Greetings from Wikimedia India!
Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of March 2016.
Looking forward for your valuable feedback.
*EVENTS*
*SETTING UP OF ADVISORY COUNCIL AT WIKIMEDIA INDIA:*
The primary objective of setting up an advisory board at Wikimedia India is
to receive support, suggestions, guidance, advice and help in achieving
chapter’s objective from distinguished individuals having excelled in their
respective fields and mission. The advisory board members would provide a
non-binding advice to the Executive Committee Members, Wikimedia India
Staff and the community comprising of long list of editors across different
language groups.
The function of the advisory board would be to offer assistance to the
chapter with anything from legal advice to management of finances to carry
forward the goals of the chapter. Advisory board members would provide the
chapter with new knowledge, development of strategic thinking and possible
alternatives based on their expertise from different fields.
The advisory board would in turn strengthen the executive committee and
wikimedia staff to better execute their work, but does not interfere with
either the executive committee or wikimedia india staff regarding the
disclosure of confidential documents or forceful execution of their
advices.
Community members volunteered for Advisory Committee including Dhaval,
Sripathy, Yann, Bodhisattwa Mandal, Satdeep Gill, Adethya, Karthik Nadar.
The long discussion on the appointment process, views and opinions from
various community members and Mr. Arun Ramarathnam made it a worth for
inputs and amendments to be taken further.
*WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION AFFILIATE BOARD SELECTION: *
The Wikimedia chapters and thematic organizations select two members for
the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. We, as the members of Wikimedia
India have to accordingly vote for two members for the organisation.
Community members poured in their views in the mailing list. Suggestions
were rolling in for support to different candidates. Siska Doviana and Jan
Ainali were the major names in support for from the community.
We request the community members to kindly express their opinions and
suggestions for the same. Please visit the links below to find more
relevant details.
1.) About Affiliate Board
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats
2.) Nominated Candidates
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominat…
3.) Timeline
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016
*FEATURED WIKIMEDIAN:*
Featured Wikimedian for the month of March 2016 - *Baljeet Dhaliwal
<https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A4%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%82…>*
.
Baljeet Dhaliwal is a Punjabi Wikimedian currently studying in the ninth
grade. Inspired by Charan Gill, father of another Wikimedian Satdeep Gill,
Baljeet began editing in mid June 2015 and is now one of the youngest and
most active editors of Punjabi Wikipedia. He mostly edits articles related
to computers and has created the articles of almost all the basic
components of computer in the Punjabi Wikipedia.
A source of inspiration for his fellow Wikimedians, he is often described
as a quick learner. Baljeet was one of the most prolific contributors at
the Wikipedia Asian Month drive with 42 articles and was honored as a
Wikipedia Asian Ambassador. Baljeet says he feels proud to see his mother
tongue grow on the internet and vows to contribute more for its growth.
For more details, please visit -
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Archive/2016
*NEWS*
1. Scholarships for Wikimania 2016 have been announced. For more details,
please visit -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars#2016_WMF_Wiki…
2. Katherine Maher (https://goo.gl/QwRJTa) takes over as the Intermin
Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation effective 14 March 2016
(after Lila Tretikov resigned in Feb 2016). Full announcement can be found
at https://goo.gl/42NfC8 and https://goo.gl/uFhAzk
3. The Wikimedia Foundation Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) program is
accepting proposals from March 14th to April 12th for new ideas to improve
Wikimedia projects (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG). Funds are
available (up to $30,000 USD) to support individuals or teams of up to four
people to implement promising ideas, whether focused on building a new tool
or gadget, organizing a better process on your wiki, researching an
important issue, or providing other support for community-building. Ideas
from the current Inspire Campaign on content curation and review are very
welcome. (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Inspire)
*IN THE MEDIA*
1. Ashutosh Desai & Savio DSouza (13 March 2016). "13 ways to make your
Wikipedia experience better".The Times of India.
2. Prahari (30 March 2016). "Wikipedia – Is it ReallyIndependent?
<http://myvoice.opindia.com/2016/03/wikipedia-is-it-really-independent/>".
The Times of India.
3. Biz Carson (13 March 2016). "The first words on Wikipedia were a nerdy
programmer in-joke". The Business Insider.
4. "Wikipedia developing speech engine for users
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Wikipedia-developing-spee…>".
The Times of India. 13 March 2016.
5. Himanshi Dhawan (10 March 2016). "MP tells Lok Sabha Wikipedia killed
her, assassinated character".The Times of India.
6. Namrata Sahoo (5 March 2016). "A Bot That Gets Wiki Content to Your
Phone". The New Indian Express
Regards,
Priyanka Tiwari
Hi,
Please join us for the next Bangalore meetup on 20th April 2016 6 PM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore62
WMF's Langauge Engineering team is in Bangalore, and they are very keen to
meet the community and receive our feedback.
If you are not able to attend, you can join us virtually for a translathon
during the same day :)
Please also feel free to leave questions and comments for the team at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore62#Questi…
Phabricator bugs that need priority, Community wishlist items related to
Indian languages are good points to raise.
Ravi
Dear Wikimedians on the list,
1. The PEG application has been completed. Its status has been updated from
'draft' to 'open'. That means now the application is due for vetting and
consideration by the Grant approval committee.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Satdeep_Gill/WikiConference_Indi…
However, it will be greatly helpful for the grant to get approved promptly
if more of us could go through it and check its correctness and accuracy.
If anyone finds any kind of discrepancies, please let me or Satdeep Gill
know of the same at the earliest.
*Everyone is also welcome to endorse the application by signing up with
their Wikiuser ID in the section at the bottom of the grant request.*
2. IMHO, our mutual communications, brain storming and pro-active
engagement in the WCI2016 program needs to improve quite a lot. Please
start discussing about the event and also share your ideas about how the
conference should be held, mainly through this list. We have now several
channels being used for WCI discussions. (This mail list, metawiki, the
main India mail list, Facebook etc.). It will be much more effective and
stimulating if we all ensure a single channel for continued interactions.
Preferably, this very mail list and the metawiki page (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016) together should
be treated as the official channel for communications as it will always
help us keep the record of every single and small turn of events,
activities and decision making.
So,
a) please ask your other wiki users and volunteers to join the list
immediately.
b) please get engaged in the efforts to make WCI2016 a grand success.
To join the Wikimedia India Conference mail list, please visit
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india
Thanks,
Regards,
user:Viswaprabha
Hi Satdeep,
I have added myself to the list of members interested in helping (with the
PEG team), but there has been no update so far. Still waiting for one of
the current team members (Ravi or someone) to talk, so I can help with the
drafting. The discussion is supposed to be currently ongoing on Facebook
but I'm not part of it so far.
Hopefully, the team starts working asap.
Regards,
Soni
(User:Soni)
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> Hello everyone,
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> I am writing this with hopes of motivating everyone once again to start
> working for WCI. We have been running very late. It is high time that every
> one step up and work to make this an amazing conference. Right now
> requesting PEG for the event is the priority. We have to make sure we
> request the grant as soon as possible.
>
> Here is the link to the PEG Draft we are making:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/PEG_Draft
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> Regards
> Satdeep Gill
> WikiConference India 2016
>
Hello everyone,
I am writing this with hopes of motivating everyone once again to start
working for WCI. We have been running very late. It is high time that every
one step up and work to make this an amazing conference. Right now
requesting PEG for the event is the priority. We have to make sure we
request the grant as soon as possible.
Here is the link to the PEG Draft we are making:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/PEG_Draft
Regards
Satdeep Gill
WikiConference India 2016
Congratulations Arnab Dutta!
But Arnab Dutta from Bengali Wikimedia?!
-Hasive
WMBD
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> Hello One & all
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> It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Featured Wikimedian for the
> month of April is Arnab Dutta from Bengali Wikimedia.
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>
> *Arnab Dutta is one of the most profilic and youngest Bengali Wikimedians
> from India. He has been editing since April 2008 and has over 34,000 edits
> till date....*
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> Thanks
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Hello One & all
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Featured Wikimedian for the
month of April is Arnab Dutta from Bengali Wikimedia.
*Arnab Dutta is one of the most profilic and youngest Bengali Wikimedians
from India. He has been editing since April 2008 and has over 34,000 edits
till date....*
You can find the full excerpt on the home page of WMIN here
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home>
If you know any Wikimedian whom you think should be featured , please feel
free to nominate them here
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations>.
Or if you want to mail us ,please feel to contact me - yohannvt(a)wikimedia.in
, or you can contact Srikar Kashyap here - srikar.kashyap(a)gmail.com
Thanks
Yohann Thomas
Hello,
The Directory of Of Access Journals is hiring an open access ambassador.
Hindi language proficiency is a requirement and being able to read Urdu
script is requested.
Here is the posting.
<https://doajournals.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/vacancy-doaj-ambassadors/>
Here is the organization's Wikipedia article.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_of_Open_Access_Journals>
I expect that this group would appreciate applicants with a Wikipedia
background.
Thanks,
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user:bluerasberry on Wikipedia
206.801.0814
lane(a)bluerasberry.com