Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2025 Campaign in North Eastern Nigeria (ID: 23472944)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
De-Invincible
- Organization
Wikimedia Fulfulde Community
- 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 board member or president of a Wikimedia Affiliate or mission-allied organization., I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group., I'm a bank account signatory for the joint bank account of a Wikimedia affiliate, group, or organization.
- 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 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.
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2025 Campaign in North Eastern Nigeria
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-08-31 - 2025-09-30
- 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)
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos
- 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)
This will be our second time participating in the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign with our first time participation being in the previous year of 2024. During the previous campaign which was the first of its kind to ever happened within our community much efforts were put in adding photos to Wikipedia articles lacking photos leading to improving of over 1500 articles with visuals and digital media files. From the previous campaign to date, hundreds of new articles were created of Fulfulde Wikipedia adding to the number of the already existing ones and on the other hand, our community members have actively participated in Wikimedia photography campaigns including the Wiki Loves Africa 2025 campaign where they uploaded many good quality images on Wikimedia Commons which we believe WPWP 2025 would be a great opportunity to show our community members especially the newbies how they could use their uploaded images to create even greater impact by linking them to their appropriate articles. As usual, before making a decision to write this proposal, we first sit together as a team, review our past activities including the impacts of the previous WPWP campaign in our community and also reflect on the areas we found our community members happened to be lacking adequate knowledge and skills to make impact and growth, then our findings lead to these discoveries:
1. More than half of the Fulfulde Wikipedia articles are still lacking images since there has been frequent engagements, capacity building workshops and trainings going on now due to our new initiatives for long term plans and data supports compared to previous years making the Fulfulde Wikipedia having newly created articles on daily basis.
2. Majority of the community members have no knowledge of how to fetch images from Commons and link them with their relevant articles because most of them are newly recruits.
3. Our participations in the campaign in the previous year has made our community stronger as it helped bring in more community members, widened the community's engagement, inspire more editors as it adds to their skills, helped them develop feeling of strong sense of belonging in the movement and helped our organizers strengthen their knowledge and skills.
Looking at the situation at hand, we therefore believe participating in the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign would help us overcome the above challenges and of course help us in continuing on the previous impact made.
- 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.
Following are the major approaches/strategies we will be implementing while carrying out this event:
- Workshop/Training: we will introduce our community members to the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign and train them on how to contribute/participate by fetching and linking images from Commons to their appropriate articles on Fulfulde Wikipedia.
- Tracking Tools: we will use the Outreach Dashboard tool, Ptools and Hashtag tools to track the participants' contributions and also provide one on one support for them.
- Prizes: we will consider giving out prizes at the local level to the top 5 contributors as incentives to motivate them at the end of the contest.
- Certificates: we realized the impacts of giving certificates in activities of this nature, therefore all the participants will be given certificate of participation to encourage them on doing more in subsuquent activities.
- 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.
- Hajjare: will be responsible for the welfare related stuff like making contact with the drink supplying vendors, food bookings and similar tasks.
- Apdoull: will be task with handling the hands-on tech related session to continue guiding the yet to be recruited technical team of Wikimedia Fulfulde Community with the knowledge of how to operate a projector, sound system. router connection and their maintenance.
- 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)
This contest is open to all Wikimedia Fulfulde Community members and everyone outside the community regardless of their status and/or background.
- 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 discussed this in the community's dedicated WhatsApp Group. We highlights the achievements and discussed the success of the previous year participation before planning to take part in this one.
- 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)
Language
- 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)
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. Compared to your previous participation, what more impact did your participation in WPWP 2025 bring to your community? 2. How to do you ensure transparency in tracking the activities of the participants involved in this campaign? 3. How do you measure your community members performance and success during the campaign period? 4. What initiatives or plan do you have in mind to make your future campaign more engaging and fun to attract more participants to your community campaign?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | We plan to train at least 50 participants |
| Number of editors | 40 | We plan to get at least 40 participants edit Wikipedia |
| Number of organizers | 5 | There would be 5 experienced organizers to ensure smooth running of the activities. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 500 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 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. Hashtag Tool 3. PTool
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)
1679500 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.
1083.16 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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