Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/AKA024/Wikimedia Awareness and Training at Taraba State Polytechnic Suntai 2025

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

The Wikimedia Awareness and Training at Taraba State Polytechnic Suntai aims to introduce students to Hausa Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, highlighting their importance as platforms for free knowledge and open access resources. The project will combine awareness sessions with practical training, equipping participants with the skills to edit Wikipedia articles and upload relevant media files to Wikimedia Commons. By engaging the Polytechnic students, the project seeks to inspire new contributors and strengthen the Wikimedia presence in Taraba State.

Wikimedia Project

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

• Hausa Wikipedia
• Wikicommons

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: Amina Kabiru Audu
• Email address: aminakaudu@gmail.com
• Address: Taraba State
• Location of Project: Suntai, Taraba State

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

7th to 25th January, 2026.

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

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?

Two training sessions (one virtual session and one in-persion session)

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.

On WhatsApp group of the students

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 inform them through their WhatsApp group

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

• Yahuzaishat
• Salma kyari

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

They have gadgets and will support with the training.

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

We will utitlize WhatsApp group for that.

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 - 20
3. Number of new editors - 15
4. Number of of articles created - 50
5. Number of of articles improved - 100
6. Number of of images uploaded - 20

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 outreach dashboard tool to track contributions.

Contest & prize-giving events

How would decide the winners of your contest (If you are going to have a contest, what is your scoring criteria)

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).

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

• Banners and flyers = ₦30,000
• Hall rental = ₦60,000
• Refreshment = ₦2,500 × 20 = ₦50,000
• Projector = ₦10,000
• Power supply (generator and fueling) = ₦20,000
• Sound system = ₦10,000
• Branded T-shirts and caps (two) = ₦30,000
• Running cost = ₦20,000
• Total: ₦230,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• I give my  Strong support for this project because I know the Lead is capable of delivering. SK (talk) 09:02, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
• I was consulted on this, and due the promise of impacts it holds, I’m happy to  Strong support this project with my experience. Yahuzaishat (talk) 20:54, 16 December 2025 (UTC)