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Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikinews trainings in Gungbe (ID: 22278183)

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statusDraft
Wikinews trainings in Gungbe
proposed start date2023-10-27
proposed end date2023-12-27
budget (local currency) 
budget (USD) USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionunknown region
decision fiscal year2023-24
applicant• Sagbosam
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

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Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Sagbosam

Organization

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Main Proposal

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

Wikinews trainings in Gungbe

2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.

2023-10-27 - 2023-12-27

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

Nigeria

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

Not applicable

6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)

Gungbe Wikinews is the first and only indigenous African language with a wikinews subdomain (guw.wikinews.org). The subdomain was launched on April 20, 2023. Gungbe Wikinews is positioned as an online distributed and networked voluntary journalism news service - offering situated, active, learning opportunities for emerging journalists. To live up to its expectations, the gungbe Wikinews require daily news content creations. This will be achieved if more editors are trained on how to contribute to the Gungbe Wikinews. Furthermore, the gungbe Wikinews subdomain requires promotions so that all communities speaking gungbe in Nigeria, Benin and beyond can have access to a collaborative peer-reviewed timely free news. Such promotions will not be possible if more trained active contributors and news contents are not available on the gungbe Wikinews. The news articles will also be read through audio spoken news so that the not-so-literates can as well benefit from this aspect of Wikimedia project.

I will translate the following materials from English to Gungbe in order to have a localised material for the trainings. I will involve experienced gungbe speakers in making sure these translations are accurate and unambiguous. I will do this by organising a pre-event translation discussion among existing gungbe Wikinews editors. This method will be effective because the expected participants will have training materials and can easily use them after each section has been covered during the trainings and this will be in their local that they can easily understand.

Here are the materials to be translated:

7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
  1. Day 1 (Pre-event meet-up): I will carry out a pre-event translation meet-up between the experienced editors and native Gungbe speakers to complete the translation of the materials to be used during the events from English to Gungbe.
  2. (Day 2 - 7) Trainings and Edit-a-thon: I will carry out 6 training events on writing news articles to Gungbe Wikinews which includes a 2 day workshop for reading, recording and adding spoken news article via Wikimedia Commons.
  1. Day 2 and 3: Introduction to Wikinews
  2. Day 4: Understanding article layout
  3. Day 5: Edit-a-thon on creating news articles (hands-on practical)
  4. Day 6 and 7: Reading, recording and adding audio spoken news to created-news articles via Wikimedia Commons.

Here are samples of how the complete Wikinews with audio spoken news added will look like:


8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
  1. Sagbosam: I am one of the main contributor to gungbe Wikinews. I also contributed majorly to gungbe Wikinews when it was in incubator. I will be coordinating the event. I will also facilitate in the trainings.
  2. Misteld: He is a Sysop in Gungbe Wikinews. He will co-facilitate the event and help to keep news articles created clean. He will help in managing the project. He will support in making sure the audio Wikinews added to commons in of good quality.
  3. Gadarawamo: As an experienced wikinews contributor, he will take part in co-facilitating the events and assist communication with gungbe journalists students, writers and literate gungbe speakers.
  4. DonKevin: As an experienced Wikimedia events organiser, he will provide advice and assistance on how to carry out a successful project.
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? (required)

The target participants are members of Gungbe Wikinews community, journalist students and writers in Lagos tertiary institutions and gungbe journalists in mainstream media. I will encourage the participants to join the pre-event meet-up. I will organise a call on Google meet where I will intimate them about the history of gungbe Wikinews, its creation and what to expect in the trainings. During the trainings, I will provide guides for the participants and give time for them to ask questions. Experienced contributors will be on standby to address participants questions during the trainings. After the event, I will create a WhatsApp group specifically for the participants, where participants can ask questions in real-time. I will be sharing news topic from multiple reliable sources that can be used in creating new news articles on the WhatsApp group to continue to keep participants interested in contributing to gungbe Wikinews.

10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)

No

10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.

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11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.

I have discussed the proposal with the Gungbe Wikinews Community members on-wiki and off-wiki through WhatsApp call. Here is a link to the on-wiki notification:

12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Language

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Culture, heritage or GLAM

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Linguistic / Language

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Invest in Skills and Leadership Development

Learning and metrics

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17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
  1. How many participants are aware of the Wikinews project?
  2. How easy or difficult is it to record audio Wikinews?
  3. Which do participants find interesting: audio Wikinews or written Wikinews?
  4. Which do participants find easy to contribute to: audio Wikinews or written Wikinews?
18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
Number of participants, editors, and organizers
Other Metrics Target Optional description
Number of participants 30
Number of editors 30
Number of organizers 4
Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons 300
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews 300
Wikispecies
Optional description for content contributions.

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19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)

No

Main Open Metrics Data
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20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)

Outreach dashboard

Financial proposal

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21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)


22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)


22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.

 USD

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No

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