Grants:Project/Rapid/Gwanki/Wikidata Workshop in Kano

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Wikidata Workshop in Kano

There are many editors of Hausa Wikipedia who do not know about Wikidata. Gaining knowledge about Wikidata will also help them. This project will provide more new Contributions of Wikidata as well as Wikipedia.

targetWikidata and Hausa Wikipedia

start date1st February

end date28th February

budget (local currency)₦685,000

budget (USD)$1,648.96

grant typeindividual

grantee• Gwanki

contact(s)• gwankia6yahoo.com

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Project Goal

Briefly explain what are you trying to accomplish with this project, or what do you expect will change as a result of this grant. Example goals include, "recruit new editors", "add high quality content", or "train existing editors on a specific skill".

• Recruit new editors
• Increase skills for existing editors.
• Introduction to Wikidata.
• Socialize with community members.

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing?

This project will take us three days, it will be workshop and Edit-a-thon.

On the day of Workshop, I will lead the event.

• Muhammad Mustapha Aliyu - Introducing and history of Wikidata by Muhammad Mustapha Aliyu

• Abubakar A Gwanki - How to create Wikidata Items, How does Wikidata works, How to link Data items, and many more.

In other two days, I and other Participants we will have a Edit-a-thon which we will create and Improve some Wikidata Items and Hausa Wikipedia Articles.

How will you let others in your community know about your project (please provide links to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions)? Why are you targeting a specific audience?

They Will know via our Social Media handles and Hausa Wikimedians User Group Discussion page

What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?

We will create WhatsApp Group which will include Participants and other non-participating editors. We will keep in touch with them and answer their questions and also provide more information about Wikidata

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:

Yes I have the link here

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 specific to your project:

1. Number of total participants 25
2. Number of articles created or improved (if applicable) 100
3. Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (if applicable)
4. Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects (if applicable)

Resources

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

I Gwanki will lead the event with the help of experience Wikimedian Em-mustapha from Kaduna State as facilitator.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense:

S/NO	Items	Unit	Unit Costs	Total Amount In NAIRA	Total Amount in USD	Details
1	Event's Space	1	75,000	225,000	547.18	This for event's space for three days
2	Data Subscriptions	1	40,000	40,000	97.28	This for Data Subscriptions for all events
3	Food and Refreshments	25	2000	150,000	364.79	For Food and Refreshments for all the event's
4	Transportation	25	2000 × 3days	150,000	364.79	This is for Local Transportation of Participants
5	Wikidata Banner	1	30,000	30,000	72.96	This amount is for Designed Wikidata Banner for event's decorations
6	Souvenir		30,000	30,000	72.96	I will design the Souvenir such as T shirts, Bags and Caps and distribute to the participants
7	Tags		30,000	30,000	72.96	This for tags
8	Contingency		30,000	30,000	72.96	For contingency of all events
Total				NGN ₦685,000	USD $1,648.96	I used the Exchangerate.guru for Doller to Naira Conversion, at the Naira price of $1 to ₦412.84 as of 1 January 2022

Endorsements

•  Strong support This program will be a great help to Hausa Wikimedia editors. Even myself I have been asking Gwanki many questions about various things on Wikipedia including Wikidata. -Yusuf Sa'adu (talk) 01:56, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong support This project will have a great impact on the Hausa Wikipedians as getting to know and learn about how to edit on Wikidata would help broaden their chances for contribution more in other Wikimedia projects not only the Wikipedia. Musaddam Idriss (talk) 06:35, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
• I Umar-askira  Support this project to be done in Kano because it will incorporate potential impacts to the communities of Hausa_Wikimedians_User_Group.
•  Strong support this project is a good initiative looking at how the Hausa language is represented on Wikidata. It will help involve more volunteers in the editing of the Hausa language on Wikidata. daSupremo 09:29, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
• I support this project because the grantee has been a very good editor for long. This project will bridge the gap equally. Wikidata needs more and more attention from Hausa Wikimedian User Group. Iliyasu Umar (talk) 15:51, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong support --M Bash Ne (talk) 21:03, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
•  Strong support Yes Gwanki,this time u really want to do something i really want to learn.i dont know how to contribute in wikidata with this I'm sure goin to learn something. Hamza DK (talk)
•  Support. Salihu Aliyu (talk) 00:52, 15 January 2022 (UTC)