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Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest, 2014 Prize Distribution Event & Wiki Workshop, Thrissur[edit]

[This grant request is in an early draft stage. The same will be elaborated and refined at the earliest with precise details of costs, benefits and event organization. Since the event timeline is very near, it is requested to consider and expedite this grant application on an emergency basis.]

Introduction[edit]

The Malayalam Wikisource community conducted an intensive digitization contest in the month of January 2014. The event was a great success resulting in more than 12000 pages of Malayalam books being converted into digitally accessible format by hundreds of individual Wikimedia volunteers and thousands of school students.

The prize distribution ceremony for the event was however delayed due to non-avalibility of organizational manpower since the conclusion of the event. Now that the schools have been re-opened for the new academic year some of the coordinators and Wikisource volunteers are prepared to conduct an event combining the prize distribution ceremony and a Wikipedia training workshop for the general public.

It is requested here to grant a sum of Rs. 100,000 towards the expenses of conducting the program as well as the prizes and certificates. --Manojk (talk) 13:45, 24 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

About the event[edit]

Wikisource project, a project of Wikimedia foundation is celebrating its tenth anniversary. As a part of the decennary celebrations, the Wikisource projects in various languages all over the world are conducting competitions that enrich their contents, including but not limited to proof-reading and digitization. Being a part of it, Wikisource's Malayalam version - Wiki Grandhasala community, a voluntary unit engaged in collecting and digitizing valuable Malayalam books of yesteryear, is organizing a digitization (Typing & Proofreading) competition, along with various Government as well as Non-Government establishments and other voluntary organisations with similar interests like Kerala Sahithya Academy, IT@ school Project, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and Center for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) under the banner of Malayalam Wiki community.. This digitisation competition is being conducted as a part of an effort that collects Malayalam Books whose copyright date has expired in digital form (in unicode format) preserving the content and making them more accessible and popular. The competition lasts for a month, starting on January 1, 2014 and ending on Jan 31, 2014. The competition focuses especially individuals and schools and includes some attractive prizes including E-book readers, Tablets and selected books for those who lead the scoreboard. In this competition, books that was recently released by Kerala Sahithya Academy to its public collection will be digitized.

The prizes (like E-book readers, Portable scanners) are sponsored by Center for Internet and Society, Kerala Sahithya Academy and Swathanthra Malayalam Computing. Also, certificates will be awarded to all students who participate in the school level competition and IT@school coordinators, for their coordination activities.

Team members[edit]

Manoj K
User:Netha Hussain
User:Sreejithkoiloth
Anivar Aravind
User:Fotokannan
User:Tonynirappathu
User:Hrishikesh.kb
User:Balasankarc
User:Arkarjun1
User:Manuspanicker
User:Sugeesh
User:Viswaprabha

Support Update[edit]

It is a wonderful achievement by the ML Wikisource community. Kudos to all the Wikimedians who have put their efforts behind this! It would be useful if a detailed blog post is shared about this contest, as it could become a best-practice for other communities.
In spite of an extremely short notice, CIS-A2K extended in-time support to this event. As requested, a sum of Rs. 100,000 was transferred into Manojk's Account. Detailed statement of expenditure will be published upon receipt of all the bills from the ML Wikisource community. However, it is requested that ML Wikisource Community factor in a minimum of two weeks of time for processing, while placing such requests in future.--Visdaviva (talk) 17:01, 7 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request for training sa wikisource and bot[edit]

Now we would like to concentrate on sa wikisource. Therefore we request you to send a person who can train us in this and also help us in the work of maintainance of wikipedia and wikisource. Thanks - Shubha (talk) 06:15, 3 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Shubha thank you for actively taking up SA Wikisource. Rahim from CIS-A2K will be in touch with you to extend necessary support. Best wishes. --Visdaviva (talk) 11:08, 4 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request for supporting Samskrit week celebration[edit]

We request CIS to support us for printing handouts of sa wikipedia to be distributed at Samskrit week celebration. 2000 handouts are required which would cost us Rs 10,000. Please provide us the required. Thanks - Shubha (talk) 10:58, 5 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Samskrit week celebration was conducted in these places - Marathalli, Jayanagar, Vidyaranyapur (Bangalore), Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha (Tirupati). Since we required more number, we printed totally 4,500 handouts. Details are here -

1500 good quality brochures (220 GSM) - Rs 6,500

2000 normal quality handouts (170 GSM)- Rs 5,500

1000 Kannada handouts (130 GSM) - Rs 2,000

Total cost of printing is Rs 14,000. We request you to kindly grant Rs 14,000. Thanks a lot for all your support. - Shubha (talk) 04:21, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The requested amount has been credited to Samskrita Bharati account. On behalf of Samskrit wiki community I thank you for your kind support. - Shubha (talk) 09:44, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support[edit]

CIS-A2K extended timely support to this Sanskrit community event. The exact amount of support extended will be shared soon. --Visdaviva (talk) 09:03, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Expenditure Account Statement[edit]

Thank you very much for your support. We received Rs. 14,000.00 on 21st Aug 2014 from CIS-A2K to Canara Bank account for printing handouts of Samskrit Wikipedia.

Total expenditure was 16,089. Details are given below. We thank for CIS Team generosity and timely help.

Item	Quantity	Cost
Multicolored Brochure (130 GSM)	6000	12,500.00 ₹
Single colored Brochure (90 GSM)	2000	2,750.00 ₹
Tax	-	839.00 ₹
	TOTAL	16,089.00 ₹

-Shubha (talk) 06:17, 7 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Travel support for 'Wikipedia and Cochrane Symposium'[edit]

The 22nd Cochrane Colloquium at Hyderabad marks the 21st Anniversary of The Cochrane Collaboration. 'Wikipedia and Cochrane Symposium' is going to be an open meeting for Wikipedians, as well as those who are interested in getting involved in editing Wikipedia the day before the event.

In 2013, Cochrane and Wiki project Med Foundation initiated a partnership to improve the evidence base of Wikipedia articles on healthcare topics. This symposium will provide an opportunity to bring together some of the most established contributors to Cochrane evidence and Wikipedia healthcare content worldwide, working in both English and East Indian languages.

More about event : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_and_Cochrane_Symposium,_2014

We edit health related articles on Hi,Mr Wikipedia. This will be great opportunity to collaborate with other editors and encourage others to contribute to health articles.

Requested Amount[edit]

Travel : 5,900/- (Pune to Hyderabad roundtrip) (for one person) Accommodation : 2200/- (For two nights)

Symposium will provide[edit]

an overview of the Cochrane Wikipedia partnership
space for Wikipedian and Cochrane communities to engage and learn from each other about the whats, hows and whys of contributing to Wikipedia through the partnership.
opportunity to explore issues and challenges when taking the partnership forward.

Expected outcome[edit]

Collaboration with other editors
During the workshop : Better strategy planning to expand 'Health related articles'
We will be sharing my Indic language wiki experience (I edit health related articles on hi/mr Wikipedia)
Best practises sharing.
Exploring possibility to understand the complexities of 'Evidence Based' practices which are needed in the medicine at the moment and helps to edit medicine related wiki articles.

AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 20:20, 14 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Dr.Abhijeet Safai (talk) 15:56, 15 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear AbhiSuryawanshi and Dr.Abhijeet Safai, we will be glad to support your participation in this event. However, as the travel takes less than 12 hours by bus/train, you may please consider travelling by bus or train (3 tier). Please forward the official invite you received for the event over e-mail (if not done already) to vishnu.at.cis-india.org. Upon receipt of the original bills we will arrange to reimburse the costs. Best wishes. --Visdaviva (talk) 16:56, 15 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Vishnu, Thank you so much for quick reply. I received confirmation on Sunday evening (six days before event), at this/last moment it is difficult to get confirmed train ticket.
Kind request : Instead of reimbursement, it would be nice if CIS-A2K books ticket. AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 17:50, 15 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for support. Organisers need Wikipedia volunteer to manage booth for entire conference (21st to 26th September 2014), I would like to help them to promote Wikipedia through booth. Kindly approve extended stay for remaining days. AbhiSuryawanshi (talk) 12:10, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The Cochrane Colloquium is having several sessions including an editing booth that would benefit from AbhiSuryawanshi staying for the remaining days. FloNight (talk) 12:20, 21 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

CIS-A2K supported this request in a timely manner. The exact amount of support extended will be shared once all the bills are submitted and processed.--Visdaviva (talk) 09:01, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Malayalam Wikimedia Hackathon - 2014[edit]

The Malayalam Wikimedia community has scheduled a Hackathon to be held as a precursor to the upcoming Wikisangamotsavam 2014, at Ernakulam. The two day program was finally fixed through a fast-track plan in order to ensure maximum participation. The organisers for this event would like CIS to help them by way of providing the essential costs.

In the Hackathon, there will be a knowledge transferring sessions on various wiki related technicalities.

Sessions will focus Templates, Citations, Illustration, Wikidata, Category, Scanning, Bots, Media uploads, Geo-coding, tables and other open software.

Event Schedule[edit]

Time: November 1 Saturday & November 2 Sunday

Venue: Regional Training Centre, IT@School Project, Edappally, Ernakulam.

No. of expected participants: 20

Community Link to the event: Malayalam Wikipedia Page for Wikisangamothsavam 2014 9Section Hackathon 2014)

Expenditure[edit]

Food = ~10000 Rs

Accommodation = ~5000 Rs

Travel Allowance = ~10000 Rs

Internet and other expenditure = ~5000 Rs

Total = ~30000 Rs

This is an approximate expenditure based up on the expected volume of participants. -- Sajal Karikkan Karikkan (talk) 22:33, 29 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support Discussion[edit]

Sajal Karikkan glad to see the ML community plans for organizing the ML Wikimedia Hackathon as a build up towards the Wiki Sangamothsavam! We are more than glad to extend it. However, please note that it is an extremely short notice and we will try our best to extend the support in a timely manner. We will initially transfer an advance amount of Rs. 20,000/- to Sajal Karikkan's account and reimburse the rest of the costs incurred for this event after submission of all the bills in original. We would appreciate that all the bills be settled within a week of conducting the event. We will take up further coordination for this over email.--Visdaviva (talk) 09:26, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Community Support for ML Hackathon - 2014[edit]

Support Thank you Sajal Karikkan, for taking up the initiatives to a much needed event like this. As a community member I wholeheartedly support this proposal and also request A2K to help the volunteers on an urgent basis. ViswaPrabhaവിശ്വപ്രഭ^talk 08:53, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Sivahari (talk) 09:23, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Kannan Shanmugam
Support--Irvin calicut (talk) 12:50, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Vijayakumarblathur (talk) 17:14, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support--Sreejithkoiloth (talk) 17:54, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Sreejithk2000 (talk) 20:45, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Jacob (talk) 08:21, 31 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Funding request from Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration Kolkata[edit]

Bengali Wikipedia Kolkata(Bengal) Community is organizing an event in Kolkata on 9th and 10th January to Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration in Kolkata. We have placed a grant request with WMF and expected approve this grants.

We have requested total grants as below

Total cost of project: 900,000 ($ 14,516.13)

Total amount requested from the Project and Event Grants program

WMF - 322,500
CIS-A2K Program - 150,000
Wikimedia India - 300,000 (expected that will be approved)http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Bengali_Wikipedia_10th_anniversary

Earlier we had planned for venue at Presidency University, Kolkata, but they suddenly they had denied to host. Now we have planned to venue at Jadavpur University and they have send me a confirmation mail to me about hosting. Now we need to book the Conference Hall and guest house for scholarship grantee. We will invite 45 wikimedian delegates from all Indic language Wikipedias and 15 wikimedian of Bangla Wikipedia from Bangladesh with scholarship. Also we have a option for joining this conference with a registration fee from the all over India. We will accept maximum (100 Normal people + 100 student) 200 people from registration (Rs 500 each and Rs 200 each for student). depending on demand we will increase the seat. All registered participants would be provided with meals during the two days conference hours.We are expecting a footfall of around 200-300. Atanu Saha,Assistant Professor,School of Languages and Linguistics,Jadavpur University,Kolkata, will book the conference Hall and guest house on behalf of community. Therefore, we kindly request CIS-A2K to transfer Rs 50,000/- to the bank account of Mr Atanu Saha ASAP.

Apart from this we need help from CIS-A2K to direct paymemt of all future bill for this program.Jayantanth (talk) 17:38, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Community Support[edit]

Support--Jayantanth (talk) 17:40, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Pmlineditor (t · c · l) 18:11, 5 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support-- Gangulybiswarup (talk) 03:21, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Bodhisattwa (talk) 04:29, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- --Schwiki (talk) 06:50, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support ----Sujay25 (talk) 06:54, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support ----Rangan Datta (talk)16:15, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- BengaliHindu (talk) 14:07, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Sumantrom93 (talk) 20:32, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Pasaban (talk) 16:32, 6 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support -- Arkrishna (talk) 01:28, 9 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Aftab1995 (talk) 16:05, 10 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support Update[edit]

Dear Bengali Wikipedia Kolkata(Bengal) Community, Thanks for posting the request for community support for the Wikipedia Conference in Kolkata. We will be more than glad to extend the following support to this community event from CIS-A2K.

Support upto Rs. 1,50,000/- from the CIS-A2K's WMF-FDC Grant (we would prefer paying the community identified vendors directly. This will save the organizing committee's time).
Swag support of upto 150 Wikipedia T-shirts if the community requests (these are pre-designed Wikipedia T's which most of you have seen/used already).
CIS-A2K will be happy to re-route the WMF PEG Grant (if and when it comes through), should the community request for it with WMF concurrence.
CIS-A2K will send one of its team members to help with the logistics and event management for a week, if the community thinks it will be of help.
CIS-A2K will be more than glad to support the community with the Media coverage for the event.
CIS-A2K has institutional ties with Jadavpur University where the event is planned. We will explore all possible ways to ensure maximum support is given to the community.

Please note that we have already advanced an amount of Rs. 50,000/- for this event, as per the above request, into the account of Mr. Atanu Saha.
Wishing the Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebrations a grand success!--Visdaviva (talk) 16:39, 17 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request for disbursement of another installment[edit]

Thank you for providing us the initial amount of 50,000. We have already utilized around 90% of the amount in booking the conference halls and the guesthouses. We would like to request to transfer another installment of 50,000 for the rest of the bookings and various miscellaneous expenses. Kindly transfer the amount directly to the a/c of Atanu Saha, Assistant Professor, Jadavpur University. BengaliHindu (talk) 19:18, 2 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request for SWAG[edit]

Request for SWAG

T-shirt - 200
Sticker sets - 300
Wiki Pens - 400

Each sticker set consists of 4 stickers, each having the following logos.

Wikipedia
Bengali Wikipedia 10th anniversary
Wikisource
Wiktionary

Please let us know what sizes you offer and the last date by which we can confirm the no. of T-shirts for each sizes. The majority of them will be XL size. BengaliHindu (talk) 11:03, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Breakdown of T shirt sizes.

XXL: 10%

XL: 15%

L: 30%

M: 30%

S: 15%

BengaliHindu (talk) 16:19, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request for disbursement of final installment[edit]

We are requesting for the disbursement of the third and final installment of 50,000 from CIS. Kindly transfer the amount directly to the a/c of Atanu Saha, Assistant Professor, Jadavpur University. BengaliHindu (talk) 11:03, 20 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request for advance of 100,000 from WMF[edit]

We hereby request you to advance an amount of 100,000 from the amount sanctioned by the WMF. The amount needs to be transferred to the account of Santanu Chandra. I'll share his A/C no in email. BengaliHindu (talk) 16:22, 29 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Request for funding Odia Community meetup and workshop[edit]

The Odia Wikimedians are planning a get-together to celebrate the launch of Odia Wikisource, on 29th and 30th November 2014, at Bhubaneswar. We are planning to conduct an advanced workshop/TTT for Odia Wikimedians joined recently. As per the talk page discussion we need:

Funding support of Rs. 62,500
15 T-Shirts (3XL + 8M + 4 S)
50 badges

proposed detailed budget
Item	Cost (in )	Description
Travel	25,000	Travel expenses for Guests and Odia Wikimedians
Accomodation	10,000	Accomodation expenses for 29th night at Bhubaneswar
Food	15,000	Including Snacks
Printing and stationary	5,000	Flex banner, Poster, Stickers, Notepad, Pens, Markers,tapes...
Cake/ Poda Pitha	500	One number
Miscellaneous	7,000	Internet charge, Stage Decoration & Unplanned exp.
Total	62,500	----

On behalf of Odia Wiki Community, I request for funding of the event. There are no any other sources from which we are seeking support. This fund shall be transferred to the bank account of Subas Chandra Rout.--Mrutyunjaya Kar (talk) 15:28, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support Discussion[edit]

Dear Mrutyunjaya Kar, we will be glad to support this community request under one of CIS-A2K's this year's plans. Could you please share the specific Talk page link where this event is being discussed on OR WP? In addition to this support, CIS-A2K will ensure that one of its Programme Officer, Subhashish, will be there to help support the Odia community in organizing the event and in successfully conducting the advanced training program. Hope that the Odia community will share their learning and experiences with the wider community about the celebrations and the advanced training outcomes. Wishing the Odia community a great success! ଜୟ ଜଗନ୍ନାଥ

--Visdaviva (talk) 19:34, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Vishnu, the discussion about the proposed meetup of Odia Wikisource contributors and advanced workshop for Odia Wikimedians is here. We will be more happy if Programme Director and the Programme officer (Subhasish who is also a senior Odia Wikimedian) both will be with us. Thanks for the wishes. --Mrutyunjaya Kar (talk) 02:22, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Mrutyunjaya Kar for the link. We have initiated the transfer of an advance amount of Rs. 50,000/- into Subas Chandra Rout's account for this event. I would have very much liked to be part of this, but I had long time back committed to speaking at this event. Pity to be missing the celebrations and the workshop :( please convey my apologies to the Odia Wiki community.--Visdaviva (talk) 16:40, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Telugu Wikimedia Hackathon - 2014[edit]

The Telugu Wikipedians' Community has decided to organise a hackathon to enhance the skills of existing Wikipedians. This one day program is aimed at allowing Wikipedians to use Mediawiki tools more effectively.

In the Hackathon, there will be a knowledge transferring sessions on various Mediawiki related technicalities.

Sessions will focus Templates, References, Image usage, Wikidata, Category, Scanning, Bots, Media uploads, Geo-coding, tables and other open software.