Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/WikiActivate 365 Annual Activities

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Applicant details

Wikimedia username(s):

1. chukydyk

2. Inyor4mr 3. Godstime Elijah 4. Ngostary2k

Organization:

G. Have you received grants from the Wikimedia Foundation before?

Applied previously and did receive a grant

H. Have you received grants from any non-wiki organization before?

No

H.1 Which organization(s) did you receive grants from?

N/A

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Additional information

R. Where will this proposal be implemented?

Nigeria

S. Please indicate whether your work will be focused on one country (local), more than one or several countries in your region (regional) or has a cross-regional (global) scope:

Regional

S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

We have countries that have been participating and benefiting from WikiActivate programs, campaigns and training. These includes countries like Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Botswana, Uganda etc

T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)

Meta-Wiki page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiActivate_User_Group

Telegram: https://t.me/wikiactivate

Twitter: @WikiLockdown

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Wikiactivate

M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?

No

M1. Fiscal organization name.

N/A

Proposal

1. What is the overall vision of your organization and how does this proposal contribute to this? How does this proposal connect to past work and learning?

The main aim of WikiActivate Projects is to retrain and encourage Wikimedia editors who has relapsed in contributing to Wikimedia projects to start off again, also groom new intended editors into the community. We aim to achieve this through organizing of Online and Physical trainings, Collaborating with Existing User groups and Organizations Edith-a-thon, Awareness and online engagements.

2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?

The Wikimedia Activate Community has not be recognized as a user group but we have been running events on a individual grants with strong ties to develop a solid community with a structured and planned activities to engage volunteers and retain editors. This idea is a continuous process for us and we started off good with all our online trainings and meetings starting from WikiLockdown, WikiSanta, WikiInteract and planning to host them again this yea with more events to recreate and help build our community.

Therefore rather than having reactive projects to implement it would bring a lot of change to the community to have better planned events to implement to help:

1. To engage Wikimedia editors who has relapsed in contributing to Wikimedia Projects 2. We also want to be able to raise funds directly or indirectly for Wikimedia 3. To increase the number of new editors and the retention ratio 4. To promote and increase age and gender diversity content 3. One of our mission is to promote and create awareness of free and open access to knowledge 4. Increase Participation - cultivating sustainable communities of WikiActivate content creators, librarians to create content in languages

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

We plan to achieve these goals through: Contents generations 1. Contents drives – We aim to organize and participate in content drives such as edit-a-thons, translation-a-thons, contests such as Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Monuments, WikiGap, Wiki Campaign for Human Right, 1L1ref, WPWP, AfroCine, etc. We plan to collaborate with new and existing user groups in Nigeria. 2. 3. Documentation– Documentation of indigenous works unique to Africa and culture such as Adire, pottery, local Markets, blacksmith, local oil making, drum-making, hair-making, mat-making, broom-making, wine-tapping, Garri-making, fufu-making, basket-weaving, local fishing, etc. We will document at least 20 Pictures/visuals of these works and upload on wikicommons

4. Edit-a-thons' – We plan to organize monthly edit-a-thons to generate content on Wikipedia, and Wiktionary, develop and grow the Wiktionary, contribute content to Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote and Wikidata. Capacity Building 1. Training: We will train new volunteers on how to contribute to the Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Existing volunteers and new ones would be trained on program evaluation, partnership, community-building, grant-making and reporting, event planning, and conference management 2. Digital Upskilling - Participants will be taught basic MS Office, Project Management, and LinkedIn optimization for better networking (social media communication work. This will also equip fellows with skills for using workplace production and collaboration tools such as the MS Office Suite, other project tools, and social media networking such as optimization of their LinkedIn profile creating an opportunity for social media communication 3. Community Support: We aim to support community members, a mission-aligned group with small funds (not more than USD 500) that have good projects that could advance our objectives. We also plan to subsidize the internet data cost for active members of the community who could not afford to purchase internet data.

Others

Provide an avenue for a young professional to come together for collaboration, capacity building, skill sharing, discourse around Wikimedia Projects, Training & Editathon, and project management and organizational skills.
Promote the use of Wikipedia as a reliable source of information in African schools, a pilot project has been done and this will further build on it.
Soft skills development; capacity building in areas of Entrepreneurial Leadership(using Wikipedia as a source) will equip fellows/participants with skills for leading self, leading/collaborating with others, leading projects, and leading change in systems and their society.
Partnership with organizations, institutions, and persons involved in African Festivals, Cuisines, and diversity to further showcase & promote it on the Wikimedia projects

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

With participants from different states in Nigeria and some part of Africa - A Bootcamp session centered around capacity building, complete training on the Wikimedia Projects; featuring networking, connection, capacity building, soft skills, etc. This Bootcamp aims to bring people from diverse backgrounds and cultures coming together with one thing in common; Editing on Wikimedia Foundation projects; Tech skills Such as Web development, there will also be guest speakers (e.g., Young professionals and entrepreneurs). The participants will have capacity building on both the Wikimedia Foundation projects and soft skills such as; Communication skills, Emotional Intelligence, and Proactivity, and building a good Linkedin profile (basic digital skills) making use of Wikipedia as a tool for the resource. Each participant will get a certificate of participation afterward and will also be onboarded as an WikiActivate Fellow As we aim to re-engage inactive editors in the community as we reactivate our old members , all these projects will be a way to build momentum and help us build the community with a more structured timeline and dedicated time events to increase collaboration as well as retain volunteers and attract newbies as well. The main outcomes for the community are as follows;

Increasing community diversity
Build capacity and improve skills for existing volunteers
Grow number of articles in WikiActivate.
Increasing public access to free knowledge through campaigns and panel discussions
Partner and collaborate with the mission-aligned organizations to promote WikiActivate

5. Do you want to apply for multi-year funding?

No

5.1 If yes, provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan?

N/A

6. Please include a timeline (operational calendar) for your proposal.

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

Dike Chukwuma Userame: chukydyk Project Coordinator: Responsible for the overall project implementation, evaluation and reporting

Ramatu Abdulrasheed Haliru Username: Inyor4mr Project Assistant - help in overseeing all projects

Ngozi Osuchuwku Username: Ngostary2k Outreach Coordinator : Responsible for the execution of the Group’s communication, activities and strategies

Carolyn Seaman user:Carolynseaman Volunteer

Godstime Elijah username: Godstime Elijah Volunteer

8. 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, Age (regency) , Geography, Socioeconomic Status, Important Topics (topics considered to be of impact or important in the specific context), Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

8.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

1. Outreach to local communities and organisations with similar mission and goals to bridging content gap and engage media houses/ use social media to expose the underrepresented communities content.

2. Visibility and impact: Share the activities that we do to bridge the content gap with other Wikimedia communities 3. We will maintain participants both online and offline by strategizing the communication channels via emails and email newsletters and social media engagement.

9. 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, Advocacy, Human Rights

10. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Please note, we had previously asked about inclusion and diversity in terms of CONTENTS, in this question we are asking about the diversity of PARTICIPANTS. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Sexual Orientation, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Disabilities, Age

11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?

Peer to peer learning: We intend to create a peer to peer learning platform to assist in engaging participants especially those who are non-Wikimedia, with this learning, People would support each other through the learning process. Every participant for each of our projects would be administered into the fellows group and this would further aid the peer to peer learning system and ultimately keep them engaged and abreast of the community activity.

Volunteers Involvement: People that want to volunteer and support the group would be able to reach out to us via contact details made available on all our pages and projects meta pages. Call for volunteers would be announced in local communities group for every project being implemented. All participants would be added to the WikiActivate Telegram group list where they can get first-hand information about things happening in the organization and the Wikimedia Foundation.

Content Gender Gap: focuses on including female authors, artists and others, not only representing their work but also as participants in the workshops and editors. The proposal also seeks to include grassroots cultural and governmental organizations that represent these communities as partners

Meetup – There would be a monthly meetup with a mix of new and established editors and each month will have its theme and activities tailored towards understanding the challenges of new editors and improving their works. Each month, the most positive and active editors will be appreciated with merchandise.

Funding support - We plan to award small funding support, not more than USD 500 for individuals, groups, and mission-aligned organizations with pragmatic and high-impact projects to advance our objectives. This would give the grantees a sense of belonging and encourage them to do more and stay in the community.

12. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants and promoting the UCOC and Friendly Space Policy, and/or equivalent local policies and processes?

The UCOC and the Friendly Space Policy will be implemented in each event, meetup, workshop and competition that we will be organizing. After registering for any event, the UCOC and friendly policy would be sent out to all participants and during virtual events, we would have volunteers who would serve as Safety officers to checkmate every activity to ensure a safe, supportive and more equitable environment for all participants.

13. Do you have plans to work with Wikimedia communities, groups, or affiliates in your country, or in other countries, to implement this proposal?

Yes

13.1 If yes, please tell us about these connections online and offline and how you have let Wikimedia communities know about this proposal.

Yes, we plan to work with the existing Wikimedia User Group in Nigeria we are already consulting with the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria on some Projects. The project has also been announced on the Wikimedia Nigeria discussion page.

Announcements: The project will be announced on the WikiActivate discussion pages, and the African Wikimedians telegram group.

14. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedian partners to implement this proposal?

No

14.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

N/A

15. How do you hope to sustain or expand the work carried out in this proposal after the grant?

-WikiActivate mission has always been to scale and extend our spread beyond Nigeria and extend to other African countries, learnings from this first project (Online and Nigeria) would help to further continue the word and extend our spread beyond Nigeria, which has also been in the pipeline as a result of the strategic partnerships we have formed

Increase our impact and scope by scaling to other projects and also identifying other enthusiastic and devoted members to work with within our community.

Carry out project analysis, surveys to find the impacts created using available metrics counting tools ,challenges faced and how best to address them

16. What kind of risks do you anticipate and how would you mitigate these. This can include factors such as external/contextual issues that may affect implementation, as well as internal issues, such as governance/leadership changes.

We will be using National Youth Policy for guardians and Wikimedia Code of conduct document and instruction for mitigation of these risks

17. 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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Ensure Equity in Decision-making, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Manage Internal Knowledge, Innovate in Free Knowledge, Evaluate, Iterate, and Adapt

18. Please state if your organization or group has a Strategic Plan that can help us further understand your proposal. You can also upload it here.

No

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

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

1. What are the strategies that help generate the skills needed to promote youth volunteers as organizers of future activities 2. What type of content would volunteers find interesting to write about? 3. What challenges are volunteers facing in contributing to Wikipedia? 4. What training method yielded the best results? 5. What is the best way that volunteers could support WikiActivate Wikipedia growing community

20. 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 space provided.


Main Metrics	Description	Target
N/A	N/A	N/A
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N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Here are some additional metrics that you can use if they are relevant to your work. Please note that this is just an optional list, mostly of quantitative metrics. They may complement the qualitative metrics you have defined in the previous boxes.


Additional Metrics	Description	Target
Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities	At least 25% of participants would be retained after activities. They will be inducted into the mentorship program.	30
Number of organizers that continue to participate/retained after activities	N/A	N/A
Number of strategic partnerships that contribute to longer term growth, diversity and sustainability	Strategic partnership with Wiki-in-Africa, Wikimedia Botswana, Wikimedia Nigeria, Wiki Loves Africa	4
Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors	Strategic monitoring, evaluation and learning surveys carried out at the start of each project, at the end of the project and 3-months after the end of each project to monitor participant's feedback on things that can be done better, added or removed which will lead to the attracting and retaining of contributors.	8
Diversity of participants brought in by grantees	Participants for all events would be spread across all diverse groups in Nigeria (Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba) and a little across Africa	4
Number of people reached through social media publications	Social media advertisements and publications about all of our projects (At least 500 impressions from our online advertisement // At least 5.5% conversion rate)	15
Number of activities developed	At least 3-5 distinct activities will be developed	4
Number of volunteer hours	N/A	N/A

21. Additional core quantitative metrics. These core metrics will not tell the whole story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please try to include these core metrics if they are relevant to your work. If they are not, please use the space provided to explain why they are not relevant or why you can not capture this data. Your explanation will help us review our core metrics and make sure we are using the best ones for the movement as a whole.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	At least 80 participants (40 participants during the physical edit-a-thon, and at least 40 participants would join the event remotely) Other (social media reach) - at least 50 participants	140
Number of editors	Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities	40
Number of organizers	Number of new Organisers	4

**Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project**
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	(English Wikipedia) Number of articles created/improved	500
Wikimedia Commons	Adding photos from Photowalk on Wikimedia Commons	500
Wikidata	We will be contributing at least 500 new items to Wikidata	500
Wikiquote	At least 300 Wikiquotes will edited and new one will be created	300
N/A	N/A	N/A

21.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

N/A

22. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected?

Wikimedia Outrach Dashboard will be used to track other contributions (https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/) Hashtag tool (https://hashtags.wmflabs.org/)

Financial Proposal

23. & 23.1 What is the amount you are requesting from WMF? Please provide this amount in your local currency. If you are thinking about a multi-year fund, please provide the amount for the first year.

9551900 NGN

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

20765 USD

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

23.4 Please include any additional observations or comments you would like to include about your budget.

N/A

Please use this optional space to upload any documents that you feel are important for further understanding your proposal.

Final Message

By submitting your proposal/funding request you agree that you are in agreement with the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and the Universal Code of Conduct.

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

Yes

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