Wikidata for all 2.0

The Wikidata For All Project is one of our drives to improve Nigerian contents and increase wikidata's participation in the country. The project focuses on training all interested persons on how to query as well as how to add content on Wikidata.

Background edit

Having successfully completed the first project wikidata for all, this is proposed to consolidate on the successes gained and also improve on the shortfalls of the previous project. This project still retains the aims of the first project which is to introduce wikidata and also improve wikidata participation.

The idea of the first project came to us during the 2019 WikiIndaba conference where we realized that the number of Nigerian content on Wikidata is very low and it was mostly primarily because the majority of Wikimedia editors in our community are not familiar with the Wikidata Project. Hence we, the Igbo Wikimedians User Group decided to embark on the project with the aim of increasing Wikidata's participation, Promoting integration between Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects as well as improve Nigerian content on Wikidata.


Scope of Work edit

  • Training: Collation of resources for training design and launch of program dashboard for measuring project metrics, communication channel and design of project landing page (Meta). This particular version of the project consist of a five(5) days series of online hands-on training. Details of focused areas are listed in the table below.
  • Mentor ship: Attending to questions/feedback from participants, tracking of items, review.


Project Time-Lines/ Work Plan edit

Activities Specific Activities Time Lines Expected Outcomes Remarks
Awareness
  • Design and launch of Program dashboard for measuring Project metrics
  • Design of project landing page ( Meta)
  • Registration of participants on and off-wiki.
  • Social media engagement eg. Instagram, twitter, Whatsapp
Oct.5th - 17th 2020 Participants are expected to visit the project landing page and for the uploaded Videos for a self-pace training session.
Live Training
  • Introduction to the wikimedia movement and projects
  • Introduction to Wikidata project
  • How to make queries in wikidata using SPARQL
  • Adding content to Wikidata
Oct. 18th - Nov.15th 2020 Participants will be engaged in live training sessions ( hands-on) Duration (1hrs) per Webinar session. Each session will be recorded and make available before the next session on the landing page
Mentorship Class
  • Attending to feedbacks from students per previous sessions
  • Allocation of assignment to students
Oct.19th - Nov.20th 2020 The following modules are expected to be covered:
  • What is Wikidata
  • Wikidata Queries
  • Adding Contents to Wikidata
Editathon: Compettition
  • New editors to create their account before the event ( if it has not been earlier created)
  • Participants to sign up to the event dashboard
  • Mentors acts as judges to determine the winner of the competition
Nov.8th - 22nd 2020
  • At least contents on 100 universities in Nigerias will be added on wikidata

Resources for Self-pace Training edit

Videos of the last live session will be upload here before the next live session