Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikipedia Outreach/Sensitization in Anambra State University,Igbariam
Project summary[edit]
Briefly summarize your project proposal.
Anambra State University is a State University yet to know about Wikipedia and it's Sister projects. The idea of this project in this university 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 project, 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.
Contact person and Location[edit]
Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location
ernestnzube@gmail.com
peacetilo92@gmail.com
Anambra State
Timeline of activities[edit]
Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project
15th-16th May,2023
Project Goal[edit]
Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.
- recruit new editors
- Add or improve content
- Attract lecturers and students to Wikimedia project
- Giving the Institution online visibility.
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?
It will be a two days Sensitization/training and 2 weeks edit a thon
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.
I will be using the WhatsApp group to let community members to know about the application and the project status. I have also informed Wikimedia Anambra network here
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.
A WhatsApp group will be created for the purpose
Email and flyers will be sent to them.
4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify
User:Akwugo 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 they have smartphones and laptops and will support by impacting knowledge on how to navigate the Wiki interface.
6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?
After the event,we will continue mentoring and follow up online and offline. We will create WhatsApp group for follow up, discussion and dissemination of informations.
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 Wikimedia Anambra network.
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 53
- Number of new editors 30
- Number of of articles created or improved 200
- Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 20
Metrics tracking[edit]
How do you plan to track your project metrics?
We will use the outreach dashboard and xtool.
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).
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
Hall .......50,000
Refreshment 1500*30*2.........90,000
Projector 10,000*2.......20,000
Data support for participants .......45,000
Banner/flyers ......10,000
Transportation .......20,000
Souvenirs ........15,000
Prizes for top participants ......20,000
Refreshment for facilitators 3,000*3 .....9,000
Data for facilitators .......5,000
Total 284,000
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