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Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Gwanki/Advancing Wikidata Expertise Among Kano Wikimedians


Project summary

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Briefly summarize your project proposal.

This project aims to enhance the capabilities of Kano Wikimedians by providing training on Wikidata and enabling them to create and improve Wikidata Items related to Kano State. While Kano Wikimedians possess significant experience in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons, their exposure to Wikidata is relatively limited. This project will conduct workshops to educate Kano Wikimedians on the fundamentals of Wikidata, including data structure, item creation, and item improvement techniques. By focusing on creating and improving Wikidata Items about places, buildings, police stations, and government ministries, this project will contribute to a comprehensive and interconnected knowledge base.

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.

  • Wikidata

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:Abubakar Ali
  • Email address:gwankia6@yahoo.com
  • Address: Gwanki Gogori Bagwai Local Government Kano State
  • Location of Project:Kano

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

  • 1st July - 15th July, 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
  3. Enhance Wikidata skills.
  4. Increase Wikidata contributions.
  5. Build a comprehensive knowledge base.
  6. Leverage existing experience.
  7. Promote collaboration and community engagement.

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 Training and 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.

I will share via Hausa Wikimedians and Kano Wikimedians WhatsApp groups.

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 Participants will know via Our Kano Wikimedians WhatsApp Group, Phone call and physically.

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:Usmanmaifada

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

Yes, The Participants have Smartphones and Laptops.

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

I will continue engaging them via our WhatsApp Group

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

I’m receiving requests from participants on how they can contribute to Wikidata. I understand that they’re unable to edit directly in Wikidata, so I’ve decided to organize a project.

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 - 100
  6. Number of of images uploaded -
  7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 15

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).

I Gwanki, I will lead the event with the help of Usmanmaifada who's a Experience Wikimedian.

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

  1. Event hall rentals= N40,000×2=80,000
  2. Food and refreshments for participants=N2000×2days,20000×2=N80,000
  3. Event banner and tags= N20,000.
  4. T-shirt 5,000×2=N10,000
  5. Contingency N20,000
  • Total amount=N210,000

Endorsements

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Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  •   Support, I strongly support this proposal Usmanmaifada (talk) 21:40, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Submit your report

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