This is truly impressive! Thanks for bringing all of these initiatives and
content together <3
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As a reminder for all, the 8th birthday schedule:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday
Resources to help you organising and scheduling an event:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 17:10, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am happy to inform you all that we are organizing a series of events on
the occasion of the 8th birthday of Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday> on behalf of Wikidata
WikiProject India
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India> in the form of
webinars, datathon and merchandise distribution.
*Details of the events* can be found here -
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India
1) *Webinars* - 3 sessions on 3 very interesting topics will be conducted
as follows. The sessions will be open for all.
1. October 11 2020, 6 pm IST
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1602419427>:- Jane Darnell
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jane023> will talk about Sum of
all Paintings <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SOAP>, describe
and demonstrate the workflow on improving data about paintings on Wikidata.
A data-thon on Indian paintings will follow for the next 16 days (See 2.1
below).
2. October 17 2020, 7 pm IST
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1602941421>:- Denny Vrandecic
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:DVrandecic_(WMF)> will be
introducing the newest sister project of the Wikimedia universe, the Abstract
Wikipedia and WikiLambda
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia> to the Indian
community and how as a community, we need to be prepared for this upcoming
exciting and ambitious project.
3. October 18 2020, 7 pm IST
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1603027843>:- Mahir Morshed
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mahir256> will conduct a session
on the Wikidata Lexeme <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexemes>
. He will explain the importance of lexicographical data and
demonstrate the workflow.
2) *Datathon* -
- *October 12 to October 28, 2020*:- A 16-days long online datathon
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India/Datathon/Sum_of_all_Indian_paintings>
will be conducted on Indian paintings. The output of the datathon will be
given as a birthday gift
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Presents> to
WIkidata on October 29.
3) *Merchandise distribution*-
- During the month of October, CIS-A2K
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K> will be sending Wikidata
special merchandise to *Indian affiliates and communities* upon
request as well as *active contributors* of Wikidata *residing in
India*.
- Details on how to request merchandise can be found here in *this
link* -
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India#Merchandise
- Please note, due to COVID-19 pandemic or postal delay, merchandise
might arrive late despite best efforts from CIS-A2K officials.
The above mentioned activities are already finalised. If any of the Indian
communities or affiliates are planning activities on the occasion of
Wikidata's 8th birthday, please feel free to enlist them here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India>.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Wikidata Co-ordinator, CIS-A2K
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