Grants:Project/Rapid/Celebrating International World Women's day Edith-A-Thon

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Rapid Grants

Celebrating International World Women's day with Edith-A-Thon

This project will aim at creating women reated aricles and will encourage women participation in creating and improving such articles on the international womens day

targetHausa wikipedia, English Wikipedia and commons

start dateMatch 8th

end dateMatch 30th

budget (USD)please add the amount you are requesting (USD)

grant typeIndidvidual

grantee• Aliyu shaba

contact(s)• aliyuy921@gmail.com• muhammadbashiryahuza@gmail.com

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Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.

1. Recruit new editors
2. Increase skills for existing editors
3. Add or improve content on women

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

1 Series of editathons starting with one offline on the International Women's Day followed by 2 other online editathons.

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal? You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.
You may also provide information about external social media channels you may be using.

We have anounced on our group discussion handles on social media; Twitter, whatsapp, and Instagram.

3. How will you let participants know about the edit-a-thon? In what ways will you be communicating with them?
For example, these can include on-wiki spaces, social media channels, mailing lists, messaging apps, or physical/online gatherings.

4. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event? Please provide links to the usernames of these individuals.
For example: User:I JethroBT

Yes aside the organizers, there are other experienced editors user:Sanusi Gado, User:Usman Ahmad Isah and user:Rukky25

5. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

6. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

we already have a group on whatsapp where we encourage particition on whatsapp and telegram, we will therefore add new participants to the group to stay in touch.

7. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:

8. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

This procject will liase with Female organizations in the hausa community and will introduce them to wikipedia and will encourage them to participate in the event.

the project will also create content on women in wikipedia.

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

1. Number of events 2
2. Number of participants 20
3. Number of new editors 12
4. Number of of articles created or improved 200 or more
5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) 7

Resources

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