Community Resources and Partnerships/India Rapid Project/Relicensing, Digitisation and wikisource project in Kannada and Tulu Languages
Applicant
[edit]- Main Wikimedia username. (required)
Kavitha G. Kana
- 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.
Relicensing, Digitisation and wikisource project in Kannada and Tulu Languages
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2025-06-15 - 2025-12-31
- 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)
- Participants will be trained in the process of contributing books and historical documents to WikiCommons and Wikisource.
* Empower language communities by preserving and digitizing literature and cultural heritage in underprivileged or less-represented languages.
* Train new editors in text digitization, proofreading, grammar correction, and Wikisource editing workflows.
* Encourage the participation of women, both as editors and as subjects of documentation, by identifying and working with texts authored by women.
* Improve language quality through collaborative grammar correction and standardization of texts.
* Foster long-term engagement by building a supportive and inclusive community around language Wikisource projects.
- 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.
- Relicensing and digitisation of books from authors.
- Scanning of books
- Uploading to commons.
- Offline workshop at Mangalore University
- Training Women editors
- Creating Wikidata for the books and authors.
- Creating or editing Wikipedia pages.
We are planning to organise workshops in above programmes
- 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.
Advisor's: Nitesh Gill User name: Nitesh Gill and Anoop Rao, User name:A826
Technical Assistance: Anoop Rao User Name:A826
For Relicensing author contacts - Kavitha G. Kana: Benet Amanna User name: BENET G AMANNA,
Wikisource workshop Resource Persons – Babitha Shetty, VInoda Mamatha Rai, Pragathi, Hariprasad Shetty
User names: Babitha Shetty: Vinoda mamatharai: Pragathi. BH: Hariprasad Shetty10
Creating Wikipedia pages: Kavitha G. Kana, Vinoda mamatharai.
Creating Wikidata: Shreelatha Halemane user name: Shreelatha.Halemane
Volunteer guidance: Medini
Institutions: Mangalore University, Kannada Women Associations; Meeting at least 15 authors for re-licence.
- 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)
Proofreadathons – university-level programmes.
Relicensing and digitisation workshop.
More of women editors will be added by organising workshops at Women associations.
Meetups with community editors in both Tulu and Kannada languages.
Technical training during meetups.
- 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.
Through Meetups
Technical training along with meetups
Request page in Tulu Wikisource meta page: [3]
- 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)
Language
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Linguistic / Language
- 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)
Partnerships and collaboration
New editors will be introduced to this project.
To spread awareness to librarians about digitisation projects.
To spread the awareness to the authors about the importance of Wikisource.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 70 | University participants will be added, and women editors will join this Wikisource training.
More than 50 books will be added to both languages. Community existing editors will be motivated and trained specially. |
| Number of editors | 50 | Documentation training will be provided in the college.
6000 pages need to be proofread for this workshop will be organised and community meet up will be arranged. |
| Number of organizers | 81 | Number of organisor - 1
Number of Resource Persons - 4 Number of Technical Assistance _ 1 Number of Trainer for digitisation - 1 Number of Scanning person – 1 Number of Advisors - 2 for planning |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | 200 |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | 5000 |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
Wikisource - 70 participants work on proofreading. Wikidata - 10 participants work on adding wikidata items for books and authors.
- 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)
226000 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)
2640.91 USD
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Yes
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