Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Baban Sadiq 2/Hausa Wiktionary Edit-A-Thon at G.S.S Dala

Project summary

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• Lack of editors in hausa Wiktionary It was I decided to apply for a grant in order to planning a project to teach a number of participants how to edit in Hausa Wiktionary. This program will provide awareness to participants about Wiktionary to participants. The program will also enhance Hausa Wiktionary by producing improved articles on Wiktionary.

Hausa Wiktionary awareness have never take place at Dala Kano, while this local government is among the most biggest local government in Kano State and the most of them don't know on how to make a research and contribute to the Hausa Wiktionary. Therefore, through this project I will use this opportunity to bring a changes by recruiting the new editors for the Hausa Wikipedia. In advance,  The aims of this project is to provide quality articles and experience editors from Dala Community to be contributing Wiktionary and Wikimedia sister projects.

Contact person and Location

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

• Email:yusufmahammad865@gmail.com
• Location:Dala Local Government Area,Kano State.
• phone number:+2348026690558

Timeline of activities

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• Start date: March 25, 2023
• End date: April 15, 2023

Project Goal

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1. recruit new editors
2. Add or improve content
3. Increase skills for existing editors
4. Creat Awareness about Hausa Wiktionary in G.S.S Dala
5. Gain more viuwers to Wikimedia sister project.
6. Get more contributors to Wikimedia

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?

Is a two days series of Edit-a-thon.

It will be two days series of edit-a-thon. I and facilitators we will teach the participants how to make editing on Wiktionary and guid them to create and make editing on Hausa Wiktionary.

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.

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.

I will let the participants know via, phone calls, SMS messages, Emails and our existence WhatsApp group Kano Wikimedians. I will also announce via Our Hausa Wikimedians WhatsApp and Telegram groups, I will also announce via our Hausa Wikipedia and Hausa Wiktionary Discussion pages.

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 I have experience editors like: user:M Bash Ne, User:A Suleiman Z, user:AleeyuAdam123 and user:Baban Sadiq 2

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

Yes, some of them have Smartphones and some have Laptops, also we will provide data for them during the event.

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

I will create a WhatsApp group which I will continue engaging them there. And many of the participants are my coursemate, I will continue engaging them in any way.

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

Dala is the largest local government in Kano State, there is a need to run Wikimedia Projects in Dala to get Wikimedia editors and develop Wikimedia Projects.

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 30
3. Number of new editors 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved 100
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 15

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? I will use WMF 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).

I Baban Sadiq 2 organizer of the event with help of M Bash Ne as project lead, which he is lead many projects in the past. And he is experience Wikimedia editor.

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

1. Venue 2 day 50,000×2=100,000

1. Refreshments for facilitators and participants 1,000×30=30,000
2. Data for internet access for facilitators and participants 15,000
3. Transport for facilitators 5,000
4. Baner and Tags 10,000
5. T-shirts for facilitators 2500×4=10,000
6. Certificate 1000×30=30,000

TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED From WUGN=200,000

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