Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Luanda 101 (ID: 22161205)

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Applicant Details

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Jaliya B.

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Paula Sebastião

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.

No

Grant Proposal

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

Wiki Luanda 101

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.

https://www.instagram.com/wiki_luanda

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

Wiki Luanda 101 is a workshop that intends to share knowledge on Wikimedia projects and their relevance, and introduce the Wiki Luanda project. Wiki Luanda is an Angolan initiative that seeks to create visibility and representation of marginalized figures from African countries on Wikipedia, with a special focus on Portuguese-speaking African countries in order to create a historical redress that permits the creation of a cultural archive.

Problem/challenge:

Inequality regarding representation and participation of Africans on Wikipedia
An even smaller representation and participation of Africans from Portuguese-speaking countries
No Wikipedia group in Angola

Change that is sought:

Greater representation on Wikipedia of people from African countries with special focus on Portuguese-speaking African countries, showcasing their contributions to society
A cultural archive through generating an online presence
A Wikipedia community/group in Luanda

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

- Bring together people who identify with the Wiki Luanda mission, are interested in redressing the representation and knowledge gap and perhaps already do similar work, such people are more likely to engage, collaborate with Wiki Luanda.

Promote knowledge-sharing about Wikimedia and its relevance. Knowledge is power and if people get a better understanding of what the Wikimedia projects are and know how they can contribute and make a difference, they’re more likely to engage.

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

Wiki Luanda 101- A workshop that intends to share knowledge on Wikimedia projects and their relevance, and introduce the Wiki Luanda project, featuring 25 participants.

The workshop will have 2 days.

Day 1 will have 3 sessions and will count on the support of two partners who will join the activity online.

1st Session- Wiki Luanda Team: The Wiki Luanda team will introduce the project, stating their case for starting it and how people can contribute to it and stay engaged.
2nd Session- Wiki Editoras Lx: Wiki Editoras Lx will share information on their initiatives and experiences with Wikimedia projects, particularly Wikipedia.
3rd Session- The Black Lunch Table: The Black Lunch Table (BLT) will share information on their initiatives and experiences with Wikimedia projects, particularly Wiki Commons.

Day 1 will touch on global knowledge, representation, how to start a Wikimedia community (organizational tools), best practices, principles for community organization.

There will be time for a short Q&A segment in between sessions and after the 3rd session, participants will get more time to discuss things and engage with each other.

Day 2 will be an online edit-a-thon with the help of our more experienced partners, Wiki Editoras Lx. Participants will get the chance to do something practical, and apply the knowledge, understanding, and interest they´ve nurtured from Day 1. They will be divided in pairs and create or improve pages.

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.

Not applicable

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

To implement this proposal Wiki Luanda is joining forces with Wiki Editoras Lx and the Black Lunch Table.

Wiki Luanda Team User: Jaliya B (coordinator): She is an Angolan writer, poet and performer. Her work explores the experience of being a Woman, Black and African, creating a space where history, politics and anthropology intersect. The poet considers it revolutionary to tell stories to disrupt, destroy, construct narratives, and archive existence. Jaliya is a co-founder of The Archive Room, a digital memory bank and archive that seeks to showcase the stories of the angolan people. She is also a poetry interviewer at Africa In Dialogue, an online interview magazine that archives creative and critical insights with Africa's leading storytellers.

User: Paula Sebastião (coordinator): Pamina Sebastião is from Angola, lives in Luanda. Lawyer and Master in International Law and International Relations, they have been dedicated to activism for several years. Within their activism, they have been part of several collectives and organizations related to issues of gender and sexuality, among them: Ondjango Feminista of which they were part of the coordination team; the Angolan Identity Archive of which they were co-creator and program manager and the LINKAGES Angola project of which they were part of the team of prevention services for key populations (transgender women, men who have sex with men and sex workers) in which they worked around stigma and discrimination. Today they are also on the board of The Other Foundation, a regional LGBTIQ+ organization that also does stigma and discrimination consulting on a national level. Overall, they have worked in an activism focused on discussions of gender and sexuality.

Wiki Editoras Lx (workshop facilitators): Wiki Editoras Lx is an open and informal group of Portuguese Wikipedia editors that has been meeting since May 2019 to edit (create, improve and extend entries/pages) about cis and trans women, people of non-binary gender, and issues of their interest. The group prioritises editing content linked to Lusophone communities, in particular black, migrant, indigenous, rural, Roma, LBTQI+, among others. Another priority of the group is to increase the number of editors and publishers within Wikipedia by opening their meetings twice a month to those who have never edited and want to learn.

The Black Lunch Table (workshop facilitators): BLT is a project focused on the lives and work of black artists. BLT project is aimed at addressing the racial and gender bias on Wikipedia by encouraging Wikipedia articles about African American artists. The BLT brings people together through dialogues about the writing, recording, and promoting inclusive art history.

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

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.

Content gender gap: We´ll seek to profile female subjects during the edit-a-thon. Geography: The proposal aims to represent greater geographical diversity.

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.

Diversity

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

Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Disabilities, Socioeconomic status

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?

The workshop is aimed at:

people who identify with the Wiki Luanda mission
people who work with representation, inclusivity, online presence, digital archiving

-people who are interested in Wikimedia projects and could be future participants, contributors, and collaborators for Wiki Luanda projects (edit-a-thons, photobooth sessions, roundtables)
- people who are from marginalized and underrepresented communities e.g. women, people who are queer, people with a disability, people who are from a low economic class.

We are looking for people with digital skills, who enjoy writing and are interested in the topics Wiki Luanda wishes to cover.

We hope participants of the workshop will go on to become editors, organizers, volunteers, supporters of Wiki Luanda, and new readers (users) of Wikimedia projects. After the Wiki Luanda 101 workshop, we hope to have planted the seeds to generate interest and motivation to participate in our projects.

We plan on hosting online and offline events where participants will get the chance to network and have conversations that are relevant to the Wiki Luanda project, edit-a-thons.

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

Informing participants of the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy to let participants know that there is a code of conduct they have to adhere to. Having a survey where people can voice out their concerns and their experience during the activities, and promoting open dialogue by encouraging people to speak on their experience and suggest things that could be improved.

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.

Wiki Luanda has limited experience, we are counting on the involvement and support of more experienced partners who will share the information on Wikimedia communities.

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.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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

Was the strategy effective for the participants involved to become interested in being part of an editor´s community or to edit by themselves? What were some of the challenges? What worked well, what didn’t work well? What are some blindspots about the Wiki Luanda project? Which kind of participants are interested?

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
Interest in Wikimedia projects	% of participants of day 1 that participated on day 2 practical activities	N/A
Interest in becoming an active contributor to WM projects	% of participants that refers willingness to continue to edit % of participants who edit on the next 30 days after the event	N/A
WM movement Awareness	% of participants who refer having increased their knowledge on WM projects	N/A
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	# of attendees of the events, disaggregated by the sessions.	25
Number of editors	# of people who participated in the editing activities
Number of organizers

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

Registration forms Event survey Programs & Events Dashboard

Financial Proposal

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

2086000 ALL

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

4081.72 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sO8_WKiEQH_xYqooTxrTSPRSmacDEPX8/edit#gid=59330266

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

Yes

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