Wikimedia-BD September 2013

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বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ার জন্ম তারিখ সংক্রান্ত
by Shabab Mustafa 07 Oct '13

07 Oct '13

প্রিয় সবাই, সামনেই ২০১৪ সাল। বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া পূর্ণ করতে দশ বছর। নিশ্চয়ই এটা আমাদের সবার জন্য অত্যন্ত আনন্দের এবং গর্বের ব্যাপার। এখন এখানে একটা ব্যাপার আছে। বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ার সূচনা বলা হয় ২০০৪ এর জানুয়ারি মাসে (কারণটা আমি ঠিক জানি না) কিন্তু উইকিপিডিয়াার প্রধান পাতার প্রথম এডিট ১৪ জুন ২০০৪। এক্ষেত্রে জন্মদিন হিসেবে কোনটাকে ধরা ঠিক হবে? কমিউনিটির সবার মতামত - পরামর্শ জানতে চাই। ধন্যবাদ। --- Shabab Mustafa

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Fwd: [APC Forum] Konkani Wikipedia climbing up the Indian language ladder
by Munir Hasan 11 Sep '13

11 Sep '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا < fredericknoronha(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:24 AM Subject: [APC Forum] Konkani Wikipedia climbing up the Indian language ladder To: "A general information sharing space for the APC Community." < apc.forum(a)lists.apc.org> Konkani Wikipedia climbing up the Indian language ladder Home > Blogs > Post Konkani Wikipedia climbing up the Indian language ladder Friday, Sep 6, 2013, 16:34 IST Rohini Lakshane Recently the CIS- A2K team organised a four-day workshop in collaboration with Goa University for students of MA (Konkani). This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia, which is incubation. We hope that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this seven-year-old project out of incubation into a live Wikipedia project. Guest post by Subhashish Panigrahi, who works with the Access to Knowledge team. A2K works towards the promotion of Wikipedia and its sister projects in India. Recently the CIS- A2K team organised a four-day workshop in collaboration with Goa University for students of MA (Konkani). This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia, which is incubation. We hope that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this seven-year-old project out of incubation into a live Wikipedia project. Before a Wikipedia shapes up as a live project, it undergoes an incubation process. A community of volunteers gradually grows to sustain this Wikipedia in incubation with active contributions. The Konkani Wikipedia Incubator started way back in 2006. However, owing to many reasons it could not take off. One of the major reasons has been the usage of multiple scripts. Because of political and religious reasons, Konkani has multiple writing and verbal standards as also multiple scripts. Devanagari is the official script, but Konkani is also written in the Roman script (also known as Romi), the Kannada script (in the Konkani speaking regions of Karnataka, primarily in and around Mangalore), the Malayalam script in Kerala (Kochin region), and in Perso-Arabic script. The most used script for Konkani is Devanagari. Goa University is world's first university to offer a master's programme in the Konkani language, in which the writing standard is in Goan Konkani written in Devanagari. We met with the students and introduced Konkani Wikipedia to them. Four students volunteered to coordinate the workshop. They discussed plans for the workshop and its prerequisites, going through the list of articles on Konkani Wikipedia, writing a unique article by collecting resources before attending the workshop. To our surprise, all of the students including the four coordinators came up with at least two pages of written content before the workshop. Day 1: Intro yourself To start with the first day of the workshop held at Krishnadas Shama State Central Library, Goa we had an “Adjective Name” activity. It was fun to know how people judge themselves with adjectives. I turned out to be Sub-Hashish and Nitika turned out to be Naughty-Nitika! Then we had a discussion about the articles students planned to write. A few of them were not sure if articles on social issues or biographies of a writer could fit into Wikipedia framework. Editing time Article titles were decided, everyone was ready with their homework write ups and books for adding sources. Only four-five of them knew typing in Devanagari. For the first time some of them typed few words and they typed correctly. I could see the glow of triumph after they typed correctly using Transliteration layout. My experience with majority of the Indian language outreach participants had been more or the less the same; most new wikipedians struggle to type. This time we printed some handouts with the layout for typing help. It worked well. Students managed to type albeit with small typographical errors. Game time We had to cut the session for an activity break and invited them to play “Tumi Kashi Asat” (meaning "How do you do?" in Konkani). This is a game I learnt from my colleague Vishnu. To make it more interesting we got it translated to Konkani by our coordinator Supriya. The host has to make some body movements and ask “Tumi Kashi Asat?” and bend forward. The participants have to move their body in the reverse way and answer “Ami bari ashat” (I’m doing well). This replaced the caffeine intake for the four days and kept all of us lively. More editing post lunch: The editing spree went on for rest of the day. Regular doses of small fun activities were served to keep the Goan tides high. To our surprise all of the students created articles; I don’t know if I could judge them as "Stub" or "Start" class articles. For me it was the greatest start for a language to have the asset of these sweet Wikipedians, even as the Konkani Wikipedia has seen many struggles and spent seven years in incubation. Rat and frog game There was surprise for participating Wikipedians: Rat race. Participants sit on chairs and one of them is made to stand in the centre. The rat makes others run and replace each other's seats and one of the participants becomes the 'rat'. This rat race brought back old childhood memories and for a moment everyone forgot their age. At the end of it students sat down to take a deep breath and we taught them some basic Wiki codes (bold, italics, and adding references). To our surprise all of the students had created their first articles by the end of the day. Day 2: Climbing up the ladder This was the day to tell the students about the advanced options and ensure addition of more citations. Citations on Wikipedia are very essential for readers to validate the facts. But bringing this to the students who just had started learning to type in their language a day earlier was not easy. The second day was spent giving small breaks during the editing session for small activities. Running, jumping, and shouting fueled the students to be happy editors and not burdened. We managed to teach them the advanced options for proper Wiki-formatting (Bold, Italics, Heading, and Category), and citations. By the end of the first two days 22 students created 24 articles (about 42 pages of written content). Everyone clapped for their friends. We welcomed them to Konkani Wikipedia community. Day 3: Fresh batch, new start 16 new students from MA course were welcomed. Four student coordinators and one from the first batch of students joined us. The entire day was spent having lots of fun, creating articles and basic know how of Wiki syntax. Half the students in this batch knew how to type using the Devanagari InScript layout. Our first and second day taught us how students ask their fellow students more than they ask us for small help. Thanks to the Fedora Devanagari keyboard layout, it helped us to look and guide the students. All the students created their first articles. John, Supriya and Vaishali (from the first batch) gave final touches to their respective second articles. Day 4: No need to say good bye! This was the day to do two very important things; applaud their contribution on the first day and tell about contribution of their friends, teach about the advanced options and extending support further. Seeing the newspaper coverage about the workshop featuring some of their friends was a delight for our new Wikipedians after two long days. A few of them came forward to share their experience about the workshop and their vision for Konkani language. At the end of four days all of them bid us farewell. It felt like saying bye to good old friends. These were the foundation days and the biggest editing rally Konkani Wikipedia Incubator has seen in the last seven years with this milestone that the students had created. Happy faces of our new found friends is going to be a great piece of memory in this personal journey. Important links: Konkani Wikipedia Incubator https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/gom/Mukhel_Pan Konkani Wikipedia Workshop (21-24 August 2013) at Goa State Central Library https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Konkani_Wi… Konkani department, Goa University, Goa http://www.unigoa.ac.in/department.php?adepid=7&mdepid=1 Media files (Photos, videos, presentations, etc.) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Konkani_Wikipedia_workshop_21-2… Bio: Subhashish Panigrahi is a Wikimedian from Odisha and currently working as Programme Officer for Access To Knowledge at The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K), Bangalore. Prior to his work at CIS-A2K Subha was also part of the Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program as a consultant. He contributes to Odia Wikipedia, donates pictures, presentations and videos to Wikimedia Commons, writes, speaks and conducts activities for South Asian language communities for Open Source, Digital natives and Collaborative contribution models. When not online, he travels, goes biking, meets new people, cooks and tastes various cuisines, learns new languages, and explores the world outside. subhashish @ cis-india.org Copy edited by Rohini: rohini at wikimedia dot in http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/1885294/post-konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-th… ======================================= APC Forum is a meeting place for the APC community - people and institutions who are or have been involved in collaboration with APC, and share the APC vision - a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies. _______________________________________________ apc.forum mailing list apc.forum(a)lists.apc.org http://lists.apc.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/apc.forum -- Munir Hasan http://www.munirhasan.com General Secretary, Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN)<http://www.bdosn.org> General Secretary, Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee (BdMO)<http://www.matholympiad.org.bd> Convener, FSIBL-BFF Children Science Congress 2013 <http://cscongress.org> President, Wikimedia Foundation Bangladesh Asoka Fellow. http://www.ashoka.org/fellow/munir-hasan

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Planning type-a-thon for Bangla Wikisource (Wikisangkalan)
by Belayet Hossain 10 Sep '13

10 Sep '13

Dear Wikimedians, Bangla Wikisource[0], we called it Wikisangkalan is the 2nd largest Wikimedia projects in Bangla. Now there are 5800+ Bangla texts available in Wikisangkalan. You know there are lots of Bangla literatures are available in public domain license and many of them available at web in unicode, pdf, djvu, jpg etc. Wikisource have a nice way to host the digital files like pdf and djvu and digitize them to unicode. But unfortunate, Bangla does not have any good OCR to digitize the texts from pdf or djvu file. Till Bangla got any free/opensource OCR with satisfactory quality, the only way to do the digitization is by human typing. And we need large collaborations at these works. More people we involve in typing more digitize Bangla texts will be available in free at the web for Reader. I am planning a day long offline event at the eatherpad[1] to do the collaborative typing for Wikisangkalan. Where people can learn how to type Bangla and edit Wikisangkalan. And They will type texts from the file for Wikisangkalan. That event helps to improve Wikisource, recruit new Wikisourcers and builds relations in the community. I need your inputs, opinions and feedbacks in planning and execution. If you want to host that event, please let me know. I am happy to help you. Also please spread the words and discuss about it with others. The event may get helps from others. [0]https://bn.wikisource.org [1]https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/type-a-thon Regards, Belayet -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet https://mozillians.org/en-US/u/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it.

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the round 2 IEG Committee
by Nurunnaby Chowdhury 07 Sep '13

07 Sep '13

Dear All, A good news. Bangla Wikipedia Bureaucrat & Sysop *Belayet Bhai* & Sysob *Jayanta Da* now Individual Engagement Grants Committee member. Congrtz both..:) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Siko Bouterse <sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:31 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing the round 2 IEG Committee To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, wikimediaannounce-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, It is my pleasure to announce the round 2 Individual Engagement Grants Committee.[1][2] With the 7 new members we added this week, the committee now brings experience and advice to IEG from 13 countries, 10 languages and 8 Wikimedia projects. New members: Achim Raschka Ailura Anne Delong Bellayet Jane023 jayantanth Superzerocool Returning members from round 1: Ansumang Gryllida Hahc21 Ilario MikyM Netha Hussain Ocaasi Pine Steven Zhang Thehelpfulone Whym Congratulations and a huge thanks to everyone joining in to help evaluate round 2 proposals! Reminder for anyone with a project idea in need of funding: IEG proposals are due 30 September.[3] Best wishes, Siko [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Committee [2] Round 2 committee userpages: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Achim_Raschka https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ailura https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anne_Delong https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ansumang https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Bellayet https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gryllida https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hahc21 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ilario https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jane023 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:MikyM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ocaasi https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Steven_Zhang http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usuario:Superzerocool https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Thehelpfulone https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Whym [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-applying -- Siko Bouterse Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. * *Donate <https://donate.wikimedia.org> or click the "edit" button today, and help us make it a reality!* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> -- *Nurunnaby Chowdhury Hasive* Blog Editor | Prothom-Alo Blog <http://blog.prothom-alo.com> Assignment Reporter | The Daily Prothom-Alo <http://www.prothom-alo.com> Bangladesh Ambassador | Open Knowledge Network Foundation (OKFN)<http://www.okfn.org> Auto-confirmed, Reviewer & Roll backer Editor | Bangla Wikipedia<http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:nhasive> Treasurer & Coordinator (PR) | Bangladesh Open Source Network (BdOSN)<http://www.bdosn.org> Coordinator (PR) | Society for the Popularization of Science, Bangladesh (SPSB) <http://www.spsb.org>* *Central Team MOVers | Bangladesh Mathematical Olympiad Committee (BdMO)<http://www.matholympiad.org.bd> Facebook: fb.com/nhasive | Twitter: @nhasive<http://www.twitter.com/nhasive>| Skype: nhasive | www.nhasive.com

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