 Hello everyone, I am Bolaji Alaby, the president of the Wikimedia Fund Club Unilori. My co-speakers for this session, Alafiyah Abami, Oladipupo, and Isaac Olorwinti Milayi, are both past presidents of the club. We are giving a talk about how we were able to build a successful community of Wikimedia editors on the campus of an African university. The Wikimedia Fund Club Unilori was co-founded in 2017 by Alafiyah Abami and Daniel Ubiyuki, who were both students of the University of Illinois at the time. Originally, the club was hosted on WhatsApp as there were very few members and that was an easier way for them to communicate. In time, they were able to recruit more members through the use of WhatsApp pieces. Isaac and I were both recruited through this process. In May 2018, a few members of the club accented a workshop in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, organized by Isaac Patov from the Wikimedia Foundation in partnership with the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria. During those workshops, we were able to solidify our knowledge about the various Wikimedia projects and how to contribute properly to them. At the end of the 3-day workshop, we were more confident in our contributions to the various projects. When we returned, we decided to launch the club officially, so we started planning and we printed pieces, went around campus, pasting them on notice boards as a form of awareness and explaining to students what we were doing about the Wikimedia projects and how they could contribute and become a member of the club as well. The launch was held in June 2018 and members of the Wikimedia User Group Nigeria as well as the coordinator of the Unilori Wikimedia Group were in attendance. We had over 100 participants during the launch and the launch was a success because we were able to create way more awareness on the campus about the various Wikimedia projects, explaining to people who didn't really know much about them, everything about them, how they could contribute, how the content they saw there was created and how they could become a member of the club. Thank you, Boloji. I am Malafia Bamioladi-Pupo. I have previously led the Wikimedia community at the University of Ilori. I will be emphasizing on how to develop the students community of Wikimedia contributors. The first thing, you have to ensure that the users, the Wikimedia users, the students in particular, the student leaders are well equipped with Wikimedia skills and they can facilitate training. As Boloji said, as a part of coming to Nigeria, enabled us to sharpen our skills, enabled us to solidify our knowledge about Wikimedia. We were more empowered that we knew and we learned some concepts on how to recruit and how to facilitate training. Also, when you are done that you have about two to three leaders that can contribute and facilitate training, recruit participants. When you are recruiting participants, try and find individuals that are nerdy, inquisitive, collected. You can go to the school library and have some conversations with the student leaders, student contributors, individuals you feel would be interested in contributing to Wikimedia and all other Wikimedia tools. Also, while you are at it, while you are recruiting persons, you have to connect personally with the new intake. You have to know their likes, you have to enable them to strengthen their niche in the sense that they have to, you have to help them to contribute to what they like. So, if a person is interested about politics, try and lead the person to contribute about politics first so the person will not be deterred and also while you are doing that, make sure the old leadership team accommodates new intake. By emphasizing that the students, by emphasizing that the clubs, the club belongs to every student of the club, run an open book in the process, make everything clear, let people know what is coming in terms of grants and what is going on, how the money is being spent and give room and make everybody see that they can be a part of it. Also, give everyone a sense of belonging and make sure you do not recruit many persons because if you recruit many persons, you will have too many people to train, too many people to undo and the whole thing will be very, very time consuming and affect your studentship. Thank you. I will let Isaac continue. Thank you, Alafi Abami for the wonderful rendition and explanation of how to view the successful working media community in the university and for African students. So my name is Isaac, I led the working media club for two years from 2019 to 2021. I also joined the club in March 2018, so I'm one of the early members of the club. So I was the lead for about a period of about two years and we carried out some series of exciting, a series of exciting projects, which included one library, which efforts to know the value of referencing verifiability to Wikipedia, which is the core component of what Wikipedia stands upon. We participated in the Wikipedia pages wanting for those campaign. We discovered the importance of visuals to keep the articles and now readers connect better with pictures and the article. We also participated in Wookie Love Africa in collaboration with the Wookie Media user group Nigeria and the highest contributing club among all the other clubs in the country. We were supposed to actually participate in art and feminism in 2020, but due to the pandemic and the subsequent lockdown of our university, we had to cancel the project and when school resumed back in 2021, we actually worked on art and feminism again in 2021 and we worked on improving and creating articles for Nigerian women in sports, in music, in the corporate space. So it was actually interesting because we actually, we felt our work was valuable because we were building, we're bridging the gender gap on Wikipedia and it was something which was, which was something we're happy to do. So some of the metrics from our past events, projects, I'll be outlining them now. So we've, we've uploaded the total of about 4000 pictures and videos on Wookie Media commons. We've created about 1600 articles on Wikipedia. We've edited about 5000 articles, which we've edited and improved and we've generated a total of 103 million articles views from all the articles we've worked upon, all the members of the club and we've added about 4000 references to our articles. And we've generated a total of 1.67 million words in terms of contributions. These are the contributions that were actually tracked by the dashboard, which means our contributions are way much more than these. So it's, it is exciting to see the work we've done in the past three years. How fast we've grown, the number of our active Wookie Media as we have now are actively contributing to the Wookie Media space. And globally we have many contests who are doing great works and it's really exciting for us to share with you what we've done. Thank you. We have come to the end of our session. We hope you've been able to provide everyone watching and listening with useful insights and tips on how we were able to build a successful community of Wookie Media editors on a university campus. If you have any questions or you want to reach out to us for any reason, you can contact us through our talk pages or through the session page or at Wookie Media Fan Club Unilori on Instagram. Sharing on your screen right now, I have some images from our previous events from the workshop with Esaf at Abuja to the launching of the Fan Club. So the African Wookie Media Developers Workshop we are in Unilori. As well as our other events and contests such as Wookie Love Africa, the Wikipedia pages wanting photos contests, Add some feminism and other editor tones and