Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Mercyjamb123/Improving and documenting notable women on Wikidata

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

This project aim to create awareness about Wikimedia within Yaba College of Technology.
And Improving and documenting notable women on Wikidata involves enhancing the database entries related to women who have made significant contributions in various fields, such as science, arts, politics, and social movements. This process includes

Adding missing information, such as biographical details, achievements, and references from reliable sources.
And creating new entries for women who are not yet documented, creating new Wikidata items to ensure their contributions are recognized.

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.

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:Ubah Chisom Mercy
Email address: mercyjamb123 @gmail.com
Address: Lagos State
Location of Project: Lagos states

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

7th October 2024 - 30th October 2024

Project Goal

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

Create awareness
recruit new editors
Add or improve items on Wikidata

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?

It's going to be a three (3) days training which is a day physical training and 2days online training after that a 2week Edit-a-thon will commence

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.

Through community meta talk page here [1]and community WhatsApp group

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 gathering at the higher institution(Yabatech) and also making sure the course representatives reminds them about the event steady. And also they will be reminded about the event through the WhatsApp group i will create that very day at the physical gathering and also through mailing list

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:Semmy1960

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

Phones/Gadgets, Laptops etc

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

The WhatsApp group created will be were i will keep on engaging them with subsequent trainings on wikidata and other sisters project

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

This project will focus on different occupation of women, creating and improving items about them on Wikidata and with this project the student will know they can contribute to Wikimedia

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)one physical and (2) two visual
Number of participants -20
Number of new editors -15
Number of of Items created -50
Number of of Items improved -100
Number of of images uploaded - Nil
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) WMF Outreach Dashboard and Xtool for accurate records

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).

User:Mercyjamb123 is an experience Wikimedian who will be facilitating the training along side with User:Semmy1960 who is also an experience Wikimedian who will assist in the process

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-₦50,000
Projector - #10,000
Generator renting and fueling cost:#20,000
Promotional Materials like Banner and e -flyers-#35,000
Refreshment #2,500 x 20= 50,000
Transport fare for participants 1,500×20=30,000
Transportation and data support for facilitators= 10,000
Data reimbursement for the 2days online trainings- 1000×20=#20,000
Logistics - #10,000
Miscellaneous: #10,000
Prizes for the first 5 highest contributors - #50,000
Customized shirt for facilitators - #15,000

Total budget=#310,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

Endorsed by Ọmọladéabídèmí99 (talk) 12:07, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
Strong support —Gwanki^📧 13:16, 13 September 2024 (UTC)
Strong support semmy1960 (talk)
Endorsed by Andikan Efiok Eduok (talk) 05:12, 15 September 2024 (UTC), This project introduces newcomers to Wikidata, where facilitators share knowledge and guide participants in understanding and contributing to the platform.
I strongly endorse and support this campaign because the project lead will shared her experience of wikimedia with participatants and be part of this conference, she will take note of identified issues raised. Inyor4mr (talk) 05:01, 15 September 2024 (UTC)

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