Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/WIKI LOVE EARTH, KADUNA 2024

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This Campaign will train photographers in kaduna state on how they can show case their image international through the open knowledge platform of wikimedia commons. Wiki love Earth is an international photographic campaign where the participants can showcase kaduna State unique Natural environment to support the Nigeria's Contents to win prizes. The team will help participants to understand the purpose of the campaign and what image should be uploaded.

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.

• Wikicommon

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: Zainab Z. Mu'azu
• Email address: Zulqarnainmuazuzainab@gmail.com
• Address: Kaduna State
• Location of Project: Federal Poly, Kaduna

Project class

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

• Wikimedia Kaduna Network

Timeline of activities

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

• 7th July - 30 July

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. upload images to wikicommon

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 and online training

one physical training, two online session and edith-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. we will informed people by creating Whatsapp group

Through wikimedia kaduna network social media handles. we the team has visited Association of Photographers in Kaduna and discussed the project with them which they are interested to participant.

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.

through sharing postal on what's up app, social media handles, email address and messages

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

• Zmu'az4 (talk) Zainab is the project Wikipedia experience editors and creating article, also Assist Secretary of Wikimedia Kaduna Network.
• User:Friday Musa is the one of experience editors of Wikimedia Kaduna community. A great facilitators during all our projects.
• User:Inyor4mr She is the coordinator of wikimedia kaduna Network and good wikimedia editors and project organizer. she will be facilitating in this campaign
• User:Sk Salati is also part of the team and will be facilitating in this campaign

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

• the project WhatsApp will serve as a venue for continuous engagement communication to participants go that we can achieve all our farget

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

• The project WhatsApp will serve as a venue for continuous engagement communication to participants go that we can achieve all our farget

Yes

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 (only those applicable to your project):

1. Number of events - 3
2. Number of participants -15
3. Number of new editors - 10
4. Number of of articles created -0
5. Number of of articles improved -0
6. Number of of images uploaded -100
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -5

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)

• Will you use wikimedia metrics dashboard to tracking all project activities

yes, Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard will be created to track the participants contributions.

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 Facilitators to coordinate the project effectively

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

• Food and drinks for refreshment #2500 per person x20 = #50000
• Promotional Materials= #30000
• Local Running = #30000
• Alternative Power Supply = #35000
• Gifts for top (4) best picture 40000
• Renting projector and sound system = #30000
• Hall for Physical training = #15000
• Tatal == #230,000

Endorsements

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