WikimediaIndia-l August 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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Project Tiger 2.0 - Applications for hardware support
by Suswetha Kolluru 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Hello, Greeting from CIS-A2K! Project Tiger Writing Contest is a program run by Wikimedia Foundation and Google in association with CIS-A2K that encourages Wikipedia communities to create locally relevant and high quality content in Indian languages. This program happens in two phases. 1) Distribution of Chromebooks and Internet stipends to active Wikimedians and 2) A three month article writing contest. As mentioned above, in the first phase of Project Tiger 2.0, we will be providing hardware support to Wikimedians from India. The support includes 1) 50 Chromebooks 2) 100 Internet stipends for 6 months. Interested Wikimedians are requested to apply on or before *14 September 2019*. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia… If you have any questions, please post them to the talk page. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wiki… -- *Regards,* *Suswetha Kolluru*, *Project Tiger Coordinator 2019.*

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Call for bids to host Wikisource Advance Training 2019
by Jayanta Nath 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Dear Wikimedians, It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Wikisource Advance Training 2019 program organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 11 October & 13 October 2019. Advance Wikisource Training is a residential training program is planned for Indic Wikisource community (including English) members. Last year we focused on Wikipedia and conducted the Wiki Advanced Training at Ranch, India. Also, Earlier Indic Wikisource Community Consultation has been conducted in 2018 at Kolkata. This year CIS-A2K is interested to collaborate with the community in hosting the event. Interested community members, please check the following link for proposal for hosting at their city: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki_Advanced_Training/2019/… It is requested to All Indic Wiki-librarians, kindly apply your request to join this event at your language wikisource village pump with separate section. As per community decision, we will select the participants. Please consider sharing this process details with your community members. If you have any questions, please let us know. Regards, Jayanta Nath Wikisource Advisor CIS-A2K

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Support for our communities across India
by Chris Koerner 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

Hello everyone, Wikimedia projects are supported by you—a network of generous individual volunteers, groups, and organizations around the world. Together, you collaboratively enrich, grow, and advance the Wikimedia projects and free knowledge mission. You may have heard about the Affiliations Committee’s decision to recommend the de-recognition of Wikimedia India. Some community members have asked what this means for the future of WIkimedia communities in India. We want to share more information about the AffCom decision, and reaffirm our commitment to and support for our many communities across India. The Affiliations Committee is a community-run body of volunteers that represents and supports Wikimedia affiliates. After several years of working with Wikimedia India to bring its activities in line with chapter requirements [1], the Affiliations Committee recommended in June 2019 that the Wikimedia Foundation not renew the chapter agreement. Wikimedia India was first recognized as a chapter in 2011. In 2015, it experienced difficulties meeting chapter agreement obligations. Working with the Affiliations Committee and the Foundation, the chapter developed a plan of action and returned to good standing by 2017. However, between 2017 and 2019 the chapter was unable to secure a license to act as a fiduciary organization, and is not currently legally registered as a charity in India to accept funding from the Foundation. The Foundation and Affiliations Committee both hope that this licensing and registration can be secured, and that the chapter will again be eligible for recognition. We are grateful for the vibrant, growing community in India who has shown great leadership and created significant impact within our global movement. The Foundation currently supports eight Indic language community user groups, and we expect two more to be announced by AffCom in the coming weeks. We receive more than 700 million pageviews to Wikipedia every month from readers in India, and the growth of the Indic community is a top priority for the future of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. The Republic of India is of great importance to the Wikimedia movement. The Wikimedia Foundation remains committed to supporting volunteer editors, contributors, readers, and donors across India. We’re grateful for all of your continued and growing efforts to support Wikimedia projects and our free knowledge mission. We look forward to continuing our work with you together. On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, Valerie D’Costa Chief of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation You can help translate this message on Meta. [2] [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Requirements [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CKoerner_(WMF)/Support_for_our_communi… Sent by Chris Koerner (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation

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Wiki Loves Monument 2019 India coming soon
by Ananya Mondal 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

Dear All, Attention participant! Only 3 days more to start the Grand Gala National Competition about heritage monuments entitled as *Wiki Loves Monument 2019 in India*. Come, rush and make your entry ready to upload images from *1st September 2019 to 30th September 2019*. More entries-more participants than before to make the event of bigger and better one. This year we care to include all kinds of monuments other than ASI and State Protected Monuments in India to bring them under the purview of preservation through photographs which are equally importance in view of cultural heritage of our country. More over, we have not so far received the list of monuments other than ASI and State Protected Monuments in India and hence we cordially request you all to include such list of your knowledge with proper reference in the talk page of the event page or in the mailing list to fulfill the purpose. So, hurry and start uploading images from *1st September* sharp. *Important link* https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019_in_Ind… Best wishes, Ananya Mondal On behalf of Wiki Loves Monument 2019 In India team

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Wikimedia Strategy Draft Recommendation Discussion Salon 14-15 September 2019 at Bangalore or Delhi
by Tito Dutta 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

Hello, Greetings from CIS-A2K. You know Strategy Working Groups have published draft recommendations at the beginning of August. On 14-15 September we are organising a strategy salon/conference at Bangalore/Delhi (exact venue to be decided) It'll be a 2 days' residential conference and the event aims to provide a discussion platform for experienced Wikimedians in India to learn, discuss and comment about the draft recommendations. The feedback, and the discussions will be documented. If you are a Wikipedian from India, and want to discuss the draft recommendations, or learn more about them, you may apply to participate at the event. Please have a look at the event page for more details: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wikimedia_movement_strategy_… The last date of application is 5 September. It would be great if you share this information who needs this. For questions, please write on the event talk page, or email me at tito+indiasalon(a)cis-india.org References [1] Strategy draft recommendations: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme… Thanks Tito Dutta

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Stepped down from Community Advocate position from CIS-A2K
by Gopala Krishna A 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

Dear all, I would like to inform all of you that I stepped down from Community Advocate position at CIS-A2K. I would like to thank Kannada Community for having good faith on me and CIS-A2K for all the opportunities to serve Indian communities. Thank you everyone for supporting me in each and every steps during Project Tiger 1.0. I got great value and motivation from all of you. Please feel free to contact me for anything on my personal email address. Also you may write on my volunteer account talk page on meta. [1] Links: [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gopala_Krishna_A -- Regards, Gopala Krishna A

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Stepped down from Community Advocate position from CIS-A2K
by reegansri33 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

Best wishes for your future bro. வாழ்க வளமுடன். Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: Ashwin Baindur <ashwin.baindur(a)gmail.com> Date: 8/26/19 9:53 AM (GMT+05:30) To: wikimediaindia-l <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Stepped down from Community Advocate position from CIS-A2K All the best Gopala, what's new for you?On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 9:50 AM Gopala Krishna A <bhat.gka666(a)gmail.com> wrote:Dear all,I would like to inform all of you that I stepped down from Community Advocate position at CIS-A2K. I would like to thank Kannada Community for having good faith on me and CIS-A2K for all the opportunities to serve Indian communities. Thank you everyone for supporting me in each and every steps during Project Tiger 1.0. I got great value and motivation from all of you. Please feel free to contact me for anything on my personal email address. Also you may write on my volunteer account talk page on meta. [1] Links: [1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Gopala_Krishna_A-- Regards, Gopala Krishna A _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

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Project Tiger coordinator update
by Ananth Subray 23 Aug '19

23 Aug '19

Hello, Greetings from CIS-A2K, Sometime ago we informed about Project Tiger Coordinator position. https://cis-india.org/jobs/project-tiger-2019-co-ordinator-position-open We got several applications for this position. After reviewing all the applications, Nitesh Gill (User:Nitesh Gill)[1] & Suswetha Kolluru (User:SuswethaK ) [2] has been selected for this position. [1]. https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ:Nitesh_Gill [2]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SuswethaK Thanks and Regards, *ANANTH SUBRAY P V* Programme Associate Access to Knowledge program <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k> The Centre for Internet & Society +91-9739811664

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Project Tiger 2.0 / GLOW
by Ananth Subray 22 Aug '19

22 Aug '19

Hello, We are glad to inform you that Project Tiger 2.0/GLOW is going to start very soon. You know about Project Tiger first iteration where we saw exciting and encouraging participation from different Indian Wikimedia communities. To Know about Project Tiger 1.0 please see this page - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Progr… Like project Tiger 1.0, This iteration will have 2 components 1. Infrastructure support - Supporting Wikimedians from India with internet support for 6 months and providing Chrome books. 2. Article writing contest - A 3-month article writing contest will be conducted for Indian Wikimedians communities. Following community feedback, we noted some community members wanted the process of article list generation to be improved. In this iteration there will be at least two lists of articles a) Google-generated list, b) community suggested a list. Google generated list will be given to the community members before finalising the final list. On the other hand, the community may create a list by discussing among the community over Village pump, Mailing list and similar discussion channels. We request you to go through these pages to know more about Project Tiger 2.0/GLOW 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia… 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia… We will give you more updates about every step and procedure in the next two-three days. Thanks and Regards, *ANANTH SUBRAY P V* Programme Associate Access to Knowledge program The Centre for Internet & Society +91-9739811664

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