Grants:Project/Rapid/Abubakar A Gwanki/Kano State Secondary Schools On Wikidata
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Project Goal
editBriefly explain what are you trying to accomplish with this project, or what do you expect will change as a result of this grant. Example goals include, "recruit new editors", "add high quality content", or "train existing editors on a specific skill".
- Recruit new editors
- Increase skills for existing editors
- Add or improve content
Project Plan
editActivities
editTell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing?
- Hausa Wikipedia editors needing to learn how to create Wikidata Items, this program will be the first of its kind to teach Hausa Wikipedia editors how to create and Improving Wikidata items. The program will be for three days, the first day I will launch Training for new and existing editors on how to add data to Wikidata. In the next two days, we will have Edit-a-thon of creating and improving Items for Kano State Secondary Schools, both Government and Private on WikiData.
The program will also teach how to create Wikidata Items to Hausa Wikipedia editors, and what to create Wikidata for. How will you let others in your community know about your project (please provide links to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions)? Why are you targeting a specific audience?
- I will use our social media handles such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, I also discussed with some of our editors about the program via phone call. I also announced via Hausa Wikipedia Discussion page and Hausa Wikimedians User Group Discussion page
What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?
- I will continue to discuss with participants via social media, currently we have a special WhatsApp group of Kano Wikimedians. I will continue to engaging them to adding and improving the contents.
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:
Yes the link is here
Impact
editHow 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 specific to your project:
- Number of Events 3
- Number of total participants 20
- Number of articles created or improved (if applicable) 300
Resources
editWhat resources do you have? Include information on who is the organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).
- I Gwanki will lead the program with the help of M Bash Ne, Yusuf Sa'adu and Hamza DK as facilitators.
What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense:
- - Space Rental: $170.77 x events - $512.31
2- Food and Drinks: $7.32 x 20 X 3 events = $439.2
- - Data: $4.88 x 20 × 3 events = $292.8
- - Branded souvenirs: $12.20 x 10 = $122
- - Transportation for facilitators: $12.17 x 5 × 3 days = $182.55
- - Accomodations for Facilitators: $17.08 × 5 × 3days = 267
- - Certificate for Participants: $3.66 × 20 = 73.2
- - Special Wikidata Banner Tags and Flyers = 97.38
Total = $1986.44 Total NGN = ₦814,400.67