Hello Everyone!
In Punjab, India, we have recently formed collaboration with 6 government
GLAM institutes including 3 museums, 2 libraries and 1 archive, with
numerous meetings and communications with officials that went around for
nearly a year. They agreed to collaborate with us for Content donation and
agreed for us to document and digitize their books, artwork, and archives.
This is a big breakthrough for us in India especially Punjab, where
convincing government to form partnerships with open source projects is
rather tough to crack. We hope that this experience of government
collaboration can also bring fruitful learnings to other communities. We
will be facing several challenges for digitization due to lack of resources
in our community. Hope our endeavors can be supported for us to make this
beautiful project happen.
Please check out the project grant we are proposing and leave us inputs and
any suggestions. We welcome all ideas and suggestions and hope to learn
more from all of your experiences. Since this is our first time putting a
project grant, we apologize in case something seems out of order. We are
also happy to answer anything that doesn't seem clear on discussion page.
We from our end tried to keep it as detailed as possible to make our
project more explanatory. Please support us if you feel our efforts are
worthy enough.
We hope to do capacity development and document Heritage via our project
Wiki Loves Heritage - focused on rare documents, archive and books that
have clear historical and cultural importance but have no online presence.
Thank you in advance for providing us opportunity to make impact. We hope
to grow from emerging community into one of the strong community in the
coming time. Here is the link to our grant:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikilover90/Heritage_GLAM
Please endorse it to help us get support and infrastructure we need to make
an impact.
Best Regards,
Wikilover90
Hi everyone,
The community wishlist survey is on-
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019
I have submitted a proposal regarding *Tool for easy science editing using
a linked dictionary. *
During WWWW, a lot of editors were having issues with finding appropriate
medical terms in their native language as it is difficult and
time-consuming. Also, the different terms are used in different languages
for one subject matter, which leads to confusion. So, in order to
facilitate the editors to create content and also to standardize the
terminology being used, it will be better if we have some linked system of
providing translated names (for the desired language) for the standard
medical terms (in English)in a single command. I have proposed to run the
pilot on one language and depending upon the outcome, it may later be
provided to other languages.
*The link to the proposal is- *
*https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Editing/Tool_for_easy_science_editing_using_linked_dictionary
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Editing/Tool…>*
If you feel the need is genuine and the tool might prove assistive in
uncomplicated content writing, please support the proposal.
Regards,
Manavpreet Kaur
Dear all,
I am happy to announce that the applications for "TWL Con (2019 India)"[1],
a mini-conference around The Wikipedia Library (TWL)[2] and library
outreach for Wikimedia projects in India are now open. Due to limited time,
we're not able to spare much time for responses, kindly accept
my apologies. The application period is 19–25 November 2018.
In brief about the event:
TWL helps active editors access reliable sources to improve Wikipedia.
Among several other programs, it also helps knowledge professionals share
their collections with the public. TWLCon (2019 India) is an upcoming
conference to increase awareness about TWL to Wikimedians in India and
discuss strategising TWL activities in India. This event has been primarily
designed to understand the needs and document the insights from experienced
Wikimedians about libraries/sources (references) in India. More about the
event may be referred from the event page.
The application form is at: https://goo.gl/forms/NvwYttEeCFfl30rG3; last
date 25 November 2018.
The event is to be held in the first or second weeks of Jan 2019
(tentative); Venue will be informed later.
The eligibility guidelines are applicable as mentioned here [3].
Kindly let me know if you have further questions.
Thanks
User:Manavpreet Kaur
[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TWLC19IN
[2]:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/TWLCon_(2019_India)#Eligibility_and_guideli…
[3]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library
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