User:सुबोध कुलकर्णी/WP 2018

Needs Assessment

Working with schools

• CISK2 should reach to students. It is a necessary activity because rural students are still not aware about marathi wiki though they are learning in marathi medium schools.

• We can conduct activity in schools/colleges to involve students it will help us to grow Marathi wiki rapidly.

Indic language collaboration

• For inter-language collaboration, CIS can arrange small projects on various topics such as - similar words in different languages , words with same pronunciation but different meaning , translation of small tales about their culture, dances, music etc.

• Cross-wiki Workshops or idea exchanges between different languages will give a boost for developing localised content. Projects implemented by one language can be replicated in other languages as well.

• Frequent meetings of Indic wikipedians and building of a common platform would help to stay connected and to know how some communities resolved certain issues while localizing and adjusting with mainstream wikis.

• CIS-A2K is working like a point contact for all groups which are working on Indic languages.

Quality and content

• Editors from various walks of life should be encouraged to contribute to wikipedia in Marathi
• More attention to be given to - Crowd sourcing concepts, Encyclopedic writing style, Importance of NPOV
• More tools for fact-checking and citations on mobile platform ; Accuracy and verifiability of content
• It will be a better strategy to involve experts rather than non-expert enthusiasts
• We can approach instituions like TIFR, NIC etc that already have huge resources and knowledge banks
• Organizations with infrastructural capacities to host frequent edit-o-thons, like weekly or something where the experienced ones can come and guide and new ones can join and others can contribute with the help of all of them. So giving it form of a collective activity would make them learn a lot for a while before they continue on their own.

Outreach

• Focus on thematic areas with some legwork.
• We need to reach to maximum of geography and not get to the themes as staying with few themes would mean staying in very small geographies.
• Universities can be approached to give credits for wikipedia work of the students
• Geographically it is better if training area is near to our training place to understand community view towards wikipedia
• We need support of CIS-A2K for reaching to other communities. E.g. FAN( Fab Asia Network) for involving makers from Asia to participate in Wikipedia movement , Technical or social meets

Open Source and technical issues

• CIS-A2K needs to go more into technical aspects of it, and try to bring more editors with advanced technical knowledge who can contribute to the core of indic wikis than just adding into the plethora of text
• As making indic wikis technically strong should be the first priority of us now, it's being long that there have been no efforts to make it technically strong
• Most importantly the very ideas of open source movement needs to be given to all of the potential active members of wikis, and then Mediawiki training on priority
• Visual editor with mobile compatibility should be brought in for marathi editors, which english wiki is already trying to do.

Collaboration with Govt

• CIS-A2K can guide the government on content development on a mass scale, provide expertise to build content that government already owns, sharing of various information with wiki-editors
• A2K’s Role as expert and technical collaborators, advisers plus faculty for outreach programs.
• short and concise training workshops.
• A2K as Consultant on expertise and procedures;

Content Enrichment

WEP

Wikipedia has good readership among students of all ages. The needs of this community could be assessed well by themselves. The integration of academic skills with encyclopedic content generation would be mutually beneficial for students and Wikimedia projects. In Marathi Wikipedia, there is a large gap in content related to basic science concepts, biographies, major historic events and places, social science issues etc. Due to inclusion of e-learning facilities in the schools, infrastructure is available to initiate Wiki projects. The students are expected to learn through digital platforms and multimedia. Also, in college-level technical courses, Free & Open Source Softwares (FOSS) are part of syllabus and projects. The assignments based on these requirements would be designed with faculty and experts. The participants can become good editors in long-term.

Objectives

• To integrate academic assignments and Wikimedia projects
• To increase readership and application of Wikimedia projects in schools
• To build feedback process in Wikipedia to enrich content & quality

Plan

• Working with 3 universities and 3 Private educational institutes
• Working with 3 best digital schools in state to increase readership and feedback process in Wikipedia

Target

• 6 Workshops
• 3 programs in digital schools

Wikisource

We have developed partnership with 8 libraries/archives and one librarians' association. To enhance the quality and authenticity of knowledge, original reference material should be available on Wikisource. It is very crucial for articles on socio-cultural, historical and political issues. Literature of writers and organisations which played pioneering role in weaving socio-cultural and political fabric of Modern India would be brought on Wikisource as valuable reference material. We have already facilitated in content donation from eminent scholars like Prof.Jayant Narlikar, Prof.Mangala Narlikar, Dr.Sharu Ranganekar & Dr. Irawati Karve.

Objectives

• To create database of rare reference books and digitised books
• To create Wikidesk in libraries to attract good readers
• To improve quality by adding references
• To build network of good librarians

Plan

• To organise Digitisation Conference for libraries and archives
• Proof reading sprints and Wikidata-thon for adding and improving items

• Wikipedia Library project with 5 lib.s in different regions

• Content donation drive with prominent writers & literary organisations

Target

• 2 Proof reading & validation workshops
• 3 edit-a-thons in libraries
• 50 books on Commons & Wikisource

Quality improvement & Wiktionary

Objectives

The content requires regular cleaning up for grammatical and structural errors. We have developed good rapport with language departments of 4 universities. The students would be given assignments for these tasks. The another way is to build good repository in Wiktionary for ready reference. This will be achieved by designing projects for technical as well as linguistics students.

Plan

• Working with 5 best language departments under different Universities & linguist organisations to improve quality

• To build Wiktionary with these communities

Target

• 2 Workshops

Wikidata

Plan

The community members working on thematic issues and gender would be trained in editing and creating items on Wikidata. The participants of the Wiki loves campaign will be motivated to take up this activity for linking river related articles.

Target

About 10 editors will be focused for editing 200 major items each.

Institutional Partnerships

We have been able to establish partnerships based on thematic areas. The experts working on specific issues for long time are potential editors. The quality of the content is also insured. The categories would be focused for better outcomes and retention of editors. The efforts will be make Wikimedia projects as integral part of their agenda. The networking will be done among like minded organisations. The cataloging of the resources for referencing is also planned. The institutional partners include 3 Government departments, 4 Universities, 8 educational institutions, 14 voluntary organisations and 9 libraries-archives. Various types of Wikimedia projects are planned according to the nature and objectives of these institutions.

Objectives

• To build content on issues of community priority
• To network like minded and movements on similar issues through focused content generation
• To connect local movements to global campaigns for larger impact

Plan

• Working with thematic organizations having grassroots network
• Working with under-represented communities

• Bringing different stakeholders in Digital Knowledge sector together and Developing platform for cross-learning

We have planned to work with following institutions regarding various Wikimedia projects -

The partnerships would continue in 7 districts of Maharashtra – Pune, Mumbai, Satara, Solapur, Kolhapur, Sangli, Aurangabad

New districts to be covered in this Plan are – Ratnagiri, Nashik, Nagpur, Dhule, Nanded

Working with 3 State Government Departments –

1. Rajya Marathi Vikas Sanstha
2. Marathi Vishwakosh Nirmiti Mandal
3. Yashada, Pune

Working With 4 universities –

1. Shivaji University, Kolhapur (3 departments)
2. Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune (2 dept’s)
3. Solapur University, Solapur (one dept.)
4. Dr.Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, Aurangabad (2 dept.s)

Working With 8 educational institutions –

1. Garware College of Commerce, Pune
2. New Law College, Pune
3. Willingdon College, Sangli
4. Yashawantrao Chavan Institute of Science
5. Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College, Satara
6. KBP College of Engineering, Satara
7. DBF Dayanand College of Arts & Science, Solapur
8. MGM Trust's College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aurangabad

Working With 16 organisations –

1. Jnana Prabodhini,Pune
2. MKCL (Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited)
3. Sterlite Tech Foundation's Jeewan Jyoti Women Empowerment Centre, Ambawane
4. Vigyan Ashram, Pabal
5. Sandarbh Society, Pune
6. Rawat's Nature Academy
7. IUCAA, Pune
8. Bhaskaracharya Pratishthan, Pune
9. Data Meet, Pune
10. Jalbiradari, Sangli
11. Savitribai Phule Mahila Ekatm Samaj Mandal, Aurangabad
12. Muktangan Naw Vichar Prerana Kendra, Satara
13. Rayat Shikshan Sanstha, Satara
14. Drongo Environment Group, Satara
15. Marathi Vigyan Parishad, Mumbai
16. Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Mahamandal

Working With 10 libraries/archives –

1. Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha (MGS)
2. Pune University Library & Information Science Alumni Association (PULISAA)
3. Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics
4. Pradnya Pathshala Mandal, Wai
5. Shri Samarth Vagdevata Mandir,Dhule
6. Rajwade Sanshodhan Mandal, Dhule
7. Pune Nagar Vachan Mandir,Pune
8. Bharat Itihas Sanshodhak Mandal,Pune
9. Lokmanya Tilak Smarak Wachan Mandir, Chiplun
10. Vedshastra Vidya Sanwardhan Mandal,Karad

Target

• 4 thematic workshops

Capacity building

The capacity building program would be designed according to the profiles of Wikimedians and the expected outcomes. Brief description about the profile based need analysis is given below :

A)  Very active and experienced Wikimedians - Expected to work as mentors for new editors; Wikipedia pillars; Copyright issues; Should be able to do analysis and evolve improvement measures; Integration of Wikimedia Projects; Work for new developments in Wiki projects; Global engagement programs

B)  Facilitators at Institutional & organisational Partners - To learn advance skills, tools & gadgets for good editing; Wikipedia pillars; Copyright issues; To conduct workshops for student community; Design internships and academic assignments for WEP; To develop thematic groups; Quality improvement; Tracking process and progress using outreach dashboard

C)  Independent new active editors - Working on category-wise content generation; Wikipedia pillars; Copyright issues; Building communities of interest; reference tools

Objectives

• To increase expertise of active editors
• To build technical resource persons to resolve technical issues
• To develop strong relationships between the offline and online Wiki Communities

Plan

• Mini TTT & MWT
• Regional Wiki conference
• Workshops on Unicode and Open Source applications for Publishers, Writers, Printers

Target

• Mini TTT & MWT : 1 each in 2 potential clusters
• One Regional Wiki conference
• 2 Open Source Workshops

Leadership Development

Objectives

• To reach un-explored potential groups and places
• Developing cadre of Wikiguides in 3 areas, Application of Integrated approach for skills and knowledge aspects
• To create awareness about searchability, verifiability and other strengths of Wikipedia
• To involve Citizen Science groups in quality content generation

Plan

• Outreach programs with active editors in 5 potential districts not covered so far

• Wiki Meets River Campaign with Wiki community & organisations

Target

• 3 Outreach programs
• 3 Wikiguides
• One campaign

Bridging Gender Gap

Objectives

• To nurture women editors in different sectors
• To generate content on women related issues through networking of organisations

Plan

• To generate content through the thematic groups developed - Women & Health, Women & Environment, Women's social issues & legal aid, Women & Culture
• To create articles on successful women in different fields
• To conduct Photothon on all aspects of Woman
• Wikiconference of Women editors & Activists

Target

• 2 thematic workshops
• 2 Photothons
• One Wiki Women Conference

Metrics

Content enrichment

• WEP - 6 workshops in Educational inst's ; 3 Orientation programs in digital schools ( Part's - 450 , New - 250)
• Wikisource - 2 Proof reading & validation workshops ; 3 edit-a-thons in libraries ; 50 books on Commons & Wikisource (Part's - 250 , New - 20+60=80)
• Quality Improvement & Wiktionary - 2 workshops (Part's - 100 , New - 20)
• Gender Gap - 2 thematic workshops; 2 Photothons ; One Wiki Women Conference (Part's - 100+40+30=170 , New - 30+10+10=50)

Capacity building

• Mini TTT & MWT : 1 each in 2 potential clusters ; One Regional Wiki conference ; 2 Open Source Workshops (Part's - 40+100+60=200 , New - 20)

Partnerships Development

• 3 thematic workshops (Part's - 150 , New - 60)

Leadership development

• 3 Outreach programs with Inst part.s ; 3 Wikiguides ; One Wiki loves pilot campaign (Part's - 150+200=350, New - 60+40=100)

Content pages

• Wikipedia articles = 3450
• Commons files = 1530
• Wikisource pages = 5800
• Wiktionary words = 2000
• Wikidata items = 2000

Total

• Participants = 450+250+100+170+200+150+350 = 1670
• Newly registered = 250+80+20+50+20+60+100 = 580
• Content pages = 3450+1530+5800+2000+2000= 14780

Global metrics

Metric	Expected outcome
Participants	1670
Newly Registered	580
Content Pages	14780

Budget

Serial number	Expenditure Item	FDC Support (INR)	FDC Support (US$)
Conversion rate: 1 → US$
1	Salary
2	Travel and stay
3	Events and meetup
4	Digitization
5	Miscellaneous
	Total
6	In-kind support	INR 140 500
	Grand total