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.
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)
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
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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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 <
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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
--
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FYI - also Happy birthday WP!
best wishes
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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/
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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.
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https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-library
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
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
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
