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

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

The project seek to use AI and chatbots to ease accessing, adding and editing of local content to wikimedia platforms. Most interesting content are missed because of editing difficulties and the ease could help add more content to localize what is already existing.

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.

Wikidata and Wiki Chatbots

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:Peters Onyilo
Email address: Peters.onyilo@gmail.com
Address: 1022 Otokiti Estate, Lokoja, Kogi State
Location of Project:Federal University Lokoja

Project class

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

Timeline of activities

Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project 1. Collation of local information from special interests groups. 2. Building chatbots and integration into WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. 3. Testing efficiency of chatbots and user acceptance. 4. Launch and refinement. 5. Training on using the chatbots to enrich wikimedia and local language toolkits.

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

recruit new editors
Add or improve content

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 both edithatons and trainings. The project aim to enrich learning local languages using wikimedia tools through chatbots.

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 start taking about the project in some Facebook group and form WhatsApp group or telegram group to advance the course of our objectives. Then progress will be filtered into wikimedia group discussions to avoid or reduce ambiguity.

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 post information on groups and notice boards of university departments. We will use peer network to pass the message across. Broadcast SMS, mailing list and group call.

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

Yes we have some of them who will teach others.

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

The basis for participation will be having all the basic gadgets and skill set to work on the project.

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

Their is a progress board and zoom meetings. We will use news letter and project management tools.

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

nothing more.

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):

Number of events - 4
Number of participants - 20
Number of new editors - 10
Number of of articles created - 200
Number of of articles improved -100
Number of of images uploaded - 100
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -10

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) We will write a python crawler for our task and cross check manually.

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 internet access for some participants. We have venue already.

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

Electricity and faster Internet for everyone.

Endorsements

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