Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Osun Wikimedia Network/ Wikidata Training and Edit-a-thon in OAU-IFE.

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This project aims to promote open knowledge through Wikidata

Introduce Wikidata to students in OAU. Create vast array of awareness around Wikidata and other sisters project. Welcome new members to the community. Enhance promotion of open knowledge.

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

Wiki common

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: Ajeigbe Rukayat
• Email address: ajeigberukayat@gmail.com
• Address: Osogbo, Osun State
• Location of Project: OAU-Ife, Osun State.

Project class

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

• Osun Wikimedia Network.

Timeline of activities

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

• 28th February,2024.

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

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?

Edit-a-thon and two physical trainings

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.
Community WhatsApp group and via meta page. You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

Twitter and Instagram

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
Addressing audience on WhatsApp, school board platforms. For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

WhatsApp, Online Gathering, Social media platforms

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:RukayatAjeigbe will be the project coordinator and will lead all the activities related to the project.

User:OTim75 co-organizer and will help to mobilize young people around the project and in organizing the planned activities and take care of communications/outreach and welfare activities in this project.

User: Ogundele1 will serve the roles of logistics and dashboard management during the projects.

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

Laptops and smartphones

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

Community WhatsApp group

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

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 - 2
2. Number of participants - 30
3. Number of new editors - 10
4. Number of of articles created -50
5. Number of of articles improved -150
6. Number of of images uploaded -50
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -30

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? 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= 40,000 Branded T-shirt for facilitators= 15,000 Food and refreshments 3,000*33= 99,000 for 2 days= 198,000 Projector/screen rentals = 15,000 Sound system = 15,000 Publicity, flyers = 15,000 souvenirs and merchandise (branded book and customised pen)= 30,000 Logistics= 15,000 Miscellaneous and contingencies = 10,000 Total amount= #353,000

Endorsements

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