Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/USW & WCA WIKIDATA 10 (ID: 21982252)

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Applicant Details

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Magotech

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Magotech CaliBen

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.

University Students Wikimedians Wikimedia Community Arusha

Grant Proposal

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

USW & WCA WIKIDATA 10

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.

We foresee providing training while we embrace and celebrate the 10 years of wikidata in the two communities (Communities: University Students Wikimedians (USW) and Wikimedia Community Arusha (WCA))Skills leveling up in the Wikidata project on our communities members.

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

We will be running in-person events which will comprise training and activities like competitions.

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

In-person training, presentation, brainstorming, and demonstrations (Practicals)

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.

Other (please specify)

Wikidata: Tenth Birthday

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

University Students Wikimedians Team

1.

User: Magotech Position: program coordinator & Facilitator Type: Volunteer

2.

User: Wahida Position:event manager Type: Volunteer

3.

User:Awadhi mpogole Position: Communication personal Type: Volunteer

Wikimedia Community Arusha Team

1.

User:Caliben Position: program coordintor Type: Volunteer

2.

User:Gladys Gibbs Position: Type: Volunteer

3.

User:Christian anold mosha Position: event manager Type: Volunteer

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

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.

Wikidata is one of the Wikimedia projects which has not been tackled mostly by almost all the communities in Tanzania. By having these particular events it will create more awareness to the participants and it will be a head up for the organizers to be creative in coming up with new ideas on how to tackle this low tackled projects

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, Advocacy, Diversity

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

Geographic , Linguistic / Language

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?

We are currently focusing on the communities of University Students Wikimedians and Wikimedia Community Arusha editors. The engagement with the participants will be through phone calls, emails, and social media. A follow-up after the event will be to make sure that editors continue contributing to the project by providing more support

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

By enhancing the WMF code of conduct and friendly space policy

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.

We did have a discussion between the organizers of these two communities and later had a meetup between the community members and organizers regarding this proposal and events. We will post on our meta-pages and social media too.

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?

Yes

If yes:

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

Yes

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

I would like to propose this joint proposal because it will allow us to have better results.

We are two different communities, but we have many things in common. The first thing is that we are both Wikimedia communities and we have a lot of people from each community. The second thing is that we both have a lot of resources. For example, we can use our networks for collaborating on projects, sharing ideas, and supporting each other in terms of documentation or content creation.

I'm sure that these two communities can work together better than they do currently. I think it would be great if they could share some tools that they already have and develop new tools together.

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

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

We hope to learn how new Wikimedia projects can be engaged by our participants considering they're new to the projects. Also checking for the best strategy for the introduction of new projects. Check if members are readily moving out to tackle new Wikimedia projects.

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
Number of Participants	number of participants who show interest in attending the event 40 participants (WCA) 30 participants (USW)	70
Editors	number of participants who show interest in editing 35 (WCA) 25 (USW)	60
Data created or edited in wikidata	N/A	300
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants		70
Number of editors		60
Number of organizers		6

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikidata	N/A	300
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
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.

Outreachdashboard

Financial Proposal

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

6464498 TZS

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

2784.6 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16B-6UdLdLNOE_-HT0rh-v1n_d-FZ8vq8AnbDQAtHrc8/edit?usp=sharing

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

Yes

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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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