Grants:PEG/Rahmanuddin - Telugu Wikimedians/Telugu Wikipedia Ten years Celebrations/Report

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Compliance and completion[edit]

Did you comply with the requirements specified by WMF in the grant agreement?
Answer YES or NO.
YES
Is your project completed?
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YES
Did you use any of the grant funds?
Answer YES or NO.
YES

Activities and lessons learned[edit]

This section describes what the grantee did, and what the grantee learned from implementing the project. This section should be useful to others implementing similar projects and is an opportunity for the grantee to reflect on the project's performance.

Activities[edit]

Provide a detailed list of activities performed to complete this project, descriptions of these activities, and the amount of time spent on each activity. This section should also include a list of participants, or a link to pictures, blog posts, or videos from the project or event.
As part of Tewiki10, the following activities were taken up :
  • 8 Telugu Wiki training workshops
  • Around 60 Telugu Wikipedians gathered for the event and were joined by 6 other Indic wikimedians.
  • Around 20 press coverage
  • 5 electronic media coverage
  • QR coding of the whole KBN college campus was taken up by CIS-A2K with student Wikipedians from the college as participants.
  • 55555 article sprint was successfully completed
  • Quality improvement of village articles of Guntur and Krishna districts (about 2000 stub articles got improved into start class articles)
  • 3 media partners and 1 hospitality partner.
  • Event attended by 400 people over 2 days.
  • 1 book was released under CC-BY-SA 3.0 license and was uploaded to Telugu Wikisource.

Wiki Training workshops[edit]

Date Event details Media files Press coverage Social Media
5, 6th December 2013 Wikipedia Training Workshop at National Institute of Tourism and Hotel Management, Hyderabad
8th December 2013 Wikipedia Training Workshop at Golden Threshold for Teachers, Hyderabad
16 December 2013 Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop at KBN College, Vijayawada Press Coverage in Sakshi Newspaper (Telugu)
17 December 2013 Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop at Siddhartha Medical College, Vijayawada
18 December 2013 Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop at Sree Vahini College of Science & Technology, Tiruvur
January 18, 2014 Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop at VVIT, Pedakakani
January 20, 2014 Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop at KBN College, Vijayawada
January 21, 2014 Telugu Wikipedia Training Workshop at Sree Vahini College of Science & Technology, Tiruvur

Press coverage[edit]

  1. Telugu Wikipedia, a treasure trove: Mandali, The Hindu, 16/02/2014
  2. Wikipedia Decennial celebrations begin, Hans India, 16/02/2014
  3. 2014 to be observed as ‘Year of Telugu Wikipedia’, The Hans India, 16/02/2014
  4. తెలుగు అభ్యున్నతికి వికీపీడియా సేవలు అద్భుతం, Sakshi, 17/02/2014
  5. Telugu on the I Pad, Deccan Chronicle, 20/02/2014
  6. Vijayawada Wikipedia, HMTV, 08/02/2014

Pictures[edit]

Lessons learned[edit]

What lessons were learned that may help others succeed in similar projects? Consider the following questions and respond with 1 - 2 paragraphs.
What went well?
The celebrations were done with good participation from almost all active Wikipedians from Telugu community and 6 people from other Indic wikipedia communities. KBN college was QR-coded with Wikipedia articles on the entities associated with college. This is first such college in India probably to get such feature. Ten of the active Wikipedians were awarded with Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikipedian Award that triggered more activity in Telugu wikipedia in the consequent month as can be seen from the stats of March 2014[1][2][3].
What did not go well?
Due to politically chaotic situation in Andhra Pradesh, the event could not have more Wiki training sessions.
What would you do differently if you planned a similar project?
From now on, we will try to pull in small city wise anniversary events instead of focusing on one big event in one city.

Project goal and measures of success[edit]

This section should reference the project goals and measures of success described in the approved grant submission. See Grants:PEG/Rahmanuddin - Telugu Wikimedians/Telugu Wikipedia Ten years Celebrations to review the goals and metrics listed in the approved submission.

Project goal[edit]

Provide the project goal here.
To commemorate 10 years of Telugu Wikipedia and to strengthen Telugu Wikipedia community and its outreach efforts.
Did you achieve your project goal? How do you know your goal was achieved? Please answer in 1 - 2 paragraphs.
Yes. This project aimed at celebrating Ten years of Telugu Wikipedia's presence. The project involved a series activities ranging from Wikipedia Training sessions to celebrations, media coverage, and much more. This event also made the Telugu community realise that cities other than Hyderabad, where most of our activity was confined, like Vijayawada pull more audience to Wikipedia related open knowledge platforms.

The event pulled in almost all the active community members and few from other Indic communities as well. One month post the event saw many more edits from the felicitated users.

Measures of success[edit]

List the measures of success exactly as provided in the approved grant submission, and evaluate your project according to each measure listed there.
The measures of success, as posted in proposal are :
to take the active contributors count from 71 to 300 and to maintain it around 300 or above consistently (since December 2013 we have initiated various outreach programs in collaboration with CIS-A2K, which has already taken this to above 200);
500 important articles that should be present in each Wikipedia are expanded from their current stub form.
To improve stub village articles of three districts around Vijayawada (event location).
To take active contributors count to 300 may take some more time, and the 500 important articles have been already brought to at least start class level from stub level, and three districts' village articles have been developed into at least a start class article from stub level.
Provide an overall assessment of how your project went according to these measures.
We are hopeful of presenting it as soon as the stats for May and June are available, as they fit well for the assessment.
If you were to plan a similar project, would you measure it differently? If yes, please explain how.
With the new learnings, we may work in same lines with more intensity and better goals, due to the fact that the community has grown significantly in number.

Impact[edit]

This section ties this project to Wikimedia's broader goals, and shows what the project accomplished.

What impact did this project have on WMF's mission and the strategic goals? Please answer in 1 -2 paragraphs and include specific measures of impact such as the number of readers or editors reached by a particular project, or the number of articles edited or improved.
Stabilize infrastructure
Increase participation
Improve quality
Increase reach
Encourage innovation
As per Stabilizing Infrastructure, this event proved to bring in KBN College at Vijayawada to organize community event like Tewiki10 at their premises. The event saw lot of increased editing and thus participation. Students and faculty of KBN college were trained in editing Wikipedia. They successfully converted their campus to have QR codes of Wikipedia articles related to their campus. Several articles have been improved by the participants at the event, this means there is Quality Improvement. Also, this has increased reach for Telugu Wikipedia. This did not directly have anything in plan or implementation for the innovation encouragement. But students of KBN college created a lamp post in the shape of Wikipedia globe, which was highly appreciated by the community present.

Reporting and documentation of expenditures[edit]

This section describes the grant's use of funds

Documentation[edit]

Did you send documentation of all expenses paid with grant funds to grants at wikimedia dot org, according to the guidelines here? Answer "Yes" or "No".
Date Time City Vendor Vendor ID Amount Currency Purchase Purpose of purchase Receipt status
17 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Hotel Ilapuram 118.00 INR Food Food Receipts Available
08 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Hotel Ilapuram 166.00 INR Food Food Receipts Available
16 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Hotel Ilapuram 59.00 INR Food Food Receipts Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Hotel Ilapuram 118.00 INR Food Food Receipts Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Hotel Ilapuram 248.00 INR Food Food Receipts Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Hotel Ilapuram 59.00 INR Food Food Receipts Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada K.B.N College CANTEEN 25,000.00 INR Food Food Receipts Available
16 February 2014 IST Vijayawada K.B.N College CANTEEN 30,000.00 INR Food Food Receipts Available
07 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Naval Kishore Javar 15,500.00 INR Plaque Receipts Available
16-17 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Ilapuram Travels 8,249.00 INR Transport Transport Receipts Available
14 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Sree Sai Srinivasa Book Depot 1,520.00 INR Note Books Receipts Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Hotel Raj 1,785.00 INR Room Accomidation Receipts Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Prabhudeva Sounds 4,500.00 INR Chairs Receipts Available
13 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Vishnu Marketing 2,640.00 INR Receipts Available
16 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Sweet Magic 930.00 INR Cake Receipts Available
14 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Sai Photo Lamination 1,800.00 INR Badges Receipts Available
14 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Sai Photo Lamination 3,300.00 INR Certificates Receipts Available
14 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Sai Photo Lamination 2,600.00 INR Photo Print Lamination Receipts Available
17 December 2014 IST Southern Railway 330.00 INR Train Fare Receipts Available
10 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Hotel Anand Bhavan 290.00 INR Food Food Receipts Available
14 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Sri Padmaja Graphics 240 INR Certificates Receipts Available
14 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Sri Padmaja Graphics 4,048.00 INR A3 Colour Prints Receipts Available
14 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Printers 170.00 INR Cutting Receipts Available
14 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Sri Ganesh Pen Mart 800.00 INR Pens Receipts Available
15 February 2014 IST Southern Railways 675.00 INR Train Fare Receipts Available
12 January 2014 IST KSRTC 889.00 INR Bus Fare Receipts Available
22 January 2014 IST Vijayawada Hotel Durga 300.00 INR Food Food Receipts Available
06 February 2014 IST Hyderabad APSRTC 317.00 INR Bus Fare. Receipts Available
20 January 2014 IST Hyderabad APSRTC 322.00 INR Bus Fare. Receipts Available
22 January 2014 IST Hyderabad APSRTC 322.00 INR Bus Fare. Receipts Available
21 January 2014 IST Vijayawada Hotel Raj Towers 2,259.00 INR Room Rent Accomidation Receipts Available
04 March 2014 IST Vijayawada Arjun Rao Chavala 1,000.00 INR Scholarship for Telugu wikipedia. Voucher Available
10 March 2014 IST Vijayawada 6 Students 3,000.00 INR Honarium for 6 students. Voucher Available
18 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Hotel Ilapuram 98,639.00 INR Accomidation. Receipts Available
12 February 2014 IST Tirupur Boltell Infomedia Pvt Ltd. 73,800.00 INR Shirts Receipts Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada 500.00 INR Stationery Expenses Voucher Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Internet Expenses 5000.00 INR Internet n Mobile Charges Voucher Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada 2000.00 INR Food Voucher to Kashap. Voucher Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada Press Release 270.00 INR Press Release Voucher Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada 18,000.00 INR Travel Scholarship to Locals Voucher Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada 12,000.00 INR Travel Scholarship to Indian Wikipedians. Voucher Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada 2,000.00 INR Honorium to Students Voucher Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada 1,00,000.00 INR KLRWP Award Voucher Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada 5,000.00 INR Documentation Expense Voucher Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada 2,790.00 INR Pre-conference travel accomidation to Sujatha Voucher Available
15 February 2014 IST Vijayawada 28,000.00 INR Expenses towards Momentos, Slags to Vishwanath. Voucher Available

Expenses[edit]

Please list all project expenses in a table here, with descriptions and dates. Review the instructions here.
These expenses should be listed in the same format as the budget table in your approved submission so that anyone reading this report may be able to easily compare budgeted vs. actual expenses.
Note that variances in the project budget over 10% per expense category must be approved in advance by Project and Event Grants program staff. For all other variances, please provide an explanation in the table below.


Number Category Item description Unit Number of units Actual cost per unit Actual total Budgeted total Currency Notes
1 Pre conference Expenses Accomodation Per person 1000 5 Persons, 2 days 10000 10000 10000 INR
2 Pre conference Expenses Wikiacademies 100 10 1000 1000 1000 INR
3 Pre conference Expenses Meetings Per person 1000 5 Persons 5000 5000 5000 INR
4 Pre conference Expenses Transportation Per person 1000 20 Persons 20000 20000 20000 INR
5 Pre conference Expenses Offline CD Per CD 50 500 Nos 25000 25000 25000 INR
6 Community Participation Support Travel Expenses (Telugu Community) Per person 1000 40 Persons 40000 40000 40000 INR
7 Community Participation Support Travel Expenses (India Community members) Per person 2000 20 Persons 40000 40000 40000 INR
8 Community Participation Support Accomodation Per person 800 80 Persons, 2 days 128000 128000 128000 INR
9 Felicitation of Community Members Komarraju Lakshmana Rao Wikipedian Award Per person 10000 10 Persons 100000 100000 100000 INR
10 Felicitation of Community Members Momentos Per person 180 100 Persons 18000 18000 18000 INR
11 Food and Local Transport Breakfast Per person 40 100 Persons, 2 days 8000 8000 8000 INR
12 Food and Local Transport Local Transport Per person 200 100 Persons, 2 days 20000 20000 20000 INR
13 Food and Local Transport Lunch Per person 80 100 Persons, 2 days 16000 16000 16000 INR
14 Food and Local Transport Dinner Per person 100 100 Persons, 2 days 20000 20000 20000 INR
15 Food and Local Transport Tea,Coffee Per person 20 200 Persons, 4 times 16000 16000 16000 INR
16 SWAGs T-shirts Per Unit 399 200 Units 79800 79800 79800 INR
17 SWAGs Stickers Per Unit 2 1000 Units 2000 2000 2000 INR
18 SWAGs Banners Per Unit 500 10 Units 5000 5000 5000 INR
19 SWAGs Prints, Copies Per Unit 1 500 Units 500 500 500 INR
20 SWAGs Posters Per Unit 40 20 Units 800 800 800 INR
21 Infra Venue Per Day 10000 2 Days 20000 20000 20000 INR
22 Infra PA system Per Day 1000 2 Days 2000 2000 2000 INR
23 Infra Wifi, Internet Per Day 7500 2 Days 15000 15000 15000 INR
24 Infra Projector Per Unit 2000 2 Units, 2 Days 8000 8000 8000 INR
25 Infra Stationery Per Unit 50 100 Units 5000 5000 5000 INR
26 Public Awareness Radio Per Unit 0 0 Units 0 0 0 INR
27 Public Awareness Handouts Per Unit 1 1000 Units, 2 days 2000 2000 2000 INR
28 Public Awareness Banners, Posters Per Unit 5000 1 Units, 3 days 15000 15000 15000 INR
29 Public Awareness Print Media Per Unit 20000 1 Units 20000 20000 20000 INR
30 Public Awareness Electronic Media Per Unit 0 0 Units 0 0 0 INR
31 Public Awareness Video Shooting Per day 5000 2 days 10000 10000 1000 INR
32 Public Awareness Documentation Per day 2500 2 Members, 2 Units 10000 10000 1000 INR


Total project budget (from your approved grant submission)
₹.6,62,100/- ($10,747.10)
Total amount requested from WMF (from your approved grant submission, this total will be the same as the total project budget if the Project and Event Grant is your only funding source)
₹. 4,29,300/- ($6,968.38)
Total amount spent on this project (this total should be the total calculated from the table above)
₹.6,62,100/- ($10,747.10)
Total amount of Project and Event grant funds spent on this project (this total will be the same as the total amount spent if the Project and Event Grant is your only funding source)
₹.6,62,100/- ($10,747.10)
Are there additional sources of revenue that funded any part of this project? List them here.
Yes, ₹. 2,32,800 ($3,778.79) from CIS-A2K program

Remaining funds[edit]

Are there any grant funds remaining?
Answer YES or NO.
NO
Please list the total amount (specify currency) remaining here. (This is the amount you did not use, or the amount you still have after completing your grant.)
INR 0
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Please state here if you intend to return unused funds to WMF, submit a request for reallocation, or submit a new grant request, and then follow the instructions on your approved grant submission.

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