WUGN/Reports/Newsletter/April 2022
WikiForHumanRights on Human Trafficking in Nigeria[edit]
The WikiForHumanRights on Human Trafficking in Nigeria was organised from the 5th March 2022 to 15th of April 2022. A 2-days event was organised in partnership with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Action Against Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants (A-TIPSOM) Nigeria, Nigeria Police Force, Yoruba Wikimedians User Group, Igbo Wikimedians User Group, Hausa Wikimedians User Group, and the Nigeria Immigration Service. It was held at IBIS Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos State from 29th of March to 30th of March 2022. There were representatives from of the partners. More than 50 people participated in the event, and more than 40 communities participated in the event. More than 100 articles were contributed to the English, Yoruba, and Hausa language Wikipedia and the event was broadcasted nationally by the Nigerian Television Authority. It was the first time the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria will be collaborating with law enforcement agencies to bridge the contents gap on the internet (and specifically on Wikipedia). Participants were selected from all the six geopolitical states of Nigeria. The project was supported by the European Union, and Alex Stinson, Senior Program Strategist, Wikimedia Foundation attended as special guests, and joined the participants online. read more...
Naija Office Hour: Changes to rapid grant, and #WikiUnseen[edit]
The Naija Office Hour: Changes to rapid grant, and #WikiUnseen was held on the 23rd of April 2022 to review and discuss the new changes to the WMF'S rapid grant and a new project called the #WikiUseen. Veronica Thamaini, Senior Program Officer, Community Resources Wikimedia Foundation was invited as a special guest to discuss the new changes with our community, and Sherry Anthoine, the executive director of AfroCROWD, was invited as a guest to speak about the #WikiUnseen. A total of 72 community members registered for the event from which 39 people attended. read more...
Wikimedia User Group Nigeria community Support Grant[edit]
The Wikimedia User Group Nigeria community Support Grant is a program designed by Wikimedia User Group Nigeria to support Nigerian mission-aligned organizations, individual members of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, fan clubs, organized group contributing to any Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, Wikidata or Wikimedia Commons with a budget of NGN 50,000 up to NGN 200,000. The design prototype was presented to the executive members for review, and the final version was published on the 14th of April 2022, and test-run on the 22nd of April 2022. The Community Support Fund Committee was constituted on the 23rd of April 2022, and the on-boarding meeting was held on zoom on the 28th of April 2022. The committee members selected are User:Gwanki, User:Agbalagba, User:Ugwulebo, User:Iwuala Lucy,and User:RukayatAjeigbe. To know more about the Community Support Fund read more...
Nigeria Language Oral History Audiovisual Documentation Project[edit]
The Nigerian Language Oral History Audiovisual Documentation Project is a project that aims at enriching the Wikimedia projects with freely licensed audiovisual files documenting spoken languages and dialects in Nigeria. The aim is to record more than 500 audiovisuals. It started in 2021 it produced 52 videos. This year, we aim to record an additional 50. Shooting began on the 20th of April 2022 and ended on the 30th of May 2022. The shooting took place in at least 15 local government areas in Cross River State of Nigeria and did it in partnership with the linguistics department of the University of Calabar. To know more about the project read more...
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