Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Outreach Campaign at Hyderabad National Book Fair - 2024-25 by TWUG (ID: 22675781)
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Applicant Details
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Vjsuseela
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Main Proposal
edit- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Outreach Campaign at Hyderabad National Book Fair - 2024-25 by TWUG
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-11-01 - 2025-02-15
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
India
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Other (please specify) Spreading the concept and philosophy of Telugu Wikipedia to reach the common people
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
During 2021 - 2024, Telugu Wikipedia has seen tremendous growth in terms of new articles. The number of new articles increased 307% over that of 2017-20 period. But, intriguingly, the new user registrations during the same period was only 49% of the previous forur years' number.
When the same statistics are observed for 2017-20 over the 2013-16 - the new articles count was only 63%, while new users count was 127% over the previous period.
Clearly, the user base growth is very low in comparison with the number of articles growth. There is a need to take the concept of Wikipedia further into the people.
Challenges: Many Telugu people access English Wikipedia for knowledge. The reasons are -
1. They do not know the existence of Telugu Wikipedia
2. They do not see as much information on Tewiki articles as it is there in Enwiki
3. The awareness about anybody-can-edit-Wikipedia is too low amongst the readers
4. Many elders, who want to contribiute, still do not have Telugu typing tools enabled in their devices hence cannot type in Telugu
To overcome these challenges, We propose to -
1. Conduct focussed Campaigns to reach communities like teachers, retired citizens, homemakers, University students etc
2. Provide training on the editing tools and editing on mobile devices
3. Engage people to make minor edits and see them going live immediately. Instead of pushing them to create an account, we want them to do a few anonymous edits and see the same going live instantly. Once they get the hang of it, we encourage them to create an account and start editing regularly. A follow-up activity is also planned for the same.
4. Create a group for the new editors and encourage mutual interaction and sustain the editing activities through Wikiprojects, Editathons etc.
5. To widen the article base on Telugu Wikipedia with a focus towards local content. During 2023-24 Tewiki has started working in this direction. New Editors will be encouraged to participate in the relevant Wikiprojects
- 7. What are the planned activities? (required) Please provide a list of main activities. You can also add a link to the public page for your project where details about your project can be found. Alternatively, you can upload a timeline document. When the activities include partnerships, include details about your partners and planned partnerships.
Hyderabad National Book Fair is an annual event, organised by Hyderabad Book Fair society. This 11-day event is held during December - January months every year. Various book sellers from across India participate in the event. 800,000 to 1,000,000 book lovers visit the event every year. These knowledge seekers are the target audience for our campaign.
We planned the following activities at the book fair:
1. Set up a Telugu Wikipedia booth at the Book Fair with the arrangements like banners, posters, computers, handbook, pamphlets etc
2. The booth will be manned by wikipedians experienced both in editing Wikipedia as well as in outreach activities
3. Booth attendants will explain about Wikipedia and its main concepts. Interested visitors will participate in live editing sessions.
4. These editing sessions will be conducted everyday at the Booth to introduce Wiki editing to the visitors.
5. Visitors interested in further engagement with Wikipedia will register themselves at the Booth. These visitors will be future prospects for Wikipedia editing
5. Conduct quick quiz sessions for the visitors and give away small tokens of appreciation
6. One 2-hour event at the Central stage of the book fair, will be organized to celebrate 100,000 articles of Tewiki. We are planning to invite a community influencer to this event.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
The team will comprise of only volunteering Telugu Wikimedians. All the core activities of the programme will be carried by them. A team of 5 persons has already started working on the concepts and on creating a Handbook. Following is the list of volunteers
1. Pranay Raj - Coordination with Fair authorities, daily Booth management and event management Username:Pranayraj1985
2. Kripal Kasyap:Daily Booth management and event management. Username:Kasyap
3. Batthini Vinay Kumar Gaud - Daily Booth management Username:Batthini Vinay Kumar Goud
4. Bethi Nagarani - Daily Booth management Username:Nagarani Bethi
5. Murali Krishna: Daily Booth management Username: Muralikrishna m
6. Rajasekhar - Daily Booth management and event management Username: Rajasekhar1961
7. T Sirish Kumar - Daily Booth management Username:Chaduvari
8. Nomula Prabhakar Goud - Daily Booth management Username:ప్రభాకర్ గౌడ్ నోముల
9. Yarra Ramarao - Daily Booth management Username:యర్రా రామారావు
10 V.J.Suseela - Coordination. Username:Vjsuseela
In addition to our core team, we will receive support from the CIS-A2K team, which will assist us with a part of logistics and program planning. They also helped us write this grant under their community collaboration program.
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
Basically, Book lovers above the age of 25 are the target audience. Our Focus will be on teachers, writers, media people, Homemakers and University students. People engagement efforts include the following:
Before the start of the book fair,
1. Our booth and our programme will be announced through various channels of communication. Press notes and News bytes will be released through mainstream media and through various social media channels.
2. Prepare a list of mentors (existing Tewiki editors) who are willing to hand-hold new persons who show interest to participate in Telugu Wikipedia. Mentors will contact those who register at the booth.
During the days of the book fair, people will be engaged in the following ways:
1. Generally most of the visitors are not aware of MediaWiki projects. They will be Introduced to Wikipedia through articles of their interest like about their birth place, their favorite movie, literary personality, political and other events etc. Ask them to see if any changes are required in these pages. Visitors will be encouraged to register themselves for future engagement with Wikipedia.
2. nEnipuDu vikiipIDiyannu (I am a Wikipedian now): Those who are aware of Tewiki, Tewikisource etc., will be encouraged to create their Tewiki account and start editing their User page. They will be encouraged to participate in the Tewiki Badi (Tewiki School) online training classes that are conducted every Sunday at 2 PM to know more about editing.
3. Senior Wikipedians, who have achieved fame through Wikipedia like An-Article-A-Day for 6 consecutive years, 3 years, for 2 years etc, will be introduced to the visitors who talk about their experiences.
4. We expect to engage a minimum of 5 persons per day for an in depth engagement with the project who are likely to convert to be editors in due course
After the programme follow up activities will be carried out as -
1. Visitors who enrolled for the weekly online training programme will be enrolled into a Whatsapp group and encouraged to start participating in the weekly training sessions.
2. They will be encouraged to create accounts in Tewiki and start editing.
3. Mentors continue their engagement with the new editors, alongside the Growth Experiments project.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
- 10.1. Please provide a link to your Youth Safety Policy. (required) If the proposal indicates direct contact with children or youth, you are required to outline compliance with international and local laws for working with children and youth, and provide a youth safety policy aligned with these laws. Read more here.
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
This proposal was discussed in an online meeting of the user group on 26 May 2024 The proposal was put in village pump at https://w.wiki/AFhT and at https://w.wiki/AFhS
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Not applicable
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement
Learning and metrics
edit- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
1. Issues involved in organising events of this scale and plan for future programmes
2. How the knowledge related interests vary with age groups, gender, occupation and education levels.
3. Explore all the possible ways to approach people of different walks of life to take the Wikipedia concept more effectively
4. The entry barriers, if any, that the readers face in contributing to Wikipedia
5. Problems that new editors face in Wikipedia. We want to focus on those issues, that are troubling the new editors and improve the Help documentation accordingly
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | 3000 | We estimate that about 3000 people will interact with the booth volunteers during the period. Of them, about 500 will be enrolled for further engagement during our follow-up activities. |
| Number of editors | 50 | Of the 500 people that enroll with us, 50 will finally start editing regularly on Wikipedia |
| Number of organizers | 10 | Everyday there will be at least 3 volunteers will conduct the Booth activities. |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
|---|---|
| Wikipedia | 50 |
| Wikimedia Commons | 50 |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
- Optional description for content contributions.
While we have an eye on the number of edits made during the campaign period, our main focus is on the continued engagement of the new editors on Wikipedia. We hope that, on average, 500 edits per month come from these new editors regularly.
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
Outreach dashboard and spreadsheets will be used. In case any additional functionality is required, we will take the help of CIS tech team.
Financial proposal
edit- 21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WFZXwNpP2wSRtdids70mt__8jyOX73ZrsfpbAFgkFBo/edit?usp=sharing
- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
330559.54 INR
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
3976.63 USD
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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