Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikidata Birthday Cameroon (ID: 21963706)
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Applicant Details
edit- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
chiajelvis
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Eugene233
- 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.
Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group
Grant Proposal
edit- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Wikidata Birthday Cameroon
- 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.
- Underrepresented communities have students who have not been exposed to platform where they can learn a lot and also contribute to the sum of all knowledge
- Developers in these communities who contribute to other communities have also not been exposed to the solutions and projects where they can exercise their coding skills to foster the promotion of free and open knowledge
- There’s less awareness of topics(Knowledge) and data around Cameroon and Africa in the Wikimedia communities.
The growth of data provided by community members is intended to grow exponentially due to the new ways of contributing i.e tools and methods which are currently being developed and promoted in the communities. Also, there’s a rising need for developers in the African community to be active in developing solutions which are particular to the issues faced by their communities. Nonetheless, this has not been the case to a certain point, reason for the focus of these series of events.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
Strategies:
- The quest for new contributors is always a good way to activate a community
- Create a community of developers around Wikidata who will primarily be building tools to address ideas facing the challenges of contributing to Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects.
- Create advocates for open knowledge especially for the promotion of Wikimedia projects in universities. This could institute the initiation of Wikimedia focused groups/clubs in universities.
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
- There will be an introduction to Wikidata course for participants in the first phase
- We will also be having a formation session on how to do batch upload to Wikidata and linking data from Wikimedia Commons to Wikidata
- There will be a hackathon for developers to introduce them to developing tools to re-use Wikidata’s data
- At the end during the birthday’s celebration proper, we shall have an advocacy training day to train our advocates in the various state universities concerned
These will be done through:
- Collection of sources from potential partners
- Trainings
- Edit-a-thons and Hackathons
- 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.
Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
We have solicited the following
- Eugene Egbe (User:Eugene233) for the training of participants on Wikidata
- And User:Bile rene for assistance and collaboration
With regards to Batch uploads, we have
- User:Spinster for a training on Open refine
- 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.
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.
Language: We will be adding content in local languages spoken and written in Cameroon, contributing to files of record pronunciations of the words into Wikimedia Commons and linking both on Wikidata
Development: We will contribute to building software which facilitate the contribution of local languages into Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons
- 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?
Gender Identity, Geographic , 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?
- Cameroonian community members who are Wikidata focused editors.
- Fresh graduate software developers and university students
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
The intended audience is the Cameroon community and it happens to have an experienced Wikimedian who is a member of the Code of Conduct committee. Also, given that events have been organized in the past in the community, we shall ensure to uphold a friendly collaborative environment and then have the members of the Code of Conduct committee explain the meaning of these policies to new attendees.
- 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 shall be communicating in the Wikimedia user group of Cameroon page about the upcoming series of events so as to keep members informed about the activities. We also found out that the Cameroon community is growing a Wikidata focus group of editors. We shall be in contact with this focus group and use their members to radiate information about these activities.
- 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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, 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?
- What is the best way to contribute to Wikidata (using tools or directly editing Wikidata)?
- What are the reasons why users find it difficult to contribute in and out of events?
- How many people understood the trainings, what change is recommended for the next sessions(if any)
- How many new participants are ready to participate after the event even out of event workshop sessions - What do they need?
- How many participants will be ready to focus on Wikidata in their journey as editors?
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| tool contributors | Number of people who prefer tools(which are focused on the interface) to edit Wikidata | N/A |
| Interface contributors | Number of people who prefer editing Wikidata from the interface | N/A |
| offline attendees | How many people attended offline events ? | N/A |
| online attendees | How many people attended online events | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 20 | |
| Number of editors | 20 | |
| Number of organizers | 3 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikidata | N/A | 1000 |
| Wikimedia Commons | N/A | 1000 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A |
- 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 intend to create a dashboard for the event and track user contribution during the month of the birthday.
Financial Proposal
edit- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
3136000 XAF
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4936.5 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dK4o6vcHCGVGUtzDXqPWakmRikwIJnwiCPnhtPneN1E/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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- Stating why the proposal is important for the communities involved and why they think the strategies chosen will achieve the results that are expected.
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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.
- Analysing if the proposal is coherent in terms of the objectives, strategies, budget, and expected results (metrics).