Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Awareness and Sensitization about Climate change

Project summary

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This project will focus on contents about climate change and environmental issues. The negative impact of global warming is increasing in our environments today thereby causing loss of lifes and properties.this project will help sensitize/educate community members about climate change and equiped them knowledge-wise on the effects of climate change so they can help in climate change mitigation to achieve a sustainable environment.In the run of this project,there will be creating of climate change and environmntal contents in the local language,improvement of the already existing contents.This project will also involve creating wikidata lexeme contents about climate in igbo language.This project will involve cross wiki where photos will be uploaded and added to climate pages without photos. this project will help in

• Community capacity building on practical knowledge of wikipedia editing and translation.

• It will help fill or bridge environmental and climate content gap on wikipedia.

• This will help contribute to sustainable Environment and development.

• This will help in Movement building and improve users experience.

• This will help in knowledge visibility about our environment.

Contact person and Location

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peacetio92@gmail.com

Anambra State

Timeline of activities

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9th December -16th DECEMBER

Project Goal

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1. recruit new editors -This project will encourage sourcing new members to join the network
2. Add or improve content-this will help improve an d create new articles
3. This project will also translate articles to local languages.

Project Plan

This project will focus on educating community members about climate change,how to edit and translate aticles ,how phototos re added on wikimedia project pages without photos.

Activities

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1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

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 have informed the Community members here 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.

participants will be informed through the talk pages, WhatsApp , Facebook and direct messages.

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

I am experienced and also with support of

User:Chidex02

User: Ngostary2k

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

yes, participants have gadgets but will support them with data.

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

I will engage participants through follow ups.

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

This project will create awareness about climate change as one of the topic of impact. This project is one of the project with topic that has more impact of improving peoples lives.

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 =27
3. Number of new editors =7
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?

Through the event dashboard and the use of Xtool.

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).

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I User: Akwugo is the one Organizing the program with the Assistants of Other Wikimedians.

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

Refreshments 2000*30=60,000

Data for participants=500*30=15000

Projector= 10,000

Venue=40,000

Transportation= 5000

prizes for 5 top participants =20000

Contingency =10000

Total=160,000

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