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Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia TZA/Wikipedia 20 Celebrations in Tanzania

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Wikimedia TZA/Wikipedia 20 Celebrations in Tanzania
Wikimedia User Group Tanzania will be joining the rest of the Wiki communities in the world to celebrate the 20 years of Wikipedia since it was created in 2001. In this celebration, we will welcome all Tanzanian Wikimedians to come together and reflect on the key past Wikipedia activities done in Tanzania, East Africa, in Africa and in the World, followed by an editathon to add content on Swahili Wikipedia (We anticipate it to be about adding the members of parliament as per the 2020 general elections in Tanzania)
targetswiki, enwiki, wikidata
start date01 Dec
end date31th Dec
budget (local currency)4,587,890
budget (USD)2000 USD
grant typegroup
grantee• Jadnapac
contact(s)• antonicmtavangu(_AT_)gmail.com• pmandele9@gmail.com
organization (if applicable)• Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania
website (if applicable)• Wikimedia Tanzania


Create your report

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

Project Goal

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Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed. In this celebration event we anticipate to do the following:

  1. Create more awareness about Wikipedia for both newcomers and
  2. Recruit and Welcome new editors into editing Wikipedia
  3. Increase skills for existing editors
  4. Add and improve Wikipedia content
  5. Add some content into Wikidata

Project Plan

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Activities

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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?

We are going to do 1 main Hybrid Editathon (in-person + online event) followed by a small follow-up event.

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.

We have announced this on our meta page, and we will continue announcing it on our other channels such as on our Telegram group.

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.

We will use our other social media channels Telegram group, Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram.

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, we have at least 10 experienced editors to lead this celebration

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

Yes, some of them have the required equipment while others don’t have, hence we will rent some of these tools such as laptops and Camera to be used during the celebration.

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

We will let them know about our next programs that will be starting on January 2022 and we will ask them to join our community’s social media channels for follow-up.

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:

Yes, part of this program will be in person and the other part will be online (Hybrid event). Here is the COVID 19 Risk Assessment Results

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

We are happy to celebrate this milestone Wikipedia has achieved so far and hence looking forward to exploring more ways of making Wikipedia a reliable source of Information through involving more people to the movement.

Impact

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

  • Number of events= 2 (1 main Hybrid event + 1 follow up event)
  • Number of participants= 50 (at least 30 in-person participants and 20 online participants)
  • Number of new editors= 10%
  • Number of articles created or improved= at least 300


Resources

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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 and Drinks (for both the hybrid event and the follow-up event) = 480 USD
  • Branding & Stationeries (at least 10 Wikipedia 20 branded T-shirts, Wikipedia wristbands and key holders, flyers, mugs, banner) =200 USD
  • Logistics, Communications & Outreach =100USD
  • Equipment rent (Laptops, Camera, Projectors) =300USD
  • Local transport support: =300USD
  • Internet support for both the hybrid and follow up event =270USD
  • Wikipedia 20 page(s) translation supportc =110USD
  • COVID 19 precaution measures (sanitizers, masks, soap, clean water) =50USD
  • Social media promotion and online subscription =50USD
  • Venue =100USD
  • Bank charges and contingency =40USD

Endorsements

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