Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikipedia Awareness for Nigerian Institute of Journalism

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• To create awareness about Wikipedia and its sister projects among the students of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism. We now have a new set of students; the old ones have graduated. The media is critical to the success of articles on Wikipedia. It is important to educate communication students about the importance of Wikipedia for human existence. Without the media, we can not have accurate information on Wikipedia. To ensure the information system is balanced, we need the media to understand and accept Wikipedia and know how to report from a reliable source, which is the power and strength of Wikipedia  (the reliability of information in the encyclopedia from a reliable source). So it is key for us to keep educating communication students, who will invariably become the media men and women of tomorrow, on how to write on Wikipedia and the importance of Wikipedia.

Contact person and Location

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

• Agege, Lagos Nigeria.
• semilo99@gmail.com

Timeline of activities

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

Start date : 8th of February - 1 of March

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 physical training and one online training

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.

Yes,announced to the community Talk:Wikimedia User Group Nigeria#Wikipedia Awareness for the Nigerian Institute of Journalism

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.

Notify the school ahead, on WhatsApp. and on the Wikimedia Nigeria User Group 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

Semmy1960: The community lead of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism Wikifan club.

User:Pricelessjosy: A co-trainer for the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom, Lagos, A lecturer at the Nigerian Institute of Communication

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

Yes

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

We already have a Whatsapp platform that will be used for mentoring and support for the participants during and after the training so we ensure new participants join the WhatsApp

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

This is to create awareness to communication students.

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 one and one online training
2. Number of participants= 15
3. Number of new editors= 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved= 50
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?

I will use the event dashboard to track my metrics.

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).

None

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

• Refreshments (+facilitators)#3000 X 20:for one event: #60,000
• Data reimbursement #15,000
• Facilitator's Data and transport #15,000
• Venue: #20,000 for one event
• Contingencies= #15,000

Total: #125,000

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