Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikimedia Anambra Network/Capturing the cultural events and festivities during Christmas in Nigeria

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal. Every Christmas and New Year in Nigeria, especially in the South-East, there are cultural fiestas and the homecoming of the sons and daughters of every community. It is no wonder that some communities and families tag it "mass return" expecting their children all over the world to come home for one celebration or the other. It is also the time of the year for festivities like ima mmanwu, igba mmanwu, igbu odu, chieftaincy titles, traditional marriage, burial, churching, birthdays, town union meetings, outing ceremonies, among others, etc. It is a time for peace accord. Wikimedia values cultural heritage and norms and emphasizes it with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), thus, the need to capture these rare occasions in photos during Christmas and New Year celebrations. These will be uploaded in the January meet-up of the Wikimedia Anambra Network, where the modalities for 2024 strategies will also be discussed.

Thus this application is a dual activity of Wikicommons cum Meet-up for Wikimedia Anambra Network. The members of the Network will come together to analyze the Christmas and New Year events in their communities. They will upload pictures and have interactive sessions on the way forward for 2024.

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.

• Wikicommons

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: Ngozi Perpetua Osuchukwu
• Email address: ngostary2k@yahoo.com/wikianambranetwork@gmail.com
• Address: Awka, Anambra State
• Location of Project: Awka, Anambra State

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

• January 17 to 30, 2024

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. Train editors on how to upload to commons
3. Add photos to commons
4. Sustain existing editors
5. Create road map for 2024

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?

There will be one in-person activity and online follow-up in continuation of uploads to common

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.

The Network social media accounts on Twitter and Instagram Online Meeting of the Network members on Monday Sister Wikimedia platforms Wikipages

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.

Participants will know through on-wiki spaces, our social media platforms, online meetings, emails and physical contacts. These will be shared wildly

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

1. User:Ngostary2k
2. User:Timzy D'Great
3. User:Obuezie

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

The participants have smartphones and other electronic devices to participate in the project. Some of them are also skilled.

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

There will be follow-up through our whatsapp platform. online survey to find out their opinions and difficulties in following up, and further engagement for more learning.

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

This project will close the gap of not un-relayed activities during Christmas and New Year celebrations in the communities

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 (in-person)
2. Number of participants 30
3. Number of new editors 7
4. Number of photos to be uploaded 100
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 1 (online session)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

There will be a meta page to track events and a dashboard to document participants' activities

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).

1. User:Ngostary2k She is an experienced Wikimedian and will lead the project. She will convene the meeting and facilitate on uploading of photos to the commons
2. User:Timzy D'Great He is well versed in various Wikimedia projects. He will lead the photo upload to commons and guide participants on the mechanics of Wikicommons
3. User:Obuezie She is experienced and will also facilitate the uploads as well as guide new editors on registration

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

1. Hall N40,000
2. Communication and graphics N25,000
3. Food and drinks for 30 people at N2500 each N75,000
4. Projector rental N10k
5. Facilitators N20,000
6. 1 online session for follow up at N1,000 each N30,000
7. Logistics N20,000

Total N220,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

•  Strong support

This is a really wonderful initiative, I’m sure it will impact so much in the Wikimedia space. Sayvhior (talk) 20:33, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

•  Strong support: The project idea is a good one as it will tell stories of our culture and festivals. The project would provide valuable images to compensate the already existing articles without images in Wikipedia spaces, breed a community of fresh wikicommon volunteers, showcase the beauty of cultural diversity and bring great visibility to the South-East festive events. Obuezie (talk) 20:55, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
•  Strong support: Nobody will tell our stories better than we do. Thosr beautiful culture and festivals of ours, especially during the Xmas and other festive periods need all the publicity they can get. We are rich and blessed, so the world should tap from us, only when we give them what to tap from, and in turn impact the Wikimidia immediate host network positively, that's the reason for the project. It is worth it. I give my full support.Goodymeraj (talk) 21:24, 4 January 2024 (UTC)

•  Strong support The project is quite commendable. We have so many cultural activities we carry out during Christmas and other festivals. It is necessary to publish them on Wiki space for global access and use.PassionateLibrarian(talk) 10:08, 5 January 2024 (UTC)