Community Resources and Partnerships/India Rapid Project/Digitization and Advance Assamese Wikisource Workshop
Applicant
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
-chanakyakdas
- Organization
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- 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.
Digitization and Advance Assamese Wikisource Workshop
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-10-15 - 2026-04-15
- 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)
Other (please specify) GLAM, CELEBRATE WOMEN
- 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)
The North East of India is rich in heritage and culture, yet much of it remains unrecovered due to negligence and lack of conservation. Assam, one of the North Eastern states, is known for its vibrant cultural legacy. Through this digitization program, we aim to preserve rare Assamese books and manuscripts along with re-licensed works of notable Assamese writers. This initiative will strengthen the Assamese Wikisource, empower our language community and bring remarkable progress under the leadership of a female Wikimedian as the project lead.
Since 2024, we have celebrated International Women’s Day (8th March) through the Celebrate Women Campaign with edit-a-thons, awareness programs, and Wikisource training. This year, we plan an Advanced Assamese Wikisource Workshop with cross-community collaboration to enhance outreach, reduce gaps, and strengthen our Wikisource platform. We are seeking this grant to overcome financial challenges in covering basic event needs to set a milestone in community collaboration and growth of Assamese Wikisource.
- 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.
- Continuation of the previous GLAM project with the Nanda Talukdar Foundation and Jagannath Barooah College (now a university; collaboration details are on the project page).
- A new GLAM project with a 100-year-old village library, which is expected to contribute over 100 rare books by various Assamese writers.
- Relicensing of 10 books by the notable Assamese writer Saurav Kumar Chaliha, in collaboration with the Saurav Kumar Chaliha Fan Society.
- An Advanced Wikisource Workshop aimed at enhancing the technical skills of Assamese community editors and encouraging regular proofreaders. This workshop is part of the "Celebrate Women" campaign.
- 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.
- Pranjyoti Nath; User:JyotiPN; Project Lead - GLAM Projects
- Chanakya Kumar Das; User:-chanakyakdas; Technical Assistance, GLAM Projects initiatives
- Ishan Jyoti Borah; User:Ishanjyotibora; Co-organizer of the Workshop and logistic
- Proyashi Borthakur; User:প্ৰয়াসী বৰঠাকুৰ; Scanning
- Nazrin' Z'; Non-wikimedian, Scanning
- 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)
Participants: Assamese Wikimedians, with supporting contributors from the Bengali and Tamil communities and officials from the partnering GLAM institution.
- 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.
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- 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.
- 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)
Geographic
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Metrics
[edit]- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
- Partnerships and collaboration
- Outreach
- Transformand preserve heritage digitally
- To spread awareness to librariansabout digitization projects.
- To spread the awareness to theauthors about the importance of Wikisource.
- Build a technically strong community
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 40 | We anticipate that at least 40 to 50 local people will actively participate in the documentation process. |
| Number of editors | 10 | Including the project associates. |
| Number of organizers | 1 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 200 |
| Wikidata | 200 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | 15000 |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
N/A
- 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)
- Outreach dashboards
- Wikicommons uploads
- Onwiki progress check project pages
Budget
[edit]- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
- 22. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in Indian Rupees. (required)
270200 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)
3069.99 USD
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Yes
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