Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia Community Arusha/Swahili Wikipedia Translation-a-thon 1

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Wikimeia Community Arusha/Swahili Wikipedia Translaion-a-thon 1

Considering the content gap on Swahili Wikipedia compared to the English Wikipedia, we will hold a series of events on May and others on the following months which will focus on translation of articles into Swahili Wikipedia. In this first series of translation-a-thon we are going to write about Africans.

targetSwahili Wikipedia

start date1st May

end date31st May

budget (local currency)4,617,370 TZS

budget (USD)1,991.24

grant typeIndividual

grantee• Ebenezer Mlay

contact(s)• ebenmlay.tz

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Please see the sample Editathon/Training application before drafting your application.

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.

Recruit new editors
Increase skills for existing editors
Add content on Swahili Wikipedia through translation from the English Wikipeia

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

This will be a series of three translation-a-thons

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.
You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

I have added the link to the Wikimedians of Arusha meta page. [1]

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

I will let my community know about the event through the African Wikimedians Mailing list and social media platforms that are already in place

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:I JethroBT

Yes, there are experienced editors willing to lead the events.

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

Yes there are participants with equipments and skills to participate and contribute high quality content. For the ones who don't have equipments we will rent for them to participate fully.

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

Through the social media platforms which are already in place

7. 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:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zCCfYQ6tCHTd3fwpoX5oevsBbo1mIv-Z_4Q-VFgeH40/edit?usp=sharing

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

This project will be a continuous project running for many months to bridge the content gap on Swahili Wikipedia. This will series of events will be the first ones out of many.

Impact

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

Number of events -3
Number of participants -20
Number of new editors -7
Number of of articles created or improved - 60
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -13

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).

Ebenezer Mlay - Event Manager

Praygod Mwanga - Event Organiser

Gladys Gibbs - Event Advisor

Alexander Demetro - Event Facilitator

John Massawe - Social Media manager

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

Food - 172.495 * 3 = 517.485 USD

Tea, Drinks and Bites - 86.2474 * 3 = 258.742 USD

Internet - 21.5619 * 3 = 64.6856

Local Transport (for the participants and event organizers while making arrangements for the events) - 172.495 * 3 = 517.485 USD

Venue - 34.1519 * 3 = 102.456 USD

Stationary and Graphics Designing - 43.1237 * 3 = 129.371 USD

Communications(Data,call and sms bundles for the organizers) - 32.3428 * 3 = 97.0283 USD

Tshirts 10.7809*7 = 75.4665 USD

Router rent (for internet sharing during the events) - 21.5619 * 3 = 64.6856 USD

Laptop rent(for participants with no laptops at least 4 laptops) - 25.8742 * 3 = 77.6227

Contingency - 21.5619 USD

Total = 1,991.23816 USD

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