Wikipedia:Meetup/Kwara State University Wikimedia Fan Club/Wikipedia Day 2025
Wikipedia Day 2025 Meetup is an event organised by Kwara State University Wikimedia Fan Club to celebrate Wikipedia as an open repository of information. The event is aimed at sensitising Kwara State University undergraduates and postgraduate students on the existence of Wikipedia and how they can contribute to it. Among other line-up events for the day is the recruitment and training of new editors. Lastly, to commemorate Wikipedia Day celebration, a-month-long editing event is organised to contribute information on the notable academic staff members of Kwara State University on the Wikipedia. The calibre of the notable KWASU academics are those in the professorial rank, starting from Associate Professors to Full Professors.
Theme
[edit]The theme of the event is #WikipediaDayKWASUWFC
Schedule
[edit]- WikipediaDayKWASUWFC is a month-long event. The schedule of activities is as follows:
- Awareness and publicity starts- 17 December 2024
- Participants'Application - 17 December to 10 January, 2025
- Selection of Applicants - 12-15 January 2025
- Participants invitation and creation of outreach.
Dashboard - 18-20 January 2035
- Physical Event Opening (participants' registration, accounts creation and
training of new editors- 21 January 2025
- Article creation commences- 21 January 2025
- Synchronous Online Training - 4 February 2025
- Edit-a-thon- 11 February 2025
- Physical Event Closing and presentation of certificates- 21 February 2025
Organisers
[edit]Staff Adviser and Executive Members of Kwara State University Wikipedia Fan Club:
- Mariam Titilope Olugbodi- Staff Adviser Margob28 (talk) 00:24, 15 December 2024 (UTC)
- Obayemi Boluwatife- President Obapeace (talk)
- Peter Adetoro- Vice President
- Rodiat Agboola- General secretary
- Adeleke Daniel- Welfare Director
- Alabi Haliyah- treasurer
- Aishat AbdulAmeed- social director