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The year 2022 started out on a very good note for the Igbo Wikimedians User Group. The first half the year went well with a lot of accomplishments. This was as a result of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group Simple Annual Grant 2022 which we appreciate the Foundation for. We've been able to explore and go all out without setbacks. This year, we were able to develop two unforeseen collaborations with: Black Lunch Table to host the Black History month. This led to the production of over 5000 articles which can be seen on the dashboard here. Another wonderful [Software Collaboration for Wikidata is with the Wikimedia Deutschland for our Wiki Mentor Africa program which involves a two year funding collaboration to develop the skills of young African developers. In the first to third edition, we've seen interests from an average of 55 developers from Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda etc. We have also been able to improve the User Interface of the Igbo Wikipedia and brought the Igbo Wikipedia to 8,299 articles. Our baby projects in the incubator namely: Igbo Wikiquote has gone from 30 quotes to 2,384 and Igbo Wiktionary from 1,500 to 2,180 with approval to leave the incubator. We have also been to improve the skillsets of our community members through learning webinars etc. This is a documentation of the programs carried out by the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and across its hubs and fan clubs in 2022.

1ST QUARTER ACTIVITIES[edit]

Ig Wiki Librarians Hub Online tutorial to guide new editors – 29/01/2022[edit]

This is an online session specifically to guide and tutor new editors under the hub. After guiding new editors we encourage them to participate and track their activities on the event dashboard

Igbo Wikimedians Usergroup Abia Hub. 5/02/2022 – 28/02/2022[edit]

The hub participated in a translate-a-thon on Notable Nigerian Women in Politics which encouraged participants to edit and translate articles on Notable Women Actively or Passively involved in Politics in Nigeria. The program commenced on the 5th of February 2022 and ended on the 28th of February 2022 with 16 participants and a total edits of 65 articles. Participants where trained on how to edit and translate articles on Wikipedia and where equipped with tools to aide them in their journey as editors. Event Dash Board

236 translations were done in the wiki interface translation exercise.

Ig Wiki Fan Club Awka Trainings and Translation of Igbo People around the World. 6/02/2022-3/03/2022[edit]

10 people participated in this project and a total of 91 edits was recorded. We had to train and retrain in using wiki interface, translation tools, Use of Igbo Keyboard, and quality content translation. Event Dash Board

Librarians Meetup at Nnamdi Azikiwe University – 18/02/2022[edit]

The Librarians Hub, one of the sub group's of the User Group had its edit a thon today focusing on Nigerian women on Wikidata at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State. During the event, 38 editors were in attendance. 23 editors successfully registered and logged into the dashboard, while others were blocked while trying to register.

At the end of the event, a total of 27 editors registered; there was a total of 509 edits; and 422 items were edited as at 18th February 2022, 21:08 (WAT). The events dashboard with participants can be found Tracking dashboard

Nigerian Women on Wikidata: Creating items and adding Igbo descriptions -18/02/2022[edit]

This event was an edit-a-thon event on adding Igbo descriptions to items of Nigerian women on Wikidata. It was held at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State. During the event, 38 editors were in attendance. 23 editors successfully registered and logged into the dashboard, while others were blocked while trying to register.

At the end of the event, a total of 27 editors registered; there was a total of 509 edits; and 422 items were edited(Igbo descriptions were added to these items) as at 18th February 2022, 21:08 (WAT). See events dashboard with participants here

Igbo Wikimedians User Group/Launch of Wiki Fan Club University of Nigeria, Nsukka and introduction to Wikipedia- 19/02/2022[edit]

An Introduction to Wikipedia and Igbo Wikimedia to interested students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, towards instituting an Igbo Wikimedians Fans Club in University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Edith-a-thon at IG Wikimedia Fan Club University of Nigeria, Nsukka – 22/02/2022[edit]

Nigerian Women in Politics, Career and Business Edith-a-thon by the newly activated IG Wikimedia Fan Club at University of Nigeria, Nsukka. 23 people were in attendance with 116 articles translated. See the event dashboard for more information.

Translate a thon on Nigerian Festivals, Igbo Music and Culture -23/02/2022[edit]

This event which was held on 23rd February 2022 in Awka, Anambra State, focused on translate a thon to encourage editors' involvement in translating and publishing English Wikipedia articles to Igbo under the Igbo Wikipedia. Expected number of participants was 15 but at the event there was a turn out of 32 participants. 28 got registered amongst which 6 were blocked and were unable to translate any article.

It was proposed that 75 articles will be achieved within a week after the event, but as at 10:00 WAT of 24th February (24 hours after the event), we achieved 106 created articles on Igbo Wikipedia. Other information can be found on the event dashboard.

Introduction to English and Igbo Wikipedia – 24/02/2022[edit]

Introduction to English and Igbo Wikipedia is an Ig Wiki Librarians Hub event focused on introducing and teaching new editors the basics of creating articles on English Wikipedia and translating/publishing on Igbo Wikipedia. To promote involvement of new editors,the event was a Translate-A-Thon and participants were encouraged to translate/publish articles during the event.

At the end of the event, a total of 17 editors registered; 89 articles were created; and a total of 202 articles were edited as at 25th February 2022, 04:25 (WAT). Comprehensive information can be found on the event dashboard.

Let's quote her – 26/02/2022[edit]

A Wikiquote Edit a thon to contribute quotes from notable women to Igbo Wikiquote. It would take place on Saturday, the 26th of February at CAVIc Hub, Wuse 2, Abuja.

Edit-a-thon on Wikidata: VC of Nigeria Universities 26/02/2022[edit]

VC of Nigeria Universities, Edit-a-thon/training by the newly activated IG Wikidata Fan Club at the Federal polytechnic Idah, kogi state. During the event, 42 editors were in attendance. 32 editors successfully registered and logged into the dashboard, while 8 were blocked while trying to register. 159 contents added, 201 items edited, 1.01k total edits.

It was proposed that 150 articles will be achieved within a week after the event, but as at 03rd march,2022 (5 days after the event), we achieved 159 items created . See below link [1] for more information.

Adding quality contents including uploading of pictures on Igbo Wiktionary. 03/03/2022 – 20/04/2022[edit]

206 edits were made and 24 pictures were uploaded with the help of 12 editors. The program commenced on 3rd March and we finished on the 20th of April 2022. The new participants were trained on how to create words and upload pictures on the Igbo Wiktionary. [2]

Introduction to Igbo Wikiquote -04/03/2022[edit]

Introduction to Igbo Wikiquotes was a training for old and new participants of the Ig Wiki Librarians Hub. The event was held on 4th March 2022 at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka Anambra State participants were thought how to create quotes of notable people in Igbo language. They selected names from the redlist in the Wikimedia Incubator to create new pages. Interested participants were Library and Information Science students and Management Science students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University.

15 participants were expected to participate during the training but due to blocks during registration, 13 participants registered on the event dashboard. These participants were expected to create at least 5 articles each. Participants were encouraged to use their smartphones to participate and at the end of the training, 65 articles on Igbo Wikiquotes,were created 73 articles edited and 177 total edits as at 7th March 2022, 11:09 (WAT). Additional information can be found on the event dashboard

Wikipedia in Campus: On Becoming a Wikimedian – 05/03/2022[edit]

A Wikipedia translate-a-thon carried out to Launch the Igbo Wiki Fan Club in Alvan; to Sensitize and Train the students of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, about the Wikimedia Foundation, to contribute in making available Articles on Notable Nigerian Women both in Academia and Sport to Igbo Wikidata. It took place on Saturday, the 5th of March, 2022 at ETF UPSTAIRS, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, Imo State.

The event focused on introducing and teaching new participants the basics of creating articles on English Wikipedia and translating/publishing on Igbo Wikipedia. It also focuses on encouraging and indulging the involvement of these newbies in the Translate-A-Thon activities and they were eager and happy to translate/publish articles during the event.

At the end of the event, a total of 16 Editors successfully registered; while quite a number were blocked. As at the time of this report being 9th March, 2022 82 Articles were Created; 137 Articles were Edited and a total of 183 Edits were recorded, 08:00 (WAT). Comprehensive information can be found on the event dashboard.

Meanwhile, as at the time of this report, the participants are eagerly engaged in the translate-a-thon activities; hence, the figure is bound to change (on the increase aspect).

Also, those that couldn't register as a result of unforseen circumstances are being tutored online.

Translate-a-thon on Sports Men and Women in Nigeria. 05/03/2022 – 05/05/2022[edit]

This Program encouraged 7 participants to Edit and Translate articles from English to Igbo Language.

All of the articles were about Sports Men and Women that are from Nigeria and have represented the Country in different competitions, At least 100 articles have been edited and translated so far. The Event was held from 05/03/2022 to 05/05/2022 in Umuahia, Abia State. Event Dashboard

Training on WikiCommons – 6/03/2022[edit]

Igbo Wiki Fan club, Awka carried out training on how to upload pictures that were collected with reference to Wiki Loves Folklores 2022.

Wiki Loves Folklore 2022[edit]

This year for the first time, Igbo Wiki Fan club, Awka, hosted the Wiki Loves Folklore in our community. We had 14 participants join the contest and 300 photos about the Igbo culture uploaded. The photos can be seen here: from Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 organized by the Igbo Wikimedians User Group

Translation of the Wiki interface edit-a-thon. 9/03/2022 – 2/04/2022[edit]

The event started on the 9th of March and ended in Awka Anambra state on the 2nd of April 2022. It focused on training and retraining a few old editors and new editors. One interesting thing is that there is always discussion and agreement and a unanimous decision before we translate the sentence, this is due to the technicality of the project.

10 editors participated and 248 items were translated, However, one major challenge we had was that the dashboard could not track the event, we had to write them out using the word document

Introduction to Igbo Wikiquote II – 11/03/2022[edit]

Introduction to Igbo Wikiquote II was a training for interested participants under the Ig Wiki Librarians Hub. The event was held on 11th March 2022 at The Nigerian Book Foundation, Prof. Kenneth Dike Central e-library, Awka, Anambra State. Participants were thought how to translate English quotes of children authors to Igbo language. They selected names from the redlist in the Wikimedia Incubator to create new pages. The training participants were members of the Association of Nigerian Authors and students from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. This training was a continuation of Introduction to Igbo Wikiquote.

19 participants were on ground during the training, 4 were blocked, 2 had no smartphone. These participants were expected to create at least 5 articles each. At the end if the training, 124 articles on Igbo Wikiquotes,were created 136 pages edited and 448 total edits as at 13th March 2022, 04:37 (WAT). See event dashboard for more details

WikiGap Challenge. 13/03/2022 – 13/04/2022[edit]

This is a Nigeria public writing competition to create and improve articles that will strengthen Wikipedia coverage of Nigerian women. The winners received great prizes. The Challenge was organized as part of the global WikiGap campaign by Igbo Wikimedians User Group in Nigeria. It was an event to celebrate International Women's Day. Due to the prevailing global pandemic and to enable us reach more people in Nigeria, we therefore hosted a 2hr online training via Zoom on Wikipedia for interested participants followed by the online contest. 1002 articles were added during this challenge and there were 3 winners across the projects. The dashboard can found here:WikiGap Challenge dashboard 2022

Igbo Wikimedians User Group X Campus Photo Fest Wiki Loves Africa 2022 activities – 16/03/2022[edit]

Attendees were sensitized of the role photo contest like Wiki Loves Africa plays in the Wiki sphere, through a webinar titled Introduction to Free knowledge: Wikipedia & Wiki Loves Africa.

Her Community Walk a thon, Anambra Hub. 26/03/2022[edit]

Her Community Walk a thon Anambra Hub was held in the city of Onitsha. This project captured most of the prominent/historical sites, natural and cultural heritage of Onitsha.

We targeted to capture 100 pictures but we now have over 1000 pictures to upload on Commons. I must confess that this project was a huge success.


Learning Webinar – WikiCommons: Using the ISA TOOL. 9/04/2022[edit]

A learning to train our community members on how to use the ISA tool for WikiCommons. This is in line with one of our objectives for 2022 which includes building the Skillsets of our community members.

Register for the Using the ISA TOOL, Webinar here (Please use the format as shown below to register):

Her Community Commons Training. 9/04/2022[edit]

This training held at IBA Ajia , 25 Tasia Street, Inland Town, Onitsha, Anambra State was a success not withstanding the challenges encountered by both the Facilitor and all the attendees.

Everyone's IP addresses was blocked by Fish, a robot I guessed. In fact there was incessant blocking throughout the contest and training, these frustrated contributors by preventing most of them from contributing throughout the training and contest; and the Facilitor during the training -this made the Facilitor to re-train the attendees one on one.

Finally, there were 9 editors, 539 edits and 190 pictures were uploaded on Wiki Commons. The link below leads to the project outreach landing page. https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group,_Anambra_Hub/Her_Community_Commons_Training

1Lib1Ref: Fix reference errors on the Igbo Wikipedia- 11/05/2022[edit]

1Lib1Ref: fixing reference errors is an edit-a-thon event for participants and members of the Ig Wiki Librarians Hub. The aim of this event is to ensure clean articles on the Igbo Wikipedia by fixing existing reference errors that were generated during the process of translating and publishing articles. 15 editors were expected but at the end of the event, 14 editors registered on the dashboard, 11 participants for in-person and 3 participants for online. A total of 215 articles were edited (as at 11th May, 2022, 20:00 WAT) and reference errors were fixed. For more information see the event dashboard

Wiki Fan Club Awka- April 15th 2022[edit]

The fan club worked on the Igbo Wiktionary. 36 editors participated in this project. We created over 389 new words, edited over 900 words, uploaded 124 photos to wiki commons, and attached 254 to Wiktionary words, In summary, we had 1.59k total edits. Attached is the Event Dashboard here

Igbo Wikimedians User Group 1Lib1Ref cite-a-thon – 15/05/2022 to 29/05/2022[edit]

This is a maiden event for Ig Wiki Librarians Hub and the aim was to join the 1Lib1Ref global campaign. However, at the end of the event (29th May), a total of 21 editors registered on the dashboard, 1.44k references were added, 678 articles were edited, and a total edit of 1.43K as at 30th May 2022 8:09am (WAT). See event dashboard here for more details.

Wiki Club FGGC Bwari-18th May 2022[edit]

The Wiki Club of Federal Government Girls College Bwari-Abuja worked on adding content about Nigerian Women in Politics, Media, and Education on Wikidata. 42 Students participated in the project. We created 5 new pages, edited 50 items, and added 169 references and 13 pictures. In summary, we had a total of 397 edits During the Wikidata training, we had some challenges: some students' accounts were blocked and some forgot their password, However the students learnt about about the contributions of the Nigerian Women they worked it and it really gave them encouragement to take their studies seriously. Event dashboard

Wikidata edit-a-thons/training on Mapping and increasing Nigeria hospitals. 19/05/2022 – 24/05/2022[edit]

A Wikidata series of Edit-A-Thon/training carried out in IG Wikidata FPI Fan Club, Federal Polytechnic Idah kogi state; to train the participants on how they can contribute to wikidata creating their items on mapping and increasing Nigeria hospitals on [3]

The event took place on Saturday, the 19th May, 2022 at the school (FPI) premises kogi State.

The event focused on recruiting new members, introducing and teaching both old and new participants the basics of creating articles on Wikimedia spaces and most important here on [4]

It also focused on rejuvenating the interest of the members to participate at the various levels of the Foundation's Activities, by first getting themselves familiar with in the various projects going on at both the Club Level and Community Level.

At the end of the event, a total of 27 Editors were present at the event, a brief training was also organized for 2 Editors that was interested, 19 Editors successfully registered while other members including those that had username before were Globally Blocked while trying to Sign-up.

100 Items was the targeted task to be carried out but, 115 Items was shortlisted on the meta page [5]

Meanwhile, the participants had successfully created and completed all the 115 items on the meta page in 24hours and more were added from the research made by the Editors.

As at the time/end of this project being 24th May, 2022 177 Items were Created; 187 Items Edited with a total of 1.68k Edits were recorded within 72hours. Comprehensive information can be found on the event dashboard. [6]

WikiForHumanRights Contest. 22/04/2022 – 02/05/2022[edit]

The Wiki For Human Rights Contest is a public writing competition to create, improve articles and to encourage Wikimedians to write about Human Rights in Igbo language. The tracking dashboard can be found here. At the end of the contest 42 editors registered on the dashboard, 913 articles were created as at 23:59 (WAT), 02 May 2022 and 1.56k articles edited. 8 editors listed their contributions on the contest page and top 3 were selected for prizes.

WikiQuote Edit-a-thon on African Entrepreneurs – 23/04/2022[edit]

A WikiQuote Edit-A-Thon/translate-a-thon carried out in Igbo Wiki Fan Club, Alvan; to train the participants on how they can contribute to the page page by editing and translating quotes from notable African Entrepreneurs to Igbo Language. The event took place on Saturday, the 23rd April, 2022 at ETF UPSTAIRS, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, Imo State.

The event focused on introducing and teaching both old and new participants the basics of creating articles on English Wikipedia and translating/ publishing on Igbo WikiQuote page.

It also focused on encouraging and indulging the involvement the members to be active in the various activities of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and Wikimedia Foundation in general.

At the end of the event, a total of 13 Editors successfully registered. As at the time of this report being 24th April, 2022 129 Articles were Created and added to the page out of the 184 names created on the Red List Link; 131 Articles were Edited and a total of 195 Edits were recorded, 09:37 (WAT). Comprehensive information can be found on the event dashboard.

Meanwhile, as at the time of this report, the participants are eagerly engaged in the Edith-a-ton/translate-a-thon activities; hence, the figure is bound to change (on the increase aspect).

Women around the world on Igbo Wikiquote – 25/05/2022[edit]

This event which was held on 25th May 2022 in Awka, Anambra State, focused on creating and translating English Wikiquote articles of women to Igbo Wikiquote. Expected number of participants was 20. We had a turn out of over 20 Participants at the training. 23 of them were able to login the dashboard while others were blocked. Target number of Wikiquote articles to be created was 100. After the program we created 152 Igbo Wikiquote articles. The event was a success despite the challenge of having some of our Participants blocked during the training. Other information can be found on the event dashboard.

Edit-a-thon on African Women in media. 27/05/2022[edit]

This event carried out on 27th May,2022 at Okpuno,Awka focused on the impact of sourcing new members to join the movement, training the new and old members on the basics of translating Wikipedia and how to translate from a source language to target language, creating new articles on African Women in media which is part of the impact the project promise to render.29 participants attended the program which 16 out of them were new participants. At the end of the event,21 participants where able to login and 9 out of them were blocked which the event produced 152 articles but After the end date, we have 187 articles created,197 articles edited and 206 total edits. The program was a successful on only with the challenge of several participants being blocked, discouraging more who would have joined.Other information can be found on the board

Wiktionary Edit-a-thon.28/05/2022[edit]

During the event 11 editors registered for the edit a thon, At the end of the project 283 pages were created, 396 words were edited and about 40 pictures uploaded on commons and added to the Wiktionary pages. Attached is the dashboard for the event. Find attached detailed information on the Link Below. Event dashboard

A Wikipedia Edit-a-thon/Translate-a-thon on African Entrepreneurs – 28/05/2022[edit]

A Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon/translate-a-thon carried out in Igbo Wiki Fan Club, Alvan; to train the participants on how they can contribute to the page page by translating and creating their articles on notable African Entrepreneurs on the ig.wikipedia.org page.

The event took place on Saturday, the 28th May, 2022 at ETF UPSTAIRS, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, Imo State.

The event focused on recruiting new members, introducing and teaching both old and new participants the basics of creating articles on English Wikipedia and translating/ publishing on Igbo Wikipedia page.

It also focused on rejuvenating the interest of the members to participate at the various levels of the Foundation's Activities, by first getting themselves familiar with in the various projects going on at both the Club Level and Community Level.

At the end of the event, a total of 14 Editors successfully registered while 2 new members were Globally Blocked while trying to Sign-up.

As at the time of this report being 30th May, 2022 157 Articles were Created; 158 Edits with a total of 196 Edits were recorded, 10:21 (WAT). Comprehensive information can be found on the event dashboard.

Meanwhile, as at the time of this report, the participants had successfully created and completed all the articles on the ig.wikipedia.org page.

Introduction to the Igbo Wiktionary - 31/05/2022[edit]

Introduction to the Igbo Wikitionary was an event to teach and show participants how to create new words, edit existing words and also add Igbo words pronunciation on the Igbo Wiktionary. The event was held in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria on 31st May, 2022. A total of 21 editors registered for the edit-a-thon, 6 of them being new editors. At the end of the project, 202 new articles were created, 409 articles were edited, and there was a total edit of 940 articles as at 25th June 2022. More information about the project can be found on the event dashboard here

Fixing reference error on the Igbo Wikipedia 2.0 - 29/06/2022[edit]

This edition of fixing reference errors was to teach new members, retrain and engage old members of the Ig Wiki Librarians Hub on fixing reference errors. After the previous edition, it was necessary to show more editors how they can successfully correct reference errors. The 2nd edition was held on Wednesday, 29th June, 2022 at Nigerian Book Foundation, Awka, Anambra State. At the end of the event, a total of 15 editors logged into the tracking dashboard with a total of 207 edited articles and 407 total edits as at 30th June, 2022, 10:10 (WAT). see event dashboard for more details.

2ND QUARTER ACTIVITIES[edit]

Learning Webinar 2.0 – FIXING REFERENCE ERRORS ON WIKIPEDIA[edit]

On the 2nd of July, we hosted a second edition of our learning webinar to train our community members on how to fix the broken reference errors on Wikipedia. This is in line with one of our objectives for 2022 which includes building the Skillsets of our community members. There were 37 community members in attendance.

Register for the Webinar below by adding your name under all others. Add #~~~~ to sign your name

Learning webinar Participants[edit]
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  3. Accuratecy051
  4. Nzechimere(talk)
  5. Excel mimi(talk)
  6. Yhong kesh (talk)
  7. Akwugo (talk)
  8. Snow flakes (talk)
  9. Pablo s coba (talk)
  10. Kenneth Anene(talk)
  11. Ennydavids (talk)
  12. Onyinye Jane Achukwu
  13. Chikeme Chizurum (talk) 09:21, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  14. Viva33 (talk
  15. Iwuala Lucy (talk) 09:33, 27 June 2022
  16. Ngoudechi (talk) 20:21, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  17. User:Onyema Jovita Chinenye (talk)
  18. Celetex (talk)
  19. Amara ChukwuEbo (talk)
  20. Onwuka Glory (talk) 10:44, 27 June 2022 (UTC) Onwuka Glory[reply]
  21. Timzy D'Great (talk) 13:51, 27 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  22. Lebron jay (talk) 14:21, 27 June 2022 (UTC)Lebron jay[reply]
  23. Senator Choko (talk) 15:09, 27 June 2022 (UTC)Senator Choko[reply]
  24. Onyeike Izuchi (talk)4:21, 27 June,2022(UTC)
  25. Emilliana (talk) 4:37,30 June,2022
  26. Chrysella (talk) 17:09, 28 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Ceslause (talk) 19:47, 1 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Dera xoxo

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Pictures Training[edit]

This is a virtual meet up to train community members on how to improve Wikipedia Pages with Pictures with special focus on the Igbo Wikipedia. It would take place on the 8th of July. Register below if you're attending.

WPWP training Participants[edit]

Register for the training below by adding your name under all others. Add #~~~~ to sign your name


Wikidata edit-a-thon/training on Mapping and increasing Nigerian guesthouses. 13/07/2022 – 20/07/2022[edit]

A Wikidata series of Edit-A-Thon/training carried out to train the participants on how they can contribute to wikidata, Mapping and increasing Nigerian guesthouses on wikidata [1]

The event took place on from Wednesday, 13th july. on zoom. The first session held on 13th july was an introduction to the wiki-community and how to create an account. The second session held on 17th july was on how to create new items (guesthouses) on wikidata. The last session held on 18th july focused on adding properties and references to the items (guesthouses)

The event focused on recruiting new members, introducing and teaching both old and new participants the basics of creating articles on Wikimedia spaces most importantly on wikidata [1] It also focused on rejuvenating the interest of the members to participate at the various levels of the Foundation's Activities, by first getting themselves familiar with in the various projects going on at both the Club Level and Community Level.

At the end of the event, a total of 29 Editors registered for the event on the dashboard, training was also organized on how to create and setup a wikidata account. Over 15 new Editors successfully registered while some had their IP addresses blocked while trying to Sign-up. 200 Items was the targeted task to be carried out. Meanwhile, the participants had successfully created and completed all the 200 items on the red-list and more were added from the research made by the Editors.

As at the time/end of this project being 20th july, 2022. 315 Items were Created; 362 Items Edited with a total of 1.92k Edits were recorded. Comprehensive information can be found on the event dashboard. [3]

Translate Wikidata properties to Igbo language, 04/08/2022 - 05/08/2022[edit]

The online and in-person event was successful. Participants contributed immensely and were willing to uphold the skills and lessons. Some participants continued contributing even after the event ended. At the end of the sessions, there was a total number of 1,830 revisions; 576 labels were added, 615 descriptions were added, 300 aliases were added as at 7th August 2022, 20:08 (WAT). See event dashboard for more details.

There were a few challenges which we overcame during the event. During the event, it was discovered that some participants were not able to translate Wikidata properties to Igbo language because there was no edit button on their interfaces, probably because they are new users or are not autoconfirmed on Wikidata. Despite the challenge and due to their willingness to contribute, the list of places and continents was generated for new participant to translate but the issue of not being able to edit re-occurred. Finally, the new participants, were able to edit the list of Nigerian states and local government areas (items). Furthermore, the event dashboard was not recording the characters added by participants that edited properties. We relied on using the activity log on the dashboard and user contributions of participants to track edits.

Igbo Wikipedia editathon, 20/08/2022 - 27/08/2022[edit]

Igbo Wikipedia editathon was an online contest aimed at improving articles on the Igbo Wikipedia. This improvements will enable more information about the article or subject through data boxes. Data box works like the infobox that is seen on the right corner of an article on English Wikipedia or other language Wikipedias. After a week's contest of improving articles on the Igbo Wikipedia, participants were able to edit 7,540 articles and a total of 7,930 edits were made. Prizes was awarded to top participants and other participants were also given consolation prizes. The contest was an interesting one because the list of the total number of articles on the mainspace of the Igbo Wikipedia were edited and improved by adding data boxes. The contributions of participants were tracked using xtool and the events dashboard. For comprehensive information see score sheet and event dashboard

Wikidata+languages: An introduction to Wikidata lexemes, 30/09/2022[edit]

This event was organized to introduce Wikidata Lexemes to members of the Ig Wikidata hub. Participants were shown how Igbo lexemes are created on Wikidata. A total of 60 Igbo nouns, verbs, and adjectives were generated for participants to create. After the event, there was a total of 857 Wikidata revision and 136 items were edited and 106 were created as at 05/10/2022. See tracking dashboard for more details.

3RD QUARTER ACTIVITIES[edit]

Peace Activist and Pacifist[edit]

A virtual training was organized in the University of Nigeria Wiki Fan Club on translation of English Wikipedia articles to Igbo after which followed an Edit-a-thon. It ran for the span of two weeks which started in the 15th - 29th of October, 2022.

A total of 16 editors were successfully registered on the dashboard but 11 participants attended the training. There were 6 new editors that got trained added to the old editors.

At the end of the Edit-a-thon, 435 Articles Created, 440 Articles Edited and 465 Total. Edits.

Participants were happy to learn new things about Wikimedia Foundation and showed interest to participate more in future events. see event dashboard for more details

Fixing reference errors on Igbo Wikipedia, 11/10/2022[edit]

Articles with reference errors increased from 500 to 1000+ articles and it was necessary to show more editors how they can successfully correct reference errors so as to reduce the number of articles with reference errors . Contest was also organised for the new participants and three lucky winners got their gift vouchers. It was held on Tuesday, 11th October, 2022 at Nigerian Book Foundation, Awka, Anambra State. At the end of the event, a total of 26 editors logged into the tracking dashboard with a total of 289 edited articles and 685 total edits as at 12th October, 2022, 23:59 (WAT). see event dashboard for more detailsy:Education in Nigeria]]

African Female Politicians:A Translate-a-thon – 15/10/2022[edit]

A Wikipedia translate-a-thon carried out at Igbo Wiki Fan Club, Alvan; on African Female Politicians to increase their visibility and breach the content gap on the ig.wikipedia.org page.

The event focused on rejuvenating, re-engaging and recruiting Wikimedians and teaching newbies on translating/publishing on Igbo Wikipedia. It also focuses on encouraging and indulging the involvement of these newbies in the Translate-A-Thon activities and they were eager and happy to translate/publish articles during the event.

At the end of the event, a total of 18 Editors successfully registered; while quite a number were blocked. As at the time of this report being 26th October, 2022 12:56 (WAT) 937 Articles were Created; 939 Articles were Edited and a total of 1.07K Edits were recorded.

Comprehensive information can be found on the event dashboard.

Wikdata Lexemes Edit-a-Thon – 26/10/2022[edit]

The event was organized to train and introduce wikidata Lexemes to members of the Ig Wikidata hub. participants were introduced to wikidata data lexemes and equally trained on how to add lexemes to wikidata, various lexicological data were added to igbo lexemes , the lexemes added were in phrase format, noun, verb and adjectives. At the end of the event, there was a total of 1086 Wikidata revision and 254 items were edited. See tracking dashboard for more details.

Wikidata Edit-a-Thon on Lexemes – 12/10/2022[edit]

The event was organized so as to enrich Wikidata with Igbo Lexemes so as to improve the forms of Igbo words and also to educate the participants on the importance of Lexemes to the Wikidata function. Participants were introduced to wikidata data lexemes and were also trained on how to add lexemes to wikidata, different variants of lexical categories totalling to 100 were added as igbo lexemes , the lexemes added were in single word format in as well as phrase format, noun, verb and adjectives and conjunctions.It was held on Tuesday, 12th October, 2022 at Nigerian Book Foundation, Awka.Contest was also organised for the new participants and three lucky winners got their gift vouchers. At the end of the event, there was a total of 761 Wikidata revision with 141 items which was edited and 99 were created as at 12/10/2022. See event dashboard for more details.

MAPPING NYSC ORIENTATION CAMP ON WIKIDATA – 14/10/2022 & 15/10/2022[edit]

An edit-a-thon project to create and improve content around National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camps and their addresses on wikidata. With a focus on recruiting, training and grooming new participants to become active contributors to the wikimovement. Project event was held on the 14th and 15th October of which it was an interesting and refreshing time with the new recruited participants as project goals and outcome were achieved with a total number of 30 participants and 500 items created and improved...for more info about the project, find below the project page and edit tracker made by participants during the event.
Project Page
Edit Tracker

Translating the Software that powers our Local Wikipedia - 21/10/2022[edit]

The project sought to teach participants how to translate the interface of our local Wikimedia projects using the Translate Wiki platform. The event was held in Awka, Anambra State on the 21st of October, 2022. A total of 26 editors registered for the training/edit-a-thon. Out of these 26 persons, 4 of them were new editors. At the end of the project, 308 MediaWiki messages were translated. Participants' contributions during the project can be found here


LEXEMES FORM WITH IMAGR FEATURES-15/10/2022 To 30/10/2022[edit]

The event was organized virtually for the FPI wikidata Hub participants so as to enrich Wikidata with Igbo Lexemes in other to improve the forms of Igbo words with images and also to educate the participants on the importance of Lexemes to the Wikidata functions. Participants were also introduced to wikidata data lexemes. The project was launch on the 15/10/2022 to 30/10/2022 and Lexical categories of 899 total total edits of images were added to igbo lexemes. Total number of 50 participants was targeted but, the sum of 35 participants was in attendance due to network glitches. See event dashboard for more details. [[https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/ig.wikidita/Lexemes_forms_with_image_features

LEARNING WEBINAR 5.0 (ABC OF WIKIMEDIA) - 9 - 11 December[edit]

From the 9th to 11th of December, we'll be hosting a learning webinar titled ABC of Wikimedia specially targeted at new community members to introduce them to the Wikimedia Movement, projects and how to get involved.

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