Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikidata training and edit-a-thon at Lagos State University of Education

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Project summary[edit]

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

  • Our idea is to introduce Wikidata to the student of Lagos State University of Education (LASUED) and create verified and up-to-date content on Wikidata. We plan to engage the computer science student on how to create items on Wikidata and use the Wikidata Query service. However, we will focus on creating and improving content related to primary schools in Lagos State, Nigeria.

Contact person and Location[edit]

Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location

Timeline of activities[edit]

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

  • Start: 10th-June -2023
  • End:10th-July-2023

Project Goal[edit]

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 items on Wikidata
  3. Increase editing skills or knowledge of the already existing editors
  4. Create awareness for Wikipedia

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?

Yes, we are doing one training and one edit-a-thons

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 opened the discussion to this project on the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria discussion 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.

  • We already had a series of discussions with staff and students of the Department of computer science of the institution.
  • We also agreed to use all noticeboards within the institution and existing WhatsApp groups of the students and staff
  • Create more awareness both offline and online through paid ads on Facebook and other relevant social media platforms.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify

Yes,

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

Yes, they are Computer science students. most of them have laptops and phones.

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

Create a WhatsApp group for mentorship and follow-up events.

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

Impact[edit]

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

  1. Number of events 2
  2. Number of participants 20
  3. Number of new editors 17
  4. Number of of articles created or improved 500
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 20

Metrics tracking[edit]

How do you plan to track your project metrics? We will create a dashboard that will track the contributions of all participants, you can find the link to our metric tracker here

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).

  1. Laptops
  2. Events hall and projector

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

  1. Transportation support for 1 facilitators......................NGN10,000 = NGN10,000
  2. Food and drinks................................................NGN2,000x20x2 = NGN80,000
  3. Custom T-shirts................................................NGN3,500x5 = NGN17,500
  4. Internet support for participants..............................NGN30,000 = NGN30,000
  5. Gifts for most active participants (1st, 2nd, 3rd).............NGN40,000
  6. Awareness (Online and offline).................................NGN30,000
  7. Camera renting.................................................NGN5,000x2 = NGN10,000
  8. Contingency......................NGN20,000
  9. Total.....................NGN237,500

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