WikimediaIndia-l March 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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spam on the blog
by Amir E. Aharoni 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Hi, There's a Wikimedia India Blog - http://blog.wikimedia.in . It's also a part of the Wikimedia Blog Planet ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planet ). I may be mistaken, but it looks like lately it has several spam posts, such as http://blog.wikimedia.in/category/students-essay-writing-service-2019/ . Can anyone please check that? Thanks! -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com ‪“We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of India Technical User Group
by Subhashish Panigrahi 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

It must be our lucky day as this news came along with the recognition of the Marathi Wikimedians UG. :) Congratulations everyone involved in setting this up! Subha ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kirill Lokshin <kirill.lokshin(a)gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 8:51 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Wikimedians of India Technical User Group To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Movement Affiliates discussion list <affiliates(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] the Wikimedians of India Technical User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to introduce new Wikipedia technologies to volunteers, to recruit new technical contributors, and to work with Indic communities to address their technology problems and requests. Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group! Regards, Kirill Lokshin Chair, Affiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_India_technical_user_group _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Marathi Wikimedians User Group
by Subhashish Panigrahi 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Congratulations friends from Marathi Wikimedians UG! Really look forward to collaborating with you all. :) Subha ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Kirill Lokshin Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 8:48 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Marathi Wikimedians User Group To: Wikimedia Movement Affiliates discussion list, Wikimedia Mailing List Hi everyone! I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized [1] the Marathi Wikimedians User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group aims to increase awareness about Marathi Wikipedia and other Wikipedia projects, and to develop programs which will improve editors' work on the project and work towards addressing the gender gap on Marathi Wikipedia. Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group! Regards, Kirill Lokshin Chair, Affiliations Committee [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit… [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikimedians _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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[SVG Translation Campaign 2019] One more week left!
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 28 Mar '19

28 Mar '19

Hello everyone, I writing this email to give you all some general updates about the ongoing SVG Translation Campaign <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SVG_Translation_Campaign_2019_in…>, and also invite you to participate in the campaign if you haven't already done so, as we entering into the final week of the campaign. For some of you, who are not aware, SVG Translation Campaign has been started on 21 February 2019 (marking the International Mother Language Day) and will continue until 31 March 2019. The objective of the campaign is to translate English-labelled SVG diagrams in English to various Indian languages. The main category for creations from the campaign is at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Creations_from_STC19. Till date (at time of writing this email), we've translated 1800 files into 17 different Indian languages. Language-wise break down is as follows: Assamese — 162 Bengali — 142 Doteli — 2 Gujarati — 170 Hindi — 141 Kannada — 173 Maithili — 1 Malayalam — 230 Marathi — 230 Nepali — 37 Oriya — 16 Punjabi — 73 Sanskrit — 3 Santali — 45 Tamil — 61 Telugu — 297 Urdu — 17 As a part of the campaign, several onsite events were conducted in the following places: Khanna, Punjab Eramallikkara, Kerala Jalgaon, Maharashtra Chennai, Tamil Nadu Karnal, Haryana Bengaluru, Karnataka New Delhi (2 events) Kathmandu, Nepal Guntur, Andhra Pradesh There are a few more coming up this week. You can read more about these at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SVG_Translation_Campaign_2019_in… Post-campaign, we'll first be cleaning up files, which will include checking the author, source, descriptions, categories, and other version templates, are correctly placed. This will be done until 21 April, and then we'll move on to deciding the final metrics and top contributors. I thank all the language organisers <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SVG_Translation_Campaign_2019_in…> and participants for making this initiative a successful one, and CIS-A2K for supporting this campaign in several ways. If you're interested or need any help, please join the Telegram for this campaign at https://t.me/joinchat/E1HSNhOXJZWnxus-36PuNA or post a message to the help desk <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:SVG_Translation_Campaign_20…> . Thanks and regards, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga

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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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Community Health Initiative- User reporting system consultation
by Dr. Manavpreet Kaur 22 Mar '19

22 Mar '19

Hello everyone This is to bring in your kind notice that during Women Train the Train Program in Delhi on 9th March 2019, we had a session on Trust and Safety with Ms. Sydney Poore where she informed us about the different initiatives planned by the team at WMF to make the Wikimedia a more secure place for everyone. On those lines, Community Health Initiative is a combined project that involves multiple initiatives (designing harassment tools like user reporting system, etc.) to counter issues and discussions to make them better. One of these initiatives is forming a user reporting system to make it easier for people experiencing harassment and other forms of abuse to provide accurate information to the appropriate channel for action to be taken. The success of this project depends on collecting ideas and feedback from people in a variety of different roles in the Wikimedia movement. To this end, there will be a multi-phased consultation where you can participate in ways that you are most comfortable. Please visit the User reporting system consultation page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_health_initiative/User_reporting_…> to learn more about the process, ask questions, or offer feedback. You also can sign up to be a liaison for the community or to translate messages or join a focus group. We need to discuss the existing systems and share our inputs on how we can make it better. We have listed the objectives of this initiative and the relevant resources on our central Indic Wikimedia Portal under the head- Community Health Initiative <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikimedia_Portal/Community_Health_Ini…>. If you feel interested to work on this, please list your names as Community Liaisons in the relevant section on the page. We understand that you might have a lot of questions about this, please feel free to list them in the relevant section on the page. The intention to share the information before the beginning of the Discussion Phase is to understand how many of us are interested in working on this. If there is a need, we’ll plan hangouts sessions for clarity of the project and the desired inputs of interested candidates. Looking forward to working cumulatively to make Wikimedia projects a better space for participation. Regards, Manavpreet Kaur

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Pedagogy and the Language of Disciplines: A Classroom Experiment Using Wikipedia ::Ahmedabad Study
by Abhinav srivastava 16 Mar '19

16 Mar '19

Hi, The Economic & Political Weekly recently came out of a commentary on Wikipedia as an application for Academia. This exercise was hosted at Ahmedabad University, Gujarat. https://www.epw.in/node/153886/pdf Abhinav

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Create text animation video from wikipedia article (Text2Video)
by Santosh Shingare 14 Mar '19

14 Mar '19

Hello All, The idea behind of this application is to create video (text animation with audio). User can select article from wikipedia and app create video (text animation with audio). Application works like editor it will helps you to add text, text animation and audio. it will fetch text/media from wikipedia using API, then click the "Create" button to generate video. Please feel free to share your feedback. Thanks & Regards Santosh Shingare, Executive member, Wikimedia India Chapter +91 9890984632

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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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