Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Adebukola3ee/1Lib1Ref 2022 LASU

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal, and include the contact details of your contact person(s) for this project

This proposal is focused on the addition of verifiable sources to Wikipedia pages that lack any. It is also a way to motivate members to participate in the club's activities.

Contact details

grantee • Adebukola3ee

contact(s) • adebukoladesmond37@gmail.com

Timeline of activities

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

• Start date : June 17, 2022
• End date : July 8, 2022

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. Increase skills for existing editors
3. 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?

We would be organizing a training to take participants through how to to add missing references to articles on Wikipedia. An edit-a-thon will follow the training to encourage contributions.

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. Yes, I have dropped a notification on the talk page of WUGN

The project will be announced to Wikimedia User Group Nigeria mailing list, social media and each library will also post about the events in their social media handles

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.

Via social media platforms (Whatsapp, Twitter)

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

User:B.Korlah

User:Adebukola3ee

User:Edriiic

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

Participants will be notified and expected to bring their respective internet accessing devices. They will also be giving the audience to participate in discussions and offer high-quality information. However, if they lack any abilities, the organizers will provide them with training throughout the project.

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

We will create a whatsapp group after the event where we keep up with updates and followup. Also we will send a post event questionnaire to get their needs.

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 - 40
3. Number of new editors - 25
4. Number of of articles created or improved - at least 100
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 15

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

The Outreachdashboard would be implemented to assist with the tracking of metrics.

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).

1. Adebukola3ee - Current President of Wiki Club, Lagos State University (LASU) with a wide range of experience training participants on how to edit Wikipedia including training over 40 participants at an edit workshop.
2. B.Korlah - immediate past president Wiki Club, Lagos State University (LASU) an experienced facilitator in training editors.

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

• Food and drinks (2,000*40) = #80,000
• Internet incentives for participants = #30,000
• Branded T.shirts (2,500*20) = #50,000
• Design and banners = #20,000
• Misc. = #10,000
• Total = #190,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

1.  Strong support This project will help improve articles on Wikipedia. Mustohfa36(talk) 16:06,14 May 2022 (UTC)

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