Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wiki Loves Earth Ilorin 2024

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Wiki Loves Earth is an annual photographic competition where participants take pictures of local natural heritage in different environments and upload them to Wikimedia Commons to make it freely available for everyone on the Wikimedia community.

The aim of the Wiki Loves Earth Ilorin 2024 campaign is to add photo and video content from the rich culture in Kwara state, highlight specific areas in Kwara state and put them under a free license which can be re-used on other sister projects.

The project will help strengthen the awareness on contribution to Wikicommons and train editors on how to use contents on Wikicommons on other sister projects like Wikipedia, Wikidata.

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.

• Wikimedia Commons

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: Akintunde Daniel Opeyemi
• Email address: akintundedanielr7@gmail.com
• Address: Ilorin, Kwara State.
• Location of Project: Ilorin, Kwara state.

Project class

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

• Wikimedia Fan Club

Timeline of activities

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

• 5th July - 30th 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
3. Photo walk
4. Engage participants

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?

Our plan for the project is to organise one photo walk session and one physical training.

Photo walk:The Wiki loves Earth Ilorin 2024 is a campaign that is focused on adding photo content on wikicommons. The photo walk is aimed at creating awareness about wikicommons and how participant can contribute to photo content on the Wikimedia movement

Physical Training: Both new and existing participants will be introduced to wikimedia commons and how to contribute using technical tools on wikimedia commons like structure data.

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.

The wikimedia community has been informed about our proposal via their meta page.

Below is the link to the talk page. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Wiki_Loves_Earth_Ilorin_2024

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.

Create Public Awareness: We plan to inform interested participant both existing members and new potential members through e-fliers and our social media pages Instagram, X(twitter) and mainly our whatsapp platform. The public awareness aim is to continually remind the participants about the event.

Photo Walk and Training: We will inform participants about the photo walk and training by sending them official mail to validate their attendance and to inform them about the event.

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:Akintundedaniel General secretary

User:Favourdare123 President

User:Mijesty Social media coordinator

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

Participants will be joining the event with their electronic devices like smart phones, tablet, camera,laptop etc. This enables them to fully participate in the photo contest and the photo walk session.

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

We will engage the participants after the events through our WhatsApp community group chat. Through the edit-a-thon we will have open sessions on the community group where we can hear and assist them if there is any issue they cant seem to solve on their own.

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

Our focus is to capture photographic and video content of Ilorin, Kwara thereby enriching Wikimedia commons and highlighting underrepresented communities via te campaign.

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 - 2
2. Number of participants - 40
3. Number of new editors - 15
4. Number of of articles created -
5. Number of of articles improved -
6. Number of of images uploaded - 300
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 25

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) 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).

The whole executives of the fan club will be organising the trainings and the photo walk sessions but the main organisers with special roles includes.

User:Akintundedaniel General secretary(co-organiser and trainer): I will be training the participants on how to contribute to wikimedia commons, steps and how to rightly add images on wiki sister projects.

User:favourdare123 President(Organiser and trainer): He will be overseeing the event and training the participants during the physical training on how to contribute to wiki commons using the technical tools like structure data.

User:Mijesty Social Media coordinator(communication and logistics): She will be incharge of communicating with participants and posting regularly about the training via e-fliers on our social media platforms.

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

• Refreshment and Take away pack during physical training (3500*40) : NGN 140,000

• Refreshment during the photo walk(1500*40):NGN 60,000

• T shirt for team members: (5000*3): NGN 15,000

• Transportation for the two team members members: NGN 15,000

• Transportation for participants(Bus rental) :NGN 60,000

• Camera rental and photography : NGN 20,000

• Appreciating prizes for any five highest editor for the training(gift vouchers) : NGN 30,000

• Contigencies , Miscellaneous and Logistics: NGN 20,000

Total = NGN 360,000

Endorsements

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