Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Igboanude/Female Creators on Igbo Wikipedia

Comments from WMF

Hello Igboanude, congratulations on your first grant! We are happy to learn that you plan to train retired female civil servants from the Igbo community and edit articles on Igbo Wikipedia. I have reviewed the grant request and have some questions that I'd like you to address:

• Are you or any of the organizers affiliated with Igbo Wikimedians User Group or holding any leading position at that User Group? Are you applying for this grant on behalf of this User Group?
• You mentioned that you expect to have 6 participants. Is this the number for a single event or all events? Does it include the number of organizers?
• You are planning to edit the articles of Nigerian comedians, artists, musicians, poets, etc. Do you have any prepared list of articles? How will you track participants' contributions?
• We now require all grantees to announce their projects and receive the Wikimedia community feedback in advance. Could you please announce this project and grant on the relevant community pages on the target wiki(s)? Community notification may be most appropriate on a village pump, talk page, or mailing list. Please paste a link into the proposal page to where the relevant communities have been notified of this proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.
• Budget:
  • Data - $150 x 4 months - why do you request this cost for 4 months and not for the duration of the events only? Additionally, the grant duration is currently 3 months, we cannot support data plans that extend beyond the grant period.
  • Food and Drinks - you mentioned that the events would be online. In that case, how will you deliver food and drink to the participants?

Looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 12:13, 24 February 2021 (UTC)

Hello DSaroyan (WMF). Thank so much for your questions and advice on this my first attempt to do a project.

• I am not a member of Igbo Wikimedians User Group and other organizers of this project are not members of the user group. we do not hold any position and are not affiliated to the user group.
• The 6 participants that I mentioned is the number of editors that will participate in each event. That is for a single event. this is the least number expected. I know that more than that number might participate
• I have not drawn out the names of Nigerian comedians, artists, musicians etc that will be added to Igbo Wikipedia in the project. they are however plenty. the problem is that we will struggle to cover as many of them as possible. I will used outreach dashboard to track the edits.
• On announcing the project to the community, I have announced it in the talk page of igbo wikipedia. I have also added the link in the project page.
• On data, the idea is to do 4 events in 4 months, that is, one a month. I noticed that I made a mistake in the project proposal which I have corrected so that the project will now end in August 2021 instead of July 2021. On payment for data here, whatever amount of gigabits that one buys could either be for a period of one week, two weeks or one month. the data we will buy will each be the monthly data plan. this is because from my experience in other peoples project that I participated in, we realized that one many not be able to do all the edits needed and make all corrections on the single day for an event. One always requires to continue the editing and corrections on other days before the next day fixed for the project. The data will enable editors work on other days beyond the days of the event.
• On the food and drinks, the idea is that a restaurant will be retained who will deliver food and drinks to the editors in their different locations within the city on the days of the event. this would have still been the same thing if the project is offline except that in this case, they will deliver in different locations. Thank you.--Igboanude (talk) 12:47, 27 February 2021 (UTC)