Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Iliyasu Umar/Edit a thon at Notional Teachers Institute Kaduna.


Project summary edit

Briefly summarize your project proposal, and include the contact details of your contact person(s) for this project

  • This project will teach National Teachers' Institute Students on how to edit, create and improve wikipedia articles, especially, wikidata contents.

Timeline of activities edit

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  • Start : 5th-June-2022

End: 31st-June-2022

Project Goal edit

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. Increase skills for existing editors
  3. Add or improve content

Project Plan edit

Activities edit

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?

Yes, I am planning to organise one edit-a-thon that will focus on the creation of awareness and training new editors from National Teachers' Institute, Kaduna, Nigeria.

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.

https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliyasu_Umar/Edit_a_thon_at_Notional_Teachers_Institute_Kaduna.

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.

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

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

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

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

Impact edit

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

  1. Number of events
  2. Number of participants
  3. Number of new editors
  4. Number of of articles created or improved
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking edit

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Resources edit

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.

  • Computer Lab : N30,000 x 2 = N60,000
  • Food and Drinks : N1200 x 15 = 22500 x 2 = N45000
  • Transportation : N1000 x 15 x 2 = 30,000
  • T-shirt : N3000 x 10 = N30,000
  • COVID 19 precaution measures : N13000
  • Total Amount = N178,000

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