Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wiki Loves Namibian Women (ID: 21965432)

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Applicant Details

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Martin Hipangwa

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

[User:Martin Hipangwa] [User:Tautiko Shikoha]

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.

Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia (Not yet recognized user group)

Grant Proposal

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

Wiki Loves Namibian Women

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.

When we did our first Awareness and Edit-a-thon project, we identified a gap on Namibia women content on Wikipedia. Existing participants have the basic Wikipedia editing skills and they still need more practical engaging experience in terms of dealing with creating articles of notable people on Wikipedia. Thus embarking on this journey will help participants to horn their Wikipedia editing skills and contribute toward closing the gap of Namibian women representation on Wikipedia.

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

There are a lot of Namibian Women in red and this information need to be improved and added on Wikipedia. Therefore this project is aiming to narrow the gender knowledge gap through several edit-a-thons. The edit a thons will be held under a banner of Wiki Loves Namibian Women 2022-2023 contest where participants will participate in the contest through various edit-a-thon series.

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

Training Workshops: The workshop will help with equipping editors with advanced Wikipedia editing skills so that they will be able to create, edit and improve articles. Edit-a-thons: Edit-a-thons will help with achieving the project outcomes Several Wikipedia editing hours: To keep participants engaged to be able to achieve the project outcomes. Price giving ceremony: This will be a motivational event to thank all the top editors and hand over the project certificate to all the participants and map the way foward for the next projects.

The list of Project:Women in Red in Namibia [1]

Our objective is to turn red links into blue ones. Our scope is Namibian women's biographies, women's works, and women's issues.

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.

Wiki Loves Women, WikiGap

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

I do have a team of librarians that are willing to help to execute this project. All these team members are volunteers and they are not salaried. User:Martin Hipangwa : Project Leader Martin will be responsible for all the project dealings and shall be responsible with leading the project to completion. User: Tautiko Shikoha : Assistant Project Lead User:Suzeen Simon: Will be responsible with marketing and advocacy for events that are taking place. User:Elizabeth Matheus: Will be our advisor for the whole project. User:pgallet : For in-depth Wikipedia Training Session facilitations.

International Trainers from Wiki Loves Women Florence Devour [User: Anthere] from Wiki Loves Women will be responsible with training all the participants. Isla Haddow Flood [User: Islahaddow] from Wiki Loves Women will be responsible with giving technical expertise to the project coordinators. Candy Tricia Kholiwe also from Wiki Loves Women will also support in the training and Jury process.

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, Sexual Orientation

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.

We will be carrying out a series of edit-a-thons to help with improving and adding content of Namibian women on Wikipedia which will help narrow this content gap.

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.

Advocacy, Diversity

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

Age

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?

We will be targeting the youth, aged 18-35. Existing participants have the basic Wikipedia editing skills and they still need more in terms of dealing with creating articles of notable people on Wikipedia. We will add them to our existing WhatsApp groups, using and tagging on our social media pages.

Through tracking on the dashboard, we shall track the participants who are doing a great job in contributing and those that need our assistance along the way.

Every month we have a meet up with all the participants, thus this method will be used to encourage and find out if participants are contributing after and beyond the project.

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

New participants don’t have relevant skills to edit Wikipedia, some targeted participants are students and librarians and there is a chance that they have laptops of their own while some of them don’t have laptops or means to access Wikipedia apart from their cell phones. The project shall facilitate the internet and transportation provision for all the participants and to source laptops to use during the training to make sure that all participants grab all the skills.

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 have carried out some awareness and advocacy through local radios and television program to let people know what are our future plans for Wikimedia Projects in Namibia. Most of the engagements that was done was from the previous project enables us to identified this gap, and this proposal is the results of those gaps that were identified through the awareness and edit-a-thon that we have created.

To make sure that this project is successful, I will coordinate the project with the founder of Wiki Loves Women in Africa. This will include Florence Devouard [User:Anthere] as the Trainer, Isla Haddow-Flood [User:Islahaddow] and Candy Kholiwe will be responsible with the Jury and trainings as well.

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.

No

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.

Improve User Experience, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Identify Topics for Impact

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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

From this project I would like to learn advance skills of creating proper authentic articles for notable people (eg women) in Namibia and contribute to bridging the knowledge gap. I would like all participants to be ambassadors of creating free knowledge on Wikipedia in Namibia. An the outmost wish is to create a strong basis for a community user group in Namibia so that this can be a continuous process. Did the participant acquired advanced skills of creating and editing Wikipedia articles? Can participants upload files on Wiki Common and effectively use them in their Wikipedia Article? How many articles were created? How many editors were trained?

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	The target are the youth especially the unemployed graduates who wish to make a change in their community. The total number of participants shall be 30 including the organisers.	30
Number of editors	The shall be 30 editors which comprises of new and returning editors.	30
Number of organizers	There shall be 5 organizers. Martin Hipangwa will be the project lead and oversee the whole project to completion. The following people shall assist in the organization, logistics, and marketing of the event respectively. Martin Shikoha as an Assistant Project Leader Detlef Pfeifer as Logistics Assistant Susan Simon as a Social Media assistant Elizabeth Mathews as an Advisor. There will also be international trainers that will help out with the project User [Islahaddow] User [Shoodho] User [Anthere]	5

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	Number of articles created or improved:60	60
Wikimedia Commons	Number of pictures uploaded:	N/A
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17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

The list will guide us to improve or add the missing articles on Namibia Women in Red [2]

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.

I will use the Dashboard to track the edits and all contribution by the participants.

Financial Proposal

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

60404.7 NAD

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

3405 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Iigsx-uw_gILFgS8naFDxP-f_o9S5Da1pJ5Tk-JULY/edit#gid=0

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

Yes

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