Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Wiki Mentorship Project Nigeria
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Applicant details
editWikimedia username(s):
- Prithee P, Omorodion1, Ogundele1, James Moore200, Bukky658, Semmy1960, Atibarian, B.Korlah, Ugwulebo, Princess of Ara.
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?
- Yes
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Additional information
editR. 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:
- Local
S1. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
T. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has. (optional)
- None.
M. Do you have a fiscal sponsor?
- Yes
M1. Fiscal organization name.
- N/A
Proposal
edit1. 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 overarching vision is capacity building and skill upgrade of wikimedians for better and efficient edits on wiki projects. We hope through the project to select, train and mentor volunteers who have shown a high level of interest in contributing to wikimedia projects and are willing to recruit others to open and free knowledge contribution. We have come to realise that from past work some volunteers have ceased their edits due to their articles getting deleted as a result of their lack of understanding of rules regarding article creation which we intend to address.
2. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important?
Based on recent discussions with some volunteers whose contributions have seen a drastic decline we were able to discover that most have been as a result of frustrations encountered due to their articles being deleted. We hope to start by guiding some of these volunteers through all the stages with respect to the creation of articles that meet Wikipedia-eligible standards. This is important is because it will help increase the number of active wikimedia editors in Nigeria which is below 1000 and which in turn will increase the number of Nigerian related contents online.
3. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
The approach that will be employed will be the mentorship of willing volunteers to experienced Wikipedian on a ratio of 5:1. This means that 5 volunteers will be assigned to a trainer who will guide them for a period of 3 months. The mentorship will a mixture of both online and in-person where mentees will get to be trained and also ask questions and get answers to their questions.
4. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
The planned activities will be weekly meetups between the mentors and the mentees which will take place both virtually and in person based on the needs of the mentees. For each week the cumulative sessions will last for 8 hours.
Mentees will be taught the basics such as copy-editing, adding relevant citations and how to create Wikipedia articles from scratch.
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?
Yes, I do. Members of this team have been picked from across the Nigerian community and also across the major languages of Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa as well as English. The usernames of the team include Prithee P, Omorodion1, Ogundele1, James Moore200, Bukky658, Semmy1960, Atibarian, B.Korlah, Ugwulebo, and Princess of Ara. The Free Knowledge Africa team will serve as advisors to the project.
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.
Geography, Language, 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.
This work addresses knowledge inequity as it affords Wikipedians from local languages in Nigeria the opportunity to contribute to free knowledge in their local dialects.
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, Diversity
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.
Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Socioeconomic status, Age, Digital Access
11. What are your strategies for engaging participants, particularly those that currently are non-Wikimedia?
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?
I will ensure that all participants are allowed to participate and contribute without any form of bias based on gender, race, language, or geography and also abide by all friendly space policies as outlined by the Wikimedia Friendly Space Policy.
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.
The Nigeria User Group have been informed about the proposal through the discussion page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Wiki_Mentor_Project_Nigeria. Also it has been mentioned in the whatsapp 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?
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.
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, Provide for Safety and Inclusion, Coordinate Across Stakeholders, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, 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.
- Yes
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation
edit19. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
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.
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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 |
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| Number of editors that continue to participate/retained after activities | N/A | N/A |
| 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 | N/A | N/A |
| Feedback from participants on effective strategies for attracting and retaining contributors | N/A | N/A |
| Diversity of participants brought in by grantees | N/A | N/A |
| Number of people reached through social media publications | N/A | N/A |
| Number of activities developed | N/A | N/A |
| 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 | Description | Target |
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| Number of participants | N/A | N/A |
| Number of editors | N/A | N/A |
| Number of organizers | N/A | N/A |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target |
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| Wikipedia | N/A | N/A |
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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?
Financial Proposal
edit23. & 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.
23.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
- 0 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.
- Other public document(s):
Final Message
editBy 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
Feedback
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