Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc- Annual Activities 2023
- 2.User: TCells
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Applicant details[edit]
Wikimedia username(s):
- 1. User: Olaniyan Olushola
- 2.User: TCells
Organization:
- Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation
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?
- Nigeria
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:
- Local
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:WikimediaNG
Facebook:WikimediaNG Instagram:Officialwikimediang
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?
The Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (registered as Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation) is a nonprofit organization committed to promoting free access to knowledge via Wikipedia and other sister projects in Nigeria. We empower people to contribute to Wikipedia and other sisters' projects to ensure that knowledge is freely accessible. We share the ideals of a world in which every single human being can freely share in the pool of all knowledge. This proposal intends to improve on the works completed in the 2022 annual plan.
Our objectives include but are not limited to
- Increasing the quality and quantity of Nigeria-related topics that are currently underrepresented on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects such as wiki commons, meta wiki, wiki source and others;
- Support the creation and development of free educational materials accessible through Wikimedia projects to Nigerians.
- Partner with education-based organizations in Nigeria and government agencies to create free educational content and materials.
- Support the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation, and
- Support the use of Wikimedia projects as essential tools for education and learning in Nigeria
- Expand the reach and popularity of the project in Nigeria.
We achieve our objectives via various projects and programs designed and implemented by Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, and we have continued to document our learning from past projects and programs. This proposal aims at implementing new ideas and sustaining existing projects and programs with significant impacts on our community.
The Nigerian Language Oral History Documentation Project is one of our most successful projects. It is an initiative by the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria to enrich the Wikimedia projects with freely licensed audiovisual files documenting spoken languages and dialects in Nigeria. We aimed to document all the languages spoken in Nigeria (about 500 languages). We have been able to document 100+ of the 500 languages. We want to sustain this effort and achieve the project's overall aim.
We organized various training series to support the editing community in Nigeria, and many new and existing editors have been trained to improve their capacity to contribute to Wikimedia projects effectively. We want to continue this effort again this year. This year, we want to try a new experiment on capacity building. The program is termed "Train the trainers. The project will ensure that existing editors continue to learn something new such as new tools and innovations, stay connected on new guidelines and editing policies and subsequently minimize some of the recent reports on disruption of our member on-wiki.
We run content-focused contests such as Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves, Africa, Wiki Loves Folklores, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, 1Lib1Ref etc. These are ways we keep our community engaged. We want to sustain this effort with this proposal.
In the past, we have partnered with more than 100 organizations (government and non-government organizations), which has contributed significantly to the growth and development of our community. We are looking forward to more partnerships this year, one of the unique objectives we want to achieve with this proposal.
In 2022, we designed the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Grant to support Nigerian mission-aligned organizations, individual Wikimedia User Group Nigeria members, and fan clubs. The project tends to improve the contribution of our members and mission align the organization in Nigeria to any of the Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikidata or Wikimedia Commons with a budget of NGN 50,000 up to NGN 200,000. The project has been largely successful and partly addresses the unnecessary influx of grant applications to the Wikimedia Foundation. We want to sustain this effort with this new proposal and possibly increase the budgetary allocations for this program.
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2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?
Here are highlights of some of the changes we are trying to bring about and why they are important. This change also forms our assumptions.
Lack of capacity to competently contribute to Wikimedia projects
Many contributors (new and existing contributors) from the Nigerian community cannot competently contribute to Wikipedia and other sister projects. Significant efforts have been made to train new editors and retrain existing editors. However, many Nigerian editors still get blocked or banned from major language Wikipedia, and Wikidata (to mention a few) because they could not competently contribute to those projects. This year, we want to use the “train the trainer” approach to making that change. This approach would involve traveling to the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria and some key states of Nigeria to train editors who would in turn, become trainers. In 2018, Asaf Bartov traveled to Nigeria to train members of the Nigerian community. Today, a large number of the participants of the training remain invaluable members of our community. They have also taught tens of new editors in Nigeria. We will collaborate with the head/leads of our various fan clubs in tertiary institutions in Nigeria to organize the training. They would also play a supportive role in mentoring participants after the training. We will invite experts in various Wikimedia projects, such as Wikidata experts, to train editors on Zoom. This knowledge would, in turn, impact positively on new editors.
To make this change happen, we also plan to train at least five lecturers in tertiary institutions on how to contribute to Wikipedia. These academics would adopt ten students per semester for training and mentorship. To motivate the trainers and trainees, certificates would be issued by the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. We plan to discuss this with Shani Evenstein Sigalov, who has successfully implemented a similar project.
Implementation of Movement Strategy’s Initiative- Third Party Ecosystem Library and its community represent the compendia of materials, if well orchestrated, can help the validity of claims on Wikipedia and its sister project. To increase our movement's sustainability, we have partnered with Nigeria National Library on capacity development and means of ingesting content from the platform to Wikipedia and its sister projects (GLAM). The idea will help invest reasonable time in the training and capacity development of Librarians in Nigeria and ingest resources from the Nigerian library into Wikipedia and its sister project. The partnership will give birth to new recruitment to the Wikimedia Nigeria community and make available more reliable sources to support claims on Wikipedia needing citations.
3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
We have decided to adopt the following strategies to achieve the stated objectives
Networking; There are vital resources outside our ecosystem that are yet to be optimized by our movement. Also, we understand that “No man is an Island of knowledge” our team. So, our team intends to work with networks of organizations of like minds to support and share information and ideas to help the achievement of our objective for the year through meetings, Seminars, conferences etc. Collaboration: We plan to work with institutional partners ( locals and Internationals), governmental agencies, and universities to organize our events and programs. The approach will take care of specific areas of our project's needs, eg. We plan to collaborate with National Commission for Museums and Monuments to organize Wiki Loves Monuments Feedback Mechanism: We will design a mechanism to ensure that participants of our events provide feedback about how they feel about our programs and events. This approach will help to understand our community's thoughts about our programs and support them to do better. . Building capacity: We plan to organize training for new members and re-training the old ones on Wikipedia and the leadership aspect of the community. This approach is key to developing the editor’s capacity on and off wiki to discharge their task according to the global best practice. Meeting:we will plan regular meetings with and among our community leaders to foster good communication and relationship. This approach will help to create a strong bond among the community members. Contest: We will adopt regular activities among members to generate multi-lingua content to improve our Wikipedia and its sister projects. Motivations: We will adopt various means of motivating volunteers to continue participating in our events. Nowadays, volunteers participate more in contests with juicy incentives than any one that is not well incentives. So, we plan to introduce a well package incentive in term of gift ( Benefit in kind) Advocacy: This approach tends to use Wikipedia and its sister projects to address specific thematic needs of our community e.g. Gender in-equality.
4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
- Wiki Loves contests- We plan to participate in all the international Wiki Loves competitions to help gather thematic content for re-use on Wikipedia and its sister projects. e.g. Wiki Loves Monuments; Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Women, WPWP, Wiki4NaijaWomen etc.
- Wiki-Academy: This idea will focus on recruiting new members into the community by designing tailor-made/hands-on training for exposing Wikipedia and its sister projects to prospective members. Participants will go through training, mentoring and certification programs.
- Training the trainers: Contrary to the Wiki-Academy, this idea will bridge the knowledge gaps of the experienced wikimedians in our community.
Advocacy(WIki4NaijaWomen, Women in History and Contemporary Women): Our team will use this program to engage and enlighten public members through various social media engagements tailored to address gender inequality and promote a specific area of knowledge gaps.
- WikiLibrary: The focus of this project is to engage Nigerian Librarian ion the use of Wikipedia in order to open the field of study to more collaboration .
- Audiovisual documentation- This is a continuation of the documentation of the oral history of the indigenous languages in Nigeria.
- Community support: The idea will make available funds to members of our community to implement mini-projects.
- Meet-ups: We plan to organize regular meet-ups among members of the community.
- Human resources: Considering the growth of our activities in 2023/2024, we plan to engage more hands to manage our programs effectively.
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.
7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
- User name: Olaniyan Olushola;
Name: Olaniyan Olushola Role: (Community Manager) Responsibilty Oversee all tasks in the community Grant writing Connecting Partnership ( Eco-systems)
- Name: Ayokanmi Oyeyemi
Username: User: Kaizenify Role: Program Director (paid staff) Responsibility: He is responsible for the design of projects and events Organize Wikipedia training and coordinates all activities, staff and volunteers. He is responsible for report writing, learning and evaluation. He participates in all meetings within and outside the organization. Manages grant applications
- Name: Kayode Yussuf
User name: Kayussuf Community Resource Responsibility: Oversees our networks and WikiFanclubs across the nation. Supports with registration of clubs in Nigeria univefsity Mediates in conflicts among members Advise and support on community supports application
- Name : Tunde Oladimeji
Role: Producer and Director, Nigeria Oral History Documentation Project (contractor) Responsibility: He is responsible for implementing the programs, He would be responsible for managing the audiovisuals production from pre-production stage to post-production stage. Name Omolayo Ogunsiji Username: User:O'lahyours Role: Communication manager (Volunteer) Responsibility: She is responsible for the overall communication
- Name: Mikaeel Sodiq Username: Agbalagba
Role: Treasurer (volunteers) Responsibility: He’s responsible for managing all financial transactions and preparing financial reports. Name: : Role: Bookkeeper (paid) Responsibility: He’s responsible for keeping proper record of all financial activities
- Name : Isaac Olatunde Role: Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata trainer and advisor, Oral History Documentation Project
Responsibility: He is responsible for training participants on how to contribute to Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata Name:Ashioma Medi Username: User:SuperSwift Role: Wikipedia trainer and Wikipedia in Residence for Wiki-in-school project Responsibility: He is responsible for co-leading volunteers training to contribute to Wikipedia and for managing the Wiki-in-school project.
- Name:Yinka Maja (volunteer) Username: User:Abimaj
Role: Social media manager (volunteer) Responsibility: She is responsible for managing our contents on social media i.e. postings and engagements.
#Name: Daniel Bögre Udell – Advisor, Nigerian Oral Username :Bogreudell Role: Advisor, Nigeria Oral History Documentation Project (volunteer) Responsibility: He’s responsible for providing professional advice on the general implementation of the project.
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.
Content Gender gap, Age (regency) , Language, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
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.
The following events will address content gap
We have designed our annual plan to address the following knowledge gaps namely
- Wiki Loves Earth: focus on the content on creating new, improving existing content around protected places, natural heritage and tourist sites etc.
- WPWP: It intends to contribute openly licensed photos to improve Wikipedia pages.
- Wiki4NaijaWomen: The campaign will help improve the content on Nigeria with existing Wikipedia pages and create profiles for notable Nigerian women without Wikipedia pages.
- WikiLoves Monuments: The campaign is organized to address the contribution of freely licensed images around Nigerian monuments by particiapnts for subsequent usage on Wikipedia pages.
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, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy, Diversity
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.
Gender Identity, Geographic , Linguistic / Language, Digital Access
11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?
The Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation is an open movement for diverse people in Nigeria. This proposal has no discrimination on the basis of age, gender, color, geographic location, sexual orientation. Anyone who is passionate about free access to knowledge is welcome to join any of our activities. Sexual orientation – We have no discrimination about sexual orientations. Members of the LGBT community are allowed to join us if they find any of the activities interesting. Age – There are no age restrictions to participate in any of our activities. We welcome participation from people of different age classes. Geography – People can join from different parts of Nigeria. We currently have hubs and clubs in many parts of Nigeria. They could also join remotely online. Socioeconomic status – People of any class are welcome to participate in our activities. Employed and unemployed people are allowed to join us and no prior experience with Wikimedia projects is required. Strategy to continue engage with participants
- Wiki Fan Clubs and Hub – We have Wiki Fan Clubs and Hubs in some parts of Nigeria. Students who participate in any of our activities will be linked to the fan club in their school or in a school close to them. Non-students would be linked to hubs in their geographical #Engagement and Building Capacity for youth-focused organization: #We plan to train the staff members of some youth-focused organization who will in turn serve as trainers and mentors for new volunteers. Also, we plan to train staff members of interested members of partners e.g. governmental agencies, embassies, private sectors etc on how to use Wikipedia and its sister projects.
- Meetup – There would be a monthly meetup with a mix of new and established editors and each month will have its theme and activities tailored towards understanding the challenges of new editors, and improve their works. Each month, the most positive and active editors will be appreciated with merchandise.
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?
Our community is very familiar with the Universal Code of Conducts and the Friendly Space Policy. We will dedicate one of the monthly editions of our Naija Office Hours to talk about the UCOC and the Friendly Space Policy. Some of the highlights will includes the behavior that are expected from every community member, where to fill a report and so on. We will invite a WMF from the T&S to speak at the event.
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.
14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?
Yes
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.
1.We will be working with the African Women in Media to train female journalists and women in the media sector as part of our advocacy efforts to bridge the gender gap on Wikipedia. African Women in Media will be responsible for the participants' invitation to the training, management of the participants, providing data support for the participants and gift items for the best three participants.
2. We will work with the National Library to train hundreds of Librarians on how to contribute to Wikimedia projects.
- 3. We will partner with the Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation (NTDC) to organize the Wiki Loves Earth in Nigeria
4. We will work with the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) to organize Wiki Loves Monuments. The agency will create access to the preserved places in Nigeria
15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?
Each of the works carried out in this proposal will be evaluated and the learning from the evaluation report would be useful in shaping our directions on future sustainability and scalability
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.
- During the project design and implementation, the project team was concerned on the challenges that the impact of COVID-19 may pose to the project especially the fieldwork. Although, at the time, the risk of COVID-19 Pandemic in Nigeria was generally low and there was no restrictions, partial or total lockdown in any parts of Nigeria (aside from the emergency lockdown in March 2020).
We designed a COVID-19 risk analysis to ensure an uninterrupted project implementation while ensuring duty of care principles are applied, respecting and sustaining international effort to limit the spread of COVID-19 and sustain WMF’s response to the pandemic.
The project manager ensured to minimize the risk to, and burden on people participating in the project and seek and maximize the benefit and avoid or significantly reduce any harm that may result due to COVID-19 during the project implementation.
For the purpose of supporting decision-making on this project implementation, we categorized risks on a scale of:
High Medium Low
We assessed the above scale based on the severity of the impact on the project, relative to the likelihood of the risk manifestation or occurrence.
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, Improve User Experience, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
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.
- No
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
19. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
What Wikimedia projects interest participants the most? What training strategy yielded the best results? What is the best strategy to engage volunteers? What is the best approach and strategy to retaining volunteers?
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 |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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 | N/A | N/A |
| 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.
- Editors from WikiFan CLubs 50
- Editors from our Networks nationwide 40
- Editors from Others 70
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Our target audience includes
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1150 |
| Number of editors | ||
| 160 | ||
| Number of organizers | #Wiki Fan clubs = 60
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120 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Number of articles improved ( disturbatrion)= 1000 ( English 250, Yoruba, 250, Hausa 250, Igbo,250
Number of articles created= 800 ( English 200, Hausa, 200, Igbo 200, Yoruba 200) |
1800 |
| Wikimedia Commons | over 5000 images will be contributed + 50 videos from oral history documentaion | 5500 |
| Wikidata | over 10, 000 items will be added to Wikidata | 10000 |
| Wikisource | over 1000 items will be added | 1000 |
| 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?
Outreach dashboard Harstag
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.
- 89460000 NGN
23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
- 210000 USD
23.3 Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
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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