Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Gwanki/Empowering People to Contribute and Grow the Wikimedia Community

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Hadejia is the second largest and most populous city in Jigawa State. It is also one of the seven true Hausa states, known as Hausa Bakwai. Last year, my friend and I organized a Photo Walk in Jigawa State. During the project, we conducted Wikimedia Commons training in Hadejia town. Many people showed their passion for Wikipedia and consistently asked us for Wikipedia training. Several months ago, we visited the town and had discussions with them. During that time, we created new accounts for some of them. This time, we will teach them how to contribute to Wikipedia step by step. We will assist them in creating a Wikimedia community in Jigawa State

Wikimedia Project

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.

• Wikipedia

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: Abubakar Ali
• Email address: gwankia6@yahoo.com
• Location: Hadejia, Jigawa State

Project class

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

• Individual

Timeline of activities

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

• 1st to 15th August, 2023

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. Engage existing editors

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?

Our one-day project aims to help people contribute effectively to Wikipedia. We will provide training, practical exercises, and support to empower participants. We will gather a group of enthusiastic individuals, teach them about editing and creating articles, encourage collaboration, and offer ongoing assistance for their growth within the Wikimedia community.

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 will let them know via Related 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.

During our previous project, we have added the target participants in our Kano Wikimedians WhatsApp Group, so we will let know through this. And one of our volunteer who is a radio presenter he will help us for engaging participants.

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 have Yusuf Sa'adu

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

The participants has smartphones

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

I will create a WhatsApp group for their community where we will continue engaging the participants

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 - 1
2. Number of participants - 20
3. Number of new editors - 15
4. Number of of articles created or improved - 50
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

• Wikimedia Foundation Dashboard tool

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 Gwanki, i will lead the project with the help of Yusuf Sa'adu

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

1. Venue - 30,000
2. Refreshments - 1500×20 - 30,000
3. Data - 20,000
4. Transportation for Organisers - 1000×2 - 20,000
5. Accommodations for Organisers - 10,000×2 + 20,000 - we will arrive one day before the event and departure one day after the event.
6. Banner and online promotional materials - 15,000
7. Contingency, for phone calls and bank charge - 5,000

TOTAL - 140,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• I  Strong support this project, because this is the good idea I suppose this project and I will attend this event Yusuf Sa'adu (talk) 21:41, 29 July 2023 (UTC)