Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Digital Landscape 2.0 (ID: 22155687)

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Applicant Details

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Tomas Armando Moz

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Tomas Armando Moz - Proponent Amelia Tocova - Editor tochi_precious - coach

Organization

N/A

Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.

Yes. I am part of AfroCuration Project which is implemented every year since 2021. I serve as trainer for new wikimedia users who come for the first time or thoese who still need improvement.

Grant Proposal

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Digital Landscape 2.0

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

Local

Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.

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

This is an important year for the municipal cities in Mozambique. It is the year when political parties ran for office through election. However, many municipal cities have not been translated into Emakhuwa wikipedia though the incubation project we are working since 2021. This project, if funded, will engage local wikipedia wikipedia in an contest to translate the profile of the 53 municipal cities which are listed here: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_munic%C3%ADpios_de_Mo%C3%A7ambique_por_prov%C3%ADncia. By translating these cities into Makhuwa, we will enrich the encyclopedia and will allow local newspapers and radio stations, including campaigner to use this information.

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

I will enagage the 22 students who have been trained to translate and improve makhuwa encyclopedia which we are working on to translate the profile of these municipal cities as a contest. I will distribute two to four municipal cities to each student to translate as part of competition with other peers. After that, he will publish the text and a group of three lecturers will be asked to check the published articles. We will chose a date when we are going to gather at Centro Cultural da Universidade Rovuma, a cultural center where most of the events take place at this University. In this occasion each participant will will be asked to read aloud before the audience. The audience will be made of students from other faculties and other universities which have campuses in Nampula city. The purpose of reading aloud before the audience is to encourage the audience to start exploring wikimedia encyclopdia in their language. The Juri will decide for the best three to receive the contest prizes. All the participants will put a T-shirt with wikimedia Foundation logo, and we will Record a short video while each one is reading. This videos will be published on wikicommon and displayed with the text that was read by the participant. This will be very helpful because many makhuwa people are used to oral literature.

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

The main activities will:

1. Translation of the text from Portuguese or English wikipedia pages to Emakhuwa;

2. Review of the text per lecturer;

3. Issuing invitation to faculties and students to participates in this event;

4. designing Banner and flyers to market the event;

5. Procurement of prizes

6. Recording the short video's where participants read;

7. Issue participations certificates;

8 .Editing of the videos

9. Uploading the videos on wikicommons

10. Embedding and publishing the videos with texts.

4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.

WikiGap, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos

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

Yes, I do. I work with a group 22 qualified writer in Emakhuwa. They are students at the end of their courses and could use this opportunity to showcase their skills. I also work with a group 27 students from other faculties. I can also count with other wikipedians who participate in the afrocuration contest who have experience, if needed. I also count with a much experienced Igbo wikipedian (Tochi Precious) who has always being my coach whenever I need, since my first application. I sure that these people can be of help to make sure all the milestone are achieved on time.

6. 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.

Geography, Language, Socioeconomic Status

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

Emakhuwa is located in Northen region of Mozambique where more than 7 million have it as their mother tongue. By creating more content we will addressing a problem related to Geography and language issue. Although this is the most spoken language, it does not have a formal grammar, nor does it have literture (books) except the Bible. It makes people from see their Socioeconomic Status to be under valuable.

7. 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 , Human Rights, Public Policy, Open Technology, Diversity

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Geographic , Linguistic / Language, Socioeconomic status, Digital Access

9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities?

Our target participants are students who are in their final years in their training courses. They qualify to make translations to Emakhuwa. They will make sure that people who can read the text by understand Makhuwa will have someone like them read a text he has written himself. It will so encouraging for other students, especially those coming from other faculties or universities. We believe that the can lead to introduction of Makhuwa language as an optional subject in other courses, faculties and universities. That is the reason why they will be invited in the contest event.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

We have female students in our groups. They work together with men. They have the same opportunities and feel comfortable. we have set rules as per far the relationship can go, including appropriate timetable that they are supposed to meet and engage in any task, assignment.

11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.

I have told the 22 students that we are lare going to engage into a contest in July to increase our Digital landscape, and that we are going to select some text in Portuguese or English so that we can translate them into Emakhuwa and publish in the makhuwa encyclopedia we are building. I am also willing to make this proposal available for endorsement of other wikimedian.

12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?

No

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

N/A

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

N/A

13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.

Yes

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

Our main partnership is with Igbo community. We are learning about how they started crating content, which project they engaged themselves in. We have Tochi Precious as our coach and we ask her questions whenever we have one. We also have contacts with wikipedian who are based in Our neighboring countries (Malawi, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Tanzania). So we are not an Island.

14. 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.

Improve User Experience, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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

I hope to know what challenges do these students will have in the translations process? I writing is different from reading.? Do they write the same they can read in public. How inspiring where their presentations? what is the quality of the translations from the perspective of the Juri.

16. 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 spaces provided.

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Articles or pages translated	How many articles has project created/translated from Portuguese or English	53
Numer od Activice participants	How many Students have active engaged themselves in creating/translating the articles.	22
Other participants	How many students have participated in the event (based on the list of participants)	100
Short videos	How many Short videos we will have published	53
N/A	N/A	N/A

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	We are going to engage 22 students to translate 53 articles from Portuguese or English to Makhuwa language. There will also be 100 students invited to participant the event where the contest showcase will happen. on topo of that three lecturers will be there to proofread the texts and award a mark. The text the lecturers receive will not have names. They must return the decision cards before the event. Another mark will be given to reading an/or public speaking skills at the day of the event.	126
Number of editors	Due to the translation, not everyone will be able top deliver good translations. Therefore, we locked the editor to 22 who will preform 53 translations.	22
Number of organizers	The organizers will include The faculty head of the Department of languages, the course director of the Bantu languages, the lecturers and Tochi Precious who serves as the adviser and will be given some minutes to speak online during the award event.	7

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	53 articles improved in the Portuguese and English versions and the same 53 articles translated to Makhuwa Language. This is because students will be allowed to improve the original articles if they think that they need to.	53
Wikimedia Commons	We contribute to enriching the wikicommons library with the videos and images that we will take from this event.	53
Incubator	We will also increase the number of articles on emakhuwa incubator. Which can lead Wikimedia Foundation to releasing the encyclopedia from the incubator.	53
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

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

18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.

We will use dashboard to measure the number of articles created by participant. In this item, I will need the support of Tochi Precious or any other much more experienced wikimedian to support me with dashboard.

Financial Proposal

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

286352.35 MZN

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

4527.31 USD

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

Budget Dgital Landscape 2.0.xlsx

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Yes

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