Grants:Project/Rapid/Wikipedia Nashik Meetup & Workshops/Report
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Goals
[edit]Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?
Yes. Our main goal was to engage new editors, In this, we think we have been successful while conducting Wikipedia Nashik Summit. We also added new skills to existing editors through workshops and managed to engage them. We are very happy as there is a great boost to our outreach activities, as many people joined us at the summit and later also attended workshops, many institutions like Kumbhathon, Nashik Municipal Corporation & IEI (Institution of Engineers, Nashik) supported our effort which shows their involvement with us. Nashik local press have also recognized the significance, with a range of high-impact coverage.
Outcome
[edit]Please report on your original project targets.
Target outcome | Achieved outcome | Explanation |
To conduct an Event- Wikipedia Nashik Summit. | Event was successfully conducted with more than 150 Wikipedians and non Wikipedians attendees. |
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Increase interest and engage new editors and collaboration/Support from different educational institutions of Nashik to engage more school students. | We managed to seek participation from people in nashik, from different educational and professional backgrounds. Collaboration from Kumbhathon, IEI and NMC instead of Educational institution. | Outreach activities, Summit and workshops helped us to increase interest and engage them to Wikipedia activities and edits. As mentioned, Instead of educational institutions, we managed to seek support and collaboration with local organizations like Kumbhathon, IEI and administration - Nashik Municipal Corporation who are having good hold on community in Nashik. |
Increase skills for existing editors | Helped to increase skills of existing editors | Few Wikipedia Nashik community were been to Train-The-Trainer program, so they shared skills learnt at TTT program. Also, 4 of community members attended “Wiki Conference India 2016”. All the sessions attended and skills learnt were shared with Wikipedia Nashik Community thereafter. Link: TTT program: http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/training-the-trainer-programme-and-mediawiki-training-at-pune WCI 2016 : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Programs |
Add or improve content of the articles (Both English and Marathi) | Workshop attendees were explained how to edit and asked them to improve or add content according to their interest | We were not able to make people write/edit more as instead of editathon we focused on Workshop which included - Introduction to Wikipedia, Wikipedia Editing, Guidelines, uploading photos on Wikimedia Commons, explanation of Wikimedia Sister Projects, Awareness about Wikipedia mobile app. |
Get a boost for Outreach activities in Nashik | We successfully managed to spread awareness about Wikipedia and its activities. | Through Summit, four workshops and media coverage, our outreach activities were boosted. |
Number of events: 6 Spread over a period of 2 months | Number of workshops conducted: 4 over a period of 2 months | We initially thought of having 6 workshops. However, to organize 6 workshops in 2 months were bit difficult due to time and logistics constraints. |
Awareness about Wikipedia and Sister projects among the people of Nashik | Engaging activity during Summit, Session on Wikipedia and Sister projects during Workshops. | As mentioned before, Engaging activity where attendees were divided into groups, each group was given a different logo of one of the Wikimedia projects. The task was to identify the project, write main points of the projects and then there was an ideation activity where the teams were asked to present their ideas. Also, in workshops we briefed about different sister projects and how they can contribute. |
To bring together all Wikipedians in Nashik and engage Non-Wikipedians with the community. | We achieved it through wikipedia Nashik Summit. | Engaging Wikipedic community in nashik effectively was a great help in planning for the event, supporting the work and contributing what they know to increase involvement in non- wikipedians. Through Summit and workshops we managed to do that. |
Learning
[edit]Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:
- What worked well?
-> Summit and workshops brought together wikipedians in Nashik. Awareness about Wikipedia and sister projects. Engaging activities for attendees. Support from local organizations Kumbhathon, IEI and Nashik Municipal corporation. Boost for Outreach activities in Nashik.
- What did not work so well?
-> As workshop and Summit focused on Introducing Wikipedia, its activities, guidelines and its sister projects, we took session for making attendees understand how they can edit. Editathon for new editors was not conducted. We will do that in our future activities. We faced few issues in obtaining internet facilities. We realized that some mechanism should be adopted next time to keep new editors engaged in activities. Our target number of workshops were 6 but we were able to conduct 4 workshops.
- What would you do differently next time?
-> We would like to organize Editathon instead of workshops to add and improve contents and articles. Next time we will try to organize Wikipedia activities in schools/colleges. Next time we would like to take workshops/editathons/activities to bridge the gender gap in Wikipedia.
Finances
[edit]Grant funds spent
[edit]Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.
The total amount spent was INR 36200.
No. | Category | Item | Quantity | Price | Total | Notes |
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1 | Food and Beverages | Lunch & Dinner - Pre-Summit Day | - | - | 1220 | Lunch Rs. 390, Dinner Rs. 830 For organizers |
2 | Food and Beverages | Lunch | 140 | 135 | 18900 | Lunch for attendees, guests and organizers |
3 | Food and Beverages | Coffee | - | - | 346 | Coffee for guests |
4 | Food and Beverages | Snacks for Workshop | 4 Workshops | - | 1810 | Snacks for workshop participants |
5 | Branding | Wikipedia T-Shirts | 20 | 250 | 5000 | T-shirts for organizers |
6 | Branding | Banner (6x8) | 1 | 576 | 576 | |
7 | Branding | Banner (3x3) | 2 | 108 | 216 | |
8 | Branding | Standees | 2 | 1400 | 2800 | |
9 | Branding | Printouts | - | - | 1840 | Promotional Printouts, CMYK Printouts of Wikimedia sister projects for activities and other color printouts |
10 | Logistics | Round Table | 10 | 70 | 700 | |
11 | Logistics | Transportation of Tables | - | - | 300 | |
12 | Stationary | Stationary for Summit | 490 | |||
13 | Miscellaneous | I-Cards | 23 | 25 | 575 | I-Cards for organizers |
14 | Miscellaneous | Tulsi, Pots and Wreath | - | - | 180 | Felicitation of guests |
15 | Miscellaneous | SIM Recharge | - | - | 1247 | For calling the people who had registered, confirmation calls, confirmation SMS and one Internet recharge for a Workshop |
Total | INR 36200 |
Remaining funds
[edit]Do you have any remaining grant funds?
Yes, we have INR 10599 remaining. We intend to use the remaining grant from this request for the next activity and we may ask for more funds if required.
Anything else
[edit]Anything else you want to share about your project?
Workshop
[edit]Wikipedia Nashik - Workshops
- Workshop 1 - Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashik/2ndJuly2016 Workshop
- Workshop 2 - Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashik/16thJuly2016 Workshop
- Workshop 3 - Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashik/30thJuly2016 Workshop
- Workshop 4 - Wikipedia:Meetup/Nashik/28thAugust2016 Workshop
Wikipedia Nashik Summit Photos
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Abhishek Suryawanshi addressing the attendees
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Wikipedia Nashik Summit banner for promotion
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Wikipedia Nashik Summit standee for promotion
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Wikipedia Nashik Summit- Photo booth at entrance
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Nashik Deputy Mayor inaugurating the summit by lamp lightning
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Attendees of Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Felicitation of Wikipedia Nashik community Supporter
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Session on Nashik WIkipedia Community- Emerging Wikipedia community in Maharashtra
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Session on Wikipedia and its Editing guidelines by Abhishek Suryawanshi
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Q & A Session with audience at Nashik Wikipedia Summit
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Wikipedia Nashik Community Women Wikipedians
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Engaging activity during Summit
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Engaging activity- Brainstorming session during Nashik Wikipedia Summit
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Engaging Activity- Wikipedia sister projects Logo contest during Nashik Wikipedia Summit
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Engaging Activity- Participants searching about different Wikipedia sister projects during Nashik Wikipedia Summit
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Engaging Activity during Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Engaging activity- Wikipedian explaining non wikipedians about Wikiversity logo assigned to them during Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Engaging activity- Wiki Voyage team during Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Engaging activity- Meta team during Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Wikipedia T shirt and IDs for organizers during Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Engaging team- Media Wiki team during Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Meta chart presentation during engaging activity
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Engaging activity- Wiki Quote team during Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Banners during Wikipedia nashik Summit
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Wikipedia Sister Projects Awareness Presentation on Wikiversity during Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Wikipedia Sister Projects Awareness- Presentation on Wiki Voyage during Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Wikipedia Sister Projects Awareness- Presentation on Meta Wiki during Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Lunch - Wikipedia Nashik Summit
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Attendees enjoying lunch during Summit in Nashik
News Coverage
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Press coverage of Wikipedia Nashik Summit- Nashik Times
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Press coverage of Wikipedia Nashik Summit - Times of India
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Press coverage in Nashik local newspaper
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Press coverage- Women in Nashik encouraged to contribute to wikipedia
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Press coverage of Wikipedia Summit Nashik - Divya Marathi
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Press coverage- Nashik Wikipedia Summit
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Press coverage- Wikipedia summit in Nashik