Grants:Project/Rapid/WBG/Wiki Exploration 2021

Briefly explain what are you trying to accomplish with this project, or what do you expect will change as a result of this grant. Example goals include, "recruit new editors", "add high quality content", or "train existing editors on a specific skill".

The exploration project involves photo-documentation of less documented built heritage structures of which includes mostly more than 150 to 200 year old brick built temples and other similar structures in the total state of West Bengal. Like the past four years, this project will be undertaken on behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group. These structures form an important part of heritage of West Bengal and many of them are rapidly decaying as there is not much effort to conserve these structures. These temples have terracotta motifs on their wall which showcases have almost no presence on Wikimedia Commons or other Wikimedia sites. Also, there are other historically important built heritage structure like mansions and other important structures in the vicinity which also needs to be documented. This project will enrich the image bank of Wikimedia Commons and relevant images will be used in Wikipedia articles in due course of time.

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. What will you and other organizers spend your time doing?

The project of documenting heritage built structures of West Bengal has been subdivided district wise. My base will be at Kolkata from where I will travel to different district, make temporary base there and conduct exploration in the relevant districts. With the help of district maps and local contacts, I will trace down the structures and photograph them in detail. My fellow team members will help me in coordinating with local contacts, preparing the route maps and keep tracks of structures documented.

How will you let others in your community know about your project (please provide links to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions)? Why are you targeting a specific audience?

West Bengal Wikimedians User Group has been informed of this project officially here and I will conduct the exploration on behalf of the group.

West Bengal community has been notified at the mailing list.

What will you have done at the end of your project? How will you follow-up with people that are involved with your project?

I will have submitted around 10,000 relevant images to Wikimedia Commons. The other team members (at the most two, mostly just a single person) will mainly be involved in providing support service to my documentation work. The user group will be helping to create structured data about the monuments on Wikidata, which will be eventually included on Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India.

Are you running any in-person events or activities? If so, you will need to complete the steps outlined on 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:

This project involves myself and at the most one or two person. No gathering of 10 or more person is involved. We'll follow local health guidelines, as mentioned in #1, and #2 of the risk-assessment protocol.

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets and feel free to add more specific to your project:

Number of total participants: 3 people (max.) directly as part of exploration along with 2 more people from WBG to build structured data on Wikidata
Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (if applicable): 10000 +
Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects (if applicable): 5-10%

Resources

What resources do you have? Include information on who is the organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

Terracotta Panels of a temple located in Purba Bardhaman district documented in 2019.

A Navaratna temple in Bankura district photographed in 2019

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Active UG to provide support the project.
Experience in successfully planning and executing similar projects in the past by the UG.
- Purulia - I (2017)
- Bankura - I (2018)
- Birbhum - I (2018)
- Malda - I (2018)
- Hooghly - I (2018)
- Purba Bardhaman - I (2019)
- Bankura - II (2019)
- Paschim Medinipur - I (2019)
- Purba Bardhaman - II (2020)
- Purba Medinipur - I (2020)
- Cooch Behar - I (2020)
Experience in executing past funded projects:
- From the local community
- From WBG

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense:

Wiki Explores Paschim Medinipur - Phase II
#	Category	Item description	Unit	No. of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	Logistics	Travel: Local				25,570	INR	Find the proposal here
2	Logistics	Accomodation	nights	7	2,000	14,000	INR
3	Food and beverages	Breakfast + Lunch + Afternoon Snacks + Dinner	days	7	1,500	10,500	INR
4	Miscelleneous					900	INR
	Total					50,970	INR
Wiki Explores Bankura - Phase III
#	Category	Item description	Unit	No. of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	Logistics	Travel expenditure				10,600	INR	Find the proposal here
2	Logistics	Accomodation	nights	3	2,000	6,000	INR
3	Food and beverages	Breakfast + Lunch + Afternoon Snacks + Dinner	days	3	1,000	3,000	INR
4	Miscelleneous					200	INR
	Total					19,800	INR
Wiki Explores Howrah - Phase I
#	Category	Item description	Unit	No. of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	Logistics	Travel expenditure				2,500	INR	Find the proposal here
2	Logistics	Accomodation				0	INR
3	Food and beverages	Breakfast + Lunch + Afternoon Snacks + Dinner	day	1	500	500	INR
	Total					3,000	INR
Wiki Explores Dakshin Dinajpur - Phase I
#	Category	Item description	Unit	No. of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	Logistics	Travel expenditure				12,600	INR	Find the proposal here
2	Logistics	Accomodation	nights	3	1,500	4,500	INR
3	Food and beverages	Breakfast + Lunch + Afternoon Snacks	days	3	1,000	3,000	INR
4	Miscelleneous					200	INR
	Total					20,300	INR
Wiki explores Purba Bardhaman Phase III
#	Category	Item description	Unit	No. of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	Logistics	Travel expenditure				19,200	INR	Find the proposal here
2	Logistics	Accomodation	nights	6	2,000	12,000	INR
3	Food and beverages	Breakfast + Lunch + Afternoon Snacks + Dinner	days	6	1,000	6,000	INR
4	Miscelleneous					200	INR
	Total					37,400	INR
Wiki explores Nadia Phase I
#	Category	Item description	Unit	No. of units	Cost per unit	Total cost	Currency	Notes
1	Logistics	Travel expenditure				8,500	INR
2	Logistics	Accomodation	nights	3	1,500	4,500	INR
3	Food and beverages	Breakfast + Lunch + Afternoon Snacks + Dinner	days	3	1,000	3,000	INR
4	Miscelleneous					200	INR
	Total					16,200	INR

	Grand Total					147,670	INR	Requested Amount

Endorsements

Support. This will go a long way in documenting the heritage of Bengal. Hrishikes (talk) 03:00, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
Support per Hrishikes. Mahir256 (talk) 04:37, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
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