Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Baban Sadiq 2/WikiForHumanRights 2025

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Zamfara State is deeply affected by environmental degradation due to artisanal mining, deforestation, desertification, and pollution. These issues are underrepresented on Wikimedia projects. Through this campaign, we aim to equip students with the knowledge and skills to document human rights and environmental topics related to their communities, thereby increasing local content and awareness. Our Rights, Our Future, Right Now — focusing on youth-led knowledge sharing about environmental justice, human rights, and the right to a healthy and sustainable future. So, through this wikimedia project will be awareness to Gusau community and I'll be achieved my target.

Wikimedia Project

Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. Tyap Wikipedia, English Wikiquote, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.

• Hausa Wiktionary
• Hausa Wikipedia

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:Yusuf Muhammad
• Email address: yusufmahammad865@gmail.com
• Address: Zamfara State
• Location of Project: Gusau City

Project class

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

• Group of individuals
• User:Baban Sadiq 2
• User: Abubakar Kaddi

Timeline of activities

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

• 01-08-2025 to 31-08-2025

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. Raise awareness about the #WikiForHumanRights campaign 2025 in Gusau.
3. Train participants on how to contribute to Wikipedia and Wiktionary.
4. Create or improve at least 500 articles related to human rights and the environment.

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?

It's a two days series of events: workshop, training and writing contest:

1. Day 1 – Physical Workshop:

Introduction to Wikimedia platforms and the #WikiForHumanRights campaign.

Hands-on editing and account creation.

2. Day 2 Edit-a-thons ( sessions):

Guided article improvement and creation sessions (in-person or hybrid).

Focused on mining, health, climate change, clean water, and indigenous practices.

3. Writing Contest:

Participants will competition to create/improve the most high-quality articles during the project period.

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

I will be notified on Hausa Wikipedia discussion page Hausa Wiktionary discussion page and main WhatsApp user group

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 create an Whatsapp group to communication with them.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead/assist the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse and sign your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

yes, I User:Baban Sadiq 2 and User:Abubakar Kaddi will lead the project

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

Yes they have a smart phones and some of them have a laptops.

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

Participants will be added to a WhatsApp group which I have created for ongoing mentorship, Continued guidance and evaluations. To solving there issues about wikimedias.

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

Yes, this project will raise awareness on environmental rights and empower students in Gusau to contribute to Wikimedia and share local knowledge. And considering the lack of active editors in Hausa Wiktionary, I am sure that if this project is founded, it will help to get active editors in Hausa Wiktionary and Wikipedia as well. For my ambition, I have developed and improved wikimedia projects by conducting this awareness and campaign #WikiForHumanRighs 2025.

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets (only those applicable to your project):

1. Number of events -2
2. Number of participants -20
3. Number of new editors -15
4. Number of of articles created -300
5. Number of of articles improved -200
6. Number of of images uploaded -20
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? (do not create a metrics dashboard until your project has been approved for funding) I will use Wikimedia Foundation outreach dashboard

Contest & prize-giving events

How would decide the winners of your contest (If you are going to have a contest, what is your scoring criteria)

Winners will be selected based on the quality and quantity of their contributions. Points will be awarded for creating new Wikipedia and Wiktionary articles, improving existing ones, A panel of experienced Wikimedians will review all contributions using the Wikipedia foundation Outreach Dashboard. The top contributors with the highest points will receive prizes, and all active participants will get certificates.

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 user:Baban Sadiq 2 will lead the project with help of User:Abubakar Kaddi as an assistant organizer, he's Experienced Hausa wikimedias editor and he's Gusau indigenous.

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

1. Venue rental ( for 2days) 40,000×2=80,000
2. Internet/data support for participants 20,000
3. Training materials and banner 30,000
4. Refreshments (for 2 days) 1500×20=30,000×2=60,000
5. Prizes for Winners 65,000 1s prize=30,000 2nd prize=20,000 3rd prize=15,000
6. Branded T-shirts for top 5 contributors 25,000
7. Two T-shirts and P-Caps for organizer and facilitator 20,000
8. Transportation for organizers and facilitator 30,000
9. Accomodations for Project Organizer & facilitator 30,000
10. Miscellaneous 15,000

Total ₦375,000

Endorsements

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• supportAbubakar Kaddi (talk) 16:32, 17 July 2025 (UTC)