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Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Names (ID: 21911658)

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statusWithdrawn
Wiki Loves Names
proposed start date2022-07-22
proposed end date2022-08-22
budget (local currency) 
budget (USD)0 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding region$$po_region;unknown_region$$
decision fiscal year2024-25
applicant• Onyinyeonuoha
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

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Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Onyinyeonuoha

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Organization

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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.

Igbo Wikimedians User Group, Nigeria

Grant Proposal

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

Wiki Loves Names

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.

Igbos attach a lot of importance to the names they bear; both individual names and names of their communities. There are varied reasons for this. The names are so valued that in case of community names, any attempt to change it without the agreement of the entire community always led to crisis. Most names are derived from their forefathers, rivers/streams, deities, hills, markets and other landmarks while families and individuals usually take their names after family members, market days and known heroes and heroines, among other important institutions.

In the olden days, Igbo people named their children after the four market days of Eke, Orie, Afor and Nkwo. That is why there are such names as Mgboafo, Mgborie, Nwanyinkwo, Mgbeke, Nkwomma, for women, while the men were named Okonkwo, Okoli, Okeke, Okafor Nwafor, Nweke, among others. In addition, families name their children to symbolise their experiences in life or circumstances surrounding the birth of such children, deceased family members, time or place of birth.There are over thousands of Igbo names not captured anywhere especially the ancient names and they are going into extinction,most of the young generation youths are not aware of the names and this will be worst if the it is not captured now- what data are we going to present to the generations unborn? We intend to close the gap between the ancient names and the younger generation and in the same time solve the problem of low participation of Igbo language contributors in the use of Igbo Wikitionary as an online educational resource and creation of contents in Igbo Wikitionary platform.

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

This is designed to motivate knowledgeable individuals to contribute Igbo ancient names that is becoming outdated to Wikitionary in ordervto enrich the platform.

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

We are planning 2 pieces of hybrid training (online and offline) over a month focused on teaching people on how to create Wikitionary online, after the training, we will organise an edith-a-thon challenge that will reward highest editors with data token and gifts.

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)

Wiki Loves Names
5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

Yes, we, they are ;

Onyinyeonuoha: Volunteer Wikimedia Education Documentation Specialist and Coordinator- Igbo Wikimedians User Group, Anambra Hub.

Ceslause: is the current Program Assistant at Igbo Wikimedians User Group. He's been contributing under Igbo Wikimedians User Group since 2018.

Tochiprecious: Co-founder and program coordinator for IG Wiki.

Onyinyeonuoha will facilitate the trainings while Ceslause and TochiPrecious will render technical supports.

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, Language, 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.

This project will;

1. Increase skills for existing editors:
   Increase the editing skill set of existing Igbo language editors.
2. Recruit new editors:
   Teach literate Igbos how to create Igbo Wikitionary and involve them in challenge to add contents.
3. Add contents on the Igbo Language Wikitionary platform.
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, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Advocacy

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

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?

This project is targeted at Igbo contributors at Igbo Wikimedians User Group, Nigeria. We will spread out information to all our hubs and fan clubs with e-flyer through our various channels of communication eg facebook, twitter, linkedin a, whatsaap platforms and emails. Also, we will advertise this on our social media channels.

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

Making sure that we have hybrid event is a way to ensure equitable contribution. Those who have digital skills can attend online and those who don't can attend physically

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.


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?


If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
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12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
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If no:

12.1 What was the reason for you deciding NOT to develop a joint proposal? How will you guarantee coordination efforts to make sure that you are not duplicating efforts and that you can maximise your work and joint impact.
13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.


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.


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.


Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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


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.


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.


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

0 USD

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


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

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Endorsements and Feedback

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  • 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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