Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Wikipedia Awareness and Training Project in Jos, Plateau State

Project summary

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• This project aims to raise awareness and provide training on Wikipedia in Jos, the capital of Plateau State, Nigeria. Despite Wikipedia's global presence, there has never been a Wikimedia project in Jos, leading to a lack of awareness and understanding about the platform among residents, particularly within educational institutions.

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.

• Wikipedia

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:Abdulmuddalib Ibrahim Salisu
• Email address:abdulmuddalibibrahimsalisu@gmail.com
• Address:Jos
• Location of Project:Plateau

Project class

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• Individual

Timeline of activities

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• Star 25/06/2024

End 20/06/2024

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

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 one day of awareness trip and two days of Physical training

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.

Mainly via Hausa Wikipedia Discussion page and Hausa Wikimedia Community WhatsApp Group

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.

I will invite the participants during trip and some other participants will know via WhatsApp groups and phone calls

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:Smshika

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

Yes they will use devices mostly Phone and Laptops

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

I will create WhatsApp group for Jos Wikimedians

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

This is the second time to reapply this Grant project.

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 -3
2. Number of participants -20
3. Number of new editors -15
4. Number of of articles created -30
5. Number of of articles improved -100
6. Number of of images uploaded -20
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)

WMF Dashboard tool

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).

I will lead the event, and User:Smshika will be invited to help me with the training. I have informed him, and he has agreed to facilitate.

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

Trips:25'000

1. Refreshment:1,500=30,000×2dyas60,000
2. Hall:50,000×2days=100,000
3. T-shirt:5,000×2=10,000
4. Banner:10,000
5. Transport for orgerzer:20,000
6. Microphone:15,000
7. Data Support:1000×20=20,000
8. Flayes and Tags:10,000
9. Contingency:10,000

Total amount:270,000

Endorsements

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• I fully support this project Smshika (talk) 06:18, 11 June 2024 (UTC)