Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal/Expected Outcome

Expected Outcome

The prime most outcome for this trekking expedition will be to reach the Wiki world beyond the high passes and majestic terrains of Himalayas.

The whole Gangotri National Park is majestically decorated by nature with Coniferous Forest, Meadows and Glaciers.The landscape of the park is mainly dominated by alpine scrub, but oak and betula is also found here.

This park contains more than 15 species of mammals and 150 species of birds including rare and beautiful species like the Snow Leopard, Black Bear, Brown Bear, Musk Deer, Blue Sheep or Bharal, Himalayan Tahr, Himalayan Monal, Koklass and the Himalayan Snowcock. It is also home to the Ibex, Himalayan Barbet, Thar, Serow, Pheasants, Partridges, Doves, Pigeons, Parakeet, Bulbul, etc.

The team will be taking photographs of every possible species, trees,birds, etc. along with various snow capped peaks, glaciers, and terrain. These images will be uploaded in the commons and subsequently, related articles will be created and existing articles will be modified.

The team will also educate other non-wikipedian team members about the importance of wikipedia and on availability of internet connection, they will explain the process of uploading photographs in commons and creating articles in wikipedia.

Non wikipedian trek members will get interested by the efforts of fellow wikipedians, and henceforth the number of active wikipedians will increase.

Impact

Increase reach

Currently this project is focused on Global south region which will Improve editor diversity by recruiting new editors from this particular target group.
Trekking or hiking is extremely well liked adventure sports through the globe and it will be enormously easier to find like-minded open source and free knowledge organizations and initiatives with whom we can collaborator with.
This Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal will be the first major public activity of its kind and will be pivotal in the increased uptake of Wikimedia projects by the populace of the extreme lands in India.
Global participation is the ultimate target of this project. We need to inspire global participation via partnerships and collaboration with institutions and other groups who align with our mission.

Increase participation

Higher impact potential

This team of WTM comprises total nine members; among them three wikipedians and a female wikipedian volunteer is involved. We expect another three non wikipedian experienced trek member to be converted into volunteers.
After the completion of trek, there will be three edit-a-thons, for new editors, where they will be educated with proper guidance, follow-up and mentorship.
Non-wikipedian trek members will be motivated to contribute in commons and other projects.
Outreach efforts by local Wikimedia chapters and community members will also accelerate the impact. The processes, tools, and policies that accomplish and systematize our effort also stimulate the quality of Wikipedia Treks Mountain.
the project has a clear outreach component, with dedicated activities. We can share our experience, which will be presented in detail on-wiki, allowing others to learn.

Lower impact

Increasing Wikimedia's participation in the remotest places (Mana Village, the last village of India) is one of the salient points of Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal. Garhwal Himalaya is crucial to this objective, as a key hub for the whole range of Himalaya. Since the Internet penetrations in these areas are low, the end results will be less satisfactory. Henceforth, the initial impact will increase awareness.

Increasing Quality

Higher impact potential

Wikimedia Commons has an insignificant representation of mountains and peaks along with the species, flora and fauna in the complete Himalayan range. The available images are of moderate to acceptable quality. Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal aims to improve the coverage of the Himalayan range by encouraging people (including professional photographers) to take and donate quality images under free licenses to the Wikimedia Commons database.
The expected ripple effect is that Wikipedia articles about these sites will be created and improved during global upload and edit-a-thons.

Lower impact potential

There will be a stand-alone photo competition encouraging new editors to increase awareness

Encourage Innovation

This Wikipedia Treks Mountain project is focused to take the wikipedians into the nature. All the Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal members are going to use it collaboratively to create and sustain as social innovation. We will create an environment that offers volunteers social space and technical resources to innovate, experiment and learn.
Based on the outcome of this project, we can expand the projects into other adventure sports field like Wiki Treks jungle, Wiki treks coast and Wiki treks desert.
The prizing strategies of the edit-a-thon will be encouraging to the participants.
There will be a documentary for the whole project and this will be the first of it's kind in Global South and supports in doing outreach in an inventive method.
There will be multiple brainstorming sessions during the trek as well as after the trek, where various ideas for Wikipedia Treks Mountain will progress.
Like the projects as Wiki Loves Monuments, Wikipedia Treks Mountain will replicate (Wiki Loves Public Art, Wiki Loves Earth etc.) its earlier successes in developing editing communities that create valuable, high quality knowledge resources in languages they are literate in, to engage a growing readership in all parts of the world in the coming years.

Fit with strategy

The project will provide missing quality images and/or other files from area, which aren't currently very well covered by volunteer work. This will increase the quality of all language editions of Wikipedia, Wikspecies, Wikivoyage and other WMF projects.
Wikipedia Treks Mountain can easily provide large amount of freely licensed photographs of remote places that can be used by the Wikimedians to improve the quality of articles on specific Wikimedia projects. It can also stimulate the community to generate content about greater Himalayan range, alpine meadows, rare high altitude flora and fauna, the lifestyle of the mountain people, their settlement patterns, dress, dialect, Jewelry and others that were photographed during the trekking but were not represented with specific articles. Since Wikipedia Treks Mountain opens up opportunities to promote the Wikimedia community in the country and support active participation of its members, it can benefit to increase professionalization and effectiveness in the work done by the community members.

Financial sustainability

Wikimedia foundation will feel more comfortable in awarding us medium to large-scale grants as a result of us building up a positive track record.
We can approach other organizations (e.g. open street map) to support in this project for providing more accurate information for them on the basis of geo-tagging.
We can approach the local government organizations to support for increasing awareness of Wikipedia

Measures of success

We expect 45% growth in the core involvement team, which will result in niche segment. The current 11% involvement of female wikipedian will also increase in the next WTM project
Achieve a respectable number of uploaded photographs (at least 2000 images) in Commons and more than 100 new articles in Wikipedia about diversifying Himalayan mountain range during the global upload and edit-a-thons.