Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Yusuf Sa'adu/Wikidata Workshop and Edit-a-thon at Futua

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

I've headed up various Wikimedia efforts in Funtua Town, bringing in lots of editors. Although I've done projects for Wiktionary, Wikipedia, and Wikimedia Commons, I haven't tackled Wikidata yet. People are curious, so I'm planning a project just for Wikidata to teach them how to contribute well. Our goal is to boost the information about our local area on Wikidata.

Wikimedia Project

Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.

• Wikidata

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: Yusuf Sa'adu
• Email address: abbasaadumahuta@gmail.com
• Address: Funtua, Katsina State
• Location of Project: Funtua

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

• Start- 15th Dec., 2023 to 31st Dec., 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. Add and 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?

Is a two days project, first day we will focused on training about how they can create and improve data items, and how they can create lexemes.

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 already have Funtua Wikimedians WhatsApp group so I will share there and I will also share in Hausa Wikimedian User Group WhatsApp groups.

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.

All participants will know via WhatsApp group of Funtua Wikimedians and phone call as well as face to face announcement

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:Hamza DK

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

Participants have smartphones

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

I will engage them via Funtua Wikimedians WhatsApp group

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:

1. Number of events - 2
2. Number of participants - 20
3. Number of new editors - 15
4. Number of of articles created or improved - 130 including items and lexemes
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -15

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

Wikimedia foundation's dashboard tool

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).

I User:Yusuf Sa'adu, I will lead the event with the help of User:Hamza DK

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

1. Refreshment: 1,500 x 22 (participants and facilitators) = N33,000×2days=N66,000
2. Hall: N30,000×2days=N60,000
3. Event's banner:N10,000.
4. Data support for participants and facilitators :N1,000×22=N22,000×2days=44,000
5. Local transport to the college for facilitators: N2,000×2=N4,000.
6. T-shirts for facilitators:N5,000×2=N10,000.
7. Microphone - N20,000 for 2 days.
8. Contingency - N10,000

Total amount=N224,000

Endorsements

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