Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Fulfulde Community Enrichment and Hubs Launching (ID: 22199783)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
De-Invincible
- Organization
Wikimedia Fulfulde Community (not recognized affiliate)
- 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)
I'm a group leader of a Wikimedia User Group (submitted to the Affiliation Committee)., I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group.
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
The Executive Director of the Wikimedia Fulfulde Community User Group is the head and overall leader of the User Group, he;
- 1. heads the work of the Executive Board of the Group.
- 2. presides all the meetings of the Executive Committee.
- 3. represents and acts on behalf of the User Group in all the legal dealings of the Group which involve the third parties or within the Wikimedia movement.
Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikimedia Fulfulde Community Enrichment and Hubs Launching
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2023-08-31 - 2023-10-31
- 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)
Other (please specify) Editathon
- 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)
We take time looking at the articles created during our previous project and find out that some many articles need some cleanups as many does not have categories assigned to them, some were improperly referenced and contents in some others needs to be improved. In this regards, we consider giving another three months long period in improvement and creation of new articles to help add new contents and standardized the existing ones on Fulfulde Wikipedia. Secondly, part of our learning in the Thematic Weeks project we recently completed was to learn what impacts long planned activities would have in engaging the recruited participants and also to develop and establish hubs/fan clubs to help in retaining the trained newbies and keeping them engaged in constant contributions to Fulfulde Wikipedia. Being a small community that's just growing up, we learned that having a long term planned activities is more impactful than just a short term projects. Therefore, we aimed at solving the following challenges and problems through the following steps:
- 1. Community Enrichment: we aimed at engaging all the existing contributors and the newbies and boost their level of contributions in this three months long run project.
- 2. Collaboration and Inclusion: we want to used this project to improve the level of coordination and collaboration among the Fula Wikipedia editors and offer our best to ensure we bring in and brigde gender inclusion, age and geographic gap for those living in remote areas.
- 3. Fan Clubs Launching: From the results obtained from the Capacity Building and Thematic Weeks project, we learned that clubs would be very essential tools to help us keep the trained editors engaged, we would therefore used this opportunity to launch the identified communities as hubs and fan clubs of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community User Group keep them motivated and boost their level of contributions as well as to retain them.
- 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.
Our planned activities are designed as follows:
- 1. We would organize 4 physical meet-ups/training edit-a-thons to training newbie editors and retrain the existing ones on how to cleanup the existing articles by improving them as well as creating the new contents while adding proper citations and references. These trainings would be held every two weeks. The last month of the project period would be the time to recap, look back at the works, coach and guide the participants more in areas they're weak and launch the hubs/fan clubs.
- 2. We believe the impact media organizations are bringing to our projects when the planned activities are announced/aired in Radio stations in reaching out to more participants from different part of the country. Therefore, special collaboration will be made with Radio stations and news channels to carry the Fulfulde Wikipedia news to as many places as possible. Interview would also be made with some of the facilitators to bring awareness about reading Fulfulde Wikipedia and contributing contents to it.
- 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.
Musaddam Idriss (username: De-Invincible) will be the project coordinator and will lead all the activities related to the project. Ibrahim Musa (username: Ibrahim442) will be the co-organizer and will help to mobilize new participants around the project and in organizing the planned activities. Aisha Aliyu Harande (username: Harandee) as a female expert in communications will serve the role of communications and outreach in the cause of this project. Amina Idriss Musa (Hajjare) will be responsible for the welfare related stuff like making contact with the drink supplying vendors, food bookings and similar tasks.
- 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)
Target audience for this project are the members of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community, interested staff of media organizations and institutions, linguists and students of various educational institutions. Men and women of different backgrounds and age group will be considered part of the participants in this project.
- 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.
N/A
- 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.
We planned the activities together and discussed them in the community's dedicated WhatsApp group.
- 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)
Gender and diversity
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Linguistic / Language
- 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)
1. We wish to learn whether regular meet-ups would help strengthen the spirit of contributions enormously among editors and boost their spiritual level for group/teamwork.
- 2. One of our identified problems through previous events was improving the retention rate of recruited participants, so we wish to know whether our devised solution of having trainings on regular basis is enough to tackle the problem.
- 3. We wish to learn whether through this event, editing of Wikimedia projects in Fulfulde language will be sustained enough and more group of contributors will be trained.
- 4. We will also wish to learn what can be done to improve awareness about Fulfulde Wikipedia in our community to prepare us for more greater impacts in our subsequent projects.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 80 | We aim to host at least 80 participants |
| Number of editors | 50 | We aim to obtain at least 30 new editors and 20 returning editors |
| Number of organizers | 5 | There would be 5 experience editors from among the community members to coordinate the activities related to this planned activities. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 400 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 20 |
| Wikidata | 1000 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abtsract 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 |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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)
1. Outreach Dashboard Tool
- 2. Wikimedia Stats Tool
- 3. Ordia Tool Forge
- 3. Commons Category Tool
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
2347300 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.
3498.96 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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