Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Kannada Wikimedians Meetup - ವಿಕಿಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ 2023 (ID: 22013170)/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2023-03-22T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Kannada Wikimedians Meetup - ವಿಕಿಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ 2023
- Username of Applicant: Vikashegde
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 1023.96
- Amount spent: 705 USD, 56278 INR
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
All the activities planned were conducted in the program as schedules in the event page ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/ವಿಕಿ ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ ೨೦೨೩, ಉಡುಪಿ. The main intention of the event was to bring together Kannada Wikimedians who haven't met physically from many years and rejuvenate the community to get actively involve in Wikimedia movement. The event successfully achieved this by witnessing participation of Wikimedians from different places. Nearly half of the participants were female Wikimedians which is an important thing to mention. The event had different knowledge sharing sessions related to Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia quiz program, discussions, question and answer sessions happened. Altogether it brought an enthusiastic environment which motivated Wikimedians to continue and boost up their contribution towards Wikimedia movement and projects. Representitives from different User groups and Wiki associations participated.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Yes. Individually reaching the Wikimedians and informing Wiki associations to invite them for the meetup and personal interactions with each other in the event was a great approach. It served the main objective of the event and helped in achieving the goal of rejuvenating the community.
3. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact.
Field to type in URLs.
N/A
4. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Not applicable to your fund |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Not applicable to your fund |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Not applicable to your fund |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Agree |
5. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
The gender gap was greatly addressed as half of the participants were females. Event was attended by Wikimedians from minority language groups of Karnataka such as Tulu, the main lingua franca of the region where event happened.
Part 2: Your main learning[edit]
6. In your application, you outlined your learning priorities. What did you learn about these areas during this period?
As Wikimedia movement is community driven, regular interactions, physical meet ups are really important to carry out the movement more effectively. Within the community, there are Wikimedians with different skills, knowledge and interests. This meet up event greatly helped in exchanging ideas, sharing knowledge.
7. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities?This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences?
8. How do you hope to use this learning? For instance, do you have any new priorities, ideas for activities, or goals for the future?
By this learning, we as community came up with an idea of regular online meetups and physical meetups, to keep up the enthusiasm.
9. Documentation of resources: Use this space to upload any documents that would be useful to share with others (e.g. communications material, training material, presentations).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
N/A
Part 3: Metrics[edit]
10a. Open Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined some open metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with your metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Participants | Participation from community | 60 | 54 | Participantion from different regions, females, students and new, old editors | Manual |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
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| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
10b. Core Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined targets for some core metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with each core metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in. Use the tables to report the result. Use the comments column to describe any aspects of this result that you find relevant. If the results were different from the initial target (goals) then you can explain why and what you learned from this. You can also provide any qualitative analysis regarding these results. In the last column please describe the tools and methodology used to collect this data and any difficulties you might have had. Note: a table will appear for each Wikimedia project content contribution you defined in your proposal.
| Core metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Participants are expected for this event from different parts of Karnataka state region. This involves mainly student community who are actively editing Wikipedia and Wikimedians from coastal region of Karnataka. Resource persons, experienced Wikimedians are expected to take part for interaction and knowledge sharing. Overall this event targets old and new Wikimedians to take the Wiki movement together. | 60 | 54 | Half of the participants were students who are Wikimedians and many other long time Wikimedians participated. | Manual |
| Number of editors | This event is expected to encourage existing Wikimedians to actively edit and take the Wiki movement consistantly further. Event is expected to attract general public and students towards free knowledge movement and to become Wikimedians to contribute free knowledge. | 60 | 51 | Manual | |
| Number of organizers | Its a community driven even and 3-4 Wikimedians will share the responsiblity of orgnasing the event in their capacity. | 4 | 5 | All organisers worked together in organising the event by sharing different responsibilities. | Manual |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Increase in qualitative content addition to Kannada Wikipedia. | 60 | N/A | Event was aimed in rejuvenating the community. As a result of this, community got interest in learning and understanding more on contribution to Wikimedia projects. Future workshops, training will be organised to achieve this. | N/A |
| Wikimedia Commons | A Commons upload activity is under planning on occasion of this event. | 100 | N/A | Post event activities will be planned for adding contents on Commons | N/A |
| Wikisource | Encourage community to edit Kannada Wikisource and to increase content contribution to Wikisource. | N/A | N/A | A post event Wikisource training/workshop/edit-a-thon is under planning | N/A |
| Wikiquote | Encourage community to edit Kannada Wikiquote and to increase content contribution to Wikiquotes. | N/A | N/A | A post event Wikisource training/workshop will be planned to encourage community to contribute on Wikiquote. | N/A |
| Wiktionary | Encourage community to edit Kannada Wiktionary and to increase content contribution to Wiktionary. | N/A | N/A | A post event Wikisource training/workshop will be planned to encourage community to contribute on Wiktionary. | N/A |
12. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? This could include things like a lack of time or resources, or the expertise in your team to collect this data. It could also include difficulties with particular data collection tools.
No
12a. State what difficulties you had.
N/A
12b. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges?
N/A
13. Use this space to upload any documents and provide links to any tools you have used that would be useful to understand your data collection (e.g., surveys you have carried out, communications material, training material, program and event dashboard link, project page on Meta).
Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
Entire event details are recorded in the event page ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/ವಿಕಿ ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ ೨೦೨೩, ಉಡುಪಿ and post event community online meet up ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೩೬ (ಆನ್ಲೈನ್)
14. Have you shared these results with other Wikimedian communities (either affiliates, user groups, volunteers, etc., different to yours)? This can include things such as data and direct outcomes, lessons you have learned, or information on how to run or recreate your programs.
Yes
14a. If yes or partially, please describe how you have already shared them and if you would like to do more sharing, and if so how.
A post even community online meetup was conducted: ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ/೩೬ (ಆನ್ಲೈನ್) . Evens and results related discussions happened. Community was given all information regarding this and many other followup events were also discussed.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
56278 INR
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
705 USD
17. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
17a. Upload a financial report file.
17b. Please provide a link to your financial reporting document.
N/A
As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
17c. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
N/A
18. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
Yes
18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
INR 27722 is unspent. Venue and internet charges were worked out to be less than the estimated. Number of participants were 54 only where estimated count was 60. And most of the participants were from nearby places, that saved a lot in travelling and accomodation costs.
18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
A. Propose to use the underspent funds within this Fund period with PO approval
18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
Below are some plans discussed by community to use unspent fund. 1. Organise many Wiki workshops and knowledge sessions throughout this year. 2. As many Wikimedians have interest to contribute on different Wikimedia projects, necessary trainings are required. 3. Physical meetup event of the community. 4. A contirbution competition and rewarding the top contributors to encourage them. 5. Sponsoring the interested Wikimedians for events and conferences.
19. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
Yes
20. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
21. 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
22. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
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