Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/OAU Wikipedia meet up and edit-a-thon

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

OAU wikimedia community aim to host a physical meet up and edit-a-thon for its members, to further sustain the community, Train new editors and motivate old editors to more engage in wiki related projects and also increase awareness on campus.

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.

• Wikipedia

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: Adetoro Praise
• Email address: adetoropraise2019@gmail.com
• Address: Ile-Ife, osun state
• Location of Project:Ie-ife, osun state

Project class

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

• Applying as a network/community

Timeline of activities

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

• 3rd of March 2023

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
3. Increase awareness on campus
4. motivate old editors to engage more on wiki related activities

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?

One edit-a-thon and training

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.

Whatsap 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.

Whatsap group, text message, zoom and physical meeting,

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

user: Praise03

RukayatAjeigbe

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

Yes participants have the equipments to participate ranging from mobile phones to systems. Some of the participants have the skills to participate, it’s our duty to train the new ones and help them with the essential skills to participate

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

Community WhatsApp group, and zoom meetings

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

The OAU wikimedia community is a growing community that is yet to be recognized. We consiste of passionate editors and experienced volunteers. This project will help sustain our community and provide us with the necessary resources to edit more and also increase our visibility and help raise passionate editors in the Obafemi Awolowo university

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 - 1
2. Number of participants - 30
3. Number of new editors -15
4. Number of of articles created -
5. Number of of articles improved -
6. Number of of images uploaded -
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -15

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).

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

Venue rental= 60,000 Branded T-shirt and transportation for facilitators= 10,000 Gift award amongst top editors = 30,000 Food and refreshments = 160,000 Projector/screen rentals = 20,000 Sound system = 10,000 Data support for facilitators = 10,000 souvenirs and merchandise = 25,000 Miscellaneous and contingencies = 30,000 Total = 355,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!