Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Art+Feminism 2024 Unilorin Fan Club

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

Art+Feminism is an annual event in the wikimedia movement that is aim at bridging gender gap for Women in art. This year's Theme is tagged Are we in this together?. we aim to bridge comtent gap on Wikipedia,wikidata and wiki commons and also use this project to recruit new editors to the unilorin fanclub.

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,wikidata and wikimedia commons

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:Akintunde Daniel
• Email address:akintundedanielr7@gmail.com
• Address:ilorin
• Location of Project:university of Ilorin,kwara

Project class

Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club

Fan club

Timeline of activities

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

january 4th - 31st january 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. photo walk
4. Add photo to wikicommons
5. Bridge gender gap

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 photo Walk and One physical training and Edit-a-thon contest

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 wikimedia Nigeria about my project proposal Below is the 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.

Creating Awareness:we will be creating awareness through posting E fliers on our social media pages to inform people about the project and this is a way of communicating our project to our community members and new intending member

Through social Media: we will be using our whatsApp group for our participants with the aim of continuously communicate and engage them during and after the photo walk and the physical training so they can follow actively and will be involved.

Through Mail: we will be using the Email to officially inform the selected members who register to go for the photo walk and also inform them about the physical training and edit a thon contest.

Through text messages: we will send text messages as a form of reminder to our community member ahead of the photo walk and physical training.

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:Favourdare123 president User:Taofeeq Abdulkareem Vice president

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

yes,our community members and target participants have internet connectable devices to effecyively contribute to the goal of the campign project like smart phones,high pads,laptop and tablets.

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

we will continue to engage our platforms by updating them about other projects and events in the community.we will be introducing them to other sister project like(wikibooks,wiki voyage and others) we will encourage to be part of the wikimedia nigeria general community for them to be exposed to the activities in Nigeria and globally.

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

The theme for this year's art+feminism(Are we in this together?) is focus on bringing wikimedia round the world to contribute to the bridging of gender gap of women in art. this photo walk will help participant capture works from Nigeria Women in art galleries and upload on commoms to achieve this works so they can be refrenced in future . The physical will be focused at training participants how to edit wikipedia amd wikidata and improving and creating standing articles.

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(20 for phototo walk)
3. Number of new editors 20
4. Number of of articles created or improved 50 wikipedia, 50 wikidata and 50 wikimedia commons
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 20

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

Outreach dashboard

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:Favourdare123 He is the president of the fanclub and he will be leading the event and the training

User:Taofeeq Abdulkareem He is the vice president of the fan club and he will be co facilitating the training.

User:Mijesty She is incharge of publicity and communication and will be reaching out to interested participants.

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

Refreshment and Take away pack during physical training (2000*40) : NGN 80,000

T shirt for team members: (5000*3): NGN1 15,000

Airtime for Communication + Transportation +data for the two team members members: NGN 30,000

E-fliers for pubilicity: NGN 15,000

Camera rental and photography : NGN 15,000

Appreciating prizes for five highest editor for the training(gift items) : NGN 30,000

Contigencies , Miscellaneous and Logistics: NGN 20,000

Total = NGN 205,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• As a yearly program we are privileged to be hosting it in our fan club, this time and the funding of this proposal would lead our participants to be able to be part of the goals of the global campaign. Favourdare123 (talk) 21:12, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
• This project will empower the fan club to promote art and feminism, fostering a culture of feminism. Simultaneously, it will equip new users with the necessary skills to contribute to the project.Mijesty (talk) 10:58, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
• The Project which is a movement on Arts and Feminism will promote and bridge knowledge gap in the space and contribute to the content gap on Wikimedia space most especially Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons. Concurrently, the project will help equip and recruit new user with necessary things not just for the project but for further and future projects. Taofeeq Abdulkareem (talk) 11:30, 21 December 2023 (UTC)