Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Ogundele1/1Lib1RefWikimediaFanClubUI

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

1Lib1Ref is a Wikipedia campaign inviting every librarian on Earth to participate in the online encyclopedia project, specifically improving articles by adding citations. It calls on students and librarians in the University of Ibadan, and anyone who has a passion for free knowledge, to add missing references to articles on Wikipedia.

Contact person and Location

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

John Joy

johnjoyk15@gmail.com

Timeline of activities

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

• Start - June 1, 2023
• End - June 30, 2023

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 contents
4. Add missing references to articles on Wikipedia

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?

One 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.

The project will be announced to Wikimedia User Group Nigeria, Wikimedia Fan Club, University of Ibadan via their social media handles (WhatsApp, Facebook and Twitter)

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.

Social media channels of the Fan Club and WhatsApp groups of Librarians and Library students of the University of Ibadan.

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

User:Ogundele1

User:Adefanike

User:Abiolakintrunde

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

Participants will be notified and informed to bring their respective internet accessing devices (Laptops and Mobile Phones) to the training. Participants who lacks skills to contribute high quality contents will be guided by the facilitators.

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

They will be added to the Fan Club's WhatsApp group where follow up will take place after the training.

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 - 1
2. Number of participants - 30
3. Number of new editors - 20
4. Number of articles created or improved - 80
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

The Wikipedia events outreach dashboard would be implemented to track this project metrics.

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).

• Ogundele - Project Lead/Facilitator
• Adefanike - Co-Facilitator
• Abiolakintrunde- Communication/Logistics

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

• Event Hall - N45,000
• Projector - N10,000
• Photography - N15,000
• Internet Support - N20,000
• Graphics Design - N10,000
• Roll-Up Banner - N20,000
• Food and Drinks @ N1500 x 30 - N45,000
• Gift for Top 3 editors - N20,000
• 5 Branded T-shirt @ N5,000 x 5 - N25,000
• Logistics - N5,000
• Contingency funds - N15,000
  • Total - N230,000

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