Grants:Project/Rapid/Richest Kid/Schools Project

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Rapid Grants

Richest Kid/Schools Project

Telling the folklore story through taking photos/images/pics of various Universities and also introducing students to Wikicommons and Wikipedia.

targetWikimedia Commons,Wikipedia & Wikidata

start date12 April

end date12 June

budget (local currency)GHC 10,000

budget (USD)USD 1,740.64

grant typeIndividual

grantee• Richest Kid

contact(s)• asijay03@gmail.com

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Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed. You can add details to each goal.

1. Add or improve content on wiki commons
2. Recruit new editors
3. Engage existing editors

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
1. How many walks/tours will you organize and how many people on each walk?

We would have an edit-a-thon where we would train university or tertiary student on how to create and edit wikipedia pages and also guide them to upload public photos of their school which is not found on wikipedia and wikicommons for a period of three months, we would work with selected universities in Ghana and tell the folklore story through edit-a-thon and photo-thon on wikipedia and wikimedia commons. We would essentially be having ten photo-walks.

2. What kind of content will the walks focus on? Why is this topic a priority?

The kind of content the walks would focus on are the various educational facilities, halls, folklore, student activity and many more so that the gap associated with tertiary institute which is not covered on the online encyclopedia would be made available. There would be further edits and curation of articles by students for their schools wikipage as result of guidance from the team.

The reason why this topic is of priority to us is a research we conducted on commons and we found out that there is a gap on universities in Ghana, on wikicommons and wikipedia space seems to be scanty or skewed so we decided to partner with some of the universities for this project. Some of the universities has approved partnership with them whiles others are yet to approved. The list is below:

• University of Development Studies
• Winneba University
• Ghana Insitute of Journalism
• Central University
• Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
• University of Energy and Natural Resources
• University of Professional Studies
• Valley View University
• Ghana Communication Technology University However in our partnership with the schools the key underlining objective is that student of the school would acquire skills through training how to use wikipedia and wikicommons.

3. What is the plan to ensure images will be used on Wikimedia projects?

After we are done with the walk we would have four days to upload photos to wikimedia commons and edit articles and curate articles that do not have images of how the various tertiary institution respectively on wikipedia.

4. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

Yes participant have the required skills and needed equipment for the walk

5. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

6. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:

Yes there would be an in-person meeting for the student because its part of our partnership agreement, that we need to train student to acquire wikiedia skills that would enable them use in school. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13rlOB1WNXWcpL2Dq3HocTTgmVONi5u7NDnI6_DD8nLk/edit?usp=sharing

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more:

1. Number of participants - 100
2. Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons - 500 images
3. Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects - 10 images

Resources

What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

• Food - 3000 [ Food for the participant in various institution and the school for 3 months]
• Transportation - 3000 [Transportation for 5 team members for three month]
• Internet - 1500 [Support for training and photo uploads]
• Personal Protective Equipment - 1000 [PPE's for team and participant of the event]
• Accommodation - 2000 [Accommodation for 5 team members for 3 month]
• Miscellaneous - 500 [Our contingency's for unforeseen events]

Total = GHC 10,000

Total = USD 1,740.64

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