Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikimedia Awareness And Training Among University of Uyo Students
Project summary
[edit]Briefly summarize your project proposal.
- This project is aim to educate students about the importance and benefits of open knowledge and collaborative platforms like Wikipedia
STRUCTURE OF THE PROJECT.
- Awareness of the project will take place in the first week.
- The virtual and physical training will commence in the 2nd week.
- The edita-thons will take place immediately after each training to practicalize what they learnt.
- By achieving these goals, the project can contribute to the growth of a more informed, digitally literate, and collaborative academic community.
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.
The project will focus on: English Wikipedia and Wikidata
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:Joel Ephraim Orok
- Email address: joelorok4@gmail.com
- Address: ,Uyo,Akwa Ibom state.
- Location of Project: University of Uyo,Uyo,Akwa Ibom State.
Project class
[edit]Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club
- It is an individual project
Timeline of activities
[edit]Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project
- Start Date: 1st August,2025.
- End Date: 31st August,2025.
Project Goal
[edit]Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.
1.To increase awareness and instigate proper understanding of wikimedia among the university students.
2.To bring in 20 students that will start contributing to wikimedia after the awareness.
3.Using the PetScan tool, I'll be able to search for stub articles or articles in Akwa Ibom State category that needs improvement.
4.We will also work on articles that need citations.
5.To bring in new editors that will be contributing to wikimedia even after the event.
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?
It will be 2 virtual training and a day physical training.
There will be an editathon to enable the participants to implement the knowledge gained during the training of Wikipedia, Wikidata.
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.
- It will be posted in WUGN,Akwa Ibom network community group
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.
Proper awareness shall be carried out in the university community.
A WhatsApp group will be created where all information and guidance shall be carried out among all participants.This platform will help to sustained the members even after the event to be contributing to other wikimedia projects.
4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead/assis.t 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
5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?
- Yes, participants have the equipment,they will be trained with the required skills on how to contribute.
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)? They will be taking part in the community programme and and subsequent training including virtually which will help equip them with other wikimedia skills and projects to participate and contribute in.
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 (only those applicable to your project):
- Number of events -3(2 virtuals and a physical training)
- Number of participants -20
- Number of new editors -20
- Number of of articles created -
- Number of of articles improved - 50
- Number of wikidata improved -50
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -
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)
Through the Wikimedia outreach dashboard that will be created where all the students will be encourage to register.
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)
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).
- I don't have any resources to carry out this Project
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense as a unit amount and include a total amount.
- Projector - 20k
- Generator - 30k
- Fuel - 30k
- Public address system-20k
- Refreshment - (#3500*20) = 88k
- Transport support for participants - 20k
- Logistics - 25k
- Contingencies - 20k.
- Graphics - 15k
- Welfare for facilitator - 15k
- Total- ....253k
Endorsements
[edit]Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!
- I endorse this project, as this will introduce students in the university of Uyo to Wikimedia projects Andikan Efiok Eduok (talk) 10:58, 15 July 2025 (UTC)