Grants:Project/Rapid/Dallung Wikimedians Community/Team and Community Engagement Activities

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Rapid Grants

Dallung Wikimedais Community/Team and Community Engagement Activities

This project seeks to expand Wikimedia community engagement in Ghana for a duration of three months, by

Increasing opportunities for community capacity development Supporting Dallung Wikimedians team meetups

Organizing physical workshops/trainings for community members.

targetWikipedia,Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons

start dateMay 25

end dateJuly 25

budget (local currency)11,694 GHS

budget (USD)1,546.06

grant typeindividual

grantee• Seini.coe

contact(s)• seini.coegmail.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".

1. Recruit new editors.
2. Engage existing editors to sharpen their editing skills.
3. Train selected volunteers on leadership skills to take up leadership roles in future.

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing? The fact that in most communities members do not mostly have regular practice of contributing to Wikimedia projects in a group form is not far-fetched, it is also obvious that majority of them do not know the inside-out of the processes involved in executing the projects that they always participate in. It is in light of this that we, as a community deem it necessary to remedy these observations. This is a 3 month duration project that seeks to expand Wikimedia community engagement in Ghana. Time would be spent: Organizing bi-weekly online team meetings. This would take place every other week on Sunday to discuss:

• ongoing projects
• future developments, and support for volunteers.
• Organizing bi-weekly community offline meetups

Every other week on Saturday, the Dallung Wikimedians Community will meet offline to participate in a community activity. It will be an opportunity for people to come in and freely share ideas and learn something new about the Wikimedia projects and how to contribute to it.

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?

Community members will get to know about the project via Dallung Wikimedians Community Social media channels; WhatsApp and Facebook.

Phone calls will also be made to take care of volunteers from internet challenged communities.

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

We will continue to engage volunteers on our Community WhatsApp group.

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:

1. Number of total participants at community meetings:200
2. Number of total participants at Team meetings: 50
3. Number of new users engaged/recruited into Wikimedia movement:50

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).

The project will be led by the user:seini.coe with support from the Dallung Wikimedians Community core team. The meeting arrangements also will include volunteers as a means to mentor them to take up leadership roles in the group.

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

Item	Description	Unit	Quantity per Event	Number of Events	Total
Team meetings	Internet data allowance for participants; 6 total meetings for 8 expected participants per meeting	20	8	6	960
Community meetings	Food/Refreshment for participants; 6 total meetings for 30 expected participants per meeting	40	30	6	7,200
Venue rental	Cost of venue for offline events	400	NA	6	2400
Zoom annual subscription	Zoom will allow us to hold online meetings and can record for for future references.				1,134
	Total GHS				11,694
	Total USD = 1,546.06 (Oanda Exchange, May 5, 2022, 1 USD = 7.564 GHS)

Endorsements

1.  Strong support. This project will engage community members more to enable them learn new editing skills and also become familiar with the processes involved in carrying out activities in the community since some of them will be included in the team meetingsFatawu25 (talk) 23:37, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
2.  Strong support.Masterrashad (talk) 10:34, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
3.  Strong support.Alliance abio ([[User talk:Alliance abio| 09:15, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
4.  Strong support.Doctor Dalun (talk) 09:17, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
5.  Strong support.Fotosabdul (talk) 10:37, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
6.  Strong support.Bash222 (talk) 20:57, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
7.  Strong support.Afa Salim (talk) 22:01, 13 A
8.  Strong support.Abdulfatawu12 (talk) 09:38, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
9.  Strong support.Musah Yussif (talk) 11:10, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
10.  Strong support.Karim Fuseini (talk) 15:28, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
11.  Strong support.Afa jei223 (talk) 20:55, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
12.  Strong support.Alhassan Abdul Somed (talk) 14:33, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
13.  Strong support.Nasam122 (talk) 19:55, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
14.  Strong support.Abdul-Azeez Mahama (talk) 14:54, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
15.  Strong support.Amina musah (talk) 16:27, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
16.  Strong support.154.160.26.65 19:49, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
17.  Strong support.Maltiti Mohammed (talk) 19:04, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
18.  Strong support.Ayisha35 (talk) 19:56, 13
19.  Strong support.Karikari100 (talk) 00:04, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
20.  Strong support.Queen Lt (talk) 11:29, 14 April 2022 (UTC)
21.  Strong support.Seini.coe (talk) 08:58, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
22.  Strong support.Nuhumallam (talk) 10:50, 15 April 2022 (UTC)