User:Nkansahrexford/grant

Project details

 * Official project name:
 * Wiki Loves Africa.


 * Project start date (include month, day, and year):
 * March 1, 2014


 * Project completion date (include month, day, and year):
 * July 31, 2014


 * Please describe the project in 1–2 sentences
 * Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) is an annual contest where people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment on Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wiki Loves Africa particularly encourages participants to contributes media that illustrate a theme for that year. Each year the theme changes and could include such universal, visually rich and culturally specific topics as markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urbanity, daily life, notable persons, etc.


 * The theme for the 2014 photo contest will be Wiki Loves Africa Cuisine. This theme will encompass the "foods", "dishes", "crops", "husbandry", "culinary art", "cooking methods", "utensils", "food markets", "festivals", "culinary events", "famine food" or any issues related to cuisine that takes place on the African continent. This year's contest will seek to document in form of various media, the diverse types of cuisines across the continent of Africa.


 * The project will feature a contest to select the best media at the continental level, with ceremony and prizes as deemed appropriate. When a local organising team exists, best pictures at the national level will also be identified and a local ceremony held.


 * The aim of Wiki Loves Africa project is to provide support for national organisers and organise the continental layer of WLA. The framework that will be developed could serve as a template for the future editions of the WLA, thus expanding the value of the project well beyond its actual lifespan.

Financial details

 * Currency requested:
 * South African Rands


 * Amount requested in currency requested:
 * PLACEHOLDER TEX


 * Equivalent amount in US$ on the date of this submission:
 * PLACEHOLDER TEXT <


 * List the exchange rate used to calculate the amount listed in US$:
 * PLACEHOLDER TEXT

Grantee details
See the eligibility requirements for more information.
 * What is the official name of the organization requesting this grant?
 * Africa Centre (WikiAfrica Project)


 * Are you an organization, an individual, or an individual submitting on behalf of a group?
 * Answer ORGANIZATION, INDIVIDUAL, or GROUP.
 * ORGANIZATION


 * Are you a for-profit entity?
 * Answer YES or NO.
 * NO


 * Are you able to provide local proof of nonprofit status within your country?
 * Answer YES or NO.
 * YES


 * Does your organization currently employ any fulltime or part-time staff or contractors?
 * Answer YES or NO.
 * YES
 * If you answered YES, please indicate how many. You may use fractions or percentages for part-time staff if appropriate.
 * EX: 4 fulltime staff and 2 part-time contractors (50% each).
 * If yes, please provide a list of their job functions, or a link to your organization's staff page, if it lists all employees and contractors employed or engaged by your organization.
 * EX: A complete list of staff and contractors is available at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Staff_and_contractors.
 * PLACEHOLDER TEXT

Contact information

 * Primary contact name:
 * Isla Haddow-Flood


 * Primary contact username or email:
 * User:Islahaddow | islahaddow@africacentre.net


 * Primary contact title (position within the organization):
 * Community Lead, Wikimedia ZA / Project Manager, WikiAfrica

If this project will be executed by someone other than the primary contact for your organisation, please list that person's details here:
 * Continental layer organising committee
 * Isla Haddow-Flood
 * Rexford Nkansah
 * Florence Devouard
 * other people to be determined (including within the list of local organisers)


 * Local organizers
 * Erina Mukuta (Uganda)
 * Michael Phoya (Malawi)
 * Abel Asrat (Ethiopia)
 * Cyriac Gbogou (Ivory Coast)
 * Rexford Nkansah (South Africa)
 * Isla Haddow-Flood (South Africa)
 * other local volunteers to be identified


 * Project lead username or email
 * Islahaddow and Isla [at] wikiafrica [dot] net


 * Project lead title (position), if any
 * Project Coordinator

Project goal
Please briefly describe what will be accomplished if the project is successful. The goal of the project is to:
 * Project goal
 * Gather images and media in the category of cuisine or related topics from across Africa;
 * Enable more information about Africa's cuisine and cultural food industry to be represented on Wikipedia;
 * Create an easily accessible platform that encourages more Africans to contribute multimedia representations of Africa onto Wikimedia Commons for use in articles in the other sister project websites;
 * Raise the profile of Wikipedia; break down barriers to contribution; and create the environment for the first stage of contribution and behaviour change;
 * Provide local organisers with the tools and support that they need to organise the national Wiki Loves Africa competitions in their countries, including the technical infrastructure (templates, upload campaigns, guidelines, how-tos, etc.) for uploading images;
 * Provide a continental layer for Wiki Loves Africa 2014, including organising the international media competition and an international finale;
 * Provide and/or help provide a central infrastructure that can support and coordinate the national competitions and enable communication between chapters or user groups; and
 * Create and maintain helpful documentation for multiple target groups, including national organisers and participants.

Measures of success
Please provide a list of measurable criteria that will be used determine how successful the project is. You will need to report on the success of the project according to these measures after the project is completed.

Preliminary note: The contest will welcome medias from all African countries. Photographs, videos and audio representations of cuisine from all over Africa may be nominated for the continental contest. Countries where a local organising team has been specifically set up are identified as "participating countries". Only countries where the organising team have been officially recognised by the continental committee will be considered as "participating country". There will be a contest at the continental level. And as many contests at the local level as there are participating countries. Continental and local contests are dissociated in terms of image selection.


 * Measures of success

Measures of success for the Wiki Loves Africa Competition

 * Minimum of 1,500 media files uploaded to the contest by each participating country
 * Minimum of more than 575 uploaders
 * Minimum of 5 countries to join the contest as "participating country"
 * 9 months after the contest ended, at least 100 new users become an active contributor (5 edits per month in any of the Wikimedia projects)

Measures of success for the Continental team

 * A grant request is accepted successfully, and a report is produced according to the request
 * A survey is executed among participants (before the end of 2014):
 * More than 25% of respondents indicate they are likely to edit Wikimedia Projects on a regular basis
 * More than 50% of respondents indicate they are willing to participate in the event the following or subsequent years
 * A survey is executed among local organisers (before the end of 2014):
 * Indicating that they are satisfied with the continental team
 * Indicating that they are satisfied with the tools and technical framework provided
 * Indicating that they are satisfied with the documentation available
 * Indicating that they are satisfied with the volunteer involvement on an continental level
 * Suggesting improvements for the following year
 * The African finale is successfully completed
 * The prizes are handed out before March 2015, with a possible exception for travel-related prizes
 * The winners of the international finale are successfully processed.
 * Documentation is available for the all important parts of organising a Wiki Loves Africa.
 * All of the participating countries submitted nominees for the national contests

Intangible/non-measurable success factors

 * Volunteers from other countries have pitched in to organise and lead the contest in their country.
 * Increased availability of information related to Wikipedia increases attendance of Wikipedia / Wikimedia activities in participating countries.

Project scope and activities
''This section describes what will happen if this project is funded. Who will do what, and when?''
 * List of activities
 * Support for National Organizers

Continental team

 * Build/maintain the website infrastructure(s)
 * Maintain communication with international partners including relevant staff at Wikimedia Foundation
 * Maintain social media channels
 * Design and distribution of photo calendar or similar product (if appliccable)

Setting out a basic structure

 * Setting out the rules for the Wiki Loves Africa competition
 * Ensure the creation and maintenance of the technical infrastructure for uploading
 * Ensure the creation and maintenance of tools necessary for a smooth competition
 * Guide the creation and maintenance of the monitoring tools
 * Prepare material such as leaflets, posters and press releases that can be used and/or built upon by national organizations
 * Set up documentation of best practices
 * Set up clear timeline
 * Monitor statistics
 * Evaluate the project & competition as a whole
 * Arrangement for local organisers to upload multimedia on behalf of others.

Following & helping national organizations

 * Track and support national organizers in their national organization
 * Give specific suggestions and support to national organizers (mostly online)
 * Collect & answer questions
 * Set up a financial backup system for national competitions (minor, low weight grant system)
 * Crisis management for national contests

Set up & run the international contest

 * Set up jury processes to select best images
 * Find suitable jury members for the continental jury
 * Support the jury in their process, maintain timeline
 * Dissemination of results
 * Provide and distribute prizes, awards and diplomas to winners
 * Connect with press
 * Monitor relevant mailing lists

Project Management international team

 * Build financial structure and control
 * Report on the use of budget at the end of the program

Local organising teams

 * Maintain local social media channels if deemed appropriate or participate to global social media channel

Budget and resources
Please provide a detailed breakdown of project expenses according to the instructions here.

''Grantees are subject to line-item scrutiny of expenses. Changes to the approved budget beyond 10% in any category must be approved in advance.''


 * Project budget table:PLACEHOLDER TEXT


 * Total cost of project
 * PLACEHOLDER TEXT


 * Total amount requested from the Project and Event Grants program
 * PLACEHOLDER TEXT


 * Additional sources of revenue that may fund part of this project, and amounts funded
 * PLACEHOLDER TEXT

Non-financial requirements
''See a description of non financial assistance available. Please inform Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) of any requirements for non-financial assistance now.''


 * Requests for non-financial assistance
 * PLACEHOLDER TEXT

Resources
''This section is optional. It may be used to highlight the potential grantee's potential for successfully executing this project.''

''Consider including the following information:
 * List of team members (names or usernames):
 * OnWiki evidence of community support (such as a project about this discussion):
 * Endorsements from community members or movement groups:
 * Special skills or qualifications this potential grantee or project lead brings to this project:
 * Evidence of past success in executing similar projects:


 * Resources

Impact
In the sections below, please describe how the project is related to the Wikimedia mission and Wikimedia's strategic priorities.

Fit to strategy

 * How will this project support the key organizational objectives of:
 * increasing reach (more people will access or contribute to Wikipedia or our other projects),
 * participation (more people actually contributing),
 * quality (more content, more useful content, or higher-quality content),
 * credibility (more trust in our projects),
 * organizational maturity and effectiveness (how it will move you or the Wikimedia community forward),
 * or financial sustainability (how it will help you achieve more in the long run)?
 * This statement should address at least one of the strategic priorities listed here specifically. See Project and Event Grants program criteria for decision making.


 * Wiki Loves Africa and the continental team goals presented in this project are a great fit to the Wikimedia Foundation's strategy. Wiki Loves Africa as a contest reached the following milestone (in brackets the strategy goals):
 * many new user created their accounts to participate to WLA and the contest has been covered by the press in many countries.
 * Wiki Loves Africa participants declared to be more likely to edit Wikipedia and to participate again (participation).

In particular, the continental team:
 * Helped national organizers, among which user groups, and to organize themselves effectively to undertake the competition successfully
 * Promotion of Wikipedia and its sister projects. The Wiki Loves Africa competition promotes the use and importance of Wikimedia project websites and Wikipedia in particular to participating countries.

Benefits

 * If the project will benefit a specific online community, please tell us.
 * No benefits will be arrived for a specific online community. However contributions made during the competition will be used to improve articles on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation project websites about Africa and beyond.


 * Please provide a brief statement about how the project is related to other work in the Wikimedia movement. For example, does the project fit into a work area such as GLAM, education, organizational development, editor retention, or outreach?
 * The Wiki Loves Africa competition is not GLAM-intended. However there are viable connections between them. The competition may be worked out to be an outreach within the participating countries should it be deemed necessary by the local organizing team. As regards editor retention, there is no guarantee however.


 * If successful, will the project have the potential to be replicated successfully by other individuals, groups, or organizations? Please explain how in 1–2 sentences.
 * Yes, the project can be replicated successfully by different organisations. We hope that the contest will be renewed every year, with an increase of participating countries as time flies. Each year could built on and expand the work done the previous years along similar lines than the WLM contest.


 * Please list other benefits to the movement here.
 * There will be positive press coverage of the many national events, especially when one of their pictures scores high in the international competition. Besides that, many tag-along events can be organized around Wiki Loves Africa in specific countries, but that is mostly thanks to their own hard work. Other benefits include capacity building of volunteer groups that organise this as their first event - and then continue with organise other events. Documentation of the project, in particular successes and failures, will be done as to ensure best replication.