Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Umar-askira/Edit-a-thon in Kaduna State University (KASU) 2024

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

This project planned to promote wikipedia project in Kaduna State University (KASU) also guide the students on how to utilize wikipedia pages and content translations to other languages (Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo) as the students come out from different ethnic groups, wikidata (add items or lexims), commons (upload media and pictures), Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus), free open source encyclopedia for easy researches and contributing to wikipedia to archive WMF Goals. And it will help them to increase more content in wikipedia pages. This project will implement a potential impact and improve more articles in Wiktionary and help newbies to adding more contributions in wikipedia pages.

Kaduna State University has thousands of students and different faculties: sciences, engineering, Arts and Education. It is located at Unguwan/Rimi Kaduna state, Nigeria. You can read more about Kaduna State University

Wikimedia Project

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

This project on:

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Wikidata
Commons
Wikiversity

Contact person and Location

Please state the contact details of the contac for this project including email(s) and location. For more than one contact person, indicate same details for everyone

Full name: UMAR IBRAHIM
Email address: uibrahimaskira516@gmail.com
Address: No 45 Kuriga Close Badarawa Kaduna
Location of Project: Kaduna 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

Start date: 28th October 2024
End date: 30th 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
Increase skills for existing editors

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?

Yes. am going to run one editathon training because some years back i promote successful wikipedia awareness campaign at Kaduna:

it implement potential impacts to the students then i will like to use this opportunity to run this edit-a-thon in KASU to promote awareness among the students.

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.

There are existing social media handles groups where i prefer to let the community know about this edit-a-thon faster as the community members are more familiar with they are:

Whatsapp here [1]
Telegram here
Facebook here [2]

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.

I will let the participants know about this project by collaborating with some students that i known from KKASU in persons of Abdulrahman Mk (he personally proposed for the project when he joined our online session on Wiki For Human Right Kaduna while the application was in draft already), Nadiya Aliyu Wakili, Umar Shehu Kufaina and others

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

yes I have experience editors that will be the facilitators during the event:

Umar-askira: Project lead
Lammaske : Facilitator
Eashmaazat: Facilitator
Abdulrahman (Not yet become an editor): Organiser
Umar Shehu Kufaina (Not yet become an editor)
Nadiya A Wakili (Not yet become an editor): Organiser

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

The participants are going to use their smartphones which will be the part of our selection eligibility and for those that have computers will use their PCs.

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

I will engage the participants after the event by motivating the to keep on contributing in the kiktionary page via social media handles

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

Yes, this project is so considerable because it will implement so many potential impacts to KASU students in terms of wikipedia activities and their studies.

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 - 2
Number of participants - 35
Number of new editors - 25
Number of of articles created - 50
Number of of articles improved - 150
Number of of images uploaded - 50
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)

Am going to use outreach dashboard to track the participants activities.

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).

Day 1 (Introduction)
Time	Activities	Facilitators
10:00AM - 10:15AM	Registration	All
10:15AM - 10:25AM	Opening remark / Introduction to the main project	Umar-askira (Project lead)
10:25AM-10:40AM	Introduction to wikipedia	Umar-askira
Technical Session
Slide-show presentation of wikipedia (Theory session)	Umar-askira
How to create a user account and article	Lammaske
Lammaske
Introduction to wikipedia and other sister projects	Umar-askira
Contributing to Wikipedia, wikidata, common and wikiversity (Hands on Practical)

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

Food and Drinks - For each participant = 2550 x 35 = 89,250

Event hall (free of charge)- Maintenance = 10,000

Projector and public address: 30,000

Use of internet 2GB- 700 x 35 = N24,000

Customized T-shirts - for 6 facilitators = N5000 x 6 (6 facilitators) = N30,000

Banner and Tags - N35,000

TOTAL :N 226,250

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

I Aisha Yahuza Strong support this project as a project facilitator and the students of Kaduna State University (KASU). This project is impactful especially to the students that don't know about free sources and encyclopedia contents. The students will also have the skill to contributing to wikipedia lages and navigate to the sister wiki. Best wishes.

I Abubakar Yusuf Gusau Strong support The Editathon will provide a unique opportunity for students, faculty and community members to come together and learn about Wikipedia and contribute to the online encyclopedia. It's a chance to bridge the knowledge gap, promote content and empower individuals with digital skills.

I Iliyasu Umar Strong support strongly in support of this project which will be conducted at Kaduna State University. The project will be impactful on the students and all the participants adding seeing how the project is structured and the experience of the project lead in organizing projects in the past.

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