International Museum Day 2022/Nigeria

CALL TO IMPROVE THE PRESENCE OF

NIGERIA MUSEUMS ON THE WIKIMEDIA PROJECTS

Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples, especially in a culturally inclined country like Nigeria.

In keeping up with the International Museum Day and this year's focus, we join the global International Museum Day 2022 in partnership with the Nigerian National Museum in celebrating Museum and ensuring we complete and improve the presence of Nigeria Museums on the Wikimedia projects.

"The objective of the International Museum Day (IMD) celebration in Nigeria is to raise awareness of the fact that, “Nigeria Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.”

In keeping with the Museums Day and this year's focus, we invite you to help us complete and improve the presence of Nigerian museums on Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata.

Thank you for participating!

Wikidata Contest

From May 4 - 31, 2022 we ran a Wikidata contest related to Nigeria museum metadata. Please join the dashboard here to be part of the competition. At the end of the contest, a total 94 editors participated with 39 new editors.

Editors are expected to contribute to the following areas:

Museums and Monuments and related contents in Nigeria
Archaeological sites in Nigeria

Prizes

We have sculptures from the National Museum, Lagos for the top 3 participants with the highest number of contributions.

Winners

Edit a thon

On 18th May 2022 being the International Museum Day; we held a hybrid edit a thon at the National Museum, Lagos where Nigeria editors gathered to improve Wikidata items about Nigeria museums. We also had participants joined via online as it was stream on our Facebook page and also Zoom.

Contact us!

If you like to contribute or have any questions; please do well to put on the talk page or email infowikimedia.org.ng.