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Grants:Project/Rapid/Lordgentual/Wikipedia pages wanting photos Cross River State Nysc hub

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Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos, Cross River NYSC Corp.
This project seeks to supports the global WPWP campaign by engaging graduates currently observing their NYSC to add quality pictures to existing Wikipedia articles with appropriate caption in order to improve the articles.
targetEnglish Wikipedia and Common
start dateJuly 10
end dateAugust 10 August 31
budget (local currency)#534,304
budget (USD)$1300
grant typeIndividual
grantee• Lordgentual
contact(s)• dfmopeoluwa(_AT_)gmail.com


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Please see the sample Contest 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. Improve existing contents with quality photos and captions
  2. Recruit new editors
  3. Engage existing editors


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. What content will the contest focus on, and why is it important to your community? The contest is aimed at recruiting new editors to improve existing articles with quality photos and appropriate captions. This contest will bring together graduates from different universities to make contributions to Wikipedia. The editors will have hands on experience on how to upload pictures to commons and how to use existing images on commons on Wikipedia.

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.

Notification have been dropped on the WUGN talk page, also the organiser of the WPWP global contest have been notified.

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.

Participant would be notified through their WhatsApp Channel and other social media platforms. Also they would be notified during their CDS program.

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.

Each article edited by the participants must contain #WPWP and #WPWPCR in their edit summary. Https://hashtags.wmflabs.org would be used to monitor each participant edits

Criteria :

  • Only quality pictures with appropriate captions would be accepted.
  • The article or section a participant is adding a photo should not have any previous image

5. For photo contests, what is the strategy to get images used on projects? A tool for identifying articles without photos have developed and we will be sourcing photos from wiki loves Africa, Wiki loves monument,Wiki loves earth and other pictures from wikimedia commons.

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 or activities would be organised.

7. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project? This project would help in recruiting graduates from different universities to make contributions 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 and feel free to add more:

For photo contests:

  1. Number of participants : 30
  2. Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects : 1000
  3. Number of new editors: 6



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).

Lordgentual (Project coordinator) - I am an experienced Wikipedian with major contributions on both English Wikipedia and Yoruba Wikipedia. I have won many Wikipedia contests like WikiGap and Afrocine Contest. I was among the winners for both the global and local WPWP Contest. I am also an active member of WUGN. I will be anchoring at least three online classes where I will tutor the participants on how to add photos and captions to Wikipedia articles.

Dolphyb  : He is an experienced Wikipedia. He came first in the 2020 WPWPNG contest and second in the global WPWP contest

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

  1. Prizes (Android phones for top 3 participants) @ $100 per phone × 3 = $300
  2. Internet support for team members @ $40 ×5 = $200
  3. Internet reimbursement for participants during the event @ $8.3 × 30participants = $250
  4. Customised shirts for active Participants @ $10× 10participants = $100
  5. Branded hoodies for team members @ $20 ×5members =$100
  6. Promotions and branding = $200
  7. Airtime for Communication @ $20 ×5 = $100
  8. Miscellaneous funds = $50
  9. Total = $1300

Endorsements

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Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

  •   Support fully support this contest. Everything designed to improve content from Nigeria on Wikimedia projects are more than welcomed by me. Thank you Lordgentual. Stormy Chamber (talk) 16:52, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
  •   Strong support This is an opportunity to train new Editors with the right skill to contribute while at same time improving the quality of an existing article. Dolphyb (talk) 17:32, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
  •   Strong supportThis is a very nice initiative. I believe in this project B.Korlah (talk) 15:16, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

I   Support this project as it is a great way to orientate and recruit new members, especially the Youth Corp Members to know more about Wikipedia and its sister projects and how to contribute to the free knowledge Agbalagba T★C 11:59, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

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