Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Conference Fund/WikiConference India 2025/Final Report
Report Status: Draft
Due date: 30 November 2025
Funding program: Conference Fund
Report type: Final
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[edit]- Title of proposal: WikiConference India 2025
- Username of applicant: Nivas (CIS-A2K)
- Name of organization: N/A
- Amount awarded: 206166.95
- Amount spent: USD,
Part 1: Understanding your work
[edit]1. Did your event have any impact that you did not expect, positive or negative?
2. What do you think will be the long term impact of this conference?
3. Would you say that your work improved participants’ ability to apply new skills and knowledge?
3a. If yes, please describe how and why you think this was successful. Please describe why you think this is the case.
4. Please use this space to upload media and other files that help tell your story and impact. You can also provide links to them.
Field to type in URLs.
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5. To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding the work carried out with the support of this Fund? You can choose “not applicable” if your work does not relate to these goals.
| A. Bring in participants from underrepresented groups | |
| B. Create a more inclusive and connected culture in our community | |
| C. Develop content about underrepresented topics/groups | |
| D. Develop content from underrepresented perspectives | |
| E. Encourage the retention of editors | |
| F. Encourage the retention of organizers |
6. Please share resources that would be useful to share with other Wikimedia organizations so that they can learn from, adapt or build upon your work. For instance, guides, training material, presentations, work processes, or any other material the team has created to document and transfer knowledge about your work and can be useful for others. Please share any specific resources that you are creating, adapting/contextualizing in ways that are unique to your context (i.e. training material).
- Upload Documents and Files
- Here is an additional field to type in URLs.
- N/A
7. Is there anything else you would like to share about how your efforts helped to bring in participants and/or build out content, particularly for underrepresented groups?
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Part 2: Your main learning
[edit]8. Were there any major challenges or things you found difficult that you would like to share? What would you do differently next time?
9. Was there any non-financial support that the Wikimedia Foundation could have provided that would have better supported you in achieving your goals?
10. What would you recommend on a local and/or regional level as the best next step to leverage your success and momentum?
11. Please add any 3 operational recommendations for future events organizers.
Part 3: Metrics
[edit]12. Open Metrics reporting
In your application, you defined some open metrics and targets (goals). You will see a table like the one below with your metric in the title and the target you set in your proposal automatically filled in.
| Open Metrics | Description | Target | Results | Comments | Methodology |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Importance and Relevance of WCI and other Community Convenings | To conduct a post event survey that enables us to assess the learnings and understand the importance and relevance of WCI, based on the same plan for the future of the conference. | 150 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| How WCI helps in supporting the creation of a larger Indic movement strategic pathway | WCI programs will aim to bring about a community specific strategic priorities that will be supported by the wider movement, this metric will help us understand if we achieved what we set out to and help us support the community better. | 150 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Engagement on the Movement Strategy from the Indic Communities | WCI aims to also discuss and further the engagement/understanding of the Movement Strategy within the Indic communities. This metric will help us understand if we were able to achieve the same and provide pathways of further engagement | 150 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Mapping the Needs of the Indic Community | During the event, we will foster comprehensive discussions among content contributors, technical contributors, and community leaders from across the region. These discussions will focus on identifying the technical, resource, and capacity-building needs of Wikimedians, user groups, and communities working on Indic and other multilingual projects. The aim is to understand gaps between available resources and community needs, enabling a more collaborative and supportive environment for content development. | 150 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Enabling Partnership and Collaborations, beyond Wikimedians | Many of our community members regularly engage external partners and shared value organizations on various topics. Through the discussions at WCI we will aim to delve deeper into some of the partnership priorities of our communities, learn from different experiences and improve the understanding of the best approaches to bring in partners to the movement. This would be a post conference survey question. | 150 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
13. Were there any metrics in your proposal that you could not collect or that you had to change?
13a. If you have any difficulties collecting data to measure your results, please describe and add any recommendations on how to address them in the future. Also mention why you felt you had to change some metrics.
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14. Here are the templates of registration and survey tools that the Wikimedia Foundation has developed so that you can use in your conference fund work.
14a. Please share the result(s) with us, provide the link(s) or summarize the main result(s) and insight(s) from them.
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14b. If you used other forms, please share them with us, as these forms might be useful for others to use.
Part 4: Financial reporting and compliance
[edit]15. & 16. Please state the total amount spent in your local currency.
17. Please state the total amount spent in USD.
USD
18. Please report the funds received and spending in the currency of your fund.
Upload a financial report file.
Please provide a link to your financial reporting document.
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As required in the fund agreement, please report any deviations from your fund proposal here. Note that, among other things, any changes must be consistent with our WMF mission, must be for charitable purposes as defined in the grant agreement, and must otherwise comply with the grant agreement.
19. If you have not already done so in your budget report, please provide information on changes in the budget in relation to your original proposal.
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20. Do you have any unspent funds from the Fund?
20a. Please list the amount and currency you did not use and explain why.
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20b. What are you planning to do with the underspent funds?
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20c. Please provide details of hope to spend these funds.
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21. Are you in compliance with the terms outlined in the fund agreement?
22. Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement?
23. Are you in compliance with provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code (“Code”), and with relevant tax laws and regulations restricting the use of the Funds as outlined in the grant agreement? In summary, this is to confirm that the funds were used in alignment with the WMF mission and for charitable/nonprofit/educational purposes.
24. If you have additional recommendations or reflections that don’t fit into the above sections, please write them here.