Wikipedia:India Education Program/Analysis/Independent Report from Tory Read

This report, prepared in January 2012 by Tory Read of Tory Read Studio for the Wikimedia Foundation, presents findings and recommendations from a qualitative review of the India Education Program Pune Pilot Project, which is part of the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikipedia Education Program.

The report includes:

• An overview of the Wikipedia Education Program and how it fits in to the Foundation's global development work,
• A description of what happened in the Pune Pilot Project, which took place in India and on English Wikipedia, and
• Recommendations for the India Education Program going forward.

The information presented herein is derived from a review of relevant talk pages and email lists, interviews with 43 people who played key roles in the pilot project, and statistical data compiled and analyzed by the Foundation. People interviewed include: Wikipedia administrators and editors; university directors, professors and students in Pune, India; Campus Ambassadors and Online Ambassadors, and Foundation staff and consultants in San Francisco and Delhi.^[1]