WMUGU GLAM-Wiki/GLAM Microgrant 2023/Proposal:Wiki Loves Stadiums

Applicant

Please provide the following information for your micro-grant request:

Username :

Titus Smiles

Country of residence :

Uganda

Contact email :

sutitsmiles@gmail.com

Have you participated in any GLAM activity before (e.g #1Lib1Ref,Museums Day)? (Answer Yes or No)

Yes

Activity

Please provide the following information about your proposed activity:

Planned activity
(Please give an outline of what your idea is about.Who are your audience? What gap are you filling? What do you intend to achieve?)

Wiki Loves Stadiums is a campaign that seeks to get documentation of all stadiums both past and present and the next future. The target audience is the footballing community both the players, administrators and the fans to get to know more about there stadiums in Uganda

People involved
(e.g. Will you be working alone or with a team? Who are they and what are their responsibilities?You can give their username(s)):

I intend to work alone though I will have consultations with influential sporting media personalities and also current organizers of WikiSoccerthon. I will also seek to ask stadium administrators

Which Wikimedia Projects will you be contributing to?
(e.g. English Wikipedia, Wikidata , Commons etc):

Wiki Commons Wikidata Wikipedia

How will you conduct your activity(s)
(e.g. How long will this take? Will engagements be virtual or in-person? What kind of events will you host? How many?):

From May to June, 2023 The events to be held will be in person ie visiting the stadiums, profiling these stadiums in both picture form and document form on Wikidata and Wikipedia

Please explain what influence your activity will have on Wikimedia Projects
(e.g. Quantitative: number of new pictures uploaded to Commons, Number of new articles created/improved on Wikipedia/ Number of items created/improved on Wikidata ; Qualitative: skill the community of volunteers in Uganda ):

We shall increase number of images on commons, articles crested as well as improving on existing articles like for Nakivubo stadium On the community we seek to tap into the Uganda football loving community

Proposed budget

Please use a table to provide estimated figures/costs in UGX

Activity unit cost quantity total transport 50000 6 300000 entrance at stadiums 15000 20 300000 lodging 30000 5 150000 feeding 15000 20 300000 camera hiring 150000 3 450000

Total 1500000