Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Carolyn Seaman/Wikidata celebration in Abuja

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

This is a project that will engage members of Wikimedia Nigeria - Abuja Network to celebrate Wikidata's global birthday and also provide awareness on how to contribute to Wikidata while recruiting new and old members.

Contact person and Location

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

Carolynseaman
Abuja

Timeline of activities

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

1sh October - 30th October 2022.

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 on Wikidata
3. Increase skills for existing editors
4. Celebrate the global Wikidata birthday

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?

1 edit a thon

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.

Will be shared on the Wiki Abuja Network page.

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 event will be posted on Wikimedia Abuja network social page.

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. Carolynseaman
2. Wikinaija
3. Oby Ezeilo

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

Participants will be instructed to come with their laptop.

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

WhatsApp group and Social media

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

Metrics

Number of participants = 25

Number of new editors = 15

Number of Wikidata items created/improved = atleast 100

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).

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

1. Venue - #50,000
2. Food for 25 participants at #2500 per unit × 25 = #62,500
3. Internet support - #15,000
4. Cake = #25,000
5. Branded T.shirts (for organizers and top contributors) 3,000*5 = #15,000
6. Design and Banners = #10,000
7. Contingency - #2,500

Total cost = #180,000

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