Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Alliances Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves SDGs Campus Tour (ID: 21852945)
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Applicant Details
edit- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Prithee P
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
James Moore200 Godstime Elijah Major Lyte Dammy Kaka Bukky658 Adebukola3ee
- 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.
Nigeria Wikimedia User Group
Grant Proposal
edit- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wiki Loves SDGs Campus Tour
- 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.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Wiki Loves SDGs Campus Tour is intending to tour three different universities in Nigeria and improve SDGs related content on Wikipedia. For example, one of the campuses we intend on visiting does not have a Wikimedia Fanclub or ever had a Wikipedia event. We hope to form a new community with editors interested in the SDGs and keep existing editors active. While introducing them to Wikipedia.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
From previous experiences, we noticed monetary gifts tend to not bring about long term impact. For this reason, this project will make use of incentives such as jotters, pens e.t.c. hopefully, through this, the project will be able to get a longer-term impact. I will also be working with schools and hopefully meet double our targets.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
I am hoping to train new members on Wikipedia and recruit participants interested in SDGs. One of the universities(Lautech) selected has never had a Wikipedia event, hopefully, we will be able to introduce the Wikimedia movement there and keep them engaged.
- 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.
Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
They are all volunteers and experienced editors.
- User: James Moore200 (Communications) He's an experienced facilitator and a communication expert. He will also be in charge of reaching out to participants via emails, user pages and virtual follow up.
- User: Godstime Elijah (Trainer) He will assist with the training and community engagement.
- User: Major Lyte (Publicity) He will be in charge of media engagement and event promotions on the various campuses.
- User:Dammy Kaka (Trainer) Experienced editor and will also help with organising the event at Lautech and forming a new community.
- Bukky658 Experienced editor from Kwasu. She will assist with the event at Kwasu.
- Adebukola3ee Experienced editor from Lasu. He will help with the event at Lasu.
- 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.
Content Gender gap, Topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context
- 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.
Update SDGs related content. Some of the SDGs related content particularly on Africa is inaccurate or needs to be updated. I hope we can bridge this gap and contribute to free knowledge
- 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.
Climate Change and sustainability
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Not applicable
- 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?
Our target participants are University students. We are looking at achieving long term goals. Online platforms would be made where we can talk communicate Wiki-related kinds of stuff after the events. Editors that would be active and understand our vision is what we are aiming for.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
To help protect the participants, safety guidelines will be strictly adhered to such as maintaining social distance, and using face masks and sanitisers.
- 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.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Community_Notification_29
I have dropped a notification to let my local community members know about the project. Hopefully, I will get a number of responses.
- 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
If no:
- 12.1 What was the reason for you deciding NOT to develop a joint proposal? How will you guarantee coordination efforts to make sure that you are not duplicating efforts and that you can maximise your work and joint impact.
- On the Wikimedia Nigeria UG, I checked and no one else is running a similar project. Also, I am working with about 7 other editors, for now, to bring this project to light. Hopefully, other experienced editors will volunteer to help as the project preparation begins.
- 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.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
edit- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
This would be my first time trying a hybrid event (physical and virtual). The reason for this is because in past physical events I have co-organised I discovered that participants needed virtual events to follow up. I hope this would lead to more successful results. I hope every participant can contribute to the English Wikipedia. Lastly, I hope this project can produce editors that would stay long term.
- 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 | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | Number of participants per campus | 25 |
| N/A | Number of new editors | 40 |
| Physical event | 2 trainings events per campus = 6 in total | 6 |
| Virtual session | virtual follow-ups for participants | 3 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 25 editors per campus | 75 |
| Number of editors | ||
| Number of organizers | 7 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | N/A | 150 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
- 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.
Financial Proposal
edit- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
2116736 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4792 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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