Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Bridging Misinformation and Disinformation in Nigeria elections/politics
Project summary[edit]
Briefly summarize your project proposal.
The ultimate impact of this project is focused on bridging MISINFORMATION and DISINFORMATION challenges in the Nigerian politics and elections. Thus; this project is aim as a result of the up coming elections in Nigeria. The youths are mostly affected by misinformation. This project will help improve and educate community members on Misinformation/Disinformation and their effects on the Nigerian politics and elections. This project will also help to improve Contents on Wikipedia by adding reliable informations,internal links,citations and photos where necessary. This project will also involve creating items concerning Nigeria elections and politics on wikidata. Working on this project will help enhance the visibility of elections wards and locations in Nigeria. Creating awareness to the Nigerian youths on the impacts of misinformation/disinformation and documenting reliable informations so as to contribute to free knowledge are the impacts this project will offer.
Contact person and Location[edit]
Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location
ernestnzube@gmail.com
Anambra State
Timeline of activities[edit]
Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project 5 February - 15 February 2023
Project Goal[edit]
Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.
- recruit new editors-New editors Will be sourced.
- Add or improve Contents about elections/politics will be improved
Project Plan[edit]
Activities[edit]
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?
One day training and Edit-a-thon
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.
Yes I have informed the Anambra Network community here
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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.
I will inform participants on wiki spaces, Through the group chat and on other social platforms.
4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify'
5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
Participants have their gadgets but they will need Data support as most of them are students.
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
We will continue the discussion after the training on the group chats.
7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
This project is a good one,it will help fight Misinformation and Disinformation on Wikipedia and also create wikidata items on things concerning elections.
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- Number of events 1
- Number of participants 15
- Number of new editors 3
- Number of of articles created or improved 70
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)
Metrics tracking[edit]
How do you plan to track your project metrics?
We will use the event dashboard
Resources[edit]
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.
Hall space= 40,000
Refreshments= 2350*15 =35,250
Data for participants= 18,000
Projector= 10,000
Transportation= 6,750
Total:110,000
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