Grants:Project/MSIG/511KeV/Ambassadors Program for Kashmiri community
Applications are not required to be in English. Please complete the application in your preferred language.
Project Goal edit
What will be the outputs of your project and how will those outputs contribute to advancing a specific Movement Strategy Initiative
- Kashmiri Language community is presently the most underrepresented community among other Indic Language communities. This project will help us to strengthen the ties between this small community and make there voices heard and include in MC. My work will be to translate MC content in this language so that the community can engage with Movement Charter.
- What specific Movement Strategy Initiative does your project focus on and why? Please select one of the initiatives described here
- Under the banner of Ensure Equity in Decision-Making, I want to work specifically work on translations of MC content to Kashmiri language for better understanding of the contents by this under represented community. Creating content in this language will bind this community with the MC and thus help in Ensuring Equity in Decision Making even from smaller communities.
Project Background edit
- When do you intend to begin this project and when will it be completed?
- I intend to work on this from 22 November to 17 December.
- Here is the detailed timeline of the project;
- We will try to complete the translations of the Movement Charter content till 5 December.
- From 5 December to 12 December, we will conduct online conversations with the community. During this time, we will be taking feedback from Kashmiri language community. Despite this community is small, To ensure Equity in Decision Making, We hope to get feedback from minimum 3 persons. The format of these meetings will be chosen according to the availability of the community members.
- The feedback collected from these meetings will be published on Meta-Wiki from 12 December to 17 December.
- Where will your project activities be happening?
- The project activities will be happening Online.
- Are you collaborating with other communities or affiliates on this project? Please provide details of how partners intend to work together to achieve the project goal.
- I as the project manager will be doing most of my work by myself, including translation and reporting on meta. If possible, we would be taking lessons from other MC Ambassador's for better coordination of the project.
- What specific challenge will your project be aiming to solve? And what opportunities do you plan to take advantage of to solve the problem?
- Since, Movement Charter is an important plan, we will be implementing this project to make MC to reach our community so that our community is also involved in this. Translation of MC content will be the main step, so that our small community can engage with the MC.
I will be organising the meetings with the community members so that they know more about the MC and take feedback from them about the same and report it on Meta.
- Does this project aim to apply one of the examples shared in the call for grants and if so which one?
- This grant is aligned with the MC Ambassador's Grant Program.
Project Activities edit
- What specific activities will be carried out during this project? Please describe the specific activities that will be carried out during this project.
- During this period, I will be translating the MC related content to Kashmiri language and carrying other activities, arrange meetings related to this, reporting any suggestions from the local community on meta-wiki.
- How do you intend to keep communities updated on the progress and outcomes of the project? Please add the names or usernames of these individuals responsible for updating the community
- I will be posting in the Kashmiri Wikimedia project Village pump, so that the community is kept upto date about things happening and about how this grant is implemented.
- Who will be responsible for delivering on this project and what are their roles and responsibilities?
- I will be doing the most of the work for this project as a cordinator and as a translator of MC Content, so that this small Community feels included in the bigger Movement.
Additional information edit
- If your activities include community discussions, what is your plan for ensuring that the conversations are productive? Provide a link to a Friendly Space Policy or UCoC that will be implemented to support these discussions.
- We will be implementing the Friendly space policies for this project.
- If your activities include the use of paid online tools, please describe what tools these are and how you intend to use them.
- We will mostly be using open tools eg Zoom to Organize any meetings with the community.
- Do your activities include the translation of materials, and if so, in what languages will the translation be done? Please include details of those responsible for making the translations.
- Translation of content into Kashmiri language is the main motive of this project. I will be doing the translation.
- Are there any other details you would like to share? Consider providing rationale, research or community discussion outputs, and any other similar information, that will give more context on your proposed project.
Outcomes edit
After your activities are complete, we would like to understand the draft implementation plan for your community. You will be required to prepare a document detailing this plan around a movement strategy initiative. This report can be prepared through Meta-wiki using the Share your results button on this page. The report can be prepared in your language, and is not required to be written in English.
In this report, you will be asked to:
- Provide a link to the draft implementation plan document or Wikimedia page
- Describe what activities supported the development of the plan
- Describe how and where you have communicated your plan to relevant communities.
- Report on how your funding was spent
Your draft implementation plan document should address the following questions clearly:
- What movement strategy initiative or goal are you addressing?
- What activities will you be doing to address that initiative?
- What do you expect will happen as a result of your activities? How do those outcomes address the movement strategy initiative?
- How will you measure or evaluate your activities? What tools or methods will you use to evaluate your activities?
To create a draft implementation plan, we recommend the use of a logic model, which will help you and your team think about goals, activities, outcomes, and other factors in an organized way. Please refer the following resources to develop a logic model:
- Overview of logic models on Meta-wiki
- Example logic models for reference for other movement activities (such as partnerships and edit-a-thons)
- Blank logic model template on Google Drive
Please confirm below that you will be able to prepare a draft implementation plan document by the end of your grant:
- I agree.
Optionally, you are welcome to include other information you'd like to share around participation and representation in your activities. Please include any additional outcomes you would like to report on below:
Budget edit
How you will use the funds you are requesting? List bullet points for each expense. Don’t forget to include a total amount, and update this amount in the Probox at the top of your page too!
- Research: $100
- Facilitation : $100
- Documentation: $100
- Translation: 10$ × 30 (days) = 300$
- Coordination: 100$
- Online tools or services: $30
- Data: $50
- Venue or space for meeting : Not Applicable for Online meeting.
- Transportation: $0
- Meals $50:
- Other: Webcam = $25
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED USD: $855
Completing your application edit
Once you have completed the application, please do the following:
- Change the application status from
status=drafttostatus=proposedin the {{Probox}} template. - Contact strategy2030
wikimedia.org to confirm your submission, as well as to request any support around your application.
Endorsements edit
An endorsement from community members (especially from outside your community) will be part of the considerations when reviewing your application. Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!
Support, Having met 511KeV several months ago offline, I feel he has the potential to take the Kashmiri language community forward. He recently participated in DCW's Wikidata event and I found his contributions very impressive. I endorse this project. ─ The Aafī on Mobile (talk) 04:40, 23 November 2022 (UTC)- Support. i feel such projects will help the Kashmiri community to be more represented in the movement. I will also try to help in this project. Best of luck.Koshur (talk) 06:54, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
- Support, for regional communities, it's very important to understand what's new things happening in the upper structure of their foundation in which they are working voluntarily. So am endorsing this project and wishing this project would be helpful for the future community growth. A very best wishes to ambassadors and community. Gaurav Jhammat (talk) 06:27, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
- Support I totally support this. 511KeV is doing an amazing job in bringing kashmiri Wikipedia into a bigger spot by promotion and other means. In order to keep up with that trajectory, it is important to have the necessary help for greater events and attract users familiar with the language for rising the contributions in Kashmiri. Imranqazi90 (talk) 17:46, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
