Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Opening up knowledge about Anambra North Senatorial Zone

The biggest online encyclopedia – Wikimedia is inclusive of articles from all over the world. However, navigating the site has shown that many communities, local government areas and senatorial zones in Anambra State are not duly represented in Wikipedia. It becomes surprising that a state known as the “Light of the Nation as well as host the biggest market in West Africa has lots of gaps in knowledge and articles in Wikipedia. For instance, there are three senatorial zones, twenty one local government areas with over one hundred and seventy seven communities. Albeit it to state that many of these communities do not have spaces while many more have only stubs.

Again, the existing articles on communities in Anambra are begging to be improved with authentic and accurate sources, as well as copyediting and fixing typos. Interaction with some people revealed that many of them do not even realize their communities are missing from the world number one encyclopedia. Besides, some of them disclosed that they did not know, they could help in improving the articles or create their own in Wikipedia. It is therefore important that the gap is filled with volunteers, especially in articles on communities from Anambra North Senatorial Zone in Anambra state, to tell their own stories for the world to know. This project offers the insight, training, skills and facilitation in increasing participation in the Know your communities and contribute to their knowledge in Anambra North Senatorial Zone

This Wikipedia program will be blended. The participants have laptops, smartphones and other electronic devices. They also have good information literacy to enable them to navigate the internet. They will be taught how to sign up to Wikipedia, do online search, find, retrieve and use the information to create and improve articles on Anambra North Senatorial Zone. They will be taught how to create new articles and join other Wikipedia user groups for more inclusive programs. The edit-a-thon will last for two weeks. The datapage will calculate participants’ contributions on the Wikipedia and the participants with highest contributions will be given prizes.

Contact person and Location

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

Ngozi Perpetua Osuchukwu

Emails: wikianambranetwork; ngostary2k@yahoo.com

Timeline of activities

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

Physical Meeting on 3rd November, 2022. The edit-a-thon will last for two weeks from 3rd November to 17th November, 2022

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. Add or improve content
3. Increase the number of editors to Nigerian User Group and Anambra Network
4. Improve skills of existing editors

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? There will be edit-a-thon after the training. The edit-a-thon will last for two weeks after which prizes will be given to the top most editors in this order:

1. First prize N10,000
2. Second Prize N8000
3. Third Prize N5000
4. Fourth Prize N4000
5. Fifth Prize N3000

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.
The awareness have been created on our community discussion group of the Anambra Network Whatsaap Platform: https://chat.whatsaap.com/BcZ8gDM1n11lBj7MSQSzel

It has also been shared on the community twitter page: https://twitter.com/WikiAnambraNtWk?t=QuZkiByixNvH5KZVck10ag&s=08

It will also be shared in the affiliates community pages for wider awareness

You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

https://twitter.com/WikiAnambraNtWk?t=QuZkiByixNvH5KZVck10ag&s=08

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. This activity will be shared on our social media platforms on twitter, WhatsApp as well on the physical meetings where members belong, together with the online meetings. It will also be shared on the wiki-spaces

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

1. User:Ngostary2k
2. User:Obuezie
3. TimzyDeGreat
4. User:AfricanLibrarian

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them? The participants laptops, smart phones and other electronic devices that are needed to work on Wikipedia. They also have ICT and information literacy.

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

There will be follow-up on the already existing WhatsApp platforms. The new editors will be added to the platform. List of articles to be worked on will be given out for guidance. There will also daily and weekly motivation to spur them on the continuous edit-a-thon.

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project? This is the first phase of the opening up knowledge in communities in Anambra State. It is believed that the other Senatorial zones will be worked on as Anambra communities are conspicuously missing in Wikipedia pages.

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: One physical training and edit-a-thon that will last for two weeks
2. Number of participants: 30 participants in all
3. Number of new editors: 15 new editors
4. Number of of articles created or improved: 100
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events):2 weeks edit-a-thon
6. Number of pictures to be uploaded: 50

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

1. The dashboard will track contributions of the participants

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). We have strong Team of experienced Wikimedians to lead the campaign

1. User:Ngostary2k is the Coordinator of Anambra Network and the organizer of the project. She is an experienced Wikimedia that has organized Wikipedia activity before with good report. She has also facilitated for AfLIA online short course on "basics of Wikipedia." She is also a certified Wikipedia Trainer: Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom
2. User:Obuezie is the Assistant Coordinator of Anambra Network. She is an experienced Wikimedia that has participated in many Wikipedia projects.
3. Timzy is the Assistant Coordinator of Anambra Network. He is an experienced Wikimedia that has participated in many Wikipedia projects.
4. User:AfricanLibrarian is a trainer and Director in AfLIA. She has championed many Wikipedia programs, locally and internationally

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

1. Hall hire N35,000
2. Internet data support for the participants and facilitators @N1000 (34persons) per person = N34,000
3. Snacks and drinks for the participants and the facilitators @N1000 per person = N34,000
4. Graphic design of posters, Flex and communication N15,000
5. Projector rental N10,000
6. DSLR Camera rental N10,000
7. Prizes for top 5 contributors N30,000
8. Logistics and contingency funds (logistics, emergency expenses) N15,000

Total =N183,000

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