Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/SheSaid 2024 campaign in Lagos (ID: 22749730)

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Applicant Details

Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Jonywikis

Organization

Wikimedians of Lagos User Group

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 a Wikimedia User Group (submitted to the Affiliation Committee).

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

Leader and Outreach Coordinator: promotes the Wikimedians of Lagos User Group and its activities to the broader Wikimedia community, as well as to potential partners and sponsors outside of Wikimedia.

Main Proposal

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

SheSaid 2024 campaign in Lagos

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

2024-10-01 - 2025-01-15

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)

SheSaid

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 Wikimedians of Lagos User Group aims to bring about a change in the representation of notable women born in Lagos on the English Wikiquote. There are many notable women that are born in Lagos e.g Aralola Olamuyiwa, Titi Oyinsan, Bekeme Masade etc that do not have their voice in the enwikiquote. In line with our objective of promoting Lagos and increasing the representation of Lagos and its people on Wikimedia projects including the English Wikiquote, we are addressing the underrepresentation of notable women born in Lagos on Wikiquote by creating and improving their articles on enwikiquote. In the SheSaid 2023 edition, our community was well prepared and as a leader of the community, I was invited as a guest on the WikiAfrica Hour youtube vodcast. Unfortunately, we were not funded and the gap is still there because we couldn't capitalize on our reach because we could only do little. After clearance of our user group by the Affiliations Committee of no ongoing investigation or issues and by participating in organising the SheSaid 2024 campaign, we aim to attract the previous intending participants that have showed interest in participating through many emails requseting on upadate on the campaign. We will also encourage existing members to join us to celebrate and recognize women born in Lagos by focusing on enhancing their representation and visibility on Wikiquote. Our main approaches are:

Research: We will conduct thorough research to identify notable women born in Lagos on the English Wikipedia to establish their notability and compile a comprehensive list of these women and their quotes.
Content Creation: We will create new pages on English Wikiquote for each of identified notable women, including their biographical information in the introduction section in enwikiquote and adding relevant quotes.
Quality Improvement: We will review and improve existing pages on English Wikiquote related to notable women born in Lagos by adding new well sourced quotes or expanding on existing ones.

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.

Research phase:

Compile a list of notable women born in Lagos: We will conduct extensive research to identify notable women born in Lagos on the English Wikipedia across various fields such as politics, arts, sports, science, and literature.

Articles for creation: We will add a link to these notable women born in Lagos to the event landing page and encourage participants to pick from this list thus eliminating notability issues which may arise if participants are left to just create any article about women born in Lagos.
Content creation and improvement phase:

We will carry out trainings on 4 diffrent days to ensure that participants are equipped with the right skills needed to create articles on the English Wikiquote.

- Create new pages: We will organize editathon to create new pages on English Wikiquote for each notable woman born in Lagos already added to the list of articles to be created, providing accurate and comprehensive biographical information in the introductory section.
- Improve existing articles: We will improve existing articles by adding quotes and reliable sources to wikiquote pages of women born in Lagos during the editathon.
- Add quotes: We will add relevant quotes to the newly created pages, attributing them properly to the respective women and adding credible source.
- Review existing pages: Existing pages related to notable women born in Lagos will be reviewed, with quotes expanded or improved with reliable sources to enhance their content and accuracy.

Overview of planned activities on event days:

Day 1- Welcome address, Importance of the SheSaid campaign, Wikiquote essentials, Basic Overview of Wikiquote core policies and guidelines, How to navigate and edit Wikiquote, Notability, practical exercise
Day 2 - How to navigate and edit Wikiquote (continuation), sanboxes, Guide to Wikiquote layout, Using the source editor, Linking wikiquotes articles to corresponding Wikipedia articles, Linking to other Wikiquote articles, practical exercise
Day 3 - Evaluating Wikiquotes articles and sources, How to find good sources and cite them on Wikiquote, adding images to articles, compilation of quotes and sources of notable women born in Lagos, Improving existing Wikiquote articles, practical exercise
Day 4 - Editathon: Creating standard and quality Wikiquote articles of women born in Lagos, collaborative cleaning of created articles with feedback.

Link to the event landing page where list of Wikiquotes articles about notable women born in Lagos to be created or improved will be pasted to ensure that articles created adheres to the notability rule: SheSaid 2024 campaign in Lagos, SheSaid 2024 campaign in Lagos/List of Articles

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.

Project Coordinator: Jonywikis, leader and founding member of Wikimedians of Lagos User Group. I was a guest speaker at WikiAfrica Hour to talk about the SheSaid campaign in 2023. I have organised and participated in various Wikimedia events. My role will be to coordinate the project and activities. I equally have experience in contributing to the English Wikiquote that will enable me to lead the training of participants during the events.
Project promotion and Communication Manager: Opeolade, She will be responsible for communicating with intended participants and will oversee the recruitment of new participants with special focus on recruiting female contributors. She is an active member of Wikimedians of Lagos User Group and a contributor to the enwikiquote among others. She will take an active lead during the training sessions and assist in events facilitation.
Project Assistant and Lead Facilitator: Biowikician, leader and founding member of Wikimedians of Lagos User Group. He will assist in training participants during the events. He has experience in contributing to the English Wikiquote. He has organised Wikimedia events and participated in many. He will oversee the technical parts of ensuring participants adheres to creating notable women articles on enwikiquote.

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)

Our target participants are members of Wikimedians of Lagos User Group and residents of Lagos from all walks of life interested in participating in the SheSaid events and becoming member of our community. We will equally reach out through targeted emails to interested individuals who have sent emails hoping to participate in the previous edition that was planned by the user group. We will be particularly interested in recruiting more women to actively participate in the events and becoming an integral part of our community. We will engage participants through:

Community Outreach: Pre-project engagement will be done through posting information about the project on the on-wiki page created for the event, Our WhatsApp group and on social media.
Edit-a-thons: We will organize edit-a-thons focused on improving content related to notable women born in Lagos on English Wikiquote after the participants has been trained on contributing to enwikiquote. Participants will have the opportunity to contribute quotes, expand pages, and learn about citation practices.

After the project activities, we will create a WhatsApp group dedicated to the participants that will help us to continue engagement with them. We will encourage them to ask questions on this platform and we will swiftly address their questions. We will as well invite them to our monthly meetings where they will discuss their progress and participate in our after meeting editathon. Additionally, we will begin a mentorship program after the event so that participants can continue to learn from experienced editors. The mentorship program will involve assigning new editors to existing experienced editiors.

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 project in the User Group's WhatsApp group discussions and we posted a notification to our User Group's page. Link to the on-wiki community discussion for Wikimedians of Lagos User Group

To avoid duplication of efforts, we will create a list of articles to be created or improved with red links so that once an article is created, participants will know it has been completed and can pick another article. Since the previous edition did not address our challenge, we can say that the content gap of lack of representation of notable Lagos women is yet to be bridged in the English Wikiquote. As a Wikimedia user group in our own geographic space, i.e. Lagos, we plan to improve the skills of our members in contributing to Wikimedia projects. We have also reached out by posting a notification on the Wikimedia Nigeria User Group page to encourage other communities to be involved in our project. Link to the on-wiki community discussion to Wikimedia User Group Nigeria

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)

Gender and diversity

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

Geographic

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

Invest in Skills and Leadership Development

Learning and metrics

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

We expect to see more women participate in the events.
We expect to see new contents about women born in Lagos created on enwikiquote.
We expect to have achieved recruitment, training and team building of new editors.
We expect to see how creating a list of notable women born in Lagos on the articles to be created section in the event page helps to address the issue of notability

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	40	We expect to have at least new participants 15 and 25 returning participants for the events.
Number of editors	40	We expect to have 15 newly registered users and 25 returning editors for the events
Number of organizers	3	3 persons will be organising and facilitating the events

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

Optional description for content contributions.

We expect to create 100 new wikiquote articles and improve 100 wikiquote articles

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

Yes

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Number of events organized	We will organise 4 events	4
Least number of female paticipants expected at the events	We expect to have at least 20 women participating in the events	20
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)

Program and event dashboard, hashtag, Google form, Event registration tool

Financial proposal

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1E7Xa4nkKwt1k8rYGtnOajsK5-TvDSEhZTBLxlp99Kn4/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)

1940000 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.

1192.94 USD

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

Yes

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