Grants:Project/Rapid/Alexfope/New West Africa articles

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"Alexfope/New West Africa articles"

To increase knowledge of science, gender and history related information from West Africa with addition of 250 new articles. My desire is to work with three libraries: the University of Ibadan library, Obafemi Awolowo University Library and University of Lagos libraries

targetEnglish Wikipedia and Commons

start dateMay 15

end dateSeptember 15 January 30

budget (local currency)425,000 naira

budget (USD)$1,125

grant typeIndividual

grantee• Alexfope

contact(s)• deleaca@hotmail.com

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Project Goal

Briefly 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".

This is a project to improve science and West Africa related content on English Wikipedia. The goal is to increase French speaking West Africa history subject matters, science (botany and agriculture) and history related contents . My goal is 250 new articles created at the minimum of start level. Improvement to existing articles is a secondary goal if better sources are found. Another goal is to complement the existing images of Nigeria on wikipedia.

There are two major goals improving science and agriculture related content and also West African history, there are sources available for the former which can be obtained with access to the internet, while I plan to dive deeper to research the latter. The latter is dependent on the quality and availability of source materials at the libraries. From the libraries, I can get a bibliography or foundation for further research.

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing?

I plan to make at least 15 trips to a minimum of three libraries. Access to library archives is the main priority, secondly, access to library materials. Access to library archives will include meetings with librarians.

In a different clime, a grant may not be needed but I am new to editing Wikipedia articles in Nigeria and I noticed that working on research takes a lot of data, time and planning. I plan to use part of my request to buy about one TB data for three months thereby if I do not get enough access to closed off materials there are materials from those universities available online (thesis/papers) that I could still work on. Also hope to develop relationships with the institutions.

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?

The Wikimedia User Group Nigeria was notified.notification

What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?

Hopefully get more information and knowledge out there

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:

I am not going to run events but plan on meeting with some people. Overall, meetings will be limited to less than three people.

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 specific to your project:

1. Number of total participants:3
2. Number of articles created or improved (if applicable) :250
3. Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (if applicable): 150

Resources

What 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 will be organizing the project

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense:

• Data - 100,000 naira. I Terabyte (GLo telecom)
• logistics - 100,000 naira. Anticipating nine major trips outside my state. 10,000 per trip x 9 trips (90,000). Within the state 1000 per trip x 6 trips (6,000 naira).
• Laptop upgrades and security features - 40,000. Plan to use (flash drive - 10,000 naira, VPN for three months - $36,and anti virus $40
• Workspace - 90,000 naira. Shared space for three months @ 30,000 per month. 30,000x 3)