WikimediaIndia-l January 2016

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Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon starts on 25 January - in 3 days
by Tito Dutta 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Hello, The planned Geographical Indications in India Edit-a-thon is going to start on 25 January, and it will continue till 31 January. The goal of this edit-a-thon is to create and improve Geographical Indications articles. Thanks to everyone who have shown interest in this initiative. If you have not signed up still, but want to join, *please sign up now*. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Geographical_Indications_in_… Please feel free to share this message with any other Wikipedian who may be interested in this activity. Thank you.

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Konkani Wikipedia
by Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक न ोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

http://englishnews.thegoan.net/story.php?id=9499 -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ Frederick Noronha http://about.me/noronhafrederick http://goa1556.in _/ P +91-832-2409490 M 9822122436 Twitter @fn Fcbk:fredericknoronha _/ Hear Goa,1556 shared audio content at https://archive.org/details/goa1556 _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for New Project - Wikilore (Shrinivasan T)
by Satdeep Gill 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

That is a pretty nice idea Shrinivasan. Making a WikiProject Folklore will show that amount if data that can go on Wikilore. Regards Satdeep Gill > On 18-Jan-2016, at 5:30 PM, wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote: > > Re: Proposal for New Project - Wikilore (Shrinivasan T)

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Steward Elections 2016 - Call for participation
by Jyothis E 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

All, It is again the time of year to elect and confirm Stewards that serves the Wikimedia community across the world. Please participate in every aspect of the process, including translation, voting and candidacy. If you are not familiar and would like to know what a Steward is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards If you wish to keep track of the elections https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2016 If you wish to apply for the position, please start by reading the guidelines and checking your eligibility. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards/Elections_2016/Guidelines For those who are eligible and is active in the wider Wikimedia communities and processes, we strongly urge to consider applying. For 2016 Steward Election Committee, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net [[User:Jyothis]] <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis> Camerocks - Rock your digital world! <https://www.camerocks.com/> completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings

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Proposal for New Project - Wikilore
by Satdeep Gill 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

Hello Everyone, I have proposed a new Wikimedia project on Meta. I hope you guys can take a look and give your views. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilore Regards Satdeep Gill

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Invitation to 15th anniversary Event of Wikipedia @Hyd on Sunday 17 Jan at 10:30 am
by Srikar Kashyap 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kaśyap కశ్యప్ <kasyap.p(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:51 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Invitation to 15th anniversary Event of Wikipedia @Hyd on Sunday 17 Jan at 10:30 am To: "wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org" < wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Telugu Wiki mailing list < wikite-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, తెలుఁగు వికీ గుంపు < teluguwiki(a)googlegroups.com>, telugublog <telugublog(a)googlegroups.com> Hello, Today marks the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia, the world’s free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. This week, editors and readers around the world celebrate free knowledge and the joy it has sparked over the past 15 years. We cordially invite Wikipedian and Wikimedia enthusiasts to join with us as It’s Wikipedia’s 15th birthday. we are celebrating at 10:30 am to 12:30 noon on this Sunday 17 th Jan 2016 at Theater Outreach Unit, 1st Floor Golden Threshold, Nampally Station Rd, Abids, Hyderabad, Telangana 500001 This year we’re celebrating 15 years of free and open knowledge—learning, discovery, and joy for people on every continent - Please visit event page for more info ,and confirm your Participation at : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_15/Events/Hyderabad#Hyderabad Today, we celebrate not only Wikipedia, but all of the projects, partnerships, events, and joy it has spurred over the past 15 years, with many still to come. Please call me 9396533666 for any info -- మీ శ్రేయోభిలాషి కశ్యప్ 9396533666 kaburlu.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list Wikimedia-in-hyd(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd

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Fwd: [Wikipedia Library] Help us keep #1lib1ref energized through January 23!
by Shyamal Lakshminarayanan 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

FYI - also Happy birthday WP! best wishes Shyamal en:User:Shyamal http://muscicapa.blogspot.com ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:20 AM Subject: [Wikipedia Library] Help us keep #1lib1ref energized through January 23! To: Wikimedia & Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi Wikimedians! The Wikipedia Library is really excited about the #1lib1ref campaign taking off -- we seem to have found a concept that will excite the global libraries community to talk more with us, about our common mission: helping the world get access to reliable knowledge. Please explore the hashtag on Twitter and other social media: we have several dozen websites, library organizations, and individuals blog and reflect on their experience. For example: https://twitter.com/search?q=%231Lib1Ref . I have included a preview of some of our tracking below for a sense of our scale. Please use the campaign to promote the exciting GLAM, research, and Wikimedia community projects you think librarians would be interested in. We still need your help: - Keep sharing and emphasizing the hashtag #1lib1ref. Try to pair your posts with #Wikipedia15 when you can. - Help translate the main page of the campaign into more languages: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref - Note: We use some of the headers and sentences in this page, to generate multilingual social media posts. - The campaign technically starts on Friday, but we need to continuously remind the global libraries community that they a) can start adding references now, and b) should continue adding references all next week. Oh, and its not just librarians who are adding references for the campaign -- that's just our target audience :) - Publish blogposts talking about Wikmedia’s opportunities with libraries. Here are a small sample blog posts that might help inspire your work: - From our Italian Colleagues : http://librarianscape.com/2016/01/09/wikipedia-un-posto-per-bibliotecari/ - From DLF: https://www.diglib.org/archives/11060/ - From our Catalan colleagues: http://blogcrai.ub.edu/2016/01/13/el-crai-de-la-universitat-de-barcelona-sa… - Reach out to the librarians using the hashtag: some of them are even hosting lunch gatherings, or small editing events that engage library staffs. These librarians are potential leaders for local events and GLAM-Wiki activities. If successful, we hope to run a similar campaign next year, with more direction and leadership from a volunteer committee (this year we decided to move quick, and test the concept alongside #Wikipedia15 ). If you are interested in helping organize, let us know at wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org . Give feedback on the campaign and resources that would be helpful for next years campaign on the talk page on meta : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref Thank you so much for those who have already stepped up to lead on social media and translating the meta page! Alex Stinson Project Manager The Wikipedia Library What impact are we seeing? We are tracking several different elements of this campaign: - Usage of the hashtag in social media -- over 600 tweets have used the hashtag since January 4. We are also tracking the hashtag on facebook and linkedin -- both of which are major networks for librarians. - Our facebook event is beginning to spread - https://www.facebook.com/events/975178119187954/ -- please invite more people from your library networks - Page views - we are seeing between 400-600 pageviews, with nearly 7000 views in the last month on the English Version of the campaign page, and Italian, French and Spanish are seeing 40-60 views a day. Moreover, Catalans page, which is on ca.wikipedia, has seen over 2000 visits in the last month: http://stats.grok.se/ca/latest/Viquiprojecte:Bibliowikis/1Lib1Ref - We are beginning to see hashtag used on English Wikipedia’s edit summaries http://tools.wmflabs.org/hashtags/search/1lib1ref . Based on other social media discussions, we think this represents <60% of the activity so far. - We are working with Stephen LaPorte to help the tool support top 20 language Wikipedias, and Wikipedias like Romanian where we know community members are sharing the campaign. Let us know if you don’t think your language will be in that group. - A new phabricator item has been -- it would be incredibly useful for other kinds of campaigns: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T123529 . Please leave feedback and use cases. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-Library mailing list Wikipedia-Library(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-library

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CIS-A2K December 2016 newsletter
by Tito Dutta 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hello, Centre for Internet and Society’s Access To Knowledge (CIS-A2K) program would like to share with you the newsletter below for the month of December 2015. We look forward to hear any feedback or input you might have. As per the 2007 census of India, there are about 7.4 million speakers who speak Konkani as a native language. Many might not know though the language finally made a late entry on Wikipedia in 2014 with the release of the Goan Konkani Wikipedia (https://gom.wikipedia.org). Since the beginning of the project as an Incubator project, it has faced several issues; complications because of the multiple scripts used to write Konkani, building a community from scratch ( http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post-konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian… to contribute to the Wikipedia project, and finding encyclopedic resources to grow content. The Konkani community that contributes on Wikipedia is predominantly present in Goa with a few contributors living elsewhere. The statistical analysis of the last six months shows several trends of the project and community growth. There is an overall state of both the content and community seem to be stable with a total of 124 editors and 2400 articles. However, the growth trends are little worrying as there is hardly any new editors that has joined the community in last six months. The active editors (with more than 5 edits a month) have also slowed down over time with a few them becoming inactive as the average of the number of active editors for the previous six months (January-June 2015) was 18 that has come down alarming to 5. Same is the case of very active editors (with more than 100 edits a month) and number of new articles being created every month. These downtrends are more of a result of the on-wiki, online and offline activities slowing down. There is a great need for more leadership and community-led activities that could be catalyzed by organizational support. . . . Read more on the CIS website: http://cis-india.org/openness/konkani-wikipedia-progress-from-july-to-decem… == Resources created == • Indic Wikipedia policies and guidelines handbook: Currently CIS-A2K is working with five Indian-language Wikimedia communities (Kannada, Konkani, Marathi, Odia and Telugu). While working with the mentioned Indic Wikimedia communities, we observed a number of issues affecting them and we also noticed that there are many similarities between the issues and difficulties faced by these communities. So, we decided to start working a help document "Indic Wikipedia Policies and Guidelines Handbook". At first, we created a short handbook discussing a number of topics, such as how to create new policies, or modify the existing ones, using village pump, enforcing policies etc. Then we talked to Indic Wikipedians to know more about the policies and guidelines-related issues and problems they are facing. We also asked to give their feedback on the first draft of this handbook. The handbook is now released now and may be seen here ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indic_Wikipedia_Policies_and_Guidel…). == Event organized/participated == • Talk on bringing 1000 books about the culture of Maharashtra on Marathi Wikipedia ( http://cis-india.org/openness/discussion-on-bringing-peshwa-culture-on-mara…): Maharashtra Granthottejak Sanstha, a Pune based non-profit that was founded in Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade and colleagues in 1894, has recently announced to digitise their 1000 volumes of books centred around Peshwa culture. A discussion about digitising these books and making them available online on Marathi Wikisource was organised on 1 December at the Energy Resources Institute (TERI), Bengaluru. Avinash Chaphekar, Joint Secretary of MGS addressed this talk. • Sau Dhuni Teen Project: December Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Women's Studies Centre, University of Pune ( http://editors.cis-india.org/a2k/events/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edi…): A Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organized on 3 December at the Women's Studies Centre, University of Pune, as a part of the Sau Dhuni Teen project ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K_/Projects/Sau_Dhuni_Teen) where this group of Wiki-women contributed to conceptualize Wikipedia as a knowledge resource. They not just edited Wikipedia articles but used Wikipedia as a platform to generate Indian language annotations of academic texts in women's studies and social sciences. More in this report ( http://cis-india.org/openness/sau-dhuni-teen-project-december-edit-a-thon). • Indian language Wikipedias in the classroom: Wikipedia workshop at SVERI, Pandharpur ( http://cis-india.org/openness/indian-language-wikipedias-in-the-classroom-w…): On 15 and 16 December a Wikipedia workshop was conducted at SVERI, Pandharpur, Maharashtra. The aim of this workshop was to nurture these skills in faculty and students of the institution: a) Creating encyclopaedic content in Indian languages, b) Encyclopaedic content writing skills, c) Digital information literacy skills, d) Ability to critically engage with a concept/theme etc. • Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/2015/Global_Congress_on_Inte…): The event was organized during 15-17 December in New Delhi. 11 Indic-language Wikipedians—including two representatives from the Wikimedia India (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India); Sanket Oswal ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sankoswal) and Nikhil Kawale ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Nikhil.kawale)—participated in this event. Rahmanuddin Shaik and Subhashish Panigrahi from CIS-A2K team attended this conference and coordinated several discussions on copyright and intellectual property (IP) in the context of Wikipedia. The participating Wikimedians, over the three days engaged with each other and the coordinators and discussed about the kind of copyright and IP-related problems they are facing in their home communities. • English and Telugu Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Hyderabad: a collaborative Telugu and English Wikipedia edit-a-thon is being organised in Hyderabad on 20 December ( http://editors.cis-india.org/openness/english-and-telugu-wikipedia-edit-a-t…): A collaborative Telugu and English Wikipedia edit-a-thon was organised in Hyderabad on 20 December. The event was aimed at translating many English Wikipedia articles related to Telugu language and culture to Telugu and vice versa. • Odia Wikipedia Workshop in Puri: ( http://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-workshop-to-be-organised-in-pu…) An Odia Wikipedia workshop was organised in Puri on 20 December. The workshop aimed at helping the participants learn about creating and improving the Odia Wikipedia articles about the local places, people, and culture of the historical town Puri and the district. === Train-a-Wikipedian === Train-a-Wikipedian ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Train-a-Wikipedian, TAW) is new program designed by CIS-A2K to train and empower Indic-language Wikipedians. In this program we will cover everything related to Wikipedia editing such as: • Wikipedia editing (beginner's and advanced) • Wikipedia policies and guidelines, • Using tools, scripts, gadgets etc. Any experienced Indic Wikipedian is welcome to join this training program. It is recommended to discuss with a community before applying for this program. == Blog posts == • Hasan, Tanveer, Guru-G Learning Labs and CIS A2K Institutional Partnership ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/guru-g-learning-labs-and-cis-a2k-institution…), 3 December 2015 • Panigrahi, Subhashish, Open access in the Marathi language expands by a thousand books ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/wikimedia-blog-subhashish-panigrahi-december…), 3 December 2015 • Hasan, Tanveer, Community Prioritisation of Content Donation: Kannada Wikisource ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/community-prioritisation-content-donation-ka…), 5 December 2015 • Hasan, Tanveer, Analysis of Institutional Partnerships: University of Mysore and Guru G Learning Labs ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/analysis-of-institutional-partnerships-unive…), 5 December 2015 • Hasan, Tanveer, Touch Point Report: Department of Tourism Studies, Christ University and St. Aloysius College, Managalore ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/department-of-tourism-studies-christ-univers…), 5 December 2015 • Hasan, Tanveer, TTT 2015 (http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/ttt-2015), 5 December 2015 • Pavanaja, U. B., Kannada Wikipedia Editathon at Mangaluru ( http://cis-india.org/openness/kannada-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-in-st-agnes-col…), 15 December 2015 • Patnaik, Sailesh, Odia Wikipedia workshop in Puri, Odisha sparks creation of informal Wikipedia group WikiTungi ( http://cis-india.org/openness/odia-wikipedia-takes-puri), 30 December 2015 == Media coverage == • Kannada Wikipedia Editathon: Udayavani Coverage ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-udayavani-coverage), Udayavani, 7 December 2011; • Kannada Wikipedia Editathon Coverage in Prajavani ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-prajavani-mangal), Prajavani, 10 December 2015 • Kannada Wikipedia Editathon: Prajavani ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-prajavani-mangal), Prajavani, 11 December 2015 • Kannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijayavani Coverage ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijayavani), Vijayavani, 11 December 2015 Kannada Wikipedia Editathon: Vijaya Karnataka ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-vijaya-karnataka), Vijaya Karnataka, 11 December 2015 • Kannada Wikipedia Editathon in Mangalore: Udayavani ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-mangalore-uday…), Udayavani, 11 December 2015 • Post More Articles on Kannada Wikipedia ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/post-more-articles-on-kannada-wikipedia), Indian Express (Mangalore edition), 12 December 2015 • Kannada Wikipedia Editathon in Prajavani ( http://cis-india.org/a2k/news/kannada-wikipedia-editathon-in-prajavani), Prajavani, 13 December 2015 This newsletter is also available on Meta at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/December_2015

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WMIN, on behalf of Global Tamil Wikimedia Community, signs an MoU with Tamil Virtual Academy
by Ravishankar Ayyakkannu 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hi, On 09th January 2016, WMIN, on behalf of Global Tamil Wikimedia Community, signed an MoU with Tamil Virtual Academy, Chennai. We will collaborate with or seek support from Tamil Virtual Academy under various domains including and starting with the following: - Policy initiatives for adoption of free content licenses in public institutions - Infrastructure support - Capacity building programs - Digitization of Galleries, Archives, Museums, Libraries in Tamil Nadu - Access to information for writing Wikipedia articles - Wikipedia content improvement - Outreach - Wikipedia in Education Global Tamil Wikimedia Community approved this collaboration with unananimous support. Full text of this MoU <https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/4o7x> can be seen here. *Tamil Virtual Academy* (TVA) is a high-profile <http://tamilvu.org/tvateam/html/board_membersen.htm> autonomous institution established by the Government of Tamil Nadu under its Information Technology Department. TVA aims at providing Internet-based resources and opportunities for the Tamil communities living in different parts of the globe as well as others interested in learning Tamil, Science, Technology, Tamil Computing software and acquiring knowledge of the history, art, literature and culture of the Tamils and to identify, establish, maintain and promote the solutions for the Tamil computing requirements of Tamil Diaspora, Government, Educational, Media and Business institution. We believe that collaborations like these will help us set the precedent to engage in free content advocacy works in other parts of the country. Thanks, Ravi

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2000+ books nationalized by The Government of Tamil Nadu released in Public domain
by Ravishankar Ayyakkannu 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

Hi, The Government of Tamil Nadu has declared all books that have been nationalized so far and all books that will be nationalized in future will be released under CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication license <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>, when their copyright has not already expired according to Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and Indian Copyright Rules, 1958. Nationalization of books written by eminent people who have worked for the development of Tamil language and society is a pioneering scheme by Tamil Nadu Government where copyright is acquired following due procedure and the books are declared nationalized for public usage. The Government of Tamil Nadu first acquired rights for the works of Poet Subramania Bharathi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subramania_Bharati> in 1949 and announced his works as nationalized in 1963. Since then it has nationalized 2000+ works written by 100+ authors. In order to make these books fully available for public usage globally, it is essential that these books are available under a free content license. An official letter announcing this can be seen at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil-Nadu-Nationalized-Books-Publi… This announcement was made possible owing to the collaboration between Tamil Virtual Academy, Global Tamil Wikimedia Community and Wikimedia India. Thanks, Ravi

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