Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Translate-a-thon on Nigerian Politicians and Fixing reference errors.
Project summary[edit]
Briefly summarize your project proposal.
- This project aims at translating English Wikipedia articles on Nigerian politicians to Igbo Wikipedia, also to fix reference errors on the Wikipedia space.
Contact person and Location[edit]
Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location
- Tony-Metu Chidera Victoria
- tonymetuchidera@gmail.com
- Anambra State
Timeline of activities[edit]
Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project
- 23rd September, 2022
Project Goal[edit]
Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.
- Recruit new editors
- Increase skills for existing editors
- Add or improve content
- Clean up the Wikimedia Space
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?
- Yes I’ll be holding one training and translate-a-thon
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 informed the Igbo Wikimedian user Group on the Talk page https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group#
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.
- The participants will be contacted through the several various social media group and other wiki Group and also receive updates from there.
4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify
5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
- Yes, we have the skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content.
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
- By checking up on them after the event to make sure they understood what was done during the event.
7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- No
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- Number of events: 1
- Number of participants: 20
- Number of new editors: 5
- Number of of articles created or improved: 70
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events): 0
Metrics tracking[edit]
How do you plan to track your project metrics? I’ll be using the WMF Dashboard which will be created to track the contributions made by each participant.
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).
- I, Tony-Metu Chidera is the organizer while Ikekamma Nnamdi Emmanuel will be my Co-facilitator. Olugold will be invited as an experienced editor. We won’t be receiving support from any other place/person.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
- Venue: N30,000
Refreshment: N45,000 Data Reimbursement: N20,000 Facilitator's Data: N10,000 Fuel: N5,000 Projector: N10,000 Logistics: N5,000 Miscellaneous: N5,000 Publicity: N5,000 Prizes: N10,000 Cos of renting a Laptop: N10,000 Total: N155,000
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