Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/DOCUMENTING AFRICAN FABRICS

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This project aims to document different African fabrics that enhances African beauty, through high-quality photographs.

By documenting and sharing these images on Wikimedia Commons, we will Promote, conserve and create awareness of Africa's unique beautiful fabrics, and enhance the visibility of Africa's natural beauty globally This project will also Support education and research through free access to information and high-quality images. It involve capturing different African fabric and properly document and categorize these photos.

Wikimedia Project

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

• Wikicommons and Wikidata

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: Dr. Ogochukwu Esther Okafor
• Email address: eo.okafor@unizik.edu.ng
• Address:Awka, Anambra State
• Location of Project: Awka

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

• 19th July - 30th July, 2024

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. Train new editors on how to upload photos.

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?

Editathon and 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.
You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

I have informed my community about my proposal https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_UG_Nigeria/Anambra_Network

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 gathering

I will let participants know through the Community communication channels.

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 would be assisted by User:Timzy D'Great and User:Akwugo

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

Participants have gadgets, but we will be training them how to contribute using their gadgets.

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

We will engage them through the community WhatsApp groups.

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

This project will not only contribute to wikidata and wikicommons projects but also highlight the beauty of African's fabrics that made them who they are, Without which some of the fabrics would forgotten.

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 - 25
3. Number of new editors - 6
4. Number of of articles created - 70
5. Number of of articles improved -
6. Number of of images uploaded - 70
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) We will use the event registration tool and Wikimedia Outreach dashboard for registration and upload tracking.

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 am the one organizing the project but I will be assisted by 2 co-facilitators who will help in coordinating the project.

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

• T-Shirts 3500*3 = 10,500

*Hall for training - 45,000

*Refreshments (upload session) - 3000*28=84,000

*Transportation:5000×5*2=50,000

*Camera = 35,000

*Tag: 10,000

*Banner - 15,000

*Contingency - 15,000

projector - 12,000
Data for facilitators -15,000

Total - 291,500

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• This is an amazing job. I hereby endorse it.

• I support the activity as it promotes cultural wear. Ngostary2k (talk) 00:05, 16 June 2024 (UTC)

 Strong support

I support this project as it will help in the promotion and preservation of the African attire/culture. Akwugo (talk) 11:59, 21 June 2024 (UTC)