Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Nigerian Institute of Journalism WikiFan Club/2024Meetup and Wikidata Training

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This is a training and meetup to begin a new year and for new students who resumed in November 2023. It is a training to introduce the Wikimedia projects,training on how to contribute to Wikidata and use Wikidata query tool to get data. We have a meetup introducing our community to new students.

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:Kemi Makinde
• Email address:semilo99@gmail.com
• Address: New dairy farm estate, Agege, Lagos
• Location of Project:Lagos State

Project class

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

• Fan Club

Timeline of activities

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

• 17th of January to 9th of February

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. Add or improve content on Wikidata
3. Create awareness of Wikimedia projects
4. meetup

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?

We are having a one day physical training and one day meetup

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 announced on Wikimedia Nigeria User Group talk page

Talk:Wikimedia User Group Nigeria#Nigerian Institute of Journalism WikiFan Club/2024Meetup and Wikidata Training

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 announce on our school Whatsapp platform and the community Whatsapp

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

semmy1960

User:Kaizenify

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

Yes the have their equipment to use for the training

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

Add the new participants to our community WhatsApp group

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

This project will help to start a new year and encourage news students to join our community.

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 2
2. Number of participants 25
3. Number of new editors 15
4. Number of of articles created or improved 50
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 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).

None

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

• Venue rental=40,000
• Food for refreshments - 2,000(30) = 60,000
• Projector/Screen Rentals= 15,000
• Refreshment for meetup - 700X30 =21,000
• Photography = 15,000
• T-fare, data support and mentoring support for Facilitators 30,000(2)= N60,000
• Data for participants 20,000
• Communication and Graphics - N15,000
• Logistics =10,000
• Contingency =N10,000
• Gift for participants
• First editor- 15,000
• Second editor- 10,000
• Third editor =5,000
• Total= 296,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• This training is needed to keep the fire burning amongst editors in NIJ Wiki Fan Club. It is timely and needed.

• User: obawinner I will be endorsing this project as it contributes in improving the knowledge of Wikipedia amongst budding journalist at the campus.