Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiktionary promotion in College of education, Kafanchan. (ID: 21988231)

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Wiktionary promotion in College of education, Kafanchan.
proposed start date2022-11-30
proposed end date2023-01-15
budget (local currency)888000 NGN
budget (USD)2037.14 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionunknown region
decision fiscal year2023-24
applicant• Salisu Adamu
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details[edit]

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Salisu Adamu

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

User:Abubakr111

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.

No

Grant Proposal[edit]

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Wiktionary promotion in College of education, Kafanchan.

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.

This proposal aims at promoting wiktionary among staff and students of linguistic department of Kaduna State College of education, Gidan Waya, Kafanchan, Kaduna State. More precisely staff and students of Hausa language department to know what wikipedia and its sister projects are all about, and to widen their mental horizon on skills on how contribute to Hausa wiktionary specifically.We believe this project will result in setting new contributors from academia in giving their quota from their vast pool of knowledge in moving Hausa wiktionary forward. This is necessited from the fact that there is fewer editors in Hausa wiktionary compare to number of editors in Hausa wikipedia , english wikipedia and so on. Though students and staff do research on wikipedia majority are not aware they can contribute to its content. we plan to promote wiktionary both online and offline among the target community, to see that they understand wikipedia is not a generated knowledge, but rather a work of volunteers around the world. subsequently to be followed by training and retaintion through our social media handles as an avenue to discuss challenges in regards to contributing to wiktionary.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

our main approach or strategies wiil involve the following. Physical visit for promotion of wiktionary in College of education, Kafanchan. Training new editors and series of edit-athons that will equip contributors with skills in creating conceptual words in their standard format. creating a platform for wiktionarians from the college for retaintion.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

The activities will involved promotional visit to the college to engage staff and students where pamphlets about wiktionary will be distributed, during which forty new volunteers will be recruited, creation of accounts. secondly, there will be two days online training for newly recruited volunteers. they will be thought on the editing process in wiktionary. second day will involve creation of words and improving existing ones, one on one interaction with the participants on their challenges and problem solving. creating a whatsApp group to consolidate on our succes and further engagement with the participants.

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.

Other (please specify)

Wiktionary promotion in college of education, kafanchan.
5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

I together with the help of an admin Hausa wiktionary will work together to make the positive impact happens. User:Abubakr1111

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.

Language

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.

This project is to promote Hausa Language in wiktionary around the world with standard way of creating and acquiring the meaning of words in Hausa language.

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

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

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?

The Hausa department Staff and students are the target partcipants, as they are community of intellectuals. There will first be engagements with students union, staff and management of the college prior to online trainings and ediat-athons where volunteers will be recruited and registered. I together with my team members will get involved with partcipants during the training sessions to make sure the participants get the skills of editing in wiktionary and to monitor their online contributions during and after the event. We will follow up with the participants by creating college of Education, kafanchan wiktionary community on WhatsApp and telegram.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

We will comply with UCOC and wikimedia foundation friendly space.

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.

We will informed our Community about the planned project through Hausa Wiktionary discusion page and our social media group. and it will informed on the community portal for community members feedback and endorsement.

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.

Yes

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.

-We will seek for official permission from the school management to embark on the promotion activities. secondly, we shall solicit for support of Hall premises for the training events.

  • We will collaborate with students Union in terms of mobilization and support.
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

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

1.Did Hausa wikitionary promoted in College of Education, Kafanchan?

2. Did the project lead to more viewers of wiktionary?

3 .Are the new participants equip with skills of editing in Hausa wiktionary?

4. Did the participants contribute to creation and improving words in Hausa wiktionary?
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 Data
Main Open Metrics Description Target
Number of beneficiaries for the promotion activities Total Number of Students and Staff that will be sensitize from the promotion activities 400
Number of Editors Total number of participants that will be trained in the College 40
Number of events Number of events and trip 4
N/A N/A N/A
N/A N/A N/A
17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants Number of participants 40
Number of editors Number of editors 35
Number of organizers Number of organisers 2
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wiktionary Two hundred and fifty words will be created 250
Wiktionary Fifty words will be improved 50
N/A N/A N/A
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.

WMF Hasgtahs to tag users contribution.

Financial Proposal[edit]

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

888000 NGN

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

2037.14 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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  • 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.
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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).

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