Nigerian Orphanages

Introduction

Nigerian Orphanages is one of our drives to improve Nigerian contents and increase Wikidata's participation in our community. The project focuses on training all interested persons on how to add content on Wikidata but most importantly, this project is an edit-a-thon/trainig project targeted at improving/increasing the number of Nigerian Orphanages on wikidata's database as well as recruit and engage editors.

Scope of Work

• Training: Collation of resources for training design and launch of program dashboard for measuring project metrics, communication channel and design of project landing page (Meta). This particular version of the project consist of a days series of offline hands-on training. Details of focused areas are listed in the table below.

• Mentorship: Attending to questions/feedback from participants, tracking of items, review.

Project Time-Lines/ Work Plan

Activities	Specific Activities	Time Lines	Expected Outcomes	Remarks
Awareness	Design and launch of Program dashboard for measuring Project metrics Design of project landing page ( Meta) Registration of participants on-wiki. Social media engagement eg. Whatsapp	1st May - 12th May. 2023	Participants are expected to visit the project landing page and for the upload galleries for a self-pace training session.
Live(online) Training	Introduction to the wikimedia movement and projects Introduction to Wikidata project Adding content to Wikidata Let the edit-a-thon begin	11th and 12th May 2023	Participants will be engaged in live(online) training sessions ( hands-on)	Duration (1hr) per session. sessions pictures will be uploaded and made available on the landing page
Mentorship Class	Attending to feedbacks from students. Allocation of assignment to students.	11th May - 14th May 2023	The following modules are expected to be covered: What is Wikidata / wikimedia movement Adding Contents to Wikidata Uses Wikidata / introduction to Edit-a-thon(items creation)
Edit-a-thon	New editors to create their accounts on or before the event ( if it has not been earlier created) Participants to sign up to the event dashboard	11th May. - 14th May. 2022	At least contents on 300 Nigerian Orphanages will be added/improved upon on Wikidata	to view participants participation, click [1]

Top Ten Editors

The following are our top 10 Editors in the project:

1. Moyinabby
2. Nkrubless
3. Siah27
4. Empiustor
5. Oluwagentle
6. Godfrey Emmanuel
7. Emeraldald
8. King Adetola
9. Matino183
10. Martinsbassey94

Images from live Training sessions

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