Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Kanuri Wikipedia vital articles (ID: 22434419)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Umargana1

Organization

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Main Proposal

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

Kanuri Wikipedia vital articles

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

2024-04-06 - 2024-05-11

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)

WikiGap

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)

This project is particularly important because Kanuri Wikipedia as a new project (on Incubator) lacks vital articles. Most of the articles created on this Wiki are just created randomly. And every Wikipedia project most have some set of articles which are vital to the growth and rapid development of any wiki. We recognise the need for Kanuri Wikipedia to have such Vital Articles right from incubator so as to fuel motivation and inspire both readers and editors in reading and creating content on this local wiki. Since most of Kanuri Wikimedians can read and write in Hausa, we will use the created vital articles from Hausa Wikipedia and translate them to Kanuri Language. We will also work hand-in-hand with Uncle Bash007, who has previously successfully organised such campaign on Hausa Wikipedia in order to attain a positive result. https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles 2. Our main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes are as follows • Most of Kanuri Wikimedians including experienced editors are not aware vital articles and there significance in leading to high page views from readers of this wiki • Most are not aware that they can write articles about their surrounding environment, places, arts and cultures, myths, geographies among others • There are little articles about Kanuri culture, geography; history, artists, writers, cities (ancient and current), arts and communities

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'll be delivering workshops via: 1a) online where every Kanuri Wikimedians will be invited to attend a session for training on zoom and highlighting important topics to be added b). offline sesssion for fin-person training for available ediitors and engagement into Wikimedia activities and motivation on how to contribute to the free encyclopedia

2). A general editathon will be organized for wikimedians to write articles about these vital topics following the Wikimedia guidelines 3) Contest page will be created on Hausa Wikimedia Talkpage

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.

User Umar an experience editor with many edits and co frontier in kanuri Wikipedia will lead the event. Uncle Bash007 an experience editor in Hausa Wikipedia who has facilitate in many projects will help in facilitating the event. User Mohammedbama123 an administrator in kanuri Wikipedia in incubator will help in the online and offline training. User Mustybdc will help in logistics.

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 are Kanuri Wikimedians from Kanuri communities. A call for participation and workshops will be organized before the contest. New participants will be added to our already existing groups on social media handles.

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

Yes

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.

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Friendly_space_policy#:~:text=The%20Wikimedia%20Foundation%20is%20dedicated,expression%2C%20disability%2C%20physical%20appearance%2C

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.

The plan was discussed on our community Whatsapp group, and all the members are willing to give there contribution.

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)

Content Gender gap

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)

I want to see that vital articles are created on this Wiki and page views are increased hence there are are not enough vital articles in the Kanuri Wikipedia as seen on the page below. https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/knc/Awowa_t%C9%99lamma_sammason_t%C9%99wandinma

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	30	These are the number of participants
Number of editors	15	These are the number of editors
Number of organizers	4	These are the number of organisers

Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator	150
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Optional description for content contributions.

Vital Articles Total Number of vital articles created on Kanuri Wikipedia 150 Vital Literatures Number of topics covering literatures 30 Vital Arts and Culture Number of articles about arts and Cultures 30 Geography Nuumber of articles covering geographies 30 Scholars/Writers 30 articles of kanuri scholars/writers will be created or improved 30

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

No

Main Open Metrics Data
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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 be using hashtags tools 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/1Mepy9QPrF52rMZPhfiL5rMQ6CjLW0nxR0rzPCiTeWbc/edit?usp=sharing

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

1520000 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.

1686 USD

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

Yes

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