Talk:Community Resources and Partnerships/India Rapid Project/Barracks of Ulhasnagar:An Oral History of a Refugee City

Fine example of oral history in practice

We need more examples of where and how capturing oral history fills specific gaps in understanding, so that this can become a recurring practice. –SJ talk  09:33, 18 February 2026 (UTC)

Endorsment

•  Support User:EngProff has undertaken several initiatives across Open Knowledge platforms to enrich the cultural and literary documentation of the Sindhi language and culture, particularly in India. She is making sustained efforts to build the Devanagari Sindhi Wikimedia community in India. She is a strong proponent of cultural documentation, oral history, and archival work within Wikimedia projects under free licenses. She initiatited this projects without any support and I believe, this project is going to be a great example of how to use oral history in free licenses to fill gaps in shared cultural understanding. I was very pleased to serve as a community adviser for this project, and I fully support this initiative. — Pavan Santhosh Surampudi (talk) 12:47, 24 February 2026 (UTC)
•  Support This is a vital initiative to document the lived experiences of the Sindhi community. Preserving these oral histories is a necessary step in filling the gaps in our shared cultural heritage, and I fully support this project. --KuldeepBurjBhalaike ^(Talk) 08:48, 26 February 2026 (UTC)
•  Support From the project content, I understand that project intends to document the oral histories, culture and heritage of Sindhi language/people and preserve as literary as well visual forms on Wiki platforms. It is a well groomed thought shaping into the project. Appreciating her efforts, I strongly support the project. Wishing her the best, Vjsuseela (talk) 19:35, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
•  Support She has taken commendable initiatives to document Sindhi language and culture in India through Open Knowledge platforms, while actively building the Devanagari Sindhi Wikimedia community. Her independent efforts in promoting oral history and archival work under free licenses are truly inspiring. I am glad to have served as a community adviser and fully support this impactful initiative. --Santhosh Notagar99 (talk) 09:10, 28 February 2026 (UTC)

Follow up questions

Dear @EngProff,

Hope you are well. Thank you for applying for India rapid project. Before reaching a final decision, we have below clarifying questions related to the submitted project proposal:

1. The proposal states interviews will be published on Wikimedia Commons, but you mention a "separate website for later analysis" with research findings and discussions. Can you clearly specify what the primary outputs on Wikimedia platforms will be (e.g., number of audio files on Commons, transcripts on Commons/Wikisource, integration into Wikipedia articles)?
2. The proposal does not clarify whether other institutions are providing financial or in-kind support. Are SRM University (where PI works), CHM College Ulhasnagar (where Co PI works) or IIIT Hyderabad or any other institution providing any financial or in-kind support (equipment, space, staff time)?
3. What process will ensure accuracy and consistency in transcription, transliteration (Devanagari/Perso-Arabic), and English translation? Will there be second-level review or linguistic validation?
4. Kindly provide a clearer breakdown of travel, accommodation costs of workshops (number of travel days, number of people travelling, per-day estimates, number of people attending workshops). How many field visits are planned? How many nights will the team spend in Ulhasnagar? What is the breakdown of travel costs (local transport, inter-city travel)? Please also clarify equipment ownership after project completion and how these costs directly support Wikimedia deliverables.
5. In what ways do you plan to incorporate these oral histories into relevant Wikipedia articles, Commons categories, and potentially Wikidata to maximize their impact?
6. Do you intend to publish a book or academic paper based on this work? If so, how will you ensure Wikimedia outputs remain fully open and not secondary to other publications?
7. We strongly encourage you to engage with Wikimedians and affiliates who have worked on oral history, GLAM, and language documentation projects in India and globally. Have you identified potential collaborators, advisors, or community partners within the Wikimedia ecosystem?

Looking forward to your response by 4th March, 2026. Thanks

Best PDas (WMF) (talk) 19:04, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Dear @PDas,

Thank you for considering the application and for your inputs. I have shared my responses below. Please let me know if you need anything else.

1. The proposal states interviews will be published on Wikimedia Commons, but you mention a "separate website for later analysis" with research findings and discussions. Can you clearly specify what the primary outputs on Wikimedia platforms will be (e.g., number of audio files on Commons, transcripts on Commons/Wikisource, integration into Wikipedia articles)?

Response:

I am working in the capacity of a Wikimedian without a Wikipedia for Sindhi Devanagari. But I see immense potential in Wikimedia Commons because it is multilingual. A separate website will allow me to be multi-scriptal and multilingual.

Moreover, Wikimedia platforms currently are not designed for analysis and storytelling. These forms of curation are important for oral narratives and archives. Hence, there is a separate need for a website even though the primary sources will be hosted on Wikimedia Commons itself.

The website will also be made available via CC-by-SA licence, which aligns with Wikimedia’s focus.

The primary outputs on Wikimedia platforms as also mentioned in the application are:

500 audio files containing oral histories from 500 respondents (out of which 23 are already published)

Corresponding 500 transcripts on Commons

The integration into Wikipedia articles will be planned once all or a sizable number of oral histories are collected. Depending on the patterns emerging from the oral histories, any number of the following options will be considered:

A standalone Wikipedia article on “Barracks of Ulhasnagar.”

Currently the article “Barracks” on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracks) has a recommendation on this page to expand on the article from the points of view outside Europe and the United States. This might be considered once more responses arrive.

The “Ulhasnagar” article on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulhasnagar) might be expanded

The “Sindhis in India” article on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhis_in_India#Ulhasnagar) might also be expanded based on the insights from the oral histories.

These suggestions are indicative. The list might expand.

4. The separate website (https://sites.google.com/d/14rUHotqiUZ9n4y3dopLBj-NhqkUZkyIa/p/1ydmuOTcLPzHGkDWZekBJ3ztMKijQoAXq/edit) is for curation purposes. This might contain interpretive or analytical articles highlighting patterns from oral histories collected. As mentioned earlier, current Wikimedia projects do not allow for creative storytelling and curation. However, I am open to learning from Wikimedians, Wikimedia Foundation, and OKI regarding how else the current Wikimedia projects can be leveraged for the purposes of the project so that it has a stronger impact on South Asian Wikimedia and oral narratives projects in general.

2. The proposal does not clarify whether other institutions are providing financial or in-kind support. Are SRM University (where PI works), CHM College Ulhasnagar (where Co PI works) or IIIT Hyderabad or any other institution providing any financial or in-kind support (equipment, space, staff time)?

Response:

IIIT Hyderabad will offer in-kind support through physical premises for any events and activities associated with the project. The team members will offer expertise to guide the project. They are committed towards supporting this work.

This is a volunteer effort. I started this project as a volunteer. There is no indication of any financial or in-kind support from the researchers’ institutions.

3. What process will ensure accuracy and consistency in transcription, transliteration (Devanagari/Perso-Arabic), and English translation? Will there be second-level review or linguistic validation?

Response:

The two researchers are familiar with the Perso-Arabic and Devanagari scripts. One researcher is also familiar with the Roman script. As also mentioned in the budget, the researchers would like to work with a proofreader to ensure greater accuracy in the transcriptions and transliterations.

4. Kindly provide a clearer breakdown of travel, accommodation costs of workshops (number of travel days, number of people travelling, per-day estimates, number of people attending workshops). How many field visits are planned? How many nights will the team spend in Ulhasnagar? What is the breakdown of travel costs (local transport, inter-city travel)? Please also clarify equipment ownership after project completion and how these costs directly support Wikimedia deliverables.

Response:

Field visits:

Field visits involve meetings with the respondents for the interviews and for briefing them about the interviews. If the briefing about the interviews happens over the phone, then those many field visits get reduced. Collection of oral histories requires getting in touch with individuals and following up regarding their availability. One researcher lives near Ulhasnagar and continues to travel to the respondents’ residence or workplace as per their convenience. One component under travel and accommodation requested in the budget is to support the local researcher’s commute to the respondents’ locations. If the researchers’ identify any potential respondents living outside Ulhasnagar who are interested in offering their narratives, this component will cover the travel and accommodation of one or both of the researchers depending on the potential respondents’ location

Details regarding the workshop:

With the help of OKI and the extended Wikimedia community, up to 10 potential contributors interested in oral history will be identified

Potential venue: IIIT Hyderabad

Likely duration: 1.5 day

Number of people traveling: up to 10 respondents + 2 researchers + 3 advisors from OKI

Estimates: Rs. 10,000 per person

Number of travel days: 2 nights stay for the workshop; Total of 6 meals; 1.5 day workshop

5. In what ways do you plan to incorporate these oral histories into relevant Wikipedia articles, Commons categories, and potentially Wikidata to maximize their impact?

Response:

As mentioned in the context of the first question, the following contributions are envisioned:

A standalone Wikipedia article on “Barracks of Ulhasnagar.”

Currently the article “Barracks” on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracks) has a recommendation on this page to expand on the article from the points of view outside Europe and the United States. This might be considered once more responses arrive.

The “Ulhasnagar” article on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulhasnagar) might be expanded

The “Sindhis in India” article on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhis_in_India#Ulhasnagar) might also be expanded based on the insights from the oral histories.

These suggestions are indicative. The list might expand.

Further support from the OKI team will be sought regarding identifying other topics for impact

As far as Wikidata is concerned, there is potential for exploratory research to be conducted on the audio and/or transcriptions. However, to begin with, the metadata for oral histories (including age, gender, and occupation) can constitute structured data that can be uploaded to Wikidata.

6. Do you intend to publish a book or academic paper based on this work? If so, how will you ensure Wikimedia outputs remain fully open and not secondary to other publications?

Response:

The PI has been studying barracks as an ignored space within the discourse of informal housing since 2023. She has been working on development plans for Ulhasnagar, photographs, news reports, Parliament archives, and other secondary resources as part of this research. The oral histories are a recent addition to her project.

As of now, no book or academic paper is planned solely on oral histories. If these outputs are thought of, these will be submitted to Diamond Open Access journals so that the research emerging out of the oral histories also remains available via Creative Commons licence.

7. We strongly encourage you to engage with Wikimedians and affiliates who have worked on oral history, GLAM, and language documentation projects in India and globally. Have you identified potential collaborators, advisors, or community partners within the Wikimedia ecosystem?

Response:

The PI has been in touch with one of the previous grantees of an oral history project. Members of the OKI team have also been approached as mentors and advisors to this project. These individuals will continue to be consulted for the duration of the project regarding the design as well as for exploring language technology aspects of the project. As a low resource language, Sindhi is in need of better resources. Because this project will have audio and text data, there is immense scope for tech development.

Looking forward to your response by 4th March, 2026. Thanks

Response:

Thank you for your questions. I am open to more inputs and guidance to make the content emerging from this project more useful. EngProff (talk) 15:31, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

Your Project Application is Approved

Dear @EngProff,

Thank you for responding to our clarification questions. We are pleased to inform you that partial funding has been approved for your project at this time for ₹2,78,800 as a 6 month pilot (August 2026 to January 2027).

We believe a focused pilot would be the most effective way to support this work at this stage. The approved budget is intended to cover the core elements of your project, including travel for interviews, community workshop and a dedicated proofreader.

The partial allocation reflects potential merit that fills a critical gap in the partition history documentation and funding constraints in the India Rapid Project. Also, recognising strong institutional partnerships and demonstrated commitment through volunteer effort gives us confidence in the project. We would expect this volunteer-driven approach to remain central to the project as it progresses.

Please see a break up of what has been approved:

• Travel to respondents location -  ₹50,000 (fully funded)
• Dedicated proofreader - ₹35,000 (fully funded)
• Cloud storage - ₹10,000 (fully funded)
• Workshop: Venue & Logistics - ₹37,500 (partial funded)
• Workshop: Travel & Accommodation - ₹45,300 (partial dunded)
• Researcher honorarium (accounted for 6 months) - ₹96,000
• CA /audit fees - ₹5000 (standard support)
• Recorder - ₹5000 (not approved as currently we are not supporting equipment purchase)

While we proceed to the next steps, we request a revised plan and budget adjustment in the budget sheet by March 25, reflecting 6 month scope, outlining a realistic estimate of interviews to be completed, expected outputs to Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia, and an adjusted set of deliverables aligned with the available time and budget. We also recommend scheduling a brief check-in with the PO in early July to review progress and discuss any challenges.

We also encourage you to connect with Medhavi and Amrit Sufi, who have experience with similar oral culture projects and may offer guidance as you refine your approach.

Please make sure to document all invoices & bills for financial reporting and your activities & learning for the final report for review and others to learn from. Looking forward to seeing impactful outcome and collaboration in this project, wishing you all the best for the project!

Thanks PDas (WMF) (talk) 07:44, 19 March 2026 (UTC)

Dear @PDas (WMF),

Many thanks for your support for the project. Here is the revised plan and budget adjustment. Please let me know if you need anything else.

1. Title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. Please do not use any special symbols. 200 character limit. (required)

Barracks of Ulhasnagar: An Oral History of a Refugee City

2. Proposed start date for the proposal. (required)

01 August 2026

3. Proposed end date for the proposal. (required)

31 January 2027

4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

India

5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)

Not Applicable

6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)

According to the Needs Assessment for Documentation and Revitalization of Indic Languages Using Wikimedia Projects (Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Needs_assessment_for_documentation_and_revitalization_of_Indic_languages_using_Wikimedia_projects), there is a need to focus on Indic languages and within these languages, on the aspect of oral culture.

Sindhi is a South Asian language spoken in Sindh, Pakistan. Sindhis had to migrate from Sindh to various parts of India during the Partition. Ulhasnagar is one of the largest settlements of Sindhis in India. The language is in danger of disappearing from India because it is not used in academic and governance spaces in the country. As Sindhis adopt the languages of the cities they have settled in, they do not speak the language even at home. This project attempts to document Sindhi language in the form of oral histories.

However, this oral histories project has a specific focus. Rather than focus on the generic aspects of language, it focuses on the intention to build an archive of Ulhasnagar which is a refugee city in the sense that it was a refugee settlement converted into a township. The city has an interesting history:

The citizens have memories of how they or their ancestors came to the Kalyan Camp as the city of Ulhasnagar was known back then. These memories are an important part of Partition history and memory. Ulhasnagar rarely appears in these memories.

Ulhasnagar has also experienced a severe housing crisis. From the collapse of poorly built buildings to the construction of illegal buildings, the city offers lessons from the point of view of citizens’ memories.

The city is still organised around barracks which were the historical structures where soldiers fighting in World War II were housed. Barracks do not find space in the typology of housing and informal housing because as structures with a specific history, these are yet to be explored.

In recent times, Sindhis have begun to leave Ulhasnagar in search of better housing for nearby areas. Citizens have been facing a shortage of space and/or stigma around living in the barracks.

With this background in mind, this project seeks to bring about the following change:

It seeks to make space for Sindhi community and language on Wikimedia Commons.

It aims to represent the Indian side of Sindhi on Wikimedia projects. Because Wikimedia projects tend to use the Perso-Arabic Sindhi script and because the script is on the decline in India, Indian perspectives do not find space on Wikimedia. With audio, and hopefully through its transcription in Devanagari script, Sindhi will find a stronger representation on Wikimedia.

In terms of larger impact outside Wikimedia projects, it attempts to register home and displacement as issues of a Partition-affected community to address gaps in academic research on Partition Studies. It also wants to draw attention to the importance of citizens’ voices, memories, and histories as they live it.

The challenges faced this project faces are:

Constraints in resources do not allow the investigators to reach as many participants as possible. A lot of travel is needed to meet respondents as per their convenient time.

Another team member or two are needed to maintain records, generate transcripts of the interviews, proofread them, and translate them.

A lack of basic equipment such as recorders, storage, and transcription assistance through Generative AI or similar software slows down the process of maintaining the corpus.

The approaches to be used to achieve the above mentioned change include:

Documentation of Sindhi language in its specificity of the way it is spoken in Ulhasnagar: Ulhasnagar has an advantage over other cities in India where Sindhis settled. Because it was a full fledged township and it has one of the largest concentration Sindhi population, the Sindhi spoken here is not as prone to influence from neighbouring languages to the extent it is influenced in other Indian cities

Documentation of memories in the form of oral histories, making them available as non-text material (audio recordings but also with transcription/text)

Collection of citizens’ memories of Ulhasnagar as their home city in the face of memories of homelessness as experienced by the earliest migrants/refugees

7. What are the planned activities? (required)

Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. (Help video) When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.

Wikimedia Category page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Barracks_of_Ulhasnagar:_An_Oral_History_of_a_Refugee_City

Separate website for later analysis: https://sites.google.com/view/barracksofulhasnagar

Planned activities include:

Collection of more interviews

Transcription of the audio files

Translation in English of the Sindhi-Hindi transcriptions

Curation of the oral history archive on Wikimedia Commons

Workshop for other Wikimedians interested in oral narratives on: oral narratives methodology and transcription, transliteration and translation methods for oral narratives

Availability of research and documentation report and kit for further dissemination

8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required)

Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Please note that this response will be published on Meta-Wiki. Team members involved in the proposal need to be aware of their involvement in the project.

Soni Wadhwa, Principal Investigator. Teaches Literature Studies at SRM University, Andhra Pradesh. Wikimedia username: EngProff.

Responsible for:

Managing collected data, Uploading audio files on Wikimedia Commons, developing metadata, curation on the project website

Previous background:

A. Volunteer work done with Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru for

Research study titled Open Movement in India: The Idea and Its Expressions. February 2024. Link: https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/open-movement-in-india-idea-and-its-expressions

Participation in and reportage on the Future of the Commons, July 2024.

Links:

https://cis-india.org/raw/report-on-the-future-of-the-commons

https://digitalorientalist.com/2024/09/10/ai-and-indian-languages-wishful-thinking/

https://digitalorientalist.com/2024/09/13/archives-in-indian-languages-as-digital-commons-in-india/

Participation in and reportage on She Leads Bootcamp, January 2025. Link: https://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/she-leads-bootcamp

B. Association with Open Knowledge Initiative, IIIT Hyderabad

Participation in Advanced Train the Trainer Programme as one of the trainers, October 2025. Link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IIITH-OKI/Advanced_Train_The_Trainer_2025/Team_%26_Resource_Person

Participation in and reportage on Bahu Bhasa, November 2025. Links:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bahu_Bhasa_2025_-_A_Report_(Nov,_2025).pdf

https://digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/09/imagining-a-contextual-tech-for-indian-languages-a-postcard-from-bahu-bhasa-2025/

C. Participation in Wikimedia Tech Summit:

Indic Wiki Tech Summit 2023: https://indicwiki.iiit.ac.in/summit-2023/

Indic Wiki Tech Summit 2024: https://wts2024-indicwiki-org-480056.builder-preview.com/#speakers

D. Archivist for

PG Sindhi Library: https://pgsindhi-library.sanchaya.net/

Sindhi Halchal Archive: https://sindhihalchalarchive.in/

Sindhi Sanchaya: https://www.sindhisanchaya.in/

Infrastructures around Sindhi Literature, an oral history archive on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@soniarchivist/playlists

Neelima Motwani, Co-Principal Investigator. Lecturer, CHM College, Ulhasnagar; Lead Coordinator for Sindhi, Bhashini, IIT Madras.

Responsible for:

Field work, data collection such as identifying, recruiting, and interviewing potential respondents, recording the interviews, sharing the interviews on cloud, collecting informed consent forms signed by respondents

Previous background:

Digitisation Coordinator: Sindhu Youth Circle, Ulhasnagar

Participation in:

Lead Coordinator for Sindhi, Bhashini, IIT Madras

Future of the Commons, organised by Centre for Internet and Society, Bengaluru, July 2024

Bahu Bhasa, organised by Open Knowledge Initiative, IIIT Hyderabad, November 2025

9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)

Target participants:

South Asian Wikimedia communities interested in:

Oral narratives

Research and documentation

Indic languages

Editors interested in GLAM projects

Editors interested in Topics for Interest (with a focus on South Asian history, cities, languages)

Engagement:

Workshop on oral narratives methodology

Availability of research and documentation report and kit for further dissemination

Workshop on transliteration and translation methods for oral narratives

Beyond Current Wikimedia Community:

The target participants are Sindhis who have lived or still live in Ulhasnagar. Most of them speak Sindhi. Some choose to speak in other languages such as Hindi.

Engagement:

The Co-Principal Investigator lives in Ulhasnagar and approaches friends, colleagues, and family to identify potential respondents. She briefs them about the project and its purpose before and during the interviews. After the interview, she shares the URLs to the interviews published on Wikimedia Commons with the concerned respondents. She also follows up with them regarding references to other respondents.

The Principal Investigator manages the archive of oral histories including curation in the form of short descriptions of the interviews which go on Wikimedia Commons as well as the project website. This curatorial aspect is a part of how the respondents see their responses summarised.

It is hoped that the larger Sindhi speaking community from Ulhasnagar/India will become aware of Wikimedia projects and will contribute to them in future.

11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required)

You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.

The Sindhi community in India is more familiar with the Devanagari script than Perso-Arabic script which is the script represented on Wikimedia. The absence of Sindhi Devanagari on Wikimedia projects is one of the reasons why the Indian side of Sindhi community does not get represented on Wikimedia. It is hoped that with this project, Sindhi Devanagari finds space on Wikimedia and Sindhis in India become aware of its potential.

The PI looks forward to collaborating with Open Knowledge Initiatives to work further on Sindhi language and script related projects. Nitesh Gill and Pavan Santhosh have very kindly agreed to be Community Advisors for the same.

The potential respondents are briefed about the project and its aims and scope. The contents of both the project description and informed consent form can be shared on request. These are available in English, Hindi, and Sindhi.

12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required) Language

13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)

Culture, heritage, GLAM

14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)

Linguistic / Language

15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)

Identify Topics for Impact

17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)

Describe the main things you would like to learn if you achieve the described change? You can describe these in the form of Learning Questions. The data you collect should help answer these questions.

The change expected from this project includes:

Documentation of Sindhi language in the form of oral histories

Creation of space for Devanagari Sindhi along with Perso-Arabic Sindhi on Wikimedia projects

Attention to the Sindhi experience of the Partition in terms of displacement and homelessness that in a way continues to haunt the Sindhis who chose to settle in Ulhasnagar

Importance to citizens’ voices, memories, and histories within discourses around urban design and planning

Experimentation with research questions at the intersection of urban studies, informal housing, Partition studies, and oral history

18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)

These numbers will not tell all the story about your work, but they are important for measuring some Movement-wide changes. Please set Wikimedia metrics for your proposal below in questions 18.1 - 18.4.

18.1. Number of participants (required)

18.1. Number of participants: individuals who attend or benefit from the activities, either in person (offline) or virtually (online). They can participate in a number of ways, it does not only include people editing Wikimedia projects. It does not include social media followers, donors, or others not participating directly. If possible and relevant for your work, we encourage disaggregating by:

New participant: first time participating in Wikimedia events.

Returning participant: participant that has participated in Wikimedia events in other projects or activities.

Number of participants (required) 262

Description (optional)

New participants: 250 respondents to oral narratives

Returning participants: 2 researchers + 10 Wikimedians interested in using oral narratives in their projects

18.2. Number of editors (required)

18.2. Number of editors: people who edit Wikimedia projects, creating or improving content as a result of project activities). If possible and relevant for your work, we encourage disaggregating by:

Newly Registered Users (new editors): The number of participants that create new accounts on a Wikimedia project as part of the proposal’s activities or

Returning editors: Editors that are already registered prior to the project activities but participate in editing activities associated with the project.

Number of editors (required) 11

Description (optional): Returning editor: The PI edits Wikimedia. She will continue to contribute.

18.3. Number of organizers (required)

18.3. Number of organizers: people that make sure that activities can be implemented by providing the necessary time, support, and knowledge. This definition includes persons involved in implementing activities such as planners, coordinators, trainers, teachers, outreach liaisons, advisors, facilitators, publicity leaders, speakers, etc. Organizers can be volunteers or paid staff.

Number of organizers (required) : 5

Description (optional):

The 2 researchers will be responsible for implementing the project and organising the workshop.

3 advisors from the Open Knowledge Initiative will also extend support.

18.4. Number of contributions to Wikimedia Projects (required)

18.4. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects

Project Name. Select all Wikimedia projects you hope to contribute content to and fill out the proposed number of content contributions for each Wikimedia project.

Wikipedia 1

Wikimedia Commons 224

Number of files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons

Wikidata

Wiktionary

Wikisource

Incubator

Translatewiki

MediaWiki

Wikiquote

Wikivoyage

Wikibooks

Wikiversity

Wikinews

Wikispecies

Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia

Description (optional)

19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional) No

20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required) Support requested

Budget (Sheet 2 - Revised) : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qEgVHF-667lzm5jf1tmSLl9w3_kPUU5vnqT6s8aRhU0/edit?usp=sharing EngProff (talk) 07:37, 25 March 2026 (UTC)