Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Nigerian Institute of Journalism WikiFan Club Wikipedia, Wikicommons and Wikidata online training
Project summary[edit]
Briefly summarize your project proposal.
This is a folow-up of the last training in Nigerian Institute of Journalism. We want to continue on Wikipedia training, showing the students how to add infoboxes and adding pictures to Wikipedia articles, creating Wikidata items and adding pictures to Wikidata items and uploading to Wikicommons. We want to use the training to continue to strengthen the participant base of the NijWiki Fan Club.
Wikimedia Project[edit]
Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.
Wikipedia and Wikidata
Contact person and Location[edit]
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
- Location: Lagos
Project class[edit]
Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club
Applying for a Fan club
Timeline of activities[edit]
Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project
It is four weeks training Start September 2nd of September- 30th of September
Project Goal[edit]
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
- Building and sustaining the community with continuous training and contributions to Wikimedia projects
Project Plan[edit]
Activities[edit]
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 five online trainings and 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 the Wikimedia Nigeria Discussion page: Talk:Wikimedia User Group Nigeria#Nigerian Institute of Journalism WikiFan Club Wikipedia, Wikicommons and Wikidata online 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 have a Whats-app group where we contact the club members
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
5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
- Yes
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
- We have a community Whatapp group
7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
A continuous project will help build the community
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- Number of events 5 online trainings
- Number of participants 20
- Number of new editors 10
- Number of of articles created or improved 50
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)
Metrics tracking[edit]
How do you plan to track your project metrics?
Use the outreach dashboard
Resources[edit]
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 have a balance of 2,000 from the last grant
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
- Data for participants for training 50,000
- Data for trainers and mentoring support 45,000
- Gift voucher First editor 20,000
- second editor 15,000
- Third editor 10,000
- Graphics and social media 15,000
- Contigency 5000
- total 150,000
Endorsements[edit]
Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!