Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikimedia Community Arusha/Monthly Edit-a-thons 2

Recruit new editors
Increase skills for existing editors
Improve content on Swahili Wikipedia that was created on the recent events (Translationathon etc)

Project Plan

Activities

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?

A series of events

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.

I have informed my community through the Wikimedians of Arusha meta page here. [[1]]

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.

I will let my community know about the events through the existing social media pages.

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 there are experienced editors to lead the event.Some of them are:

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

There are many experienced editors who have the necessary skills to participate and contribute to high quality content. We will rent laptops to be used by the participants who don't own laptops.

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

Through the existing social medias

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:

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

The editathons will base on improving articles created in the past events to improve the quality of the articles.

Impact

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

Number of events - 2
Number of participants - 30
Number of new editors - 5
Number of of articles created or improved - 75+
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 20

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).

Ebenezer Mlay - Event Manager

Praygod Mwanga - Event Organiser

Gladys Gibbs - Event Advisor

Mary calist mlay - Event Facilitator

John Massawe - Social Media manager

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

Food - 258.188 * 2 = 516.376 USD

Tea, Drinks and Bites - 129.094 * 2 = 258.188 USD

Internet - 38.7282 * 2 = 77.4565 USD

Local Transport (for the participants and event organizers while making arrangements for the events) - 258.188 * 2 = 516.376 USD

Venue - 55.9408 * 2 = 111.882 USD

Stationary and Graphics Designing - 43.0314 * 2 = 86.0627 USD

Communications(Data,call and sms bundles for the organizers) - 32.2735 * 2 = 64.5470 USD

Router rent (for internet sharing during the events) - 21.5157 * 2 = 43.0314 USD

Laptop rent(for participants with no laptops at least 4 laptops) - 25.8188 * 2 = 51.6376 USD

Contingency - 43.0314 USD

Total = USD 1,768.59

Endorsements

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