Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikipedia Awareness Campaign in Potiskum LGA Yobe State

Project summary

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• This project is aimed at sensitizing and equipping teachers, writers, and students in Potiskum local government to contribute in creating contents to the English and Hausa Wikipedia. Through this project we will also go on to improve their research, digital literacy, and critical thinking skills, as well as enriching Wikipedia with more useful contents.

Contact person and Location

Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location

• El-hussain14

elhussaini14@gmail.com
Yobe State

Timeline of activities

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

• Start date: March 19, 2023
• End date: March 22, 2023

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
2. Increase skills for existing editors
3. Add or improve the content on Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata
4. Community Meet-up for strategic development planning

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?

Meetup, Training and editathon

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.

An announcement has been made at the

WNUG community page 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 WhatsApp group

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify

• El-hussain14 is an experienced Wikipedian community organiser, and coordinator.

• Muhammad Idriss Criteria is an experienced Wikipedian, and will be available to complement as a facilitator.
• Mamman AA will be serving as moderator during the program and supporting the facilitator to ensure the accomplishment of the program objectives.

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

Participants will be participating with their laptops or smartphones.

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

WhatsApp group will be utilized in keeping participants updated with the latest developments during and after the programme.

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

This program will serve as a good opportunity for some teachers, writers and students in Potiskum LGA to learn and equipt with skills on how to edit, improve and create pages on Wikipedia.

Impact

How would 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 20
4. Number of of articles created or improved 100
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 10

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

The outreach dashboard will be utilised in tracking the project metrics.

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).

We have team of three experience editors, the organizer, facilitators and moderator.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

1. Venue ×2 = NGN50,000

2. Data Subscription for participants + trainer 30 × 1000= NGN30,000

3. Alternative Energy × 2 days = NGN10,000

4. Light refreshments @NGN2,000 ×30 = N60,000

5. Roll-up banner = NGN10,000

6. Projector rental+Sound System = NGN10,000

7. SWAG = NGN10,000

8. Contingency and Logistics= NGN10,000

TOTAL.= NGN190,000.

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