Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Fulfulde Wikidata Awareness and Edith-a-thon
Project summary[edit]
Briefly summarize your project proposal.
- The aim of this project is to empower the Fulfulde editors with knowledge and skills by raising awareness about Wikidata and organizing an Edith-a-thon to encourage contributions in the Fulfulde language.
The Fulfulde language, spoken by millions of people across West and Central Africa, is currently underrepresented in the digital sphere. This project seeks to address this gap by engagingueditors ng community in contributing to Wikidata, a free and open knowledge graph that can be edited by anyone. Wikidata serves as a central repository for structured data used by Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, and other platforms.
- The project will consist of two main components:
- Fulfulde Wikidata Awareness: We will conduct workshop to raise awareness about Wikidata among the Fulfulde editors. This session will introduce participants to the concept of structured data and how it can be used to enrich knowledge resources in the Fulfulde language.
- Fulfulde Edith-a-thon: Following the awareness session, we will organize an Edith-a-thon, a community event focused on creating and improving Wikidata entries in Fulfulde. Participants will receive hands-on training on how to edit and contribute to Wikidata, with an emphasis on topics relevant to the Fulfulde language. We will provide mentorship and guidance throughout the event to ensure participants feel supported and encouraged in their contributions.
Wikimedia Project[edit]
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[edit]
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: Mamman Ahmadu Ali
- Email address: alimamman194@gmail.com
- Location: Yobe State
Project class[edit]
Please state if this grant is for individual project or network/club project
- Individual
Timeline of activities[edit]
Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project
- August 5th to August 20th 2023.
Project Goal[edit]
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
- Awareness and training on how to contribute to the wikidata
Project Plan[edit]
Activities[edit]
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?
- We are doing 1 Training
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 will let our participants know about this project on our discussion Page and social media platforms.
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 communicate with them through user:talk and social media channels.
4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify
5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
- Yes
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
- We have our social media platforms where we will follow community members up.
7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- This project will help increase the contributions to the Wikidata.
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- Number of events 1
- Number of participants 20
- Number of new editors 10
- Number of of articles created or improved 100
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)
Metrics tracking[edit]
How do you plan to track your project metrics?
We will use outreach dashboard in tracking our Edits.
Resources[edit]
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). User:Mamman AA is the one organizing this project and will be assisted by: User: Ibrahim442 and User: zainerb
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
- Food and Drinks: 1,500 x 23 (participants and facilitators) = N34,500 for 1 day
- Hall: N30,000 × for 1 day
- Data support for participants and facilitators - 23 people = N23,000
- Transportation for 3 facilitators: N3,000
- Projector - N10,000 x 1 training
- Gift for Top 3 editors - N30,000
- Event Banner: N10,000
- Contingency - N10,000
- TOTAL : N150,500
Endorsements[edit]
Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!
- I fully supported this project because we will help our editors to learn how to create new article in Fulfulde wikidata and invited new editors to come and contribute. User: Zainerb
Muhammad Idriss Criteria (talk) 15:46, 30 July 2023 (UTC) This project will help new editors and old fullfulde Wikipedian editors to learn how to create articles and wikidata.