Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Improving accessibility on Commons through structured data

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

This is a project that will involve the ISA tool to add multilingual description to images on wikimediacommons. This will help improve accessibility and provide multilingual labels and description. Contributing to this project will help provide information that makes content more accessible. Giving better description to images will allow people to easily find content. Participants will learn how to use the ISA tool,depictor to improve accessibility. This project is to support the diverse nature of wikimedia projects priotizing image description as a means of involving our local languages.

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.

Wikidata

Wikimediacommons

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: Precious Nnanna
• Email address: chukwujinduprecious313@gmail.com
• Address: Anambra State
• Location of Project

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

10 October- 17th October

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?

One edit-thon and training

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 have told community members about the training.

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 continue follow up after the training.

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 and User:Emilliana will carry out this project and will involve other experience editors during the project.

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

Participants have their gadgets and we will teach them how to add structured data.

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

WE will engage them through the WhatsApp group.

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

I joined a training on how to use these tools and I want to share the knowledge in my community.

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 1
2. Number of participants 25
3. Number of new editors 23
4. Number of of articles created or improved 70
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

Xtool and 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).

We have only our experience that we would like to share in the community ,I am the one organizing this project and will be assisted by Emilliana.

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

Venue renting and fuel - 48,000

Food and drinks for 25 - 60000

Projector for teaching - 13000

Data support - 35000

Transport support- 25000

Banner/ flyer - 15000

Prizes for top editors 25000

Miscellaneous - 15000

Total 238,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

 Strong support this project will help to improve accessibility on commons using the ISA tools for structured data. it will also to improve newbies skills to navigate Commons.Ennydavids (talk) 10:38, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

 Strong support Mercyjamb123 (talk) 18:18, 20 September 2023 (UTC) really glad that someone among us came up with such sense of project because it has really been an hindrance to some contributors and with this project,those contributor and even new editors will learn and keep on improving wikimedia

 Strong support.Dera xoxo (talk) 17:45, 20 September 2023

 Strong support

This is a nice project that will help increase accessibility on wikicommons. I will assist in making the project a success. Emilliana (talk) 12:22, 24 September 2023 (UTC)