Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Promotions At College Of Education Darazo (COEDD) (ID: 22014169)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
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- 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 Nigeria User Group Nigerian Commons Photographers User Group Wikimedia Fulfulde Community
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikimedia Promotions At College Of Education Darazo (COEDD)
- 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.
For the fact that, no any Wikipedia promotion campaign has taken place in history at College of Education Darazo (CEDD), this project will bring in new editors, promotes people awareness to understanding Wikipedia and its sister projects and as well add new content/articles to Wikipedia through this project activities.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
As an effective strategy to achieve the objectives of this project, I will ensure that: 1- I secured the approval of the management of the institution to host the events within the college campus. 2- I will developed a six-page pamphlets that will provide an in-sight into Wikipedia and its sister projects to be given to staff and students on the first day of the program. 3- I will make a well-designed T-shirts, tags and stickers with the caption “Wikipedia Promotions at College of Education Darazo” to be distributed to students of Pre-NCE, NCE I, II, and III respectively.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
The major activities are promotional thoughts and an on-line Edit-a-thon which will take place in the following order: Day 1: I will lead a walk together with other experienced editors through the different schools and departments of the college, where we would take turns giving speeches and lectures on Wikipedia and its sister project while given out pamphlets, tags and stickers to the students and lecturers. Moreover, after the discussions I will take time to ask the students and lecturers simple questions based on what I taught them about Wikipedia those who answer correctly would be given a specially designed Wikipedia T-shirts with caption “Wikipedia Promotion at College of Education Darazo” written on it. Day 2: on this day, I will organised an on-line Edit-a-thon where I will introduce the students and lecturers to editing techniques on Wikipedia and its other sister projects. Also there would be session for opening accounts for the newly recruited editors from among the staff and students who would serve as fresh contributors to Wikipedia.
- 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.
Not applicable, Other (please specify)
- Edit-a-thon
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes My team will comprise of best brains, well experienced and seasoned editors that would help me carryout this project. They are:
- 1. Ibrahim442 : 1st prize winner of the FWAC Contest 2022 and 3rd place Winner of the Wiki for Human Rights Contest 2022 organized by Hausa Wikimedians User Group. He aid many other project oorganizers as facilitator and will be the project lead.
- 2. Musaddam Idriss: is a highly experienced Fulfulde Wikipedia editor who execute several projects that cut-across Wikipedia, Wikicommons, Wikidata, etc he will co-facilitate and be in-charge of planning and logistics.
- 3. Abubakar A. Gwanki: is well experienced and active Hausa Wikipedia editor, he will co-facilitate in giving presentation and help with organization of the physical trainings.
- 4. Bukky658: is well experienced and active English Wikipedia editor, she will co-facilitate in giving presentations and training of the participants.
- 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 main objective of this project is aimed at promoting Wikipedia campaigns and building a sound community of fresh editors from among the peoples of College of Education Darazo (CEDD) with a view for the staff and students to explore relevant vital information about Wikipedia and its sister projects so as to become active editors of Wikipedia.
- 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, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , 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?
For this project, the main target participants are the staff and students of the College of Education Darazo (CEDD) who are either working or studying in the college. I will engage them through in-person contacts within the college community and as well on-line training after which I will add the new recruited editors information to whatsapp and telegram groups which will be used for further discussion, questions on any difficulties or problems that the fresher’s may experience while editing articles on Wikipedia and so on. Moreover, this being my first project I have decided to work with highly experienced editors like Musaddam Idriss and Abubakar A. Gwanki in order to run an event that would yield the best outcomes. I will equally ensure that special consideration is given to female students due individual and gender differences as regard to their logistics, refreshments needs, e.t.c.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
I have initiated and contacted the college consultancy services unit and arranged to hire the college ICT lab of the main campus which have well equipped computers, projectors and enough convenient sitting space for the participants of the project event.
- 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.
They would be inform through social media channels whatsapp, telegram, and local phone call as well.
- 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, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
1- To determine the degree of acceptability of the campaign among the target participants both staff and students of the institution. 2- To see that new editors among the staff and students can make edits on Wikipedia and as well source for more knowledge on Wikipedia and its sister projects being a free encyclopedia. 3- To determine the possible support the new editors may need to sustain engagements in editing Wikipedia.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Page Views | Increase in Wikipedia page views. | 1000 |
| Number of new participants | Estimated number of participants. | 50 |
| Number of events | Two offline promotional campaigns and 1 Edit-a-thon | 3 |
| 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 varying ages and gender. | 50 |
| Number of editors | These are the expected targeted new editors for this Wikipedia project events. | 35 |
| Number of organizers | There would be 1 organizer and 3 facilitators | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | These are new/improved articles. | 200 |
| Wikidata | Number of items/lexemes added | 300 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of new/non-existent photographs added to Wikipedia pages | 50 |
| 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.
I will make use of a program Dashboard to measure these core 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.
758000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
1720.66 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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