Grants:Project/Rapid/Abubakar A Gwanki/Hausa Wikipedia Promotion in Daura
- Please see the sample General promotion campaign application before drafting your application.
- You can also read a recent general promotion campaign application, Promotion of Maithili Wikipedia and their related report.
Project Goal edit
Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed. You can add details to each goal.
- Online promotion of Wikimedia project(s)/campaign(s)
- Offline promotion of Wikimedia project(s)/campaign(s)
- To bring Awareness about Wikipedia
- To Recruite new editors
Project Plan edit
Activities edit
Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
1. What is your promotion plan?
You can do a campaign involving billboards or rickshaw announcements to promote a Wikimedia projects, such as Santali Wikipedia, at different places in a city. You can promote an online campaign such as Wiki Loves Monuments on Facebook, Twitter, etc using ads. You can also create gifs/slideshows or other easy to make multimedia files and use them to promote your project on social media.
- This program will take three days to run. The first day We will publish articles on Pamphlets and distribute to the people especially youths and students, and taking pictures of monument and Hausa historical places in Daura. Second and third day we will organize special events to train people how to edit Wikipedia and also how they can help to promote Hausa Wikipedia. There are also historical artifacts in Daura, this project will take pictures of them and upload to Commons to promote some of the Wikipedia articles.
2. How will you let your community know about the promotion campaign?
Please paste links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.
- I will let them know by our Hausa Wikipedia Discussion page and I'm an administrator to our Hausa Wikimedians facebook and WhatsApp page so I will post there.
3.Do you have any experience in promoting Wikimedia projects either online or offline?
Were you involved in a similar project in the past? Do you have any other experience related to online/offline promotion?
- Yes I have participated as Facilitator in Online Hausa Wikipedia Awareness in Kaduna. And I also organized a previous successful Wikipedia Awareness in Kano Metropolis.
4. What is your post-promotion plan?
What do you plan to do after your campaign ends?
- I will provide an opportunity for Participants of the event and New Users to communicate in language and support them in continuing to teach them how to edit Wikipedia. Then I will make sure I uploaded all the pictures of Hausa history sites which i'm planning to take in the Commons and put some of the pictures in the relevant Hausa and English Wikipedia articles.
5. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:
6. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?
Impact edit
How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more:
- Number of people reached 1000
- Number of campaign participants 40
- Increase in pageviews for a Hausa Wikipedia
- Uploaded 100 Photos to Commons
Resources edit
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).
- I Abubakar A Gwanki will organize and lead the event.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.
| S/N | Item | Quantity | Unit Cost (NGN) | Total cost (NGN) | Total cost (USD) | Notes |
| Trainings | ||||||
| 1 | Training space | 2 days | 80,000. | 166,000 | 403.40 | space for the training venue for two days. |
| 2 | Data (internet access) | 1 | 40,000 | 80,000 | 194.41 | Data for internet access during the two days trainings |
| 3 | Laptop and Projector renting | 1 | 30,000 | 60,000 | 145.81 | Laptop and Projector will be rented for the two events event |
| 4 | Snacks and refreshments | 45 × 2 days | 2000 | 180,000 | 437.42 | 40 participants to participate for the two trainings |
| 5 | Bus tickets | 5 | 5,000 | 25,000 | 60.75 | Bus tickets to/from to reimburse organizers Kano to Daura |
| 6 | Transportation | 5 | 3000 | 15,000 | 36.45 | For transportation of Facilitators and some Participants who will help me on the first day during photowalk of historical places in Daura and outside Daura city |
| 7 | Banner | 1 | 40,000 | 40,000 | 97.21 | Banner to be used during 3 days events |
| 8 | Souvenirs | 5 | 5,000 | 25,000 | 60.75 | This for organizer identification and also promotional |
| 9 | Promotional materials; fliers and pamphlets | --- | --- | 80,000 | 194.41 | this will be distributed during the events |
| 10 | Certificates | 40 | 1000 | 40000 | 97.21 | Certificate will be awarded to the participants |
| 11 | Accomodation | 4,000 × 3 days | 12,000 × 5 | 60,000 | 145.81 | This for the Facilitators accomodations for three days. |
| 12 | Contingency fees | During the whole events | 35,000 | 35,000 | 85.05 | for contingency |
| - | TOTAL PROJECT COST | 1 | 806,000 | 806,000 | 1,958.69 | **Forex rate used is $1 = 411.69 NGN provided by the Central Bank of Nigeria |
Endorsements edit
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- Yusuf Sa'adu (talk) 20:26, 6 August 2021 (UTC)]]
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Support This grant Umar-askira (talk) - Support it -M Bash Ne (talk) 00:15, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
- Support I really support this project because is a good idea. This project will help generate more Readers and reach out to Daura which is a town of Hausa origin. There is a need to do similar projects in cities like Daura. Hamza DK (talk) 22:31, 9 August 2021 (UTC)
