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Wikitionary Guidelines Pages Creation
proposed start date2022-08-30
proposed end date2022-10-30
budget (local currency)1824000 NGN
budget (USD)4396.98 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• User:Salisu Adamu
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

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Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

User:Salisu Adamu

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

User:Abubakr11111

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.

Not a member to any Wikimedia Affliates.

Grant Proposal

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

Wikitionary Guidelines Pages Creation

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.


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

In this project we set a plan to create Wikitionary Guidelines pages on referencing, what Wikitionary is, what Wikitionary is not, how to edit and and contribute to Hausa Wikitionary in such away that every word and contribution in Hausa Wikitionary will align with the guided rules and policy of Wikitionary General Contribution policy set across all Wikimedia Projects for Wikitionary. Words that are related to Hausa Wikitionary will be perfectly created, in such away that users and new bees do not create a word that is not worth encyclopedic. example of the pages intending to provide in Hausa Wikitionary are 1 - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:Starting_a_new_page 2 - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Help:How_to_edit_a_page 3 - And so on...

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

We plan to create the pages in Hausa Language so that users will be conversant with the guided rules and policy in creating words, so that they shouldn't get mislead. The project will be effective when users know Wikitionary General Policy before creating words, because users are always creating words that are not useful or does not correspond to the concept of creating words in Hausa Wikitionary, like creating words without reference, creating words like an article and so on.

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

There are four kind of activities we are planning to carry to ensure we achieve this goal in Hausa Wikitionary, and are as follow:- 1 - Guideline Pages Creation: Wikitionary Pages Creation by organizers and train participants. 2 - Awareness to local community members: Awareness to Hausa Wikitionary contributors about the created pages. 3 - Edith-a-thon: Series of event to create the pages, and guide editors. 4 - Standard Words Creation;

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.

Other (please specify)

Wikitionary Guidelines Pages Creation
5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

I and together with the help of an admin Hausa Wikitionary will work together to make the positive impact happens. User:Abubakr1111

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.

Language

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.

This project is to promote Hausa Language in Wikitionary around the world with standard way of acquiring the meaning of words in Hausa Language.

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.

Not applicable

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

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?

We are targeting the existing editors from Hausa Wikitionary, moreover, those we train during our first project Files Linking in Hausa Wikitionary. We will engage them when when making awareness on what Guidelines in Hausa Wikitionary is all about and during edithathon. we will follow them up through social media handles.

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

We will comply with UCOC and Wikimedia Foundation Friendly Space.

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.

Community members have ben notified through this link https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:Babban_shafi#Wikitionary_Guidelines_Pages_Creation

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.

Improve User Experience, Manage Internal Knowledge, Identify Topics for Impact

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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

1 - We hope to learn that users stop creating words that are not useful. 2 - We hope to see that words are more educative and Hausa language is sharing its knowledge effectively. 3 - We hope to learn that users acquired knowledge of what Wikitionary is and is not.

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
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17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants We are targeting 35 participants to help in making this project accomplish. 35
Number of editors We want to have 10 newly editors, because we want to improve user experience, recruiting is not necessary. 10
Number of organizers Organizers with on wiki activities I and User:Abubakr1111 2
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project Description Target
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17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

We planned to create 20 guidelines pages.

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.

We will use xtools to measure number of page views of each page out of the 20 pages, and those editors that help in creating the pages.

Financial Proposal

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

1824000 NGN

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

4396.98 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZikrNqGVG5mlWwidSEGoA7j35QIAmLuzXBdxAs5a_wE/edit?usp=sharing

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

Yes

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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.
  • Highlighting any aspects they think are particularly well developed: for instance, the strategies and activities proposed, the levels of community engagement, outreach to underrepresented groups, addressing knowledge gaps, partnerships, the overall budget and learning and evaluation section of the proposal, etc.
  • 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).

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