Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/MediaMOF South East Wiki Loves Africa Photo Tour

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This project is designed to make a meaningful contribution to "Wiki Loves Africa 2024" within the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. My objective is to visit various creative sites and villages within the southeastern states and its surrounding states, capturing photographs that showcase their creativity in what they can create. These images will be subsequently uploaded to Wikimedia Commons.

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.

• Wikimedia Commons

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: Matthew Obinna Friday
• Email address: matthewobinna67@gmail.com
• Address: Ebonyi state
• Location of Project: Southeastern States

Project class

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

• Its an Individual project

Timeline of activities

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

• The start time of the project will be 1st April to 28th April 2024.

Project Goal

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

1. Add a minimum of 1500 quality photos
2. Contribute to wiki commons.

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?

4 photo tour and uploads

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 engaged in communication with the Wikimedia Nigeria Community talk group regarding the project.

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.

Its a solo photo tour.

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

MediaMOF - As an experienced documentary photographer, I have proudly contributed thousands of high-quality images to Wikimedia Commons. I am solely embarking on this tour.

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

yes, I have all the needed equipment and skills needed for the tour.

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

it's a solo project.

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

The primary objective of this project is to promote the expansion of free knowledge by contributing high quality images to Wikimedia Commons.

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 -4 state tours
2. Number of participants -1
3. Number of new editors -0
4. Number of articles created -0
5. Number of articles improved -0
6. Number of images uploaded -minimum 1500
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -0

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

I will upload all pictures in the special group called "Wiki Loves Africa 2024 Nigeria." This helps wiki commons keep track of how many pictures are uploaded. I will use a tool called the outreach dashboard to see how many people are involved and how much they're participating. This helps me know if my project is going well, and i can use the information to make my outreach better.

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 professional Photographer, I have all the needed experiences and equipment needed for the success of the project.

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

Hotel (to sleep and for uploading. 10,000 per night) :-80,000

I will be spending two nights in each states and will be visiting 4 Eastern States.

Transportation: 150,000

Data Subscription: 30,500

Nourishments ( all through the journey ): 50,000

Refreshment (During photo tour);- 20,000

Branded Shirt (Enhancing security and identification): 5000

ID cards and Security measures): 20,000

Miscellaneous: 15,000

TOTAL: 350,500

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

I @favouridowu, endorse this project.