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Edit-a-thon on African Women Musicians
proposed start date2022-08-26
proposed end date2022-09-03
grant end date2022-09-03T00:00:00Z
budget (local currency)2097500 NGN
budget (USD)5000 USD
amount recommended (USD)0
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• Ennydavids
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

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Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Ennydavids

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

N/A

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 a member of Igbo Wikimedians User Group

Grant Proposal

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

Edit-a-thon on African Women Musicians

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 Edit-a-thon project about African Women Musicians, translating articles pertaining to African Women who are music composers. This Edit a thon will increase articles in Igbo Wikipedia and fill Gender gap.

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

Participants will be taught about content translation and how to translate from English to Igbo Wikipedia.The community participants will be involved to achieve this.

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

This involves Opening wikipedia account for new editors, training and the Edit a thon.

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

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

User: Timzy D great ,User :Iwuala Lucy

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.

Content Gender gap, Geography, Language, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

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.

Translating articles about women will address gap concerning women, language, ethnicity etc

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 , Advocacy

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

Not applicable

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?

Music student, Igbo language speakers and Writers,translators from the language community. These participants are opened to Wikipedia knowledge,they will be registered and the Edit a thon follows and continue follow through group chats

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

I will provide a safe environment and put COVID 19 protocols in Practice

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.

My community is aware of this the Igbo Wikimedians User Group https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group

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.

No

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.


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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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

I will learn leadership Management, i will also improve in Facilitating

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
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17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants 40
Number of editors 25
Number of organizers 2
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
Wikipedia N/A 150
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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.

The Event Dashboard will be used to track edits made by the participants

Financial Proposal

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

2097500 NGN

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

5000 USD

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


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

Yes

Endorsements and Feedback

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Please add endorsements and feedback to the grant discussion page only. Endorsements added here will be removed automatically.

Community members are invited to share meaningful feedback on the proposal and include reasons why they endorse the proposal. Consider the following:

  • Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
  • Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
  • Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
  • Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
  • Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).

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