Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Improving and updating data (orphanages) on wikidata

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This project is geared at improving and updating the number of Nigerian orphanages on wikidata. Orphanages play a great role in the society as they help to cater for the displaced children in the society and so they deserve to be documented. Also, proper documentation will help in further research as query searches can be done on wikidata.

Contact person and Location

Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location

• blessingnduonyi1999@gmail.com

07040150835

Timeline of activities

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

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 training/editathon

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.

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.

physical outreach and WhatsApp groups

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify

User: Blisssax

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

participants will engage with their smartphones,data subsidy will be provided

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

Hub meetings, WhatsApp platform

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

This project is dedicated to humanity. It is a small way of recognizing that these places matter and should be protected.

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: 20
3. Number of new editors: 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved: Over 200
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? Event tracking 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).

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

• Banner/flier.....................N10000
• Data subscription (1000×20)......N20000
• Venue............................N40000
• Projector........................N10000
• Customized T-shirts (2000×5).....N10000
• Food/refreshments (2500×20)......N50000
• miscellaneous....................N10000

Total = N150,000.

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