Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/WeTranslate

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• WeTranslate is a drive to improve the number of Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa articles on Wikipedia by translating the English Wikipedia into Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba

Contact person and Location

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

• iamalbertoblaq@gmail.com

08146568073

Olumo street, oreyo, Ikorodu Lagos.

Project class

Please state if this grant is for individual project or network/club project

It is an individual project.

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?

3 training and editathon session, One for Igbo, Yoruba and Hausa respectively.

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.

WhatsApp group and metapage created solely for the project

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:Albertoblaq

User:Ogalihillary

User:Accuratecy051

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

we'll host 3 (one for each ethnic group) online training sessions to train and explain the process of translating Wikipedia to the participants.

Participants will join in with their mobile phones and personal computers

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

By adding them to a user group or affiliate community so that they can be actively engaged in upcoming projects

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

We will be working with volunteers from the Hausa user group, Yoruba user group and the Igbo user group. Due to the technicalities of working on Wikipedia the volunteers will be carefully trained and equipped for the 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: 3
2. Number of participants: 30
3. Number of new editors: 10
4. Number of of articles created or improved: 300
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events): 30

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics? Outreach Dashboard

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).

This is a personal project organized by User:Albertoblaq, User:Accuratecy051, User:Ogalihillary. We do not have any external support.

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

Digital banner/flier........N15,000

Data subscription for the 3 training sessions(4000×33)...........N132,000 Customized T-shirts for organizers and participants(2300*33).....N75,900 Gift vouchers for top 13 editors (15000×13).......N195,000

Total = N417,900

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

1.  Strong supportAccuratecy051
2.  Strong support Ogalihillary