Community Resources and Partnerships/India General Support Project/WBG/Annual Plan 2025-26

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India General Support Project

WBG/Annual Plan 2025-26

proposed start date2025-07-01

proposed end date2026-06-30

organization (if applicable)• West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

Universal Code of Conduct

Applicant information

Organization name or Wikimedia Username for individuals. (required)

West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

Are you a first-time applicant? (required)

You are applying as a(n). (required)

Wikimedia Affiliate (chapter, thematic org., or user group)

Are your group or organization legally registered in your country? (required)

No

Please provide links to the following documents if they are available

These documentation can be provided in your local language(s), no translations required.

• Organizational website
• Detailed financial reporting and/or audits
• Documentation of the governance structure, board list, governance processes
• Documentation of the general assembly decision on your plan

Main proposal

1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be a title for the Meta-Wiki page. (required)

WBG/Annual Plan 2025-26

3. Proposed start date. (required)

2025-07-01

4. Proposed end date. (required)

2026-06-30

5. Does your organization or group have an Affiliate or Organizational Annual Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required)

6. Does your affiliate, organization or group have a Strategic Plan that can help us understand your proposal? If yes, please provide it. (required)

7.1. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)

India

7.2. If your project includes in-person activities, are there any international participants travelling to India for them? (required)

No

7.2.1. List all countries of participation. (required)

N/A

7.3. Will the project be transferring funds to any international participants? (required)

No

7.3.1. List all international participants receiving funding and their countries. (required)

N/A

8. What are your programs, approaches, and strategies? What are the challenges that you are trying to address and how will your strategies support you in addressing these challenges? (required)

9. What categories are your main programs and related activities under? Please select all that apply. (required)

Category	Yes/No
Education	No
Culture, heritage or GLAM	Yes
Gender and diversity	No
Community support and engagement	Yes
Participation in campaigns and contests	Yes
Other	Yes

Culture, heritage or GLAM

9.2. Select all your programs and activities for Culture, heritage or GLAM. (required)

Introducing new approaches to underrepresented culture and heritage, e.g. decolonising or reparative work; oral and visual knowledge; outreach to communities of origin, indigenous and first nations self-determination, Supporting institutions to open up their collections, data, metadata, and research, Partnering with institutions, professional associations, and allied organizations to raise awareness of open culture, ethical sharing, and related issues

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Community support and engagement

9.4. Select all your programs and activities for Community support and engagement.

On-wiki training of community members, Off-wiki training of community members, Organizing meetups, conferences, and community events, Offering non financial support and services to community members (equipment, space, books, etc.)

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Participation in campaigns and contests

9.5. Select all campaigns that apply. (required)

Wiki Loves Monuments

Other programs and activities if any: N/A

Other categories

10. Please include a link to or upload a timeline (operational calendar) for your programs and activities. (required)

N/A

11. Describe your team. (required)

12. Will you be working with any internal (Wikimedia) or external partners? Describe the characteristics of these partnerships and bring a few examples of the most significant partnerships. (required)

Yes, we will be working with several internal and external partners for these activities. 

• Ghosaldanga Bishnubati Adibasi Trust: This community based organization operates in the villages of Ghoshaldanga and Bishnubati in the district of Birbhum for development of Santal community of the region. The user group has partnered with the organization to digitally document the culture, heritage and tradition of Santal community. Last year, the user group has documented the Museum of Santal Culture, run by this organization along with culinary and a few intangible cultural heritage of the region with their active support. This year, the user group will continue to foster the working relationship with digitally preserving a unique tradition of Santal puppetry named Chadar Badar. The user group also intends to set up a digitization center in the organization library to help relicense and digitize non-fiction and fiction literature related to Santal people and culture written by authors from around in different languages.
• Rammohun Library and Free Reading Room: Last year, the user group has established a digitization setup at this century old library in Kolkata with logistical support from CIS-A2K. A Wikimedian-in-residence has been trained and assigned to digitize the copyright free books collected in this library, which are getting uploaded for Bangla Wikisource. This year, the user group will continue the digitization project in the library. The details of the GLAM project can be found here.
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13. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select all that apply. (required)

Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Metrics

Wikimedia Metrics

14. Please select and fill out Wikimedia Metrics for your proposal. (recommended)

14.1. Number of participants, editors, and organizers.

All metrics provided are optional, please fill them out if they are aligned with your programs and activities.

Participants, editors, and organizers

Metrics name	Target	Description
Number of all participants	N/A	N/A
Number of all editors	N/A	N/A
Number of new editors	N/A
Number of retained editors	N/A
Number of all organizers	N/A	N/A
Number of new organizers	N/A

14.2. Number of new content contributions to Wikimedia projects. (recommended)

Contributions to Wikimedia projects

Wikimedia project	Created	Edited or improved
Wikipedia
Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata
Wiktionary
Wikisource
Wikimedia Incubator
Translatewiki
MediaWiki
Wikiquote
Wikivoyage
Wikibooks
Wikiversity
Wikinews
Wikispecies
Wikifunctions / Abstract Wikipedia

Description for Wikimedia projects contributions metrics. (optional)

Other Metrics

15. Do you have other quantitative and qualitative targets for your project (other metrics)? (required)

Yes

Other Metrics	Description	Target
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

Budget

16. Will you have any other revenue sources when implementing this proposal (e.g. other funding, membership contributions, donations)? (required)

No

16.1. List other revenue sources. (required)

N/A

16.2. Approximately how much revenue will you have from other sources in your local currency? (required)

N/A

17. Local currency

Indian Rupees (INR)

18. What is the requested amount in Indian Rupees? (required)

INR

19. Does this proposal include compensation for staff or contractors? (required)

No

19.1. How many paid staff members and contractors do you plan to cover with this General Support Project? (required)

N/A

19.2. How many FTEs (full-time equivalents) in total will be covered with this General Support Project? (required)

N/A

19.3. Describe any staff or contractor changes compared to the current year / ongoing General Support Project if any. (required only for returning applicants)

N/A

20. Please provide an overview of your overall budget categories in your local currency. The budget breakdown should include only the amount requested with this General Support Project. (required)

Budget category	Amount in local currency
Staff and contractor costs
Operational costs
Programmatic costs

21. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it. (required)

Additional information

22. In this optional space you can add any other additional information about your proposal or organization that you think can help us when reviewing your proposal. (optional)

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No

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