Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Documenting and Improving the Quality of Women Academics' Data on Wikidata

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal. This project aims to improve the quality, completeness, and reliability of structured data about women academics on Wikidata. While many women scholars might already have entries, many items are incomplete, poorly referenced, duplicated, or missing important identifiers and relationships, or not being documented at all.

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.

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: Okeke Chioma Bibiana
Email address: bibiangelsuccess01@gmail.com
Address: Ojo, Lagos State
Location of Project: Ojo, Lagos State.

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

1st of March 2026 - 31st March 2026

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

recruit new editors
Add or improve content
Build participants contribution capacity and knowledge
Increase representation of under-documented women scholars

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?

I will be doing an edit-a-thon and a training

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 have a wikimedia community and team to work with here in Ojo Lagos to carry out this project,

Also I will be inviting other experienced wikimedians around to come participate and guide new contributors.

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 be informing participants by posting on the Wikimedia community group chat and also doing a follow up until the day of the project and even after on the WhatsApp group chat.

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

User: Bibisuccess User: MissMooooo User:Mercyjamb123

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

Yes, participants have the necessary equipments and skills to execute this project, and I will only be supporting them with Data reimbursements.

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

I will still use the WhatsApp community group chat to follow up on them and pass messages across to them.

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

This project will be carried out in LASU(Lagos State University Ojo Campus) to help build the capacity and knowledge of new contributors and keep them engaged.

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):

Number of events - 1
Number of participants - 20
Number of new editors - 20
Number of of articles created - 100
Number of of articles improved - 150
Number of of images uploaded -
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)

Through a metrics dashboard to monitor the contributions of participants

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)

Through the dashboard, top contributors will be determined, and also, I and my fellow facilitators will review every contribution to ensure they meet the Wikimedia quality standards before determining winners.

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 have a gadget for the execution and the pre- program preparation, and communication and follow up process.

I Chioma Bibiana Okeke User:Bibisuccess will be leading this project, thereby overseeing the whole process of the project to it's execution and reporting process, them User:MissMooooo will be the communications lead for the project and User:Mercyjamb123 will be a co- facilitator and an experienced wikimedia to assist and guide new wikimedians.

I won't be receiving and support from anywhere else, because I haven't planned on seeking for support externally.

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

Hall - 50,000 Projector and screen (rented)- 20,000 Laptop(rented)- 10,000 Generator rental & fueling - 20,000 Logistics - 15,000 Facilitators Data reimbursement - 20,000 Participants' Data reimbursement - 40,000 Food - 3,000x20= 60,000 Water - 300x20= 6,000 Drinks - 1,000x20 = 30,000 E- flier - 10,000 Contest Prizes - 60,000 1st- 30,000 2nd - 20,000 3rd - 10,000

Total - 341,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

Strong support Akwugo (talk) 14:06, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Strong support MissMooooo (talk) 18:30, 14 February 2026 (UTC)

Strong support Mercyjamb123 (talk) 07:31, 15 February 2026 (UTC)

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