Grants:Project/Rapid/Northern Region (Ghana) tinsi 2.0
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Please see the sample Editathon/Training application before drafting your application.
Project Goal[edit]
Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.
- Organize fourth level Northern Region of Ghana administrative divisions information for 8 districts.
- Add statements and qualifiers about administrative divisions of 8 districts in the Northern Region to Wikidata
- Document the research and data import process so other editors may replicate the process to organize information about other regions
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?
- There are 16 regions in Ghana, which are further divided into 275 second-level administrative districts. Each of these metropolitan, municipal, and district assemblies consist of about 100 local areas. This project was piloted on 8 districts based on User:DSaroyan (WMF) recommendation and was completed successfully (see report), hence, I will like to cover up for the rest of the 8 districts left in the Northern region of Ghana.
- How will you let others in your community know about your project (please provide links to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions)? Why are you targeting a specific audience?
- Messages have been posted on the relevant mailing lists:
These mailing lists are hubs for people who would be familiar with the Northern Region of Ghana and could provide valuable inputs.
The results of this project, being structured data about place names of Northern Regional communities, when added to Wikidata could be reused by other people in their own projects, or provide them with ideas to replicate the project in their various regions.
What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?
- By the end of the project, I would have:
- Established a relationship with 16 Government of Ghana district assembly offices. I will use this opportunity of my meetings with them to talk about the possibilities of leveraging Wikidata and Wikimedia, in general, to make government records publicly available online.
- Created a new Wikiproject to engage other Wikidata editors to continue to improve items about Ghana’s administrative divisions
- Improved and created new items for all fourth-level local administrative divisions of 8 districts in the Northern Region of Ghana. I will add statements related to population where available and geography for these areas
we would add statements and qualifiers about administrative divisions of the Northern Region to Wikidata.
- Document the research and data import process so other editors may replicate the process to organize information about other regions
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:
- No
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: 15
- Number of articles created or improved (if applicable):
- 250 Wikidata items
- 1000 statements added, reorganized, or improved
- Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (if applicable): n/a
- Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects (if applicable): n/a
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).
- I will be undertaking the project but will also be welcoming to help from other volunteers. I’ve always received strong community support from the Wikidata development team & community and will not hesitate to reach out if I need help.
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 GHS |
| Cost of printing/scanning documents | 500 | 7 | 3500 | |
| Food and refreshment | 15 community members are expected to take part in the training session. | 150 | 15 | 2250 |
| Covid safety kits | Face masks, hand sanitizers & covid tests | 100 | 10 | 1000 |
| Data allowance | Participants will be provide with data allowance. 15 community members are expected to take part in the project | 100 | 15 | 1500 |
| Internet data + Router | The rented router will be loaded with internet data for the training session. | 1000 | n/a | 1000 |
| Co-working space service | Laptop rental + use of co-working space during electricity powercuts | 3000 | n/a | 3000 |
| Misccellaneous | n/a | 500 | n/a | 500 |
| TOTAL GHS | 12750.00 | |||
| 1USD = 6.48450 GHS (Oanda exchange - February 6, 2022) | ||||
| TOTAL USD | 1966.23 |
Endorsements[edit]
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Strong support I strongly endorse this project Hasslaebetch (talk) 21:36, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
Strong support I strongly endorse this project
Munkaila Sulemana
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- Strong support I strongly endorse this project Ruky Wunpini (talk) 01:35, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
- I strongly endorse this project Yakubu Fadilatu (talk) 15:26, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
- Strong support I strongly endorse this project ~~~~