Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/A Salisu/Engaging Women in Funtua's Wikipedia Community

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• As a female Wikimedian residing in Funtua, I am passionate about promoting gender equity in my community through a Wikimedia project. The aim is to actively engage and empower fellow women to contribute their knowledge and experiences to Wikipedia. By organizing this project, we hope to bridge the gender gap in online knowledge representation and encourage women in Funtua to become active contributors to the world's largest online encyclopedia. Together, we can amplify the voices and perspectives of women, fostering a more inclusive and diverse representation on Wikipedia.

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.

• Hausa 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:Amina Salisu
• Email address:aminasalisumht@gmail.com
• Location: Funtua Katsina state

Project class

Please state if this grant is for individual project or network/club project

• Individual

Timeline of activities

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

• 10 August, 2023 - 30 August, 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. Engage existing 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?

Our Wikimedia project in Funtua aims to promote gender equity and engage women in contributing to Wikipedia. It will span two days, combining both online and offline activities. We will begin with online training, targeting housewives who may find it difficult to participate in person. The offline project will follow the online training, involving a wider range of participants, primarily women. Throughout the training sessions, we will educate attendees on how to contribute to Wikipedia and emphasize its value as a powerful knowledge-sharing tool. By empowering women with the skills and knowledge needed to contribute to Wikipedia, we hope to foster a more inclusive and diverse representation of information online.

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.

I will share in Futua community WhatsApp group and other related WhatsApp groups

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.

All participants will know in Funtua community WhatsApp group and I will inform my classmates in school and some will know via Phone call.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify

Yes I have a team.

• User:A Salisu, I'm a project's lead
• User:Yusuf Sa'adu, experience Wikimedians and administrator at Hausa Wikipedia. He will be project's trainer online and offline
• User:Asmee S Danja, She will be project's facilitator

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 smartphones

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

I will create a WhatsApp group and I will use Funtua Wikimedians WhatsApp group to engage participants

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
2. Number of participants 20
3. Number of new editors 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved 80
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 10

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? I will use Wikimedia Foundation Dashboard tool

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 and include a total amount.

1. Venue - 30,000

2. Refreshments - 1,500×23= 34,500

3. Data support during the physical training, 1000×23= 23,000

4. Data reimbursement a? during online training - 1,000 for each participant = 23,000

5. Banner = 10,000

6. Transport for facilitators 5000×2=10,000

7. Contingency 10,000

• Total - 140,500

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• I  Strong support this project, and I will attend this event.Yusuf Sa'adu (talk) 21:43, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

I support this project Asmee S Danja (talk) 10:42, 31 July 2023 (UTC)