Grants talk:Project/Rapid/Udehb/Wikidata for all 2.0

Comments from WMF

Hello Udehb, thanks for submitting a new Rapid Grant application to organize another Wikidata for all event. We have reviewed your request and have the following questions and comments:

• Do you have or plan to prepare a list of Wikidata items for the participants to create or edit?
• Could you please share the schedule of your online events. Specifically, on what topics will you be organizing the trainings?
• Are you planning anything different compared to the previous Wikidata for all project?
• Why don’t you request this grant on behalf of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group?

Budget:

• Why do you request internet costs for 3 months? Please reduce this cost, covering the internet costs for the mentors and admin during the online events only.
• Why do you need graphic design expenses? Could you please provide a detailed explanation?
• In the Impact section, you have mentioned that you would expect 10+ participants per event. However you have only budgeted Internet costs for five participants. Could you please explain why?

I’m looking forward to your responses. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 09:08, 4 September 2020 (UTC)

Response from Udehb

Hi DSaroyan (WMF), thanks for the questions and comments. the following are my response to your questions and comments:

• Do you have or plan to prepare a list of Wikidata items for the participants to create or edit?

Yes i do. The plan is to add/edit contents of at least 100 universities in Nigeria. and this list of universities will be gotten from 4icu.org.

• Could you please share the schedule of your online events. Specifically, on what topics will you be organizing the trainings?

sure!

Live sessions

Days	Topics
Day1	Introduction to Wikidata
Day2	How to Query Wikidata using SPAQL
Day3	Cont. How to Query Wikidata
Day4	How to add/edit items on wikidata
Day5	Cont. How to add/edit items on wikidata using toolkit

• Are you planning anything different compared to the previous Wikidata for all project?

Yes! one of the challenges we faced in the first project was that the training time wasn't enough especially on how to query wikidata using spaql. so in this proposed project, we plan on increasing the training time for all the technical parts of the training(i.e: How to query wikidata and also how to add/edit items using toolkit), that way, we believe it will make it easier for participants to fully grasp the various topics.

• Why don’t you request this grant on behalf of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group?

Ok Done.

Budget:

• Why do you request internet costs for 3 months? Please reduce this cost, covering the internet costs for the mentors and admin during the online events only.

ok Done.

• Why do you need graphic design expenses? Could you please provide a detailed explanation?

This is for the graphics designer designing the flyers for the various events.

• In the Impact section, you have mentioned that you would expect 10+ participants per event. However you have only budgeted Internet costs for five participants. Could you please explain why?

This happened to be one of the strategies we sort of developed during the first project. We couldnt provide internet subsidy for all the participants at the time so we opt for the first 5 participants to join each live session and that worked out brilliantly for us. And for this project, we just employed same strategy but I have upped it to take care of 10 participants per event.

Thank you once more for the Questions and comments. please do feel free to share any other concerns you might have or even suggestions.

Warm Regards, Benedict Udeh

Additional comments from WMF

Hello Udehb, thanks so much for addressing my questions. I have reviewed them and have the following additional comments:

• Could you please add the list of sessions to the proposal page?
• Have you informed and talked to the leadership of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group that you request a new Rapid Grant on the user group's behalf?
• I understand that graphic design expenses are for designing flyers for different events but I need more details.
  • What is the need of having flyers or other printing materials during the online events?
  • What kind of flyers the graphic designer will be designing?
  • How will you print and distribute these flyers?

Thank you, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 10:20, 7 September 2020 (UTC)

Additional Response from Udehb

HelloDSaroyan (WMF), Thanks for your insightful comments/concerns.

• Could you please add the list of sessions to the proposal page?

done

• Have you informed and talked to the leadership of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group that you request a new Rapid Grant on the user group's behalf?

Yes

• I understand that graphic design expenses are for designing flyers for different events but I need more details.
  • What is the need of having flyers or other printing materials during the online events?
  • What kind of flyers the graphic designer will be designing?
  • How will you print and distribute these flyers?

I don't know if flyer is the right word for it but the flyer i mean are soft-copies that will be pasted in the various platforms(Facebook,Whatsapp,twitter,etc) during the awareness campaign for the project.

Thank you again, and i hope i was able to address your concerns but if not, please do feel free to ask. Regards Benedict Udeh

Approved

Hello Udehb, thank you for responding to my questions. I am approving your grant request! Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 09:45, 11 September 2020 (UTC)