CIS-A2K is presenting the impact report for the work-plan period 1 July 2018 – 30 June 2019 (please see the proposal and the work-plan). For this impact report, the time period will be the full 12 months of this grant, including the period already reported on in the progress report. The document structure, including its sections, have been created following the instructions at Grants:APG/Report preload.
The Centre for Internet & Society or CIS is a registered non-profit organisation in India. It has its head office in Bangalore, Karnataka, and an office in Delhi. CIS undertakes interdisciplinary research on the internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives. The official CIS website may be seen at cis-india.org. Please learn more about different programs and initiatives of the organisation such as Accessibility, Openness, Internet Governance, Telecom, Research at Work etc. The annual reports and audit reports of CIS may be seen here, and the organisational policies may be read here.
Access to Knowledge started serving the Wikimedia communities in India focusing on specific language communities (this structure was called "Focused Language Area"s or FLAs. So far, we have closely worked with (in alphabetical order) Kannada, Konkani, Odia, Marathi, Telugu communities). Other than the FLAs, CIS-A2K has provided general support and services to all other Indian Wikimedia communities as well. From 1 July 2018 onwards we are gradually shifting from Focused language area (FLA) to Focused Project Area (FPA).
Some of the major events and activities conducted/supported by CIS-A2K between 1 July 2013 and 30 June 2018 are:[1]
Conducted
Supported
Train the Trainer Program, an annual workshop to develop and improve Wiki-leadership skill among Indian Wikimedians
MediaWiki Training, an annual workshop discussing MediaWiki, how it works, different extensions, tools, gadgets etc.
Wikimedia in Education, introducing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in universities and colleges such as Christ University
CIS-A2K Request page, a portal on Meta-Wiki where Wikimedians can make/support requests under three categories: financial, non-financial requests and technical support.
CIS-A2K has published two strategy documents so far to support the proposals and the work-plans. Please see the strategy documents below by clicking on the links.
CIS-A2K, in this work plan year, conducted and supported several Wiki events, initiatives, and activities. Some of these events were new and we tried them for the first time, while some of the other events like Train the Trainer and Mediawiki Training, we conducted the next iterations with some changes according to the needs-assessment and following our own observation after the previous iterations.
Wikisource is an important Wikimedia project and several Indian Wikimedia communities are actively working on Wikisource. We found good scope to serve Indian Wikisource communities by providing the required support. We conducted a national level Wikisource Consultation in Kolkata in November 2018. The objective of this consultation was to provide different language community Wikisourcers to share their common learning, progress, and challenges. This was the first national-level dedicated Wikisource event in any form in India. We also conducted a series of Wikisource workshops in Patiala, Guwahati, Banglore, Salem, Ahmedabad and Pune. In the upcoming year also, we will continue supporting Wikisource communities in India.
On Wikidata also, we have seen growth in the previous year in India. Earlier, we supported a series of Wikidata training in India. In this work plan year, to take it to the next level, we organized an advanced level national Wikidata workshop in Mumbai. Topics like OpenRefine, Lexeme, Advanced Wikidata tools were covered.
We conducted the sixth iteration of Train the Trainer (TTT 2019). We collaborated with a community who co-organized the workshop this year. We also conducted the fifth iteration of the Mediawiki training (MWT). Other than the national level TTT and MWT, we conducted regional TTT and MWT in West Bengal, Punjab, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
CIS-A2K and different community members are actively working with a few educational institutions in the Wikimedia in Education. Christ University conducted a Wikimedia Education SAARC conference this year in June 2019, where CIS-A2K was the primary supporter. Other than India, Wikimedians from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal participated in this conference.
Our Request page has remained a platform to provide general support for Wikimedians in India. This year, the requests which were supported were: Wiki Loves Monuments India in 2018, Indian SVG Translation Campaign & others.
We are also dedicatedly working to bridge the gender gap. As part of this effort, we tried to ensure more female participation in all our events. We will continue to work in this area in the upcoming year also. However, the proposed research on bridging gender gap could not be done this year.
Evaluation of the events conducted by CIS-A2K was evaluated by the community members can be seen here.
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
Next to each required metric, list the outcome achieved for all of your programs included in your proposal.
Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome.
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
In this grant year, CIS-A2K continued to work on FLAs like Marathi and with institutional partners like Christ University.
Other than Wikipedia, we also focussed on Wikisource and Wikidata.
We started working with communities like Assameese and Gujarati.
Newly Registered
1,534
Content Pages
On Wikipedia
11,055 new Wikipedia pages
26,306 articles have been developed
On Wikisource
6,151 folios has been OCRed
Relicense
2 website has been released under free-license
95 books have been released under free-license
259 Images have been released under free-license
The thematic events conducted by CIS-A2K under Focused language area (FLAs) and Focused project area (FPAs) with Indic Wikimedians and also the institutional partners like Christ University, Vigyan Ashram and others have helped us to achieve the required targets. (TD)
We have conducted community evaluation for the individual events and hence we were not able to achieve the target. You can see 6 community evaluation received here. (TD)
Visulations of different metrics and outcome/result
Telling your program stories - all programs
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.
↑Captures some of our best events in the previous years.
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