Grants:Simple/Applications/Igbo Wikimedians User Group/2021

Application or grant stage: in progress

Applicant or grantee: Igbo Wikimedians User Group

Amount requested: US$74,808.8 US$48,254.8

Amount granted: 32,000 USD

Funding period: 1st January 2021 - 31st December 2021

Midpoint report due: 15 July 2021

Final report due: 30 January 2022

Application

Background

Annual Plan 2021

As the Igbo Wikimedians User Group, is growing in number and capacity with three hubs and one Wiki club, there is need to strategically plan our activities towards achieving our objectives as an affiliate of the Wikimedia Foundation Movement. Therefore, we need to set annual goals that are SMART to evaluate and monitor our progress as a group continually and in our projects, as well as be accountable to our stakeholders. Also, we need to build capacity, manage our human resources to thrive in adding educational knowledge about the Igbos and their culture in Wikimedia Projects.

Through a community survey that every member of the User Group was invited to participate - hence answers relevant questions about our strength and weaknesses as well as our program priorities. We have mapped out our goals for the year 2021. This goal will influence the Programs and activities we will prioritise and the budget for the year.

Goals:

In the year 2021, we will focus on:

• Increasing content in Igbo language and culture in the Igbo Wikipedia and Wiktionary, to do this, we need to initiate more programs that will add content and increase participation in the User Group activities. We will also leverage on WikiAfrica campaigns and contests to grow and improve content.

• Our Culture promotion is another priority for us. We will achieve culture promotion through collaborating with other educational institutions and the media to initiate and execute projects that will document information about the Igbo culture in different media formats. Mostly, information that is challenging to write in Wikipedia due to notability or citation issues. The above form of information will be licensed in Creative Commons and deposited in Wiki Commons. We will use these content to increase awareness about the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and our objectives (Advocacy) in our social media platforms; hence increasing our media presence and influence as well as attract organisation with a shared vision for collaboration. Culture promotion can also help increase readership and view of Educational content in Igbo language and culture.

• Community Development will be another focus for our User Group. Towards achieving our objective of "Maintaining the community and encouraging more Igbo people that are literate in the Igbo language at any level" (both written and spoken) to become more involved as community members. We will achieve this through organising workshops, outreach programs in institutions of learning and mentoring sessions. We will also device means to empower and motivate active members of our community.

• Develop a sustainable operational and governance structures: There is need to put systems in place that will encourage and support members to work, initiate and execute more projects, as well as collaborate with organisations that share our objectives. Still maintaining our mutual benefit partnerships and securing more within the Wikimedia Movement and beyond. There is a need to have community representatives who are accountable as staff to the community. They will work towards volunteer, program, project, organisation and stakeholder management in the community.

As a community, we look forward to an eventful 2021 with accomplishments in content creation, culture promotion, growing our community through sustainable structures and systems.

Budget Plan

2021 Annual Budget Plan

Staffing Plan

Staffing plan for 2021

Introduction

Igbo Wikimedians User Group is a group of Wikimedians that are committed to working on various wiki projects related to Igbo language and culture. The group is open to collaborations with other organizations to promote Igbo language. It is an open membership group available to anyone that is literate in Igbo language at any level. On the 5th of May 2018, the Affiliations Committee approved the request to officially recognise us as a User Group. Here is our Meta Page for more details our affiliate.

Our Objectives

• Introducing Wikimedia projects to more Igbo people that are literate in the Igbo language at any level.
• Encouraging Igbo people that are literate in the Igbo language at any level to become contributors.
• Maintaining and growing the Igbo Wiki community worldwide.
• Work towards the growth and development of other Igbo language Wikimedia projects.
• Promotion of topics related to Igbo language, culture and community.
• Cooperating with local authorities, organizations and individuals to promote free knowledge that will promote Igbo language Wikimedia projects

Programs

Content Creation

To develop free knowledge in Igbo language and culture in Wikimedia projects, as well as increase contributors. This program aims at increasing the number of educational content in Igbo language as well as media content about our culture.

Goals

• Our goal is to increase the number of content in Igbo language Wikipedia and Wiktionary by 40% of its current number by December 2021.
• Transition Igbo test Wiktionary project from incubation to a Wiktionary project.
• Increase awareness and readership of Igbo Wikipedia and Wiktionary.
• Increase contributors to Wikimedia projects that promote Igbo language and culture.
  

Projects/Activities:

The User group will achieve the above goals by planning and executing the following types of projects through online and In-person events: -

Translate-a-thon/Edit-a-thons

We will organise activities of different thematic focus with the aim of:

• Translating articles from English to Igbo Wikipedia.
• improving existing articles in Igbo Wikipedia.
• Increasing MediaWiki interface translations for Igbo Wiktionary.
• Increasing and improving entries in Igbo Wiktionary.

Targeted Outcomes:

• Translate and improve 500 articles
• Add 200 new words in Igbo Wiktionary
• Translate 250 messages in MediaWiki interface translations for Igbo Wiktionary
• Recruit at least 40 new contributors.

Writing contest

The writing contest activities will focus on:

• Filling the content gap about Igbo culture and traditions in Igbo and English Wikipedia
• Motivating our community members to compete.
• Attract new contributors, especially academicians.
  

Targeted Outcomes

• Add 75 new articles (will also include stubs) about Igbo culture and tradition to Igbo and English Wikipedia
• Attract 30 new students or academicians as contributors
• Increase editing skills among community members

International Wiki campaigns

Our User Group will organise and participate in the campaigns and contest listed below with the aim of:

• improving or increasing content related to the Igbos in Wiki Commons and Igbo Wikipedia.
• Increasing participation of community members in International Wiki Campaigns
• Increasing contributors to Wikimedia projects
• Increase Wikimedia project and the different contest awareness amongst the Igbos.

Contests

• • WPWP (Wikipedia Pages Wanting Pictures)
  • AfroCine
  • Wiki Loves Festival
    

Targeted Outcomes

• Add 175 photos
• Use 270 photos to improve articles
• Edit 150 Wikipedia articles.
• Have a total of 50 participants in all the campaigns/contest

Culture Promotion

To develop media educational content about the Igbo culture, especially content that is neglected like folklore, plays and old traditional practices that are almost extinct from different part of Igbo land. This program is essential as it is part of sharing knowledge about Igbo culture and histories to the world.
Goals:

• Collaborate with a media house to create video documentaries about folklore and old traditional practices or historical moments that existed in Igbo land by the end of 2021.
• Use the content to increase awareness and visibility of our User Group in our social media platforms; hence increasing our media presence, influence and attracting partners.
• Increase educational content about Igbos in video formats.

Activities:

• Produce Three video documentaries that will be licensed in creative commons and uploaded in Wiki Commons.
• Share the video clips and photos in 15 posts in our social media handles.
  

Targeted outcomes

• Social media (Twitter, Facebook and Instagram) impressions and engagement on the 15 posts.
• Increased number of followers on our social media handles by the end of 2021
• The number of secured partnerships.

Community Development

This area will consist of different activities towards "Maintaining the community and encouraging more Igbo people that are literate in the Igbo language at any level" (both written and spoken) to become more engaged as community members.

Goals:

• Empower more (at least 7) community members as volunteers in project executions and Wikimedia Movement Global activities by the end of 2021.
• Maintain and grow our membership in our different hubs.
• Increase commitment in our community through community engagement activities. This is a long term plan.
• Build an organisational structure within 3years.

Activities:

The User Group will achieve our goals through the following activities or projects:

• Create three Microgrants that will attract project ideas from individual members of the User group, projects that align with our objectives; they will be mentored and supported through the process, ensuring there is a collaboration among community members in the execution.
• Sponsor two active volunteers to attend a regional conference (WikiIndaba) to encourage and empower volunteers.
• Organise quarterly meetups/workshops in our hubs as an avenue for:
  • Collaboration on different activities
  • share ideas, highlight and discuss different events or activities in the movement
  • gather feedback from the community and socialize and learn.
• Co-founders/staff meetings (a once in two months offline or in-person meeting): it will be a quarterly meeting to address and table issues in our community, review staff activities and finances, evaluate User Group’s activities to measure progress and success as well as plan for the future.
• Provide resources for staff to participate in Wikimania towards sharing knowledge, engaging and learning from other communities.
  

Targeted outcomes

• Number of members that initiated and executed projects, including the international Wiki Campaigns. The data for this outcome will be collected through the project pages in meta and questionnaires during and after the projects.
• Increase of membership to the User Group (The data will be collected through our membership list in our meta page).
• Increased number of meetup attendees/participants in our various hubs.

Grant Metrics Reporting

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Midterm report

Program story

Optional. Please tell or link to one program story that showcases your organization's achievements during the reporting period. This can be another meta page, a blog post or any other source that tells your program story.

Program Story

Program Progress

PROGRAM TITLE

Content Creation

Translate a thon/Edit a thon

Nigerian Women in Business Edit a thon

On the 6th of March, 2021, we organized an edit a thon titled Igbo Wikipedia Nigerian Women in Business as part of our efforts to celebrate women during the international women's month while also bridging the gender gap on Wikipedia and increasing the number of content on Igbo Wikipedia through translations, editing of existing articles. We had 6 participants in attendance and we translated 24 articles on Women in Business. Igbo Wikimedians User Group/Igbo Wikipedia Nigerian Women in Business edit a thon 7th March 2021

Igbo Wikimedians User Group/Awka Wikipedia Training/Edit a thon (Igbo Dialects)

The Awka Igbo Wikipedia training which took place 29th and 30th of March at Prof. Kenneth Dike Library, Awka is a training were librarians, academics and other participants where taught about Wikimedia, different Wikimedia projects and also trained on how to create and translate articles on Igbo Wikipedia. There were 22 participants in attendance with over 25 articles translated and the participants created articles about their different villages on Igbo Wikipedia. The project was as result of the internal grant. Igbo Wikimedians User Group/Awka Wikipedia Training/Edit a thon 29th-30th March 2021

Wiki for Human Rights Edit a thon

We also locally organized the Wiki for Human Rights to translate the UN Human Rights articles into Igbo Language. We translated over 5 articles on Human Rights worldwide and in Nigeria. [[1]] 24th April 2021

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Igbo Wikimedians User Group International Labour Day Edit a thon - Akaoru Ndi Igbo

On the 1st of May, we organized an edit a thon in Onitsha, Anambra State in commemoration of the International Labour Day to add articles on the Handiwork of the Igbo people. Igbo Wikimedians User Group International Labour Day Edit a thon - Akaoru Ndi Igbo 1st May 2021

Igbo Wikimedians User Group/Igbo Wikipedia Nigerian Women in Education and Sports

One of the internal grants recipients organized edit a thon in Kubwa Abuja to add more articles into Igbo Wikipedia. More than 20 articles have been added to the Igbo Wikipedia through this edit which is still ongoing. Igbo Wikimedians User Group/Igbo Wikipedia Nigerian Women in Education and Sports 30th May 2021

Igbo Wiktionary Training/Edit a thon

Igbo Wikimedians User Group/June Wiktionary Training/Edit a thon 12th June 2021

We hosted an Igbo Wiktionary training and edit a thon on the 12th of June in preparation of the Igbo Wiktionary writing contest. We added over 10 new words and definitions

Writing Contests

Asọmpi Mkpụrụokwu Otu Narị (Igbo Wiktionary 100 Words Challenge)

On 18th of June, we kicked off a writing contest to increase the number of words in Igbo Wiktionary which will end on the 17th of July. Over 10 persons registered to participate in this contest and it has generated over 700 additional words and definitions in Igbo Wiktionary. Asọmpi Mkpụrụokwu Otu Narị (Igbo Wiktionary 100 Words Challenge) 18th June - 18 July 2021

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Pictures

We are locally organizing the WPWP contest which started on the 1st of July. So far over 70 Igbo Wikipedia pages have been improved with pictures.

New Project added

Wikidata Lexicographical data/Focus Languages

In April, we applied for the Wikidata lexicographical data focus languages which Igbo became one of the selected languages.We hosted a training to build the capacity of our community members. We've so far created over 100 Wikidata lexemes in Igbo Igbo Wikidata Lexemes Training

Internal Grants

We supported 5 of our community members with internal grants to host capacity building programs in their strategic locations which resulted to more increase in the number of contents we had.

Wikipedia at 20

We made some graphics with different quotes from our Community members about Wikipedia in Igbo Language. This was used to spread more Wikipedia awareness through our different social media pages. Facebook page

Spending update Midterm

Please link to a detailed financial report for your spending during the first half of your grant period. This should be in the same format as your detailed budget from your Simple APG application.

Please include the total amount of Simple APG funds you spent during the grant period:

• XXXXXX.XX USD/Local currency

• Amount Granted = $32,000
• Amount spent = $13,308.50
• Amount left = $18,691.50

This includes different tabs on our budget, revised budget and expenses: 2021 Annual Budget Plan and Midterm expense

Grant Metrics Reporting Midterm

Metrics, targets and results: grants metrics worksheet here.

Final report

Program story

Optional. Please tell or link to one program story that showcases your organization's achievements during the reporting period. This can be another meta page, a blog post or any other source that tells your program story.

Link to our program story here: Final Program Story

Learning story

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Programs Impact

PROGRAM TITLE

Content Creation

Igbo Wikidata Lexemes Training 2

On the 9th of September, 2021, we had organized a second training to get our community members more acquainted with Wikidata Lexicograpy. We had 32 participants join the training and they added 243 Lexemes added with 195 items added to Wikidata. The tracking can be found on this dashboard here: Igbo Wikidata Lexemes Training

Igbo Cultural Heritage Documentary

In September, we did a documentary of the natural spring water in Umuokorocha community Umuahia, a sacred stream in the community. This was done in collaboration with Creative Lens Studios. It couldn't be uploaded to Commons due to the size but the video can be found here: Heritage site documentary

Igbo Wiki and Translatewiki translate a thon

In November, 2021, we organized another edit a thon to add more content to Wikipedia and translate some of the messages on Translatewiki. This resulted to 132 articles translated on Igbo Wikipedia. We tracked this here: Wiki and Translatewiki translate a thon

AfroCine Contest

In November 2021, we joined to host the month of African Cinema contest in the User Group. We had a total of 17 editors and produced 371 articles. It was a great time to tell the story of the African Cinema. Eight Winners emerged from this Contest with Olugold having the highest number of articles. The tracking dashboard is here: AfroCine Contest dashboard

ABC of Wikipedia editing

Still in the month of November, our newly developed Librarians Hub had their first event led by Olugold. 37 new editors were recruited with 21 articles produced. It was an amazing moment for the new Wikipedians. Pictures can be found here: Librarians meetup pictures while the tracking dashboard is here: ABC of Wikipedia Editing

Igbo Lexemes Training and Edith a Thon

The newly developed Wiki Fan Club in Anambra State University Awka hosted their first edit a thon focused on lexemes. The program brought about 15 new editors and over 200 lexemes added. Images from this event can be found here: Wiki Fan Club Awka

Wikidata Lexemes training Anambra

In december, the Anambra Hub organised their meetup to teach participants how to add the newly introduced lexemes to Wikidata. The activity was led by {u:OnyinyeOnuoha}}. This had over 10 editors in attendance and over 20 new lexemes added. Images from this event can be seen here.photos here

Wikimedia and You Contest

At the end of the year, we organized an end of year contest to add content to Wikipedia, Wiktionary and Wikidata. 54 people registered for this contest. We had a total of 65 Wikipedia inputs, 26 inputs in the Igbo Wiktionary, 1147 lexemes on Wikidata. Winners of this contest were:

• Jabin Ekene - Top Wiktionary editor
• Olugold - Top Wikipedia editor

Top Lexemes contributors

• Accuratecy051 - 1st
• Macocobovi - 2nd
• JosefAnthony - 3rd

Community Development

Adopt a User Mentorship program

At the second quarter of the year 2021, we started an informal mentorship program where we paired new and existing editors according to the needs of the mentees. This led to the mentorship of over 5 new mentees and with 3 of them starting the new hubs across the state and one becoming an Administrator on Igbo Wikipedia. This was a starting point and we've decide to make this more of a priority this year.

New Hub Leaderships

For sustainability, continuity, awareness and development, we started new Hubs across the South Eastern states to help us in reaching out to other parts of Igbo Land. The three hubs where:

• Ig Wikidata Hub led by Udehb they engage in all things Wikidata
• [Wiki Librarians Hub] led by Olugold this hub brings together librarians to join the movement and support especially in the area of referencing.
• Abia State Hub led by Chimereze Okoro
• Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Fan Club our first University Fan Club led by Oby Ezeilo

Wikimania 2021 learning meetup

After the Wikimania Conference, we had a meetup to share our learnings with members of the community who couldn't attend the event. Members shared their experiences, what worked well and what didn't work well for them.

Spending update Final

Please link to a detailed financial report for your spending during the grant period. This should be in the same format as your detailed budget from your Simple APG application.

Please include the total amount of Simple APG funds you spent during the grant period:

• XXXXXX.XX USD/Local currency

• Total Granted = $32,000.00
• Total spent = $30,206.00
• Total left = $1,794.00

The link to the detailed budget can be found here: Link detailed budget

Grant Metrics Reporting Final

Metrics, targets and results: grants metrics worksheet here.