Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Zend2020/Grant for building the media community in Nigeria

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Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal. This is a WikiFact-Checkers training for media professionals in Nigeria. To create awareness of Wikimedia projects to the media community. We introduce Wikipedia, Wikidata training to media professionals and make them see how important Wikipedia is to the media.

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. Wikipedia, 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: Gbemisola Esho
• Email address:gbemiadepojuesho@gmail.com
• Location:Lagos, Nigeria

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 1*It is four weeks training Start October 2nd to 31st of October 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 or improve content on Wikipedia and Wikidata
3. Building and advocating for the media community to join the Wikipedia community

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?

We are having 2 physical trainings and 4 online trainings.

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 have announced on the Wikimedia Nigeria user group about the project on their Metapage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria and on WhatsApp

I will also tag them on X former twitter @Wikifactcheckers on X Twitter 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.

We have a WhatsApp group where we have 121 media professionals, we will also send out messages on social media

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:Semmy1960, User:Obawinner

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 engage them through social media channels, SMS, and calls we also have a community WhatsApp group.

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

WikiFact-Checkers is a growing community that is putting in the effort to increase media participation in Wikipedia in order to improve the quality of material and address the content gap and deficiency.

This project is a thrust in that direction by equipping the Media Professionals.

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 physical trainings 4 online
2. Number of participants 20
3. Number of new editors 10
4. Number of articles created or improved 100
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

1. Use the outreach dashboard

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).

The Wikifactcker members, will train the participants, and track the progress of the project.

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

1. Data for participants for training 40,000
2. Venue 130,000 for two physical meetings
3. Data for 3 trainers 15,000
4. transportation support for 3 trainers 60,000
5. Gift voucher First editor 15,000
6. Second editor 10,000
7. Third editor 5,000
8. Graphics and social media, banner 20,000
9. Photography 30,000
10. Contingency 10,000
11. Food and drinks 2000 x20x2days = 80,000

Total 400,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

 Strong support: Capacity building and training of media personnel around Wikimedia projects in the country is synonymous with opening up knowledge. The more involved the better and the quality of information editors work with becomes ubiquitous.

 Strong support: As a media professional, i think it is important to have the media as a strong community in the Wikimedia community. This will help change the negative narratives people have about Wikipedia. I am in support of this project strongly.

•  Strong support will support this project as it fills a void in equipping journalists and the public on the process of combating misinformation and improving credible information on media space. Obawinner

•  Support One of the ways in achieving our vision 2030 is in capacity building ,which is one of the initiative of movement strategy. Equipping the media personnel is a laudable oneOby Ezeilo (talk) 11:03, 16 September 2023 (UTC)