Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Ibibio Language on Translatewiki.net 2.0 (ID: 22394714)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Nnadigoodluck

Organization

N/A

If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)

I'm a group leader of an informal Wikimedia group.

Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)

Ibibio Group: I am the founder of the group and the coordinator of various projects we have carried out.

Main Proposal

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

Ibibio Language on Translatewiki.net 2.0

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

2024-01-20 - 2024-02-20

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)

Not applicable

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)

In the first version of this project, we, the non-recognized Ibibio Group (in the process of applying for official status), translated 314 of the most important messages of the MediaWiki software on translatewiki.net. This new project will serve as a follow-up to the first one, where we are hoping to complete the remaining most important messages translations on the translatewiki.net platform, which will help us increase the chances of getting our own domain to boost the visibility of Ibibio on the internet.

Through this project, we are hoping to reach more Ibibio native speakers who are interested in contributing to the growth of our community.

The new Ibibio language native speakers we are hoping to reach, along with our old members, will contribute to this new project.

A total of 20 old and new editors will be invited for this project.

As usual, a refresher training will be conducted for the old editors, while the new participants will be introduced to Wikimedia projects, especially translatewiki.net, which is the focus of this project.

We're going to award prizes at the end of the project to the top five editors in order to encourage and motivate them.

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 are going to host a 2-day in-person translate-a-thon where the remaining most important messages of the MediaWiki software on translatewiki.net will be translated.

Old and new Ibibio language native speakers will be engaged during the program.

During the project, we're hoping to translate at least 200 messages on the translatewiki.net interface.

Project link on Meta- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ibibio_Language_on_Translatewiki.net_2.0

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.

Nnadigoodluck- Founder of Ibibio Group and Organizer and Coordinator of the project. I will be training the participants in the translate-a-thon.

Clarissagum- Experienced Wikimedian, Co-founder of Ibibio Group and Co-organizer of the project. She will assist in training the participants.

Ima-Obong Okon- Communication specialist (off-wiki).

Edidiong- Photographer (off-wiki).

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 will be people who are based in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, who are native speakers of the Ibibio language.

They will be recruited through offline or physical recruitment processes to actualize our project.

The participants that will be engaged in the translate-a-thon will be given a form in order to collect their data for registration.

During the project, we are going to engage the participants and teach them how to edit on the translatewiki.net platform.

When the event is over, the new participants will join our Ibibio group, get added to our WhatsApp group, and follow our social media pages. All the participants will receive periodic updates from us, and follow-up will also be conducted through one-on-one engagement, listening to the participants challenges, guiding them, and answering their questions, as the case may be.

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.

I have notified Wikimedia User Group Nigeria as can be seen here and Ibibio Group as can be seen here.

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)

Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Culture, heritage or GLAM

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Provide for Safety and Inclusion

Learning and metrics

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

We hope to learn how other Ibibio language speakers can effectively contribute to the project by sharing their unique ideas and how to further create rooms for improvement for the betterment of our group objectives.

We also hope to learn what encourages the participants to keep participating whenever called upon.

We will learn the new challenges the participants have probably faced since our last project and how best we can help them. We believe that helping our participants will make their contributions easier for hitch-free volunteering. The lessons will help us to create better projects in the future and also help us to finally have our own domain.

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	17	This is the total number of participants that will be in attendance during the 2 days translate-a-thon. 10 old editors and 7 new editors are expected to be in attendance
Number of editors	17	This is the total number of editors that will edit on translatewiki.net. 10 old editors and 7 new editors are expected to edit on translatewiki.net.
Number of organizers	4	2 organizers, 1 communication specialist and 1 photographer

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki	200
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

200 most important messages will be translated from English to Ibibio language on the translatewiki.net interface

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

No

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
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	N/A	N/A

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)

User Contributions history will be used to measure the metrics

Financial proposal

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zH0PHuWsmXr-JK1EmVoGlat1kzzx6GA5s8zNi4Tt-xE/edit

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

1692920 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.

2150.9 USD

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

Yes

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