Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Digital Landscape 1.0 (ID: 21989831)

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Applicant Details

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Tomas Armando Moz

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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.

Yes, I am a member of Emakhuwa emerging language community and a new group which i formed with students who attend Bantu language with specialization in Emakhuwa, that I am supporting.

Grant Proposal

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

Digital Landscape 1.0

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.

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.

In Mozambique, many schools, institutes, universities and important cultural places are not available on the internet, whether through website or Wikipedia. In September, I listed 67 schools which exist for more than 20 years but are not available on the Wikipedia. The term "digital landscape", we borrowed from the field of Sociolinguistics, "Linguistics Landscape" which is the linguistic encounter in a certain place. In the case of these project, we intent to engage students of all the eight faculties at Universidade Rovuma to create content which will portray people, places, traditional tools, in Mozambique, in the next 5 years. This way we will boost the digital presence of Mozambican people, places, and cultural items in the Portuguese, English and Emakhuwa encyclopedia. In this first project (digital landscape 1.0), we intend to write 67 profile articles in Portuguese, English, and Emakhuwa. We will also take two pictures in each school (one landscape and one close). This way, we will be able to improve the digital landscape in education sector in Nampula city. in the next five years, we intend to scale it to other thematic areas.

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

During the Multimedia community recording 2022 project, I worked with 22 students who helped translate the articles we published in Emakhuwa incubator. These students will be allocated to three schools each to go and consult reports, decrees which created the schools to write a profile that will indicate when was the institution founded, its story, the leaders who worked in that institution, geolocation, descriptions of the site (infrastructures) and statistics of the students and teachers. All of these information will be carefully cited from third party and the article must have around 600 words (2-3) pages. Then, they will be published, and using the translation function, put them in other two languages.

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

The main activities of this project are:

1. Training (I will write two articles together with students as demonstration of what we expert, using the case of "Academia Militar Marechal Samora Machel" which I wrote recently.

2. Students Visit schools with credential from the University to ask for document (Decrees, Reports, Documents from the Ministry o Educations, etc);

3. Writing Articles (three each student who is part of user group);

4. Translating into (Potuguese and Emakhuwa)

5. Peer editing (students will share there articles and the other student will review)

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.

WikiGap, Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

Yes. I have a mentor who has carefully taken from a simple event participant into a committed wikipedian Tochi Precious. Then I have the 22 students who make part of our informal usergroup. I personally have experience in wikicommons and I will responsible for taking the two (2) pictures, a total of 134 pictures. Finally my fellow lectures from Universidade Rovuma who will verify the accuracy when they are published on wikipedia.

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)

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.

The world is becoming digital every day. It is sad when you you search Mozambican schools and you find none profiled on the Wikipedia. Schools are references, if one is presenting a CV saying that went to X or Y schools, it should possible to find it al least on Wikipedia. The utmost advantage is that we will take each educational institution to international level, whereby any one can search and find it from anywhere in the world as far he/she has access to the internet.

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 , Human Rights, Open Technology

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

Gender Identity, Geographic , 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?

The target participant are the 22 students who belong to our informal multilingual usergroup. A group of 22 students who were committed to working with me in my previous project. I have asked the director of the faculty o social sciences an language to allocate us a room to work on Saturdays with this students. These weekly meeting will allow us to train these students and review their articles.

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

These students will have a document from the university so that they are allowed to the school library and consult sources. This document will grant them safety. On top of that I will always be available to support them.

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.

This proposal was planned last Saturday 09/10/2022 with the 22 students. That when we agreed that we have to work together, in this project led by me me and Amelia Tocova who words in the education faculty at Universidade Rovuma.

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?

Yes

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

Yes

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

We have large group of Emakhuwa editor who work with Ethale publishing. we will also invite them in our training in case they have any challenges. I learned after the Wikimedia event "MEA regional learning session

" Reda Benkhadra is Mozambique I am considering working with him. His experience will lead us to better results.

13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.

Yes

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.

As said earlier, I search 67 local schools in Nampula city alone and no one, including some university had a page on Wikipedia. I presented these information to 8 chief of department from Where Amelia Tocava showed interest in joining the five "digital Landscape" project. This interests teachers, school directors and the government.

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, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, 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?

Bearing in mind that students from Universidade Rovuma go to schools for internship:

1. How will the existence of the school profile support teacher education at Universidade Rovuma?

2. In what period were most of the schools in Nampula city created by the government?

3. What laws and degrees created schools?

4. What is the entity that created these institutions?

5. How did educational these isntitutions evolve since their foundation?

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
Number of Schools	The number of schools which we will target and write their brief history (profile)	67
Number of articles in Portuguese	The articles will originally written in Portuguese	67
Number of articles in Emakhuwa	The articles in Portuguese translated to Emakhuwa	67
Number of articles in English	The articles in Portuguese translated to English	67
Number of Pictures	We will take two pictures from each school. One showing the school landscape and one showing where the name is written.	134

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	There will be 28 main participants (Tomas Castelo Armando and Amelia Tocova, the 22 students and 2 lecturers who will support us correcting the texts on Wikipedia.	28
Number of editors	The main editor will be the students. we are encouraging them to embrace the "digital landscape" project and write their final papers from these activities.	22
Number of organizers	I and Amelia are going to serve as cue organizers.	2

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	We will contribute 201 articles to wikipedia project; 67 in English, 67 in Portuguese and 67 in Emahuwa	201
Wikimedia Commons	We will take 134 pictures to be used in the 201 articles	134
Incubator	We will Contribute to 67 articles in Emakhuwa incubator project	67
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17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

We are expecting to publish with 201 articles to Wikipedia (portuguese, English and Emakhuwa) and 134 pictures to be used in these articles.

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.

We are going to have a dashboard to check the number of articles edits by each editor. If any metrics requires other tools we trust Tochi Precious to give us support.

Financial Proposal

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

296989 MZN

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

4655 USD

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

Digital landscape 1.0 Budget.xlsx

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