Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikidata's 10th Birthday in Kwara 2022 (ID: 21930466)

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Applicant Details[edit]

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Godstime Elijah

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

James Moore200, Bukky654

Organization

Ilorin Wikimedia Hub (IWH)

Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.

Ilorin Wikimedia Hub Wikimedia User Group Nigeria

Grant Proposal[edit]

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Wikidata's 10th Birthday in Kwara 2022

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

Local

Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UG_Nigeria/Ilorin_Wikimedia_Hub

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

Within the Nigerian community little is known about Wikidata and as a result, the contributions to this Wikimedia project have been limited to just a few active editors. Wikidata 10th Birthday will serve as an opportunity to bring about advocacy on using Wikidata which is the storage of structured data of the Wikimedia project, get information about the content policies and general principles and rules that guide editing on wikidata.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

The approach that will be employed are as follows; workshops and training for participants and edith-a-thons

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

Day 1 of the celebration will focus on the workshop where participants will get to learn why a contribution to wikidata is vital for free knowledge, how participants can edit wikidata items by creating and improving content about people, places and organizations and participants will be exposed to the general principles, rules and core content policies guiding contributions to wikidata and the participants will get to do a mini edit-a-thon to practice what they have learnt. Day 2 will be the birthday party where participants will get to have fun and connect with fellow participants.

4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.

Other (please specify)

Wikidata's 10th Birthday

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

We will be working with a host of experienced Wikimedians. These would include the core team of the Ilorin Wikimedia Hub, James Moore200, Bukky654, Major Lyte, Prithee P and all will be working on a volunteer basis.

6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

Contents about Nigeria on Wikimedia projects and Wikidata in particular are few due to less contributions from volunteers. This will be an opportunity to close some of the content gap of contents about Nigeria to increase the visibility of Nigerians online.

7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Age

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?

The participants will be drawn from students of the University of Ilorin and Kwara State University. Mosts of these students are already in the community of their respective universities and there has already been some level of engagement with them during the Wikimania 2022 event that was organized in Ilorin as well as other previous events. Since these participants will be drawn here follow up will be smooth as they belong to already existing active communities.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

We ensure that everyone no matter their religious beliefs, gender or ethnic group is treated equally and given an opportunity to contribute and a safe space is provided for them to thrive.

11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.

The communities of both the universities have been fully involved with inputs from both the leadership and members. Discussion on how the celebration will take shape and what activities will be taking place have been fully communicated to all members of the community.

12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?

No

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

N/A

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

N/A

13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.

No

13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

We hope to learn from this work how to recruit more volunteers, overcome the barriers that have limited people from contributing to wikidata among other things.

16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Knowledge of Wikidata	This metric will collect information regarding participants' knowledge about Wikidata	75
Acceptance of wikidata among participants	This metric will collect data on acceptance and use of Wikidata among participants.	75
Participants content contribution	This will focus on the number of contents contributed to Wikidata	300
Capacity of organizer	This will focus on the capacity of the organizers and their willingness to engage in future programs	5
Connection and sharing of knowledge	The ability of the participants and the organizers to share a common platform that will connect them for knowledge sharing, capacity building, follow up on contributions and future events	50

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	For the training and edit-a-thon we hope to have 75 participants and 5 organizing team for the facilitation of training and edit-a-thon making up a total of 80 participants.	80
Number of editors	Out of the 75 volunteers who hope to retain about 40 of them who would actively contribute to the Wikidata project.	75
Number of organizers	For the edit-a-thon, we have 5 organizing teams that will help facilitate training and guide the participants on how to contribute to Wikidata.	5

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikidata	This will focus on the number of contents contributed to Wikidata.	300
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N/A	N/A	N/A

17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.

Outreach Dashboard.

Financial Proposal[edit]

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

2307000 NGN

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

4995 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rdndzaiV9EzNUebO_-DJk3HyxeUMCqkqxsFTrKjwwWo/edit?usp=drivesdk

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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