Africa Environment/Microfunding/Nigerian Wikimedians for Sustainable Development Climate Change Champions Edit-a-thon in Ilorin Nigeria
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| This request for micro-funding to Africa Environment Wikifocus has just been submitted by Godstime Elijah on 21-02-2023 and has been selected for support. |
Proposed project[edit]
Description[edit]
In Africa and Nigeria in particular, there has been little or no significant discussions on the subject matter of SDGs and in particular the environment. The goal of this training and edit-a-thon is to raise awareness of the need to take care of the environment, celebrate the efforts and contributions of individuals, organizations that have raised awareness of the change of attitude towards environmental issues in Nigeria creating and editing contents to promote their contributions and thereby increasing their visibility online.
Context[edit]
Our focus during the edit-a-thon is to bridge the content gap relating to articles climate, environment and allied activities that has to do with Nigeria and the principal actors championing these causes.
Our activities will involve: Recruiting new and existing participants to contribute to English Wikipedia and Wikidata on contents about Nigerian climate change activists, environmental and other organizations who champion safer environment activities. We will organize a 2-day edit-a-thon generating contents about climate change and environment topics on English Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Request Details[edit]
- Organization: Nigerian Wikimedians for Sustainable Development.
- Who to Receive Funds: Individual
- Affiliation: Wikimedians for Sustainable Development
- Contact email: godstime_elijah989@yahoo.com
Team[edit]
- Godstime Elijah (Project Lead) An experienced Wikimedian, Community organizer having worked on project such as WikiAct4SDGs, SDGs Campus Tour among other projects.
- James Moore200 An experienced Wikimedian and Co-founder Nigerian Wikimedians for Sustainable Development and Wikivibrance.
- Major Lyte An experienced Wikimedian.
Fallout[edit]
- Improving the visual coverage of environmental topics through expanding the coverage of quality and underrepresented content about Nigeria on Wikipedia and Wikidata to attract readership.
- Recruit volunteers who are versed in climate change, environmental topics who will generate high quality articles or expand and improve already existing by adding reliable sources, fixing typos etc.
At the end of the edit-a-thon are target is to achieve the following:
- Number of participants-40
- Number of new editors-10
- Number of articles created or improved -200
Budget[edit]
| Object | Unit price ($) | Quantity | Total ($) |
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| Venue for two Events | $150 | 2 | $300 |
| Certificates for participants | $100 | 1 | $100 |
| Food and Refreshments for two events | $8 | 40 | $320 |
| Internet support during sessions | $400 | 1 | $400 |
| Social media promotion | $60 | 1 | $60 |
| Projector/Camera rent | $100 | 2 | $100 |
| Communications (Calls) | $20 | 1 | 20 |
| Total | ... $1500 | ||
| Approved budget | ... $1300 | ||
Any changes made to the budget after the application is submitted will void the application. You will then need to submit an updated application.
Final Report[edit]
| Final Report |
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| This is the final report on micro-funded project for Africa Environment Wikifocus. |
Guidelines[edit]
- Format of the report : the report must be provided as a wiki page on meta
- Where to submit your report : Create it to your request for micro-funding. A format has been added to your request for micro-funding. Please provide your report on that wiki page
- Deadline to submit the report : 15th May 2023
- Language : English or French
Summary[edit]
- Name of person/s compiling final report: Godstime Elijah
- Usernames of person/s compiling final report: Godstime Elijah
- Usergroup (if applicable):
- Country: Nigeria
- Project name/title: Nigerian Wikimedians for Sustainable Development Climate Change Champions Edit-a-thon in Ilorin Nigeria
- Link to project page (if applicable): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Wikimedians_For_Sustainable_Development_Climate_Change_Champions_Edit-athon_Ilorin
- Link to dashboard: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Nigerian_Wikimedians_for_Sustainable_Development/Climate_Change_Champions_Edit-a-thon_Ilorin
- Organising team (usernames):Godstime Elijah,James Moore200,Major Lyte
- Other stakeholders (if applicable):
Activities Record[edit]
Consider including the following information:
- What did you do?
We organized 2 physical edit-a-thon where participants made contribution to Wikipedia articles about Climate Change and Environment advocates.
- Who organised it all? Who was on your team (who did what?)?
The team did the organization. Major Lyte was in charge of logistics while James Moore200 took charge of community engagement.
- Did any organisations or associations or groups partner with you to make it happen? If so, who are they?
No. We never had any partnership.
- When did you hold events, where and how? How did you let people know about it?
The vents were held at Malhub in Tanke, Ilorin, Kwara state. The dates of the events were 15th and 29th April 2023 and we made the announcement on our community Whatsapp group.
- Who attended your event/s? What did they do at the event? What did they think of the event you held?
The events were attended by mostly students from the University of Ilorin.
Documentation of activities[edit]
Consider including the following information:
- Photo gallery of the events
- Quotes reflecting participant experiences
Climate Champions Edit-a-thon was such an awesome experience as it was filled with knowledge; we learnt more about the environment. As a Climate Advocate and Actor, I like to see more of this in the view to having a more sustainable environment that’s really habitable. It was really fascinating, I look forward to seeing more of it. Thanks to the sponsors; project lead; and facilitators
The Climate Champions edit-a-thon campaign is a campaign about Africans who have in a way or the other contributed to a better environmental situation in Africa. I learned a lot about African who gave themselves to the protection and safeguarding of the African environment. The experience was an amazing one, we had two physical meetings and all participants were all able to contribute in their own way.
My name is Shobowale lekan Favour, Favourdare123 as the username. Climate Champions edit-a-thon is one of the best campaign I have participated since I joined the Wikimedia movement. Thanks to the organizers of the Event. I look forward to more of Such campaign.
African environment and climate change have not received recognition from both home and abroad several individual have poured out their time and resources into fighting for their land and also the people. The Wikipedia platform gave people the opportunity to learn and to contribute and I, also being a beneficiary to add and improve article and also sensitize others , finally I appreciate the organizers and co-editors.
The just concluded Climate Champions edit-a-thon was amazing, and I can say that it actually opened my mind to a few things I was not aware of i.e,(eco-feminist, environment activist and climate activist). One thing I have learnt is that the more you search about things the more knowledge you acquire. Thank you for initiating this edit-a-thon, hope for more edit-a-thon's to edit.
- Social media posts and/or reports
- Links to any media coverage
Add here...
Goals and Outcomes[edit]
Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?
We were not able to meet our overall goal due to the limited time frame but overall we are happy with the result.
Please use the table below to report on the outcomes achieved, starting with the original targets you shared in your proposal for the microgrant.
| Proposed metrics | Anticipated outcome | Achieved outcome | Explanations |
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| Number of articles created/improved | 200 | 114 | On this front we fell short of the target as the time frame between approval and funding was short |
| Number of participants | 40 | 25 | We had a little hitch as students were in preparation for their final exams so that's the reason we couldn't meet the target |
| Number of events | 2 | 2 | Both events were held physically where participants engaged in the edit-a-thon |
Learnings[edit]
What did you learn? What are you proud of? What was challenging? From this experience, what would you do differently if you had to do it again?
For me in this project I learnt that timing is paramount. It was a project that participants were eager to contribute on. I am proud of the fact that despite having exams some students were willing to take out time to contribute. What was challenging was getting students to come and if I had another chance I would set the events after exams.
Finances[edit]
How did the initial proposed budget compare to the final costs of the project? Were there any unexpected costs or changes to your initial budget.
On the budget we had to make some changes. Participants were a bit unwilling to leave campus and we had to organize transportation for them and this affected other aspects of the budget but in all we were able to make do.
Use the table below to display your initial request, include the approved line items on your proposal and the proposed cost of these. Insert the real cost of each expected line. Add extra lines for additional expenses that were not anticipated in the proposed budget. If your budget is in local currency, please use the exchange rate on the date (or an average of the dates) that your money was transferred to your account. Historic mid-rates can be found here.
Please reuse your initial request, provide initial budget for each line, indicate actual expense for each line, and finally justify significant differences.
| Proposed line item | Initially budgeted | Actual spend | Explanations (of differences) |
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| Event Space | $300 | $300 | None |
| Certificates | $100 | $100 | None |
| Food and drinks | $320 | $320 | None |
| Projector and Camera rental | $100 | $100 | None |
| Internet for sessions | $400 | $400 | None |
| Communications | $20 | $20 | None |
| Additional cost (transportation) | $50 | $50 | None |
| Bank Charges | $10 | $10 | None |
Total grant money agreed (in USD)1300
Total grant money received (in USD or local currency)1290
Exchange rate on day/s of receipt of funds:
Total project spent (in USD or local currency):
Some of the receipts of the funds spent can be accessed in this link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RCuH5ERlalZFep5aBchk8A1jr3Elicj3
Exchange rate: 460/$
Unspent funds[edit]
If there are remaining funds, please list the amount here. Remaining funds should be discussed with the Wiki In Africa team. Think about what you would like to do with the remaining funds to further this project. Let us know your ideas below.
Unspent amount (in USD):
Anything else[edit]
Here you can include any information you think would be useful for the organising teams to know.
No.