Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikidata:Tenth Birthday Celebration Meetup/Global Open Initiative Foundation (ID: 21947287)

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Applicant Details[edit]

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Mwintirew

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

User:Kinvidia User:Naa2Darkoa User:Amoaniwaa User:Amuzujoe

Organization

Global-Open Initiative Foundation

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.

Yes - Global Open Initiative Foundation

Grant Proposal[edit]

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

Wikidata:Tenth Birthday Celebration Meetup/Global Open Initiative Foundation

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.

Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/GOIFoundation/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/goi_foundation/?hl=en Twitter - @GOIFoundation

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

We intend to organize a meetup in celebration of Wikidata’s 10th birthday. This is with the goal of encouraging and sharing knowledge about wikidata among existing and new editors. Compared to Wikipedia, Wikidata is not widely known and only a few editors really get a hang of what it is and how it could be used, especially in the area of research. Following the above, our ultimate goal is to:

1. Create awareness about Wikidata and its tools

2. Recruit new editors for the various Wikimedia projects

3. Increase skills for existing editors

3. To promote community interaction and Networking

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

Through this project, we expect to:

1. Build the capacity of both old and new volunteers by introducing participants to the Wikidata query service (SPARQL) and lexemes. Most contributions to Wikidata have been the creation of items and the addition of statements. Not much has been done in the area of the use of wikidata’s data. In addition to the above, there are several ways of learning. We believe a live demonstration will go a long way of meeting the learning needs of participants.

2. Create and Improve existing items. Most items on Senior High Schools in Ghana have just one statement or do not exist on Wikidata. We therefore intend to add the following Wikidata statements to Ghanaian public schools.

P:31 P:17 P:131 P:159 P:137

3.Celebrate Wikidata’s Tenth Birthday

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

Wikidata's Tenth Birthday Wikidata's tenth birthday falls on Saturday, October 29, 2022. We will therefore host a meetup in celebration of the birthday. There are at least four different Wikimedia communities in Ghana; we will invite all the groups to join us. We will use the opportunity to introduce participants to the Wikidata query service and Wikidata quick statements.

Edit-a-thon challenge Prior to the birthday celebration, we will launch a Five-day Wikidata edit-a-thon challenge for participants to create and update Wikidata items for Ghanaian public senior high schools. All participants will receive 'Wikidata 8th birthday' branded T-shirts, and the top 3 contributors will win MIFIs.

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?

User:Kinvidia - Facilitator Wikidata SPARQL User:Naa2Darkoa - Facilitator Lexemes User:Amoaniwaa - Graphics User:Amuzujoe - Photography

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)

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.

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.

Not applicable

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

Socioeconomic status

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?

There are about four communities in Ghana, We intend to invite these communities to partake in the celebration and the editathon challenge. We also intend to involve our partner organizations (Nubuke Foundation, Accra Archive, Ghana Library Authority (Effutu Municipality),Library and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Ghana). We believe this will be a motivating factor to keep both old and new volunteers connected and encourage learning and sharing. For new editors present, we would introduce them to the communities present, share other resources, and keep them updated on events and campaigns going on in the movement.

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

Friendly Space Policy We will abide by the Wikimedia friendly space policy during the event as organizers. We will also explain this to participants during the launch of the celebration and also before the birthday meet up.

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.

We informed our team members and community on our whatsapp group pages about our intention to celebrate Wikidata's 10th Birthday.

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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

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

1.Have participants learnt anything new about Wikidata?

2.How participants, especially new participants, feel about the movement or the community. At Wiki events, new participants are often introduced not only to Wikipedia or Wikidata but also to a community of volunteers).

3.For old participants, what has been the motivating factor for participating/Contributing to Wikidata in this event.

4.Effective ways to create awareness for Wikidata

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
Old Volunteer	Number of participants who have already been contributing on Wikidata and belong to a community	15
New Volunteers	Participants joining for the first time.	5
Knowledge of wikidata tools	Participants who have heard or used Wikidata SPARQL or lexemes.	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	Number of participants both old and new.	20
Number of editors	15 old editors 5 New Editors	20
Number of organizers	Number of organizers	5

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikidata	Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia Projects 150 new items 50 improved existing items	200
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
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.

Program and Events Dashboard Event Metrics

Financial Proposal[edit]

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

8055 GHS

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

815.34 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1T0_DJokjXtdkIJAoDmiErnwKRsBf5BYyoPEhiSGdjUs/edit?usp=sharing

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

Yes

Endorsements and Feedback[edit]

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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).

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