Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikidata 11th Birthday Wikimedia fan club Unilorin

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Wikidata birthday is a global celebration around the world and it is a campaign to celebrate wikidata as a sister project of wikimedia that serves as a collection of data based information for easy comprehension for both readers and editors.

In celebrating the 11th birthday, the fan club aims to cover and bridge content gap on Nigeria related items on wikidata; Contents such as: Nigerian personalities, places, food, culture, monuments and lots more. The event is also targeted at improving the numbers of new and active editors to the fan club and Wikimedia Nigeria at large.

Wikimedia Project

Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.

• Wikidata

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: Shobowale Lekan Favour
• Email address: Shobowalelekan50@gmail.com
• Address: Kwara State
• Location of Project: Ilorin, Kwara state

Project class

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

• Fan Club

Timeline of activities

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

• 5-11-2023 - 30-11-2023

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
2. Add or improve contents
3. Bridge content gap on the Nigeria related contents on wikidata
4. Wikidata training

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?

It’s a two day event and an edit-a-thon contest

Day 1 (Training and Introduction to Wikidata): Participants will be introduced to wikidata, and the training process involves knowing how to edit wikidata, creates new items, and add statements to existing items, how to create a better wikidata item with quality information, and how to link data items with one another. After which participants will engage in an edit-a-thon to practice on what they have learnt during the training.

Day 2 (Wikidata birthday celebrations): the activity of the day entails the celebration of wikidata during the event, all experienced editors in the fan club will get to share their experiences on how they started contributing to wikidata and wikimedia in general. To encourage new participants and club members to contribute active

This would be an official kick off of a contest where participants will win prizes.

Edit-a-thon contest: This will start after the day 2 and participants will get to put into application what they have learnt during the two day event.

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 informed the Wikimedia Nigeria about my application on behalf of the fan club via the meta page

Below is the link https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria

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 will be using the fan club WhatsApp group to inform community members about the events and also will be using Flyers and partnership with Class Representatives & Students' Executives to help disseminate the information across to serve as medium to communicate to those who are not part of the community, but interested in joining about the events. We would also make use of emails and text messages to communicate directly with them.

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: favourdare123 President

User: Taofeeq Abdulkareem Vice 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?

They have devices that are Internet connectable such as smart phones, tablets, and laptops to effectively connect and practice what they have learnt.

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

New editors would joined the fan club and automatically become members of the community while existing editors will be re-energised into participating in Wikimedia Projects. We would continuously engage them through the events we have in the Fan Club and also expose them to other Wiki communities and events.

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:

1. Number of events – 2
2. Number of participants – 40
3. Number of new editors – 20
4. Number of articles created or improved – 250
5. Number of recurring participants (for projects that include a series of events) – 20

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

We will use the Outreach dashboard for edit tracking during the edit a thon contest

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: favourdare123 President : I will be hosting the event on behalf of the fan club and I will be supported by the executive team to ensure smooth running of the event.

User: Taofeeq Abdulkareem Vice President : He is also an experienced trainer on Wikidata. He will be one of the trainers during the day one and day two.

User: Mijesty Social media coordinator : She will be in charge of communications with participants and also engage all the social platforms of the community during the event for effective communication.

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 (1500×40×2)  : NGN 120,000

• Airtime for Communication (Estimate of 2000) : NGN 6,000

• data for facilitators (2500×3): NGN 7,500

• Camera rental and photography  : NGN 10,000

• Prizes for top 5 contributors  : NGN 30,000

• Contigencies , Miscellaneous and Logistics: NGN 15,000

TOTAL : NGN 188,500

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

• Taofeeq Abdulkareem (talk): I wholeheartedly endorse the Wikimedia fan club at the University of Ilorin's grant application in support of the 11th Birthday celebration of Wikidata. As a community member and facilitator for the meetup, I have witnessed the Fan Club's unwavering dedication to the Wikimedia mission. This event will not only promote open knowledge but also strengthen the global Wikimedia community. I am confident that the grant will be utilized effectively and serve its purpose, and I encourage its approval.

• Mijesty (talk) I hereby express my strong support for this project as it serves as an avenue to further promote the fan club to new members, the annual celebration of the Wikidata birthday has continually served as an opportunity for the members of the club to brainstorm on further ways to better contribute to the development of the sister project through the contributions of the members in ways that align with the movement strategy and i am confident that the club will also utilize this opportunity to the very best to ensure that the purpose of the project is acheived.