Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/M Bash Ne/Wikimedia Commons Workshop in Kano

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• As a result of the different projects I've led in Kano State, there are more editors of Wikimedia projects in the region. Many editors are focused on Wikipedia and Wikidata. Individually, editors often asking me for more information about many questions related to Wikimedia Commons, because of this I understand some problems with editors that I wanted to solve. The problems include;

• Lack of contribution to Wikimedia Commons

• Lack of experience in using files especially photos to other Wikimedia Projects like Wikipedia, wikidata and e.t.c

• Not knowing how to add files to Wikidata Items

This program will help to solve these problems that editors from my area are usually asking me.

The purpose of this program is to teach editors some important things that will help them in their editing. I want to teach people how to upload files to Wikimedia Commons, especially photos and audio files. And how to use files in Wikipedia and Wiktionary. I will also teach them how to add files to Wikidata Items.

Contact person and Location

Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location

• bashirgwanki21@gmail.com

+2349046425623

Kano State

Timeline of activities

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

• Start date: 1-5-2023
• End date: 30-5-2023

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?

It's a one day Workshop and 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.
You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

I will let them know via our WhatsApp Group for Kano Wikimedians, and I will also let them know via our Hausa Community WhatsApp and Telegram Groups

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.

Mostly they will know online via WhatsApp Groups and Phone Call

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 user:M Bash Ne, User:Yusuf Sa'adu, Sufie, Yusuf

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

Yes they have smartphones some also have Laptops

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

I will continue engaging them via our WhatsApp Group

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

Being a well-known Wikimedia person I get a lot of calls and messages from young people who are interested in contributing to Wikimedia Projects, I organized this project because I brought these young people together inorder to teach them how Wikimedia Commons is.

This program is an opportunity to further develop Wikimedia Commons in Kano State, the most populous state in Northern Nigeria and the second in Nigeria. The project is also the first of its kind in Kano State about Wikimedia Commons. This project is important to my community because, to the best of my knowledge, a program related to this Wikimedias sisters project hasn't been organized before now in my Kano community.

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 8
4. Number of of files will upload to Wikimedia Commons 20

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? I will use Wikimedia outreach Dashboard

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 lead the event with the help of User:Yusuf Sa'adu, Sufie, Yusuf

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

1. Venue 1 day 50,000

1. Refreshments for facilitators and participants 1,000×30=30,000
2. Data for internet access for facilitators and participants 15,000
3. Transport for facilitators 10,000
4. Baner and Tags 15,000
5. T-shirts for facilitators 2500×4=10,000
6. Certificate for participants 1,000×30=30,000
7. Projector rent 7,000
8. Contingency 10,000

TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED TO WUGN=177,000

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