Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves QnQ (Quality and Quantity) 2025 (ID: 23540387)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Czeus25 Masele
- 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 QnQ (Quality and Quantity) 2025
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-12-01 - 2026-02-28
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Tanzania
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Other (please specify) Yes, Our initiative align with the Wikimedia 2030 Movement strategy, specifically the recommendations on Content Quality, Trust & Sustainability. They also connect with WikiCred initiative (credibility of content) and 1Lib1Ref campaign (adding reference to improve quality and trust). The work will contribute to ensure sustainable and verifiable content.
- 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)
Through this campaign, We want to bring a change that will set an example of small Wiki's like Swahili Wikipedia more reliable, sustainable and trusted by its reader and editors. Here are the challenges we are solving:
1. Content quality backlog: Many of articles tagged as computer generated, marked for speedy deletion are missing references or poorly structured. This backlog reduces the credibility of Swahili Wikipedia and denies readers access to accurate, trustworthy knowledge. Some of these articles were created during past campaigns, but were left unrepaired, creating sustainability challenges.
2. Leadership and mentorship gap: After going through the statistics, Admin activeness in Swahili Wikipedia community is low compared to the daily/monthly generated contents, with fewer admins who are performing their administrative roles, the community struggles to enforce standards, guide new users and prepare future leaders, risking long term stagnation. We have seen this after the passing of fellow admin User:Kipala.
Our approach to solving these challenges is: 1. Quality improvement drives: Clean reference, rescue tagged articles including those generated in past campaigns.
2. Community engagement through edit-a-thorn: To organize collaborative events that divides articles among participants for systematic improvement.
3. Mentorship and training: Experienced editors and admins will teach new users how to reference, improve neutrality and meet quality standards.
4. Competition and recognition: Motivate contributors by recognitions, either by Banstar, rewarding top editors who rectify the most articles.
5. Leadership development: Identify, mentor and prepare new potential admins to ensure long term sustainability on Swahili Wikipedia and set a new standard that can be adopted by other Wiki's.
This project contributes to multiple SDGs by making knowledge, free, reliable, and accessible in Swahili: SDG 4 - Quality Education, By improving articles reliability, Swahili Wikipedia becomes a stronger educational resource for students, teachers and researchers. Later on partnering with platforms like Kiwix to ensure this quality education is available offline even in rural areas. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals: By linking with campaigns like #1Lib1Ref and Wiki Loves Women, the project promotes collaboration across initiatives for greater impact.
SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities: By empowering new editors, including youth and underrepresented groups, the project reduces barriers to participation in global knowledge. By addressing both content quality and community leadership, Wiki Loves QnQ will reduce the backlog of poor articles, rescue content from deletion, and make Swahili Wikipedia more trusted. At the same time, it will build a stronger, more sustainable community of contributors, aligned with global development priorities.
- 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.
Here is the Summary of my activities that will be done both in person and online. 1. To identify and categorize all tagged/archived articles. 2. To organize online and offline edit-a-thons. 3. To mentor new users in referencing, neutrality, and quality standards. 4. To introduce a competitive reward system to boost engagement. 5. To document and share lessons learned for sustainability. More details shared in attached file. Proposed Partners are Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa (BAKITA) Tanzanian institution responsible with regulating and promoting the Kiswahili language. , Wikimedia User Groups Tanzania, Wikimedia User Groups Tanzania Arusha, and Wikimedia User Groups Tanzania Kilimanjaro.
- 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. Clement Masele; User:Czeus25 Masele Lead Coordinator and Campaign Organizer Clement is a Tanzanian Wikimedian and Swahili Wikipedia administrator active since 2016. Contribute through editing, outreach, and training new editors such as in African Women on Wikipedia 2024 , with a passion for equity, inclusion, and respectful participation. Clement will oversee the overall direction of the project.
2. Riccardo Riccion; User:Riccardo Riccion Training & Mentorship Lead Riccardo is a number one top contributor in Swahili Wikipedia and Bureaucrat who will be designing and facilitating mentorship sessions for new editors, guiding quality improvements, supporting edit-a-thons, providing experience to new admins.
3. Ester Foi: User:BrixL Ester is unexperienced Wikimedian but with 6 years experience in ICT event management and partnerships involved in organizing and manage big trainings and summits. She will be overseeing project implementation, tracking progress, and compiling reports, mentoring her in Wikimedia event organizing will be of added value to our movement.
4. Christina Charles; User:Christina Charles Christina is a new Wikipedia Editor but active and has many contributions, as a potential admin Christina is a passionate and enthusiastic Wikipedia contributor, she will bring a deep interest in organizing Edith-a-thon, translations, and research. Her contributions span across content creation, precise editing, and thorough reference validation. Christina will assist in new volunteer recruitment and partnership for Wiki Clubs establishment in high schools.
- 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: 1. Swahili Wikipedia Users with Extended rights community members: Engaging with members of the broader Wikimedia community, including administrators, moderators, and volunteers, helps foster a culture of integrity and accountability within the platform and encourages active participation 2. Wikimedia community members: Engaging with members of the broader Wikimedia community, including administrators, moderators, and volunteers, helps foster a culture of integrity and accountability within the platform and encourages active participation.
- 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.
I have communicated to the Tanzania Wikimedians through Telegram and WhatsApp channels also on the discussion page of community Meta page Link: [[1]]
- 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)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 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)
From this work I hope to learn Leadership & Program Management, Community Framework for quality assurance, Community and Adminship and Partnership Development. Leadership & Program Management: Coordinating a quality-focused campaign and creating sustainable accountability structures for Wikimedia events. Quality Frameworks: Testing strategies to reduce poor content, documenting and best practices. Community & Adminship: Understanding admin motivation, nurturing future admins, and building mentorship models for wider replication. Partnership Development: Engaging schools (Wikipedia Clubs) and event organizers in quality-centered activities while strengthening collaboration within Swahili and global Wikimedia communities.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 35 | New participant: 20
Returning participant: 15 |
| Number of editors | 35 | Newly Registered Users: 20
Returning editors: 15 |
| Number of organizers | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
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| Wikipedia | 200 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 10 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
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- 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 will use outreach Dashboard tool - https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/ and XTool GC https://xtools.wmcloud.org/adminstats for outlining statistics and showcase to participants how this tool might be helpful to them.
Financial proposal
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1QJNR-qhoLQarFd1giTJyQpm1zWT3M21DB_iUXy0N-fI/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)
12555000 TZS
- 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.
4993.41 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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