Grants:Project/Rapid/Dhanalakshmi .K. T/Diversity editathons 2019

Recruit new editors of diverse nature, with emphasis on female editors
Rejuvenate existing editors, especially those who participated in the gender gap editathons
Add or improve content -focused on diversity topics

Project Plan

Activities

Tell us how you'll carry out your project. Be sure to answer the following questions:

1. Are you doing one editathon or training or a series of editathons or trainings?

Series of editathons are planned to address diversity in Wikimedia projects pertaining to bridging gender gap, addressing the needs of people, inclusiveness for lesser known language Tulu, adding contents on diverse topics (like commerce, science, women health, women achievers, etc) and more. We have an informal group named Wikiwomen Mangaluru whose aim is to encourage more women to become Wikipedia editors and also address the difficulties and challenges faced by women while contributing to Wikipedia and editing its pages. Last year, we organised a series of editathons, totalling to 6, at various places of Karnataka with an aim to bridge the gender gap with support from Kravali Wikimedians User Group and few colleges in Karnataka. They were successful. We learnt that follow-up editathons at the same places will help in many ways -increasing the skills of those editors, rejuvenating the editors, creating a sustainable Wikimedia community at those places. In fact, it is a request from the participants of series of Gender Gap editathon of 2018. Apart from those places, we will be adding new places in this series with enhanced themes or topics, to address diversity. The editathons are planned to start from the month of May. The places for editathons are-

Ser.No.	Place	Tentative Dates
1	Belagavi	May 18-19
2	Mangaluru	June 8-9
3	Udupi	June 22-23
4	Shivamogga	July 13-14
5	Moodabidire	TBD
6	Tumkur	TBD
7	Ujire	TBD
8	Koppala	TBD

Apart from these editathons, we are also planning to have photowalk to add photos of some heritage place of Karnataka and adding articles related to that to Wikipedia. We will also conduct supplementary online editathons which do not need any financial support.

The actual event pages will be created in the respective language Wikipedias.

2. How will you let your community know about the event? Please paste links below to where relevant communities have been notified of your proposal, and to any other relevant community discussions.

We will inform the community by multiple ways-

Event pages
Village pumps
Mailing lists
Social media like Facebook, Whatsapp, Twitter and local news papers
Sending direct emails to those participated earlier

3. Do you have experienced Wikimedia editors to lead the event?

Yes

4. Do participants have the equipment or skills needed to participate and contribute high quality content? If not, how will you support them?

We encourage the resourceful participants, if any, to bring their own resources like laptops and data cards. The editathons will be arranged at various colleges with computer labs thus addressing the issue of equipment availability. On the first day of the editathons, there will be trainings for new editors.

5. How will you engage participants after the event(s)?

The participants will be kept in touch after event though email, social media like Facebook and Whatsapp group.

6. Is there anything else you want to tell us about this project?

While addressing the diversity issue, this project also will bring some needed content to Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias.

Impact

How will you know if the project is successful and you've met your goals? Please include the following targets:

Number of events - 8
Number of participants - 200
Number of new editors - 160
Number of of articles created or improved - 100
Number of repeat participants (for projects that include a series of events) - 40

Resources

What resources do you have? Include information on who is organizing the project, what they will do, and if you will receive support from anywhere else (in-kind donations or additional funding).

I am an active Wikipedian for nearly 3 years and will be taking part in all the editathons as one of the resource persons. I will train the new editors on basics of Wiki editing. I will be supported by the veteran Wikipedians of Wikiwomen Mangaluru and of Karavali Wikimedians User Group. We will be conducting the editathons at various educational institutions who will support us by providing computer lab with Internet connection.

What resources do you need? For your funding request, list bullet points for each expense and include a total amount.

Here is the summary budget for the program

Proposed budget

Ser.No	Detail	Amount in INR
1	Belagavi	21,350
2	Mangaluru	21,400
3	Udupi	20,850
4	Shivamogga	19,150
5	Moodabidire	9,700
6	Tumkur	17,150
7	Ujire	5,700
8	Koppala	19,450
9	Certificates (300 * 15)	4,500
10	Miscellaneous	1,500
	Total	140,750

Place-wise breakup of budget-

1. Belagavi-

Ser.No.	Item Details	Nos	Cost per unit	Cost (in INR)	Description
1	Resource persons accommodation	4	1500	6000	For 2 persons for 2 days
2	Resource persons travel	2	2500	5000	For 2 persons
3	Resource persons local travel & food	4	400	1600	For 2 persons for 2 days
4	Food	70	125	8750	Lunch, tea, snacks for 35 persons for 2 days
	Total			21350

2. Mangaluru-

Ser.No.	Item Details	Nos	Cost per unit	Cost (in INR)	Description
1	Resource persons accommodation	4	1500	6000	For 2 persons for 2 days
2	Resource persons travel	2	2250	4500	For 2 persons
3	Resource persons local travel & food	4	450	1800	For 2 persons for 2 days
4	Food	70	130	9100	Lunch, tea, snacks for 35 persons for 2 days
	Total			21400

3. Udupi-

Ser.No.	Item Details	Nos	Cost per unit	Cost (in INR)	Description
1	Resource persons accommodation	4	1500	6000	For 2 persons for 2 days
2	Resource persons travel	2	2250	4500	For 2 persons
3	Resource persons local travel & food	4	400	1600	For 2 persons for 2 days
4	Food	70	125	8750	Lunch, tea, snacks for 35 persons for 2 days
	Total			20850

4. Shivamogga-

Ser.No.	Item Details	Nos	Cost per unit	Cost (in INR)	Description
1	Resource persons accommodation	4	1250	5000	For 2 persons for 2 days
2	Resource persons travel	2	2000	4000	For 2 persons
3	Resource persons local travel & food	4	350	1400	For 2 persons for 2 days
4	Food	70	125	8750	Lunch, tea, snacks for 35 persons for 2 days
	Total			19150

5. Moodabidire

Ser.No.	Item Details	Nos	Cost per unit	Cost (in INR)	Description
1	Resource persons accommodation	4	1000	4000	For 2 persons for 2 days
2	Resource persons travel	2	2250	4500	For 2 persons
3	Resource persons local travel & food	4	300	1200	For 2 persons for 2 days
	Total			9700

6. Tumkur-

Ser.No.	Item Details	Nos	Cost per unit	Cost (in INR)	Description
1	Resource persons accommodation	4	1250	5000	For 2 persons for 2 days
2	Resource persons travel	2	1000	2000	For 2 persons
3	Resource persons local travel & food	4	350	1400	For 2 persons for 2 days
4	Food	70	125	8750	Lunch, tea, snacks for 35 persons for 2 days
	Total			17150

7. Ujire

Ser.No.	Item Details	Nos	Cost per unit	Cost (in INR)	Description
1	Resource persons travel	2	2250	4500	For 2 persons
3	Resource persons local travel & food	4	300	1200	For 2 persons for 2 days
	Total			5700

8. Koppala-

Ser.No.	Item Details	Nos	Cost per unit	Cost (in INR)	Description
1	Resource persons accommodation	4	1250	5000	For 2 persons for 2 days
2	Resource persons travel	2	2250	4500	For 2 persons
3	Resource persons local travel & food	4	300	1200	For 2 persons for 2 days
4	Food	70	125	8750	Lunch, tea, snacks for 35 persons for 2 days
	Total			19450

In-kind support = 106600 INR

Detailed budget is available in a Google spreadsheet

Endorsements

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Support

Support -Very good and useful project. This project can bring many Kannada and Tulu Wikipedia writer's. Many college's can work with this project. So, I strongly support this project. --Vishwanatha Badikana (talk) 16:54, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Support -This is a much needed project grant. Dhanalakshmi has been successfully conducting Wikipedia editathons across Karnataka. The follow up is essential to add new Wikipedia editors to the languages and strengthen existing editors. Krishnakulkarni36 (talk) 17:02, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Support - BHARATHESHA ALASANDEMAJALU (talk) 17:13, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Support - Very useful project so I strongly support this project --Vinoda mamatharai (talk) 01:32, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Support - This is a very useful and important project. We have seen in Karnataka, India, that regular editathons, outreach activities, meetups, all help a lot in keeping the community alive and getting more content into Wikipedias. These editathons will also instill new energy into the existing editors some of whom were participants of previous editathons. I strongly recommend funding this project.--Pavanaja (talk) 03:58, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Support this is very useful. Vchetans (talk) 15:27, 7 March 2019 (UTC)
Support - This is very useful project.--User:Arpitha05
this is useful program
such programs are necessary
Support - This is very good project.--THRIVENI.K.1315348 (talk) 05:34, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
Support --Gopala Krishna A (talk) 06:09, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Support Durga bhat bollurodi (talk) 06:40, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Support- Very good project.Vidyadhar Chipli (talk) 06:49, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Support - Good coverage, Both the languages will get valuable editathons, it will strengthen the editors group, So I strongly recommend this project - -Kavitha G. Kana (talk) 06:47, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Support -- Very Important project. Simultaneously both the languages will get contents. For existing ediors follow up sessions and new editors can work in both the languages. It will become a useful project. I Storngly support this project.- - Kishorekumarrai (talk) 06:43, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Support -- Good Project. Indic wikis need projects like this ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ (talk) 14:45, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
Support- Good project. I strongly support.user:Parvathisri
Support -This is a good project.Chinmayee Mishra (talk) 18:54, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
Support - Great initiative. Much needed. -Manavpreet Kaur (talk) 17:45, 19 March 2019 (UTC)