Grants:IEG/Making telugu content accessible/Timeline

This project is funded by an Individual Engagement Grant

Timeline for Making telugu content accessible

Timeline	Date
Project got started	21 June 2014
Starting and developing catalogue pages in wikipedia	21 June 2014
Starting and development of project page	End of June, 2014

Monthly updates

Please prepare a brief project update each month, in a format of your choice, to share progress and learnings with the community along the way. Submit the link below as you complete each update.

21 June to 20 July

• 21 June: Started a catalogue page(now it's being used as Index page for splitted catalogue pages) and started cataloging the DLI Books.
• 22 June: Meeting with telugu wikipedians in Hyderabad Monthly meet up, In meeting I've shown some wikipedians how DLI pages work. Later on they started synergizing with project and doing valuable contributions.
• 23 June: Started Wiki project page for this grant work.
• 24 June: Started campaigning online in Facebook Telugu Literature group and one of the group members shared it on their wall. It gained project with a new member who doesn't even a wikimedian till then.
• 25 June: Telugu wikimedian Rajasekhar started adding books to Telugu wikipedia from Digital library of India. Till date nearly 5 books are added to telugu wikisource from DLI.
• 1 July: Separated catalogs(basing on telugu alphabets) into nearly 32 pages.

All the month:

• Project Cataloged DLI Books in Catalog pages created in Telugu wikipedia.
• Developed and created several pages using the Books available in DLI.

Next month plan

• Going to conduct an edit-a-thon in a town Tadepalligudem and it may be on July 7 to celebrate Iyanki venkataramanayya Birthday(National Library day of India)

21 July to 20 August

• This project successfully made few people who are interested in telugu literature to start contributing wikipedia. One of them are User Lakshmi devi, who created account in telugu wikipedia to contribute this grant project on 27 July.
• Wikimedians such as Meena gayathri, venkata ramana, swaralasika started helping the grant work through developing catalog with some book details, creating articles and developing articles using the books in dli.
• Conducted an edit-a-thon regarding the project in Tadepalligudem on august 7, 2014. Through this off-wiki program I've made senior wikipedians Viswanath B K and Palagiri Ramakrishna Reddy to contribute this project and took some useful advices regarding community engagement too. Some other wikipedians also participated in this program. We also conducted an academy on telugu wikipedia. This program conducted on the first day of National Library Week(India) and Birth anniversary of en:Iyyanki Venkata Ramanayya, Architect of public library movement in India (and telugu as well).

All the month:

• Continued Cataloging DLI Books in Catalog pages created in Telugu wikipedia.
• Developed and created several pages using the Books available in DLI.
• Added several books in Telugu wikisource.

21 August to 20 September

• We faced a major problem in this month. DLI portal got stopped might be due to technical problems or some other problem for 8 days from 27th august. We tried contacting the people behind the website but couldn't succeeded. We couldn't do any cataloging activity, which is the core idea and activity of this problem for those 8 days. Fortunately, website started working from 9th day.

regular work

• Continued Cataloging DLI Books in Catalog pages created in Telugu wikipedia.
• Developed and created several pages using the Books available in DLI.
• Added several books in Telugu wikisource.

21 October to 20 November

Is your final report due but you need more time?

Extension request

New end date

April 21(Final Report Submission) and March 21(Completion)

Rationale

Digital library of India website became slow and stopped many a times for weeks together in september to december last year. Morale and inspiration in my volunteers also have became low. From december DLI website is supporting us with very less technical problems. I could see many great books being added in catalog pages. Many texts from this catalogued books also being added in wikisource by volunteers. I see this as a good momentum for the cause. I wanted few months to make this more successful and meet all measures of success.--Pavan santhosh.s (talk) 05:47, 18 January 2015 (UTC)

Approved! Sorry we missed this one :) Cheers, Siko (WMF) (talk) 13:39, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

Extension request

New end date

Final Report: March 30, 2016

Rationale

Now I am left with finishing final report and also follow-up. I have started writing my finale but to complete report and follow-up, I request to extend my end date.