Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki Knowledge Club

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Nirjal stha/Wiki knowledge Club
Organizing 13 days Wikimedia education program "Wiki Knowledge Club" in a community based campus in Kathmandu. Wiki knowledge Club is a forum that enables new users to enroll into wikimedia project and let them with required knowledge to learn fundamental know how about ways to contribute into wikimedia projects and other required tools.
targetWikipedia, Wikidata, commons, Wiktionary
start dateJanuary 3rd
end dateJanuary 18th
budget (local currency)NPR 208,909.85
budget (USD)$ 1,860
grant typeIndividual
granteeNirjal stha
contact(s)• nirjal@me.com• nirajanko@gmail.com


Project Goal edit

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".

Wiki knowledge Club is a forum that enables new users to enroll into wikimedia project and let them with required knowledge to learn fundamental know how about ways to contribute into wikimedia projects and other required tools. To start with, we will start this project into a community college of Kathmandu where around 20-30 students of undergraduate students will be enrolled into wiki knowledge club and teach team the basic know how of wiki projects and open knowledge within the period of 13 hours course.

From this project we expect the following outcomes;

  1. Introduction of new users in wiki environment
  2. Increased active users.
  3. Creation of new articles in Nepali Wikipedia.
  4. Improvement of stub articles.
  5. New photos will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
  6. Addition of new items in wikidata

Project Plan edit

Activities edit

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

We will conduct wiki knowledge class in Peoples’ Campus of Kathmandu for 20-30 undergraduate students. We will conduct 13 days classes and each class session will be for 1 hour. We have discussed on this project in the community village pump and formed two teams for this purpose; one team will work on the management of the project and another team will be for operation of the project which works on the resource person for the classes. Management team will manage the classes, coordination with the resource person and the college focal person whereas the operation team will coordinate with the resource person and closely work with them.


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?

We have discussed this project in the village pump with the community members and started the project only after the approval from the community. We have also formed two teams for this project from the latter mentioned discussion.

link of the discussion https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/विकिपिडिया:चौतारी_(अफ_विकि_कार्यक्रमहरू)#विकिमिडिया_शिक्षा_कार्यक्रम

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

During the project period we will closely monitor the activities of the participants through event dashboard and at the end of the project we will keep in touch with the participants to engage them in wikimedia projects.

Impact edit

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:

  1. Number of total participants
  2. Number of articles created or improved (if applicable)
  3. Number of photos uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (if applicable)
  4. Number of photos used on Wikimedia projects (if applicable)
  1. 30 new users will be introduced in wiki environment
  2. 10 active users will be increased.
  3. 100 new articles will be created in Nepali Wikipedia.
  4. 50 stub articles will be improved to 300 words and 3000 bytes article.
  5. 100 new photos will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
  6. 50 new items will be added in wikidata
  7. Reports submitted by the participants regarding effectiveness of Wiki Knowledge club


Resources edit

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).

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

  • Accessories (Diary, pen etc) NPR 561.58 * 30 = NPR 16,847.4 = $ 150
  • T-shirt for the participants NPR 1,684.76 * 30 = NPR 50,542.8 = $ 450
  • Internet and flex (for other than computer lab) NPR 11,231.7 = $ 100
  • Certificates for the participants NPR 561.58 * 30 = NPR 16,847.4 = $ 150
  • Travel expenditure for resource Person NPR 6,739.05 = $ 60
  • Prize (Edit-a-thon) NPR 4,492.70 * 5 = NPR 22,463.5 = $ 200
  • Final Ceremony NPR1,684.76 * 50 = NPR 84,238 = $ 750


Endorsements edit