विकिपिडिया:चौपातो (विविध)

Train the Training मि भाग लिनाइँ

जून १५, २०१६ बठे जून १७, २०१६ ३(तीन)को "Train the Training" कार्यक्रममी भाग लिनाईलाइ मुइ भारतका बंगलोर शहर जान्नाछुँ |
समय :- जून १५, २०१६ बठे जून १७, २०१६ ३(तीन) दिन |
ठौर :- Centre for Internet and Society office, Domlur, भारत बंगलोर |
बिस्तृतमि हेरया

- Janak Bhatta (talk) 11:41, 16 June 2016 (UTC)

डोटेलीमी अनुबाद गद्दु आवश्यक

तलदिया पृष्ठअन डोटेली भाषामी नभैबर नेपाली भाषामी छन् । यीनरो अनुबाद डोटेली भाषामी गद्दु आवश्यक छ । सबै विकिपिडियन मित्रुरुनलाइ अनुरोध छ ।

--Janak Bhatta (कुरडी) १५:०७, ९ मे २०१७ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

समर्थन --Nirajan pant (कुरडी) १८:१६, १० मे २०१७ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

छलफल

विकिपिडिया:व्यवस्थापकअन को नाउँ विकिपिडिया:प्रबन्धक राख्या निको होला क्याइकि प्रबन्धक रे व्यवस्थापक जुदाइ व्यक्ति हुन। --Nirajan pant (कुरडी) १९:०९, १० मे २०१७ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

तल्तिर को छलफल बन्द गरिया: छ। कृपया यै लाइ परिमार्जन जनगर्याः। येइ पछा टिप्पणि अद्दु पड़्या उपयुक्त छलफल पन्ना माइ अद्दुपड्ड्या छ। यै छलफल माइ थप कोइ लै सम्पादन अरीनु हुनैन।

Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

"ढाँचा:जदौ"को नाउँ रे पन्‍ना सम्बन्धी

"जदौ" आँखर डोटी क्षेत्राः सप्पै समुदाअनले नहोइबर कोइ विशेष समुदाय हताँ प्रयोग हुन्या हुनाले येइ आँखरैः ठउर "स्वागतम्" या और कोइ प्रयुक्त आँखर लेख्द्या प्रस्ताव अद्दौ। इसैका सङ्ङै येइ पन्‍नालाई आँजि आकर्षक बनौनाइ प्रस्ताव अद्‍दौ। येइ विषयमी आफुनी कुरणि राख्याऽ। --Nirajan pant (कुरडी) १८:१६, १० मे २०१७ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

समर्थन

मेरो समर्थन छ ।--Saroj Uprety (कुरडी) १८:५९, १० मे २०१७ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]
मेरो समर्थन छ ।--Janak Bhatta (कुरडी) २१:३६, १० मे २०१७ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]
समर्थन--Ramesh(✉✉) ०६:२८, ११ मे २०१७ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

विरोध

कुरणिकाआनी

मेरो बिचारमी जदौका बदलामी स्वागतम् राखीबर नौला ढाँचा प्रयोग अद्दा निको होलो ।--Saroj Uprety (कुरडी) १९:१६, १० मे २०१७ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]
यिसा कुरामी छलफल चलाइबर मात्तर निर्णय भौत निको हो । मुलाइ लै "जदौ" आँखर डोटी क्षेत्राः सप्पै तिर प्रयोग हुन्छ जसो नाइँ लाग्दो । येकी ठौर स्वागत वा नमस्कार राक्दु निको होलो । येमी Ram Prasad Joshee जी रे Ramesh S.Bohara जी को विचार कि छ ? येइ विषयमी आफुनी कुरणि राख्याऽ । एकफेर हामले डोटेली भाषाका बिज्ञअनलाइ सोध्यालै आँजि निको हुन्या थ्यो ।--Janak Bhatta (कुरडी) २१:३६, १० मे २०१७ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

पुराइ भयो (Done) --Saroj Uprety (कुरडी) १६:२९, १३ मे २०१७ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

यो छलफल बन्द गरिया: छ। कृपया यै लाइ परिमार्जन जनगर्याः। येइ पछा टिप्पणि अद्दु पड़्या उपयुक्त छलफल पन्ना माइ अद्दुपड्ड्या छ। यै छलफल माइ थप कोइ लै सम्पादन अरीनु हुनैन।

डोटेली विकिपिडिया सापसपाइ अभियान

डोटेली विकिपिडिया मैं भौत लेखअन नाऽना ठुटा, सन्दर्भ नभयाऽ, रे लेख मापदण्ड पुरा नअद्द्या खाल का छन्। विकिपिडिया लाइ चुस्त राख्दाइ लेख को गुणस्तर लै कायम अद्दु आवश्यक छ। तबै यिसा मापदण्ड नपुग्याऽ लेखअन लाइ हटाइबरे विकिपिडिया लाइ साप राख्द्या अभियान चनौलाइ प्रस्ताव राख्दौ। मेटौन पड्ड्या श्रेणि मैं निम्न उल्लेखित बुँदा पुरा नअद्द्या लेख पड़िसक्दान्।

कम्ति मैं लै १० वाक्य (१ अनुच्छेद) को लेख हन पड्ड्या
कम्ति मैं लै २ (लेखै प्रकृति हेरिबरे १ लै माण्ण सकिन्या छ) सन्दर्भ हन पड्ड्या
लेख लाइ आवश्यक जानकारि बक्सा रे चित्र हन पड्ड्या
२ या २ है बर्ति श्रेणि राखियाऽ हन पड्ड्या

येइ मैं आफनु विचार र सल्लाग दियाऽ। --Nirajan pant (कुरडी) २१:३३, २६ अप्रिल २०१८ (NPT)

समर्थन

समर्थन -- प्रस्तावकाऽ तरफ बठै।--Nirajan pant (कुरडी) २१:३३, २६ अप्रिल २०१८ (NPT)
समर्थन --Janak Bhatta (कुरडी) १६:३५, २३ अगस्ट २०१८ (NPT)

विरोध

कुरणिकाआनी

Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India): Applications are open

Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India) to be tentatively held in the last weekend of September 2018. This is going to be a three-day training workshop to equip the participants with the skills to create illustrations and digital drawings in SVG format, using software like Inkscape.

Minimum eligibility criteria to participate is as below:

Active Wikimedians from India contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia projects.
At least 1,500 global edits till 30 May 2018.
At least 500 edits to home-Wikipedia (excluding User-space).

Please apply at the following link before 16th June 2018: Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India) Scholarships.

MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १६:५७, १२ जुन २०१८ (NPT)

अगस्ट २०१८ को खास लेख चुनाउ खिलाइ

@Janak Bhatta, KB Thakulla, Ramesh S.Bohara:, सन् २०१८ अगस्ट मैना: खास लेख बनौनाइ उपयुक्त लेख (खास लेख मापदण्ड पुरा अर्या: लेख) तै मैना लेख खिलाइ सिफारिस अद्दाइ सप्पै डोट्यालि विकिपिडिया: सम्पादक रे प्रयोगकर्ताअन माइ अनुरोध अद्दौ। सिफारिस अरन्ज्याँ तै लेख लाइ खास लेख क्याइ बनौन्या भँणिबरे तमरो विचार लगै राख्या:। सिफारिस भया: लेखअन मध्ये सबै है रामड़ा लेख लाइ तै मैना: खास लेख बनायीन्या हो। --Nirajan pant (कुरडी) १९:५०, २६ जुलाई २०१८ (NPT)

सेप्टेम्बर २०१८ को खास लेख चुनाउ खिलाइ

@Janak Bhatta, KB Thakulla, Ramesh S.Bohara:, सन् २०१८ सेप्टेम्बर मैना: खास लेख बनौनाइ उपयुक्त लेख (खास लेख मापदण्ड पुरा अर्या: लेख) तै मैना लेख खिलाइ सिफारिस अद्दाइ सप्पै डोट्यालि विकिपिडिया: सम्पादक रे प्रयोगकर्ताअन माइ अनुरोध अद्दौ। सिफारिस अरन्ज्याँ तै लेख लाइ खास लेख क्याइ बनौन्या भँणिबरे तमरो विचार लगै राख्या:। सिफारिस भया: लेखअन मध्ये सबै है रामड़ा लेख लाइ तै मैना: खास लेख बनायीन्या हो। --Nirajan pant (कुरडी) २०:५८, १ अगस्ट २०१८ (NPT)

Call for bids to host Train-the-Trainer 2019

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Hello everyone,

This year CIS-A2K is seeking expressions of interest from interested communities in India for hosting the Train-the-Trainer 2019.

Train-the-Trainer or TTT is a residential training program which attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community (including English) members. Earlier TTT has been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

If you're interested in hosting the program, Following are the per-requests to propose a bid:

Active local community which is willing to support conducting the event
- At least 4 Community members should come together and propose the city. Women Wikimedians in organizing team is highly recommended.
The city should have at least an International airport.
Venue and accommodations should be available for the event dates.
- Participants size of TTT is generally between 20-25.
- Venue should have good Internet connectivity and conference space for the above-mentioned size of participants.
Discussion in the local community.

Please learn more about the Train-the-Trainer program and to submit your proposal please visit this page. Feel free to reach to me for more information or email titocis-india.org

Best!

Pavan Santhosh ( MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) ११:३७, ६ जनवरी २०१९ (NPT) )

Train-the-Trainer 2019 Application open

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Hello,
It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2019 programme organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 31 May, 1 & 2 June 2019.

What is TTT?
Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. Earlier TTT has been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Who should apply?

Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project (including English) is eligible to apply.
An editor must have 600+ edits on Zero-namespace till 31 March 2019.
Anyone who has the interest to conduct offline/real-life Wiki events.
Note: anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, cannot apply.

Please learn more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the deserving candidates from your community to do so. Regards. -- Tito (CIS-A2K), sent using MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १०:५२, २६ अप्रिल २०१९ (NPT)

Wikimedia Education SAARC conference application is now open

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Greetings from CIS-A2K,

The Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will take place on 20-22 June 2019. Wikimedians from Indian, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Afghanistan can apply for the scholarship. This event will take place at Christ University, Bangalore.

Who should apply?

Any active contributor to a Wikimedia project, or Wikimedia volunteer in any other capacity, from the South Asian subcontinent is eligible to apply
An editor must have 1000+ edits before 1 May 2019.
Anyone who has the interest to conduct offline/real-life Wikimedia Education events.
Activity within the Wikimedia movement will be the main criteria for evaluation. Participation in non-Wikimedia free knowledge, free software, collaborative or educational initiatives, working with institutions is a plus.

Please know more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the deserving candidates from your community to do so. Regards.Ananth (CIS-A2K) using MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १९:३९, ११ मे २०१९ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

CIS-A2K: 3 Work positions open

Hello,
Greetings for CIS-A2K. We want to inform you that 3 new positions are open at this moment.

Communication officer: (staff position) The person will work on CIS-A2K's blogs, reports, newsletters, social media activities, and over-all CIS-A2K general communication. The last date of application is 4 June 2019.
Wikidata consultant: (consultant position), The person will work on CIS-A2K's Wikidata plan, and will support and strengthen Wikidata community in India. The last date of application is 31 May 2019
Project Tiger co-ordinatorː (consultant position) The person will support Project tiger related communication, documentation and coordination, Chromebook disbursal, internet support etc. The last date of application is 7 June 2019.

For details about these opportunities please see here. -- Tito (CIS-A2K), sent using MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १५:४७, २२ मे २०१९ (NPT)

प्रबन्धक अधिकार सम्बन्धमैं

@Nirajan pant, Janak Bhatta: जी, डोटेली विकिपिडियामैं भौत कामकाजअन जस्याँ पन्ना मेटौन, सुरक्षीत अद्दु आवश्यक रह्याऽ छ । येइका साथै मिडियाविकि नेमस्पेसमैं भयाऽ पन्नाअन लै सुधार तथा निर्माण अद्दु छ रे येइ टेक्निकल सुधार खिलाइ मुइलाई येइ अधिकार प्रदान अद्द अनुरोध अरिन्छ ।--Saroj Uprety (कुरडी) १५:१३, ५ जुन २०१९ (NPT)

तमरि अर्जि पैली लै अस्वीकृत होइसकीरैछ। तबै येइ उपर छलफल चलौन उपयुक्क नाइधेक्कुँ।--Nirajan pant (कुरडी) २१:२६, ७ जुन २०१९ (NPT)

Project Tiger 2.0

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Hello,

We are glad to inform you that Project Tiger 2.0/GLOW is going to start very soon. You know about Project Tiger first iteration where we saw exciting and encouraging participation from different Indian Wikimedia communities. To know about Project Tiger 1.0 please see this page

Like project Tiger 1.0, This iteration will have 2 components

Infrastructure support - Supporting Wikimedians from India with internet support for 6 months and providing Chrome books.
Article writing contest - A 3-month article writing contest will be conducted for Indian Wikimedians communities. Following community feedback, we noted some community members wanted the process of article list generation to be improved. In this iteration, there will be at least two lists of articles

Google-generated list,
Community suggested a list. Google generated list will be given to the community members before finalising the final list. On the other hand, the community may create a list by discussing among the community over Village pump, Mailing list and similar discussion channels.

Thanks for your attention,
प्रयोगकर्ता:Ananth (CIS-A2K)
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Project Tiger important 2.0 updates

Infrastructure support

Did you know that applications for Chromebooks and Internet stipends under Project Tiger 2.0 are open since 25th August 2019?
We have already received 35 applications as of now from 12 communities. If you are interested to apply, please visit the support page and apply on or before 14 September 2019.

Article writing contest

As part of the article writing contest of Project Tiger 2.0, we request each community to create their own list by discussing on the village pump and put it on respective topic list.

We also request you to create a pan India article list which needs to be part of writing contest by voting under each topic here

For any query, feel free to contact us on the talk page 😊
Thanks for your attention
Ananth (CIS-A2K) using MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १९:०५, २९ अगस्ट २०१९ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Wikimedia movement strategy recommendations India salon

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Greetings,

You know Strategy Working Groups have published draft recommendations at the beginning of August. On 14-15 September we are organising a strategy salon/conference at Bangalore/Delhi (exact venue to be decided) It'll be a 2 days' residential conference and the event aims to provide a discussion platform for experienced Wikimedians in India to learn, discuss and comment about the draft recommendations. Feedback and discussions will be documented.

If you are a Wikipedian from India, and want to discuss the draft recommendations, or learn more about them, you may apply to participate in the event.

Please have a look at the event page for more details The last date of application is 7 September 2019.

It would be great if you share this information who needs this. For questions, please write on the event talk page, or email me at tito+indiasalon@cis-india.org

Thanks for your attention
Ananth (CIS-A2K) sent through MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १५:००, २ सेप्टेम्बर २०१९ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Project Tiger Article writing contest Update

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Hello all,

We would like to give some of the important updates about Project Tiger 2.0.

It was informed about the community-generated list for the Article writing contest. The deadline for this has been extended till 30 September 2019 since few communities are working on it.
We are expecting the Project Tiger 2.0 article writing contest to begin from 10 October 2019 and also there is a need for creating the writing contest page in the local Wiki's if you are interested to help please contact User talk:Nitesh (CIS-A2K) & User talk:SuswethaK(CIS-A2K).

Looking forward to exciting participation this year! Please let us know if you have any doubts.

Thanks for your attention
Ananth (CIS-A2K)
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GLOW edit-a-thon starts on 10 October 2019

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Hello everyone,

Hope this message finds you well. Here are some important updates about Project Tiger 2.0/GLOW edit-a-thon.

The participating communities are requested to create an event page on their Wikipedia (which has been already updated with template link in the last post). Please prepare this local event page before 10 October (i.e. Edit-a-thon starting date)
All articles will be submitted here under Project Tiger 2.0. Please copy-paste the fountain tool link in the section of submitted articles. Please see the links here on this page.

Regards. -- User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K) and User:SuswethaK(CIS-A2K) (on benhalf of Project Tiger team) using MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) ०१:२६, ५ अक्टोबर २०१९ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Project Tiger 2.0: Article contest jury information

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Hello everyone,

We want to inform you that Project Tiger 2.0 is going to begin on 10 October. It's crucial to select jury for the writing contest as soon as possible. Jury members will assess the articles.

Please start discussing on your respective village pump and add your name here as a jury for writing contest if you are interested. Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २२:५१, ८ अक्टोबर २०१९ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

तल्तिर को छलफल बन्द गरिया: छ। कृपया यै लाइ परिमार्जन जनगर्याः। येइ पछा टिप्पणि अद्दु पड़्या नौला खण्णा माइ अद्दुपड्ड्या छ। छलफल का निष्कर्षअन को सारांश निम्नानुसार छ।

छलफल समाप्त —- Saroj Uprety (कुरडी) २३:३२, २६ अक्टोबर २०१९ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

विकिकन्फेरेन्स इण्डिया २०२० का आयोजन सम्बन्ध माइ

विकिकन्फेरेन्स इण्डिया दुइ फेर सन् २०११ रे सन् २०१६ माइ आयोजना होइसकीरैछ। भारत का आन्ध्र प्रदेश रे तेलङ्गाना का विकिमिडियनअन ले औन्या विकिकन्फेरेन्स इण्डिया हैदराबाद माइ गद्दाइ खिलाइ प्रस्ताव अरिराइछन। औन्या विकिकन्फेरेन्स लाइ आँजि जेदा समावेशी रे विश्वसनीय बनाउनाइ खिलाइ उनअन ले विभिन्न समुदायअन को विचार जाँण्ण खोजिराइछन। खास अरिबर विकिकन्फेरेन्स इण्डिया ले हम लाइ विभिन्न समुदाय का सम्पादनकर्ताअन सित ज्ञान बाँण्णाइ, नौला विचार रे परियोजनाअन का बारेमी जाँण्णाइ अवसर पाउना का सङ्ङै बितीबर रयाका विकिपिडियनअन सित नजिक आउनाइ सहयोग अद्द्या छ। येइ कन्फेरेन्स को आयोजना अद्दाइ खिलाइ मेटा-विकि माइ प्रारम्भिक छलफल पन्ना बनायीरैछ। और समुदायअन को लगै समर्थन येइ खण्ण माइ हेद्द सकीन्छ। कृष्ण भेल्गा का आग्रह माइ मुइ ले यो सन्देश समुदायसमक्ष राखिराइछौं। यदि येइ आयोजन लाइ तम जरुड़ि ठानन्छः भँण्या याँ आफनु मत राख्याः। येइ प्रस्ताव माइ टिप्पणी तथा समर्थन अद्द्या समय सन् २०१९ अक्टोबर १८ सम्म रयाः सब्बै माइ जानकारि लगै गराउन चाहनौ। धन्यवाद! --Nirajan pant (कुरडी) २१:०६, १४ अक्टोबर २०१९ (+०५४५)

@Anup Sadi, Dolon Prova, Janak Bhatta, Bhupendra Shrestha, पर्वत सुबेदी, Nawaraj Ghimire, हिमाल सुबेदी:@Ram Prasad Joshee, 1997kB, Saroj Uprety: यै छलफल खिलाइ विविध सहभागिता पर्याप्त आवश्यक भयाले, छलफललाई ध्यान दिन केयि सक्रिय सम्पादकअनलाई सहभागी अद्दया। KCVelaga (कुरडी) २०:४२, १५ अक्टोबर २०१९ (+०५४५)

समर्थन

पूर्ण समर्थन- Saroj Uprety (कुरडी) २१:३९, १५ अक्टोबर २०१९ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]
पूर्ण समर्थन Nawaraj Ghimire (कुरडी) ०७:५७, १६ अक्टोबर २०१९ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]
पूर्ण समर्थन- Janak Bhatta (कुरडी) १२:४७, १७ अक्टोबर २०१९ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]
पूर्ण समर्थन पर्वत सुबेदी (कुरडी) १३:५४, २७ अक्टोबर २०१९ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

विरोध

टिप्पणी

मल्तिर को छलफल बन्द अरियाः छ। कृपया यै माइ परिमार्जन जनअर्याः। येइ पछा टिप्पणि अद्दु पड़्या नौला खण्णा माइ अद्दुपड्ड्या छ।

Project Tiger Article writing contest Jury Update

Hello all,

There are some issues that need to be addressed regarding the Juries of the Project Tiger 2.0 article writing contest. Some of the User has shown interest to be a jury and evaluate the articles created as the part of the writing contest. But they don't meet the eligibility criteria. Please discuss this aspect with the community, if the community feel that they have the potential to be a jury then we can go ahead. If not please make a decision on who can be the jury members from your community within two days. The community members can change the juries members in the later stage of the writing contest if the work done is not satisfactory or the jury member is inactive with the proper discussion over the village pump.

Regards,
Project Tiger team at CIS-A2K
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Project Tiger update: Let's walk together with Wikipedia Asian Month and WWWW

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Greetings!

First of all "Happy Dipavali/Festive season". On behalf of the Project Tiger 2.0 team we have exciting news for all. Thanks for your enthusiastic participation in Project Tiger 2.0. You also know that there is a couple of interesting edit-a-thons around. We are happy to inform that the Project Tiger article list just got bigger.

We'll collaborate on Project Tiger article writing contest with Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 (WAM2019) and Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing 2019 (WWWW-2019). Most communities took part in these events in the previous iterations. Fortunately this year, all three contests are happening at the same time.

Wikipedia Asian Month agenda is to increase Asian content on Wikipedias. There is no requirement for selecting an article from the list provided. Any topic related to Asia can be chosen to write an article in WAM. This contest runs 1 November till 30 November. For more rules and guidelines, you can follow the event page on Meta or local Wikis.

WWWW focus is on increase content related to women's health issues on Indic language Wikipedias. WWWW 2019 will start from 1 November 2019 and will continue till 10 January 2020. A common list of articles will be provided to write on.

In brief: The articles you are submitting for Wikipedia Asian Month or WWWW, you may submit the same articles for Project Tiger also. Articles created under any of these events can be submitted to fountain tool of Project Tiger 2.0. Article creation rule will remain the same for every community. -- sent using MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १८:२९, २९ अक्टोबर २०१९ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Project Tiger 2.0 - Hardware support recipients list

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Hello everyone,

Thank you all for actively participating and contributing to the writing contest of Project Tiger 2.0. We are very happy to announce the much-awaited results of the hardware support applications. You can see the names of recipients for laptop here and for laptop see here.

78 Wikimedians will be provided with internet stipends and 50 Wikimedians will be provided with laptop support. Laptops will be delivered to all selected recipients and we will email you in person to collect details. Thank you once again.

Regards. -- User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K) and User:SuswethaK(CIS-A2K) (on benhalf of Project Tiger team)
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[WikiConference India 2020] Invitation to participate in the Community Engagement Survey

This is an invitation to participate in the Community Engagement Survey, which is one of the key requirements for drafting the Conference & Event Grant application for WikiConference India 2020 to the Wikimedia Foundation. The survey will have questions regarding a few demographic details, your experience with Wikimedia, challenges and needs, and your expectations for WCI 2020. The responses will help us to form an initial idea of what is expected out of WCI 2020, and draft the grant application accordingly. Please note that this will not directly influence the specificities of the program, there will be a detailed survey to assess the program needs post-funding decision.

Please fill the survey at; https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7_hpoIKHxGW31RepX_y4QxVqoodsCFOKatMTzxsJ2Vbkd-Q/viewform
The survey will be open until 23:59 hrs of 22 December 2019.

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Project Tiger updates - quality of articles

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Hello everyone,

It has been around 70 days since Project Tiger 2.0 started and we are amazed by the enthusiasm and active participation being shown by all the communities. As much as we celebrate the numbers and statistics, we would like to reinstate that the quality of articles is what matters the most. Project Tiger does not encourage articles that do not have encyclopedic value. Hence we request participants to take care of the quality of the articles submitted. Because Wikipedia is not about winning, it is about users collectively building a reliable encyclopedia.

Many thanks and we hope to see the energy going! (on behalf of Project Tiger team)
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Project Tiger 2.0 - last date of the contest

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Greetings from CIS-A2K!

It has been 86 days since Project Tiger 2.0 article writing contest started and all 15 communities have been performing extremely well, beyond the expectations.

The 3-month contest will come to an end on 11 January 2020 at 11.59 PM IST. We thank all the Wikipedians who have been contributing tirelessly since the last 2 months and wish you continue the same in these last 5 days!

Thanks for your attention
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Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2020

Wiki Loves Women is back with the 2020 edition. Join us to celebrate women and queer community in Folklore theme and enrich Wikipedia with the local culture of your region. Happening from 1 February-31 March, Wiki Loves Women South Asia welcomes the articles created on folk culture and gender. The theme of the contest includes, but is not limited to, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklores, witches and witch hunting, fairytales and more). You can learn more about the scope and the prizes at the project page.

Best wishes,

Wiki Loves Women Team

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Train-the-Trainer 2020 Application open

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Hello,

CIS-A2K is glad to announce Train the Trainer programme 2020 (TTT 2020) from 28 February - 1 March 2020. This is the 7th iteration of this programme. We are grateful to all the community members, resource persons for their consistent enthusiasm to participate and support. We expect this to continue as before.

What is TTT?
Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. Earlier TTT has been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Who should apply?

Any active Wikimedian from India, contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project (including English) is eligible to apply.
An editor with at least 800 edits on zero-namespace before 31 December 2019.
Anyone who has the interest to conduct offline/real-life Wiki events and to train others.
Anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, cannot apply.

Please learn more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the deserving candidates from your community to do so.

Thanks for your attention, --MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २१:३१, २१ जनवरी २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

विकिकार्यशाला नेपाल २०२० का प्रस्ताव मी सहमति खिलाइ

विकिमिडियन मित्तुरअन का बीच छलफल, अन्तर विकि समन्वय तथा विकि समुदाय को प्राथमिकता तथा चुनौति का बारेमी सहकार्य खिलाइ नेपाल मी बोलीन्या भाषाअन का समुदायअन को सम्मेलन विकिक्याम्प नेपाल को दोसरो संस्करण-विकिक्याम्प नेपाल २०२० इसै नोभेम्बर २०२० मी आयोजना खिलाइ मेटा मी प्रस्ताव अरीया हनाले कृपया यै प्रस्ताव मी तमरो विचार रे सहमति राखि दिनाइ अनुरोध अद्दाउँ। - आयोजक समूह का तरफ बठेइ --Nirajan pant (कुरडी) १६:१५, २२ फेब्रुअरी २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon

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Hello all,

As COVID-19 has forced the Wikimedia communities to stay at home and like many other affiliates, CIS-A2K has decided to suspend all offline activities till 15th September 2020 (or till further notice). I present to you for an online training session for future coming months. The CIS-A2K have conducted a Online Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon to enrich our Indian classic literature in digital format.

WHAT DO YOU NEED

Booklist: a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some classical literature your language. The book should not be available in any third party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books and add our event page book list.

Participants: Kindly sign your name at Participants section if you wish to participant this event.

Reviewer: Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this proofreadthon and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers could participate in this Proofreadthon.

Some social media coverage: I would request to all Indic Wikisource community member, please spread the news to all social media channel, we always try to convince it your Wikipedia/Wikisource to use their SiteNotice. Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource site notice.

Some awards: There may be some award/prize given by CIS-A2K.

A way to count validated and proofread pages:Wikisource Contest Tools

Time : Proofreadthon will run: from 01 May 2020 00.01 to 10 May 2020 23.59

Rules and guidelines: The basic rules and guideline have described here

Scoring: The details scoring method have described here

I really hope many Indic Wikisources will be present this year at-home lockdown.

Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K

Template:Indo-Aryan wikipedia

Could somebody translate this navigation template of Indo-Aryan wikipedia to your wikipedia?Indo-Aryan wikipedia:Template:--Kaiyr (कुरडी) १८:१२, २२ अप्रिल २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Sorry Kaiyr, nobody from this community have knowledge of Russian language. If it is available in English I can translate. --Nirajan pant (कुरडी) २१:०७, २२ अप्रिल २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

There are just numbers and names of wikipedia. Like Hindi wikipedia etc.--Kaiyr (कुरडी) २१:४०, २२ अप्रिल २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

[Small wiki toolkits – Indic workshop series 2020] Register now!

Greetings, hope this message finds you all in the best of your health, and you are staying safe amid the ongoing crisis.

Firstly, to give you context, Small wiki toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wiki communities, to learn and share technical and semi-technical skills to support, maintain, and grow. We are happy to inform you that the SWT group has planned a series of four online workshops for Indic Wikimedia community members during June & July 2020. These workshops have been specifically designed and curated for Indic communities, based on a survey conducted early this year. The four workshops planned in this regard are;

Understanding the technical challenges of Indic language wikis (by Birgit): Brainstorming about technical challenges faced by contributors to Indic language Wikimedia projects.
Writing user scripts & gadgets (by Jayprakash12345): Basics to intermediate-level training on writing user scripts (Javascript and jQuery fundamentals are prerequisites).
Using project management & bug reporting tool Phabricator (by Andre): Introduction to Phabricator, a tool used for project management and software bug reporting.
Writing Wikidata queries (by Mahir256): Introduction to the Wikidata Query Service, from writing simple queries to constructing complex visualizations of structured data.

You can read more about these workshops at: SWT Indic Workshop Series 2020/Workshops -- exact dates and timings will be informed later to selected participants.

Registration is open until 24 May 2020, and you can register yourself by visiting this page! These workshops will be quite helpful for Indic communities to expand their technical bandwidth, and further iterations will be conducted based on the response to the current series. Looking forward to your participation! If you have any questions, please contact us on the talk page here. MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २३:२३, १६ मे २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

सम्पादन-थन बारेमी

५ जुन १९७३ बठे पैल्ली फेर विश्व वातावरण दिवस मनाउन सुरु अरियाः हो। संयुक्त राष्ट्रद्वारा घोषित यै दिवस पर्यावरण प्रति वैश्विक स्तरमी राजनैतिक रे सामाजिक जागृति ल्याउन्या उद्देश्यले मनाइन्छ। ‍‍‌‌ डोटेली विकिपिडियामी लै विश्व वातावरण दिवस(५ जून) का अवसरमी सम्पादन-थन आयोजना खिलाइ प्रस्ताव अद्दाउँ। प्रस्ताव मी तमरो विचार, सहमति रे सहभागिताखि लाई अनुरोध अद्दाउँ। - आयोजक समूह का तरफ बठेइ -- Janak Bhatta (कुरडी) २२:२६, २ जुन २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

समर्थन

समर्थन मेरा तरफ बठेइ समर्थन।--Nirajan pant (कुरडी) २१:४०, ३ जुन २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]
समर्थन --Anup Sadi (कुरडी) २२:४३, ३ जुन २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]
समर्थन--Dolon Prova (कुरडी) २२:४५, ३ जुन २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]
समर्थन--Galib Tufan (कुरडी) १०:१२, ४ जुन २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

विरोध

टिप्पणी

Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon II and Central Notice

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Hello Proofreader,

After successful first Online Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon hosted and organised by CIS-A2K in May 2020, again we are planning to conduct one more Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon II.I would request to you, please submit your opinion about the dates of contest and help us to fix the dates. Please vote for your choice below.

Click here to Submit Your Vote

Last date of submit of your vote on 24th September 2020, 11:59 PM

I really hope many Indic Wikisource proofreader will be present this time.

Please comment on CentralNotice banner proposal for Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon 2020 for the Indic Wikisource contest. (1 Oct2020 - 15 Oct, all IPs from India, Bangladesh, Srilanka, all project). Thank you.

Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K

Mahatma Gandhi edit-a-thon on 2 and 3 October 2020

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Hello,
Hope this message finds you well. We want to inform you that CIS-A2K is going to organise a mini edit-a-thon for two days on 2 and 3 October 2020 during Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary. This is not related to a particular project rather participants can contribute to any Wikimedia project (such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote). The topic of the edit-a-thon is: Mahatma Gandhi and his works and contribution. Please participate in this event. For more information and details please visit the event page here. Thank you. — User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K) Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १७:०९, २८ सेप्टेम्बर २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021

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Hello,

Hope this email finds you well. We want to inform you about Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021, an online wiki-event by A2K which is to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day. Please see the event page here. also Please subscribe to the event-specific newsletter to get regular news and updates.

Get involved

Please help in creating a logo for the event.
This event has a "Request for Comments" portal, where we are seeking your opinion on different topics. Please consider sharing your expertise.
We need help to translate a few messages to different Indian languages. Could you help?

Happy Diwali. --MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १८:३१, १४ नोभेम्बर २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

WMWM 2021 Newsletter #1

Namaskar,

You are receiving this notification as you are one of the subscriber of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter. We are sharing with you the first newsletter featuring news, updates and plans related to the event. You can find our first issue here. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove yourself from here.

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Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon on 5-6 December 2020

Namaskara/Hello,

Hope you are doing well. On 5–6 December, A2K will conduct a mini edit-a-thon on the theme Festivals of India. This edit-a-thon is not restricted to a particular project and editors can contribute to any Wikimedia project on the theme. Please have a look at the event page, and please participate. Some tasks have been suggested, please feel free to expand the list.

Regards. Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १७:१४, २ डिसेम्बर २०२० (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #2

Hello,
The second edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have started a logistics assessment. The objective of the survey is to collect relevant information about the logistics of the Indian Wikimedia community members who are willing to participate in the event. Please spend a few minutes to fill this form.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

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Submission Open for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021

Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it

Hello,

We are excited to announce that submission for session proposals has been opened for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021, the upcoming online wiki-event which is to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The submission will remain open until 24 January 2021.

You can submit your session proposals here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Submissions
Click here to Submit Your session proposals

A program team has been formed recently from highly experienced Wikimedia volunteers within and outside India. It is currently under the process of expansion to include more diversity in the team. The team will evaluate the submissions, accept, modify or reject them, design and finalise the program schedule by the end of January 2021. Details about the team will come soon.

We are sure that you will share some of your most inspiring stories and conduct some really exciting sessions during the event. Best of luck for your submissions!

Regards,
Jayanta
On behalf of WMWM India 2021

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #3

Hello,
Happy New Year! The third edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened proposals for session submissions. If you want to conduct a session during the event, you can propose it here before 24 Jamuary 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #4

Hello,
Happy New Year! The fourth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

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[Small wiki toolkits] Understanding the technical challenges

Greetings, hope this message finds you all in the best of your health, and you are staying safe amid the ongoing crisis.

Firstly, to give you context, Small wiki toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wiki communities, to learn and share technical and semi-technical skills to support, maintain, and grow. In India, a series of workshops were conducted last year, and they received good response. They are being continued this year, and the first session is: Understanding the technical challenges of wikis (by Birgit): Brainstorming about technical challenges faced by contributors contributing to language projects related to South Asia. The session is on 24 January 2021, at 18:00 to 19:30 (India time), 18:15 to 19:45 (Nepal time), and 18:30 to 20:00 pm (Bangladesh time).

You can register yourself by visiting this page! This discussion will be crucial to decide topics for future workshops. Community members are also welcome to suggest topics for future workshops anytime at https://w.wiki/t8Q. If you have any questions, please contact us on the talk page here. MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २२:२४, १९ जनवरी २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

[Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming bots workshops: Understanding community needs

Greetings, as you may be aware that as part of Small wiki toolkits - South Asia, we conduct a workshop every month on technical topics to help small wikis. In February, we are planning on organizing a workshop on the topic of bots. Bots are automated tools that carry out repetitive, tedious and mundane tasks. To help us structure the workshop, we would like understand the needs of the community in this regard. Please let us know any of

a) repetitive/mundane tasks that you generally do, especially for maintenance
b) tasks you think can be automated on your wiki.

Please let us your inputs on workshops talk page, before 7 February 2021. You can also let me know your inputs by emailing me or pinging me here in this section. Please note that you do not need to have any programming knowledge for this workshop or to give input. Regards, KCVelaga १९:३०, २८ जनवरी २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Call for feedback: WMF Community Board seats & Office hours tomorrow

(sorry for posting in English)

Dear Wikimedians,

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. Below you will find the problem statement and various ideas from the Board to address it. We are offering multiple channels for questions and feedback. With the help of a team of community facilitators, we are organizing multiple conversations with multiple groups in multiple languages.

During this call for feedback we publish weekly reports and we draft the final report that will be delivered to the Board. With the help of this report, the Board will approve the next steps to organize the selection of six community seats in the upcoming months. Three of these seats are due for renewal and three are new, recently approved.

Participate in this call for feedback and help us form a more diverse and better performing Board of Trustees!

Problems: While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. This problem was identified in the Board’s 2019 governance review, along with recommendations for how to address it.

To solve the problem of capacity, we have agreed to increase the Board size to a maximum of 16 trustees (it was 10). Regarding performance and diversity, we have approved criteria to evaluate new Board candidates. What is missing is a process to promote community candidates that represent the diversity of our movement and have the skills and experience to perform well on the Board of a complex global organization.

Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. Meanwhile, our movement has grown larger and more complex, our technical and strategic needs have increased, and we have new and more difficult policy challenges around the globe. As well, our Movement Strategy recommendations urge us to increase our diversity and promote perspectives from other regions and other social backgrounds.

In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. What process can we all design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

Ideas: The Board has discussed several ideas to overcome the problems mentioned above. Some of these ideas could be taken and combined, and some discarded. Other ideas coming from the call for feedback could be considered as well. The ideas are:

Ranked voting system. Complete the move to a single transferable vote system, already used to appoint affiliate-selected seats, which is designed to best capture voters’ preferences.
Quotas. Explore the possibility of introducing quotas to ensure certain types of diversity in the Board (details about these quotas to be discussed in this call for feedback).
Call for types of skills and experiences. When the Board makes a new call for candidates, they would specify types of skills and experiences especially sought.
Vetting of candidates. Potential candidates would be assessed using the Trustee Evaluation Form and would be confirmed or not as eligible candidates.
Board-delegated selection committee. The community would nominate candidates that this committee would assess and rank using the Trustee Evaluation Form. This committee would have community elected members and Board appointed members.
Community-elected selection committee. The community would directly elect the committee members. The committee would assess and rank candidates using the Trustee Evaluation Form.
Election of confirmed candidates. The community would vote for community nominated candidates that have been assessed and ranked using the Trustee Evaluation Form. The Board would appoint the most voted candidates.
Direct appointment of confirmed candidates. After the selection committee produces a ranked list of community nominated candidates, the Board would appoint the top-ranked candidates directly.

Call for feedback: The call for feedback runs from February 1 until the end of March 14. We are looking for a broad representation of opinions. We are interested in the reasoning and the feelings behind your opinions. In a conversation like this one, details are important. We want to support good conversations where everyone can share and learn from others. We want to hear from those who understand Wikimedia governance well and are already active in movement conversations. We also want to hear from people who do not usually contribute to discussions. Especially those who are active in their own roles, topics, languages or regions, but usually not in, say, a call for feedback on Meta.

You can participate by joining the Telegram chat group, and giving feedback on any of the talk pages on Meta-Wiki. We are welcoming the organisation of conversations in any language and in any channel. If you want us to organize a conversation or a meeting for your wiki project or your affiliate, please write to me. I will also reach out to communities and affiliates to soon have focused group discussions.

An office hour is also happening tomorrow at 12 pm (UTC) to discuss this topic. Access link will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled time (please watch the office hour page for the link, and I will also share on mailing lists). In case you are not able to make it, please don't worry, there will be more discussions and meetings in the next few weeks.

Regards, KCVelaga (WMF) २२:१५, १ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Research Needs Assessment for Indian Language Wikimedia (ILW) Projects

Dear All,

The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team at CIS has been engaged with work on research on Indian language Wikimedia projects as part of the APG since 2019. This year, following up on our learnings from work so far, we are undertaking a needs assessment exercise to understand a) the awareness about research within Indian language Wikimedia communities, and identify existing projects if any, and b) to gather community inputs on knowledge gaps and priority areas of focus, and the role of research in addressing the same.

We would therefore request interested community members to respond to the needs assessment questionnaire here:
Click here to respond

Please respond in any Indian language as suitable. The deadline for this exercise is February 20, 2021. For any queries do write to us on the CIS-A2K research talk page here MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २२:५३, ३ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Hello, thanks to those who have submitted responses to this needs assessment. We want to inform you that the deadline to share your response has been extended till 5 March 2021. Click here to respond.Thanks. BhuvanaMeenakshi(CIS-A2K) (कुरडी) १२:२१, २४ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5

Hello,
Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5

Hello,
Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
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Proposal for a meeting with Doteli Wikimedians regarding Wikimedia Foundation Board Governance call for feedback

I am Krishna Chaitanya, currently working on the Board Governance team at the Wikimedia Foundation.

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is changing several of their by-laws, which will have a substantial impact on how the Wikimedia movement works in the coming years. But they would like the community to be involved in the process of these changes, and receive community feedback regarding the proposed changes. A call for feedback started yesterday (1 Feb) and will continue until 14 March. You can read more about the call for feedback at Call for feedback: Community Board seats or from my mailing list message. I am sorry for a lot of English-heavy content. It would be great if you can translate the main page into Doteli :)

In this regard, I am proposing to have an online meeting with Doteli Wikimedians, wherein I can explain the background, the reason, why this is needed, and what are the changes being proposed. You can then share your feedback. Let me know your thoughts and if you have any questions. --KCVelaga (WMF) (कुरडी) २०:२६, ४ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

@Dolon Prova, Janak Bhatta, Nirajan pant: Pinging some active users as per this. --KCVelaga (WMF) (कुरडी) २०:२६, ४ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

[Small wiki toolkits] Bot workshop: 27 February

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the second workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "bots", and we will be learning how to perform tasks on wiki by running automated scripts, about Pywikibot and how it can be used to help with repetitive processes and editing, and the Pywikibot community, learning resources and community venues. Please note that you do not need any technical experience to attend the workshop, only some experience contributing to Wikimedia projects is enough.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

Date: 27 February
Timings: 15:30 to 17:00 (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BDT)
Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/vri-zvfv-rci | click to add your Google Calendar.
Trainer: Joaquin Oltra Hernandez

Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/yYg.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, १५:५६, १८ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (+0545)

CIS-A2K Newsletter February 2021

Hello,
CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the month of February 2021. The edition includes details about these topics:

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021
Online Meeting with Punjabi Wikimedians
Marathi Language Day
Wikisource Audiobooks workshop
2021-22 Proposal Needs Assessment
CIS-A2K Team changes
Research Needs Assessment
Gender gap case study
International Mother Language Day

Please read the complete newsletter here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here.

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WMF Community Board seats: Upcoming panel discussions

As a result of the first three weeks of the call for feedback on WMF Community Board seats, three topics turned out to be the focus of the discussion. Additionally, a new idea has been introduced by a community member recently: Candidates resources. We would like to pursue these focus topics and the new idea appropriately, discussing them in depth and collecting new ideas and fresh approaches by running four panels in the next week. Every panel includes four members from the movement covering many regions, backgrounds and experiences, along with a trustee of the Board. Every panel will last 45 minutes, followed by a 45-minute open mic discussion, where everyone’s free to ask questions or to contribute to the further development of the panel's topics.

To counter spamming, the meeting link will be updated on the Meta-Wiki pages and also on the Telegram announcements channel, 15 minutes before the official start.

Let me know if you have any questions, KCVelaga (WMF), १४:२१, १० मार्च २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

[Small wiki toolkits] Workshop on "Debugging/fixing template errors" - 27 March

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the third workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "Debugging/fixing template errors", and we will learn how to address the common template errors on wikis (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.).

Details of the workshop are as follows:

Date: 27 March
Timings: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BST)
Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/cyo-mnrd-ryj | click here to add this to your Google Calendar.
Trainer: Jay Prakash

Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/36Sg.

prepare for the workshop in advance, we would like to gather all kinds of template errors (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.) that you face while working with templates on your wiki. If you plan to attend the workshop and would like your common issues related to dealing with templates addressed, share your issues using this Google Form, or under this section on the workshop's talk page. You can see examples of such errors at this category.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, १२:४६, १६ मार्च २०२१ (+0545)

[Small wiki toolkits] Workshop on "Designing responsive main pages" - 30 April (Friday)

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we would like to announce the third workshop of this year on “Designing responsive main pages”. The workshop will take place on 30 April (Friday). During this workshop, we will learn to design main pages of a wiki to be responsive. This will allow the pages to be mobile-friendly, by adjusting the width and the height according to various screen sizes. Participants are expected to have a good understanding of Wikitext/markup and optionally basic CSS.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

Date: 30 April (Friday)
Timings: 18:00 to 19:30 (India / Sri Lanka), 18:15 to 19:45 (Nepal), 18:30 to 20:00 (Bangladesh)
Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/zfs-qfvj-hts | to add this to your Google Calendar, please use click here.

If you are interested, please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/3CGv.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, २१:३६, १९ अप्रिल २०२१ (+0545)

Invitation for Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021

Hello there,

We are inviting you to participate in Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021, a global contest scheduled to run from July through August 2021.

Participants will choose among Wikipedia pages without photo images, then add a suitable file from among the many thousands of photos in the Wikimedia Commons, especially those uploaded from thematic contests (Wiki Loves Africa, Wiki Loves Earth, Wiki Loves Folklore, etc.) over the years.

In its first year (2020), 36 Wikimedia communities in 27 countries joined the campaign. Events relating to the campaign included training organized by at least 18 Wikimedia communities in 14 countries.

The campaign resulted in the addition of media files (photos, audios and videos) to more than 90,000 Wikipedia articles in 272 languages.

Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos (WPWP) offers an ideal task for recruiting and guiding new editors through the steps of adding content to existing pages. Besides individual participation, the WPWP campaign can be used by user groups and chapters to organize editing workshops and edit-a-thons.

The organizing team is looking for a contact person to coordinate WPWP participation at the Wikimedia user group or chapter level (geographically or thematically) or for a language WP. We’d be glad for you to reply to this message, or sign up directly at WPWP Participating Communities.

Please feel free to contact Organizing Team if you have any query.

Kind regards,
Tulsi Bhagat
Communication Manager
Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign
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Call for Election Volunteers: 2021 WMF Board elections

Hello all,

Based on an extensive call for feedback earlier this year, the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced the plan for the 2021 Board elections. Apart from improving the technicalities of the process, the Board is also keen on improving active participation from communities in the election process. During the last elections, Voter turnout in prior elections was about 10% globally. It was better in communities with volunteer election support. Some of those communities reached over 20% voter turnout. We know we can get more voters to help assess and promote the best candidates, but to do that, we need your help.

We are looking for volunteers to serve as Election Volunteers. Election Volunteers should have a good understanding of their communities. The facilitation team sees Election Volunteers as doing the following:

Promote the election and related calls to action in community channels.
With the support from facilitators, organize discussions about the election in their communities.
Translate “a few” messages for their communities

Check out more details about Election Volunteers and add your name next to the community you will support in this table. We aim to have at least one Election Volunteer, even better if there are two or more sharing the work. If you have any queries, please ping me under this message or email me. Regards, KCVelaga (WMF) ११:०६, १२ मे २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

२०२१ बोर्ड अफ ट्रस्टीज निर्वाचनखिलाइ उम्मेदवारि खुलिगै

सप्पैलाइ नमस्कार,

२०२१ बोर्ड अफ ट्रस्टीज निर्वाचन छँटाइ औन्नाछ। उपलब्ध सीट भद्दाइनिउति समुदायका उम्मीदवारअनै आवश्यकता छ।

विकिमिडिया फाउण्डेशन बोर्ड अफ ट्रस्टीज विकिमीडिया फाउण्डेशनआ सञ्चालनै देखरेख अरन्छ। सामुदायिक सञ्चालकलै नियुक्त अरियाऽ सञ्चालकलै मिलिबर सञ्चालक समिति बनन्छे। हरेक ट्रस्टी तीन सालओ कार्यकाल पूरा अरन्छ। विकिमिडिया समुदायसङ सामुदायिक ट्रस्टीखिलाइ मत दिन्या अवसर छ।

विकिमिडिया योगदानकर्ता बोर्डमी चार सीट भद्दाइनिउति २०२१ मी मत दिन्ना। यो यक टोलिआ रूपमी बोर्डमी प्रतिनिधित्व, विविधता, रे विशेषज्ञतामी सुधार अद्द्या यक अवसर हो।

सम्भावित उम्मेदवार को हन्? तम सम्भावित उम्मेदवार होऽ त?

विशेषताअन

विकिमिडिया यक वैश्विक अभियान हो तबै बर्तिझा समुदायअनबठै उम्मेदवार खोज्जाछ। उम्मेदवारअनले बोर्डमी कि अनुभव रे दृष्टिकोण ल्याउँलो भँण्ण्या विषयमी सोच्चु पड्ड्या हन्छ। आदर्श उम्मेदवार विकिमिडिया मिशनसित पङ्क्तिबद्ध हुनान रे तन विचारशील, शिष्ट, समुदाय‍-केन्द्रित हनान। बोर्ड तन दृष्टिकोणलै आवाजलै खोज्ज चाहन्छ जैको प्रतिनिधित्व कम छ तथा अभियानखिलाइ आवश्यक छन। तिनअनले विकिमिडियालाइ यक नौला ट्रस्टीबठै चाय्यियाऽ चीज लेइ सक्दान।

वचन

ट्रस्टी तीन सालआ कार्यकालखिलाइ सेवा अद्दान रे लगातार तीन कार्यकालसम्म सेवा दिइ सक्दान। यात्रा अवधि छाड़िबर, समय प्रतिबद्धता प्रति वर्ष लगभग १५० घण्टा हो। यो समय सङताइ बर्ष समान रूपले वितरित नाइँहुनो। समय बैठकआ आसपास केन्द्रित हन्छ। ट्रस्टीले कम्तिमीलै बोर्डआ यक समितिमी सेवा दिन्याछन भँण्ण्या आशा छ।

आवश्यकताअन

अङरेजि बोर्डखिलाइ कामकाजि भाषा हो। उम्मीदवारअनलाइ अङरेजिको आधारभूत ज्ञान हन आवश्यक छ, पुइलै सहायतालै प्रशिक्षणलै काममी खटौन्या प्रक्रियाका हिस्सा हन। मतदाताआ बीच व्यापक रूपमी पुग्दाइनिउति उम्मेदवारआ आवेदनलाइ कैयौँ भाषामी अनुवाद अरीन्याहो।

आवेदन

सप्पै परियोजनाअन रे समुदायनअनबठै उम्मेदवारअन जो विकिमिडिया ट्रस्टीकि आवश्यकता पुरा अद्दान उनलाइ स्वागत छ। यदि तमलाइ कोइ व्यक्ति यक निको ट्रस्टी होइसकन्छ भँण्ण्या लागन्छ भँण्या उनलाइ चुनाउमी उठ्ठाइ प्रेरित अरऽ। उम्मेदवारअन उम्मेदवारिखिलाइ आवेदन दिय पन्नामी जानकारि पाइसक्दान तथा उम्मेदवारि दिइसक्दान।

तमरा सहयोगखिलाइ धन्यवाद,

विकिमिडिया बोर्ड अफ ट्रस्टीज

जेदा जानकारिखिलाइ याँ तक्याऽ। --Nirajan pant (कुरडी) १८:२२, १० जुन २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Candidates from South Asia for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may be aware, the Wikimedia Foundation has started elections for community seats on the Board of Trustees. While previously there were three community seats on the Board, with the expansion of the Board to sixteen seats last year, community seats have been increased to eight, four of which are up for election this year.

In the last fifteen years of the Board's history, there were only a few candidates from the South Asian region who participated in the elections, and hardly anyone from the community had a chance to serve on the Board. While there are several reasons for this, this time, the Board and WMF are very keen on encouraging and providing support to potential candidates from historically underrepresented regions. This is a good chance to change the historical problem of representation from the South Asian region in high-level governance structures.

Ten days after the call for candidates began, there aren't any candidates from South Asia yet, there are still 10 days left! I would like to ask community members to encourage other community members, whom you think would be potential candidates for the Board. While the final decision is completely up to the person, it can be helpful to make sure that they are aware of the election and the call for candidates.

Let me know if you need any information or support.

Thank you, KCVelaga (WMF) १५:४८, १९ जुन २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

डोटेली विकिपिडियामी २०२१ विकिमिडिया फाउण्डेशन निर्वाचन

सप्पैलाइ नमस्कार, २०२१ विकिमिडिया बोर्ड निर्वाचनखिलाइ डोटली विकिपिडियामी यक पन्ना बनायीरैछ। तम येइ पन्नालाइ ताजि जानकारि रे नौलि कुरड़िखिलाइ आफुना ध्यानसूचीमी राखिसकन्छऽ रे केइ प्रश्न भया तै लै सोदिसकन्छऽ।

मतदाता योग्यता मापदण्ड सार्वजनिक अरीरैछ। कृपया तल्तिरआ लिङ्कमी तकऽ।

Link: २०२१ विकिमिडिया फाउण्डेशन बोर्ड निर्वाचन

Nirajan pant (कुरडी) १२:४२, १ जुलाई २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021

Wiki Loves Women South Asia is back with the 2021 edition. Join us to minify gender gaps and enrich Wikipedia with more diversity. Happening from 1 September - 30 September, Wiki Loves Women South Asia welcomes the articles created on gender gap theme. This year we will focus on women's empowerment and gender discrimination related topics.

We warmly invite you to help organize or participate in the competition in your community. You can learn more about the scope and the prizes at the project page.

Best wishes,
Wiki Loves Women Team
२३:३१, ११ जुलाई २०२१ (+0545)

[Wikimedia Foundation elections 2021] Candidates meet with South Asia + ESEAP communities

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, the 2021 Board of Trustees elections are from 4 August 2021 to 17 August 2021. Members of the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to elect four candidates to a three-year term.

After a three-week-long Call for Candidates, there are 20 candidates for the 2021 election. This event is for community members of South Asian and ESEAP communities to know the candidates and interact with them.

The event will be on 31 July 2021 (Saturday), and the timings are:

India & Sri Lanka: 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Bangladesh: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Nepal: 6:15 pm to 8:45 pm
Afghanistan: 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
Pakistan & Maldives: 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm

For registration and other details, please visit the event page at m: Wikimedia Foundation elections/2021/Meetings/South Asia + ESEAP

KCVelaga (WMF), १५:४५, १९ जुलाई २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

2021 WMF Board election postponed until August 18th

Hello all,

We are reaching out to you today regarding the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. This election was due to open on August 4th. Due to some technical issues with SecurePoll, the election must be delayed by two weeks. This means we plan to launch the election on August 18th, which is the day after Wikimania concludes. For information on the technical issues, you can see the Phabricator ticket.

We are truly sorry for this delay and hope that we will get back on schedule on August 18th. We are in touch with the Elections Committee and the candidates to coordinate the next steps. We will update the Board election Talk page and Telegram channel as we know more.

Thanks for your patience, KCVelaga (WMF), ०९:३४, ३ अगस्ट २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020–2021 India call

Namaskara,

A Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020–2021 India call will take place on Sunday, 8 August 2021 at 7 pm IST with an objective to narrate and discuss the changes in the Wikimedia Grants relaunch strategy process.

Tanveer Hasan will be the primary speaker in the call discussing the grants strategy and answering questions related to that. You are invited to attend the call.

Why you may consider joining

Let's start with answering "why"? You may find this call helpful and may consider joining if—

You are a Wikimedia grant recipient (rapid grant, project grant, conference grant etc.)
You are thinking of applying for any of the mentioned grants.
You are a community/affiliate leader/contact person, and your community needs information about the proposed grants programs.
You are interested to know about the program for any other reason or you have questions.

In brief,

As grants are very important part of our program and activities, as an individual or a community/user group member/leader you may consider joining to know more—

about the proposed programs,
the changes and how are they going to affect individuals/communities
or to ask your questions.

Event page:Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020–2021 India call

We request you to add your name in the participants list here.

If you find this interesting, please inform your community/user group so that interested Wikimedians can join the call.

Thank you,

Tito Dutta

Access to Knowledge,CIS-A2K

Invitation for Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021

Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021
September 1 - September 30, 2021view details!

Wiki Loves Women South Asia is back with the 2021 edition. Join us to minify gender gaps and enrich Wikipedia with more diversity. Happening from 1 September - 30 September, Wiki Loves Women South Asia welcomes the articles created on gender gap theme. This year we will focus on women's empowerment and gender discrimination related topics.

We are proud to announce and invite you and your community to participate in the competition. You can learn more about the scope and the prizes at the project page.
Best wishes,

Wiki Loves Women Team

००:२४, १४ अगस्ट २०२१ (+0545)

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election is open: 18 - 31 August 2021

Voting for the 2021 Board of Trustees election is now open. Candidates from the community were asked to submit their candidacy. After a three-week-long Call for Candidates, there are 19 candidates for the 2021 election.

The Wikimedia movement has the opportunity to vote for the selection of community and affiliate trustees. By voting, you will help to identify those people who have the qualities to best serve the needs of the movement for the next several years. The Board is expected to select the four most voted candidates to serve as trustees. Voting closes 31 August 2021.

Read the full announcement and see translations on Meta-Wiki.

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding voting. KCVelaga (WMF), ११:५६, १८ अगस्ट २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review

The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee would like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.

These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.

Comments can be shared in any language on the draft review talk page and multiple other venues. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.

There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:

Wikimania 2021 session (recorded 16 August)
Conversation hours - 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC
Roundtable calls - 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC

Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks here.

Please let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), १२:०९, १८ अगस्ट २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

[Reminder] Wikimedia Foundation elections 2021: 3 days left to vote

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, Wikimedia Foundation elections started on 18 August and will continue until 31 August, 23:59 UTC i.e. ~ 3 days left.

Members of the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to elect four candidates to a three-year term.

Here are the links that might be useful for voting.

We have also published stats regarding voter turnout so far, you can check how many eligible voters from your wiki has voted on this page.

Please let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), ११:२५, २९ अगस्ट २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Results of 2021 Wikimedia Foundation elections

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2021 Board election. The Elections Committee has reviewed the votes of the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, organized to select four new trustees. A record 6,873 people from across 214 projects cast their valid votes. The following four candidates received the most support:

Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
Victoria Doronina
Dariusz Jemielniak
Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the community vote, they are not yet appointed to the Board of Trustees. They still need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. The Board has set a tentative date to appoint new trustees at the end of this month.

Read the full announcement here. MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) ०८:४१, ८ सेप्टेम्बर २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Universal Code of Conduct EDGR conversation hour for South Asia

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of behaviour for collaboration on Wikimedia projects worldwide. Communities may add to this to develop policies that take account of local and cultural context while maintaining the criteria listed here as a minimum standard. The Wikimedia Foundation Board has ratified the policy in December 2020.

The current round of conversations is around how the Universal Code of Conduct should be enforced across different Wikimedia platforms and spaces. This will include training of community members to address harassment, development of technical tools to report harassment, and different levels of handling UCoC violations, among other key areas.

The conversation hour is an opportunity for community members from South Asia to discuss and provide their feedback, which will be passed on to the drafting committee. The details of the conversation hour are as follows:

Date: 16 September
Time: Bangladesh: 5:30 pm to 7 pm, India & Sri Lanka: 5 pm to 6:30 pm, Nepal: 5:15 pm to 5:45 pm
Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/dnd-qyuq-vnd | add to your calendar

You can also attend the global round table sessions hosted on 18 September - more details can be found on this page. MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १६:३२, १० सेप्टेम्बर २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Movement Charter Drafting Committee - Community Elections to take place October 11 - 24

This is a short message with an update from the Movement Charter process. The call for candidates for the Drafting Committee closed September 14, and we got a diverse range of candidates. The committee will consist of 15 members, and those will be (s)elected via three different ways.

The 15 member committee will be selected with a 3-step process:

Election process for project communities to elect 7 members of the committee.
Selection process for affiliates to select 6 members of the committee.
Wikimedia Foundation process to appoint 2 members of the committee.

The community elections will take place between October 11 and October 24. The other process will take place in parallel, so that all processes will be concluded by November 1.

For the full context of the Movement Charter, its role, as well the process for its creation, please have a look at Meta. You can also contact us at any time on Telegram or via email (wikimedia2030@wikimedia.org).

Best, RamzyM (WMF) ०८:३१, २२ सेप्टेम्बर २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Mahatma Gandhi 2021 edit-a-thon to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. Glad to inform you that A2K is going to conduct a mini edit-a-thon to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary. It is the second iteration of Mahatma Gandhi mini edit-a-thon. The edit-a-thon will be on the same dates 2nd and 3rd October (Weekend). During the last iteration, we had created or developed or uploaded content related to Mahatma Gandhi. This time, we will create or develop content about Mahatma Gandhi and any article directly related to the Indian Independence movement. The list of articles is given on the event page. Feel free to add more relevant articles to the list. The event is not restricted to any single Wikimedia project. For more information, you can visit the event page and if you have any questions or doubts email me at nitesh{@cis-india · org. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १६:०४, २४ सेप्टेम्बर २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Voting period to elect members of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee is now open

Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are running for 7 seats in these elections.

Voting is open from October 12 to October 24, 2021.

The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1, 2021.

Learn about each candidate to inform your vote in the language that you prefer: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>

Learn about the Drafting Committee: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>

We are piloting a voting advice application for this election. Click yourself through the tool and you will see which candidate is closest to you! Check at <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>

Read the full announcement: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Go vote at SecurePoll on: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Best,

Movement Strategy & Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation

११:३५, १३ अक्टोबर २०२१ (+0545)

Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

The Movement Charter Drafting Committee election and selection processes are complete.

The election results have been published. 1018 participants voted to elect seven members to the committee: Richard Knipel (Pharos), Anne Clin (Risker), Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy), Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), Richard (Nosebagbear), Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan), Ciell (Ciell).
The affiliate process has selected six members: Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati), Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini), Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin), Georges Fodouop (Geugeor), Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur), Pepe Flores (Padaguan).
The Wikimedia Foundation has appointed two members: Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF), Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF)).

The committee will convene soon to start its work. The committee can appoint up to three more members to bridge diversity and expertise gaps.

If you are interested in engaging with Movement Charter drafting process, follow the updates on Meta and join the Telegram group.

With thanks from the Movement Strategy and Governance team,
RamzyM (WMF) ०८:१२, २ नोभेम्बर २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Maryana’s Listening Tour ― South Asia

Hello everyone,

As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer Maryana’s Listening Tour, a meeting is scheduled for conversation with communities in South Asia. Maryana Iskander will be the guest of the session and she will interact with South Asian communities or Wikimedians. For more information please visit the event page here. The meet will be on Friday 26 November 2021 - 1:30 pm UTC [7:00 pm IST].

We invite you to join the meet. The session will be hosted on Zoom and will be recorded. Please fill this short form, if you are interested to attend the meet. Registration form link is here.

Invitation: Movement Strategy Implementation Grants (MSIG) Call for Wikimedians of Nepal - 10 December 2021 (Friday)

Hello everyone,

I am Chitraparna Sinha, the community facilitator of Movement Strategy for South Asia after Krishna Chaitanya Velaga.

I would like to invite Wikimedians of Nepal for a getting to know each other session and discuss Movement Strategy Implementation Grants (MSIG), and how it can fund projects surrounding Movement Strategy Initiatives.

Proposed Agenda

Introduction with each other & learn about what all is going on in the community; and how I can support the community to grow.
A brief overview of MSIG (what it is & how it will work) & discuss concerns.

Meeting Language

Hindi & English. I also understand a bit of Nepali. This could be a multi-lingual conversation.

Meeting Details:

(Nepal) Grants Community Conversation

Friday, December 10 · 5:45 – 6:45pm (your timezone)

Google Meet joining info

Video call link: https://meet.google.com/obs-nuig-azm
Or dial: ‪(US) +1 234-759-5435‬ PIN: ‪499 811 999‬#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/obs-nuig-azm?pin=6700219854798

Please share the message among community members. Thanks for sharing your valuable time. --CSinha (WMF) (वार्ता) १७:१९, ३० नवम्बर २०२१ (+0545)

Festive Season 2021 edit-a-thon

Dear Wikimedians,

CIS-A2K started a series of mini edit-a-thons in 2020. This year, we had conducted Mahatma Gandhi 2021 edit-a-thon so far. Now, we are going to be conducting a Festive Season 2021 edit-a-thon which will be its second iteration. During this event, we encourage you to create, develop, update or edit data, upload files on Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia articles etc. This event will take place on 11 and 12 December 2021. Be ready to participate and develop content on your local Wikimedia projects. Thank you.

on behalf of the organising committee

MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १३:३१, १० डिसेम्बर २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

First Newsletter: Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

We are glad to inform you that the second iteration of Wikimedia Wikimeet India is going to be organised in February. This is an upcoming online wiki event that is to be conducted from 18 to 20 February 2022 to celebrate International Mother Language Day. The planning of the event has already started and there are many opportunities for Wikimedians to volunteer in order to help make it a successful event. The major announcement is that submissions for sessions has opened from today until a month (until 23 January 2022). You can propose your session here. For more updates and how you can get involved in the same, please read the first newsletter

If you want regular updates regarding the event on your talk page, please add your username here. You will get the next newsletter after 15 days. Please get involved in the event discussions, open tasks and so on.

MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २०:४३, २३ डिसेम्बर २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

The Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.

While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:

What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?

What involvement should candidates have during the election?

While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions.

Do you want to help organize local conversation during this Call?

Contact the Movement Strategy and Governance team on Meta, on Telegram, or via email at msgwikimedia.org.

Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.

Thank you, CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १३:०९, २८ डिसेम्बर २०२१ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Second Newsletter: Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022

Good morning Wikimedians,

Happy New Year! Hope you are doing well and safe. It's time to update you regarding Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022, the second iteration of Wikimedia Wikimeet India which is going to be conducted in February. Please note the dates of the event, 18 to 20 February 2022. The submissions has opened from 23 December until 23 January 2022. You can propose your session here. We want a few proposals from Indian communities or Wikimedians. For more updates and how you can get involved in the same, please read the second newsletter

If you want regular updates regarding the event on your talk page, please add your username here. You will get the next newsletter after 15 days. Please get involved in the event discussions, open tasks and so on.

MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) ११:२४, ८ जनवरी २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections is now open

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now open and will close on 16 February 2022.

With this Call for Feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team is taking a different approach. This approach incorporates community feedback from 2021. Instead of leading with proposals, the Call is framed around key questions from the Board of Trustees. The key questions came from the feedback about the 2021 Board of Trustees election. The intention is to inspire collective conversation and collaborative proposal development about these key questions.

There are two confirmed questions that will be asked during this Call for Feedback:

What is the best way to ensure more diverse representation among elected candidates? The Board of Trustees noted the importance of selecting candidates who represent the full diversity of the Wikimedia movement. The current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Europe.
What are the expectations for the candidates during the election? Board candidates have traditionally completed applications and answered community questions. How can an election provide appropriate insight into candidates while also appreciating candidates’ status as volunteers?

There is one additional question that may be presented during the Call about selection processes. This question is still under discussion, but the Board wanted to give insight into the confirmed questions as soon as possible. Hopefully if an additional question is going to be asked, it will be ready during the first week of the Call for Feedback.

Join the conversation.

Thank you,,

Movement Strategy and Governance CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १५:३५, १२ जनवरी २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Please note an additional question has now been added. There are also several proposals from participants to review and discuss. CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १२:३४, २२ जनवरी २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Question about the Affiliates' role for the Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hello,

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections so far. The Movement Strategy and Governance team has announced the last key question:

How should affiliates participate in elections?

Affiliates are an important part of the Wikimedia movement. Two seats of the Board of Trustees due to be filled this year were filled in 2019 through the Affiliate-selected Board seats process. A change in the Bylaws removed the distinction between community and affiliate seats. This leaves the important question: How should affiliates be involved in the selection of new seats?

The question is broad in the sense that the answers may refer not just to the two seats mentioned, but also to other, Community- and Affiliate-selected seats. The Board is hoping to find an approach that will both engage the affiliates and give them actual agency, and also optimize the outcomes in terms of selecting people with top skills, experience, diversity, and wide community’s support.

The Board of Trustees is seeking feedback about this question especially, although not solely, from the affiliate community. Everyone is invited to share proposals and join the conversation in the Call for Feedback channels. In addition to collecting online feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team will organize several video calls with affiliate members to collect feedback. These calls will be at different times and include Trustees.

Due to the late addition of this third question, the Call will be extended until 16 February.

Join the conversation.

Best regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १२:३४, २२ जनवरी २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022Read the full newsletter

Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive these updates.

Call for Feedback about the Board elections - We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 16th February 2022. (continue reading)
Universal Code of Conduct Ratification - In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (continue reading)
Movement Strategy Implementation Grants - As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (continue reading)
The New Direction for the Newsletter - As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (continue reading)
Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about MSG on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022 Postponed

Dear Wikimedians,

We want to give you an update related to Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022. Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022 (or WMWM2022) was to be conducted from 18 to 20 February 2022 and is postponed now.

Currently, we are seeing a new wave of the pandemic that is affecting many people around. Although WMWM is an online event, it has multiple preparation components such as submission, registration, RFC etc which require community involvement.

We feel this may not be the best time for extensive community engagement. We have also received similar requests from Wikimedians around us. Following this observation, please note that we are postponing the event, and the new dates will be informed on the mailing list and on the event page. Although the main WMWM is postponed, we may conduct a couple of brief calls/meets (similar to the Stay safe, stay connected call) on the mentioned date, if things go well.

We'll also get back to you about updates related to WMWM once the situation is better. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १३:१२, २७ जनवरी २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Nitesh Gill

on behalf of WMWM

Centre for Internet and Society

CIS - A2K Newsletter January 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As a continuation of the CIS-A2K Newsletter, here is the newsletter for the month of January 2022.

This is the first edition of 2022 year. In this edition, you can read about:

Launching of WikiProject Rivers with Tarun Bharat Sangh
Launching of WikiProject Sangli Biodiversity with Birdsong
Progress report

Please find the newsletter here. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १४:०२, ४ फेब्रुअरी २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Nitesh Gill (CIS-A2K)

[Announcement] Leadership Development Task Force

Dear community members,

The Invest in Skill and Leadership Development Movement Strategy recommendation indicates that our movement needs a globally coordinated effort to succeed in leadership development.

The Community Development team is supporting the creation of a global and community-driven m:Leadership Development Task Force (Purpose & Structure). The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.

The team seeks community feedback on what could be the responsibilities of the task force. Also, if any community member wishes to be a part of the 12-member task force, kindly reach out to us. The feedback period is until 25 February 2022.

Where to share feedback?

#1 Interested community members can add their thoughts on the Discussion page.

#2 Interested community members can join a regional discussion on 18 February, Friday through Google Meet.

Date & Time

Friday, 18 February · 7:00 – 8:00 PM IST (Your Timezone) (Add to Calendar)
Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/nae-rgsd-vif

Thanks for your time.

Regards, CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १४:०५, ९ फेब्रुअरी २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

International Mother Language Day 2022 edit-a-thon

Dear Wikimedians,

CIS-A2K announced International Mother Language Day mini edit-a-thon which is going to take place on 19 & 20 February 2022. The motive of conducting this edit-a-thon is to celebrate International Mother Language Day.

This time we will celebrate the day by creating & developing articles on local Wikimedia projects, such as proofreading the content on Wikisource, items that need to be created on Wikidata [edit Labels & Descriptions], some language-related content must be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and so on. It will be a two-days long edit-a-thon to increase content about languages or related to languages. Anyone can participate in this event and users can add their names to the given link. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १८:५३, १५ फेब्रुअरी २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines & Ratification Vote

In brief: the revised Enforcement Guidelines have been published. Voting to ratify the guidelines will happen from 7 March to 21 March 2022. Community members can participate in the discussion with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members on 25 February (12:00 UTC) and 4 March (15:00 UTC). Please sign-up.

Details:

The m:Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement. The UCoC and the Enforcement Guidelines were written by volunteer-staff drafting committees following community consultations. The revised guidelines were published 24 January 2022.

What’s next?

#1 Community Conversations

To help to understand the guidelines, the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team will host conversations with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members on 25 February (12:00 UTC) and 4 March (15:00 UTC). Please sign-up.

Comments about the guidelines can be shared on the Enforcement Guidelines talk page. You can comment in any language.

#2 Ratification Voting

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees released a statement on the ratification process where eligible voters can support or oppose the adoption of the enforcement guidelines through vote. Wikimedians are invited to translate and share important information.

A SecurePoll vote is scheduled from 7 March to 21 March 2022.

Eligible voters are invited to answer a poll question and share comments. Voters will be asked if they support the enforcement of the UCoC based on the proposed guidelines.

Thank you. CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) २०:५८, २२ फेब्रुअरी २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed. This Call ran from 10 January and closed on 16 February 2022. The Call focused on three key questions and received broad discussion on Meta-wiki, during meetings with affiliates, and in various community conversations. The community and affiliates provided many proposals and discussion points. The reports are on Meta-wiki.

This information will be shared with the Board of Trustees and Elections Committee so they can make informed decisions about the upcoming Board of Trustees election. The Board of Trustees will then follow with an announcement after they have discussed the information.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback to help improve Board election processes.

Thank you,

Movement Strategy and Governance
CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १३:५६, ५ मार्च २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

UCoC Enforcement Guidelines Ratification Vote Begins (7 - 21 March 2022)

The ratification of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) enforcement guidelines has started. Every eligible community member can vote.

For instructions on voting using SecurePoll and Voting eligibility, please read this. The last date to vote is 21 March 2022.

Vote here - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/391

Thank you, CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) २२:५२, ७ मार्च २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

CIS-A2K Newsletter February 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about February 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.

Conducted events

Ongoing events

Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022 - You can still participate in this event which will run till tomorrow.

Upcoming Events

International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon - The event is 19-20 March and you can add your name for the participation.
Pune Nadi Darshan 2022 - The event is going to start by tomorrow.
Annual proposal - CIS-A2K is currently working to prepare our next annual plan for the period 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 08:58, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Pune Nadi Darshan 2022: A campaign cum photography contest

Dear Wikimedians,

Greetings for the Holi festival! CIS-A2K is glad to announce a campaign cum photography contest, Pune Nadi Darshan 2022, organised jointly by Rotary Water Olympiad and CIS-A2K on the occasion of ‘World Water Week’. This is a pilot campaign to document the rivers in the Pune district on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign period is from 16 March to 16 April 2022.

Under this campaign, participants are expected to click and upload the photos of rivers in the Pune district on the following topics -

Beauty of rivers in Pune district
Flora & fauna of rivers in Pune district
Religious & cultural places around rivers in Pune district
Human activities at rivers in Pune district
Constructions on rivers in Pune district
River Pollution in Pune district

Please visit the event page for more details. We welcome your participation in this campaign. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १३:०४, १५ मार्च २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Greetings,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over 2300 Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.

The final results from the voting process will be announced here, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out the voter information page to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page on Meta-wiki in any language.

You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Best regards,

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १५:२२, २३ मार्च २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Announcing Indic Hackathon 2022 and Scholarship Applications

Dear Wikimedians, we are happy to announce that the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group will be organizing Indic Hackathon 2022, a regional event as part of the main Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 taking place in a hybrid mode during 20-22 May 2022. The event will take place in Hyderabad. The regional event will be in-person with support for virtual participation. As it is with any hackathon, the event’s program will be semi-structured i.e. while we will have some sessions in sync with the main hackathon event, the rest of the time will be upto participants’ interest on what issues they are interested to work on. The event page can be seen on this page.

In this regard, we would like to invite community members who would like to attend in-person to fill out a form for scholarship application by 17 April, which is available on the event page. Please note that the hackathon won’t be focusing on training of new skills, and it is expected that applications have some experience/knowledge contributing to technical areas of the Wikimedia movement. Please post on the event talk page if you have any queries. MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) ००:१६, ८ अप्रिल २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

CIS-A2K Newsletter March 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about March 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events and ongoing events.

Conducted events

Ongoing events

Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
Two days of edit-a-thon by local communities [Punjabi & Santali]

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 09:33, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Extension of Pune Nadi Darshan 2022: A campaign cum photography contest

Dear Wikimedians,

As you already know, Pune Nadi Darshan is a campaign cum photography contest on Wikimedia Commons organised jointly by Rotary Water Olympiad and CIS-A2K. The contest started on 16 March on the occasion of World Water Week and received a good response from citizens as well as organisations working on river issues.

Taking into consideration the feedback from the volunteers and organisations about extending the deadline of 16 April, the organisers have decided to extend the contest till 16 May 2022. Some leading organisations have also shown interest in donating their archive and need a sufficient time period for the process.

We are still mainly using these topics which are mentioned below.

Beauty of rivers in Pune district
Flora & fauna of rivers in Pune district
Religious & cultural places around rivers in Pune district
Human activities at rivers in Pune district
Constructions on rivers in Pune district
River Pollution in Pune district

Anyone can participate still now, so, we appeal to all Wikimedians to contribute to this campaign to enrich river-related content on Wikimedia Commons. For more information, you can visit the event page.

Regards Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 04:58, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Join the South Asia / ESEAP Annual Plan Meeting with Maryana Iskander

Dear community members,

In continuation of Maryana Iskander's listening tour, the Movement Communications and Movement Strategy and Governance teams invite you to discuss the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan.

The conversations are about these questions:

The 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy sets a direction toward "knowledge as a service" and "knowledge equity". The Wikimedia Foundation wants to plan according to these two goals. How do you think the Wikimedia Foundation should apply them to our work?
The Wikimedia Foundation continues to explore better ways of working at a regional level. We have increased our regional focus in areas like grants, new features, and community conversations. How can we improve?
Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy process. We want to know about your activities, ideas, requests, and lessons learned. How can the Wikimedia Foundation better support the volunteers and affiliates working in Movement Strategy activities?

Date and Time

The meeting will happen via Zoom on 24 April (Sunday) at 07:00 UTC (local time). Kindly add the event to your calendar. Live interpretation will be available for some languages.

Regards, CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १५:४९, १७ अप्रिल २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Call for Candidates: 2022 Board of Trustees Election

Dear community members,

The 2022 Board of Trustees elections process has begun. The Call for Candidates has been announced.

The Board of Trustees oversees the operations of the Wikimedia Foundation. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.

The Wikimedia community will vote to elect two seats on the Board of Trustees in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board of Trustees.

Kindly submit your candidacy to join the Board of Trustees. CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १४:३२, २९ अप्रिल २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

CIS-A2K Newsletter April 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about April 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.

Conducted events

Annual Proposal Submission
Digitisation session with Dakshin Bharat Jain Sabha
Training sessions of organisations working on river issues
Two days edit-a-thon by local communities
Digitisation review and partnerships in Goa
Let's Connect: Learning Clinic on Qualitative Evaluation Methods

Ongoing events

Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team

Upcoming event

Indic Wikisource Work-plan 2022-2023

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 15:47, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election 2022 - Call for Election Volunteers

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.

The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.

There were a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 that produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help increase the participation even more?

Election volunteers will help in the following areas:

Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions

Volunteers should:

Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner

Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is represented in the vote? Sign up here to receive updates. You can use the talk page for questions about translation.
CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १५:५५, १२ मे २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

CIS-A2K Newsletter May 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about May 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events and ongoing and upcoming events.

Conducted events

Ongoing events

Assamese Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

Upcoming event

June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:23, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon

Dear Wikimedians,

CIS-A2K announced June month mini edit-a-thon which is going to take place on 25 & 26 June 2022 (on this weekend). The motive of conducting this edit-a-thon is to celebrate June Month which is also known as pride month.

This time we will celebrate the month, which is full of notable days, by creating & developing articles on local Wikimedia projects, such as proofreading the content on Wikisource if there are any, items that need to be created on Wikidata [edit Labels & Descriptions], some June month related content must be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and so on. It will be a two-days long edit-a-thon to increase content about the month of June or related to its days, directly or indirectly. Anyone can participate in this event and the link you can find here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:46, 21 June 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hi all,

Community members are invited to propose statements to use in the Election Compass for the 2022 Board of Trustees election.

An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/neutral/disagree). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:

July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision

The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.

Regards,

Movement Strategy & Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १३:५१, १२ जुलाई २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about June 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.

Conducted events

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:23, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Board of Trustees - Affiliate Voting Results

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Dear community members,

The Affiliate voting process has concluded. Representatives from each Affiliate organization learned about the candidates by reading candidates’ statements, reviewing candidates’ answers to questions, and considering the candidates’ ratings provided by the Analysis Committee. The shortlisted 2022 Board of Trustees candidates are:

Tobechukwu Precious Friday (Tochiprecious)
Farah Jack Mustaklem (Fjmustak)
Shani Evenstein Sigalov (Esh77)
Kunal Mehta (Legoktm)
Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
Mike Peel (Mike Peel)

See more information about the Results and Statistics of this election.

Please take a moment to appreciate the Affiliate representatives and Analysis Committee members for taking part in this process and helping to grow the Board of Trustees in capacity and diversity. Thank you for your participation.

The next part of the Board election process is the community voting period. View the election timeline here. To prepare for the community voting period, there are several things community members can engage with, in the following ways:

Read candidates’ statements and read the candidates’ answers to the questions posed by the Affiliate Representatives.
Propose and select the 6 questions for candidates to answer during their video Q&A.
See the Analysis Committee’s ratings of candidates on each candidate’s statement.
Propose statements for the Election Compass voters can use to find which candidates best fit their principles.
Encourage others in your community to take part in the election.

Regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १४:३८, २० जुलाई २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 7

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 7, July-September 2022Read the full newsletter

Welcome to the 7th issue of Movement Strategy and Governance newsletter! The newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the implementation of Wikimedia's Movement Strategy recommendations, other relevant topics regarding Movement governance, as well as different projects and activities supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team of the Wikimedia Foundation.

The MSG Newsletter is delivered quarterly, while the more frequent Movement Strategy Weekly will be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.

Movement sustainability: Wikimedia Foundation's annual sustainability report has been published. (continue reading)
Improving user experience: recent improvements on the desktop interface for Wikimedia projects. (continue reading)
Safety and inclusion: updates on the revision process of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines. (continue reading)
Equity in decisionmaking: reports from Hubs pilots conversations, recent progress from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, and a new white paper for futures of participation in the Wikimedia movement. (continue reading)
Stakeholders coordination: launch of a helpdesk for Affiliates and volunteer communities working on content partnership. (continue reading)
Leadership development: updates on leadership projects by Wikimedia movement organizers in Brazil and Cape Verde. (continue reading)
Internal knowledge management: launch of a new portal for technical documentation and community resources. (continue reading)
Innovate in free knowledge: high-quality audiovisual resources for scientific experiments and a new toolkit to record oral transcripts. (continue reading)
Evaluate, iterate, and adapt: results from the Equity Landscape project pilot (continue reading)
Other news and updates: a new forum to discuss Movement Strategy implementation, upcoming Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, a new podcast to discuss Movement Strategy, and change of personnel for the Foundation's Movement Strategy and Governance team. (continue reading)

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १८:३९, २४ जुलाई २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Vote for Election Compass Statements

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Dear community members,

Volunteers in the 2022 Board of Trustees election are invited to vote for statements to use in the Election Compass. You can vote for the statements you would like to see included in the Election Compass on Meta-wiki.

An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/neutral/disagree). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:

~~July 8 - 20: Volunteers propose statements for the Election Compass~~
~~July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements~~
July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision

The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August

Regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १२:४६, २६ जुलाई २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Delay of Board of Trustees Election

Dear community members,

I am reaching out to you today with an update about the timing of the voting for the Board of Trustees election.

As many of you are already aware, this year we are offering an Election Compass to help voters identify the alignment of candidates on some key topics. Several candidates requested an extension of the character limitation on their responses expanding on their positions, and the Elections Committee felt their reasoning was consistent with the goals of a fair and equitable election process.

To ensure that the longer statements can be translated in time for the election, the Elections Committee and Board Selection Task Force decided to delay the opening of the Board of Trustees election by one week - a time proposed as ideal by staff working to support the election.

Although it is not expected that everyone will want to use the Election Compass to inform their voting decision, the Elections Committee felt it was more appropriate to open the voting period with essential translations for community members across languages to use if they wish to make this important decision.

The voting will open on August 23 at 00:00 UTC and close on September 6 at 23:59 UTC.

Best regards,

Matanya, on behalf of the Elections Committee

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १३:२४, १५ अगस्ट २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

CIS-A2K Newsletter July 2022

Really sorry for sending it in English, feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is fine. As CIS-A2K update the communities every month about their previous work via the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K shares its July 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.

Conducted events

Ongoing events

Partnerships with Goa University, authors and language organisations

Upcoming events

Gujarati Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 15:10, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

WikiConference India 2023: Initial conversations

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope all of you are doing well. We are glad to inform you to restart the conversation to host the next WikiConference India 2023 after WCI 2020 which was not conducted due to the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic, it couldn't take place. However, we are hoping to reinitiate this discussion and for that we need your involvement, suggestions and support to help organize a much needed conference in February-March of 2023.

The proposed 2023 conference will bring our energies, ideas, learnings, and hopes together. This conference will provide a national-level platform for Indian Wikimedians to connect, re-connect, and establish their collaboration itself can be a very important purpose on its own- in the end it will empower us all to strategize, plan ahead and collaborate- as a movement.

We hope we, the Indian Wikimedia Community members, come together in various capacities and make this a reality. We believe we will take learnings from earlier attempts, improve processes & use best practices in conducting this conference purposefully and fruitfully.

Here is a survey form to get your responses on the same notion. Unfortunately we are working with short timelines since the final date of proposal submission is 5 September. We request you please fill out the form by 28th August. After your responses, we can decide if we have the community need and support for the conference. You are also encouraged to add your support on this page, if you support the idea.

Regards, Nitesh Gill, Nivas10798, Neechalkaran, १२:२४, २४ अगस्ट २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

2022 Board of Trustees Community Voting Period is now Open

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Dear community members,

The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:

Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions
Learn more about the skills the Board seeks and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community.

If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page to vote now. You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १८:११, २६ अगस्ट २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to close

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hello,

The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the SecurePoll voting page to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page. If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:

Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions.
Learn more about the skills the Board seek and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community.

Regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १८:२९, १ सेप्टेम्बर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hello everyone,

The Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines Revisions committee is requesting comments regarding the Revised Enforcement Draft Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period will be open from 8 September 2022 until 8 October 2022.

The Committee collaborated to revise these draft guidelines based on input gathered from the community discussion period from May through July, as well as the community vote that concluded in March 2022. The revisions are focused on the following four areas:

To identify the type, purpose, and applicability of the UCoC training;
To simplify the language for more accessible translation and comprehension by non-experts;
To explore the concept of affirmation, including its pros and cons;
To review the balancing of the privacy of the accuser and the accused

The Committee requests comments and suggestions about these revisions by 8 October 2022. From there, the Revisions Committee anticipates further revising the guidelines based on community input.

Find the Revised Guidelines on Meta, and a comparison page in some languages.

Everyone may share comments in a number of places. Facilitators welcome comments in any language on the Revisions Guideline Talk Page. Comments can also be shared on talk pages of translations, at local discussions, or during conversation hours. There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines.

Conversation hours

The facilitation team supporting this review period hopes to reach a large number of communities. If you do not see a conversation happening in your community, please organize a discussion. Facilitators can assist you in setting up the conversations. Discussions will be summarized and presented to the drafting committee every two weeks. The summaries will be published here.

~ On behalf of the UCoC project team.

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १७:२३, १३ सेप्टेम्बर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

WikiConference India 2023: Proposal to WMF

Hello everyone,

We are happy to inform you that we have submitted the Conference & Event Grant proposal for WikiConference India 2023 to the Wikimedia Foundation. We kindly request all the community members to go through the proposal -- including the community engagement survey report, program plan, venue and logistics, participation and scholarships, and the budget, and provide us with your suggestions/comments on the talk page. You can endorse the proposal in the endorsements section, please do add a rationale for supporting this project.

According to the timeline of the Conference and Event Grants program, the community can review till 23 September 2022, post that we will start integrating all the received feedback to make modifications to the proposal. Depending on the response of community members, an IRC may be hosted next week, especially if there are any questions/concerns that need to be addressed.

We reopened the survey form and if you are still interested in taking part in the survey and you have something in mind to share or want to become a part of the organizing team, please fill out the form so we all can work together.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Regards, Nitesh Gill, Nivas10798, Neechalkaran, १३:२०, १९ सेप्टेम्बर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

CIS-A2K Newsletter August 2022

Really sorry for sending it in English, feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is fine. As CIS-A2K update the communities every month about their previous work via the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K shares its August 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.

Conducted events

Ongoing events

Impact report

Upcoming events

Gujarati Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 06:51, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

CIS-A2K Newsletter September 2022

Really sorry for sending it in English, feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is well. Here is the CIS-A2K's for the month of September Newsletter, a few conducted events are updated in it. Through this message, A2K shares its September 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.

Conducted events

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १८:२८, १५ अक्टोबर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

CIS-A2K Newsletter October 2022

Please feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is well. CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is here which is for the month of October. A few conducted events are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its October 2022 work. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and upcoming events.

Conducted events

Upcoming event

Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १५:३३, ७ नोभेम्बर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022

Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translate it

Dear Proofreader,
Thank you and congratulation to you for your participation and support last year. The CIS-A2K has been conducted again this year Online Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022 to enrich our Indian classic literature in digital format.

WHAT DO YOU NEED

Booklist: a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some books in your language. The book should not be available on any third-party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books and add our event page book list. You should follow the copyright guideline described here. After finding the book, you should check the pages of the book and create <pagelist/>.
Participants: Kindly sign your name at Participants section if you wish to participate in this event.
Reviewer: Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this proofreadthon and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers could participate in this Proofreadthon.
Some social media coverage: I would request to all Indic Wikisource community members, please spread the news to all social media channels, we always try to convince your Wikipedia/Wikisource to use their SiteNotice. Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource site notice.
Some awards: There may be some award/prize given by CIS-A2K.
A way to count validated and proofread pages:Indic Wikisource Contest Tools
Time : Proofreadthon will run: from 14 November 2022 00.01 to 30 Novemeber 2022 23.59 (IST)
Rules and guidelines: The basic rules and guideline have described here
Scoring: The details scoring method have described here

I really hope many Indic Wikisources will be present this time.

Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)- 9 November 2022 (UTC)
Wikisource Program officer, CIS-A2K

WikiConference India 2023: Program submissions and Scholarships form are now open

Dear Wikimedians,

We are really glad to announce that WikiConference India 2023 has been successfully funded and it will take place from 3 to 5 March 2023. The theme of the conference will be Strengthening the Bonds.

We also have exciting updates about the Program and Scholarships.

The applications for scholarships and program submissions are open now! You can find the form for submission here and for program you can go here.

For more information and regular updates please visit the Conference Meta page. If you have something in mind you can write on talk page.

‘‘‘Note’’’: Scholarship form and the Program submissions will be open from 11 November 2022, 00:00 IST and the last date to submit is 27 November 2022, 23:59 IST.

Regards

MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २३:५३, १० नोभेम्बर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

(on behalf of the WCI Organizing Committee)

Invitation to join the Online Indic Wikisource meetup (12th November 2022)

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting the Indic Wikisource Community Online meetup on 12 November 2022 7:30 PM IST.

The objectives are below.

Participate in m:Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022 book collection.
Queries regarding m:Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022
Suggestions/opinions/reviews anything are welcome regarding the Contest procedure.
Gift and prizes for the contest selection.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on jayanta@cis-india.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Thanks for your attention

Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Program officer, CIS-A2K

WikiConference India 2023: Extension of Program submissions and scholarship deadline

Hello, wonderful Wikimedians,

As you already know, the program and scholarship applications for WikiConference India 2023 are open. Although today is the last date to submit the program and scholarship applications, we would like to inform you that we are extending the deadline to 14 December 2022. The deadline has been extended to ensure our community members have more time to apply and ensure we are able to receive a diverse spread of applications.

Please let us know if you have any queries by posting them on the conference talk page.

Thank you! MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १७:३८, २७ नोभेम्बर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Regards, WCI 2023 Core organizing team.

Movement Charter: South Asia Regional Consultation

Dear community members,

As many of you are aware, the Movement Charter regional consultations have begun. The MCDC seeks community feedback about three sections of the Movement Charter:

Preamble
Values & Principles
Roles & Responsibilities (intentions statement)

How can you participate?

You can participate by joining the regional consultation for South Asia on 2 December 2022 (Friday) from 14:00 to 15:30 UTC (7:30 PM to 9:00 PM IST) on Google Meet. Kindly add the event to your calendar.

Other ways to share feedback are:

Fill the survey.
Write on the Meta Talk pages: Preamble, Values & Principles, Roles & Responsibilities (intentions statement)
Write on the Movement Strategy Forum: Preamble, Values & Principles, Roles & Responsibilities (intentions statement)
Email MCDC at movementcharter@wikimedia.org

If you want to learn more about the Movement Charter, its goals, why it matters, and how it impacts your community, a 12-minute recording of one of the “Ask Me Anything about Movement Charter” sessions is available here.

Thanks for your time and interest. CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १८:४४, २८ नोभेम्बर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

WikiConference India 2023 Open Community Call and Extension of program and scholarship submissions deadline

Greetings Wikimedians,

Thank you for supporting Wiki Conference India 2023. We are humbled by the number of applications we have received and hope to learn more about the work that you all have been doing to take the movement forward. In order to offer flexibility, we have recently extended our deadline for the Program and Scholarships submission- you can find all the details on our Meta Page.

COT is working hard to ensure we bring together a conference that is truly meaningful and impactful for our movement and one that brings us all together. With an intent to be inclusive and transparent in our process, we are committed to organizing community sessions at regular intervals for sharing updates and to offer an opportunity to the community for engagement and review. Following the same, we are hosting the first Open Community Call on the 3rd of December, 2022. We wish to use this space to discuss the progress and answer any questions, concerns or clarifications, about the conference and the Program/Scholarships.

Please add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward to seeing you on the call

[WCI 2023] Open Community Call
Date: 3rd December 2022
Time: 1800-1900 (IST)
Google Link: https://meet.google.com/cwa-bgwi-ryx

Furthermore, we are pleased to share the email id of the conference contact@wikiconferenceindia.org which is where you could share any thoughts, inputs, suggestions, or questions and someone from the COT will reach out to you. Alternatively, leave us a message on the Conference talk page. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २१:४३, २ डिसेम्बर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

On Behalf of, WCI 2023 Core organizing team.

CIS-A2K Newsletter November 2022

Please feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is well. CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is here which is for the month of November. A few conducted events are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its November 2022 work. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and upcoming events.

Conducted events

Upcoming event

Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 16:28, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022

Apologies to not write in your language.

Dear Wikimedians, Glad to inform you that CIS-A2K is going to conduct an event, Indic Wiki improve-a-thon 2022, for the Indic language. It will run from 15 December to 5 January 2023. It will be an online activity however if communities want to organise any on-ground activity under Improve-a-thon that would also be welcomed. The event has its own theme Azadi Ka Amrit Mahatosav which is based on a celebration of the 75th anniversary of Indian Independence. The event will be for 20 days only. This is an effort to work on content enrichment and improvement. We invite you to plan a short activity under this event and work on the content on your local Wikis. The event is not restricted to a project, anyone can edit any project by following the theme. The event page link is here. The list is under preparation and will be updated soon. The community can also prepare their list for this improve-a-thon. If you have question or concern please write on here. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १३:१६, १२ डिसेम्बर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

WikiConference India 2023: Revised Conference Dates & Program-Scholarship Submission Reminder

Please feel free to translate into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

We want to inform you that due to specific reference to conference operational and logistical challenges, we had to revise the conference dates. The new dates for WikiConference India 2023 are 28, 29, and 30 April 2023 (Friday to Sunday), Hyderabad, India. The new dates have been finalized after a thorough check to avoid any overlaps or challenges.

Reminder: The last date for Program and Scholarships submission is 14 December 2022, 11:59 pm IST. For any questions and support, reach out to contact@wikiconferenceindia.org or leave a message on the conference talk page. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) ०२:०२, १३ डिसेम्बर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Nivas & Nitesh

(On behalf of the WCI 2023 organizing team).

WikiConference India 2023:Open Community call on 18 December 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may know, we are hosting regular calls with the communities for WikiConference India 2023. This message is for the second Open Community Call which is scheduled on the 18th of December, 2022 (Today) from 7:00 to 8:00 pm to answer any questions, concerns, or clarifications, take inputs from the communities, and give a few updates related to the conference from our end. Please add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward to seeing you on the call.

[WCI 2023] Open Community Call
Date: 18 December 2022
Time: 1900-2000 [7 pm to 8 pm] (IST)
Google Link: https://meet.google.com/wpm-ofpx-vei

Furthermore, we are pleased to share the telegram group created for the community members who are interested to be a part of WikiConference India 2023 and share any thoughts, inputs, suggestions, or questions. Link to join the telegram group: https://t.me/+X9RLByiOxpAyNDZl. Alternatively, you can also leave us a message on the Conference talk page. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १३:४८, १८ डिसेम्बर २०२२ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

On Behalf of, WCI 2023 Organizing team

CIS-A2K Newsletter December 2022

Please feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is well. CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is here which is for the month of December. A few conducted events are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its December 2022 work. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and upcoming events/activities.

Conducted events

Upcoming event

Mid-term Report 2022-2023

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २२:२८, ७ जनवरी २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Upcoming vote on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hello all,

In mid-January 2023, the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This follows the March 2022 vote, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’s Community Affairs Committee requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.

The volunteer-led Revisions Committee worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.

The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewed here, and a comparison of changes can be found here.

How to vote?

Beginning January 17, 2023, voting will be open. This page on Meta-wiki outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.

Who can vote?

The eligibility requirements for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.

What happens after the vote?

Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १५:४९, ८ जनवरी २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Voting Opens on the Revised Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

{{subst:more languages}}

Hello all,

The voting period for the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is now open! Voting will remain open for two weeks and will close at 23:59 UTC on January 31, 2023. Please visit the voter information page for voter eligibility information and details on how to vote.

For more details on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process, see our previous message.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

CSinha (WMF) (कुरडी) १७:३७, १७ जनवरी २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

CIS-A2K Newsletter January 2023

Please feel free to translate it into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is well. CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is here which is for the month of December. A few conducted events are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its January 2023 tasks. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and upcoming events/activities.

Conducted events

Upcoming event

International Mother Language Day 2023 Datathon

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २३:५६, १२ फेब्रुअरी २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

International Mother Language day 2023 Datathon

Apologies to write in English.

Dear all,

Hope you are doing well. CIS-A2K is going to organise International Mother Language day 2023 Datathon on the occasion of and to celebrate International Mother language Day. The datathon will be from 21st February to 28 February 2023. During the week, we will contribute to Wikidata to add labels, descriptions, Aliases, items or properties and references to the statements. You can go through the given page link, add yourself and become a part of the event. During the datathon, we will finalise a day and organise a one or two-hour online session with a Wikidata expert to learn advanced tactics. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २३:३४, १६ फेब्रुअरी २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Reminder: International Mother Language day 2023 Datathon

Dear all,

The International Mother Language Day 2023 Datathon will start tomorrow (after a few hours at 00:01 am) till 28 February. To contribute please add your name here. We will contribute to Wikidata to add labels, descriptions, Aliases, items or properties and references to the statements.

We have created the outreach dashboard to track the activities. Here is the link.

There will be an online session on Sunday. The session will be for 1:30 hrs. Please block your calendar for 4:00 to 5:30 pm. Jinoy will be there for a training session to introduce basics and the tools like 'TABernacle', 'QS' and 'Mix n Match' that can be used for adding labels and improving the existing WD item for newbies.

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Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

थप भाषाहरू • कृपया आफ्नो भाषामा अनुवाद गर्न मद्दत गर्नुहोस्

Hello community members,

Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The Terms of Use (ToU) are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.

This update comes in response to several things:

Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct.
Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license.
Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing.
Bringing the Terms of Use in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Wikimedia Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act

As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held: the first on 2 March and the second on 4 April.

For further information, please consult:

The proposed update of the ToU by comparison
The page for your feedback
Information about the office hours

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

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CIS-A2K Newsletter Feburary 2023

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Dear Wikimedians,

Hope everything is well. CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is here which is for the month of February. A few conducted events are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its February 2023 tasks and towards upcoming events. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and upcoming events/activities.

Conducted events

Digitization & Documentation of Cultural Heritage and Literature in Meghalaya
International Mother Language Day 2023 Datathon
Wikidata Online Session

Upcoming event

March Month Activity on Wikimedia Commons
Hindi Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.

Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 04:50, 8 March 2023 (UTC)

Women's Month Datathon on Commons

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Hello Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. CIS-A2K and CPUG have planned an online activity for March. The activity will focus on Wikimedia Commons and it will begin on 21 March and end on 31 March 2023. During this campaign, the participants will work on structure data, categories and descriptions of the existing images. We will provide you with the list of the photographs that were uploaded under those campaigns, conducted for Women’s Month.

You can find the event page link here. We are inviting you to participate in this event and make it successful. There will be at least one online session to demonstrate the tasks of the event. We will come back to you with the date and time.

If you have any questions please write to us at the event talk page Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २३:३४, १२ मार्च २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Women's Month Datathon on Commons Online Session

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As we mentioned in a previous message, CIS-A2K and CPUG have been starting an online activity for March from 21 March to 31 March 2023. The activity already started yesterday and will end on 31 March 2023. During this campaign, the participants are working on structure data, categories and descriptions of the existing images. The event page link is here. We are inviting you to participate in this event.

There is an online session to demonstrate the tasks of the event that is going to happen tonight after one hour from 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm. You can find the meeting link here. We will wait for you. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १९:२१, २२ मार्च २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

CIS-A2K Newsletter March 2023

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Dear Wikimedians,

There is a CIS-A2K monthly Newsletter that is ready to share which is for the month of March. A few conducted events and ongoing activities are updated in the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K wants your attention towards its March 2023 tasks and towards upcoming events. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and ongoing events/activities.

Conducted events

Ongoing activity

Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon April 2023

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.

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Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023-2024 Annual Plan and Upcoming Community Conversations

Hi Everyone,

The draft annual plan of the Wikimedia Foundation applicable from July 2023 to June 2024 has been published and is open for feedback.

While the entire annual plan is available in multiple languages, a short summary is available in close to 30 languages including many from the region.

Two-Way Planning/Conversations

Since last year, the Foundation has prioritized two-way planning with communities by asking community members to share their goals for the coming year. We are hosting a series of calls/discussions across various time zones to collaborate across the movement, for South Asia-based communities;

In-person session during WikiConference India, on the 28th of April with the attendees of the conference. (recording to be uploaded on meta).
Virtual Discussion on the 30th of April, 2023 (0600 UTC)- Join Us!

We would like to invite you all to participate in the virtual discussion on the 30th of April where Lisa Seitz Gruwell, Chief Advancement Officer, and Deputy to the Chief Executive Officer would be sharing and discussing the plans with the movement.

Call Details

Virtual Discussion (Via Zoom)

Date: 30th April 2023 (Sunday)

Time: 0600 UTC (ZoneStamp)

Diff Calendar Link

Look forward to seeing you on the call.

Please add the above details to your respective calendars, and do get in touch with me if you have any further questions.

Rachit Sharma (WMF)

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CIS-A2K Newsletter April 2023

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Dear Wikimedians,

Greetings! CIS-A2K has done a few activities in the month of April and CIS-A2K's monthly Newsletter is ready to share which is for the last month. A few conducted events and ongoing activities are updated in the Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted and ongoing events/activities.

Conducted events

Ongoing activity

Mula Mutha Nadi Darshan 2023

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.

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Mula Mutha Nadi Darshan 2023 campaign cum photography contest

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Dear Wikimedians,

Greetings! CIS-A2K has started the Mula Mutha Nadi Darshan 2022 campaign cum photography contest on Wikimedia Commons from 15 May to 30 June. The aim of the contest is to document the Mula & Mutha rivers along with their tributaries in the Pune district on Wikimedia Commons in the form of images and videos. You can see more specific topics in the Rivers and Topics section. In this campaign, partner organisations like, Jeevitnadi, Ecological Society, Samuchit Enviro Tech, Nisarg Sevak, National Society for Clean Cities etc. are actively participating.

We are eager to see your contributions in this contest. For sign-up and upload please visit Mula Mutha Nadi Darshan 2023.

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The upcoming calls conducted by A2K for or with communities

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Dear Wikimedians,

We are excited to announce the launch of the A2K Monthly Engagement Call, a series of interactive sessions aimed at fostering collaborative learning within the Wikimedia community. The motive behind starting the series of interactive sessions is to bring the community together to discuss and interact about important topics. The first Monthly Engagement call will start with Let’s Connect which is an initiative to create an open and safe learning space for all Wikimedians to share and learn different skills with other peers and to add value and contribute collectively to the community. The first call in this series, organized and hosted by CIS-A2K, will take place on June 3, 2023, from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM (IST).

One more announcement is about, on June 5, 2023, as we celebrate Environment Day, A2K is planning to engage communities and community members in discussions about potential activities for the month of June. These activities will involve capturing images of the environment, uploading them to Wikimedia Commons, and adding existing photos to articles on Wikipedia. We would love to invite Wikimedians to collaborate and join us in planning this activity on Sunday, May 28, 2023, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm.

Call details are below:

Preparatory Call for June Month Activity
Sunday, May 28 · 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Time zone: Asia/Kolkata
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/rsy-nhsk-upp

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CIS-A2K Newsletter May 2023

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Dear Wikimedians,

Greetings! We are pleased to inform you that CIS-A2K has successfully completed several activities during the month of May. As a result, our monthly newsletter, which covers the highlights of the previous month, is now ready to be shared. The newsletter includes updates on the conducted events and ongoing activities, providing a comprehensive overview of A2K's recent endeavours. We have taken care to mention both the conducted and ongoing events/activities in this newsletter, ensuring that all relevant information is captured.

Conducted events

Preparatory Call for June Month Activity
Update on status of A2K's grant proposal

Ongoing activity

Mula Mutha Nadi Darshan 2023

Upcoming Events

Support to Punjabi Community Proofread-a-thon

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.

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Invitation to join at WikiConverse India Call - June 24th, 2023

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Greetings! WikiConverse India is a new initiative that A2K is working on to improve collaboration among communities in India. WikiConverse India aims to initiate and foster dialogue within the Indian language Wikimedia community on various topics that are important for the growth of the Wikimedia movement. Currently, we are conducting regular calls as part of this initiative. For the month of June, this call will be scheduled on June 24th, 2023, from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM IST. A2K will invite Indian participants from recent international conferences, namely the Wikimedia Hackathon and EduWiki Conference, to share their important takeaways specifically relevant to India.

To join the WikiConverse India Call, You can find the call details below:

WikiConverse India Call, June 24th, 2023
Saturday, June 24 · 6:00 – 7:30pm IST
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/qcm-rrac-qzk

If you have any questions, please write to a2k@cis-india.org. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) ००:१४, १७ जुन २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Reminder: Invitation to Join WikiConverse India Call

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Hello all,

As we informed you earlier, CIS-A2K has begun a new initiative to improve collaboration among communities in India. WikiConverse India aims to initiate and foster dialogue within the Indian language Wikimedia community on various topics that are important for the growth of the Wikimedia movement. Currently, we are conducting regular calls as part of this initiative. For the month of June, this call will be scheduled for June 24th, 2023, today at 6:00 PM. The call meta page is already prepared and you can find it here.

The call details are here to join us:

Topic: WikiConverse India Call
Time: Jun 24, 2023 06:00 PM India
Join Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88637468034?pwd=MUVBVm1MVXlYNm1OTjZCNGpsM3R2dz09
Meeting ID: 886 3746 8034
- Passcode: 874408

We hope you can find some time to join us and listen to the amazing stories and learning experiences from the speakers. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १५:४६, २४ जुन २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2023

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Dear Wikimedians,

Greetings! We are pleased to inform you that CIS-A2K has successfully completed several activities during the month of June. As a result, our monthly newsletter, which covers the highlights of the previous month, is now ready to be shared. We have taken care to mention the conducted events/activities in this newsletter, ensuring that all relevant information is captured.

Conducted events

Community Engagement Calls and Activities
- India Community Monthly Engagement Calls: 3 June 2023 call
- Takeaways of Indian Wikimedians from EduWiki Conference & Hackathon
- Punjabi Wikisource Proofread-a-thon
Skill Development Programs
- Wikidata Training Sessions for Santali Community
Indian Community Need Assessment and Transition Calls
Partnerships and Trainings
- Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion GLAM Project
- Wikimedia Commons sessions with river activists
- Introductory session on Wikibase for Academy of Comparative Philosophy and Religion members

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.

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Announcement of Train the Trainer 2023 and Call for Scholarship

Dear all,

We are excited to announce the reactivation of the Train the Trainer (TTT) initiative by CIS-A2K in 2023. TTT aims to empower Indian Wikimedians like you with essential skills to support Wikimedia communities effectively. Through this program, we seek to enhance your capacity, encourage knowledge sharing, identify growth opportunities, and enable a positive impact on the communities you serve. The scholarship application period is from ‘‘‘1st to 14th August 2023’’’. Unfortunately, we regretfully cannot consider applications from non-Indian Wikimedians due to logistical and compliance-related constraints. The event is scheduled for the end of September or the beginning of October 2023, and final dates and venue details will be announced soon. We encourage your active participation in TTT 2023 and welcome you to apply for scholarships via the provided form.

For inquiries, please contact us at a2K@cis-india.org or nitesh@cis-india.org. We look forward to your enthusiastic involvement in making Train the Trainer 2023 a resounding success!

Regards, Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Introducing Adiutor Project

Dear fellow Wikimedia enthusiasts, we are excited to introduce the Adiutor Project, an initiative aimed at enhancing the Wikipedia editing experience! Adiutor is a user-friendly gadget designed to simplify various tasks for Wikipedia editors, making editing easier, faster, and more enjoyable. From creating deletion requests to conducting copyright checks, Adiutor streamlines repetitive processes, giving you more time to focus on creating valuable content for the community. If you're interested in using Adiutor on your local wiki, we'd love to hear from you! Drop us a message here or reach out to Vikipolimer with your Wikimedia community details. Let's collaborate to bring Adiutor to your language and wiki! Join the Adiutor Project, and together, let's make Wikipedia editing a more efficient and rewarding experience! For any questions or to express your interest in bringing Adiutor to your local wiki, feel free to contact Vikipolimer - we're here to support and work together with you! Looking forward to your enthusiastic participation! Vikipolimer (कुरडी) ०६:३६, ६ अगस्ट २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Reminder for TTT Scholarship and announcement about Event dates

Dear all,

We wanted to remind you about the Scholarship form for the Train the Trainer 2023 program and also provide you with the event dates. We encourage you to apply for scholarships to participate in Train the Trainer 2023, as it offers a valuable opportunity for you to actively contribute to your language communities. The scholarship form is accessible here, and the submission window will remain open until 14th August 2023. If you are genuinely interested in promoting knowledge sharing and community empowerment, we strongly encourage you to fill out the form. (Please note that we won't be able to consider applications from Wikimedians based outside of India for TTT 2023.)

The Train The Trainer program will take place on 29th, 30th September, and 1st October 2023. This program provides you an opportunity to enhance your leadership and community-building skills. Thank you for your attention.

CIS-A2K Newsletter July 2023

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Dear Wikimedians,

Greetings! We are pleased to inform you that CIS-A2K has successfully completed several activities during the month of July. As a result, our monthly newsletter, which covers the highlights of the previous month, is now ready to be shared. We have taken care to mention the conducted events/activities in this newsletter, ensuring that all relevant information is captured.

Conducted events

Wikibase session with RIWATCH GLAM
Wikibase technical session with ACPR GLAM
Wikidata Training Sessions for Santali Community
An interactive session with some Wikimedia Foundation staff from India

Announcement

Train The Trainer 2023 Program

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.

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Invitation to the Indic Community Monthly Engagement Call on September 8, 2023

Dear Wikimedians,

A2K is excited to invite you to the third call of the Indic Community Monthly Engagement Calls initiative scheduled for September 8, 2023, where A2K is hosting “Learning Clinic: Collective learning from grantee reports in South Asia” by Let’s Connect. This event is designed to foster collaboration and knowledge-sharing among community members interested in the region's progress, grantees, potential grantees, and Regional Fund Committee members. The dedicated meta page is here. Here are the details:

Date: September 8th
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM IST
Language: English
Facilitation: Jessica Stephenson (WMF - Let’s Connect), Pavan Santhosh (CIS-A2K), Chinmayee Mishra (Let’s Connect working group)
Duration: 1.5 hours
Zoom Link: Zoom Link

You can find detailed information on the given meta page. We look forward to meeting you there tomorrow. :) Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १६:४६, ७ सेप्टेम्बर २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Announcing Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 and Invitation to Participate

Dear Wikimedians,

The Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group is happy to announce Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 on 16-17 December 2023 in Pondicherry, India.

The event is for everyone who contributes to Wikimedia’s technical spaces code developers, maintainers, translators, designers, technical writers and other related technical aspects. Along with that, contributors who don't necessarily contribute to technical spaces but have good understanding of issues on wikis and can work with developers in addressing them can join too. You can come with a project in mind, join an existing project, or create something new with others. The goal of this event is to bring together technical contributors from India to resolve pending technical issues, bugs, brainstorm on tooling ideas, and foster connections between contributors.

We have scholarships to support participation of contributors residing in India. The scholarship form can be filled at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_Qqctj7I87QfYt5imc6iPcGPWuPfncCOyAd_OMbGiqxzxhQ/viewform?usp=sf_link and will close at 23:59 hrs on 15 October 2023 (Sunday) [IST].

Please reach out to contactindicmediawikidev.org if you have any questions or need support.

Best, Indic MediaWiki Developers UG, १०:२५, ४ अक्टोबर २०२३ (+0545)

Image Description Month in India: 1 October to 31st October

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Dear everyone,

We're excited to invite you to the Image Description Month India description-a-thon, set to take place from October 1st to October 31st, 2023. During this event, we'll be focusing on improving image-related content across Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons.

To stay updated and get involved, please visit our dedicated event page event Page.

Your active participation will be instrumental in enhancing Wikimedia content and making it more accessible to users worldwide. Thank you :) MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) २०:२०, ५ अक्टोबर २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

A2K Monthly Newsletter for September 2023

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Dear Wikimedians,

In September, CIS-A2K successfully completed several initiatives. As a result, A2K has compiled a comprehensive monthly newsletter that highlights the events and activities conducted during the previous month. This newsletter provides a detailed overview of the key information related to our endeavors.

Conducted events

Learning Clinic: Collective learning from grantee reports in South Asia
Relicensing and Digitisation workshop at Govinda Dasa College, Surathkal
Relicensing and Digitisation workshop at Sayajirao Gaekwad Research Centre, Aurangabad
Wiki Loves Monuments 2023 Outreach in Telangana
Mula Mutha Nadi Darshan Photography contest results and exhibition of images
Train The Trainer 2023

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.

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A2K Monthly Newsletter for October 2023

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Dear Wikimedians,

In the month of October, CIS-A2K achieved significant milestones and successfully concluded various initiatives. As a result, we have compiled a comprehensive monthly newsletter to showcase the events and activities conducted during the preceding month. This newsletter offers a detailed overview of the key information pertaining to our various endeavors.

Conducted events

Image Description Month in India
WikiWomen Camp 2023
- WWC 2023 South Asia Orientation Call
- South Asia Engagement
Wikimedia Commons session for Birdsong members
Image Description Month in India Training Session

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.

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A2K Community Needs Assessment Form

In late November, A2K hosted a significant call as part of WikiConverse India discussions, aiming to understand the diverse needs of Indian Communities! We deeply appreciate the active participation of every community member, as your valuable suggestions and opinions will be instrumental in shaping A2K's future initiatives.

To enrich this collaborative effort, we've crafted a form. Your responses will provide key components for a broader needs assessment, offering profound insights into the community's suggestions and guiding A2K’s future plans. We invite you to invest just a few precious minutes in sharing your thoughts, ideas, efforts, and impactful initiatives! If you have any doubts or queries, feel free to reach out to nitesh@cis-india.org.

Thank you for being an integral part of our vibrant community! Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १४:२९, ५ डिसेम्बर २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

Enhancing Your Wikimania 2024 Scholarship Application: Community Call and Volunteer Support

Dear Wikimedians,

I hope this message finds you well. A2K is excited to share news about an upcoming A2K initiative to support Indian Wikimedians in the Wikimania 2024 scholarship process.

Community Call with Experienced Wikimedians

Join the community call on December 9, 2023, featuring experienced Indian Wikimedians. Gain insights into the Wikimania scholarship process, key application elements, and participate in a Q&A session.

Volunteer Committee

A dedicated volunteer committee will assist applicants through Zoom Room Support Sessions, offering one-on-one discussions, personalized feedback, and application enhancement strategies.

For more details and to register:

Community Call Meta page: link
Date: 9 December 2023
Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM IST

We invite your active participation and look forward to your engagement in this community call. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (कुरडी) १२:३५, ७ डिसेम्बर २०२३ (+0545)[जवाफ दिनुहोस्]

A2K Monthly Report for November 2023

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Dear Wikimedians,

CIS-A2K wrapped up several initiatives in November, and we've compiled a detailed monthly newsletter highlighting the events and activities from the past month. This newsletter provides a comprehensive overview of key information regarding our diverse endeavors.

Conducted events

Heritage Walk in 175 year old Pune Nagar Vachan Mandir library
2023 A2K Needs Assessment Event
Train The Trainer Report

Please find the Newsletter link here.
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A2K Monthly Report for December 2023

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Dear Wikimedians,

In December, CIS-A2K successfully concluded various initiatives, and we have curated an in-depth monthly newsletter summarizing the events and activities of the past month. This newsletter offers a comprehensive overview of key information, showcasing our diverse endeavors.

Conducted events

Digital Governance Roundtable
Indic Community Monthly Engagement Calls: Wikimania Scholarship Call
Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023
A2K Meghalaya Visit Highlights: Digitization and Collaboration
Building Bridges: New Hiring in CIS-A2K
Upcoming Events
- Upcoming Call: Disinformation and Misinformation in Wikimedia projects

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A2K Monthly Report for January 2024

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Dear Wikimedians,

In January, CIS-A2K successfully concluded several initiatives, and we are pleased to present a comprehensive monthly newsletter summarizing the events and activities of the past month. This newsletter provides an extensive overview of key information, highlighting our diverse range of endeavors.

Conducted Events

Roundtable on Digital Cultures
Discussion on Disinformation and Misinformation in Wikimedia Projects
Roundtable on Digital Access

You can access the newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.

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A2K Monthly Report for February 2024

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Dear Wikimedians,

In February, CIS-A2K effectively completed numerous initiatives, and we are delighted to share a detailed monthly newsletter encapsulating the events and activities from the previous month. This newsletter offers a thorough glimpse into significant updates, showcasing the breadth of our varied undertakings.

Collaborative Activities and Engagement

Telugu Community Conference 2024
International Mother Language Day 2024 Virtual Meet
Wiki Loves Vizag 2024

Reports

Using the Wikimedia sphere for the revitalization of small and underrepresented languages in India
Open Movement in India (2013-23): The Idea and Its Expressions Open Movement in India 2013-2023 by Soni

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CIS-A2K announcing Community Collaborations program

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Dear Wikimedians,

Exciting news from A2K! We're thrilled to announce that CIS-A2K is now seeking proposals for collaborative projects and activities to advance Indic Wikimedia projects. If you've got some interesting ideas and are keen on co-organizing projects or activities with A2K, we'd love to hear from you.

Check out all the details about requirements, process, timelines, and proposal drafting guidelines right here.

We're looking forward to seeing your proposals and collaborating to boost Indic Wikimedia projects and contribute even more to the open knowledge movement.

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A2K Monthly Report for March 2024

Dear Wikimedians,

A2K is pleased to present its monthly newsletter for March, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K during the month. This newsletter provides a comprehensive overview of the events and activities conducted, giving you insight into our collaborative efforts and engagements.

Collaborative Activities and Engagement

Wiki Loves Vizag: Fostering Open Knowledge Through Photography

Monthly Recap

From the Team- Editorial
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A2K Monthly Report for April 2024

Dear Wikimedians,

We are pleased to present our monthly newsletter for April, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K during the month. This newsletter provides a comprehensive overview of the events and activities conducted, giving you insight into our collaborative efforts and engagements.

In the Limelight- Chandan Chiring

Monthly Recap

From the Team- Editorial
Comic

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WMF’s Annual Plan Draft (2024-2025) and Session during the South Asia Open Community Call (SAOCC)

Hi Everyone,

This message is regarding the Wikimedia Foundation’s Draft Annual Plan for 2024-2025, and in continuation of Maryana’s email; inviting inputs from members of the movement. The entire annual plan is available in multiple languages and a shorter summary is available in close to 30 languages including many from South Asia; and open for your feedback.

We invite you all to a session on the Annual Plan during 19th May's [:m:South Asia Open Community Call|South Asia Open Community Call (SAOCC)]], in line with the collaborative approach adopted by the foundation for finalizing Annual Plans. The discussion will be hosted by members of the senior leadership of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Call Details (Please add the details to your respective calendars)

Google Meeting
- Date/Time: 19th May 2024 @ 1230-1400 UTC or 1800-1930 IST

You can add any questions/comments on Etherpad [१]; pre-submissions welcomed.

Ps: To know more about the purpose of an Annual Plan, please read our listed FAQs. Look forward to seeing you on the call.

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A2K Monthly Report for May 2024

Dear Wikimedians,

We are pleased to present our May newsletter, showcasing the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K throughout the month. This edition offers a comprehensive overview of our events and activities, providing insights into our collaborative efforts and community engagements.

In the Limelight: Openness for Cultural Heritage

Monthly Recap

Digitisation Workshop
Commons:Tribal Culture Photography Competition
Wiki Technical Training

Dispatches from A2K
Coming Soon

Future of Commons Convening

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A2K Monthly Report for June 2024

Dear Wikimedians,

We are excited to share our June newsletter, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K over the past month. This edition provides a detailed overview of our events and activities, offering insights into our collaborative efforts and community engagements and a brief regarding upcoming initiatives for next month.

In the Limelight- Book Review: Geographies of Digital Exclusion

Monthly Recap

Wiki Technical Training
Strategy discussion (Post-Summit Event)

Dispatches from A2K

Future of Commons

Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities

Gearing up for Wikimania 2024
Commons workshop and photo walk in Hyderabad

Comic

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Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2024: Call for Applications

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Dear Wikimedians,

We are thrilled to announce the 9ninth iteration of the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) program, co-hosted by CIS-A2K and the Odia Wikimedians User Group. TTT 2024 will be held from October 18-20, 2024, in Odisha.

This event aims to enhance leadership and training skills among active Indian Wikimedians, with a focus on innovative approaches to foster deeper engagement and learning.

Key Details

Event Dates: October 18-20, 2024
Location: Odisha, India
Eligibility: Open to active Indian Wikimedians
Scholarship Application Deadline: Thursday, August 15, 2024

We encourage all interested community members to apply for scholarships. Please review the event details and application guidelines on the Meta page before submitting your application. Apply Here: Scholarship Application Form For any questions, please post on the Event talk page or email nitesh@cis-india.org.

We look forward to your participation and contributions!

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Reminder: Apply for TTT 2024 Scholarships by August 22

Dear Wikimedians,

Important Reminder: The scholarship application deadline has been extended till Thursday, August 22, 2024. We encourage active Wikimedians to submit their applications before the deadline.

Please ensure you review the essential details on Meta page regarding this event.

Scholarship Application form

For any questions, please reach out on the Event talk page or via email at nitesh@cis-india.org or Chinmayee at chinumishra70@gmail.com.

Regards,

TTT 2024 Organising team

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A2K Monthly Report for July 2024

Dear Wikimedians,

We are excited to share our July newsletter, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K over the past month. This edition provides a detailed overview of our events and activities, offering insights into our collaborative efforts and community engagements and a brief regarding upcoming initiatives for next month.

In the Limelight- NEP Study Report

Monthly Recap

Future of Commons
West Bengal Travel Report

Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities

Train the Trainer 2024

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A2K Monthly Report for August 2024

Dear Wikimedians,

We are excited to present our August newsletter, showcasing the impactful initiatives led by CIS-A2K throughout the month. In this edition, you'll find a comprehensive overview of our events and activities, highlighting our collaborative efforts, community engagements, and a sneak peek into the exciting initiatives planned for the coming month.

In the Limelight- Doing good as a creative person

Monthly Recap

Wiki Women Collective - South Asia Call
Digitizing the Literary Legacy of Sane Guruji
A2K at Wikimania
Multilingual Wikisource

Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities

Tamil Content Enrichment Meet
Santali Wiki Conference
TTT 2024

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A2K Monthly Report for September 2024

Dear Wikimedians,

We are thrilled to share our September newsletter, packed with highlights of the key initiatives driven by CIS-A2K over the past month. This edition features a detailed recap of our events, collaborative projects, and community outreach efforts. You'll also get an exclusive look at the exciting plans and initiatives we have in store for the upcoming month. Stay connected with our vibrant community and join us in celebrating the progress we’ve made together!

In the Limelight- Santali Wiki Regional Conference 2024
Dispatches from A2K

Monthly Recap

Book Lover’s Club in Belagavi
CIS-A2K’s Multi-Year Grant Proposal
Supporting the volunteer-led committee on WikiConference India 2025
Tamil Content Enrichment Meet
Experience of CIS-A2K's Wikimania Scholarship recipients

Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities

Train-the-trainer 2024
Indic Community Engagement Call
A2K at Wikimedia Technology Summit 2024

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Announcing Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 & scholarship applications

Dear Wikimedians,

We hope you are well.

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024, hosted by the Indic MediaWiki Developers UG (aka Indic-TechCom) in collaboration with the Odia Wikimedians UG. The event will take place in Bhubaneswar during 20-22 December 2024.

Wikimedia hackathons are spaces for developers, designers, content editors, and other community stakeholders to collaborate on building technical solutions that help improve the experience of contributors and consumers of Wikimedia projects. The event is intended for:

Technical contributors active in the Wikimedia technical ecosystem, which includes developers, maintainers (admins/interface admins), translators, designers, researchers, documentation writers etc.
Content contributors having in-depth understanding of technical issues in their home Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, etc.
Contributors to any other FOSS community or have participated in Wikimedia events in the past, and would like to get started with contributing to Wikimedia technical spaces.

We encourage you to follow the essential details & updates on Meta-Wiki regarding this event.

Event Meta-Wiki page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikimedia_Hackathon_Bhubaneswar_2024

Scholarship application form: Click here to apply

(Scholarships are available to assist with your attendance, covering travel, accommodation, food, and related expenses.)

Please read the application guidance on the Meta-Wiki page before applying.

The scholarship application is open until the end of the day 2 November 2024 (Saturday).

If you have any questions, concerns or need any support with the application, please start a discussion on the event talk page or reach out to us contact@indicmediawikidev.org via email.

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