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Project summary[edit]

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

  • To address the growing need of librarians in Lagos State to acquire essential skills for using Wikipedia and Wikidata as powerful tools for knowledge management, information dissemination, and community engagement, this project will train librarians on how to use these tools.

Wikimedia Project[edit]

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 and Wikidata

Contact person and Location[edit]

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:Odomero Omohwovo
  • Email address:odomsezo@yahoo.com
  • Address: Lagos state.
  • Location of Project: Lagos,Nigeria

Project class[edit]

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

  • Individual

Timeline of activities[edit]

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

  • October 2nd to 31st of October 2023

Project Goal[edit]

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. Contribute to Wikipedia and Wikidata by adding or improving content
  3. Increasing the number of librarians who join Wikipedia community

Project Plan[edit]

Activities[edit]

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? There will be one physical trainings and four online 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.
You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

I have announced the Wikimedia Nigeria user group about the project on their Meta page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria and the WhatsApp group of the Nigerian Library Association.

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.

There are 95 professional librarians in the Lagos WikiGlam WhatsApp group. We will also use social media to send out messages.

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:Tega1604 User:semmy1960

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

Yes, they do.

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

They will be engaged through social media, SMS, and phone calls. Additionally, we have a group on WhatsApp for the community.

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

The goal of this project is to build a network of librarians in Lagos state to increase their participation in Wikipedia and other sister projects to increase information literacy and bridge the knowledge gap. By equipping librarians, this project is a step in that direction.

Impact[edit]

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

  1. Number of events:1 physical training and 4 online
  2. Number of participants:20
  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)

Metrics tracking[edit]

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

Use of the outreach dashboard

Resources[edit]

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).

None

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

  1. Venue = 70,000
  2. Projector = 10000
  3. Data for participants in training: 2000 x 20=40,000
  4. Food and drinks 2000 x 20000=40,000
  5. Data for 2 trainers: 7000 x2=14,000
  6. Transport support for 2 trainers: 20000 x2= 40,000
  7. Gift voucher for Three (3) top editors: 50,000
  8. Graphics and social media banners 20,000
  9. Photography: 15000 X 2=30,000
  10. Contingency: 10,000
  Total:324,000

Endorsements[edit]

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

I, Taiwo support the project. Lagos Librarians should be active members of the Wikimedia.

I, Dr Racheal Opeyemi Odunlade support this project as it promises to build the capacity of Librarians in Lagos State in the area of editing on Wikipedia.

I, Mrs Blessing Okpah support and endorse this project as the initial one was a major eye opener to librarians and the role they can play in telling their story and ensuring that only the right information is put out there

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