Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikimedia awareness and training in (ANSPOLY) 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. 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. wikidata, wikicommons and wikiquote. etc 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. wikidata, wikicommons and wikiquote. etc

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.

wikidata, wikicommons and wikiquote. etc

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.

wikidata and 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: NZUBECHUKWU ERNEST
• Email address: ernestnzube@gmail.com
• Address: Awka North
• Location of Project: MGBAKWU

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

5TH May -10TH May

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 Commons, Wikidata.

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:Timzy D'Great

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 (only those applicable to your project):

1. Number of events -2
2. Number of participants -30
3. Number of new editors -30
4. Number of of articles created -100
5. Number of of articles improved -100
6. Number of of images uploaded -30
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -20

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? (do not create a metrics dashboard until your project has been approved for funding)

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/food and water.........90,000

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

Banner/flyers ......20,000

miscellaneous .......40,000

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

Prizes for top 10 contributors......50,000

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

Total 299,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

 Strong support An educative and vital project! I strongly endorse this project for its importance in the community (Mgbakwu) also it's objectives towards goals of wikimedian movement 2030 projects(sensitization of the free open knowledge) Senator Choko (talk) 20:00, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

 Strong support This event which aims at creating Wikimedia awareness to the academia of Anambra State Polytechnic Mgbakwu is an important one as it'll help recruit new Wikimedia editors, create new contents and also improve already existing ones. I strongly endorse it. Timzy D'Great (talk) 20:08, 13 March 2024 (UTC)