Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Obedmakolo - wiki love Africa awareness moddibo University Adamawa state

Project summary

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• Project topic - Introduction wiki commons /wiki love Africa Yola 2024.

Aim Of Project: introducing members to wiki commons and also introducing what wiki love Africa is all about through a physical meetup and a workshop.

Will love Africa and wikimedia user group Nigeria has raised many editors both in Nigeria and Africa at large, in pursuit of this goal we want to extend that to our environment here in adamawa state Yola, as integral part of this initiative, " wiki love Africa 2024" with topic: Africa Create will be introduced.

In our global world today, many citizen are not aware of world recent developments, this makes it very important to bring this project to this part of Africa, to make the project more convincing for us to achieve we have set up few experienced wikimedia from around the visinity to serve as facilitator for this event

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.

*wikicommons

Contact person and Location

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• Full name: Obed makolo username : Obedmakolo
• Email address: umason.org@gmail.com
• Address: state low cost adamawa state Yola
• Location of Project: moddibo adamawa state University hall, Yola

Project class

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

Am applying as an individual and with two other experienced wikimedia around.

Timeline of activities

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• - A dedicated event page will be created
• - active promotion of the project will be carried out across various social media channels.
• - The event will begin with a detailed introduction of the project , the goals and what the project tends to achieve an the end.
• - Every Participants will introduce themselves to help us enhance our relationship with each other from there.
• - they will be a break out section and time to refresh ourselves.
• - Participants will be properly thought on what wikidata and wiki commons/ wiki love Africa is a about using a practical demonstration on a projector.
• - Participants will will be assigned to do what they have learnt.
• - At the end questions and answers time will be provided for the participants.

• - Face-to-face meetings will be held with students leaders of the institution

The project start : 21 June The project end date: 22 June

Project Goal

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1. recruit new editors
2. enlarging the visibility of wikimedia
3. bridging the knowledge gap

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?

training and edit a thon

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 met with the gombe wikimedia user group to know more how this project and how it can be carried out effectively 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. i will let participants know throughb our social media platforms like Whatsapp,but majorly I will do a flyer to create an awareness , and also meet with the students authority to make the publicity faster.

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:salit

User:Ogalihilay

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

• Participants will be supported with a free Data service to help them contribute for the project

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

• participants will be engaged through a WhatsApp platforms

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

• I believe this project will bring more editors to wikimedia and wiki love Africa and will help to introduce to people what Wikimedia is all about and how they can contribute to it

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 - one event
2. Number of participants - 30 to 50 participants
3. Number of new editors - 45 new editors
4. Number of of articles created - 20 articles
5. Number of of articles improved -50 articles improved
6. Number of of images uploaded - 200 images
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 5

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

We will track the event through the project meta page , or using an extool

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. A Hall= 20,000 Sound system and generator including a projector= 50,000 Refreshments for participants = 70,000, data reimbursement= 30,000, 1st prize = 15,000, 2nd prize = 10, 3rd prize = 7,000 Total = 202,000

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