Grants/Malayalam Wikipedia-Exihibition


 * Grant contact name: Rajeev Nair U
 * Grant contact username or email: rajeev007nair1988@gmail.com
 * Grant contact title (position): Event Co-ordinator
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 * Full project name: Malayalam Wikipedia Exhibition
 * Amount requested (in INR): 25100
 * Provisional target start date: 26/9/2014
 * Provisional completion date:28/9/2014

Budget breakdown
'''Total: INR 25,100 '''

Project scope
The Exhibition focuses on showcasing various wiki products and projects to the participants. It is aimed to increase awareness about Wikipedia & equip its participants with the rudiments of contributing to Wikipedia. The participants will be encouraged to edit Wikipedia in their regional language.

Project goal

 * To have an open interaction within the editors, existing as well as new.
 * To spread the awareness of Wikipedia as a powerful tool.
 * To encourage community building among the many contributors of Wikimedia & its sister projects.
 * Use the occasion for a massive outreach programme.

Measures of success

 * 1) Number and quality of participants in the events.
 * 2) Reflections and waves of the event in mass media reports and other channels of outreach
 * 3) Enhanced number of active users (both readers and editors)
 * 4) More uploads and content addition to Wikimedia repositories
 * 5) Reflections from the participants by way of blog posts and other social networks

Report
During the exhibition spanning for 3 days lots of students, free software activists, professors, research scholars and common people visited the stalls and get to know about wikipedia and its outreach programs.