Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Creating Online training resources for Kashmiri Wikipedia (ID: 21873638)

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Applicant Details[edit]

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511KeV

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Organization

N/A

Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.

I am the founder of Kashmiri Wikimedians User Group which is still in review an not yet recognised.

Grant Proposal[edit]

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Creating Online training resources for Kashmiri Wikipedia

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

Local

Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

Kashmiri language Wikipedia was started in 2004 but has remained undeveloped since then. The community has marked some reasons for its underdeveloped nature which includes lack of adequate resources to help new editors. There are no help pages, no audio or video tutorials which puts a break on the development of this wiki as newcomers can't find resources on how to edit. The current environment is not suitable for a beginner to understand how to edit. Tutorials on How to add links, How to edit using Visual editor etc. are missing, It might be hard for them to mix-up with the interface. As such, It is one of the main reason of its underdeveloped nature. This seems to be the first problem that we need to overcome before we try to organize other events in future. We can't expect to have a better impact of outreach activities if basic structure of Wikipedia is missing. The existence of tutorials will have a direct impact on other events. We are trying to solve this issue by creating Audio, Video and Textual resources.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

Our strategy will be to get basic support from foundation, mark important Help pages and work on them. We will be creating text Help pages, related Audio and Video tutorials, and other guides so that the beginners won't face problems, and they can transition to pro editors. Creating videos tutorials will provide a good understanding to the new users.

Creating Text, Audio and Video tutorials will help the users to understand how to edit, which will increase the chances of contribution, there by helping in the development of the Wiki. Besides existing editors can be directed to the pages so that they can benefit from them. Its an established fact that Audio and Visual tutorials prove efficient in providing knowledge to the newcomers and make the process of learning easy.
We will be interacting with the existing and newusers and recieve their feedback to make it more effective.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

Communicating with the community to create a list of the most important Help pages needed.
Creating Text pages from the list.
Creating audio tutorials in Kashmiri-language.
Creating Video tutorials in Kashmiri-language
Integrating the Audios and Videos into text pages.
Taking feedback from the community and remodeling if necessary.

4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.

Not applicable

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

The most senior editors of Kashmiri Wikipedia have extended their support on the local wiki. The project will be coordinated by me (511KeV), ‏Rishabhbhat will also be helping in this project. If other users are willing to take part in helping we will incorporate them. However, We will be communicating with the community related to the suggestion, the work done and we will be taking their feedback about other aspects. During this time I will be working closely with Imranqazi90 (advisor).

6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Language

6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

This project will try to bridge the gap that arises due to absence of tutorials in this language Wikipedia. It will have an impact on the overall development of the Wiki by empowering new and existing users. As such if a new users lands on the wiki, They can have some resources to read, listen or watch. This can increase the chances of them contributing. As such it aligns with more and better content creation for this Wikipedia.

7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Open Technology

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Not applicable, Digital Access

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?

The participants who are going to work on this project are senior editors from Kashmiri Wikipedia Community who have well understanding of rules and policies. We will be engaging online keeping in view the different locations. We will be communicating via different channels that we have established for easy communication, Including Discord server and Telegram. We will be marking the work done on the wiki and take report the feedback on local wiki also.

The targeted users who are to benefit from this project are unexperienced and new editors from Kashmiri Wikipedia.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

Since the project will take place Online, as such we don't have to follow any physical protocols. We will be applying the rules of that have been discussed or created earlier for respecting the privacy and other core issues like Universal Code of Conduct and other while communicating via Wiki or any 3rd party app. We will also post a link on local wiki so that more people can join and gain some experience from the project we want to work on.

11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.

There are currently no affiliates or recognized User Groups. The community has been informed from the local village pump, discord server, and via Telegram channel.

12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?

Yes

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

No

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

There is currently no rapid fund proposal or any other fund proposal request from this Wikipedia or from any local community. In fact this is the first grant request from Kashmiri Wikipedia. However, We do believe a joint proposal can have better results, as we can gain more experience from others but since there is no active grant proposal. This section is not applicable to this grant proposal.

13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.

No

13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.

Improve User Experience, Manage Internal Knowledge, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

Have we been effective in guiding potential contributors or existing contributors to the Help pages?

Have we been effective in enhancing the Knowledge of the editors about Wikipedia (How to edit)?

What are some of the existing barriers, are they receiving the needed support?

16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Number of Visitors to the help pages.	This will be used to see if we have been able to direct editors to the Help pages.	N/A
Enhanced Skill of existing editors.	This will be used to check have we been able to enhance the knowledge of the existing editors.	N/A
Number of Pages created?	This will show how much have we been able to make the project successful.	40
Number of Audio and Video files created?	This will show how much have we been able to make the project successful.	20
N/A	N/A	N/A

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	The project will in theory benefit all new editors and existing ones a it will provide information about how to edit. etc. Presently it will a small number of users who are active.	7
Number of editors	We are expecting that by this project unexperienced editors will gain some experience about better content creation. The numbers wont be exact but it aims the current unexperienced editors will gain a good understanding. The numbers provided are about currently unexperienced editors, that will benefit from this project immediately.	3
Number of organizers	I will be the organizers of this event, I will provide the necessary time, and produce the pages and tutorials. I will also be coordinating with the community via various channels and get their feed back.	1

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Wikipedia	Number of Help pages or resources created? (min)	40
Wikipedia	Number of Audio and Video tutorials created? (Covering main topics.)	20
N/A		N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

We will not be measuring most core metrics for this project because they're not applicable as the project is not geared towards wiki main space content generation which the metrics focus on. Reasons for the specific ones we are not measuring are given below:

There's no expectation for direct article content creation or editing in the scope or goals of the project. So we will not be measuring 'number of editors' metric. However, we will try to seen an indirect rise in content generation and advanced editing over time.
The number of Audio, video, and textual tutorials created will determine how much successful this project has been.
The response from community can also be used to check the quality of this project.

18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.

We will be manually list following parameters along with date on the local Wikipedia to keep the track of the work. At the end of this project we will also post the information on meta.

Number of help pages created?
Number of Audios created ?
Number of Video tutorials created?
Response of the community via a survey?

Financial Proposal[edit]

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

40000 INR

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

514.08 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

Creating Online Resources for Kashmiri Wikipedia.xlsx

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

Yes

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