Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Historical and cultural structures: WikiLovesMonument

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal. The campaign on #Wikilovesmonument is a testament that the culture and history are valued and acknowledged for human existence. Such buildings that depict structures tell stories of great events, people and beliefs. Thus, it becomes important that culture and histories are relieved for sustainable progressive society. This is also emphasized as part of education in SDG 4 and building strong cities and communities (SDG 11) with histories for indigenous knowledge.

There are great numbers of monuments in and around Anambra state that need to be captured and given visibilities in Wikimedia. The essence is to show the pride and values attached to our structures as well as promote our own. It also has the potentials of driving tourism which builds our communities. When such stories are not told, our part of history seems to be forgotten and hidden.

It will be a pleasure to collate the histories and cultures structured into Monuments for display in wikicommons. Thus, it will be a learning and celebration spaces. The language will be English and will be translated in Igbo. However, there will first be a meeting online to explain the modalities of the activity with the campaign guidelines and expectations. The members of the Network will be grouped into two groups to cover Awka axis and Onitsha for photo shoot of Monuments. These two locations are the big cities that have several monuments to collate. The photos will be uploaded to commons on the day mapped out for the Anambra Network Anniversary.

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.

This is a Wikicommons Project that will also be translated into Igbo language

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:Ngozi Perpetua Osuchukwu
Email address:ngostary2k@yahoo.com
Address:Awka, Anambra State
Location of Project:Awka, Anambra State

Project class

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

This is a Network activity by Anambra Network

Timeline of activities

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

The Program is meant to start from 9 September to 30th September, 2024

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

recruit new editors
Upload photos
Build the capacities of the old 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?

There will be an online meeting to explain the modalities of the campaign, guidelines and expected outcomes, one photowalk that will be done simultaneously in Awka and Onitsha. Then the upload will be an in-person activity in Awka.

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

The members of the Network are aware of the upcoming event. It has been discussed in our past various activities and our monthly training sessions. They know about the activity and are looking forward to it.

Again, we have our social media platform where our activities and announcements are shared. Once this is approved, we will go online again and give it more visibility

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.

The photowalk will be announced on the on-wiki spaces, social media platforms. We will print fliers and share online as well as send messages and through our monthly online meetings. There will be dashboard to track the activities of the participants. It will also be captured in our metapage.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead/assist the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse and sign your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

User:Ngostary2k

User:Akwugo

User:Obuezie

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 have smartphones and other devices that enable digital photoswalk and shooting, uploading and other activities

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

There will be continuous follow-up on WhatsApp and over-the-phone apps. Besides, new editors will be added to the larger group of Anambra Network

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

This grant is a good mapping for historical and indigenous knowledge. It is also a new activity since the inception of the Network. It is a good way of telling our story with monument. It is very important for us

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets (only those applicable to your project):

Number of events - One online meeting for the campaign modalities. Two photowalk that will happen simultaneously. One in-person for training and upload of photos to commons
Number of participants - 30
Number of new editors - 10
Number of of images uploaded - 100
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? (do not create a metrics dashboard until your project has been approved for funding)

The dashboard will be created to track participants contribution. There will also be follow up on our WhatsApp platform where all the participants will be added

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).

We have skilled human resources and digital tools for the project.

User:Ngostary2k is experienced and will lead the project as well as facilitate on the upload.

User:Obuezie is an experienced Wikimedia and will lead the photowalk in Onitsha.

User:Akwugo is experienced and will lead the photowalk in Awka.

They will also support the facilitation of the uploads to commons.

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

Hall N50,000
Car Hire for the two photowalks N60,000 (2 groups in Awka and Onitsha)
Food and drinks for the in-person during upload and anniversary 30 x 3000 (each) = N90,000
Projector rental N10,000
Data for the participants for the online campaign modalities @ N1000 each N30,000
Data for the participants for the in-person upload of photos @ N1000 each N30,000
Data for the facilitators for research and compilation (3) N18,000
Communication, fliers and flex N30,000
Childcare for mothers with children (5) N15,000
Logistics N30,000

Total = #303,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

Strong support I believe this project will help in keeping the historical and cultural structures in Nigeria. Sayvhior (talk) 18:57, 17 August 2024 (UTC)
Strong support Dera xoxo (talk) 18:58, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Strong support what a great initiative and idea that will have a great impact in our community. Documentation of the historical artifacts in our community and the anniversary of our network is a nice project that serves as a great opportunity to preserve our cultural heritage and also will be remembered in our community... Senator Choko (talk) 19:03, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Strong support this project is a great tool that will create an awesome impact in the community and help in preserving our cultural heritage by giving out different knowledge to our community members.

Adimora chidinma (talk) 19:03, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Strong support Through initiatives like Wiki Loves Monuments, the global community works together to ensure that cultural heritage is preserved and shared for generations to come.

Ennydavids (talk) 8:27 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Strong support It is a good idea celebrating and telling our success stories throughout the past 2 years this Network was established. This will also be a great opportunity to capture and document our cultural heritages. Akwugo (talk) 19:33, 17 August 2024 (UTC) {{Ss}

Strong support No one can tell our story better than us. Capturing our historical and cultural structures will help us to not just gain knowledge on things we might not have known about our culture, but also tell our cultural story to the world in a more beautiful way. I strongly support this project #Goodymeraj (talk) 19:51, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Support The relevance of being able to showcase the tangible as well as the intangible heritage and assets from the past generations, embedded in our society as a network is the beauty of this project. I submit my maximum support and look forward to the achievement of this aim. Obuezie (talk) 20:05, 17 August 2024 (UTC)

Strong support This project will help to capture and document our cultural heritage and also gain knowledge on things we might not have known about our culture. Chidex02 (talk) 08:29, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

Strong support Adakaibe (talk) 05:17,

19 August 2024 (UTC)

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