Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Wikipedia New Pages Patrol (ID: 22095387)
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Applicant Details
edit- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Uncle Bash007
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Anasskoko Gwanki Musaddam Idriss BnHamid Musa Vacho77
- 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.
Hausa Wikimedian User Group, Founder Wikimedia Fan Club Umaru Musa Yaradua University
Grant Proposal
edit- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Hausa Wikipedia New Pages Patrol
- 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.
A lot of Hausa Wikipedia articles are not properly patrolled. Most of the editors also are not aware of different Wikipedia Policies in writing articles, ranging from Assuming good faith (AGF), Please do not bite the newcomers poicy, Notability guidelines, to Sources, to Article Titling, Biography of Living Persons Guidelines, Images Copyright, Neutral Point of View, Verifiability among others. Even the administrators are not wary of many of these policies required for patrolling and guiding other editors and as such unable to differentiate between good, well-written articles from bad ones. (Most of our administrators' work lags mainly on proofreading and overseeing edits). Several policies are very vital for editors to note, which are a driving force to creating coherent and good articles and also establishing a friendly environment across Wikimedia projects, making Wikipedia a more harmonious Encylclopedia. But sadly, the majority of our local editors lack this knowledge (including me, before joining the Patrol School), and this has a great impact on Hausa Wikipedia, and new articles are added every day in which most of these articles are not in line with the basic Wikipedia criteria, thus (perhaps) making it unreliable for most native speakers.
Also, people in academic line who doesn't know these WIkipedia policies usually doubt the reliability of Wikipedia by asking questions like: since everyone can edit it, how can we trust it? I believe if we engage these people in this event will change there understanding towards Wikipedia, since it has structured guidelines that ensures quality and reliable work. We will also help administrators with easy and summarized guidelines for patrolling new pages created.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
The project will minimize the above issues through the following approaches and strategies:
i). Guiding administrators for better patrolling: I as a graduate of Patrol School will guide my fellow administrators on these policies necessary to patrol new Hausa Wikipedia articles by a) summarizing the major guidelines such as Notability Guidelines, Verifiability, Sources (primary, secondary & Tertiary, Reliable, and Independent sources), Biography of Living Persons Guidelines, etc. b) engaging them in a two-day online workshop on these guidelines c) We will together sample up to 1000 articles and patrol them noting the above guidelines
ii). After the online workshop we will engage other editors in in-person training on these basic guidelines needed for new and intermediate editors
iii). We will tag articles such as Good Articles, Articles for Deletion, Articles needing attention, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_criteria
v). We will clean up bad articles and therefore improve ones with lesser issues.
vi) At the end of the event, we will test the following through structured questions on google forms:
How new editors feel about Wikipedia as newbies. We will also test level of academics perception towards Wikipedia at the end of the event
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
i). 2 days Online Workshop with administrators and experienced editors where we will train participants based on the summarised guidelines above ii). An in-person event for all editors (mainly academics) on the basic Wikipedia guidelines (What Wikipedia is not, Notability, Biography of Living Persons Policies etc.
- 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, Not applicable
- Capacity Building
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
I, Hausa Wikipedia administrator and a student of the New Pages Patrol School will lead the project. User Sanusi Gado will help in organizing events. Other experienced editors (administrators) will join me in making the project a success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Cassiopeia/NPPS/Uncle_Bash007#Images_copyright
- 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, Socioeconomic Status, 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 will engage Wikipedia editors from academic line of every gender, since they will tend to rely on Wikipedia more than others and administrators from different Wikis Hausa Wikipedia, Fulfulbe Wikipedia among others, to learn better ways in patrolling and contributing to Wikipedia.
- 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, Public Policy, Diversity
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Geographic , Socioeconomic status
- 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 main target participants for this project are administrators of different Wikis i.e, Hausa Wikipedia, Fulfulbe wikipedia etc. and people from academic line (since they will tend to rely more on information from Wikipedia. i) Administrators: they are very crucial in this project because they are the overseers of all activities and contributions made by every editor. They will be engaged in online training on the major Wikipedia Guidelines stated above. A manual guide (summarised and compiled) will be shared. After the entire training, we will create time for patrolling the sampled new articles. ii). New editors: from academic line (mostly lecturers) will be trained on some of the major guidelines of Wikipedia which will increase reliability on Wikipedia as a major referencing tool. We will add new users to our social platform groups where they will be updated promptly on every Wikipedia activities
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We strictly follow the UCoC and Friendly Space Policies throughout the course of this event.
- 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.
I have informed the Hausa Wikipedia community and Hausa WIkimedia User Group via our discussion pages and whatsapp groups. https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kofan_al%27umma#Hausa_Wikipedia_New_Page_Patrol
- 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, Improve User Experience, 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?
From the project goals, we want to increase user experience and potentials in patrolling of tons of new pages created every day and also increase Wikipedia notability among academics. We also want to increase editorial skills and expose our editors to various Wikipedia guidelines. This project will assess the following questions: i) Are the participants (administrators and academics) aware of these Wikipedia guidelines? i) Have the new articles created met: What Wikipedia is not guidelines? ii) Notability: are the articles notable enough? Have they met the GNG & SNG guidelines iii) For Biographies of Living persons, is the BLP Guidelines well registered in these articles? iv) Neutrality: are these articles written from a Neutral Point of View? v) Souces: are the sources original research? are they reliable and independent? vi) Are new Editors treated with courtesy and given the chance to grow in this platform? vii) Do people from academic line trust Wikipedia as a reference tool?
- 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 | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Pages Patrol | Number of new pages to be patrolled | 1000 |
| New articles | Number of new articles to be created. | 100 |
| Tags | Articles to be tagged - Good articles, Articles for deletion, Articles needing attention etc | 300 |
| Participants | Total number of people who participate in the event. | 30 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | New 11
Returning 14 Administrators 5 |
30 |
| Number of editors | Total number of people who edit during the event | 20 |
| Number of organizers | number of organizers | 4 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | New articles to created 100 or more | 100 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 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.
- 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.
Wikimedia Dashboard tool Page will be created on Meta
Financial Proposal
edit- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
984709 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
2131 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/182K2MgnPzLYrVBKJDp_dtZQqb815dwcLzMzRCdTTo1o/edit#gid=0
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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