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Latest comment: 10 months ago by JChen (WMF) in topic Follow-up questions by Programme Officer

Grant History for Tamil Wikimedian Community (Non- exhaustive) edit

Latest comment: 10 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

For context, I am putting together a list of grants that have been accessed by Wikimedians who are/were active on Tamil Wikiprojects and/or community organisers with an interest in organising offline activities within the state of Tamil Nadu (i.e. they may or may not be members of an affiliate). The list is non-exhaustive. The objective is to provide background on the resource accessed, network and experience of community organisers/wikimedians. Please feel free to add on. Thank you.

JChen (WMF) (talk) 04:16, 20 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Follow-up questions by Programme Officer edit

Latest comment: 10 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello @Selvasivagurunathan m,

Thank you for putting in an application. I've reviewed your application and have further questions. Would it be possible to receive your responses by some time this week (if your schedule permits) and we'll target to provide an update on funding outcomes by next week. Thank you.


Local context

1) Based on your experience as an active contributor of Tamil Wikiprojects, could you share your observations on history and growth of online contribution and/or offline participation? I have referenced some wikimedia statistics to gather a broader overview. Your perspective would be useful in supplementing the data with local knowledge and context.

2) Given the history of grants accessed by the Tamil Wikimedian Community, are you aware of any of the recent projects, connected to/ collaborating with any of the other community organisers? Do you foresee any peer learning that could happen during project implementation, fund management and reporting phases of the project? I noted you observed a similar project happening in another community Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Malayalam Wikimedia Educational Program (ID: 22113994) on your planning talkpage.

3) Thank you for sharing the project planning talkpage. It provides insights into the community outreach and consultation during the pre-application phase and is a reflection of the support that you have garnered from the community as well. Does the community currently curate meta pages on a specific topic or subject (for example: Wikiproject Singapore; Wikiproject New Zealand/Pasifika Arts Aotearoa) that serves as a central repository where editing guidelines, guides for suggested articles reside? If yes, could you provide the references?

4) For training materials related to Introduction about Wikipedia & sister projects, Basic training (navigation and editing), are there existing resources that you plan to re-purpose from? Could you share more?


Learning, sharing and evaluation

5) Could you provide a timeline for your project? For example, this spans the duration of the project from start to finish of reporting? And it would include an overview of activities, roles (i.e. who is doing what for activities and project roles - administrative, financial management, reporting etc), when would this happen and how?

6) In question 15, you mentioned three key learnings. As the project duration is planned for 1 July 2023 to 30 September 2023, and the report is usually due one month after, how/ where do you plan to publish these findings or learnings?

"1. How innovative this 2-days workshop and what will be the impact in the growth of Tamil Wikipedia in next 1 year of time?

2. How the response from teachers community and how from students community?

3. Does asking 'curation of articles' instead of 'creation of new articles' retain new users?


Thank you.

Regards, Jacqueline JChen (WMF) (talk) 05:20, 20 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

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