Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Carolyn Seaman/WikiCommons Training

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

This is a project that will engage members of Wikimedia Nigeria - Abuja Network to build skills in navigating the Wikimedia Commons platform and the value this brings to the Wikimedia movement. The Network continues to recruit new and old members.

Contact person and Location

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

Carolynseaman
Abuja

Timeline of activities

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

1st February - 28th February 2023.

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 on Wikimedia Commons
3. Increase skills for existing editors
4. Improve visibility of the Network's activities

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?

1 A training and edit a thon

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.

Will be shared on the Wiki Abuja Network page.

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.

The event highlights will be posted on Wikimedia Abuja Network social page.

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

1. Carolynseaman
2. Wikinaija
3. Oby Ezeilo

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

Participants will be instructed to come with their laptop and support devices may be mobilized too.

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

WhatsApp Group and Social Media

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

Metrics

Number of participants = 25

Number of new editors = 15

Number of Wikimedia Commons items created/improved = at least 100

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).

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

1. Food for 25 participants at #2500 per unit × 25 = #62,500
2. Venue = #60,000
3. Branded T.shirts (for coordinators and winners) 5,000*6= #30,000
4. Internet support = #15,000
5. Design and Banners = #20,000

Additional Tshirts and contingency costs will be in-kind donations from the leadership of the network. Branded tshirts are important for the young members of our network to strengthen their sense of belonging and ownership of the success of the network. This is an incentive to sustain our young, new members.

Total cost = #187,500

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