Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Awareness Campaign and Editathon at Mai Idris Alooma Polytechnic (ID: 22156501)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Ibrahim442
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
N/A
- Organization
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- 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.
Wikimedia Fulfulde Community
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikimedia Awareness Campaign and Editathon at Mai Idris Alooma Polytechnic
- 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.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Mai Idris Alooma is one of the very few Polytechnics in Nigeria that offers humanities courses including a school for Nigerian languages with departments like Fulfulde, Hausa and Kanuri language combinations which are among the courses which the most populated students yet, sadly, there was no any Wikimedia Awareness that has ever happened in the environment which means a lot more and well deserved group of people who are supposed to be aware of volunteering to Wikipedia and its sister projects were missing out. It of this point that this project is aimed to be a golden opportunity for students and staff of Mai Idris Alooma Polytechnic to be introduced to Wikipedia and its sister projects like Wikidata, Wikiquotes and Wikimedia Commons.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
1. The main goal is to raise an alarm and bring awareness to Wikimedia projects and create fresh set of volunteers who would be later engage to continue contributing even after the project. Therefore, the project will accommodate not only native speakers of Fulfulde but also Kanuri and Hausa students studying in the school of Humanities and Social Science which will give them room to make input in the existing Wikipedias dedicated to their languages.
- 2. I will also collaborate with the student union groups like the Student Union Government to help with coordinating the on campus awareness campaign.
- 3. I will also ensure that women were giving the chance to participate in the project as many project in northern Nigeria happened to be done with very few number of women participation as this will help control the differences of gender gap.
- 4. I will negotiate with the management of the Polytechnic to get the space within the school as this will help in receiving the targeted populace to be present during the training.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
To ensure achieving the desired goals of the project we planned to carry out the campaign and edit-a-thon in the following sequence: Day 1: Awareness campaign within the Polytechnic to reach the entire populace including the staff and the students. Day 2: Edit-a-thon training that would involve hands-on-key board practical session and account opening sessions for the newly recruited editors among the participants of the programme. Day 3: Post-programme campaign that would serve as a mop-up activity to clear any on-spot needs of the trained editors and the general members of the host community.
- 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)
- other workshop
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes This project would be implemented by a team of experience editors which comprises of:
- 1. Adamu Usman is a seasoned editor with several contributions in numerous Wikimedia projects. He is 3 hours travel away from the location and will help co-facilitate the event. He will be the trainer to introduce the participants to Wikipedia
- 2. M Bash Ne is a highly experienced editor who executed and co-facilitated a number of projects that cut across English Wikipedia, Hausa Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikitionary and Wikiquote. He will serve as a facilitator in the project and will help train the participant to Wiktionary and Wikidata.
- 3. Apdoull is another experience editor who participated in various awareness and training projects.
- 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.
Content Gender gap, Geography, 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.
The targeted participant are from an environment where no similar activities has ever take place.
- 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.
Education, Advocacy, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Digital Access
- 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?
Targeted participants for this awareness campaign are lecturers and students of Mai Idris Alooma Polytechnic. Moreover, during the campaign and the edit-a-thon training, we would ensure that we carry along all newly engaged/recruited editors irrespective of social class, ethnic background, gender or age differences. Also after the training follow-up would be made in form of a mop-up campaign to further discuss grey areas based on summative evaluation of the training exercise. We would equally maintained a group chat via whatsapp and google meet to strengthen the knowledge and skills acquired from the programme for an accelerated Wikimedia content developments and improvements.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We would observed Wikimedia Foundation friendly space policy and Universal code of conduct protocol and all laid down safety procedures by the local authorities. Equally, I have contacted the college management and all arrangements have been made as regard to venue of the event and other logistics issues.
- 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.
I let the communities know about this project through phone calls and social media handles. More importantly, the experienced facilitators that would be drawn from Hausa Wikimedia User group would be engaged by chats and calls throughout the life-span of the project for better results.
- 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?
Based on the proposed schedules of activities of the programme, I hope to determine:
- The level of readiness and acceptability of the Wikimedia projects among the host community (members of staff and students) of the college.
- The gender percentage response among the different gender class within the college.
- The best way to sustain the successes recorded by the programme.
- The feedback from the recruited editors on the programme based on the training received.
- Last but not the least, whether there is need for further re-training of the newly recruited and trained editors.
- 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 | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of events | Two offline awareness campaign and 1 Edit-a-thon | 3 |
| Number of new participants | Target number of participants | 50 |
| Page views | Increase in Wikipedia page views | 1000 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | The participants for this project would be drawn from the college staff and students of different ages and gender. | 50 |
| Number of editors | The expected targeted newly recruited editors for this project events | 35 |
| Number of organizers | There would be 1 lead organizer and 4 facilitators | 5 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | These are new/improved articles to be added. | 200 |
| Wikidata | Number of items/lexemes created. | 400 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of new/non-existent photographs added to Wikipedia pages | 150 |
| 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 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.
793000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
1811.46 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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