Grants:Project/Rapid/Fante Community/translatewiki.net
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Project Goal[edit]
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Fante is spoken by at least 2 million people in Ghana. It is principally spoken in the central and southern regions of Ghana as well as in settlements in other regions in western Ghana. Notable speakers include Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, and former Ghanaian presidents Kwame Nkrumah and John Atta Mills. Maya Angelou learned Fante as an adult during her stay in Ghana.
The Fante Wikipedia incubator and Fante on translatewiki was revived after the Twi translatewiki project. This was because the event hosted participants who speak Fante and would like to contribute in Fante and so we want to:
- Build a full language support for the Fante Wikipedia incubator, create more articles and translate all the most commonly used messages on media as one of the requirements for a new language Wikipedia request
- Build the foundation that the Fante community may leverage to start new projects in future.
- Start translate most of the essential features from English to Fante on translatewiki.net
- Engage existing editors
- Recruit new editors
Project Plan[edit]
Activities[edit]
Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
We will be organizing two in-person training workshops to equip the community with the skills they will need to be able to participate in translations in Two Fante populated Regions in Ghana, Central and Western, one workshop each.
We will use this project as an opportunity to translate and proofread all the most commonly used MobileFrontend, DiscussionTools, VisualEditor, ContentTranslation and Core MediaWiki messages to Fante on translatewiki.net.
We will invite interested groups and organizations to participate in as translators or advisors.
We will receive consultation from experts, such as teachers, linguists, or professional translators and also reach out to students currently learning the Fante language.
1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?
- We will organize two (2) training workshops in two cities, one in Cape Coast (Central Region) and one in Takoradi (Western Region)
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.
- Wikimedia Ghana User Group meta page
- Twi Wikimedia Community here and here
- Twi Translatewiki Project
- Twi Community portal
Targeting these groups will enable us to: - Recruit native speakers of the Fante language to participate in the project
- Provide general translatewiki.net training for people who have indigenous knowledge about the community language and are inspired to digitize these valuable orthographies on Wikipedia.
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.
- Wikimedia Ghana User Group Whatsapp and Telegram group
- Twi Community
- Twi Community portal
- African Wikimedians Telegram group
- African Wikimedians mailing list
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
- Yes!
- Robertjamal12 - Experienced editor and Wikipedia event organizer. He has almost 2000 edits on translatewiki, and experience as an administrator on the Twi Wikipedia and an active contributor on the Fante Wikipedia incubator
- Ebenoffen1 - Fante Language Professional and Teacher, an active contributor to the Fante Wikipedia incubator and translatewiki
- Amir Aharoni -Experienced editor and a language strategist/ translation administrator.
- Lynessa - Experienced editor, an active contributor on the translatewiki and Fante Language professional
5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
- Yes! And newbies who lack editing skills will be assisted/supported by:
- Robertjamal12 - an experienced editor and event organizer. He has almost 2000 edits on translatewiki, and experience as an administrator on the Twi Wikipedia and an active contributor to the Fante Wikipedia incubator
- Ebenoffen1 - Fante Language Professional and Teacher, an active contributor to the Fante Wikipedia incubator and translatewiki
- Lynessa - Experienced editor, an active contributor on the translatewiki and Fante Language professional
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
- Collecting usernames and contact information via feedback forms
- Adding people to (optional!) mailing lists or social media groups
- identifying the most prolific, knowledgeable, and motivated contributors and inviting them to future events.
- Participants will be added to a WhatsApp/Telegram group to continue discussions
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:
8. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- This project will serve as a breaking ground to improve the content of the Fante language on Wikimedia projects.
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- Number of total participants: 20
- Number of new editors: 5
- Number of articles created or improved (if applicable): 30+
- Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (if applicable) n/a
- Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects (if applicable) n/a
- Number of phrases to be translated and proofread: 500+
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).
- Robertjamal12 - Project manager/Facilitator. He will coordinate all project activities including communication and logistics
- Ebenoffen1 - Facilitator
Other general support
- Amir Aharoni - He will provide technical support remotely
- Lynessa - Experienced editor and technical support officer, provides general support to tasks leads, co-facilitate training, strategy, communications, etc.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
| Item | Details | Unit Ghc | Quantity | Total Ghc |
| Administrative expense | Each team member will be provided with data, airtime for Communication between organizers, reminder calls and follow up to participants for the period of the campaign | 500 | 3 | 1,500 |
| Transportation & Accommodation | Each team member will be provided with transport allowance(from Accra to Cape Coast/Accra to Takoradi) and accommodation for two days (Friday on arrival from Accra and Saturday after the event) | 1000 | 3 | 3000 |
| Food/Refreshment | We will have two (2) in-person training workshops,(10 participants at each workshop) | 70 | 20 | 1,400 |
| Projector | We will rent a projector | 200 | 2 | 400 |
| Internet Data | 20GB of data is expected to be used for the event. | 250 | 2 | 500 |
| Data allowance (Edit-a-thon participants) | Participants will need to continuously work on the translations throughout the 1-month duration of the project
Data scholarship will be provided for them. |
70 | 20 | 1400 |
| Covid-19 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) | Liquid soaps, Hand sanitizers and face masks | 500 | n/a | 500 |
| Awards | Customized printed T-Shirts for top 5 participants | 40 | 5 | 200 |
| Venue rental | Cost of venue to host two (2) workshops | 800 | 2 | 1,600 |
| Communications material | Event Flyer, social media campaign etc | 200 | n/a | 400 |
| Miscellaneous | Unforeseen events | 200 | n/a | 200 |
| Bank charges, miscellaneous | Transfers and Reimbursement charges | n/a | n/a | 200 |
| Based on Oanda Exchange (March 8, 2022) | Ghc | 11,300 | ||
| 1 USD =7.09245 Ghc | USD | 1,593.24 | ||
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