Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Fulfulde Wikipedia Articles needed Expanding

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• I write to seek support on improving the fulfulde Wikimedia articles through expanding, dedicated to promote fulfulde language across the Globe. While there are numerous varieties of Fula, it is typically regarded as a single language. Many articles of Fulfulde Wikipedia have needs to expand.

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.

• Fulfulde Wikipedia and 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: Mamman Ahmadu Ali
• Email address alimamman194@gmail.com:
• Address: Gombi
• Location of Project: Adamawa state

Project class

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

• Individual

Timeline of activities

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

• 5th January,2024 to 25th January,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

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 and one online 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 informed people by creating a WhatsApp group

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 used our social media platforms

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

• Mamman AA: is the Project Lead, an experienced Wikimedian and contributor on Fulfulde language Wikimedia.

• Muhammed Idriss criteria:is an experienced Fulfulde language Wikimedian and facilitator. He will be available to facilitate a session on contributing to Fulfulde language Wikipedia
• Atibrarian: is an experienced Wikimedian, trainer and pioneer of Wikimedia Gombe Network. He will be serving as project coordinator and online support session facilitator.

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

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

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

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
2. Number of participants 20
3. Number of new editors 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved 200+
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?

• We will use metric Dashboard to track our Edits

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).

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

User:Mamman AA Is one who leads this project and assisted by user: Muhammed Idriss criteria

1. Event Banner 10000
2. projector rental 2000
3. Food and Drinks 30000
4. Data Support 1500×20 = 30000
5. Gifts for Top 3 contributor 30000
6. Hall 30000

Total 150000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• I  Strong support this project

Muhammad Idriss Criteria (talk)

• Abike25 (talk) I strongly support this project

• I  Strong support this project looking at the vast experience of the project leader. Mamman AA

•  Strong support This initiative aimed at promoting the Fulfulde language Wikipedia to the core community of Fula concentrated in Gombi, Adamawa State. Atibrarian (talk)

•  Strong support This is very important project because it will help in expanding Fulfulde article around the globe.

Fulani215 Fulani215 (talk) 18:23, 21 December 2023 (UTC) I'm strongly support the project because it helps to improve articles on fula language Adamu ab (talk) 10:42, 26 December 2023 (UTC)