Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Feminism and Folklore Ilorin 2024

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

Feminism and folklore in kwara is aimed at bridgining content gap on wikipedia and wikidata. This is to improve the contribution of participants on article related to women and folklore in ilorin.

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.

English Wikipedia 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: Akintunde Daniel
• Email address:akintundedanielr7@gmail.com
• Address: ilorin
• Location of Project: ilorin

Project class

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

• Fan club

Timeline of activities

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

• 5th june 2024 - 25th june 2024

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. Add new wikidata items
4. improve and create wikipedia article

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?

Training: The feminism and folklore ilorin campaign aims at training new and existing contribution on how to create and improve a standard article on english and how to create wikidata item. we will be having a day training for the community and also involve them in a writing edit a thon to increase their participation and contribution on both wikipedia and wikidata

Edit-a-thon contest:After the physical training,there will be an edit a thon writing contest that will enable the community to contribute to both wikipedia and wikidata. This is aimed at allowing them get familiar with contributing as volunteers. After which prizes will be given to top contributors

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.

we have informed the wikimedia user group Nigeria about our proposal 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 inform the community about this event through our social media handles and platform to create awareness about the training and the edit a thon.

This awareness is not just for our community alone but also those that what to join the community.

we will be using our whatsApp platform to constantly communicate with them and continually remind them about the campaign/physial training.

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:Akintundedaniel

User:Favourdare123

User:Mijesty

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

Our participants have internet connectable devices like smartphones, laptops, tablets. this devices will help them to actively participate in both the trainings and the edit a thon contest.

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

We hope to engage the participants after the events through our WhatsApp community group chat. There will get to connect with them by organise mid virtual trainings for them to know if they need the help of the community on how to navigate contributing beyond the campaign and edit a thon

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

Feminism and folklore ilorin is a campaigned to bridge article gap on women and folklore in ilorin kwara on both wikipedia and wikidata. There are articles about women and folklore that are not properly edited and created. this campaign focuses on improving wikimedia article on folklore.

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 - 1
2. Number of participants - 40
3. Number of new editors - 15
4. Number of of articles created - wikipedia and wikidata 50
5. Number of of articles improved - 90
6. Number of of images uploaded -
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 25

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) xtool Outreach dashboad

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).

This event is organized by the unilorin fan club and we have executives that will be performing special roles

User:Akintundedaniel trainer

User:Mijesty communication

User:Favourdare123 co ordinator

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

• Refreshment physical training (2500*40) : NGN 100,000

• T shirt for team members: (7000*3): NGN 21,000

• Airtime for Communication(5,000*3 = 15000) + Transportation(5,000*3 = 15,000) +data for the two team members members(5,000*2 = 10,000): NGN 40,000

• Camera rental and photography : NGN 25,000

• Appreciating prizes for any five highest editor for the training(gift items(10,000*5) : NGN 50,000

• Contigencies , Miscellaneous and Logistics: NGN 30,000

Total = NGN 266,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here! Favourdare123 (talk) 17:01, 20 May 2024 (UTC)Feminism and folklore is a Campaign that haven't really been introduced in Nigeria and this is its first local campaign in a Fan club, this is an opportunity for our participants to be a beneficiary to all that comes with the campaign in other to shape more visibility of female information on the open database.

Mijesty (talk) 06:46, 22 May 2024 (UTC)  Strong support this is a new campaign and it further closes the gap on information about feminism on Wikipedia and its sister projects. it gives the participants the opportunity to contribute and learn at the same time about folklore