Grants:Project/Rapid/Documenting Festivals Celebrated in Ghana

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Documenting Festivals Celebrated in Ghana
A project to document festivals celebrated in Ghana
targetWikidata, Dagbani Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.
start dateOctober 1
end dateOctober 31
budget (local currency)11,500
budget (USD)1,914.46
grant typeindividual
grantee• fatawu25
contact(s)• ibrahimft65(_AT_)gmail.com


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Project Goal[edit]

Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.

  1. Recruit new editors
  2. Increase skills for existing editors
  3. Create or improve content on Wikidata
  4. Introduce Wikimedia projects to new editors
  5. Upload photos to Wikimedia commons

Project Plan[edit]

Activities[edit]

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

  • I am going to have one editathon and series of 3 trainings to sharpen the skills of already existing editors and introduce Wikimedia projects to newly recruited editors. These trainings will be held on Saturdays within the month of October, 2021.
  • Recruitment of new editors will be paramount in our workshop training sessions in order to widen the scope of the community.
  • Ample time will be invested in training of the new recruits in order to bring them at level with the existing editors. This way, we will have more skilled volunteers to take on the editathon task.
  • Research will be conducted to uncover the festivals of marginalized communities/tribes.
  • Here is a link to the festivals that we will be working on.

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.
You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

Information of the project will be shared on Dallung Wikimedians Community WhatsApp group which was created to aid in carry out project under Global Open Initiative, I being chosen as the GLAM ambassador under the auspices of Global Open Initiative(GOIF).
Emails will be sent to invite experienced to support/endorse this project

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

Participants will get to know about the project via Dallung Wikimedians Community Social media channels; WhatsApp and Facebook.
Phone calls will also be made to take care of volunteers from internet challenged communities.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:I JethroBT

User:Din-nani1 and User:Hidrash

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

Participants have equipment and enough skills to take on this project. Result oriented training will be given to newly recruited editors to make them be abreast with the technicalities in editing Wikimedia projects and also to sharpen the skills of already existing editors.

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

Dallung Wikimedians Community already volunteers for Wikimedia foundation and the enthusiasm will be elevated to volunteer more after participating in this project.

7. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:

Yes. Link to COVID-19 Risk Assessment protocol.

8. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

This project will structure and preserve data of festivals celebrated in Ghana and also uncover festivals of marginalized tribes.

Impact[edit]

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

  1. Number of events = 1
  2. Number of participants = 20
  3. Number of new editors = 5
  4. Number of of articles created or improved N/A
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) N/A
  6. Number of Wikidata items created/improved = 200
  7. Number of photos uploaded on Wiki. commons = 10


Resources[edit]

What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

User:Din-nani1- He is an experienced Wikimedian and event organizer. He will lead the project.
User:fatawu25- Organize the project and provide general IT support.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

BUDGET TABLE
ITEM DETAILS UNIT GHS QUANTITY TOTAL
Workshops data allowance (participants) We will have 3 separate all-day workshops for Wikidata, English Wikipedia and Incubator (Dagbani Wikipedia); expecting 20 participants at each session 20 60 1200
Workshops data allowance (facilitators) 2 facilitators will provide training and support for the workshops 50 2 100
Data allowance (Editathon participants) We estimate for 20 people to participate in the month-long contest 100 20 2000
Food/Refreshment We estimate for 20 people to participate in the editathon 225 20 4500
Data for research Data will be provided for research and transportation to communities for content about marginalized festivals 1000 n/a 1000
Venue rental Venue will be rented for 3 workshop trainings 1 editathon 400 4 1600
Projector rental We will rent projector for the workshop trainings 100 4 400
Router We rent router for 4 meetings 25 4 100
Covid safety kits Face masks, hand sanitizers & covid thermometer test will be provided for 20 expected participants 30 20 600
TOTAL GHS 11500
1USD = 6.00693 GHS (Oanda exchange - September 15, 2021)
TOTAL USD 1,914.46

Endorsements[edit]

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  1. I support this project because it will preserve festivals celebrated in Ghana on Wikidata.Din-nani1 (talk) 21:20, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
  2. Strong support Strong support Fatawu25 (talk) 21:25, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
  3. Strong support Strong support Ayisha35 (talk) 21:35, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
  4. I support this project strongly. Hidrash (talk) 06:16, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
  5. Strong support Strong support Doctor Dalun (talk) 08:28, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
  6. Strong support Strong support Xixlezz100 (talk) 09:10, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
  7. Strong support Strong support Alhassan Abdul Somed (talk) 16:48, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
  8. Strong support Strong support Abdulfatawu12 (talk) 16:54, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
  9. I support this project strongly. Fatawu Issahaku (talk) 17:33, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
  10. Strong support Strong support Alliance abio (talk) 08:55, 3 September 2021 (UTC)
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