Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/WIkimedia skills for Librarians in Kaduna State University, Kaduna - Nigeria (ID: 22260119)
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Applicant Details edit
- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Inyor4mr
- Organization
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Main Proposal edit
- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
WIkimedia skills for Librarians in Kaduna State University, Kaduna - Nigeria
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2023-11-02 - 2023-12-02
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Nigeria
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
1Lib1Ref
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
This project will create awareness among Librarians, students and lecturers in Kaduna state University on importance of wikimedia as open knowledge space for them to showcase their resources. Librarians are the overseers of information and will contribute in adding credible and reliable sources to Wikipedia articles. This will go a long way to engendering Wikimedia projects to emphasize the importance of open education resources, adoption, and utilization in teaching and learning. Furthermore, this project will attract more Academics to open access/knowledge initiatives and contribution of quality encyclopedic contents, references (1Lib1Ref), and GLAM (history, culture, tradition, languages, and valuable images) to Wikipedia and Commons to enhance the visibility (openness) and access to information. The overall plan and focus is on the university Librarians and the general Library staff. The main targets are librarians who are also academic members and library students also get involved. We will leverage on Sister Wikis: Wikidata (To add more Items), Commons (Upload More Pictures) and Translations. Wikipedia editors will be trained on verifiable sources of information resources to the wikimedia. this project will concentrate on Nigeria content especially added references, verification of the reference through fact checking tool. This project will imporve librarians and students in adding credible and realible source to wikipedia article. finally, this project will recuit and increase the participation of librarians and students in the north- west part of Nigeria for the 1Lib 1Ref campaign because there is little participation from this region of the country.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
I will be developing and delivering two online and two off-line trainings and will be carried out as follows:
- Awareness Drive: This is necessary to stimulate Wikimedia projects among the University. Various stakeholders and department will be visited within the schools. Posters and flyers will be utilized for far reaching promotion and recruitment amongst the students.
Training: After the awareness drive and recruitment of librarians and students, a communication channel will be created which is what app group for the participants. the training sessions will follow both online and offline to ground the prospective participant in basics and advanced contribution activities to Wikimedia projects. The trainings days will be as follow: Day 1: This will entail "how to navigate Wikipedia space and safety tips". Prospective participants will be guided to creating Wikipedia account, confirming their account, registering on the dashboard and signing up on the project page. Furthermore, they will be exposed to basic editing activities.
Day 2: This session will be an online session which will serve as an onboarding session. An experienced Wikimedian in person of Atibrarian and Umar-askir will be handling this session.
Day 3: This will help to create Wikimedia projects to the academic community and the need for their involvement as academicians. This serves as the hands-on practical session, the participants will be taught how to create new articles from scratch, contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Commons. Edit-a-thon: As stated earlier, there will be an edit-a-thon for the participants to put the knowledge acquired in use. At the end of the Physical Trainings, certificate of participation and awards will be provided to the top contributors. And will also be closing session of the physical trainings and certificates of participation will be given to participants and branded souvenir for top contributors
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
inyor4mr is the project lead and a fellow of the Wikipedia in African Libraries(WikiAfLIB) and the president of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, Kaduna Network. She is a top contributor and participant in several AfLIA led Wiki training for African librarians - Basics of Wikipedia Editing Learning Circle, African Librarians Week, 1Lib1Ref - Wiki Loves Libraries Nigeria, African Youth Month 2022 Wikidata Training, etc. She will facilitate on wikidata and wiki commons.
Atibrarian is an experienced wikimedian, a fellow of the Wikipedia in African Libraries (WikiAfLIB), and a certified trainer of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program. He will available to facilitate a session on how to create an article from scratch, improving an existing article.
Umar-askira, a experience editor in both English and hausa user group. he has lead so many projects. creating wikidata items
Em-mustapha : (Virtual Trainer) He is the co-founder and coordinator of Hausa Wikimedian users group since 2019.
friday must: communication officer during the project. he is a experience editor
Zmu'az4Z, Affinity24 will serve as volunteers to assist during physical and online training
LK-salati A mentor for wiki - in - school program Kaduna polytechnics will serve as advisers during the project
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
The target participants are librarians of the Kaduna State University, Kaduna in most cases librarians are also academicians and also library students in the university community. That is to say, the major target are librarians and library students in the university community though not ruling out other prospective participants. The university community will be communicated to by writing the institution’s management about the programme and benefits to the school community, and to ensure effective reach, fliers and banners will be given out to librarians/academics and student forum of the school. For follow up during and after activities, a WhatsApp group will be created specifically for prompt communication. To ensure continuity, sustainability and continuous development of members capacity, there will be onboarding to librarians among them will be onboarded to Nigerian Wikibrarian community WhatsApp group. 35 participants are targeted for this program.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
I have informed them at the Wikimedia UG Nigeria for suggestions and input. also wikibrarian group of librarians will be inform about the importance of the project through meta page and whatup group. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Wikimedia_
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Digital Access
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
Learning and metrics edit
- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
Did the project create awareness among targeted community?
What is their perception of Wikipedia? Did the programme meet their expectations? How to effectively recruit and train new editors for sustainability Did the project improve their digital skills to contribute to Wikimedia projects?
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 45 | the 45 participated included the facilitators |
| Number of editors | 20 | this new editors shall be trained on The Wikimedia general friendly space and UCoC policy will be summarized and read before the event sessions to serve as a reminder of acceptable behaviors for healthy interactions and learning space. |
| Number of organizers | 10 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 60 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 100 |
| Wikidata | 30 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abtsract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
The program and event dashboard and Wikimedia hashtag tools will be used to measure the metric in order to ensure that the set target was met.
Financial proposal edit
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uQ4FHIxsSjjDvA3nyeGUxH144jqO5j1SELG7Cj6HmyE/edit#gid=0
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
1501000 NGN
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
1959.89 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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