Wikipedia:WikiProject India/Condensed proposed roadmap for Wikimedia work in India

India Community Consultation 2014 was organized on 4 and 5 October 2014 at Bangalore, India. Here is the proposed roadmap of the event—

This roadmap is divided into three parts:
 * 1) Programs/projects/activities -- what we are DOING out there, mostly off-wiki
 * 2) Community organizing, community health -- how we are BEING in our communities, mostly on-wiki
 * 3) Procedures, norms, and expectations in the movement network -- how we are RELATING to other movement actors -- individuals, communities, user groups, chapters, non-Wikimedia partners (e.g. Centre for Internet and Society, the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF).


 * Three directions - start/stop/continue

The roadmap plan has been divided into three divisions—

Start
These initiatives/works need to be started

Stop
These works/practices need to be stopped:

Continue
These works/projects are to be continued

Support needed
Discussed above Discussed above Discussed above
 * OCR, TTS, spell checker and other Indic language computing related tools.
 * Needs understanding with various organisations. Need help there. Support with Content acquisition.
 * Adopt affiliate organization model for Outreach.

Start
These initiatives/works need to be started

Stop
These works/practices need to be stopped:

Continue

 * 2.3.1 - Meetups - thematic + regional
 * 2.3.2 - Collaborations of the Month
 * 2.3.3 - Assessment of article quality
 * 2.3.4 - Keeping the community in the same way is good enough in some cases (Tamil Wikipedia for instance).

Support Needed

 * 2.4.1 - Tutorials, Manuals and HOWTOs.
 * Ownership: Communities
 * Supported: WMIN
 * 2.4.2 - Technology, tools and software related support.
 * 2.4.3 - In making available low-bandwidth solutions for users of lower-end devices, which seem to be the case with large number of users in India.
 * Ownership:
 * Supported:Chapter will roll out a infrastructure scholarship program based on community recommendations
 * 2.4.4 - Active help from institutions within the country for projects (for instance: Hindi) and help with Education program with active participation of the government.

Start

 * 3.1.1 - Drawing inspiration and learning *critically* from comparison of policies of other Wikipedias.
 * Ownership: Community
 * Supported:
 * 3.1.2 - Select/nominate individuals as points-of-contact on embassy as well as mailing lists
 * Ownership: Community
 * Supported:
 * 3.1.3 - Strengthening Wikipedia Zero with active participation from regional communities to solve access issues.
 * Ownership: Community +WMF
 * Supported:
 * 3.1.4 - Recognition of various regional movement partners (for more plurality and diversity).
 * Ownership: WMF
 * Supported: WMIN will identify pan-Indian, regional and expertise based partners with community input
 * 3.1.5 - Building an extensive generic pan-India policy on image uploads, work out licensing. Regional communities can derive from these and adapt them for their context.
 * Ownership:
 * Supported: CIS
 * 3.1.6 - Better practices and adapting fair methods to ensure active bureaucrats and sysops on regional projects.
 * Ownership: Communities
 * Supported:
 * 3.1.7 - Any communication coming from WMF or other institution should be in local language.
 * Supported: Translation infrastructure (Meta-Wiki translation admins and translators, Translators list), target language communities, WMF where practical
 * Ownership: Institution in question; WMIN will make a policy decision to communicate with each language community in their language. We need volunteers :)

Stop

 * 3.2.1 - imitating/copying policies verbatim from other Wikipedias. They may not be appropriate for our wikis; may be premature; may backfire and drive people away.

Support Needed

 * 3.3.1 - Seek help via Human resource from institutions within the country (WMIN/CIS-A2K) for logistics, administration, grant-writing and reporting. Further help in reducing administration overhead by assigning Program Officers from CIS-A2K or WMIN on request.
 * Ownership: Communities
 * Supported: WMIN may support when staff team expands
 * 3.3.2 - Stats have become stale for Indian language projects. Help bring these back.
 * 3.3.3 - Make easily available a list of tools available through WMFlabs or Wiki-tech.