WikimediaIndia-l December 2018

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Sir, I have been banned from wikimedia, for using multiple id names for editing.
by Holalkere Laxmivenkatesh 22 Mar '21

22 Mar '21

Sir, I have been editing in wikipedia and uploading pics on wikimedia. and use them for my articles. I'm an editor for kannada language wikipedia.(Radhatanaya) I'm an editor for english mediam wikipedia. (Ragakuvara) I have contributed more than 900+ articles for kannada. For english nearly 10-12 articles. all approved. This information I have given in my page. Why I have been banned. Please try to help me. I'm very hardworking and faithful person. I have not done any adverse work. I was a technical offier (Retired in 2004) in a reknowned Research organisation for cotton ! Please help me so that I can upload photos and fix them for the articles I write both in kannada & English Regards, -Holalkere rangarao laxmivenkatesh Mumbai-400084 M : 9004356819 M : 9867606819

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Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

Hi, WMIN chapter president Rahul Deshmukh attended Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town without being selected for any type of scholarship. My question is why was he sent to the conference depriving other community members from India who were in the waiting list. He spoke in the informal chairpersons' meetup for few minutes. The meeting doesn't require president of the organization's presence, and already there were 2 EC member of WMIN present, who could have attended the meeting. To me, this is utter misuse of power and abuse of donation money. Thanks, Bodhisattwa

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Hindi Wikisource
by Yann Forget 13 Mar '19

13 Mar '19

Hi, Help needed here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_committee#Hindi_Wikisource Best regards, Yann Forget

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Indic Wikisource Stats
by Jay prakash 04 Jan '19

04 Jan '19

Hello, A new tool has been created for displaying and maintaining Indic-language Wikisource statistics. The statistics page contains page the stats of Page namespace, Main namespace and their subcategories like not proofread, proofread, validated, with the scan, without the scan and et. You may sort the table, distinguishably see the row on mouse hover or export it in Wikitable format. Please see the tool here: https://tools.wmflabs.org/indic-wsstats/, To follow its development you can subscribe the T212517.[1] This tool was requested at the Wikisource India Community Consultation. Feedback and suggestion are welcome. Thanks [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212517 User:Jayprakash12345 Indic-TechCom

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Featured Wikimedian [January 2019]
by Sanket Oswal 02 Jan '19

02 Jan '19

Fagu Baskey <https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%B5%E1%B1%B7%E1%B1%9…> is a Wikimedian who edits on Santhali Wikipedia. Fagu is a school teacher in a village school near Baripada in the Mayurbhaj district in the state of Odisha. He is one of the few editors who worked on the incubator to make Santhali Wikipedia live. He got to know about Wikipedia from his friend User: R Ashwani Banjan Murmu and has since then been contributing to the free-knowledge movement. Rarely having any access to a laptop, Fagu used to edit on his mobile device until he received a laptop under Project Tiger. Fagu's major edits are on Santali literature and he endeavours to document much of Santhali heritage. Fagu believes by contributing to Wikipedia he is serving the mission of increasing awareness for his language over the internet. Fagu's major contribution has been towards Wikipedia however he wishes to work on other projects like Wikimedia Commons, however limited Internet bandwidth in his village has been restricting him. If you know any Wikimedian whom you think should be featured, please feel free to nominate or contact Abhinav Srivastav - abhinav.srivastava(a)wikimedia.in. Thanks, Sanket

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Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Wikimedia Hackathon 2019: Registration Open!
by Kaartic Sivaraam 25 Dec '18

25 Dec '18

Hi all, Interested peoplecould register for the Wikimedia hackathon as the registration are now open. Refer to the post below for details. -- Sivaraam -------- Original Message -------- From: "Nick Wilson (Quiddity)" <nwilson(a)wikimedia.org> Sent: 20 December 2018 02:48:18 GMT+05:30 Please tell your local technical communities about this, so that interested people can register. Thanks. :-) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Rachel Farrand <rfarrand(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 1:32 PM On behalf of Wikimedia Czech Republic and the Wikimedia Foundation Community Relations team we are please to announce that registration for the Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2019/Register_and_Attend > is now open for both scholarships and regular attendees! The hackathon will be held at the Czech National Library of Technology <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q630893> in Prague, CZ between 17-19 May 2019. We have identified three focus areas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2019/Program> for the event which we will continue to refine and clarify over the next months. We welcome your suggestions and collaboration on additional focus areas or larger projects and as usual welcome participants who plan to work on or learn about any project that they like related to any area of Wikimedia Technology. If you have any questions or comments please contact: * hackathon(a)wikimedia.cz Otherwise, please continue to follow our program and organizational developments on Wikimedia Hackathon 2019 on Mediawiki <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2019>. Please help us by forwarding this email to relevant lists! -- Sivaraam Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Looking for Android users at your wiki
by Kaartic Sivaraam 25 Dec '18

25 Dec '18

Hi all, If you would like to improve the Wikipedia mobile app editing, you could sign up for a survey being conducted by the Wikimedia Foundation to improve the editing experience of the Wikipedia mobile app. The link for the sign-up form follows: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUj-8iCJf63OXEhMrtQCXfVksC8QF4sou… For more info about the project see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Android_editing_features -- Sivaraam -------- Original Message -------- From: "Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder" <ssnyder(a)wikimedia.org> Sent: 22 December 2018 01:52:24 GMT+05:30 To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Looking for Android users at your wiki Hey folks, We need your help. (I mean, really, I don’t think this will work without you.) As you know, our readers mainly read the wikis on mobile phones, but our editing tools are focused on desktop and keyboards. This will be a problem for us in the long run: Wikipedia became a big thing because everyone who read it could add information. If this is not true in the future, we’ll have a harder time getting new editors. In the long run, effective mobile editing is about our survival. The Wikipedia Android app is going to try a couple of things to see if we can get more people to start doing small tasks – adding or translating short title descriptions. I have two things to ask: 1) If you have an Android phone and can install the app, would you be willing to test this yourself? We need to hear both from users who are used to editing on mobile and desktop and from users who usually edit only on desktop, so you don’t worry if you haven’t edited on mobile before. Sign up here to help out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUj-8iCJf63OXEhMrtQCXfVksC8QF4sou… 2) Could you spread the word and the sign-up link in your local community? It would be most appreciated. If you have questions, then I think that posting them on the talk page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Android_editing_features will be the best way to reach the team. THANK YOU! -- Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing) Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation -- Sivaraam Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Event Notes - Project Tiger Training 2018 - Wikipedia
by Shrinivasan T 24 Dec '18

24 Dec '18

We had great training at amritsar. My event notes are here https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2018/12/24/event-notes-project-tiger-trainin… -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com

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Fwd: [FSFTN] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Looking for Android users at your wiki
by Shrinivasan T 24 Dec '18

24 Dec '18

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kaartic Sivaraam <kaarticsivaraam91196(a)gmail.com> Date: ஞாயி., 23 டிச., 2018, பிற்பகல் 9:42 Subject: [FSFTN] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Looking for Android users at your wiki To: FSFTN Mailing List <mailinglist(a)fsftn.org> Hi all, If anyone who has edited Wikipedia is interested in participating in a survey to help with improving the Wikipedia mobile app editing experience, please sign up using the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUj-8iCJf63OXEhMrtQCXfVksC8QF4sou… For more details about the project, see https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Android_editing_features For some context you could also read the below post. Thanks, Sivaraam -------- Original Message -------- From: "Whatamidoing (WMF)/Sherry Snyder" <ssnyder(a)wikimedia.org> Sent: 22 December 2018 01:52:24 GMT+05:30 To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects < wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Looking for Android users at your wiki Hey folks, We need your help. (I mean, really, I don’t think this will work without you.) As you know, our readers mainly read the wikis on mobile phones, but our editing tools are focused on desktop and keyboards. This will be a problem for us in the long run: Wikipedia became a big thing because everyone who read it could add information. If this is not true in the future, we’ll have a harder time getting new editors. In the long run, effective mobile editing is about our survival. The Wikipedia Android app is going to try a couple of things to see if we can get more people to start doing small tasks – adding or translating short title descriptions. I have two things to ask: 1) If you have an Android phone and can install the app, would you be willing to test this yourself? We need to hear both from users who are used to editing on mobile and desktop and from users who usually edit only on desktop, so you don’t worry if you haven’t edited on mobile before. Sign up here to help out: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScUj-8iCJf63OXEhMrtQCXfVksC8QF4sou… 2) Could you spread the word and the sign-up link in your local community? It would be most appreciated. If you have questions, then I think that posting them on the talk page at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Android_editing_features will be the best way to reach the team. THANK YOU! -- Sherry Snyder (WhatamIdoing) Community Liaison, Wikimedia Foundation -- Sivaraam Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ FSFTN mailing list Website : https://fsftn.org/ Discuss : https://discuss.fsftn.org/ Blog : https://fsftn.org/blog Contact : https://fsftn.org/blog/contact/ -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer : http://FreeTamilEbooks.com

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User Group rapid grant report accepted
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

Hi, FYI, the rapid grant report of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group for the annual activity of 2017-18 has been accepted. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/WBG/Annual_Plan_2017-1… Regards, Bodhisattwa

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