Dear Wikimedians,
I wish to inform you about CIS-A2K’s new project “Train-a-Wikipedian” (TAW)
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian
You may know of the English Wikipedia program Adopt-a-user
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user>. We wanted to start
something similar for the Indian Wikimedia communities.
In February and June this year, CIS-A2K conducted Train the Trainer
<http://cis-a2k/Events/Train%20the%20Trainer%20Program> (TTT) and MediaWiki
Train the Trainer
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki_Train_the_Trainer_…>
(MWTTT). After conducting these two events, and communicating with the
participants we found the necessity to start a training program that we’ll
be running on regular basis, and from there we conceived this
“Train-a-Wikipedian” program.
Initially, we will be concentrating on these 5 Indian languages Wikis: 1)
Kannada, 2) Konkani, 3) Marathi, 4) Odia, 5) Telugu. But, we may expand
soon, if our program is a success.
In our TAW main page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian>, we have
listed a number of topics those we will be discussing during our training.
We hope to conduct hangout or webinar sessions.
Please provide your feedback and suggestion.
Tanveer Hasan A.K
User:Lahariyaniyathi
Regards,
English Wikipedia has 5 million articles! Yippee!
5,000,354 at this moment :)
Kudos to the community of English Wikipedia editors for this major landmark.
"Imagine if the sum of human knowledge were available to all mankind." :)
See the amended logo... (under fair use)
https://goo.gl/photos/2eBL7hTQzjqJDDK1A
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Warm regards,
Ashwin Baindur
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From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 9:14 PM
Subject: Khalid Mahmood is gone
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear friends,
Our colleague User:Khalid Mahmood, the most prolific contributor to the
Western Punjabi Wikipedia[1], has died earlier this month, after long
illness.
Khalid was an educator from Pakistan who was passionate about creating and
sharing free knowledge. He had great plans for promoting the mission in
Pakistan. He has made more than 67 thousand edits across the projects. He
attended Wikimania 2012 and 2014, where some of us met him.
If you wish to leave condolences or share memories of Khalid, I suggest his
talk page on Meta:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Khalid_Mahmood#Condolences_and_re…
Yours,
Asaf
[1] Western Punjabi [used in Pakistan] and Eastern Punjabi [used in India]
are practically the same language, but Western is written in the
Perso-Arabic Shahmukhi script, whereas Eastern is written in the Gurmukhi
script.)
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Asaf Bartov
Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org