Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wiki Loves Africa In Igala Wikimedia Community

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

Wiki Loves Africa aims to redefine the African narrative using media and to also to give emerging Wikimedia communities an opportunity to interface with the open knowledge movement. Igala Wikimedia Community will be participating in 2024 for the first time. The Theme for the 2024 contest is Africa Create and will provide an opportunity for submission of media that includes submissions of media that portray the process of creating, inventing, manufacturing culturally defined items, make-up, art, hairstyles, music, dance, clothes and woven materials etc. Basically, elements that promote Africa's rich heritage and culture expressed through music, song, dance, and/or movement.

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: Ogali Hilary Onuh
• Email address: kinghillary34@gmail.com
• Address: FCT, Abuja
• Location of Project: FCT, Abuja

Project class

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

A language (Igala) Wikimedia Community

Timeline of activities

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

1st March to 30th April

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. Capacity building
3. Submitting photos, audio, videos, graphics etc in line with the theme which will be used on Wikipedia, Wikidata and other sister projects.

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?

• Training - Mobile phone photography, Quality photos, Encyclopedic videos etc
• Webinar - Wikimedia Commons basics, Introduction to Categories, etc
• Workshop - Image editing tools, Video editing Sound editing etc
• Photowalk - Going out in group to locations to capture Images
• Edit-a-thon to upload images to commons

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 community Discussion page, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Igala_Wikimedia_Community

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.

Social media channel (WhatsApp group, Facebook, Twitter, Telegram) and mailing list.

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

• Ogalihillary (WLA 2024 English Linguistic Ambassador): Logistics and communication manager
• AgnesAbah : Event coordinator
• Dnshitobu: Trainer and Technical advisor

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

Yes, Digital cameras, phones and laptops (for photo and video editing)

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

We will organize office hours, trainings and workshops to engage participants and address their challenges while we onboard them to other projects.

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

This project will help to bring quality images in line with Wiki Loves Africca theme Africa Create to Wikimedia Commons where it can be used on Wikimedia projects and beyond.

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 - 1
2. Number of participants - 20
3. Number of new editors - 5
4. Number of of articles created -
5. Number of of articles improved -
6. Number of of images uploaded - 300
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 15

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

We will use the outreach dashboard to track all uploads

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).

Ogalihillary will keep communication active to keep everyone informed and will also manage logistics with regards to the training, webinar, workshop, photowalk and edit-a-thon. Dnshitobu will provide technical support owing to his rich experience with Wikimedia projects organizations.

AgnesAbah will coordinate between and among all stakeholders to ensure the project is successful.

We have no support from anywhere.

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

• Transportation to location - ₦110,000
• Feeding - ₦125,000 for 20 participants and 2 facilitators
• Printing of vest - ₦88,000 for 20 participants and 2 facilitators
• Prizes - ₦80,000 for top 5
• Data allowance - ₦22,000

TOTAL - ₦425,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

1.  Strong support this project is the first of its kind in the community and I am delighted to endorse it,it should be carried out in the community as I am in support of the project because it's educative and promising for cultural impact.looking forward to it. Ebiojo (talk) 17:06, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

1.  Strong support This project is the first of its kind in the community and I am delighted to endorse it,it should be carried out in the community as I am in support of the project because it's educative and promising for cultural impact and a welcome development.looking forward to it. Dominion Obetule1 (talk) 22:36, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
2.  Strong support The Igala community has been contributing on the incubator Wikipedia and if this funded, it will help them diversify their area of expertise and also widen their contribution net scope to the various Wikimedia projects. This isn't just an opportunity to participate but an unification of members towards the broader perspective of Wikimedia projects that will lead to identification of individual niches. Dnshitobu (talk) 04:35, 16 February 2024 (UTC)

1.  Strong support At the Igala wikimedia community we have been active contributors to Wikipedia on Wikimedia incubator, if the project is approved it will mean a lot to the community because it will help us to contribute to close gab relating to African content AgnesAbah (talk) 04:35, 16 February 2024 (UTC)