Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Hausa Wiktionary annual contest (ID: 22824643)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Abubakr1111

Organization

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Main Proposal

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

Hausa Wiktionary annual contest

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

2024-12-01 - 2025-02-01

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) Hausa Wiktionary annual contest

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)

The Hausa Wikitionary contest will be held annually, and Hausa Wikitionary editors will compete to improve Wikitionary in the Hausa language while adhering to Wikitionary's editing guidelines and competition rules. The primary goal of the contest is to create comprehensive Wikitionary Guidelines pages that will assist, direct, and guide Wikitionary editors when editing Hausa Wikitionary. Throughout the contest, editors will adhere to the Wikimedia Wikitionary universal guidelines for Wikitionary editing. To encourage them, the contest will offer them the chance to win incredible prizes that will improve their editing skills and multiply their efforts to improve words in Wikitionary. The contest will be held annually in Hausa Wikitionary and will be overseen by Hausa Wikitionary administrators, who will review the results following the event. Furthermore, participation in the contest requires the current number of Hausa Wikitionary editors, whom we have trained and mentored as administrators. Furthermore, the contest will provide them with the necessary information, resources, support, appropriate skills, and capacity-building engagement to help them rapidly expand Hausa Wikitionary. The contests will also include training sessions to help participants improve their Hausa Wiktionary editing skills. The contest will change the goal of collecting a large number of words in Hausa Wikitionary. It will also provide Hausa Wikitionary editors with data, prizes, recognition, and stipends. The first five runners-up will receive gifts, awards, certificates, and recognition.

There has never been a contest before, and there is currently no contest on the ground, so a contest is being planned to take place in Hausa Wikitionary to support and motivate editors. The fact that there are so many editors in Hausa Wikitionary demonstrates that a method of motivation will be unleashed, encouraging editors to advance Hausa Wikitionary. There are now several administrators who will be reviewing the contest. The primary challenge and problem we are attempting to solve is to provide editors with assistance, such as data support, throughout the contest and to win incredible prizes that will boost their efforts in contributing to Hausa Wikitionary. Furthermore, we wanted to address the issue of a delay in the rapid increase of words in the Hausa Wiktionary. 
First, local Hausa Wikitionary administrators in the Hausa community will design and create an annual contest page for Hausa Wikitionary editors to participate in and review. The page will include necessary documentation and information that will improve the competition guidelines and approaches. Second, Wikitionary guidelines pages will be created to help editors understand the fundamental needs and in-depth skills required to edit Hausa Wikitionary. You can find a sample of those pages in the English Wiktionary .https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hausa_Wiktionary_Guidelines_pages

Third, training will be provided in the Hausa Wikitionary community to improve the user experience both online and offline. A campaign will be developed and implemented throughout the community to contact existing editors in the Hausa Wikitionary community. Awards and prizes will be labeled in accordance with the Wikitionary editing rules and regulations, as established by the Wikimedia community. In light of the foregoing, we intend to invite the current editors of Hausa Wikitionary to participate in the contest, which will provide them with an unparalleled opportunity to be encouraged and exposed to contributing to Hausa Wikitionary while also winning incredible prizes and learning skills that will improve user experience. As Hausa Wikitionary administrators, we worked tirelessly to improve Hausa Wikitionary by developing new features and combining them to make Hausa Wikitionary even better.

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.

We planned to create Wikitionary guidelines pages for Wikitionary editors, as well as to organize contest-related events online and offline. We planned to create a contest page for the Hausa Wikitionary Annual Competition. We planned to meet with several Wikitionary editors to discuss the progress of Hausa Wikitionary and to establish effective collaboration that will improve Hausa Wikitionary activities. Details about the above four activities can be found here https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hausa_Wiktionary_annual_contest_activities

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.

Abubakr1111: An Administrator in Hausa Wiktionary and event organizer will lead this project

Salisu Adamu: Administrator in Hausa Wiktionary. As a volunteer, has lead in projects, and also facilitate in several Wiktionary projects. Will handle the training sessions.

Fatyutea0803505: She is a volunteer in Hausa Wiktionary, has served in the organizing team, will lead in events planning, mobilization, and communication to all participants both online and offline.

Anasskoko: An administrator in Hausa Wikipedia will serves as a judge in the contest.

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 target participants for this project are members from Hausa Wiktionary community, the most active, motivated, and contributors. And anyone from Hausa community who can contribute will be engage. Participants are added to the existing communication channels WhatsApp/Telegram group to encourage continued discussions and collaborations.

10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)

No

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.

N/A

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.

We discussed the idea on Hausa Wiktionary discussion page https://ha.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:%C6%98ofan_al%27umma and our WhatsApp/Telegram group

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)

Language

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)

Linguistic / Language

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)

We hope to see Hausa Wikipedia guidelines pages created to assist and guide editors on how to contribute. We are excited to see how brave Hausa Wikitionary editors will be as they compete for incredible prizes. Through participation in this contest, we hope to learn and provide analysis on the rapid growth of Hausa Wiktionary by providing a statistical report Wikimedia Xtools. We are looking forward to creating an overall experience, understanding, and statistical report that will be shared on the Wikimedia diff blog post.

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	100	Our target is to reach 100 participants from Hausa Community
Number of editors	50	To engage 50 editors
Number of organizers	4	4 organizers

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
Wiktionary	2000
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

2000 words will be created during the contest

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

No

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
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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)

We will make use of outreach dashboard and WMF Hashtags to monitor, track editors contributions.

Financial proposal

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LuUHG38pD_1MPFhYsM72Yl9F0jPCotLHIsKH3Zo6xc0/edit?usp=drivesdk

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

1701000 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.

1018.94 USD

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

Yes

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