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

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Wikipedia Day 2025 Meetup is an event organised by Kwara State University Wikimedia Fan Club to celebrate Wikipedia as an open repository of information. The event is aimed at sensitising Kwara State University undergraduates and postgraduate students on the existence of Wikipedia and how they can contribute to it. Among other line-up events for the day is the recruitment and training of new editors. Lastly, to commemorate Wikipedia Day celebration, a-month-long editing event is organised to contribute information on the notable academic staff members of Kwara State University on the Wikipedia. The calibre of the notable KWASU academics are those in the professorial rank, starting from Associate Professors to Full Professors.

Wikimedia Project

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

• English Wikipedia and 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: Obayemi Boluwatife- President
• Email address: boluwatifeobayemi@gmail.com
• Address:Malete Kwara State
• Location of Project: malete Kwara

Project class

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

• KWARA STATE UNIVERSITY WIKIMEDIA FANCLUB NG.

Timeline of activities

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

• The Project will last for a month. It will start with physical training of the participant after which prizes will be given to the top most editors.

Project Goal

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

1. To create a sound awareness in the university
2. Recruit new editors
3. Add or improve content
4. Add references
5. Create new articles
6. Improve skills of existing editors

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?

There will be one edit-a-thon. But training and awareness will come first on how to create and improve articles as well as adding references. There will also be a follow up online to encourage and clarify some challenges that may come up during the edit-a-thon. The edit-a-thon will last for one month

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

The Kwasu volunteers has an active WhatsApp platform for regular communication and updates

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.

VIA WHATSAPP, SMS, ZOOM AND MAILS

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead/assist the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse and sign your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

YES,User:Margob28

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

The participants have smart phones and laptops and other smart electronic devices. They also have ICT and information literacy skills.

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

There will be addition of new editors after every event with follow ups of continuous editing and upcoming contributions.

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project? Additional information about the project is available on the event page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kwara_State_University_Wikimedia_Fan_Club/Wikipedia_Day_2025#Schedule

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 - 4
2. Number of participants - 38 (+8 Executive Members)
3. Number of new editors - 21
4. Number of of articles created -
5. Number of of articles improved -
6. Number of of images uploaded -
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

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) An outreach dashboard will be created to track all edits during the one-month long event.

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).

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

1. Feeding per participants' for the physical opening and closing events should be estimated at ₦4,500 ×38 (30 participants' + 8 excos)= ₦171,000

1. Data reimbursement for the physical event (router subscription (30,400) and for online training + data subsidy for 37 participants (#37,000) in Online event = ₦67,400

1. Public address system and projector rent- #87,000

1. Logistics ₦25,000

1. Total Requested = ₦350,400

Endorsements

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