Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Update 1 (ID: 22113052)

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Applicant Details

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Jwale2

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

NanaYawBotar

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.

Open Foundation West Africa

Grant Proposal

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

Wiki Update 1

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

International

Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

Ghana,USA, China, England, Germany etc

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.

Podcasting is one means of telling engaging stories. What this project seeks to solve is by providing a space for members in the movement to tell their stories; known or unknown, individual or a group, organization or emerging communities.

The podcast as we always do seek to provide training and provide insights over the period, and we are looking forward to further engage this year again.

In our previous edition of our work we lead a lot of project thereby telling community engaging stories and also collaborated with other communities on how best they can advance their activities using wikipedia as part of their tools to engage community and beyond.

This year we still continue to tell amazing community stories, provide trainings and also help communities in running campaigns and their activities through their promotional work.

Data of Previous Wiki Update Project Supported by the Foundation in 2021-2022 a. Data on the episode: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Jla93PQklHU3qyqe57MAdwK-1Fr5dxpz3OtuiJdpQM8/edit#gid=1946552405 b. Wiki Update 2022 wrapped: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/140Qspba56MWU0MPABLxGoVSgyGT3DhPC c. Grant Report: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Jwale2/Wiki_Update/Report

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

1. Partnerships: One of the key strategies the team and I would be looking at is partnerships with usergroups & non-usergroups. This is to enable as to increase our reach and also involve community and non- community members as well.

2. Communication: With communication as a strategy, we decided to involve other sub tools that would also increase our reach.

a. Social Media Engagement b. Distribution Service c. Channel for Recording

3. Community Engagement: Community engagement as a useful strategy, by partaking in projects and campaigns that will tell community stories.

4. Podcast tools Upgrade: We want to increase the number of tools and equipment we use for podcasting, which is increasing our Hardware & Software to aide us to do a good work.

5. Article Building List: Article building list as one of our strategies where we will ensure that we will make various list of articles available in terms of our partnerships.

6. Topics of Impacts: Topic lists that the podcast will focus on during interviews with speakers eg Climate: Triple Planetary Crisis and more.

7. Documentation of Process: We will make sure that our works are properly documented and structured on commons for usage.

8. Recruiting Newcomers: Through our podcast we will use the platform to recruit newcomers into the communities and share them among existing communities.

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

1. International Podcast: International podcast day is a period for podcasting where any story in-terms of advocacy in the movement through story-telling can be made available to the movement.

2. African Wiki Challenge: Engaging in the campaign building article list and also hearing the diverse stories from various community members.

3. Fante Wikipedia: Engaging an emerging language community and the kind of impact they want to make in the community through their stories.

4. Pidgin Wikipedia: Also, we engage an emerging language group which is the Ghana Pidgin and how impactful and effective this language is going to be going forward.

5. WikiForHumanRight: As we did last year, we are going to do a better work by engaging more campaigns that is going engage in this project and the kind of impact they would have at the end of the day.

a. Wiki-GreenCon: As part of our activities of WikiForHumanRight, we have decided to engage Wiki-Green Con campaign and how they are making a difference in their engagement.

b. Climate Article Build Up: As part of our engagement with communities around wikiforhumanright we will be building articles for organizers who are running campaign under climate.

6. World Day Celebration: So for the movement and other communities of which were engaged in this project last year. This years world day celebration will be involving and engaging the world to tell interesting stories linking it to the movement and beyond. List of our international day celebration are:World Clean-up Day,Womens Day Celebration, International Podcast Day,World Pingolin Day,World Mangrove Day etc

7. AfroCine Project: Engaging participant and organizers who are engaged in running this campaign for years, in-terms of telling the African stories through movies

8. SoundLogo: Speaking to the team on what the future of the sound logo is all about and it’s impacts

9. Wikipedia Asian Month: Engaging the organizers and participants through storytelling.

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.

1Lib1Ref, Art+Feminism, CEE Spring, Wikipedia Asian Month, Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves Women, WikiForHumanRights, WikiGap, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary

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

1. Jwale2:Podcast producer, he will lead the production and podcast creation.

2. NanaYawBotar: Marketing, campaigns, distribution.

3. Joris Darlington Quarshie: Providing insights in relation to technical support.

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, Socioeconomic Status

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.

As a result of the Wiki Update podcast partnership with various usergroups in the ecosystem and beyond we seek to cover the space of providing article lists and also encourage contributors to contribute.

We are also engaging highly distinguished personalities on record who will provide us with details which will be essential for the community to use as a result of advocacy in order to close the content gap and beyond that.

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.

Advocacy, Open Technology, Diversity

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

Sexual Orientation, Geographic , Disabilities, 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?

As a result of telling stories around the movement and beyond our initial key focus was various wikimedia usergroup,emerging communities, language groups & more in the ecosystem but as result of changes in the movement coupled with other activities, we will also engage members who are outside the movement because our work do affect their activities in terms of research.

So people we are looking forward to impact are people in the Ghanaian community and beyond.

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

In our partnership and working with organizers when building pages like meta, we make sure that we enshrine the FPS/UCOC so that everyone can have the opportunity and space to operate and move freely.

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 will inform participants and various communities through our active twitter and facebook handles and we will also share information and whatsApp and we willalso provide much insight on what we do on meta.

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.

Yes

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.

1. Wiki-Green Conference - As a result of our partnership with the organizers, we are king in telling the stories around the campaign and how effective the campaign is going to be as a result of the initiative which started last year, we continue to tell the climate story.

2. Abena.ai - A language voice ai community that we are looking at partnering and engaging them in their activities and see how their activities can have an impact on wikipedia and its sister project.

3. Open Foundation West Africa: Support us with reach and engagement with community members.

4. International Podcast Day (IPD): We will also celebrate the day in telling more stories in relation to the movement and beyond the movement and the team around that will be incharge of sharing our works on various social media channels.

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, Improve User Experience, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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

What I will like to learn from the change I want is:

1. Increasing my knowledge in partnerships

2. Improving my podcasting skills

3. Having members of the podcast community joining wiki activities

4. Also improving my wiki skills in terms of governance and beyond

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 listeners	Thus the number of listeners to the podcast	1000
Number of Subscribers	Increase the number of subscribers by letting audience to subscribe so that when there is a new creative work they can have time to listen	40
N/A	N/A	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
Number of editors
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.

I will be using the Spotify Podcast Analytics metrics tool to track activities, also as a result of partnership with usergroups and affiliate I would monitor the activtities as a result of impact on their dashboard.

Nevertheless, I will be also engaging partners outside the movement and see how Wiki Updates activities have been able to have impact on their project by collecting data from them.

Financial Proposal

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

31025.79 GHS

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

2561.61 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Kpo7Ze4m2Ca1eKsYY1KlyYSVZguGo9HPz2AoR0K8Q6A/edit#gid=0

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

Yes

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