Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/The Ghana Polls 2024 (ID: 22719696)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Jwale2
- Organization
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- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
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- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Main Proposal[edit]
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
The Ghana Polls 2024
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-08-09 - 2024-12-10
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Ghana
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Other (please specify) Elections, Campaigns & Human Rights
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
This project seeks to structure and document activities around the Ghanaian elections on the 7 December, 2024. Prior to the election we will have a series of training activities both online and offline on what kind of contribution we will be looking at during the elections. Also we will have a speaker session as well where we will invite speakers to have deeper insight conversation when it comes to activities related to elections and how we can seek campaigns that we are engaging.
These activities organized prior to the elections will seek to the elections will essentially increase capacity of volunteers on structure and how to contribute to wikipedia, wikimedia commons, wikidata,wikivoyage and wikiquote.
You might ask yourself why we want to contribute to this project. Talking about the elections or contributing to elections related activities on wikimedia project is engaging, the reason is because when we move to the ground there are lots of quotes made my presidential candidates,there is a lot happening in various regions of which would be captured under wikivoyage and also audio visual activities will be captured on the election grounds as well.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
Partnerships - We are looking forward to engage partner with open communities in Ghana and communities that are election focus, some of the communities we will be engaging on this project is Open Foundation West Africa, Open Knowledge Ghana and more.
Capacity Building - We will be having a series of training session prior to the election. This training session will look at training community members and volunteers on how to contribute to election activities on wikipedia, wikimedia commons, wikidata, wikivoyage and wikiquotes. These series of training will acquire effort of experience ecosystem open advocate within the open space and beyond
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi - Team Lead Stephen Dakyi - Assistant Lead DaSupremo - Ghanaian Pidgin Translation Kwaku Berko - Twi Translation Lead Joris Darlington Quarshie - Technical Lead
- 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? (required)
The target participants are volunteers within the Ghanaian and non Ghanaian interested in contibution to elections related activities and beyond. We engage them via mails, social media plaform like whatsapp, twitter and tiktok
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
Based on our experience in the last four years and our partnership with affliate communities in Ghana we were able to speak to key affliates and volunteers to join us engage on the project.
1.Landing page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Ghana_Polls_2020/Participants
2. Video Interview- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJDrRMzzlcU&t=111s
3.Video campaign - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiQl2jiBkZk
4. Video campaign - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nzvy000tQE
5. Video campaign - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57sV0BnTl_w
6. Video campaign - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4GJ5v1F9Iw
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Socioeconomic Status
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Human Rights
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Linguistic / Language
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning and metrics[edit]
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
We look forward to see how quality contribution can make an impact on research community, due to our contribution around the election researchers, historian and other academics will find resource useful for study
How useful will images be as a result uploads to wikicomons and impact
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 50 | We are looking forward to engaging 50 volunteers regionally as a result of our partnership with open communities in Ghana ie OFWA, Open Knwoledge Ghana. Our reason for doing this is to capture all works done in various regions in Ghana, |
| Number of editors | 50 | We are looking forward to have 50 editors regionally to work with us. |
| Number of organizers | 1 | This project is organized by a team and will be leading the team to organize the project |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
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| Wikipedia | |
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| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
Financial proposal[edit]
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
No
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