Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/One Image One Item

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

One image one item is Wikidata project that is aimed at updating and improving the visuals of Wikidata items by adding at least one relevant images to the Wikidata item. The goal is to increase the use of Wikimedia Commons images on Wikidata and also to give Wikidata items visual identity. This project will help train community members on how to contribute to Wikidata.

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: Nwosu Chisom Vivian
• Email address: nwosuchisom33@gmail.com
• Address:Awka, Anambra State
• Location of Project: Awka, Anambra State

Project class

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

individual

Timeline of activities

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

7th March - 15th March

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. Encourage knowledge equity

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 Training/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 have informed the community here

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 community members know about the training on our community social media channels and on meta discussion page. 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: Senator Choko

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

participants have gadgets and they will be taught how to contribute to Wikidata.

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

participants would be followed up on the community WhatsApp channel.

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

This project will teach participant how to add images to Wikidata and how to use some tools in sourcing wikidata pages without photo.

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 - 27
3. Number of new editors - 25
4. Number of of articles created - 100
5. Number of of articles improved - 30
6. Number of of images uploaded -20
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? Outreach 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).

I am the one organizing the training, I will be teaching participants ways to add photos to Wikidata.

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

Venue: 45000

Food: 65,000

Drinks and water: 15,000

projector: 12,000

Internet subscription: 10,000

communications: 10,000

prizes for top contributors: 30,000

T-shirt for facilitators: 7,000

Logistics: 7000

Data reimbursement: 27,000

Total: 228,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

 Support: A very good project to give visibility to Wikidata items and a good opportunity to train participants on this important aspect of editing. I hereby endorse this project.

•  Strong support wikidata as one of Wikimedia projects is an essential one which requires visibility to its items(wikidata items) thus it's very important for the editors to be enlighten and trained on how to give the wikidata items visibility it requires... I will also be available for the training and editathon. Senator Choko (talk) 09:37, 8 February 2024 (UTC)Senator Choko