WikimediaIndia-l July 2020

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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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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1886, Issue 1
by zada zadti 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

Hi Joseph Seddon !! Nice to know about the fundraiser in India. According to the fundraiser request page (that asks for PAN number), looks like WMF is really serious to generate some money from India. Probably, WMF is now well aware of FCRA and other regulations in India..Thanks to the discussions that happened (on the mailing list or off the list) during the de-recogniation of the India chapter !! It is likely that WMF can receive money directly from general Indian public. Was impressed with this and out of curiosity, digged a bit further on the QR code. Found that the money goes to some Depansum Solutions Private ltd. More digging into this showed that the company is incorporated in 2018 and has capital of just Rs. 1 lakh !!! I suppose WMF gives out much more money to various volunteers and user groups for even many smaller projects. Not sure how and why WMF found such a great creditable company to receive money on their behalf !! This is surely going to raise a doubt about WMF intentions especially when this is coming up after the closure of India activities. Dont know how and why CIS-A2K was not involved in this money receiving. I think they have the required financial permissions. Hope WMF answers these queries quickly. OR else, the usual delay in response will confirm something fishy going on somewhere !! Have a good day and be safe and coronafree !! > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fundraising in India - Launched (Joseph Seddon) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 17:31:56 +0100 > From: Joseph Seddon <jseddon(a)wikimedia.org> > To: wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched > > > Hey all, > > It makes me very happy to announce we have at last launched our fundraiser > in India :) This has been a huge effort and I want to thank the community > members who have passed on feedback, tested our infrastructure, forwarded > tweets and news stories, and just generally been amazingly supportive :) > > Like our other fundraising campaigns this will run for around 4 weeks. If > you are regularly seeing banners, I recommend you log in to your wikimedia > accounts on wiki. We don't show banners to logged in users so as to not > disrupt their work. > > As before: > > * If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a > phabricator ticket [https://phabricator.wikimedia > .org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?template=118862]. > * If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS or social media having > difficulties in donating, please refer them to donate(a)wikimedia.org. > * If you have specific ideas to share, please feel invited to add them to > our fundraising ideas page [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki > /Fundraising/2019-20_Fundraising_ideas]. > > You can also contact me directly with my email address > seddon(a)wikimedia.org > and I can forward your feedback to the right person on the team. > > Thank you everyone! > > -- > Seddon > > > *Senior Community Relations Specialist* > *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation* >

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Fundraising in India - Launched
by Joseph Seddon 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

Hey all, It makes me very happy to announce we have at last launched our fundraiser in India :) This has been a huge effort and I want to thank the community members who have passed on feedback, tested our infrastructure, forwarded tweets and news stories, and just generally been amazingly supportive :) Like our other fundraising campaigns this will run for around 4 weeks. If you are regularly seeing banners, I recommend you log in to your wikimedia accounts on wiki. We don't show banners to logged in users so as to not disrupt their work. As before: * If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a phabricator ticket [https://phabricator.wikimedia .org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?template=118862]. * If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS or social media having difficulties in donating, please refer them to donate(a)wikimedia.org. * If you have specific ideas to share, please feel invited to add them to our fundraising ideas page [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki /Fundraising/2019-20_Fundraising_ideas]. You can also contact me directly with my email address seddon(a)wikimedia.org and I can forward your feedback to the right person on the team. Thank you everyone! -- Seddon *Senior Community Relations Specialist* *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*

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GLAM-wiki contractor opportunity at Wikimedia Foundation
by Satdeep Gill 31 Jul '20

31 Jul '20

Hello, The Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> is looking for a part-time temporary contractor to work remotely for 20 hours a week from August or September until June 2021. The contractor will support movement allies, affiliates, and organizers interested in bringing high impact collections to Wikimedia projects. The hourly rate is up to $55 (USD). We’d like you to do these things: - Mentor a cohort of cultural institutions making large content contributions to develop shared practices for Structured Data on Commons, particularly for captions and copyright statements. - Take part in monthly office hours for the wider Wikimedia-GLAM community. - Analyze and document innovations and workflows, in order to inform and inspire Wikimedia communities and staff. - Actively monitor communications to support the Wikimedia-GLAM community to stay in touch, network, document, and exchange practices. - Facilitate information sharing and product alignment with volunteers maintaining software for GLAM-Wiki projects, such as OpenRefine, pywikibot, and Pattypan. We’re looking for someone with these skills: - A practical understanding of using linked open data and broad open platforms for sharing collections, including active use of Wikidata and/or Wikimedia Commons. - Comfortable wrangling data with some experience scripting and using command line tools. - A good track record of promoting digital skills development or shared practices through social media, written case studies, conference presentations, and/or workshop facilitation. - Comfort working with product teams and supporting products in an open, networked ecosystem, through documentation and community consultation. - Experience working with a distributed and remote team with people of diverse skill sets and backgrounds. - Strong written and spoken English. And it would be even more awesome if you have: - Proficiency in languages other than English. - An existing network of collaborators and contacts in international open knowledge, cultural heritage communities, or in the Wikimedia community. - Experience working with communities that are not based in Europe or North America. Please send a cover letter and CV or LinkedIn profile to glam(a)wikimedia.org by Friday 7 August. -- Satdeep Gill (pronouns - he, him) Program Officer GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Fwd: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS)
by Tito Dutta 22 Jul '20

22 Jul '20

Wikimedia Commons query service beta version is out. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Guillaume Lederrey <glederrey(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 at 23:33 Subject: [Wikidata] Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS) To: Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <commons-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello all! We are happy to announce the availability of Wikimedia Commons Query Service (WCQS): https://wcqs-beta.wmflabs.org/. This is a beta SPARQL endpoint exposing the Structured Data on Commons (SDoC) dataset. This endpoint can federate with WDQS. More work is needed as we iterate on the service, but feel free to begin using the endpoint. Known limitations are listed below: * The service is a beta endpoint that is updated via weekly dumps. Some caveats include limited performance, expected downtimes, and no interface, naming, or backward compatibility stability guarantees. * The service is hosted on Wikimedia Cloud Services, with limited resources and limited monitoring. This means there may be random unplanned downtime. The data will be reloaded weekly from dumps. The service will be down during data reload. With the current amount of SDoC data, downtime will last approximately 4 hours, but this may increase as SDoC data grows. * Due to an issue with the dump format, the data currently only dates back to July 5th. We’re working on getting more up-to-date data and hope to have a solution soon. (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258507 and https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T258474) * The MediaInfo concept URIs (e.g. http://commons.wikimedia.org/entity/M37200540) are currently HTTP; we may change these to HTTPS in the near future. Please comment on T258590 if you have concerns about this change. * The service is restricted behind OAuth authentication, backed by Commons. You will need an account on Commons to access the service. This is so that we can contact abusive bots and/or users and block them selectively as a last resort if needed. * Please note that to correctly logout of the service, you need to use the logout link in WCQS - logging out of just Wikimedia Commons will not work for WCQS. This limitation will be lifted once we move to production. * No documentation on the service is available yet. In particular, no examples are provided yet. You can add your own examples at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:SPARQL_query_service/queries/exa… following the format at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/queries/examples . * Please use the SPARQL template. Note that while there is currently a bug that doesn’t allow us to change the “Try it!” link endpoint, the examples will be displayed correctly on the WCQS GUI. * WCQS is a work in progress and some bugs are to be expected, especially related to generalizing WDQS to fit SDoC data. For example, current bugs include: * URI prefixes specific for SDoC data don’t yet work - you need to use full URIs if you want to query using them. Relations and Q items are defined by Wikidata’s URI prefixes, so they work correctly. * Autocomplete for SDoC items doesn’t work - without prefixes they’d be unusable anyway, but additional work will be required after we inject SDoC URI prefixes into WCQS GUI. * If you find any additional bugs or issues, please report them via Phabricator with the tag wikidata-query-service. * We do plan to move the service to production, but we don’t have a timeline on that yet. We want to emphasize that while we do expect a SPARQL endpoint to be part of a medium to long-term solution, it will only be part of that solution. Even once the service is production-ready, it will still have limitations in terms of timeouts, expensive queries, and federation. Some use cases will need to be migrated, over time, to better solutions - once those solutions exist. Have fun! Guillaume -- Guillaume Lederrey Engineering Manager, Search Platform Wikimedia Foundation UTC+1 / CET _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Fwd: Lists of technical resources and recommendations for smaller language wikis!
by Tito Dutta 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '20

Greetings, I hope you will find the list/recommendation useful. Regards. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Srishti Sethi <ssethi(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Mon, Jul 20, 2020, 11:48 PM Subject: [Wikidata] NEW: Lists of technical resources and recommendations for smaller language wikis! To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, < wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello everyone, As part of the Small wiki toolkits <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits> initiative, a Starter kit <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit> has been developed for smaller language Wikimedia wikis! This Starter kit lists resources, tools, and recommendations in technical areas (e.g., templates, bots, gadgets, etc.) relevant to smaller wikis that are just getting started. Small wiki contributors can use it to make their community's workflow easier. You can now use and promote the Starter kit in your wiki community, and start translating the landing page and its subpages in a language you want. If you have any questions, ideas for venues where it should be shared or wiki pages where it should be linked, or any other suggestions for improving it further, please share on this talk page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Small_wiki_toolkits/Starter_kit>. If you are interested in helping with the Small Wiki Toolkits initiative and can offer help with running workshops, developing toolkits, or exchanging problems and challenges in smaller wiki communities, add yourself as a member here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Small_wiki_toolkits#Members Cheers, Srishti *Srishti Sethi* Developer Advocate Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Project tiger 2.0 - final reminder about Community consultation survey
by Nitesh Gill 18 Jul '20

18 Jul '20

Dear all, I hope you are safe and healthy. As you all know, we started the Project Tiger 2.0 consultation process last month. The writing contest jury feedback form was closed on 10th July. The editors or participants feedback form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrTLQOWpceV6xuJDsu8poZX67HdGgX5Ln…>is still open until the next two days. We are going to close the form on 20th July. We are requesting you, who either participated in the Project Tiger 2.0 or not participated but has suggestions about the contest, to fill the form. Your concerns, suggestions or comments are important for us as well as for future projects. It would be helpful to improve the process and engage more editors actively. Note: Closing date of the form <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdrTLQOWpceV6xuJDsu8poZX67HdGgX5Ln…>is 20th July. Thank you Nitesh User: Nitesh Gill Project Tiger 2.0 Coordinator CIS-A2K

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Diff – a blog by and for the Wikimedia volunteer community
by Tito Dutta 15 Jul '20

15 Jul '20

Hello, Might be interesting. OAuth sign in seems to be under construction. 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. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Chris Koerner <ckoerner(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 at 23:22 Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Introducing Diff – a blog by and for the Wikimedia volunteer community To: Wikimedia-L <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello, Today the Wikimedia Foundation would like to introduce a new community blog. It's called "Diff" (diff.wikimedia.org) and is a blog by – and for – the Wikimedia volunteer community to connect and share learnings, stories, and ideas from across our movement. We'd like to encourage you to learn more about Diff and how it can help you in sharing and learning from your fellow Wikimedians. Everyone is invited to contribute! https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/welcome-to-diff-a-community-blog-for-… The name “Diff” is in reference to the wiki interface that displays the difference between one version and another of a Wikipedia page. It also reflects the “difference” our communities and movement make in the world every day. For some background, Diff builds on lessons and experiences from the Wikimedia Blog, the Wikimedia Foundation News, and Wikimedia Space; previous posts from these channels are archived on Diff. The channel is primarily intended for community-authored posts, in which volunteers can share their stories, learnings, and ideas with each other. Diff offers a simple and accessible editorial process, moderated by Foundation communications staff and open to volunteers, to encourage participation from all — especially emerging and under-represented communities. Additionally, content on Diff can be written and translated into languages to reach a wide audience. Diff also has a code of conduct and comments can be flagged and moderated. Still curious to learn more? https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/07/14/welcome-to-diff-a-community-blog-for-… Yours, Chris Koerner (he/him) Community Relations Specialist Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ 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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Indic-TechCom (Apr-Jun 2020) Report
by Jay prakash 05 Jul '20

05 Jul '20

Hello Everyone, Indic-TechCom's quarterly report has been ready. Details are the following. *== Tools ==* - *Indic Wikisource Contest <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/Indic_Wikisource_Contest> (Improvement)* - Add contest edit button (phab:T251907 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251907>) - Add number instead of bullet for booklist (phab:T252231 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252231>) - Use table instead of bullet for contests list (phab:T252257 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252257>) - [Bug] Few stats pages have no "edit" button (phab:T252281 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252281>) - Add contribution's points table and wikitable (phab:T251922 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T251922>, 4 Patches) - Last Update datetime should be in IST (phab:T252479 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252479>) - Sort contests by their descending order of creation date ( phab:T252608 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252608>) - [Bug] Validation count is not correct (phab:T252834 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252834>) - Add user link for wikitable (phab:T252872 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252872>) - Create stop stats generate option for admin (phab:T252680 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252680>) - Fix pending message position (gerrit:596815 <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/596815>) - Migrate indic-wscontest to new toolforge URL (phab:T253456 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253456>) - *BookReader <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/BookReader> (Improvement)* - Migrate bookreader to new toolforge URL (phab:T252970 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252970>) - Design/Add favicon (phab:T241471 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241471>) - 21 Translation update checkout into production - *QRCode-Generator (Improvement)* - Migrate qrcode-generator to new toolforge URL (phab:T252972 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T252972>) - 14 Translation update checkout into production - *Indic Wikisource Stats <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/Indic_Wikisource_Stats> (Improvement)* - - Migrate indic-wsstats to new toolforge URL (phab:T253170 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253170>) - *Wikifile-transfer <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/Wikifile-transfer> (Improvement)* - Migrate wikifile-transfer to new toolforge URL (phab:T253404 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253404>) *== UserScript ==* - *ShortUrlLink <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/ShortUrlLink> (New)* - This is UserScirpt to generate a shortURL from metawiki and provide a link in front of the title on the local wiki. *== Others ==* - Add Awadhi Wikipedia to pywikibot (phab:T253223 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253223>) - Add Wiktionary Konkani to pywikibot (phab:T253222 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253222>) - Set guwiktionary timezone to Asia/Kolkata (phab:T253827 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T253827>) - Set namespace aliases in guwikipedia (phab:T255358 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T255358>) Apart from that, we have also provided support on social channels like IRC and Facebook. Thank you everyone for involving with us. For the update, You can keep eye on https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Report/Apr-Jun_2020. Thanks :) Regard User:Jayprakash12345 Developer, Indic-TechCom

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Fwd: [ILUGC] sh - Posix Shell - 5 Day Session - July 6, 2020 to July 10, 2020 (Through https://training.ilugc.in)
by Shrinivasan T 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

Learning linux commands will help a lot. Attend this free online training. ---------- Forwarded message --------- அனுப்புநர்: Mohan R <mohan43u(a)gmail.com> Date: சனி, 4 ஜூலை, 2020, பிற்பகல் 4:10 Subject: [ILUGC] sh - Posix Shell - 5 Day Session - July 6, 2020 to July 10, 2020 (Through https://training.ilugc.in) To: <ilugc(a)freelists.org> Hi, Date(s): From July 06, 2020 to July 10, 2020 Time: Evening 5.00 PM Duration: 1 Hour Place: https://training.ilugc.in Let's get into the basics of Posix 'sh' Shell. Here are the Topics we will be covering Day 1: (July 06, 2020) 1. Basic commands (like ls, cd, find, rm, cat etc.,) 2. How shell works when we execute a command 3. Where commands are stored 4. Importance of PATH variable 5. Difference between regular commands, built-in commands, aliases Day 2: (July 07, 2020) 1. How to read manual page 3. Compound commands, redirection, pipes and background execution 1. Subshell execution Day 3: (July 08, 2020) 1. Variables, Environment Variables, control structures and loops 2. Functions 3.Variable Expansion, Parameter Expansion, Arithmetic Expansion and Command Substitution 4. Positional Parameters, Special Parameters and Special Variables Day 4: (July 09, 2020) 1. Shell Patterns and find command 2. Basic Regular Expression, grep, sed and awk commands 3. Shell Built-in Commands. 4. Structure of a Shell Script and 'getopt' command Day 5: (July 10, 2020) 1. Writing one shell script to show real time metrics of the current system (cpu/memory/network) 2. Conclusion All are welcome to participate in this session to understand how terminals work in a Unix based system. Thanks, Mohan R _____________________________________ ILUGC List: http://www.freelists.org/list/ilugc ILUGC Web: http://ilugc.in/

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