Hello,
This looks interesting to me. You may have a look.
Thanks
Tito Dutta
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From: Amir Sarabadani <ladsgroup(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 01:57
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Meet
To: wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <
wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hey,
"Wikimedia Meet" [0] (https://meet.wmcloud.org), is a project in Wikimedia
CloudVPS for Wikimedians to meet virtually instead of using commercial
services like Zoom which might have security and privacy implications
[1][2]. Currently it's a jitsi (jitsi.org) installation.
If you want to just use/test it, let me know and I create you a user and
password. You can share the username and password with anyone you want to
meet but please do not post it publicly. In your email you can also give me
your desired user and password. **Do not reuse any password**. You can also
contact any of the ticketmasters instead of me:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet#List_of_ticketmasters
In order to make this project more robust, I'm looking for Ticketmasters
too, Ticketmasters create accounts for others (It doesn't require any
technical knowledge, you fill a form in web for others)
If you want to help maintaining it (which would be greatly appreciated) let
me know and I give you the needed access. I put the technical documentation
in mediawiki.org [3]. There are several bits you can help with, like
puppetizing it, scalability, observability, improving authentication,
trying to see if BBB can be used as well, and so much more. You can find
the tickets in the phabricator board and assign a ticket to yourself if you
feel like helping out.
[0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet
[1] https://blogs.harvard.edu/doc/2020/03/27/zoom/
[2]
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/02/zoom-technology-security…
[3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet
Hope that would be useful for our users :)
Best
--
Amir (he/him)
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Dear Friends,
I would like to start the mail with a word of love. I hope everyone of us
are doing well during this difficult times. I believe that we will get
through this situation and collectively world will outlive this pandemic.
What we are contributing to this world become enormously important during
this difficult times than any time ever before. Several volunteers around
the world contributing to create, improve, and update content about the
Covid-19 and pandemic which in many ways is service to the world.
During 3rd week of March, I created and worked on a WikiProject to
co-ordinate efforts (prioritize, list-out articles and resources, organize
workflow, etc.,) to create, improve and update content about Covid-19 in
Telugu Wikipedia. After that, on March 22, I started doing the same for
Indian languages by creating page for WikiProject Covid-19 in Indic
languages in meta. Unfortunately, due to a personal loss, I couldn't do
much about it for few weeks. Later I started coordinating people and
improving the Project page which finally took a shape:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages.
*What is Wikiproject Covid-19 in Indic languages? Why is this required?*
*Wikiproject Covid-19 in Indian languages* is a meta-wiki project dedicated
to co-ordinate efforts to coverage about topics related in Indian language
Wikipedias. Although there are several efforts going on in various Indian
languages, there needs a central co-ordination project to ensure more
collaboration and better outcomes.
Some of the things that we can do together:
- Co-ordinating efforts to create, share, and localise materials and
media needed to improve the articles.
- Collaborating with other projects like Wikidata taskforce (ex: finding
ways to integrate Wikidata and Wikipedia, so that no one needs to update
figures in every Wikipedia separately), Wikigraphists from India (ex: can
take help to localize several graphs, pictures, etc.,), and other projects.
- Bringing several ideas and best practices across the world together
and making use of it.
- Ex: From my personal experience, Very long articles in English
Wikipedia makes translators life difficult. There is a good effort popped
up in English Wikipedia by Netha Hussain to create short form of
important
articles which helps translation of those articles into our languages. We
can co-ordinate with them, get help from Indian English Wikipedians to
create several short form articles and medium-long from articles to make
translation easy.
- Encouraging various language communities to run quality assessment of
the articles and also equip them useful criteria to do so. As these
articles have high visibility and usability, we can ensure quality by doing
so.
- Conduct webinars and IRCs to learn from each other (like a session
from Wikidata experts to help others learn integration of Wikidata and
Wikipedia in this regard), celebrate some achievements, and to share our
camaraderie during these tough times.
These are some of the efforts we can take up if we collaborate and
coordinate, there can be many such things I couldn't imagine right now. I
would like to request everyone who is interested to join here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages>
You can either start a discussion thread about this in your language
Wikipedia village pumps and let everyone know in the talk page of project
or anyway, I can go ahead & inform this in English in all the Wikipedia
Village pumps.
With love,
Pavan Santhosh.
Hi,
Would like to bring to your notice that CIS-A2K has job vacancies open
currently for the post of "Programme Associate":
1. Graphics Design -
https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-associate-graphic-designer
2.Communications -
https://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-associate-communications
Looking for highly interested candidates who are ready to work with the
Access to Knowledge program team which is working on programmatic
activities and contributors that involves Wikimedia projects.
Deadline: *20.04.2020*
Please share this across your circles too.
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
Programme Officer
<https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>Access to Knowledge program
<https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
The Centre for Internet & Society
+91-9739811664
Hello Wikimedians,
Hope this email finds you well. We wish you safe and healthy days ahead for
all of you.
We want to inform you that an India level IRC for April on 19 at 7–8 pm.
The agenda for the IRC is as follows -
* Online support (Ideas & methods)
* Online Wikisource activities
The link to join IRC - https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
Looking forward to your participation. Please also share this message.
regards,
Subodh Kulkarni
Programme Officer
Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme
Recently, we have built a custom scan box to scan books.
With this box and a smartphone, we can scan books easily.
Wrote about it here
https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/making-of-kaniyam-scanbox-diy-sca…
Comment there If you are interested in volunteering for scanning or post
processing using scantailor.
Hello all,
For last couple of weeks, I am trying to update state and district wise
data of COVID-19 pandemic in India on Wikidata. I have tried to organize
the workflow here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_force>.
Thanks to Mahir for creating all the visualisation queries
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_forc…>
and Jinoy for working on the health bulletins. To check how important the
entire work is, you can check this map showing the spread of the disease at
the district level <https://w.wiki/LCs> or this line chart at the state
level, <https://w.wiki/Kvs> for example, all built from Wikidata. This is
useful for epidemiological research, distribution of relief and health
materials, planning of volunteer relief teams and many other aspects. There
are already quite a few non-Wikimedia volunteer workforce working on this.
Now, the problem is, there are huge discrepancies in data provided by WHO,
different government health bulletins, media houses and crowdsourced
volunteer initiatives and I have been trying as best as I could to find the
most accurate data and update them as far as at the district level. Also,
the Wikidata interface is not suitable for day-to-day updating like this
one, which is another problem. Needless to say, this is extremely
exhausting to do it alone for the whole country.
So, I appeal to every experienced Wikidata contributors in this list to at
least take care of the data of the districts of your states, so that the
workload is distributed and we can deliver high quality accurate
epidemiological data as the disease spreads further in the country. If I
have to do it alone, I will then have no other choice but to leave some
states behind which will create unavoidable and unwanted data gaps.
If you have any questions or want to join us, please ping me, Mahir or
Jinoy here.
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task…>
We have a fairly active messenger chat group to coordinate with, where you
are more than welcome.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Wikidata volunteer
Hello Indic Wikisource member,
As you may already know, CIS-A2K has launched Indic Wikisource
Proofreadthon in the interest of collecting, enhancing, and expanding
knowledge to encourage and stay home in the current COVID19 crisis.
Are you preparing for the Proofreadthon?
Can we use this mailing list to coordinate and understand how many
proofreadthon will be there?
* The Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_wikisource_proofreadthon
WHAT DO YOU NEED
* a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some
classical books of your language. The book should not be available in any
third party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books
and add here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Book_list
*As participants
Kindly sign your name at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Participants
*Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this Proofreadthon
and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers are also as a
participant in this Proofreadthon.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Participants
* 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.
https://wscontest.toolforge.org/
* Time
In India, 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
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Rules
* scoring
The details scoring method have described at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Rules#
Scoring_system
I really hope many Indic Wikisources will be present this year at-home
quarantine.
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K
Hello Open Source enthusiasts,
This week on #FOSSWeeks webinar series, Let’s learn about Wikimedia Commons
- a sister project of Wikimedia.
What is FOSSWeeks?
FOSSWeeks is a webinar series initiated by MozillaTN, in an effort to boost
FOSS (free & open-source software) contribution in the Tamilnadu community.
In this webinar series, we invite Subject Matter Experts(SME) & Longtime
contributors from Mozilla and various other FOSS organizations to teach you
How-to start contributing to different open source projects.
*Join us for the webinar:* https://frsh.link/commons
*Trainer: *Mr. Pavan Santhosh (User: Pavan santhosh.s)
Time? April 18, 2020, 6.00-7.00 pm IST
========================================
இந்த வாரம் #FOSSWeeks வெபினார் தொடரில், விக்கிமீடியா பொதுவகத்திற்கு எவ்வாறு
பங்களிக்கலாம் என்று தெரிந்து கொள்வோம் வாருங்கள்.
#FOSSWeeks என்றால் என்ன ?
#FOSSWeeks என்பது மொசில்லா தமிழ்நாடு அமைப்பினால் தொடங்கப்பட்ட வெபினார்
தொடர் ஆகும். இது FOSS (கட்டற்ற மற்றும் திறந்த மூல மென்பொருள் ) பங்களிப்பை
அதிகரிக்கும் முயற்சியாகும்.
இந்த வெபினார் தொடரில் நாங்கள் அனுபவம் மிக்க மொசில்லா பங்களிப்பாளர்கள்
மற்றும் FOSS பங்களிப்பாளர்களை கொண்டு உங்களுக்கு பல்வேறு திறந்த மூல
திட்டங்களுக்கு பங்களிப்பது எப்படி என்று கற்பிக்கின்றோம்.
வெபினாரில் எங்களுடன் இணையுங்கள்: https://frsh.link/commons
*பயிற்சியாளர்:* பவன் சந்தோஷ் (User: Pavan santhosh.s)
*நேரம் ? ஏப்ரல் 18, 2020, மாலை: 6.00-7.00 *( இந்திய நேரம் )
With Regards,
Mozilla TamilNadu team
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Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you all are safe and taking care in these difficult times. Recently we
have submitted proposal to WMF. The proposal can be seen here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2019-2020_round_2/The_…
We are grateful to all the Indian communities for their constant support
and well wishes,
regards,
Subodh Kulkarni
Programme Officer
Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme