Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/"Translatewiki.net in Nupe Language" (ID: 22572221)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Umar Ahmad2345

Organization

N/A

If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)

I'm a group leader of a Wikimedia User Group (submitted to the Affiliation Committee).

Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)

I am among the co-founder of the Nupe Wikimedians User Group Submitted to Affcom for recognition (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nupe_Wikimedians_User_Group)

Main Proposal

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

"Translatewiki.net in Nupe Language"

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2024-06-02 - 2024-07-09

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Nigeria

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

Other (please specify) Other (please specify) In a bid to fasten the chances of getting our own domain to increase the visibility of "Nupe language on the internet since we are in the verge of getting our own site: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Incubator:Main_Page There is a need to concentrate on adopting the translate wiki to ease content contribution for new users which at the end of the project, we are expecting the old and new Nupe language editors that will be recruited to translate the most important messages of the MediaWiki which will create a clear user interface friendly

6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)

Nupe Wikipedia is in Incubator stage with alot of untranslated interface, we tend to make the site fully translated so that users will have a more convenient access to it in our language even though we are non-recognized Nupe Group (in the process of applying for official status), At the end of the project, we are expecting the old and new Nupe language editors that will be recruited to translate the most important messages of the MediaWiki software on translatewiki.net. Both the old and new editors will be trained on how to translate messages on the translatewiki.net interface, while also monitoring their progress closely. Gift prizes will be given to the top 5 editors during the project as a form of motivation. we are going to host a 2-day in-person translate-a-thon to engage and train old and new Nupe language editors who will be recruited on how to translate the most important messages of the MediaWiki software on translatewiki.net.

7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.

Nupe Wikipedia is in Incubator stage with alot of untranslated interface, we tend to make the site fully translated so that users will have a more convenient access to it in our language even though we are non-recognized Nupe Group (in the process of applying for official status), At the end of the project, we are expecting the old and new Nupe language editors that will be recruited to translate the most important messages of the MediaWiki software on translatewiki.net. Both the old and new editors will be trained on how to translate messages on the translatewiki.net interface, while also monitoring their progress closely. Gift prizes will be given to the top 5 editors during the project as a form of motivation. we are going to host a 2-day in-person translate-a-thon to engage and train old and new Nupe language editors who will be recruited on how to translate the most important messages of the MediaWiki software on translatewiki.net.

8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.

1. Project lead - Umar Ahmad2345 : He has several contributions to ensuring Nupe wikipedia is advance to get it's own site. Having him as part of the team to implement this awareness will be colorful.He is among the co-founders of the Nupe's wikipedia submitted to Affcom and Langcom :https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Nupe and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nupe_Wikimedians_User_Group 2. Training Facilitator - Jameel35 : He is an active editor who always provide time to guide new editors on using incubator. He will play a crucial role of ensuring online guide of using the incubator to new editors. 3 .Project coordinator- Misbahu Umar : He is an experienced editor who is currently the first administrator on the Nupe wikipedia https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/nup, and happened to be involved in many wikipedia projects. He is among the co-founders of the Nupe's wikipedia submitted to Affcom and Langcom :https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Nupe and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nupe_Wikimedians_User_Group 2. 4. Female Representative- Fauziya Isa: She will ensure a smooth communication of the project during and after the project.

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? (required)

As usual, the target participants will be youths based in Niger state of Nigeria, who are native speakers of Nupe language and whom most are students. Participants will be recruited through offline/physical recruitment processes to actualize our project. Participants who will be engaged for the translate-a-thon will be given a form in order to collect their data for registration. On the day of the project, we are going to teach the participants how to edit on translatewiki.net for hitch-free volunteering. When the event is over, the new participants will join our Nupe Wikimedians group, get added to our WhatsApp group and follow our social media pages. All the participants will be receiving updates from us and follow-up will also be conducted through one-on-one engagement, listening to the participants challenges, guiding and answering their questions as the case may be.

10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)

Yes

10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.

We will adhere to the Wikipedia universal code of conduct: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Friendly_space_policy#Youth_Safety and the Wikimedia foundation friendly space policy: https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Friendly_space_policy#:~:text=The%20Wikimedia%20Foundation%20is%20dedicated,expression%2C%20disability%2C%20physical%20appearance%2C

11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.

We will let them know through our User group communities social media handles and on their talk pages on Meta Wiki.

12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Language

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Advocacy

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Linguistic / Language

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning and metrics

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

We hope to learn how interested the participants are in working on translatewiki.net through the training, if it's stressful or not and how to do it better next time.

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics	Target	Optional description
Number of participants	48	We target 20 consisting (10 new editors and 10 old editors) for 2 days with four organizers making a total of 48, that is for each event we going to have 24 people and the event is for 2 days hence making the total of 48
Number of editors	24	As earlier describe above we plan on having 20 editors and 4 organizers for 2 days
Number of organizers	4	The organizers role have been clearly stated in section 8 above

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki	400
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

We intent to translate from English to Nupe on the translatewiki.net interface which will ease language users friendly

19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

No

Main Open Metrics Data
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20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)

User Contributions history will be used to measure the metrics

Financial proposal

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1armTWUID1nCfcFjqs2IKoEVssOi6Nrze/edit?usp=drivesdk&ouid=108153995667645348119&rtpof=true&sd=true

22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)

1481080 NGN

22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.

927 USD

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

Yes

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