Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Visibility of Igbo Language in Scholarly Articles and Research.

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

Is a Wikidata project that is aimed at updating and improving the Wikidata by creating items on various entities in Igbo language which are located in scholarly articles research published in journals. The goal is to increase the use of entities in Igbo language on Wikidata.

The programs we planned establishing are:

1. Training students on how to edit on wikidata and how to contribute to free knowledge.

2. After the training, the participants will be able to add scholarly articles on there own.

3. Apply for a fan club to involve Deltans the school which will help in speeding of Wikimedia knowledge in the State.

We have the full support of the Head of Department of Civil engineering.

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.

• Wikidata

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: Adakaibe
• Email address: amarita4life@gmail.com
• Address:
• Location of Project: Onicha -Ugbo, Delta State.

Project class

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

• Individual project

Timeline of activities

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

• 15 January - 22 January 2024

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?

One day training with online follow up.

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.

we already have a WhatsApp group.

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 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

User: Akwugo User: Crazyclownb

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

They have their phones and laptop and i will teach them how to navigate.

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

online follow up.

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

This project will give room for knowledge sharing.

Impact

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
2. Number of participants...20
3. Number of new editors....10
4. Number of of articles created or improved.90
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

We will use the 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).

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

• Hall:....…........................40,000

• Project: .........................10,000

• Refreshments:.....................64,000

• Data: ............................30,000

• Data for facilitators: ...........10,000

• Transportation: ..................15,000

• Prices for the first three editor's:20,000

• Communication/flyer/banner: .......25,000

• Miscellaneous: ....................10,000

Total:........₦224,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

 Strong support Giving Visibility to Scholarly Articles on Wikimedia especially on indigenous language will help in promoting language diversity. I strongly support this project.

 Strong support

Having joined this programme in my institution, this one will help the scholarly articles in Igbo to be visible. Nma jeni (talk) 17:40,30 December 2023 (UTC)

 Strong support This project will benefit our students, is a good one.I strongly support this project ChinazaE (talk) 15:23, 2 January 2024 (UTC).