Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Chic portfolios/Wiki Loves Monument photos Contest 2023

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

The contest will focus on freely licensed and high quality images of Nigeria Monuments, that will be contributed to Wikimedia Common for free usage. Images of Nigeria monuments, archaeological sites, and cultural heritage. This contest is an opportunity to contribute high quality images of these monuments, archaeological sites, and cultural heritage to Wikimedia Common. It help increase the awareness of Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia Project

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

• Wikimedia Commons

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: Saubana Omolara MUINAT
• Email address: saubanalara20@gmail.com
• Address: Makurdi,Benue state.
• Location of Project: Online

Project class

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

• Individual

Timeline of activities

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

1/10/2023 to 15/10/2023

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
3. Add photo to wikimedia commons
4. Edit-a-thon contest
5. contribute to the wiki loves monument campaign 2023

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?

one Online 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.
I have informed the Wikimedia user group Nigeria about my project proposal in the link below

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria

You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using. I will be engaging the participants via WhatsApp. This is to communicate every important information that will be needed during the edit a thon and also doing because of the photo work how it’s going to be always sure everything is in place for the completion of the projects.

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.

1. through E flyers
2. Using the WhatsApp platform to bring them together under one space

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

I will be conducting the training section as it is an online training

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

The participants have the equipment to contribute and participates in this context via Internet accessible devices like smart phones, tablets, and laptops to contribute to wikimedia Commons and also the smart devices would serve camera to take a good shots of monuments in Nigeria for quality photo, upload during the contest

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

We will engage the participants via the ‎WhatsApp platform updates in them about all the events around wikimedia and also add them to community In order to improve their participation and their contributions to the wikimedian foundation by adding them to the wikimedia user group Nigeria, they become active users from being newbies.

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

Wiki loves monument. Is it global campaign that focuses more on improving photos and adding photos to wiki media Commons about monumental places in Nigeria, these contest is aimed at adding more photos about monuments in Nigeria and improving the active participation of users, especially new users to the Wikimedia movements

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 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved 100 photo to be added
5. Number of repeat participants: 10

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? 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). We have in availability the zoom network, which will be using to train participants on how to contribute to the wiki love monument campaign for this year

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

Internet Services ( 1500 * 20): NGN 30,000 Data for Facilitator :NGN 5000 E flyers :NGN 10,000 Prizes for Contributors :NGN 30,000 Contingencies and Miscellaneous : NGN 10,000 TOTAL : NGN 85,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!