Hello all,
As the 2021 WMF Board elections have been announced, I have proposed to
reconsider the eligibility criteria for “developers” and technical
contributors, as the previous criteria do not make sense any longer and
exclude several groups of contributors.
A discussion has been started at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T281977
and
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021#Re…
.
Please share your thoughts and feedback.
Regards
Jay Prakash (he/him)
Volunteer Developer, Wikimedia
Dear Wikimedians of India,
As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we would like
to announce the third workshop of this year on “Designing responsive main
pages”. The workshop will take place on 30 April (Friday). During this
workshop, we will learn to design main pages of a wiki to be responsive.
This will allow the pages to be mobile-friendly, by adjusting the width and
the height according to various screen sizes..
Participants are expected to have a good understanding of Wikitext/markup
and optionally basic CSS.
Details of the workshop are as follows:
- Date: 30 April (Friday)
- Timings: 18:00 to 19:30 (IST)
- Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/zfs-qfvj-hts
- to add this to your Google Calendar, please use click here
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NmR2ZHE1bWF1cWQyam4…>
.
If you are interested, please sign-up on the registration page at
https://w.wiki/3CGv.
Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops,
for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More
information on this can be found on the registration page.
Regards,
Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers
Hello Dear,
Sorry for cross posting.
I have proposed a project grant to improve documentation of MediaWiki
maintenance scripts, to be reviewed during this grants round.
The proposal is at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Jayprakash12345/Improve_docu…
If you have any suggestions or feedback. Please let me know or create a
topic on the talk page.
Regards,
Jay Prakash (he/him)
Hello everyone,
As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, the workshop on
"*Debugging/fixing template errors*" will be on upcoming Saturday (*27
March*). We will learn how to address the common template errors on wikis
(related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua,
etc.).
Details of the workshop are as follows:
- Date: 27 March
- Timings: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (IST)
- Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/cyo-mnrd-ryj
- *to add this to your Google Calendar, please use click here
<https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MjgzaXExcm9ha3RpbTB…>.*
If you are interested, please sign-up on the registration page at
https://w.wiki/36Sg.
Regards,
Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers
Hello everyone,
As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to
announce the second workshop of this year.
The workshop will be on "bots"[1], and we will be learning how to perform
tasks on wiki by running automated scripts, about Pywikibot and how it can
be used to help with repetitive processes and editing, and the Pywikibot
community, learning resources and community venues. Please note that you do
not need any technical experience to attend the workshop, only some
experience contributing to Wikimedia projects is enough.
Details of the workshop are as follows:
- Date: 27 February
- Timings: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm IST
- Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/vri-zvfv-rci
- *to add this to your Google Calendar, please use *
https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGxwZWtkdDdhdDk0c2V…
- Trainer: Joaquin Oltra Hernandez[2]
Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/yYg.
Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops,
for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More
information on this can be found on the registration page[3].
Regards,
Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:JHernandez_(WMF)
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/South_Asia/Registration
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <kcvelaga(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 12:15 PM
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] SWT South Asia 2021
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
Hope you are all doing well, and keeping safe.
I am happy to share with you all an update about the Small wiki toolkits
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits> initiative in India,
and the larger South Asian region. As part of the Small wiki toolkits
initiative, in the second half of 2020, Indic-TechCom, in collaboration
with WMF's Developer Advocacy team, designed and conducted a technical
workshop series: "Small wiki toolkits - Indic workshop series 2020.” A
report of the same can be seen at https://w.wiki/Yqf.
There has been positive response from community members, as the workshops
have been helpful in understanding basic to intermediate level technical
processes on wikis. Two more workshops have been conducted towards the end
of last year. So, we are now planning to continue to run these workshops
(one per month on average) and expand them to the Wikimedia communities in
the South Asian region. The objective is to impart basic to intermediate
level technical skills for volunteers working on Wikimedia projects of
languages in the South Asian region. More information can be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWT_South_Asia/Overview, and we have also
applied for rapid grant to support this initiative through 2021, the
proposal for the same can be seen at https://w.wiki/tWE.
The first session will be a brainstorming session on technical challenges
faced by contributions on their wikis, from 6 pm to 7:30 pm (IST) on 24
January 2021. It will be facilitated by Birgit Müller (Director of
Technical Engagement at WMF). If you are interested, please register at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWT_South_Asia/Registration. This
discussion will be crucial to decide topics for future workshops. Community
members are also welcome to suggest topics for future workshops anytime at
https://w.wiki/t8Q.
These workshops are being organized with the help of a handful of
volunteers from India, Nepal and Bangladesh, and if anyone is interested to
help in organizing, please let us know.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya
on behalf of SWT South Asia organizers
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/SWT_South_Asia/Organization>
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