Grants:PEG/Yvonne Oluoch/Edit-a-thon campaign for Kenyan influential women
Goal
editThe goal of this project is to create a community of women editors in Kenya. So far, there is no Kenyan woman actively contributing Kenyan women research in Wikipedia. So why is wikipedia the platform of choice? Wikipedia is a highly reputable website mainly because of the quality of documentation it contains.Unfortunately, most influential women in Kenya feature more on gutter press than on Wikipedia.It is therefore the best platform to use for promoting visibility of influential women in Kenya. This will then have a ripple effect on the young women editors to learn more the different areas of society in which they can contribute and make positive change.
Plan
editOur plan is simple, mobilize college students who are interested in research and learning how to contribute to Kenyan women wikipedia content. Train them on how to make wikipedia entries and then organize multiple editathons campaigns in their campuses for capacity building and growth of the community. Offer them mentorship so as to keep the campus wikipedia editathon growing. Some of the women we wish to document include, women who have done notable works in politics, technology and fashion, just but a few NOTE: This is just a sample and we would like to get public’s opinion further contribution during the outreach workshop at Africa Women in Tech Conference on the 14th November 2015
- Orie Rogo Manduli
- Ann Mcreath
- Carole Kinoti
- Connie Aluoch
- Dorothy Nyongó
- Angela Oduor
- Linda Kamau
- Judith Owigar
- Marrie Githingji
- Mishi Juma
- Zainab Kalekye
- Aisha Jumwa
- Halima Ware
- Shakila Abdalla
- Joyce Wanjala Lay
- Shukra Hussein Gure
- Fatuma Ibrahim Ali
- Fathia Mahbuub,
- Nasra Ibrahim Ibren
- Tiyah Galgalo
- Florence Kajuju
- Beatrice Nkatha
- Rose Rwamba Mitaru
- Nyiva Mwendwa,
- Susan Musyoka,
- Rose Mumo Museo
- Wanjiku Muhia
- Priscilla Nyokabi
- Winnie Karimi
- Wanjiru Chege,
- Annah Gatheca
- Joyce Akai Emanikor
- Regina Nyeris Changorok
- Maison Leshoomo
- Janet Nangabo
- Eusila Ngeny
- Susan Chebet
- Zipporah Kering
- Grace Kobilo Kiptui
- Jane Machira Appolos
- Mary Mbugua
- Narok, Soipan Tuya
- Mary Yiane Seneta
- Hellen Chelangat Chepkwony
- Cecilia Ngetich
- Rachel Amolo
- Dorcas Kedogo
- Reginalda Wanyonyi
- Florence Mwikali
- Christine Omabaka
- Rose Nyamunga
- Gladys Atieno Nyasuna
- Dennitah Ghati
- Mary Keraa-Otara
- Alice Chae
- Rachel Shebesh
- Sylvia Munyama
Activities
editWe intend to start small and have a huge impact which will strengthen our foundation, as we say, less is more. Our first outreach will be conducted at the African Women Tech Conference in Nairobi on 14th November 2015. This is a women tech community that I am a part of and it will be a good avenue to meet with female students who are interested to learn and contribute to wikipedia. A 2 hour workshop breakout session will ignite their curiosity and we plan to create a women in tech Kenya wikipedia page.
Subsequent trainings and editathon is to follow from February to April (Universities close in december for holidays and in january, students take time to settle down from holidays). We will work with 3 colleges in Nairobi i.e KCA University, Strathmore and Kenyatta. In each college we intend to host a total of 3 workshop trainings. 3 Saturdays in February in each college,same in March then in April, we will mix it up to be more interesting and attract more students. Within the 3 saturdays in April, one campus becomes a host of the other two and we alternate it within the 3 Saturdays. This will make a strong closing on the editathon campaign.
| Broad Activity | Objective | Indicator of success | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 2015 Outreach program at AWTC | Spread the news and get people psyched up about the subsequent trainings | Number of people who will sign up between 10-20 will be good | |
| Feb 2016 Campus editathons 30-40 participants in total(target) | Train students ways to contribute to wikipedia | 110 new entries | |
| Mar 2016 Campus editathons | More wikipedia entries | 160 new entries including edits | |
| Apr 2016 Campus editathons | More entries | Successful 180 new entries | Based on the target number of 30 and the average number of entries within 3 months is 150, then all the 30 editors will automatically become active editors by making 5 edits per month. |
- Community Engagement
We intend to use our breakout session at the AWTC to engage as many women as possible since this women in tech kenya community brings together influential women across all sectors and not only in technology.During the 2 hour outreach session, we will use it to get more public opinion from the community on other influential women they believe should be documented on wikipedia, besides the ones that we have on our list.
- Sustainability
Our sustainability strategy is to create a mailing list that will actively engage the editors remotely. Also, each campus is to have a wikipedia champion (someone who coordinates local campus wikipedia participants) who will also actively engage new participants who join the community. This will help grow the number of Kenya women wikipedia editors and increase Kenyan women content in wikipedia. Our local campus champions and other active member will also engage in mentor-mentee program to help new members settle in and contribute.
- Project Members
- Yvonne - Organizing facilitator
- Elijah - Project Manager
- Lydia - Strategist
- Peter - Advisor-has been editing wikipedia for 5 years and counting
- Carolyne - volunteering participant
- Margaret - volunteering participant
Impact
editOur impact is to have a solid women wikipedia chapter in Kenya that promotes women visibility and helps reduce the gender gap in wikipedia. More awareness of the public especially college students that they can contribute to wikipedia content and not just be consumers and downloaders of internet content. Additional package that comes with community and awareness is: Improved research, documentation and quality editing skills within the community.
Target readership
editWikipedia digital gender gap, getting more Kenyan influential women represented and women leading the contribution. Version: Wikipedia English. Why? Because English attracts more readership traffic as compared to Kiswahili.
Fit with strategy
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Measures of success
editOur measures of success depends on our strategic goals i.e: Grow a community by increasing reach to new contributors. This will take place as the activity flow above i.e we start off by hosting a workshop at the African Women In Tech Conference AWTC,which will take place at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi on the 14th November 2015. Details http://akirachix.com/announcing-the-2nd-annual-african-women-in-technology-conference-hosted-by-akirachix/. This conference has the perfect target audience from high school and college students and professionals. Not only from tech but across all fields. The beauty is that this conference will bring together influencial women in one place and potential contributors also. This conference will lead up to subsequent trainings in 3 campuses within a 3 month period as we build on a mentorship program through remote participation. With increased reach, comes increased participation to contribute which will in turn lead to increased readership from a trusted source.
Please provide a list of both quantitative and qualitative criteria that will be used to determine how successful the project is. You will need to report on the success of the project according to these measures after the project is completed. See the PEG program resources for suggested measures of success.
- Qualitative goals criteria includes
Increased contributions Increased skills for editing/contributing Recruitment of new editors/contributors I believe that the above 3 goals stand a high chance of success since college students respect and value wikipedia's work. So having a positive perception towards wikipedia heightens the desire of students to want to be associated with wikipedia in this case female students. One point to note is that most students use wikipedia as their trusted source for any truthful referral, even cheating on exams and lecturers have never disputed wikipedia's content. So all the above qualitative goals stand a high chance to succeed.
- Quantitative metrics
During the African Women In Tech Conference: Our target number of signed up participants either from high school or college students or professionals is 20 atmost. We will create a mailing list from the details that they will leave from signing up and invite them to our subsequent campus trainings where we are targeting 10 college students with (+5 allowance will be available) 3 campuses, 10 students each, a total of 30 new contributors/ editors (+10-15 allowance) 2nd month target is to attract new users who did not make it to the 1st month and the 3rd month target is to retain the contributors and encourage them to continue editing through remote participation, mentor-mentee program.
| Event | Max target No.of participants | indicator of success |
|---|---|---|
| AWTC, outreach, Nov 2015 | 20 | at least 10 of the registered attendants show up on campus editathons |
| Campus editathon 1, Feb 2016 | 45 in total from 3 campuses +10 from AWTC outreach | 110 new articles and update edits of existing influential women pages(each person, an edit and a new entry) |
| Campus editathon 2,March 2016 | Retain 35 participants from 1st editathon and attract 10 new users | 140 new articles and edits, each participant to make atleast 4 entries of new articles and editing update.New participants will make 2 entries each, 1 new article and 1 edit i.e 20 entries.Total entries from 2nd editathon is 160 |
| Campus editathon 3, April 2016 | Retain all 45 2nd editathon participants, new participants are welcome | 180 entries,at least 4 per person, either edits or new articles, new members will be teamed up with existing participants through a mentor-mentee program so as to learn and make some entry contribution |
| TOTAL:1 outreach campaign+9 editathons | TOTAL:45 retained active editors | TOTAL:450 new articles and edits |
Resources and risks
edit| Location | Resource |
|---|---|
| AWTC | Venue is free |
| Campuses | Library use free |
Resources
editTeam Members
- Yvonne Oluoch organizing facilitator wiki/User:Yvonne_Oluoch
- Lydia, Strategist
- Margret,Volunteering facilitator
- Carolyne volunteering facilitator
- Elly Young, Project Manager
- Peter, Advisor and active wikipedia contributor
Unfortunately, we do not have any evidence for past wikipedia contribution online and we hope this will be our first successful online contribution to wikipedia. A step into the right direction from offline mobilization and outreach. I attended a gender ad tech conference in Berlin last year in December and that is where I got to learn of wiki gender gap in a workshop session on women representation on wikipedia. From there, I always bring up the discussion of bridging wiki gender gap to create awareness and contribution of more women especially global south, Kenya to be specific.
Risks
editNot specifically a risk but rather a need.Since we want to host 3 editathons per months in 3 months i.e 9 in total. Getting a volunteer contributor especially for the 1st month might be a challenge given that there is no compensation in offering trainings. Local Kenyan context while conducting workshop trainings is that most facilitators will want a small compensation. Local training context.
Budget
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| Item Description | Unit | Number of Units | Unit Cost | Total Cost | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pull up banners | 1 | 4 | 180 | 720 | One banner for the AWTC outreach workshop, 3 banners for each college campus to attract participants during the 3 month engagement | |
| Branded T-Shirts | 1 | 20 | 10 | 200 | We will have a stand at the event and during tea breaks and lunch, there will be trivia wikipedia questions for participants to "win "a t-shirt.The trivia will be asking the participants questions on which notable kenyan women are not reflecting in wikipedia and what notable works have they done with evidence.This will encourage participants to refer to wikipedia for evidence and also help us find out more women to document.The t-shirts will be for AWTC Outreach | |
| Food and beverages (mostly snacks) | 1 | 9 | 250 | 2,250 | During the 3 month editathon campaign, we will conduct 9 editathon workshops, 3 at each campus | |
| Transportation | 1 | 30*6 | 250 | 450 | During the last month of the editathon, we would like the participants to get to know other community members instead of contributing independently as campuses.This will strenghten the community and even strenghten the remote mentorship process.So we would like to organize transportation from one campus to another for networking between the participants.This will save time if we can all arrive at the designated campus of choice instead of having the participants going individually.So we will hire local transportation to the campus of the day.To and fro transportation to their respective campuses | |
| Misceleneous (in terms of bank fees and inflation rate | 1 | 1 | 362 | We are estimating miscellaneous to cost at most 10% of the total items cost i.e 3620. Foreign currency bank charges usually cost 10 dollars per transaction in most banks.Any extra costs within miscellaneous will be clearly accounted for | ||
| Total | 3,982=398200 KES |
- Total cost of project
- 3982
- 1 USD=100 KES
- Total amount requested from the Project and Event Grants program
- 3982 USD =398,200 KES
- Additional sources of revenue that may fund part of this project, and amounts funded
During the outreach workshop, Akirachix, the hosting organization http://akirachix.com/ are generous enough to offer us venue and meals for the day free of charge. Also, the college campus administration are offering their libraries and campus venue for free so no charges for that. We all stay in Nairobi so commuting from the campuses will either be using our private cars or public transportation (personal preference of individual organizer).
Non-financial requirements
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- Requests for non-financial assistance, if any
We would appreciate if we can use wikipedia logo in branding our trivia contest t-shirts and the banners.We want the t-shirts to look very nice that the audience will want to engage.Besides that we have a very charimstic lady to lead the contest.Like we know, small gestures go a long way and a won t-shirt has greater value than a free t-shirt. Also, given that the project is of a 3 month duration and we mentioned it above as a need rather than a risk. Can we get contact help with Kenya local wikipedia editors to train our contributors within the first month in each campus. We have one on board but we would appreciate if we can get connected with others so that they are part of this phenomenal project.
Discussion
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Endorsements
editDo you think this project should be selected for a Project and Event Grant? Please add your name and rationale for endorsing this project in the list below. Other feedback, questions or concerns from community members are also highly valued, but please post them on the talk page of this proposal.
- Kenya women representation in Wikipedia is important, so that the girl child can have local role models to look up to. Qwerty (talk) 14:29, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
- I am endorsing this project because of its clear objectives and strategy to get the right audience. Count me in Yvonne, I want to improve my writing skills and learn more about influential kenyan women.Irene Kimani (talk)16:03,20 October 2015 (UTC)
- A project like this encourages both contribution and awereness amongst the public.Kenya is a huge consumer of internet content and so our girls should contribute to the content that is widely consumed by many globally.Kiptoo (talk) 17:30, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
- I cant wait to be a prt of this during the AWTC. See you guys on the 14th Caro (talk) 18:25, 20 October 2015 (UTC)
- This project will empower the girl child in Kenya.I mostly like the AWTC target audience, perfect strategy plan Irene Kirimi (talk) 18:40, 20 October 2015 (UTC)