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Participant's Experience & Further thoughts

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Wikimedia Username

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Community / Organisation / Affiliate

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  • Telugu Community

Track attended

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  • Evaluation, Impact & Data Storytelling

Actions after the training

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  • What steps have you taken since October 2025? (Example: started a project, redesigned an existing program, ran a workshop, created metrics, built partnerships, etc.)
  • On behalf of the Telugu Wikimedians User Group, we are organising a community project titled "Telugu Wikipedia Expansion Program," in collaboration with the Wikimedia Foundation and Google. This initiative spans one year, from October 2025 to September 2026.
The objective of the project is to create more than 4,000 new articles for Telugu Wikipedia by organising at least four edit-a-thons and to improve the quality of existing articles.
Community Outreach: To conduct eight offline outreach programs aimed at expanding the Telugu Wikipedia user base and to train these new users thoroughly through 30 online training sessions.

Application of learning

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  • Which ideas, tools, or methods from the training have you actually used?
  • Community help, Coordination among the core group members.
  • How did they help in practice?
  • Design, execution, sharing the tasks, evaluation, planning further tasks

Outcomes or early results

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  • Have you noticed any changes, improvements, or learning so far? (This could be about participants, content quality, team processes, reporting, or community engagement.)
  • 50% of the target was met in terms of new articles, 20% of the listed articles were improved. Internship programs and training sessions were conducted.

Challenges

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  • What has been difficult while applying what you learned?
  • Meeting the timeline
  • Arranging a competent wikimedian to organise an outreach programme
  • Sustaining the new entrants in Telugu Wikipedia
  • Where did you get stuck?
  • Not stuck really, but continuing

Support needed

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  • What kind of help would make your next step easier? (Mentoring, peer review, technical help, evaluation guidance, partnerships, funding advice, etc.)
  • Sought technical help from the Wiki tech group to build a tool that can evaluate the quality of the Telugu Wikipedia article. The task is in process.

Plans for the next 3–6 months

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  • What are you hoping to try or build next?
  • The same program will be continuing for another 6 months
  • What collaborations emerged because of Advanced TTT, and what became possible that might not have happened otherwise?
  • ATTT obviously helped me in maintaining coordination with our team

Anything else to share

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  • Stories, reflections, surprises, or advice for future cohorts.
  • Its a learning and experience to work with larger and multifocussed projects
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  • Please provide any relevant links about your work