Grants talk:Project/Rapid/UniStu Love Wiki UDOM

Comments from DSaroyan (WMF)

Hello magotech, thanks for your plans to run Wikipedia events at the University of Dodoma. I have reviewed the current proposal and have a few questions.

• You mentioned that you would have two other experienced editors. However, these two users don’t have considerable experience on Wikimedia projects. Even more, User:Idd Ninga username doesn’t exist at all. Will you have other experienced editors during the project?

• Who are going to be the facilitators? Could you please describe their roles during the project? Why do you request accommodation expenses for them?

• Have you prepared a schedule for the training sessions? Could you please share it with us? If you don’t have any event schedule, could you provide more information about the topics you’ll be training on?

Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 12:58, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

Hello DSaroyan (WMF),

• The mentioned user Idd ninga's profile can be found via the link https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mtumiaji:Idd_ninga there was a typo in the previous mention. However, after contacting with other experienced editors we were able to confirm with CaliBen and he will be joining our team at the event.
  
• We will have three facilitators:
  

1. Magotech, Project manager & Assistant trainer.
   
2. CaliBen, Main trainer.
   
3. Idd Ninga, Assistant trainer.
   

We are requesting for accomodation for the facilitators due to that the event will be taking place in Dodoma region and all the three facilitators are required to travel from other regions (Mwanza region and Arusha region), and all their travel takes over 6 hours to reach Dodoma region thus they will need to arrive one day before the event so as to be on time.

• We are still working on the schedule but being briefly find below the topics to be covered during the event:
  

In-person Event 1

1. Introduction to Wikipedia.
   
2. The boon and bane of the Wikipedia on education.
   
3. The phenomenon and roles of Wikipedia in developing educational systems.
   
4. Introduction to editing wikipedia
   

In-person Event 2

1. Training on Wikipedia editing.
   
2. Edita-thon.
   Article list will be available via this link. The list is still being developed and articles are being added.
   

All Online Events

1. Training and providing more assistance to the new editors
   
2. Providing support
   
3. Making followup on the new editors' progress
   

Thank you for getting back to me and I promise to keep in touch and provide more crarity where needed. Regards --Magotech (talk) 19:15, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

Time Extension Request

Hello,
Am writing this Time Extension Request to request for the project's time extension where we request the dates to be updated as follows:
Start Date: 25^thSeptember 2021
End Date: 30^th October 2021
This is due to the late receiving of the funds to our account which had led to a delay in the start of the program. We hope our request will be granted successfully.
Regards,
Magotech (talk) 11:02, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
UniStu Love Wiki.

Hello Magotech, thanks for posting your request. I have reviewed and formally approved it. The new grant end date is 30 October 2021, and the final report is due on 30 November 2021. Best regards, DSaroyan (WMF) (talk) 11:27, 19 October 2021 (UTC)