WikimediaIndia-l December 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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Wikidata WikiProject Newsletter #2
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 31 Dec '19

31 Dec '19

Hi all, Happy New Year! You can find the 2nd issue of the Wikidata WikiProject India quarterly newsletter here <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Newsletter/2020_01…>, where you can get a quick overview of the Wikidata activities related to India which happened over the last 3 months. To get timely notification in your talk page, you can subscribe here. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikidata_In…> Regards, Bodhisattwa WIkidata Advisor, CIS-A2K

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WMF's letter to Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 27 Dec '19

27 Dec '19

Hello everyone, I am quite concerned about this, and would like to share it everyone so that all of us aware of what's happening. Kindly go through these links; *Main news (WMF's letter to Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India); * India’s Proposed Intermediary Liability Rules Could Limit Everyone’s Access to Information Online: https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2019/12/26/indias-proposed-intermediar… *Related news;* Wikimedia Foundation expresses deep concerns about India’s proposed intermediary liability rules -- https://techcrunch.com/2019/12/26/wikimedia-foundation-expresses-deep-conce… Wikimedia Foundation raises concerns over the proposed intermediary liability rules in India -- https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/wikimedia-foundation-raises-concerns-… *For broader understanding regarding the subject;* Letter to Minister of Electronics and Information Technology regarding Intermediary Liability Rules, signed by Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, and GitHub; https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/files/2019/01/Letter-to-Indian-MEITY-on-… Rethinking the intermediary liability regime in India; https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/blog/cyber-brics-august-12-2019-t… Intermediary liability: Un-safe harbour? https://www.fortuneindia.com/opinion/intermediary-liability-un-safe-harbour… Best, Krishna Chaitanya V,

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Next Wikidatan India newletter is coming soon
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

Hi all, The next Wikidata newsletter of WikiProject India will come soon. If you have crossed some major project milestones or done some events within last 3 months or have some story to share, related to Wikidata India, please reply to this thread and provide links before 30th December. Regards, Bodhisattwa

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WikiForHumanRights
by Rajeeb Dutta 20 Dec '19

20 Dec '19

Dear all, To mark and celebrate Human Rights Day, do join us and United Nations Human Rights to make knowledge about human rights available to all! At Wikimedia, we know that free access to knowledge is a fundamental human right. To build on this commitment, we’ve launched a new global campaign with UN Human Rights to improve and add datas about human rights on Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wiki Commons. Now from today and entire January, we need your help to set human rights knowledge free! Here’s how to get involved and contribute #WikiForHumanRights: https://wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiForHumanRights Best Regards, Rajeeb Dutta. (U: Marajozkee) Note: The above linked page few sections are under construction, do bear with me and feel free to add information.

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Project Tiger 2.0 - quality of articles
by Suswetha Kolluru 12 Dec '19

12 Dec '19

Dear all, 11 December 2019 (i.e, yesterday) marks the successful completion of the second month of Project Tiger 2.0 article writing contest. We have a few points to tell to all the participants. The objective of Project Tiger is to create good quality articles in Indian languages. There are more than 20 Indian language Wikipedia communities and Project Tiger encourages them to create articles on different important topics in their languages. The topics are suggested by the Project Tiger team and also prepared by communities. It must be noted that the total number of articles is never a goal of Project Tiger. Although we celebrate the number & statistics, what we truly believe is that the quality of the articles is more valuable than the statistics. This year, we have seen enthusiastic participation from communities and we thank them for their involvement. *We especially thank the Wikipedians who are creating articles on diverse and possibly difficult topics, adding references and not violating the neutral point of view.* Few Wikipedians have raised concerns about creating template like articles. We want to ensure that friendly competition is our objective and we seek your comments and suggestions. Project Tiger is an ongoing project and decisions and changes are made based on experience and community feedback. We once again thank the community and solicit your feedback to improve the process. For any queries, please contact Nitesh Gill(gillteshu(a)gmail.com) or Suswetha Kolluru(suswetha316(a)gmail.com) -- *Best,* *Project Tiger 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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[WikiConference India 2020] Community Engagement Survey
by pavan santhosh 04 Dec '19

04 Dec '19

Hello everyone, I hope everyone is doing great. I am writing this email to invite you all to participate in the Community Engagement Survey for WikiConference India 2020. The Community Engagement Survey is one of the key requirements for drafting the Conference & Event Grant application for the Wikimedia Foundation. The survey will have questions regarding a few demographic details, your experience with Wikimedia, challenges and needs, and your expectations for WCI 2020. The responses will help us to form an initial idea of what is expected out of WCI 2020, and draft the grant application accordingly. Please note that this will not directly influence the specificities of the program, there will be a detailed survey to assess the program needs after funding. Please fill the survey at; https://forms.gle/YkA9UfcbXo3c637M6. The survey will be open until 23:59 hrs of 22 December 2019. Please pass on this message to your community mailing lists, and it would be great if you post on the Village Pumps of your local Wikis. Looking forward to all of your active participation. Let me know if there are any questions. Best wishes, Pavan Santhosh.

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