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[WMIN Quarterly Report] January to March 2018
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 20 Apr '18

20 Apr '18

Dear all, I am happy to announce that Wikimedia India Chapter's Quarterly Report for the period from January to March 2018 has been published. The report can be viewed at: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/Jan-Mar_2018 Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga

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Wikipedia Awareness Campaign In India : Advertisement Video on Hindi Wikipedia
by Abhinav srivastava 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Dear All, I take this opportunity to inform you all about the Hindi Wikipedia Advertisement video, developed by Wikimedia Foundation in assistance with few Hindi Wikimedians. The primary goal has been to target the student community who could be the potential editors in the near future. The Video has been produced by Happy mcgarrybowen <http://www.happymgb.com/>for Wikimedia Foundation (as its proprietor) and it has been released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License. The focused target area for the promotion of video would be Facebook and Youtube with Madhya Pradesh being the focused location. Videos are live on the social media channels and Wikimedia Commons Facebook: https://facebook.com/wikipedia/videos/10156108644168346/ YouTube: https://youtu.be/WiCJFaUbHpg Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_ektara_video_ad_excerpt.g… *We look forward to your crucial feedbacks on the video and also suggestions on how to reach the potential audience. Your direction is key. * Thanks, Abhinav Srivastava

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#1Lib1Ref Again!
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 14 Apr '18

14 Apr '18

Greetings, #1Lib1Ref is happening again in May! It is an annual campaign where librarians add references to improve Wikipedia, is coming back again this year, running from May 15th to June 5th, 2018. It is being run for the second time from this year because we heard from you a desire to run it again out of excitement. Librarians, community members, and affiliates are encouraged to make 1Lib1Ref [their own]. So whether we call this 1Lib1Ref May, 1Lib1Ref for the Southern Hemisphere, or 1Lib1Ref Strikes Back, the point is the excitement is building again, and we'd like you to be a part of it. If you would like host a session at a local library, here are some materials for you: 1.) Helpful multimedia (logos, videos, flyers, stickers)<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1lib1ref> 2.) Connect with local librarians<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect> 3.) Lets take a Coffee Break and contribute to #1lib1ref. Here's how! <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Coffee_Kit> 4.) Read the 1Lib1Ref 2018 January report and learnings<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons/2018>. "Imagine a World where Every Librarian Added One More Reference to Wikipedia" Wikipedia is a first stop for researchers. Let's make it better! Your goal today is to add one reference to Wikipedia! Any citation to a reliable source is a benefit to Wikipedia readers worldwide. For any assistance, kindly contact wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org. Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga Outreach Coordinator | The Wikipedia Library on behalf of Felix Nartey Global Coordinator | The Wikipedia Library

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Wikipedia Education programme at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
by Ananth Subray 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

Hello, Wikipedia Education programme at CHRIST (Deemed to be University) began in 2013 with a goal of piloting Wikipedia as a pedagogic tool for the undergraduate students. Both the educators of the WEP and of the university were new to one such approach. But inside an institution that sees over 20K new faces every year, educating students on creating Wikipedia articles and enhancing the same was very exciting. Students of five Indian languages--Hindi, Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Urdu--were chosen as these languages were taught as second languages for many students. During the first and second year, almost all the students created new Wikipedia articles where the majority of the articles were below accepted standard. The difficulty in making students learn about input tools in their languages, Wikipedia basics, and wiki markup pushed for creating "how-to" video tutorials in Hindi and Kannada. Working with Urdu was discontinued after the second year because of program staff exit. Slowly, the program was reoriented in a manner that new students learned native language input and markup for the first two semesters by digitizing books on Wikisource and later by editing Wikipedia articles during the next two semesters. This helped better the output by increasing the quality of articles by nearly 30%. From 2015 the program was further improved by helping students get more hands-on training of input, wiki markup by intensive typing during the first semester, a few advanced options like interacting with each other on user talk page during the second semester, moving to Wikipedia editing and developing articles on Wikipedia sandbox during third semester, and finally moving the articles by peer-review from fellow batchmates, faculty and the larger Wikipedia community. The faculty is involved in the development and on-wiki review process ensuring quality. The program so far has gone to the level of producing about 70% very good quality articles where nearly 0.6% of the articles are of really poor quality. The female to male ratio is surprisingly equal and at times, there are more female students as compared to the male ones. However, there is little concern in integrating the student-Wikimedians to the larger Wikimedia community. Also, there is little exchange of learning and best practices between cross-language outreach programs across India across several different languages. One of the ways to better this process is making program leaders talk to each other. To know more about us follow on *Twitter- https://twitter.com/wepchrist <https://twitter.com/wepchrist>* *Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/ChristWEP/ <https://www.facebook.com/ChristWEP/>* Thanks and Regards, *ANANTH SUBRAY P V(ಅನಂತ್)* Programme Associate Access to Knowledge program The Centre for Internet & Society +91-9739811664

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[Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)] Request for comment on proposed changes
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Greetings, As you are aware that the Conference and Event Grant for "Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)" has been proposed for training on SVGs, illustrations, digital cartography etc. earlier in March. After review and discussion, a few changes have been suggested to the program. Please go through the changes, and comment at: https://goo.gl/tdmMGo. Also, kindly put forward the kind of illustrations that you or your community is in need of. For example; illustrations of animals, scientific instruments, automobiles etc. This help us frame the program and also understand the need of illustration skills required. As the suggestions are to assessed, and relevant changes are to be made to the proposal, this discussion will be open till seven days from now i.e. 12 April 2018. Best, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga

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[Featured Wikimedian] April 2018
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 04 Apr '18

04 Apr '18

Greetings, I am happy to introduce you to the Featured Wikimediam for April 2018, Sangram Keshari Senapati (User:Ssgapu22<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Ssgapu22>) from Odia Wikimedia community. Sangram is an active Odia Wikimedian from Bhadrk, Odisha. Sangram was introduced to Wikipedia by his senior at college. He later signed up, and created two articles on English Wikipedia. Upon knowing about Odia Wikipedia, he started contributing to it. But as his writing skills were not good, he used to proofread works on Odia Wikisource, and from that experience he learnt the exact pattern of writing in Odia. He recalls that users MKar and Psubhashish greatly helped him during his initial days. >From his contributions, it can be said that Sangram is an ambassador of #100Wikidays challenge. After having participated in Rathajatra Edit-a-thon, Nabakalebara Edit-a-thon, and Wikipedia Asian Month in 2016 & 2017, he decided to regularly commit himself towards improving the coverage of information on Odia Wikipedia. His first challenge was #100WikiWomanDays<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100WikiWomenDays>, which he started on 8 March 2017 i.e. International Women's Day. Having successfully completed it on 15 June, he took up another #100Wikidays<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100wikidays(2nd_Challenge)> on 13 July. Immediately after its completion 20 October, he took up his third challenge<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100wikidays(3rd_Challenge)> on 21 October, and completed it on 28 January 2018. As this journey continues, he is now amid of his fourth Challenge<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100wikidays(4th_Challenge)>, which was started on 29 January. With these, he aspires to complete his WikiYear some day. Sangram is a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering, and is now working as an editor at an Odia magazine. He also an avid photographer, and maintains a photography club. He advocates that new editors need to focus on learning the rules of Wikipedia, and contribute to good quality articles. Wishing him all the best to to complete his WikiYear; Best, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga on behalf of Wikimedia India

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Project Tiger: Offline Edit-a-thon
by Tito Dutta 26 Mar '18

26 Mar '18

नमस्ते Hindi Wikimedians, The Project Tiger Writing Contest has started with great responses. A few communities such as Tamil, Malayalam, and Punjabi are participating enthusiastically. We feel that real-life edit-a-thons might be a good way to encourage your community members. If you are planning to have an offline edit-a-thon o Project Tiger both financially and more important programmatically. Note: Our budget for each offline event in India is ~8,000 INR. It would be great if you could host an offline edit-a-thon for your community. Please contact tito(a)cis-india.org for questions. 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.[image: beacon]

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[IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon] Top contributors and stats
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 25 Mar '18

25 Mar '18

Greetings, I am happy to announce the top contributors of the Wikidata campaign conducted from International Mother Language Day (21 February 2018) to Open Data Day (3 March 2018). The participants have been assessed on various parameters such as number of mainspace characters added, number of edits, labels and descriptions added, references added to statements etc. The list of top fifteen contributors is as follows; Top five contributors (in alphabetical order of usernames): * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Gazal_world * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Muppavarapu_Navya * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:రవిచంద్ర<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%9A%E0%…> * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Saisumanth_Javvaji * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:SuswethaK Top six to ten contributors (in alphabetical order of usernames): * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Jinoytommanjaly * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Marajozkee * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Sukeerti.Bhopal * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:స్వరలాసిక<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%B0%E0%…> * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Thamizhpparithi_Maari Top eleven to fifteen contributors (in alphabetical order of usernames): * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Aliva_Sahoo * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:BukhariSaeed * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Kvr.lohith * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Obaid_Raza * https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Pranayraj1985 The statistics of campaign are as follows: * Number of participants: 174 (including eight community organizers) * Number of items created: 137 * Number of items improved: 3890 * Total number of edits made: 8900 * Source: https://goo.gl/6Rmpn9<https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/WikiProject_India_on_Wikidata…> * Number of outreach activities organized: 5 (Guntur, Bhopal [2], Hyderabad, Patiala) The campaign was supported by Wikimedia Foundation, WikiProject India on Wikidata, Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia India, Punjabi Wikimedians User Group, West Bengal Wikimedians User Group and Hindi Wikimedians User Group. Special thanks to the community organizers for promoting the campaign among their respective communities: User:Aliva_Sahoo for Odia, User:Balajijagadesh for Tamil, User:Gopala_Krishna_A for Kannada, User:Manavpreet_Kaur for Punjabi, User:Suyash.dwivedi for Hindi, User:Mouryan for Bengali, User:Obaid_Raza for Urdu, User:Ajaybanbi for Telugu. Regards, User:Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga User:Satpal_Dandiwal User:Titodutta

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Call for Applications: Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

Dear Wikimedians! Please do take a moment to read about the recently announced Bassel Khartabil Memorial Fund and Fellowship: https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/07/bassel-post/ [https://d15omoko64skxi.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Bassel_Kha…]<https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/07/bassel-post/> Creative Commons launches Memorial Fund Grants and ...<https://creativecommons.org/2018/02/07/bassel-post/> creativecommons.org Creative Commons is accepting applications for two new opportunities to continue the legacy and impact of Syrian Palestinian Open internet activist Bassel Khartabil. These two separate programs invite applications from free culture activists, researchers, artists, and much more to help carry on the incredible work Bassel was involved in. Projects ranging from $1,000 USD to $10,000 USD will be considered for the Memorial Fund, and the Fellowship provides a $50,000 USD stipend as well as funds for other, related expenses. To know more about the Memorial Fund: https://creativecommons.org/bassel-khartabil-memorial-fund To know more about the Fellowship: https://creativecommons.org/bassel-khartabil-fellowship Wikimedians are encouraged to apply and to spread the word. The last date for review of applications is March 24, 2018. Thanks in advance! -- For Jay Walsh Creative Commons Regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga

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Last date to apply for laptop and internet support - 25 February 2018
by Tito Dutta 23 Feb '18

23 Feb '18

Hello Hindi Wikimedians, Many thanks for your enthusuiastic participation in the Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wi ki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program <https://trulytito-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1fGy8v9MaMYoEnc7…> /Support <https://trulytito-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1fGy8v9MaMYoEnc7…> ) . Here is an important update: please note the last date of requesting l aptop and internet support is 25 February 11:59 pm IST. Please apply yourself or encourage needy Indic Wikimedians to apply before the time Thanks for your support and feel free to ask questions. Best, [image: beacon]

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