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Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Murja Khalid/Wikimedia Awareness in Damaturu


Project summary

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Briefly summarize your project proposal.

  • Damaturu is the Capital of Yobe State.

The project proposal aims to raise awareness about Wikimedia, with a specific focus on Hausa Wikipedia, in Damaturu, Yobe State. The project will involve organizing workshops, training sessions, and awareness campaigns to introduce residents of Damaturu to the concept of Wikimedia and the importance of contributing to and editing Hausa Wikipedia. The project will also involve encouraging and supporting participants to actively contribute to the Hausa Wikipedia by creating and editing articles in Hausa language. Overall, the project seeks to promote the use of Wikimedia platforms, particularly Hausa Wikipedia, and increase the participation of individuals from Damaturu in the global knowledge sharing community.

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.

  • Hausa 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: Murja Khalid
  • Email address: khalidmurja49@gmail.com
  • Address: Damaturu Yobe State
  • Location of Project: Damaturu

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

  • 10 July, 2024 to 30 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

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?

I'm going to organise one day of Awareness Trip within Damaturu City and 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.

I have shared in Hausa Wikipedia Discussion page and also I will share in every Wikimedia Community WhatsApp Group I belong

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.

During trip, I will invite interested participants to the event and some participants are my former classmates, I will let them know via our WhatsApp Group.

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:Muhammad sa'idu A, User:Mr. Snatch

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 will use their Phones

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

I will create a dedicated WhatsApp Group

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this 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 - 3
  2. Number of participants - 20
  3. Number of new editors - 20
  4. Number of of articles created - 50
  5. Number of of articles improved - 60
  6. Number of of images uploaded -
  7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 20

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 WMF Dashboard tool metric

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 Murja Khalid, I'm student of Ramat Polytechnic Maiduguri, I born and raised in Damaturu Yobe State. I will lead the event with the facilitate of User:Muhammad sa'idu A as a facilitator for awareness trip and physical training. User:Mr. Snatch will be project's adviser. He will help us with event organising skills.

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

  • Trips expenses Transport and refreshments for 5 Participants - 3000 × 5 = 15,000
  • Hall - 40,000×2=80,000
  • Food and refreshments for participants - 2000×2days,20000×2 - 80,000
  • Banner - 10,000
  • Flyers - 10,000
  • T-shirt 5,000×2 - 10,000
  • Contingency - 20,000

Total = 225,000

Endorsements

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Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

Submit your report

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