Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/M Bash Ne/Wikidata 10th Birthday Celebration in Kano

Project summary

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• Wikidata birthday is a yearly events that brings Wikipedians in all folks of life to celebrate and organize an onsite onsite event. This year I and my team proposed to celebrate Wikidata's 10th birthday by continue introducing Wikidata to the students, and like minds in Kano, who will like to contribute to Wikidata and get them involved in creating Wikidata item and celebrating Wikidata 10th Birthday Anniversary with them. this project it's very important in kano communities and I want make changes like;

• Improve and increase the quality of the content (data, structure, documentation)

• Practical sessions to guide new editors to create items and naviagate tehere way around.

• Introduce wikidata projects to new editors for possible collaboration on reuse and trainings.

Wikidata is still less known in Kano communities and training project like this can be very helpful and ideal for introducing it to our community and help push forward diversity and equity goals of Wikimedia Community. We would like to use the Wikidata Birthday season to create more awareness about Wikidata to our community and also hold practical editing sessions to help new editors as well as to retrain existing Wikipedia editors that shy away from Wikidata.

Contact person and Location

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• M Bash Ne

Email; bashirgwanki21@gmail.com

Phone number; 09046425623

Location; Kano State

Timeline of activities

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Start Date; 10/12/2022

End date; 25/12/2022

Project Goal

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• Recruit new editors
• Increase skills for existing editors
• Add or improve content
• Create awareness about how to contribute on Wikidata in Kano

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?

We are going to do one day event (training and Edit-a-thon before the celebration), We and participants will going to create new items and improving some items in wikidata before cut the cake and celebration wikidata 10th anniversary.

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.

I have notified via Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Discussion page and Hausa Wikipedia Discussion page

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 let them know through our Hausa Wikipedia Discussion page, Hausa Wikimedians User Group Discussion page and social media handles such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook.

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

Yes, I have user:Maliky, User:A Sulaiman Z, and User:Sufie Alyaryasie.

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

Most participants have mobile phones, so the only support they need only data during the training.

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

I will create a WhatsApp group for the participants to keep them engaged.

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

I got a lot of questions in our area, who are interested in contributing to Wikidata, I organized this project because I brought these people's together inorder to teach them how Wikidata is. This program is an opportunity to further develop Wikidata in Kano.

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-30
3. Number of new editors-10
4. Number of of items created or improved-50

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? I will use the wikimedia foundation outreach dashboad to tracts the project contributions.

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).

I User:M Bash Ne will organize the project with help of 3 facilitators

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

1. Venue 50,000 × 1 day = 50,000
2. Cake for celebration birthday 1= 9,000
3. Refreshments 2000×30× 1 days = 60,000
4. Data 10,000
5. Banner and tags 10,000
6. Transport for facilitators 1500×4= 6,000
7. T Shirts for Facilitators 2500× 4 = 10,000
8. Certificate 1000×30=30,000
9. Projector rent-5,000
10. Contingency 10,000

TOTAL REQUESTED FROM WUGN = 200,000

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