Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/AAdamu Abdullahi/ photowalk to showcase cultural heritage in Jigawa State

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) is a public photo competition around cultural heritage monuments, organized by Wikimedia chapters, groups and local Wikipedia volunteers. The public takes photos of monuments, upload those to Wikimedia Commons, and then they can be used in Wikipedia and elsewhere. The goal is to make the world's heritage monuments visible for the world wide public. Considering Jigawa State as a state with different cultural place to showcase to the remaining world, we are planning to carryout a Photowalk to visit some historical places in the state to took a picture and upload them in Wikimedia Commons as part of Wiki Love Monument (WLM) campaign 2024.

Wikimedia Project

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.

• Wikimedia Commons
• Wikipedia

Contact person and Location

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:Adamu Abdullahi
• Email address:

adamuabdullahijoudo45@gmail.com

• Address:Jigwwa state
• Location of Project:Dutse

Project class

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

• Individual

Timeline of activities

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

• 5th September 2024 to 30th September 2024

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

1. Photowalk
2. Add or improve 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?

• One Physical Training
• One Online Training

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

• We will notified them via our WhatsApp group and our User Group discussion page.

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 informed our participants via social media handles

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

• Adamu ab is a native Fulfulde Wikipedia editor, a language promoter with so much energy and enthusiasm to contribute to the sum of free knowledge, he is the top Fulfulde Wikipedia editor of the month with over 1000 edits and also participate in so many Wikipedia edit-a-thon, workshop and training all over the Northern Nigeria.
• Dranty18 is a seasoned wikimedia editor with deep experience on project management, community building and engagement that is ready to assist me in this project and make sure a wider place has being covered and reaches large number of audience.

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 equipments. That's why Training will be conducted to enhance their skills in order to capture meaningful and high quality picture to upload in Wikicommons that will showcase the Rich cultural heritage of Africa.

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

• The project’s WhatsApp group will serve as a venue for continuous engagement and communication to our participants so that we can achieve all our Target.

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

Impact

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 -15
3. Number of new editors -10
4. Number of of articles created -100
5. Number of of articles improved -50
6. Number of of images uploaded -500
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -5

Metrics tracking

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

• We will use Wikimedia metric dashboard to track all our activities

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).

• Adamu ab is the project lead that is responsible for coordinating, organizing all the project activities and assisted by Dranty18 to ensure the effective project delivery.

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

• Event Banner= 2,0000

• projector rental= 25,000
• Food and Drinks= 40,000
• Gifts for Top 3 best picture=30000
• Hall 40000
• Total= 155,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here

• ~~~ This project will go a long way in ensuring the bridge of information is bridged on wikimedia projects Tesleemah
•  Strong support Atibrarian (talk) 19:50, 11 August 2024 (UTC)
• Alhaji 50 (talk) I strongly supported this to increase number of fulfulde Wikicomon and upload photos