Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikimedia Community First Meetup and Edit-a-thon

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Project summary[edit]

Briefly summarize your project proposal, and include the contact details of your contact person(s) for this project

  • This grant will facilitate the recruitment and training of new and existing editors at the Northeast Wikimedia Community. The program will also serve as an opportunity for the first meetup of the fast-growing community members, and introduce them to how to contribute multimedia to Commons - heritage sites, monuments -, and Wikivoyage to ensure visibility for a lot of tourist sites in the region.

Contact person and Location[edit]

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


Atiba
Atibrarian@gmail.com
Gombe

Timeline of activities[edit]

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

  • Start date: November 19, 2022

End date: November 20, 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. Recruit new editors to the community
  2. Increase skills for existing editors
  3. Add or improve the content on Wikipedia, Commons and Wikivoyage
  4. Community Meet-up for strategic development planning

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?

Meetup, 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

WNUG community page

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 has been made on the community meta page and WhatsApp group.

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

  • Atiba is an experienced community organiser, coordinator and certified Wikimedian trainer.
  • Merit is an experienced Wikipedian, and will be available to complement as a facilitator.
  • Lazbon will be serving as moderator during the program and supporting the facilitator to ensure the accomplishment of the program objectives.

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

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?

This program will serve as a good opportunity for community members to meet after the first ever wikimedia training in the region to share ideas, and strategic plans for a formal community to promote mission-aligned objectives, Q&A session, capacity development and sustainability of the fast-growing community in an underrepresented region.

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 15
  4. Number of 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).

  • Atiba will be facilitating the practical session on Wikipedia basic editing, Improving existing articles, image usage, and linking items to wikimedia projects.
  • Merit: will compliment the lead trainer on ways to contribute multimedia content to Commons, and techniques to source copyright-free images for Commons.

Support in-kind donations 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.

the following resources:
1. Venue ×2 = NGN50,000
2. Data Subscription for participants + trainer 30 × 1000= NGN30,000
3. Alternative Energy × 2 days = NGN10,000
4. Light refreshments @NGN2,000 ×30 = N60,000
5. Roll-up banner = NGN10,000
6. Projector rental+Sound System = NGN10,000
7. SWAG = NGN10,000
8. Contingency and Logistics= NGN10,000
TOTAL.= NGN190,000.

Endorsements[edit]

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  • Strong support Strong support: This program is a well thought out program to engage community members to ensure continuity and sustainability of the movement, build capacity of new and existing editors, developmental strategy for growth of the movement in the Northeast of Nigeria. It will serve as an opportunity to understand the challenges of community members and proffers solution.

Hackesan (talk) 23:48, 28 October 2022 (UTC)

  • Strong support Strong support Oby Ezeilo (talk) 10:27, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
  • Strong support Strong support: As a Librarian In Gombe, this project will help to recruit more editors in the locale and also serve as a knowledge booster to existing editors. The goal of this project is absolutely going to be achieved.

Meritkosy (talk) 01:50, 2 November 2022 (UTC)


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