Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Women Empowerment:An Art and feminism International Women's Day Celebration (ID: 22895990)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Akwugo
- 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.
Women Empowerment: An Art and feminism International Women's Day Celebration
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-03-01 - 2025-04-01
- 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)
Art+Feminism
- 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)
The International Women's day celebration is a day to Recognize and Celebrate Women. It is also a significant event in Wikimedia to promote women empowerment. The aim of this event is to Celebrate and empower Women. Many Women who are digital literate are unaware of the Wikimedia movement and there are many more who are neither digital literate nor aware of the Wikimedia movement. Recognizing the achievement of Women through history is a sustainable way to provide positive footsteps for girls and the world. Organizing empowerment programs will not only amplify Women Voices, it will give them opportunity to be visible. This event is aimed to Celebrate the achievement of Women and also empower and inspire them to become change makers in their community through involving them on the significance of Wikimedia as a resourceful tool for digital literacy. Implementing this event will bring a lot of impact in the Wikimedia community and amongst Women. The impact this project plan bringing are: amplifying Women's Voices, Encourage participation in creating more contents about women, Increase Women editors, inspire participation in Art and feminism etc. To achieve this impact, we will use the community engagement and Volunteer management and Retention approach which will focus on:
a: Sensitization of Women organizations on the significance of digital literacy and how Wikimedia can be a resourceful tool in promoting Women digital literacy. There will also be Social media Campaign to promote the event and engage with Wider Audience.
b. Recognizing the achievement of Women to inspire younger Women in making greater change in their environment.
c. Panel discussion from experience Women Wikimedians to inspire younger Women or newbies.
d. Training Women on how to editing on the Wikimedia platform.
e. Workshop/edit-a-thon
We are involving this strategies to achieve the goal of peer learning, mentorships and continuous follow up, which will help retain the new participants.
This even will also create opportunity for women artists from Time Art and Awka museum foundation to share their experiences as Women Artists. It will also encourage the participation of Women in the Arts, culture and Society.
- 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.
We will be having 4 weeks event starting on 1st March, ending on 1st April. 1st - 7th will involve Sensitization and visitation to various Women Organizations, inviting them to the event on 8th March. The Celebration of the International Women's day will be on 8th March and this will unveiling Wikimedia awareness and panel discussions and this will last from 8th - 15th March.
The Training, account opening and Workshop on how to edit will start from 16th - 22nd March. The last week of the month will be for edit -a- thon which ends on 1 April.
We will have 7 days physical meeting.
- 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.
Akwugo - A member of the Igbo Wikimedia User group and a Translator. She is the project lead of the event and she will train participants on the basics of editing.
Celetex: A member of the Igbo Wikimedians User group and a linguist. She will be the lead on how to translate articles to local languages.
Chidex02: She is a member of the Igbo Wikimedians User group. She will be Facilitating on how to create Wikidata items.
Chizoba2: She is a member of the Wikimedia Anambra Network and Will be in charge of communication.
Adakaibe: A member of the Igbo Wikimedians User group. She will be the lead in Sensitizing Women organizations.
- 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)
The Target participants are Women organizations, Women Artists from Awka Museum foundation, librarians, linguists, Writers, Artists. This are participants from communities in Anambra. Before the event, We will have a pre-event survey to hear from the women what has hindered them from being visible and if they are aware of the Wikimedia community. During the the event our panel discussions will relate to the responses we received. We will follow participants up through social media platforms channels that will be created for mentorships.
- 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.
I have involved the Art and Feminism User group on the talk page here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Art%2BFeminism_User_Group
- 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)
Gender and diversity
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Gender Identity
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Provide for Safety and Inclusion
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
Learnings: a. What hinders Women from acquiring digital literacy ?.
b. Best Wikimedia awareness practices
c. Best training methodology to avoid burnout.
Volunteer management and Retention Approaches.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | |
| Number of editors | 45 | |
| Number of organizers | 5 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 70 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 30 |
| Wikidata | 100 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | 70 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Creating/ translating contents on Wikipedia | 50 |
| Wikidata | Creating items | 100 |
| Wikiquote | Creating/translating contents about women on wikiquote | 70 |
| Commons | Giving language description of contents about women and adding photos. | 30 |
| 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)
Outreach dashboard and Tool for tracking contributions. We will use the event registration tool in registering participants.
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)
5075000 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.
3012.85 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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