Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/2nd round of sensitization/creating awareness of Wikipedia at Federal University of Technology Owerri, Imo state.

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This project is a continuation of the previous training project on this same theme (sensitization/creating awareness of Wikipedia at FUTO secondary school, Owerri, Imo state.. This project seeks to continue and conclude the introductory part of training given to the students on the principles of Wikipedia editing. It will go further to educate them on the skills required for an editor to edit an acceptable article in Wikipedia and it's sister project. It will elucidate on what Wikipedia is and what it's not.

Contact person and Location

Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location

• Onwuka Glory

gloryahunna@gmail.com wikimedia user group, Owerri network, Imo state.

Timeline of activities

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

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?

I'm doing one edit-a-thon and one training.

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 facilitator of this project will forward this project to Wiki Online groups like: Wikimedia user group Nigeria, Wikimedia user group (Owerri network) Wiki Fan Club Alvan, Igbo Wikimedia User, Twitter handle channels and on the Facebook.Telegraph groups like: Wiki for sustainable development, wiki for Human right and Wiki for the environment.

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 created a Watssap group known as FUTO secondary school Wikipedians, on this platform, both teachers and students will read about the event when it is approved. There will be an Online conversations which is to be held within 4 days before the implementation day.

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. User names: Onwuka Glory and Lucy Iwuala

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

Yes, I have capable and qualified hands that can handle this event. On the other hand, some senior students who have shown their interest has Android devices Phones, Laptops and other Internet connectivity devices . A projector will be used to facilitate the training.

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

After the event, the project Lead will engage them on follow up training.

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

After this event, I would like a FUTO Secondary school Wiki Fan club to be established in the school.

Impact

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 = 30
3. Number of new editors= 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved = 70
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? This would be through the use of dashboard.

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).

I Onwuka Glory ,will organize the programme and there won't be support from other channels or sources.

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

* Event space = N40,000

• Refreshment : food= N 1000 * 40 = N40,000

              soft drinks  N250 * 40 =               N10,000
               water * N1500 * 3 packets =           N 4500

• Hiring of projector N10,000
• transport for the facilitators N5000 * 2 = N 10,000
• Data for the facilitators N1000 * 2 = N2000
• Data for students N500 * 40 = N20,000
• photo coverage = N5000
• Fuel = N 3000
• transport for students N500 * 40 = N20,000

• Total = N164,500

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