Grant:Harvard Business School Wikipedia Workshop - March 2015

Personal information
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 * (1) What is your name? :

Abhishek Suryawanshi


 * (2) What is your email address? :

i.abhishek.suryawanshi@gmail.com




 * (3) Do you currently reside in the United States? If not, please specify your country of residence. :

India


 * (4) Are you requesting this grant on behalf of an organization or group? If so, please provide the name of the group. :

On Behalf of Indian Wikipedians in U.S

Description of purpose
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 * (5) What is the purpose for which the funding will be used? :


 * Wiki Workshop before Harvard India Conference.
 * Participation in conference
 * Travel and accommodation costs.


 * (6) How does this purpose align with our mission? :

Contribution to Wikimedia DC Mission


 * Increased participation and visibility for Wikimedia DC.
 * The India Conference at Harvard is one of the largest India conferences in the US. It is hosted at the Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School by the graduate students of Harvard University.


 * This gathering of Indian community scientists, writers, academics, students, and online activists is an ideal pool of candidates both for potential editors. They will be excellent vehicles for spreading the message of the importance of wiki participation by their colleagues and respective organization's volunteers.
 * Personally I am using Wikipedia to enhance learning by adding related topics content and it is helping me alot.
 * I will encourage students to follow same.


 * Improve quality
 * During Indic Language Wikipedia Workshop, local Language Wikipedia Projects can be improved.
 * Participants can give feedback to proposed Indic Language Wiki Workshops which will improve overall proposal.


 * Increase outreach
 * In addition to possible editor recruitment, the organization and community leaders present have enormous influence over how tools like Wikipedia are both used and promoted by organization and community projects.
 * Indic Language Wiki Projects increased reach.

Anticipated outcome This is hypothesis based (anticipated) outcome:
 * Increased participation by Harvard Scholars in Wiki Project.
 * Volunteer recruitment for proposed Indic Language Wiki Workshops
 * Possible Bridge between Harvard and Wikipedia Education Program
 * Increased visibility and usage of WMF projects by Indian students in Harvard and Boston area.
 * Improvement of Indic WikiProjects.
 * Wikipedia Club at Harvard Business School

Grant financials
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Participants :


 * 1) Abhishek Suryawanshi
 * 2) Abhay Natu
 * 3) Shweta Kokate


 * (7) How much funding do you need? :

$1,250


 * (8) When will you need funding? :


 * Tickets : asap
 * Rest : 5th March 2015


 * (9) What specific costs will the funding cover? :


 * Travel (Abhay Natu - Round trip airfare from Colorado Springs to Boston): USD ~$510 (Shweta Kokate- Round trip airfare from DC to Boston): USD $150
 * Accommodation: USD 80 per night x 4 nights = USD $320
 * Meals : USD 20 x 2 x 4 days = USD $160
 * Conference Registration : USD $110
 * Workshop Seminar Hall : ~$1000 (in-kind support)