Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Hausa Wikiquote Launching and Awareness Events

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Wikimedia Community Fund

Hausa Wikiquote Launching and Awareness Events

start date2022-12-01

end date2022-02-13

budget (local currency) 

amount requested (USD)0 USD

grant typeGroup of individuals not registered with an organization

funding regionunknown region

decision fiscal year2024-25

funding program roundundefined round

applicant and people related to proposalUncle Bash007

Sanusi Gado

Usman Ahmad Isa

Friendly Space Policy

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Applicant details

Wikimedia username(s):

Uncle Bash007

Sanusi Gado Usman Ahmad Isa

Organization:

G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?

Applied previously and did receive a grant

H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?

No

H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?

N/A

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Additional information

R. Where will this proposal be implemented?

Nigeria

S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:

Local

S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)

N/A

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Proposal

1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?

To launch and introduce the new Hausa Wikiquote to Hausa Community and create multiple events that will encourage participation and creating hundreds of quality quotes thereby furnishing them with templates, categories, links, references among others.

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2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?

This is a general event that will cover all the major Hausa communities, thereby creating awareness on Wikiquote and organizing trainings and workshops as well as contests to encourage participation. This project will also determine volunteers like admins, patrollers on Hausa Wikiquote and related sister projects.

3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

The above goals can be achieved through the following objectives:

1. There will be a 2 weeks awareness on Wikiquote both online and offline with specific emphasis on major Hausa Cities of Zaria, Daura, Katsina, Kaduna, Kano, Jigawa and Bauchi.

2. Trainings and workshops will be organized in this cities

4. There will be a general contest in which most dedicated contributors will be motivated to continue contributing and perhaps hold responsibilities for the success of Hausa Wikiquote

3. New participants will be added to our already existing groups on social media

4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

Activities include; awareness, trainings and workshops as well as editathons.

5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?      

No

5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan?

N/A

6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.

7. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

I Uncle Bash007 will be in charge for the general responsibilities of the project.

Sanusi Gado will be responsible for offline campaign activities Musa Bacho will take care of online campaigns Anass Koko will cover trainings Aliyu Shaba will take care of logistics Usman Ahmad Isa will take care of plannings

8. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Content Gender gap, Age (regency) , Geography, Socioeconomic Status, Sexual Orientation

8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

The project will comprise of every gender, regardless of age differences or socio-eonomic status or sexual orientation. Therefore the campaign will not only target students or youth or one sex nor socio-economic status.

9. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM

10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background

11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?

After creating awareness, A survey interview will be implemented and places like Computer Cafes, will be targeted so as to introduce computer literates to Wikiquote and Wikipedia at large. Hausa Groups/clubs (especially in some higher institutions) will be invited.

12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?

13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?

Yes

13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.

I have announced it on Hausa Wikimedia Talk page

14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?

Yes

14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

N/A

15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?

16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.

17. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of three options that most apply.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge

18. Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.  

No

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

19. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

20. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following space provided.

Main Metrics	Description	Target
Participants	Atleast 20 participant from each city.	100
Articles created	Number of articles added on wikiquote should atleast reach 100 from each location	500
Events	Number of In-person events 5	5
Number of People reached	Through our online and offline campaigns, we hope to reach atleast 1000 audience	1000
References, Templates, Links etc	We hope to add atleast 150 references, 50 templates, 50 links and 50 categories	300

Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.

Additional Metrics	Description	Target
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities	N/A	N/A
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities	N/A	N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability	N/A	N/A
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors	N/A	N/A
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees	N/A	N/A
Number of people reached through social media publications	N/A	N/A
Number of activities developed	N/A	N/A
Number of volunteer hours	N/A	N/A

21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.

Core Metrics Summary

Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	N/A	N/A
Number of editors	N/A	N/A
Number of organizers	N/A	N/A

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project

Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

N/A

22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?

Financial Proposal

23. & 23.1 What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.

 

23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

0 USD

23.3 Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.

N/A

Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.

Other public document(s):

Final Message

By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

No

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