Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Awareness Creation on Active Participation and Inclusiveness About the Wikimedia and it's General Usage in Lagos State.

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal. This project is aimed at increasing the intensity and sound of the Wikimedia gong towards getting many more younger persons actively involved in the Wikimedia activities by getting involved with editing and spreading the news of the numerous wealth of knowledge embedded in Wikimedia. This project is not going to be restricted to the campuses in Lagos, this time, I am taking it to official professional premises of young, advanced and educated people to get them to know better, the usage of the wekimedia resources and of course, get them to be active participants in the scheme of language affairs. Recently, as an Igbo linguist, I have seen numerous young humans struggle alot with sourcing language informations and data about their day to day language usage, and I have made it a point of duty to always refer them to this right source, but that not withstanding, a whole lot of work is needed out there as people are not sounding the Wikimedia gong enough. Particularly, narrowing it down to the Igbo language, an adult made a very wrong expression to a more advanced adult few days ago in my presence. I could feel the disappointment of the boy's father having heard such utterance from his son, a very little language error that would have been solved if such boy was aware of a reservoir of language information like Wikimedia. I am an Igbo Linguist and we cannot shy away from the fact that so many persons are so ignorant of the activities we spearhead, preach and advertise. It has become necessary that this gong must continue to be sounded not just in campuses in Lagos, but in other spheres of human engagement, this time, to the market and offices.

This will be a two days activity, involving major edits, publishes and if course adequate checks and balancing to ensure results are duely achieved. There will also be a kind of language quiz where the most highly performed person will be given an empty note to fill it up with Igbo word data in 3days after which I will gift him/ her an Igbo/English dictionary from the project purse. The second day of this event will have me and few colleagues, holding participants hands and putting them through articles and editings, we will have those struggling so much with Igbo word pronunciation share the greatest fear and challenges and direct them to find solutions.

Contact person and Location

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

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? Yes, it is going to be a one day training and a one day edit -a-thon event in Lagos not restricted to campus or University students this time. This training will hold on the 10th to 11 July 2023

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! there is already a watsapp group in place which houses individuals who have shown high level of interest in the event. I have also conducted a zoom meeting informing interested participants of the progress made so far. My Facebook page will also be an avenue to sound this gong. It's linkhttps://www.facebook.com/jovita.winniefred. The IWUG Wikimedia community is very much aware of this event and of course the Yoruba wiki group too

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.

We have made tangible progress via zoom where we have communicated progress made so far. We have an active mail system where interested participants so far are being kept abreast with activities prior the event. We have an awareness flier already undergoing graphic design with which to match around.

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, User: Winniejovita will be leading the project. User: [akwugo] User: Alukaifeanyi facilitator

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them? Yes, I can personally provide 6 laptops on the event day, participants also have their mobile phones available for use.

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)? The WhatsApp group I have created for this awareness will certainly serve that purpose. I will ensure immediate followed up and active participation in the group as soon as the event records a success.

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project? This project, if it gets adequate approval, will be one of a kind especially in the nature of user friendly and active participation approach it is going to imbibe for its participants. Language is paramount for continuous human existence and collaboration, whatever positive approach adopted to preserves continuous usage and inclusion is a very welcome development and I sincerely hope, this isn't overlooked. Thank you so much

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=1
2. Number of participants=20
3. Number of new editors= 22
4. Number of of articles created or improved= 200
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? A dashboard will be created to track every single progress made. In support,the xtool will also be adopted to keep adequate tracking. I will also do some manual writings to ensure we capture every information nomatter how minute

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). I can make available 6 laptops on my own while we engage phones if we can't hire more. Onyema Jovita winniejovita244@gmail.com is organising the event. There is no external support in kind, additional donations or fund from any other source.

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

Hall 40,000 Printing of event shirts= 15,000 Data Support for Participants 1500*20= 30,000 Transportation for facilitators=10*2= 20,000 Camera Renting =17,000 Food and Drinks= 2000*30*2= 60,000 Total........200,000

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