Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Meritkosy/Northeast Community Wikidata 10th Birthday Celebration

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Project summary[edit]

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  • The project is intended to join the global wikidata community to celebrate Wikidata 10th Birthday. The event will feature workshop to train newcomers and also engage both active Wikipedia editors and non-editors into Wikidata editing, and Q&A on Wikipedia Basics for newbies.

Contact person and Location[edit]

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

  • Meritkosy
  • Meritkosy@gmail.com
  • Gombe

Timeline of activities[edit]

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  • Start date: October 28, 2022
  • End date: October 29, 2022

Project Goal[edit]

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

  1. Create awareness about Wikidata and it's importance as a structured multilingual to Wikimedia project.
  2. Recruit new Wikidata editors and improve the skills of existing Wikipedia editors
  3. Enrich existing and create new content (data on places, monument, parastatas, and notable people)
  4. Practical sessions to guide new editors to create items

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?

Training and editathon

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.

An announcement has been made at the Wikidata 10th Birthday Celebration

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them? the Nigerian Wikipedia community WhatsApp platform
For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

An announcement will be made on the Community Wikimedia WhatsApp platform.

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

  • Meritkosy is an experienced editor and fellow, WikiAfLib Course and an active contributor on #1LibRef and #AfLibWk project.
  • Atibrarian is an experienced community organiser and trainer who will be available to facilitate the wiki data workshop.
  • Hackesan will be working closely with the project lead and support the facilitator to ensure achieving the deliverable.

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 be participating with their laptops or smartphones.

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)? The community WhatsApp group will be utilized in keeping participants updated with the latest developments during and after the programme. 7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

The lack of knowledge about Wikidata and how to contribute structured data in mapping information for easy access and integration into Wikimedia projects necessitate needing to invest in the capacity development and sustainability of the fast-growing community in an underrepresented region (Northeast Nigeria). The program will serve as an avenue to recruit new editors and improve the skills of already existing volunteers.

Impact[edit]

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 30
  3. Number of new editors 20
  4. Number of articles created or improved 100
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 10

Metrics tracking[edit]

How do you plan to track your project metrics? The outreach dashboard will be utilised in tracking the project metrics.

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).

  • User:Meritkosy: will be facilitate the concept wiki data and its relevant to Wikimedia projects
  • User: Atibrarian will be facilitating the practical session on how create new wiki data item, adding statements, images, coordinates, and linking items to wikimedia projects - Wikipedia, Commons.

Support in-kind donation or funding is not envisaged. What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount. : WE will need the following resources:

1. Venue ×2 = NGN50,000
2. Data Subscription for participants + trainer 30 × 1000= NGN30,000
3. Alternative Energy × 2day = NGN10,000
4. Refreshments @NGN3,000 ×30 = N90,000
5. Roll-up banners = NGN15,000
6. Projector rental + Photography ×1 = 5000
TOTAL.= NGN 200,000.

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