Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Bashir/Wikipedia Awareness in Urban Katsina

Comments from I JethroBT (WMF)

Hello Uncle Bash007 and thanks for your proposal to support new readers in Katsina, Nigeria. We will be funding this proposal, but I have a few comments and recommendations for the project:

• There are limited tools available for volunteers in the movement to measuring views on a national scale. However, the pageviews tool is probably the most useful one. One strategy for supporting awareness building is assess viewership of specific articles on Hausa Wikipedia that you include in materials, social media messages, or other outreach efforts.
• In terms of training, what skills will you be training participants to learn? What do you want them to be able to do after the training is complete? Are there any specific materials you will be using or providing to participants?

With thanks, I JethroBT (WMF) (talk) 21:30, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Hi Jethro

Thank you for the comments ad recommendations, i will make use of the pageviews tool during the project.

• I will briefly introduce new users on missions and visions of wikipedia, I will then focus on training them on how to make edits, add references and photos to improve articles.
• Hence, after training,I want the new users to be able to navigate and make necessary contributions to Wikipedia, and if possible get active users among them by engaging them in an editathon [[1]]
• As most of the new users will be students, i will provide them with transport from their respective institutions to the training venue. I will also provide internet access such as data subscriptions and computers (rentals). There will also be certificates of participation to all volunteers

Uncle Bash007 (talk) 23:21, 19 May 2021 (UTC)