Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Mapping/Improving the Landscape of Nigerian Media Houses on Wikidata

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

Media houses are central to Nigeria’s communication ecosystem, shaping public opinion, promoting cultural identity, and supporting democracy. Documenting them on Wikidata ensures global visibility, enriches open data resources, and aids researchers, journalists, developers, and policy analysts in accessing verified information. This effort not only promotes open knowledge but also contributes to digital inclusion by representing Nigerian media infrastructure in a widely used global knowledge base. This project aims to create and improve structured, accessible data about Nigerian media houses on Wikidata. It focuses on television stations, radio stations, newspapers, and cinema houses across Nigeria. The initiative involves an edit-a-thon where participants will create and enhance Wikidata items for these institutions, ensuring that they are accurately represented and interlinked with relevant information.

Wikimedia Project

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

Wikidata

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: Okoloneli Chekwube Anselm
Email address: okolonelianselm@gmail.com
Address: Awka
Location of Project: Awka, Anambra state

Project class

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

I'm applying as a network (Wikimedia Anambra Network)

Timeline of activities

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

15th - 22nd August 2025

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
Add or improve content
bridge the knowledge gap

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 a thon and training

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 have informed the community about the project on WhatsApp and on the community discussion page Here

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 will let the participants know through our community social media handles Wikimedia Anambra Network. eg WhatsApp etc.

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:Lebron jay

User:10kdollz

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

yes, participants have their laptops and phones.we will organize training sections to engage participants in teamwork and collaboration.

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

We will collate the details of the participants and add them to our various social media groups and keep them updated on our community activities.

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

This project involves a structured edit-a-thon where contributors will create and enhance Wikidata items related to key Nigerian media houses, including television stations, radio stations, newspapers, and cinema houses.

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 -1
Number of participants -30
Number of new editors - 5
Number of of articles created - 100
Number of of articles improved - 200
Number of of images uploaded -
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)

We will track with the outreach dashboard and Xtool.

Contest & prize-giving events

How would decide the winners of your contest (If you are going to have a contest, what is your scoring criteria)

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 am the facilitator User:Senator Choko while User:Lebron jay , and User:10kdollz are co-facilitators no support elsewhere

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 hire: N60,000

Projector: N20,000

Food and drink: N120,000

Communication/Flier: N20,000

Child-care support :25,000

Logistics: 30,000

Data support for the participants at N1,500: N45,000

Transport support for the participants at N1,000: 30,000

Total: N350,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

Documenting our media landscape is documenting our history. I fully support this vital step to make Nigerian media houses visible on Wikidata.” – 10kdollz

Strong support Goodymeraj (talk) 22:07, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

As an early career journalist from an underreported part of Nigeria, I fully support the documentation of the media landscape, asit is not only about documenting history but also about empowering posterity. I fully support having and making media houses and their data available on wikidata." - Epiphanus Jide
Strong support

I support the visibility of Media organizations as it is a great effort in promoting open knowledge and contributing to digital inclusion. Akwugo (talk) 22:41, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

An interesting project I must say. I look forward to its implementation. Strong support Sayvhior (talk) 22:38, 14 July 2025 (UTC)

Strong support I must say that this project will go a long way and I fully support the media house, this is really nice. Bigcee007 (talk) 22:51, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
Strong support A truly valuable project I’m eager to see it come to life. Strong support Johnnybam (talk) 22:59, 14 July 2025 (UTC)
Strong supportThis project will go a long way to improve the visibility of our information and news sourcesLebron jay (talk) 05:24, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Strong support As an active member of this beautiful organization, I’m in full support of this Ogech02 (talk) 06:16, 15 July 2025 (UTC)

Strong support I strongly support this project ennydavids (talk) 5:45, 15 July 2025

Strong support Chidex02 (talk) 11:57, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

Strong support Adakaibe (talk) 16:41, 26 July 2025 (UTC)

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