Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Quality improvement and community development of Kannada Wikipedia

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Wikimedia Community Fund

Quality improvement and community development of Kannada Wikipedia

start date2024-01-012024-01-01T00:00:00Z

end date2024-12-312024-12-31T00:00:00Z

budget (local currency)1167000 INR

amount requested (USD)36715 USD ^{[note 1]}

amount recommended (USD)19814

grant typeIndividual

funding regionSA

decision fiscal year2023-24

funding program roundRound 1

applicant and people related to proposalPavanaja

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Applicant information[edit]

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required): Pavanaja

Do you have any approved General Support Fund requests? (required): Yes, I have already applied and received a General Support Fund

You are applying as a(n). (required): Individual

Are your group or organization legally registered in your country? (required): N/A

Do you have a fiscal sponsor?: Yes

Fiscal organization name.: Margika

Main proposal[edit]

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required): Quality improvement and community development of Kannada Wikipedia

2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year funding or renewal process? (required): No but we would like to apply for renewal next time

2.1. For how many years of multi-year funding are you applying? (required): N/A

2.2. Provide a brief overview of Year 2 and Year 3 of the proposed plan and how this relates to the current proposal and your strategic plan? (required)

N/A

3. Proposed start date. (required): 2024-01-01

4. Proposed end date. (required): 2024-12-31

5. Does your organization or group have an Affiliate or Organizational Annual Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): No

6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required): No

7. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required): India

8. What are your programs, approaches, and strategies? What are the challenges that you are trying to address and how will your strategies support you in addressing these challenges? (required)

Kannada Wikipedia started in June 2004. There are slightly more than 30,000 total articles in Kannada Wikipedia. The viewership of Kannada Wikipedia is about 7 million per month. Quality of Kannada Wikipedia needs improvement. This can be done by way of increasing the number of good articles and also by improving the quality of existing articles. Kannada Wikipedia community needs some rejuvenation. These are huge tasks. Nevertheless, I would like to work towards achieving this goal by this executing this project.

I did a survey of Kannada Wikipedia with the help of some volunteers. There are about 5000 articles in userpages which are left there without making them live. We did a survey of these articles. There are about 850 articles which are in almost good shape and need little work to polish and make live. There are about another 870 articles in userpages which are of average quality which means they need a little more effort to improve so that they can be made live. There are about 14500 articles without reference. They also include articles which are quite small in size. There are about 6800 articles without images.

It is planned to organise workshops to make the good and average articles in the userpages live after making necessary improvements. A cohort of 20-25 participants will be used. There will be workshops every month to brief the participants and guide them. It will be 2-days workshops. Participants will learn what is a good article from expert resource persons. They will improve the articles in userpages during the workshop. They will continue working after the workshops as well. Online groups will be formed for discussions and interactions. Thus there will be continuous activities happening. The workshops will be conducted at various places of Karnataka State. In each place some existing editors as well as new editors will participate. Existing editors will be trained on improving quality. New editors will be trained on editing Wikipedia. There will be follow-up workshops at these places mainly for new editors. Resource persons and veteran editors will participate in these workshops. These activities will instill new blood and energy into Kannada Wikipedia. Thus these activities will fulfill both aims - improving quality of Kannada Wikipedia and community development of Kannada Wikipedia.

Almost all workshops will be conducted at various educational institutions. This is will help us in 2 ways. Firstly it will help in getting a good computer lab with Internet connection. Secondly, students will be introduced to using Wikipedia as a education platform.

9. What categories are your main programs and related activities under? Please select all that apply. (required)


Category	Yes/No
Education	Yes
Culture, heritage or GLAM	No
Gender and diversity	No
Community support and engagement	Yes
Participation in campaigns and contests	No
Public policy advocacy	No
Other	No

Education

9.1.1. Select all your programs and activities for Education. (required): Wiki Club, Editing Wikipedia Training; Other programs and activities if any: N/A
9.1.2. Select all relevant audience groups for Education. (required): Vocational, tertiary, or higher education, Teachers or professors; Other groups if any: N/A

Community support and engagement

9.4. Select all your programs and activities for Community support and engagement.: On-wiki training of community members, Off-wiki training of community members, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events; Other programs and activities if any: N/A
10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required): 1. Quality survey:

  - Categorising articles in the list of userpages as Good, Average and Poor - Done
  - Make a list of articles without images - Done
  - Make a list of articles without reference - being done now

2. First meeting to explain the project and recruit people for this project - online meet

3. Physical meeting of recruited persons at a location, consisting of people from that area. This will consist of existing editors. They will be briefed about quality, how to improve quality, the directions to go about and other necessary guidelines. This will be a 2-days workshop. Resource persons and veterans will participate and guide the volunteers.

4. Creation of online groups for the project and instructions to the participants through the group

5. Followup activities by the groups

6. Workshop at another place for training new editors. Resource persons and veterans also will participate and train new editors

7. Repeat of steps 3 to 6 for other place

8. More on workshops - in some of them we will improve existing, create missing, pages related to policies. In some workshops we will improve, create or import and localise templates. In some workshops we will improve some of the existing articles which are very important but lack quality.

9. Meeting of participants at the end of the project.

11. Describe your team. (required)

Name: Dr. U.B. Pavanaja Role: Principal project manager (Paid staff) Username: Pavanaja. Responsibilities: Overall management and coordination of the project activities. Manage the budget, finance, spending, accounting and reporting. Design and roll out the program. Design the training workshop programs and editathons. Negotiating with educational institutions and finalising the partnerships. Interacting with the participants on a regular basis using online forums and other means like Telegram, Whatsapp.

Name: No specific name. Whoever available at that particular time will be used. Role: Resource person(s) (Paid per assignment) Responsibilities: Many training programs will be held during the course of the program. On different days, different topics will be covered. Depending on the topic of the day and availability of the person, different person(s) will be used.

Volunteers from the community also may be involved in going through the improved articles suggesting any further improvements, etc. Mostly these will be done online.

12. Will you be working with any internal (Wikimedia) or external partners? Describe the characteristics of these partnerships and bring a few examples of the most significant partnerships. (required)

I will be working with many educational institutions. They will provide the computer lab with Internet connection needed for workshops and editathons. Student participants form these institutions will be briefed on use of Wikipedia as a platform of learning and those interested will be recruited as participants.

13. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select all that apply. (required): Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Improve User Experience, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Metrics[edit]

Wikimedia Metrics[edit]

14. Please select and fill out Wikimedia Metrics for your proposal. (recommended)

14.1. Number of participants, editors, and organizers.

All metrics provided are optional, please fill them out if they are aligned with your programs and activities.

Participants, editors, and organizers
Metrics name	Target	Description
Number of all participants	100	15-20 core participants who will work throughout the period of the project. About 15-20 total existing editors will participate at various locations. About 75 new editors will be added to Kannada Wikipedia. About 5 resource persons will participate as trainers at various places depending on the availability.
Number of all editors	95	N/A
Number of new editors	75
Number of retained editors	20
Number of all organizers	3	N/A
Number of new organizers	2	N/A

14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)

Contributions to Wikimedia projects
Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia	1200	300
Wikimedia Commons	50
Wikidata	1200
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

About 1200 or more articles will be improved and moved from userpages to Main namespace. About 300 existing articles will be improved.

Other Metrics[edit]

15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required): No


Other Metrics	Description	Target
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Budget[edit]

16. Will you have any other revenue sources when implementing this proposal (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required): No

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

N/A

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required): N/A

17. Your local currency. (required): INR

18. What is the total requested amount in your local currency? (required): 1167000 INR

Multi-year funding request summary
Year	Amount (local currency)
Year 1	N/A INR
Year 2	N/A INR
Year 3	N/A INR

Requested amount in USD: 36715 USD ^{[note 1]}

Multi-year funding request summary in USD
Year	Amount USD ^{[note 1]}
Year 1	N/A USD
Year 2	N/A USD
Year 3	N/A USD

↑ ^a ^b ^c The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

19. Does this proposal include compensation for staff or contractors? (required): Yes

19.1. How many paid staff members do you plan to have? (required)

Include the number of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include them separately and mention their terms.

Name: Dr. U.B. Pavanaja Role: Principal project manager (Paid staff) Username: Pavanaja. Responsibilities: Overall management and coordination of the project activities. Manage the budget, finance, spending, accounting and reporting. Design and roll out the program. Design the training workshop programs and editathons. Negotiating with educational institutions and finalising the partnerships. Interacting with the participants on a regular basis using online forums and other means like Telegram, Whatsapp.

Name: No specific name. Whoever available at that particular time will be used Role: Resource person(s) (Paid per assignment) Responsibilities: Many training programs will be held during the course of the program. On different days, different topics will be covered. Depending on the topic of the day and availability of the person, different person(s) will be used.

Volunteers from the community also may be involved in going through the improved articles suggesting any further improvements, etc. Mostly these will be done online.

19.2. How many FTEs (full-time equivalents) in total? (required)

Include the total FTE of staff and contractors during the proposal period. If you have short-term contractors or staff, please include their FTEs with the terms separately.

One project manager - throughout the project

10 resource persons - one per workshop. Depending on the topic of the day and availability of the person, different person(s) will be used.

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Fund if any. (required only for returning grantees): N/A

20. Please provide an overview of your overall budget categories in your local currency. The budget breakdown should include only the amount requested with this General Support Fund (required).


Budget category	Amount in local currency
Staff and contactor costs	660000 INR
Operational costs	507000 INR
Programmatic costs	1167000 INR

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10ooABMRndaiNOC__hbVNfmLP4RH4aTNW/edit#gid=37964092

Additional information[edit]

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We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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[fixedrate-1] The following amount in US dollars was calculated by Wikimedia Foundation staff using the fixed currency rates. This amount is approximate and may not reflect the actual currency exchange rates on the day of submission or distribution. If the application is funded, the funding will be sent in the recipient’s local currency.

[note 1]