Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikidata 10th Birthday in Osun (ID: 21942421)

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Applicant Details

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

RukayatAjeigbe

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

RukayatAjeigbe

OYENATION

Kaisha33

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 Nigeria User Group

Grant Proposal

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

Wikidata 10th Birthday in Osun

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.

Wikidata birthday is a yearly events that brings Wikipedians in all folks of life to celebrate and organize an onsite onsite event. This year I and my team proposed to celebrate Wikidata's 10th birthday by introducing Wikidata to students and like minds in Osun State who will like to contribute to Wikidata and get them involved in creating Wikidata item and celebrating Wikidata 10th Birthday Anniversary with them.

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

Recruiting 50 new editors across different communities in Osun State. This will allow full participation of community members within Osun State. Training participants on how to contribute to Wikidata and introducing them to other Wikipedia projects, the training will focus on; creating Wikipedia accounts to enable them contribute to Wikidata, understand the core content policies, and understand general editing principles. During the Wikidata Birthday celebration, Day 1 will focus on ensuring that the participants get the act and art of contributing to Wikidata. Creating Wikidata Items, improving items about people, places, organizations, GLAMS of Osun State in Wikidata Adding Citations to Wikidata items about Osun State. Adding Geographical Locations of places in Osun State to Wikidata Item. Use outreach dashboard to track contributions and provide one on one support to new editors.

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

A day edit-a-thon session will be held in celebration of Wikidata Birthday, this is where we will introduce Wikidata to participants, train them on how to contribute to Wikidata and improve the skill's of existing Wikidata editors. The second day of this event will be a party where we have editors coming together to celebrate Wikidata 10th birthday.

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.

Wikipedia Birthday or Anniversary, Other (please specify)

Wikidata 10th Birthday

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

RukayatAjeigbe(Project Lead): she is an experienced Wikimedian, She has participated in various Wikimedia projects such as WikiLoveAfrica, WPWP, Wikidata(Media personalities in Nigeria), WikiGLAM Awareness for Libraries and Librarians in Kwara, Wikidata for Libraries and Librarians in Nigeria, 1lib1ref 2022 Kwara, She also won Celtic Knot Scholarship 2022 to attend the Online Conference.

OYENATION: he is an experienced Wikimedian and has participated in various Wikimedia projects such as work on Wikidata projects, English Wikipedia and Wikicommons.

Kaisha33: she is an experienced Wikimedian and has participated in various Wikimedia projects such as Wiki for Human Right projects, Afrocine Contest, WPWP.

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, Other global topics for impact (topics considered to be of global importance), 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 event will promote knowledge equity aligned with the strategic direction of the Wikimedia movement because it will increase the investment of resources in underrepresented Wikimedia communities around the world. Have well structured data of Osun State community, Institutions Provide a platform for learning, capacity building and sharing of experiences and ideas around Wikidata and Wikimedia. Create partnering opportunities with local organizations from the cultural and educational sector,

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, Open Technology, Diversity

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

Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, 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?

This proposal is targeted at the diverse students (youth) community in Osun State. We hope to engage these participants before the project implementation through the Media, e-flyers, Posters etc The call for participation will be done through effective local communication channels which the students belong to using E-posters, and banners to promote the program on social media platforms. To ensure the sustainability of the project, after the events, participants will join as members in the wikimedia community, this will keep them updated and encourage participation during other Wikipedia events. Participants will be added to the existing messaging channels (WhatsApp and Telegram) for follow-up, updates, and questions.

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

The General friendly space policy for Wikimedia events will be summarised and be read at the beginning of each event to remind the participants and the organisers of the importance of friendly space policy. We will adhere to the Wikimedia friendly space policy during the event. The Wikimedia friendly space policy and UCoC will be distributed to participants before the event starts. The event premises will be safe and conducive.

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.

I have informed the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria through the discussion page for their suggestions and inputs. The link can be found here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Community_Notification_of_my_Project_Proposal_4

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.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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

I aim to learn on how to coordinate and manage participants after event. How to effectively improve content gaps on Wikidata and its sisters project. I hope to learn from participants to enhance my community engagements and priorities skills that improve contributions of editors as well as create Wikidata items. sustainability of new editors in various Wikimedia strategies.

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
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Training of new editors	Most participants will likely be new editors who will be trained by experienced Wikipedia editors on Day 1, to contribute to Wikidata items and improve existing Wikidata items. Day 2, the celebration of Wikidata's birthday, networking and cutting of birthday cakes	50
Contribution of local contents to Wikidata	Creating new and improving existing Wikidata items	200
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17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	Day 1 Day 2	53
Number of editors	100% new editors.	50
Number of organizers	Organizers 1 Project lead 2 facilitator	3

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
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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.

Program and Events Dashboard and Wikimedia Hashtag Tools

Financial Proposal

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

1718035.1 NGN

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

3938.77 USD

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ykVgi7SbQNJz28r8arhhKADd-pFO0QrTgGfKM3CKXaE/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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