Bengali Wikisource New Readers Awareness Campaign, 2018

West Bengal Wikimedians User Group has been working on increasing awareness of Bengali Wikisource. This includes creation of an awareness video as a part of the Inspire New Readers Campaign.

Team[edit]

Bengali Wikisource team

Bodhisattwa - Project lead
Jayantanth
Hrishikes
Mahir256
SGill (WMF) - WMF liaison

Production team

Director - Ishan Sharma
Cinematographer - Sukhansaar Singh
Executive Producer - Aryaman Nath
Sound Director - Sukrit Sen
Focus Puller - Theodros Tadesse
Assistant Director - Sneha Das
Editor - Himangshu Kamble
Colorist - Pankaj Nelson

Cast

Sujan Ghosh
Suavo Mukherjee
Ritam Sarkar
Raja Chakravorty
Shrabanti Bhattacharya
Avinash

Timeline[edit]

4 February, 2018 - IdeaLab proposal submitted.
14 March, 2018 - Rapid Grant proposal submitted.
10 April, 2018 - Rapid Grant proposal approved.
15 April, 2018 - Initial conversation with production team.
4 May, 2018 - First draft of the script was discussed.
10 May, 2018 - Second draft of the script was discussed.
17 May, 2018 - Rapid Grant period extended to 30 September, 2018
2 August, 2018 - Final script reviewed and approved.
7 August, 2018 - Video shoot took place in Kolkata.
7 August, 2018 - Cheque of INR 100,000/- sent by CIS-A2K to the director of the video.
9 August, 2018 - INR 100,000/- received by the director of the video.
6 September, 2018 - First cut of full video submitted by production team.
18 September, 2018 - Final cut of full video submitted by production team.
27 September, 2018 - Necessary correction done and final cut of all 3 videos submitted by production team.
28 September, 2018 - Further correction done for all 3 videos.
28 September, 2018 - INR 10,000/- requested from CIS-A2K for promotion of the films.
30 September, 2018 - All 3 filmss were released in the Youtube channel of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group and uploaded to Commons.
30 September, 2018 - The films were premiered at Wikigraphists Bootcamp, New Delhi.

The films were shown at the end of this panel discussion at GLAM Wiki Conference, Tel Aviv

1 October, 2018 - Wikisource communities are being notified in scriptorium and mailing lists.
15 October, 2018 - File:মায়ের নজর.webm was the media of the day in Commons and featured in main page.
19 October, 2018 - Remaining INR 29,000/- received by the director of the films.
26 October, 2018 - INR 10,000/- received from CIS-A2K for promotion of the films.
30 October, 2018 - Rapid Grant report submitted.
1 November, 2018 - New Readers started promoting the films from Bengali Wikisource Facebook page for $50.00 each for 4 days in Facebooks for users from Bangladesh and West Bengal.
3 November, 2018 - The films were shown at GLAM Wiki Conference, Tel Aviv during State of the Wikisources panel discussion.
4 November, 2018 - After the promotion, মায়ের নজর received 95,996 views, whereas লে হালুয়া received 151,135 views.
15 November, 2018 - New Readers again promoted লে হালুয়া with shorter description for $150.00 and with longer description for $150.00 in Facebook users from Bangladesh.
19 November, 2018 - After the promotion, লে হালুয়া with shorter description received 323,067 and with longer description received 308,428 views.
23 November, 2018 - New Readers again promoted লে হালুয়া with longer description for $550.00 only in Facebook users from Bangladesh.
24 November, 2018 - The films were shown at Indic Wikisource Community Consultation 2018
30 November, 2018 - After the promotion, the video received 902,676 views.
16 February, 2019 - Wikimedia Foundation publishes Community Marketing Experiments - Impact Report

Video[edit]

লে হালুয়া
মায়ের নজর
দুনিয়া যখন দোরগোড়ায়

Subtitles[edit]


Film - লে হালুয়া				Film - মায়ের নজর				Combined Film - দুনিয়া যখন দোরগোড়ায়
Lang.	Created by	Reviewed by	Youtube	Lang.	Created by	Reviewed by	Youtube	Lang.	Created by	Reviewed by	Youtube
								Assamese	Gitartha.bordoloi
Bengali	Bodhisattwa		Y	Bengali	Bodhisattwa		Y	Bengali	Bodhisattwa		Y
English	Titodutta Bodhisattwa	Arindam Maitra	Y	English	Titodutta Bodhisattwa		Y	English	Titodutta Bodhisattwa		Y
Spanish	Arindam Maitra
German	Arindam Maitra	Kritzolina	Y
Hindi	Hrishikes		Y
Italian	OrbiliusMagister		Y	Italian	OrbiliusMagister		Y	Italian	OrbiliusMagister
Persian	Mardetanha		Y	Persian	Mardetanha		Y	Persian	Mardetanha		Y
								Gujarati	Sushant savla
								Malayalam	Ranjithsiji
				Marathi	सुबोध कुलकर्णी			Marathi	Pooja Jadhav	सुबोध कुलकर्णी
								Oriya	Chinmayee Mishra
								Sanskrit	Soorya Hebbar
Telugu	KCVelaga		Y	Telugu	KCVelaga		Y	Telugu	KCVelaga		Y

Expenditure[edit]

Rapid Grant	See the report
Item	Quantity	Rate	Amount (in INR)	Amount (in $) 1 INR = 0.014 USD as of 30 October 2018

Pre-production expenses	1	4000	4000	56
Camera Rental	1	12800	12800	179.2
Light Rental	1	8200	8200	114.8
Sound Rental	1	1100	1100	15.4
Transportation – Production vehicles	2	850	1700	23.8
Transportation – Actors	3	500	1500	21
Catering	1	3400	3400	47.6
Costumes and Props	1	2000	2000	28
Director – Ishan Sharma	1	7000	7000	98
Cinematographer – Sukhansaar Singh	1	7000	7000	98
Executive Producer – Aryaman Nath	1	7000	7000	98
Sound Director – Sukrit Sen	1	7000	7000	98
Focus Puller – Theodros Tadesse	1	1500	1500	21
Assistant Director – Sneha Das	1	3000	3000	42
Locations Rental	2	2500	5000	70
Editor – Himanshu Kamble	1	7000	7000	98
Edit Studio + Machine	6	1500	9000	126
Colorist – Pankaj Nelson	1	7000	7000	98
Grading Studio	2	7000	14000	196
Hard Disk 1 TB for offline edit	1	3800	3800	53.2
Sound Studio – Dubbing	2	2000	4000	56
Actor – Sujan Ghosh	1	2000	2000	28
Actor – Suavo Mukherjee	1	1500	1500	21
Actor – Ritam Sarkar	1	500	500	7
Actor – Raja Chakravorty	1	2000	2000	28
Actor – Shrabanti Bhattacharya	1	1500	1500	21
Actor – Avinash	1	1500	1500	21
Miscellaneous	1	3000	3000	42

Total			129000	1806
New Readers Facebook Promotion
Film	Date			Amount (in $)
লে হালুয়া	01.11.2018 - 04.11.2018			50
মায়ের নজর	01.11.2018 - 04.11.2018			50
লে হালুয়া	15.11.2018 - 19.11.2018			150
লে হালুয়া	15.11.2018 - 19.11.2018			150
লে হালুয়া	23.11.2018 - 30.11.2018			550
Total				950

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