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

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• OCR, TTS, spell checker and other Indic language computing related tools.

Discussed above

• Needs understanding with various organisations. Need help there. Support with Content acquisition.

Discussed above

• Adopt affiliate organization model for Outreach.

Discussed above

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• 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).

• 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.

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• 3.1.1 - Drawing inspiration and learning *critically* from comparison of policies of other Wikipedias.
• Ownership: Community
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• 3.1.2 - Select/nominate individuals as points-of-contact on embassy as well as mailing lists
• Ownership: Community
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• 3.1.3 - Strengthening Wikipedia Zero with active participation from regional communities to solve access issues.
• Ownership: Community +WMF
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• 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
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• 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 :)

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• 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.

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• 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.