Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Enhancing Indic Oral Culture on Wikimedia projects /Final Report
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Part 1: Understanding your work
[edit]Per the recent update on the Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy process, Wikimedia Affiliates that are General Support Fund grantees will fulfill their affiliate reporting requirements through their final or yearly grantee report.
If you are a Wikimedia Affiliate, you will use this form for your affiliate reporting and to address the affiliate health criteria. You do not need to submit a separate report to AffCom. Follow the guidance in the green boxes to report on how you met the corresponding affiliate health criteria.
If you are not a Wikimedia Affiliate, aligning your responses with the affiliate criteria is optional and not required.
1. Please share to what extent your programs, approaches, and strategies contributed to addressing the challenges you shared in your proposal. If they did not contribute as you believed they would, please share what obstacles you faced and what, if anything, you learned from them? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 1.) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 1.1 (Goal delivery). Describe how you actively delivered on mission goals, e.g. content creation.
We succeeded in engaging 23 participants in this year-long project, representing 15 South Asian languages ([1]). Several of these languages are underrepresented online and the languages and their oral culture are under the risk of disappearance, please find details below:
- Endangered/underrepresented languages out of the languages involved in the project:
- Number of speakers as per Ethnologue list: Kharia (10k to 1 million), Torwali (endangered)
- Level of endangerment as per UNESCO list: Torwali (definitely endangered), Tulu (vulnerable), Mising (definitely endangered), Kharia (vulnerable)
The participants were provided training and guidance via online training sessions and one-on-one calls to collect useful and quality videos of oral culture from their community.
They went on to collect overall 234 videos and transcribe several of them (please find details of integration into Wikimedia projects other than Commons in the report of this project's extension phase). The collected material has a wealth of knowledge and covers various categories of oral culture including folk songs, medicinal knowlegde, phrases in the languages represented, and folk tales.
As per the GLAMorous2 tool analysis (https://glamtools.toolforge.org/glamorous/?)- the media uploaded as part of the project ([2]) had a total of 773,452 views across different Wikimedia projects, from the period of July 2024 to 10th March 2026.
2. Is there a plan to build on the key successes you had? If yes, please describe the plan and if no, please share the limitations to do so. For instance, did the activities lead to any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future? (required)
Yes, based on the results of the key successes, it was decided that the during the 6 months extension phase granted to this project the focus be on collaborations and community building. A partnership was established with Dr. Fauzia Farooqui, which resulted in an MOU for partnership, an academic advisor for the Indic oral culture projects, and an in-person meetup in collaboration. This meetup was an essential part of the community building, as the continuing participants attended the meetup, shared their aspirations with regards to representation of linguistic and cultural diversity especially oral culture online, and are continuing in various capacities (repeat participants, observers, and mentors for new participants) in the phase-2 of the project ([3]).
3. Please provide a link to reports that detail the activities that took place in the last year. This can include an annual report, Meta pages, and websites. If there are no links available, briefly describe the implemented activities and programs below or upload any files. (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 3.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.1 (Affiliate health & resilience), 4.1 (Internal engagement), 4.2 (Community connection), and 4.3 (Partnerships and collaboration):
- Describe your activities engaging new users, new members for your decision-making body(ies), and developing leaders and organizers (2.1).
- Describe your activities creating or hosting spaces to encourage greater collaboration and engagement among your members (4.1).
- Describe how you engage with the contributing community that you serve and/or support (4.2).
- Describe your partnerships with other affiliates or with non-Wikimedia entities (4.3).
This page includes details on the online training sessions, media repository of oral culture recorded, and in-person event held for participants- [4]
4. Are you interested in sharing what you achieved or learned this year with the wider community through different peer learning programs (e.g. Let's Connect program, Diff)? (optional)
Yes. I have written a Diff article in the form of a report cum storytelling. It was published on Global Voices, then republished on Diff- [5]
5. Did you collect feedback from your community or target groups on how the activities implemented impacted them? If yes, please attach/provide information on the results (e.g. community surveys, stories, impact booklets/reports, interviews with partner institutions, etc). Did you collect other impact-specific data? (required)
For affiliates, the response to Question 5. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criteria 4.1 (Internal Engagement), 4.2 (Community Connection), or 4.3 (Partnerships & collaboration), where applicable.
Yes, the participants provided their feedback via survey forms shared with them. They shared struggling with field work once in a while, but feeling overall accomplished after successfully implementing their training learnings. Additionally, they also shared a desire for more time to interact with other participants and to present their work, based on which the meetup for the extension phase was designed.
6. During the fund period, did your efforts do any of the following? (required):
For affiliates, the response to Question 6. also partially addresses Affiliate Health Criterion 2.2 (Diversity balance).
- 6.1 Bring in participants from the following groups: women, indigenous groups , young people, speakers of minority languages, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 6.2 Develop content about the following underrepresented topics or groups of people: women, indigenous groups, speakers of minority languages, underrepresented geographical regions (ESEAP, LATAM, SSA, MENA, SA)
- 6.3 Support the retention of: Editors, Organizers, Partnerships
7. What, if any, effective tactics or approaches can you share that worked well when dealing with the programs under points 6.1-6.3 that you selected? (optional)
The Indic oral culture projects have been based on the ideal of supporting underrepresented languages, communities, and knowledge forms. Hence, from the selection of participants to selection of material to be collected, is guided by the principle of supporting underrepresented groups.
8. If you developed partnerships, which of the following factors most helped you to build partnerships? Please pick a MAXIMUM of the three most relevant factors (optional):
Permanent staff outreach, Partners proactive interest
Part 2: Metrics
[edit]| Metrics name | Target | Result | Comments and tools used |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of all participants | 25 | 23 | 23 active participants who received training and were involved directly in documenting oral culture pieces |
| Number of all editors | 25 | 23 | |
| Number of new editors | 0 | 5 | |
| Number of retained editors | 0 | 2 | |
| Number of all organizers | 4 | ||
| Number of new organizers | N/A |
| Wikimedia project | Target - Number of created pages | Target - Number of improved pages | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 25 | |||
| Wikimedia Commons | 250 | 483 | ||
| Wikidata | 250 | |||
| Wiktionary | ||||
| Wikisource | ||||
| Wikimedia Incubator | ||||
| Translatewiki | ||||
| MediaWiki | ||||
| Wikiquote | ||||
| Wikivoyage | ||||
| Wikibooks | ||||
| Wikiversity | ||||
| Wikinews | ||||
| Wikispecies | ||||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
Tool used and comments (optional):
The details on usage of the files on other Wikimedia files, Wikipedia articles created and edited, Wikidata items created and edited, and Wikisource pages created are in the report of the extension phase of this project.
11. Did you set other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): Yes
11.1. Other Metrics.
In your application, you outlined some other open metrics that you would like to measure. Please fill out the achieved results for each of the open metrics you defined.
| Other Metrics name | Metrics Description | Target | Result | Tools and comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre and post surveys | Pre and post surveys to check skill development of participants. | |||
| Creating and improving resources | Improving the ‘Oral Culture Transcription Toolkit’ (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oral_Culture_Transcription_Toolkit) as per input during the project and meta pages elaborating on oral culture documentation, an example: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Oral_Culture_Project_Resources | |||
| Collaborations | Collaborating with one organization and one academic institute. | |||
Part 3: Skill Development / Capacity Building
[edit]12. Reflecting on your programmatic (external) and organizational (internal) work, did your grant support you to undergo any skill development that made a difference to your success? If yes, what skill was developed, and how did it lead to success? (e.g. received coaching on public speaking, attended training on nonviolent communication, hosted professional development conversations on leadership, learned and used a new tool for project management, etc.)? Can you share any materials? (required)
For affiliates, use this space (Question 12.) to address Affiliate Health Criteria 2.2 (Diversity balance) and 3.1 (Diverse, Skilled, and Accountable Leadership):
- Describe actions taken to prioritize gender balance in affiliate leadership, as well as any areas of diversity relevant to your affiliate's context (2.2).
- Describe the management, financial, or other leadership skills of your affiliate leaders. If you have a succession plan, please include it here (3.1).
- Describe any training or skill development (as outlined in the question above) (3.1).
- Incorporate into the annual report a disclosure of conflict of interests (if any) from the leadership (3.1).
In order to implement the project successfully with the required metrics and within the given timeline I took a course on project management- Foundations of Project Management by Google. This course taught me to track the project, deliverables, and follow the timeline effectively while managing a team of contributors.
13. What is one capacity/skill area that you would like to focus on for the next year? And how do you plan to achieve this capacity? (required)
Partnerships management via interactions and activities with partners.
14. If you have additional information or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. Use the space below to upload any additional documents that would be useful to understand your report.
For affiliates, also use this section (Question 14) to fulfill the Affiliate Health Criteria requirements.
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for affiliate governance, including affiliate leadership and membership with a breakdown of the demographics; how elections are conducted; how conflicts of interest are declared; and how decisions are made and communicated (2.2, 2.3, 3.1).
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for activities incorporating, promoting awareness about, or enforcing the Universal Code of Conduct in your affiliate's activities (3.3).
- Describe and link to any public-facing documentation for internal membership engagement, such as notes from your regular meetings and how you communicate to or involve your membership (4.1).
Part 4: Financial reporting
[edit]For affiliates, also use this section (Part 4: Financial reporting) to address Affiliate Health Criterion 3.2 (Financial & Legal Compliance).
| Description | Planned / received budget for this category (INR) | Amount spent (INR) |
|---|---|---|
| Personnel costs | 900000 | 900000 |
| Operational costs | 864180 | 1030680 |
| Programmatic costs | 1764180 | 658816 |
| Total General Support Fund | 1784550 | 1689496 |
| Other revenue | ||
| Remaining funds from General Support Fund | 95054 |
15. Please state the total amount spent from this fund in your local currency. (required)
1689496 INR
16. Please provide an overview of the amount spent from this fund in the following budget categories in your local currency. (required)
- Operational costs: 1030680 INR
- Programmatic costs: 658816 INR
- Staff and contractor costs: 900000 INR
17. Did you have any other revenue sources (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): No
- 17.1. Provide the total amount received from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): INR
- 17.2. Provide the total amount spent from other revenue sources in your local currency. (required): INR
18. Provide a financial report document which will provide the details of funds received and spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
- Upload Documents, Templates, and Files.
- Report funds received and spent, if template not used.
18.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
N/A
19. Do you have any unspent funds from this funding?: Yes
- 19.1. Please list the amount of unspent funds in your local currency. (required)
- 95054
- 19.2. Explain why you did not use the amount. (required)
- It wasn't required for the functioning of the project
- 19.3. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
- A. Propose to use the underspent funds within this Fund period with PO approval
- 19.4. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
- Majority amount (81,678 INR) of the remaining funds were used for the extension phase of the project.
20. Final confirmations (required)
- 20.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement? You must be in compliance with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement. In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the Wikimedia Foundation mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
- 20.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
- Yes
- 20.3. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
- Yes
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