Dear Community
Wikimedia India has made a final draft for the Conflict of Interest
policy(attached)
We would invite the community to review it & give their inputs
Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India
Hello all,
Happy New Year 2017. We've just published the January 2017 Indic Wikisource
statistics.
Here is the few stats ans their top three rank...
As per Number of article
1. Sanskrit Wikisource ( 16027 pages) - supported by 0.04% scan pages.
(with 170 Index Pages)
2. Telugu Wikisource ( 11752 pages) - supported by 24.56% scan pages. (with
267 Index Pages)
3. Kannada Wikisource ( 9027 pages) - supported by 0.86% scan pages. (with
116 Index Pages)
As per Number of page Validation
1. Telugu Wikisource ( 19160 pages) with 267 Index Pages
2. Tamil Wikisource (5180 pages) with 2168 Index Pages
3. Gujarati Wikisource ( 4298 pages) with 43 Index Pages
As per Number of page Proofread
1. Telugu Wikisource ( 23583 pages)
2. Malayalam Wikisource ( 8067 pages)
3. Tamil Wikisource ( 7965 pages)
As per percentage supported by scan pages.
1. Bengali Wikisource (29.77%)
2. Telugu Wikisource ( 24.56%)
3. Gujarati Wikisource (18.06%)
I want to specially mention that there are no visible improvement on
proofreading works and page content supported by scan at Marathi,Assamese,
Sanskrit, Odia, and Kannada Wikisource.
Full Indic Wikisource stats here
https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Indic_Wikisource_Stats
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
Indic Wikisource Community
Dear all
It gives me great pleasure to announce the Featured Wikimedian of the
month-January 2017
*Krishna Chaitanya Velaga*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga> of Andhra
Pradesh is a 19 year old English Wikimedian editing since December 2014.
Being an NCC cadet and a defence aspirant, Chaitanya is predominantly
interested in military affairs and started editing when he found a factual
error in an article and referred to Youtube on how to fix it. Described by
fellow wikimedian and military editor Srikar Kashyap
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Strike_Eagle> as *the leading defence
article writer from India*, Chaitanya has 4 Featured and A-class lists
(FLs) and five Good Articles (GAs). His major works include Sam Manekshaw
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Manekshaw>, K.M Cariappa
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodandera_M._Cariappa> and INS Vikrant
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Vikrant_(R11)>. Chaitanya is the founder
of the Indian military history work group and has won the coveted Military
History Newcomer of the Year title for 2016. In addition, Chaitanya is a
keen vandalism fighter and regularly reviews Good Article (GA) nominations
You can find his profile on our page - http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home
Regards
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India
Dear Wikimedia India community,
I am thrilled to announce that Ravishankar Ayyakkannu is joining the Global
Reach team as a Partnerships Manager Contractor for Asia for the Wikimedia
Foundation.
As many of you may already know, earlier Ravi served as the Program
Director for the Wikimedia India Chapter. He played a significant role in
two recent developments from the Indian region, namely, the WikiConference
India 2016 and the Government of Tamil Nadu issuing an order releasing all
its content in CC-BY-SA license. Ravi is also a proud Wikimedian
contributing to many Tamil Wikimedia projects since 2005 and has a specific
interest in community building.
The Global Reach team will focus on growing Wikimedia projects along the
themes of awareness, affordability and offline solutions in the Indian
region. Working closely with Smriti Gupta who leads our work in the region,
Ravi will strive to build strategic partnerships with government,
non-profit, educational and private institutions to achieve this goal. He
is very keen to evolve partnership models that ensure the active
participation of Wikimedia communities and will appreciate your support on
doing so.
Please join me in congratulating Ravi!
Warm regards,
Adele
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Hi,
How to better explain Wikipedia for Indians? Please participate in this
survey <https://goo.gl/mgX0Ur>.
Please help by sharing the link across social media channels for various
Wikimedia communities in India.
Thanks,
Ravi
HiI am not used to IRC We do have a marathi wiki workshop at pune university and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T154312 this phabricator request needs to be attended on top priority.
Thanks and regards