Dear Balaji, Thanks for your query regarding the Wikisource research project. We have tried to elaborate on some of the motivations and need for this research in the context section of the note; based on experience with Wikisource projects and conversations with community members we understand that there are persistent challenges on these platforms, particularly in terms of technical infrastructure and capacity/skills, but these are not documented or analysed in detail yet. Our attempt here is to collect more data on these challenges by talking to community members and identifying gaps and areas for improvement. The final outcome will be a report with a set of observations which may help inform and structure further efforts in developing such infrastructure, as well as focused capacity-building and training efforts.

Regards, Jayanta Nath

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 12:38 PM balaji balajijagadesh@gmail.com wrote:

Hi.. Thanks for carrying out the research project. As of now I couldnt comment on anything. Because I couldnt understand the requirement for the research and what is the expected outcome and what is the practical use of the project.

Regards, J. Balaji

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 3:30 PM Jayanta Nath jayantanth@gmail.com wrote:

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Dear all,

CIS-A2K has initiated a short-term pilot research project called *Study on Infrastructural Needs of Indian Language Wikisource Projects*, to collect baseline data on the challenges and needs of Wikisource projects in India. We would like to invite you to share your valuable feedback on the research design. For more details on this, including the objective and process, you may see: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Research/Study_on_Infrastructural_Ne...

We request you to kindly give your feedback on the following points which would be very useful to refine the study before we commence our research work:

1. Are the objectives of the research clear?
2. What do you think of the process outlined for this research?
3. Kindly give us your general opinion/suggestions/comments about this

study.

For any queries, kindly reply to this thread, or write to sneha@cis-india.org.

Best, Jayanta Nath Centre for Internet and Society

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Dear Ashwin Sir,

Thank you very much for your feedback on the Wikisource study, and our apologies for the delayed response. The study is definitely an attempt to map the needs of Indian language Wikisource projects, particularly in terms of prevailing gaps in technical infrastructure, and we hope it will capture some of the aspects you have mentioned. The research is meant to inform ongoing and future efforts to address these gaps as well. While the present study is a pilot with a small focus group of three languages, we will surely look into ways of engaging other communities soon, and how this may help eventually upscale some of these efforts.

Thanks,

Jayanta