Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Atyapland WikiOutreach 2024 (ID: 22586467)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Kambai Akau

Organization

Tyap Wikimedians Organisation

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 board member or president of a Wikimedia Affiliate or mission-allied organization., I'm a group leader of a Wikimedia User Group (submitted to the Affiliation Committee)., I'm a bank account signatory for the joint bank account of a Wikimedia affiliate, group, or organization.

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

1. Executive Director, Tyap Wikimedians Organisation --

Coordinates and supervises all community volunteer members to gain the best results from them regarding volunteerism.
Sources for prospective partners to work with the organization on achieving a common goal.
Sources for collaborators to perform joint editing sessions together.
Envisions the pathway for the organization to follow for more significant progress.
Communicates the progress of the organization to the community and encourages more participation. In other words, it leads public relations efforts.
Where there are shortcomings, the Executive Director addresses them. He supports the Educational Officer in fixing Wikipedia and Wiktionary pages that need to be fixed or worked on.

2. Project Manager, Tyap Wikimedians Organisation --

Handles financial management, accounting, and budgeting activities of the organization.
Manages procurement, human resources, and administrative functions.
Develops and implement programs and projects that align with the organization's mission and goals alongside the Field Officer.
Implements processes that would lead to the group spending less on projects.

3. Field Officer, Tyap Wikimedians Organisation --

Implements the organization's programs and field projects, facilitating community engagement and participation.
Assists in identifying and selecting beneficiaries, and ensures the delivery of services according to established standards.
Conducts regular monitoring and reporting of progress and challenges to the Project Manager.
Organizes in-person and/or online events.
Organize educational outreaches by reaching out to participants and negotiating the venue for the program.

Main Proposal

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

Atyapland WikiOutreach 2024

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

2024-06-15 - 2024-06-30

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) Wikimedia editors recruitment, community building

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)

For the Atyapland WikiOutreach in-person event, I would want us to take the Wikipedia editing to the area where the Tyap language is native! It would be good to have those living in the home area as Tyap Wikimedians. At the end of the event, we should have a new editing hub in the Atyap country.

A key target also is to grow our young community and develop free usable content for the Wikimedia community as a whole.

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.

The event is slated to be held on three weekends, mainly Saturdays and Sundays. The dates are 15-16, 22-23, and 29-30 June 2024.

Please find the link to the project page here:

Meta-Wiki page: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Atyapland_WikiOutreach

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. Executive Director, User:Kambai Akau

Coordinates group activities and links the Tyap WMUG with other groups for possible collaborations.

2. Project Manager, User:Friday musa

Takes care of the finances and plans the execution of activities.

3. Field Officer, User:Valtino44

Handles logistics for in-person events.

4. Communications and Advocacy Officer, User:Dorothy Habila

Supporting role.

5. Secretary, User:Bello Lydia

Supporting role.

6. Educational Content Officer, User:Zbobai

Supporting role.

7. Member of Board of Advisers, User:Genesis shan

Supporting role

None of these roles are paid yet.

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)

The Atyapland WikiOutreach. The target participants would be the Tyap-speaking people of the Atyap country—members of the Atyap community.

On how we intend to reach out before and during the activities, we are using these tools:

Social media: Our social media handles on Facebook, WhatsApp, and Telegram shall go a long way.
Community leaders: We shall involve the Atyap community leaders in sourcing participants for the event.
MetaWiki: We have a page created already for the event, which will be further developed before the event.

On follow-up after the activities, we would continue engaging the new participants through our community Telegram group. If there is a need, we shall create a WhatsApp group for the new editing hub in Atyapland and install a leadership there to be responsible for the new Wikimedia community over there. We shall maintain contact with them. through social media, phone conversations, and if need be, physical contact.

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.

Please find the link to the Tyap Wikimedians Organisation Youth Safety Policy document on Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yCIZknF8JIUMtFXgUd4JL2cnKEfIXFf_KfvkdwIYCP0/edit?usp=sharing

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.

- Earlier on, there was a rapid grant application submitted for this event. For that application, there was a discussion about it within the Board of Trustees group, and all are aware and 100% behind this proposal.

The next step was to check the dates for the opening of the Rapid grant window for this cycle to know when to apply.
Thirdly, I informed the grant admin SSA about our proposed application and was given the go-ahead, with one or two observations.
I began the application when the application cycle was opened.
I notified the Tyap Wikipedia community on its community portal (please find the link here: https://kcg.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wukipedia:A%CC%B1na%CC%B1nwuai_sot-%C3%A1%CC%B1niet#A%CC%B1di%CC%B1dam_cat_kurum_mat_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2024_Sot-%C3%A1%CC%B1niet_Ntyap_%7C_Grant_proposal_submission_for_Wiki_Loves_Africa_2024_by_Tyap_Community_and_Atyapland_WikiOutreach ).
However, the application was rejected due to the blocking of a co-signatory to the Tyap Wikimedians Organisation account in the English Wikipedia by an admin which rendered our application ineligible. But then since the co-signee has been unblocked, we decided to return the application to be able to hold this event in June 2024 if successful.

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)

Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

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

Education

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

Age (diversity of age groups)

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

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement

Learning and metrics

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

- What are the best ways of encouraging new editors to join the project?

What are the best ways of motivating editors to keep editing after an event?
What have we not been doing in past events that should be done in these ones and in the future to achieve our set goals?

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	60	We aim to have about 60 participants from within and around Atyapland participating in the event including editors and those who may come with the intent to participate in one way or the other.
Number of editors	36	Judging by our previous outing in October 2023 and other factors, we may have up to 35 persons out of the about 60 participants that would be attending the event with smartphones or computers to be able to edit in the Atyapland WikiOutreach, .
Number of organizers	9	These include six members of the Board of Trustees who double up as volunteer members of staff performing administrative roles and one member of the Board of Advisors who has been quite helpful to our course. We shall also have at least one person to coordinate the Atyapland WikiOutreach from the area. These people shall act as event organizers, advisors, facilitators, and speakers.

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia	400
Wikimedia Commons	100
Wikidata	400
Wiktionary	400
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

The event will involve editing the Tyap Wikipedia, Tyap Wiktionary, Wikidata, and uploading items on Wikimedia Commons.

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

No

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

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)

- Toolforge ( https://ptools.toolforge.org/uploadersincat.php )

XTools ( https://xtools-dev.wmcloud.org/ec )
Outreach Dashboard
Event Metrics

I would need help suggesting more tools that could help us track the number of edits per editor during our events.

Financial proposal

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VZQKqMXlzvjsqkIfJ-y3jH9E6Y3uqRfc1e5DT65ppW8/edit?usp=sharing

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

3092000 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.

2165.3 USD

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

Yes

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