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Project summary

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Briefly summarize your project proposal.

We aim to significantly enhance the representation and quality of Yoruba language books on Wikibooks. The goal is to train participants on how to use Wikibooks and also create a robust collection of educational resources that reflect the rich cultural heritage and knowledge of the Yoruba people, an ethnic group of over 48 million individuals in Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.

Challenges and Problems:

  1. Wikibooks is alien to a lot of people in the Osun Wikimedia Network.
  2. Underrepresentation: The Yoruba language section on Wikibooks currently lacks comprehensive and quality content, making it difficult for Yoruba speakers and learners to access valuable educational resources.
  3. Language Preservation: Without sufficient digital resources, the Yoruba language risks diminished usage among younger generations, leading to a potential erosion of cultural identity.
  4. Educational Barriers: The scarcity of resources and content on Wikibooks limits educational opportunities for Yoruba-speaking students, educators, and self-learners.

Main Approaches to Achieve This Change:

  1. Edit-a-thon: Create 10 new Yoruba books across various subjects, ensuring they are accurate, engaging, and educational. This will involve both writing existing educational materials and creating new, original content.
  2. Content Improvement: Edit and enhance 50 existing Yoruba books to improve their accuracy, quality, readability, and usefulness. This also includes updating and improving outdated information and correcting errors.
  3. Community Engagement: Recruit and train 10 new contributors from the Yoruba-speaking community to participate in creating and editing Yoruba books on Wikibooks. This would be done through workshops, online training sessions, and close monitoring and support to ensure high-quality contributions.

Wikimedia Project

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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.

Wikibooks

Contact person and Location

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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: Osun Wikimedia Network
  • Email address: onitimileyin7@gmail.com
  • Address:Osogbo, Osun.
  • Location of Project: Osogbo, Osun.

Project class

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

Network

Timeline of activities

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

Start Date: 26/08/2024 End Date: 20/09/2024

Project Goal

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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

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Activities

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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 editathon

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? 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.

  1. Social Media platforms
  2. WhatsApp Group

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead/assist the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse and sign your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

  1. RukayatAjeigbe
  2. OTim75
  3. Ogundele1

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

We will follow up with them on our community WhatsApp group

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

No

Impact

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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 - 1
  2. Number of participants - 30
  3. Number of new editors - 10
  4. Number of of articles created - 10
  5. Number of of articles improved - 50
  6. Number of of images uploaded -
  7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

Metrics tracking

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

The Wikimedia event outreach dashboard and Hashtag tool will be used to track participants contributions.

Resources

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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).

OTim75 will be the project lead. I have participated in and coordinated several Wikimedia projects, events and workshops, some of which include Info-tourism and Wellness, Wikipedia Awareness in Ilesa, Wikidata for Tourism in Nigeria, and Wikidata of Media Personalities in Nigeria, Wikipedia Awereness in Ilesa amongst others. I'm also a founding member of Osun Wikimedia Network and currently serving as the vice president of the Network.

RukayatAjeigbe, co-facilitator, a certified Reading Wikipedia in Classroom, and President of the Osun Wikimedia Network. She has led a number of Wikimedia projects as the president of Osun Wikimedia Network, and she will use her wealth of knowledge to ensure the smooth running of the project. She will train participants as a facilitator during the trainings.

Ogundele1 will be the logistics manager, an experienced Wikimedia project editor who has led a number of Wikimedia projects. As the second president of the Wikimedia Fan Club at the University of Ibadan, he recruited editors who are now experienced in editing Wikimedia projects. He has participated in and led many Wikimedia projects which include, Wiki Loves Africa, 1Lib1Ref, Wikimedia Pages Wanting Photos, Wikify; Wikidata and SPARQL Training, Wiki Climate Campus Tour Nigeria, among others.

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

  1. Venue rental= 50,000
  2. Branded T-shirt for facilitators= 15,000
  3. Food and refreshments 4,000*30= 120,000
  4. Projector/screen rentals = 15,000
  5. Sound system = 15,000
  6. Publicity, flyers = 15,000
  7. souvenirs and merchandise (branded book and customised pen)= 30,000
  8. Logistics= 15,000
  9. Miscellaneous and contingencies = 10,000

Total amount= #285,000



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