Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Bridging the Gap: Using Hausa Wikipedia to Fight Climage-denialism
Project summary[edit]
Briefly summarize your project proposal.
- The purpose of this project is to address the critical issue of climate denialism in the Hausa-speaking communities'. Climate change is a pressing global concern that requires collective action, and misinformation remains a significant obstacle in tackling this challenge effectively. This project aims to utilize the power of knowledge dissemination through the Hausa Wikipedia platform to combat climate denialism and promote accurate scientific information among the Hausa-speaking population.
Wikimedia Project[edit]
Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.
- Wikipedia
Contact person and Location[edit]
Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location. For more than one contact person, indicate same details for everyone
- Full name: Hussaini Mohammed Inusa
- Email address: elhussaini14@gmail.com
- Location: Yobe State
Project class[edit]
Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club
- Individual
Timeline of activities[edit]
Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project
- 5th September, 2023 to 10 October, 2023.
Project Goal[edit]
Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.
- recruit new editors
- Add or improve contents
- Provide training sessions on Wikipedia/wikidata editing and reliable sourcing to ensure high-quality content creation.
- Translate climate change articles from English Wikipedia into Hausa, ensuring accessibility to a broader audience.
- Promote the use of Hausa Wikipedia as a reliable source of climate-related information through creation of climate change articles.
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 Edit-a-thon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?
One Physical Training, one Online Training and three (3) weeks contest on creating/editing and translating climate articles.
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.
- We will let our participants know about this project on our discussion Page and social media platforms.
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.
- I will communicate with them through user:talk and social media channels.
4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify
5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
- Yes
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
- We have our social media platforms where we will follow community members up.
7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- This project will bridge the gap by making reliable climate-related information accessible to the Hausa-speaking population, combating climate denialism and fostering informed discussions.
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- Number of events 2
- Number of participants 21
- Number of new editors 10
- Number of of articles created or improved 400+
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)
Metrics tracking[edit]
How do you plan to track your project metrics? We will use outreach dashboard in tracking our Edits.
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).
- El-hussain14 is the one organizing this project and will be assisted by: Muhammad Idriss Criteria and Zainerb
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
- Food and Drinks: 1,500 x 22 (participants and facilitators) = N33,000 for 1 day
- Hall: N30,000 for 1 day
- Data support for participants and facilitators - 24 people = N24,000
- Transportation for facilitators: N3,000
- Projector - N10,000 for 1 day
- Prize for Top 3 editors - N30,000
- Event Banner: N15,000
- Contingency - N20,000
- TOTAL : N165,000
Endorsements[edit]
Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!
- Muhammad Idriss Criteria (talk) 19:59, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
This project will help Hausa Wikipedians to know what climate denialism is in the Hausa-speaking communities.
- I am endorsing this project as it hope to actively promote the content entries on Hausa Wikipedia. The project lead is an experienced editor and I will join him in creating a proper awareness to the Hausa Wikipedia people who do not understand much about climage-denialism and how to fight it using Hausa Wikipedia articles. And I will be available for both physical and online trainings. Zainerb
- I
Strong support this project because, the project will create awareness about Climatic factors and changes in Hausa Wikipedia and Northern Nigeria.Yusuf Sa'adu (talk) 17:46, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
