Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikipedia Awareness and Training in Adamawa state Polytechnic

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Adamawa State Polytechnic recognizes the importance of digital literacy and research skills in the academic and professional development of its community. This Wikipedia Awareness and Training Program intends to empower students with the ability to critically engage with online information, contribute to the world's largest knowledge repository, and foster a culture of open collaboration. The vision of the college, is “To Be

a Standard Polytechnic in Nigeria and Africa, Well Known for Its Technical, Vocational and Entrepreneurial Skills Training Development AND Self-Reliance” and our mission therefore is “To Provide Well Trained, Skilful Middle belt. The College no doubt strives in all its activities to ensure it fulfils its vision and mission and sustains its position as the first and the best in the comity of Polytechnics in Nigeria.

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

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: Mamman Ahmadu Ali
• Email address: alimamman194@gmail.com
• Address:Adamawa state
• Location of Project: Gombi

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

• 20 March 2024 to 20 April 2024

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. Add or improve content

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 physical training and one online 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.

We informed people by creating a WhatsApp group

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.

Social media platforms

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

Mamman AA: is the Project Lead, an experienced Wikimedian and contributor on Fulfulde language Wikimedia.

User:Muhammed Idriss criteria:is an experienced Fulfulde language Wikimedian and facilitator. He will be available to facilitate a session on contributing to Fulfulde language Wikipedia Atibrarian: is an experienced Wikimedian, trainer and pioneer of Wikimedia Gombe Network. He will be serving as project coordinator and online support session facilitator. 5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

We support them with data support

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

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 (only those applicable to your project):

1. Number of events -2
2. Number of participants -22
3. Number of new editors -8
4. Number of of articles created -50
5. Number of of articles improved -150+

1. Number of of images

uploaded -100

1. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -14

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? We will use a metric dashboard to track our edits

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).

User: Mamman AA Is one who leads this project and assisted by user: Muhammed Idriss criteria

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

1. Event Banner =15000

2. Camera= 7000

3. Projector Rental = 10000

4. Hall = 30000

5. Food and drinks =35000

6. Data support = 1500×22=33000

7. Gift for top contributors = 30000

Total= 160000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• I  Strong support this project because it will help to introduce Wikipedia in tertiary institutions in Northeastern Nigeria

Muhammad Idriss Criteria (talk) 17:30, 10 March 2024 (UTC)

•  Strong support I Look forward to sharing my experiences with the Adamawa State Polytechnic student community. Atibrarian (talk) 13:48, 12 March 2024 (UTC)