Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Abdulkadir Abdulkadir/Wikipedia Awareness and Training in Federal Polytechnic Kazaure

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Federal Polytechnic Kazaure is located in Kazaure Jigawa State Nigeria, is a renowned research tertiary institution catering to a large student body and a dedicated staff of educators and professionals. This proposal aims to make Wikipedia and its related projects widely accepted within the college, foster active participation from students and lecturers in contributing to these platforms, and establish sustainable communities dedicated to Wikimedia initiatives.

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.

• 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: Abdulkadir Abdulkadir
• Emailaddress:abdulkadirabdulkadir215@gmail.com
• Address: Jigawa State
• Location of Project: Kazaure Jigawa 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

• 5th February, 2024 to 25th February 2024

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. Create Awareness about Wikipedia

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 online training
• one physical training

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.

We will notified them via our WhatsApp group and the Fulfulde Wikipedia 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 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

• Fulani215 is the project leader, a Native Fulfulde Speaker, a Wikimedia editor, a content creator with vast experience that participate in so many Wikimedia training both physical and online, He train more than Fifty new recruit editors from Kano university of Science and Technology Wudil (KUST ) , He is among the Fulfulde team lead by Ardido Ardake In Hausa Wikimedia movement strategies in Gombe and Borno state where he train more than 20 new recruit editors.

• Mamman AA is an experienced Fulfulde language Wikimedian and facilitator. He will be available to facilitate a session on contributing to Fulfulde language Wikipedia

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. Training will be conducted to enhance their skills

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.

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 5
4. Number of of articles created or improved 150
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

• 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).

Fulani215 is the project lead that is responsible for coordinating, organizing all the project activities and assisted by Mamman AA to ensure the effective project delivery

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

• Event Banner 10000

• projector rental 2000
• Food and Drinks 30000
• Gifts for Top 3 contributor 30000
• Hall 30000
• Total 120000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

I am fully supported this project because it will help to share the open knowledge to many region. And looking a vast experience of the organizer fulani215

Mamman AA (talk) 17:50, 10 January 2024 (UTC)