Grants/Bengali Wikipedia 10th anniversary


 * Grant contact name: Kalyan Sarkar
 * Grant contact username or email: kalyan@wikipedia.in
 * Grant contact title (position): Chair
 * Project lead name: Kalyan Sarkar
 * Project lead username or email: kalyan@wikipedia.in
 * Project lead title (position), if any: Chair
 * Full project name: Bengali Wikipedia 10th anniversary
 * Amount requested (in INR): ₹ 300,000
 * Provisional target start date: 14 November 2014
 * Provisional completion date: 31 January 2015

Budget breakdown

 * Project budget table:


 * Assumed Exchange Rate for conversion of any sums provided by WMF: 1 US$ = 62 INR (As on 12/10/2014)
 * Assumed 350 participants (will give scholarship to 30 Wikimedians from Indic language community and 15 from Bangladesh)

Pre-conference expenses

 * Total cost of project:
 * ₹ 900,000 ($ 14,516.13)


 * Total amount requested from the Project and Event Grants program:
 * WMF - ₹322,500
 * CIS-A2K Program - ₹150,000
 * Wikimedia India Chapter - ₹300,000

Project goal
To commemorate 10 years of Bengali Wikipedia and to strengthen Bengali Wikipedia community and its outreach efforts.

Non-financial requirements

 * Permission for use of Wikimedia India logo and brand in outreach efforts.

Fit to strategy

 * Participation and Community: This public celebration of the ten years of growth of Bengali 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 Bengali speaking communities.
 * Increase Reach: The meetup will provide an excellent outreach opportunity to popularize Bengali Wikimedia projects through the mainstream media, social media and direct outreach. The meetup will attract the general public, the academia, Bengali enthusiasts, professionals, journalists and well-wishers, raising awareness and drawing a considerable number of active contributors to Bengali Wikipedia.
 * Quality Content: The editathon will help us improve the quality of the most important articles that should be present in Bengali Wikipedia.
 * Credibility: Putting faces to names behinds the Bengali Wiki projects will add to the credibility of Wikimedia projects. Conference will also provide many opportunities for general public, press and active contributors to ask questions and seek clarifications regarding the inner workings of Bengali Wikimedia projects.
 * Organizational Maturity and Effectiveness:The 10th anniversary celebration will be the first program organized by the community of such a callibre. Through the programs, the community will get an opportunity to effectively arrange and conduct different events. This will also result in the increase of local Wikimedia community and volunteers.

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

Measures of success

 * Number and quality of participants in the events.
 * Reflections and coverage of the event in mass media reports and other channels of outreach
 * Enhanced number of active users (both readers and editors)
 * More uploads and content addition to Wikimedia repositories
 * Reflections from the participants by way of blog posts and other social networks
 * Added participation in each succeeding events of tenth anniversary celebrations of Bangla Wikipedia.

Team members (optional)

 * 1) Bodhisattwa Mandal
 * 2) Kalyan Sarkar
 * 3) Biswarup Ganguly
 * 4) Rangan Datta
 * 5) Partha Sarathi Bannerjee
 * 6) Ayan Choudhury

Project coordinators
The following persons will act as project coordinators. They will handle the funds received from Wikimedia India Chapter.
 * 1) Bodhisattwa Mandal
 * 2) Santanu Chandra
 * 3) Sujay Chandra