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Project summary[edit]

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

  • 1Lib1Ref — abbreviated for one librarian, one reference — calls on librarians around the world, and anyone who has a passion for free knowledge, to add missing references to articles on Wikipedia.
  • 1Lib1Ref Lagos State University focuses on training the members of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria- Lagos State University Fan Club on how to edit wikipedia and particularly add citations to wikipedia articles, in order to improve them for free knowledge.

Wikimedia Project[edit]

Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. English Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.

  • English Wikipedia

Contact person and Location[edit]

Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location. For more than one contact person, indicate same details for everyone

  • Full name: Jakkari Abdulsomad. S
  • Email address: jakkariabdulsomad@gmail.com
  • Address: Epe, Lagos
  • Location of Project: Epe, Lagos

Project class[edit]

Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club

  • This application is on behalf of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria- Lagos State University Fan club

Timeline of activities[edit]

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

  • 1st June - 30th June

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
  2. Add or improve content (particularly citations)

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?

We will have a series of training and one edit-a-thon. One training will be online for participants in the main campus and a physical one in the affiliate campus

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.

Through emails and whatsapp texts

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.

Trough the community's whatsapp platform and other social media handles

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

Yes, User:fantasticJ, User:General Jakk

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

Yes but, not 100%. We will provide them with enough internet subscription to contribute to the project

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

Through whatsapp platform

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

Data Subscription for the students that will be joining virtually will be done twice. One to join the training and the other after the training to participate in the edit-a-thon

Impact[edit]

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets (only those applicable to your project):

  1. Number of events - 2
  2. Number of participants - 35
  3. Number of new editors - 5
  4. Number of of articles improved - 250
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 5

Metrics tracking[edit]

How do you plan to track your project metrics? (do not create a metrics dashboard until your project has been approved for funding) through the metrics dashboard

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).

We have facilitators. The students Union or faculty will support us with a hall
Executives will jointly ensure that it is all planned well and that the project is success

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

  • E-fliers: 10000
  • Customized tee shirts for 5 facilitators: 28000
  • Photo coverage: 20000
  • Feeding/ Refreshments: 35 X 2500 = 87500
  • Souvenir: 600×35 = 21,000
  • projector and Screen Rental: 5500
  • Resource Persons Welfare/ Transportation: 2 X 10000 = 20000
  • Prizes for the winners of the edit-a-thon: 50000
  • Miscellaneous: 10000
  • Total: 212,000

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