activities are being implemented as planned and to adjust as necessary. This will help inform preparations for Phase II.
- 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.
Nyirahabihirwe Clementine : ( User: Cnyirahabihirwe123): will be the project coordinator and will lead all the activities related to the project. Ange Dusabe : (user: Ange Dusabe) co-organizer and will help to mobilize young people around the project and in organizing the planned activities. Igirimpuhwe Rosnine :User: Rosine Igirimpuhwe: will serve the roles of communications/outreach and welfare activities in this project. Alice Mukeshimana User: Alice.Mukesh will serve the roles of logistics and dashboard management during the projects. We will have a Jury team of 3 members experienced in Wikimedia. They will be invited as facilitators to give their helping hands in this project, especially during the selection of the best 5 contributors to be awarded the prizes.
Key people for mentorship are: User: Sadads. User: Ptinphusmia
- 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)
Our main target participants are citizens working and living in rural areas and they will be trained and learn what is Wikimedia, how to contribute to Wikipedia, Wikicommon, and other sister projects we will provide them with training on how to do so and during the edit-a-thon we will have a single day a week when we will have an online meeting for follow up and provide the support as needed, we will prepare a post-event survey for learning the challenges faced by the participants and their willingness to continue contributing to Wikimedia projects and their level of confidence. And we will add them to the community WhatsApp group where they can interact with other project members.
- 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.
As the organizing team, we contacted the committee of the Wikimedia Community User Group Rwanda during office hours. We also shared our idea on the group's WhatsApp chat. During the implementation period, we plan to use various social media channels to raise awareness.
- 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)
Other Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)
- 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)
Socioeconomic status
- 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)
I expect that this project will increase the number of active contributors to Wikimedia projects through the training approach that we will use to train them and the intention to follow up, this project will also be a great opportunity to expand the network which will also help the participants to contribute with confidence as they will have someone to ask whenever they face problems while contributing as they will be paired with the experienced editors who will also guide them. Participants, especially newcomers, will receive ongoing mentorship and support to ensure that they can successfully create and improve articles on Wikipedia. I expect this project to generate a lot of contributions to Wiki Common, Wikipedia, and other Wikimedia projects (Wikidata, Wiki Sources, etc).
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 70 | Number of total participants to be reached out and trained |
| Number of editors | 40 | Number of participants to edit and do translate. |
| Number of organizers | 8 | 5 organizers/facilitators and 3 members of the jury team |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 200 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | 40 |
| 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)
Yes
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Number of total participants to be reached out and trained | 200 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of total participants to be reached out and trained | 100 |
| Wikidata | Number of total participants to be reached out and trained | 50 |
| Wikisource | Number of total participants to be reached out and trained | 40 |
| 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)
Program and event Dashboard tool Wikimedia hashtag tool Lists building tools
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)
6365000 RWF
- 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.
4996.27 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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