Wikimedia User Group Nigeria/Reports/2020-2021
This is the annual report of Wikimedia User Group Nigeria supported by the group. This report includes all activities of the user group from September 2020 to August 2021.
Activities
editNovember 2020
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- Black Climate Rights event in Ibadan - The user group organized a WikiForBlackClimateRights as part of the global WikiForHumanRights event to support the rights of black people. We were inspired by the January 2020 story of Vanessa Nakate a Ugandan climate justice activist in which the Associated Press (AP) news agency cropped Nakate out from a photo she appeared in featuring Greta Thunberg and activists Luisa Neubauer, Isabelle Axelsson, and Loukina Tille after they all attended the World Economic Forum. We organized an edit-a-thons in Ibadan to improve contents about climate changes and activists. We partnered with Eleven Eleven Twelve Foundation, a non-profit organization in Nigeria to improve the overall quality of the environment in supporting enterprise development in the Environmental and Agricultural sector in Africa in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.Three events were organized in Lagos and Ibadan. A total of 61 people participated in the events, 98% of which were new editors and over 200 articles were improved and 13 new articles were created.
- Movement Strategy Recommendation & Prioritization Discussion - On the 17th of November 2020, the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria reviewed the Movement Strategy Recommendations shared by the Movement Strategy Team to determine what aspect of the recommendations that should be prioritized. Over 30 members of our community participated in the strategic discussion to provide feedback on the recommendations based on the need of the Nigeria Community. The strategic discussion was led by Kayode Yusuf, and Olaniyan Olushola and attended by the Foundation's executive director, Ms. Omolayo Ogunsiji, board members of the Foundation and other executive members including head of the Wikimedia Nigeria Fan Clubs & Wikimedia Hubs in Nigeria. Members of the Strategy core team, including Mehrdad Pourzaki, and Abbad Diraneyya participated. Based on community participation in the movement strategy discussions and feedback. The Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation selected improvement of user experience, and investment in skills and leadership development as priorities for implementation
December 2020
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Wiki Loves Africa 2020 - We participated in Wiki Loves Africa 2020 in Nigeria and that was the 4th time our community will be participating in this annual contest where people across Africa contribute media files that are realistically useful for educational purposes relating to Africa on Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. The them for the 2020's edition was "Health and Wellness". Over 80 participants from Nigeria joined the contest, while 80% of the participants were newbies. The event contributed over 2000 images to Wikimedia Commons, while over 500 images were used on Wikipedia and its sister projects. A total of 52 participants joined the contest from Wiki Fan Club, University of Ilorin, 18 participants joined the event at the Wiki Fan Club, Lagos State University, 7 participants joined the event from the Wiki Fan Club, University of Ibadan, 12 participants joined the event from Wikimedia Hub in Owerri, and 5 participants joined the event from Wiki Fan Club, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
You can learn more about the project here
January 2021
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Visibility project - The Visibility Project is one of our drives to improve the visibility of African Women and increase the number of female contributors on Wikipedia in partnership with African Women in the Media. The project focuses on virtual training and mentoring of women journalists in Africa for over a while. The maiden edition of this project ( Visibility Project- East Africa) focused on Women in Media and Champion of COVID 19 in East Africa. The current edition will focus on Labour Migration in Africa tagged: Labour. The project involves African women in Anglophone, Francophone and Arabs communities. Over 30 women related articles were profiled, while over 35 women took place in the program. You can learn more about the project here
March 2021
editWiki Photo Talk - Wiki Photo Talk is an annual regional conference designed to feature combinations of top image licensing practitioners and professional photographers in Africa and the Diaspora to share knowledge, experience, serve as role models and help to proffer solution to likely topical local issues around photography in Africa. The maiden edition featured media giants across Africa. See the link here
April 2021
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WikiGap Nigeria Online Contest WikiGap Nigeria Online Challenge is a public writing challenge to create new articles for notable women and improve existing articles about women on Wikipedia. The aim is to bridge the contents gap about Women on Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopedia. In the previous years, the challenge took place in multiple Wikipedia languages but this year challenge would primarily focus on the English Wikipedia. The Challenge is organized as part of the global WikiGap campaign by Wikimedia Nigeria in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in Nigeria.
The challenge took place from the 10th of March 2021 (GMT +01:00) to 10th of April 2021 (GMT +01:00. See here for more information.
April - November 2021
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Nigerian Oral History Documentation Project - Grassroot Language Documentation in Nigerian for Wikipedia and its sister projectshis project aims at preserving, documenting and digitization of oral history of Nigerian indigenous languages and promote its used on relevant Wikipedia articles in English, Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo. We will be recording oral history videos and audios, which will not be scripted but elicited through structured conversations that encourage the speakers to use different grammatical tenses in their language and share culturally relevant knowledge. Audio and Video of these materials would be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons for educational purposes and reuse on Wikipedia articles. The 1st of this project produced 52 audiovisual which were re-used on over 200 wikipedia related articles. For more information, kindly check the link here