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Project summary[edit]

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

  • I've headed up various Wikimedia efforts in Karadua community, bringing in lots of editors. Although I've done projects for Wiktionary, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia Commons, I haven't tackled Wikidata yet. People are curious, so I'm planning a project just to invite experience editor for Wikidata to teach them how to contribute well. Our goal is to boost the information about our local area on Wikidata.

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.

  • Wikidata

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:Amina Bashir
  • Email address: aminabashirmht@gmail.com
  • Address: Funtua
  • Location of Project: Katsina State

Project class[edit]

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

  • Individual

Timeline of activities[edit]

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

  • 01/April/2024

15/April/2024

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

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?

One day of training and Edit a thon. We will start with training and then Edit a thon will follow up.

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.

Mainly via Hausa Wikipedia Discussion page and Hausa Wikimedia Community WhatsApp Group

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.

I will let them know through WhatsApp groupa and phone calls

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

I have User: Yusuf Sa'adu, he will be a project's facilitator and trainer

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

The participants have Smartphones and laptops

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

I will engage them via Funtua Wikimedia Community WhatsApp group and I will also create WhatsApp group for the project

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

They are many editors in Karadua community like Funtua, Dandume, Bakoari, Malumfashi and etc, there is a need to run Wikimedia Projects in Karadua to get Wikimedia editors and develop Wikimedia Projects

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 -1
  2. Number of participants -20
  3. Number of new editors -5
  4. Number of of articles created -15
  5. Number of of articles improved -800
  6. Number of of images uploaded -5
  7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

Metrics tracking[edit]

How do you plan to track your project metrics? 

WMF Dashboard tool

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).

Im User:A Salisu I will lead the event with the help of User:Yusuf Sa'adu he is project trainer.

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

  1. Banner: N10,000
  1. Venue: N40,000
  2. Food/refreshments (1500×20) - N30,000
  3. Tags: N10,000
  4. Data bundle 1000×20=20,000
  5. T-shirt: 5,000×2=10,000
  6. miscellaneous - N10,000

Total = N130,000

Endorsements[edit]

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  • This project will have a great impact on the Hausa Wikipedians as getting to know and learn about how to edit on Wikidata would help broaden their chances for contribution more in other Wikimedia projects not only the Wikipedia. I Strong support Strong support this project Yusuf Sa'adu (talk) 16:15, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

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