Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Media personalities around the world on Wikiquote

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• It is a project targeted at creating and translating English Wikiquote articles of Media Personalities to Wikiquote, training new editors on how to create pages and add translations on the Igbo Wikiquote while seeking to improve the skills of old editors. An Editathon will be organized after the training so that more quality pages with different personalities and their famous quotes could be created.

Contact person and Location

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

• Nwoyeka Charles Chiemerie
• Charleschiemerie44@gmail.com
• Anambra State

Timeline of activities

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

• 24th September, 2022

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. Increase skills for existing editors
3. 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?

I am doing one training and 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.

I have informed the Igbo Wikimedian user m Group on the Talk page https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group# and also on the various WhatsApp groups.

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.

The participants will be contacted through the several various Student's group and other wiki Group and also receive updates from there

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: Lebron jay
• User: Kingsley Nkem
• User: Viva33

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

Yes, they have the equipment and skills. For the new editors, they will be taught and followed up

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

During the event, participants will be asked to provide their phone numbers and emails. After the event, they will be provided with updates and will join several groups to participate in activities.

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

The project is essential so as to create and improve articles on Wikiquote

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: 15
3. Number of new editors: 5
4. Number of of articles created or improved: 60
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events): 10

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

• Through the WMF Dashboard which will be created to track the contribution of each participants.

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 Organizer and facilitator while Chisom Vivian with username Viva33 will be the co-facilitator User: Kingsley Nkem will be invited as an experienced editor. No support from elsewhere.

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

• Training Venue #30,000
• Food (+facilitators): #35,000
• Drinks #1 Carton of malt: #4,500
• Water: 2 parks: #2500
• Data reimbursement #30,000
• Facilitator's Data #10,000
• Projector #12,000
• Contingency #10,000
• Souvenirs #11,900
• Hardware/tools:#10,000
• Fuel: #5000

• 160,900

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