Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Linason Blessing/ Wikimedia Fan Club Kwara State University (KWASU)1Lib 1Ref 2023

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• The Wiki4NaijaWomen/My African Woman is a project designed to celebrate the remarkable efforts of the intellectual African women and "blue stockings" who have demonstrated some heroic expertise relating to our three thematic areas.It's pertinent to showcase their formidable contributions to the key African issues and agendas. And more crucially, this project aims at explaining their hitherto inspiring efforts towards the alleviation of the overarching gendal discrimination and gendered stereotyping of African women. Equally important, this project is aimed at showcasing their lived experiences and present this before the world,as well as celebrating their gender and all what it abounds.Hence,the KWASU Fan Club will be glad to host it in her Club for the very first time to further educate the students on how to improve the credibility of content on Wikipedia.

Contact person and Location

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

• Mariam Titilope Gobir; mariam.gobir@kwasu.edu.ng.
• Kareem HabbebullahiOlawale; habeebchomsky123@gmail.com
• Akerele Omotolani Kulthum; kwasuwikimediafanclub@gmail.com

Timeline of activities

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

1st June - 30th June

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. Increase skills for existing editors.
3. Add or improve citation content in Wikipedia articles that are more related to African women.
4. Promote the use of Wikipedia as a reference tool for showcasing the contributions of the intellectual African women to the resolution of African issues and agendas.

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?

• Two online trainings and two physical editathon

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.

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.

We will promote the campaign through the fan club's official Social Media platforms (Facebook, and Twitter). We will also communicate with the participants through a fan clubs' WhatsApp group and the club executives will visit various departments within the school to inform them.

Facebook

Twitter

WhatsApp

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

habeebchomsky

Margob28

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them? Yes, they have their mobile phones and Personal PC to use for this Project.

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

The WhatsApp group will be for follow-up to further engage them. The group will provide them with tips on using citation hunts tool, adding verifiable and reliable references to articles on Wikipedia and also to answer them if there is any clarification they need.

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

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= 4
2. Number of participants= 30
3. Number of new editors= 16
4. Number of of articles created or improved= 100
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)=17

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

• An outreach dashboard will be created for this campaign and also Hastags(1Lib1RefNG) will used to track every activities done for the project.

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).

• User : Habeebchomsky is the president of the Kwara State University Wikimedia Fan Club for the 2022/2023 academic session. Habeeb has participated in different campaigns and programmes of the Wikimedia such as the awareness campaign for the lunch of the Wikimedia Fan Club Kwara State University, WIKI loves SDG Campus tour, Wiki-in-school mentorship programme, Art+ Feminism campaign, Wiki4HumanRight campaign,etc.

• User: Margob28 She is an academics in the field of Linguistics. She is currently employed by the Kwara State University, Malete, Nigeria. She is the staff adviser for the The Wikimedia Fan Club Kwara State University, She was Part of the Participants chosen to organize the Wiki in Schools Campaign in Nigeria.

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

• Light breakfast and Lunch for participants and organizers #2000 x 28 = #56,000

• Drinks & water (5 packs) = #8,650

• Airtime and subscription Data subscription for 25 participants for online training @#1,000 x 25 = #25,000

• Airtime for calls for the organizing of the event and reaching out to some of the participants = #2,000

• Data subscription for the 3 Facilitators = #1,000 x 3= #3,000

• Data Subscription for Router on the day of the event= #20,000

• Designing of the flyers for promotion = #10,000

• DSLR Camera Rental = #15,000

• Public Address system rental for Physical Meeting= #10,000

• Local Running For Facilitators to Malete #3000 each =#6,000

• Remunerations for the cleaners of the Venue = #10,000

• Gift vouchers for top 3 participants = #30,000

• Contingencies = #10,000

Total - 205,650

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