Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikimedias Radio Program Awareness In Katsina State (ID: 22024606)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Yusuf Sa'adu
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Yusuf Sa'adu, Gwanki, M Bash Ne, Hamza Dk
- Organization
N/A
- 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.
Hausa Wikimedias User Group Nigeria Wikimedias User Group
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikimedias Radio Program Awareness In Katsina State
- 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.
Until now, people in northern Nigeria, especially in the rural areas, have better access to news via Radio. They also own smart phones and access to internet this is what people use to search the internet. Some know Wikipedia and some don't. Many people who know Wikipedia are not satisfied with the information they get from Wikipedia because it is said that everyone can edit, they think anyone can put what ever he want.
I will conduct radio programs because it is the easiest and fastest way to reach the people of my area. The program which will take place in Katsina State in northern Nigeria will focus on awareness about Wikipedia. The program will convince people to understand the quality of the information in Wikipedia in order to get viewers.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
To give a Wikipedia Awareness to the all regions of Katsina State, especially rural areas through radio program. To recruit new editors. To encourage research in Wikipedia. To get more viewers.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
The program will be for four days where we will spend three days talking on radio stations while we will set aside one day to hold a workshop for interested people.
Programs
On the first day we will have an interview on Martaba radio station FM Funtua. It is a station that is listened to in all areas of Karadua Community. This will allow us to introduce awareness to the Katsina South region.
On the second day we will have a program in Katsina Central. We will do a program at the Katsina State Radio service station in Katsina City.
On the third day we will do a program on Legend FM Daura station, this will also give us an opportunity to introduce awareness to the Northern Katsina region.
During the radio program, we will focus on explaining Wikipedia and encouraging people to do research on Wikipedia. Then we will open a phone line to answer people's questions.
Workshop'"
We will select interested people from different regions to participate in the Workshop session which will be take in-person event. At the workshop we will teach the participants how they can make their contributions to Wikipedia from beginning & Workshop participants on how to contribute to the various Wikimedia projects that the training focuses on; create Wikipedia account, and sister project, understand the core content policies, and understand general editing principles, creating new articles, performing minor edits among others to improve content about people, places, organizations, cultural, heritage, traditional, education and etc.
- 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
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes I have a team, they are all experience Wikimedians, together we have lead a major successful Wikimedia projects in Northern Nigeria.
I Yusuf Sa'adu, I've organised projects in Katsina state and facilitate in many projects in Kaduna and Kano state. I will lead the project with the help of these experiences editors as facilitators:
- Hamza DK - he has organised and Facilitated in many Wikimedia projects. Graduate of Electrical Engineering and a professional photographer.
- M Bash Ne - Experience Wikimedian, he has lead, facilitated and Participated in several Wikimedia projects in Nigeria.
- Gwanki - The oldest active Hausa Wikipedia editor with highest edits and articles created in Hausa Wikipedia. He's also Sysop editor at Hausa Wikipedia. He has organised many projects in Nigeria.
These team will help me during radio programs and Workshop.
- 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.
Not applicable
- 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.
Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Open Technology
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language
- 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?
My target participants are people of Katsina State. I will engage them mostly through radio add. Two days before the the program in each radio station, we will share adds to inform listeners about the program.
We will engage the Workshop's participants during radio programs. We will share a phone number in which every interested participant can send us SMS.
The WhatsApp group will be created in which we will add successful interested participant were we will continue engage them during and after the events.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We plan to inform about the WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct. In addition, I will encourage the participants to invite the participants on the issue of equality and gender gap. And We will ensure compliance with all the terms and conditions of the Wikimedia Foundation
- 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 will let my Community know through WhatsApp Groups and through discussion pages of Hausa Wikipedia and Hausa Wikimedians User Group on Meta.
- 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, Manage Internal Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
- Did the project create community awareness about Wikimedia projects in all katsina state including rural areas and city's
- Did the project train new editors to have the required skills to edit Wikimedia projects?
- I hope to learn from my work in this proposal by improving the quality of Wikipedia and its sister projects.The participants will learn so many things including creating articles, improve and translation so as to perform better & become stronger as professionals and this proposal will also change their skills and experience.
- 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 | It,s 4 days long, three days redio live program, one day online workshop | 4 |
| Number of reached | This project is aimed to reached 1000+ people during redio live program | 1500 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of participants to attends the offline training | 30 |
| Number of editors | Number of new editors | 20 |
| Number of organizers | Total number of organizars | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Total number of articles and improve during the training | 50 |
| Wiktionary | Total number of words creating and improve during the training | 10 |
| Wikimedia Commons | Total number of uploaded photos during the training and after the training | 30 |
| 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 use the Outreach Dashboard to track contributions. I will also use Wikimedia Statistics tool to measure the articles viewers. And some other metrics will be collected manually.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1286000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
279232 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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