Grants:Project/Wikipedia and Commons training in 3 schools in Ghana
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Project idea
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This project seeks to create awareness and capacity building in various senior high schools on wikipedia and it sister projects and how they can make a difference acquiring digital skills.
What is your solution to this problem?
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The solution to this project is to have a series of training session [hand-on or edit-a-thon experience] with the students and tutors to helped them acquire the skills needed to contribute to various wiki projects.
We have targeted three school of which they have agreed for us to train the student and also establish a club in the school which we would monitor the success of the club. The three school we have partnered are as follows.
Project goals
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- Add or improve content on en:Wikipedia and sister project
- Recruit new editors
- Awareness Creation
- Capacity Building
- knowledge through service & equity
Project impact
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- During your project, what will you do to achieve this goal? (These are your outputs.)
- Once your project is over, how will it continue to positively impact the Wikimedia community or projects? (These are your outcomes.)
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We want to ensure that by the time the project ends:
- Improving the digital skills of students on how to use the knowledge of wikipedia to make a difference before and after the project.
- Student would be able to contribute and edit relevant article like their school and others content related to Ghana and the global community.
- We also turn to eliminate the digital gap in the country us student & teachers are trained. Thus we would be looking at the engagement of more female in the project.
Do you have any goals around participation or content?
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- Number of participants/student = 100
- Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons = 100
- Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects = 15
- Number of articles created = 15
Project plan
editActivities
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The team has three senior high school onboard at the moment. What we have decided to do is to divide ourselves into three teams where each team would be allocated to a school.
The team would be working with the school for a period of eight month were would ensure that we train student and their teacher on digital skills acquisition in wiki education and sister project.
Basically because the project is a Pilot, the training topic that we be looking at are:
- Introduction to Wikipedia: This topic would open the minds of student & teachers on what wikipedia is, how to research on the project, edit and contribute to the project.
Practically there would be series of edit-a-thon were student with the support from their teachers would be able to contribute to the project.
- Introduction to Wikimedia Commons: This topic would turn out to train student & teachers on how to use wikicommons , how to upload free photos and also we would educate them on the license that comes along with the project.
Practically in other for this training to be successfully we would engage the school in a photo hunt for them to engage and understand the project.
Budget
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| Item | Unit Price (GHC) | Unit Price (USD) | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Transportation | 5000 | 936.241 | Transportation for the team and volunteers for the project |
| Food | 6500 | 1,217.11 | Food for the team,volunteers and student for the period |
| Internet | 4000 | 748.993 | Internet for the period of the project |
| Printing | 1500 | 280.872 | Printed items for the project |
| Miscellaneous/Contigency | 6000 | 1,123.49 | Buck-up Plan |
| Total | 23000 | 4306.706 | Total in GHC & USD |
Community engagement
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Get involved
editParticipants
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- Jwale2 : Project Lead
- leooney: Technical lead for printing of Qrcodes
- NanaYawBoyar: Communication lead
- Joris Darlington Quarshie: Developer
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