Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Umar-askira/Edit-a-thon in Kaduna State University (KASU) 2024

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• This project planned to promote wikipedia project in Kaduna State University (KASU) also guide the students on how to utilize wikipedia pages and content translations to other languages (Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo) as the students come out from different ethnic groups, wikidata (add items or lexims), commons (upload media and pictures), Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus), free open source encyclopedia for easy researches and contributing to wikipedia to archive WMF Goals. And it will help them to increase more content in wikipedia pages. This project will implement a potential impact and improve more articles in Wiktionary and help newbies to adding more contributions in wikipedia pages.

Kaduna State University has thousands of students and different faculties: sciences, engineering, Arts and Education. It is located at Unguwan/Rimi Kaduna state, Nigeria. You can read more about Kaduna State University

Please state the Wikimedia project your project will focus majorly on (e.g. English Wikipedia, Wikidata, etc). It is advisable to focus on one Wikimedia project, but a maximum of two projects is allowed.

• This project on:
  

1. Wikipedia
2. Wiktionary
3. Wikidata
4. Commons
5. Wikiversity

Please state the contact details of the contac for this project including email(s) and location. For more than one contact person, indicate same details for everyone

• Full name: UMAR IBRAHIM
• Email address: uibrahimaskira516@gmail.com
• Address: No 45 Kuriga Close Badarawa Kaduna
• Location of Project: Kaduna State

Please state if you are applying as an individual or a network/club

• Individual

Please state the timeline of your activities, and include the start and end date for your project

• Start date: 28th October 2024
• End date: 30th November 2024

Choose one or more of the following goals. Feel free to add or delete goals as required by your project.

1. recruit new editors
2. Add or improve content
3. Increase skills for existing editors

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

Yes. am going to run one editathon training because some years back i promote successful wikipedia awareness campaign at Kaduna:

1. NCT Campaign Kaduna
2. KADPOLY (here)
3. Edit-a-thon Kaduna

it implement potential impacts to the students then i will like to use this opportunity to run this edit-a-thon in KASU to promote awareness among the students.

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

There are existing social media handles groups where i prefer to let the community know about this edit-a-thon faster as the community members are more familiar with they are:

1. Whatsapp here [1]
2. Telegram here
3. Facebook here [2]

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

I will let the participants know about this project by collaborating with some students that i known from KKASU in persons of Abdulrahman Mk (he personally proposed for the project when he joined our online session on Wiki For Human Right Kaduna while the application was in draft already), Nadiya Aliyu Wakili, Umar Shehu Kufaina and others

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead/assist the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals. (NOTE: all experienced Wikimedia editors MUST endorse and sign your proposal as proof of availability)
For example: User:Kaizenify

yes I have experience editors that will be the facilitators during the event:

1. Umar-askira: Project lead
2. Lammaske : Facilitator
3. Eashmaazat: Facilitator
4. Abdulrahman (Not yet become an editor): Organiser
5. Umar Shehu Kufaina (Not yet become an editor)
6. Nadiya A Wakili (Not yet become an editor): Organiser

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

The participants are going to use their smartphones which will be the part of our selection eligibility and for those that have computers will use their PCs.

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

I will engage the participants after the event by motivating the to keep on contributing in the kiktionary page via social media handles

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

Yes, this project is so considerable because it will implement so many potential impacts to KASU students in terms of wikipedia activities and their studies.

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets (only those applicable to your project):

1. Number of events - 2
2. Number of participants - 35
3. Number of new editors - 25
4. Number of of articles created - 50
5. Number of of articles improved - 150
6. Number of of images uploaded - 50
7. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) -

How do you plan to track your project metrics? (do not create a metrics dashboard until your project has been approved for funding)

Am going to use outreach dashboard to track the participants activities.

What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

Day 1 (Introduction)

Time Activities Facilitators

10:00AM - 10:15AM Registration All

10:15AM - 10:25AM Opening remark / Introduction to the main project Umar-askira (Project lead)

10:25AM-10:40AM Introduction to wikipedia Umar-askira

Technical Session

Slide-show presentation of wikipedia (Theory session) Umar-askira

How to create a user account and article Lammaske

Lammaske

Introduction to wikipedia and other sister projects Umar-askira

Contributing to Wikipedia, wikidata, common and wikiversity (Hands on Practical)

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense as a unit amount and include a total amount.

• Food and Drinks - For each participant = 2550 x 35 = 89,250

• Event hall (free of charge)- Maintenance = 10,000

• Projector and public address: 30,000

• Use of internet 2GB- 700 x 35 = N24,000

• Customized T-shirts - for 6 facilitators = N5000 x 6 (6 facilitators) = N30,000

• Banner and Tags - N35,000

• TOTAL  :N 226,250

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

I Aisha Yahuza Strong support Strong support this project as a project facilitator and the students of Kaduna State University (KASU). This project is impactful especially to the students that don't know about free sources and encyclopedia contents. The students will also have the skill to contributing to wikipedia lages and navigate to the sister wiki. Best wishes.

I Abubakar Yusuf Gusau (Sanskrit) The Editathon will provide a unique opportunity for students, faculty, and community members to come together, learn about Wikipedia, and contribute to the online encyclopedia. It's a chance to bridge the knowledge gap, promote Nigerian content, and empower individuals with digital skills.

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