WikimediaIndia-l November 2019

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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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Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in India winners declared
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 17 Feb '20

17 Feb '20

Hi all, We are happy to inform you that, we have declared top 10 winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in India here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019_in_Ind…>, as per the respected jury decision. The following list includes, the URLs, title of the images and the usernames of the uploaders. 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aguada_Fort_Top_View,_North_Goa.jpg - Aguada Fort Top View, North Goa.jpg - User:Rupeshsarkar 2. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Attractive_Red_wall_of_the_Junagarh… - Attractive Red wall of the Junagarh Fort.jpg - User:Sharvarism 3. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sidi_Saiyyed_Mosque_Ahmedabad_Gujar… - Sidi Saiyyed Mosque Ahmedabad Gujarat - Jali Work.jpg - User:Saket.lakhia 4. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rani_ki_vav_-_Patan_-_Gujarat_-_Wal… - Rani ki vav - Patan - Gujarat - Wall Decorations.jpg - User:Vijay B. Barot 5. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_wall_carving_near_Zenana_Mosque.j… - A wall carving near Zenana Mosque.jpg - User:IM3847 6. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neela_Gumbad_Dome_From_Inside.jpg - Neela Gumbad Dome From Inside.jpg - User:Mohit Jhanjhotia 7. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sanchi_Stupa-_Sanchi-_Madhya_Prades… - Sanchi Stupa- Sanchi- Madhya Pradesh- East Gateway.jpg - User:Biswas purba 8. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rock_Cut_Sculpture,_Representing_Th… - Rock Cut Sculpture, Representing The Group Of Elephants, Monkey And Peacock - Mamallapuram - Tamilnadu.jpg - User:Sharathchandrapk 9. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samania_Gate,_Patiala_03.jpg - Samania Gate, Patiala 03.jpg - User:Satdeep Gill 10. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RajaRaniTemple_Bhubaneswar_Odisha_1… - RajaRaniTemple Bhubaneswar Odisha 1.jpg - User:রবিরশ্মি রায় These 10 photographs have been sent for international competition, as per WLM procedure. Next step of sending these winners national prizes will be started very soon, with help from CIS-A2K. You can find winners from each participating countries here <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019_winners>. Thanks to the photographers who have uploaded for the competition and the supporting contributors who have silently worked on image maintenance. Thanks to User:Sumitsurai for leading the organizing team and my incredible colleagues there, without whom, it would have not been possible to complete everything within deadline just like previous year. Heartiest thanks to the 3 jury members <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019_in_Ind…>, for their fair and unbiased judgement, delivered within deadline. Regards, Bodhisattwa On behalf of WLM India 2019 organizing team

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WikiForHumanRights: Help us Organize the Campaign, November 15-January 30
by Alex Stinson 10 Dec '19

10 Dec '19

Hello all, and apologies for crossposting! I hope you are doing well! As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]: the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand the availability of knowledge about human rights online. As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More information about the campaign is also available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of several ways: Help us build the list! - We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see instructions at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_t… Organize an online or offline event! We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia to: - Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more about hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign - Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or partners! To learn more, check out the kit here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day! Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics) soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign. - Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading the word. - Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using #WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we increase the communication to the public on 10 December If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space #human-rights tag <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…> or by emailing Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org and Luisina Ferrante < educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar> If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize in the Organize sections linked above! Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To watch for those materials, add https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta watchlist. Have questions? If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next Tuesday <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanright…>, or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…> . Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign! Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation Luisina Ferrante, Wikimedia Argentina [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-righ… -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

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Doubts regarding collaboration of Wikipedia Asian Month and Project Tiger 2.0
by Suswetha Kolluru 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Dear all, We hope all are well! There is a question that has been raised by the communities regarding Wikipedia Asian Month articles and WAM collaboration with Project Tiger 2.0. We want to clear the confusion regarding this. GLOW 2019 or Project Tiger 2.0 is an Indic local language contest but creating or expanding content need not be related to India or local topics necessarily. Because in Project Tiger, article lists provided by Google have topics related to national and international interest too. Project Tiger 2.0 collaborated with Wikipedia Asian Month and WWWW because both are crucial contests for local Wikipedias. Collaboration was necessary because we wanted to stabilize/bring together all the communities. WAM is a big contest and if we didn't collaborate with it, the possibility was community members breaking into two groups, one for PT2.0 and the other for WAM. Our agenda should be to merely increase or develop content on local wikis. In the last iteration of WAM, participants created articles on Asian countries or anything which are related to Asia excluding one's own country. But the WAM team decided to change its rules for Project Tiger 2.0. Now we can create local articles also under WAM and submit the same under Project Tiger 2.0. After 30 November, 2019, those articles will be considered which are in the lists. Further, if you have any questions please let us know. Thank you, Nitesh Gill and Suswetha Kolluru

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Invitation - Online Meetup (1st December 2019) : Healthcare in South Asia
by Abhishek Suryawanshi 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

Hi, Casual online-meetup is planned next weekend.DETAILS * Date : Sunday, 1st December 2019. * Time : 08:30PM IST * Where : Zoom/Hangout (link to be shared soon) AGENDA * Introduction of participants * Preliminary discussions * Going through previous efforts related to healthcare outreach in South Asia * Possibility of doing healthcare outreach in South Asian Medical Colleges * Tools for metrics evaluation (WikiEdu Dashboard and localizing it) * In-person meeting (possibility - December/January?) * Feel free to add topics you would like to discuss You can find more details here :https://meta.wikimedia.org/ wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/South_Asia_Outreach_Meetup -- Best Regards,Abhishek Suryawanshi (Sent via handheld device, pardon the brevity)

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Invitation - Online Meetup (1st December 2020) : Healthcare in South Asia
by Abhishek Suryawanshi 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Hi, Casual online-meetup is planned next weekend.DETAILS * Date : Sunday, 1st December 2020. * Time : 08:30PM IST * Where : Zoom/Hangout (link to be shared soon) AGENDA * Introduction of participants * Preliminary discussions * Going through previous efforts related to healthcare outreach in South Asia * Possibility of doing healthcare outreach in South Asian Medical Colleges * Tools for metrics evaluation (WikiEdu Dashboard and localizing it) * In-person meeting (possibility - December/January?) * Feel free to add topics you would like to discuss You can find more details here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Project_Med/South_Asia_Outreach_Meetup -- Best Regards,Abhishek Suryawanshi (Sent via handheld device, pardon the brevity)

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About the prize distribution of WLM 2019 in India
by Ananya Mondal 22 Nov '19

22 Nov '19

Hi all, We are glad to inform you that today we have send the prize (Amazon Gift Card) to the winners of Wiki Loves Monuments 2019 in India. Like previous year, the entire process was done within the time frame. A big round of applause for the every member of the team to make the competition fruitful and a hearty thanks to CIS-A2K Team for giving support. Regards, Ananya On behalf of WLM India 2019 organizing team

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WikiForHumanRights Update: Communications tools and a guide for running events
by Alex Stinson 19 Nov '19

19 Nov '19

Hello all! I want to give a brief update on the WikiForHumanRights Campaign which began its soft launch last Friday! We are already seeing multiple online events starting and several in person editathons. Special thank you to the communities in Argentina and Armenia who are already editing! Looking forward to more activities being shared at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize Also, Wikimedia Argentina created a kit for working with partners to run in person events for Human Rights! Check it out: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Sensitive Additionally, we updated the communications toolkit for the campaign at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share . We are going to begin increasing Social Media starting around December 10th! As you see the campaign being talked about from @Wikimedia and on the hashtag #WikiForHumanRights -- we need your help to share it. If you have any questions or are considering organizing an event, please let us know. Cheers, Alex Stinson ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 2:36 PM Subject: WikiForHumanRights: Help us Organize the Campaign, November 15-January 30 To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration [Public] <glam(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Mailing list for African Wikimedians <african-wikimedians(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia & Libraries <libraries(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimania 2019 < wikimania19(a)wikimedia.org> Cc: Luisina Ferrante <educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar> Hello all, and apologies for crossposting! I hope you are doing well! As you may have noticed when we announced the partnership in August [1]: the Wikimedia Foundation is working with the UN Human Rights to help expand the availability of knowledge about human rights online. As one of our first collaborations, we are going to be running a campaign from November 15 - January 30 to add and improve knowledge about human rights on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The initial focus of the campaign will be on improving articles about topics related to the UN Declaration of Human Rights and youth standing up for human rights. More information about the campaign is also available here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights We would like to invite you to get involved in the campaign in one of several ways: Help us build the list! - We need your help identifying more topics related to youth involved in human rights that don’t have articles on Wikipedia or could use further improvement. We would like to represent many different languages and geographies in the campaign. To propose topics for the list, see instructions at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/List#Adding_a_topic_to_t… Organize an online or offline event! We need your help finding community leaders from throughout the Wikimedia to: - Host an online campaign on your language Wikipedia! To learn more about hosting a local topical campaign see the kit here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Campaign - Hold an in person editathon with local human rights organizations or partners! To learn more, check out the kit here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Organize#Editathon Promote the campaign starting Dec. 10 for International Human Rights Day! Help us amplify your efforts around the campaign and publicize it to wide audiences. We’ll be sharing a communications toolkit (including graphics) soon with suggestions on reaching out to folks about the campaign. - Reach out to local media and supporters: Journalists and the public can help add momentum to the campaign through storytelling and spreading the word. - Promote the campaign on social media: We’ll be using #WikiForHumanRights to promote the campaign on social media, when we increase the communication to the public on 10 December If you want to help in other ways, let us know on the discuss space #human-rights tag <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…> or by emailing Alex Stinson <astinson(a)wikimedia.org and Luisina Ferrante < educacion(a)wikimedia.org.ar> If you are interested, let us know by indicating your interest to organize in the Organize sections linked above! Note: We are still updating the communications assets for the campaign! To watch for those materials, add https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiForHumanRights/Share to your meta watchlist. Have questions? If you have questions, we are going to be hosting an office hour next Tuesday <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/community-office-hour-wikiforhumanright…>, or you can ask questions on the discuss space #human-rights tag <https://discuss-space.wmflabs.org/t/do-you-have-questions-about-organizing-…> . Looking forward to your engagement with the campaign! Alex Stinson, Wikimedia Foundation Luisina Ferrante, Wikimedia Argentina [1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/08/16/wikimedia-and-un-human-righ… -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM -- Alex Stinson Senior Program Strategist Wikimedia Foundation Twitter:@glamwiki/@sadads Learn more about how the communities behind Wikipedia, Wikidata and other Wikimedia projects partner with cultural heritage organizations: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM

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Project Tiger 2.0 - Hardware support recipients list
by Suswetha Kolluru 15 Nov '19

15 Nov '19

Greetings! We are very happy to announce the much awaited results of the hardware support applications received under Project Tiger 2.0! After reviewing all the applications (98 for internet stipend and 106 for laptop), it is finalized that 78 Wikimedians from 12 communities will be provided with internet stipends and laptop support will be provided to 50 Wikimedians from 14 communities. We thank the jury for volunteering their precious time in selecting the deserving applications. Laptop distribution and internet stipend distribution will start soon and we will reach out personally over email to collect details for the distribution. Please have a look at the meta pages: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia… https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia… -- *Best,* *Suswetha Kolluru*, *Project Tiger coordinator 2019*

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[WikiConference India 2020] Closure of initial conversations and next steps
by pavan santhosh 12 Nov '19

12 Nov '19

Hello everyone, It is well known for many of us that the initial conversations for WikiConference India 2020[1] started on 2 October 2019. It has been around 40 days (~7 weeks) since then. The support received from both individual Wikimedians and language communities has been incredible, and we are very much delighted to witness this. During this period, 91 Wikimedians[2] endorsed the proposal and 14 language communities[3] have held separate discussions about this on their local village pumps, and officially endorsed the proposal as a community. As there was an almost consensus, we held an IRC on 20 October 2019 to clarify questions and address concerns community members may have. It was attended by 28 people at peak point, and several queries have been clarified[4]. Post IRC, we took time to address all the outstanding comments by various Wikimedians on the talk page — all of which are now resolved[5]. Finally, acknowledging the response from the larger Indian Wikimedia community, Wikimedians from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana passed a resolution on Telugu Wikipedia to formally take responsibility of the conference and go forward with the next steps[6]. The same has been communicated on the Meta-Wiki proposal page here[7]. We are considering this as the closure of initial conversations and would like to proceed with the next steps involved. We thank everyone who participated in the discussions related to this proposal, and all of them have been helpful to expand our knowledge in organising a better conference. The next major step is the Conference Grant proposal to WMF. There are several other smaller steps involved before going submitting proposal, such as the Community Engagement Survey. We will get back to you with the survey soon, and this will be crucial to develop the grant application or more importantly shape the program of WCI 2020 — we look forward to all of your active participation in this regard. Also before finally submitting the proposal to WMF, we will notify the community after drafting the proposal and keep it for review (including the budget) for at least 2 weeks, which will most probably be around mid-Jan 2020. Apart from the major announcements, we would like to shift our communication to people interested in WCI 2020 only — we mean that this mailing list might not be the right place to post regular updates. In this regard, community members who wish to receive regular updates regarding WCI 2020 please subscribe yourself to one of the following WCI exclusive communication channels. Few of these still talk WCI 2016, they will soon be updated to reflect the latest changes. 1. 1. WikiConference India mailing list: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://lists.w…> 2. 2. on-Wiki talk page message delivery: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/WCI2020 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wi…> 3. 3. WikiConference India Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://www.fac…> Thank you all again for your enormous support and active participation. Regards, Pavan Santhosh and Krishna Chaitanya, on behalf of Wikimedians from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversa… <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wi…> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversa… <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wi…> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversa… <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wi…> [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversa… <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wi…> [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_con… <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wi…> [6] https://w.wiki/Bpp <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://w.wiki/…> [7] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversa… <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wi…>

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