Grants:APG/Proposals/2015-2016 round 2/The Centre for Internet and Society/Progress report form/Kannada

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Purpose of the report edit

This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For impact reports, the time period for this report will be the full 12 months of this grant, including the period already reported on in the progress report (e.g. 1 January - 31 December of the current year). This form includes four sections, addressing global metrics, program stories, financial information, and compliance. Please contact APG/FDC staff if you have questions about this form, or concerns submitting it by the deadline. After submitting the form, organizations will also meet with APG staff to discuss their progress.

Global metrics overview - all programs edit

We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across our grantees' programs. Please use the table below to let us know how your programs contributed to the Global Metrics. We understand not all Global Metrics will be relevant for all programs, so feel free to put "0" where necessary. For each program include the following table and

  1. Next to each required metric, list the outcome achieved for all of your programs included in your proposal.
  2. Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome.
  3. In addition to the Global Metrics as measures of success for your programs, there is another table format in which you may report on any OTHER relevant measures of your programs success

For more information and a sample, see Global Metrics.

Metric Achieved outcome Explanation
1. # of active editors involved 19
2. # of new editors 290
3. # of individuals involved 475
4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages 243
  • Category:Adyar Falls
  • Category:Unidentified Lepidoptera in Sammilan Shetty's Butterfly Park Belvai
  • Category:Interior of St. Aloysius Chapel, Mangalore
  • Category:Mangaladevi Temple
5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects 1180(folios)+ 928 new articles
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects 3.29MB 2.45added & 0.84MB deleted


Telling your program stories - all programs edit

Please tell the story of each of your programs included in your proposal. This is your chance to tell your story by using any additional metrics (beyond global metrics) that are relevant to your context, beyond the global metrics above. You should be reporting against the targets you set at the beginning of the year throughout the year. We have provided a template here below for you to report against your targets, but you are welcome to include this information in another way. Also, if you decided not to do a program that was included in your proposal or added a program not in the proposal, please explain this change. More resources for storytelling are at the end of this form. Here are some ways to tell your story.

  • We encourage you to share your successes and failures and what you are learning. Please also share why are these successes, failures, or learnings are important in your context. Reference learning patterns or other documentation.
  • Make clear connections between your offline activities and online results, as applicable. For example, explain how your education program activities is leading to quality content on Wikipedia.
  • We encourage you to tell your story in different ways by using videos, sound files, images (photos and infographics, e.g.), compelling quotes, and by linking directly to work you produce. You may highlight outcomes, learning, or metrics this way.
  • We encourage you to continue using dashboards, progress bars, and scorecards that you have used to illustrate your progress in the past, and to report consistently over time.
  • You are welcome to use the table below to report on any metrics or measures relevant to your program. These may or may not include the global metrics you put in the overview section above. You can also share your progress in another way if you do not find a table like this useful.

Institutional partnerships edit

In collaboration with various institutions that work in wide ranging academic fields, programs are being developed in order to cultivate new editors from enthusiastic communities of students and scholars. The goal is to develop Wikipedia catalysts within these institutions for continual contribution. The institutions are listed below:

Institution Edit-a-thon Skill building Photothon Wikisource
Christ University, Bengaluru YesY YesY YesY YesY
SDM College, Ujire YesY YesY
St Aloysius College, Mangaluru YesY YesY
Alva’s College, Moodbidri YesY YesY YesY YesY
Mysore University YesY

Wikipedia Education Program edit

Institution Language Wikimedia project Duration
Christ University Kannada, Hindi & Sanskrit Wikipedia, Wikisource & Wikimedia Commons 1 year
SDM College, Ujire Kannada Wikipedia, Wikisource 1 year
St. Aloysius, Mangalore Kannada Wikipedia 1 year
Alva's College Kannada Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons 1 year

Other activities edit

In addition to the ongoing Wikipedia Education Program at Christ University, other noteworthy outcomes have been listed below:

Representation at WikiConference India 2016 edit

Christ University's Wikipedia in Education Program at WikiConference India 2016 by Punjabi Wikimedians and WikiConference India team.

Student representatives from Christ University took part in WikiConference India 2016. Their proposal to present was accepted by the organisers and the students laid out the ongoing activities at Christ University. The global community was witness to volunteer retention beyond the scope of the Wikipedia Education Program.

Certificate course edit

A certificate course was introduced to the students of Christ University, with the aim of training interested students in advanced editing in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.

Policy pages edit

Christ University students have also taken active part in the framing of policy pages for Kannada Wikipedia, usually seen as a challenging administrative task. With the participation of community members, the students have been able to frame uniform guidelines in Kannada Wikipedia with basic policy pages like Deletion Policy, No Original Research, Article Title, Neutral Point of View etc. These were created and put up for review by the community. These localised policies were then accepted by the community.

Internships edit

In order to improve the quality of existing content on Kannada Wikipedia, CIS-A2K mentored 17 interns from Christ University, based on suggestions from the community. The students were asked to improve stub articles on Kannada Wikipedia. The students, while interning at CIS-A2K, edited and improved upon 2500 stub articles. Additionally, a list was made of articles that existed without images and references which were then improved by adding corresponding images and references. Around 300 articles were improved by the Christ University interns. This was widely appreciated by community members.

Photo walks edit

Painting on the roof of the St,Aloysius Chapel,Mangalore by Vinay Bhat during Mangalore Photo-walk.

Mangalore Photowalk edit

Kannada Wikipedia community members conducted a Photowalk in Mangalore. Many historically significant monuments and sites did not have images on Wikimedia Commons. The Photowalk was an attempt to get the images of these locally revered sites onto Commons.

Kadalekai Parishe edit

CIS-A2K in collaboration with the Photographic Society of Bangalore(PSB) and the Kannada Wikipedia community organised a Photowalk in Kadalekai Parishe, Bangalore. Kadalekai Parishe(Kannada: ಕಡಲೆಕಾಯಿ ಪರಿಶೆ), is an annual groundnut fair held in Bangalore. This two-day fair is held near the Dodda Ganesha Temple in Basavanagudi. Apart from groundnuts, there are a variety of stalls at the fair, selling bangles, traditional toys and clay trinkets, plastic and glass dolls, Mehndi tattoos, etc. There are a variety of food items for sale such as bajji, bonda, batthaas(coloured sugar candies), kalyana seve or bendu(sugar-coated gram) and coloured soda.

Edit-a-thons edit

CIS-A2K has conducted four thematic edit-a-thons in and around Karnataka for the development and wider reach of Kannada Wikipedia. These thematic edit-a-thons were suggested by the community members and taken up by CIS-A2K. Two such edit-a-thons were organised in Alva's College, Moodabidire, one each in SDM College, Ujire and DSERT, Bangalore.

Alva's 2016 August
  • Alva's College is our newest collaborator, having signed MOUs with CIS-A2K and the Kannada Wikipedia community. There was enthusiastic participation from 18 faculty members chosen as coordinators from across different subjects taught at the institution. These faculty coordinators were given basic training in editing Wikipedia. These coordinators will guide the students in writing to Wikipedia. The training programme was also attended by student ambassadors who displayed a keen interest in the programme. Experienced Kannada Wikipedia community members also provided guidance at the event.
  • SDM College, Ujire is another key institutional partner of CIS-A2K. An orientation session was held in SDM college, where students and faculty took part. First-year students pursuing Bachelor of Arts degrees in Kannada language/literature were thought how to digitise the books on Kannada Wikisource; the faculty were taught basic editing on Wikipedia.
DSERT edit-a-thon by Kannada community members
  • The DSERT edit-a-thon was conducted in the month of August. A group of teachers from the Department of State Educational Research and Training were taught how to use and edit Kannada Wikipedia and its sister projects. The theme at this thematic edit-a-thon was science.

Overall Metrics edit

- Target Last year (if applicable) Progress (at end of Q2) End of year (projected or actual)
# of newly registered users 500 Example 340 500
# of active editors involved 110 Example 19 50*
# of individuals involved 925 Example 475 925
# of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages 5175 Example 243 5175
# of new images/media uploaded (optional) 2800 Example 400 2800
# of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects 975 Example 1180(folios)+ 928 (new articles) 975
Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects 4.96MB Example 3.29MB 4.96MB
  • The number of active editors is revised.

Activity wise edit

Wikipedia Education Program (WEP) edit

- Expected target Progress (at end of Q2)
# of newly registered users 200 240
# of active editors involved 20 15
# of individuals involved -
# of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages 400 new articles and 200 existing articles to be improved 450 new articles & 2500 existing articles
# of new images/media uploaded (optional) 4000 -
# of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects
Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects 1000 2.39MB

Edit-a-thons edit

- Expected target Progress (at end of Q2)
# of newly registered users 50 59
# of active editors involved -
# of individuals involved -
# of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages 75 90
# of new images/media uploaded (optional) -
# of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects -
Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects -

Skill Building edit

- Progress (at end of Q2)
# of newly registered users
# of active editors involved
# of individuals involved
# of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages
# of new images/media uploaded (optional)
# of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects
Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects

GLAM activities edit

- Expected target Progress (at end of Q2)
# of newly registered users -
# of active editors involved -
# of individuals involved -
# of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages -
# of new images/media uploaded (optional) 600 120
# of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects -
Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects -

Revenues received during this period (6 month for progress report, 12 months for impact report) edit

Please use the exchange rate in your APG proposal.

Table 2 Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.

  • Please also include any in-kind contributions or resources that you have received in this revenues table. This might include donated office space, services, prizes, food, etc. If you are to provide a monetary equivalent (e.g. $500 for food from Organization X for service Y), please include it in this table. Otherwise, please highlight the contribution, as well as the name of the partner, in the notes section.
Revenue source Currency Anticipated Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Anticipated ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Explanation of variances from plan
A B C D E F G H I J K

* Provide estimates in US Dollars


In-kind support edit

Table 2 Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.

  • Please also include any in-kind contributions or resources that you have received in this revenues table. This might include donated office space, services, prizes, food, etc. If you are to provide a monetary equivalent (e.g. $500 for food from Organization X for service Y), please include it in this table. Otherwise, please highlight the contribution, as well as the name of the partner, in the notes section.
Revenue source Currency Anticipated Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Anticipated ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Explanation of variances from plan
Volunteer support INR - - - -
Travel & Stay INR - 2000 - -
Event organization and logistics INR - 9500 - -

* Provide estimates in US Dollars


Spending during this period (6 month for progress report, 12 months for impact report) edit

Please use the exchange rate in your APG proposal.

Table 3 Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.

(The "budgeted" amount is the total planned for the year as submitted in your proposal form or your revised plan, and the "cumulative" column refers to the total spent to date this year. The "percentage spent to date" is the ratio of the cumulative amount spent over the budgeted amount.)
Expense Currency Budgeted Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Budgeted ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Percentage spent to date Explanation of variances from plan
A B C D E F G H I J J2 K
TOTAL B C D E F G H I J J2 N/A

* Provide estimates in US Dollars


Resources edit

Resources to plan for measurement edit

Resources for storytelling edit