Grants:Project/Rapid/Pavanaja/Kannada and Tulu community needs research

statusnot funded

Movement Strategy

Pavanaja/Kannada and Tulu community needs research

As we approach towards implementing the Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy initiatives, I plan to undertake research to understand the needs of Kannada and Tulu communities (with main focus on the Karavali Wikimedians User Group as the members of this UG represent a cross section of volunteers of both communities) to arrive at the priority areas while implementing the strategy.

targetKannada and Tulu Wikipedia communities, Karavali Wikimedians User Group community

start dateAug 1

start year2021

end dateDec 31

end year2021

budget (local currency)INR 141,000

budget (USD)USD 1,894

grant typeIndividual

grantee• Pavanaja

contact(s)• pavanajavishvakannada.com

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Applications are not required to be in English. Please complete the application in your preferred language.

Project Goal

Choose one or more of the following goals. You can add or delete goals as needed.

1. Complete research to support a draft implementation plan

Identify the needs of the community: Research will be conducted to understand the needs of the emerging community by interacting with the community members and key stakeholders towards the growth of the community.

1. Encourage facilitate community participation in your plan

Involvement of the community: Community will be involved in the design of the research and finalising plan by way of physical meetings and interviews.

1. Communicate information about movement strategy recommendations to community

Awareness about the movement strategy initiatives will be disseminated to the community, preferably simplified, summarised and provided in their language

1. Develop documentation about your draft plan

Create a document containing the prioritised strategy areas

Project Plan

Activities

1. What movement strategy initiative will your implementation work focus on? Please select one of the initiatives described here.

   Content initiatives in underrepresented communities

2. What community or communities will be involved in this movement strategy implementation work?

   Kannada and Tulu Wikipedia community, Karavali Wikimedians User Group community

3. Do you have any specific implementation ideas to support this initiative? Are you aware of any specific ideas in your community? If so, please briefly describe 1-2 of these ideas here.

1. Please describe your specific activities below to develop a draft implementation plan. What will you do to support your goals to implement this initiative from movement strategy? If possible, please provide a general timeline for these activities. When will they begin and how long will your activities take?

   I plan to investigate the needs of the communities and arrive at a prioritised list of requirements, challenges and opportunities. Face to face meetings will be held to provide a brief rationale of various movement strategy initiatives. This will be followed by research questionnaires sent to the community members. Answers to these questionnaires will be compiled and a strategic document. Another face to face meeting will be held to brief the community about the document that has been arrived at based on their feedback. The whole exercise will be documented and submitted.

2. How have you let relevant Wikimedia communities know about this proposal?

Community will be informed through on-wiki, Whatsapp and Telegram groups, personal emails and phone calls. There also will be online meetings.

1. You are required to provide links to on-wiki pages to inform these communities about your proposed work. Examples of places where this can be done include community discussion pages, affiliate discussion pages, or relevant project talk pages.

   Karavali Wikimedians meta page will have the details. There will be details in Kannada and Tulu Wikipedia Village pumps.

2. How will you keep your community updated about progress and outcomes for these activities? Who will be responsible for communicating these updates? Please add the names or usernames of these individuals below.

   For example: User:I JethroBT

   Dr. U. B. Pavanaja

3. If you are organizing community discussions, what is your facilitation plan to support productive discussions around movement strategy implementation? Please also provide a link to a Friendly Space Policy that will be implemented to support these discussions. If you are not doing these activities, please write N/A.

   Yes, we will be organising the discussions of the community and a link will be provided to the friendly space policy.

4. If you are requesting funding for online tools or services to support participation, please describe these services and how they will be used. If not, please write N/A.

   N/A

5. If you are translating any materials, in what languages will you be supporting translation? Who will be responsible for doing the translations? If not, please write N/A.

   We will be translating some strategy initiative documents to Kannada and Tulu. We will try to find some community volunteers to do the job. If we are not able to find some volunteers free in the given time period, we will hire a professional translator to do the task.

6. What other roles are important for these activities? Please describe these roles and provide the usernames or names of who will perform these roles.

   Program management - Dr. U.B. Pavanaja, meeting facilitation - Dr. Kishore Kumar Rai, translation coordination - Dr. Vishwanatha Badikana, research questionnaire and co-ordinations - Dhanalakshmi K T

7. Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined in the Risk Assessment protocol related to COVID-19. When you have completed these steps, please provide a link to your completed copy of the risk assessment tool below:

   Yes. Risk assessment tool is here.

8. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

   Karavali Wikimedians UG has been actively participating in the Global Conversations around Movement Strategy. With this research we will be able to galvanise support for the implementation of the initiatives.

Outcomes

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:

• Yes, confirmed.

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

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 (time needed to review, perform analysis, or investigate any information needed to support implementation ideas or planning): INR 50,000
• Facilitation (facilitation time including facilitator preparation, meeting facilitation time, and debriefing): INR 5,000
• Documentation (document preparation time, time spent documenting of discussion, post-meeting work): INR 30,000
• Translation (translation costs for briefs and global materials): INR 10,000
• Venue or space for meeting (costs of renting a physical meeting space): INR 10,000
• Transportation costs (costs of supporting organizers or participants to attend the meeting): INR 24,000
• Meals (costs related to refreshments, lunches, or other meals during in-person activities): INR 10,000
• Other: INR 2,000

TOTAL: INR 141000, USD 1894

Completing your application

Once you have completed the application, please do the following:

• Change the application status from status=draft to status=proposed in the {{Probox}} template.
• Contact strategy2030wikimedia.org and rapidgrantswikimedia.org to confirm your submission, as well as to request any support around your application.

Endorsements

Community members are encouraged to endorse your project request here!

•  Support Yes. I do support this project. ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ (talk) 13:40, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support this project would helpful for both Kannada and Tulu language wiki communities.-- --★ Anoop✉ 13:45, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support I do support this project - BHARATHESHA ALASANDEMAJALU (talk) 13:54, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Yes. I support this project. This project will help both Kannada and Tulu language communities.Vidyadhar Chipli (talk) 14:08, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support yes,I support this project.Vinoda mamatharai (talk) 14:33, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Support as it will help Kannada and Tulu wiki communities. ಮಲ್ನಾಡಾಚ್ ಕೊಂಕ್ಣೊ (talk) 14:50, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, I support this Project. Sudheerbs (talk) 14:55, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, I support this Project.Vishwanatha Badikana (talk) 15:17, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support I am generally ready to support proposed projects in South Asia. This group is not asking for much money, and we need Wikimedia community development in the region. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:25, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, I will support this initiative. It will help to Tulu and Kannada wiki communities. Mahaveer Indra (talk) 16:41, 14 July 2021 (UTC
•  Support I will support this project BENET G AMANNA ((14 July 2021))
•  Support Yes, I will support this initiative. It will help to Tulu and Kannada wiki communities.Kishorekumarrai (talk) 03:45, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support It would be helpful to both communities. A good initiative. Soorya Hebbar ^talk 05:14, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Yes, i support this Chidananda Kampa (talk) 06:36, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support I endorse this project and request for grant approval as this will facilitate development of Kannada & Tulu Wiki movement across this region -- Vikas Hegde (talk) 12:50, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Strong support I endorse this project. --Dhanalakshmi .K. T (talk) 17:01, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support This project would helpful for both Kannada and Tulu wiki communities. I endorse this project.--Arpitha05 (talk) 21:57, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Yes. I do support this project. Sanjana Ninjoor (talk) 12:01, 19 July 2021 (UTC)