Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikibooks Nigeria 3.0:African Food and Recipes
Project summary
[edit]Briefly summarize your project proposal.
Wikibooks Nigeria campaign started since 2023, And the impact on Nigeria contents improved, but it doesn’t end there.This third edition can not be overstated. To expand the scope of the project below was the objective of the campaign this year.
This project is targeted at laying a solid foundation for the widespread use and adoption of wikibooks among editors in Nigeria and also bridging the content gap about African local indigenous recipes and cuisines which contains little to no content on wikibooks and thus enhacing the need for this areas to be greatly improved. Also in line with the theme of this year’s WLA farm to plate celebrating African local recipes.
Through this project we hope to engage and train new and existing wikimedia editors to enable them become experienced wikibooks editor,acquire basic editing and researching skills that will enable them create new articles and improve existing articles about Africa's indigenous culture's and local cuisines on wikibooks.
Wikimedia Project
[edit]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 Wikibooks
Contact person and Location
[edit]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: Chukwu chibueze pascal
- Email address:chibuezepascal2001@gmail.com
- Address:Lagos
- Location of Project:Ogun state.
Project class
[edit]Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club
Individual
Timeline of activities
[edit]Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project
- 9th - 30th April 2025
Project Goal
[edit]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
- introduction to wikibooks
- celebrate wiki loves Africa: Farm to plate campaign
Project Plan
[edit]Activities
[edit]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,one virtual training and Edit a thon contest.
Physical training: the physical training session is aimed at creating awareness about wikibooks as one of wikimedia sister projects. Wikibooks which is also used for documentary of different food and recipes, the participants will get familiar with wikibooks and learn how to edit it. The farm to plate campaign will celebrate African food and culture. We will also be contributing towards that goal on wikibooks by editing and creating articles on African food and recipes. There will be a short edit a thon during that training.
Virtual training: will be a follow up of each of our participants on how they have been contributing and what they need to overcome their challenges.
Edit-a-thon : there will be an editing contest for the campaign by which all they have learnt,the contest will be between 2weeks. There will be prize for top contributors
'’'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.
I have informed wikimedia user group Nigeria about my 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.
Online awareness: There will be online advocacy to participants through the uses of E fliers and posters to encourage participants to join the campaign and publicly inform them about the event
Use of Social media: we will be providing our previous WhatsApp groups to communicate with participants about when the event will start and be able to track the event.
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: Kingaustin07 project lead
User: Sylvesterchukwu04 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 participants will be using their phone, tablet, laptop internet connectable devices for them to communicate
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
We will engage them with introducing them to other wikimedia projects and also encourage their to be active members of wikimedia user groups in Nigeria
7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
This project is targeted at laying a solid foundation for the widespread use and adoption of wikibooks among editors in Nigeria and also bridging the content gap about African local indigenous recipes and cuisines which contains little to no content on wikibooks and thus enhacing the need for this areas to be greatly improved. Also in line with the theme of this year’s WLA farm to plate celebrating African local recipes.
Impact
[edit]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 -2(one physical,one virtual)
- Number of participants -10
- Number of new editors -10
- Number of of articles created - 40
- Number of of articles improved -120
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -5
Metrics tracking
[edit]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
Contest & prize-giving events
[edit]How would decide the winners of your contest (If you are going to have a contest, what is your scoring criteria) Jury scoring criteria 5 pints for new recipe articles 3 improved articles 3 for every 1000 bytes for an important article
Resources
[edit]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:Kingaustin07(Project Lead):I am an experienced Wikimedian editor and trainer,also a wikibooks reviewer with an extensive capacity and experience to lead this project for the second edition after successful leading the first edition.I have participated and won online wikibooks contest and other wikipedia online campaign activities and edit a thon. Currently the president of the wikimedian fan club Unilorin.
User:Sylvesterchukwu04(Co facilitator and logistics):He is an experienced editor and trainer on wikipedia. He co facilitated and trained editors during wikivoyage for Lagos State Local Government Offices and Secretariat's,Harnessing the Power of Open Data 2023. He has participated and won series of Wikimedian contest awhich inc ludes Nigerian Cuisine whose project focus was on wikibooks, Nigerian musuem amongst others. He will be providing his volunteer support to co-facilitate this event.
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( will have a Projector) : NGN 50,000
Refreshment and Take away pack (3000*20) : NGN 60,000
Branding and T shirts for Facilitators (2*8000) :NGN 16,000
Transportation (6,000*2 = NGN 12,000
Camera rental and photography : NGN 30,000
Prizes for top 5 contributors (10,000*5) : NGN 50,000
Jotter and pens for participants (1,500* 20): NGN 30,000
Contigencies , Miscellaneous and Logistics: NGN 20,000
Total :NGN 268,000
Endorsements
[edit]Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!
I strongly endorse this project. coming from the success of 1.0 and 2.0. the need to still expose the use of wikibooks to Nigerian wikimedians is still inevicatble this campagn will bridge content gap on wikibook about african receipes and food of differents types. Sylvesterchukwu04 (talk) 16:50, 20 March 2025 (UTC)