Grants:PEG/Satdeep Gill/January 2016 Events

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Satdeep Gill/January 2016 Events

This Grant Request is to support upcoming events of Punjabi Wikimedians.

targetPunjabi Wikipedia

strategic priorityIncrease participation

start date1 January 15 January

start year2016

end date31 January

end year2016

budget (local currency)37,000 INR

budget (USD)555 USD

grant typeTeam

non-profit statusNo

creator• Satdeep Gill

contact(s)• satdeepgill@gmail.com• jhammatgaurav@gmail.com

website• https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians

created on16:11, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

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Goal

The goal of this initiative is to mark the 15th birthday of Wikipedia by Punjabi Community with a number of programs. The programs aims to increase number of editors as well as the quality of articles.

Plan

Activities

• January 2016 Patiala Meetup: (2 January 2016) Many things are required to be discussed.

1. Discussions regarding future of Punjabi Wikimedians. (We are planning of setting up a permanent local space.)
2. Selecting an appropriate delegate for Wikimedia Conference 2016.
3. Encouraging and helping in filling Wikimania 2016 applications.
4. Discussions related to the quality of Punjabi Wikipedia.
5. Discussions about Punjabi Wiktionary, Punjabi Wikibooks, Punjabi Wikisource etc.
6. Discussions regarding Wikipedia 15 celebration and Kotkapura Workshop.

Expected participants: 20

• Wikipedia 15 celebration: (15 January 2016) We're planning to celebrate Wikipedia's Birthday with Punjabi Wikimedians. The event will include a general meeting, discussing future plans and upcoming policies, story telling, launch and #Wikipedia15 cake cutting.

1. This is going to be a celebration mainly but with a lot of discussions.
2. We are planning to hire a professional Photography team to do some interviews and to get some pictures for future pamphlets and posters.

Expected participants: 30

• Kotkapura Workshop: (10 January 2016) Kotkapura is a town in Punjab. Punjabi Wikimedians are doing an one-day workshop in this town. It will be on 10 January 2016 (Sunday). Number of Wikimedians who will go to do this, it will be decided in January 2016 Meetup.

There will be two sessions for this program. One will be a lecture for a bigger audience to make them aware about Wikipedia and Punjabi Wikipedia. Second session will be a live editing session with some veteran editors and some budding and new editors.

Expected participants: 50 (Session 1) + 20 (Session 2)

Impact

Target readership

This program is intended to mark the 15th birthday of Wikipedia as a whole, but the initiatives within the program will particularly help Punjabi Wikipedia. We expect to increase the number of editors and active editors.

Fit with strategy

• Increase the number of editors:
• Increase the quality of articles:

Measures of success

We will measuring the success on the basis of the Global metrics.

1. News reporting in a Punjabi newspaper.
2. We can also get feedback from Users regarding their experience and can use it in our Report.

Resources and risks

Resources

• Evidence of past success in executing similar projects: Include links to previous grant requests/reports. -->
• Evidence of past success in executing similar projects:

Grant request: Grants:PEG/Satdeep Gill/Punjabi Wiki Workshop Chandigarh
Report: Report for Punjabi Wiki Workshop Chandigarh.

• Wikipedia 15 Celebration coordination team
• Gaurav Jhammat
• Satddeep Gill
• Parveer Grewal

Risks

• Lack of time - Punjabi Wikimedians consists such Wikimedians who are active or very active editors but they are not comfortable to do voluntarily work. Currently community has no full-time or part-time employees. So organizing such a program by volunteers may cause some problems as not everyone can work full-time.
• Low participation in the workshop and contest - There is also a risk that past contributors or workshops attendees will no longer participate in the workshops or the contest will have low number of participants.

Budget

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Project budget table

Patiala Meetup 6

2 January 2016 - 1,500 INR for some snacks and travel reimbursement to one or two participants if required.

Wikipedia 15 Celebration

Number	Category	Item description	Unit	Number of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	Logistics	Travel Scholarships	1	15	400	6,000	INR
2	Food and Beverages	Lunch	Per Person	20	200	4,000	INR
3	Celebrations	Wikipedia 15 Cake	1		1,000	1,000
4	Certificates			50	20	1,000	INR
	Total					12,000	INR

Kotkapura Workshop Budget

Number	Category	Item description	Unit	Number of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	Logistics	Travel Scholarships	1	10	500	5,000	INR
2	Logistics	Accomodation (1 night)	Twin Sharing	6	1,000	6,000	INR	This might vary.
3	Food and beverages	Lunch day 1 + Tea/Coffee and Snacks	Per person	25	200 + 50	6,250	INR	Expected price for Lunch
4	Food and beverages	Dinner day 1	Per person	25	200	5,000	INR	Expected cost
5	Posters	Posters and pamphlets				1,000	INR
6	Stationary	Projector	on Rent	1	1,000	1,000	INR	Expected cost
7	Miscellaneous	Unforeseen				750	INR
	Total					25,000	INR

Total cost of project

43,000 INR 37,000 INR

Total amount requested

We already have 42,201 INR 37,000 INR remaining from previous grant and we hope to cover this Grant request with that.

Additional sources of revenue

None

Non-financial requirements

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