Grants:Project/Rapid/Abdullahi Mohammed Public Library, ABU Zaria/Wikipedia Awareness and training

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Rapid Grants

Abdullahi Mohammed Public Library/Wikipedia Awareness and training

This project will raise awareness and train students and lecturers in Ahmadu Bello University on how edit Wikipedia

targetEnglish Wikipedia, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba wikipedias

start date15 November

end date30 November

budget (local currency)820,000

budget (USD)2,000

grant typeindividual

grantee• Inyor4mr

contact(s)• ramatu4me@gmail.com

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• 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

Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed. You can add details to each goal.

1. Online promotion of Wikimedia project(s)/campaign(s)
2. Offline promotion of Wikimedia project(s)/campaign(s)

Project Plan

Activities

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.

We plan to carry out an offline promotion campaign at Abdullahi Mohammed Public Library of Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, in order to raise awareness of Wikimedia projects to the students, lecturers and the general community on how to edit and improve Wikimedia contents

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.

Personal visitation to faculties and departments in the university and onWiki Communities have also been notified Awareness Campaign in ABU Zaria, Awareness Campaign on Wikimedia/Wikipedia editing

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 was a facilitator at wikipedia birthday/anniversary in Kaduna city, Nigeria

Yes

4. What is your post-promotion plan?
What do you plan to do after your campaign ends?

We will keep up with the new users from the institution and connect them with the onwiki and social media groups for further engagement and guidance, we will also look for other communities around the university to do such program for more awareness about Wikipedia

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: Risk Assessment Tool Instructions

Risk Assessment Tool Instructions 6. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ok53PC5Ex8An5XtMyQ6iMIHvVaoPVqxGyIy3zpc2RAQ/edit?usp=sharing

Impact

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:

1. Number of people reached 500
2. Number of campaign participants 100
3. New users to Wikipedia 30

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).

I User:Inyor4mr and Dr. User:Yusuf Ahmed ABU Zaria have contacted User:M-Mustapha to come and do Wikipedia training at our library as we have seen him do in other places and he accepted, that is the reason we seek this funding for the project, he will be the trainer with some of his colleagues and we will help him in organizing and facilitating the event which aims to bring Wikipedia editing to the students of the University.

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

1. custom shirts 15USDx20 = 300USD

We would like to share customised Wikipedia shirts, pens, jotters and exercise books to the participants as gifts in order to encourage their participation.

1. customized exercise books 2USDx100 = 200USD
2. customized jotter 5USD x 50= 250USD
3. customized pen 2USDx100= 200 USD
4. customized sticker 2USD x 100= 200USD
5. Roll up banner 100 USD X 1= 100USD
6. local transport 100USD x 2= 200USD
7. food and refreshment = USD350
8. Data for internet access = 100USD
9. Bank charges =USD30
10. Contingency= USD70

"Total Budget"= USD 2000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

•  Strong support This project is proposed by the chief Librarian, Abdullahi Mohammed Public Library, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Malam Yusuf Ahmad and User:Nyor4mr, they are also lecturers at the department of Information and Library Science, I have known them and will also help do the training workshop for them. This project if accepted will be the first Wikipedia event at the university. M-Mustapha (talk) 22:05, 29 July 2021 (UTC)

•  Support Amadu Bello university the second largest university in Africa, this project will be the first event in the university. Bello Na'im (talk) 20:58, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
•  Strong support, This is a remarkable project, this will improve more contributions from the students of the University and Younger Nigerians. This will also enable the growth of Wikipedia in African Libraries.Haylad (talk) 13:10, 8 September 2021 (UTC)