Planning Wikimedia Nigeria

Wikimedia Nigeria is a proposed Wikimedia chapter in Nigeria. Wikimedia Nigeria shall act as the official chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation in Nigeria. Our primary objective is to promote free access to knowledge through Wikipedia and other sisters projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation. We are committed to the development, growth and free distribution of educational contents in Nigeria. We empower people to contribute to Wikipedia and other sisters projects to ensure that knowledge are freely accessible . We share the ideal of a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge, and here in Nigeria we shall play a key role in actualization of that vision.

Objectives

To promote Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in Nigeria
To increase the quality and quantity of Nigeria related topics that are currently underrepresented on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects
To support the growth, development and distribution of free educational materials in Nigeria
To partner with education based organization including the government to create educational contents and its free distribution
To support the mission of the Wikimedia Foundation
To support the use of the Wikimedia projects as important tools for education and learning in Nigeria

Vision

Wikimedia Nigeria is committed to the ideal of a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge and we believe that free access to knowledge is a fundamental right.

Mission

Our mission is to support and promote free access to knowledge, work with volunteers across the country, partner with governmental and non-governmental organisations, cultural and educational sectors and other mission aligned groups to make knowledge available for free access.

Core values

Honesty
Integrity
Accuracy
Accessibility
Transparency
Freedom
Diversity
Independence
Quality
Openness

Proposed Operating principles

Our operating principles are based on our values, as follows:

We shall promote the values inherent in the concept of open knowledge
We shall recognize transparency as a key factor in every growth and development
We are committed to the ideal of free access to knowledge
We shall ensure that contents released for educational purpose is with high level of accuracy
We shall promote the use of licences, formats and sources that support open knowledge
We shall be committed to promoting the provision of high quality open knowledge to everyone
We shall recognize that the contribution of volunteers is central to our activities, growth and development.
We shall be committed to encouraging, involving and engaging members of our community
We shall learn from and openly share our learning with the global Wikimedia movement
We shall be transparent in our operations
We shall support, encourage and promote diversity within our community
We hope to become an independent Nigeria not-for-profit organization that engages actively with the global movement

Members

Media coverages

Wikipedia needs more editors from Nigeria — Olatunde Isaac published by People's Daily Newspaper on March 26, 2016.
Wikipedia partners Nigerian NGOs to promote women published by The Guardian Newspaper on July 23, 2016.
Wikipedia partners Nigerian NGOs to promote women published by The Nigerian Voice Newspaper on July 23, 2016.
Wikipedians organize Wiki Loves Women in Nigeria published by News Express Nigeria on July 23 2016
Wiki Loves women encourages Nigerian women presence on Wikipedia published by Punch Newspaper on the 14th of October 2016
Loves Women encourages Nigerian women's presence on Wikipedia published by Daily Trust on the 14th of October 2016
Mental illness: Wikipedia to create awareness in Nigeria published on the 23rd of January 2017
BBC video for Wikimedia UG Nigeria in collaboration with World of Knowledge Published 13th of March, 2018.
Wikipedia increase nigerian women visibility online, published by vanguard newspaper
mental illness Wikipedia to create awareness of mental illness in Nigerian women, published by pulse
out to get more Nigerian content online, published by pm news
Wikipedia wants to increase women visibility, publshied my amore
Lawson to be honored by Wikipedia, published by Nigeria gallery

Events and Projects

Planning Nigeria had organized and participated in couples of activities in line with Wikimedia vision and mission. These includes:

Proposed Partnership

Partnership with Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation to promote visibility of natural places, tourist site attractions etc in Nigeria.
Partnership with National Commission for Museums and Monuments to train staff of the agency, releasing of images of all the monuments under open license and also to update information of the existing contents on Wikimedia
Partnership with National Assembly of Nigeria to update contents about the assembly on Wikipedia and digitization of Nigerian bills on commons under open license.
Partnership with Premium Times to work on creating secondary sources for Notable Nigerians without online presence.