Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wiki Loves Africa 2024 Unilorin (Youth Creativity in Biodiversity)

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute free media that is relevant to their experience to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia communities (Wikimedia movement), and also make this shared media freely available for the Humankind.

Wiki Loves Africa 2024 Unilorin is aimed at adding photo and video content from kwara state on wikimedia commons. our theme for this campaign is Youth creativity in biodiversity. with our forcus on photos and video contents on biodiversity in kwara state.

participants with top contributions will be appreciated with gift vouchers.

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

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:Akintunde Daniel
• Email address:akintundedanielr7@gmail.com
• Address:ilorin,Kwara state
• Location of Project:ilorin,kwara state.

Project class

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

• Wikimedia Fanclub Unilorin

Timeline of activities

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

• 5th March - 30th March, 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 photo and video contents
3. photo walk
4. join the global contest
5. Engage participants

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 aim to organise one photo walk session and one physical training

Photo walk:The Wiki loves Africa 2024 Unilorin is a campaign that is focused at adding photo content on wikicommons, we will be organising one photo walk and physical training.

The photo walk is aimed at creating awareness about wikicommons and how participant can contribute to photo content on wiki, the title of this year's campaign tagged Africa Create.

Physical Training:Participant both new and existing will be introduced to wikimedia commons and how to contribute using technical tools on wikimedia commons like structure data

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 have informed the wikimedia Nigeria about our proposal via their meta page.

below is the link to the talk page.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria

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.

Creating Public Awareness: we plan to inform interested participant both existing members and those who would love to join the fan club through e-fliers and our social media pages like Instagram,X(twitter) and mainly our whatsapp plaform. this awareness is aim to continually remain the participants about the event.

Photo Walk and Training: we will informing participants about the photo walk and training by sending them official mail to inform them about the event for them not to miss out as some participant are only familiar with their mail.

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:Akintundedaniel general secretary

User:favourdare123 president

User:Mijesty Social Media coordinator

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

the participants will be joining the event with their electronic devices like smart phones, tablet,camera,laptop etc. this will enable them to fully participate in the photo contests and the photo walk session.

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

Global Contest:The wiki loves Africa is a global campaign that participants join and contest for the global prize. we will make sure they join the international campaign and through that get familiar with the wikimedia movement globally.

Engagement on the community platform: we will engage our participants during and after the event through our social media platforms and share other activities going-on in the wikimedia community.

Contest: after the event, there will be a contest for three weeks and participants will be awarded prizes for contributing to the local contest.

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

The theme of Our version of the Wiki loves Africa 2024. Youth creativity in biodiversity is focused at seeing how our participants can be creativity with taking photo in line with the topic and the campaign globally.

The events with expand the knowledge of existing editors and create new impact on new contributors.

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 - 2
2. Number of participants - 40
3. Number of new editors - 15
4. Number of of images uploaded - 300
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?

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).

The executives of the fan club will be organising the trainings and the photo walk sessions. but the main organisers with special roles includes.

User:Akintundedaniel general secretary(co-organiser and trainer) i will be training the participants on how to contribute to wikimedia commons,steps and how to rightly add images on wiki sister projects.

User:favourdare123 president(Organiser and trainer): He will be training the participants during the physical training on how to contribute to wiki commons using the technical tools like structure data. He will also be overseeing the entire event.

User:Mijesty Social Media coordinator(communication and logistics): She will be incharge of logistics and communicating with participants and posting about the training using e fliers on our social media platforms.

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

Refreshment and Take away pack during physical training (2500*40) : NGN 100,000

Refreshment during the photo walk(1000*40):NGN 40,000

T shirt for team members: (5000*3): NGN 15,000

Transportation for the two team members members: NGN 15,000

Transportation for participants(Bus rental) :NGN 60,000

Camera rental and photography : NGN 20,000

Appreciating prizes for any five highest editor for the training(gift vourchers) : NGN 30,000

Contigencies , Miscellaneous and Logistics: NGN 20,000

Total = NGN 300,000

Endorsements

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