Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/ FULFULDE WIKIMEDIA AWARENESS AND TRAINING IN SULE LAMIDO UNIVERSITY KAFIN HAUSA (SLU) (ID: 22433424)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Dranty18
- Organization
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Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
FULFULDE WIKIMEDIA AWARENESS AND TRAINING IN SULE LAMIDO UNIVERSITY KAFIN HAUSA (SLU)
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
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- 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)
Other (please specify) Awareness, Training and workshop
- 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)
Fulfulde Wikimedians is an unrecognized group of Wikimedia volunteers who work on several wiki projects related to Fulfulde culture and language across the world. It is founded by active contributors of Fulfulde speaking community of Wikimedia projects. It is aims to increase the number of quality contents in Fulfulde. Fulfulde Wikimedia is a user group that is operating all over Nigeria and some other West African countries with large number of editors, but the current situation of Fulfulde Wikimedia, is quite unforfunate, most of the contents in Fulfulde Wikipedia need to be improved, and some need to be clean up, mostly the Biography of notable Fulfulde people are not in the Wikipedia, our existing editors need to be retrain and require more skills in editing Wikipedia and also how to cite a good reference for each article that have been created from a reliable source, and lastly we need to recruit more editors that will continue to contribute to free knowledge for the sustainability of Fulfulde user group. Sule Lamido university Kafin Hausa is a respected public university located in Kafin Hausa Jigawa state Nigeria with not less than 30,000 students and native Fulfulde occupied over 60% looking at the jigawa state, is a state of Fulfulde speaking community. Many peoples are willing and ready to contribute to Wikimedia and its sister project but lack of awareness and training has hindered their effort. By introducing Wikimedia foundation projects to the university will serve as a piller that will promote their excitements in contributing to free knowledge body and also promotes Fulfulde language globally through Wikimedia. APPROACHES:
- 1. We are going to train more than 60 new editors from the university and beyond on Wikipedia and its sister project: This will encourage more students to participate in the program for the sustainability of Wikipedia in the university.
- 2. Raising awareness about Wikimedia in the campus and beyond: Another approach we are going to adopt is engagement of proper awareness about Wikimedia (Wikipedia, wiki commons, Wikidata among the rest) in the campus, this tools will help both staff and students to have clear picture of Wikimedia foundation projects and how to use Wikipedia in their academic research, Reading Wikipedia in their classrooms as an academic environments.
- 3. A WhatsApp group will be created for the newly recruit editors and returning editors, where they will receive guidance, stay updated, and receive encouragement in their journey of editing Wikimedia foundation projects. Providing training to participants on how to contribute to the various Wikimedia projects that are the focus of the training. This include creating a Wikipedia account, understanding core content policies, grasping general editing principles, and learning how to create new articles, make minor edits, and enhance contents related notable biography of Fulfulde peoples on Wikipedia, places, organizations, etc. utilizing the outreach dashboard, with the assistance of both offline and online editor, to monitor contributions and track the progress of the participants and the project generally.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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)
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
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| Number of participants | ||
| Number of editors | ||
| Number of organizers |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
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| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abtsract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
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- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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- 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)
Financial proposal[edit]
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- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
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