Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikipedia Commons Workshop In Karadua

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal. As a result of the different projects I've led in Funtua and other community, there are more editors of Wikimedia projects in the region especially from Funtua, Dandume, Kafur, Bakori and etc . Many editors are focused on Wikipedia and Wiktionary. Individually, editors often asking me for more information about many questions related to Wikimedia Commons, because of this I understand some problems with editors that I wanted to solve. The problems include;

Lack of contribution to Wikimedia Commons Lack of experience in using files especially photos to other Wikimedia Projects like Wikipedia

Contact person and Location

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

• Yusuf Sa'adu

abbasaadumahuta@gmail.com

Timeline of activities

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

• Start 30 January 2023 End 15 February 2023

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
3. .Recruit new editors
4. .Increase skills for existing editors
5. .Add or improve photo content

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?

Is a one day training .

It will be one day edit-a-thon and training. I and facilitators we will teach the participants how to make editing on commons and guid them to upload photo in article and make editing on Hausa commons.

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.

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.

I will let the participants know via our existence WhatsApp group of Wikimedians Community of Funtua area. I will also announce via Our Hausa Wikimedians WhatsApp and Telegram groups, I will also announce via our Hausa Wikipedia and Hausa Wiktionary Discussion pages.

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

Hamda DK, M Bash Ne, Gwanki

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 smartphones some also have Laptops

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

We already have a WhatsApp group of my previous project, I will continue engaging them there. And many of the participants are my coursemate.

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

This project is important to my community because, to the best of my knowledge, a program related to this Wikimedias sisters project hasn't been organized before now in my karadua 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 5
4. Number of of articles created or improved 30
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)10

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? I will use WMF 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 Yusuf Sa'adu I will lead the event with the help of an experience editor's M Bash Ne, Hamza DK and Gwanki

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

1. Venue 50,000

2. Refreshments 1000×20= 20,000

3. Data 10,000

4. Banner 10,000

5. Transport for facilitators 10,000

6. T Shirts for Facilitators 2500 × 4 = 10,000

7. Contingency = 10,000

Total = 120,000

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