Wikicite/e-scholarship/Timmylegend

Project name

What is a short name for the activity/project you are proposing? Adding references to Nigerian town and cities

Contact information

your name and/or Wikimedia username: Timmylegend

your contact e-mail: isaacoloruntimilehin gmail.com

your nearest city and country: Lagos, Nigeria.

Details of team members (optional)
If this application is for a team project, each additional team member (up to 5 total) should have their name/username, project role, location, and contact details here:

Godstime Elijah Lagos, Nigeria

godstime_elijah989 yahoo.com

Bilijin Lagos, Nigeria

alabibolaji78 gmail.com

Haylad Ibadan, Nigeria

haylad0896 gmail.com

Ammarpad Katsina, Nigeria

ammarpad@yahoo.com

The activity/project

Tell us about your proposed project. What will you get achieved with this time?
Describe why you think this project is important, and how the project is different from your normal volunteer contributions.

This project solely involves adding references from reliable sources to articles on the English Wikipedia. This will help improve the reliability of information and verification of information on the English Wikipedia and to the local language (Yoruba) Wikipedia.

A lot of Nigerian articles don't have enough and proper citations from reliable sources and we look to fill in the gap by sourcing for and getting credible sources for these articles. We look forward to adding over a thousand references to different Nigeria articles.

We would be working on a list of settlements (villages, towns and cities in Nigeria), by adding vital spatial information and references such as road codes, Zip codes, postal code, districts, when they were founded.

We intend to work on articles in this category and lists

The reference material to be used are government data which are not readily available and sorted, we would be making use of data from the Nigerian Postal Service, Nigerian Bureau of Statistics. This reference materials are not readily available online and accessible to use, it involves taking extra efforts and time to study and extract the required, relevant and necessary data.

All team members will be working on the same activity as well.

Your qualifications

Describe how you (and, if applicable, your team)are able to achieve this project. What skills, expertise, and motivation do you have which will enable you to succeed?

I'm an undergraduate student at the University of Ilorin and the leader of the Wikimedia Club at the University.[1]. I have been actively contributing to Wikipedia since 2018, and my team members are active members of the Wikimedia Club and have been actively editing Wikipedia for over two years.

African content on Wikipedia in certain cases lack quality and sufficient references, it's our desire to improve this.

Proposed activity dates

When will you undertake this project? (This may be two, three or four days. Not necessarily consecutive). The latest allowable date is 1 May 2021.

Two weekends (Saturday and Sunday) in November and December 2020.

Endorsements

Optional: Community members are encouraged to endorse your proposal and leave a rationale here.

Strong support This scholarship will enable us close the existing content gap on Nigerian villages, towns and cities, It is also a major step in finding or accessing hidden data or informations about Nigerian communities. This will help us develop/create a digitization structure of the acquired information that will be useful for the future Wikimedia GLAM projects.Haylad (talk) 08:24, 22 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Timmylegend has a track record of quality contributions to the encyclopaedia. I believe he is very capable of what he has proposed. And of course, any proposal that aims to close content gap is a good one!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:26, 24 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I am in full support of this great project to bridge the gap concerning Nigeria on the English Wikipedia. Nigeria is the seventh populous country in the word and it will be great to ensure we fellow Nigerians take up projects that will make readers of Nigeria-related content more reliable. James Moore200 (talk)

Support I am in support of this as it seeks to improve Wikipedia articles particularly concerning Nigerian towns and cities. I believe this would provide credible information and improve Wikipedia Nigerian articles. --Obiorah Precious Oby (talk) 17:50, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support I strongly support this for the fact that it is aimed at improving Nigerian contents as well as Wikipedia in general. SuperSwift (talk) 16:22, 30 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support I particularly love that the project will improve our indigenous Wikipedia. I can see volunteers for Yoruba and Hausa Wikipedia, I want to request that Igbo Wikipedia should be included to create a balance. Besides that, looks good. HandsomeBoy (talk) 07:02, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support, This makes lots of sense and the focus activities would really improve the quality of Nigerias' geo-related contents on Wikimedia projects where information on that is missing. Em-mustapha ^{User | talk} 13:46, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support A a lot of foreigners face challenges when trying to understand the culture and location of cities and villages in Nigeria due to lack of information. Hence, this project is justifyable and extremely important as it will serve the large number of investors and other individuals who come into Nigeria yearly. Tomori Uriel (talk) 15:40, 1 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support This project will help provide quality information on Nigerian town and cities. Danidamiobi (talk) 08:04, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Will be useful to growing Wikipedia and information quality. Abbasanusi (talk) 10:20, 7 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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