Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Gilbert Ndihokubwayo/Africa Wiki Challenge 2022 in Burundi

Comments from DSaroyan (WMF)

Hi Gilbert Ndihokubwayo, thank you for submitting your grant application. After reviewing your grant proposal, we have some questions to learn more about the project and planned activities.

• Could you please provide an initial schedule of the editathons?
• Do you have any other goals aside from recruiting editors? For example, do you plan to train specific skills?
• Do you have other experienced contributors in the team who will support you when implementing the activities?
• How do you usually communicate with your community members? Have you discussed this project with them?
• Is there something that you and User:Ferdinand IF99 would like to learn after completion of this project?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Thanks for your time, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 14:45, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello DSaroyan (WMF)!

Thank you for the feedback to my project.

To answer your questions,

• The editathons for the Africa Wiki Challenge 2022 in Burundi is scheduled between 27th May to 27th June 2022.
• Aside from recruiting editors, we plan to train people on how to use Wikimedia Commons to support their articles on Wikipedia.
• Yes, we do have experienced contributors in our team who will support us to implement the activities of the Africa Wiki Challenge 2022 in Burundi. We have been organizing events in Burundi, and some are now experienced to help in activities.
• Yes, this project has already been discussed with our community members. We usually communicate with our community members by WhatsApp (https://chat.whatsapp.com/Iq0p6ZIhqmm3rY2GJ7UB3q), telegram and our internal mailing list.
• Thought this event, we will learn more about organizing campaigns, and contribute to the international contest Africa Wiki Challenge.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Thank you again for your cooperation! Gilbert Ndihokubwayo (talk) 07:56, 6 May 2022 (UTC)