Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Osun Wikimedia Network Launching and Follow-up for Wikipedia Awareness Program

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This project is a follow-up training on raising awareness of Wikipedia and its sister projects among the people of Osun State. We also want to officially launch and onboard members and new members of the community to the newly approved ‘Osun Wikimedia Network’ by the WUGN.
• The program will run through as an edit-a-thon and will be centered on adding more information on Wikipedia articles of places in Nigeria. It is important that locations in Nigeria have detailed descriptions. In order to add more details or improve information on articles, the Wikidata-powered information boxes will be used to generate details about Nigerian articles of places.

Wikimedia Project

Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. 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:

Rukayat Ajeigbe

Oni Timileyin

• Email address:

ajeigberukayat@gmail,

onitimileyin7@gmail.com

• Location: 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

• Sensitization and registration: 1 week to the event
• Start date:10:00am, 26th August 2023
• End date: 03:00pm, 16th September 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 skills for existing editors

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

Through notification on community talk page on Wikimedia User Group Nigeria discussion page 1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

• Training and edit-a-thon: There will be one physical training and online follow up. It will also have three weeks Edit-a-thon for the participants

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.

Through notification on community talk page on Wikimedia User Group Nigeria discussion page

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.

• Through Community WhatsApp Group
• Through communication channels, social media platforms: twitter page, Mailing list
• Through sensitization

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

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

Yes, the will be using their smartphones and Laptops

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

Follow ups through communication channels, zoom meeting follow-up updates of activities and events, inviting them to upcoming events and communications via community WhatsApp

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

This program is a follow-up awareness edition and also launching of Osun Wikimedia Network.

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
2. Number of participants- 30
3. Number of new editors- 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved- 100
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)- 20

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? The outreach dashboard and Xtool

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). RukayatAjeigbe: Organizer and facilitator

OTim75: Assistant facilitator (Wikidata)

JohnJoy: Online Facilitator

Kaisha33: Volunteer

• Educational resources in form of video tutorial & Zoom meeting subscription will be provided by WUGN.

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

Data reimbursement for participants: 1,000 per person x30 =₦30,000

Internet connectivity for facilitators= ₦15,000

Food 2,500 for 33 people = ₦82,000

Venue for physical event = ₦50,000

Projector=₦15,000

Sound system= ₦15,000

Publicity, flyer, roll up banner, training resources (instructional materials)= ₦40,000

Prize for top 5 contributors= ₦30,000

Shirt for facilitators = ₦15,000

Contingency/logistics= ₦10,000

Total=₦ 302,000

Endorsements

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