Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikimedia Fan Club, Kwara State University/Wiki Loves Monuments 2022

Project summary

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• Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual international photographic competition to contribute images as well as (re)discover the cultural, historical, or scientific significance within the neighbourhood. This proposal will provide resources that will enable the participation of Kwara Sate University students in this years' Wiki Loves Monuments.

Contact person and Location

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• bukolajames2017@gmail.com
• Ilorin, Kwara

Timeline of activities

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• 20th August - 20th September 2022

Project Goal

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1. Create awareness about the Wiki Loves Monuments and its activities.
2. Recruit and train new editors through the various photo expeditions, upload sessions and edit-a-thons.
3. Engage existing editors to contribute to Commons and other sister projects.
4. Add more images about some selected tourist attractions in Kwara state and improve articles by integrating these images in their related articles or creating articles/article subsections for non existing articles.

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?

We will be doing one Photowalk to 3 different sites, one edithaton in the school premises, and 2 series of online trainings.

• The tourist sites include; Sobi Hills, Crushed Rock (Sango), and Dada pottery Ilorin (The largest traditional pottery in Nigeria).

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.

We have notified the WNUG Community

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.

We will promote the contest through the fan club's official Social Media platforms (Facebook, and Twitter). We will also communicate with the participants through a fan clubs' WhatsApp group and the club executives will visit various departments within the school to inform them.

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

Bukky658

Linason Blessing

Omolarabasirat

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

Yes, participants already have smartphones and laptops. All the participants are computer literates.

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

We will do a follow-up with participants, and encourage them to follow the various social media handles that promotes Wikicommons projects. We will provide them with tips on creating, and editing Wikicommons.

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

• Images of the listed tourist, archaeological sites, and cultural heritage sites are not adequately covered on Wikimedia Commons.This contest is an opportunity to contribute high quality images of these Nigeria Monuments, that will be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons for free usage.
• It will help increase the awareness and participation of the Kwara State Univerisity Students who are still very new to the various projects on Wikimedia.
• The edithaton under this projects will help to adequately train the students on how to make media files more visible, free and reusable.
• It will help to increase the number of contributors to Wikimedia Common and other Wikimedia projects

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 at the edithatons: 25
3. Number of participants for photowalk to the 3 selected sites:10
4. Number of new editors : 10
5. Number of Photo added on commons: 100+
6. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) : 10

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

• A dashboard will be created for this and this dashboard will linked to the Wiki Loves Monument Category which will be used to track the uploads.

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).

Mobile phones, Laptops and resource guides for the trainings.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

• Transportation/Hiring of Bus (to and fro) to convey 10 persons for photowalk to 3 diffrent sites = #50,000

• Refreshments 35 plates of food @#2,000 per plate = #70,000

• Drinks (4 packs) = #6,000

• Table Water (4 packs) = #2,800

• Airtime and subscription Data subscription for 32 participants for online training @#1,000 x 32 = #32,000

• Airtime for calls for the organizing of the event and reaching out to some of the participants = #2,000

• Data subscription for the 3 Facilitators = #3,000 x 3= #9,000

• Designing & Printing of Wikiloves monuments banner= #12,000

• Gate Pass to the 3 sites for 10 persons @ #1000 x 10= #10,000

• Contingencies - #5,000

Total - #198,800

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