IIITH-OKI/Advance Train The Trainer 2025/Expression of Interest/Submitted/Kavitha G. Kana
Basic Information
[edit]- Jury for Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2020 and 2021.
- Organised Mahatma Gandhi 2023 editathon, Organised workshop Relicensing, Digitization, and Uploading of Books on Wikimedia Commons at Govinda Dasa College, Surathkal, Wikisource workshop in Mangalore University.
Wikimedia Username
[edit]Wikimedia Project(s) you primarily contribute to
[edit]- Wikipedia (Tulu, Kannada)
- Digitisation (Tulu, Kannada)
- Wikisource (Tulu, Kannada)
- Wikimedia Commons
- Wiktionary (Tulu)
- Relicensing (Tulu and Kannada Books)
- Preserving oral literature (Tulu, Kannada)
Active in Wikimedia since (Year)
[edit]- 2016 - Started editing in Kannada language from 11th March 2016
Your Affiliate or Community Group (if any):
[edit]- Tulu Community
- Kannada Community
Languages you work with (on-wiki or off-wiki):
[edit]- Tulu
- Kannada
- English
Have you participated in any Train the Trainer or similar Wikimedia training before? If yes, please mention the name of the event along with the year in which you participated
[edit]- Yes, participated
- Train the Trainer 2023 at Kochi.
- Wikimedia Technology Summit, 2024 at Hyderabad
- WikiSource Conference, Bali, Denpasar, Indonesia 2025
- She Leads Bootcamp 2025 at Bangalore
- Indic Oral Culture (In person) Meetup 2025 at Bangalore
Are you currently involved in any leadership, facilitation, or mentoring roles within the Wikimedia movement? If yes, briefly describe the initiative and your involvement in it
[edit]Yes
- Lead the team tulu community - to create Tulu Wikisource.
- Admin Tulu Wikisource
- Working on digitisation and wikisouce grant.
- Workshop for women groups on Wikisource,
- Co-ordinating Tulu community team in oral preservation under Enhancing Indic oral culture on Wikimedia Projects.
- Motivating community members to organise workshops in different colleges. Supporting them to connect colleges, visiting the colleges on the day of training to help them in organising the workshop.
Track Preference
[edit]Your preferred track during the workshop
[edit]- Track 1: Evaluation, Impact, and Data Storytelling
- Track 2: Project Design Challenge – From Learning to Action
- Track 1
Which track are you most interested in and why?
[edit]- Track 1 - I plan to strengthen my community by organising workshops and evaluating their impact through quality outcomes, gender-wise participation of valid editors, and retention analysis. To strengthen the student group.
Tell us about one Wikimedia program, campaign, or initiative you’ve contributed to in a leadership role
[edit]- Tulu Wikisource live. Local language training programme organised for all Tulu wikimedian's to get Tulu Wikisource. Digitisation and relicensing of books. Organised workshops in different colleges.
What skills or knowledge do you hope to gain from this training?
[edit]- Technical tools, Evaluation methods, Skills in organising a partnership campaign. Knowledge and skills to initiate one more project to our community. Knowledge of validating the Wikipedia articles.
- To coordinate different libraries regarding digitisation. Technics/ways of approaching authors or publishers. Project management.
Based on your selected track, what is one challenge you have encountered in either evaluating Wikimedia programs or designing impactful projects? Please share your experience relevant to your chosen track.
[edit]- Evaluating Wikimedia programmes. While evaluating Wikimedia programmes, I need to ensure a meticulous assessment so that editors/contributors are retained. Creating usernames for multiple new editors at once is a major organisational challenge.
How do you plan to apply what you learn after the event?
[edit]- Gather community members and organise a training session online or offline.
- Keeping track of new editors for their active participation in wiki projects. Trying to introduce as many projects to the new editors and identifying their interest in one of the suitable projects.
(Optional) Are you open to mentorship (either receiving or offering it)?
[edit]- Yes ready to offer and receive mentorship.