Grants:Project/Rapid/Hamxo/Kasu & Environs training and edit-a-thon

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Hamxo/Kasu & Environs training and Edit-a-thon
Kasu & Environs training and edit-a-thon is a project that is planned to holds 2 days training and edit-a-thons in order to trains our new and existing editors on how to create and improve English & Hausa Wikipedia articles, and Wiki commons at kaduna state university,under the university hub: WikiHub kaduna State University.
targetEnglish Wikipedia,Hausa Wikipedia and Wikipedia commons
start date30,May
end date30,June
budget (local currency)1,076,314.35
budget (USD)2596.47
grant typeIndividual
granteeHamxo
contact(s)• Abdallahhamxo@gmail.com


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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. Increase skills for existing editors
  3. Add or improve content

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?

We are planning to holds two (2) days trainings and edit-a-thons at kaduna state university for our existing and new users under the university hub and it aims to teach them on how to create and improve English & Hausa Wikipedia articles,and Wikipedia commons.

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.

The kasu/19/geo/200L/wiki hub at kasu group/platform and the Hausa Wikimedians user group are aware of the project.

Link to Hausa User Group

Twitter/Wikimedia Hausa, Instagram/Wikimedia Hausa, Facebook/Wikimedia Hausa

Link to KASU/19/geo/200L/wiki hub kasu

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.

The participants will be communicating via WhatsApp group,Facebook and telegram

Link to KASU/19/geo/200L/wiki hub kasu

KASU parrots

KASU students & aspirants

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

yes! the following usernames are the experience editors to help lead the event =User:Salihu Aliyu ),(User:M-Mustapha , Abubakar A Gwanki,User:Bello Na'im,user:holysman,user:itzedubaba, and user:Umar a usman

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

Most of the participants are staffs & students, and some of them have the equipment and some doesn’t have,for those that have will use their equipment(smart phone/laptop)and for those that have no equipment,we are going to hire some equipments for them and support them with subscription of data (internet ) in order to participate at the event.

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

We do have our what’s app group already,where we share ideas and fixed challenges and all the new users would be added to the group for guidance,support and updates in order to contributes to Wikipedia.

Link to KASU/19/geo/200L/wiki hub kasu

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:

Yes, Kasu & Environs training and edit-a-thon

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

yes! the essence of this project is to train our new and existing editors in order to give their highest contributions to English & Hausa Wikipedia, and to Wikimedia foundation at large as the fastest growing university in Nigeria.so definitely this project will attract the attention of many staffs and students of kaduna state university,to become the members of KASU WIKIHUB for the betterment of our community and Wikipedia foundation.

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:2
  2. Number of participants:50
  3. Number of new editors:30
  4. Number of of articles created or improved:100
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events):30

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).

project lead;Hamxo,facilitators;User:Salihu Aliyu ),(User:M-Mustapha , Abubakar A Gwanki,User:Bello Na'im,user:holysman,user:itzedubaba, and user:Umar a usman.We don’t expect any donation or additional funds from anywhere else.

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

  1. Hall (event space)for two days = 400 USD
  2. Computers and projector =170.47 USD
  3. Refreshments for two days =721.43 USD
  4. Camera rental for two days =49.53
  5. Internet subscription (the data that would be used to access internet at the event) for two days =201.81 USD
  6. Communication = 72.14 USD
  7. Branded Nose Masks = 80 USD
  8. Hand sanitizer =60 USD
  9. Customized Shirts for 8 facilitators and 5 most serious/active participants =87.90 USD
  10. Certificate of participation (after the successful event a certificate would be given to the participants) = 125 USD
  11. Transportation of Facilitators =130 USD
  12. Promotional material;banners,fliers & stickers =100 USD
  13. Data package support for participants after the event=200 USD
  14. Contigency = 198.19 USD
  15. Total=2596.47 USD

Endorsements

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Umar a usman (talk) 22:52, 20 April 2022 (UTC)  Strong support

  Strong support I strongly support this project because it aims to increase skill for us the existing editors and to train new editors also Sadammuhammad11234 (talk) 17:06, 28 April 2022 (UTC)