Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikidata for Judiciary in Nigeria (ID: 21982566)

Endorsment from James Rhoda (talk)

The strategies and activities of this project will create awareness about the Nigerian judiciary and will allow them participate on Wikimedia projects  Strong support

--James Rhoda (talk) 15:29, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Endorsment from Ridzaina (talk)

 Strong support This project will serve as medium to recruit legal practitioners as new editors to the Wikimedia Community. This is the first of its kind and it will bring about increased contribution and growth to the community as a whole. --Ridzaina (talk) 07:48, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

--Ridzaina (talk) 19:48, 17 October 2022 (UTC)

Endorsment from Linason Blessing (talk)

 Strong support The goal of this project is to enhance and add new wikidata entries for the Nigerian judiciary, which includes the Supreme Court, High Court, Court of Appeal, Magistrate, Customary Court, Sharia Court, and other trial Courts, in order to build a free structured online data repository and increase their online visibility. Additionally, this project aims to create and update Wikidata entries about illustrious law companies, Senior Advocates, Attorneys General, Benchers, Magistrates, Honorable Justices etc. And finally this project will also help in recruiting new members for the Wikimedia movement.

--Linason Blessing (talk) 11:00, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Endorsement by Bukky658

This proposal is essential to my community because it will ultimately help improve and create new items for the Nigerian Judiciary on an accessible structured online data repository and increase visibility about them online.

• The strategies, activities, and levels of community engagement proposed are well developed to train and ensure accurate and reliable data is documented.
• The proposal highlights interesting research based on findings from the Policy Book of the 2019 Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association(NBA) and builds on learning from past projects carried out using the Wikidata Query service to identify the gaps in the existing *Wikidata items about Judiciary in Nigeria.
• This proposal has a high tendency to improve User Experience, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, and Identify Topics for Impact in the Wikimedia movement.
• The proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results which are carefully spelled out Bukky658 (talk) 18:09, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Not funded

Hello Mijesty,

Thank you for submitting your grant application. We appreciate your interest in contributing to the mission of the Wikimedia Movement. We are continuously strengthening our grants review process, ensuring that grant funding is being invested towards impactful projects and efforts geared towards contributing to the mission of Wikimedia Movement in the most efficient and effective manner.

After a thorough review of your application, we have decided to not fund your Rapid Fund request. Here are the main reasons for our decision:

• This grant request has been re-submitted from the last Rapid Fund round. However, we couldn't see any considerable changes in terms of budget.
• We think that the budget is not aligned with the desired impact. We recommend considering Wikimedia Nigeria User Group microfunding to implement the project.
• We also think that the project goals are unclear. For example:
  • Organizing 2 in-person and 2 online training sessions with 50 participants, including 20 editors, but having 200 Wikidata items improved, seems like a low target.
  • If this is a Wikidata training project, it's unclear how and why there is a target to upload 100 images to Wikimedia Commons.
  • If this is a project to train law professionals, it's unclear why and how the applicant aims at engaging 20 already existing editors.
  • As mentioned on the application, one of the main strategies is: "Many of the Law professionals are not aware of Wikidata and do not know its relevance in carrying out quantitative research relating to their profession.". However, we couldn't find any activity which would train law professionals to use Wikidata in "carrying out quantitative research".

Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 14:25, 16 November 2022 (UTC) (on behalf of the Middle East and Africa regional funds team)

Thanks for the update on the proposal re-submitted. I appreciate your feedback; however, I will like to make some clarifications regarding the point outlined.

In the first proposal budget submitted, I discovered that there were some miscalculations in the budget conversion rate to my local currency which I made all necessary corrections on before re-submitting the proposal reducing the budget from 3545 to 3156.

• We recommend considering Wikimedia Nigeria User Group micro-funding to implement the project.

Thanks for the recommendation, however, the micro-funding available will not be able to cover the cost of hosting 4 events, 50 participants, and covering the cost of resources to be incurred in this project, hence the need for considering a rapid grant.

• Organizing 2 in-person and 2 online training sessions with 50 participants, including 20 editors, but having 200 Wikidata items improved, seems like a low target.

-The reasons, why we decided to involve existing editors, were to encourage peer-learning among participants, and the 200 Wikidata items were supposed to be our minimum target as we expect that items to be created will surpass our target just like the achievement reported from previous project carried out by members on my project team.

• If this is a Wikidata training project, it's unclear how and why there is a target to upload 100 images to Wikimedia Commons.

-The project is a Wikidata project to create detailed structured data about different stakeholders in the Nigerian Judiciary sector that does not exist including uploading their freely licensed pictures on WikiCommons that will be used on their Wikidata items. The 100 photos upload on commons also include pictures that will be taken at the 2 physical meetings during the training.

• If this is a project to train law professionals, it's unclear why and how the applicant aims at engaging 20 already existing editors.

- The existing partnership with the State high court in Kwara;and the Ghalib chambers in Ilorin has witnessed the participation of few law professionals in the Wikidata for novel and novelist in Nigeria hence the involvement of already existing editors who need retraining to contribute to the campaign.

• As mentioned on the application, one of the main strategies is: "Many of the Law professionals are not aware of Wikidata and do not know its relevance in carrying out quantitative research relating to their profession.". However, we couldn't find any activity which would train law professionals to use Wikidata in "carrying out quantitative research".

- As mentioned in point 4 of the strategies, I stated that the project will train participants (who are Law professionals) on how to contribute to Wikidata; create a Wikidata account, understand the Wikidata editing guidelines and policies, and create items about the Nigerian Judiciary on Wikidata. I also noted that part of our activities in response to “question 9 point 4” during the project is that, I and my team member will be actively involved in facilitating the training and also making sure that the participants get the act and art of contributing to Wikidata items. The act and art include preparing a presentation to introduce them to the use of Wikidata in quantitative research, showing them how to retrieve data on Wikidata to assist their quantitative research; running queries using Wikidata tools such as Viz Query, and Wikidata Query Builder using the the Wikidata in network analysis research resource as a guide to our presentation

Thanks Mijesty (talk) 04:44, 17 November 2022 (UTC)