Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/The Wildlife Conservation Project (ID: 22159264)
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Applicant Details
edit- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Richest Kid
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
N/A
- 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, thus Open Foundation West Africa
Grant Proposal
edit- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
The Wildlife Conservation Project
- 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.
The Wildlife Conservation Project is a project that seeks to close the content gap in relation to content around species. The main reason why we are embarking on this content drive is because there is a huge gap and we are ready to ensure that information around species in relation to animals and plants. This project will be done in partnership with the Ghana Wildlife Society
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
1. Partnership: We are in talks with the Ghana Wildlife Society where they can provide us with content to be made on wikispecies project
- 2. Community Engagement: Growing a community around wikispecies in Ghana in relation to the volunteer who are already part of the the Ghana Wildlife Society & the non existing ones
- 3.Capacity Building: Introducing them to the wikipedia ecosystem and who they can contribute species related to biology on the space
- 4. Certificates: These would be given out at the end of the campaign after engaging through several works around contribution to wikispecies
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
1. Content drive through article building list, this would be done by gathering data provided by the Ghana Wildlife Society
- 2. Our project would be for a year and the key focus is to ensure that members of the Ghana Wildlife Community are inspired to controbute all works they have through wikispecies as they also operate as a non-profit.
- 3. We would be running monthly edit-a-thons to increase their capacity and they way the contribute
- 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.
Other (please specify)
- Content Gap
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
Yes I do have a team who are experience to support me in the project. Richest Kid: Project lead and co-ordinator of the project Joris Darlington Quarshie : He would provide technical support to the team
- 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.
Geography, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance)
- 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.
The Ghana Wildlife Society has a lot of information on species of which some of these information cannot be really found on the wikispecies, wikipedia, wikidata etc, so for the year of content drive, we would be able to gather a lot of knowledge in the Ghanaian perspective and share it to the world around us
- 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, Climate Change and sustainability
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Disabilities, Linguistic / Language, Socioeconomic status, Age, Digital Access
- 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?
For now our target participant are the already existing volunteers, who are part of the Ghana Wildlife community and any interested can also join us.
A community whatsapp page will be created for as to engage as result of an emerging community in relation to wikispecies in Ghana.
A survey would be created using the outreach dashboard matric system to follow-up on their numerous contribution.
So the under-represented group are the volunteers at the Ghana Wildlife community who have the knowledge of various species and bioderversity, would be trained through our various training modules to aid them to have understanding on how the wiki works in other for them to contribute more.
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
We would introduce them to our friendly space policy or the UCOC which will enable them to be civil in all their enegagement or activities
- 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 communicate our activities on meta and also share through mailing list, twitter and other social media platform
- 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?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
- 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.
For now we are having the Ghana Wildlife Society and they would enage by ensuring their community of volunteers are involved and also provide as with various content that will enable us solve the issues related to content gap in related to wikispecies
- 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.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
edit- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
1. Understanding issues in relation to biodiversity
- 2. Improving knowledge by getting insights on how the wildlife society operates and how best I can also bring the knowlege to wiki ecosystem and advance the experience of other.
- 3. How my engagement with such community has impacted the lives of volunteers of which they will become prospects to contribution to the sum of all human knowledge
- 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 | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of volunteers | This is the volunteers who will be participating in the event | 25 |
| Number of Article Created | This will focus on the number created at the end the project | 100 |
| Number of Edits | Number of articles edited as a result of the project | 250 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | ||
| Number of editors | ||
| Number of organizers |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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.
We will be using the outreach dashboard to measure the matrics
Financial Proposal
edit- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
58720.5 GHS
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
3937.1 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VUBoLYb8bodmLocl38iTjf7JU8G2f1TdJdwlFKpQauM/edit?usp=sharing
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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