Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Sirjat/Wikipedia Awareness and Edit-a-Thon: Empowering Editors in Hadejia

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

Wikimedia Project

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

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: Shamsiyya Ahmad
• Email address:shamsiyyaahmada35@gmail.com
• Address: Hadejia, Jigawa State
• Location of Project: Hadejia

Project class

Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club

• Individual

Timeline of activities

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

• 10 July, 2024 - 30 July, 2024

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

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?

The project will involve a combination of online training and physical workshops to create a comprehensive learning experience. The online training will span two days and will focus on engaging participants, informing them about the upcoming physical events, and assisting them in creating Wikipedia accounts. Following this, there will be two days of physical workshops dedicated to an edit-a-thon aimed at enhancing Special Pages on Wikipedia. The edit-a-thon will provide hands-on experience for participants to improve Wikipedia content while engaging them in the editing process. The final edit-a-thon session will also involve interactive engagement activities to ensure participants are motivated and involved throughout the entirety of the project.

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 in Hausa Community General WhatsApp Group

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.

Participants will be informed about the edit a thon through various communication channels such as WhatsApp Groups, Facebook and Mouth Discussion.

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:Hauwau sulaiman

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 do have Smartphones while others have laptops

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

I will create a WhatsApp Group for the community

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

This project builds on the success of the Gwanki project to improve Wikipedia awareness and editing skills in Hadejia. Experienced editors will mentor new participants, encouraging collaboration. Through training sessions and hands-on editing events, the project aims to empower people to contribute to Wikipedia. Ultimately, it seeks to strengthen the Wikipedia community in Hadejia and inspire a passion for sharing knowledge.

Impact

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 - 4 (two days online training and two days in-person events)
2. Number of participants - 20
3. Number of new editors - 15
4. Number of of articles created - 50
5. Number of of articles improved - 50
6. Number of of images uploaded -
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 15

Metrics tracking

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 track by using Wikimedia Dashboard Tool

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).

Certainly! Here is the corrected version of your text:I, User:Sirjat, will lead the efforts for engaging participants before, during, and after the event. User:Hauwau sulaiman will lead all physical events as a trainer. User:Gwanki, an experienced Wikimedian and organizer of the first Wikimedia event in Hadejia, will provide advice and lead the online trainings remotely.

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

1. Data Support for two days online training, 2000×20=40,000
2. Hall for two days physical trainings, 40,000×2=80,000
3. Food and refreshments for two days, 4000×20=80,000
4. Data Support for two days physical trainings, 2000×20=40,000
5. Banner, 10,000
6. T Shirts for two organiser, 15,000
7. Transportation for on Organiser from to Zaria/Hadejia, 20,000

Contingency, 10,000 Total; 295,000

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• I strongly support this proposal. The project will help our youths both male and female to know more about wiki activities, this training Wil lead them and guide them to be one of the editors in hausa and English Wikipedia activities Hauwau sulaiman (talk) 11:04, 11 June 2024 (UTC) hauwau sulaiman
• I'm happy to see that one of the people I trained on Wikipedia is now an experienced editor. This project will help to engage more editors from Hadejia, and I will give my support to achieve the desired impact. —Gwanki^📧 09:03, 13 June 2024 (UTC)