Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Documenting endangered Nigeria food (ID: 22026806)
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Applicant Details
edit- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Psalmbusy
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Ei'eke
- 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 Usergroup Nigeria
Grant Proposal
edit- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Documenting endangered Nigeria food
- 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.
After a successful project in documenting endangered foods in South South, Nigeria which documented over 200 endangered foods. This proposal is then focus on the other part of Nigeria endangered foods due to the overwhelming endangered foods in Nigeria and to maximize the learnings from the previous project. This project will document all the major endangered food in different part of Nigeria by creating an online contest to have Nigerians contribute in Pictures and Videos and also documenting some in-persons.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
The main approach is to organize an online contest focus on contributing endagendered foods pictures and videos to Wiki commons and thereafter organize virtual training on how to contribute to Wikimedia Commons and thus Wikipedia. Will also visit some region to document the foods.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
Online contest, training (+ edit a thon) and photo documentation of all the endangered foods in all of the states.
- 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?
Psalmbusy; Project lead and professional cinematographer Ei'eke; professional photographer and Wikipedia contributor Will also be reaching to some leaders of the WIkimedia Usergroup Nigeria to facilitate some of the trainings.
- 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, 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.
There are thousands of foods in Nigeria that is endangered and in the brink of complete extinction. So, this project is primarily ensuring all of these foods are documented by bridging the gap and using them on the Wikimedia projects.
- 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.
Advocacy, Climate Change and sustainability, Public Policy, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Digital Access
- 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?
By creating a whatsaap group and mailing lists
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
By ensurong that Wikimedia code of conduct is followed and ensuring that their they feel safe to contribute
- 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.
We have announced this project to Wikipedia User Group Nigeria on her Meta Page,
I have also reached out to the leadership of the usergroup.
- 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, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
edit- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
I hope to learn about the beautiful foods from Nigeria and how they are prepared couple with having more contributors contributing to Wikimedia commons.
- 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.
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Number of participants in the overall project | 75 |
| Number of editors | Number of editors participating in the upload and edit a thon | 5 |
| Number of organizers | The number of organizers involve in the planning | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia Commons | Number of editors participating in the edit a thon | 300 |
| Wikipedia | Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects (in percentage) | 60 |
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- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
N/A
- 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.
Outreach dashboard and GLAM tools
Financial Proposal
edit- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
1294000 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2911.52 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gKfDg-niqvryfwu1awcqB0yP93Ajt6Pfm5OksMhb86I/edit?usp=sharing
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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