Grants:Project/Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc./Grassroot Language Documentation in Nigerian for Wikipedia and its sister projects/Timeline

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midpoint report

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Timeline for Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc.

Timeline	Date
Meeting with the project stakeholders.	1 May 2021
Review and Finalisation of the list of focused dialects and time lines for this project by the project team.	3-5 May 2021
Review and finalisation of meta data items for the selected dialects	10 May 2021
Design and review of feedback form for the evaluation of Grass root language documentation in Nigeria.	12 May 2021
Review and finalisation of elicitation protocol for the language documentation.	14 May 2021
Record of Videos and audios of the selected dialects.	15 May-6 June 2021
Post production activities on the Recorded Videos and Audios of the selected dialects; editing , sound mixing , color correction and subtitle of the recorded audio-visual contents. .	25 May- Ongoing
Release of the post production work on oral history documentation of 32 non-subtitled videos + 19 subtitled videos in English	15 June 2021
1st Edit-a-thon .	June 2021 ( Actual date to be determined)
Launch of the project landing page .	25 June 2021
2nd Edit-a-thon .	15 July 2021
Midpoint report .	25 July 2021

Monthly updates

Please prepare a brief project update each month, in a format of your choice, to share progress and learnings with the community along the way. Submit the link below as you complete each update.

Month 1 (May 2021)

• 1st of May, Virtual call with Daniel, staff advisor ( Wikitongue)
• 2nd of May, Virtial call with Tunde Oladimeji, Producer/Director of programs.
• 4th of May, Virtual call with Daniel, to develop the use of metadata and elicitation protocol for the selected languages.
• 5th of May, Virtual call with other project team, Sodiq, Isaac, and Peter to final project plans.
• 13th of May, Virtual call with other project team members, Sodiq, Isaac, Peter to review the feedback form for the evaluation of the project.
• May 15th- Ongoing, Project team, led by Producer will visit various location where native speakers of the selected dialects reside for video and audio production.
• May 20th- Ongoing, The Post production team starts the editing, mixing of sounds, correction of colors and subtitle of the recorded audio-visuals.

Month 2 (June 2021)

• May 15th- Ongoing, Project team, led by the Producer/Director will visit the various location where native speakers of the selected dialects reside for video and audio production.
• May 20th- Ongoing, The Post-production team starts the editing, mixing of sounds, correction of colours and subtitle of the recorded audio-visuals.
• 3rd June, conversation with the leaders of the Yoruba Wikimedia affiliate on the expectations of the project team from them for the upcoming edit-a-thon
• 15th June, delivery of the final production of the first 32 audio-visuals of the oral history of the selected dialects in Nigeria by the Post Production team.
• 15th- 20th June, To Upload the final production above on Wikimedia commons and forward it to Wikitongue for upload on US library of Congress and Internet archive.
• 20th June, 1st edit-a-thon of the project.
• 25th June Launch of the Landing page of Grass root Language Documentation project.

Month 3 ( July 2021)

• 1st-22nd July: 32 non-subtitled+19 (English subtitled)videos were uploaded on commons see link here .
• 2nd - 10th July: We launch request for the translation of video caption and it was translated into 12 languages.
• 1st-22nd July: videos were used on 90 Wikipedia pages across multiple languages see table here.
• 1st- 22nd July: The above mentioned are archived on Wikitongues.org/languages in the next two weeks and will be ingested by Library of Congress during the first week in October.
• 25th July: Submission of the midpoint report.

Month 6

Is your final report due but you need more time?