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WIKIMEDIA KADUNA CONNECT CAMPAIGN 2023

Author: inyor4mr

The campaign focused on creating content related to northern Nigeria in specific and Nigeria content in general which as to do with notable people, places, infrastructure, companies among other subjects in Nigeria. by doing so, we documented the connection with Hausa Wikimedia User Group and Tyaps Wikimedia User Group by selected topics that aligned with the mission of the campaign which aimed to foster a comprehension of Nigeria people, infrastructure and heritage.

Summary: The main theme of the project is to create awareness among librarians, lecturers, students of higher institutions in Kaduna state on importance of Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia and Wikidata. specifically, The campaign primarily objective is to recruit and train Nigerians in creating and improving content about northern – Nigerians on Wikipedia and Wikidata.

The Project Goal

1.To provide new editors and existing editors with necessary tool needed to improve Wikipedia and Wikidata. 2. To promote the user of Wikipedia and Wikidata among librarians, lecturers and students in higher education in kaduna state and 3.To establish a Wikimedia network for continue knowledge sharing by collaborating with individuals or organization who are ready to share or learn from us.

Project outcome

The project started on 10th of June to 10th of July 2023 with both online and physical secession. With the learning out such as 60% of participants were new editors while 40% were already familiar with editing and creating items article on wikipedia and wikidata. The Outreach dashboard was the most effective metrics for direct identifying participants contribution towards the success of the campaign. This campaign improved the content gabs in Wikipedia and Wikidata in teams of accuracy and verifiability. monitoring participants and encouraging them enhance their community participation which improve editing efforts in various wikimedia projects. Based on the edits recorded on the dashboard, this campaign met its targets expectations because 51 wikipedia articles were created, 44 wikidate items were also created with 262 references added.

Conclusion

The project was achieved with micro funding from wikimedia user group Nigeria to create visibility to Northern Nigeria content. Also, the higher institution lecturers, students and librarians understand the uses and importance of wikimedia projects in teaching and learning.