Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/ABC of Wikipedia with User Group Nigeria Abuja Network

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Wikimedia Nigeria Abuja Network' existence fuels a burning desire to understand novel concepts so that one can share one's experiences with the Wiki community. This project would be centered around LEARNING HOW TO EDIT WIKIPEDIA With reference to elements of a Wikipedia page, editing principles and guidelines, policies and procedures and translation. This will enable them create quality content, which will help both the Wiki community and anyone looking for information on a particular topic on a Wikipedia page

Wikimedia Project

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

• 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: Wikinaija
• Email address: unclejoseph2013@gmail.com
• Location: Abuja

• Full name: Carolyn Seaman
• Email address: carolynseaman@girls-voices.org
• Location: Abuja

Project class

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

• Network

Timeline of activities

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

• 1st - 30th October, 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. durability of seasoned editors

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?

Yes, one online session and one in-person training session. Subsequent trainings would be carried out on the general WhatsApp Group.

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. Facebook Whatsapp Twitter

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.

The participants would be alerted of this session on our designated WhatsApp Groups, Facebook pages and via direct messages as well.

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

User:Oby Ezeilo

User:Carolynseaman User:Wikinaija

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

Yes, the participants have their various gadgets through which they would contribute from.

However, some of them lack the skill hence, the essence of putting up both online and in-person training sessions to teach and guide them to contribute correctly and accurately to the project. 6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

Through direct phone calls, direct messages and on the general WhatsApp Group.

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:

1. Number of events: 2 (1 online & 1 in-person)
2. Number of participants: 20
3. Number of new editors: 7
4. Number of articles created or improved: 60

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? A stipulated dashboard would be created to track their contributions. Also, Xtool would also be used in the tracking of their various contributions.

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).

Human Resources (Experienced Wikimedians)

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

* Venue - ₦80,000

• Food @₦ 2500x 20 - N50, 000
• Drinks & Water ( packs each)2 pack of water and one pack of malt - N10, 000
• Data for online & in-person sessions @ (1000 x 20)- N20, 000

• Facilitator's Data & Transport Support - ₦20000
• Prizes for 5 top contributors - ₦45000
• Transport for participants - ₦2000 x 20= 40000
• Graphics - ₦10000
• T-shirt - N4000 x 20= N80, 000
• Contingency - N35, 000

Total - N390, 000

On the transportation, the participants are coming for different locations (Gwagawalada, Zuba, Kuje, etc) which are over 45Km to the venue, hence they will need to be given money to cover 70% of their transport fare.

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

•  Strong support This will ensure for quality content on Wikipedia