Grants:Wikimedia UG Nigeria Grants/Wikimedia User Group Nigeria Community Support Fund/Osun Wiki Loves Monuments: Difference between revisions

Briefly summarize your project proposal.

• Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual international photographic competition to contribute images as well as (re)discover the cultural, historical, or scientific significance within the neighborhood. This proposal will provide resources that will enable the participation of the Osun Wikimedia Network in this years' Wiki Loves Monuments.

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.

• Wikicommons
• English Wikipedia

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

• Full name: Joy John
• Email address: johnjoyk15@gmail.com
• Address: Osogbo, Osun State
• Location of Project: Osogbo, Osun 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

• 20th August – 30th September 2024

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

1. Create awareness about the Wiki Loves Monuments and its activities.
2. Recruit and train new editors through the various photo expeditions, upload sessions, and edit-a-thons.
3. Engage existing editors to contribute to Wikicommons and other Wikimedia sister projects.
4. Add more images about some selected tourist attractions in Osun state and improve articles by integrating these images in their related articles or creating articles/article subsections for non existing articles on English Wikipedia.

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?

We will be doing one photowalk to 3 different sites, one editathon, and a session of online training.

• The tourist sites include; Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove, Nike Art Center, and the National Museum Ile Ife.

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.

I have notified the WUGN Community and Osun Wikimedia Network

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 and other co-facilitators will communicate with the participants through the network's WhatsApp group. We will also promote the project through the network's official Social Media platforms (Facebook, and X) and other WhatsApp platforms in Osun State. This will help recruit new editors.

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

RukayatAjeigbe

OTim75

Ogundele1

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

Yes, participants already have smartphones and laptops. All the participants are equally computer literate.

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

We will do a follow-up with participants, add them to the network's WhatsApp platform for further engagement. We will provide them with tips on creating, and editing Wikicommons.

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

• Images of the listed tourist attractions, and cultural heritage sites are not adequately covered on Wikimedia Commons. This project will be an opportunity to contribute high quality images of these Nigeria Monuments, that will be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons for free usage.

• The editathon under this project will help to adequately train the students on how to make media files more visible, free, and reusable on Wikipedia.
• It will help to increase the number of contributors to Wikimedia Common and other Wikimedia projects in Osun tate.

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 (Photowalk) - 10
3. Number of participants (Edithathon) - 25
4. Number of new editors - 10
5. Number of of images uploaded - 100
6. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 10

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

• Wikimedia Outreach Dashboard will be created for this and the dashboard will be linked to the Wiki Loves Monument Category which will be used to track the uploads.
• Experienced Editors with guidelines for training
• Smart phones
• Laptops for upload session

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).

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

• Bus Hire (to and fro) to convey 10 participants for photowalk to 3 different sites = #50,000
• Refreshments at Photowalk - 10 plates of food @#3,500 per plate = #35,000
• Refreshments at Upload session/Ediathon - 25 plates of food @#3,500 per plate = #87,500
• Drinks 3 packs @3,000 = #9,000
• Bottle Water 4 packs @2,000 = #8,000
• Communication (airtime and data subscription) for participants for online training, upload sessions and editathons: #20,000
• Branded t-shirts for 3 facilitators and 2 top contributors @ #5,000 = #25,000
• Projector rental for upload session/edithathon = #15,000
• Gate Pass to the 3 sites for 10 persons @ #1000 x 10 = #30,000
• Logistics - #10,000

• Contingencies - #15,000

Total: N304,500

Note: Upload session will be done at an eatery, we will not be paying for the space.

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

I believe in my ability and the proficiency of the other facilitators to execute this project excellently. OTim75 (talk) 20:25, 14 August 2024 (UTC)