Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Kolami Wikipedia Community Awareness Drive (ID: 22133511)/Final Report
Report Status: Draft
Due date: 2023-11-30T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Kolami Wikipedia Community Awareness Drive
- Username of Applicant: Nskjnv
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 4920.27
- Amount spent: USD, INR
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
The proposed activities and strategies were implemented through a coordinated effort involving various stakeholders. We began by organizing three events, two offline and one online, aimed at raising awareness about Kolami Wikipedia and training participants on Wikimedia platforms. These events were conducted at key locations within the Kolami-speaking community, ensuring maximum outreach.
Simultaneously, essential resources were translated into Kolami, including Wikipedia guidelines and typing tutorials, to facilitate the training sessions and empower potential Kolami Wikipedia editors.
To enrich Kolami Wikipedia with relevant content, images, and videos depicting Kolam culture, including festivals like Bhimayyak and Akadi, were collected and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. A photo walk is organized in Northern Telangana, covering various important places. The team has uploaded media related to indigenous cultures representing Gondi, Kolami, Thoti, Andh, etc., tribes, with a special emphasis on the Komaram Bheem Tribal Museum and Nagoba Temple. Efforts were made to create 200 articles covering grammar, language, and culture, with the support of local writers and youth.
Partnerships with Utnoor Sahiti Vedika, ITDA Utnoor, and other organizations were formalized to strengthen collaboration and garner community support.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
Several strategies and approaches proved effective in achieving our goals:
1. Community Engagement: Engaging with the Kolami community directly through offline events and partnerships with local organizations helped foster collaboration.
2. Capacity Building: Providing training sessions and translating essential resources into Kolami empowered community members to contribute to Kolami Wikipedia.
3. Cultural Documentation: Collecting images and videos of Kolam culture, including festivals and traditional practices, enriched Kolami Wikipedia with diverse and culturally relevant content. By showcasing the richness of the Indigenous cultures of Northern Telangana, we attracted more interest and engagement from both community members and external stakeholders.
4. Partnership Development: Forming partnerships with Utnoor Sahiti Vedika, ITDA Utnoor and other organizations working in the Kolami-speaking region enhanced our project's reach and impact. Leveraging existing networks and expertise allowed us to tap into local knowledge and resources effectively.
Overall, these strategies focused on community empowerment, capacity building, cross-cultural collaboration, content enrichment, and partnership development were instrumental in achieving our goals of promoting and developing content in the Kolami language on Wikimedia platforms.
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 | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Strongly agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Neither agree nor disagree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Neither agree nor disagree |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Strongly 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?
Our Inclusive approach made us accommodate Gondi Wikimedians and we also had cultural representation from Gondi, Thoti, Kolami, Andh, Nayakpod, and Pradhan Tribes of Telangana.
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?
During this period, we learned:
1. Blended Community Discussions: Combining online and offline engagement effectively mobilizes volunteers for Kolami Wikipedia.
2. Translation Toolkit Utilization: Translating essential resources into Kolami empowers new editors, facilitating their contribution.
3. Pooling Like-Minded Individuals: Partnering with organizations amplifies resources and networks, advancing language conservation efforts.
4. Model Project Replication: Documenting experiences helps create a blueprint for similar projects in other Indian language Wikipedias.
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?
After completing the offline events, the team had a chance to organize a photo walk, through which we explored various places of importance representing the indigenous heritage of Telangana. We also gathered images of the photo walk.
This experience was enriching and helped us to contribute in a better way to Wikimedia.
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?
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 Awareness drives/workshops | 2 offline and 1 online session | 3 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| No of participants in each workshop | Number of Kolami speaking people | 100 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Signing up new users on Wikipedia | creating accounts for new users and helping them understand user interface | 100 | 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 |
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 | Number of participants | 200 | |||
| Number of editors | Kolami Wikipedia new editors | 10 | |||
| Number of organizers | Utnoor Sahithi Vedika and existing editors of Kolami Wikipedia will help in organizing and support | 2 |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Translatewiki | Information related to basic resources to Wikipedia will be translated into Kolami language. Information in 5 pages related to Introduction, FAQ's, Navigating, Typing, Building new article will be translated. | 5 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Incubator | New articles and templates created | 10 | 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 |
| N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 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.
N/A
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.
Partially
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.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
INR
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
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?
No
18a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
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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