This is truly impressive! Thanks for bringing all of these initiatives and content together <3
--- As a reminder for all, the 8th birthday schedule: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday Resources to help you organising and scheduling an event: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Organise
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020 at 17:10, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am happy to inform you all that we are organizing a series of events on the occasion of the 8th birthday of Wikidata https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday on behalf of Wikidata WikiProject India https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India in the form of webinars, datathon and merchandise distribution.
*Details of the events* can be found here - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India
- *Webinars* - 3 sessions on 3 very interesting topics will be conducted
as follows. The sessions will be open for all.
- October 11 2020, 6 pm IST
https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1602419427:- Jane Darnell https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jane023 will talk about Sum of all Paintings https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SOAP, describe and demonstrate the workflow on improving data about paintings on Wikidata. A data-thon on Indian paintings will follow for the next 16 days (See 2.1 below). 2. October 17 2020, 7 pm IST https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1602941421:- Denny Vrandecic https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:DVrandecic_(WMF) will be introducing the newest sister project of the Wikimedia universe, the Abstract Wikipedia and WikiLambda https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Abstract_Wikipedia to the Indian community and how as a community, we need to be prepared for this upcoming exciting and ambitious project. 3. October 18 2020, 7 pm IST https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1603027843:- Mahir Morshed https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Mahir256 will conduct a session on the Wikidata Lexeme https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Lexemes . He will explain the importance of lexicographical data and demonstrate the workflow.
*Datathon* -
- *October 12 to October 28, 2020*:- A 16-days long online datathon
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India/Datathon/Sum_of_all_Indian_paintings will be conducted on Indian paintings. The output of the datathon will be given as a birthday gift https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/Presents to WIkidata on October 29.
*Merchandise distribution*-
- During the month of October, CIS-A2K
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K will be sending Wikidata special merchandise to *Indian affiliates and communities* upon request as well as *active contributors* of Wikidata *residing in India*.
- Details on how to request merchandise can be found here in *this
link* - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India#Merchandise
- Please note, due to COVID-19 pandemic or postal delay, merchandise
might arrive late despite best efforts from CIS-A2K officials.
The above mentioned activities are already finalised. If any of the Indian communities or affiliates are planning activities on the occasion of Wikidata's 8th birthday, please feel free to enlist them here https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India.
Regards, Bodhisattwa Wikidata Co-ordinator, CIS-A2K _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata