Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikidata and Wikipedia training for OAU wiki community

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

The OAU wikimedia community aims to host a physical meet up for its new and existing members to sustain the community network, increase visibility on campus and contribute to Wikipedia

Wikimedia Project

Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. English Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.

• English Wikipedia

Contact person and Location

Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location. For more than one contact person, indicate same details for everyone

• Full name: Adetoro Praise
• Email address: adetoropraise2019@gmail.com
• Address: ile-ife, osun state.
• Location of Project: Oau campus, ile-ife, osun state.

Project class

Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club

• Applying as a network ( OAU wikimedia community).

Timeline of activities

Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project

• Project starts 22nd of June 2024.
• we will have one physical event on the 22nd of June 2024. Followed by edit-a-thon and online training that will run for 3 weeks.

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

1. recruit new editors
2. Add or improve content
3. increase visibility on campus.

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

One edit-a-thon and two trainings (One physical training and one online training )

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.
You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

Through the community WhatsApp group.

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

WhatsApp group, text messages, zoom and physical meeting,

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

User: RukayatAjeigbe

User: Praise03

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

participants have the equipments to participate ranging from mobile phones to laptops. Some of the participants have the skills to participate, for the new editors, it’s our duty to train the new ones and help them with the essential skills to participate

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

Community WhatsApp group, and zoom meetings to discuss wiki related projects

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

The OAU wikimedia community is a growing informal community filled with passionate and active editors. the community is yet to be recognized well. This project will help increase our visibility and help raise more passionate editors in the Obafemi Awolowo university

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets (only those applicable to your project):

1. Number of events - 1
2. Number of participants - 20
3. Number of new editors -10
4. Number of of articles created - 20
5. Number of of articles improved - 40
6. Number of of images uploaded -
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -10

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? (do not create a metrics dashboard until your project has been approved for funding) Through the event dashboard

Resources

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).

Project organizer; Adetoro Praise

He will ensure the smooth running of the project. The publicity, reaching out to new volunteers, registering the event on campus, He will perform all administrative duties including rentals etc.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

Venue rental= 60,000

Transportation for facilitators= 10,000 Gift award amongst top editors = 30,000 Food and refreshments = 90,000 Projector/screen rentals = 20,000 Sound system = 10,000 Data support for facilitators = 10,000 souvenirs and merchandise = 25,000 Data support for editors = 20,000 Miscellaneous and contingencies = 30,000 Total = 305,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!