Hi all,
On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, I am happy to announce
that Dr. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, Ex-Vice chancellor of Assam University,
has kindly released copyright of 5 of his books under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
The books are uploaded to Commons and are now in the hands of Bengali and
English Wikisourcers for further work. Kudos to Dr. Tanmay Bir and Jayanta
Nath for their effort to release, scan and upload the content.
Thanks,
--
Bodhisattwa
Hi,
For last few weeks, Google OCR using Drive API has stopped working for few
Indic scripts like Bengali and Devanagari affecting Bengali, Sanskrit and
Assamese Wikisource. It's still working for other Indic scripts, I guess.
If anyone have any contact with Google, we need to know if this temporary
or any plan for major change is underway.
This is extremely important as this will drastically sooner or later affect
every Indic Wikisource projects and we have to plan accordingly.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Hello,
It is just a thought as a Wikipedian and in my volunteer capacity. As
Stephen Hawking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking) died, I was
thinking can we make sure:
a) the news is updated in all Indic language Wikipedias?
b) if there is something called "In the news", "Recent deaths" on your
Wikipedia Main page, perhaps the community may consider if the news should
be on? En Wikipedia is already showing it on Main page's In the News. Of
course a community would decide onit.
Please forward the message if you want.
Thanks
Tito Dutta
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me over email or phone call.
Hello everyone,
We are currently looking for volunteers to help us expand our literature
survey for our project titled "Community toolkit for greater diversity".
Through this project we aim to design and develop a community toolkit for
diversity and inclusion. More details here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Grants:Project/Chinmayisk/Community_toolkit_for_Greater_Diversity
Please contact us off this list if you are interested.
-- The project team
Rohini Lakshané
about.me/rohini
[image: Rohini Lakshané on about.me]
<http://about.me/rohini>
Hi,
As part of the Project Tiger Community Review Team, we are glad to announce
the list of laptop recipients.
* 50 Wikimedians will receive laptops. 45 among them have 1000+ edits.
* They belong to 16 different Indian language Wikipedia communities.
* 11 among them are females (22% of recipients).
All applicants with 100+ global edits and at least one endorsement were
considered eligible to be reviewed. The selection principle was to look at
Activity (edits) followed by Trust (endorsements) and decide based on one's
Need for the support. This meant that people who had no (contributing from
a mobile) or only limited access (contributing from office) to a system
were given priority over others who needed an additional/better laptop for
various needs.
A basic model Chromebook will be given as one-time support. The recipients
can keep them forever without returning it to CIS-A2K or fellow community
members. This support is offered assuming good faith in order to empower
each recipient's contribution to the best of their ability. We encourage
fellow community members to welcome them as usual.
Each recipient will be contacted through their talk pages and contact email
address given on the application form. We plan to disperse the laptops
before the end of March 2018. Please contact tito at cis-india.org or
tanveer at cis-india.org if you need clarification or leave a message in
the talk page.
More details and full list of recipients are available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Progr…
Thanks,
Dhaval S. Vyas
Manavpreet Kaur
Yohann Thomas
Sharing this with India community
Thanks
Tito Dutta
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me over email or phone call.
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From: Katy Love <klove(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: 12 March 2018 at 23:38
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Travel & Participation Support program closing
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi there, Wikimedians,
I am writing to let you know that the WMF Community Resources team is
closing one of our smaller funding programs, Travel and Participation
Support (TPS) [1]. *TPS will no longer accept applications as of May 1,
2018.*
Some background: TPS was created in 2011 as a movement outreach program. It
reimburses travel expenses for Wikimedian volunteers who present about
Wikimedia at non-Wikimedia events. Its closure comes as a consequence of
the grants restructure following our 2015 Reimagining Grants consultation.
[2] As we have redesigned our grant programs to better meet the needs of
our stakeholders, we are no longer resourced to support TPS as a separate
program.
*We will continue to* *support travel requests as part of our other grant
programs*, as follows:
*Rapid Grants* will now fund travel requests for non-Wikimedia events from
individuals for up to $2,000 USD, prioritizing applications that include
all of the following:
* Wikimedian presenters who have a special area of expertise in relation to
their target audience (for example, a psychology professor who is sharing
about Wikimedia projects at an academic conference for other psychology
professionals)
* outreach activity with a training component and a plan for online
follow-up providing ongoing mentorship and support (editing training,
editathon, etc.)
* regional travel requests under $2,000 USD
*Rapid Grants* will continue to fund travel expenses for local Wikimedia
events. Learn more here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid
*Conference and Events Grants* will continue to support travel scholarships
for Wikimedia events. Note that this funding is awarded to conference
organizers who then manage requirements for participants. Requests for more
than $10,000 USD are required to start the application process 6 months
before the date of the proposed event. Learn more here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference
*Wikimania Scholarships* will continue to support travel scholarships for
Wikimania. Learn more here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/
wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars
You can contact me directly if you have any questions.
Warmly,
Katy Love
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Implementation>
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Hi,
At the end of Week 1 (20:15, 7 March 2018 (UTC), Malayalam, Tamil, and
Punjabi lead the Project Tiger Writing Contest.
20 users have created 46 articles.
More stats here - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_
Language_Wikipedias_Program/Contest/Stats
Ravi
Hello one & all
As part of the Project Tiger Community Review Team, we are glad to announce
the list of internet stipend recipients.
* 44 Wikimedians will receive internet stipends. All applicants with 100+
global edits and at least one endorsement were selected to receive the
internet stipend.
* They belong to 15 different Indian language Wikipedia communities.
* 12 among them are females (27% of recipients).
The internet stipend will cover the cost of internet access for the
recipients for a six month period. This will include the cost of monthly
internet access, any deposit for a new connection, and the purchase of any
required equipment like dongle or modem. The stipend will support the cost
of internet access which works best for each recipient be it broadband or
mobile based connection. This support is offered assuming good faith in
order to empower each recipient's contribution to the best of their
ability. We encourage fellow community members to welcome them as usual.
Each recipient will be contacted through their talk pages and contact email
address given on the application form. We plan to disperse this support
before the end of March 2018. Please contact tito at cis-india.org or
tanveer at cis-india.org ,if you need clarification or leave a message on
the talk page.
The review team hopes to publish the list of laptop recipients before the
end of this week.
More details and full list of recipients are available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_
Language_Wikipedias_Program/Support/Internet
Thanks,
Yohann Thomas
Manavpreet Kaur
Dhaval S. Vyas
Hi everyone,
I am happy to introduce you to the Featured Wikimedian for March 2018, Nithesh
Gill
<https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A4%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%82…>
from the Punjabi Wikimedia community.
*Nitesh Gill* is a young and energetic Punjabi Wikipedian from Moga,
Punjab, and is studying Punjabi literature from University of Delhi. Her
Wikimedia journey started in August 2015, when fellow Wikimedian Satdeep
Gill introduced her to Wikipedia and taught her how to edit.
One of her main focus on Punjabi Wikipedia is the Gender Gap. In her
attempts to bridge the gap, she has been a trainer to BBC 100 Women
Edit-a-Thon and also collaborated with "Feminism in India". She has also
organized many outreach activities & edit-a-thons like Sanjh, Asian Month,
Womens History Month, LGBT Edit-a-thon etc.
Nitesh's another major achievement has been the #WikiYear challenge, which
she completed successfully on 28th February 2018, wherein she has created a
Wikipedia article everyday, continuously for 365 days. The most interesting
part of the story comes to say that all the articles that have been created
are about women. She also contributes to Wiktionary, Wikisource, and
Wikimedia Commons.
Best,
Yohann Varun Thomas
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga