பயனர்:Ravidreams/tawi10grant

Basic information

Project details

Official project name

Tamil Wikipedia 10 years celebrations

Project start date (include month, day, and year)

1 September 2013

Project completion date (include month, day, and year)

31 may 2014

Please describe the project in 1–2 sentences

Tamil Wikipedia is a leading Indian language Wikipedia. We are celebrating its 10 years by organizing a first international Wiki meetup of Tamil Wikipedians and a year long essay contest and outreach activities.

Financial details

Currency requested

Indian Rupees

Amount requested in currency requested

2,02,000.00

Equivalent amount in US$ on the date of this submission

~ 3,160.00

List the exchange rate used to calculate the amount listed in US$

http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/#from=USD;to=INR;amt=3160 on 23 August 2013

Grantee details

What is the official name of the organization requesting this grant?

Tamil Wikipedians

Are you an organization, an individual, or an individual submitting on behalf of a group?

Individual submitting on behalf of Tamil Wikipedians. The community page for this grant request is here.

Contact information

Primary contact name

Ravishankar Ayyakkannu

Primary contact username or email

ravidreams@gmail.com

Primary contact title (position within the organization)

Bureaucrat user, Tamil Wikipedia

If this project will be executed by someone other than the primary contact for your organization, please list that person's details here:

Project lead name

Natkeeran Kanthan

Project lead username or email

mailto:natkeeran@gmail.com

Project lead title (position), if any

Bureaucrat user, Tamil Wikipedia

Goals and measures of success

Project goal

WLM 2013 is a sequel to the last years successful WLM competition organized in Serbia. The main goal of this competition is gathering and posting as many quality photographs of the cultural monuments under a free license as possible. Second goal of this project is quality improvement of the Wikimedia projects through usage of the gathered photographs. This project should as well stimulate writing of the new articles about the monuments of which the photographs are gathered.

Measures of success

We would deem these celebrations a success, if

• at least 100 active Wikipedians and enthusiasts attend the conference, including participants from Sri Lanka and Malaysia;
• at least 15 mainstream media articles are published highlighting Wikimedia projects;
• a detailed documentation of ideas/issues/strategies/policies discussed at the conference is produced;
• the active contributor count is maintained around 300 or above consistently;
• 500 important articles that should be present in each Wikipedia are expanded from their current stub form.

Project scope and activities

These celebrations include three major parts:

Gathering of International Tamil Wikimedians for two days during September 2013

So far there has been no single major international event that brought all Tamil Wikimedians under one roof. This gathering can be thought of as a WikiConference for Tamil Wikimedians.

We expect around 40 core Tamil Wikimedians from India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, UAE and Canada to attend this event besides fellow Wikimedians from other Indian language communities, Wikimedia India chapter and organizations like CIS A2k which work towards a common goal. More than hundred participants are expected to attend the 2nd day evening event. A good number of these will be like-minded people from the academia, press and other FOSS projects.

The first day of this gathering will be marked by a tour to places of cultural interest in and around Chennai. The objective is for the participants to get to know each other, engage in informal brainstorming and also to capture as many snapshots for Wikimedia Commons as possible.

The second day will have two sessions. In the morning, there will be tutorials for Tamil Wikimedians. In the evening, there will be a public event to celebrate the 10 years of Tamil Wikimedia.

An ongoing 12 month long essay contest

We are running a 12 month-long essay contest that aims to improve the quality of 1000 most important articles that each Wikipedia should have. The contest has already started in June 2013. The first month saw improvement for over 100 articles and the essay contest has brought in many new contributors to Tamil Wiki.

Offline outreach efforts

Commemorating Tamil Wikipedia's 10 years, we plan to do a few offline outreach efforts:

• Tamil Wikipedia T-shirts to spread awareness about the Tamil version of Wikipedia and to give a sense of belonging and pride for the Tamil Wikimedians.
• Releasing a stamp through Indian Postal Service for Tamil Wikipedia. This is a symbolic effort which also helps to document Tamil Wikipedia's presence in a traditional way.
• Printing a handbook with guidelines for contributing to Tamil Wikipedia. This handbook will be distributed to all participants during outreach events.

Budget and resources

Project budget table

வார்ப்புரு:Grants budget table simple | 1 | Prizes | I, II and III prizes | 1 package | 3 technical gadgets or 3 vouchers | n/a | 658,41 | € | I prize ~ €307.2, II prize ~ €219.47 and III prize ~ €131,74 |- | 2 | T-shirts | T-shirts | 1 T-shirt per person | 20 T-shirts | ~8.77 | 175,57 | € | T-shirts for 20 persons |- | 3 | Event(s) | press conferences, prize-giving event and mini-exhibition | | | | 702.30 | € | prass conference & prize-giving event where we'll announce the winners |- | 3 | Organizator | | | | | 250 fee + tax and benefits 63% =407,5 | € | Organizer will take care about press conferences, prize-giving event and mini-exhibition including pre-competitive activities (preparation of lists of monuments, creation and distribution of promotional materials, etc.) |- | 4 | Printing materials | | | | | 270 | € | promotional materials and printing photo |- | 5 | Others | | | | | 100 | € | reserves and unexpected costs |}

Total cost of project

€2,313.78 + website maintenance (in kind)

Total amount requested from the WMF Grants Program

€2,313.78

Additional sources of revenue that may fund part of this project, and amounts funded

Sponsorships, when available (no high expectations though)

Non-financial requirements

Requests for non-financial assistance

• Permission for use of Wikimedia logo and brand in outreach efforts.
• Supply of Wikipedia branding souvenirs like stickers etc.,
• A blog post in Wikimedia blog regarding the ten year growth of Tamil Wikipedia.

Resources

Team members

Coordinators

1. Ravidreams
2. Natkeeran
3. Suriyaprakash

Community consensus

The relevant RFC and discussion where community consensus was reached is here.

Experience conducting similar successful events

We have successfully conducted two events before:

• The 2010 Tamil Wikipedia article contest during 2010.< Media reports about this contest can be seen 1,200 here and here. This was a state wide contest involving thousands of students and was held in partnership with the State Government of Tamilnadu, India. This was organized on the occasion of International Tamil Internet conference. We also conducted a three

day long Tamil Wikipedia and Internet workshop for thousands of people visiting the conference.

• Tamil Wiki Media contest during 2011. Please see the Wikimedia blog post about this contest here.

These contests helped to increase the profile of Tamil Wikipedia and accelerate the growth of Tamil sister wiki projects. Building on that experience, we decided to organize an essay contest to commemorate the 10 years of Tamil Wikipedia.

Impact

Fit to strategy

• Participation and Community: This public celebration of the ten years of growth of Tamil Wikipedia will help us strengthen the community, review our progress and plan our future. The conference will help create a better environment for collaboration, particularly in resolving policy differences. This is very important considering the different cultural and historical backgrounds of international Tamil speaking communities.
• Increase Reach: The meetup will provide an excellent outreach opportunity to popularize Tamil Wikimedia projects through the mainstream media, social media and direct outreach. The meetup will attract the general public, the academia, Tamil enthusiasts, professionals, journalists and well-wishers, raising awareness and drawing a considerable number of active contributors to Tamil Wikipedia. This fits well with the Vision 2015 Global South Strategy.
• Quality Content: The essay contest will help us improve the quality of the most important articles that should be present in each Wikipedia.

Benefits

If the project will benefit a specific online community, please tell us.

These celebrations will specifically benefit Tamil Wikipedia and all Tamil Wikimedia projects in general. The handbook will help attract contributors for all Tamil Wikimedia projects. The two day Wiki meetup will help exchange of ideas and know how between contributors active in different Tamil Wikimedia projects. The pictures captured during the cultural trip will be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons that can be used by any Wikimedia project.

Please provide a brief statement about how the project is related to other work in the Wikimedia movement. For example, does the project fit into a work area such as GLAM, education, organizational development, editor retention, or outreach?

The ongoing essay contest has prompted existing veteran editors to contribute more with specific focus. We are also seeing new contributors writing exclusively for the essay contest. Based on our past experience with organizing small meetups, we expect to see increased contributor activity and community bonding after the two day Wiki meetup. We are very active in organizing regular Wiki workshops and the new handbook will help us make our efforts more consistent.

If successful, will the project have the potential to be replicated successfully by other individuals, groups, or organizations? Please explain how in 1–2 sentences.

By organizing a self running contest, a hand guide that can be translated and a minimalistic international Wiki meetup, we hope to set a format that other small Wikipedias can follow. It will be a good example for most of the Indian and other language Wikipedias that will celebrate 10 years.