Wikimania 2022/Scholarships/Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
Applications are not required to be in English. Please complete the application in your preferred language.
Project Plan[edit]
Activities[edit]
What Wikimedia movement affiliate do you represent?
- Dagbani Wikimedians User Group
How will the funding requested support your community’s participation at Wikimania?
Please review following eligible activities and expenses below, and write below any that will be included in your activities.
- Childcare services (or similar family services) to support Wikimania participation
- Data packages to distribute to Wikimania participants
- Administrative or operational costs for to distribute funds to community members, such as transfer fees
- Small hardware expenses to support access (such as webcams, microphones, head/earphones)
- Note: Requests for computers, laptops, tablets, and other personal devices are not eligible.
- Translation services for a Wikimania session
- Video production support for pre-recorded Wikimania sessions (such as equipment or space)
- In-person meetups that coincide with Wikimania activities (food, beverage, meeting space)
- Printed artwork, conference swag/merchandise for event participants
- Dagbani Wikimedans User Group will support its community members at Gurene Wikimedia Community, Moore Wikimedia Community and the University of education Wikimedia community.
- Listed below will be provided to aid the participation of the 4 communities above:
- Small hardware expenses to support access (such as webcams, microphones, headset/earphones)
- Childcare services to support especially women to take part in Wikimania
- Data packages to distribute to Wikimania participants
- Pre-Wikimania meetups to educate first time participants on what Wikimania is all about
- Post-Wikimania meetups resulting from having attended Wikimania (food, beverage, meeting space)
- Translation services for Wikimania session since our group is language specific.
If you are planning to distribute funds to community members, such as by running a local scholarship program, please provide additional detail on how you will organize this process.
Please provide a summary explaining the following:
- how you will invite community members to apply for funding,
- the criteria you will use to determine eligibility, and
- the processes or services you will use to distribute funds.
This description does not need to be comprehensive, but should generally explain the process for how community members will receive funds or support to participate in Wikimania. For support on eligibility criteria, feel free to review this reviewer's guide for previous Wikimania scholarship programs.
If you are not distributing funds to community members, please write N/A below.
- Our social media platforms(Telegram,WhatsApp and Facebook) will be effectively used for invitation to apply for funding.
- The community members will be considered first based on their activeness in community’s activities.
- A google form will be created and applicants outside the community will be required to indicate reason for their interest in participation. Based on
- this, applicants with tangible reasons for the scholarship will be considered.
Outcomes[edit]
Please provide a range or estimate for the number of participants the funding will support.
It is OK if this is estimate is based on limited information, but we want to have an idea of how your activities will support community participation in Wikimania.
Some examples:
- 3-5 participants will receive childcare support to support their participation at Wikimania.
- 10 participants will receive hardware support
- 10-20 participants will receive data packages to support their participation at Wikimania
- By the end of the conference we would:
- have 4 Wikimania conference meetups funded for Gurune Wikimedia Community, Moore Wikimedia Community and Dagbani Wikimedians Community members and volunteers from University of Education.
- have provided data packages for 40 - 50 Wikimania participants from the 4 Wikipedia communities
- have supported 30 participants with childcare support
- have bought small hardware expenses to support access (such as webcams, microphones, headset/earphones) for 30
- have translated the Wikimania session to the participants in the Dagbani language
- have catered for administrative cost.
Budget[edit]
How you will use the funds you are requesting? Please use the following categories for your expenses. Don’t forget to include a total amount, and update this amount in the Probox at the top of your page too!
- Childcare services (or similar family services)
- Data packages to distribute to Wikimania participants
- In addition to a total budget, please indicate the average data cost per person who will receive funds for this need.
- Administrative or operational costs for distributing funds
- Small hardware expenses to support access
- Translation services for a Wikimania session
- Video production support
- Wikimania meetups and watch parties during the days of the event
- Printed artwork, conference swag/merchandise for event participants
BUDGET FOR WIKIMANIA 2022(MULTIPLE COMMUNITIES)
DAGBANI,GURUNE,MOORE COMMUNITIES AND THE UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION WIKI HUB
| ITEM | DETAILS | UNIT PRICE | QUANTITY | TOTAL |
| Data packages | Data packages to distribute to Wikimania participants | 250 | 50 | 12500 |
| Venue rental | Wikimania conference meetups for Dagbani Wikimedians, Moore Wikimedians and Gurune Wikimedians communities. | 900 | 4 | 3600 |
| Refreshment for 30 - 50 participants | Refreshment for 4 communities | 150 | 50 | 7500 |
| Childcare services | We will provide childcare support for 20 community members. | 300 | 20 | 6000 |
| Printed T-Shirts, swags and stickers. | These items will be provided to participants and will advertise Wikimania when they are worn by the participants. | 2000 | 2000 | |
| Translation cost | We will translate Wikimania 2022 pages and conference sessions into Dagabani. | 1000 | 1000 | |
| Administrative expenses | Cost associated with funds disbursements and general administrative expenses | 1000 | 1 | 1000 |
| Small hardware expenses | Small hardware to support access (microphone and webcam) | 150 | 30 | 4500 |
| TOTAL GHS | 38100 | |||
| 1USD = 7.64409GHS (Oanda exchange - May 16, 2022) | ||||
| TOTAL USD | 4,984.24 |
Completing your application[edit]
Once you have completed the application, please do the following:
- Change the application status from
status=drafttostatus=proposedin the {{Probox}} template. - Contact [INSERT EMAIL] to confirm your submission, as well as to request any support around your application.