Hi everyone,
The Wikimedia Foundation, in partnership with Google and the Centre for
Internet and Society, is launching a pilot project to address local online
knowledge content gaps in India. The project is designed to engage and
support active Wikipedia volunteers to produce valuable new content in
local Indian languages. The pilot will run from November 2017 to May 2018
and will collaborate with Wikimedia India chapter, Wikimedia user groups,
and may involve up to ten Indian language Wikimedia communities based on
their interest and participation.
The overall goal of the project is to increase the number, depth, and
relevance of Wikipedia articles in Indian languages. We will evaluate
success along these dimensions and will share results with the Wikimedia
community after the pilot’s completion.
You can learn more about the pilot here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Progr…>
.
All the best,
Partnerships & Global Reach Team, Wikimedia Foundation
The Center for Internet and Society
Wikimedia India &
Indian language Wikipedia communities and User Groups
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Dear all,
A SAARC meetup was organized during Wikimedia Diversity Conference on 3
November, 2017. Eight people attended the meetup and discussed about
increasing diversity in SAARC context.
During the meetup, all participants agreed to the need for creating and
enforcing friendly space policies in Indic language Wikimedia projects. One
of the suggestions was to create a diversity mailing list and a Safety team
for SAARC countries. Discussion notes from the meetup can be found on
etherpad here
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/SAARC_Meetup_at_Wikimedia_Diversity_Confer…>.
Wikimedia Diversity Conference
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference_2017> was a
3-day event for furthering Wikimedia’s strategic mission of increasing
diversity in our movement. Documentation notes from the diversity
conference can be found here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Diversity_Conference_2017/Documen…>.
Regards
Netha
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Netha Hussain
Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology
University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Forwarding with permission from the original poster.
Rohini Lakshané
about.me/rohini
[image: Rohini Lakshané on about.me]
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1. Removal of Adminstrative powers of User:Mahitgar (Tiven Gonsalves)
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From: Tiven Gonsalves <gonsalvestiven22(a)gmail.com>
To: wikimedia-mr(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikimedia-MR] Removal of Adminstrative powers of
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Fellow Wikimedians,
This is regarding the recent activity notice on Marathi Wikipedia. An
Administrator (User:Mahitgar) has been removed out from Administrators
powers by Wikimedia Stewards' for *misusing administrative powers.*
The link for the discussion of the same can be found at <
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stewards%27_noticeboard#
Emergency_help_from_Steward
>
The whole of community should take note of this recent changes of rights.
Thanking you,
Tiven Gonsalves
(User:Tiven2240)
Hello,
This might be interesting and helpful.
The link mentioned in the email, please read it:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey
Thanks, -- [[User:Titodutta]]
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From: Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 7 November 2017 at 01:12
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] 2017 Community Wishlist Survey starts today!
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia
developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone,
The third 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 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.
I hope to see everyone there!
Danny Horn
WMF Community Tech
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Dear Wikimedians!
Greetings from CIS-A2K!
Please find below details of our August and September newsletters:
August was a busy month with events across our Marathi and Kannada Focus
Language Areas.
* Workshop on Wikimedia Projects at Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College, Satara
* Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal
* Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at MGM Trust's College of Journalism and
Mass Communication, Aurangabad
* Orientation Program at Kannada University, Hampi
Please read our meta newsletter here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/August_2017
September consisted of Marathi language workshop as well as an online
policy discussion on Telugu Wikipedia.
* Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at Solapur University
* Discussion on Creation of Social Media Guidelines & Strategy for
Telugu Wikimedia
Please read our meta newsletter here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/September_2017
--
Manasa Rao
Program Officer(Communications)
The Centre for Internet and Society
Twitter: @manasarao
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