Grants:Project/Rapid/రహ్మానుద్దీన్/Wikipedia editathons at JKC College, Guntur

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రహ్మానుద్దీన్/Wikipedia Editathons at JKC College, Guntur
This proposal for rapid grant is to facilitate a series of editathons at JKC College Guntur. JKC College is a Degree College situated in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India with about 1200 students studying here. Of these about 90 students have Telugu as their language of studies. The program would help organise Wikipedia editathons for them. These students will, in particular, write about the villages of Guntur based on Kaifiyats.
targetTelugu Wikipedia
start date15 August
end date31 July
budget (local currency)1,20,000
budget (USD)1,859.79
grant typeindividual
contact(s)• nani1only@gmail.com


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Project Goal[edit]

Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.

  1. Recruit new editors : 90
  2. Increase skills for existing editors : 20
  3. Add or improve content : 100 new articles, 500 existing articles

Project Plan[edit]

Activities[edit]

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

Series of editathons, one every month

2. How will you let your community know about the event? Please paste links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.

Discussion on Telugu Wikipedia Village pump

3. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event?

Yes

4. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

They are new users; there will be at least four sessions dedicated to bringing them on board Wikipedia with basic editing skills. And then ask them to improve such articles in scope of the project that would ask them to copy edit them. Upon improving at least 10 articles, they will stat working on a new article of their choice from the topics suggested by the Telugu Wikipedia community.

5. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

After the editathons, the students would be encouraged to do editing and creating articles through continuous mail conversations. Any help needed by them would be supported by the Telugu Wikipedia community.

6. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

Impact[edit]

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

  1. Number of events : 10
  2. Number of participants : 100
  3. Number of new editors : 90
  4. Number of of articles created or improved : 600
  5. Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) : 90

Resources[edit]

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