Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki for Minorities/Disabili-Ties Programme/Kaduna (ID: 22430052)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Inyor4mr
- Organization
N/A
- 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 for Minorities/Disabili-Ties Programme/Kaduna
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-03-20 - 2024-04-20
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
WikiForHumanRights
- 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 Disabili-Ties Programme is an initiative within the Wiki for Minorities (WfMin) project aimed at expanding the existing content in Wikimedia projects about people with disabilities. The term comes from a play on words between disability and ties. Disability and ties go hand in hand in this programme By creating articles, searching for information and taking photographs, users want to raise awareness about the challenges presented by people who suffer from some type of disability around the world, adjusting their work to their own reality that surrounds them, so the project is presented with enough versatility and dynamism for it. Also trained them to tell there stories themselves.
This campaign focus encompasses a wide range of topics, including the historical background of each disability, significant historical events, well-known individuals with the disability or those who have made significant contributions to the disability community's quality of life, legal considerations, as well as current social and cultural issues and the problems they raise, including discrimination, the debunking of prejudices, and inadequate health coverage, among other issues. In the same way, we support the effective integration of disabled individuals into society, upholding their civil rights in every jurisdiction in which we operate, and accepting them for who they are in order to enhance their sense of self-worth and quality of life in Kaduna state in particular and Northern Nigeria in General. Making information about disabilities in wikimedia platform will be including them in the movement. The project will translate those articles or works into local language within the Nigeria content.
- 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.
1. Visit to a disability organization or event: In order to secure agreements that allow them to upload content to our platforms with free licenses, users organize a visit to an organization or event that is related to disabilities and involves activism, raising awareness, or working directly with them and their needs.
- 2. Physical meetups and Online : this session will be training on the importance of the project and how to add content to wikipedia, wikidata and wiki common. subsequence of Online session to guide them further. finally Editathon on wikipedia, wikidata
- 3. Photo walks: this will enable us document places and people with disabilities within the northern.
all these activities shall help in achieving the below points:
- 1.Create more visibility to contents of disabilities in Northern Nigeria.
- 2. improve them on digital literacy through wikimedia projects like wikipedia, wikicommon and wikidata.
- 3. to create disabilites networks or fan club where they can connect to other wikimedians and make their own contribution.
To achived we shall have 3days physical training and 2online sessions.
- 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.
Inyor4mr is the project lead and a fellow of the Wikipedia in African Libraries(WikiAfLIB) and the president of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, Kaduna Network. She is a top contributor and participant in several AfLIA led Wiki training for African librarians - Basics of Wikipedia Editing Learning Circle, African Librarians Week, 1Lib1Ref - Wiki Loves Libraries Nigeria, African Youth Month 2022 Wikidata Training, etc. Inyor4mr as project lead will be coordinating all the activities of the Campaign of assigning roles to other team members. and writing final report for the campaign. She will be facilitating on wikicommon such open licensing and how to upload quality image.
Atibrarian is an experienced wikimedian, a fellow of the Wikipedia in African Libraries (WikiAfLIB), and a certified trainer of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program. will play the role of facilitating wikipedia online and physical meetup on the project such as the pillars of wikipedia, how to create article and editing articles.
Zmu'az4Z, is a experiences wikimedia that join in 2023 and participated in several campaign on wikimedia projects. she will be volunteer to play the role of communication officer during the campaign by creating all and managing social media handles of the campaign and also serve as volunteers to assist during physical and online training in helping participants create accounts and how to navigate the wikimedia projects platforms
Kambai Akau is an experienced wikimedia that join since 2016 and has been contributing to English and Tyap Language with focus in other wikimedia projects. He role in the campaign he will be facilitating on wikidata and lead the photo walk for quality images.
Friday Musa isan experienced wikimedia and a project leaders of tyap wikimedia User group Nigeria, he will be wikipedia Arficles reviewer in this campaign and adviser for the success of the campaign.
- 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 of this campaign are: both new editors and existing editors like the youths, people with special needs like Blinds, Albinisms people in Kaduna state Nigeria. a formal visit to organization of people with disability in Nigeria and visit with Kaduna state disability affair board. than we shall create social media page like WhatsApp group, Facebook and twitter for easy communication during and after the campaign those group will continue to share information regarding Wikimedia project with continue training and connection within and outside the communities. we follow up through the whatapp group and user post - survey to understanding them better.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
Yes
- 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.
The wikimedia foundation friendly policy: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Friendly_space_policy#Youth_Safety. there is absence of specific youth protection policies in Nigeria and African. The team will implemented our commitment remains steadfast to ensure a safe and positive experiences for the special need people. We shall also work with Kaduna state disability affair board members to provide a safe environment for all participants.
- 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 informed them at the leadership of wiki for minorities through the Telegram https://t.me/+l_dMBpXUSjllYzMx the Nigeria working group on wiki for minorities. the link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_for_Minorities , i have inform wikimedia User Group Nigeria through The whatsgroup
- 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)
Advocacy
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Disabilities
- 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)
Did the project create awareness among targeted community? What is their perception about Wikipedia?
Did the programme meet their expectations? How to effectively recruit and train new editors for sustainability Did the project improve their digital skills to contribute to Wikimedia projects?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | its are people with disabilities in the community that are ready to learn and participate. |
| Number of editors | 50 | |
| Number of organizers | 10 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 70 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| 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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- 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)
The program and event dashboard and Wikimedia hashtag tools will be used to measure the metric in order to ensure that the set target was met.
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16HDzwOy6WDilxOORyFRc3KR2iLoRsZlskRy7ZXQEB38/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)
1935000 NGN
- 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.
2417.25 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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