Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Hamza DK/Wikidata Insight: Empowering Participants through Training

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Due to the lack of editors from my community in Wikidata, I have decided to apply for a grant to plan a project aimed at teaching participants how to edit in Wikidata. This program will raise awareness among participants about Wikidata. Until now, there has been no Wikidata awareness initiative, and many editors have been asking me how they can contribute to Wikidata.

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.

• 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:Hamza Ado Saidu
• Email address:hamzadk212@gmail.com
• Location:Kafur, Katsina State

Project class

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

• This project is individual

Timeline of activities

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

• 1st August, 2023 to 20th 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

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 day of training and Edit a thon. We will start with training and then Edit a thon will follow up.

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 share the project with my community members via Hausa Community WhatsApp group and Karadua Community 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.

I will let them know through WhatsApp groupa and phone calls

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 User: Yusuf Sa'adu, he will be a project's facilitator and trainer

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

All the participants have smartphones

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

I will engage the participants via Communities WhatsApp group

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 - 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved - 100
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? I will use 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 User:Hamza DK I will lead the event with the help of User:Yusuf Sa'adu

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

• Banner/flier - N10,000
• Data subscription (1000×20) - N20,000
• Venue - N30,000
• Food/refreshments (1500×20) - N30,000
• Transportation for trainer - N10,000
• miscellaneous - N10,000

Total = N110,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• I  Strong support this project, and I will attend this event Yusuf Sa'adu (talk) 21:36, 29 July 2023 (UTC)