Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Translate-a-thon on Notable African Women

Project summary

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Few Wikipedia contributors are female and When we look at the media content on women, we see that there is great need for better presentation and profiling of African women especially on our local languages. This Project aims to address the under-representation of African women on Wikimedia projects. It also seeks to improve Visibility of women and Women contributors on Wikipedia by training Participants on the basics of Contributing to Wikimedia projects so as to increase the visibility of African women. This project seeks to increase Contents on Wikipedia and it's Sister projects. We Will teach participants on the basics of Creating and translating articles from English to Igbo language,how to create items about women on wikidata, We will give Women visibility on Wikiquote and adding photos to Women wikipedia pages. This project will also help in sourcing new participants joining the Wikimedia Movement.

Contact person and Location

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User: Chidex02 User:Adakaibe User:Dozencentury

chidinmachime22@gmail.com amarita4life@gmail.com

Anambra State

Timeline of activities

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June 15th- June 22nd,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: On the this project,we will source new members to join our Wikimedia network.

1. Add or improve content: In this project, We will create new contents and improve the existing ones.

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?

We are doing 2 training and 1week Translate a thon.

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 have let the Community members and the Coordinators of Anambra Network know about this project.

We will let our participants know about This project on our discussion Page and social media platforms.

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:Ngostary2k

User: Akwugo

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

Community members have gadgets they will contribute with and we will teach them how to navigate the Wikimedia space.

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

We have our social media platforms where we follow community members up. We will follow them up especially the new participants to teach them how to navigate the Wikimedia space.

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

This project will help increase the contribution of our community members

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 2
2. Number of participants 30
3. Number of new editors 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved 120
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

We will use outreach dashboard in tracking our Edits.

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: Chidex02 and User: Adakaibe are the the ones organizing this project and will be assisted by User: Ngostary2k and User:Akwugo. We will only receive advice support and no financial support elsewhere.

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

Venue for event 40000 = 40000

Refreshment = 90,000

Data support for Participants = 45,000

Projector 10000 = 10000

Transportation 20000

Banner/flyer 20000

Prizes for top 5 participants 25000

Contingency 15000

Camera/publicity 10000

Total:275,000

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