Wikipedia Awareness In Osun State

The creation of Wikipedia and its sister's project awareness In Osun State is targeted towards laying a solid foundation for the widespread adoption and use of Wikimedia products among the youths especially students in higher institutions in Osun State. This is in addition to exposure and helping them acquire numerous digital and research skills to enable them to contribute massively to articles that will increase the visibility of the growth and development of Osun State by creating numerous contents, alongside deploying the knowledge and skills learnt to contribute contents with original images for Wikipedia. This 4 weeks training has the potential to bridge the content gaps that exist about articles on different topics relating to Osun with the help of experienced editors ; many notable local and international scholars, organizations, tourist attraction sites such as the historical and research places, and many more in Osun state do not have wide coverage on Wikipedia.

Action Points

• Create awareness on Social media.
• Collection of Interested Participant data [1]
• Teach participants how to access and create a Wikipedia and Wikidata account.
• Introduction to Wikipedia and Wikidata.
• Introduction to Wikipedia and Wikidata project tools.
• Introduction to Wikicommons
• Practical hands-on and edithathon on how to edit the English Wikipedia articles.
• Practical hands-on and edithathon on how to edit Wikidata items.
• Practical hands-on and edithathon on how to upload images to Wikicommons.
• Discussions about the specific challenges of editing Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikicommons.

How to participate

Sign in or Create a New Account on Wikipedia.

Enroll on the Outreach Dashboard to track your contributions (24th September-_24th_October) Editing Wikimedia Promotions in Federal University Kashere.

Sign up in the participants section on this page.

Attend the physical events on the .

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Participants

To participate you need to sign up on the participants section and join the September-_24th_October) event dashboard to track your contributions. To add your name, edit this section and type '#~~~' below without quotes.