Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Apdoull/Wikipedia Awareness in Federal University Dutse
Project summary[edit]
Briefly summarize your project proposal.
- Federal University Dutse is one of the prestigious tertiary institutions in Nigeria which is situated in the capital city of Jigawa state. With thousands of students from across the country's six regions studying in the various university's faculties and hundreds of lecturers and non-academic staff it would be a good place for advocating and promoting Wikimedia movement projects. Unfortunately, despite the advantageous advancements in the community, there is an absolute dearth of editors, not to even talk of projects that seek to promote Wikipedia in the community and this is definitely associated with the reason of not having a campaign planned to touch such a mixed of thousands individuals.
As a student of the university who is lucky to have discovered Wikipedia, I feel obliged to host the first Wikimedia Awareness campaign/training in Federal University Dutse (FUD) for the overall ascendancy of new editors as well as recruiting new sets of active volunteers of the Wikipedia projects. The creation of Wikipedia and its sister's project awareness In FUD is targeted towards laying a solid foundation for the widespread adoption and use of Wikimedia projects among the populace of the university. This would help in the swiping out the current history that there has never been any training or anything sort of that to train people and notify them about Wikimedia projects and how they can contribute to it them not just in the University but in the whole of Jigawa State. If approved, the project will help to establish the first ever Wiki community meetup in Jigawa State, specifically meant to keep in touch with present and future activities of Wikipedia in the community and also lead to the establishment of the Wiki Fan Club in the Federal University Dutse.
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
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: Abdullahi Musa Abdullahi
- Email address: abdullahimusaa65@gmail.com
- Address: Dutse, Jigawa State
- Location of Project: Dutse, Jigawa 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
- 1st December 2023 - 25th December 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
- Create awareness about Wikipedia projects
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?
- It will be two days event; 1st day for awareness, second day for training. As follows; I plan to carry out one day awareness Campaign together with my team by going around the premises of the university, academic offices, faculties, lecture halls and bukaterias/cafeterias explaining the activities of Wikipedia and its Sister projects. We will share flyers and handbills containing information about Wikipedia and it's sister projects. During the process, we are going to register at least 40 individuals who are going to be trained. There will also be one physical training/editathon where training practically will be hold on how to improve Wikipedia. This will be followed by a certification where the participants will be awarded certificates of participation each.
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.
- N/A
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.
- WhatsApp Group will be created where all the participants would be engaged.
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?
- Participants have their gadgets but they will need Data support as most of them are students.
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
- We will continue the discussion after the training on the group chats.
7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- N/A
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 = 1
- Number of participants = 40
- Number of new editors = 30
- Number of of articles created or improved = 300
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)
Metrics tracking[edit]
How do you plan to track your project metrics?
Event Dashboard
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).
- Hostel accommodation to receive two of the facilitors living outside the host location.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
- Hall space= 50,000
- Refreshments= 1500*43 = 64,500
Data for participants = 40,000
Projector renting = 20,000
Transportation cost = 7,000
Bus tickets for 2 facilitors = 15,000*2 = 30,000
Cameraman service = 10,000
Tshirts for organizers = 6,000*4 = 24,000
Banner for the event = 15,000
Printing and graphic design of flyers = 300*100 = 30,000
Certificates = 300*40 = 12,000
Total = 302,500
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