Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikidata 12th Birthday in Wikimedia Anambra Network

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

The Wikimedia Anambra Network wish to celebrate the wikidata 12th Birthday and leverage this opportunity to tell our success stories and our reasons contributing to wikidata. This Celebration will also give community members opportunity to tailor their questions when it comes to Editing wikidata. We will also leverage on the 12th Birthday to talk more about Wikidata lexemes and how it relates to items which some of the New editors are yet to contribute to. It will be a great opportunity to document new lexemes on wikidata. This celebration will offer the opportunity to learn how to use the lexicator/wikidata tools.

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.

Wikidata

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: Nzubechukwu Ernest
• Email address: ernestnzube@gmail.com
• Address:Awka, Anambra State
• Location of Project:Awka

Project class

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

• Wikimedia Anambra Network

Timeline of activities

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

• 28th-30th 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 or improve content
3. Train new editors

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 Edit -a-thon and training

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.

The community members are aware of the application. I have also posted on the discussion page here

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.

we will create a Meta page for this project and communicate the application processes in the community social media channels

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:Ngostary2k

User:Akwugo

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

Community members have their phones, laptops and tablets. We will support them by training them on how to edit on wikidata.

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

We will engage them by sending on screen video and slides that can guide them through the community channel.

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

This project will help foster community Engagement and support.

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 -42
3. Number of new editors -7
4. Number of of articles created -200
5. Number of of articles improved -100
6. Number of of images uploaded -
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

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 create an event page on Meta where participants will register of which will track the number of participants. The outreach dashboard will be used to track the editors 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).

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 hire: 50,000

• Food, water/drinks: 100,000

• Cake and items for Hall decorations: 50,000

• projector: 15,000

• Communications/flyers: 25,000

• Child care support: 20,000

• Transportation: 10,000

• prizes for highest contributors: 30,000

Total: 300,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

 Strong support I strongly endorse this project because of its huge positive impact in our community. Senator Choko (talk) 12:00, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

 Strong support I support this project for its value in enhancing Wikidata knowledge and training in our Network. Ngostary2k (talk) 7:13, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

 Strong support I strongly support this project for this is an opportunity to talk about linking data, lexicographical data and wikidata tools. Akwugo (talk) 22:22, 7 September 2024 (UTC)