Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wiki Loves Earth 2024 Idanre

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

Wiki loves Earth is a global annual campaign that is aimed that improving participation and contribution on wikimedia commons. Wiki loves Earth Idanre is focused at improving the contribution of participants from the Idanre community. Introduce them to the wikimedia commons and how to contribute appropriately on this wiki sister project. The campaign also hopes that we have local participants for the wiki loves earth and also hope that our participants get recognized at the global level at the end of the campaign.

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: Omole Eri-Ife Esther
• Email address: danielesther9090@gmail.com
• Address: Idanre,Ondo state
• Location of Project: Ondo 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

5th July - 31st of July, 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 or improve content
3. introduce wikimedia commons to participants
4. photo walk
5. Global contest

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 are organizing one training and one photo walk sessions during the campaign.

Introduction/Training: Wiki loves earth is an annual global campaign that focuses on improving photo and video content being uploaded by contributors, this campaign is aimed a bridge visual content gap which includes training participants how to upload this visual content on wikimedia commons and the appropriate tools needed for these photos to be used. The training is aimed as teaching, contributor from Idanre community which one of the biggest communities in the city of Akure how to create and upload images to wikimedia commons.

This training will foster their knowledge about wikimedia projects and wikimedia commons as the focus wiki. We will be focusing on recruiting new contributors from the community and train them on how to volunteers and contributors.

Photo Walk session: After the training session there will be a photo walk session. This photo walk session is aim at giving the participants room to experiment what they have learnt during the training session. They will get to know more about the wiki loves earth campaign and how well to upload, they can also use this opportunity to know what kind of photos or visual content can be added to wikimedia commons.

Contest: The campaign is a global campaign but there will be local photo contest this is to track the development of the participants on what they have learnt during the two training. This contest comes with prizes to encourage the participants to contribute more.

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 user group about our proposal via talk page.

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.

Advocacy and awareness:The wiki loves earth 2024 is the first of it kind in the community of Idanre. The need for advocacy and awareness is inevitable. We intend to create awareness through the use of e-fliers to create awareness around the community. This is to draw the attention of people in the community to be part the campaign

Social media platforms: we also aim at using different social media platforms to communicate with our participants via WhatsApp, Facebook and twitter to keep them engaged and informed about the campaign process.

We also hope to use emails to share valuable information about the campaign to the participants and also we will create a WhatsApp group so as to reach them more faster.

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:Chic portfolios project lead

User:Kingaustin07 trainer and co-facilitator

5. 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 capture images during the photo walk.

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

Our target participants are mostly youth who are new to wikimedia contributions, we hope to increase their contribution level by adding the to more wikimedia groups and advising the to join the monthly Nigerian office hour visually. This will help them to understand and know more about the wikimedia movement and the way the wikimedia Nigeria community operates and they will choose which of the wiki communities to join.

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

Wiki loves Earth 2024 Idanre is first wikimedia commons training in the Idanre community. The wiki loves earth campaign creates more awareness about wikimedia commons and how to effectively contribute to it.

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( 1 training and 1 photo walk)
2. Number of participants -25
3. Number of new editors -20
4. Number of of images uploaded - 250
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 5

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) We will be using the Outreach dashboard to track their contributions

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:Chic portfolios project lead: as a contributor with the passion of adding photos to wikimedia commons, I will be leading the campaign locally in Idanre. I will be training the participants on how to contribute to wikicommons, more about the wikimedia community, explaining more about the wiki loves earth campaign. Having over 700+ photos edits on wikimedia commons

User:kingaustin07 is an experienced contributor and trainer. He will be training the participants on how to adequately upload and use pictures and visual items on wikimedia commons, he will also serve as the jury for the contest. He has participated and won in different contests.

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

Hall rental for training: NGN 40,000

Refreshment and Take away pack during physical training (3000*25) : NGN 75,000

Refreshment during the photo walk(1500*25):NGN 37,500

T shirt for team members: (7000*2): NGN 14,000

Transportation + data for the two team members: NGN 20,000

Transportation for participants(Bus rental) :NGN 40,000

Camera rental and photography : NGN 15,000

Appreciating prizes for any five highest editor for the training(gift items) : NGN 50,000

Contigencies , Miscellaneous and Logistics: NGN 20,000

Total = NGN 311,500

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

I strongly support and endorse this project, this project will create awareness about wikimedia movement and the photo content will improve user engagement and experience. #Kingaustin07 (talk) 05:57, 22 June 2024 (UTC)