Grants talk:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Open Knowledge Practices Through Wikimedia Projects for Librarians in Benue State University, Benue State Nigeria (ID: 22978222)
Add topicIntroducing Benue State Librarians to Wikimedia Community
[edit]This project will introduce librarians in the targeted community to Wikimedia platforms and also bridge underrepresented articles about Benue on Wikipedia page. I endorse this project as the project lead, Meritkosy is capable to achieve its proposed objectives. Taoheedah (talk) 03:50, 17 February 2025 (UTC)
strongly supported
--Inyor4mr (talk) 14:54, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Endorsement
[edit]I strongly endorse the Open Knowledge Practices Through Wikimedia Projects for Librarians in Benue State University as a good initiative that bridges librarianship and Wikimedia projects. By equipping librarians with the skills to contribute to 1Lib1Ref and improving Wikipedia’s reference quality, this project will enhance the visibility of Benue State’s rich heritage while addressing reference gaps on Wikipedia and Wikidata. This initiative is also a crucial step toward improving access to credible information and fostering a culture of knowledge-sharing in Nigeria.
As an online facilitator, I will contribute my quota to the success of the project Ibjaja055 (talk) 03:24, 22 February 2025 (UTC)
Endorsement
[edit]Access to knowledge is needed to drive development in every sector. When librarians understand open knowledge practices they would be able to provide better access to knowledge for their user communities. It is therefore important that more and more African librarians understand open knowledge practices even as seen within the Wikimedia projects. Also, there have been moves to bring in the library sector more into the Wikimedia movement in Africa. A project like this would contribute to building a stronger bridge for collaborations between the library sector and Wikimedia communities in Nigeria. I strongly endorse this project. AfricanLibrarian (talk)
Strong support
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This is a timely project that seeks to support and complements the effort to get more African librarians involved in the development and strengthen open knowledge practices in Nigeria and Africa libraries. Atibrarian (talk) 20:11, 23 February 2025 (UTC)
Sustainable project and project lead competent
[edit]Merit, the project lead is a qualified librarian who also double up as a Wikimedian who has experience building capacity in the free space, this project is sustainable as she will integrate her combined experience in training the librarians in Benue State University Tesleemah (talk) 21:06, 3 March 2025 (UTC)
Funded
[edit]Hello Meritkosy, thank you for submitting this Rapid Fund request. We have reviewed your grant request and have decided to fund it in the amount of 2,095,000.00 NGN (1,392.84 USD). Please note that in some cases, project start and end dates have been adjusted to allow sufficient time for grant processing and payment.
We sincerely appreciate your contribution to the Wikimedia movement and wish you the best with your project! You will receive an approval email with the next steps required.
On behalf of the Sub-Saharan Africa regional review team. WBuloso-WMF (talk) 18:53, 9 April 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you. I sincerely appreciate the support and the opportunity to contribute further to the Wikimedia movement. Meritkosy (talk) 17:28, 14 April 2025 (UTC)