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LUCG Wikimedia Community/ Quarter Schedule
A project to recruit new editors and improve articles on English Wikipedia, and Wikidata
targetWikipedia, Wikidata
start date25th May
end date31th September
budget (local currency)34,861
budget (USD)4,658.6
grant typeIndividual on behalf of group
grantee• LUCG Community
contact(s)• lucgwikicommunity@gmail.com• mustaphasunkanmi@gmail.com• rayhanahadejoke@gmail.com
organization (if applicable)• LUCG Wikimedia Community


Review your report

Please see the sample Editathon/Training application before drafting your application.

Project Goal

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Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.

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

Project Plan

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Activities

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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 hosting 8 events (4 editathons and 4 online follow up events)in total. We plan on achieving this goal by hosting 1 in-person trainig and virtual followup every month which will go on repeatedly for 4 months

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.

  1. African Mailing List
  2. Wikimedia Forum

You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

LUCG SRC MEDIA GROUP
WHATSAPP GROUP
Wikimedia Ghana User Group Mailing List
LUCG Instagram page

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.

  1. Global Open Initiative social media spaces
  2. LUCG Wikimedia Community Whatsapp group
  3. LUCG Whatsapp and Instagram page

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:I JethroBT

  1. User:Sunkanmi12
  2. User:Oladipupo193
  3. User:Nimot123

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

Participants will be notified beforehand to come with their laptops if they are to participate in editing. Events will be hosted at Lakeside University College, Ghana and the institution will further provide desktop computers to support the project because the interest has spiraled in recent weeks. To ensure that these new editors are equipped with the skills they'd need to contribute during the practical sessions, all participants would be taken through both Wikidata and Wikipedia editing tutorials before actual editing takes place.

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

An online follow-up event will be held two weeks after the event to keep in touch with the general community and their contributions. But the team members will continue mentoring new volunteers immediately after the event. New volunteers will be added to the WhatsApp group to get updates on new developments and the movement in general.

7. 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:

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

Participants will be put into teams and allowed to compete for prizes. While everyone at the event will receive stickers, the project will give T-Shirts to top contributors by assessing their (participants) edits before the next in-person training. Taking into consideration that the different participants will have varied editing interests, the project will ensure that everyone stands an equal chance of winning a prize. Different price categories will be created for both Wikidata and Wikipedia contributions:

  • Edit count
  • Pages created/edited
  • Bytes Added to Wikipedia

Impact

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

  1. Number of events= 8
  2. Number of participants= 160
  3. Number of new editors = 30
  4. Number of articles created or improved = 300 (150 each on Wikipedia and Wikidata)
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events)= 130

Resources

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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).

User:Sunkanmi12 will be facilitating the events with the help of at least 2 experienced editors to be present at the event.

The remaining facilitators will be involved in providing support for editors during the practical sessions. These facilitators will include:

User:Oladipupo193
User:Nimot123
User:Elkay20

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

Item Details Unit Ghc Quantity Total Ghc Comment
Venue space Lakeside University College, Ghana 600 4 2400
Projector We'll rent a projector for single-use 400 4 1600
Internet routers We'll need to purchase internet routers for the event 997 3 2991 Our community will retain this equipment and share it with other community members if needed
Internet Data 25GB data expected to be used for the event 1000 4 4000
Refreshment (Light Breakfast + Lunch) For 45 total participants including the 5 facilitators 2250 4 9000
Water For 45 total participants including the 5 facilitators 200 4 800
Mugs 5 total customized printed mugs as contest prizes 40 10 400
T-Shirts 15 total customized printed T-Shirts as contest prizes including 5 T-Shirts for facilitators 40 15 600
Stickers Wikidata', 'Wikipedia' and stickers to go round for all 2.5 100 250 All printing materials will be reusable for other activities
Banner Event banner 100 2 200
Printing Event posters, program outline, etc 180 4 720
Data Allowance Data Allowance will be given to participants of our online follow-up meetings 600 4 2400
Team Members Allowances This will cover their transport and data allowance 2000 4 8000 There are 4 team Members excluding the Project Coordinator
Project Coordinator n/a 1200 4 4800
Miscellaneous 1500 n/a 1500
Ghc 34,861 1 USD = 7.4832 Ghc
USD 4,658.6 Based on Oanda Exchange (April 12, 2022)

Endorsements

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Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  1. -—M@sssly✉ 07:48, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
  2. I endorse this project because it is going to help individual wikimedians to enhance on their editing skills and it is also going to help recruit and train more editors which help provide more resourceful information.Awahab515 (talk) 20:39, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
  3.   Strong supportLooking forward to this project because it will help engage the community members and improve their editing skills.Nimot123 (talk) 20:51, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
  4.   Strong support I'm really looking forward to this project because the last one was very engaging. This one will also ensure consistency. Elkay20 (talk) 21:55, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
  5. I support this project because it's going to help LUCG students to improve in their editing on Wikimedia and wikidata. It will also gives new knowledge to new editors.Oladipupo193 (talk) 14:01, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
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