Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Template Cascading Style Sheets Coding (ID: 22831626)
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Applicant Details
edit- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Anasskoko
- 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., Other
- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
Administrator in Hausa Wikipedia
Main Proposal
edit- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Template Cascading Style Sheets Coding
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-11-13 - 2024-12-20
- 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)
As an experienced editor and administrator in Hausa Wikipedia who has contributed for good three years, I have much experience that I created more than 30 Templates Cascading Styles Sheets in Hausa Wikipedia, the templates that changed the entire interface of Hausa Wikipedia, it advanced the main page of Hausa Wikipedia from the old one, the templates that holds the record of changing the entire interface of Hausa Wikipedia which was developed in 2021 and can be seen here https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/06/10/hausa-wikipedia-main-page-progression/ The process of changing the interface took me three months and eighteen days to complete due to the large number of tasks. More than sixty pages, templates, and parameters were created; the main page is held by templates, and the template is made up of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). An example of the template I created can be found here https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samfuri:Mukala_mai_kyau. The review history here. https://ha.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samfuri:Mukala_mai_kyau&action=history. A sample of template cascading style sheets can be found here https://ha.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samfuri:Mukala_mai_kyau&action=edit
- Changes attempting to be implemented: For the past four years, nearly 97% of Hausa Wikipedia editors have lacked user experience and editing skills when it comes to creating Templates Cascading Style Sheets that hold article coding. As a result, most editors focus on creating articles without creating templates cascading style sheets that help in categorizing articles based on stub, good article, and other functions that templates do to article, to main page, and to Wikipedia pages. This project seeks to train 30 editors from Hausa Wikipedia and Hausa Wikitionary to acquire the depth experience and skills of creating templates cascading style sheets. The editors from the sister projects will now work with me to create 50 templates that are currently required in Hausa Wikipedia and Hausa Wikipedia. The change here is that the templates will serve their function as templates. Please see the template page here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Templates and here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:A_quick_guide_to_templates This project will work tirelessly to continue creating Hausa Wikipedia pages that require templates, as well as to promote template use in Hausa Wikimedia.
Templates and Cascading Style Sheets, also known as CSS, are a collection of coding-based programs used to solve complex tasks on Wikipedia pages, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:CSS.
What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? The problems and challenges we are attempting to solve are to improve the user experience of existing editors who lack the ability to create templates cascading style sheets in Hausa Wikipedia. Attempting to solve the problem of creating the non-existing templates required for Hausa Wikipedia. Attempting to solve the problem of developing templates for Hausa Wikimedia.
Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required) One approach is to train long-term editors and create the necessary number of templates, which will be used to develop Hausa Wikipedia pages and articles in general.
- 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.
Planned access
We planned to start by holding session with the long experience editors to introduce them to template cascading style sheets, after that then training on template cascading will follow to enhance their editing skills and build their user experience for template cascading style sheets, after three trainings (two online and one in person training) templates will be created in Hausa Wikipedia and Wikitionary to develop pages and articles, we hope to learn seeing templates are created by experience editors, which we believe can be only created by experience editors.
- 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.
The three Hausa Wikipedia administrators will work on this, in person of Anasskoko, Gwanki and Uncle Bash007 see Hausa Wikipedia administrator here https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Admins
- 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 targeted participants are Hausa Community experienced editors and active members whom will work in seeing that they developed templates that will enhance the remote control of Hausa Wikipedia pages and articles.
- 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 the administrators through Hausa Wikipedia Administrators channel in WhatsApp and here on Administrators discussion page. https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tattaunawar_Wikipedia:Admin
- 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)
Not applicable
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Improve User Experience
Learning and metrics
edit- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
We hope to see that many editors can create templates, we hope to learn that templates are created in Hausa community to have a vibrant community that is well designed through coding.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
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| Number of participants | 30 | |
| Number of editors | 20 | |
| Number of organizers | 3 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
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| Wikipedia | 100 |
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| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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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)
WMF Hashtag; we would use this tool to measure users contributions from any page that they use our hashtag during template creation. XTools; if hashtag is not adequately used we would use the WMF Xtools to sources users contributions, if users contributions was reverted or deleted due to misconduct, we would use the tool to capture their problems to be putten into consideration for collecting data and information to help us find solution to inexperienced editors or newbies. Glamorous Tool; we would use this tool to see the number of svg,jpg and Giff icons from Wikimedia Commons that are used in templates that has been created and used in various Wikimedia pages which will help us create report. Outreach Dashboard; General campaign for participants toregister to capture all their contributions.
Financial proposal
edit- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zsI0mUih3CQ4crSwDUwvTkQAeeVnKl_aS72i7jSDf2g/edit
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
2669392 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.
1600 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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