Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/AfroSounds (ID: 21986798)

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Applicant Details

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

ReoMartins

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Danidamiobi, Prithee P

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.

Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Wikimedia Fan Club, University of Ilorin AfroCROWD Black Lunch Table Art+Feminism WikiProject Music

Grant Proposal

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

AfroSounds

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

Regional

Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

This project focuses on African countries.

R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

The AfroSounds Project is an African WikiProject which seeks to promote and advance the contribution of free and credible knowledge/content that relates to the Afrobeats Music Industry and related arts, as well as it’s evolution across several African countries, the Caribbean and the diaspora to Wikimedia projects. This project hopes to bridge the huge content gap observed and improve on the systemic bias and also prevent misrepresentation and misinformation, in context to African music, by sourcing true African narratives and standpoints. The AfroSounds Project aims to encourage the collaborative addition of accurate information to a wide variety of musical topics as it concerns the African/Afrobeats community. This project seeks to access and harness resources towards advancing a community that promotes knowledge equity of the underrepresented African community in music. This would be attained by creating articles, citations, media and data around the history and contemporary evolution of Afrobeats, African Music and related arts, to be available and accessible, both online and offline, and in different languages to a global audience.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

This project hopes to build the capacity of existing editors within the community and also intimate new volunteer editors on the basics of contributing to Wikipedia and it’s sister projects in context to African/Afrobeats music towards promoting free and genuine information and data of related topics. The project also plans to create a sustainable community of African music editors on the free encyclopedia who are dedicated to providing knowledge equity through resourceful contributions as it concerns the thematic discuss.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

An hybrid training event would be hosted for 2 days towards achieving this goal. Volunteer editors would be trained and taught on the rudiments of contributing to Wikimedia projects as it concerns the area of discuss both physically and virtually. Participants across the continent would be strongly advised to participate in the online/virtual session. A contest would also be held immediately after the training days to facilitate and further promote the objectives of the community through an increased gathering/collection of verified information about several identified topics in the scope of interest. A panel would be selected independently amongst experienced volunteers to manage the winning and selection process.

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?

Yes, I have the company of two experienced editors with me to facilitate this project as volunteers. They are User:Danidamiobi and User:Prithee P. With experience in hosting and co-organizing various projects and meetups just like Wiki Loves Africa, Wikipedia @20, Art+Feminism, Photo Tour of Urban Green Spaces, and other wiki events, I would be the lead for this project and be responsible for project management, onboarding participants and facilitating a training session. Danidamiobi with a vast experience of contributing to Wikimedia projects, especially having created some notable articles in this targeted space as well, would be a facilitator for training participants as well as Prithee P who is also an experienced contributor with numerous contributions and organizing other wiki projects like SheSaid and Wiki Loves SDGs. Facilitators are a member of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria.

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.

Geography, Language, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

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.

This project poses as a topic of impact as Afrobeats/African music has evolved over the years from historical perspectives to modern contemporary sounds and content. The Afrobeats/African Music community garners international attention and requires credible and free contribution of this knowledge by Africans through the lens and languages of the community, hence preserving and conserving knowledge which will be available for use to the global audience and generations to come.

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.

Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy, Diversity

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language

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?

Target participants would be any African descent who is willing to volunteer and contribute to archiving verified stories, topics, biographies and contents related to African Music on the free encyclopedia for global use. The use of social media would be adopted to make awareness about this project. Existing related communities, groups, organizations and affiliates would also be intimated about the objectives of the project to leverage on their network, ideas and resources. Subsequent meetups would likely hold to sustain the community. Post training survey would also be organized to harvest thoughts of participants as concerning the project and to build a directive of volunteers who have indicated interest in the project for further interactions.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

This project would be hosted within and around an inclusive environment which pays cognizance to the friendly space policy to include all humans interested in volunteering for free knowledge and provide support as necessary.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#The_AfroSounds_Project

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.

The project has been announced on the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria discussion page to intimate the community to seek support, remarks and recommendations. It has also been discussed with concerned volunteers through WhatsApp and Telegram.

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

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

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

How much of African Music content have we contributed to free knowledge? How many Africans has the advocacy for free knowledge on Afrobeats/African Music reached? To what extent have we contributed to advancing Wikimedia objectives through the African music industry? How have we confirmed the authenticity of stories surrounding topics related to African music?

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 Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Feedback from Participants on Skills Learnt	This project hopes to have confidently equip volunteers with the skills necessary to contribute accurately to free knowledge.	30
Contest Participation	How many participants contributed during the contest phase?	15
Sustainability of the Community	How many participants are willing to be a part of the community extensively?	15
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	30 Physical Participants, 10 Virtual Participants	40
Number of editors	10 New Editors, 30 Returning Editors	40
Number of organizers	Organizers for this project would include all 3 facilitators and 2 volunteer organizers.	5

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	20 articles created and 200 articles improved upon at least.	220
Wikidata	At least 50 items created on Wikidata.	50
Wikimedia Commons	At least 100 images contributed.	100
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.

These core metrics would be a fundamental basis for measuring the impact of the project in contributing to free knowledge.

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.

The outreach dashboard tool would be used to onboard participants and track contributions. Hence, provision of informed insight as regards the progress of the project would be monitored and managed. I would also appreciate any other support which would ensure the successful execution and management of this project.

Financial Proposal

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

976575 NGN

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

2245 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LaqvVo4fsBvbQyMzYPBqeZhDH17dOCwoLaYdjTnjBjI/edit

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

Yes

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