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Hi Joseph Seddon !!
Nice to know about the fundraiser in India.
According to the fundraiser request page (that asks for PAN number), looks
like WMF is really serious to generate some money from India.
Probably, WMF is now well aware of FCRA and other regulations in
India..Thanks to the discussions that happened (on the mailing list or off
the list) during the de-recogniation of the India chapter !!
It is likely that WMF can receive money directly from general Indian public.
Was impressed with this and out of curiosity, digged a bit further on the
QR code. Found that the money goes to some Depansum Solutions Private ltd.
More digging into this showed that the company is incorporated in 2018 and
has capital of just Rs. 1 lakh !!!
I suppose WMF gives out much more money to various volunteers and user
groups for even many smaller projects.
Not sure how and why WMF found such a great creditable company to receive
money on their behalf !!
This is surely going to raise a doubt about WMF intentions especially when
this is coming up after the closure of India activities.
Dont know how and why CIS-A2K was not involved in this money receiving. I
think they have the required financial permissions.
Hope WMF answers these queries quickly. OR else, the usual delay in
response will confirm something fishy going on somewhere !!
Have a good day and be safe and coronafree !!
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> Today's Topics:
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> 1. Fundraising in India - Launched (Joseph Seddon)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:31:56 +0100
> From: Joseph Seddon <jseddon(a)wikimedia.org>
> To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched
>
>
> Hey all,
>
> It makes me very happy to announce we have at last launched our fundraiser
> in India :) This has been a huge effort and I want to thank the community
> members who have passed on feedback, tested our infrastructure, forwarded
> tweets and news stories, and just generally been amazingly supportive :)
>
> Like our other fundraising campaigns this will run for around 4 weeks. If
> you are regularly seeing banners, I recommend you log in to your wikimedia
> accounts on wiki. We don't show banners to logged in users so as to not
> disrupt their work.
>
> As before:
>
> * If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a
> phabricator ticket [https://phabricator.wikimedia
> .org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?template=118862].
> * If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS or social media having
> difficulties in donating, please refer them to donate(a)wikimedia.org.
> * If you have specific ideas to share, please feel invited to add them to
> our fundraising ideas page [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki
> /Fundraising/2019-20_Fundraising_ideas].
>
> You can also contact me directly with my email address
> seddon(a)wikimedia.org
> and I can forward your feedback to the right person on the team.
>
> Thank you everyone!
>
> --
> Seddon
>
>
> *Senior Community Relations Specialist*
> *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*
>
Hey all,
It makes me very happy to announce we have at last launched our fundraiser
in India :) This has been a huge effort and I want to thank the community
members who have passed on feedback, tested our infrastructure, forwarded
tweets and news stories, and just generally been amazingly supportive :)
Like our other fundraising campaigns this will run for around 4 weeks. If
you are regularly seeing banners, I recommend you log in to your wikimedia
accounts on wiki. We don't show banners to logged in users so as to not
disrupt their work.
As before:
* If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a
phabricator ticket [https://phabricator.wikimedia
.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?template=118862].
* If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS or social media having
difficulties in donating, please refer them to donate(a)wikimedia.org.
* If you have specific ideas to share, please feel invited to add them to
our fundraising ideas page [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki
/Fundraising/2019-20_Fundraising_ideas].
You can also contact me directly with my email address seddon(a)wikimedia.org
and I can forward your feedback to the right person on the team.
Thank you everyone!
--
Seddon
*Senior Community Relations Specialist*
*Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*
Hello,
The Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> is looking for
a part-time temporary contractor to work remotely for 20 hours a week from
August or September until June 2021. The contractor will support movement
allies, affiliates, and organizers interested in bringing high impact
collections to Wikimedia projects. The hourly rate is up to $55 (USD).
We’d like you to do these things:
-
Mentor a cohort of cultural institutions making large content
contributions to develop shared practices for Structured Data on Commons,
particularly for captions and copyright statements.
-
Take part in monthly office hours for the wider Wikimedia-GLAM community.
-
Analyze and document innovations and workflows, in order to inform and
inspire Wikimedia communities and staff.
-
Actively monitor communications to support the Wikimedia-GLAM community
to stay in touch, network, document, and exchange practices.
-
Facilitate information sharing and product alignment with volunteers
maintaining software for GLAM-Wiki projects, such as OpenRefine, pywikibot,
and Pattypan.
We’re looking for someone with these skills:
-
A practical understanding of using linked open data and broad open
platforms for sharing collections, including active use of Wikidata and/or
Wikimedia Commons.
-
Comfortable wrangling data with some experience scripting and using
command line tools.
-
A good track record of promoting digital skills development or shared
practices through social media, written case studies, conference
presentations, and/or workshop facilitation.
-
Comfort working with product teams and supporting products in an open,
networked ecosystem, through documentation and community consultation.
-
Experience working with a distributed and remote team with people of
diverse skill sets and backgrounds.
-
Strong written and spoken English.
And it would be even more awesome if you have:
-
Proficiency in languages other than English.
-
An existing network of collaborators and contacts in international open
knowledge, cultural heritage communities, or in the Wikimedia community.
-
Experience working with communities that are not based in Europe or
North America.
Please send a cover letter and CV or LinkedIn profile to glam(a)wikimedia.org
by Friday 7 August.
--
Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him)
Program Officer
GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Wikimedia Commons query service beta version is out.
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From: Guillaume Lederrey <glederrey(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 23:33
Subject: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS)
To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
<commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all!
We are happy to announce the availability of Wikimedia Commons Query
Service (WCQS): https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/.
This is a beta SPARQL endpoint exposing the Structured Data on Commons
(SDoC) dataset. This endpoint can federate with WDQS. More work is needed
as we iterate on the service, but feel free to begin using the endpoint.
Known limitations are listed below:
* The service is a beta endpoint that is updated via weekly dumps. Some
caveats include limited performance, expected downtimes, and no interface,
naming, or backward compatibility stability guarantees.
* The service is hosted on Wikimedia Cloud Services, with limited
resources and limited monitoring. This means there may be random unplanned
downtime.
The data will be reloaded weekly from dumps. The service will be down
during data reload. With the current amount of SDoC data, downtime will
last approximately 4 hours, but this may increase as SDoC data grows.
* Due to an issue with the dump format, the data currently only dates
back to July 5th. We’re working on getting more up-to-date data and hope to
have a solution soon. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258507 and
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258474)
* The MediaInfo concept URIs (e.g.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/entity/M37200540) are currently HTTP; we may
change these to HTTPS in the near future. Please comment on T258590 if you
have concerns about this change.
* The service is restricted behind OAuth authentication, backed by Commons.
You will need an account on Commons to access the service. This is so that
we can contact abusive bots and/or users and block them selectively as a
last resort if needed.
* Please note that to correctly logout of the service, you need to use
the logout link in WCQS - logging out of just Wikimedia Commons will not
work for WCQS. This limitation will be lifted once we move to production.
* No documentation on the service is available yet. In particular, no
examples are provided yet. You can add your own examples at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/queries/exa…
following the format at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples
.
* Please use the SPARQL template. Note that while there is currently a
bug that doesn’t allow us to change the “Try it!” link endpoint, the
examples will be displayed correctly on the WCQS GUI.
* WCQS is a work in progress and some bugs are to be expected, especially
related to generalizing WDQS to fit SDoC data. For example, current bugs
include:
* URI prefixes specific for SDoC data don’t yet work - you need to use
full URIs if you want to query using them. Relations and Q items are
defined by Wikidata’s URI prefixes, so they work correctly.
* Autocomplete for SDoC items doesn’t work - without prefixes they’d be
unusable anyway, but additional work will be required after we inject SDoC
URI prefixes into WCQS GUI.
* If you find any additional bugs or issues, please report them via
Phabricator with the tag wikidata-query-service.
* We do plan to move the service to production, but we don’t have a
timeline on that yet. We want to emphasize that while we do expect a SPARQL
endpoint to be part of a medium to long-term solution, it will only be part
of that solution. Even once the service is production-ready, it will still
have limitations in terms of timeouts, expensive queries, and federation.
Some use cases will need to be migrated, over time, to better solutions -
once those solutions exist.
Have fun!
Guillaume
--
Guillaume Lederrey
Engineering Manager, Search Platform
Wikimedia Foundation
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I hope you will find the list/recommendation useful. Regards.
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From: Srishti Sethi <ssethi(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 11:48 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] NEW: Lists of technical resources and recommendations
for smaller language wikis!
To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
As part of the Small wiki toolkits
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits> initiative, a Starter
kit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit> has
been developed for smaller language Wikimedia wikis! This Starter kit lists
resources, tools, and recommendations in technical areas (e.g., templates,
bots, gadgets, etc.) relevant to smaller wikis that are just getting
started. Small wiki contributors can use it to make their community's
workflow easier. You can now use and promote the Starter kit in your wiki
community, and start translating the landing page and its subpages in a
language you want.
If you have any questions, ideas for venues where it should be shared or
wiki pages where it should be linked, or any other suggestions for
improving it further, please share on this talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit>.
If you are interested in helping with the Small Wiki Toolkits initiative
and can offer help with running workshops, developing toolkits, or
exchanging problems and challenges in smaller wiki communities, add
yourself as a member here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits#Members
Cheers,
Srishti
*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Dear all,
I hope you are safe and healthy. As you all know, we started the Project
Tiger 2.0 consultation process last month. The writing contest jury
feedback form was closed on 10th July. The editors or participants
feedback form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrTLQOWpceV6xuJDsu8poZX67HdGgX5Ln…>is
still open until the next two days. We are going to close the form on 20th
July. We are requesting you, who either participated in the Project Tiger
2.0 or not participated but has suggestions about the contest, to fill the
form. Your concerns, suggestions or comments are important for us as well
as for future projects. It would be helpful to improve the process and
engage more editors actively.
Note: Closing date of the form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrTLQOWpceV6xuJDsu8poZX67HdGgX5Ln…>is
20th July.
Thank you
Nitesh
User: Nitesh Gill
Project Tiger 2.0 Coordinator
CIS-A2K
Hello,
Might be interesting. OAuth sign in seems to be under construction.
Thanks
Tito Dutta
Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind
me over email or phone call.
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From: Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 23:22
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Diff – a blog by and for the Wikimedia
volunteer community
To: Wikimedia-L <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,
Today the Wikimedia Foundation would like to introduce a new community
blog. It's called "Diff" (diff.wikimedia.org) and is a blog by – and
for – the Wikimedia volunteer community to connect and share
learnings, stories, and ideas from across our movement. We'd like to
encourage you to learn more about Diff and how it can help you in
sharing and learning from your fellow Wikimedians.
Everyone is invited to contribute!
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/welcome-to-diff-a-community-blog-for-…
The name “Diff” is in reference to the wiki interface that displays
the difference between one version and another of a Wikipedia page. It
also reflects the “difference” our communities and movement make in
the world every day.
For some background, Diff builds on lessons and experiences from the
Wikimedia Blog, the Wikimedia Foundation News, and Wikimedia Space;
previous posts from these channels are archived on Diff. The channel
is primarily intended for community-authored posts, in which
volunteers can share their stories, learnings, and ideas with each
other.
Diff offers a simple and accessible editorial process, moderated by
Foundation communications staff and open to volunteers, to encourage
participation from all — especially emerging and under-represented
communities. Additionally, content on Diff can be written and
translated into languages to reach a wide audience. Diff also has a
code of conduct and comments can be flagged and moderated.
Still curious to learn more?
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/welcome-to-diff-a-community-blog-for-…
Yours,
Chris Koerner (he/him)
Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation
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Learning linux commands will help a lot.
Attend this free online training.
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Date: சனி, 4 ஜூலை, 2020, பிற்பகல் 4:10
Subject: [ILUGC] sh - Posix Shell - 5 Day Session - July 6, 2020 to July
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Hi,
Date(s): From July 06, 2020 to July 10, 2020
Time: Evening 5.00 PM
Duration: 1 Hour
Place: https://training.ilugc.in
Let's get into the basics of Posix 'sh' Shell. Here are the Topics we
will be covering
Day 1: (July 06, 2020)
1. Basic commands (like ls, cd, find, rm, cat etc.,)
2. How shell works when we execute a command
3. Where commands are stored
4. Importance of PATH variable
5. Difference between regular commands, built-in commands, aliases
Day 2: (July 07, 2020)
1. How to read manual page
3. Compound commands, redirection, pipes and background execution
1. Subshell execution
Day 3: (July 08, 2020)
1. Variables, Environment Variables, control structures and loops
2. Functions
3.Variable Expansion, Parameter Expansion, Arithmetic Expansion and
Command Substitution
4. Positional Parameters, Special Parameters and Special Variables
Day 4: (July 09, 2020)
1. Shell Patterns and find command
2. Basic Regular Expression, grep, sed and awk commands
3. Shell Built-in Commands.
4. Structure of a Shell Script and 'getopt' command
Day 5: (July 10, 2020)
1. Writing one shell script to show real time metrics of the current
system (cpu/memory/network)
2. Conclusion
All are welcome to participate in this session to understand how
terminals work in a Unix based system.
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