WikimediaIndia-l August 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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Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in India starts tomorrow
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 15 Oct '20

15 Oct '20

Hello Wikimedians, We are very happy to announce that the Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in India is starting from tomorrow and will continue for the entire month of September. As this year, we are facing devastating effects of COVID-19, we urge you to stay inside your home to avoid exposure to the deadly virus. You do not have to go outside of your safe zone to photograph monuments. We are completely okay if you can upload old photographs taken by you. Please be safe first! We are also expecting lesser participation than previous years due to the restriction of movement due to the pandemic. So, to increase awareness about the competition, we have created a promotional video at the last moment (special thanks to Ananya and Rahul) and boosted it on Facebook. Thanks to CIS-A2K for sponsoring the promotion part. You can find the video on Commons here - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2020_in_India_… and on Facebook here - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1616065545227639 Regarding the list of monuments, it will grow even during the competition as the data entry is a continuous work for us throughout the year. We heartily welcome Wikimedians from different parts of the country to work on monuments protected by different local agencies and inform us in the event talk page. We will find ways together to include them in the master list. Just like previous years, we again promising to wrap up everything within the expected timeline after the competition ends and we are going to keep our promise again. :-) Welcome you all in the competition, Regards, Bodhisattwa (On behalf of WLM India organizing team)

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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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Tool of the day
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 31 Aug '20

31 Aug '20

Hello all, CIS-A2K will be featuring one Wikimedia tool or script on this meta page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Tool_of_the_day> daily from 15th August, 2020 onward for next 30 days. 10 tools will be selected from Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource and Wikidata each, which are extremely useful for everyday editing. This initiative is intended not only to help new editors to familiarise with existing tools but also to help experienced editors recap. The tool will also be featured from the official social media channels of CIS-A2K on the same day. You can keep an eye on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/CISA2K>. Regards, Bodhisattwa Wikidata coordinator, CIS-A2K

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat and India(n) channel
by Tito Dutta 30 Aug '20

30 Aug '20

Hello, I hope you might find this interesting. In case you join/wanna try this Wikimedia Chat option, please join the India channel https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/india There is also an mlwiki channel, I see: https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/mlwiki There is also a Bangla channel. I am unsure why it is currently not showing in the channel list (is it because of Indic-script in the channel title?) https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/bangla Thanks Tito Dutta ---------- Forwarded message --------- প্রেরক: Amir Sarabadani <ইমেল লোকানো হয়েছে> Date: রবি, ৩০ আগস্ট, ২০২০ তারিখে ৫:৩০ AM টায় Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, wikitech-l < wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Hello, Due to the current situation, there are more and more collaborations happening online instead. and now you can see Wikimedia-related discussion groups in Slack, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and many more. Besides being scattered and inaccessible to people who don't have accounts in those platforms (for privacy reasons for example), these platforms use proprietary and closed-source software, are outside Wikimedia infrastructure and some harvest our personal data for profit. IRC on freenode is a good alternative but it lacks basic functionalities of a modern chat platform. So we created Wikimedia Chat, a mattermost instance in Wikimedia Cloud. Compared to IRC, you have: * Ability to scrollback and read messages when you were offline * Push notification and email notification * You don't need to get a cloak to hide your IP from others * Proper support for sharing media * Two factor authentication * A proper mobile app support * Ability to add custom emojis (yes, it's extremely important) * Profile pictures * Ability to ping everyone with @here * much much more. You can use Wikimedia Chat by going to https://chat.wmcloud.org, anyone can make an account. This is part of Wikimedia Social suite [1], the oher similar project is "Wikimedia Meet". [2] Some notes: * This is done in my volunteer capacity and has been maintained by a group of volunteers. If you're willing to join the team (either technical or enforcing CoC, kicking out spammers, other daily work), drop me a message. * Privacy policy of Wikimedia Cloud applies: https://w.wiki/aQW * As a result, all messages older than 90 days get automatically deleted. * As a Wikimedia Cloud project, all of discussions, private and public are covered by Code of conduct in technical spaces: https://w.wiki/AK$ Hope that would be useful for you, if you encounter any technical issues, file a bug in the phabricator. [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Social_Suite [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet Best -- Amir (he/him) _______________________________________________ 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] Announcing two new WikiCite grant programs: Project & events, and e-scholarships
by balaji 26 Aug '20

26 Aug '20

Regards, J.Balaji User: Balajijagadesh ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Liam Wyatt <lwyatt-ctr(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, 21 Aug, 2020, 1:13 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing two new WikiCite grant programs: Project & events, and e-scholarships To: wikicite-discuss <wikicite-discuss(a)wikimedia.org>, < wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, I have the great pleasure to announce two new grant programs for projects that support the goals of WikiCite: the promotion open citations and linked bibliographic data to serve free knowledge. The steering committee is now accepting applications for the following two types of grants. For both types the application deadline is 1 October 2020, and all projects must be completed by 1 May 2021. --- Project & Event grants --- Grants between $2,000 and $10,000 (USD equivalent) are available to individuals, groups, and organisations with a project that supports the goals of Wikicite. All the details, the eligibility criteria (especially for in-person events[1]), and the application form are available on the WikiCite project & event grants homepage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/grants Individuals, groups, and organizations may apply, and projects may be of any nature. This includes technical (e.g. software, tools), event (online, or in-person), resources (training materials, documentation), or other forms not mentioned – as long as it supports the goals of WikiCite. --- e-Scholarships --- The e-scholarship program is a new kind of grant in Wikimedia, created in response to an era of COVID-19 quarantines, and the 2030 Movement strategy goals. An e-scholarship provides a per-diem equivalent allowance for 1-5 people to stay at their home(s) and work for 2-4 days on a project supporting the mission of WikiCite. e-scholarship recipients' projects can be the kinds of things they might have previously undertaken with a scholarship for an in-person hackathon, unconference, or research trip, for example. All the details, eligibility criteria, program design principles, and the application form are available on the WikiCite e-scholarships homepage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/e-scholarship Funding will: - be provided in advance; - be calculated at the WMF per-diem rate for the city where the e-scholarship recipient lives; - and (as it is a living allowance) not require recipients to submit expense reports. "Remote group" applications are encouraged, as are projects which focus on content or communities which are historically underrepresented in Wikimedia projects. Building a bot, fixing a tool, wrangling a dataset, writing complete documentation... all are valid e-scholarship projects. A confirmation letter (in advance) and/or participation certificate (afterwards) can also be provided. Liam Wyatt [Wittylama] -- Program Manager for WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> Wikimedia Foundation - WikiCite is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation - [1] Applications for in-person events are eligible. The WMF will release a risk assessment calculator for in-person events and a checklist of precautions in early September. This protocol will apply to all Wikimedia Foundation supported events. Applicants may publish a draft of their proposals now, and edit it before the submission deadline to include a copy of the results from the risk assessment protocol once it is published. _______________________________________________ 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: [Wikidata] Announcing two new WikiCite grant programs: Project & events, and e-scholarships
by Asaf Bartov 26 Aug '20

26 Aug '20

FYI. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Liam Wyatt <lwyatt-ctr(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Thu, Aug 20, 2020, 21:42 Subject: [Wikidata] Announcing two new WikiCite grant programs: Project & events, and e-scholarships To: wikicite-discuss <wikicite-discuss(a)wikimedia.org>, < wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear all, I have the great pleasure to announce two new grant programs for projects that support the goals of WikiCite: the promotion open citations and linked bibliographic data to serve free knowledge. The steering committee is now accepting applications for the following two types of grants. For both types the application deadline is 1 October 2020, and all projects must be completed by 1 May 2021. --- Project & Event grants --- Grants between $2,000 and $10,000 (USD equivalent) are available to individuals, groups, and organisations with a project that supports the goals of Wikicite. All the details, the eligibility criteria (especially for in-person events[1]), and the application form are available on the WikiCite project & event grants homepage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/grants Individuals, groups, and organizations may apply, and projects may be of any nature. This includes technical (e.g. software, tools), event (online, or in-person), resources (training materials, documentation), or other forms not mentioned – as long as it supports the goals of WikiCite. --- e-Scholarships --- The e-scholarship program is a new kind of grant in Wikimedia, created in response to an era of COVID-19 quarantines, and the 2030 Movement strategy goals. An e-scholarship provides a per-diem equivalent allowance for 1-5 people to stay at their home(s) and work for 2-4 days on a project supporting the mission of WikiCite. e-scholarship recipients' projects can be the kinds of things they might have previously undertaken with a scholarship for an in-person hackathon, unconference, or research trip, for example. All the details, eligibility criteria, program design principles, and the application form are available on the WikiCite e-scholarships homepage: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/e-scholarship Funding will: - be provided in advance; - be calculated at the WMF per-diem rate for the city where the e-scholarship recipient lives; - and (as it is a living allowance) not require recipients to submit expense reports. "Remote group" applications are encouraged, as are projects which focus on content or communities which are historically underrepresented in Wikimedia projects. Building a bot, fixing a tool, wrangling a dataset, writing complete documentation... all are valid e-scholarship projects. A confirmation letter (in advance) and/or participation certificate (afterwards) can also be provided. Liam Wyatt [Wittylama] -- Program Manager for WikiCite <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite> Wikimedia Foundation - WikiCite is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Wikimedia Foundation - [1] Applications for in-person events are eligible. The WMF will release a risk assessment calculator for in-person events and a checklist of precautions in early September. This protocol will apply to all Wikimedia Foundation supported events. Applicants may publish a draft of their proposals now, and edit it before the submission deadline to include a copy of the results from the risk assessment protocol once it is published. _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Fwd: Wikivoyage workshop
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 22 Aug '20

22 Aug '20

Hello Indian Wikimedians, This message is from Wikivoyage contributor Rangan Datta Wiki <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/User:Rangan_Datta_Wiki>. I am sending this message on behalf of him as he was unable to send any messages to this mailing list for unknown reasons. He is going to organize an online Wikivoyage workshop on 29 August 2020 (Saturday) at 6 pm IST. The workshop is aimed at training experienced Indian Wikimedians in Wikivoyage with an intention to develop India related articles not only in English but also in the local languages. Prior knowledge of editing Wikipedia, Wikidata and Commons is necessary. Please check the details of the workshop <https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Wikivoyage:Basic_workshop_for_Indian_Wikimed…> and register here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDFSxB3xtt4lGqoHrt5YvXq3wjQJr6X-e…> . Regards, Bodhisattwa (On behalf of Rangan Datta Wiki)

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[Events] WikiCred Tech Demo Hour September 10, 12pm ET (9 pm IST)
by Priyanka Tiwari 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Greetings everyone. Cross-posting WikiCred Tech Demo details on behalf of Ahmed Medien. Would be glad to have Indian wikipedians joining in :) Hope to see you guys there. Let us know if you have any questions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Announcement: September 10 Zoom Webinar Wiki Credibility Tech Demo Hour The WikiCred grants initiative was launched earlier this year with a focus on information credibility/reliability and new tools on open-knowledge platforms like Wikipedia and Wikidata. The Demo Hour will be held on September 10th at 12 pm EDT (9 pm IST) where 6 of our grantees will demo their Wikipedia projects. You can register for the online event here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeEpva_wwZA9xIjtTni7-y0tZ_VgXW8nzV…> . 👈👈 WikiCred is a grants programme managed by the Credibility Coalition, Hacks Hackers, members of Wikimedia DC, and other groups. We support research, software projects, and Wikimedia events that explore information reliability and credibility in the Wikimedia space and the overall online information ecosystem. So far, we have funded 12 projects over 3 rounds of funding. You can find a full list of the projects here <http://wikicred.org/#projects> or our own blog <https://misinfocon.com/search?q=wikicred>. Projects range from strengthening credible vaccine content on Wikipedia to automating the additions of references to Wikidata. 6 grantees will join us to present their work for 5 mins each followed by a Q&A from the attendees. Let me know if you have any questions about the project or the event. Ahmed & WikiCred Team wikicred.org Partners <https://www.wikicred.org/#who-we-are> / Projects <http://wikicred.org/#projects> / Funders <http://wikicred.org/#funders>

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