Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Kolami Wikipedia Community Awareness Drive (ID: 22133511)

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Applicant Details

Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.

Nskjnv

Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.

User:Mothiram 123 User:Athram Rajkumar User:Jangu madavi

Organization

N/A

Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.

Kolami Wikimedians User Group (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Kolami_Wikimedians_User_Group)

Grant Proposal

M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.

Kolami Wikipedia Community Awareness Drive

Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)

Local

Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.

R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.

1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.

As per the Government of Education, India is home to 1600+ mother tongues. India has about 447 established languages and is fourth by most number of languages spoken in a country across the world. And we strongly believe that Building content in Smaller Indian languages is paramount to conserve and develop these languages. Kolami is a Dravidian indigenous language spoken in parts of Telangana and Maharashtra states of India. Kolami is spoken by 44000 people in Telangana, India. This language is one of the most under-resourced languages spoken in India. There is no mass media in the language and there was no education in the language until recently. With the introduction of New Education Policy in India, primary education in mother tongue is getting encouraged and it is a good time to prepare Kolami for the same. Government of Telangana has put continuous efforts in building Foundational literacy content for students of this community, the government has produced some books for early school education in recent times. It's high time to build content in the Kolami language, this helps the Kolam community with access to world knowledge.

2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.

The Kolam speaking community is mostly concentrated in the northern part of Telangana, India. The community has about 44000 population in the state and the number of native speakers are going down day by day. We will be coordinating with Kolam Community and the local literary organization Utnoor Sahithi Vedika to bring awareness in the community and connect with youth by organizing online and offline awareness meets in Educational institutions and Community places.

3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?

We will be taking up a 6 day awareness drive dividing it into three parts with 2 days each, out of which two offline sessions and one online session will be held. One offline session will be hosted in an Educational institute (interaction with youth) the second will be hosted in a community set up with the help of Utnoor Sahithi Vedika, Adilabad.

Apart from this we will be translating the basic resources for Introduction to Wikipedia, FAQ's, Help in navigating, Typing in Kolami(Telugu script), Building first article. This translation is to serve the training purposes for upcoming Kolami Wikipedia editors.

4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.

Not applicable

5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?

We are a team of 4 volunteers 1)User:Nskjnv(Myself) 2)User:Mothiram 123 3) User:Athram Rajkumar 4)User:Jangu madavi

We are working on building Southeastern Kolami Wikipedia from August 2022. It took about two months for me (User:Nskjnv) to discuss the importance of free knowledge and building content in the local language for the Kolami community. After several meetings Mothiram, a writer by profession from the Kolami community, started volunteering to build content. Later we conducted an in person event for the Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos campaign from Telugu Wikipedia to bring awareness about Wikimedia and helped them participate in the WPWP(Telugu) local campaign in October 2022. Till date we have 10+ enthusiasts, 4 active editors and about 72 pages in different name spaces are created within a span of 4 months on the Kolami Wikipedia incubator version.

6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.

Geography, Language, Cultural background, ethnicity, religion, racial

6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.

Kolam tribe has about 44000 population in Telangana, India. Most of the population still speak the language in the rural parts where the Kolam tribe is present. Kolam being one of the Primitive tribe in India has lot of cultural importance and the content related to their culture will serve as a great source for knowledge enthusiasts. Building content in Kolami language helps Kolam tribe the access to world knowledge thereby a possible potential to empower them.

7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.

Education, Culture, heritage or GLAM , Diversity

8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?

Gender Identity, Geographic , Ethnic/racial/religious or cultural background, Linguistic / Language

9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities?

Kolam community writers and Youth are our main target participants. The writers and youth will be trained to edit on Wikimedia platforms and we will encourage the youth to involve in learning essential writing skills from Kolami writers. While writers and youth are the major target audience, small pockets of knowledge will be collected in the form of audios from senior citizens who are proficient in language. We will also try to collect some documentaries of Kolam culture from a rural backdrop to be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.

Participants will be encouraged for continuous participation on Kolami Wikipedia by making them realize the importance of localization of knowledge.

10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?

We shall distribute copies of the WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal CoC in Telugu to the participants at the start of the event, including emergency contact information. One person will be designated to handle complaints and incident response. We will have a protocol setting session at the start in which we shall explain to the participants that they are expected to follow these policies, the remedies available to them and answer their queries or concerns.

11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.

We shall post information about the event on the Kolami Wikipedia (in Incubator) village pump.

12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?

No

If yes:

12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?

N/A

12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?

N/A

13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.

Yes

13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.

We are partnering with Utnoor Sahithi Vedika, an unregistered body of writers based in Utnoor town of Adilabad, Telangana. This organization produced many literary works in the Kolam language and constantly supported the Kolam writers. We will also try to partner with the Government of Telangana, India.

14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.

Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Invest in Skills and Leadership Development, Innovate in Free Knowledge

Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation

15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?

We would like to learn the potential of a blended mode of community discussion resulting in active volunteering and identifying enthusiasts for Kolami Wikipedia. We would like to learn how the translation tool kit helps new editors. We would like to learn the potential of pooling like minds together to conserve and revitalize the Kolami language. We would like to build a model project to replicate with smaller language Indian Wikipedia's.

16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.

Main Open Metrics Data
Main Open Metrics	Description	Target
Number of Awareness drives/workshops	2 offline and 1 online session	3
No of participants in each workshop	Number of Kolami speaking people	100
Signing up new users on Wikipedia	creating accounts for new users and helping them understand user interface	100
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17. Core quantitative metrics.

Core Metrics Summary
Core metrics	Description	Target
Number of participants	Number of participants	200
Number of editors	Kolami Wikipedia new editors	10
Number of organizers	Utnoor Sahithi Vedika and existing editors of Kolami Wikipedia will help in organizing and support	2

Number of new content contributions per Wikimedia project
Wikimedia Project	Description	Target
Translatewiki	Information related to basic resources to Wikipedia will be translated into Kolami language. Information in 5 pages related to Introduction, FAQ's, Navigating, Typing, Building new article will be translated.	5
Incubator	New articles and templates created	10
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A
N/A	N/A	N/A

17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.

18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.

We will use outreach dashboards by wmflabs to track the volunteer participation.

Financial Proposal

19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.

401000 INR

19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?

4881.13 USD

20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Jmuv7KDhDAs_0n53pW6G0wxM7WR8B86yJL1-Jm_M8A/edit#gid=0

We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.

Yes

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