Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Africa Cinema Contest 2023

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• wikimedia yearly campaign between October to November and our target is to engage students who are upcoming artists studying theatre arts on how to contribute to Wikipedia and wikidata about movies, films, blockbuster, actor, actress, cinema and every genre of African Cinematography. We aim to further promote and bridge content gap on African film related content, improve importantly lots of movie articles stubs during this campaign, adding citations and relevant references to films related content on both Wikipedia and wikidata, creating and improving items. And also engage new editors

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.

• Wikipedia and Wikidata

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:Chukwu chibueze pascal
• Email address: chibuezepascal2001@gmail.com
• Address:Oyo state
• Location of Project:Ogbomosho

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

• 4th November - 30 November 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. improve Article stubs
4. develop items on wikidata
5. Engage theater art students on how to contribute

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following One physical training and one online training and an edit a thon contest follows Physical training: we will be hosting a physical training in order to get to know our participants training them on how to edit on both Wikipedia and wikidata and they will not be blocked and also assist them with anything they find difficult while edit. There will also be a short edit-a-thon that day. Online training: this will also help us follow up with training for those not available for the physical training, those who distance couldn’t help make it to the venue and also other participants. Through this session we will get to ask our participants question and also answer questions on anything they need to know involved editing and any difficulties faced. Edit a thon contest: After the physical training participants will engage in a contest and prizes will be given to top contributors after the campaign.

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

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 the Nigeria community about my project via this link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria

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.

1. Social media
2. E flyer for publication and Awareness
3. WhatsApp and Email for communication and information

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

User:kingaustin07

User:Alexander achie004

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them? Yes, the participants have their smart phones,tablets and laptops which they would contribute with internet connectivity in place

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

1. Always updating them on other campaigns
2. Make them become members of the Nigeria Wikimedia User Group
3. Encouraging them to continue to contribute to free knowledge of the wikimedia movement

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

African Cinema Contest is a wikimedia yearly campaign between October to November and our target is to engage students who are upcoming artists studying theatre arts on how to contribute to Wikipedia and wikidata about movies, films, blockbuster, actor, actress, cinema and every genre of African Cinematography. We aim to further promote and bridge content gap on African film related content, improve importantly lots of movie articles stubs during this campaign, adding citations and relevant references to films related content on both Wikipedia and wikidata, creating and improving items. And also engage new editors

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 one physical and one online
2. Number of participants 25
3. Number of new editors 15
4. Number of of articles created or improved 60 Wikipedia and 150 wikidata (210 articles)
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)1 10

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? Outreach dashboard Xtool

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).

User:kingaustin07 i am an active and experienced editor and i hosting the physical training and also the online training sessions and the edit a thon process

User:Alexander achie004(facilitator) is an experienced editor in both Wikipedia and wikidata, he has hosted and also facilitated projects as well as training editors he will be my co trainer and facilitator of the physical training

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

Venue for physical event:NGN 40,000

Refreshment for participants:(NGN 2,000*25) NGN 50,000

Internet services(1,500*25) : NGN 37,500

E fliers NGN 10,000

Data for facilitator+ airtime for communication+ logistics :NGN 7,000

Prizes for top three contributors:NGN 30,000

Miscellaneous and contingency: NGN 15,000

TOTAL :NGN 189,500

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• User:Alexander achie004

I am strongly supporting this project proposal, as it aims to bring and improve wikimedia projects. I will be physically available to work with the project lead on this project and we believe our goals will be achieved.