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Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This project is aimed at providing and uploading beautiful pictures of conservative areas in Kwara State. It's also a project that The project is in line with the Wiki Loves Earth project.

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

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: Idris Fawaz Adebayo
• Email address: idrisfawaz36@gmail.com
• Address: Kwara state University
• Location of Project:Kwara state

Project class

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

• Fanclub

Timeline of activities

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

• June 22 - July 14

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. Upload new pictures

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?

One physical training and one 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.

I have informed the wikimedia user group Nigeria about my proposal request via the meta 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.

We will be using the social media platform to pass information across to them especially via the community WhatsApp and social media channels. This will allow us get closer to them. The social media platforms we will be using includes Facebook WhatsApp instagram twitter etc This is to foster effective communication and engagement with the participants.

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

User:Tomzzz4002&redlink=1

User:Kingsman0000

User:Fawazadebayo2023

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

yes,our community members and target participants have internet connectable devices to effectively contribute to the goal of the campign project like smart phones,high pads,laptop and tablets.

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

we will continue to engage our participants through the outreach board. We will also tell them about other projects and events in the community.we will be introducing them to other sister project like(wikibooks,wiki voyage and others) we will encourage to be part of the wikimedia nigeria general community for them to be exposed to the activities in Nigeria and globally.

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

This project promises to be the best as we're capturing beautiful conservative areas in Kwara state . Aside uploading of pictures, articles will also be created regarding the conservative areas.

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 - 50
3. Number of new editors - 15
4. Number of of articles created - 30
5. Number of of articles improved - 50 above
6. Number of of images uploaded - 250 above
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 be tracking the metrics using outreach dashboard and xtool.

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).

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tomzzz4002&redlink=1

, User:Kingsman0000 , User:Fawazadebayo2023 are experienced edits and have trained students over the years

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

Transportation to 3-4 locations = 80,000

Foods during physical event = 2,500×50 = 125,000

3 packs of drinks = 1,500 × 3 = 4,500

Refreshment during first physical training = 1000× 50 =50,000

Gifts for 5 edit a thon winners : 50,000

Miscellaneous and logistics : 20,000

Photography (2 events) = 30,000

Total = 359,000 naira.

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• Indeed! The bountiful nature of Kwara state should be documented to the world to see. I David Adeleke, the Vice-President https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kingsman0000endorse this project
• This project will definitely add more to the wiki space. I, https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Tomzzz4002&redlink=1 hereby endorse this project

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