Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/IUCG First Editathon (ID: 21868034)

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Applicant Details

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Elkay20

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Organization

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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.

LUCG Wikimedia Community

Grant Proposal

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

IUCG First Editathon

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.

Islamic University College is the oldest and only Islamic religious institution in Ghana. It is over 22 years old and doesn't have any Wiki Club or community. This project will introduce new editors and volunteers from the institution to Wikipedia and Wikidata and also expose them to the movement. The institution is a female dominated one therefore, this project will focus more on gender, ethnic, religious and cultural related articles.

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

Capacity building will be our main strategy for this project. We will be organizing two offline training events outside campus due to unavailability of space. Participants will be trained in everything from Wikipedia and Wikidata basics to quality editing. The items, appearance, style, categories, references, size, hyperlinks, headings, and subheadings of the article will be the emphasis of these articles.

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

Trainings: We'll have a four-day edit-a-thon to teach 50 students, mostly females (also participants in programs 1 and 2), how to edit Wikipedia articles and contribute items to Wikidata. We'll also teach them how to stay engaged in the Wikimedia movement and how to interact with the Ghanaian Wikimedia community, as well as the movement's various campaigns and other worldwide efforts. This is critical in order to ensure greater participation and interest in the cause.

We plan to give introduction to the movement and it's platforms on the first event, begin Wikipedia training at the second event, Wikidata at the third, and a competition at the final event. We will focus more on female and political related articles to bridge the content gender gap.

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?

I will work in collaboration with LUCG Wikimedia community team to carryout this project. The team consists of:

1. User:Elkay20 -- Project Lead

2. User:Sunkanmi12 -- Facilitator and Curator

3. User:Oladipupo193 --- Facilitator and Curator

4. User:Nimot123 ---- Finance and Logistics

5. User:Awahab515 --- Welfare

User:Sunkanmi12 and User:Oladipupo193 are the most experienced Wikimedians in the group.

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.

Content Gender gap, Age (regency), 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.

Participants will be editing articles related to female athletes, religious leaders, diplomats among others.

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 , Diversity

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

Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language, Age

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?

Content Gender gap: focuses on including females, not only representing their work but also as participants in the workshops and hopefully as editors.

Geography: as it will include youth as editors and future organizers from marginalized areas.

Age: it will try to incorporate young people as contributors and, ideally, future organizers. To participate, no prior knowledge of Wikimedia is required. We hope to engage these participants by collaborating with LUCG Wikimedia Community in which the target audience is already active, as well as making an open call for participation through specific communication channels like posters, social media and the SRC.

We plan on retaining participants through our one-on-one mentorship system which ensures continuous engagement of participants in Wikimedia activities. We also track the contributions of community members through the Outreach Dashboard to give incentives to top contributors who contribute after the events.

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

We will ensure that we include a friendly space policy in our form for participants who intend to participate in our activities. All forms of harassment will not be tolerated.

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.

LUCG Wikimedia Community Whatsapp Group IUCG SRC Group

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?

LUCG Wikimedia Community has an already established team which I am a part of. The team has qualities that will add value to this project and assist in the implementation.

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.

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?

1. How have the participants perspectives about Wikipedia changed after they participated in your activities?

2. What factors motivated them to continue to connect and maybe contribute more actively? What factors act as barriers?

3. Do new editors have the skills needed? What form of training and support was most/less useful in gaining these skills?

4. How many people are continuing to edit after the events/activities?

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
feedback from participants on the skills learned and how they are using them	A mandatory evaluation form will be sent to participants after each event	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

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants		120
Number of editors		110
Number of organizers		5

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	N/A	110
Wikidata	N/A	110
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.

Program and Outreach Dashboard

Financial Proposal

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

27330 GHS

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

3676.39 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1DhqYQ16ZSjO5H8fax_sYztrAkOe0txrRz7OfPdf3GFc/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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