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Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Empowering Hausa Women Authors and Writers Bridging the Digital Divide Through Wikipedia Engagement


Project summary

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Briefly summarize your project proposal.

  • This project is aims to increase the visibility and recognition of Hausa women authors on Wikipedia. We tackle challenges like their lack of visibility and the digital divide they face. Our strategy involves creating Wikipedia pages for notable authors, collaborating with the community to gather accurate information, and promoting digital literacy by providing resources to enhance their digital skills and participation on Hausa Wikipedia.

Wikimedia Project

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Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. English Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.

  • Wikipedia

Contact person and Location

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Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location. For more than one contact person, indicate same details for everyone

  • Full name:Amina Bashir
  • Email address: aminabashirmht@gmail.com
  • Address: Funtua
  • Location of Project: Katsina State

Project class

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Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club

  • Individual

Timeline of activities

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

01/07/2024 15/07/2024

Project Goal

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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

Project Plan

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Activities

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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?

It's a Two days of physical 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.

Mainly via Hausa Wikipedia Discussion page and Hausa Wikimedia Community WhatsApp Group

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 will let them know through WhatsApp groupa and phone calls

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

User:Hauwau sulaiman

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 have Smartphones and laptops

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

I will create a WhatsApp group for the participants

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

I hope my application will be considered for approval.

Impact

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How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets (only those applicable to your project):

  1. Number of events -2
  2. Number of participants -20
  3. Number of new editors -15
  4. Number of of articles created -50
  5. Number of of articles improved -50
  6. Number of of images uploaded -20
  7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

Metrics tracking

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How do you plan to track your project metrics? (do not create a metrics dashboard until your project has been approved for funding)

I will use Wikimedia Foundation's Dashboard Tool

Resources

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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).

Im User:A Salisu I will lead the event with the help of User: Hauwau sulaiman and User:Aminu Badamasi

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

  1. Banner: N10,000
  1. Venue: N40,000 × 2= 80,000
  2. Food/refreshments (1500×20) - N30,000 for two days, 60,000
  3. Data bundle 1000×20=20,000
  4. T-shirt: 5,000×3=15,000
  5. Flyers and tags: 20,000
  6. miscellaneous - N15,000

Total = N210,000

Endorsements

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Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  • I strongly support this proposal empowering women authors will lead to achieve a big goal in wiki community. Its important to our community women's and Wikipedia community at large• Hauwau sulaiman (talk) 07:34, 15 June 2024 (UTC)hauwau sulaiman

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