Santhosh Thottingal
<https://blog.smc.org.in/santhosh-thottingal-wins-the-presidents-maharshi-ba…>
has won the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman by the Hon. President of India
<https://www.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-award-…>.
This is in recognition of his substantial contribution in the field of
Malayalam language. The award, instituted in 2016, is given to the
substantial contributions to languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Arabi,
Pali and Classical Oriya, Classical Kannada, Classical Telugu, and
Classical Malayalam. This is given to young scholars in the age group of 30
to 45 years
<https://mhrd.gov.in/sites/upload_files/mhrd/files/advertisment/presidential…>.
The Presidential award carries a certificate of honor, a memento and a
one-time cash prize of Rs.1 lakh.
Santhosh is one of the most active contributors of Swathanthra Malayalam
Computing and a principal engineer in Wikipedia's language computing
department. He has designed and released several algorithms and tools that
serve computing needs in many Indian languages including Malayalam. He
heads the maintenance of a dozen or so of the popular Malayalam fonts.
Santhosh (along Kavya) designed two of these fonts, Chilanka and Manjari
<https://www.mathrubhumi.com/technology/web/manjari-font-new-malayalam-font-…>.
He has contributed
<https://internethealthreport.org/2018/building-a-multilingual-internet/>
tools that serve a broad range of language computing needs - input tools,
layout tools, fonts, font rendering, text to speech, translation,
localization are just a few of these areas. He has also contributed and
presented papers at several international conferences.
Dr. Rajeev R. R from the e-governance and training department of ICFOSS has
also been selected for this award along with Santhosh.
We hope this award inspires Santhosh and Rajeev to push the boundaries of
Language computing.
https://blog.smc.org.in/santhosh-thottingal-wins-the-presidents-maharshi-ba…
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Manoj Karingamadathil [[User:Manojk]]
Dear All,
It gives us a great pleasure to announce that the *Wiki Loves Monument
2019 India* is going to start from 1st September'19 to 30st September'19.
West Bengal User Group plans to organize this event in India for the second
time. Please look at this link page and do participate and make the event a
grand success.
Important link
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019_in_Ind…
Best,
Ananya Mondal
West Bengal Wikimedian User Group
Hello,
Hope this email finds you well. The preparation of Wikimania 2019 is going
on, and we hope to see enthusiastic participation from India this year as
well.
You know that in addition to the main Wikimania scholarship, there has been
a practice to offer scholarships to Wikimedians from India. The practice
was started by Wikimedia India, and currently, CIS-A2K is working on this.
CIS-A2K has consulted Wikimedia India Chapter and is happy to announce that
This year 2 Wikimedians from Indian will be given support to attend
Wikimania.
Following are the criteria:
1.
The participants are selected based on the points they received from
Wikimania selection committee set up by WMF. They shared the list with us.
2.
Applicants who received scholarship earlier and attended past Wikimanias
are not selected in favour of applicants who never got a chance to attend.
3.
We have ensured 1 female participation in this list.
Based on these criteria User:User:Indrajitdas and
User:User:Dhanalakshmi_.K._T for Wikimania 2019 are selected.
We have already contacted them and they have accepted the invitation. The
required documents have been sent to the Wikimedians, and hope they will
get their visa very soon.
We are unable to support a partial scholarship for budgetary constraints.
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
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
Hello,
During the Independence Day 2019, a Wikidata-thon is planned on 15-22
August 2019. The objective is to improve India-related Wikidata items.
Please see the event page here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Events/Indian_Inde…
If you are interested please join as a participant.
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.
Dear Wikimedian friends,
I would like to share my decision to step down from Community advocate
position in Access to Knowledge team of The Centre for Internet and
Society. I would like to take this as an opportunity to thank Indian
Wikimedians for your collaboration and support.
I am immensely blessed to work hand in hand with many of you in my A2K
capacity. What I learnt and moments I shared in our interactions stays with
me forever. My heartfelt apologies for any inconvenience or mistakes
happened from my part in this journey.
Although this looks like a farewell mail, actually it is not! Because the
mission that tied us together continues inspiring us to collaborate
forever. Like you all, I am a Wikimedian for life. I believe you all will
continue working with me in my volunteer capacity, anyway. In that sense,
this is just changing a hat. Please reach me out over this mail and my
Wikimedia
user talk pages <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pavan_santhosh.s>
.
Thanks & Regards,
Pavan Santhosh.
Dear All,
This gives me a great pleasure to announce that the *Wiki Loves Butterfly
in North-East India Part-II (WLB-NEI-II) **Project* is going to start
from 1st September'19.
Hereby the WLB team is requesting all wikimedians to visit the project and
contribute as per their choice species and create or develop or translate
articles in their respective native languages and thus resulting in a
multilingual approach to the project. Your honest feedback and suggestion
is also welcome.
If anybody wants to start a similar project in his or her native language,
the WLB team is willing to support in every possible aspect.
Important links:
*Rapid Grants: *
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Atudu/Wiki_Loves_Butte…
*Report:*
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Atudu/Wiki_Loves_Butte…
*Wikimedia Commons:*
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Butterfly_in_North-E…
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Regards,
