Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Atibrarian/1Lib1Ref 2022 Activate

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This program is the first of its kind in the Northeast of Nigeria and is geared towards contributing to the global #1Lib1Ref program - adding references to Wikipedia - to ensure it is reliable and verifiable.

Contact person and Location

Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location

• Atibrarian (Gombe)
  
• atibrarian@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 26, 2022

End date: June 29, 2022

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

1. Increase skills for existing editors
2. Recruit new editors
3. Add or improve Wikipedia 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?

editathons and training

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.

An announcement has been made at the [| 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.

An announcement will be made at the [Northeast Wikimedia WhatsApp platform.]

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

Yes, the Program Lead Atibrarian is an experienceed Wikimedian and certified trainer.

User:Abdulaziz Taufeeq will support the lead trainer throughout the program activities. 5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

Yes. Participants have the required equipment - personal laptops and smartphones

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

The Northeast Wikimedia WhatsApp group will fulfills this purpose. New editors will be I boarded if any.

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

This program will provides an opportunity for more contribution to the global 1Lib1Ref by Librarians and Friends of Libraries at the Educational Resource Center Gombe

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: 22
3. Number of new editors:8
4. Number of of articles created or improved:40
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events):5

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? The outreach dashboard and hashtag tools will be use in tracking user contribution

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).

will need the following resources:

1. Venue ×1 = NGN30,000 2. Data Subscription for participants + trainer 22 × 3000= NGN66,000 3. Alternative Energy × 1day = NGN10,000 4. Refreshments @NGN3,500 ×22 = N77,000 5. Flex/Roll-up bannerpieces @ NGN10,000. = NGN10,000 6. Projector rental + Photography ×1 = 6000

TOTAL.= NGN199,000.

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