Wikimania 2022/Scholarships/Karavali Wikimedians User Group/Report

Goals

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

Yes, we met our goal, Wikimania Festival in Mangaluru is a light program of -01-days sessions, gatherings and events on 13.08.2022 at St Aloysius College, Mangaluru. In in-person event during Wikimania, to discuss and exchange among participants.

Outcome

Please report on your original project targets.

Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
30 people active Wikipedians for Wikimania 2022 Festival in Mangaluru	24 people participated	Wikipedians, Wikimedians and Wikimania Karavali Wikimedia active volunteers, with a focus on Students and families
30 people actively participated in Folk art Performance	35 people participated	Wikipedians, Wikimedians and Wikimania Karavali Wikimedia active volunteers, Students
20 people attend the Visit the Chapel and Museum	20 people attended	Wikipedians, Wikimedians and Wikimania Karavali Wikimedia active volunteers, Students
10-20 participants will receive small hardware support,	23 participants was assisted with a headphone, earphone, webcams, microphone	To participate pre-Wikimania discussion and Wikimania Online Session
Gender balance will be keenly observed to encourage the participation of females	10 Wiki Womomens have actively participated	Karavali Wikiwomens have participated

Learning

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

• What worked well?

1. In-person event in the current context gave great satisfaction with all our community members. After COVID19 participating in Wikimania 2022 for the first time meant a lot.
2. Encouraging the community members with certain award scheme make motive them with more enthusiastically work towards media wiki projects.
3. Encouraging the Wiki Student Association with new idea of active involvement of student.
4. Small Hardware Wikimania scholarships boosted participation in-person and online events very effectively.

• What did not work so well?

1. Without travel expenses support we missed some of Wikimedians on the event.
2. Follow up of the events and social media posters.
3. In some remote village have no better courier facility to drop Hardware support on time.

Finances

Grant funds spent

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

S/N	ITEM & DESCRIPTION	UNIT	AMOUNT (INR)
1	Hardware components: we supported 23 participants with hardware devices (including such as webcam, micro-phones, headsets, speakers)	23	92100
2	Local Travel	-	1500
3	Meeting Venue	-	7500
4	Food Including BreakFast and Lunch	-	20000
5	Folk Artist (Aati Kalanja): Travel, Food, Remuneration for four people	4	9500
6	Swags /merchandise, Printing service swags for participants, Banner, Posters, Bags	35	27500
	TOTAL		158100
	TOTAL IN USD		2026

Remaining funds

Do you have any remaining grant funds?

Our original grant money of 2015 US Dollar, we have No remaining funds.

Anything else

Anything else you want to share about your project?

Wikimania Celebration

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  Session by Mr Rachit Sharma
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  Session
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  Presentation by Bharathesha Alasandemajalu

1. Mr. Rachit Sharma, Senior Global Movement Communications Specialist for South Asia at Wikimedia Foundation discussed topics – Briefed about Wikimedia Strategy 2030, Uses of Users Groups, Community Building, Annual Planning of the Users Group.
2. Mr. Tanvir Hasan, Senior Executives, Wikimedia Foundation, Topics regarding Wikimedia Funding for various projects, How to build the Karavali Wikimedians User Group in an innovative way? How to retain the existed Wikipedia Student's Association in an effective manner?
3. Dr Vishwanatha Badikana and Mr Bharathesha Alasandemajalu presented the Power Point Presentation about Karavali Wikimedins work
4. Self-introduction by all 24 participants and their hobbies.

Aims and Objectives of Karavali Wikimedia

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  Memorandum of Understanding with Various Colleges of Mangaluru
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  Memorandum of Understanding with Various Colleges of Mangaluru

• To promote digital literacy among the people of coastal Karnataka and the northern part of Kerala state.
• To empower the school children and teachers of schools in coastal Karnataka and the northern part of Kerala state by providing free and open knowledge resources including Wikipedia and other sister projects of Wikimedia.
• To benefit the general public irrespective of caste, creed, religion and sex.
• Promoting Indian languages among students and faculty.
• Developing the latest knowledge in Indian languages.
• Promoting the growth of Indian languages.
• Free access to knowledge in Indian languages.

1. Memorandum of Understanding between Karavali Wikimedian User Group and St Aloysius College(Autonomous), Mangaluru - Principal Dr Rev. Praveen Marties and Treasurer of Karavali Wikimedians User Group Dr Kishore Kumar Rai signed the MOU
2. Memorandum of Understanding between Karavali Wikimedian User Group and Alvas College, Moodubidri - Associate Profesor of Journalism and Mass Communication Dr. Srinivasa Hodeyala and President of Karavali Wikimedians User Group Dr Vishwanatha Badikana signed the MOU

Performance of Folk Art - Aati Kalenja

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  Folk Art Performance - Aati Kalenja
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  Aati Kalenja Artist
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  Karavali Wikimedians

Mr Puttappa and team from Kasaragod, Kerala State performed Aatikalenja - Aati Kalenja is an ancient traditional folk art form practiced by Tulu people from the region of Tulu Nadu, India which is believed to bring prosperity during Aati (one of the months in Tulu calendar). It normally comes in the months of July and August. Dr Kishore Kumar Rai Sheni, Principal, Nalanda College, Perla, Kasaragod, Kerala State explained and clarified the doubts of the our members.

Visit to Aloysius Chapel by Karavali Wikimedians User Group

St. Aloysius Chapel, (Italian: Cappella di San Luigi, Portuguese: São Luís Capela) or the chapel of St. Aloysius College, is a Christian chapel in Mangalore in the state of Karnataka in southwest India. The Chapel is situated in the heart of the city at Lighthouse Hill. About the chapel, Mr Alwin Pais, guide of the Chapel explained the interior of the chapel decorated with paintings by Antonio Moscheni (1854 –1905)

Visit to Aloyseum by Karavali Wikimedians User Group

Our members visited Aloyseum Museum, this museum began in 1913 when an Italian Jesuit priest named Chiapi donated around 2000 different types of minerals, Herbarium and a collection of Roman coins. In 1906, the De Dion car was the first automobile that was used in Mangalore and many more. Incharge of Aloyseum Ms Savithri Rebeca described about the museum.

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  Members Karavali Wikimedians User Group