Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2022 - Telugu Wikipedia (ID: 21911695)/Final Report
Report Status: Accepted
Due date: 2022-12-24T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund, Wikimedia Community Fund
Report type: Final
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- Title of Proposal: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2022 - Telugu Wikipedia
- Username of Applicant: Nskjnv
- Name of Organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 3735.12
- Amount spent: 2923.84 USD, 241724 INR
Part 1 Understanding your work[edit]
1. Briefly describe how your proposed activities and strategies were implemented
For the project Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos for Telugu Wikipedia, the following implementation methodologies were adapted:
1)Collaboration 2)Inclusion
Principal Project Tasks 1) Internet allowance for volunteers - I set up a page for the requests and provided support for the volunteers, taking into account important factors like the user's contribution to the project.
2)Photo Travel: photo travel aims to create awareness about Wikimedia commons and support the users to contribute effectively to the WPWP campaign. Users who are interested in taking part in photo travel are encouraged to apply on a specific page.
3) Training and awareness events: During the course of the project, we organised 7 Training and Awareness sessions and 1 Award ceremony. We have made every attempt to participate in all the activities. While Community plans most of the programmes, we have also agreed to host the training event at the request of two nearby institutions VNR Vignana Jyoti Engineering college and VGDC College of Osmania University.
I have asked members of the community who are actively involved to host training and awareness activities at their preferred location, and I have let them know that I will be helping to organise the events.
Both online and offline, the community members actively participated in the events. Particularly, the jury members helped me by directing my efforts and encouraging me to undertake the project activities.
2. Were there any strategies or approaches that you felt were effective in achieving your goals? Please describe these strategies and approaches.
The major approach I've taken in the project is to incorporate ideas from the community and suggestions from the jury members to carry out the project's activities.
My ability to quickly plan events and activities has been helpful.
In order to increase the volunteer base from underrepresented groups, I did use an inclusive strategy. I was able to attract enthusiasts from rural areas to participate in Wikimedia projects by holding offline events outside of the Hyderbad metropolis.
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 | Strongly agree |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Agree |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Agree |
| 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?
By organising events in rural areas, I was able to engage the Gondi and Kolami tribes in conversation about the Wikimedia movement. These two are the languages used in Telangana's northern regions.
It gives me immense pleasure to share that these people have contributed to the WPWP campaign and beyond the scope, they have also started 3 new Wikimedia projects (Gondi Wikipedia, Kolami Wikipedia, Gondi Wiktionary).
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?
Planning the project activities for the Wikimedia/open source platform and finding community enthusiasts has been a wonderful area to learn. All the efforts from past years bring us to a well-established group of volunteers on Telugu Wikipedia and I see the need for time-to-time awareness activities to take the Wikimedia movement forward.
I have learnt to manage the project activities with support from the community, and have understood that we at Telugu speaking community need to take up more events and bring a wider audience to contribute and use the knowledge repositories that we are building.
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?
Nothing
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?
I would like to work on Building more content related to tribal languages, languages of the World and topics of underrepresented value on Wikimedia platforms.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N/A | N/A | N/A | 5866 | Total number of edits made by users in the campaign | Wikimedia hashtag tool |
| 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 | 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 | we have 27 participants as of now and will be taking this number to 35 until the project duration. | 35 | 31 | 31 Users has participated in the WPWPTE campaign. | Project page |
| Number of editors | 20 | 20 | 25 | 25 users edited 5866 pages for the campaign duration.
New Users: 5 Retaining Users: 20 |
Wikimedia hashtag tool |
| Number of organizers | I am the only organizer of this project.
Myself user: Nskjnv |
1 | 9 | The community is the key reason for successful implementation of the project, almost 9 users and remaining users also contributed towards training facilitation and other activities of the project. | Project page, Village pump of Telugu Wikipedia. |
| Wikimedia Project | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | Will be adding images to 1500 pages of Telugu Wikipedia | 1500 | 6074 | 6074 revisions and 5863 edits on Telugu Wikipedia | Wikimedia hashtag tool |
| Wikimedia Commons | Will be adding 150 images to Wikimedia commons | 150 | 747 | 747 uploads to wikimedia commons by Photo travel group, we also have uploads by users who are not part of the photo travel on Wikimedia commons and Telugu Wikipedia. | N/A |
| Wikipedia | Will be creating 20 new articles under the project activities | 20 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Wikipedia | Will be adding 20 audios to wiki pages. | 20 | 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.
I have shared the statistics and results of the project. I will be sharing the other things through this report to community.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance[edit]
15. & 14a. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
241724 INR
16. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
2923.84 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.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1skG1wS3_718yDuTxTn_-VLDItBDGiMjdflCHszUCf10/edit?usp=sharing
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.
53,032 INR is the left over amount. These funds were part of communications(promoting on social media) and some amount left from Offline events.
Reason: I felt to there is a need for an expert to handle social media and press releases part.
18b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
B. Propose to use them to partially or fully fund a new/future grant request with PO approval
18c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
I would like to take up a project with a duration of 1 month and use this grant.
The probable topic of project: Millets (as 2023 is declared as International Year of Millets by UN)
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.
No
22. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.
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