Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Editing Wikidata with Senior Citizens

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Wiki For Senior Citizens Network is a new community of Seniors. We have also been having new members steadily as many more members wants to participate. With the presence of Wiki For Senior Citizens comes the burning zeal to learn new skills so as to share the experiences in the Wiki community. It is on the basis of LEARNING HOW TO EDIT WIKIDATA that this project would be focused on. Believing that once these seniors learn how to edit on the Wikidata Project, they would be able to share from their seasoned well of experience which would benefit not only the Wiki community but those who may seek to find answers to their questions on the Wikidata page.

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.

• 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: Obiageli Ezeilo
• Email address: oby.ezeilo@gmail.com
• Location: Abuja

Project class

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

• Wiki For Senior Citizens Network

Timeline of activities

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

• 2nd October 2023 start
• 30th October 2023 end

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. Sustainability of experienced editors

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?

Yes, one online session and one in-person training session. Subsequent trainings would be carried out on the general WhatsApp Group.

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.

Facebook: @wikiforseniorcitizensnetwork

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 participants would be alerted of this session on our designated WhatsApp Groups, Facebook pages and via direct messages as well.

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

The Coordinator of this programme will be User: Oby Ezeilo She is an experienced Wikimedian and will lead the training. Another experienced Wikimedian that will participate in the training is User:Accuratecy051

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

Yes, the participants have their various gadgets through which they would contribute from.

However, some of them lack the skill hence, the essence of putting up both online and in-person training sessions to teach and guide them to contribute correctly and accurately to the project.

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

Through direct phone calls, direct messages and on the general WhatsApp Group, the participants would be actively engaged and followed up.

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

Members of the community are senior citizens who are mostly retired persons. Because pension earned by these people are low, they will need support for transportation and data. Furthermore, many seniors prefer in person programme than online since they are new to working online. This project would go a long way in enhancing the feeling of inclusivity among the senior citizens as it would give them a sense of relevance and belonging in the Wiki Community.

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 2 (1 online & 1 in-person)
2. Number of participants 25
3. Number of new editors 7
4. Number of of articles created or improved 200
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? A stipulated dashboard would be created to track their contributions. Also, Xtool would also be used in the tracking of their various contributions.

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).

Human Resources (Experienced Wikimedians)

Oby Ezeilo is Organizing it and We are not receiving money from any other place. What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

• Venue - ₦70,000
• Food @₦ 2500x 25 - ₦100000
• Drinks & Water ( packs each)3 packs of bottle water 1500x 3 =4500 and 1 pack of malt 6000 = ₦10,500
• Data for online & in-person sessions @ ₦3000(1500 x 2) x 25 - ₦75000
• Facilitator's Data & Transport Support - ₦20000
• Prizes for 5 top contributors - ₦50000
• Transport for Seniors - ₦2000 x 25= 50000
• Graphics - ₦8000
• Contingencies - ₦38,350

Total - ₦421,850

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• i have benefited from the projects and programs of this community and believe strongly in the impact future programs carried out will make in terms of participants expanding their knowledge base on verifying information and use of reliable sources, the use of Wikidata and so 9n. As the group's communication officer,I will participate and disseminate knowledge gained on all our social media platforms as well as DiffAdankong (talk) 15:50, 10 September 2023 (UTC)adankong( talk)

• Accuratecy051 (talk) 09:14, 10 September 2023 (UTC) There are people who believe that Wikipedia has inherent shortcomings however by executing this project, the participants will understand the need for verifiability in Wikidata items and see how Information are supported by reliable sources to verify the claims made in each items. I will be present physically for the project as one of the offacilitator.  Strong support

• This project will help us to learn about Wikidata. While many of us have started editing Wikidata, we still need more opportunities to learn more and specialize. I support. Onyenachi64 (talk) 12:59, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

• I have been hoping for an opportunity to learn more of wikidata. I also believe that many members of our Network wish to also have this opportunity. this is one of the projects of wikipedia that I have started to understand and hope to practice more. I support this application and will participate if it takes place.Igboanude (talk) 15:19, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
• I have been waiting for another opportunity to learn more from Wikidata . I strongly believe that this project will give me and others more room to participate and learn more I support this application and promise to participate actively when it kicks off [[User: Akum20 (talk) 17:56, 14 September 2023 (UTC)]]

• I have participated in a programme of this seniors even though I am not a member. I believe that they deserve all the support they can get to learn and contribute. I support. Emeana sylvester (talk) 10:43, 15 September 2023 (UTC)