Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Women inclusion photowalk (ID: 22109580)

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statusNot funded
Women inclusion photowalk
proposed start date2023-05-20
proposed end date2023-08-30
budget (local currency)1606332 NGN
budget (USD)3500 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• Aliyu shaba
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details[edit]

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Aliyu shaba

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Alameen Khalid200 Abubakar Yusuf Gusau Sanusi Gado Uncle bash

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.

Hausa Wikimedians user group and Nigerian Commons photographers group

Grant Proposal[edit]

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

Women inclusion photowalk

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.

It's estimate that only 20% of women articles have pictures in Wikipedia and a very very less of this percentage have photos in Hausa Wikipedia.

We want to bring women inclusion in the whole Wikipedia movement, and when women faces are missing are missing in the movement that's a lot of space to cover for women inclusion in the movement.

Thus this project will seek to a change that will modified that. Trying to provide 100 photos to 100 women articles and more in Hausa Wikipedia.

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

Our prior approach to this project is organizing a photowalk to educational and political institutions in the country in other to be able to get and provide all the necessary photos of those amazing women and link it to their articles.

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

Me and the other volunteers mentioned above will be engaged in a photo walk

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.

Wiki Loves Women, WikiGap

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

1.Abubakar Yusuf Gusau, Alameen Khalid200 and I will be in charge of snapping pictures across the political institutions.

2. Me, Sanusi Gado will be in charge of carrying out the entire process of organizing the photowalk
3. Me and uncle bash will be in charge of taking pictures of educational institutions.

And we will all be in charge of organization, coordinating, and carrying out the photowalk together.

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.

Content Gender gap, Sexual Orientation, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance)

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 work is trying to bridge and bring women along in the women and even in the online world in general.

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, Advocacy, Public Policy, Diversity

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

Gender Identity, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Digital Access

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?

1. The target of this work is for Hausa Wikipedia editors. To revive and makes them aware of women inclusion and it's importance and also to bring and engaged them on writing and photo upload about women as possible as this project can.


We will follow up with them, by keeping in touch with them via WhatsApp.

We will also used a strategy from the experience of leaders of Hausa community in giving them exercise in other to show them the right direction to edit and stayed in the movement.

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

Adhering to Universal code of conduct and friendly space policy.

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.

I let the community knows via WhatsApp and I will and via my WhatsApp status and also we will be doing it on wiki.

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.

No

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.


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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

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

1. I wish to learn how to better bridge women gap in the movement

And also how to well the editors can utilize the number of women photos available.

I also want to change the statistics so that women will feel represented and included also.

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
The page views The frequent of the views of the pages created at the editathon each individually 200
Used photos This will be determine by the number of photos used in Wikipedia pages 200
N/A This will be the number of photos captured and upload during the events 200
Number of organizers. This will indicated the number of organized worked in the grant from different community. 4
Number of new editors This will signify the number of new editors that will be registered and stay to contribute during and after the project. 10
17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants There will be at least 10 newbies that will be engaged in the grant. 2 There will additionally be at least 20 experience editor's who already have contribute to the movement. 30
Number of editors This experience or semi experience editors 30
Number of organizers This are members of our team and also some community leaders that we already engaged in the grant. 5
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikipedia Here are the articles that we will work on

https://eu.docworkspace.com/d/sINub-tWZAbrZvKAG?sa=00&st=0t

These are just a few of the articles we will be working on

100
Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons

Getting more than 500 photos of Nigerian women that we're going to link them to the Hausa Wikipedia

500
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.

Hashtag tool

Financial Proposal[edit]

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

1606332 NGN

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

3500 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://eu.docworkspace.com/d/sIFmb-tWZAafO4KAG?sa=00&st=0t

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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