Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia cultural Diversity campaign (ID: 22896066)

statusUnder review
Wikipedia cultural Diversity campaign
proposed start date2025-01-10
proposed end date2025-03-20
budget (local currency)1851795 NGN
budget (USD)1100 USD
grant typeIndividual
funding regionSSA
decision fiscal year2024-25
applicant• Thecresent
organization (if applicable)• N/A

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Applicant Details

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Main Wikimedia username. (required)

Thecresent

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.

Wikipedia cultural Diversity campaign

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

2025-01-10 - 2025-03-20

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)

WikiForHumanRights

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)

Representing the world's knowledge is the mission of the global Wikimedia movement. But we are still in our infancy. Many languages and cultures are not adequately represented in the different Wikimedia projects, many people shy away from participating in our projects and sharing their knowledge with the world. Particularly striking is the low proportion of non binary people. To gain this knowledge and commitment, both to increase the pool of knowledge in the Wikimedia projects and to enable a heterogeneous, colourful, diverse community, is the goal of our work.While it is extremely difficult to change the narrative which would allow editors from all genders to contribute to Wikipedia and therefore improve the cultural diversity of the project, we can certainly spread the existing gender diversity across language editions and reduce the content culture gap.Wikipedia Diversity project we find that cultural diversity could improve if we could 1) engage non binary people with a status of marginalization to represent better their context, 2) increase the number of non binary editors on Wikipedia project

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.

The project will organize two days workshop which will equip the participants with the practical knowledge on how to create new articles translate and also edit the existing ones about diversity on Wikipedia project. in particular participants will 1.create and improved Articles on Wikipedia 2.take and upload photos on Wikipedia commons 3.Each participants would work on specific diversity articles that could be proposed by participants itself or discussed with trainers.


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.

Thecresent as experience editor will lead the event ensuring project goes right Talk2beautifulmind he will be in charge of technical activities for projects Mousa Expert from diverse community who will serve as a resource person during the event

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)

group of active Queering communities along with human rights activists groups that's would have interest in this events will be our targeted participants. further more the participants will be engaged through various social media channels such as WhatsApp and telegram for guidance and follow up of participants.

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.

Before embarking on writing this project I've been in touch with human rights team where by I proposed this idea and discussed with them they add and addressed important things on the proposal. And also the project was shared on mailing list

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)

Content Gender gap

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

Gender and diversity

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

Gender Identity

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

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement

Learning and metrics

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17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

Learn about how language edition represents its cultural contexts (what topics, how important it is).

  • Discover the extent of the content diversity gap for some specific less known languages.
  • Find new tools and lists of articles to use in your community events.
  • Check projects that foster cross- language collaboration and prioritize for certain content gaps.
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 17 Number of expected participants during the event
Number of editors 15 Number of expected participants during the event
Number of organizers 2 Number of orginizers
Number of content contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project Number of content created or improved
Wikipedia 100
Wikimedia Commons 10
Wikidata 30
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia
Optional description for content contributions.

N/A

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

No

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics Description Target
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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)

Program event dashboard

Financial proposal

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

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1g4m4ZZoVtSdcwxrpGFLRVoAijI4F3F9qh8pA-ZhlLXU/edit?usp=drivesdk


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

1851795 NGN

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.

1100 USD

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

Yes

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