Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Kingsley Nkem/Translate-a-thon: Articles on Nigerian Local Governments from English to Igbo Wikipedia.

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal, and include the contact details of your contact person(s) for this project

• This proposal is focused on translating articles on Nigerian Local Governments from English to Igbo Wikipedia. It is also aimed at creating awareness of Wikimedia projects within my community, recruiting and training new Editors (in-person and online training), improve the skills of existing Editors and adding/improving content on Wikipedia. Target number of new Editors is 10 while existing Editors is targeted at 5, total expected participants is 15. Email Contact details of contact person is nk.abasili@unizik.edu.ng

Timeline of activities

Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project

• There will be a 1-day training session which is hybrid (online and in-person). Start date is 15th June 2022, End date is 18th June 2022.

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

1. Recruit new editors
2. Increase skills for existing editors
3. Add or improve content
4. Creating Wikimedia sensitization in my community

Project Plan

Activities

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 edit-a-thon Training

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.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Community_Notification_of_my_project_proposal

You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

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.

Social media channels, messaging apps, physical and online gatherings

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify

User:Tochiprecious User:Akwugo User:Timzy D'Great

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

Participants will use their Android phones while I will provide laptops for those who do not have Android phones. I will also build their skills via training and use of presentation slides.

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

Giving them lists of articles to translate and edit on Wikipedia while monitoring their activities on dashboard.

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

1. Number of events 1
2. Number of participants 15
3. Number of new editors 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved at least 60 articles
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

1. By creating a dashboard through which I will track the project metrics.

Resources

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).

Resources I have are presentation slides and videos. It is an individual project organised by the applicant User:Kingsley Nkem with no support from anywhere else

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

1. Venue= NGN40000
2. Hiring of Projector= NGN15000
3. Refreshment for 15 participants at N2000 each =NGN30000
4. Data subsidy for participants= NGN15000
5. Data subsidy for Facilitators= NGN15000
6. Transportation subsidy for participants= NGN15000
7. Transport logistics/feeding for Facilitators= NGN15000
8. TOTAL= NGN145000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

•  Strong support This project is a good one and it will engage participants in learning and editing the Igbo Wikipedia. I strongly endorse it. Olugold (talk) 11:24, 14 May 2022 (UTC)

Report

See report on the subpage of my grant application