Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Favour Idowu/Wiki Loves Earth Photo Tour at Oyo State

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal. This project is aimed at contributing to the Wiki Loves Earth 2023 campaign under the Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation by taking valuable images of natural landmarks and monuments in Oyo State Nigeria

Contact person and Location

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

• Favour A. Idowu
• favouridowu2812@gmail.com
• Oyo state

Project class

Please state if this grant is for individual project or network/club project

• This is an individual project.

Timeline of activities

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

• This project would take place between July 10th-August 29th

Project Goal

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

• Recruiting new editors and photographers as valuable contributors to the wikipedia community
• Add or improve images contributed to the community
• Train new editors and photographers on how to post valuable images to the Wikimedia commons page.

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'll be carrying out a photo-walk and a photo upload session.

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 notified the Wikimedia Nigeria community talk group about the proposed event.

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'll create a whatsapp community group for the participating photographers and editors.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify I'll be leading the group of photographers, to be assisted by @MediaMOF as a photographer and editor.

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

All participants are established photographers and therefore, have professional cameras.

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

Subsequent updates about the Wikipedia events will be communicated to the participants via the whatsapp group created.

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

I believe that this is a project that will contribute immensely to free knowledge and also, encourage more photographers to start contributing to Wikimedia commons.

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 15
3. Number of new editors 13
4. Number of images created or improved 140
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 10

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? Photos will be uploaded under the category "Wiki Loves Earth 2023 Nigeria" for tracking. The outreach dashboard will monitor progress and impact, providing valuable insights and metrics. This tracking system optimizes outreach efforts and informs data-driven decisions.

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 unrestricted access to a group of photograghers who are readily available as valuable assets for the purpose of the event.

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

ESTIMATED BUDGET

Data subscription 10,000

Food and Drinks 2,000 * 15 = 30,000

Bus booking 50,000

Venue hall (for upload session) 40,000

Bus flex banner 8,000

Branded T-Shirts(This is for easy identification and safety purposes during the photo-walk) 3,000 * 5 = 15,000

Logistics 20,000

TOTAL = 173,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

I am fully a part of this project. I am endorsing it 10:29, 30 June 2023 (UTC)