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Dallung Wikimedians Community/Introducing Wikipedia to Dallung Wikimedians Community
This project seeks to introduce Wikipedia and its sister projects to newly recruited editors. This has become necessary due to a successful completion of Wikipedia promotion Campaign in Kumbungu District, Northern Region, Ghana project. A total of 52 volunteers were recruited and need to be introduced to Wikipedia.
targetWikidata
start dateApril 20
end dateMay 20
budget (local currency)23,470
budget (USD)3,274.72
grant typegroup
grantee• Fatawu25
contact(s)• dallungwikimedianscommunity(_AT_)gmail.com• ibrahimft65@gmail.com
organization (if applicable)• Dallung Wikimedians Community


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Please see the sample Editathon/Training application before drafting your application.

Project Goal

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Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.

  1. Recruit new editors
  2. Introduce new editors to Wikipedia and its sister projects
  3. Create or improve Wikidata items
  4. Train New editors to contribute to Wikidata

Project Plan

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Activities

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Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

  • Our recent project was a Wikimedia Campaign where a total of 52 new editors were recruited and the need to have training sessions for them is very important in order to bring them at par with the already existing ones but for us to abide by COVID-19 protocols we will train 50 new recruits putting them into two groups.
  • Participants will be introduced to Wikipedia and its sister projects with emphasis on Wikidata, where they will be given practical session of Wikidata.
  • Practice will be made on creating/improving Wikidata items on Nursing/Health colleges in Ghana.
  • We will have 4 training sessions coupled with editathons for every Saturday within the month of April, 2022.
  • We will put the 50 new recruits into 2 groups and each group will have a maximum of 25 participants in order to abide by the Covid-19 protocols. Each group will have 2 training sessions.
  • Time will also be spent to assist new recruits who have not been able to create the Wikipedia user accounts for them to create their accounts.

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.
You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

Information of the project will be shared on Dallung Wikimedians Community WhatsApp group.
Emails will be sent to invite experienced Wikimedians to support/endorse this project

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

Participants will get to know about the project via Dallung Wikimedians Community Social media channels; WhatsApp and Facebook.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:I JethroBT

User:Masterrashad and User:Ayisha35

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

Yes, a few of them have laptops and majority will use their smart phones.

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

We will continue to engage participants on the Community's WhatsApp group.

7. 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:

Link to COVID-19 Risk Assessment protocol.

8. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

The project will equip the newly recruited editors with skills to be able to contribute to Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Impact

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How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

  1. Number of events=4
  2. Number of participants=50
  3. Number of Wikidata items created or improved=60
  4. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)=50

Resources

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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).

User:Masterrashad will lead the project
User:Ayisha35 will be in charge of logistics
User:Xixlezz100 will co-facilitate and provide general I.T support
User:Fatawu25 will provide general support.

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

BUDGET TABLE
ITEM DETAILS UNIT GHS QUANTITY TOTAL
Workshops data allowance (participants) We will have 4 separate all-day workshops for Wikidata, 2 each for first and second groups of participants. Each group will have 25 participants, making a total of 50 participants for the 2 groups. 60 50 3000
Workshops data allowance (facilitators) 2 facilitators will provide training and support for the workshops 100 2 200
Data allowance (Editathon participants) We estimate for 50 people to participate in the month-long event 100 50 5000
Food/Refreshment We estimate for 50 people to participate in the event 225 50 11250
Venue rental Venue will be rented for 4 workshop trainings coupled with editathon session 400 4 1600
Projector rental We will rent projector for the workshop trainings 100 4 400
Router Routers will be rented for 4 meetings 30 4 120
Covid safety kits Face masks, hand sanitizers & covid thermometer test will be provided for 50 expected participants 30 50 1500
Bank Charges For all bank transfer charges. 400 1 400
TOTAL GHS 23,470
1USD = 7.16702 GHS (Oanda exchange - March 13, 2022)
TOTAL USD 3,274.72

Endorsements

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Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  1.   Strong support.I endorse this project to enable new editors to gained the basic skills required to contribute to Wikipedia projects.Fatawu25 (talk) 14:16, 13 March 2022
  2.   Strong support.Masterrashad (talk) 10:48, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
  3.   Strong support.Fatawu Issahaku (talk) 19:33, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
  4.   Strong support.Fotosabdul (talk) 19:48, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
  5.   Strong support.Karim Fuseini (talk) 17:15, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
  6.   Strong support.Bash222 (talk) 17:02, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
  7.   Strong support.Alliance abio (talk) 15:19, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
  8.   Strong support.Abdulfatawu12 (talk) 17:21, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
  9.   Strong support.Doctor Dalun (talk) 18:40, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
  10.   Strong support.Alhassan Napari (talk) 17:35, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
  11.   Strong support.Alhassan Abdul Somed (talk) 19:22, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
  12.   Strong support.Rashidaprincess (talk) 06:33, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
  13.   Strong support.154.160.27.200 20:12, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
  14.   Strong support.Iddi Manzah Suweidu (talk) 20:19, 13 March 2022 (UTC)
  15.   Strong support. I fully endorse this project, it will build the capacity of the newly recruited editors to contribute effectively to Wikimedia projects.Din-nani1 (talk)
  16.   Strong support.Maltiti Mohammed (talk) 13:44, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
  17.   Strong support.Seini.coe (talk) 14:44, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
  18.   Strong support. Amina musah (talk) 15:53, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
  19.   Strong support.Abdul-Azeez Mahama (talk) 19:40, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
  20.   Strong support.Ayisha35 (talk) 20:29, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
  21.   Strong support.Maltiti Mohammed (talk) 20:43, 14 March 2022
  22.   Strong support.Sonaa100 (talk) 22:06, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
  23.   Strong support.Abdul-Azeez Mahama (talk) 22:16, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
  24.   Strong support.Gadafi25 (talk) 09:53, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
  25.   Strong support. Queen Lt (talk) 20:26, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
  26.   Strong support.Tidini (talk) 17:47, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
  27.   Strong support.Footballer102 (talk) 20:00, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
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