IIITH-OKI/Advanced Train The Trainer 2025/Follow-up/Submitted/Vjsuseela
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Participant's Experience & Further thoughts
[edit]Wikimedia Username
[edit]Community / Organisation / Affiliate
[edit]- Telugu Community
Track attended
[edit]- Evaluation, Impact & Data Storytelling
Actions after the training
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Stories, reflections, surprises, or advice for future cohorts.
- Its a learning and experience to work with larger and multifocussed projects
Links
[edit]- Please provide any relevant links about your work