Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/WikiClub LASU 2022 Orientation for Newbies

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

1. Orientation of freshers.
2. Recruitment of new members into WikiClub LASU
3. Content editing and addition of reference.

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?

1 trainings and 1 editathon

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.

Yes.

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 of the orientation, edit-a-thon and training through the club's WhatsApp group and twitter pages

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.

For example: User:Kaizenify

• James Moore200
• Jesugbog0,
• Simisola Mariam

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

Participants will come along with their mobile phones and/or laptops and we will make provision of internet connection. Participants who are not skilled will be educated by the experienced Wikimedia editors on the team.

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

Follow up will be carried out through participants' contact info (phone numbers and email addresses). New members will be added to the club's WhatsApp group and feedback forms will be sent to their mails.

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

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 events
2. Number of participants: 30
3. Number of new editors: 25
4. Number of of articles created or improved: 100
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events): 25

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

Dashboard & Edit ladder at the end of the project.

ResourcesEdit

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).

• Jesugbog0, Project Lead
• Simisola Mariam, will coordinate training, she is the general secretary.

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

1. Food and Drinks - 2000 * 40 =80,000NGN
2. Jotter for participants - 300*40= 12000 NGN
3. Internet =5000 NGN
4. Graphics design = 3000 NGN
5. Contingency =15000 NGN

Jotters for participants - 300 * 40 = 12000 NGN

6. Internet = 5000

Total - 115,000NGN

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal, and include the contact details of your contact person(s) for this project This proposal is aimed at creating awareness of the existence of WikiClub LASU which will facilitate the recruitment and training of new and existing editors during the 2021/2022 rain semester.

Timeline of activities

Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project Start date: August 20th 2022 End Date: August 31st 2022.