Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/General Support Fund/Quality improvement and community development of Kannada Wikipedia - Phase 2
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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.
- N/A
- Please provide links to the following documents if they are available
These documentation can be provided in your local language(s), no translations required.
- Organizational website
- Detailed financial reporting and/or audits
- Documentation of the governance structure, board list, governance processes
- Documentation of the general assembly decision on your plan
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 - Phase 2
- 2. Do you want to apply for the multi-year base funding for 3 years? (required) (only for returning applicants)
- No
- 2.1. 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)
- 2025-01-01
- 4. Proposed end date. (required)
- 2025-12-31
- 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 32,500 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. I have already initiated this task (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Quality_improvement_and_community_development_of_Kannada_Wikipedia). This was done by obtaining the grant https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/General_Support_Fund/Quality_improvement_and_community_development_of_Kannada_Wikipedia. This can be called as Phase-1 of the project. I could achieve some success in the task but much more need to be done. Hence I would like to work towards achieving this goal by this executing this project which is actually Phase-2 of the project just mentioned..
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. In the ongoing Phase-1of the project, so far slightly more than 900 articles have been made live.
It is planned to organise workshops to make the good and average articles in the userpages live after making necessary improvements. A cohort of 10-25 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. Additionally a meetup of Kannada Wikipedians is planned. Such a meetup was held last time in the year 2022. Hence organising another meetup will help. During the Phase-1 of the project a two-day workshop cum editathon was organised to create policy documents for Kannada Wikipedia. 60 articles were added during this editathon. More ploicy documents need to be added. Another editathon for adding policy documents is also planned. 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 |
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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, Supporting community members' participation in events and conferences
- 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 - Done
2. First meeting to explain the project and recruit people for this project - online meet -done. 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-done All these were done as part of Phase-1 of the project 4. Creation of online groups for the project and instructions to the participants through the group. New participants will be added to the existing group. Some members may not continue and hence they may drop out. New members have to be trained and oriented. Workshop will be organised for that. 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. There will be editathon to create policy documents. 9. Meeting of participants at the end of the project. 10. Meetup of Kannada Wikipedians
- 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.
Metrics name | Target | Description |
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Number of all participants | 120 | 10-20 core participants who will work throughout the period of the project. About 10-20 total existing editors will participate at various locations. About 100 new editors will be added to Kannada Wikipedia. 2-5 resource persons will participate as trainers at various places depending on the availability. |
Number of all editors | 120 | N/A |
Number of new editors | 100 | |
Number of retained editors | 10 | |
Number of all organizers | 3 | N/A |
Number of new organizers | 2 |
- 14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)
Wikimedia project | Created | Edited or improved |
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Wikipedia | 1000 | 200 |
Wikimedia Commons | 20 | |
Wikidata | 1000 | |
Wiktionary | ||
Wikisource | ||
Wikimedia Incubator | ||
Translatewiki | ||
MediaWiki | ||
Wikiquote | ||
Wikivoyage | ||
Wikibooks | ||
Wikiversity | ||
Wikinews | ||
Wikispecies | ||
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia |
- Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)
Other Metrics
[edit]- 15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required)
- No
Other Metrics | Description | Target |
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N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A | N/A | N/A |
N/A | N/A | N/A |
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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)
- 3250286 INR
Year | Amount (local currency) |
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Year 1 | N/A INR |
Year 2 | N/A INR |
Year 3 | N/A INR |
- Requested amount in USD
- 38840.92 USD [note 1]
Year | Amount USD [note 1] |
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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
12 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 |
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Staff and contractor costs | 1080000 INR |
Operational costs | 1215400 INR |
Programmatic costs | 2295400 INR |
- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
Additional information
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- Yes
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