Grants:PEG/Vishwanatha Badikana/Kannada Wikipedia Thirteen years Celebrations/Report

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Project status

Did you comply with the requirements specified by WMF in the grant agreement?: Answer YES or NO.; YES

Is your project completed?: YES

Activities and lessons learned

Activities

During 19th Kannada Wikipedians meetup organized at Bangalore, 18 Kannada Wikipedians met and suggested for celebrating 13th anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia. It was also suggested that this activity should be associated with several editathons and photo-walks. Each of the Wikipedians shared responsibilities and this page was used as responsibility allocation. Four focused editathons were organised in four different cities in Karnataka converging to the celebrations. Female Writers and Achievers of Coastal Karnataka was the theme of editathon at Mangalore, Science related topics was theme at Bengaluru editathon, Kannada literature was the theme for en:Mysore editathon and Mechanical engineering was the theme at Sagara editathon. Photowalks were organised at Sagara and Pilikula (Magaluru). Followup activities happened at the four cities again. Full report of the main event is available in Kannada here.

Lessons learned

What lessons were learned that may help others succeed in similar projects, or that may change the way you are doing this project?

What went well, or is going well?

We used Editathon worklist in organising the pre-event editathons. We kept in mind Photography guidelines while taking up photowalks. Almost the entire community was part of the event either physically or virtually. In all, about 70 new Wikipedians, 235 articles, 2.226289 MB of content was added (excluding photos).

What did not go well, or is not going well?

Internet connectivity has been an issue which was a major interruption at times during editathons, but was fixed. Though it was flaky all through during the main event.All the community members could not be involved physically as some of them were from far off places like Mumbai.

From your answers above, do you plan to change anything you are doing as your project continues?

As the editathons were focused on content creation, and no emphasis was made on empowering existing editors; hereafter an advanced editor session involving introducing new Wikipedia tools, scripts, gadgets, etc will also be included.

Outcomes and impact

Outcomes

Provide the original project goal here.: To commemorate 13 years of Kannada Wikipedia and to strengthen Kannada Wikipedia community, its outreach efforts. To increase reach of Kannada Wikipedia through print and electronic media, social networking.
Do you expect to reach your project's goal? Why or why not?: The project goal has been reached as we have celebrated 13 years celebrations with 113 participants - a mix of existing and new Wikipedians at Mangalore. About 9 media mentions came in print media.

Progress towards targets and goals

Measures of success

Project metrics

Project metrics	Target outcome	Achieved outcome	Explanation
4 thematic editathons at 4 cities	8 thematic editathons at the 4 cities (one followup each)	As it was suggested on talk page to do one follow up activity each, 4 more were editathons are done.
10 media mentions	9 media mentions	blogs are not counted, otherwise it would be more than target.
four projects on Kannada Wikipedia	six projects strarted	two more projects were created during editathons
50 thematic photos to be added	More than 200 photos were added	Visit to Pilikula Nisargadhama at Mangalore resulted in more photos
offline Wikipedia (kiwix) to be distributed to 10 locations	50 flash drives with kiwix are created, 20 disbursed so far	Follow up and updating of zim file will be done time to time

Global Metrics

For more information, see Global Metrics.

Metric	Achieved outcome	Explanation
1. # of active editors involved	16	Almost all of the very active editors involved
2. # of new editors	70	Due to internet issues, many participants could not create user accounts and do the minimal editing.
3. # of individuals involved	113	This excludes the project team.
4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages	275	This includes the images uploaded to commons only.
5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects	235	This is the only count of new articles created.
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects	2.226289 MB	This does not include the images.

Outcomes of individual editathons

Place	Date(s)	Ediathon theme	Bytes added	Pages created	Newly registered	Number of edits
Mangaluru	December 10, 11 and 12, 2015	Female Writers and Achievers of Coastal Karnataka	204167	100	16	1223
Bengaluru	December 19 and 20, 2015	Science related topics	600663	63	3	823
Mysuru	January 11, 12 and 13, 2016	Kannada literature	159942	43	10	526
Sagar	January 25, 26 and 27, 2016	Mechanical engineering	194019	108	6	791
Mangaluru	March 10 and 11, 2016	Medicinal and useful plants	345474	102	5	1379
Sagara	March 12 and 13, 2016	Mechanical engineering	178846	23	0	536
Bengaluru	April 9 and 10, 2016	Science related topics	711100	151	0	954

Charts for Outcomes

Total bytes added
Number of newly Registered users
Number of edits
Number of pages created

Provide an overall assessment of how your project is going according to these measures.: Though new articles created could be easily evaluated, how many existing articles on Kannada Wikipedia have been improved and by what means is difficult to evaluate. So, as per new articles added, this project brought in a good momentum to Kannada Wikipedia.
While doing this project, have you decided to track any other measures of success not listed in your grant submission? If so, please list them here.: Involvement of active Wikipedians in discussions at Village pump, exchange of barn stars and thanks on wikipedia. These would be measured after a 6 month period time on a monthly basis. And that would give a clear idea on community involvement in such topics.

Photo gallery

Inauguration Function Stage programme
Inaugural speech K.P.Rao
Inaugural speech Vasanth Kumar perla
Inaugural speech S.A.Prabhakara Sharma
Inaugural speech Rev.Fr.Swebert D'Silva
After noon technical programme
Senior Kannada editors

Reporting and documentation of expenditures

This section describes the grant's use of funds

Documentation

';Did you send documentation of all expenses paid with grant funds to grants at wikimedia dot org, according to the guidelines here? Answer "Yes" or "No".

Expenses

Please list all project expenses in a table here, with descriptions and dates. Review the instructions here here.: These expenses should be listed in the same format as the budget table in your approved submission so that anyone reading this report may be able to easily compare budgeted vs. actual expenses.; Note that variances in the project budget over 10% per expense category must be approved in advance by Project and Event Grants program staff. For all other variances, please provide an explanation in the table below.

Expenses table as per broad budget lines :

Budget line item	Expenses (in INR)
Food	87,745
Transportation	29,855
Accommodation	60,780
Miscellaneous costs	19,762
SWAGs	14,770
Books	28,920
Total	241,832

Number	Category	Item description	Unit	Number of units	Actual cost per unit	Actual total	Budgeted total	Currency	Notes
1	Food	Masala Dosa, Soft Drink				49		INR
2	Food	Buns				200		INR
3	Food	Buns,Uppit				40		INR
4	Food	Gobi Manchurian,PNR. BTR. Masala,Butter Roti				214		INR
5	Food	Idli Vada, Buns,Bournvita,Coffee				159		INR
6	Transportation	Bus				258		INR
7	Transportation	Bus				75		INR
8	Food	Mosambi, South Indian ML, North Indian ML, Chapathi				290		INR
9	Transportation	Bus				400		INR
10	Transportation	Bus				120		INR
11	Transportation	Bus				120		INR
12	Transportation	Bus				972		INR
13	Transportation	Bus				800		INR
14	Transportation	Bus				1500		INR
15	Transportation	Bus				50		INR
16	Transportation	Bus				2039		INR
17	Accommodation	Suman Residency				4645		INR
18	Transportation	Machanical Editathon - 1st half,Travelling bills,Mechanical Editathon - 2nd Half				6240		INR
19	Food	Car rent,tea,breakfast,lunch,stay,DTP and internet, Courier cost,				4280		INR
20	Food	tea				45		INR
21	Food	Masala Dosa, Idli, uppit,Coffee				145		INR
22	Food	Vishumess & Caterers				900		INR
23	Miscellaneous expenses	Photowalk				1600		INR
24	Accommodation	Varadashree Lodge				1200		INR
25	Miscellaneous expenses	Vijnan Computer training and DTP				350		INR
26	Transportation	Anitha PH's Bus Charge				305		INR
27	Transportation	Bus				55		INR
28	Transportation	Bus				80		INR
29	Transportation	Vidyadar C.A's Bus Charges				305		INR
30	Transportation	Bus				55		INR
31	Transportation	Bus				180		INR
32	Food	Lunch,tes, lunch, DTP & Internet Courier Cost				1350		INR
33	Food	Lunch,Tea, Coffee				420		INR
34	Food	Mini North, Ice Cream Scoop				600		INR
35	Miscellaneous expenses	Vijnan Computer training and DTP cost				300		INR
36		GMS				30		INR
37	Transportation	Bus				50		INR
38	Transportation	Sugama Tourist				650		INR
39	Transportation	Ganesh Travels				650		INR
40	Transportation	Bus(Mangaluru to mysuru)				398		INR
41	Transportation	Bus(mysuru to Mangaluru )				401		INR
42	Transportation	cab(sg palaya to texas)				134		INR
43	Miscellaneous expenses	Shawl(nutan silk)				298		INR
44	Food	Hotel hari kiran(lunch)				690		INR
45	Food	Nandhini hotel(dinner)				1925		INR
46	Food	Domino's(Bangalore)				817		INR
47	Food	Hotel simbly south				2035		INR
48	Miscellaneous expenses	Books from Mysoure university				5599		INR
49	Food	Phalguni cashew centre				419		INR
50	Miscellaneous expenses	Karnataka Banka intial deposite				1000		INR
51	Food	Hotel hari kiran(lunch)				240		INR
52	Miscellaneous expenses	courier				25		INR
53	Transportation	Bus(bangalore to mangaluru)				775		INR
54	Transportation	Bus (mangaluru to bangalore)				775		INR
55	Accommodation	Hotel prestige				5098		INR
56	Transportation	bus				1492		INR
57	Transportation	bus				200		INR
58	Food	Hotel Santhosh				35		INR
59	Food	S.I. Meal, Parota, Kinley 2 ltr				298		INR
60	Transportation	Petrol				1000		INR
61	Transportation	B.G Shivaprash Mirji H.S.D				2000		INR
62	Food	Egg Fried rise, Full meals				315		INR
63	Food	Coffee, Mineral Water, Set Dosa, Onion Dosa, Idly 2 Nos				220		INR
64	Accommodation	Mannars Yatrinivas				1692		INR
65	Food	Shringeri Caterings (Lunch,Tea)				9000		INR
66	Food	Kings Kourt Hotel ( Veg Biriyani,Curd Rice, Crispy Fried Babycorn)				505		INR
67	Accommodation	Hotel (Atithi Graha)				1500		INR
68	Transportation	Bus (Mangaluru to Mysuru)				562		INR
69	Transportation	Bus (Mysuru to Mangaluru)				462		INR
70	Food	Food				300		INR
71	Food	Lunch				274		INR
72	Food	kamat upachar				144		INR
73	Accommodation	Hotel prestige				2098		INR
74	Food	Hotel simbly south				1110		INR
75	Food	Kudla(lunch)				1612		INR
76	Accommodation	Suman residency				2322		INR
77	Accommodation	Suman residency				4829		INR
78	Food	St.Agnes college canteen				5600		INR
79	Miscellaneous expenses	Certificates				527		INR
80	Food	Hotel hari kiran(lunch)				4580		INR
81	Food	V S caterers				27000		INR
82	Transportation	Bus(Bengaluru to Mangaluru)3				2484		INR
83	Transportation	Bus(mysuru to Mangaluru )				525		INR
84	Food	St.Agnes college canteen				11,600		INR
85	Accommodation	Hotel Bhagini				4455		INR
86	Accommodation	Hotel suman residency				10,890		INR
87	Food	lunch(with out bills)				375		INR
88	Food	Snacks(with out bills)				325		INR
89	Transportation	Bus (mangalore to bangalore)				761		INR
90	Accommodation	Hotel Prestige				10158		INR
91	Accommodation	Hotel Prestige				829		INR
92	Transportation	Uber (Bharat nagar to Mejestic)				181		INR
93	Transportation	Uber (Yashwanthpur to bharat Nagar)				139		INR
94	Transportation	Bus (Mangaluru to Bengaluru)				832		INR
95	Transportation	Bus (Bengaluru to Mudabidre)				697		INR
96	Miscellaneous expenses	Internet Data, Posters, Crown Rubber Stamp, Opening bank Account, Invitation Card, Digital Designing, Cirtificate Printing, Banner Printing, Petrol, Bislari mineral water, Books For Guest of Honors, DLINK Wireless Router, Photographs for the celebration.				10063		INR
97	Transportation	Auto(fair)				184		INR
98	Transportation	Cab				188		INR
99	Transportation	cab				178		INR
100	Transportation	Bus(bangalore to Manglore)				761		INR
101	Accommodation	Hotel suman residency				11,064		INR
102	Food	lunch				625		INR
103	Food	Al cafe				125		INR
104	Transportation	Auto(fare)				627		INR
105	Transportation	Bus(mangalore to bangalore)				754		INR
106	Transportation	cab				133		INR
107	Books	Books				28920		INR
108	Food	Snacks, lunch				9,074		INR

Total project budget (from your approved grant submission): INR 237,916

Total amount requested from WMF (from your approved grant submission, this total will be the same as the total project budget if PEG is your only funding source): INR 237,916

Total amount spent on this project: INR 241,832

Total amount of Project and Event grant funds spent on this project: INR 237,916

Are there additional sources that funded any part of this project? List them here.: YES. The additional expenses were taken from CIS-A2K's Kannada FLA funds

Remaining funds

Are there any grant funds remaining?: Answer YES or NO.; NO