Hello Nkem and Co
Greetings,
I was able to glance through your proposed grants.
As someone who has dedicated time to train over 100 librarians in Nigeria tertiary institutions on how to use Wikipedia and Wikidata for Library, Sincerely, I see the project as a very laudable approach that can sync the embedded knowledge gap among African librarians with respect to Wikimedia projects ( Wikipedia, Wikidata ,WikiCite and Wikisource) but , in my opinion, it is not yet time for a grant application.
These are my thoughts
Except I am missing something...
1. The grant doesn't show a project methodology ( means of achieving your goal) 2. According to the grant, the sums of $60k being the grand total will be used for the salary of the proposed WIR. I am afraid, you will need to show us the breakdown of the component of the budget that will finance the Salary of the WIR and other budgetary items such as cost of organizing a workshop and training, etc. And if that is not applicable here you will need to show us how you want to finance these items.
Lastly, I will also like to see your project time line.
Let me stop here until I have an ample time to review the entirety of the grant.
Once more, you have done a great job.
Thanks
Olaniyan Olushola CEO DataAccess Systems Ltd President, Wikimedia Nigeria Member, Affcom ( Wikimedia Foundation) Co-director Wiki Women Radio www.wikimedia.org.ng shola@wikimedia.org.ng olaniyanshola15@gmail.com +2348167352512
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Thank you!
Nkem E. Osuigwe PhD CLN Human Capacity Development & Training Director, African Library and Information Associations & Institutions(AfLIA) P.O.Box BC 38, Burma Camp, Accra, Ghana.
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On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, 12:33 pm Adjoa Linda Fletcher, belrivers@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks, so much for the introduction. L
On Feb 19, 2020 4:09 PM, "Nkem Osuigwe" neosuigwe@aflia.net wrote:
Hi, I am Nkem Osuigwe. I work with AfLIA (African Library and Information Associations and Institutions). We recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with The Wikimedia Library for training and to get more Librarians understand the value and importance of Wikipedia as a
resource
for information dissemination and research in Africa. One of the terms
of
agreement in the MoU is having a progressive course on Wikipedia
standards
and processes for Librarians. We have been advised to write a grant proposal for a Wikipedian in Residence who will help adapt the already existing curriculum and materials to suit the African information environment and library ecosystem. The curriculum and materials were developed by OCLC for an American audience. Felix Nartey introduced me to this group I look forward to collaborations between African libraries and Wikipedians all across the continent. Also, I strongly believe that we will need support from this Community
to
help AfLIA run the proposed training course as one of the success indicators of the course will be the number of collaborations formed between libraries and Wikipedians all over the continent. You may read up about AfLIA -web.aflia.net We have members(Institutional) in 33 countries in Africa and we hope to leverage on it to increase the reach and use of Wikipedia. I look forward to hearing from anyone here. Thank you.
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