Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 (ID: 22216265)/Final Report
Report Status: Under review
Due date: 2024-02-29T00:00:00Z
Funding program: Rapid Fund
Report type: Final
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- Applicant username: Jayprakash12345
- Organization name: N/A
- Amount awarded: 4899.89
- Amount spent: 4939.49 USD, 4583.1
Part 1: Project and impact edit
1. Describe the implemented activities and results achieved. Additionally, share which approaches were most effective in supporting you to achieve the results. (required)
The Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group organized the Indic MediaWiki Hackathon 2023 in Chennai, India. The goal of the hackathon was to bridge gap between technical contributors and content contributors in Indic communities. The hackathon took place in Chennai on 16 & 17 December 2023. The hackathon was broadly divided into two parts, introduction to technical spaces and project hackathon. The following sessions took place:
- Introduction to Wikimedia technical spaces
- MediaWiki APIs
- Toolforge & VPS
- Data across Wikimedia projects
- Accessibility Wikimedia technical spaces
- WMF Movement Comms and Partnerships
- CIS-A2K Needs Assessment
On Day 1, project groups were formed after the initial introduction, which continued hacking on various technical projects on the both. A list of specific topics will be provided in the later sections. We also had participants from Viluppuram GNU/Linux Users Group (VGLUG) (https://vglug.org/) a open-source group based in Tamilnadu, which has formed base for future partnerships.
2. Documentation of your impact. Please use space below to share links that help tell your story, impact, and evaluation. (required)
Share links to:
- Project page on Meta-Wiki or any other Wikimedia project
- Dashboards and tools that you used to track contributions
- Some photos or videos from your event. Remember to share access.
You can also share links to:
- Important social media posts
- Surveys and their results
- Infographics and sound files
- Examples of content edited on Wikimedia projects
- Event page: Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023
- Commons category: Category:Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023
- Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Indic_Wikimedia_Hackathon_2023
Additionally, share the materials and resources that you used in the implementation of your project. (required)
For example:
- Training materials and guides
- Presentations and slides
- Work processes and plans
- Any other materials your team has created or adapted and can be shared with others
3. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with this Rapid Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals. Required. Select one option per question. (required)
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | Strongly agree |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | Agree |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | Not applicable to your fund |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | Not applicable to your fund |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | Not applicable to your fund |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers | Neither agree nor disagree |
| G. Increased participants' feelings of belonging and connection to the movement | Agree |
| F. Other (optional) |
Part 2: Learning edit
4. In your application, you outlined some learning questions. What did you learn from these learning questions when you implemented your project? How do you hope to use this learnings in the future? You can recall these learning questions below. (required)
You can recall these learning questions below: We intend to learn the following things from this activity
- organizing hackathons with a mix of existing developers and new developers interested to learn
- a buddy system during the hackathons
- working with potential FOSS groups
Over the last few hackathons, we realized that it is hard to design and well execute a program with both newcomers and existing newcomers, and also retention strategies with follow-up activities. We adopted this format in the annual plan for 2024 where the activities are planned separately for newcomers, with follow-up hackathons to connect with the rest of the community.
5. Did anything unexpected or surprising happen when implementing your activities? This can include both positive and negative situations. What did you learn from those experiences? (required)
A few days before the event, Chennai was hit by heavy cyclone, we had to closely monitor the news and be in contact with the situation on ground to assess whether it would be possible to organize the event as planned or to cancel. Eventually, after understanding information from various sources, we decided to proceed with the event as planned.
6. What is your plan to share your project learnings and results with other community members? If you have already done it, describe how. (required)
We plan to use and share our learnings through activities planned as part of the annual plan for 2024.
Part 3: Metrics edit
7. Wikimedia Metrics results. (required)
In your application, you set some Wikimedia targets in numbers (Wikimedia metrics). In this section, you will describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used.
| Target | Results | Comments and tools used | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 15 | 21 | |
| Number of editors | 0 | 0 | not applicable as this is a hackathon |
| Number of organizers | 4 | 3 |
| Wikimedia project | Target | Result - Number of created pages | Result - Number of improved pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia | |||
| Wikimedia Commons | |||
| Wikidata | |||
| Wiktionary | |||
| Wikisource | |||
| Wikimedia Incubator | |||
| Translatewiki | |||
| MediaWiki | |||
| Wikiquote | |||
| Wikivoyage | |||
| Wikibooks | |||
| Wikiversity | |||
| Wikinews | |||
| Wikispecies | |||
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
8. Other Metrics results.
In your proposal, you could also set Other Metrics targets. Please describe the achieved results and provide links to the tools used if you set Other Metrics in your application.
9. Did you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results? (required)
Yes
9.1. Please state what difficulties you had. How do you hope to overcome these challenges in the future? Do you have any recommendations for the Foundation to support you in addressing these challenges? (required)
Currently, we don't have any tool to count the bug fixes during the event, lines of code added, etc. Basically, we don't have any tool to measure metrics relevant for a hackathon/technical event. will have to manually track and report.
Part 4: Financial reporting edit
10. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency. (required)
4583.1
11. Please state the total amount spent in US dollars. (required)
4939.49
12. Report the funds spent in the currency of your fund. (required)
Upload the financial report
12.2. If you have not already done so in your financial spending report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal. (optional)
13. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
No
13.1. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
N/A
13.2. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
N/A
13.3. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
N/A
14.1. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
No Your response to the review feedback. 14.2. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
Yes
14.3. 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 Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
No
15. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here. (optional)
Review notes edit
Review notes from Program Officer:
N/A
Applicant's response to the review feedback.
N/A