Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Adefanike/Female Yoruba Wikipedia Editors

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• The project aims to get female editors on the yo.wikipedia.org involved in creation of articles targeted at documenting the role of women in moral instructions according to the Yoruba culture. The instrument to be used include, and not limited to, folklores, tales, etc.
• New editors are already being invited and registered

Contact person and Location

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

• User: Adefanike (talk), Location - Ibadan
• User: Zeemahgan, Location - Ibadan

Timeline of activities

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

• One meet up in the month of November, 2022; the availability of funds will be a strong determinant of the exact days.

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. create articles

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?

one edition of editathon/training is the target. This will be a two-in-one meetup that will be an editathon and also training ground for the new editors

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. Link to the facebook page of the group:https://www.facebook.com/Female-Yor%C3%B9b%C3%A1-Wikipedia-Editors-264079524175959/ The event will also be announced on the WhatsApp group of 'The Wikimedia Fan Club, University of Ibadan'

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.

The awareness of the program has been ongoing on the facebook page and it will be announced on the WhatsApp group of the 'Wikimedia Fan Club, University of Ibadan'

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. [[User:Adefanike (talk)]]
2. User:Zeemahgan
3. User:Kaisha33

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

Some of the participants have the required skills, and the equipment at hand is their mobile phones, but there are plans to go with two laptops in order to facilitate the participation of those who do not have the equipment

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

Through online communication via the facebook page and the WhatsApp that is already in existence

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

This is expected to be the starting point for the idea. The idea includes video recordings of the folklores, tales etc. with children in two schools that are already being intimated of the project. The availability of funds will determine the extent to which the project will go. Further information on the project can be found at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Female_Yor%C3%B9b%C3%A1_Wikipedia_Editors

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 - if a meetup were held as editathon/training
2. Number of participants - if 10 participants successfully created articles in line with the project aim
3. Number of new editors - if 5 new participants successfully joined in the editathon/trainings
4. Number of of articles created or improved - if at least 20 new articles are created in line with the aim of the project

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

• An outreach dashboard will be used in tracking the activities

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).

The project is being organised by User: and User:Zeemahgan, the two are responsible mainly for the training of the event. However, User:Kaisha33 will be a resource person to provide additional support for the training. Additional funding has been coming from both users listed above as organisers

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

  S/N	ITEM	        	                               AMOUNT
      1	Venue	        	                               35,000
      2	Logistics       
      i.   3 people from Oyo town(1,700)                       5,100
      ii.  7 people from within Ibadan (1,000)                14,000
     iii. 1 facilitator from Osogbo (5,000)	               5,000
      3	Data (10,000 for the event)                        10,000
           1000 per participant for subsequent editing	       10,000
      4	Souvenirs	3500 per person and for 10 persons	   35,000
      5	Refreshments 	1300 per person	                   13,000	
            Total Amount                                      137,100

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• The project will definitely help in putting a vital part of the Yorùbá people's way of communal child upbringing on the world space. Adefanike (talk) 07:30, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
• The project will help the children to imbibe good morals and characters that are acceptable in the society. Zeemahgan(talk) 14:17,14 September 2022 (UTC).
• The project will help in reshaping and modelling children on the right path.

Funrem (talk) 10:49,15 September 2022 (UTC).

• The project will be a useful mentor program tó reshape already going astray Children.Basmore (Talk) 11:12, 15 September 2022 (UTC).
• This project is a laudable wffort to save an endangered language. Zend2020 (talk)

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