Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/M Bash Ne/Wikipedia Workshop at Bichi Emirate's

Project summary

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• Bichi Emirate is a Hausa traditional emirate in Kano State in Northern Nigeria. Its palace is located in the town of Bichi, Bichi Local Government Area.

The Bichi Emirate was established in 2019, when the Kano State Government created four emirates from the oldest kingdom of Kano. The Bichi emirate consists of 9 Local Government Areas of Kano State. then is a large city with a large Hausa population, we would like to present Wikipedia in Bichi with Training and finding new users and new editors of Wikipedia from Bichi town. See more about Bichi Emirate

Contact person and Location

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• M Bash Ne

bashirgwanki21@gmail.com

Timeline of activities

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• Start: July 20, 2022
• End: August 10, 2022

Project Goal

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1. Recruit new editors
2. Increase skills for existing editors
3. Add or improve content
4. Create awareness about Wikipedia in Bichi Emirate's Place

Project Plan

Activities

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1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

We are going to do a series training and Edit-a-thon. It's a two days event, first day is about training envited participants and the second day is about Edit-a-thon to create new articles and improving some articles of Hausa Wikipedia.

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 through our Hausa Wikimedians User Group Discussion page on Meta and Hausa Wikipedia Discussion page and Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Discussion page on Meta

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:Gwanki, 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 calls from Bichi communities, who are interested in contributing to Wikimedia Projects, I organized this project because I brought these people's together inorder to teach them how Wikimedia is. This program is an opportunity to further develop Wikimedia in Bichi town. The project is also the first of its kind in Bichi Emirate.

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-2
2. Number of participants-25
3. Number of new editors-15
4. Number of of articles created or improved-100

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? I will track my project via Wikimedia foundation 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 M Bash Ne will lead the workshop with the help of User:Gwanki and two 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

1. Refreshments 1000×25× 1 days = 25,000
2. Data 5,000
3. Banner and tags 10,000
4. Transport for facilitators 4,000
5. T Shirts for Facilitators 2500 × 4 = 10,000
6. Contingency 5,000
7. Total NGN =109,000

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