Hello Pavan
Kudos to all of you who have been working tirelessly to provide
information to the people seeking it in Indic languages. I am always
available to support you all in every possible manner.
Regards,
Manav
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 4:27 PM Netha Hussain <nethahussain(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Pavan,
Great initiative! I shall be very happy to make more short versions of
any COVID-19 related articles for the Wikiproject.
Regards
Netha
On Sun, 19 Apr 2020, 12:17 pavan santhosh <pavansanthosh.s(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.
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