Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Imo State Network Wiki Loves Africa 2024

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• The annual Wiki Loves Africa campaign seeks to boost the volume and quality of African content on Wikipedia. By urging contributions such as photos, videos, and audio recordings around the theme "Africa creates," the campaign inspires people across the continent to capture creative works of Africans. This proposal aims to furnish resources facilitating the involvement of Imo State Network in this initiative.

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.

• Wikicommons

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: Emmanuel Obiajulu
• Email address: emmanuelobiajulu0@gmail.com
• Address: Owerri,Imo State
• Location of Project:Imo State

Project class

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

• Imo State Network

Timeline of activities

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

• Start Date: 1st March, 2024
• End Date: 31st March, 2024

Project Goal

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

1. Raise awareness about Wiki Loves Africa and its initiatives.

1. Attract and educate new editors through photo expeditions, upload sessions, and edit-a-thons.

1. Encourage current editors to actively contribute to Commons and other affiliated projects.

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?

We plan to organise a photowalk to a vocational center in Imo State, an edit-a-thon, and an online training session.

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 have informed the WNUG Community.

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.

We'll promote the campaign through our social media channels, including WhatsApp groups and Instagram. Effective communication strategies will be employed to ensure widespread awareness and engagement with the campaign.

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

Dolphyb

Emmanuel_Obiajulu

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

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

Yes, participants are equipped with smartphones and laptops, ensuring their full participation in the campaign.

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

N/A

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 selected sites for photo walk - 1
3. Number of participants - 18
4. Number of new editors - 5
5. Number of of images uploaded -70
6. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 13

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

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).

Mobile phones, Laptops and resource guides for the trainings.

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

DAY 1 (Photowalk)

• Transportation/Hiring of Bus (to and fro) to convey 18 persons to 1 location = ₦85,000
• Refreshments 18 plates of food @#2,500 per plate = ₦45,000
• Drinks (2 packs) = ₦6000
• Table Water (2 packs) = ₦2000
• Customized T-shirt for the 3 Facilitators 4,000x3 = ₦12,000

DAY 2 (Photo Upload Session)

• Airtime and data subscription for 18 participants for online training and photo upload (To be provided by the WUGN)
• Airtime and data for the organizing of the event and reaching out to some of the participants = ₦4500

PRIZES (For top contributors)

• 1st prize, 2nd prize, and 3rd prize = ₦45000
• Contingencies = ₦10,000

Total - ₦207,500

Endorsements

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