Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikimedia Awareness in Anambra State POLYTECHNIC MGBAKWU

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal. Anambra State POLYTECHNIC MGBAKWU is a State POLYTECHNIC yet to know about Wikipedia and it's Sister projects. The idea of this project in this institution is to create awareness, sensitize and recruit new editors to know about Wikipedia as a free knowledge base platform so as to help improve the quality, credibility and reliability of Wikipedia and it's Sister projects; And also giving the institution/students and lecturers an online presence on Wikipedia. This project will help them know they can source information and material from Wikipedia and it's Sister projects and also help in contributing in the sum of all human knowledge by documenting their language, culture, environment,climate etc, making them visible to the world.

The project plan and activities

This will be a two days event, Edit a thon and follow up. We will create awareness weeks before the event to invite students to the event. On day 1, We will Sensitize the students and lectures on Wikipedia, it's credibility,readibility and reliability. Day 2,we will teach them the basics of editing Wikimedia projects and we will have them edit Wikimedia project pages, adding informations about their languages, environment and culture. We will also include a contest which the prizes will motivate them more to contribute to free knowledge

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.

Wikipedia and 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: old inec road Odogwu Awka Anambra State
• Location of Project: MGBAKWU, Awka North

Project class

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

Individual

Timeline of activities

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

15th-16th February,2024

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

1. Create awareness about Wikimedia Foundation projects in Anambra State POLYTECHNIC MGBAKWU
2. Train and recruit new editors in the institution.
3. Increase proficiency in editing skills.
4. Improve local content on Wikipedia, Wikidata.
5. recruit 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 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.

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.

I will let them know through social media, group chats, physical gathering.

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

User: Ennydavids

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?

Yes, the participants have smartphones and laptops and will teach participants how to use their gadgets to participate.

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

Through follow up and group WhatsApp

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

This project is a good one that will help in increasing editors and also improve community engagement in Anambra State POLYTECHNIC MGBAKWU

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 2
2. Number of participants 30
3. Number of new editors 30
4. Number of of articles created or improved 100
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)20

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

We will use the outreach dashboard and xtool.

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 and include a total amount.

Hall .......40,000

Refreshment 1500*30*2.........90,000

Projector 10,000*2.......20,000

T-shirt.......10,000

Banner/flyers ......10,000

miscellaneous .......30,000

Souvenirs ........30,000

Prizes for the highest top 10 contributors ......40,000

Refreshment for facilitators 3,000*3 .....9,000

Data for facilitators .......5,000

Total 284,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

 Strong support

Creating awareness/sensitizing students to know about Wikimedia as a free knowledge base platform will help enhance Wiki in School initiative and also encourage knowledge equity. I strongly support this project

Akwugo (talk) 19:10, 15 January 2024 (UTC)