Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Say It Right on Wikidata

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

Many communities in the South east have their names spelt alike with other communities or other words in Igbo language, thereby making it difficult for visitors to Wikidata to know the proper pronunciations of those names. This is the reason for this project, say it right on Wikidata - to add the proper audio pronunciations of those community names, thereby adding more quality to those Wikidata articles. With time, we will cover all the communities in the South east, but we will start off with Anambra State. Embarking on this project would help recruit new editors and give opportunity to create awareness about the free open Knowledge base Wikidata. It will also improve the old editors' skills and enlightening them more on how to make audio contributions to articles.

Wikimedia Project

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

It is a Wikidata project

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: Ajunwa Ogbonnaya Goodluck
Email address:ogbonnayagoody@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

It's an individual project

Timeline of activities

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

15th November to 25th November 2024

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

recruit new editors
Add or improve content
Train new and old Editors: This project will help in improving the skills of the editors in the network and also create awareness of the importance of being on the look out for translated articles without audio

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?

I will be doing one editathon and training

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 have informed the Community about the project in our WhatsApp platform to learn how to add audio pronunciations to articles. I also informed them on our 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.

We have a WhatsApp group where our communication officer does let the Network know about the project of the month and also we do announce our upcoming projects in our meet-ups.

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

User: Goodymeraj I am experienced and I will lead the Event and will be assisted by User:Akwugo

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

Yes, participants have their laptops and Phones but I will support them by showing them how to navigate the Wikidata website.

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

We have a WhatsApp group where we normally follow participants up.

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

This project is one of a kind which will have a huge impact on our community and also it will help give quality to Wikidata articles.

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):

Number of events -1
Number of participants -32
Number of new editors -5

Number of of articles created -50 Number of of articles improved -200 Number of of images uploaded - 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) We will track with 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).

I User: Goodymeraj am the facilitator while User: Akwugo is the co- facilitator and experienced wikimedian. I have no support from any other source.

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

Venue ... ₦50,000

Refreshments....3000*32= ₦96,000

Data reimbursement... 4000*2=₦8000 (for facilitator /co-facilitator) For 30 other participants =₦30,000

Prizes for highest contributors/Contest ... ₦50,000

Communications / Banner .... ₦30,000

Child care support... ₦10,000 Total amount: ₦274,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

Strong support

This project is a good one, adding pronunciation to Wikidata items will help improve Contents on Wikidata. Akwugo (talk) 19:00, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Strong support It is a good project. It will add to Wikidata projects. Ngostary2k (talk) 19:46, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
I’m particularly interested in this project myself as this will also be an avenue to make sure mispronounced names on the Wiki space are corrected. Therefore I Strong support

Sayvhior (talk) 21:23, 13 October 2024 (UTC)

Strong support Senator Choko (talk) 05:57, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

Strong support This project is very strategic to help increase the audio items on the wikidata platform, and this will help participants get more acquainted will uploading audio recordings on Wikidata afterwards. Bibisuccess (talk) 08:48, 14 October 2024 (UTC)

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