Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Visual documentation Project

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

The Visual Documentation Wikimedia Project in Nnewi is a localized initiative aimed at enhancing the representation of information on Wikimedia projects through the integration of visual content specific to Nnewi Anambra State.Nnewi is one of the local government in Anambra State .The Nnewi people believe that the dead should be mourned and this gave opportunity of funeral rites giving. This project recognizes the unique cultural and linguistic context of Nnewi and seeks to capture some cultural practices especially funerals in Nnewi. . It aim to preserve the culture using Wikimedia projects such as Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

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.

Wikimedia commons and 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: Chinwendu Peace
• Email address: peacetilo92@gmail.com
• Address: Awka, Anambra State
• Location of Project: Nnewi, Anambra 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

20th January - 27th January

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?

A photowalk and Upload section

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.

Through the Community Whatsapp channels

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.

Participants will be informed in the community channels.

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: Emilliana

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 have gadgets and some lack basic knowledge of uploading photos. We will teach them the basics of uploading and creating items on Wikidata.

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

we will follow them up in the community channel .

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

This project will help in the

documentation of Nnewi diverse cultural heritage.

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 2
2. Number of participants 25
3. Number of new editors 23
4. Number of of articles created or improved 80
5. 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 program 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 am the one organizing the project and will be assisted by User: Emilliana .

No support elsewhere.

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

Hall: 40,000

food: 50,000

drinks water: 17000

Data for facilitators: 10,000

Transport support: 35000

communication/ flyer : 15000

projector: 10000

T-Shirt : 10000

Tags : 5000

Total : 192,000

Endorsements

 Strong support I Ngozika rejoice orjikalu appeal for an endorsement on this project.This is a good project,it will help in preserving the cultural activities in Igbo settings Emilliana (talk) 12:32, 24 December 2023 (UTC)  Strong support I,Jovita Onyema appeal for the endorsement of this project as it will function to preserve,promote and revive Igbo language and culture. User: winniejovita