Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/HausaWiki Pan-African Leaders Writing Contest

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This project (HausaWiki Pan-African Leaders Writing Contest) aimed at creating articles about Pan-African Leaders and Revolutionaries, who do not currently have representation on Hausa Wikipedia. We believe that this project aligns with our shared commitment to knowledge dissemination, public engagement, and the promotion of notable figures from diverse backgrounds. However, we will engage editors from Hausa community to contribute their knowledge and expertise in creating or translate articles about Pan-African Leaders and Revolutionaries who are currently absent from Hausa Wikipedia.

This project will focus on identifying and documenting the accomplishments, contributions, and stories of Pan-African Leaders and Revolutionaries who have made significant impacts in various fields especially in Africa and the world at large but they have not been recognized on the Hausa Wikipedia.

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.

• Hausa 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: Muhammad Alhaji Idriss
• Email address: mahmoudcriteria@gmail.com
• Location: Potiskum Yobe 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

• November 5th to November 31st, 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: On the this project, we will source new members
2. Add or improve content: In this project, We will create new contents.
3. Follow up to inactive editors.
4. Translate or create articles about Pan-African Leaders from English Wikipedia into Hausa, good and quality ones that everyone can read and understand.
5. Enhance/arrange the use of Hausa Wikipedia as a reliable source of information related to Pan-African Leaders by creating articles about them

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?

Activities

We will conduct 3 online trainings and 3 weeks article writing contest.

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 create and 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. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

User:Muhammad Idriss Criteria

User:Mamman AA

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 follow community members up.

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

This project will help increase the contribution of Hausa community members. Then it will help Hausa Wikipedians editors to know who are the Pan-African Leaders and Revolutionaries and the role they played and it will help the Hausa Wikipedia Community by getting many articles about Pan-African Leaders.

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 3
2. Number of participants 30
3. Number of new editors 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved 900+
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

We will use outreach dashboard in tracking 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).

User:Muhammad Idriss Criteria is the one who organizing this project and will be assisted by :User:Mamman AA

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

Internet data support for the participants and facilitators N1500 per person for three online events = N60,000

Prizes for top 5 contributors N120,000

Total=180,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• Mamman AA (talk) I supported this contest because it fully help to groom's and promote the knowledge in HAUSA community and every language at large,i also improve my skills and experience during the contest
• i fully endorsed this projects sadammuhammad11234Sadammuhammad11234 (talk) 15:48, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

•  Support-- I am support this project and ensuring it will be useful since there is a need to focus on something that is not in Hausa Wikipedia, and this make the proposal looks good and have good strategies, which will contribute towards Wikimedia community development. Furthermore I'll be part of the contest.  —BnHamid ^✉️

• I  Strong support because it will helps individuals develop their knowledge, skills, and abilities in Wikipedia. And also it will provide them with the necessary tools to navigate through life, make informed decisions, and achieve their goals. A Sulaiman Z (talk) 21:15, 16 September 2023 (UTC)