Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WikiActivate for Climate Action (ID: 23080396)
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Applicant Details
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
chukydyk
- Organization
WikiActivate
- 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)
I'm a group leader of a Wikimedia User Group (submitted to the Affiliation Committee)., I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group.
- 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.
WikiActivate for Climate Action
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-07-05 - 2025-08-20
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Regional (more than one country in the same continent or region) African Countries
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Not applicable
- 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)
Climate literacy has to do with literacy activities about the impact of climate change on our overall well-being as humans and techniques to mitigate the further collapse of the environment through our actions. According to Wikipedia, Climate change is leading to biodiversity loss, reduced food and water security, increasing poverty, conflict, displacement, economic instability and negative health outcomes in Nigeria. Nigeria is highly vulnerable to and not well prepared to deal with the effects of climate change. The only way forward towards reducing this environmental and impending climate disaster is by educating the people through climate and environmental literacy programs targeted at the youths from the country to create awareness about the issue using Wikimedia projects and also learn ways of reducing the effect of the environmental issues while avoiding further damage. This is where the theme of climate literacy comes into play. Creating awareness about these issues through the creation of articles on Wikipedia and its sister projects will not just expose the youths to Wikimedia projects but would help them to be environmentally conscious individuals. According to Ogele (2020) research on Climate Change and Human Security in Nigeria, the researcher revealed that climate issues are on the high rising due to activities of gas flaring by oil companies, deforestation by real estate companies, and artisan refining of oil products also known as illegal bunkering. Specifically, Niger Delta has witnessed mass environmental issues in recent times and this calls for awareness about climate issues and also training on how to reduce the environmental issues going on in the area. These activities in recent times have continued with records of gas explosions and pipeline explosions claiming lives and properties. This project intends to expose the youths from Nigeria in higher institutions where there is an environmental and climate literacy concern to the disadvantages of embarking on bad climate and environmental activities and also train them to be climate literacy champions through Wikimedia projects. The project aims to bring significant change by training and recognizing young Wikimedians who will contribute to the Wikimedia movement using the project theme. The project also aims to create awareness about the issue in their community and also discourage people from continuing in them. Also, this project is conceived to help fill the Wikipedia content gap around environmental and climate change issues, with a specific focus on local content in Nigeria oil producing areas regions.
- 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.
We will be organizing the following activities: 1. To achieve the aim of the project which is to bridge the gap in climate literacy among youths in Nigeria and specifically in Niger Delta region, we will organize awareness and sensitization campaigns about Climate literacy and environmental issue in Niger Delta region. We will also carry out an awareness campaign on Wikipedia project editing among fresh graduates. 2. We will be partnering with the “An Urgent Concern Environmental Initiative Group”. This group was founded by Delight Chigeru and Dr Peter Oghogho Onyagbodor, an environmental consultant and lecturer with the Department of Animal Science, University of Port Harcourt with a focus on Environmental Education and Sustainability in Rivers State. Their goals also include envisioning environmentally and climate-resilient cities in Nigeria by educating citizens on good environmental activities. (https://instagram.com/an.urgent.concern ) 3. We will organize two in-person events followed by virtual sessions on Zoom. These events will consist of Wikipedia Training and Edit-a-thon on the theme of the campaign. A total of 45 graduate students in each of the two higher institutions will be trained and they will be expected to educate and create awareness about climate literacy and poor environmental issues in Niger Delta region by improving and creating content about the theme of the campaign on Wikipedia and its sister projects. 4. We will create awareness, organize sensitization campaigns, and train graduate students from the Niger Delta region so that they can be well informed about climate literacy and also champion the campaign against poor environmental behaviors in Nigeria and in extension Niger Delta region. This training through exposure to Wikimedia projects is proposed to help train selected graduate from Niger Delta on the subject matter. 5. We will create an outreach dashboard where we will assign articles to participants, monitor their activities, and add participants to WikiActivate WhatsApp group where they’ll will be mentored after the events. This initiative will help participants to solidify their knowledge through knowledge sharing, collaboration and for continual contribution and follow-up of Wikimedia 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.
-Chukwuma Dike- (User: Chukydyk): Active Wikimedian who has organized several Wikimedia events successfully with deep experience on Wiki Commons and other Wikimedia projects. I am the founder and Project Lead of Wiki Activate Africa
- Ubah Chisom Mercy (User: Mercyjamb123): She is 2024 Wikipadian of the Year award, Nigeria. She will be responsible for the execution communication, activities and strategies. Actively conducts trainings and assists in contests preparation, Helps in the development of programs and Helps in evaluating contests. she is an enthusiastic Wikipedia contributor with a fervent passion for history, government institutions, and research. Her contributions encompass content creation, meticulous copyediting, and rigorous reference validation
- Olubusola Afolabi - (User: Olubusola Afolabi) : A Librarian and an active Wikimedian contributor. She has background in Library science, experience in project management. She is experienced in Wiki Commons, Wikiquote, Wikidata, Wikisource and Wikipedia.
- 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)
Our primary target participants are graduates and young individuals in the higher institutions from the Niger Delta region who are either new to Wikimedia or existing contributors. At Least 20 participants will be trained and most of the participants will be newbies and this will provide an avenue to recruit and build capacity on new Wikimedians for the WikiActivate Africa Community while bridging the gap on climate and environmental literacy issues. The participants will be added to a WhatsApp group where onboarding information will be shared. The participants will be mentored and trained in addition edit-a-thon on both in-person and virtually through Zoom meetings. After the events, interested participants will be followed up on the WikiActivate Africa group and climate-related groups where they will participate in other Wikimedia events and campaigns.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
Yes
- 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.
We will adopt the Wikimedia Foundation Youth Safety Policy in all our meetings and ensure everyone is welcome and allowed to contribute to the good of the Movement. At the beginning of each event, we will summarize and read the Wikimedia Youth Safety Policy to all participants, ensuring everyone is informed of its guidelines. https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Friendly_space_policy#Youth_Safety
- 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.
We have announced this project in the discussion page of the Nigerian Wikimedia User Group https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#WikiActivate_Africa_For_Climate_Action
We will also announce the project through various local communication channels like WhatsApp groups, Wikimedia Community platforms, WikiActivate members through our Telegram and WhatsApp groups. We also spread the idea of our project through the Africa Wikimedian Digest (Email list)
- 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)
Other Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context)
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Climate Change and sustainability
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Geographic
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Identify Topics for Impact
Learning and metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. We hope to understand the role of climate literacy and capacity building in ensuring a safe environment by creating climate ambassadors through Wikimedia projects that will champion a safe environment. 2. We hope to learn how engagement with youths and graduates can be used in contributing to Wikimedia projects aimed at promoting climate literacy and reduction in bad environmental behaviours. 3. We hope to create awareness about the environmental issues in the Niger-Delta and attract experts in the environmental field who can come in develop strategies that will be used to reduce the environmental disaster and ensure a safe environmental. 4. We hope to gain insights into how underrepresented groups in Wikimedia appreciate Wikimedia training and how they contribute to Wikimedia projects. 5. Also, we want to learn how to ensure continuous capacity building from participants and active contributions to Wikimedia projects from their various communities
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 30 | Youths and graduates interested in the advocacy of climate Actions and new Wikimedia contributors |
| Number of editors | 20 | Both old and new Wikimedia contributors |
| Number of organizers | 3 | Experienced Wikimedians from Wiki Activate Africa |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 300 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | 50 |
| 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
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 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)
We will use the outreach dashboard to measure each of the metrics and the event registration tool to monitor registrations, and coordinate training dates and general information to participants.
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
Endorsements and Feedback
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- Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
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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).