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From: "Sanket Oswal" <sankoswal(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sep 3, 2016 10:05 PM
Subject: [WMIN-Members] Featured Wikimedian
To: "Wikimedia India Community list" <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
<wmin-members(a)googlegroups.com>
Cc:
Greetings from Wikimedia India Chapter!
It gives us immense pleasure to announce that the featured Wikimedian for
the month of September is *Ananya Mondal*
<https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B9…>
.
Ananya Mondal, the unsung hero of Bengali Wikipedia who is often credited
as the butterfly-wikipedian, for starting the initiative of Wiki Loves
Butterfly <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Butterfly>, the first
ever project in India to take photographs of butterflies. She started
editing on July 2015 and in just 13 months she has more than 9,051 edits
globally. With special interest on topics related to butterfly, venomous
snake and biochemistry she made over 90 articles on Bengali language
Wikipedia.
She got the idea of doing Wiki Loves Butterfly, when she discovered that
Wikimedia Commons does not have enough photographs of butterflies. Over the
course of 6 months, the project helped in getting more than 602 pictures,
53 articles on butterflies. She is now interested to work on Wikispecies,
to help there improve coverage on West Bengal associated butterflies.
You can find the full excerpt on the home page of WMIN (
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home).
You can nominate any Wikimedian whom you think should be featured here.
Or if you want to mail us, please feel to contact me or Yohann -
yohannvt(a)wikimedia.in
Regards,
Sanket Oswal
Wikimedia India
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সুধী,
আমার একটা প্রশ্ন ছিলো। এটা মূলত জয়ন্তদা সেদিন ফেইসবুক গ্রুপে বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়ার পরিসংখ্যান সম্পর্কিত একটি পোস্ট দেওয়ার পর মনে হলো। প্রায় সব সময়ই এই লিস্টে যারাই পোস্ট করেন তারা ইংরেজিতে করেন। পশ্চিমবঙ্গেরতো সবাই বাংলা জানেন। আমি যতদূর জানি, লিস্টটা মূলত ব্যবহার করা হয় বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়া রিলেটেড আলোচনাতেই যদিও বলছি না অন্য ক্ষেত্রে ব্যবহার হয় না। কিন্তু মানুষতো সবাই পশ্চিমবঙ্গের তাহলে ইংরেজিতে কি অন্য কোন কারণে পোস্ট করা হয় যেটি আমি জানি না? দয়া করে কেউ অন্যভাবে নিবেন না, হয়ত আপনারা বিশেষ কোন কারণে ইংরেজিতে পোস্ট করেন কিন্তু আমি জাস্ট একটু কৌতুহলী কারণ বাংলা উইকি নিয়ে কোন পোস্ট আসলেও সেটি এখানে ইংরেজিতে আসে। (অনেক ক্ষেত্রে আমরাও ইংরেজিতে করি যদি ব্যপারটি বাংলাভাষা না বুঝেন এমন কারও কাছে পৌঁছানোর প্রয়োজন হয় সেটি অবশ্য ভিন্ন কথা)
ধন্যবাদ।
Nahid Sultan
User:NahidSultan<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:NahidSultan> on all Wikimedia Foundation<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation>'s public wikis
Secretary, Wikimedia Bangladesh<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Bangladesh>
Twitter: @nahidunlimited<https://twitter.com/nahidunlimited>
http://blog.nahidsultan.xyz/
Hello Wikipedians,
The WLB team have been working on a project named *Wiki Loves Butterfly* (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Butterfly) for almost six
months now. Earlier also I posted on mailing lists and village pumps I'd
request your kind support and suggestions:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/
Atudu/Wiki_Loves_Butterfly
Thanks
Ananya
--
Regards,
Ananya Mondal M.Sc in Applied Nutrition,CDE,PGDSS
*Clinical Nutritionist*
*+91 9674344313*
Hi all,
Anyone from our community is interested?
Thanks,
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From: Karthik Nadar <karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in>
Date: Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 9:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2016 in India
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Wiki Loves Monuments India list <wlm-in(a)lists.wmnederland.nl>
Dear Community members,
Thanks to all who endorsed us. WLM team has received the grant of INR
1,35,000. Contests starts on 1st of September and ends on 30th September
with the entire activity expected to end on 30th November.
W
e are looking for volunteers who can organise Hertigate (photo) walk in
their respective city. Please sign up here:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_
Monuments_2016_in_India#Heritage_walk_team
or ping on of the core team member.
Do also sign-up on the mailing list to watch out for activities:
https://lists.wmnederland.nl/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in
Thanks!
Regards
,
Karthik Nadar.
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Karthik Nadar <karthikndr(a)wikimedia.in>
wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> We have requested for grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to support WLM
> 2016 in India. We request you to go through the same and help us by
> endorsing it https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki
> _Loves_Monuments_2016_India#Endorsements.
>
>
>
> Regards from Mumbai,
> Karthik Nadar.
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:27 AM, Abhinav Srivastava <
> abhinav.srivastava(a)wikimedia.in> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please subscribe to the mailing list here
>>
>> https://lists.wmnederland.nl/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> On 21 August 2016 at 12:13, Abhinav Srivastava <
>> abhinav.srivastava(a)wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Indian Community Members,
>>>
>>> We take immense pride in letting you know, Wiki Loves Monuments in India
>>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_Ind…> would
>>> once again happen in India after a span of 3 years. Earlier this year,
>>> Wikimedia India conducted Wiki Loves Green in India 2016 with over 32,000+
>>> images uploaded for the competition
>>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Earth_20…> by
>>> 6,000+ Contributors, a phenomenal response.
>>>
>>> Wiki Loves Monuments
>>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016> is
>>> a global photo competition that takes place generally in September.
>>> Wikimedia India would officially be organising this competition in India.
>>>
>>> The aim of the contest is to ask the general public—readers and users of
>>> Wikipedia, photographers, hobbyists, etc.—to take pictures of cultural
>>> heritage monuments and upload them to Wikimedia Commons for use on
>>> Wikipedia and its other sister projects.
>>>
>>> We request Indian community to help us make this event a grand success.
>>> Please sign up as volunteers here
>>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_Ind…>
>>> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monum
>>> ents_2016_in_India>
>>>
>>> We look forward to your ideas, suggestions and strategies.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> --
>>> Srivastava Abhinav
>>> Executive Committee Member|Wikimedia India
>>> Ph - +91-9711739003|Skype: abhinavsrivastava619
>>> Wiki Username - abhinav619
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Srivastava Abhinav
>> Executive Committee Member|Wikimedia India
>> Ph - +91-9711739003|Skype: abhinavsrivastava619
>> Wiki Username - abhinav619
>>
>>
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Refill is a tool that quickly allows to fill bare URL.
I find this tool very useful (this has bookmarklet and gadget option) I
talked to the tool creator, and they have started working to include
Bengali and a couple of other languages
Can you check it and do the needful translations?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Zhaofeng_Li#Refill_3
বন্ধুরা,
কিছু উপদেশ ও পরামর্শ,
মূলত পশ্চিমবঙ্গের উইকপিডিয়ানদের উদ্দেশ্যেই বলছি। এবার থেকে ব্যক্তিগত ইমেইল
ঠিকানাতেও মেইল দেওয়া বন্ধ করা হোক। এই প্রবণতাটা ঠিক নয়। ব্যক্তিগত ইমেইল
ঠিকানাতেও মেইল দেওয়া হচ্ছে এই ভেবে যে শুধু মেলিং লিস্টে মেইল করলে সবাই
মেইলটা নাও পেতে পারে। এটা একটা ভ্রান্ত ধারনা । মেইলিং লিস্টে মেইল দিলে সব
সদস্য পাবেন, যদি না তিনি তার মেইল বক্সে ব্লক বা অন্য কোনও সেটিং করে থাকেন,
আর কেউ না পেলে সেটা তার ব্যক্তিগত সমস্যা। মেইলিং লিস্টে মেইল দিলে দয়া করে
এই ভাবে সবাইকে CC তে রাখা থেকে বিরত থাকুন, এটি মেইলিং লিস্ট ভদ্রতারও বিঘ্ন
ঘটে। যদি আলাদা ভাবে দিতে চান, তবে আলাদা ভাবেই পাঠান, তখন দয়া করে এখানে
পাঠাবেন না।
দয়া করে নিন্মলিখিত লিঙ্ক থেকে মুক্ত-উৎসের ইমেইল লিস্টের ভদ্রতাগুলি জেনে
নিন, তাতে সবার সুবিধা হবে...
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ধন্যবাদান্তে
জয়ন্ত
2016-07-23 22:14 GMT+05:30 Bodhisattwa Mandal <bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com>:
> যথারীতি মাত্র তিন ঘণ্টার জন্য মিট আপের সময় নির্ধারিত হওয়ায় আমার পক্ষে ছয়
> ছয় বারো ঘণ্টা যাতায়াত করে মিট আপে অংশ গ্রহণ করা সম্ভব হল না। যাই হোক, আগাম
> শুভেচ্ছা সহ,
>
> বোধিসত্ত্ব
> On Jul 23, 2016 9:50 PM, "Kalyan Sarkar" <kalyan(a)wikimedia.in> wrote:
>
>> ইন্দ্রজিত দা,
>>
>> উল্লিখিত তিন জনকে এই ই-মেলে অন্তর্ভূক্ত করার জন্য অনেক অনেক ধন্যবাদ। যদি
>> আরও কেউ বাদ গিয়ে থাকেন তাদেরও যোগ করুন।
>>
>> ধন্যবাদ,
>> কল্যাণ সরকার
>> +৯১৯৮৩৬০৬৩৯২০
>>
>> 2016-07-23 21:05 GMT+05:30 Indrajit Das <indrajitdasin(a)gmail.com>:
>>
>>> আমি থাকছি সেই দিন। আর একটি কথা, আমি শেষ মিটিং এ প্রস্তাব রেখেছিলাম যে
>>> আগামি দিনের বাংলা উইকিপেডিয়া এর মিটিং গুলোতে দীপাঞ্জান, অরুপ এবং অমিতাভ দা
>>> কে অন্তর্ভুক্ত করার কথা এবং তাতে সবাই সম্মত হয়েছিল। তাই, এই মেইল এ তাদের কে
>>> অন্তর্ভুক্ত করলাম। তাছাড়া এর মাঝ আমাকে কোন প্রয়োজন হলে আমাকে আবশই জানাতে
>>> পারেন। তবে আগামি ১৩ই অগাস্ট এ সবার সাথে দেখা হছে।
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Thanks & Regards*
>>>
>>> *ইন্দ্রজিত দাস*
>>>
>>> *৯৮৩১৪২২৫৫৫
>>> <%E0%A7%AF%E0%A7%AE%E0%A7%A9%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AA%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%A8%E0%A7%AB%E0%A7%AB%E0%A7%AB>*
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Kalyan Sarkar <kalyan(a)wikimedia.in>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Wikimedians,
>>>>
>>>> We are going to hold the Kolkata Wikipedia Meetup 18 on 13 August 2016.
>>>> Please see the meetup page for details.
>>>> https://bn.wikipedia.org/s/7xb9
>>>> Kindly note that the venue is not yet finalized. The preferred venue is
>>>> Academy of Fine Arts. The alternative option is St. John's Church. In case
>>>> of St. John's Church the timing would be changed to 2-5 pm.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and regards,
>>>> Kalyan Sarkar
>>>> +919836063920
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
Dear friends,
We are happy to share the newsletter for July. This includes updates from the work we are associated with, and updates about the Rio Olympics edit-a-thon that is being organised by our friends from Wikimedia India.
Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typeface
Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way. The typeface family was designed by type designer Pooja Saxena (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anexasajoop) and went through several rounds of review by language experts. However, the typeface (https://github.com/anexasajoop/olchiki-fontfamily) is still one step away from reality. Because of this, two input methods (https://github.com/GuruGomke/ol-chiki) will be made available along with the typeface; Sarjom Baha (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector/Inp…) , a phonetic input method so that every common user can easily type the they pronounce the words, and InScript (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ol_Chiki_InScript_keyboard_layout.s…) , a keyboard layout standard for Indian scripts. Even though the original plan was to create a editor community to contribute to
the Santali Wikipedia (https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/sat/Main_Page) and bring it live from Incubator, outputs will just be distributed for the users to use them.
Update: The input methods (https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.ime/tree/master/rules/sat) are now up on all the Wikimedia projects as part of the Universal Language Selector (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Universal_Language_Selector) .
. . . Check the blog (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-july-8-2…) and the project page for more details of the Ol chiki project.
== Event announcements ==
Event announcements and press releases:
* Tools orientation session for Telugu Wikimedians of Hyderabad (http://cis-india.org/openness/events/tools-orientation-session-for-telugu-w…) (10 July 2016)
A tools orientation session is being organised on July 10 at Hyderabad during the regular monthly meetup. Telugu Wikimedians who would be interested to learn about advanced editing tools like citation templates and Twinkle are welcome to join.
== Ongoing events ==
* India At Rio Olympics 2016 edit-a-thon (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMIN/Events/India_At_Rio_Olympics_2016_Edit…) (July 29 - September 18). Organised by Wikimedia India and participated by Indic language Wikimedia communities.
18 language Wikipedia communities, including English, are expected to take part and 12 of these have coordinators to help their community to participate in the edit-a-thon.
== Programme reports ==
Outreach, education programme and community engagement programme reports:
* Subray, Ananth. "Edit-a-thon to improve Kannada-language science-related Wikipedia articles (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/edit-a-thon-to-improve-kannada-langu…) (14 July 2016)
We have been working with the Department of State Educational Research and Training of Karnataka (DSERT), a Government of Karnataka-run research and training institution headquartered in Bengaluru. With the hope of expanding the reach of Science-related content in Kannada Wikipedia, we organised an edit-a-thon spanning over three days from the 11th January through the 13th.
* Garule, Abhinav. "Training-the-trainer programme and Mediawiki training at Pune (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/training-the-trainer-programme-and-m…) (17 August 2016)
A two-day long train-the-trainer and Mediawiki training programme was organised during May 28-29 in Pune to better capacity of Wikimedians both technically, and outreach and community building. In this report, learn more about the experience of Santoshi Tiwari, a Wikimedian who travelled from the city of Nashik to participate in this event.
* Santhosh S., Pavan. Tools orientation for Telugu Wikimedians at Hyderabad (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog-old/tools-orientation-for-telugu-wikimed…) (31 July 2016)
To help Wikimedians learn about essential tools that are used across Wikimedia projects, a tools orientation session was organised on July 10 during the monthly meetup at Hyderabad. We have attempted to capture the experience and inputs of long time Telugu Wikimedians Rajashekhar and Murali Mohan in this report.
== Articles/blogs ==
Articles, opinion pieces, analysis pieces:
* K.T., Dhanalakshmi. "ತರಬೇತಿ ಮಾಡಲು ತರಬೇತಿಗೊಂಡಾಗ.... CIS-A2K TTT 2016 (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ca4cb0cacca4cbf-caecbeca1cb2cc1-ca4cb0cacca4…) ". CIS blog (12 June 2016)
Dhanalakshmi, a student from St Agnes College, Mangaluru, who was a participant of TTT 2016 has blogged her experience at Train-the-Trainer 2016 event organized by the Centre for Internet & Society earlier this year.
* Panigrahi, Subhashish. Open source effort gives indigenous language an official typeface (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/opensource.com-subhashish-panigrahi-july-8-2…) (8 July 2016)
Santali, an aboriginal South Asian language, has a brand new freely licensed font and set of cross-platform open source input tools on the way.
== Media coverage ==
Events and activities that we have organised or participated in:
* Prasad, Anant. "The Digital Oxygen for Odia Language (http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/my-city-links-july-4-2016-digital-oxygen-for-…) (4 July 2016)
If you want to receive news from this program, please sign-up here (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/Subscribe) .
This newsletter is also available on Meta-wiki at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/July_2016
Best!
Subhashish Panigrahi
Programme Officer, Access to Knowledge (CIS-A2K)
Centre for Internet and Society
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Dear Community
Please find below the Monthly report of WMIN for July 2016.
You can find this report on our Wikimedia India page here -
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/July_2016
*Membership*
*Membership drive completed for the year 2016 - 2017*
Membership drive for the year 2016-17 was successfully completed. Another
drive will happen in the WikiConference India scheduled on 5th-7th August
2016 for the attendees of the conference
*Events*
*India at Rio Olympics edit-a-thon 2016*
Wikimedia India is organizing an online edit-a-thon to celebrate the
success of Indian sportsmen at the Olympics
*Announcement for Commencement of India at Rio Olympics edit-a-thon 2016*
- Announcement for Commencement of India at Rio Olympics edit-a-thon
2016 <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMIN/Events/India_At_Rio_Olympics_2016_Edit…
>
- As a mark of respect and paying tribute to Indian athletes and
sportsperson who represent India at Olympics, Wikimedia India comes forward
with an edit-a-thon to celebrate the success of Indian sportsmen. These are
a list of articles Wikimedia India is planning to create/improve <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMIN/Events/India_At_Rio_Olympics_2016_Edit…
>
- A mix of patriotism & pride amongst the Wikipedians for India & its
team will ensure that the Indian athletes will get Wikipedia articles that
they really deserve.
- Wikimedia India has also reached out to the organizers of Wiki Loves
the Olympics <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_the_Olympics>
to ensure that good images clicked by the participants in the competition
are featured in the articles written in our edit-a-thon.
*Signing of MOUs for India at Rio Olympics edit-a-thon 2016*
- For Rio Olympics edit-a-thon 2016, 2 MoUs were signed with Niyogi
Books & Sankalp Taru for the awards. Please find more about them Here <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMIN/Events/India_At_Rio_Olympics_2016_Edit…
>
*Delhi Meetup-13*
- After being inactive for more than 2 years, WMIN has an aim to
reactivate the Delhi community & start having regular Delhi meetups.
- Such a meetup was planned on 30th July 2016. Find the event page
here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi13>
- Inspite of the heavy rains in Delhi, Wikipedians from the city were
able to meet & strategize for the future.
*Proposals by Wikimedia India at WikiConference India 2016*
- Wikimedia India submitted 3 proposals for Presenting in WikiConference
India
- Edit-a-thon : Rio Olympics 2016 <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Edit-…
>
- Wiki Loves Earth in India 2016 <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Wiki_…
>
- How Projects can unite & shape communities <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/How_P…
>
- Participation in other discussions & Presentations
- Panel Discussion - Organizational Dynamics in the Wikimedia
movement in India <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Organ…
>
- Presentation – Creative Program Design: create the programs you
need for your local community <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Submissions/Creat…
>
*Planning & arranging of meetings with Institutions & Media for Katherine
Maher in New Delhi*
Wikimedia India is Planning & arranging meetings with Government
bodies,Institutions & various Media outlets when she visits New Delhi after
attending WikiConference India 2016
Jointly planned along with CIS-A2K, Wikimedia India aims that the visit by
Katherine Maher to India,should give a much required boost to the various
organizational partnerships being planned by Wikimedia India.
*Featured Wikimedian of the month*
*Featured Wikimedian for July*
Raju Suthar is one of the most active Wikipedians on the Hindi Wikipedia.
He started editing in January 2015 & with help from senior Hindi
wikipedians, within 2 months he reached an edit count of 3,000.Currently he
has an edit count of 6,500+ with almost 750 articles created to his name.
The real story behind this truly inspiring Wikipedian lies in his humble
background. Rarely having any access to a laptop, almost all of his edits
have been done through a mobile phone ([
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_s5610-4191.php Samsung Galaxy S5610]).
Editing on his phone whenever he gets time,raju while sharing his
experience has confessed that editing through a mobile phone was very
difficult, due to which he regrets that the contributions which he has made
to Wikipedia is not enough and wants to do more for the community & his
language. With Hindi having one of the lowest Editors per million speakers,
Raju says that Hindi Wikipedia is not growing as fast as some of the other
Indic Languages, due to which his primary aim is to see that the community
grows to its full Potential. He likes writing articles on Topics related to
Cricket, his home state of Rajasthan & its history.
*WikiConference India 2016 (WCI 2016)*
- Registrations are open <http://wci2016.doattend.com/ ] for
WikiConference India 2016>
- Punjab Edit-a-thon : WikiConference India 2016-An edit-a-thon is being
conducted with an aim to create or improve articles related to Punjab. This
edit-a-thon is a part of WikiConference India 2016.This will be our gift
for the Chandigarh team which is hosting us for the conference. The
community that adds most number of words or bytes to the articles will be
awarded a trophy during the conference!
- Final list of Scholarship recipients finalized & published. Please
find the list Here <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Scholarships#Reci…
>
- Submission list finalized & applicants have been informed. Please find
the Program list Here <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Programs Here>
- Also the Programs team has finalized the Presenter Guidelines <[
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Presenter_guideli…>
, which has to be followed by all the presenters.
- The Code of Conduct and Friendly Space Policy for WikiConference India
ha been completed. This is the Final version <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Code_of_Conduct
>
- WCI 2016 Hackathon survey - In the upcoming Wikiconference India a
hackathon session will be conducted. The aim of the hackathon is to attempt
to provide technical support to Indic Wikimedia communities - Please find a
link to the survey Here <
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1EIgOuTjwzHqqR94m1GhDnbyKFkDG9HCXH-t17k8hZV…
>
- A WikiWomen's Lunch at WikiConference India 2016 will be organized on
August 6, 2016 at conference lunch hour (1 p.m. to 2 p.m.). Interested ppl
can sign up <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Meetups/WikiWomen…
>
*Other Activities & News in India*
*Wiki Loves Butterfly (WLB)*
Wiki Loves Butterfly (WLB) <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Butterfly> project- On 28th
July, the WLB team is going to start its second phase of pictorial
documentation (Field work) of the available seasonal species and variety of
butterflies along with their behavioral pattern in Jayanti, Alipurduar,
North Bengal.India. Currently, the team is developing articles(in Bengali
Language) about the butterflies found in the first phase. There are total
25 articles in Bengali developed in 3 months time where three of the users
are new. Total number of images contributed in commons is 377 till date.
*Wiki Loves Ratha Jatra*
This year, a few Wikimedians from Puri are documenting the process of
building the ratha (chariot) making . They are also uploading every phase
of the building process on Wikimedia Common. Many of the images have been
already uploaded and a lot more are going to uploaded in the due course of
time. All this is uploaded on the Category:Wiki Loves Ratha Jatra <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Ratha_Jatra>
You can see the pictures in the project category : <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Ratha_Jatra>
*Indian Women in Science Editathon*
Indian Women in Science Editathon <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Indian_Women_in_Science_Edit-a-thon>
was
conducted on 16 July 2016 in CES, IISc, Bangalore
*17th Kolkata Wikipedia Meetup*
17th Kolkata Wikipedia Meetup <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata17> was
organized on 9 July,2016 at Academy of Fine Arts 2, Cathedral Rd, Maidan,
Kolkata
*O**pen call for Project Grant proposals*
- Project Grants will replace Individual Engagement Grants (IEG) and
Project & Event Grants (PEG).
- This is the new [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project
Project Grants Page]
- Please feel free to get in touch with Alex Wang(awang(a)wikimedia.org)
or Marti Johnson (mjohnson(a)wikimedia.org) with questions about getting
started with your project.
*In the Media*
- Wikipedia’s redesigned app recommends content to read on the go <
http://www.androidauthority.com/wikipedia-redesigned-app-706426/> July
29, 2016
- Wikipedias-seven-worst-moments <
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/07/05/wikipedias-seven-worst-moments/ >
July 05, 2016
- Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap <
https://psmag.com/closing-wikipedias-gender-gap-1f02b247beba#.oxh2w7niu>
July 28, 2016
- Wikipedia content translation tool<
http://www.mathrubhumi.com/technology/web/wikipedia-content-translation-too…>
July 28, 2016
- Increasing visibility of Indian women in science <
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/increasing-visibility-of-in…>
July 12, 2016
- Spotlight-on-women-scientists <
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/spotlight-on-women-scientists…
Spotlight-on-women-scientists> July 17, 2016
Regards
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India
yohannvt(a)wikimedia.in <yohannvt(a)gmail.com>
পূর্বে আলোচ্য *উইকি লাভস বাটারফ্লাই*(WLB) প্রক্লপের সূত্র ধরে আমরা WLB
সদস্যগন আনন্দের সহিত জানাচ্ছি যে বিগত কয়েক মাসে দুটি পর্যায়ে প্রজাপতির
উপর কাজের সাড়া পেয়েছি এবং পরবর্তী ৬ মাসের শেষ দুটি পর্যায়ে আরো ভালো কাজ
করার জন্য প্রতিজ্ঞাবদ্ধ।
এই প্রকল্পটি উইকিপিডিয়ার সমস্ত ভাষা সম্পাদনা বিভাগ, কমনস এবং বিশেষতঃ
উইকিস্পিসিস-এর সাথে সম্পূর্নরূপে সম্পর্কিত। এই প্রকল্পটির মূল লক্ষ্য
পশ্চিমবঙ্গে প্রাপ্ত বিভিন্ন প্রজাপতি প্রজাতি, তাদের জীবন চক্র, বাসস্থান,
অভ্যাস ইত্যাদি বিষয়ে পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খ আলোকচিত্রন ( উইকিপিডিয়া কমনসের ফ্রি
লাইসেন্সের নিয়ম অনুসারে) ও তথ্য সংগ্রহের মাধ্যমে তথ্য ভান্ডারকে আরো সমৃদ্ধ
করা এবং পশ্চিমবঙ্গে প্রাপ্ত বিভিন্ন প্রজাতির প্রজাপতির বিষয়ে আরো বেশী
সংখ্যায় ও উন্নতমানের লেখালেখির দ্বারা বাংলা উইকিপিডিয়াকে সমৃদ্ধ করে তোলা।
উইকি লাভস বাটারফ্লাই একটি Out-reach প্রকল্প যার অপর লক্ষ্য হল পশ্চিমবঙ্গে
যে সকল ব্যাক্তি অথবা গোষ্ঠী বিভিন্ন প্রজাতির প্রজাপতির বিষয়ে তথ্য এবং
চিত্র নিয়ে কাজ করছেন অথবা এই বিষয়ে আগ্রহী রয়েছেন, তাদের সকলকে
উইকিপিডিয়ার বৃহত্তর পরিবারে সামিল করে তাদের সক্রিয় অংশগ্রহনের মাধ্যমে
উইকিপিডিয়ার জ্ঞান-দিগন্ত প্রসারিত করা।
স্পিসিসের উপর কাজ নিয়ে এই প্রকল্পটির
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_loves_Butterfly> বিষয়ে আপনাদের সকলের
সহযোগিতা এবং গুরুত্বপূর্ণ মতামত আমাদের প্রয়োজন। তাই নিঃসংকোচে এবং স্বচ্ছ
মনে আপনাদের মতামত অলোচনা পাতায় অন্তর্ভুক্ত করার জন্য আহ্বান জানানো হচ্ছে।
এছাড়াও আমাদের প্রাপ্ত প্রজাপতি এবং অন্যান্য প্রজাতিগুলির উপর যে নিবন্ধ
রচনা এবং মানবৃদ্ধি করতে উদ্যোগী হওয়ার এবং তদূর বাংলা উইকিকে আরো সমৃদ্ধ
করার আহ্বান জানাচ্ছি।
In connection with the previously discussed *Wiki Loves Butterfly*(WLB)
project, we the members of WLB most cordially informs that during last some
months in the two phases of activities on butterflies we have got nice
response and we are dedicated to do better and more effectively in the
subsequently two phases.
This project meta:Wiki loves Butterflyis
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_loves_Butterfly> solely related to
all the languages editors, commons and specially Wiki species. The main
objectives of this project is to photograph in details regarding the life
cycle, habitats and behavioural activities of different species of
butterfly found in West Bengal as well as to enrich the fund of
documentation of Wikimedia with the help of collected documentations. More
over, the project aims at enriching Bengali Wikipedia by better and large
number of articles regarding those butterfly species. WLB is an outreach
project the other objective of which is to assimilate all the people and
communities who are working with documentation and photographs and research
on butterflies available in West Bengal, in the bigger family of Wiki and
to extends and enhance the horizon of knowledge of Wikipedia by their
active participation.
We invite all your active co-operation and sincere opinion regarding this
work based on species. So please do incorporate your opinion in discussion
page. Moreover we request those who are interested to create and develop
articles on the butterfly and other species found and documented in our
project to come ahead and join hands in enriching Bengali and other
language Wikipedia with larger documentation. Thank you. ----Ananya Mondal
--
Regards,
Ananya Mondal M.Sc in Applied Nutrition,CDE,PGDSS
*Clinical Nutritionist*
*+91 9674344313*
