Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wiki Loves Monuments in the Niger Delta

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

The aims and objectives of this project is to awareness the community about the important of Wikipedia, we will show them how to publish cultural activities, how to edit, how to do things on Wikipedia. 

We will focus on train youngs students especially secondary students,we will show them how to use Wikipedia in term of research, assignment and so. We will also bring Teachers.

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.

Wikipedia

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: Michael Diala
• Email address: Michael.diala16@gmail.com
• Address: Close B, Ipic Estate , Akpajo , PortHarcourt
• Location of Project: PortHarcourt

Project class

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

• wiki Niger Delta Network

Timeline of activities

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

01/10/2023 to 15/10/2023

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 related to monuments within the Niger Delta region

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?

Virtual training , physical training and contest 

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.
I will post it in Wiki Niger Delta whassap group . You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

I will leverage on the network WhatsApp group, social media handles and the support of the Wikipedia Nigeria user group

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
I will share a flyer of the project to the participants and aslo I will use WhatsApp to invite some.

For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

share a flyers, invite Via mail and social media handles. 

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:Superswift

I will be organizing this project with the experience of User:Superswift

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them? Yes, the participants have their smart phones, Laptops and Data support from the network which they would contribute from.

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

Phone calls, direct messages and on the general WhatsApp Group.

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

No

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 3
2. Number of participants 30
3. Number of new editors 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved 200
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? dashboard will be created to track their contribution.

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).

Venue - ₦40000 Food @₦ 2000x 30 - N60,000 Drinks & Water ( packs each)2 pack of water and one pack of malt - N10, 000 Data for online & in-person sessions @ (1000 x 20)- N30, 000 Facilitator's Data & Transport Support - ₦15,000 Graphics - ₦10000 Contest = N50,000

 Winner : 30k
1st Runner:15k
2nd Runner up : 5k

Projector 15000

Logistics support : 25k

Total 255,000

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

the participants will come from different locations  

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