Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikimedia Fan Club, UI/Wiki Loves Monuments 2023
Project summary[edit]
Briefly summarize your project proposal.
- Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual Wikipedia international photographic competition to contribute images to the cultural, historical, or scientific significance within the neighborhood. This proposal will provide resources that will enable the participation of Wikimedia Fan Club, University of Ibadan Wikipedia editors in the 2023 Wiki Loves Monuments. Participants will visit 5 tourist/cultural centres;
- Idere Hills
- Ado Awaye Suspended Lake
- Bower Memorial Tower
- National museum of unity lbadan
- Irefin Palace.
Wikimedia Project[edit]
Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.
- Wikicommons
- Wikipedia
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: John Joy
- Email address: johnjoyk15@gmail.com
- Location: Ibadan
Project class[edit]
Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club
- Fan Club
Timeline of activities[edit]
Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project
- 5th September - 30th September 2023
Project Goal[edit]
Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.
- Create awareness about the Wiki Loves Monuments and its activities
- Engage existing editors to contribute to Commons
- Recruit new editors and train them on on uploading to Wikicommons
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?
- One Photowalk to selected tourist centres in Oyo state
- One upload session
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.
- The project will be announced on WUGN group chat and Wikimedia Fan Club, UI page. It will be equally shared across the club's social media channels (Twitter and Facebook)
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
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 good mobile phones that will be used to take photos at the cultural centres.
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
- We will do a follow-up with participants on a group chat that will be created for the project purpose, for the new editors they will be added to the club's group chat for prompt update about the Wikimedia movement in Nigeria. We will provide them with tips on creating, and editing Wikicommons.
7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
- This contest is an opportunity to contribute high quality images of these Nigeria Monuments, that will be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons for free usage.
- It will help increase the awareness and participation of the Wikimedia Fan Club, University of Ibadan who are still very new to the various projects on Wikimedia.
- At the upload session, editors will be trained on how to use of the media files uploaded on Wikipedia articles.
- Wikipedia articles will be created for monuments visited who lacks Wikipedia articles.
Impact[edit]
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:
- Number of events - 2
- Number of participants for Photowalk - 10
- Number of participants for Photowalk - 20
- Number of new editors - 5
- Number of of articles created or improved - 100+
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 10
Metrics tracking[edit]
How do you plan to track your project metrics?
- A dashboard will be created to track the uploads and edits.
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).
- Mobile phones for photos and uploads, Laptops and resource guides for the trainings.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
- Transportation/Hiring of Bus (to and fro) to convey 10 persons for photowalk to 5 different sites in Oyo State = N80,000
- Souvenir (customized watter bottle)
- Refreshment for photowalk - N2,500 x 10 = N25,000
- Gate pass at tourist centres - N25,000
- Tshirts for photowalk participants - N5,000 x 10 = N50,000
- Identity tags for photowalk participants - N750 x 10 = N7,500
- Designing & Printing of Wikiloves Monuments banner - N20,000
- Venue for Upload - N30,000
- Communication - N10,000
- Public address system - N10,000
- Projector - N10,000
- Food and drinks upload session N3,000 x 30 = N90,000
- Data support - N30,000
- Logistics - N10,000
- Contigencies - N19,900
- Total - N417,900
Endorsements[edit]
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