Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Santa MMD/Kebbi Women on Wikimedia Project

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

Her Story, Our Knowledge: Kebbi Women on Wikipedia is a Wikimedia initiative aimed at closing the gender and content gap by improving the visibility of notable women from Kebbi State on Wikipedia and related projects. The project will train women in Birnin Kebbi to become Wikimedia editors, while also supporting them to create and improve articles about Kebbi women using reliable sources. Through workshops and hands-on editing sessions, the project will help build a new community of women contributors and ensure that the achievements of Kebbi women are better represented in free online knowledge platforms.

Wikimedia Project

Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. Tyap Wikipedia, English Wikiquote, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.

Hausa 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: Ibrahim Abdullahi
• Email address: santammd00@gmail.com
• Address: Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State
• Location of Project: Birnim Kebbi, Kebbi 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

1st to 30th July, 2026

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?

It's a one day of physical training and one day of online training. We will focus on training women and encourage them to continue improving Kebbi women on Wikipedia

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

I will share via a WhatsApp Groups

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.

The participants will know via Whatsapp Groups and physical invites.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead/assist the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse and sign your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

Umar

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 a devices during the training and we will guide them during the training and after.

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

I will create and add them to the 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 - 20
4. Number of of articles created - 100
5. Number of of articles improved - 200
6. Number of of images uploaded -
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? (do not create a metrics dashboard until your project has been approved for funding)

Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard Tool

Contest & prize-giving events

How would decide the winners of your contest (If you are going to have a contest, what is your scoring criteria)

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 User:Santa MMD I will lead the event, Umar will be the project's Facilitator

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

• Hall - 70,000
• Refreshments - 90,000
• T shirts for Facilitators - 20,000
• Banner and online promotions - 20,000
• Transport for Facilitators - 20,000
• Contingecy - 20,000

Total - 240,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

•  Support Umar A Muhammad (talk) 16:25, 13 June 2026 (UTC)