Grants:Project/Rapid/Celestinesucess/Wiki Tours North of Ghana

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Celestinesucess/Wiki Tours North of Ghana

We want to introduce senior high and tertiary students in remote areas of Upper East region of Ghana to Wikipedia and its sister projects.

targetEnglish Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons

start date25th ~~May~~ June

end date30th ~~October~~ November

budget (local currency)GHS 6630

budget (USD)1,229.07

grant typeIndividual

grantee• Celestinesucess

contact(s)• ursulazage@gmail.com

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Project Goal

Briefly explain what are you trying to accomplish with this project, or what do you expect will change as a result of this grant. Example goals include, "recruit new editors", "add high quality content", or "train existing editors on a specific skill".

We seek to extend Wiki activities to remote areas in the three Northern regions of Ghana.

Organise at least 1 edit-a-thon in each school to be visited in each of the regions.
Start a Wiki Club in each school we visit.
Provide each WikiClub with one USB flash drive containing an offline copy of Wikipedia.

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing?

Organize one training and workshop in each region.

Northern region - One training and one edit-a-thon.
Upper East - One training and one edit-a-thon.

How will you let others in your community know about your project (please provide links to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions)? Why are you targeting a specific audience? To get support from community memmbers, notifications have been posted on:

Wikimedia Ghana Usergroup mailing list
Wikimedians of Africa mailing list
Facebook page

What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?

Participants will be taught how to use talk pages so that, between editathons and after the project, their recents changes will be monitored and feedback posted on their talk pages.
Participants will have the benefit of engaging with 2 experienced editors who will be present at the events. These engagements may serve as mentorship opportunities for the new editors to increase their on-wiki skills even after the project ends.

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more specific to your project:

10 new editors
2 Wiki Cubs
12 new articles
Upload at least 50 pictures to Wikimedia Commons
Increasing readership for the students. Example; provide WikiTaxi or Kiwix offline Wikipedia dumps so they could access free content offline

Resources

What resources do you have? Include information on who is the organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

Zita Ursula Zage - an experienced editor who has led activities in Ghana for almost three years. Will coordinate the entire project.
Harriet Henry Bayel- an experienced editor who has led several activities in Ghana. Will be in charge of Logistics.
Sadik Shahadu- an experienced editor and Open Advocate. Will be in charge of communications.
Mohammed Sadat - a long time Wikimedian from the Wikimedia Ghana Usergroup with vast experience with topics concerning northern Ghana. Has agreed to advice the team and provide support.
Mohammed Jaward - Also an experienced editor who has led Wikimedia outreach activities up north and has good knowledge of the Northern Ghana terrain. Will provide support to the team.
Daniel Oduro Mensah - He is a lecturer at University for Development Studies, Navrongo Campus
Ernestina Appiah - the CEO for Ghana Code Club. She has a lot of experience establishing code clubs in senior high schools.She will helping us get access to the students and an ICT lab in the schools.
Isaac Kaledzi - the CEO for Africa Feeds media and his team will be providing us with media coverage

We have access to the following Schools

Bawku Senior High School (in Bawku)
University for Development Studies,(UDS) Navrongo Campus (in Navrongo)

We are in partnership with Ghana Code Club, Linux Accra User Group and Africa Feeds.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense:

Item	Quantity	Unit GHS	Total GHS	Comment
DETAILS OF BAWKU SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL EXPENDITURE
Flight	1	600 for a roundtrip	600	roundtrip from Accra to Tamale
Accommodation	2	450 for 2 nights per person	900
Transportation	2	200 for 2 days per person	400	transportation from hotel to venue
Snacks for participants	25	40 per head	1000
Feeding (Volunteers)	2	200 for 2 days per person	400
Internet	1	300	300
DETAILS OF UDS EXPENDITURE
Transportation	2	200 for 2 days per person	400	transportation from hotel to venue
Snacks for participants	25	40 per head	1000
Feeding (Volunteers)	2	200 for 2 days per person	400
Internet	1	300	300
Internet in a Box	2	215	430
Miscellaneous supplies			500	printing stickers, pins and 2 Tshirts
Grand Total			6630

Endorsements

Great initiative that will yield great results for the world's open knowledge community and persons in general. I fully endorse it and pray it gets the needed attention. Oralofori (talk) 11:23, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
It's an insightful project. It will help increase contents on Wiki. Kabusa16 (talk) 14:14, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Support- Isaac (talk) 16:16, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Support There are areas in the world, entire countries, without a single editor, where our projects are hardly known. But we want to become a truly global movement. There have been many attempts to raise awareness about our projects and about contribution. Some were successful, some were not. I know the engagements of the people involved in this grant proposal and know their dedication. They should be given a chance. I fully endorse this project. --Gereon K. (talk) 20:19, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Support I feel that outreach in schools is a very effective way to increase awareness of Wikipedia both among students and among their families and friends. The more people know about Wikipedia, the more new editors we will get in the long run. This project has my full endorsement. GastelEtzwane (talk) 22:39, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
Support I strongly endorse this as I think is a good project to expand the reach of Wikimedia Projects to remote areas which needs physical presence of experienced editors to establish the communities with the needed capacity to contribute to Wikimedia Projects.Jadnapac (talk) 10:41, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
Support The impetus of the Twi-translation projekt in Southern and Central Ghana needs to be carried over into further projects in the North of Ghana. I think the goals set in the impact section are very ambitious, sometimes not even met by some projects in the so called Global North. Therefore we should encourage such projects further and not be hindered, even if they don't fullfill short-term metrics. It is the steady drop, that hollows the stone. --Wuselig (talk) 12:59, 19 April 2019 (UTC)
Support Great project, I endorse. TereseB (talk) 11:16, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Support Work done is work done and let's do work! --X-Savitar (talk) 12:58, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
i think this outreach to the remote part of Ghana would increase the awareness of Wikipedia Afroprogrammer (talk) 15:41, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
Support This project will help to showcase unknown places in Ghana on Wikimedia platfrom-Olaniyan Olushola (talk) 01:15, 21 April 2019 (UTC).
It a good project that will help get more article and also train new members. Jessie Ola-Morris (talk) 09:30, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
Support Looks like an important and impactful project. --Discott (talk) 07:27, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
Support Good and experience people leading this project, which is completely in line with what we do in other part of the world and a good way to include less covered areas. So obviously I support. Anthere (talk)
SupportThe northern region has been left out in any Wikimedia-related. Its high time we go there. I support this project fully. Shahadusadik (talk) 13:54, 30 April 2019 (UTC)
Strong support. Great initiative. —M@sssly^✉ 23:07, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
Support Its a great initiative to ensure the inclusion of these regions to contribute to the sum of knowledge on wikipedia.Mwintirew (talk) 11:06, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
Support --Balabinrm (talk) 04:10, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
Support Great Initiative. Jaward (talk) 17:06, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
Strong support. There is so much undocumented history, culture and so many untagged locations in Northern Ghana. This will be a great exercise for students studying there, and locals as well Danyal O-M (talk) 18:31, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

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