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Plan - Apr 2012

I'm outlining the broad areas that the India Program team is going to be working on during May 2012. This is for your information as well as to elicit suggestion.

Please do add comments on the discussion page, or offlist to me (hisham@wikimedia.org)

Indic Community Building

We will continue our efforts to support local community building (across languages) with as many interested community members as we can effectively handle. This will primarily involve a combination of promoting collaboration (through Wikiprojects, for instance) as well as through helping grow communities by supporting community outreach efforts. Specifically in May, we plan the following

Supporting the Malayalam community on a series of initiatives that they seek to do (partially as conceptualised and/or discussed at the recently concluded Malayalam community conference, WikiSangamolsavam
Support the Assamese community to plan a series of initiatives around their 10th anniversary, including potentially an offline initiative - and any other initiatives that they are independently planning such as their photothon
Support the Odia community in building on the momentum after last month's outreach and community buildng events - specifically by support to WP:Odisha as well their medical project as well as supporting an editathon in Anugul and a follow-up medical outreach at SCB, Cuttack.
Helping the Nepali community with planning for their 10th anniversary as well as their medicine project)
Providing advisory services to Bengali & Telugu wikisources
looking at building the medical projects in Bangla & Telugu

Supporting Outreach

We will work on analysis of the various outreach sessions to understand trends and provide learnings to inform outreach going forward
On Indic languages, we will continu the process of translation of the Outreach Handbook to Indic languages, of which we have (at least partially completed) Gujarati, Bangla, Telugu and Odia.
We will continue to fine-tune the Outreach Handbook and other outreach material - building on the feedback and responses we are getting.

Staying-in-Touch with Newbies Post-Outreach

Communications

We will conclude the work on Wikipatrika and plan to release it on May 10.
We will publish at least 1 story on a topical community initiative
We will continue to establish the social media / digital outreach plan using the Facebook group that has been set up, and now has a number of existing community members willing to support the initiative as mentors
We will build on the social media pilot with the Odia community, and start the initiative for Odia We will also work on a similar for Kannada
We will explore the potential for a digital outreach model for an Indic community - and preliminary discussions have commenced.
Initiative work to support the Assamese & Nepali communities for their upcoming 10th anniversaries (in June) in the form of media / Public Relations
We will work on and improve communication with Indic communities.

Education Program

This is a topic we are carrying forward from last month. We have had a number of discussions with community members and we are working on a plan that we will hope to release this month.

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+I'm outlining the broad areas that the [[India_Program|India Program]] [[India_Program/Team|team]] is going to be working on during May 2012.  This is for your information as well as  to elicit suggestion.
+Please do add comments on the discussion page, or offlist to me (hisham@wikimedia.org)
+* '''Indic Community Building'''
+: We will continue our efforts to support local community building (across languages) with as many interested community members as we can effectively handle.  This will primarily involve a combination of promoting collaboration (through Wikiprojects, for instance) as well as through helping grow communities by supporting community outreach efforts.  Specifically in May, we plan the following
+:* Supporting the Malayalam community on a series of initiatives that they seek to do (partially as conceptualised and/or discussed at the recently concluded Malayalam community conference, [http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%82%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%82_-_2012/en WikiSangamolsavam]
+:* Support the Assamese community to plan a series of initiatives around their 10th anniversary, including potentially an offline initiative - and any other initiatives that they are independently planning such as their photothon
+:* Support the Odia community in building on the momentum after [http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-April/007887.html last month's outreach and community buildng events] - specifically by support to [http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:O WP:Odisha] as well their [http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:MED medical project] as well as supporting an editathon in Anugul and a follow-up medical outreach at SCB, Cuttack.
+:* Helping the Nepali community with planning for their 10th anniversary as well as their medicine project)
+:* Providing advisory services to Bengali & Telugu wikisources
+:* looking at building the medical projects in [http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA_%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%8E%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A6%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE Bangla] & [http://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:WikiProject/Medicine Telugu]
+* '''Supporting Outreach'''
+:* We will work on analysis of the various [[India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Outreach_Sessions/Mar|outreach sessions]] to understand trends and provide learnings to inform outreach going forward
+:* On Indic languages, we will continu the process of translation of the [[India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Handbook/Respository_of_Documents|Outreach Handbook]] to Indic languages, of which we have (at least partially completed) Gujarati, Bangla, Telugu and Odia.
+:* We will continue to fine-tune the [[India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Handbook|Outreach Handbook]] and other outreach material - building on the feedback and responses we are getting.
+* '''Staying-in-Touch with Newbies Post-Outreach'''
+* '''Communications'''
+:* We will conclude the work on [http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News Wikipatrika] and plan to release it on May 10.
+:* We will publish at least 1 story on a topical community initiative
+:* We will continue to establish the social media / digital outreach plan using the  [https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediasupport/ Facebook group] that has been set up, and now has a number of existing community members willing to support the initiative as mentors
+:* We will build on the [[India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media|social media pilot]] with the Odia community, and start the initiative for [https://www.facebook.com/groups/OdiaWiki/ Odia]  We will also work on a similar for [https://www.facebook.com/groups/kannadawikipedia/ Kannada]
+:* We will explore the potential for a digital outreach model for an Indic community - and preliminary discussions have commenced.
+:* Initiative work to support the Assamese & Nepali communities for their upcoming 10th anniversaries (in June) in the form of media / Public Relations
+:* We will work on and improve communication with Indic communities.
+* '''Education Program'''
+: This is a topic we are carrying forward from last month.  We have had a number of discussions with community members and we are working on a plan that we will hope to release this month.