Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/WIKI DATA AWARENESS IN DUTSE: Training, Awareness and Creating Wikidata Items for a Notable Places Around Dutse Jigawa state and Northern Nigeria.

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

The Project will focused on three major part like Training, Awareness and Creating Wikidata Items for a Notable Places Around Dutse Jigawa state and Northern Nigeria, The Project will also help on documenting the places that are notable but are not available on wiki data .

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.

1. Wikidata
2. wikiCommon

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: Muktar Hassan Abdullahi
• Email address: muktee3414@gmail.com
• Address: Dutse, Jigawa state.
• Location of Project: Dutse, Jigawa 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: 3/February/2026
 End: 28/February/2026

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. Create or improve Items on Wikidata

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?

Two online Session, 1 physical meet-up and Editathon 

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.

As Individua, through our various social media channels like Whatsapp Group, Facebook and Instagram pages

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 them know through messages on Whatsapp, email and phone messages. that is Wikimedia groups created.

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

User: Muktee1494

User: Halima Waziri

User: Fulani215

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

Yes, laptop, iPad and Android phones

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)? we engage participants on our social media handles especially the WhatsApp Group created Specifically for the Campaign.

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

The jury team of two members to check the contribution. Jury scoring criteria 5 points for translation of 4500 to 5000 words

3 point for translation of 3500 to 4000 words

2 points for translation of 2500 to 3000 words

Than five winners will be sharing #50000

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
2. Number of participants - 30
3. Number of new editors - 10
4. Number of of articles created - 150
5. Number of of articles improved - 50
6. Number of of images uploaded - 25
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 20

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)

Through the Wikimedia outreach dashboard

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)

the jury team of two members to check the contribution. Jury scoring criteria 5 points for translation of 4500 to 5000 words

3 point for translation of 3500 to 4000 words

2 points for translation of 2500 to 3000 words

Than five winners will be sharing #50000

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).

Muktee1494 (talk) I will lead the project and also review the contributions of the participants.

User: Fulani215 : he is an experienced Wikimedian and will co-facilitate on Creating and improving Wiki Data Item's

User: Halima Waziri : she's an experienced Wikimedian. She will co-facilitate Online on uploading images on wiki Common and provide relevant guidance. There is no support from any were Else

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

1. Food and Drinks for refreshment #3000 X 30 = #90,000
2. Promotional Materials like Banner and e -flyers #25,000
3. Local Running = #10,000
4. Alternative power supply = #15,000
5. Renting of Projector, sound system and photography = #30,000
6. T-Shirt for facilitators = #6000X2 = #12,000
7. Renting of Hall = #45,000
8. Prizes for the Top Contributors = #50,000
9. Data reimbursement = # 20,000

Total= 297,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

•  Strong support Halima Waziri (talk) 12:43, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
•  Strong support Muktee1494 (talk)
• Good project, supported Inyor4mr (talk) 08:57, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
• I strongly support Fulani215 (talk)