Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Hauwau sulaiman/Bridging the Gender Gap through Wikimedia Contribution"

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

As a woman actively contributing to Wikipedia in Giwa, my passion lies in fostering gender equality within our community through a Wikimedia initiative. Our key objective is to encourage and empower women to contribute their knowledge and life stories to Wikipedia. By organizing and leading this effort, our aim is to reduce the gender gap in online knowledge representation and motivate women in Giwa to actively engage as contributors to the global encyclopedia. Together, we strive to amplify women's voices and perspectives, cultivating a more inclusive and diverse presence on 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.

• 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:Hauwa'u Sulaiman
• Email address:hauwausulaiman8244@gmail.com
• Address:Shika Zaria, Kaduna state
• Location of Project:Giwa, Zaria

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

• 15-12-2023 to 31-12-2023

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?

Our project in Giwa Zaria is all about making things fair for everyone, especially women. We want to get women involved in adding information to Wikipedia. This project will take two days and will have both online and in-person activities. We'll start with online training, so even busy housewives can join from home. After that, we'll have activities in person for more people, mostly women. During these sessions, we'll teach everyone how to put things on Wikipedia and why it's important. We want women to have the skills and knowledge to add their ideas to Wikipedia, so it's not just about one group of people. It's about making sure there's all kinds of information online.

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 via Zaria community WhatsApp group and other related WhatsApp groups

3. 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.

All participants will be informed via community WhatsApp group and I will inform my classmates in school and some will know via Phone call.

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

I have User:Sadammuhammad11234 and User:Naja'atu Bintoo Usman

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

There are active Wikimedians, they will use there smartphones

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

I will engage them via Zaria community 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 2
2. Number of participants 20
3. Number of new editors 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved 80
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 track via 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:Hauwau sulaiman, I'm the project lead, User:Sadammuhammad11234 and User:Naja'atu Bintoo Usman they will be the project's facilitators.

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

1. Hall - 30,000
2. Refreshments - 1,500×23 = 34,500

3 Data support during the physical training, 1000×23= 23,000

1. Data reimbursement of online training - 1,000 for each participant = 23,000
2. Banner = 10,000
3. Transport for facilitators 5000×2=10,000
4. Branded T-shirts for organisers - 500×3=15,000
5. Projector and sounds material = 20,000
6. Contingency 10,000
7. Total - 175,500

Endorsements

I Sadammuhammad11234 (talk) 07:52, 17 December 2023 (UTC) I fully support this project because the impact with it, still @Hauwa`u Suleiman she is active editor ~~~ Naja'atu Bintoo Usman I strongly support this project, This is a good idea and I was so encourage about the proget. ~~~

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