Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/OUR COMMUNITY LENS: RAIN AND ENVIRONMENT IN SOUTH-EAST ZONE

Ngostary2k

• Grantee

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

There are lots of scenes and natural settings that have not been captured to contribute to Commons. These are imageries that give insights to the natural heritage and the dynamics of weather in South-East Zone. Observations on the Wikimedia articles show that some articles need climate and weather media, especially on rain and environment to tell good stories surrounding them. As the 2023 theme of WLA is “Climate and Weather” it becomes necessary that a photo walk and upload of the photos are embarked on to get authentic contents of rain fall and the environmental stimuli to weather conditions in South-East Zone.

The community has experienced Wikimedians that have participated in phot walk before and delivered good contents. They will form part of this project to produce good photos that can tell thousand stories. New community members will be drawn to this project. The participants have smart devices with quality capturing modes that can get good photos. They also have good skills in photography and upload in Wikicommons. The project will take 3 weeks to complete. The first two weeks will be phot walk while the upload will take place at the last week. This project will offer training on how to upload pictures to Commons and the use of creative commons license. It will add to media contents, knowledge and enlightenment on the climate and weather in South-East Zone.

Contact person and Location

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

Ngozi Perpetua Osuchukwu – Ngostary2k

• Anambra
• Ngostary2k@yahoo.com; wikianambranetwork@gmail.com

Timeline of activities

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8th April, 2023 – 29th April, 2023

Project Goal

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

1. Number of Editors 25
2. Recruit new editors 7
3. Number of Uploads to commons 70
4. Training of upload to Commons
5. Knowledge of creative commons

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?

There will be photo walk to community sites where pictures of “rain, environment and climate” will be captured. This will take two weeks to cover wide areas with good photos There will be training on how to upload to commons and the knowledge of creative commons license

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.

The Network has an active WhatsApp platform for regular messages We also have our twitter page for dissemination It will be in the meta It will also be posted in sister community platforms for wider sharing and notification

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 our WhatsApp platforms. We also use our mails, messages and twitter

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify

1. User:Ngostary2k She is an experienced Wikimedian and a certified Wikipedian Trainer - Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom. She has also facilitated many Wikipedian trainings and have contributed in WikiCommons. She also has experience in creative commons
2. User:Akwugo She is skilled in photo walk and uploading in Commons. She is a Wikimedia facilitator and has contributed to several Wikimedia projects
3. User:AfricanLibrarian She has skills in Wikimedia activities and have contributed to great number of edits. She has skills in facilitation and creative commons
4. User:Sayvhior He has participated in photo walks and contributed in upload of photos to Commons. He has facilitation skills

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

The participants have knowledge of photography. They have smart electronic devices. They also have skills in uploading to Commons

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

Our WhatsApp platform is “Live.” There is also addition of new editors after every event with follow ups of continuous editing and upcoming contributions

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

This is the first photo walk and upload of photos to Commons since the establishment of the Network in September, 2023. It offers the good opportunity of training members on WikiCommons and uploads. This project is very critical to our learning needs.

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 events of photo walk
2. Number of participants 25
3. Number of new editors 7
4. Number of picture upload to Commons 70

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? We will create a dashboard where all the participants will register for their uploads to be tracked

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). N/A

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

1. Car hire & refreshment for Photo walk for 2 events @ N20,00 each = N40,000
2. Hall hire for training on Commons and upload N35,000
3. Flier, flex and communication = N12,000
4. Data for participants @ N1,000 each = N25,000
5. Lunch for 25 participants at N2,200 = N55,000
6. Projector hire = N10,000
7. Logistics = N10,000

Total = N187,000

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