Igbo Wikimedians User Group - Annual Report 2023/2024

This report outlines the accomplishments and activities of the group between May 6 2023 and May 5 2024.Commencing with an annual grant in 2023 and 2024, our primary objective was to amplify Igbo language content across diverse Wikimedia platforms. Through meticulous planning and execution, we orchestrated edit-a-thons, scholarships to WikiIndaba conference, contests, monthly webinars, and an array of engaging activities. Generally, more than 15,000 pages/ articles/entries/items/files were created accross Wiki projects ( Igbo Wikipedia, Igbo Wikiquotes, Igbo Wikitionary, Wikidata, and Wikicommons) see the Igbo Wikimedians User Group 2023 Content Creation Drive Programs for the statistical breakdown.

See detailed report below

May 2023 to May 5, 2024 programs

The Igbo Wikimedians community started the new year in a pleasant way. The community celebrated Wikipedia @22 alongside other Wikimedians. Survey was sent out to community members to receive feedbacks about Wikipedia Day 2023. The responses gathered from the survey for Wikipedia @22 feedbacks and goodwill messages for the Igbo community can be found here. Other 2023 activities are summarized below

Igbo Wikimedians User Group Annual General Meeting - 27/01/2023

In the new year, we were delighted to commence with our General Meeting, a forum where we convened to reflect on our progress and discuss insights into our 2023 activities. We warmly welcomed all new members and encouraged their attendance. Together, let us unite and endeavor to make 2023 even more impactful.

Campaigns

Learning webinars

Introduction to Wikisource with Sateep Gill
Crowdsourcing biodiversity on Inaturalist and using GitHub to create biodiversity stubs on Igbo Wikipedia -Agnes Abah
Reading Wikipedia offline on mobile with Benedict Udehb
Conference Experience Sharing Session -Panelists
Introduction to Wikimedia Commons - Hilary Ogah
Introduction to Sound Photography - Abdullah Abubakar
Basics of Wikimedia Commons categories - Wilson Oluoha
Mobile phone photography - Wasiul Bahar (Wikimedia Bangladesh)

Wiki Loves Africa 2023 in the Igbo Community, 1 March-30/03/2023

Wiki Loves Africa, an annual photographic, video, and audio contest organized by Wiki Loves Africa, took place in 2023 with the theme "Climate and Weather." Participants were tasked with capturing images that depicted aspects of climate or weather, and all uploaded files were required to align with this theme on Commons. The Igbo community actively participated in the contest and encouraged its members to contribute high-quality images.

To foster community engagement and familiarize members with the contest guidelines, an online session titled "An Introduction to Wiki Loves Africa 2023" was conducted on February 19th, 2023. This session served as a platform to introduce members to the fundamentals of the contest and encourage their participation.

Ig Wiki Fan Club, Alvan 2023 Meetup and Edith-a-ton – 04/04/2023

The essence of this project is solely to re-unite with the Igbo Wiki Fan Club, Alvan members and also to recruit new members to the community. This project encompasses the 2023 Meetup and Edith-a-ton for the Fan Club. And also to plan ahead on how to carry out an inclusive project within the fan club.

At the end of the event, a total of 17 Editors successfully registered - 7 new participants and 10 old participants. Few people were blocked. As at the time of this report being 10th April, 2023 9:00 (WAT) the sum of 25 Articles have Created; 26 Articles were Edited and a total of 26 Edits were recorded.

Comprehensive information can be found on the event dashboard.

World Poetry Day 2023 in the Igbo Community 26/04/2023

The sole purpose of this project was aimed at celebrating the World Poetry Day 2023 in the Igbo Community. This program was held at Awka, Anambra State. Participants engaged in editing and translating articles on poetry and poets both on the Wikipedia and Wikidata platforms.

At the conclusion of the event, we recorded a total of 24 Editors New and Old members who successfully joined the dashboard. We experienced issues on 2 members who got their IP address blocked. We also recorded the following input: 156 Articles were created, 412 Articles were edited and also 614 Total Edits.

More information on this project can be found on the dashboard.

Translation of English Wikipedia to Igbo Wikipedia, 4/5/2023

At the conclusion of the event, we recorded a total of 24 editors New and old editors who successfully joined the dashboard. We also recorded the following input:143 articles created, 150 articles edited and a total of160 edits as at 5/5/2023. More information on this project can be found on the dashboard At last, I organized a contest for the 13 new participants on that same day at the Faculty of Management Science and the 3 luck winners were given a gift voucher. Proposed outcome =100 Achieved outcome = 143 Number of participants (New=13) Number of participants (Old =11)

African Cultural Items Translation, 9/5/2023

At the conclusion of the event, we recorded a total of 31 editors New and old editors who successfully joined the dashboard. We also recorded the following input:3 articles created, 279 articles edited and a total of 576 edits(176 labels added, 4 interwiki links added, 218 descriptions added, and 107 aliases added as at 10/5/2023. More information on this project can be found on dashboard At last, we organized a contest for all the participants on that same day at the Nigerian Book Foundation hall and we had 8 lucky winners.(3 old members and 5 new members and the lucky winners were given gift vouchers. Proposed outcome =200 Achieved outcome = 576 Number of participants (New=5) Number of participants (Old =26)

Awareness Creation on Digitizing Igbo Language Through Active Participation. 1/5/2023

The apex and trigger for this project officially aimed at increasing the daily insight and language loyalty of people as Igbos and of people as Igbo language speakers. More than once, there has been frantic calls and jeers with regards to how the Igbo language is at the verge of becoming non-existent and non-functional with passing time. These concerns triggered my decision to participate and see this event come to light. The programme was held at Adeniji Jones, Ikeja Lagos. Participants engaged in editing and creation of articles on general Igbo language functions and basic usage. Conclusively, a total of 132 edits were made, 62 articles were edited, and 20 articles created. There was a total of 12 editors while 4 editors had their IP addresses blocked. We had new guests who showed good encouragement and support towards language revitalization and appreciated the efforts put in. More information on the outcome of the event dashboard can be found here

Enriching Igbo Wikiquote in the Igbo Community 05/05/2023

The sole purpose of this project was aimed at Creating articles on Women all around the world in different spheres of life. This program was held at Awka, Anambra State. Participants engaged in editing and translating articles on Women from the English Wikiquote to Igbo Wikiquote. A contest was also organized with gift vouchers being rewarded to the top 5 editors.

At the conclusion of the event, we recorded a total of 23 Editors New and Old members who successfully joined the dashboard. We also recorded the following input: 153 Articles were created, 156 Articles were edited and also 222 Total Edits.

More information on this project can be found on the dashboard.

World Book and Copyright Day, 2023 18/05/2023

World Book Day 2023

World Book and Copyright Day is a celebration to promote and encourage the enjoyment of books and reading. It is celebrated annually all over the world, on 23 April. The 2023's celebration of "Indigenous Languages" was a call to recognize the importance of preserving and promoting the use of native languages in literature and storytelling. The Ig Wiki Librarians Hub, encouraged her members to participate in Celebrating the Importance of Indigenous Languages in Literature and Storytelling.

After the World Book Day 2023 event, the impact was significant with new members joining and engaging in book translation for the first time. Participants actively read the synopses of books on various genres and translated them into the Igbo language, contributing to the preservation and revitalization of the language. The event resulted in the creation of more than 160 new articles and the editing of 280 articles, and a total of 477 edits. Additionally, there were 177 revisions made to Wikidata, further enhancing the knowledge base in Igbo. This collective effort not only promoted language preservation but also empowered participants to actively contribute to their culture and community. See event dashboard for more details.

This event was coordinated by Olugold and Kingsley Nkem

Learn more: World Book Day 2023 in the Ig Wiki Librarians Hub community.

Improving The Igbo Wiktionary,12/05/2023

The Wiktionary as one of the tools in preserving the Igbo language.This became my concern as many definitions on the Igbo Wiktionary do not define or describe the words,and many were not properly created,some lacking photos and pronunciation audio. It was as a result of these that community members were called on to help improve the Igbo Wiktionary, promoting the Digitization of the Igbo language. The event was held on 12th May 2023 at Dunhill Restaurant Okpuno Awka Anambra State where 33 participants joined the event and contributed to the Igbo Wiktionary. The event took one week for it's completion and 651 total edits were achieved ,97 new words were created especially the Igbo numerals. The event was impactful as it thought many Editors and new participants how to create new words, how to improve by adding audio, photos and word examples, corrections were made on the already existing words, giving them good Igbo definitions and description.The Event Dashboard will give clear view of the Contributions made.

Improving Nigerian Orphanages on Wikidata,12/05/2023

Nigerian Orphanages is one of our drives to improve Nigerian contents and increase Wikidata's participation in our community. The project focuses on training all interested persons on how to add content on Wikidata but most importantly, this project is an edit-a-thon/trainig project targeted at improving/increasing the number of Nigerian Orphanages on wikidata's database as well as recruit and engage editors. The event was held online from 12th May 2023 being the first day of training and 15th May being the second day. During the course of our training session which lasted for two days, we recorded a total of 26 participants of which 12 were new members introduced into the Wikimedia community, while 14 were already existing members although most were not active contributors. 205 new items were created and 206 items were edited We had a total of 27 registered participants on the dashboard and 19 participants made contributions. We had prizes for the top 10 contributors. Below is the link to the outreach Dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/igbo_wikimedians_user_group/Nigerian_Orphanages/home

Edit-a-thon on Notable Business Men from South East Nigeria, 6/5/2023 - 30/06/2023

This event aims at editing/improving contents of Igbo Wikipedia and also teaching new and interested participants how to edit Wikipedia/article translation from English to Igbo on Wikipedia. This event is proposed to be held in Enugu Nigeria and target participants is anyone who is interested. It was started off by creating awareness on the proposed event and the creation of a Whatsapp group where the interested participants joined to get more information and guidance in the event. The first meeting was held online before a physical meeting where participants where brought into the wiki fold and guided on translating articles on Wikipedia. The first meeting had 13 people in attendance with 11 new participants. Proposed outcome =100 Achieved outcome = 105 Number of participants (New=12) Here is the link to the dashboard... https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_Usergroup/Notable_Business_Men_in_South_east_Nigeria_Edit-a-thon/home

Updating Nigeria Ministers on Wikidata, 6/06/2023

The main aim of this project was to update Nigerian ministers on wikidata for easy query and usage. The event was held on the 1st of May 2023 at Plateau State Polytechnic with 30 participants in attendance.

Contest was organized with gift vouchers awarded to the top 3 editors at the end. 19 participants joined the event dashboard and contributed. The contest lasted for a month to its completion and over 2600 total edits were achieved. The event was impactful as many Editors(all new participants) learned how to create new items and improve existing items by adding qualifiers, corrections were also made to the existing items that were necessary. The Event Dashboard... for more insight on the project.

IG Wiki Fan Club UNN 2023 First Meet Up

IG Wiki Fan Club UNN hosted their first meet up of the year on 20-05-2023. We had 23 new volunteer that joined us, 8 existing editors and 5 blocked new volunteers upon creating an account. Participants were introduced to Igbo Wikipedia on how to translate English Wikipedia articles to Igbo. It spanned for a week after the training where 100 articles were translated.There were prizes for top contributors and consolation prize for others. The event was impactful to me as an organizer and to the participants.

Participants translated loads of African Folklore in Igbo Language. We had the opportunity to make available different African country folklore in Igbo Language. Here is the link to the dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/UNN_IG_Wiki_Fan_Club/2023_First_Meet_Up_and_Edit-a-thon/students/overview

Improving Visibility of Authors and Books in Libraries using Wikidata, 16th - 21st of June, 2023

The event, held at Nnamdi Azikiwe University Main Library, (known as Prof. Festus Aghagbo Nwako Library) was the first of its kind aimed at exposing librarians to current trends in open source, specifically utilizing Wikidata as a tool to enhance the visibility of library collections. By the end of the event, a total of 54 items were created,and 1.08k Wikidata revisions. The participants were thrilled to learn how librarians could contribute their expertise to Wikidata. Amongst those in attendance at the event were prominent individuals such as Prof. Stella Anasi, the University Librarian. Additionally, key personnel from various departments were present, including Joy Onwumbiko, the Head of Cataloguing Department, Dr. Hope Chikaodi, the Head of Circulation Department, and Mrs. Kelechi Okafor from the Circulation Unit. Other notable participants included Ndanwu Angela, the Head of Serials Department, as well as existing and dedicated members of the hub, namely Ikekanmma Nnamdi, Ubah Chisom, Jennifer, Korie, Nwosu Favour, Adimora Miracle, and many more. Their presence contributed to the success and engagement of the event. See dashboard for more details. This event was coordinated by Olugold and Kingsley Nkem.

Learn more: Improving Visibility of Authors and Books in Libraries using Wikidata

LAUNCHING OF IG WIKI HUB ENUGU, 20th January, 2023

The event was organized to officially inaugurate the Igbo Wikimedians in Enugu Igbo Wikimedians User Group and also officially open the IG Wiki Hub Enugu. This inauguration is in alignment with Wikimedia Foundation Movement Strategy of promoting equity and inclusion.

It was also targeted at taking the participants through the basic knowledge about Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Projects.
Sensitizing attendees to understand the basics of Wikimedia, Movement Strategy and Five Pillars.

The event Launching of IG Wiki Hub Enugu which held at National Energy Research Center University of Nigeria, Nsukka was the first of its kind in Enugu state. The launching had 39 participants in attendance including the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka Prof. Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba who was there to give his good will message. The Head of Department, Igbo Linguistics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the Director Institute of Igbo studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka were represented. The participants were put through some of the fundamentals of Wikimedia Foundation, Movement strategy, Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines and the Five Pillars. It was an exciting moment for the participants as they were made to understand the importance of contributing to Wikimedia projects particularly with respect to promoting Igbo Language and Culture.

Wikidata of female professors to mark the International Women's Day, 2023, 8-22nd March 2023

The event which held at National Energy Research Center, University of Nigeria, Nsukka focused on training participants on the fundamentals of editing both on Wikipedia and Wikidata and creating wiki data entries for female professors in Nigeria to celebrate the International Women’s Day [IWD] 2023. The program was targeted at bridging the gender gap in Wikimedia as well as addressing the geographical underrepresentation of Nigeria and indeed Africa in Wikimedia projects. Participants created wikidata for female professors in Nigeria as part of our celebration of International Women’s Day, 2023. Because we got some new editors, we took the participants through the basic knowledge about Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Projects.

Sensitized them to understand the basics of Wikimedia, Movement Strategy and Five Pillars.

Even though some of the participants has been contributing to Wikimedia projects, this was the first time the participants were introduced to Wikidata. The event had 18 editors and 23 participants in attendance. There were participants who could not edit because they had no android or smart phone and no laptop. We created 21 items, edited 31 items, had 319 edits, 43 references, 26 common upload and 923 views. Creating Wikidata for female Professors was very exciting for the participants as they learnt that such action could help to reduce the gender and geographic gap in Wikimedia. The link to the dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Equity_Watch_Initiative/Wikidata_of_female_professors_to_mark_the_International_Women's_Day,_2023

Wikidata Training and Wikidata for notable Personalities in Enugu State, 4th May, 2023

This event was organized to train the members of IG Wiki Hub Enugu on how to create Wikidata as well as how to describe Wikidata in Igbo language. In addition, there was a Wikidata event for notable personalities in Enugu state to reduce the information gap that exist in Wikipedia and as well as promote inclusivity in Wikimedia projects. The event which was held at National Energy Research Center University of Nigeria, Nsukka had 23 participants in attendance. Twenty nine items were created, Forty one items were edited, three hundred forty eight edits were recorded, twenty five references added, 15.8k item views and one common upload. Two persons (a male and a female) with special needs participated. See the link to the dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/IG_Wikimedians_User_Group/IG_WIKI_HUB_ENUGU_WIKIDATA_EDIT-A-THON_FOR_NOTABLE_PERSONALITIES_IN_ENUGU

IG and E-Win Digital Skills Acquisition for Transformation and Empowerment, 10th June, 2023

Equity Watch Initiative (E-WIN) partnered with Igbo Wikimedians User Group Nigeria in the maiden edition of her digital skill acquisition program for young people in Nsukka, Enugu state IG and E-Win Digital Skills Acquisition for Transformation and Empowerment. The event was geared towards raising awareness about Wikimedia projects as well as increasing the digital capacity of the young people and empowering them to contribute to Wikimedia projects. This project was conceived owing to the fact that digital skills are central in effective participation in Wikimedia projects. The idea came in a bid to sensitize both students and staff about Wikimedia as well as empower them to learn how they can contribute. It was a one-day sanitization program that was to create awareness about Wikimedia and sensitize participants on the need to improve their digital skills. This was targeted at enhancing increased participation and contribution to Wikimedia projects in Enugu state. The event which focused on introducing participants to different Wikimedia projects and different digital skills including Basic ICT skills, Graphic design, Photography and photo editing, Cinematography and Video editing had the Co-Found of Igbo Wikimedians User Group Tochiprecious and the Co-Found of IG Wiki Hub Enugu Dr. Chiemezie Atama with about 200 participants in attendance. Tochiprecious who was a guest speaker in the event took time to educate participants about Wikimedia Foundation, Movement strategy, Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines and the Five Pillars. She leveraged the presentation to explain how participants engagements and contribution in Wikimedia projects can help in promoting Igbo Language and Culture. The event had some experts in the digital world who were invited to raise awareness about the importance of digital skills.

IG Wiki Hub Enugu Wikimedia Inclusivity edit and Translate a thon, 29th June, 2023

Wikipedia is one of the most widely accessed sources of information on the internet with a significant impact on public knowledge and understanding. By contributing articles on disability, people with disabilities and those that have expertise in the field can share their knowledge and experiences. However, why there are articles exciting on disabilities in English Wikipedia only a few has been translated into Igbo language. In a bid to contribute to a more inclusive contents, IG Wiki Hub Enugu in partnership with Equity Watch Initiative (E-WIN) organized edit/translate -a thon focusing on contributing/translating existing articles on disabilities from English to Igbo Wikipedia and deliberately engaging people with disabilities in Wikimedia projects to make the space more inclusive. Outcome to be updated at the end of the event (Still running).

UNN IG Wiki Fan September training and Edit-a-thon on Human Rights category

It was a training organized as a follow up for WPWP in adding images to articles. Desired result was achieved and the participants were glad to see the level of their growth in translating Wikipedia articles. Here is the dashboard link for more details https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/UNN_Wiki_Fan_Club/Edit-a-thon_on_Human_Rights_related_articles/students/overview. Thanks to the Igbo Wikimedians User Group for their constant support.

Wiki Loves Africa in the Igbo Community

Wiki Loves Africa is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute media that relates to that year's theme to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. Wiki Loves Africa encourages participants to contribute media (photographs, video and audio) that illustrate the specific theme for that year. Each year the theme changes. Each year's theme is chosen by the community to be a universal, visually-rich and culturally-specific topics (for example, markets, rites of passage, festivals, public art, cuisine, natural history, urbanity, daily life, notable persons, etc).

The theme for Wiki Loves Africa 2023 was Weather and Climate.

Start date: 1st March 2023

End date: 20th april 2023

Click here to see details about the project and the winners of WLA 2023 in the Igbo community.

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos In Igbo Community 2023 (WPWPIG)

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos WPWP is an international contest that runs every July 1st to August 31st.

WPWPIG (Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos in Igbo Community) is a competition aimed at adding pictures to Wikipedia articles that needed photos . The primary aim of the WPWP Campaign is to promote the use of digital media files collected via various advocacy programs, photowalks, GLAM projects and contests including international photography contests organized by the community.

Start date: July 21st, 2023

End date: August 21st, 2023

Click here to see details and the winners of the contest.

IG UNN Wiki Fan Club WPWP 2023

This was a project carried out by the IG Wiki Fan Club UNN with the aim of adding pictures to Igbo Wikipedia articles that has no pictures in them. The tool that was designed to make the project easier for participants is toolforge. There were a total of 13 participants. The fan club organized her training a day after the general group training and opening of contest. In the spirit of competition, membersoofthe generalgroup exhausted the articles. We couldn't reach our project goal because the tool didn't provide enough Igbo articles that had no pictures. Also, because of copyright, we couldn't just download pictures online and upload on Commons. Here is the link to the dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/UNN_IG_Wiki_Fan_Club/UNN_IG_Wiki_Fan_Club_WPWP_2023/home. It was an interactive session for participants with new learnings.

Description Translation Project - IG WIKI-COMMONS HUB

This project aims to improve the index capacity of the Igbo language on Wikimedia Commons by introducing Igbo language translations to photos about Africa stored on Wikimedia Commons. We will be adopting a contest format and the project will be a continuum. This round of the contest will focus on adding Igbo language captions to photos submitted into Commons category of Wiki Loves Africa

Click here to see details of the project.

Wikidata and Books in FUPRE library 04/08/2023

The event marked a significant milestone at the FUPRE library, being the first of its kind. The library staff demonstrated remarkable enthusiasm in their participation, making valuable contributions to Wikidata. Their vibrant engagement and keen interest served as a motivating factor for the entire initiative. In fact, their eagerness was so pronounced that they expressed a desire for more events of a similar nature in the future.

The event spanned both physical and virtual sessions, with an initial in-person gathering followed by a week-long continuous online engagement. Up until 08/11/2023, the tracking dashboard has documented achievements of participants: a total of 174 new items were successfully created, accompanied by a total edit of 2.5k performed by a dedicated group of 21 editors. See dashboard for more details. This event was coordinated by Olugold and Anyaegbumercy

Learn more: Wikidata + Books in FUPRE Library

VISIBILITY OF NIGERIAN ACADEMICS ON IGBO WIKIPEDIA

Visibility of Nigerian Academics on Igbo Wikipedia is a project aimed at improving the visibility and representation of Nigerian Academics (Academic staff/lecturers, scholars, researchers) on Igbo Wikipedia by translating Wikipedia articles on Nigerian Academics into Igbo language.

This project is vital in contributing to a more comprehensive and diverse representation of Nigerian Academics on Wikipedia, and would foster cross-cultural knowledge sharing.

The project was a one-day physical training held on 3rd November, 2023, at Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. The participants were trained on how to translate Wikipedia articles to Igbo language on Igbo Wikipedia. The training was followed by 2 days of contest (edit-a-ton) on translation of articles about Nigerian Academics. Gift vouchers were given to top editors for both new and old editors' categories.

At the end of the contest, 987 articles were created and 37 participants made up of old and new editors were captured on event dashboard

The project was coordinated by Ucmbachu

VISIBILITY OF IGBO LANGUAGE IN SCHOLARLY ARTICLES AND RESEARCH

Visibility of Igbo Language in Scholarly Articles and Research is a Wikidata project that is aimed at updating and improving the Wikidata by creating items on various entities in Igbo language which are located in scholarly articles research published in journals. The goal is to increase the use of entities in Igbo language on Wikidata.

The project was carried out on 6th November, 2023. The participants were taught how to create Wikidata items on various entities in Igbo language which are published in journals as scholarly articles and research.

After the training, the participants were assigned some scholarly articles to create items on them.

We had a total of 36 participants, 4 new participants and 32 old participants.

A total of 1,790 edits: were made and 116 items were created . The details of the project can be found on the outreach dashboard.

This event was coordinated by PassionateLibrarian

ONE ITEM, ONE IMAGE

ONE ITEM, ONE IMAGE is Wikidata project that is aimed at updating and improving the visuals of Wikidata items by adding at least one relevant images to the Wikidata item. The goal is to increase the use of Wikimedia Commons images on Wikidata and also to give Wikidata items visual identity.

The project started on 17th October, 2023 with an online webinar on Google meet where participants were thought how to use wikidata free Image search tool to search for images and add them to the Wikidata item.

After the webinar a contest was held for a week, participants used the free image search tool to add images to wikidata items.

We had a total of 37 participants, 5 new participants and 32 old participants.

A total of 13,800 images were added to Wikidata items that was not having images.

The details of the project can be found on the on the meta page and outreach dashboard.

Creating Wikimedia awareness at Orlu

This project is the first Igbo Wikimedia User Group presence in the Orlu senatorial zone of Imo state, Nigeria. The project took place at Imo state college of health and management sciences, Amaigbo, among the students and lecturers of Public health department. The provost welcomed us and merged him to Igbo Wikimedia User Group. The Lecturer is of the igbo department and I created a username for him. The event was carried out on the 26th of October, 2023 and at 10:00 am the workshop kick started with an opening prayer. The facilitator ( Onwuka Glory) introduced the programme of the event and continued with creating usernames for the students. She went on with the introduction of Wikimedia Foundation and it's sister's projects. There were (42)Participants, but (35)Participants legitimately registered for the training. Onwuka Glory introduced the project's focus, translation and the process of transition. We translated Articles from English language to ịgbo. The participants were taught on the rudiments of translation, what data box entails. The facilitators engaged them on group training and later on individualized training. After the initial training the first successful published translator emerged and he received the events' first translator gift reward. The participants were refreshed with foods and drinks. All participants, the facilitators inclusive went outside for photo shots. Attached herein is the outreach dashboard for the event https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group/Creating_Igbo_Wikipedia_Awareness_at_Orlu The event came to a close with prayers, with admonition at about 4:00 pm. This project was coordinated and organized by me Onwuka Glory

Wikimedian Awareness in Ikwerre community 09/11/2023

With a clear focus on empowering women digital Literacy through cultural documentation, this project is carried out to introduce and establish a Wikimedia presence in the Ikwerre Community using the Wikimedia Commons as the project. This project is implemented in two folds (online and In-person). The online session was first held on 29th of October 2023. This is implemented first to pique the participants curiousity while preparing them for the in-person event which focuses on guiding the participants on Wikimedia Account/Username Creation, introduction to the Commons and a step-by-step guide on uploading on the Wikimedia Commons which was carried out on 11th November 2023.

With these hands-on training, the participants were tasked to Upload photos that captures the Ikwerre culture.

At the end of the project, 11 participants successfully registered on the Dashboard, and as at 21st November 2023 a total of 60 uploads were recorded as captured on the dashboard Event dashboard

This project was coordinated by Sylvaline39 and Co-facilitated by Iwuala Lucy and Juliegwen

Wikimedia a tool for Language Revival 1/11/2023

An event which centered on creating maximum awareness for young persons about the wiki activities and it's other subunits. Participants were taught how to edit, adjust spelling errors and punctuate properly. 25 new participants were present for the event and registered at the event dash board. Achieved outcome was 28, target outcome for articles were 125 and achieved outcome for articles were 532. Here is link to event dashboard......https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_group/Igbo_Wikimedia_as_a_tool_in_language_Revival_(1_November_-30_November)?enroll= This project was cordinated by Akwugo and User:Winniejovita and other good hands were on deck to see things go as planned.

Exploring the World of Igbo Wikisource 08/11/2023

This event, which was held in Awka, Anambra State, focused on improving the Igbo Wikisource project. Participants were tutored on how to create Author pages, Index pages and also how to proofread and validate existing pages on Wikisource. The event also featured a one-week contest. A total of 3,220 author and index pages were created on the Igbo Wikisource at the end of the edit-a-thon and contest. Prizes were given to the top three contributors while consolation prizes were given to the 7th - 10th positions. A total of 36 editors (old and new) joined the dashboard during the event period. The number of edits for each participant and their contribution link has been curated in this Spreadsheet as the event outreach dashboard was unable to track participants' edits.

Introduction to Wikisource in the Igbo Community 09/11/2023

The event was organized so as to introduce the Igbo WikiSource Project to members of the community. It also focused on tutoring editors on how to make edits on the Igbo WikiSource. Participants were introduced to Wikisource, containing Author's pages, indexes, etc. and were also trained on how to create author pages on Wikisource, Author pages totalling to 601 were added. It was held at Nigerian Book Foundation, Awka, Anambra State. Contest was also organised for the new participants and five winners got their gift vouchers. At the end of the event, there was a total of 601 pages created as at 10/11/2023.

Although the Dashboard was not able to track the edits, I have compiled the participants and the number of pages they created coupled with their contribution link in this Contribution sheet

At the conclusion of the event, we recorded a total of 30 Editors New and Old members who successfully joined the dashboard. We also recorded the following input: 601 pages were created.

More information on this project can be found on the dashboard.

INTERNATIONAL LITERACY DAY 2023

International Literacy Day (ILD) is an annual observance held on September 8th with the aim of advancing literacy worldwide. This year's theme, "Promoting literacy for a world in transition: Building the foundation for sustainable and peaceful societies," encourages collaborative efforts to accelerate progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4) on education and lifelong learning. It also invites reflection on the pivotal role of literacy in constructing more inclusive, peaceful, just, and sustainable societies. This underscores the interdependent relationship between literacy and broader aspects of development: Literacy is at the core of nurturing such societies, and advancements in other developmental areas stimulate people's interest and motivation to acquire, apply, and enhance their literacy and numeracy skills. Igbo Wikimedians User Group successfully marked the International Literacy Day 2023 in Akwa, Anambra State with over 40 Wikimedians in attendance. A Lecture was delivered by the facilitator Kingsley Nkem who is a lecturer at Nnamdi Azikiwe University and also an experienced Wikimedian. The lecture focused on importance and the need to celebrate Literacy. It ended with an Edit-a-thon where about 20 new participants were trained. 1,300 (one thousand three hundred) articles related to literary and knowledge were translated from English to Igbo Wikipedia with top editors rewarded with gift vouchers. See Dashboard link for more info: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_Group/International_Literacy_Day_2023_in_the_Igbo_Community?enroll=zqwmlhip

Adding Video Games Label and Description in Igbo, 10/12/2023

Adding Video Games Label and Description in Igbo is a Wikidata project aimed at improving and increasing the visibility of Video Games on Wikidata in Igbo language. The edit-a-thon was held on the 23rd of November 2023 virtually with 20 participants in attendance.

Contest was organized with gift vouchers awarded to the top 5 editors and consolation prizes from the 6th to the 15th editors at the end. 35 participants joined the event dashboard and 25 participants contributed. The contest lasted for 9 days to its completion and over 29,780 Video Games Label and Description in Igbo were added.... The event was impactful as many Editors(5 new and 15 old participants) learned how to add Label and Description in Igbo on Wikidata. The Event Dashboard... for more insight on the project.

Databox Visibility On Igbo Wikipedia, 21/11/2023

Databox visibility on Wikipedia is an event aimed at improving articles on the Igbo Wikipedia. This improvement will enable more information about the article or subject through data boxes. The databox works like the Infobox that is seen on the right corner of an article on English Wikipedia or other language Wikipedias. The training session was held on the 21st of November 2023 virtually with 20 participants in attendance.

Contest was organized with gift vouchers awarded to the top 5 participants. 31 participants joined the event dashboard and 26 participants contributed. The contest lasted for 8 days to its completion with over 4000 Articles improved in igbo Wikipedia .... The event was impactful as many Editors(5 new and 15 old participants) learned how to edit add Databox in Igbo Wikipedia. Visit the Event dashboard https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_UserGroup/Databox_Visibility_On_Wikipedia/home for more insight on the project.

Making Igbo Academics Visible on Wikipedia

Making Igbo Academics Visible on Wikipedia is a project that was aimed at translating English Wikipedia articles to Igbo Wikipedia and editing existing Igbo Wikipedia articles focusing on Igbo academics to bridge the existing content gap in Wikipedia.Most academics of Igbo origin does not exist in Wikipedia and a few that exist in English Wikimedia does not exist in Igbo language.

This initiative focused on bridging this existing content gap by translating existing English Wikipedia articles on Igbo academics to Igbo Wikipedia. This was deemed important to reduce the content gap that exist in Wikipedia and as well promote Igbo culture and language.

The project was a one-day physical training which held on October 26, 2023, at National Energy Research Center, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The participants were trained on how to translate Wikipedia articles to Igbo language on Igbo Wikipedia. The training was followed by a period of editing and tracking that ended 15th November 3023. focusing on translation of articles about Nigerian Academics. Gift vouchers was given to the highest contributor after the tracking period.

At the end of the tracking period, 54 articles were created and 24 participants made up of old and new editors were captured on https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/IG_Wiki_Hub_Enugu/Making_Igbo_Academics_Visible_on_Wikipedia, 55 articles were edited, 237 total edits where captured.

The project was coordinated by Chiemezie Atama and Chukky-D

Igbo Wikimedia Awareness and training in ANAMBRA STATE POLYTECHNIC MGBAKWU/support to open Igbo Wikimedia fun Hub MGBAKWU 24/4/2024

The idea of this project in this institution is to create awareness, sensitize and recruit new editors to know about Igbo Wikimedia as a free knowledge base platform so as to help improve the quality, credibility and reliability of Igbo Wikipedia and it's sister projects; And also giving the institution/students and lecturers an online presence on Wikipedia. Nonetheless, this project also help in contributing in the sum of all Human knowledge by documenting our Igbo language, culture, environment etc, making them visible to the world.This project also help in increasing Igbo language contents on Wikimedia and the Internet. This event was held at ANAMBRA STATE POLYTECHNIC (ANSPOLY)MGBAKWU on the 24/42024.At the end of the event, a total of 38 editors logged into the tracking dashboard with a total of edited articles 128, and total edit 428

see event dashboard for more details

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Igbo_Wikimedians_User_group/IG_WIKI_AWARENESS_IN_ANSPOLY/home

This event was coordinated by

My co-facilitators

Exploring Wikisource Project, 18/05/2024

Exploring Wikisource program was a Two-day online program which held on the 18th and 19th, May, 2024.

The event was organized so as to equip members of the community with knowledge to effectively contribute to Wikisource. It also focused on tutoring editors on how to make edits on the Igbo WikiSource. Participants were introduced to Wikisource, containing Author's pages, indexes, etc. and were also trained on how to create translate index pages, Index pages totalling to 1,902 were translated.

Contest was also organised for the participants and three winners got their gift vouchers. At the end of the event, there was a total of 1,902 pages translated as at 27/05/2024. A total of 41 editors engaged the dashboard.

See Dashboard for more details.

Although the Dashboard was not able to track the edits, I utilized the Wikisource Contest Tool as a means of tracking participants edits and below is the link which also contains a rundown of participants score while editing.

Wikisource Contest Tool