Community Resources and Partnerships/India Rapid Project/Completion of C. N. Annadurai's short stories and the women workshop in Tamil Wikisource
Applicant
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
info-farmer
- Organization
N/A
- If you are a group or organization leader, board member, president, executive director, or staff member at any Wikimedia group, affiliate, or Wikimedia Foundation, you are required to self-identify and present all roles. (required)
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- Describe all relevant roles with the name of the group or organization and description of the role. (required)
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Project
[edit]- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Completion of C. N. Annadurai's short stories and the women workshop in Tamil Wikisource
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2026-08-31 - 2026-09-30
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
India
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Not applicable
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
C. N. Annadurai's writings possess the remarkable ability to impart profound political knowledge and the need of social movement to common people especially women. Although he has many works in mass media; his short stories are still highly regarded and continue to be beneficial to women for re-marriage, meaning less social customs etc.. Therefore, in Tamil Wikisource, we completed 51 short stories by 21 books / 2413 pages. ([1]) All the 21 short story books have been proofread completed and converted into text documents. And also two female contributors created the two short story audio books from the proofread completed texts. The objective of this project is uploading remaining short stories from selected books / periodicals for the proofreading. And also we will select 20 short stories to make audio books with public domain license (CC0) after the completion of the proofreading process in Tamil Wikisource by women contributors. So, I am going to conduct a one day work shop. The women contributors will discuss and decide the place of the short story proofreading and audio book making workshop after the confirmation of this application.
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
- The missing short stories of C. N. Annadurai are first published around approximately 50 years ago around 1955 to 1968. After the time, few publishers are republished with out any systematic way i.e., they published according to their wish. So, I am going to search in selected public libraries of Tamil Nadu as i successfully completed in my earlier project.
- After the pages are found and digitized, the pages need to be cleaned. Only then, we will able to the proofreading process proceed quickly. Training for this will be conducted one day, with priority given to interested women.
- Additional online training will be provided to female contributors as needed. This training will ensure the successful completion of the proofreading of the remaining short story pages and the publication of their text documents.
- After the proofreading, i will give training how to pronounce, record and create audio books and they will upload the created 20 audio files to Wikimedia commons.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc.
- User: info-farmer - coordinator; Trainer
All the users are women.
- User:Iswaryalenin (Business) - volunteer, Trainee
- User:Deepa arul (Agricultue) - volunteer, Trainee
- User:Rathai palanivelan (Assit. professor)- volunteer, Trainee
- User:Saranya V R (PG student) - volunteer, Trainee
- User:Subisena - (Doing Ph.D) - volunteer, Trainee
- User:Rabiyathul - (Home maker) volunteer, Trainee
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
Tamil wikisource female contributors. through in-person and online workshop with screen casts. Followup through their edits in Tamil Wikisource.
- 9.1. If your project includes in-person activities, are there any international participants travelling to India for them? (required)
- No
- 9.1.1. List all countries of participation. (required)
- 9.2. Will the project be transferring funds to any international participants? (required)
- No
- 9.2.1. List all international participants receiving funding and their countries. (required)
N/A
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
- No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
N/A
- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
- In the village pump of Tamil Wikisource:ta:s:விக்கிமூலம்:ஆலமரத்தடி#அறிஞர் அண்ணாதுரையின் சிறுகதைப் படைப்புகள் (The village pump discussion page short url link)
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Content Gender gap
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Culture, heritage or GLAM
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Gender Identity
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
Metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
Through this project, the circumstances that arise when providing secure in-person like TTT, online training to female contributors will be reported to Wikimedia along with the application objectives.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 7 | |
| Number of editors | 7 | |
| Number of organizers | 1 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | 10 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | 500 |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
Above 500 pages from the periodicals and selected books from the city public libraries.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
https://quarry.wmcloud.org/Info-farmer
Budget
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aF1cDA9g41zeYAOglA0eow7sBI5T5IhFnEBwUmVifRk/edit?gid=0#gid=0
- 22. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in Indian Rupees. (required)
125800 INR
- 22.1. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD. (required)
1319.96 USD
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Yes
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