Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WIKI LOVES AFRICA SUDAN 2025 (ID: 22895371)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Maram ali ahmed
- Organization
Wikimedia Sudan User Group
- 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)
N/A
- 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.
WIKI LOVES AFRICA SUDAN 2025
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-03-01 - 2025-05-01
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Sudan
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Wiki Loves Africa
- 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)
The campaign is under the theme “from farm to plate”, and through it, we as a wikimedia user group are trying to document through photos and videos the journey of the food from its origin and the people behind our meals in our local community.
Pictures about Africa in General and Sudan specifically are lacking in Wiki Commons though this Annual photo Contest we are trying to improve the content about Sudan. By Sudanese contributors. Photos uploaded in the contest and the experience of contributing to enrich the content about Sudan will motivate more Sudanese Photographers to join the community of Sudan Wikimedia.
We have organized the contest more than once and we see that the participants can have more than one added value from joining the campaign. The participant will have more exposure to the global community which could be a good opportunity for Sudanese photographers.
The campaign theme will be reflected mainly by Sudanese photographers, and this opportunity will encourage them to show their creativity and connect with the global community.
For this year we are facilitating the process of building the capacity of the community and increasing participation in wiki commons with good quality pictures. This year the theme is wide which will enable us to capture the diversity of the culture of sudan. From our previous experience last year adding on hand training for photographers and content creators helped the contest to be more attractive to photographers to participate in.
- 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.
Online and In Person Training : Photo Walks in Person Upload Sessions
Details of the activities Workshop: this a one day event in which the participants with the help of the main facilitator will improve their understanding of Wiki Commons and the basics of taking an accepted picture within the theme of the contest. Photo walk: A group of the participants and the walk coordinator will meet in the city to take random pictures that will help them reflect the theme of the contest within their community.
Video Editing training and uploading season: The Training of the video will enable the community to have more contribution especially in the classification of video and audio . In the upload session the participant will gain the basic skills to link between the photos and wikipedia articles. The activities will take place in-person among the Sudanese wikimedia members in Kosti city the white Nile state, and Nyala city the south Darfur state in Sudan. Part of the activities will be held in online sessions. Due to the current situation we will try to build new partnerships with National Non governmental and voluntary associations to help us facilitate renting a place for the community in person activities.
- 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.
Ola Mahadi (Ola.mahadi) Project Coordinator Maram Ali (Maram ali ahmed ) Training Coordinator Hassan Osman (Hassan Hassoon) Media Coordinator Fatima Mohmmed (Fatima exceptional) Technical Coordinator
The team mostly were involved in organizing previous editions of WLA and Team leadership of the Training. The team organized Wiki Loves Africa 2021, 2021 and 2022. Ola, Fatima and Maram were part of the WikiGap Sudan campaign in 2018 as participants , then started organising the campaign for the years 2019, 2020 then Hassan joined organising it in 2022
Maram has successfully helped the community implement in-person and online workshops’ Trainings during the Sudanese Content Project on Wikimedia 2021, and she is actively involved in recruiting newcomers and promoting the community. Our Team Member Hassan is mainly involved in motivating and following up with newcomers; he is actively reaching out to other communities to build networks within Sudan and representing the community online and in person. Fatima's is taking the lead in organizing the workshops and training in South Darfur State as well as supporting the technical editing issues with the community members as she has administrator permissions in the wikimedia .
- 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)
Target participants are Sudanese photographers who have at least basic skills of taking pictures who are members of the Wikimedia Sudan User group. The Community has more than 70 registered members with around 25 active within the last three months after more than a year of War in Sudan a lot of Sudanese youth (photographers, artists, university students) have been relocated to Egypt, South Sudan and Uganda, those will be our first priority. Dashboard will be created for the activity to follow-up on the edits regarding the campaign
- 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.
N/A
- 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.
The idea of community participation in the Wiki Loves Africa 2025 was discussed with members, through the communication channels (Sudan Community Whatsapp Group). The discussion involved the application and their participation in it, the members welcomed and accepted it.
- 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)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
The project will develop the capacity of newcomers in three groups White Nile (Kosti) and South Darfur (Nyala) ( 10 PP) and the global and Online activity (20 pp ). On the one day Training on the basics of Wikicommons the participants will get to know who to upload photos and write the description and the structure data of the photo. ) (4 sessions 30 participants, The participants will have a series of training as well as orientation on the theme of the contest and will organize a photo walk to enable them to capture the pictures needed for the contest. ( 3 photo walks and 20 participants with 3 organizers After the photowalks the community will have an upload session / edit-a-thon to make sure that the photos are incorporated into the wikipedia articles and wiki data. (4 sessions and 30 participants) As for the more specific training there will be cooperation with professional photographers for implementation of two days training for Montage targeting 20 participants.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 55 | Targeted participants are total of 55 participants
25 person for the launching And 30 for training and contest participation. |
| Number of editors | 30 | The project is planned to involve participation of 30 editors to focus on productivity and to strengthen commitment. |
| Number of organizers | 4 | Ola Mahadi (Ola.mahadi) Project Coordinator
Maram Ali (Maram ali ahmed ) Training Coordinator Hassan Osman (Hassan Hassoon) Media Coordinator Fatima Mohmmed (Fatima exceptional) Technical Coordinator |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 60 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 150 |
| Wikidata | 60 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
Wikipedia articles ( 2* 30) 60 Photos 5* 30=150 Wikidata (2*30)=60
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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)
Online registration form for the selection of participants the dashboard for the follow-up and collecting the edits of the participants https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/
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)
2820168 SDG
- 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.
4756 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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