Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wiki Loves Africa 2025: Afri-Musicana

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

Afri-Musicana is a campaign focused at Bridging content gaps onAfrican women composers, singers, songwriters and their works on wikidata, Adding entries of more women related articles, improving items stubs into a standard wikidata item and create items on wikidata.

A lot of songs from African women are not adequately documented on wiki projects, they have limited entries. The aim of this campaign is to provide more entries for them on wikidata.

Creating more content about African women musicians and songwriters and also bridging gender gap as most entries are that of the men musicians and songwriters

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.

English 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: Eri-ifeoluwa Esther
Email address: estheromole45@gmail.com
Address: Ogun state
Location of Project:Ogun 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

March 6th - 25th March 2025

Project Goal

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

recruit new editors
Add or improve content
create wikidata items
bridging gender gap 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?

One physical training:The physical training is focused on training participants on how to improve and create wikidata items on African women musicians and music, Albums and singles. This is aimed at bridging content gaps on women and music. We will be having a training session and a short in event edit a thon.

Edit-a-thon contest: After the training session there will a two weeks edit a thon contest where participants will contribute and create content on African music and women composers, song writers and artists. After which top contributors will be awarded prizes alongside top female contributor.

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.

we have informed the wikimedia Nigeria community about our project proposal.

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.

Awareness Advocacy:We will be achieving this by creating awareness about the campaign via the use of E-fliers,Fliers,posters and hand bills. The already mentioned items will help the campaign and other people know about the campaign and also about the wikimedia community.

Communication: we will be communicating with our participants via our WhatsApp platform. To be able to connect with them and share information about the incoming project and how they can effectively participate.

We will also be using various social media platforms to make publicity about the campaign and also encourage our participants to join the campaign meta page to be updated on the campaign and the results of the contest.

We will also be using electronic mails to communicate with participants.

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:Ebubechukwu1 facilitator

User:QueenEsther0499 project lead

5. If you are going to have a contest, you need to state your scoring criteria

We will be focusing on item creation on wikidata below scoring criteria

A complete item creation 10 points Item stub 5 point Addition of 5 statement 3 point Below 5 statement 1 point

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

Our target participants have internet connectable devices to enable seemless contribution during the campaign and also quality devices to improve their contributing experience. Items like laptops, tablets,smartphones etc

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

We will engage our participants after the physical events through our WhatsApp community group chat. During the edit-a-thon, we will have open sessions on the our group where we can hear and assist them if there is any issue they can’t seem to solve on their own and also encourage them to follow up activities in Nigeria and the global community.

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

The aim of this project is Bridge content gap of African women composers, singers, songwriters and their works on Wikidata, Adding entries of more women related articles, improving and create items on wikidata.

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):

Number of events - 1
Number of participants - 20
Number of new editors - 10
Number of of items created - 50
Number of of articles improved - 150
Number of of images uploaded -
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 10

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) Outreach dashboard

global account information(if the dashboard doesn’t track adequately.

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).

User:Ebubechukwu1 facilitator:She is a member of the program committee of wikimedia Nigeria, is an experienced wikidata contributor who has organized and won series of prizes under wikidata. She was the project lead for SheSaid 2023&2024, African women in education, Afro literature 2024 and other women related campaigns. She will be in charge of training the participants and also the jury process

User:QueenEsther0499 I am an active contributor. with over a thousand contributors on wikidata, I have participated in different wikidata campaigns. I will be in charge of organizing the project,collating the results and the physical training for the campaign.

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

Venue: NGN 30,000

Projector and Camera Rentals: NGN 15,000

Refreshments for participants : (1800 * 20) : NGN 36,000

E fliers NGN 9,000

Prizes for top five contributors: NGN30,000

Contingency and Miscellaneous: NGN10,000

TOTAL : NGN 130,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

Strong support

Despite the growing global recognition of African women in the music industry, their contributions from singles to albums and EPs are often underrepresented or inadequately documented. By creating and improving entries on African women composers, singers, and songwriters, the project will ensure that their works are properly recognized and celebrated, thus fostering gender equality in the representation of African music. Ebubechukwu1 (talk) 09:52, 20 February 2025 (UTC)

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