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Purpose of the report[edit]

This form is for organizations receiving Annual Plan Grants to report on their results to date. For progress reports, the time period for this report will the first 6 months of each grant (e.g. 1 January - 30 June of the current year). For impact reports, the time period for this report will be the full 12 months of this grant, including the period already reported on in the progress report (e.g. 1 January - 31 December of the current year). This form includes four sections, addressing global metrics, program stories, financial information, and compliance. Please contact APG/FDC staff if you have questions about this form, or concerns submitting it by the deadline. After submitting the form, organizations will also meet with APG staff to discuss their progress.

Global metrics overview - all programs[edit]

We are trying to understand the overall outcomes of the work being funded across our grantees' programs. Please use the table below to let us know how your programs contributed to the Global Metrics. We understand not all Global Metrics will be relevant for all programs, so feel free to put "0" where necessary. For each program include the following table and

  1. Next to each required metric, list the outcome achieved for all of your programs included in your proposal.
  2. Where necessary, explain the context behind your outcome.
  3. In addition to the Global Metrics as measures of success for your programs, there is another table format in which you may report on any OTHER relevant measures of your programs success

For more information and a sample, see Global Metrics.

Overall[edit]

Metric Achieved outcome Explanation
1. # of active editors involved 47
2. # of new editors 315
3. # of individuals involved 380
4. # of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages a)962

b)1062

5. # of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects 1295
6. Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects
  • 4.34 MB added
  • 0.27 MB deleted


Metric Projected Target Explanation
# of active editors involved
Metric Projected Target Explanation
# of new editors
Metric Projected Target Explanation
# of individuals involved
Metric Projected Target Explanation
(4a)# of new images/media added to Wikimedia articles/pages
Metric Projected Target Explanation
(4b)# of new images/media uploaded
Metric Projected Target Explanation
# of articles added or improved on Wikimedia projects


Metric Projected Target Explanation
Absolute value of bytes added to or deleted from Wikimedia projects
  • Y1=Bytes Added(in MB)
  • Y2=bytes Deleted(in MB)

Telling your program stories - all programs[edit]

Strengthening Existing community with WikiTungi[edit]

Wikimedians during the first-anniversary celebration of Bhubaneswar WikiTungi
Puri Wikimedians during second Wikidatathon

WikiTungi, was formed to train the community members (new and old) and to introduce them the broader Wikimedia Movement and projects, other than editing, to bring them out of the online world and interact with the other community members. The WikiTungi has been a common platform for Odia Wikimedians in Bhubaneswar and Puri to share and gain knowledge of the Wikimedia projects. The concept of WikiTungi was coined with the formation of the Nalco WikiTungi, after that two other Tungis were formed in Odisha, one in Puri and the other one in Bhubaneswar. The CIS-A2K has been supporting the two WikiTungis (Bhubaneswar and Puri) for over two years. The Tungi members in Bhubaneswar meet once in every month, while the Tungi members in Puri meet bi-monthly. The formation of WikiTungis has helped in an increase in participation of Wikimedian in offline meetups and has also helped in an increase in reach of the Odia Wikimedia projects. Gatherings like WikiTungis helps in doing brainstorming sessions for Wikimedians and has also helped in planning and execution of different Wikimedia projects. Over the years the WikiTungi program has catered over 20 active Wikimedians and above 50 individuals in its meetup.

Advance Wikipedia Training

Advance Wikipedia Training is an advanced level training for Wikipedians to acquire skills by learning tools, to find a dead end, non wikify, orphan pages and take help from them to improve the articles and improve the quality of articles in Odia Wikipedia. It also includes training the Wikipedians on how to do outreach programs, approach institutions and collaborate with the institutions.

Image-a-thon

Image-a-thonis a practice for the quality improvement in Odia Wikipedia, for adding images to the articles, and which aims Odia Wikipedia to have "at least one image in one article" The first phase of Image-a-thon was organized in Puri WikiTungi, In the first phase almost 7 Wikimedians took part, and 150 images were added into Odia Wikipedia articles.

Wikidata

Odia Wikipedia was one of the first four Wikipedia's to have article place holder extension with the help of MKar. A series of Wikidata translation event has been organized after that to translate Wikidata labels in Odia. A Wikidata lable-a-thon event was organized during the 7th Puri Tungi meetup, Eight Wikimedians from the city joined for the edit-a-thon and translated 220 labels in Odia language. The event was focused on International Women’s history month and the labels translated were related to the articles created so far in Odia Wikipedia’s WHM edit-a-thon. Wikipedians were taught about the Wikidata game and other tools of Wikidata.

Planning and Execution

WikiTungi helps CIS-A2K and community members to meet physically and plan for the event. Future events are discussed within the local community members, and tasks are distributed accordingly within the community members. Over last one year, the local community members have helped in localising the global projects such as BBC 100 Women, Euro-Vision etc.

Participants during IIMC workshop, January 2017.
Imperial College Orientation Program
Participants of Sambalpur University workshop.

The meetup space for WikiTungi meetups was provided by Wikimedian Subas Chandra Rout, but from March 2017, the Sambad Group has provided a place for the space Bhubaneswar WikiTungi. On February x 2017, the community members gathered at the restaurant to celebrate the volunteer participation of Bhubaneswar WikiTungi for over one year. Tanveer Hassan, the program manager of the A2K program was also part of the anniversary celebration; the community interacted with the CIS-A2K employees and planned to adopt some changes in the Tungi Program.

  • The Tungi members will invite one of the global community leaders for a Skype or hangout session.
  • Discuss the best practice from the global community and discuss them with the community.
  • Updating the minutes of the meeting and sharing them with the other community members.
  • Updating the learning and evaluation team about the new learning of the community every month.
  • The community will also send Postcards as a souvenir to the participants of the global community for the online sessions.

Cultivating new editors with workshops[edit]

Increase in the number of editors from diverse field and work will help in increase in diverse content on Odia Wikipedia. The community members and the CIS-A2K program identified some institutions to bridge this gap in the Odia Wikimedia projects. The A2K members along with the community members have organized workshops in institutions in different regions of Odisha. In the last workplan the A2K program approached two institutions in Western Odisha, one in Central Odisha and two in Coastal Odisha to increase the number of editors as well as diversity among the Wikipedia editors in the Odia Wikimedia projects.

Workshop in Indian Institute of Mass Communication

The Odia Wikipedia community has collaborated with the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, Dhenkanal from 2013 for reaching towards the students of mass communication and bring them to the Wikimedia movement. On 31st January 2017, A Wikipedia workshop was organised in Indian Institute of Mass Communication for the Wikipedia workshop, More than 45 students from both Odia and English department took part for the first introductory workshop.

Orientation Program in Imperial College

An orientation program was also organised at Imperial College, Bargarh to introduce 60 students from the college to the Bargarh digitisation project and to introduce Odia Wikipedia to students, the event was the second program in Western Odisha.

Workshop in Sambalpur University

Considering the University has 196 colleges under its affiliation in seven different districts of Western Odisha, a workshop was planned in Sambalpur University to spread the awareness about Wikipedia movement and establish networks in the region. An orientation and workshop event was initiated by the Odia Wikipedian community members was for students of Computer Science and Application Department and Odia Department at Sambalpur University. The 57 participants, including 5 faculty members, consisting of 30 male and 27 female participants. The event was the first workshop held in Sambalpur University and the second one in Western Odisha after three years.

During the programs in various institutions, the community members and the A2K has identified some common barrier for the failure in editor retention or interest after the program, often it is difficult to follow-up with institutions due to academic calendar of the institution, almost 70% participants do not know, how to write in Odia language on Internet or on Odia Wikipedia.

Bridging the gender gap in content[edit]

Participants during Sambad "100" Women Editathon
The follow-up event of the Sambad 100 Women Editathon on the month of May.

There was need of resources for improving the articles on Women personalities on Odia Wikipedia, the community and CIS-A2K, identified the problem and bridged the gap between the Archival house, like Sambad, one of the most circulated newspaper and a media house in Odisha, to get the content from Sambad and improve the articles on Odia Wikipedia. Odia Wikipedia community in collaboration with the Sambad and the Centre for the Internet and Society organised a two-day 100 Women Edit-a-thon in the month of March. The event was inspired by BBC’s 100 Women series and edit-a-thons with the same name in December 2016. Where BBC opened-up its archive for the Wikipedians to improve the articles on Women personalities.

The Edit-a-thon in Sambad was organised for two days, with over 20 female journalists from the organisation, who later edited and improved Odia Wikipedia articles on "Women achievers" with the help of content donated from the Sambad group as a part of the collaboration. For most of the journalists, editing the Odia Wikipedia was a very new platform to work on, hence on the first day, the journalists were introduced on how to edit Wikipedia and on the second day the journalists edited the articles on Odia Wikipedia. After the main event, the community members have organised one follow-up event and planning to organise more follow-up event in future.

Enriching Odia Wikipedia with Edit-a-thons[edit]

Participants during Asian Athletics Championships Editathon

Thematics edit-a-thon are always successful on Odia Wikipedia, It helps in increasing content of certain topics, which are very less represented on Odia Wikipedia. The A2K team has supported the community members in planning and organising two edit-a-thons, International Women's History Edit-a-thon and Asian Athletics Championship Edit-a-thon. In Women's History Edit-a-thon 13 Wikimedian from the community added 233 articles into Odia Wikipedia, and in Asian Athletics Championships, 14 Wikimedians and new editors added and improved 12 articles in English and Odia Wikipedia.

Digitisation project[edit]

Bargarh Manuscript Digitisation Workshop

Availability of digital resource on internet is very less in Odia language, with the help of digitization the community members of the Odia Community members are making Odia Wikisource a key platform for the availability of copyright free Odia books on the internet for free, which not only creates a digital platform for books, It also helps in improving the content of Odia Wikipedia in terms information and citations. The CIS-A2K has supported two digitization projects of the Odia community members; Pothi project, a project by Wikimedian Prateek Pattanaik to digitize to collect and digitise rare out-of-copyright Odia-language books, and digitization work in Parija library in Utkal University, Chinmayee Mishra is digitizing the copyright free books available in Parija library and uploading it to Odia Wikisource, the A2K has provided a scanner to Chinmayee to scan the books in the Utkal University. A2K also initiated a digitisation project in a 300 years old temple in western Odisha, to digitise old manuscripts of the temple. Two orientation program were organised for the temple administration, but the digitisation project failed due to the problem in availability of electricity and existing community member in the area.

Rathajatra GLAM[edit]

The process of making wheel for the Rath or the Chariot, Video by Jagannath Dora

Rathajatra is a 1000years old festival in Odisha, two months long festival, which involves in making chariots for the Lord Jagannath till the chariot festival. Ratha Yatra GLAM was an activity carried out by WikiTungi Puri, where Wikimedians from Puri documented the process of chariot for 22 days during the Ratha Yathra Festival in the city. The Wikimedians spent over three weeks to document the important processes of this ancient festival at Rakha Khala where the chariots are made.
The project was the first GLAM activity conducted by Odia Wikipedians. Due to uncontrollable issues, the project was initially delayed by 15 days.This documentation work from Wikimedians in Puri helped in making the largest Open Knowledge resources available on Jagannath culture. As a follow-up, a month-long edit-a-thon was organised where participants improved and created 60 articles on Odia Wikipedia.

Status of Educational Institution[edit]

Name of the Institution Approached Number of activity Follow-up Activity Activity
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar Yes 2 Yes Digitisation Activity by Chinmayee Mishra
Utkal University of Culture No
Sambalpur University , Burla Yes 1 No Orientation program in Sambalpur University
Berhampur University , Bhanjavihar No
Ravenshaw University, Cuttack No
Sri Jagannath Sanskrit Viswavidyalaya, Puri No
Fakir Mohan University, Balasore No
North Odisha University , Baripada No
Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar No
Centurion University of Technology and Management Yes 0 No Meetings with Authorities of the institution to run digitisation drive in their Parlakhemundi Campus.
Central University,Koraput No

Media Mentions[edit]

Blogs[edit]

Learning Patterns[edit]

  1. Using 'Share a fact' to engage social media followers of small Wikipedias
  2. Organising a photowalk for Wikimedia projects
  3. "WikTungi"-city based community group
  4. Cultivating interest among the editors during activities
  5. How to prepare and plan for Online Edit-a-thons
  6. Using social media channels for editors retention

Revenues received during this period (6 month for progress report, 12 months for impact report)[edit]

Please use the exchange rate in your APG proposal.

Table 2 Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.

  • Please also include any in-kind contributions or resources that you have received in this revenues table. This might include donated office space, services, prizes, food, etc. If you are to provide a monetary equivalent (e.g. $500 for food from Organization X for service Y), please include it in this table. Otherwise, please highlight the contribution, as well as the name of the partner, in the notes section.
Revenue source Currency Anticipated Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Anticipated ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Explanation of variances from plan
A B C D E F G H I J K

* Provide estimates in US Dollars


Spending during this period (6 month for progress report, 12 months for impact report)[edit]

Please use the exchange rate in your APG proposal.

Table 2 Please report all spending in the currency of your grant unless US$ is requested.

  • Please also include any in-kind contributions or resources that you have received in this revenues table. This might include donated office space, services, prizes, food, etc. If you are to provide a monetary equivalent (e.g. $500 for food from Organization X for service Y), please include it in this table. Otherwise, please highlight the contribution, as well as the name of the partner, in the notes section.
Revenue source Currency Anticipated Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Cumulative Anticipated ($US)* Cumulative ($US)* Explanation of variances from plan
Volunteer support INR - 10,000* 4,000 -
Travel & Stay INR - 3000**
Event organization and logistics INR - 40,000*** 15,000

* Provide estimates in US Dollars


Note
  1. * Sambalpur University, IIMC and Imperial College supported in providing projectors, stationaries and others.
  2. ** Sambalpur University and IIMC provided accommodation for 6 Wikimedians in their Campus.
  3. *** Sambad and Sports and Youth Services Department supported event organisation and logistics.

Compliance[edit]

Is your organization compliant with the terms outlined in the grant agreement?[edit]

As required in the grant agreement, please report any deviations from your grant 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.

Are you in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".

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 Grant funds as outlined in the grant agreement? Please answer "Yes" or "No".

Signature[edit]

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Resources[edit]

Resources to plan for measurement[edit]

Resources for storytelling[edit]

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