Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/1Lib1Ref Campaigns to Potiskum Wikimedia Community


Project summary

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Briefly summarize your project proposal, and include the contact details of your contact person(s) for this project

  • This project aim to bring awareness about 1lib1ref to Potiskum Wikimedia Community and educate them on how to take part by contributing with articles creation and improvements.
  • Organizer: User: Musaddam Idriss
  • Email: realmusaddam  gmail.com

Timeline of activities

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Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project

  • Two weeks
  • Start: June 20, 2022
  • End: July 4, 2022

Project Goal

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Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

  1. Increase skills for existing editors
  2. Add or improve content
  3. Create awareness about 1lib1ref project

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'll be having a physical meet up to explain and educate the Potiskum Community members what the 1Lib1Ref is all about and teach them how they will contribute with articles improvement on 1lib1ref.

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'll let them know through WhatsApp platform.

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.

Social media platforms like WhatsApp Group

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

Yes, there are User:Muhammad Idriss Criteria and User:Ibrahim 442

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

They have their smart phones, they'll used them in during the meetups.

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

Already we have our platform were the participants are being engaged

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

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 1
  2. Number of participants 10
  3. Number of new editors 0
  4. Number of of articles created or improved 100
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 10

Metrics tracking

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How do you plan to track your project metrics?

Outreach Dashboard Tool

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).

We have team of three experience editors, the organizer and two facilitators

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

  • Space for the physical meetup = ₦60,000
  • Food and drinks = ₦30,000
  • Branded shirts for the Organizers and the participants = ₦45,000
  • Transport fares for the organizers and the participants = ₦25,000
  • Miscellaneous and Security report = ₦30,000

Total = ₦190,000

Endorsements

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Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  • This project will help to span the campaigns of 1lib1ref by reaching the Wikimedia community of northeastern region of the country. Booberh (talk) 08:28, 11 June 2022 (UTC)
  • We are glad that something like this is requested for the development of our community, we are ready to learn from it and expand the scope and levels of our contributions on the Wikimedia projects. Mamman AA (talk) 08:32, 11 June 2022 (UTC)

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