Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wiki Loves Monuments in Igala Wikimedia Community

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) is a public photo competition around cultural heritage monuments, organized by Wikimedia chapters, groups and local Wikipedia volunteers. The Igala Wikimedia Community members will take photos of monuments, upload those to Wikimedia Commons, and then they can be used in Wikipedia and elsewhere. The goal is to make the world's heritage monuments visible for the world wide public.

Wikimedia Project

Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. 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: Nyanya, FCT ABUJA
• Location of Project: Nyanya, FCT Abuja

Project class

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

• A Wikimedia Community

Timeline of activities

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

• 1st October to 15th October

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 images to commons

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 photo walk and upload 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) 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

User:Ogalihillary : Logistics and communication manager

User:AgnesAbah : Event coordinator

User: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 and phones

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

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

We will keep them posted via our social media handles.

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

This project will help to bring quality images of monuments in our locality 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:

1. Number of events - 1
2. Number of participants - 20
3. Number of new editors - 5
4. Number of of articles created or improved
5. 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 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 Walkathon organization.

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!