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An edit-a-thon (Hybrid event)

Celtic Knot Conference 2022
Igbo Wikimedians User Group

About this event

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This event was inspired by the learnings and experience during the 2022 Celtic Knot Conference. The interactive sessions, instructions, and resources created a more understanding of concepts and topics discussed during several sessions. In this regard, being one of the participants, and to involve the Igbo Wikimedians User Group Community and Ig Wiki Librarians Hub members, a Wikidata edit-a-thon was organized in my community to collaboratively teach new knowledge and skills as a way to improve or create more visibility/readership on Igbo language projects (Wikipedia and Wikidata powered databoxes).

Schedule

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  • Date:4th-5th August 2022
  • Time:10.00 WAT
  • Venue: Nigerian Book Foundation, Awka, Anambra State

How to participate

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To participate, log into the event dashboard and also sign your name other participants. For online participants, the link for online meeting will be sent to you. You can sign by typing in #~~~~ under participants below

Participants

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  1. Timzy D'Great (talk) 23:11, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  2. pablo s coba11 (talk) 23:20, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Sayvhior (talk) 23:20, 2 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  4. korie uchechi Jennifer (talk) 23:20, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Kenneth Anene (talk) 05:06, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Dera xoxo (talk)
  7. Lebron jay (talk) 04:35, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Snow flakes 12 (talk)
  9. Nzechimere (talk)
  10. Senator Choko (talk) 09:28, 3 July 2022 (UTC) Senator Choko[reply]
  11. Akwugo (talk) 10:19, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Kingsley Nkem (talk) 11:15, 3 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  13. Onwuka Glory (talk) 11:33, 3 July 2022 (UTC)Onwuka Glory[reply]
  14. Ngostary2k (talk) 11:42, 3 July 2022 (UTC
  15. Viva33 (talk) 1:10, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
  16. Iwuala Lucy (talk) 09:04, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Onyeike Izuchi([User talk: Onyeike Izuchi|talk]) 12:46, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
  18. Juliegwen([User talk: Juliegwen|talk]) 12:48, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  19. Accuratecy051([User talk: Accuratecy051|talk]) 03:27, 4 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Daberechi16 (talk) 13:35, 6 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Nwonwu Uchechukwu P (talk)
  22. Frankincense Diala (talk
  23. Obuezie (talk) 07:47, 31 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Chrysella (talk) 05:59, 2 August 2022 (UTC)Sonia Lawrence[reply]
  25. Ennydavids (talk) 11:51, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Celetex (talk) 17:51, 2 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  27. Amarafide (talk)
  28. AmarachukwuEbo (User talk: AmarachukwuEbo|talk]])
  29. Nwosuphavour (User talk: Nwosuphayvour |talk]])
  30. Francisudokaa (User talk: Francisudokaa|talk]])
  31. Immaculata Joan (talk) 22:07, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Resources

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  • Presentation slides are available
  • Video of how to translate Wikidata properties is pinned on the Telegram group

You can contact Olugold for questions, suggestions or collaboration.

Outcome

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The online and in-person event was successful. Participants contributed immensely and were willing to uphold the skills and lessons. Some participants continued contributing even after the event ended. At the end of the sessions, there was a total number of 1,830 revisions; 576 labels were added, 615 descriptions were added, 300 aliases were added as at 7th August 2022, 20:08 (WAT). See event dashboard for more details. Quarry was also used to track the contributions made by participants for Wikidata properties. See result below

actor_name (username) edits
Lebron jay 184
Odogwu123 167
Senator Choko 123
Sayvhior 112
Timzy D'Great 93
Nzechimere 87
Chrysella 85
Dera xoxo 77
Nwosuphayvour 71
Celetex 52
Viva33 40
Nwonwu Uchechukwu P 39
Akwugo 38
Ennydavids 34
Total 1202

See the query result on quarry for additional information

Challenges

There were a few challenges which we overcame during the event. During the event, it was discovered that some participants were not able to translate Wikidata properties to Igbo language because there was no edit button on their interfaces, probably because they are new users or are not autoconfirmed on Wikidata. Despite the challenge and due to their willingness to contribute, the list of places and continents was generated for new participant to translate but the issue of not being able to edit re-occurred. Finally, the new participants were able to edit the list of Nigerian states and local government areas (items). Furthermore, the event dashboard was not recording the characters added by participants that edited properties. We relied on using the activity log on the dashboard and user contributions of participants to track edits.

Supported by

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  • In-person session
    In-person session
  • During the training
    During the training
  • After event photo
    After event photo
  • Online session
    Online session
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