Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy/Implementation/Affiliate health criteria/Reports/2024/Telugu Wikimedians User Group
| Affiliate basic information | ||
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| What is the affiliate name? | Telugu Wikimedians User Group | |
| Please list the languages supported by this affiliate | Telugu | |
| Please list countries where this affiliate operates | India | |
| Reporting timeline (e.g. January-December) | March-February | |
| Reporting year (e.g. 2024 or 2024-2025) | 2024 | |
| Primary contact (user name) | Pavan santhosh.s | |
| Secondary contact (user name) | రవిచంద్ర | |
| Goal delivery | ||
| What is the affiliate mission? | To promote and support the growth of Telugu Wikimedia projects by empowering contributors, encouraging collaboration, building skills, and expanding outreach within the Telugu-speaking community and the broader Wikimedia movement. | |
| What are the affiliate goals? Link to the strategic plan, if there is one. | Strategic goals | |
| Organizational development | ||
| How does the affiliate make decisions? How are decisions communicated? | Telugu Wikimedians User group is a collaborative group of people who work to support the community. Most of the decision-making happens through consensus-building on an on-wiki dedicated discussion forum. | |
| What is the current state of the affiliate finances? Link to the latest financial report, if there is one. | There is no annual grant/project active for the user group. Budgets of the various projects supported by WMF can be seen here: Telugu Wikipedia's 21st Anniversary: Fostering Growth and Capacity Building and Outreach Campaign at Hyderabad National Book Fair – 2024–25. Both of these projects are yet to be completed, and finance reports will be submitted there. | |
Affiliate health and resilience
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| How many people participate in the decision-making process in the affiliate? | Consensus is the process for decision making. So, everyone can participate. | |
| Has there been any significant changes in the level of the affiliate membership body (e.g. increase/decrease of number of dues-paying members)? | Membership has increased from 25 to 37 during the period. | |
| Are there any affiliate activities in the past year that were led by affiliate members? Please share the highlights. | Members organised various events and activities, including a Wikipedia Stall at the Hyderabad National Book fair 2024, Telugu Wikipedia's anniversary and strategic meet, successfully completed 26 editions of our weekly sessions called Tewiki badi (Tewiki school), Wiki Loves Vizag & other commons outreach events, Suravaram Pratapareddy books and Granthalaya Sarvasvam digitization. More details here. | |
| Leadership and inclusion | ||
Diverse, skilled, and accountable leadership
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| What kind of skills does the affiliate leadership possess? | Deep understanding about Wikimedia projects and long-term contribution; Good knowledge about Telugu language and culture; Program design and execution; Non-profit management; Leadership training; Budget handling; Gender sensitivity | |
| Is there any kind of succession plan for the affiliate leadership? | As a policy, Telugu Wikimedians user group makes an effort to hand over responsibilities performed by a leader to the next year on year. For example, we tried to support new leaders to pick up our anniversary event and not retain the same organisers from 2024. | |
| Are there any trainings that affiliate leadership undergo before they assume their leadership position? | Telugu Wikimedians User Group's Anniversary called "Tewiki Pandga" is serving as a leadership building and strategic conversations' space. We had full-length sessions to discuss community issues, successes, encourage one another with recognition and invest in necessary leadership skills. In addition to this, some of our members participate in CIS's annual leadership training event, "Train-the-trainer". | |
| Are there any requirements for affiliate leadership to disclose their conflict(s) of interests? | unknown | |
Diversity balance (especially gender)
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| What is the diversity level of the affiliate leadership and membership body? | The Affiliate need to be more diverse in terms of gender participation. It is one of the major goals of the community. Currently, around 18-20% of members are women. | |
| How is the affiliate leadership encouraging gender diversity in the decision-making process(es) of the affiliate? | One among three active contact persons and one among two major grantees is a woman. Most of the discussions ended with at least one Woman Wikimedian contributing to it. We hope to improve this further. | |
Universal Code of Conduct compliance
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| How does the affiliate leadership ensure, enforce, and evaluate compliance with the Universal Code of Conduct obligations? | We translated UCoC to our language and conducted a brief awareness session during our annual meeting. All our physical events involve a proper | |
| Engagement and Collaboration | ||
| Please share the publicly available records of regular meetings, activities, events, or conference in the past year where the affiliate has participated. | Major discussions happen here and For Telugu Wikipedia Anniversary preperatory meetings here. | |
| Community connection | ||
| How many affiliate members are active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Around 30 members registered are active on Telugu Wikipedia, Telugu Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons. Some of them also contribute to other Wikimedia projects like Kolami Wikipedia. | |
| How many affiliate members are not active contributors to the Wikimedia projects? | Most of the members are contributors to the project | |
| How many affiliate members are active organizers (of projects, events, conferences, initiatives, etc) within the Wikimedia movement? | Around 10 members organised various events and activities | |
| How many people have participated in affiliate projects, events, conferences, and/or initiatives in the past year? | Including Telugu Wikipedia Stall in the Book fair, over 500 people participated in various capacities. | |
| Partnerships and collaboration | ||
| Please list all activities/initiatives that the affiliate has organized or co-organized in past 12 months. | Find out the list of activities including General outreach and awareness building (Wikipedia stall in Hyderabad National Book Fair), Targeted outreach (Wikimedia Commons and Wikisource), Skill Building & Wikimedia training sessions (Tewiki Badi aka Tewiki School), Photo competitions and Photowalks, Community building & Leadership building activities (Telugu Wikipedia 21st Anniversary), Partnership & Digitization (Suravaram Pratapareddy books and Granthalaya Sarvasvam magazines) and other activities here. | |
| What would affiliate leadership list as the top 3 (three) capacities of the affiliate? (e.g. evaluation, community governance, programs and events, organizational governance and resource policies, conflict management, partnerships, fundraising, communication and media relations, contributor development, on-wiki technical skills, policy advocacy, etc) | Wikimedia Skills | |
| Organisational Skills | ||
| Finance Management | ||
| What are the 3 (three) capacities that the affiliate would like to strengthen in the next 12 months? | Outreach | |
| Partnerships | ||
| Education Programs | ||
| What are the organizations, community projects, or groups that the affiliate had been working or seeking to work with to develop and support the 3 capacities? | Manasu Foundaiton, Government Organizations, Education Institutes and Senior Citizen Groups | |