Grants:Project/Global Open Initiative/Wikidata GLAMs Campaign Ghana
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| proposal | people | timeline & progress | finances | midpoint report | final report |
- Create awareness and build capacity for Wikidata across Ghana
- Deepen alliances with GLAM institutions in Ghana / create new partnerships where they do not already exist
- Improve / create 10,000+ Wikidata items;
- bibliographic data, and
- Ghanaian parliamentarians
Project idea
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Wikimedia outreach in West Africa and many parts of the Global South has steadily gained ground over the years, and many internet users in those regions know about or use at least one Wikimedia project, i.e. Wikipedia, even if they are not fully aware of what Wikipedia means or stands for. The most common form of Wikimedia Foundation grants requested from these regions is the Rapid Grants, and if you look here at current and past Rapid Grants proposals, very few concern Wikidata. Among the many reasons to advocate for the promotion of Wikidata outreach in West Africa is that Wikidata has the potential to power small African-language Wikipedias (many of which are mostly inactive) and keep them up to date.
Wikimedia affiliates and volunteers on the ground will not be able to do this work alone however, and since GLAM institutions are one of the most capable groups that can truly help in this capacity, there is therefore the need to start forging alliances with them and create opportunities to demystify Wikidata so that it can be embraced in underrepresented communities too.
What is your solution to this problem?
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Our solution is multifaceted.
First, we'd want to embark on a nationwide campaign to create or increase awareness about Wikidata for the different GLAM institutions. There are at least 30 large public and academic libraries in Ghana. We will bring delegates from these libraries together at workshops to introduce them to Wikidata, and to help them develop pathways to reuse and integrate their collections onto Wikidata. This approach is based on successful models we have already experimented with, such as this. Similarly, we will organize Wikidata training workshops for Galleries, Archives, Libraries and Museums across the country.
These workshops will serve as means to create close meaningful relationships with these institutions in an atmosphere of trust and mutual alliance, allowing us to further expand outreach for Wikidata in different areas and with other kind of institutions.
Third, this proposed projects' solution to expanding Wikidata outreach in Ghana is to continue to grow the number of Wikidata editors in the country by engaging our existing local Wikimedia community in more Wikidata hands-on related activities. One of the very successful Wikidata engagement activities in Ghana has been the Parliament of Ghana Editathons, whose ultimate goal is to improve coverage of Ghanaian legislators from 1950 to date. We have already received 2 Wikimedia Foundation Rapid Grants to work on two out of the 13 parliamentary terms. (See [1] [2] & [3])
Finally, as part of our solutions to expanding Wikidata outreach in Ghana, we will be adding several thousands of open access bibliographic records from the University of Ghana digital records to Wikidata. There is the potential to conduct similar exercises in agreement with other universities in Ghana and in the West Africa sub-region.
Project goals
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1. We will use now til September 15 to reach out to institutions using emails and people already on the ground to sign MOU's with the individual institutions that sends a delegate to our training workshops.
2. As the above is happening, we'll galvanize our local community to engage in Wikidata related activities; i.e. organising series of contest about editing Wikidata items about Ghanaian parliamentarians similar to this, Parliament of Ghana Edit-a-thon and adding the open access bibliographic records provided by the University of Ghana digital archive.
3. After September 15, 2020, we will organize 16 total training workshops. We will devide the country Ghana into four zones, and organize 4 workshops in each of these zones. In each zone there will be workshop training for Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums.
Project impact
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| Goals | Impacts (outcomes) | Result (measurement) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | We will create awareness about Wikidata for GLAM institutions in Ghana | 16 total workshops. Report will be written and published on Meta and on our blog |
| 2 | We will enter formal agreements with individual GLAM institutions that includes a plan/strategy for that institution's continuous engagement with Wikidata | With an estimated attendance of 25 different institutions attending each event, we expect the 25% will sign an MOU with us. |
| 3.1 | Each Ghanaian MP from 1950 will have a Wikidata item with complete Position held (P39) property statement. | These exercises will
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| 3.2 | Add 10,000+ bibliographic records to Wikidata |
Do you have any goals around participation or content?
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| Metric | |
|---|---|
| Total participants (Awareness campaigns) | 250 |
| Total participants (editing activities) | 100 |
| Number of newly registered users (editing activities) | 50 |
| Number of content pages created or improved,
across all Wikimedia projects |
10,000+ |
Project plan
editActivities
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After September 15, 2020, Organize 16 total training workshop and sign MOU's with the individual institutions
We will organize training workshops for GLAM representative in 4 zones of Ghana. In each zone there will be four workshops targeted at 4 groups of professionals, separately; i.e. from Galleries, Libraries, Archival bodies and Museums. At each session, containing a small group of 25 participants, delegates will
- Be introduced to Wikidata, they'll also learn
- How Wikidata triple statements are organized
- and use that knowledge to create / contribute to items related to their area, be it bibliographic, a collection or a record
- Learn to write basic SPARQL queries (examples will concern their respective areas)
- Learn how to use tools built on top of Wikidata, e.g Scholia as a tool for visualizing WikiCite data for librarians.
Parliament of Ghana Online Contests
For the 6th and 7th parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana, we relied on data from the GhanaMPs.com and EveryPolitician. The main parliament of Ghana website scraps old content whenever a new parliamentary session begins, and so there is no old records of previous MPs on it. MySociety has discontinued organizing data about politicians and the folks at GhanaMPs are no longer adding MP'd data to their website earlier than the 6th parliament of the 4th republic of Ghana. We have enquired from the parliament of Ghana and they say they do not have data about MP's in a structured format that they can give us, but they are however open to having us come over and use their public records library. We will send a Wikipedian-in-Residence to search and gather the following properties about the MP's:
The research activity about the MP's will be followed by 11 onsite editathon session including contests that will allow people to contribute from remote and win prizes.
Add bibliographic records provided by the University of Ghana digital archive
This will involve organizing and preparing the university of Ghana bibliographic records to be batch uploaded using QuickStatements. This activity will also involve a workshop to demonstrate a Wikidata tool, specifically dedicated to providing training for community members about making mass edits to Wikidata.
Budget
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We have taken out offline events and broken down the budget to make things more clearer as requested.
Table 1
| Item | Details | Unit Ghc | Quantity | Total (Ghc) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Six Online Parliament of Ghana Contests: Table 1 | ||||
| Social Media Advertising | Boost competition on social media | 200 | 6 | 1200 |
| Data allowance for graphic designing | provide internet data allowance to aid graphic designing work | 150 | 6 | 900 |
| Mobile data allowance for participants | Divide amount among the number of participants (estimating 20) | 400 | 6 | 2400 |
| Team Management | online team meetings, calls, online support for participants, etc | 1200 | 6 | 7200 |
| Jury Meetings and Review internet data usage | Internet data allowance to aid jury work and online meetings | 800 | 6 | 4800 |
| Prizes | Prizes for winners in top 5 categories (For a further breakdown please refer to the prizes table below) | 4800 | 6 | 28800 |
| Total | 45300 | |||
| Notes:The purpose of these contest is to engage our community in wikidata activities especially during these times that most of them are restricted to stay home as often as possible |
Table 2
| Role | Description | No of Days | Total No of hours | Rate/hour in Ghc | No of Events | Total in Ghc |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikidatians-in-Residence: Table 2 | ||||||
| Wikidatian-in-Residence at Parliament of Ghana Library (Six different people will play this role. We will divide the parliamentary sitting amongst six different people) | Gather data about Ghanaian MP’s and present them in a spreadsheet. Organise reference for this information. |
5 days * 5 hours a day | 25 | 140 | 11 | 38500 |
| Wikidatian-in-Residence at University of Ghana will prepare records for batch upload of bibliographic records to Wikidata | We may not be provided with a single database by university as the various departments have different systems of organising their records. | 72 | 140 | 1 | 10080 | |
| 1 QuickStatements Technical | Modelling of data and running the QuickStatement batches | 30 | 140 | 5 | 4200 | |
| Total | 52570 | |||||
| Note: We're positioning Wikidatian-in-Residence at both the Parliament of Ghana Library and University of Ghana. |
Table 3
| Item | Description | Unit Ghc | Quantity | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Training for Six Wikidatain in Residence and team Members: Table 3 | ||||
| Internet data for online meetups | A Community member with experience with this kind of project will be invited to assist in training the team and the Wikidatatians in residence | 400 | 2 | 800 |
| Note:The purpose of this training is to well equip and prepare the team and the wikidatians in residence |
Table 4
| Item | Description | Unit Ghc | Quantity | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Virtual Wikidata Workhops for 4 GLAMS: Table 4 | ||||
| Gound work (includes paper work) | one representative closer to the respective institutions will be in charge of paying occasional visits to the institutions to meet with authorities | 800 | 8 | 6400 |
| Team management | online team meetings arrangement, calls, online support for participants, etc | 1200 | 8 | 9600 |
| Certificate for Participation (digital) | Designing of 20 certificates | 100 | 8 | 800 |
| Internet data allowance for participants | Divide amount among number of participants | 500 | 8 | 4000 |
| Total | 20800 | |||
| Note: Instead of 16 in-person workshops described in our proposal, we're doing 8 virtual workshops in the north and south of Ghana |
Further Breakdown of Prizes for Online Contest
The prices listed in this table are the equivalent in Shoprite gift cards we shall award. The competition will not award winners any physical cash.
| Project | Category | Prize | Ghc |
| Wikipedia | Highest edit count | First | 300 |
| Second | 200 | ||
| Third | 100 | ||
| Destubbed Wikipedia articles | First | 600 | |
| Second | 400 | ||
| Third | 200 | ||
| Wikidata | Highest edit count | First | 300 |
| Second | 200 | ||
| Third | 100 | ||
| Added statement Qualifiers per MP:
Educated at (P69) Academic degree (P512) Academic major (P812) Religion (P140), and Occupation (P106) |
First | 600 | |
| Second | 400 | ||
| Third | 200 | ||
| Other; (only applies if there is no female in the Wikipedia winning categories) | Top Female contributor | First | 300 |
| Second | 200 | ||
| Third | 100 | ||
| Other; (only applies if there is no female in the Wikidata winning categories) | Top Female contributor | First | 300 |
| Second | 200 | ||
| Third | 100 | ||
| Total (Ghc) | 4800 | ||
Final Table
| Table | Amount (Ghc) | Amount (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Table 1 | 45300 | 7803.87 |
| Table 2 | 52570 | 9056.28 |
| Table 3 | 800 | 137.82 |
| Table 4 | 20800 | 3583.24 |
| Grand Total | 119470 | 20581.21 |
| Note: (Oanda Exchange, 15 May 2020): 1 USD = Ghc 5.80481 |
COVID-19 Planning Section
editThere are three major activities we will be doing for this project which is: adding bibliographic records provided by the University of Ghana digital archive, creating Wikidata items for Ghanaian legislators from 1950 to date through online contest and organising 16 total awareness workshops for GLAM institutions across the breadth of Ghana. With the first two activities we can engage our existing community online while most of them are now restricted to stay at home. We already have experience in organising online contest of this sort, for instance this recent contest,Wikipedia:WikiProject Ghana/Parliament of Ghana/Members of the 6th Parliament of the 4th Republic of Ghana/Contest. The 16 workshops which we hope to organise for GLAM institutions will be postponed until the World Health Organization declares the COVID-19 pandemic over.
Community engagement
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We will create a mailing list and a page on meta to inform people who sign up to follow the project's progress. The page will also allow us to seek input from the community along the way. We have an active social media presence and instant messaging platforms including WhatsApp and Telegram where we will disseminate information from time to time. We believe that via these social media platforms, we will find allies who may be affiliated in some way to the GLAM institutions we intend to visit. Through these folks we may be able to better connect with those institutions.
Get involved
editParticipants
editPlease use this section to tell us more about who is working on this project. For each member of the team, please describe any project-related skills, experience, or other background you have that might help contribute to making this idea a success.
- Zita Ursula Zage - Main Focal Point - Zita has made over 100,000 contributions on Wikidata. She has facilitated a lot of Wikipedia and Wikidata workshops in Ghana. The documentation of the most recent Wikidata workshop she helped organise and facilitate can be found here, Wikidata:Events/FindingGLAMs: Wikidata, Librarians and Linked Open Data.
- Sadik Shahadu - Projects Manager - Sadik has volunteered in organizing and facilitating several Wikidata workshops in Ghana and was a participant and a volunteer for WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin, Germany.
- Emmanuel Yeboah - Communications, Partnerships
- Mustapha Olasunkanmi - Graphics Designer
- Harriet Henry Bayel - Logistics, Events
- Gabriel Amuzu - Photographer
- Gereon Kalkuhl - Advisor
- Greg McVerry - Advisor
- Mohammed Sadat Abdulai - Advisor - Mohammed was the Wikidata resource person at the second iteration of the Africa Open data conference in 2017. He has since organised or facilitated other Wikidata related activities and events in his home country Ghana.
- Franklin Oduro - Support
- Terese Baidoo - Support
Community notification
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- african-wikimedians@lists.wikimedia.org
- libraries@lists.wikimedia.org
- Wikimedia-GH@lists.wikimedia.org
Endorsements
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Strong support I endorse this project and the team who are working on it. JKlein (WMF) (talk) 14:57, 5 March 2020 (UTC)- I endorse this project because it offered me the opportunity to meet great minds and i believe continuing with it will educate others to attain full potential in their Wikimedia endeavors.
- Strong support I endorse this project Sunkanmi12 (talk) 22:38, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support I endorse because it will go a very long way to educate people about wikidata and also teach them how to add edits to wikidata. Amuzujoe (talk) 23:28, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support I surely endorse this project
- Strong support Only few people have interest in contributing to Wikidata from Africa. That is why I strongly endorse this project. Shahadusadik (talk) 00:01, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support I fully support this project.Jemima2019 (talk) 10:47, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support I endorse this project because it is going to help educate more individuals on how to edit on wikidata. Nana yaa series (talk) 11:19, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support I am a strong fun of Wikipedia since and I do go there for a lot of information, so as GOI educate me about Wikipedia and wikidata I think is a must for me to help put credible information here so as I endorsed this program it may reach to a lot of people out there who will also love to join the community and with that wikimedia will be great. Darkemperror (talk) 15:04, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support I know from their excellent, prior, related work that the people behind this proposal will match or exceed its worthy goals. Nateangell (talk) 18:05, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support I believe this project is going to increase the number of consumers and Contributors of wikidata.Mwintirew (talk) 12:11, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support I believe this project will not only go a long way to improve Wikidata contributions from Ghana, but also increase the awareness of Wikidata in the country. Kinvidia (talk) 16:20, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- Seems like a nice thing to do LewisCowles1986 (talk) 14:19, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support Adongo1 (talk) 15:35, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support - Mohammed Galib Hasan (talk) 07:17, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support -Yupik (talk) 15:58, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong supportOladipupo193 (talk) 10:07, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
- Strong support I am in support of this project.Warmglow (talk) 15:02, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
Support I endorse this project and the team working on it. Note: I have no specific opinion on the budget, I simply consider 1) the project seems solid, 2) I trust the team behind it, 3) women power 4) africa on the move 5) awareness of wikidata Anthere (talk)- I fully Support this project and will put in all my efforts to support it. 154.160.22.61 12:12, 31 May 2020 (UTC)
