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Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Databox Edit-a-thon: Improve articles on the Igbo Wikipedia

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Project summary

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Briefly summarize your project proposal.

  • This project is an edit-a-thon that will be centered on adding more information on articles of places in Nigeria. It is important that locations in Nigeria have detailed description. In order to add more details or improve information on articles, the Wikidata powered information boxes will be used to generate details about Nigerian articles of places.

Contact person and Location

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

Email:goodness.ignatius88@gmail.com Location: Anambra State

Timeline of activities

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

  • Sensitization and registration: 1 week to the event
  • Start date:10:00am, 28th July 2022
  • End date: 03:00pm, 28th July 2022

Project Goal

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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. Increase skills for existing editors
  3. Add or improve content

Project Plan

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Activities

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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?

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.

Through notification on community talk page on Igbo Wikimedians User Group discussion 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.

Through communication channels, groups and hub. Also thhrough sensitization

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

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

Yes

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

Follow ups through communication channels, updates of activities and events, inviting them to upcoming events.

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

This is a maiden edition

Impact

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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
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events):10

Metrics tracking

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How do you plan to track your project metrics?

The outreach dashboard and Xtool

Resources

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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.

  • Data reimbursement for participants : ₦20,000
  • Internet connectivity for facilitators: ₦10,000
  • Food, drinks, and water for participans and fscilitators:₦45,000
  • Venue and sevices:₦40,000
  • Projector:₦10,000
  • Publicity, flier, training resources (instructional materials): ₦12,000
  • Prize for top 5 contributors: ₦15,000
  • Contingency/logistics: ₦10,000
Total:₦162,000

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Report

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