Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Musaddam Idriss/Photowalk at Bauchi

Comments from DSaroyan (WMF)

Hello Musaddam Idriss, thanks for submitting this Rapid Fund application. In order to understand the project needs better, I have a few questions for you to address:

• You mentioned that the "majority of Bauchi related articles have no pictures", however you gave only a few examples of the articles you plan to illustrate. Please provide a more detailed list of articles and objects you plan to photograph.
• You may need to have permission to take photos of some objects mentioned in the application. How are you going to address this challenge?
• You also mentioned that you would create articles for those buildings and objects that are missing on Wikipedia. What are these articles?
• Are you from Bauchi state? Are you well aware of the ethnic groups living in this state?
• What other awareness activities do you plan to carry out in terms of this project?

Looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 11:57, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

For The Question 1

Additional articles about Schools/Tertiary Institutions lacking images

1. Aminu Saleh College of Education Azare
2. Federal Polytechnic Bauchi

Existing articles about Lakes, Dams and Rivers in Bauchi State without images

1. River Misau
2. River Jama'are

Existing articles about traditional emirates, ethnic groups, festivals and cultures in Bauchi State without images

1. Ningi Emirate
2. Misau Emirate
3. Dass People
4. Zumbun People
5. Giade
6. Jama'are Emirate
7. Katagum Emirate
8. Damban Emirate
9. Toro
10. Sayawa People
11. Geji People

The aim is to provide them with photos to make them look like these two articles (as examples)

Yoruba People and Igbo People

Please note that I will not just improve the articles by only uploading relevant photos to them, I will also improve their textual contents as well as most them are too short with very little texts.

Therefore, as seen from the above list, the objects I plan to photograph in this project include places, rock formations, caves, traditional emirates’ palace gates, rivers, dams, lakes, ethnic groups, monuments, cultural festivals, traditional foods, government buildings, ancient city walls, springs, tourist attractions, rock paintings, mountains, tertiary institutions, artefacts etc found in the area of Bauchi State or stored/kept in the state’s museum.

For The Question 2

1. Before I applied for this grant, I have the opportunity of writing a letter to the Executive Director, Ministry of Culture and Tourism telling him about Wikimedia, its goals and activities and also seek for his consent that if my grant application for this project is accepted then I would like to have his support/permission to visit their ministry, particularly the state museum and be allowed to take pictures of the artefacts kept inside.
2. I also called the Director SSS (being familiarize with him so much) and inform him about the nature of the activity and how it will be embark. I will also write it to his office officially if the grant application is funded.
3. As part of my plan to achieve stable and peaceful tours throughout the project, I also have it in mind that I will use the money in item 9 of the grant application to report to all other security agencies.

For The Question 3

Here can be found below the list of some of the new articles I plan to create and add them the images I photograph

• Federal Medical Centre Azare
• Government College Azare Katagum
• Special Education Centre, Bauchi
• Bauchi State College of Agriculture
• School for Higher Islamic Studies, Jama'are
• Panshanu stone heaps
• Tungan Maliki
• Shau shau iron smelting works
• Dukkey Wells
• Kalban Hill
• Mount Tunga Dutse
• Marshall caves
• Wikki warm spring
• Yankari National Park and Game Reserve
• The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium
• Shehu Azare Park
• Unity Park
• Tafawa Balewa Tomb
• Bauchi State Museum
• Waya Dam
• Gubi Lake
• River Katagum
• River Dindima
• Duguri Mountain
• Bauchi Institute of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Bauchi
• Kyaro War Dance
• Bauchi Durbar Festival
• Bauchi State Festival of Arts and Culture
• Afan National Festival
• Gworok (Kagoro) Hill
• Amanya Festival
• Circumcision Feast of Gezawa People
• Lake Efi Fishing Festival
• Yankari Cultural Festival.
• Bauchi State Library Board
• Bauchi State Local Government Pension Board
• Bauchi State Local Government Service Commission
• Bauchi State Ministry of Housing & Environmental
• Bauchi State Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board
• Bauchi State Pension Board
• Bauchi State Scholarship Board
• Bauchi State Shari'ah Commission
• Bauchi State Special Schools Management Board
• Bauchi State Sports Council
• Bauchi State Teachers' Service Commission
• Bauchi State Television
• Bauchi State Transport Corp.
• Yankari Express
• Bauchi State Treasury Department
• Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board
• Bauchi State Urban Development Board
• Bauchi State Judicial Service Commision
• Bauchi Statte Civil Service Commission
• Adult & Non-Formal Education Agency, Bauchi State
• Bauchi Radio Corporation
• Bauchi State Agricultural Development Programme
• Bauchi State Board of Internal Revenue
• Bauchi State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board
• Bauchi State Environmental Protection Agency
• Bauchi State Hotels Board
• Bauchi State Independent Electorial Commission
• Bauchi State Investment & Property Development Company Limited
• Bauchi Central Market
• Trillion farm
• Bauchi Ware House
• Alkaleri Market
• Digare Market
• Gaji Market
• Rukuba market
• Sabon Kasuwa Market
• Wunti Textile Market
• The Lemph Zaar cultural festival
• Gworok (Kagoro) Hill
• Afan National Festival
• Kofar lnkil
• Kofar Dumi
• Kofar Wase
• Kofar Jahun
• Kofar Nassarawo
• Kofar Wunti
• Kofar Ran
• Kofar Tirwun
• Kofar Wambai.  
• Misau Emirate
• Jama'are emirate
• Ningi emirate
• Katagum emirate
• Bauchi Ancient City Walls

For The Question 4

·        Yes, I am from Bauchi State and I am well aware of the ethnic groups living in here as well as their towns and periods during which their certain cultural activities are performed.

For The Question 5

I will make a branded T-shirt to wear everyday I plan to go out to photograph the target places and objects in any of the regions of the state. Not only that, since I will be uploading the images to Wikimedia Commons and adding them to the existing/newly created articles, I will be sharing them in all the social media platform groups I’m using (such as WhatsApp, Telegram etc), that way it will help spread the uploaded work faster reaching out to many people at a short period of time.

Thank you for all the questions and I will be available to explain more, anything that is needed or have another set of questions.

Sincerely,

Musaddam Idriss (talk) 20:02, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Request for extension

Hello sir, I want to request for an extension of my grant's end date due on 28 April, 2022. The need for the extension arise following the delay of its funding and the recommendation given by the Finance department of the WMF. I want it to be extended to this new date 31st May, 2022.

Hoping to receive your support on this.

Regards, Musaddam Idriss (talk) 15:20, 21 April 2022 (UTC)

Hello Musaddam Idriss, thanks for posting your request. I have reviewed and formally approved it. The new grant end date is 31 May 2022, and the final report is due on 30 June 2022. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 06:13, 2 May 2022 (UTC)