Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Abubakar Yusuf Gusau/ Wikipedia Awareness and Training in Federal College of Education (Technical) Gusau.
Project summary[edit]
Briefly summarize your project proposal.
- As a result, this project offer will acclimatize and train Academic community of Federal collage of Education (Technical) Gusau on how they can harness the colorful article on wikipedia for their exploration work and indeed get to understand how they can give dependable citations to wikipedia articles . This project will also help students and staff to successfully use Wikipedia( and other Wikimedia products) to search, access, recoup, interpret, and cover the information consumed. Mindset shift from not accepting Wikipedia sources as dependable to allowing students to cite Wikipedia sources.
Wikimedia Project[edit]
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
- Wikicommons
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: Abubakar Yusuf Gusau
- Email address:elsadeeqayg0547@gmail.com
- Location:Zamfara 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
- Start date 1/10/2023 ends date 15/10/2023
Project Goal[edit]
Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.
- recruit new editors
- Add or improve content
- Increasing Access to Wikimedians
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?
- To conduct a 1 day physical awareness and sensitization crusade during the inception of the project for both staff and students of FCE.
- To organize ( one in- person and 2 online) training for staff and students of Federal College of Education .
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 have informed Wikimedians User Group Nigeria. You can find the link here:
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.
- Banner, Fliers, stickers will be designed to be distributed to druggies of the library and also a broadcast communication will be participated in the colorful departmental position WhatsApp groups.
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
5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
- off course the participants have Smartphones some with laptops and Data support will be provided.
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
- A WhatsApp group will be used to encourage people to edit and try to answer any questions that may come up along their newfound trip.
7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- The program's content will focus a priority on closing the knowledge gap by updating current articles and producing new ones about individuals, locations, and organizations in Zamfara State.
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- Number of events 2 (offline and online Training)
- Number of participants 20
- Number of new editors 20
- Number of of articles created or improved 100
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)
Metrics tracking[edit]
How do you plan to track your project metrics?
I will track the participant's contribution via Wikimedia Foundation 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).
- User:Abubakar Yusuf Gusau Project lead, a resident of Gusau an experienced Wikimedian from Zamfara state.which I attended several Training/Edith a thon organize by some Hausa Wikimedians. With the experience I gained so far, I will be able to manage participants and host a training on how they can contribute on Wikipedia.As a local resident familiar with the community, I will play a key role in engaging the targeted participants.
- User:Hamza DK is a veteran editor with experience in working on Wikimedia projects who is a volunteer and has completed several Wikimedia projects in Northern Nigeria. He is a facilitator himself.
- User:Gwanki is a seasoned Wikimedia editor who contributes on a volunteer basis. He also serves as an Administrator on the Hausa Wikipedia. Many Wikipedia projects in Northern Nigeria have been organized and facilitated by him. Online facilitators include him.
The event's location is not too far from where all of the facilitators live.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
* Hall: ₦30,000 * Food and Refreshments for both participants and facilitators: ₦1,500*22= ₦33,500 * Projector/Microphone (rent): ₦20,000 * Souvenirs for best 10 participants: ₦3000*10= ₦30,000 * Customize T-shirt for facilitators/organizers: ₦5000*3= ₦15,000 * Transportation for facilitators/organizers : ₦5000*2= ₦10,000 * Banners,flyers,stickers: ₦10,000 * Contingency: ₦10,000 *TOTAL AMOUNT=₦158,500.00
Endorsements[edit]
Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!
- Wiki projects was not been done in Gusau, Zamfara state. So implementating this proposal is very good in the technical college and we hope to achieved a ultimate goal in this project.
Hamza DK (talk). 
Strong support I really supported this proposal.