Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Homograph Harmony in Hausa Wiktionary

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This project aims to enhance the Hausa Wiktionary by addressing the unique challenges posed by homographs—words that are spelled the same but have different meanings. Given the rich linguistic diversity of the Hausa language, this project seeks to create a structured approach for documenting and distinguishing homographs within the Wiktionary project.

Wikimedia Project

Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. Tyap Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.

• Hausa Wiktionary

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: Yusuf Sa'adu
• Email address: abbasaadumahuta@gmail.com
• Address: Funtua
• Location of Project: Katsina 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

• Start 01/12/2024

End 30/12/2024

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?

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.

I will continue let my community knows about the proposal via our social media handles and Hausa Wikipedia and Hausa Wikimedians User Group Discussion pages.

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 the target participants and communicate with them via our previous event WhatsApp group and phone calls.

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: A Sulaiman Z

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

Yes they have smartphones some also have Laptop

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

We already have a WhatsApp group of my previous project, I will continue engaging them there.

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 (only those applicable to your project):

1. Number of events -2
2. Number of participants -20
3. Number of new editors -5
4. Number of of articles created -30
5. Number of of articles improved -200
6. Number of of images uploaded -
7. 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)

Wikimedia Dashboard

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:Mahuta will lead the event, and User: Hamza DK, User: A Sulaiman Z will be invited to help me with the training.

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

1. Venue 40,000×2= 80,000

2. Refreshments 2,500×20=50,000 ×2= 100,000

3. Banner 10,000

4. Flyers and tag 20,000

5. T Shirts for Facilitators 7,000× 3= 21,000

6. Contingency 20,000

Total = 251,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• I  Strong support A Sulaiman Z (talk) 19:54, 12 November 2024 (UTC)

They will be a great achievement in adding new word cos Hausa word has many origin , with this we will have many contributions from new users. Strong support Hamza DK (talk)