Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Ubah Chisom Mercy (username:Mercyjamb123)/Creating awareness at Nnamdi Azikiwe University with a focus on addressing the gender gap among female scholars in Africa.

Project summary

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• Creating awareness at Nnamdi Azikiwe University with a focus on addressing the gender gap among female scholars in Africa aims to promote better representation of committed women of knowledge through translation of female scholars profiles, with a huge involvement of the newly admitted students in the University.

Wikimedia Project

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• Wikipedia and Wikidata

Contact person and Location

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• Full name: Ubah Chisom Mercy
• Email address: mercyjamb123@gmail.com
• Address: Anambra State
• Location of Project: Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State.

Project class

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• Individual

Timeline of activities

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• 5th - 20th March,2024

Project Goal

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1. recruit new editors
2. Add, translate and improve content
3. Create awareness on campus

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?

Training and Edit-a-thon

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.

Yes I have here

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 a one on one interaction with them in their various classroom and through community WhatsApp group

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

Olugold Obuezie Adimora chidinma Senator Choko 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 the equipments to participate ranging from mobile phones to laptops.

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

Participants will be added on the community platforms

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project? It will focus mainly on translating of 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):

1. Number of events - 1
2. Number of participants - 25
3. Number of new editors - 20
4. Number of of articles created - 100
5. Number of of articles improved - 15
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? Through The Event Wikimedia Outreach 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).

I and my co-facilitator Adimora chidinma will host this event with some experience wikimedians, with the focus on translating female scholars articles and working on wikidata

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

Venue/Hall: 45000

Food: 70,000

Drinks and water: 20,000

projector: 15,000

Internet subscription: 15,000

communications: 10,000

prizes for top contributors: 30,000

T-shirt for facilitators: 10,000

Logistics: 10,000

Data reimbursement: 25,000

Total: 250,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

 Strong support a very interesting and educative program for the newly admitted students and also a way of bridging the gap (gender) on Wikipedia articles and sharing the free open knowledge in our community.i will be available to assist the facilitators... Senator Choko (talk) 06:30, 15 February 2024 (UTC)Senator Choko

 Strong support --Olugold (talk) 07:21, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

 Strong support Dera xoxo (talk) 07:50, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

 Strong support Adimora chidinma (talk) 02:53, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

 Strong support Macocobovi (talk) 21:07, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

 Strong support this is an interesting project that would build a stronger and younger community of Wikimedia editors. I tender my full support and will assist in facilitating the training for a better understanding. Obuezie (talk) 16:18, 7 March 2024 (UTC)