NAU Academia Wiki Fan Club

General Information

NAU Academia Wiki Fan Club is a group of Wikimedia Editors (Staff and Students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State) that contributes to Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects in any languages applicable to the editor available on wiki space. The group is willing to share ideas, network and collaborate with individuals or groups with similar visions and missions for the progress of the Wikimedia movement. The group is an Arm of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria and WMF in general.

Background

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Adaora Obuezie joined the Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria as a novice, practically confused on the rudiments of edits where she was eventually liberated with the inception of the first-ever African Librarians week #AfLibWk, One Librarian, One Reference #1Lib1Ref campaign which took place from 24th – 30th May 2020 with the theme, “Promoting African Scholars to the World”. This lubricated her interest in contributing to Wikimedia projects. Obuezie's participation in the all-virtual campaign where she was one of the first 50 top contributors strengthened her knowledge in contributing to Wikipedia and its sister projects as well as getting fully involved as a Wikimedian. She further participated in the 2020 online pilot cohort of the Wikipedia in African Library course and became one of the champions for the 3rd African Librarians week 1Lib1Ref campaign in 2022. She leveraged her involvement in all these campaigns to volunteer in some in-person and virtual Wikipedia training such as the Awka Igbo Wikipedia Training organized by Nkem Osuigwe which took place from the 29th to 30th of March, 2021 and the 1Lib1Ref: outreach and campaign sustainability in Anambra State organized by Ngozi Osuchukwu which took place on the 9th of August 2022, among others. The training was successful as participants turned up in numbers, learnt and made an impressive contribution to Wikipedia space. This journey brought her to realize the need to get Wikipedia into the Academic community where she works as a lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The interested Academia (students and staff) will be recruited and enlightened on the relevance of Wikimedia projects in Research and education in general. They will be trained on how to actively get involved in the WMF movement. For interest, feedback, follow-up and assistance she will create a WhatsApp group for a start where the progress of the interested participants can be monitored and mentored. Join the WhatsApp group

Introduction

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NAU Academia Wiki Fan Club is a group of Wikimedia Editors (Staff and Students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State) that contributes to Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) projects in any languages applicable to the editor available on wiki space. The group is willing to share ideas, network and collaborate with individuals or groups with similar visions and missions for the progress of the Wikimedia movement. The group is an Arm of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedia Community User Group Nigeria and WMF in general.

Objectives

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  • To encourage Nnamdi Azikiwe University Academia to participate in all language Wikimedia projects applicable to them by creating awareness.
  • Get the Academia of NAU enlightened on the relevance of Wikimedia to research and education in general.
  • To train the NAU academic community (students and staff) on editing and translating articles to the language of preference available on Wikimedia.
  • Enlighten the Educators on the relevance of Wikipedia in teaching Information literacy, developing qualitative research skills and critical thinking skills.
  • To organize events on timely bases to broaden the knowledge of older editors and recruit new editors for sustainability.
  • To encourage NAU Academia to join and be fully involved in the WMF

Activities

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This group plans to hold these activities:

  • Trainings: the club will organize in-person and online tutorials, edit-a-thons, and encourage participation in the NAU Academia Wiki Fan Club group. Various mission activities include but will not be limited to:
  1. Online tutorial (WMF Overview )
  2. Introduction to Language Wikipedia
  3. 1Lib1Ref edit-a-thon on the English Wikipedia
  4. 1Lib1Ref edit-a-thon in Igbo /other language Wikipedia
  5. Fixing reference errors on the English Wikipedia
  6. Fixing reference errors on the Igbo /other language Wikipedia
  7. Introduction and translation of English articles to Igbo/other language Wikipedia
  8. Introduction to Wikicommons
  9. Photo shoot hunt on a specified subject (Health care, Natural habitats, Nigerian foods, Plants, Different Mountains in Nigeria, Tertiary institutions in Nigeria, Libraries in Nigeria, Rivers/waterfalls in Nigeria among others) with accurate metadata for description.
  10. Uploading of images and assigning of rights on Wikicommons.
  11. Training and contest of Wikipedia articles wanting the related pictures/images added.
  12. Introduction to Wikidata
  13. Creation of items and adding of references on Wikidata
  14. Translate Wikidata properties in Igbo/ other languages
  15. Introduction to Wikiquote
  16. Introduction to Igbo Wikiquote/other languages
  17. Fixing reference error on the Igbo Wikipedia
  • Meet-ups: the club will be organizing online and in-person meet-ups for its members to give room for the exchange of ideas, challenges, recommendations and feedback.


  • Contests there will be contests, especially at the end of the year as a source of encouragement and motivation for impressive impact, more participation and results.


  • Others:

This club will leverage collaboration and liaise with other language specialists or experienced editors from different local tongue to facilitate in language projects for inclusive, equal and effective participation.

Founding Members

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  1. Tochi Precious Friday
  2. Adaora C. Obuezie
  3. Goodness Ignatius
  4. Dr. Nkem Osuigwe
  5. Ngozi P. Osuchukwu

Members

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