Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/ Celebrating 8th anniversary of women in red with wiki loves sports in Nigeria(Wikiquote)

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• women with inabilities in the world of sport is a strong statement on the capacity of a determined mind. but research have it that content on this women quotes on wikiquote are few. Celebrating the 8th year anniversary of women in red with women im sport is aimed at bridging content gap on women with inabilities quotes on wikiquote. create new articles and bridge gender gap on wikimedia project (wikiquote)

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.

• Wikiquote

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:Akintunde Daniel
• Email address:akintundedanielr7@gmail.com
• Address:Ilorin
• Location of Project:ilorin,kwara state

Project class

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• Individual

Timeline of activities

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

• 4th December - 30th December,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 Wikiquote
3. celebrate women in red
4. Improve participants knowledge about wikimedia sister project

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?

one physical training and edit a thon contest.

Physical Training/Edit-a-thon:Celebrating wowen in red campaign with women in sport for women with inabilities, the physcial training is into two sessions one training and edit a thon. the training session is about the introduction to wikiquote and how to add quality quotes and create new article. The edit-a-thon session is when participants are engage with contributing from what they have learnt and bridge content gap on wikiquote on women in sport with inabilities and disabilites to also have quality represntation on wikiquote to keep users motivated.

Edit-a-thon contest:The contest is focused on maximizing the contribution of participants on wikiquote, the edit-a-thon is to bridge gender gap,content gap on wikiquote. and engage our participants after the training.prizes will be given to top contributor to encourage them.

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 messaged the wikimedia user group Nigeria via their meta page about my project below is the link to the page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria

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.

Creating Awareness:we will be creating awareness through posting E fliers on our social media pages to inform people about the project and this is a way of communicating our project to our target participants

Through social Media: we will be creating a whatsApp group for our participants with the aim of continuously communicating and engaging them before,during and after the event.

Through Mail: we will be using the Email to officially inform participants about the physical training.

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:Akintundedaniel project lead

User:favourdare123 team member and trainer

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 internet connectable devices to effecyively contribute to the goal of the campign project like smart phones,high pads,laptop and tablets.

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

we will continue to engage our platforms by updating them about other projects, get them to join a community around them and continue to see their active engage. the training is focused on a sister project(wikiquote) and will be introducing them to other sister project like(wikibooks,wiki voyage and others) our participants will be added to the wikimedia nigeria general community for them to be exposed to the activities in Nigeria and globally. 7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

celebarating the 8th anniversary of women in red and focusing on adding more quotes from women in sport with inabilities.This campiagn creates another opportunity for participants who didnt participate for she said to learn and contribute to wikiquote in Nigeria.

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 1
2. Number of participants 20
3. Number of new editors 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved:Wikiquote 100
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 5

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

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).

User:Akintundedaniel i am an exprienced wikiquote contributor i have participated in different trainings and campaigns on wikiquote. i will be leading the project with the help of a team member

User:favourdare123 He is an exprienced contributor on wikimedia project and also a winner at ahe said women in kwara , he will be training participants on how to edit wikiquote.

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

Venue for physical event:NGN 40,000

Refreshment for participants:(NGN 2,000*20) NGN 40,000

E fliers NGN 10,000

Data for facilitator+ airtime for communication+ logistics (5,000x2):NGN 10,000

Prizes for top contributors:NGN 30,000

Miscellaneous and contingency: NGN 15,000

TOTAL :NGN 145,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

 Strong support I strongly support this project and the campaign goals as it bridge content gap in women sport especially women in sport with inabilities.. the project lead is an exprienced editor and i will be supporting the campaign to achieve it goals.