Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Updating of the triple sports of Baseball, Softball and the new Baseball5 in Kenya (ID: 23553592)
This is an automatically generated Meta-Wiki page. The page was copied from Fluxx, the web service of Wikimedia Foundation Funds, where the user has submitted their application. Please do not make any changes to this page because all changes will be removed after the next update. Use the discussion page for your feedback. The page was created by CR-FluxxBot.
Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
George Mahinda
- 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 Updating of the triple sports of Baseball, Softball and the new Baseball5 in Kenya
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-11-01 - 2026-04-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Kenya
- 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) New Sports project
- 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)
To update, expand and improve the public information and content available in public spaces with focus on various Wikimedia spaces as a leader in free knowledge and content. The current content on the triple sports of Baseball, Softball and Baseball5 in Kenya is too sketchy and not up to date, the credibility is wanting and need more credible sources and references. The current content lacks coherence and even basic details. Yet little is published even in the mainstream media and books.
The three sports falls under what in Kenya is referred to as minor sports. Tutors are struggling to teach them; teachers too are struggling; journalists are struggling; they don't understand the new sports and rarely report even in mainstream media. Wikipedia and commons need to quickly fill the gap. To become the most authoritative reference point.
This becomes even more urgent as the sports are part of the Physical Education curriculum under the new competency-based curriculum at all levels from primary to universities. With no publishing done, we, suffer the danger of losing the information if we let the original pioneers and founders of the games and players die. While some have died, others are at advanced ages. We need as a matter of urgency to collate, document and record the information as the current office holders also lack the information which ends up being conflicting.
For a start the historical development of the sport in Kenya needs to be captured going down memory lane to the earliest possible. Some pioneers are still alive but further delay means we stand to lose them to death losing valuable historical information. This will involve perusing past Government records to ensure correct historical perspective as well as interviews with past and current officers at the Ministry of Education, Sports and the Kenya Insititute of Education (KIE) currently Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) and Universities. The main approaches to collecting this information from the original sources would involve travel and visits, one on one interviews, recording, photos. This would also involve travel and visits to sites and locations where the sports started and to current sites interviewing past and current players, managers and institutions.
Some previous hotspots include Nairobi, Mombasa, Kilifi, Kwale, Makueni, Kajiado, Bungoma, Migori, Meru and Nyeri covering primary and secondary schools as well as teachers colleges and a couple of universities. We assess the infrastructure and equipment in use and competitions participated in. We also highlight basics of the sports and current international structures.
George Mahinda happens to be a pioneer/founder having joined the Kenya Baseball and Softball Association immediately it was formed in 1996 and having been the longest serving Secretary General of the Baseball Federation of Kenya (BFK) from 2000 to 2016 and then the founding President of the Kenya Little League, which promotes both youth baseball and softball, it means he has institutional memory and is well placed to collate the information. He is well versed with the local, regional, continental and global scenario having been an active actor. He has seen the quickly growing Baseball5 commence in 2017.
Holding workshop and Wiki-a-thon for the pioneers, players, students taking Sports and Physical Education (PE) at University of Nairobi and Meru University who are studying the sports in addition to sports journalists will produce a cohort of young Wikimedians.
- 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. Workshop to train and familiarize the 10 sports journalists and 40 youth PE students on the triple sports of Baseball, Softball and Baseball5 though game demonstration. This will help them grasp the sports easily and hence engage with the content easily. 2. Workshop to host pioneers to narrate their stories on Baseball, Softball and Baseball5 to the new Wikimedians. 3. Wiki-a-Thon for 10 Sports Journalists and 40 interested youth PE students at University of Nairobi and Meru Universities, to train on content generation and editing on wiki. To create content and upload in various Wikimedia platforms like the Commons and Wikipedia. 4. To visit hotspots and interview pioneers including players who are not able to attend workshop. 6. To travel and visit past and present baseball and softball hotspots for recording and photos. 7. To peruse past and current Government records for facts validation. 8. To host a Validation workshop with the sources to ensure facts and records credibility.
- 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.
N/A
- 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)
Pioneers and founders of the 3 sports in Kenya, Former and current players, Sports Journalists, University of Nairobi and Meru University Sports and Physical Education (PE).
To engage them through telephone, emails, WhatsApp, virtually and visits. To hold workshop and Edit-a-thon. Follow-ups and monitoring through telephone, WhatsApp, and visits.
- 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.
Wrote and talked with the Program Officer
- 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)
Age (recency)
- 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)
Age (diversity of age groups)
- 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)
Who introduced the sports of Baseball, Softball and Baseball5 to Kenya? When were the sports introduced to Kenya and from where? Where were the sports introduced? How has the sports grown over time? What is the current status of the sports? What has been the challenges?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | 40 PE students from University of Nairobi and Meru University
10 Pioneers of the sports |
| Number of editors | 10 | Sports Journalists |
| Number of organizers | 5 | Institutions involved like University of Nairobi and Meru University, Journalist team-leader |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 5 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 10 |
| Wikidata | 5 |
| 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)
The attendance lists, the articles written.
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)
650000 KES
- 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.
4998.9 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
Endorsements and Feedback
[edit]Please add endorsements and feedback to the grant discussion page only. Endorsements added here will be removed automatically.
Community members are invited to share meaningful feedback on the proposal and include reasons why they endorse the proposal. Consider the following:
- Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
- Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
- Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
- 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).