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Project summary[edit]

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

  • OAU wikimedia community aims to host a physical meet up for its community members to sustain the community, network and also increase visibility on campus and contribute to wikimedia projects

Wikimedia Project[edit]

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[edit]

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: Adetoro Praise
  • Email address: adetoropraze20@gmail.com
  • Address:ife osun state
  • Location of Project:ile-ife osun state.

Project class[edit]

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

  • Applying as a community ( Oau wikimedia community)

Timeline of activities[edit]

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

  • 19 December 2023

Project Goal[edit]

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
  3. increase visibility on campus

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?

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.

Community 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.

Whatsap group, text message, zoom and physical meeting

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: RukayatAjeigbe
user: Praise03

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

Yes participants have the equipments to participate ranging from mobile phones to systems. Some of the participants have the skills to participate, it’s my duty to train the new ones and help them with the essential skills to participate

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

Community WhatsApp group, and zoom meetings

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

The OAU wikimedia community is a growing community that is yet to be recognized very well. This project will help increase our visibility and help raise passionate editors in the Obafemi Awolowo university

Impact[edit]

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

  1. Number of events: 1
  2. Number of participants: 30
  3. Number of new editors:15
  4. Number of of articles created or improved:
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking[edit]

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

event dashboard

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.

Venue rental: 50,000
Data support to editors:10,000
Gift to top editors: 30,000
Food and refreshments: 110,000
Projector and Public address system: 20,000
Data and transport support for facilitators:30,000
Miscellaneous: 30,000
Total= 280,000

Endorsements[edit]

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

Submit your report[edit]