WikimediaIndia-l November 2016

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1194, Issue 1
by satdeepgill＠gmail.com 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Hi, I also thought that we should organize Wikimania in India but after organizing WCI i see that Indian community is not yet ready to even organize an annual WCI. It took one year to organize WCI 2016 and the work has not finished yet 3 months after the conference. It will take another 2 months to finish everything as far as i see. So, No Wikimania until we are prepared enough to organize an annual conference. Regards Satdeep Gill On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 5:30 PM +0530, <wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: Send Wikimediaindia-l mailing list submissions to wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org You can reach the person managing the list at wikimediaindia-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Wikimediaindia-l digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1193, Issue 1 (Bodhisattwa Mandal) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 21:03:17 +0530 From: Bodhisattwa Mandal To: wikimediaindia-l Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1193, Issue 1 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 23:17:56 +0530 > From: Srikant Kedia > To: Wikimedia Chapter Membership , Wikimedia > India Community list > Cc: Ellie Young > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Should we organise Wikimania 2018/2019 in > India? > Message-ID: > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello, > > Since last 6 years we were planning to organise Wikimania in India. But we > dropped it because of raw experience to organise such a big conference. > > But in the last 6 years, we have organised 3 conferences i.e. in 2011 at > Mumbai, 2015 at Kolkata & 2016 at Mohali. If we all communities and > chapters collaborate then we can plan to organise an International > conference at India in 2018/2019. > > Waiting for your opinion and suggestions. > > Regards > Shreekant Kedia > Odisha1 >

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Signing out with my official hat!
by Subhashish Panigrahi 11 Nov '16

11 Nov '16

Friends, TL; DR After almost five years of professional engagement with the South Asian language Wikimedia communities, I have decided to step down from my current role. And I will remain a Wikipedian friend of yours who you can reach out in volunteer capacity on my talk page. —— I was about to complete my first wiki-versary when I joined the Wikimedia Foundation’s India Program as a Consultant for Community and Program Support. The program ran until August of 2012 and then got housed at the Centre for Internet Society’s Access to Knowledge program (CIS-A2K) [0]. Thanks to Sunil, Pranesh, Nirmita, Nishant and many others at the CIS family who embraced my team from India Program with great amount of trust. CIS became more like a family for me all these years. It will always remain my other home and alma mater - calling CIS a former employer will be quite an understatement. I feel I grew as a person along with the organization that is today a noted name for its research in openness, accessibility, privacy, IP reform, access to knowledge, and digital humanity. Over these years I have had the most memorable time in my personal and professional life. I have traveled a lot in the country and across the world, met many friends in the Wikimedia and the open knowledge community, and had the privilege of working on many important projects both locally and globally. The South Asian language Wikimedia communities that I have worked with have not just been patient and understanding, but have been my mentor in many ways. I thank you all wholeheartedly for being such great friends and guides. And I hope that I have added some value to your community, project and the larger Wikimedia movement. This was an incredible journey and I feel really honored to see as many as three new Wikimedia projects taking birth where I had a chance to contribute. Many of you have shared your stories in an interview series WikipediansSpeak [1] that I started during my time at CIS, and I felt so touched and connected to many people that spoke languages that I never even understood. I want to thank many Wikimedians both from the Indian and the global Wikimedia community that participated in @WeAreWikipedia [2], a rotation curation project on Twitter that I started as a voluntary project. The good news is @WeAreWikipedia has always been and will be a volunteer-led project even after I leave my professional role at CIS. In the last few days of my work at CIS, my biggest worry was if I will be able to give much time to wrap up Project Ol Chiki [3], a project to create typeface family and input tools for the Ol Chiki script (used to write the Santali language) that I was leading. I would like to personally thank to colleagues T.Vishnuvardhan (former Programme Director of CIS-A2K) for his guidance, Pooja Saxena for designing the typeface and several other peripherals, Prof. Damayanti Besra and other friends of the Santali-language community who have reviewed the typeface, and Wikimedians Jnanaranjan Sahu and Nasim Ali who have created the input tools. A few years of my childhood was spent in a place where 30% of people spoke this aboriginal language Santali, and I cannot share how nostalgic it felt when the opportunity came to lead this project. Once again, thanks you all the friends in the Wikimedia community, and the larger openness movement for your kind support over all these years. In the long road, this was a great milestone but there are many more to come. I hope to continue working with you in my volunteer capacity, and/or may be in my new role. Where I am heading next? Some of you might know this already. I am super excited that the next milestone is going to be another open source community as I am joining Mozilla’s Participation team as South Asia Community Catalyzer [4]. I am super excited for it. And I will keep seeing you all amazing people on the Wikimedia projects like before. Do feel free to get in touch with me in my talk page at User:Psubhashish, or over email at psubhashish (at) gmail (dot) com, or at @subhapa on both Twitter and Telegram. 0. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediansSpeak <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> 2. https://twitter.com/wearewikipedia <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> 3. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project_Ol_chiki <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> 4. https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/t/introducing-our-new-south-asia-co… <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> Love, Subhashish Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @subhapa / https://cis-india.org <https://psubhashish-dot-yamm-track.appspot.com/Redirect?ukey=1PJvbCaYjAlErR…> [image: beacon]

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1193, Issue 1
by Soni 10 Nov '16

10 Nov '16

As someone who has seen firsthand how much effort went into WikiConference India 2016, I will ask any communities planning for a Wikimania bid to first conduct a WikiConference India first. There is a massive effort required for conducting even a WCI size event, and the core organisers faced plenty of problems even then. And we always face shortage of organisers. So if we are even considering making an expression of interest from India, please start preparing for WCI 2017 immediately; as well as start looking for a minimum number of organisers for both events. Other than that, I don't see any other problems with a Wikimania interest bid for now. Regards, Soni On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 5:30 PM, < wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org> wrote: > Send Wikimediaindia-l mailing list submissions to > wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > wikimediaindia-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > wikimediaindia-l-owner(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Wikimediaindia-l digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Should we organise Wikimania 2018/2019 in India? (Srikant Kedia) > 2. Re: Should we organise Wikimania 2018/2019 in India? (Tito Dutta) > 3. Re: Should we organise Wikimania 2018/2019 in India? > (Nageswara Rao Gullapalli) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 23:17:56 +0530 > From: Srikant Kedia <wikiodisha1(a)gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia Chapter Membership <membership(a)wikimedia.in>, Wikimedia > India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: Ellie Young <eyoung(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Should we organise Wikimania 2018/2019 in > India? > Message-ID: > <CALj4hmaZuAXzdagZ8HOknahg1sVWwU19-CtNvOuhFVWa2MArow@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello, > > Since last 6 years we were planning to organise Wikimania in India. But we > dropped it because of raw experience to organise such a big conference. > > But in the last 6 years, we have organised 3 conferences i.e. in 2011 at > Mumbai, 2015 at Kolkata & 2016 at Mohali. If we all communities and > chapters collaborate then we can plan to organise an International > conference at India in 2018/2019. > > Waiting for your opinion and suggestions. > > Regards > Shreekant Kedia > Odisha1 >

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1193, Issue 1
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2016 23:17:56 +0530 > From: Srikant Kedia <wikiodisha1(a)gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia Chapter Membership <membership(a)wikimedia.in>, Wikimedia > India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > Cc: Ellie Young <eyoung(a)wikimedia.org> > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Should we organise Wikimania 2018/2019 in > India? > Message-ID: > <CALj4hmaZuAXzdagZ8HOknahg1sVWwU19-CtNvOuhFVWa2MArow@mail. > gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello, > > Since last 6 years we were planning to organise Wikimania in India. But we > dropped it because of raw experience to organise such a big conference. > > But in the last 6 years, we have organised 3 conferences i.e. in 2011 at > Mumbai, 2015 at Kolkata & 2016 at Mohali. If we all communities and > chapters collaborate then we can plan to organise an International > conference at India in 2018/2019. > > Waiting for your opinion and suggestions. > > Regards > Shreekant Kedia > Odisha1 >

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Should we organise Wikimania 2018/2019 in India?
by Srikant Kedia 09 Nov '16

09 Nov '16

Hello, Since last 6 years we were planning to organise Wikimania in India. But we dropped it because of raw experience to organise such a big conference. But in the last 6 years, we have organised 3 conferences i.e. in 2011 at Mumbai, 2015 at Kolkata & 2016 at Mohali. If we all communities and chapters collaborate then we can plan to organise an International conference at India in 2018/2019. Waiting for your opinion and suggestions. Regards Shreekant Kedia Odisha1

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 Community Wishlist Survey
by Asaf Bartov 07 Nov '16

07 Nov '16

Dear colleagues, Please see the invitation to take the Community (Tech) Wishlist Survey below. It is one of the most practical ways to influence what (a small part of) WMF Engineering is working on. See the latest status report on last year's wishlist, to see how concrete outcomes resulted from it: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2015_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Status_repor… Cheers, A. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 10:50 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] 2016 Community Wishlist Survey To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi everyone, The second annual Community Wishlist Survey starts today, and you're invited to post proposals for projects that you'd like WMF's Community Tech team to work on: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2016_Community_Wishlist_Survey The Community Tech team builds features and makes changes that active Wikimedia contributors want, and the Wishlist Survey sets the team's agenda for the year. The Wishlist Survey starts with a two-week proposal period, when contributors from all Wikimedia projects are invited to post, discuss and improve propsals. After that, there's a two-week voting period, when everyone can post support-votes on the proposals that they think are worthwhile. We end up with a ranked list of wishes, measured by the participants' enthusiasm for each idea. Community Tech is responsible for addressing the top 10 wishes on the list, as well as some top wishes from smaller groups and projects that are doing important work, but don't have the numbers to get their proposal into the top 10. The Wishlist is also used by volunteer developers and other teams, who want to find projects to work on that the community really wants. So I hope that everybody comes and participates; it's an opportunity to set the agenda for a Wikimedia Foundation product team. We would also ask that you help us spread the word. Please do post on your wikis and tell others this is happening, and that if they don't feel comfortable writing in English, proposals are welcome in any language. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Featured Wikimedian of the Month - November 2016
by Yohann Thomas 06 Nov '16

06 Nov '16

Dear Community In the Month of October, we were upgrading our server & testing our website, due to which we were unable to announce Featured Wikimedian for October. But, now that our website is fully updated & we have upgraded our server, it gives me great pleasure to announce that Dr.Vishwanatha Badikana is our Featured Wikimedian of the Month. *Dr.Vishwanatha Badikana** is a Kannada Professor at the Prestigious **St. Aloysius College** in Mangalore.He started editing Kannada Wikipedia in Septmeber,2014 & Tulu in January,2015 as part of Wikipedia Education Programme run in his Institute. He was part of a small team of editors who worked & finally brought Tulu Wikipedia out of incubator recently. * *Dr Vishwanatha mainly write articles on folklore & has written close to 100+ articles in Tulu Wikipedia. He currently working on a unique project where he is writing articles on all the Alphabets of Tulu. Since Tulu is spoken over a small region of across Karnataka & Kerala,he believes that these articles will be useful for students to learn & speak Tulu which will lead to growth of the language.* You can find the full excerpt on the home page of WMIN (http://wiki. wikimedia.in/Home). If you know any Wikimedian whom you think should be featured , please feel free to nominate them here <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations>. Or if you want to mail us ,please contact me- yohannvt(a)wikimedia.in Regards, Yohann Thomas

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Winners - Wiki Loves Monuments India - 2016
by Karthik Nadar 06 Nov '16

06 Nov '16

Dear all, Greetings from Wiki Loves Monuments India team. We are glad to announce winners for the 2016 edition. Please find the details here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_Ind… [Winners haven’t been informed so far; expecting to be completed soon. Winner for maximum uploader is yet to be announced (in process of selecting a winner based on the defined criteria)]. We hope to complete the entire process by November end and submit report to the community and to the foundation. To summarise, we received 37,000+ images images in this edition from 1784 participants. 1500+ participants contributed to the movement for the first time during the contest. From the 37,000+ images we received, 1300 images are already been used in Wikipedia and it sister projects. For us; we mean the community, the contest doesn’t ends here, there are plenty of unused ASI monument images <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Wiki_Loves_Monume…> which is now available to utilise them across the movement. The WLM India core team which comprised of Abhinav Srivastava, Kiran Ravikumar, Naveen Francis, Sanket Oswal, Santosh Shringare and Yohann Thomas including me, would like to thank the *jury members*, *the volunteers* & *the participants* who made this successful. Not to forget, *Wikimedia Foundation* for funding, *Wikimedia India Chapter* for joining hands and *WLM International team* for the support received throughout. Regards, Karthik On behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments India core team

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Indic Wikisource Update November 2016
by Jayanta Nath 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Hello all, We've just published the November 2016 Indic Wikisource statistics. After implementing Google OCR script to our all Indic Wikisource , they are growing rapidly. Here is the few stats ans their top three rank... As per Number of article 1. Sanskrit Wikisource ( 15445 pages) - supported by 0.05% scan pages. 2. Telugu Wikisource ( 11707 pages) - supported by 24.3% scan pages. 3. Kannada Wikisource ( 7864 pages) - supported by 0.99% scan pages. As per Number of page Validation 1. Telugu Wikisource ( 18142 pages) 2. Tamil Wikisource ( 5167 pages) 3. Gujarati Wikisource ( 3729 pages) As per Number of page Proofread 1. Telugu Wikisource ( 20213 pages) 2. Malayalam Wikisource ( 8065 pages) 3. Tamil Wikisource ( 7737 pages) As per percentage supported by scan pages. 1. Bengali Wikisource (25.90%) 2. Telugu Wikisource ( 24.30%) 3. Gujarati Wikisource (17.51%) I want to specially mention that there are no visible improvement at Marathi and Assamese Wikisource. For Sanskrit and Kannada Wikisource, they need to exploring their work of proofreaded text towards scan page support. Full Indic Wikisource stats here https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Indic_Wikisource_Stats Regards, Jayanta Nath Indic Wikisource Community

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