Grants:Project/Rapid/Anasskoko/Hausa Wikipedia Annual Contest

This is a project that will be taking place in Hausa Wikipedia annually, to enhence, engaged the partication of Hausa Wikipedian editors annually, this project is meant to develope their skills and experience, also to support them with tools that will help them in making a qualitative contrubution at every moment, at the end of every project that will take place annually, we expect to have more qualitative articles in Hausa Wikipedia, we expect to improve skills and experience of existing and newly editors.

To improve skills and experience of Hausa Wikipedian editors
To increase number of articles
To increase qualitative contrubution
To attract new Hausa editors from outside world

Add or improve content: 500 articles
Recruit new editors: 10 editors
Engage existing editors: 10 editors

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:
1. What content will the contest focus on, and why is it important to your community?

We will focuse on creating articles related to Hausa and Nigeria, its impotant to our wiki to have articles related Hausa and Nigeria, in such away that it will attract the attention of visitors and make Hausa Wikipedia a better place to seek for knowledge.

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.
You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

We have notified them on social media and Hausa Wikipedia community portal here

3. How will you let participants know about the contest? 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 create comunicate with them through user:talk and social media channels

4. How will you judge the contest and award prizes?
Note: Grantees, judges, and other contest leaders are ineligible to receive prizes. Grantees who are serving as judges may not receive gifts through grant funding.

I will set a group of experience editors to judge the contest base on quantity and quality.

5. For photo contests, what is the strategy to get images used on projects?

It is not a photo contest, but it will focused on adding photos through out the contest, a special point will be stated for photo use during the contest.

6. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:

No in person event, we will hold training virtually on google meet.

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

As this project will be carried out annually, it will boost the moral of Hausa Wikipedian editors, We will like to have a very good start.

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more:

For photo contests:

Number of participants
Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects

For writing contests:

Number of participants: 20 participants
Number of articles created or improved: 500 articles

Resources

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).

We are experience editors from Hausa Wikipedia, I User:Anasskoko will lead this project with the help of User:Musa Vacho77 as fascillator.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense:Please write below this line

This is the budget breakdown for the online events of what is required.


Sl.No	Item	Quantity	Rate (NGN)	Total (NGN)	Rate (USD)	Notes
Total Cost of Event (Sumtotal :NGN495,000 (USD 1,281 )).
1	Data for Online training	3	20,000 x 3 Dys	60,000	157.822	Cost for data to carry out a three day online training
2	Data for Online campaign	3	20,000 x 3 Dys	60,000	157.822	Cost for data to make a three day online promotional campaign
3	Graphics design images:	10	3,000	30,000	78.910	Images that will help in making promotion online, and images to be used in the relevant contest pages.
4	Transportation	1	50,000	50,000	131.518	The amount to spent for delivery (Carrier) to the winners after the contest.
5	Certificate	30	2,0000	60,000	157.822	Certificate of participation in the annual contest
6	Prices					Awards to be given to users that participate in the contest, this include the first, second, third, fourth and fifth runner up, the other participants will be given merchandisers.
6a	1-First price 2-Second PR 3-Third PR 4-Fourth PR 5-Fifth PR	5	152,00	152,00	400 USD	The amount to buy HP laptop for first, Mobile phone for second, Small Mobile phone for third, Portable HD MP3 and Hard drive for fifth .
6b	Merchandisers	10	76,021		200	T-Shirst 5 and Bags 5 for the organisers and participants.
Grand Total: NGN 488,060 / USD 1,284 (380.176 Naira to a Dollar) as of March 30th, 2021 in oanda.com.

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

Support very good idea, surely this will develope skills and experience of Hausa Wikipedian editors, - Abubakar A Gwanki (talk) 06:51, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
Support great way to engage old users and attract newbies while increasing content on the Hausa Wiki Ptinphusmia (talk) 20:30, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
Support A Very Welcoming initiative, great idea and thorough zeal to bring henceforth the advancement and increasement in creating outstanding new articles and polishing the old ones.Musa Vacho77 (talk) 15:21, 4 April 2021 (UTC)

Strongly support this initiative.

Strongly Support I'm absolutely support for this project [Aliyu shaba]]^Talk 20:30, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
Strongly Support This project will surely motivate alot of existing and new editors in contributing exponentially to Hausa wikipedia Uncle Bash007 (talk) 16:04, 16 April 2021 (UTC)