Ig Wiki Librarians Hub

General Information

IG Wiki Librarians Hub is a group of Wikimedians (librarians and other participants) that contribute to the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and WMF projects. The group is willing to share ideas and collaborate with individuals/groups that share same objectives. The group is an Arm of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group.

BackstoryEdit

After participating during the 2020 online pilot cohort of the Wikipedia in African Library course, Goodness Ignatius saw the need to involve more librarians by creating awareness and training librarians in Nigeria. She took a giant step of organising a tutorial session for new editors in Nnamdi Azikiwe University,Awka, Anambra State under the Igbo Wikimedians User Group. The training was aimed at increasing awareness, participation and to improve Nigerian content on Wikipedia, Igbo Wikipedia and other sister project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The training ABC of Editing Wikipedia turned out successful and she is willing to organize more trainings.

Goodness was encouraged by the impact, involvement and feedback of the training and she decided to organize more trainings with the aim of recruiting more Librarians and interested participants in Nigeria for involvement in the Wikimedia Foundation projects. For follow-ups and guidance she created a telegram group. Join the Telegram group

Outreach in Awka
Pratical editing session with smartphones during the ABC of Wikipedia editing
Training session
After training session photograph (ABC of Wikipedia editing)
Partiipants of ABC of editing wikipedia training in Awka, Anambra State
Participants of ABC of editing wikipedia training in Awka

IntroductionEdit

IG Wiki Librarians Hub is a group of Wikimedians (librarians and other participants) that contribute to the Igbo Wikimedians User Group and WMF projects. The group is willing to share ideas and collaborate with individuals/groups that share same objectives. The group is an Arm of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group.

ObjectivesEdit

To encourage librarians/other participants to participate in the Igbo Wikimedians projects by creating awareness.
To train librarians/other participants on editing and translating articles to Igbo language.
To organize events to recruit new editors to get involved and encourage continuity by involing old members.
To encourage librarians to join library/librarian events of the WMF

ActivitiesEdit

This group plans to hold these activities:

Trainings: the hub will organise in-person and online tutorials, edit-a-thons, and encourage participation in the Igbo Wikimedians User Group activities. Completed/ongoing events are:

Online tutorial: this was an online activity tutorial and tracking for 6 month (January-June 2022). Activities of new editors who were given instructions on how to create and translate articles on the Igbo Wikipedia.This activity was to find out how many editors continued contributing to projects after receiving instructions, follow ups, etc. At the end of June, 2.47k articles were created, 6.77k articles were edited and a total edit of 11.5k. Out of 22 editors that were logged into the dashboard, 18 contributed from January - June 2022.
Introduction to English and Igbo Wikipedia
Introduction to Igbo Wikiquote
Introduction to Igbo Wikiquote II
1Lib1Ref: Fix reference errors on the Igbo Wikipedia
Igbo Wikimedians User Group 1Lib1Ref cite-a-thon
Fixing reference error on the Igbo Wikipedia 2.0

Meet-ups: the hub will be organizing online and in-person meet-ups for her members to give room for exchange of ideas, challenges, recommendations and feedbacks.

Contests there will be contests especially at the end of the year to encourage more participants to get involved and for more results.

Igbo Wikimedians User Group Wiki For Human Rights Contest 2022

Others:

Founding MembersEdit

MembersEdit

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