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Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Open Festival (ID: 21884731)

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statusNot funded
Open Festival
proposed start date2022-08-25
proposed end date2022-10-25
budget (local currency)28140 GHS
budget (USD)3600 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2022-23
applicant• Richest Kid
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

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Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Richest Kid

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

Manson04

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.

Yes I member of a Wikimedia not recognized.

Grant Proposal

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

Open Festival

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.

There are lots of festivals that take place in the Ghanaian community but few of them have been found on the sum of all human knowledge and its sister projects. What this project seeks to do is have a photowalk where we will capture various festive activities coming up using our cameras

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

So with our approach or strategy, We would be looking forward to have some form of partnerships with some institutions which would enable get access to data and information during the festival and we will also have a guide during the festivity to send us to significant places where we can take good pictures.

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

So we will be looking at these festivals listed below during the project. We will be moving from region to region with a team and volunteers to capture amazing photos during celebration.

1. Charlie Wote Street Festival
2. Homowo Festival
3. Bakatue
4. Asafotufiam and more
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 do have a team leading this project, they are: Richest Kid: I will be leading the project.

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, 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.

Well the team conducted a research and found out that there is a gap in relation to festivals in some specific communities in Ghana, so we decided to embark on this photo walk to salvage the situation and ensure that gap related to festivals in Ghana are covered

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, Advocacy, Open Technology

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

Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background

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?

Community in western region and volunteers from other region to join us on this project.

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

By ensuring that volunteers abide by the code of conduct and also ensure that we us a team provide them with the necessary support needed.

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.

We would make sure that the community get involved or get a clear cut understanding of what we are doing through a meta page and also social media outlets

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?
No
12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
We will ask for a partnership with them, but we would focus on doing other engagement within the photowalk
13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.

Yes

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.

Yes,we would be working with partners who would support us to go on the field to tell the stories of festivals through our camera.

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.

Improve User Experience, Provide for Safety and Inclusion

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

Well, with this project, I and my team would like to learn more about the cultural engagement and festivals of various communities in Ghana

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
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17. Core quantitative metrics.
Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics Description Target
Number of participants
Number of editors
Number of organizers
Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
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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.

The tool we will use to measure the matrics is the outreach dashboard.

Financial Proposal

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

28140 GHS

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

3600 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UxP0MNB8OXpnJUermVRDZrD2Ez95cSxXAYSlOvd1opE/edit?usp=sharing

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

Yes

Endorsements and Feedback

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  • Highlighting if the proposal focuses on any interesting research, learning or innovation, etc. Also if it builds on learning from past proposals developed by the individual or organization, or other Wikimedia communities.
  • Analyzing if the proposal is going to contribute in any way to important developments around specific Wikimedia projects or Movement Strategy.
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