WikimediaIndia-l February 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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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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Train the trainer 2019
by pavan santhosh 11 Mar '19

11 Mar '19

Dear Wikimedians, Train-the-Trainer or TTT is a residential training program that attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community (including English) members. Earlier TTT has been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. This year CIS-A2K is interested to collaborate with the community in hosting the event. Interested community members please check the following link: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/20… If you have any questions, please let us know. Regards,

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Wikimedia Summit India 2019
by pavan＠cis-india.org 08 Mar '19

08 Mar '19

Dear All, Greetings from CIS-A2K, like the previous year, the A2K team is planning to host a two-day Wikimedia Summit event for the participants taking part in the Wikimedia Summit in Berlin. As you might be aware of that, this year the theme of Wikimedia Summit has changed and one of its primary focus is Strategy 2030. The main goal of Wikimedia Summit India is to help the participants understand the Wikimedia strategy process, learn from their work and help them spread awareness about it in their communities. The dates for the Wikimedia Summit India is 16th and 17th March 2019, and the event will be hosted in Delhi. We're only inviting Indian participants who are taking part in Wikimedia Summit 2019. For more information, Please have a look at this page: [ https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/2019/Wikimedia_Summit_India_… | https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/2019/Wikimedia_Summit_India_… ] . Best!

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Wikimedia Education SAARC conference -2019
by Ananth Subray 05 Mar '19

05 Mar '19

Greetings from CIS-A2K, I am writing this email to inform you about the Wikimedia Education SAARC conference which is going to be organised at Christ University on 20-22 June 2019. The CIS-A2K team has been working with the language department of Christ University and other institutions to enrich the content of Indic Wikimedia projects with the help of students. Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will be the first of its kind conference in SAARC countries which will engage students, education program leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free knowledge movement. This conference will allow us to understand the different efforts made by the communities involved in the Wikimedia Education movement. We're thankful to Christ University for helping us to the host the event, for more details and further updates, Please have a look at this page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference>[1]. [1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference Thanks and Regards, *ANANTH SUBRAY P V* MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k> Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group> Co-founder of Lakshya <https://www.facebook.com/lakshyaforchange/?eid=ARDO9f7NCVPHN1bsF2mChlPDM4qS…> +91-9739811664

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Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2019 scholarship applications open
by Dhaval S. Vyas 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

FYI! ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: DerHexer <derhexer(a)wikipedia.de> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019, 19:16 Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2019 scholarship applications open To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) < wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Arild Vågen <arildvagen2(a)gmail.com> Hi all, We wanted to inform you that scholarship applications for Wikimania 2019 which is being held in Stockholm, Sweden on August 14–18, 2019 are now being accepted. Applications are open until *Friday, 15 March 2019 23:59 UTC*. Applicants will be able to apply for a partial or full scholarship. A full scholarship will cover the cost of an individual's round-trip travel, shared accommodation, and conference registration fees as arranged by the Wikimedia Foundation. A partial scholarship will cover conference registration fees and shared accommodation. Applicants will be rated using a pre-determined selection process and selection criteria established by the Scholarship Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation, who will determine which applications are successful. To learn more about Wikimania 2019 scholarships, please visit: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships To apply for a scholarship, fill out the multi-language application form on: *https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply <https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply>* It is highly recommended that applicants review all the material on the Scholarships page and the associated FAQ ( https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships/FAQ ) before submitting an application. If you have any questions, please contact: wikimania-scholarships at wikimedia.org <wikimania-scholarships(a)wikimedia.org> or leave a message at: https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Scholarships Please help us spread the word and translate pages! Best regards, Arild Vågen and Martin Rulsch for the Scholarship Committee https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarship_Committee _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l

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Indic-OCR is back
by Jay prakash 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Hello Wikimedians, Due to Toolforge Trusty deprecation[1], Our Indic-OCR has stopped its working.[2] Now I moved this tool to Debian Stretch from Ubuntu Trusty. and rebuild virtualenv.[3] Now the tool is live. Let me know if you find any other errors. Thanks :) [1] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/News/Toolforge_Trusty_deprecation [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/IndicOCR [3] https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools.indic-ocr/SAL. User:Jayprakash12345

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Project tiger consultation community 2019
by Tito Dutta 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Hello, Greetings from CIS-A2K team, We're planning to conduct a community consultation program for Project Tiger. The objectives of this consultation program are: - Revisiting the Project Tiger 2018; Strength and Challenges - Discussion on the coming iteration of Project Tiger. - Project Tiger contributors meet & greet. The event will take place on 2-3 March 2019, and the event place will be announced shortly. Please see the event page here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Tiger_Community_Consultation We will be inviting the participants from different Indian community based on their contribution in the Project Tiger 2018 edit-a-thon. Thanks Tito Dutta Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind me over email or phone call.

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CIS-A2K January Newsletter
by Ananth Subray 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Dear All, We are glad to inform that CIS-A2K has published our newsletter for January 2019. *Events* - *Mini MediaWiki Training Theni:* Indic TechCom members and CIS-A2K decided to reach out to students with the Computer science background and help them understand how to contribute on MediaWiki. As a pilot project, we reached out to Nadar Saraswathi College of Engineering and Technology and organised a two-day long Mini MediaWiki training for the students on 22nd and 23rd of January 2019. - *Marathi Language Fortnight Workshops: * CIS-A2K started collaborating with State language dept. in 2017. In the first series <https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48ug> of workshops, we conducted three workshops. In the second series <https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48u9> in 2018, we conducted six workshops out of a total of 17 workshops conducted across the state. In the year 2019, the awareness spread to more educational institutions located in different regions of the state. In this third series <https://mr.wikipedia.org/s/48gs>, CIS-A2K conducted five workshops out of a total of 21 workshops - *Wikisource training Bengaluru: * During the Indic Wikisource Community Consultation at Kolkata, India on 24–25 November 2018,User:Shubha requested to conduct a Wikisource specific Workshop for Sankrit Wikisource Team at Bengaluru Samkrit Bharati. The CIS-A2K Team conducted a workshop for Sanskrit Community at Bengaluru, Karnataka on 23 - 24 January 2019. - *TWLCon (2019 India): * TWL Con or the Wikipedia Library conference was supported by the CIS-A2K. The aim of the conference was to spread awareness about TWL among the Indian languages community, understand and identify different challenges of the movement in India. - *1lib1ref session at Goa University: * Marathi language department and faculty from other languages organised the #1lib1ref event at Goa University. The practice of Marathi typing in Unicode was carried out through preparing articles as a Word document. The students selected the articles on the history of Goa, writers & artists of Goa, Tourism in Goa and villages in Goa. Total of 37 editors actively participated in the workshop. They learnt basic editing skills, adding references and uploading on Commons. - *Punjabi Wikimedians meetup: * Punjabi Wikimedians had an online meeting on 27 January 2019. 11 participants joined this meeting. *Upcoming Events: * - *Project Tiger Community Consultation: * Project Tiger Community Consultation is a consultation program that will take place on 2-3 March 2019 at Chennai (most probably). - *Gujarati Meetup & Workshop, Ahmedabad: * CIS-A2K along with the Gujarati Wikimedia community is planning the Gujarati Wikisource Workshop and Gujarati Wikimedia Meetup in Ahmedabad. The goal of the meetup is to introduce Wikisource and help the community better understand the scope and future of Wikisource. - *Train the Trainer-2019(Bids): **The bids for Train-the-trainer program 2019 has already taken place. Currently, the jury members are deciding the place for the TTT 2019. TTT 2019, the 6th iteration of the Train-the-trainer program. * You can find the meta version of the newsletter at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2019 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/January_2019> Thanks and Regards, *ANANTH SUBRAY P V* MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k> Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group> Co-founder of Lakshya <https://www.facebook.com/lakshyaforchange/?eid=ARDO9f7NCVPHN1bsF2mChlPDM4qS…> +91-9739811664

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