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Wiki Update - Organizer Lab
start date2023-04-03
end date2024-04-01
budget (local currency)76105.65 GHS
amount requested (USD)6132.51 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionunknown region
decision fiscal year2023-24
funding program roundundefined round
applicant and people related to proposalJwale2 NanaYawBotar

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Applicant details[edit]

Wikimedia username(s):

Jwale2

NanaYawBotar

Organization:

G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?

Applied previously and did receive a grant

H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?

No

H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?

N/A

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Additional information[edit]

R. Where will this proposal be implemented?

Ghana

S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:

International

S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)

Twitter - @WikiUpdate1

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Proposal[edit]

1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?

Our vision for this podcast is to keep it as opened as possible, use the platform to train, advocate and also grow the community of editors, engage various topics of interest and discuss issue that the movement can sync it activities to.

2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?

The community podcast is solving a knowledge gap by capacity building, advocacy approaches which will lead to a broad knowledge of understanding of various campaigns and projects in the wiki space.

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

The strategies that we will deploy for our project are us follows;

1. Partnerships: One of the key strategies the team and I would be looking at is partnerships with usergroups & non-usergroups. This is to enable as to increase our reach and also involve community and non- community members as well.
2. Communication: With communication as a strategy, we decided to involve other sub tools that would also increase our reach, such as

a. Social Media Engagement b. Distribution Service c. Channel for Recording

3. Community Engagement: Community engagement as a useful strategy by partaking in projects and campaigns that will tell community stories and grow activities in the community.
4. Podcast tools Upgrade: We want to increase the number of tools and equipment we use for podcasting, which is increasing our Hardware & Software to aide us have good production or do a good work.
5. Article Building List: Article building list as one of our strategies, where we will ensure that we will make various list of articles available in terms of our partnerships with various communities and beyond.
6. Topics of Impacts: Topic lists that the podcast will focus on during interviews with speakers eg Climate :Triple Planetary Crisis and more
7. Documentation of Process: We will make sure that our works are properly documented and structured on commons for usage by various communities.
8. Recruiting Newcomers: Through our podcast we will use the platform to recruit newcomers into the communities and share them among existing communities.

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

1. International Podcast: International podcast day is a period for podcasting where any story in-terms of advocacy in the movement through storytelling can be made available to the movement.


2. African Wiki Challenge: Engaging in the campaign building article list and also hearing the diverse stories from various community members.


3. Emerging Languages: We are looking at working with Ghana Pidgin & Fante Language communities and how far they are engaging on climate project and beyond that.


4. WikiForHumanRight: As we did last year we are going to do a better work this year, by engaging more campaigns that is going engage/participate in this project and the kind of impact they would have at the end of the project.

a. Wiki-GreenCon: As part of our activities of WikiForHumanRight, we have decided to engage Wiki-Green Con campaign and how they are making a difference in their engagement. b. Climate Article Build Up: As part of our engagement with communities around wikiforhumanright we will be building articles for organizers who are running campaign under climate.

5. World Day Celebration: So for the movement and other communities of which we engaged in this project last year. We are doing world day celebration involving and engaging the world to tell interesting stories linking it to the movement and beyond. List of our international day celebration below:

a. World Clean-up Day: We engage members of the community and beyond during the world clean-up day and we also engage school as well.

b. Womens Day Celebration: As we did last year, we will engage women and ensure that they tell their story and how it’s has an impact on the movement and beyond.

c. International Podcast Day: Engaging community to celebrate podcasters and beyond. [1]

d. World Pingolin Day: Celebrating biodiversity by bringing in host to speak to it.

e. World Mangrove Day: Celebrating mangrove day as part of our movement engagement.

f. International Day for The Environment: As part of our advocacy work, we will travel during this period to speak to bodies and how they are having an impact on the movement and beyond.

g. World Radio Day: Pushing open movement activities during this day through advocacy.

h. International Day for The Youth: World Youth Day has become very essential to the movement in-terms of capacity building and beyond.


6. AfroCine Project: Engaging participant and organizers who are engaged in running this campaign for years, in-terms of telling the African stories through movies
7. SoundLogo: Speaking to the team on what the future of the sound logo is all about and it’s impacts.
8. Wikipedia Asian Month: Engaging the organizers and participants through storytelling.

5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?      

No

5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan?

N/A

6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.

From January to December, we will be having various podcast interviews and discussion. As compared to our previous work of producing two (2) works in a month we will be looking at increasing production works from two (2) to three (3) interviews in a month and we will also have some essential stories that we will slide in because it is of essence to the community.

We currently are putting proper structure to the interviews and dates, we have not yet had the number of speakers or guest, but all will be fine-tuned or structured very by well mid-February.

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

1. Jwale2: Podcast producer, he will lead the production and podcast creation.

2. NanaYawBotar: Marketing, campaigns, distribution to various digital stores.
3. Joris Darlington Quarshie: Providing insights in relation to technical support.

8. 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.

Age (regency) , Geography, Language, Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)

8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

As a result of the Wiki Update podcast partnership with various usergroups in the ecosystem and beyond we seek to cover the space of providing article lists and also encourage contributors to contribute. We are also engaging highly distinguished personalities on record, who will provide us with details which will be essential for the community to use as a result of advocacy in order to close the content gap and beyond that.

9. 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, Climate Change and sustainability, Public Policy

10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Geographic , Age, Digital Access

11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?

So for those who are non-wikimedians, we will have them provide insights on various projects or campaign that they are doing because their works directly or indirectly affects wikimedia movement, looking at the movement strategy.

We also use that us an opportunity to train them on how to use various tools in the moment and also show them how to edit along with the policies that governs engagement with editing in other to avoid conflict of interest.

12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?

The UCOC will be adopted in the conversation with speakers on the podcast and would also be made available on the Wiki Update meta page. [2]

Also partnering and working with organizers when building pages like meta, we make sure that we enshrine the FPS/UCOC so that everyone can have the opportunity and space to operate freely.

13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?

Yes

13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.

By sharing project information on meta as well as whatsapp and telegram groups.

14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?

No

14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

N/A

15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?

Sustainability of this project is by sharing past activities or engagement to the community.

Another way of sustaining the project is by continually engaging speakers in various spaces in climate and beyond to tell their stories

16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.

1. Internet instability- Having a buck-up support to engage with the community/guest during instability moment.
2. Transportation - Having a budget or specific amount for transportation as a result of increase in fuel prices, We will depend on the contingency.
3. Accommodation- Some of the places we book in other to meet guest to have discussion increase as result of fuel prices. Our solution is for us to depend on the contingency.

17. 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, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Coordinate Across Stakeholders

18. Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.  

Yes

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

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

What I am looking forward to learn is:

1. Who are our audience: The kind of audience listening to the podcast.
2. Topics of interest: Kind of topics they would like to listen to, in our earlier studies we had more listeners when it comes topics like Wikimania 2022, Wiki Indaba and other events are some of the topics that have high views and would looking forward to learning more from what and why is prompting their decision in listening.
3. We will be introducing something new this year thus having a solid website for wiki update and we will be looking forward to see how impactful it will be to the community in relation to activities surrounding the podcast.
4. Article Build List: Building articles for the communities in other to grow their contributions.

20. 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 space provided.

Main Metrics Description Target
Number of listeners Number of audiences who listen to the podcast when the podcast is released. 600
Number of organisers In terms of our partnership we can know the number of organizers that are available for the event. We will engage organizers and participants as they engage in their projects. 10
Article build list With most countries engaged in this project (WikiForHumanRight & Beyond), Wiki Update is looking forward to build article list for participating communities to use and engage with their communities to enable them to contribute. So, we will look at various communities participating in the campaign and create a list that will be easy for them to use. 500
Devices used This will enable us know the kind of devices used in listening to the podcast. 6
Geographic location Increasing the number of location where we will have more audience listen to us, at the moment we have 60 countries, and we are looking forward to reach 100 countries by the end of the year. 100

Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.

Additional Metrics Description Target
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities N/A N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability We are looking at increasing our level of partnership from current 3 to 10, which will enable us to spread our activity or engage to our community and beyond. 10
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors N/A N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees N/A N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications N/A N/A
Number of activities developed N/A N/A
Number of volunteer hours N/A N/A

21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants N/A N/A
Number of editors N/A N/A
Number of organizers N/A N/A
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project 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

21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

N/A

22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?

The tool that we will use to measure metrics would be the Anchor metric tool, it would provide useful data at the end of the project.

Financial Proposal[edit]

23. & 23.1 What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.

76105.65 GHS

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

6132.51 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Kpo7Ze4m2Ca1eKsYY1KlyYSVZguGo9HPz2AoR0K8Q6A/edit?usp=sharing

23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.

N/A

Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.

Other public document(s):

Final Message[edit]

By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

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

Yes


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