Dear Wikipedians,
We are planning to hold a Wiki Sprint at Studio X,Fort, Mumbai on theme
(Hindustani Music and Performing Spaces in Mumbai) partnered with CILHE,
TISS, Mumbai on 19th June 2015 and there is opportunity to attend musical
event after Wiki Sprint.
We are looking for 4-5 Wikipedians preferably from Pune or Mumbai.
Interested Wikipedians please contact me.
Thanks and Regards,
Abhinav Garule
+91 9404 9636 60
Hi Hasive,
On behalf of Wikimedia community from India, my best wishes for the
Bangladesh Wikimedia community.
We look forward to more interaction between both the communities in the
coming months.
Thanks,
Ravi
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Hasive Chowdhury <nhasive(a)wikimedia.org.bd>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> We're happy to share another good news from Bengali Wikipedia Community.
> You already know that Bengali Wikipedia has reached It's 10 year journey.
> We celebrate a program on last February 10 and Jimmy Wales joined with us
> as Chief Guest.
> After that recently (May 30) we again successfully complete 'Bengali
> Wikipedia 10th year Founding Anniversary Conference' by Wikimedia
> Bangladesh. We are happy to run this anniversary program around the
> country. We conduct several series Wikipedia workshop/seminar seven
> division in our country. After that we arrange day long program in Dhaka.
> 300+ registered Wikipedian from different part of country attend this
> conference. Few Wikipedians from Kolkata (India) also join with us to
> celebrate Bengali Wikipedia 10th year anniversary.
>
> In our final event we arrange day long event including Workshop,
> Seminar, Special workshop for women, discussion about outreach program,
> coloration discussion with Wikipedian from Kolkata etc. Our conference
> inaugurated by honorable state minister of ICT Division of Govt. Republic
> of Bangladesh Mr. Zunaid Ahmed Palak [1]. We give 10 best Wikipedian award
> and best three photographer who attend our Wikimedia Commons photo contest.
> All award handover by popular award winner writer and journalist Anisul
> Hoque [2].
>
> All program photo available this link:
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:10th_Anniversary_of_Bengali_Wik…
>
> Cheers!
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zunaid_Ahmed_Palak
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anisul_Hoque
>
>
> Hasive
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Hello one and all
Please find below the report from WMIN on the activities and learnings at
Wikimedia Conference 2015 held in Berlin.
Report on WMIN activities and learnings at Wikimedia Conference 2015
Yohann Varun Thomas and Ravishankar Ayyakkannu participated in the Wikimedia
Conference 2015 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2015>
on behalf of Wikimedia India. Jayanta Nath could not participate as he had
health issues at the last moment.
This is a joint report by Yohann and Ravi made regarding activities and
learnings at the conference.
Meeting with Wikimedians from Nepal and Bangladesh
[image: wikimedia-saarc meeting.jpg]
Wikimedians from Nepal User group and Bangladesh Chapter participated.
It was agreed to form a a regional collaboration named Wikimedia SAARC
including Nepal, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and other SAARC countries.
This will follow a similar model like Wikimedia CEE
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Central_and_Eastern_Europe>
(Central and Eastern Europe), Wikimedia Indaba
<http://wikiindaba.net/index.php?title=Main_Page> (African countries
collaboration) and Wikimedia Iberocoop
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Iberocoop:Portada> .
Running a small article writing contest in July 2015 aiming to improve the
quality of quantity of most important articles about each country was
agreed upon as the first flagship program under this collaboration.
Following were the meetings attended by WMIN during the conference
- Monthly Meeting with WMF
- Quarterly Meeting with CIS-A2K
<https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.in/document/d/14HjPabUSuD9mHPLw5t9bhO5y…>
Wiki Loves Food campaign
[image: wlf-wall-poster-1.jpg]
The international community was receptive to the theme of Wiki Loves Food.
This shows potential for expanding this as an international program in the
coming years. WMF ED Lila Tretikov mentioned Wiki Loves Food in her speech
as a possible extension of photo contest themes. There was a candy exchange
table which we used to promote wikilovesfood.org
Learnings from the conference
-
Logic models
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Evaluation/Logic_models> for
Program design and evaluation.
-
Global metrics
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_%26_Evaluation/Global_metri…>
-
Wiki metrics <https://metrics.wmflabs.org/>
-
Survey design
-
Board governance
-
Communications best practices
-
Reporting & Storytelling
Implementation of Best Practises within WMIN
-
Undertaking a Survey using the Qualtrics tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Learning_patterns/Qualtrics_survey_t…>
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Usage of Global Metrics and other such tools for reporting
-
Usage of Program Toolkits for Projects
-
Taking Forward the Wikimedia SAARC collaboration and concentrating on
Online Activities
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Usage of Icons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:PE%26D_Infographic_Icon_set>
to improve our storytelling
-
Preparation of Board Handbook for new Board Members
-
Usage of Organizational effectiveness Tool
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Organizational_effectiveness/Tool>
-
Creating Postcards of Best Pictures from WLF (Open to discussion)
-
Usage of Best practises for Communications as put here
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_room>
Other benefits
Wikimedia India representatives took an active part in all discussions and
social gatherings giving clear visibility and establishing the presence of
a strong chapter from India. This is important in the context that everyone
was curious to understand the presence of two organizations (i.e., CIS-A2K)
in India and how they work together.
Networking and rapport building with other chapter members, CIS-A2K and WMF
staff will help in the longer run.
Yohann Thomas
yohannvt(a)gmail.com