User:Ananth (CIS-A2K)/Impact report 2019-20

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Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
Participants	2,841	CIS-A2K's existing and new institutional partners have helped us to achieve these targets as well as the events conducted under Focused Language Area (FLA) and Focused Project Area. Due to COVID-19, we were not able to  conduct many events in the work plan and therefore the targets were not achieved completely.
Newly Registered	899
Content Pages	On Wikipedia 470 new Wikipedia pages 1517 articles have been developed On Wikisource 23,461 folios were proofread 11,299 folios were validated 7,848 Page namespace pages were created 22,000 folios scanned to upload on Wikisource On Wikidata 41,263 Indian language labels added Relicense 109 books have been released under free-license and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons 83 books in the public domain have been scanned and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons 145 images have been released under the free-licenses	Community level events conducted by CIS-A2K have helped to achieve these targets.  Online events based on the community interest and requirements have helped to achieve these targets.  Focused Project Areas - Wikisource & Wikidata - have helped to achieve these targets.
Footprint Tracker	26	CIS-A2K events/activities took place in the following cities/places. Ambethan Bangalore Coimbatore Delhi Faridkot Guntur Hyderabad Ichalkaranji Kharagpur Kolhapur Kolkata Mangalore Mumbai Nagpur Nashik Pabal Patiala Pune Rajgurunagar Salem Sangli Santiniketan Satara Solapur Ujire Uttan
Gender ratio	An aggregate of approx 41% of female Wikimedians have taken part in the events organised by CIS-A2K.	Please see Gender ratio here

Metric	Projected Target
Participants

Institutional partnership

CHRIST

Student training at Samskrita Bharati

A 3-day special workshop/training was conducted for the students of Christ University with the help of Samskrita Bharati, Aksharam on “Editing and proof-reading in SamskritWikisource” was conducted in the month of September 2019. Eleven students of 2nd year B.com course took part in workshop/training. They were briefed about the purpose and benefits of Wikipedia and Wikisource as well as how it is useful for society by the Sanskrit Wikipedians at Samskrita Bharati. 

The main purpose of the workshop was to motivate the students to work on Wikisource, the online library. Various aspects of Wikisource such as OCR, Page alignment and proofreading were explained. All eleven students were willing to work on Wikisource. Therefore, the Page Layout and proof-reading task in SamskritWikisource were taught. Each student was given an assignment of 30 pages of KautiliyamArthashastram & BhartruhariSubhashitam

Certificate course at Christ

Certificate course was started at Christ as an active step to enable the spread of content writing on Wikipedia in vernacular languages and also to motivate more number of students and create more interest among students community to contribute on Wikimedia platforms.

During the certificate course, students get training for 45 hours which includes on Wiki contribution and discussion with the community members. In this academic year, 30 students took part in the certificate course in Malayalam, Kannada, Hindi, Tamil and Sanskrit languages.

This course is designed with the help of the needs assessment of the students. This course has three major components:

• Introduction to Wikipedia - This incorporates the history of online encyclopedias and Wikipedia itself, using sources, choosing and drafting articles and moving articles to the main space.
• How to edit and publish articles - Here, common templates, editing and Wikification of articles, adding content such as tables and references, legal aspects, policies and guidelines, tackling vandalism and tools for producing illustrations are dealt with.
• Wikipedia’s reliability and social significance - Under this component, Wikipedia is discussed in a critical and evaluative manner, where matters such as its ethics, existence as a social community, existence as a democratic project, use by students, teachers, librarians and journalists, criticisms and measures to improve its quality come under the purview.

Alva's

• Wikipedia Stall in Media Buzz 2020
  

On 28 & 29 February 2020, Wikipedia stall was arranged at a International Conference - Media Buzz organized by Alva's Journalism Department. This stall was put up to demonstrate the Wikipedia activities being conducted by Student's association at Alva's college and the top contributions from the college. Also, India's first Newseum - Alva's Newseum's newspaper exhibition was also arranged which included first editionsof newspapers and profile of Sreekar L. Bhandarkar, the coordinator Newseum. The main aim of the events was to spread the awareness about Wikimedia projects. 

• Internship
  

On 21 February 2020, Wikipedia Internship Training was conducted for the students of Alva's college. This was an Internship programme for the students who are interested to contribute to Wikimedia projects. This was a 60 day-long internship programme where students worked on the set of assigned tasks based on the community needs. This helped students in learning the Wikimedia projects in depth and contribute to Kannada Wikimedia projects, mainly Wikipedia & Wikisource. Total 18 students from the undergraduate course took part in this programme.  

• Wikisource training in Alva's college
  

CIS-A2K organised a two day Wikisource workshop for the students of Wikipedia student association at Alva's college on 14 & 15 December 2019. This event was designed based on the requirements and needs of the student's community to enhance their skills in Wikisource. The student community at Alva's college has been contributing actively to Kannada Wikisource from past 10-12 months, but the students were lacking some of the advanced skills which would increase their knowledge and ease their contribution on Wikisource. To make the best use of the students' time,  a needs assessment was done to understand the requirements.  Topics like OCR, Advance proofreading techniques, Complex templates, Transclusion of Books and  Advance formatting using JS were taught to the students in this workshop. Total 18 students took part and proofread 231 pages, validated 54 pages, while total 2,720 edits were made. 

• Social Media Campaign
  

A social media campaign was started and being continued to encourage students by highlighting their work and the achievements in the Wikimedia movement to the other college students. This helps in attracting more number of students to the Wikimedia world and boost the energy of the current student Wikimedians. 

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Kannada Wikisource webinar

What? A Wikisource webinar was organised to guide the Kannada Wikisource community with advance proofreading techniques, transclusion, to discuss the common mistakes being done by the contributors and the next steps on which the community should work on. 

When? & Where? 30 June 2020 this  webinar was conducted 

How?

Impact made:

Kannada Wikisource Online Contest

What? Wikisource Online contest for Kannada community members to proofread and validated more number of pages on Kannada Wikisource. This contest was open to all Kannada Wikimedians and Interested community members. 

When? & Where? This was an online contest from 15 March to 30 March 2020.

How? Due to COVID-19 institutional partners of CIS-A2K were not functional in a regular manner. In order to keep the motivation of the student community members, an Online Wikisource contest was planned with the help of the experienced Wikisource contributors. In order to start the contest, a set of rules and guidelines were discussed and followed in the contest, this contest was a 15-day online contest where 16 student community members took part and proofread more than 1300 pages and motivated the student community members to be regular contributors. 

Impact made: In this Wikisource contest, roughly 1,300 folios were proofread and 700+ page were validated. This contest also helped the Kannada community to motivate some of the student community editors to regularise in there contribution to Wikimedia projects.   

Learning:

• It was difficult to keep all participants motivated throughout the event, as some of them were busy in the college and other activities. 
• A tool to measure the Wikisource contribution to be developed with the 100% accuracy, existing tools were having some issues and was not able to update the stats on time to motivate the community members. 

Corona virus Edit-a-thon

What? An online Edit-a-thon to was organised to create awareness about the ongoing pandemic (COVID-19) in the regional languages, which would help most of the people to understand about the pandemic in their native languages as some part of the people understand if the things are shared in the mother tongue. 

When? & Where? This Edit-a-thon was an online event which was organised for 15 days, but this writing sprint went more than the schedule as there was more number of article which needed to be created.  

How?COVID-19 edit-a-thon was planned and started in lockdown period in India, by the community members with the help of CIS-A2K to enrich the content on Kannada Wikipedia by creating the articles related to COVID-19. During this event, online meetups and discussion sessions were organised to have more interaction among the community members and to create the best article.  

Impact made: In this contest, more than 80 articles were created and the data related to the number of active cases, recoveries and  deaths is being updated on regular intervals. 

Request page

What? CIS-A2K started this programme in 2013 to support the Indian Wikimedians to conduct the Wikimedia events/activities.  This support includes financial, non-financial & Technical requests from the communities. The request page is open throughout the year for community members but due to COVID-19, it was closed from 13 March 2020 till further notice. 

When? & Where? CIS-A2K provides support to the Indic communities requests throughout the year posted on meta page - CIS-A2K/Requests

How? The request page was open to all the Indic Wikimedians from 1 July 2019 to 13 March 2020, due to COVID-19, this was closed in the month March following the instructions given by the Wikimedia Foundation. In this interval, we have received 13 Financial and one Non-Financial request. 

• Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in India: West Bengal Wikimedians User group organised the Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in India (WLM) for the second year in a row. Since WLM is an International level event, it is important for the  Indian community to take part in it. As the initiative was taken by West Bengal Wikimedians to provide an opportunity for Indic Wikimedians to be part of this, CIS-A2K supported them financially to provide gift cards and T-shirts for the top ten contributors of the event. This was one of the major events where 6,371 images were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Indic community. 

• Tamil Wikisource Edit-a-thon for School students: Tamil Wikimedians organised Wikisource proofreading events for the School students of Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu. Total of 26 students took part in the event and contributed to Wikisource with the help of experienced contributors. Currently, 6 students from the 9th standard are selected and regular training is provided to those students. This was a direct output of the Wikimedia Education SAARC conference held in 2019.  

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  The image was taken as part of Tamil Wikisource events conducted with the help of Wikisource request page.  
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  This image was taken as a part of WLM2019 which was support by CIS-A2K.

Case Study on Wikimedia in Education

This short study of the education programme at Christ (Deemed to be University), Bengaluru, was undertaken between October 2019 to April 2020 to understand better some of the important aspects of the programme, including motivations, challenges and impact over the last several years. The methods for the study comprised of semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders, namely students, faculty and community members along with the use of a detailed questionnarie. The research mainly focussed on the use of Wikimedia in the classroom and its challenges and possibilties. The analyis of data collected offered some interesting learnings on the structural aspects and changes in the programme over the last few years. It also presented some important observations on the need for skill-building with respect to faculty members and students, and ways of rethinking pedagogic strategies for using open educational resources and collaborative platforms like Wikimedia in regional languages.

Spending during this period

Expense	Currency	Budgeted	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Cumulative	Budgeted ($US)*	Cumulative ($US)*	Percentage spent to date	Explanation of variances from plan
Conversion rate: 1 → US$ 0.01408
1. Program Expenses
Program Director	INR	192,000	-	-	153,698	60,000	213,698	3,009	(21,698)	111%
Program Manager	INR	720,000	305,285	309,979	100,000	196,497	911,761	12,838	(191,761)	127%
Program Officer (Communications & Documentation)	INR	540,000	-	50,000	198,000	462,000	710,000	9,997	(170,000)	131%
Research officer	INR	840,000	210,000	210,000	220,000	210,000	850,000	11,968	(10,000)	101%
Wikisource Advisor	INR	504,000	102,000	102,000	102,000	174,000	480,000	6,758	24,000	95%
Wikidata Advisor	INR	456,000	109,500	109,500	109,500	109,500	438,000	6,167	18,000	96%
Community Advocates	INR	1,480,000	303,800	172,000	72,000	126,000	673,800	9,487	806,200	46%
Program Associate	INR	420,000	108,000	108,000	120,000	-	336,000	4,731	84,000	80%
Research Intern	INR	336,000	84,000	84,000	84,000	84,000	336,000	4,731	-	100%
Tech Advisor	INR	540,000	-	-	-	-	-	-	540,000	0%	Underspent: We had not hired a Tech person for the grant year 2019-20, the existing team has tried to manage works.
Volunteer support	INR	1,200,000	111,827	363,244	79,449	94,088	648,608	9,132	551,392	54%
Staff travel & stay	INR	250,000	54,450	88,782	204,053	-	347,285	4,890	(97,285)	139%
Events (includes Workshops and meet-ups)	INR	1,200,000	169,278	584,068	265,856	86,517	1,105,719	15,569	94,281	92%
Digitisation	INR	180,000	-	-	11,918	92,897	104,815	1,476	75,185	58%
Skill building	INR	600,000	-	46,711	551,943	21,133	619,787	8,727	(19,787)	103%	Overspent: Increased number of skill-building activities has resulted in spending more than budgeted.
General Service & Support to the movement	INR	720,000	-	6,867	49,162	295,661	351,690	4,952	368,310	49%
Creating movement resources	INR	200,000	37,373	-	60,000	-	97,373	1,371	102,627	49%	Undersdpent: Resources are created based on the community requests and only a few communities showed interest.
Miscellaneous	INR	120,000.00	48,760	22,046	3,246	38,604	112,656	1,586	7,344	94%
Indian Wikimedians' Global Engagement	INR	520,000	299,105	12,674	-	-	311,779	4,390	208,221	60%	Underspent: Due to cancellation of the Wikimania2020 and other events the expense is less than the budgeted.
CIS-A2K members Global Engagement	INR	280,000	15,000	-	9,752	277,333	302,085	4,253	(22,085)	108%
Program Expenses Sub-total	INR	11,298,000	1,958,378	2,269,871	2,394,577	2,328,230	8,951,056	126,031	2,346,944	79%
2. Operational Expense
Program Director	INR	768,000	170,202	213,864	100,000	-	484,066	6,816	283,934	63%
Program Manager	INR	480,000	-	-	200,000	300,000	500,000	7,040	(20,000)	104%
Finance Officer	INR	696,000	163,350	198,870	192,000	192,000	746,220	10,507	(50,220)	107%
Institutional development	INR	1,874,483	246,913	341,060	230,387	1,049,385	1,867,745	26,298	6,738	100%
Equipment's and consumables (with license)	INR	300,000	18,047	169,188	-	-	187,235	2,636	112,765	62%
Operational Expenses sub-total	INR	4,118,473	598,512	922,982	722,387	1,541,385	3,785,266	53,297	333,207	92%
Total	INR	15,416,473	2,556,890	3,192,853	3,116,964	3,870,891	12,737,598	179,345	2,678,875	83%