Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Awareness in Malawi Schools (ID: 22278237)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
nmunthali
- Organization
N/A
- 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.
Wikipedia Awareness in Malawi Schools
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2023-11-06 - 2023-12-15
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Malawi
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Not applicable
- 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)
Malawi is a country that is embracing the use of Technology. There is need to teach the people on usage of the internet and provide guidelines on how to be protected. There is need to create a resourceful source on the internet that can be able to provide information and usage of the internet. I would like to engage students and communities to fully utilize Wikipedia and its sister projects like Wiki-data, Wikiquote and Wikimedia Commons
Problems to be addressed
- 1. Need to create content in Local Languages for the masses
- 2. Participation of people on content creation both for local and international audiences
- 3. No group of Wikipedia present in the country
- 4. Student, teacher and organizations with interest engagements in creating a platform for information.
Solutions
- 1. Reach out to people and encourage them to increase the presence on the internet and participate in Wikipedia projects
- 2. Engage the community to provide content that best suits them
- 3. Reach out to students, teachers and organizations that have interest to create focus groups that can participate in Wikipedia projects
- 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.
1.Awareness campaigns to align with the participants on what the project is all about. this will list the number of people that will be engaged with the project, the volunteers will be clearly be assigned their roles and all issues addressed.
- 2.Meetings with participants, students and lectures and have a hands on sessions on sessions, going through the required content and also engaging the Wikipedia team to help provide the content that will help to reach out to the team.
- 3.Engage the Wikipedia team in-case we have problems to create a community, and ask for knowledge on best practices, community principals etc.
- 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.
Misheck Nkhata - Contractor, Salaried Joel Mlauzi - Volunteer, Treaser Bwanali - Voluteer Sangwani Mtonga - Editor, Salaried
- 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)
Students, lectures, community members and anyone who has interest are the targeted participants. There will be groups that will be registered and have a meeting schedule, where minutes of meetings will be collected and shared to the participants. Community members will have gatherings and be addressed accordingly on the project status.
- 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.
The groups were notified through the use of phone calls, meetings and gatherings. social media will also play a role to encourage and inform the community on the progress of the project. Project dashboards will be shared in groups and meetings.
- 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)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Digital Access
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Improve User Experience
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
The knowledge shared to the participants and the impact it will have The level of commitment and the continuous participation by the teams involved the geological percentage response among the schools that were participating feedback from both the participants, volunteers, editors etc what other areas that we could do better any training that might still be required
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 20 | |
| Number of editors | 4 | |
| Number of organizers | 4 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 10 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | 4 |
| Wikisource | 6 |
| 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 |
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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)
Google forms for participant registration. Program Dashboard Event survey Programs & Events Dashboard
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)
4338005 MWK
- 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.
4031.51 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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- Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).