Grants talk:Project/Rapid/SPURG Art + Feminism edit-a-thon

Comments from DSaroyan (WMF)

Hello Ngozi osadebe, thanks for submitting this Rapid Fund application and running an Art+Feminism event in your institution. I have reviewed your application and I have a few questions and requests:

• Firstly, I would like to learn more about your community. I know that in the past you have organized similar events. Do any of the event participants continue editing on Wikimedia projects? Do you have an active editors' community?
• How would you make sure that at least some of the participants continue editing aside from maintaining a WhatsApp group?
• I'd also like to learn about the project focus. I see that it's an Art+Feminism event but I couldn't find any details about the focus. What will be the project focus? What articles do you plan to edit during the editathons?
• In terms of the proposed budget, I only have one request. Please remove the camera expenses from your budget (350,000 NGN), we cannot support the camera expenses this time. Kindly remove it and update the requested budget accordingly.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 12:26, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

My responses

• My community is University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). University of Nigeria has two major campuses – Nsukka and Enugu. The University is the first indigenous University in Nigeria. It was established in 1960. It has 17 faculties, 02 schools, and 03 Institutes. It has 1700 academic staff (United Nations UNCTAD Virtual Institute, 2018). The University admits more than 3500 post graduate students yearly. For the Wikipedia Art and Feminism events I organize, I engage academic staff and post graduate students. The Let’s make Wikipedia edit-a-thon inclusive campaign engages all post graduate students with disabilities both male & female; visually, hearing and mobility impaired in the University of Nigeria. Interested people from other academic institutions such as Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Enugu State College of Education (ESET), Institute of Management and Technology, IMT etc. who heard of my Wikipedia events through the Nigerian Library Association (NLA) or other social and academic networks I belong to also join my programs. However, my target audience are staff and post graduate students of University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Enugu campuses.

Yes, some do. Users: Lovelychizzy, Olujacy, scholar Ukwoma, Obuezie, Bukky658, James Rhoda and Orsu, Nkem are some of the users that have continued editing. There might be others that would have loved to continue editing but for lack of internet data. Lack of access to internet and fluctuating electric supply in the university has been a major problem for all internet-based activities in Nigerian tertiary institutions. However, once people acquire the knowledge, they can edit at any time it suits them, either now or in the future.

Our active editor’s community is still evolving. We have met twice on February 1 and March 1, 2022. We choose to be known as UNN Wikipedia editor’s guild. The guild is made up of five people, myself User: Ngozi Osadebe and Users: Beatrice Ewa, Ezinne Njoku, Chiemezie Atama and Ngozi Udechukwu. Users: Ezinne Njoku and Beatrice Ewa has been helping me in teaching UNN staff Wikipedia editing skills. They have been acting as facilitators in all Wikipedia events I organize and in the on-going Equity Watch Initiative Art and Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon. User: Chiemezie Atama and Ngozi Udechukwu joined us newly. In the meeting, we pledged to dedicate at least, one day in a month to Wikipedia editing and to meet regularly to decide on ways of moving the Wikipedia movement in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, forward. Our meetings are yielding results, On March 10, at the celebration of the International Women’s Day by Forum for African Women Educationalist (FAWE), University of Nigeria, Nsukka Cell, we spoken on the need for FAWE to contribute to Wikipedia by making Wikipedia editing one of its core yearly activities. Last Friday, April 8, 2022 we engage teenage age children in the University community on training on how to participate in the Wiki Loves Africa contest. Just yesterday, participants in the training went around the University community taking pictures of all the things that doth the University landscape to be uploaded in contest platform. I hope that more people will join us soon as active UNN Wikipedia editor’s guild.

• I organize training rehearsals and edit-a-thon at least once a year to keep members editing. However, keeping members editing continuously has been a problem to me I have been thinking of how to make internet data available to members to edit at their leisure. I do not know if rapid grants will help me to achieve this. I created an online platform, Enugu Wikipedia Hub in 2020 to galvanize all Wikipedians in Enugu State but logistics in terms of transportation, accommodation and internet data have been preventing the hub from taking off as I anticipated. The Link to the Enugu hub can be accessed at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria/Wikimedia_Hub_Enugu I will be very grateful if the Wikipedia foundation can help me to achieve this my desired goal of maintaining a group of active Wikipedia editor’s guild at Enugu State.

• The project focus is on "Women and Higher Education". We plan to edit articles relating to the following topics:

• The role of higher education in women empowerment,
• Career progression of women in institutions of higher learning,
• Women in leadership positions in Institutions of higher learning,
• Women’s access to higher education in Nigeria,
• Women, work and family life in higher education,
• Gender inequality in higher education,
• Women and academic workloads in higher education,
• Recreational facilities for women in higher education,
• Women and academic publishing,
• Burn out among female academic staff in institutions of higher learning,
• Women’s sports in higher educational institutions,
• Women and sexual abuse in higher education.

• I have removed the Camera expenses. The budget now reads NGN 1,616,900. USD 3,885.49

Thank you so much for making out time to review our grant application. Ngozi osadebe (talk) 20:41, 13 April 2022 (UTC)