Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedia Promotions in Binyaminu Usman College of Agriculture (ID: 22590078)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Apdoull
- Organization
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- 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)
N/A
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikimedia Promotions in Binyaminu Usman College of Agriculture
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-06-01 - 2024-06-30
- 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) Awareness
- 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)
Binyaminu Usman College of Agriculture is one of the very few Colleges of Agriculture in Nigeria with 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 Binyaminu Usman College of Agriculture to be introduced to Wikipedia and its sister projects like Wikidata, Wikitionary, and Wikimedia Commons.
How can this be achieved? Since the main goal is to 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 people of various ethnicities and background among the students studying in the college to equip them with a skill that will help them make inputs/create contents in the existing Wikipedia(s) dedicated to their languages. To ensure this success, I will also collaborate with the student union groups like the Student Union Government to help with coordinating the on campus awareness campaign. In addition, I will also ensure that women are 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. Lastly, I will negotiate with the management of the College to get the space within the school as this will help the participants in covering their money for transport to the training venue and would also help in gotten the targeted populace to be present during the training.
- 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.
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 College 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-program 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.
- 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.
1. Ahmerd Adam: 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. Ibrahim442: is a highly experienced editor who executed and co-facilitated a number of projects that cut across English Wikipedia, Fulfulde 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. M Bash Ne: is another experience editor who participated in various awareness and training projects in Hausa Wikipedia. 4. Zaynab05: is a female certified LIbrarian who has facilitated many similar projects within and oustside her community.
- 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)
Targeted participants for this awareness campaign are lecturers and students of Binyaminu Usman College of Agriculture. 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. 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.
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- 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.
I have informed them at the Hausa Wikimedians User Group and Fulfulde Wikimedians Community.
- 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)
Content Gender gap
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Advocacy
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Geographic
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Identify Topics for Impact
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
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.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | 50 participants |
| Number of editors | 40 | 40 editors |
| Number of organizers | 5 | 5 organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 250 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | 500 |
| Wiktionary | 50 |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | 50 |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract 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 |
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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)
Outreach Dashboard 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)
990000 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.
706.04 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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