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Wikidata+Languages: translating of labels, items,and aliases

Contact person and Location

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

Username: Newtrains Email: akachukwuemodi@gmail.com Location: Lagos

Timeline of activities

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

08/10/2022 15/10/2022

Project Goal

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

1. recruit new editors
2. Add or improve content

At the end of the project participants might have translated the items that were assigned to them, which includes improving articles on Wikidata. I will create a forum which will help pass information and also help the new editors

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?

I'm doing 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.

I will notify them in the 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.

Social media channels like WhatsApp messenger and I will create flyers to send to people both online and physical

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

User:Newtrains

User: Kingsley Nkem 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, they will use their smartphones and laptops 6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

I will create a WhatsApp group so we can communicate and continue works on Wikidata 7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

This is a new project around my 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 20
3. Number of new editors 15
4. Number of of articles created or improved 200
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 5

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? Through the event 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 the facilitator and Chiomsibaby is the co-facilitator, I will receive online support from Kingsley Nkem who is an experienced Wikimedian. I am not receiving any additional funding What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

Training space: 30000

Fuel: 5000

Roll up banner and flyers ( after this event I will use continuously): 28000

Food: 45000

Drinks: 4000

Water: 2500

Data for participants: 20000

Data support for facilitators: 10000

Equipments: projector, laptop,headphone etc: 20000

Sundry and logistics: 15000 Total: 179500

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