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statusUnder review
Wiki Women 2024
proposed start date2024-03-01
proposed end date2024-04-15
budget (local currency)670000 NPR
budget (USD)4958 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSA
decision fiscal year2024-25
applicant• Nabin K. Sapkota
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

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Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Nabin K. Sapkota

Organization

N/A

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).

Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)

Executive member - Wikimedians of Nepal

Main Proposal

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

Wiki Women 2024

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2024-03-01 - 2024-04-15

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Nepal

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

Art+Feminism

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)

First of all, Wiki Women or Wiki Women 2024 ( formally Wiki Women Edit-a-thon) aim to creating awareness about gender related issues and value the being of women . In occassion of International Women's Day , a month long Wiki Women Edit-a-thon was started in the year 2016 as the first initiation and continued in 2017, 2018, 2019 ending up creating and editing 1500+ articles in numerous languages over Wikipedia and it's sister projects.

Carrying forward the legacy, this time we're focusing in awareness about Women related health issues. According to different global survey bunch of Women all around the world loses their life due to the lack of proper health awareness about Women related health issues. There are still a lot of communities and societies where the open discussion of Women related health issues are not properly discussed and addressed due to numerious social beliefs. So, the foremost task of this initiative is to deliver brief awareness to address those issues via creating and improving those contents over Wikipedia and it's sister projects.

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.

Our major approaches & strategies are to develop and achieve high number of quality and productive contents related to Womedn related health issues. With a theme of "Right person at right job" we're deploying a long time media person and leading sport journalist of Nepal Sonika Aryal and MBBS doctor Sabina Khadka one of our executive team member for this event. Along with that we're approaching women lead institutions and organizations like Women Leaders in Technology (WLiT) and Nepali Women+ in Computing (NWiC) as our event associates which helps both of us to create a better contents and exposures.

Here’s the execution timeline we’re already working on: Beginning of the event - on March 01 Research and Listing - March - 01 to March 10 (Research and create list of Women related health issues and scripting ) Edit-a-thon - March - 01 to April 15 Organize edit-a-thon in ne.wikipedia.org for mass participation Awareness session - March 08 and 22 (Awareness session about Wiki Women Initiative with enthusiasts) Content creation - March 15 and April 10 - Create Wikipedia articles and awareness videos on Women related health issues Finalize and upload : April 05 and April 15 - Finalize and upload videos on Wikimedia Commons and embed to concerned projects and articles Closing of the event - April 15

Activities details: Awareness session - to aware and communicate with enthusiasts, activists and associative organizations. Content creation- to discover and create real-time contents either articles or videos to aware Wikipedia readers and viewers Edit-a-thon - to create and modify women health related contents over Wikipedia and it’s sister projects Closing event - Report, metrics, blogs and Glimpse of the overall event.


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.

We've experienced team members for the event and all the activities. User: Nabin K. Sapkota ( Grant and Event Coordinator ) User: Nirmal Dulal ( Edit-a-thon and Social Media Management) User: Saroj Kumar Dhakal ( Session and Outreach coordinator) Dr. Sabina Khadka ( Content Translation, Scripting and Listing) Sonika Aryal ( Content Translation, Scripting and Voice over )

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)

All the active contributors of Wikimedia projects and user groups operating in Nepal will be our foremost target audience for participation and execution. Apart from that we'll be organizing promotional sessions in colleges and associate organizations.

Regarding engagement of participants before and during the event. We'll be executing promotional awareness sessions via online platform and offline meet-ups before execution. We'll be engaging the team and participants via awareness session during the event time. And afterwards we'll be organizing edit-a-thon session to improve and place the contributed contents in related articles.

Also, we're running the awareness session for all the known and unknown audiences via online and offline platforms regarding event, duration, terms of usage and proper placing of the contents. Along with that we'll be focused on recognizing and admiring the contributors and associates with all kind of operating supports and motivation needed during all kind of session to be organized.

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.

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.

Here's the link of information in village pump over ne-wikipedia

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)

Content Gender gap

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Gender and diversity

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Gender Identity

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning and metrics

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17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

In this project through this collaborations with numerous parties and associates we hope to built a strong and productive enthusiastic task force to create and distribute the free and open knowledge to everyone needed.

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics Target Optional description
Number of participants 50
Number of editors 10
Number of organizers 2
Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia 200
Wikimedia Commons 50
Wikidata 20
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 Data
Main Open Metrics Description Target
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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)

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/

Financial proposal

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21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YjE6XrFMXjgYv0joxzhb0Efv9pqW4Qv0/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108445861617618620462&rtpof=true&sd=true


22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

670000 NPR

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.

4958 USD

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

Yes

Endorsements and Feedback

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  • 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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