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Purpose of the report

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This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their impact after completing the full year of their grant. The time period covered in this form will be the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). This form includes four sections; addressing global metrics, program stories, financial information, and compliance. Please contact APG/FDC staff if you have questions about this form, or concerns submitting it by the deadline. After submitting the form, organizations will also meet with APG staff to discuss their progress.

Global metrics overview - all programs

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We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across our grantees' programs. Please use the table below to let us know how your programs contributed to the Global Metrics. We understand not all Global Metrics will be relevant for all programs, so feel free to put "0" where necessary. For each program include the following table and

  1. Next to each required metric, list the outcome achieved.
  2. Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome.
  3. In addition to the Global Metrics as measures of success for your programs, there is another table format in which you may report on any OTHER relevant measures of your programs success

For more information and a sample, see Global Metrics.

Metric Achieved outcome Explanation
1. # of active editors involved
2. # of new editors
3. # of individuals involved 22
4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages 37 new articels, 230 Wikisource pages, 367 new Images and 805 Wikidata items 2,265 articel developed
Foot print tracker 3
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects 2.6


Telling your program stories - all programs

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Please tell the story of each of your programs included in your proposal. This is your chance to tell your story by using any additional metrics (beyond global metrics) that are relevant to your context, beyond the global metrics above. You should be reporting against the targets you set at the beginning of the year throughout the year. We have provided a template here below for you to report against your targets, but you are welcome to include this information in another way. Also, if you decided not to do a program that was included in your proposal or added a program not in the proposal, please explain this change. More resources for storytelling are at the end of this form. Here are some ways to tell your story.

  • We encourage you to share your successes and failures and what you are learning. Please also share why are these successes, failures, or learnings are important in your context. Reference learning patterns or other documentation.
  • Make clear connections between your offline activities and online results, as applicable. For example, explain how your education program activities is leading to quality content on Wikipedia.
  • We encourage you to tell your story in different ways by using videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g.), compelling quotes, and by linking directly to work you produce. You may highlight outcomes, learning, or metrics this way.
  • We encourage you to continue using dashboards, progress bars, and scorecards that you have used to illustrate your progress in the past, and to report consistently over time.
  • You are welcome to use the table below to report on any metrics or measures relevant to your program. These may or may not include the global metrics you put in the overview section above. You can also share your progress in another way if you do not find a table like this useful.
Target Last year (if applicable) Progress (at end of Q2) Projected (end of year) Comments
Example Example Example Example Example

Improving Quality and Content

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Expanding Telugu Village Articles with Census data

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Screen record video capturing improvement of two Telugu Wikipedia Village articles during the period of 2007 - 2017
Absolute bytes trend in Telugu Wikipedia till December 2017 - It shows an all-time hike in last trimonthly of 2017

A2K continued working on improvement Telugu Village Articles in collaboration with Telugu Wikipedians, which turned into the second phase of the project by employing more automation and better collaboration with community members in 2017 last trimonthly. Using information created out of census data, by January 2015 more than 15,000 Telugu Wikipedia articles about Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Villages got improved. Each of these articles improved with information about Literacy, Educational facilities, Medical facilities, Geographical Location, Demographics, Drinking water, Sanitation, Communication, Transport, Market, Banking Facilities, Entertainment, Nutrition Amenities, Electricity, Land Use, Manufacturing & Agriculture Products.

Background

In 2006 Telugu Wikipedians created Tens of thousand pages about Telugu Villages with a very basic information. Telugu Wikipedia Community considered improving these articles as one of the major priorities from then.[1] During discussions about Quality of Telugu Wikipedia, community many times discussed importance of improving those stubs.[2] Wikipedians who are interested in geographical articles improved these articles mainly with demographic data, categorization & templates. Wikimedians who took interest in some district articles improved geographic articles of those districts. Some village articles naturally gained attention from Unregistered users & Wikipedians got improved with some information. But grossly Telugu Wikimedians considered less content in these village articles as a threat to the quality of the project.

Creating information from data - Policies & discussions around it

Renowned environmentalist Madhav Gadgil incubated the idea of creating a complete village article with information about geographic, demographic, amenities & facilities from Census data available in Government Website. In collaboration with Team set up by Gadgil, A2K started working on Telangana & Andhra Pradesh articles in Telugu language, which were later discussed in Telugu Wikipedia Village pump, widely especially about what information can be allowed into articles, what is the style of articles that has to be taken place, considering wide impact of this project. A2K developed a model template articles which matches with accepted style guide discussed by the community. A2K coordinated discussion sessions for Wikipedians with Madhav Gadgil & Subodh Kulkarni. One of the Telugu Wikipedians, Bhaskara Naidu started contributing to this project from February 2017, by publishing automated content in Village articles and improving its language to make it more humanly created the article.

Second phase from October 2017

Improving base articles produced out of automation, helped Wikipedians who are working on this project to avoid repetitive work to improve grammar, transliterate places names and style of the Base article. Current base automation article is being published with very little changes like extra spaces. A2K in collaboration with User:Chaduvari started working on Model template article and improved Logic for better automation and worked with a programmer to create code based on the logic. Using this code, we can create automated base articles that match style guide for Village articles & reduce human effort. By transliterating data present in 2011 census and running code on it, coordinators of this project created automated articles with census data.

Wikimedians Bhaskara Naidu, Yerra Ramarao, JVRK Prasad, Venkata Ramana and others who showed interest in this project, received automatically created articles in district wise. They are publishing these content in corresponding village article by making small changes required.

Way forward

Currently, more than half of the Village articles got improved with information from census data and the wiki project village articles is working to improve remaining. Using Wikipedia add-on in Google Chrome while transliterating of village names, Co-ordinators of this project also generating UIDs of Wikidata (Q Numbers) for each village which further will be used to improve them with census data. This will enable Wikimedians to update (Wikidata & then Wikipedias) whenever new census data is created. By 2018, Total Village articles in Telugu Wikipedia are more than 41%. Many a times, Community expressed concern about these articles mentioning less content in these pages would effect impression on quality of project among readers. So, improving village articles with this content helps improving quality of Telugu Wikipedia in to a large extent. This project also will also provide learnings for Larger Wikimedia Communities that attempt creating information with large data sets.

Increasing Reach

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Reach out wider Telugu community

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Telugu Wikipedia has facebook pages & twitter accounts which were managed by interested users. One of such page is even having more than 7 thousand followers and is regularly engaging with them. A2K supported community members to devise social media strategy and some guidelines to in accordance to that strategy for Telugu Wikimedia projects. Wikimedians. In upcoming months, A2K conduct online training sessions for community leaders who are trying to make their social media presence felt to learn how to utilize social media as a platform to spread awareness about the movement.

Using various social media platforms, We are popularizing several aspects of Telugu Wikimedia projects like information, quality, diversity, community, etc., As part of it, Telugu Wikipedians discussed issues faced in handling social media pages of Telugu Wikipedia and solutions for the issues in Wikipedia Village pump. Community discussed things like How better we can promote Wikimedia projects, what kind of posts can be acceptable, how should one get editing rights in facebook pages and other such aspects. We also framed some guidelines in this regard. This helps us to get authentic information from social media pages

— User:Pranayraj1985

Strengthening existing community

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Telugu Wikisource Workshop

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Telugu Wikisource Workshop 2017 03

Telugu Wikisource Workshop was conducted on 22 & 23 of July 2017 in Hyderabad. As many Telugu Wikipedians who are interested in contributing Wikisource don't know the over all steps in completing eBook and also some of the Wikisource Volunteers don't know how to use tools like OCR, Workshop focused in participants learning about overall Wikisource process (from uploading a pdf to Commons till making it a downloadable eBook) and useful tools like OCR. They were taught important aspects such as copyright, Creative Commons licenses as this would help them select books to upload on Wikisource. Existing Wikimedians and New Volunteers who are interested in contributing to Telugu Wikisource Project and are willing to learn the process of Wikisource are selected to event. New volunteers who participated in this event continued contriubuting consistantly and become very active in project.

I am contributing to Telugu Wikisource for a long time, regularly. I could learn how to do some important aspects of Telugu Wikisource like indexing a book and techniques like OCR in this event. This turned out to be a very useful event. As resource persons are from Telugu language and sessions were in Telugu, I could easily and quickly grasp things.

— User:శ్రీరామమూర్తి

Wikidata Workshop

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A2K supported by fecilitating Wikidata workshop that Asaf Bartov conducted to existing Wikimedians in Hyderabad. A2K co-ordinated with active community members in and around Hyderabad to attend the event and contribute. Later trained and collaborated with other Wikimedians who have not chance to attend the event which resulted to the improvement of Items about Andhra Pradesh villages in Wikidata. NTR Trust provided food and venue for this event.

Wikipedia Education Program review

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On 10 December 2017, A2K team arranged Nichole Saad visits Andhra Loyola College where there are Wikipedia activities from past few years and VVIT where Indic Wikimedian Krishna Chaitanya Velaga is trying to start a new WEP. In Andhra Loyola College, Management and A2K could review past activities and discuss how to scale up the current program. Nichole interacted with ALC students, management and staff who are been part of WEP or being interested to be part of future activities during the visit. In VVIT, Krishna Chaitanya lead meetings with management where Nichole could give her insights and suggestions about successful Wikipedia Education Program. Nichole, Krishna Chaitanya and A2K team members, met interested students in the college and could interact with them about WEP.

Cultivating new editors

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Shiv's 100WikiCommonsDays pics
100 WikiCommonsDays of Adithya Pakide
Video create on the occassion of completion of 50 days in Shiv's fotographia 100 Wiki Commons Days for encouraging

To improve retention in new editors getting on-board, A2K Worked with Communities of Interest and trained New Wikimedians individually. As the part of these activities, we invited only two members who are already part of a WhatsApp group - "Padya Soundaryam" which celebrates, expounds and critically discuss Classical Telugu poetry which is successfully running without any deviation from focus for years. A2K followed and trained individually these two new volunteers who started contributing to Telugu Wikisource from "Telugu Wikisource Workshop". Those 2 Volunteers continued to contributing Telugu Wikisource since then for months.
A2K encouraged users like Shiv's fotographia and Aditya pakide to take up #100WikiCommonsDays challenge, where Aditya pakide signed up for Wikipedia after individual training session. Used challenge as an opportunity to get into continous engagement with them and followed-up with their quiries and encouraged him by publishing videos with their photos in Social Media and by notifying their work in Telugu Wikipedia Village pump for improving utilization of their work in Wikipedia articles. This resulted in retention of the users and hundreds of quality pictures to Commons. Currently out of 180+ pictures uploaded by these two users 29 are being used in articles of several Wikipedias including Telugu Wikipedia.[3]

User File Used in Day
Adbh266 English Wikipedia
Adbh266 Russian Wikinews
Adbh266 Telugu, English Wikipedias
Adbh266 Telugu Wikipedia
Shiv's fotographia English Wikipedia
Adbh266 Telugu Wikipedia
Shiv's fotographia Dutch Wikipedia,
English Wikipedia
Esparantho Wikipedia
Gujarathi Wikipedia
Hindi Wikipedia
Shiv's fotographia vi Wikipedia
Adbh266 Telugu Wikipedia
Adbh266 Telugu and English Wikipedia
Shiv's fotographia vi Wikipedia
Adbh266 Telugu Wikipedia

Digital Telugu Conference and other Government collaborations

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Telugu Wikimedia Community participated in the conference "Digital Telugu" which was conducted by IT Department of Telangana Government in the wake of World Telugu Conference 2017. A2K supported community efforts to voice for policy changes and other efforts needed in order to improve the state of free knowledge in Telugu, in the conference. Wikipedians presented Telugu Wikipedia and Free Knowledge in Telugu under the context of improving the state of Telugu in digital world. This will be helpful to get cross-collaboration between other sections of Digital Telugu and Telugu Wikimedia movement.
In order to make the community more sustainable and get a wide impact, A2K is making efforts to work with Government departments and policy level changes to improve the condition of Open & Free knowledge in Telugu. After several discussions with the department and Community, A2K entered into a MoU with Digital Media Wing, IT Department, Telangana. with the objective to relicense photos archive of the department into CC-BY-SA license and upload encyclopedic and educational content from it into Commons. This MoU also aims to improve awareness about Free licenses in PROs and other such employees in various departments. Activities related to the MoU will get started in upcoming months.

Upcoming activities

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  • Op-eds and features in print and digital media: Due to volunteer efforts of some Wikimedians, Telugu Wikipedia is getting featured in major media in the form of news. A2K is planning to work with interested volunteers and media houses (print, media and online portals) to publish op-eds, features to improve understanding about Telugu Wikipedia and Wikimedia movement.
  • Creating Video Resources: In upcoming months, A2K will work on creating videos that explains how to edit Wikipedia and why to edit Wikipedia in accordance with the Wiki Project that aims to create complete video guide. Each of these videos duration will be few minutes to be easily published and shared in various social media platforms.
  • TTT-session for Telugu Wikipedians: During late February or early March, an intense training session will be conducted to groom community leaders. A2K will encourage them to come up with the existing difficulties and requests related to technical aspects (Technical requests).
  • Wikipedia Education Program: During November and December 2017, in Andhra Loyola College A2K conducted awareness session to Andhra Loyola College students and a review meeting. Workshop and follow-up activities to student Wikipedians started in January 2018, which will be taken forward in upcoming months.
  • A2K worked in an informal collaboration with Telangana language & culture department to provide free space for Wikimedians to conduct Hyderabad Monthly meetups and other outreach activities.
  • Diversifying community by conducting training sessions in the places where Wikipedia community has not tapped earlier and to the sections of society where content and participation is too less in Wikipedia (ex: Women)
  • As the part of Relicensing into CC-BY-SA and digitizations, A2K worked on getting more images into commons by convincing Photographers, ornithologists, historians who has large digital archives to release their work into Commons. Also could get into an MoU with Telangana Government IT Department (Digital Media) to relicense encyclopedic photos of Government departments into CC-BY-SA License. Along with further activities, A2K will work with authors and publishers to relicense books into CC-BY-SA license.

Media Mentions

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Revenues received during this six-month period

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Please use the exchange rate in your APG proposal. Table 2 Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.

  • Please also include any in-kind contributions or resources that you have received in this revenues table. This might include donated office space, services, prizes, food, etc. If you are to provide a monetary equivalent (e.g. $500 for food from Organization X for service Y), please include it in this table. Otherwise, please highlight the contribution, as well as the name of the partner, in the notes section.
Table 2Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.
  • Please also include any in-kind contributions or resources that you have received in this revenues table. This might include donated office space, services, prizes, food, etc. If you are to provide a monetary equivalent (e.g. $500 for food from Organization X for service Y), please include it in this table. Otherwise, please highlight the contribution, as well as the name of the partner, in the notes section.
Revenue source Currency Anticipated Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Anticipated ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Explanation of variances from plan
Volunteer support INR 9600- 2700 -
Travel & Stay INR -
Event organization and logistics INR 16000- 1600
Revenue source Currency Anticipated Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Anticipated ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Explanation of variances from plan
A B C D E F G H I J K

* Provide estimates in US Dollars


Spending during this six-month period

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Please use the exchange rate in your APG proposal.

Table 3 Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.

(The "budgeted" amount is the total planned for the year as submitted in your proposal form or your revised plan, and the "cumulative" column refers to the total spent to date this year. The "percentage spent to date" is the ratio of the cumulative amount spent over the budgeted amount.)
Expense Currency Budgeted Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Budgeted ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Percentage spent to date Explanation of variances from plan
A B C D E F G H I J J2 K
TOTAL B C D E F G H I J J2 N/A

* Provide estimates in US Dollars


Compliance

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Is your organization compliant with the terms outlined in the grant agreement?

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As required in the grant agreement, please report any deviations from your grant proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.

Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".

Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Grant funds as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".

Signature

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Once complete, please sign below with the usual four tildes.

Resources

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Resources to plan for measurement

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Resources for storytelling

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References

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  1. ↑ Discussion about Village article stubs on WP:VP in 2013
  2. ↑ Discussion about ideal Village article in Telugu Wikipedia Village pump in 2010
  3. ↑ https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/CIS-A2K/Telugu_New_Users_in_Commons/home
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