WikiCred/2022 CFP/Internet Reference in Hausa Wikipedia
| Internet Reference in Hausa Wikipedia | |
|---|---|
| A WikiCred 2022 Grant Proposal | |
| Project Type | Event |
| Author | (Aliyu shaba) |
| Contact | Aliyuy921@gmail.com |
| Requested amount | 3000 USD |
| Award amount | Unknown |
- What is your idea?
To create awareness about WikiCred and show the importance of references and citations to articles in Hausa Wikipedia. This is due to many people's that provide article on Hausa Wikipedia they did not know how relevant is reference and citation is or they are not well known on how to cite and reference article on Wikipedia, so this project will help them to know how to and make effective use of reference and citation on each perticular article properly.
- Why is it important?
Most articles in Hausa Wikipedia are short or out of references, and this make the articles in complete because it does not give the full details about the subject of discussion of the article. But this project will entail and details on how user's on Hausa Wikipedia will easily provide reference and citation on every article they will upload in Hausa Wikipedia wether the article is short or even the one that are already out of reference in Hausa Wikipedia, we will ensure to made them aware how relevant is reference and citation is to article. Making provision of reference and citation to article gives fully details on the article you are referring to, also it indicates and provide where the article is source from, which will be use for easy retrieval and accessible to user's on Hausa Wikipedia.
- Link(s) to your resume or anything else (CV, GitHub, etc.) that may be relevant
- Is your project already in progress?
No, but we have decided to provide it on that page before we go through.
- How is this project relevant to credibility and Wikipedia?
Insertion of references and citation is one of the major part of the mission of WikiCred and this will increase quality, reliability and integrity to Wikipedia articles that are provided, this will help user's that want to ascertain where a particular article is source from, so they may look for each article through the reference and citation that is provide on it, this will make it easy for them to acquire what so ever they want and get it perfectly right.
- What is the ultimate impact of this project?
Our project will focus deeply on reference and citation since we discovered is one of the major aim of WikiCred, also to ensure every user's on Hausa Wikipedia were acknowledge about and making effective use of reference and citation. Creating qualitative, stability, and reliability to articles in Hausa Wikipedia. In other to promote making use of reference and citation on every article provided on Hausa Wikipedia. Also existing user's may find their self pretty advance as soon as they start including references and citation in article.
- Can your project scale?
Yes, it can scale because many editors don’t understand what is meant by reference and citation and also how to insert reference in the articles of Wikipedia. We will ensure to spread it to them and get to know how to involve reference and citation on article.
- Why are you the people to do it?
Because our team are well specialise and have the experience on reference and citation, and everyone involved on this project is professionalise and will contribute his best in other to achieve our goals. Also our team have brought experience people that are willing and capable to carry this project all along.
- What is the impact of your idea on diversity and inclusiveness of the Wikimedia movement?
User's on Hausa Wikipedia tend to think that reference and citation is not that much relevant when it comes to article which is wrong so in other to make them advance and make use of it immediately we will need to provide a qualitative, stable, and reliable reference and citation for it as soon as possible which will help to develop Wikimedia Movement.
- What are the challenges associated with this project and how you will overcome them?
The challenges are the user's that provide article so in other to overcome this problem we need to advance them and show them the relevant of reference and citation to article as soon as possible.
- How will you spend your funds?
https://eu.docworkspace.com/d/sAGBKSoKb-tWZAZeyz5OupxQ
- How long will your project take?
This project will take a period of 45 days (1 month and 15 days) to its completion.
- Have you worked on projects for previous grants before?
Yes. I Aliyu Shaba i'm experience editor in hausa wikipedia, Wikimedia commons and Wikidata and i participate a lot of Wikipedia event