Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/wiki kopas

Project summary

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• I theme the project "Wiki_Kopas" It will be a one-day programme and it will solely be focused on introducing 20 corps members to the community and contributing new items to Wikidata.

Contact person and Location

Please state the contact details of the contact person(s) for this project including email(s) and location

• albertmkpongonyong@yahoo.com

Ijana street Imesi-ile, osun state 08146568073

Timeline of activities

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

• This project is scheduled for the last Thursday of October being the 27th day of October or the first Thursday of November being the 3rd of November 2022 and will happen in imesi-ile town in Osun state, Nigeria.

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?

one training and edit-a-thon.

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.

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.

It will be a physical training, subsequently, follow up will be done on the whatsapp group created.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:Kaizenify

User:albertoblaq

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 will make use of their phones and laptops for the training and edit-a-thon and data will be disbursed to ensure that a stable internet connection is established

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

follow up on whatsapp platform

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

I am Albert Mkpongonyong, a wikimedian and also a serving corp member in imesi-ile town in osun state. I recently introduced Wikipedia and Wikidata to some of my colleagues and showed them that they could also help contribute to the knowledge. They were delighted and are willing to be trained on how to add quality contents to the wiki media community.

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. Number of participants
3. Number of new editors
4. Number of of articles created or improved
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)

no of events: 1 no of participants: 20 no of new editors: 17 no of articled created or improved: >200

Metrics tracking

How do you plan to track your project metrics?

tracking dashboard/landing page, meta page and

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 and include a total amount.

• Banner/flier.......................................N10000

• Data subscription (1000×20).........................N20000
• Venue.....................................N20000
• Projector.....................................N10000
• Customized T-shirts (2000×5).......................N10000
• Food/refreshments (2000×20).........................N40000
• miscellaneous.......................................N10000

Total = N120,000.

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