Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/A Sulaiman Z/Wikipedia Training and Edit-a-thon at Federal College of Education (Technical) Bichi.

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This Wikipedia training and edit-a-thon project is aim to promote and build the wikipedia project to the Wikimedian foundation from the lecturers and students of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Bichi, by recruiting new editors, training an existing editors, creating new articles and improving the less improved articles. So it will be an encouragement if the articles that are related to the college and the areas that are surrounded the college be improved during the training and edit-a-thon event, which will help into the giving a way to the new potential recruit editors grabs their opportunity to edit content they are most familiar with.

Contact person and Location

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• Sulaimanmhassan886611@gmail.com
• Bagwai, Kano.

Timeline of activities

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• Start date:10/01/2023
• End date:25/01/2023

Project Goal

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

1. recruit new editors
2. Add or improve content
3. Train an existing editors

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?

I am doing one edit-a-thon and 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.

I will announce through Hausa Wikipedia Discussion page and Hausa Wikimedians user group Talk page on Meta Talk page and also I will inform the Hausa Wikimedian community in which they will be involved in planning this proposal through Wikimedians User Group (group chat on WhatsApp), Facebook pages, SMS and phone call.

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.

Most of the participants are my colleagues whom we were attended the Government Secondary School (G.S.S) Bichi together with them, I will try to inform them through our course mate WhatsApp group chat, SMS message and phone call.

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

1. M Bash Ne
2. Hamza DK
3. Yusuf Sa'adu

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

The participants may not have the skills of this because they are new but I am sure that most of them will come with their smartphone, laptops and other supportive devices that will help in carrying out this project.

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

After the activities the participants will be engaged by creating the wWhatsApp group and Facebook page for the responding to their questions and to be guiding them on how to build the Wikipedia contents.

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

Yes, I applied this proposal last month but it was not funded due to the monthly funding restrictions that is why now I reapplied it again.

Also Wikipedia training and edit-a-thon have never take place at the Federal College of Education (Technical) Bichi, while this college is among the most popular colleges in Nigeria and this college has almost six thousands students whose study under the department of Hausa language and most of them don't know on how to make a research and contribute to the Hausa Wikipedia. Therefore, through this project I will use this opportunity to bring a changes by recruiting the new editors for the Hausa Wikipedia train an existing ones. In advance, the less improved articles that are related to the college and the areas that are surrounded the college will be improved through this project.

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-20
4. Number of of articles created or improved-30
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

I will use the Wikimedian foundation dashboard to track the project metrics.

Resources

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(Introduction)
Time	Activities	Facilitators
10:00AM - 10:15AM	Registration	All
10:15AM - 10:25AM	Opening remark / Introduction to the main project	A Sulaiman Z (Project lead)
10:25AM-10:40AM	Introduction to wikipedia	M Bash Ne
Technical Session
10:40am - 11:30PM	Screen-show 0f wikipedia activities (Pages)?	Hamza DK & A Sulaiman Z
11:30am - 12:50pm	How to create an article	A Sulaiman Z, M Bash Ne & Yusuf Sa'adu
12:50PM - 1:15PM	Break/prayer time
1:15PM - 1:40PM	Refreshment	All Participants and facilitators
2:00PM - 2:10PM	Votes of thanks	Hamza DK
2:10pm - 2:20pm	Closing Remark	A Sulaiman Z (Project lead)
2:30pm	Closing Prayer	Yusuf Sa'adu

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

1. Food and refreshment for the participants N2000×30=N60,000.
2. Event's hall N50,000×1=N50,000.
3. Event's banner N10,000×1=N10,000.
4. Tags and flyers for the participants N1000×30=N22,000.

Total amount=N142,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

Endorsed I am in support of this project because of the outlined strategies that will be implemented while carrying out the project. Wikipedia training and edit-a-thon has never taken place at Federal College of Education (Technical) Bichi, furthermore the college comprises of students from different community background. So if this project is implemented in the college, more articles will created n less improved will be developed. Kamala Abubaka (talk)

• Strongly supportI’m in support of this project why because we have never experience such project in FCE (T) Bichi.So this project will surely play a wonderful role and bring better output to the Hausa community and wmf at large.Aminu Magaji
• Supported I am in support of this project looking at the idea of retraining of newly recruited editors and existing ones. I believed that if this project is funded more articles will be created and less improved articles will be improved. Umar Muhammad Gwanki
• I am in support: This proposal is among the most important proposal, because if it was been approved the most students and lecturers of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Bichi will promote the Wikipedia and Wikipedia sister projects into the high position by creating new articles, improving the less improved articles and creating the Wikimedia community in the society. Secondly, base on the experience of the project organizer he will try to lead the project in a manner in which the project will be organized in a very attractive manner. Ibrahim Sani Mustapha (talk)

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