Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikimedia Gombe Network/Wikidata's 11th Birthday Anniversary in Gombe

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

The Gombe Wikimedia Network, are committed to promoting open knowledge and digital literacy in Nigeria. In line with this mission, we are excited to propose a Wikidata event aimed at strengthening our local Wikimedia community's knowledge and skills, as part of the Nigeria Wikimedia User Group, to commemorate Wikidata's birthday. This event is designed to celebrate the significance of Wikidata and promote its importance to the community members. The primary goals of the event are to provide comprehensive training in Wikidata editing, as well as to encourage the use of Wikidata as a valuable resource for knowledge sharing and data enrichment. The project also aims to engage and empower participants with the skills and knowledge necessary to contribute to Wikidata effectively. Participants will have the opportunity to gain practical experience in editing Wikidata items, and bridge the data gap by creating wikidata items related to Gombe state that does mot exist on wikidata.

This Wikidata event has the potential to create a profound impact on our local community which include: Empowering individuals with digital literacy and data editing skills, enriching Wikidata with valuable information about Gombe and Nigeria at large, fostering collaboration between the Wikimedia community and local stakeholders, Promoting the use of open data to support education, research, and cultural initiatives in Nigeria.

Following the training, we will host a Wikidata edit-a-thon, encouraging participants to create and enhance Wikidata items related to Gombe State

Wikimedia Project

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.

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: Ibekeme Merit
• Email address: wikigombenetwork@gmail.com
• Address: Gombe, Gombe State
• Location of Project: Gombe, Gombe State

Project class

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

Wikimedia Gombe Network

Timeline of activities

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

29th October to 29th November

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 that contributes to wikidata
2. The project's main goal is to commemorate Wikidata's birthday and recognize its importance to the community and the broader world of open knowledge
3. To Provide comprehensive training in Wikidata editing, creating new items, searching for missing items on wikidata, and running wikidata query.
4. To raise awareness about Wikidata's practical applications in knowledge sharing and data enrichment.

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?

Birthday celebration, Awareness, Training and Editathon.

Activities:

Awareness creation: Awareness will be made on the network's social media handles, and flyers will be made inviting participants. Physical Training: Participants will be trained on how to edit and create new wikidata items. Online training: This will serve as a follow-up training to further equip the participants with the skills to edit and create wikidata items. Edit-a-thon: There will be weeks of editing and creating wikidata items whereby the participants will be registered on the dashboard to track their contributions; the top 5 contributors will get prizes at the end. 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.

Relevant community such as the WikiProject Nigeria will be notified

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.

There will be an an open call for participation, using network’s social media platforms and broadcast media will be utilized to target specific and wide range coverage of communities to raise awareness about the Wikimedia Gombe Network and wikidata celebration.

Existing members will be notified using our Community WhatsApp group

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: Meritkosy: is an experienced Wikimedian and program manager who will serve as a facilitator.
• User: Atibrarian: an experienced Wikimedian and pioneer of Gombe Wikimedia Community.
• User: Salis062: is a season communication strategist, Wikimedian and will be serving as communication officer
• User: Umar2z: will be serving as a support trainer

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 have equipment. Training will be conducted to enhance their skills.

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

Post training evaluation using Google forms will be conducted to measure impact and learning which will form strategy for future engagement. New members will be onboarded to Gombe Network’s WhatsApp group for continuous engagement and communication.

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

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- 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved 120
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

The Programs & Events Dashboard tool will be used to tract users contribution

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 for the physical session × 2days: ₦40,000
• Promotional Materials like Banner, e-flyers: ₦10,000
• Transportation: ₦10,000
• Rental of projectors : ₦10,000
• Generator and fueling × 2days = 20,000
• Rental of public Address system × 2days  : ₦10, 000
• Lunch with water 2000 per person × 30 =: ₦60,000
• Prizes for top 5 editors: ₦20,000
• Wikidata birthday cake: ₦10,000
• Total budget: ₦190,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

 Strong support:I strongly believe that celebrating Wikidata's birthday with Knowledge Empowerment will help in empowering Gombe Wikimedia Network. I wholeheartedly endorse this project and encourage others to support it as well. It is an excellent opportunity to celebrate Wikidata's contributions, promote open knowledge, and empower individuals to become active participants in the Wikimedia mission.Meritkosy (talk) 19:40, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

 Strong support This project will help improving the capacity of community members in contributing useful data and manipulating (Querying) Wikidata to retrieve stored information. Atibrarian (talk)