Grants talk:PEG/Titodutta/Swami Vivekananda complete works Bengali

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• The grants program, from memory, has a normal minimal grant of $500, with this fall under. That said, this is a cool project, and you're well positioned to execute it. I would support either waiving the minimum in this situation, or having Tito come back with a bigger plan. Either way, I would really like to see this approved. Kevin (talk) 05:27, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

• Hello, $ 50 is sufficient for the project's basic requirements. I can include few more large works with this one, but I don't want to do so, because a) one work at a time, b) though I am saying I'll create "Complete works", I'm expecting, I'll need to create 1000 or so new pages, so there will be some pressure on me. Thanks. --Tito☸Dutta 06:58, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Hopefully Staff will see it fit to lower the minimum in this case. Barring that, I'll literally just paypal you fifty bucks or something. Thanks for coming up with a fairly unique project idea involving one of our less focused on sister projects that has a lot of potential for productive use. Kevin (talk) 18:18, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

• Thank you. I have emailed grants@wikimedia.org (38 hours ago), but have not received reply. Do I need to email again? --Tito☸Dutta 18:48, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

Book & CD/DVD buy

Hi, Tito thank you for initiatives. But I am afraid, generally Wikimedia foundation not give you any grants for buying book. Could you please explain what will you do with those books/DVD?Jayantanth (talk) 20:09, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

• Create content from those books. --Tito☸Dutta 20:14, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Could not understand please explain elaborately. Jayantanth (talk) 20:17, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

• I to access to those books and documents (Sangeet Kalpataru was not in my list to create documents. I wish to create the digital copies from those books. --Tito☸Dutta 20:20, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Are you trying to call me? I shall talk with you tomorrow. Wikmedia India grants the small funds. Rs 3000 is not a big deal. We need just good project idea. you can submit your grants here. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Main_Page . Till I am not clear about you project idea. Jayantanth (talk) 20:30, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

• Please go to wikisource:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, you will get entire set of Vivekananda's works. Now, these works have Bengali versions (a larger number of texts were originally written in Bengali). In Bengali Wikisource, we have only few pages or nothing. I wished to create the entire set in Bengali Wikisource. --Tito☸Dutta 20:37, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Ok very good to see you BN.WS. Come on bengali wikisource. there are lots of works to do!!! But if you really try to add those bengali works, why you need to buy books, CD DVD?? Though all are in available in internet? What will you do after project completed?? Are you you return back all books and DVD to WMF?? Though personally I have all books of Swami Vivekananda. What do you want to do with those books??? Are you aware about the WS copyright policies? We can not upload latest edition. Jayantanth (talk) 20:48, 27 November 2013 (UTC)

Referred to Local Funders

This request is below the funding threshold for the Project and Event Grants program. I have referred Mr. Dutta to Wikimedia India and to CIS-A2K, as both of those organizations have a community budget for this kind of support, and can more effectively support this request. Asaf Bartov (WMF Grants) talk 21:06, 27 November 2013 (UTC)