Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Uncle Bash007/New Page Patrol Training and Editathon

Proposed

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

New Page Patrol is an integral part of keeping Wikipedia reliable. It is the process of reviewing newly created articles on Wikipedia; making sure they meet Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines. Without new page patrollers,there will be no standard for Wikipedia; as any type of article will be added to Wikipedia eg., promotional articles, self articles, paid articles, hoaxes and attacks to individuals, companies, institutions, governments etc. Wikipedia wouldn’t have lasted and reach our time (As Wikipedia is here to stay). Through new page patrolling, editors are able to track vandalism and mark for deletion, or good and well sourced articles and mark “as reviewed”. Sadly, New Page Patrollers are only available on English Wikipedia and other International Languages. Out local Language Wikipedias lacks new page patrollers and thus, most newly created articles are not properly vetted and reviewed. Which ever type of article is created is left without reviewing them to see if they meet Wikipedia Notability Guidelines and have passed to stay as a stand-alone article on Wikipedia. Thus, this project is aimed at training experienced editors from Nigeria on how to track and review newly created articles on their language Wikis.

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 and English Wikipedia - for general training.

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: Bashir Yahuza Muhammad
• Email address: muhammadbashiryahuza@gmail.com
• Address: Katsina, Katsina State
• Location of Project: Katsina & (Online)

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 July 1st - July 30th

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? We are organizing (3) Online trainings and one physical training and a edit-contest. 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. Yes, we have announced it on the Wikimedia Nigeria communities groups on Whatsapp and Hausa Wikimedia Talkpage.

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 will be communicating on Whatsapp and Telegram groups. 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 I Uncle Bash007 a certified New Page Patroller will lead the event and train participants . user:Sanusi Gado will help with logistics and planning. Tesleemah will help with online trainings on Notability Guidelines and other Wikimedia Policies. 5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them? Yes, most of the participants are already Wikimedia editors, the project is more of capacity building and thus they have access to at least smart phones and pc. 6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)? We will create a Whatsapp group and add them for continnous support and mentorship. 7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project? This project will help in:

1. Patrolling new pages created on language Wikis in Nigeria.
2. It may increase the number of user with extended rights on these Wikis.
3. Editors will be equipped with added knowledge about Wikipedia guidelines.

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 - 3 online trainings and 1 physical event
2. Number of participants - 20
3. Number of new editors - 5
4. Number of of articles created - 100
5. Number of of articles improved - 200
6. Number of Wikidata item created/improved - 100
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 8

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)

1. Dashboard
2. Hashtag 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) Top 3 Participants with highest number of page reviews (marked reviewed/proposed deletion/improvement, deletion etc) will be awarded. Jurrors will carefully review contribution.

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).

Nil

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

Budget

Hall (with generator) - N70,000

Refreshment (snacks and drinks) for participants(20) and facilitators(3) = 2500x23 = N57,500

Transport support - 1000x20 = N20,000

Facilitators data and transport support - 15,000x3 = N45,000

Banner (15,000) and T-shirt for facilitators 5000x3 - N30,000

Contengency - N30,000

Contest prizes - 1st 25,000, 2nd (15,000), Best female editor (N10,000) = N50,000

Total - N302,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• Page patrollers are indeed vital to development of any wiki language as they have prospered through these certain agents. I am sure hausa Wikipedia will also be improved through this project. I  Support

Sanusi Gado (talk) 17:37, 17 June 2026 (UTC)

 Support This project will help equip participants with what is needed to review an article. I will also be available to work with the project lead in achieving the goal set for the project. Tesleemah (talk) 09:55, 19 June 2026 (UTC)