Dear Indian Wikimedians,
As many of you may have known, one of our fellow Wikimedian was arrested by
Uttar Pradesh Police in October 2020. His name is Siddique Kappan (His
wikimedia username is User:Sidheeq). He is from Kerala, and he was active
in Wikimedia projects (mainly in Malayalam Wikipedia) until his arrest.
Incidently he is a journalist and he was arrested from the home of Hathras
rape and murder victim while reporting the victim Dalit girl's family
members. UP Police has slapped Sedition, Terrorism as well as UAPA charges
against him.
Kappen is diabetic and now COVID positive. He was admitted to hospital only
after he collapsed in the jail cell. With his deteriorating health, it was
accused that Kappan was chained to hospital bed like an animal. Today's
news reports say that he is in critical condition. (You could always google
"Siddique Kappan")
As a tone deaf people I don't expect anything from this mail, I just wish
to share the information.
Stay Inside, Stay Complementary (non-critical), Stay safe, Stay healthy.
User:Praveenp
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Siddique's en.wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sidheeq
Namaskara,
This might be some food for thought, and inputs are welcome. India mailing
list is the largest and most widely used Wikimedia mailing list for the
Indian community. Could we have a practice that all grant requests from the
country (or related to) are informed on the Wikimediaindia-l mailing list?
Whether it is a state-level, project-level, language-level etc, or whether
it is a rapid grant, project grant etc it would be good to see the plan
details on this mailing list in advance. It will ensure greater visibility,
and it will also ensure the community's understanding/knowing of each
other's projects.
If we can have a practice like this, we can inform Wikimedia, or CR team or
relevant support structure(s) as an India community practice.
This post is in my personal capacity. Please assume good faith
Regards,
User:Titodutta
Dear all,
CIS-A2K has initiated a short-term pilot research project called *Study on
Infrastructural Needs of Indian Language Wikisource Projects*, to collect
baseline data on the challenges and needs of Wikisource projects in India.
We would like to invite you to share your valuable feedback on the research
design. For more details on this, including the objective and process, you
may see:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Research/Study_on_Infrastructural_N…
We request you to kindly give your feedback on the following points which
would be very useful to refine the study before we commence our research
work:
1. Are the objectives of the research clear?
2. What do you think of the process outlined for this research?
3. Kindly give us your general opinion/suggestions/comments about this
study.
For any queries, kindly reply to this thread, or write to
sneha(a)cis-india.org.
Best,
Jayanta Nath
Centre for Internet and Society
Without R&D progress is not possible. Becoz every Indic language differes
esp., in the interfaces. Many interface admins are not having sufficient
experiences. My request is listen "their needs". Like google OCR, we
need voice input tools, floating keyboard, sidebar toggle as in
translatewiki.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Translate&group=page-T…>
Simplification leads to faster growth.
-*தகவலுழவன்*
Wikimedia-User-Name:* Info-farmer *Mobile:*+91 9095343342*
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> > Dear all,
> >
> > CIS-A2K has initiated a short-term pilot research project called *Study
> > on Infrastructural Needs of Indian Language Wikisource Projects*, to
> > collect baseline data on the challenges and needs of Wikisource projects
> in
> > India. We would like to invite you to share your valuable feedback on the
> > research design. For more details on this, including the objective and
> > process, you may see:
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Research/Study_on_Infrastructural_N…
> >
> > We request you to kindly give your feedback on the following points which
> > would be very useful to refine the study before we commence our research
> > work:
> >
> > 1. Are the objectives of the research clear?
> > 2. What do you think of the process outlined for this research?
> > 3. Kindly give us your general opinion/suggestions/comments about this
> > study.
> >
> > For any queries, kindly reply to this thread, or write to
> > sneha(a)cis-india.org.
> >
> > Best,
> > Jayanta Nath
> > Centre for Internet and Society
> >
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Greetings All,
We are happy to announce that the CIS-A2K team have been initiated to
develop the Wikisource Android apps for Wikisource reader. Over the last
couple of months, a group of devs from the Tamil language community have
been putting together an Android Wikisource App for us. They have been
finished their POC of the app. In the coming month, we will engage some
developers to develop iOS apps for the same. We think it's finally gotten
to a good state for people to start hacking on it.
For those just wanting to get started here are the links Initial code:
https://github.com/ViluppuramGLUG/WikisourceApp feature ideas landing page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Apps How can you help?
In the coming month, we may help to do the following ... * Fork the code
and help us with open bug requests * Critique the code and suggest a
cleanup * Start to hack on new features UI. * Localization for the user
interface
Also, you may comment/suggest/feedback our meta talk page
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikisource_Apps
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
Program Officer ( Wikisource )
CIS-A2K
Dear Wikimedians,
Applications for Round 1 of Wikimedia Community Fund will be open for the
SAARC region, Northern and Western Europe region and ESEAP region from 1
November 2021. The last date for submission of application is 30 November
2021. For a detailed timeline please refer here [1].
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund#Ge…>
*Please find below information about how to begin applying for General
Support Funding, important dates and what flexibility we can provide, and
opportunities to discuss your proposal for support before submitting it.
Please review this information carefully: *
How to begin applying for General Support Funds
- A PDF and a Google Doc of the application form for General Support
Funds are available on Meta-wiki
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Ap…>
[2]. The PDF is an expanded application guide, which explains the
questions and some example responses for your review. I strongly recommend
beginning to draft your application responses in a copy of the provided
Google Doc version of the application.
- Applications for General Support Funds will be submitted on a grants
management platform called Fluxx. Then non-sensitive information from the
application will be posted to Meta-wiki by the Community Resources team.
To submit applications to Fluxx, please use this link to register an account
<https://wmf.fluxx.io/portal>,[3] and the Grants Admin team will support
you as necessary. If you need support or have questions about Fluxx
registration, please get in touch with grantsadmin(a)wikimedia.org.
Important dates
-
A general timeline for this round
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund#Ge…>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund#Ge…>[1]has
been published on Meta-wiki.
-
A recommended deadline for General Support Fund proposals is 30 November
2021. However, if you need more time to prepare your proposal for any
reason, please get in touch with me as soon as possible. I am happy to work
together with you to confirm a different arrangement for submitting your
application.
Getting support before submitting your proposal
-
Conversation hours are available this month (SAARC
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Regions/SAARC#Conversation_hours_for…>
,Northern and Western Europe
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Regions/Northern_and_Western_Europe>,
ESEAP <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Regions/ESEAP>) [4],[5],[6]
for questions regarding your General Support Fund applications using Google
Meet. Please refer to the Meta page for information on joining the meetings.
-
If scheduled office hours do not work well for you, or if you would like
more dedicated time to discuss needs or questions please reach out via
email.
-
The budget template
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-I7F2rwXc2EEI5nld5AIkAeCacnr4p0jKPh…>
[7] is available to help you consider how to categorize different kinds
of expenses but is not required to use. Please feel free to continue
using the existing budget templates you have been using for Simple APG or
APG for this application. If there are more specific questions about your
budget, either myself or the Regional Committee will follow up with you
during the review.
-
Multi-year funding is available for applicants with multi-year
organisational strategies in the General Support Fund. Please contact me if
you are considering applying for this funding, and I will walk you through
what expectations there will be for review, as well as how this new funding
arrangement will operate.
Please write to saarc_fund(a)wikimedia.org, nwe_fund(a)wikimedia.org, or
thasan(a)wikimedia.org if you have any questions or needs I can address. You
can also write to communityresources(a)wikimedia.org with suggestions and
ideas.
Regards,
[1].
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund#Ge…
[2].
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Ap…
[3]. https://wmf.fluxx.io/portal
[4]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Regions/SAARC
[5].
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Regions/Northern_and_Western_Europe
[6]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Regions/ESEAP
[7].
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-I7F2rwXc2EEI5nld5AIkAeCacnr4p0jKPh…
--
*Tanveer Hasan *(him/his/they/their)
Community Resources
Wikimedia Foundation Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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From: Kaarel Vaidla <kvaidla(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021, 15:32
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Charter Drafting Committee elections are
now open!
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello everyone,
Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting
committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are
running for seven seats in these elections.
As recommended by the Movement Strategy recommendations, the goal is to
assemble a Drafting Committee that will draft a Movement Charter to ensure
a common framework for decision making in the Wikimedia movement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Recomme…>.
The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities
vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates
through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the
Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1,
2021.
Voting is open from October 12 10:00 UTC to October 24, 2021 23:59 (Anywhere
on Earth <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth>).
Learn more about the candidates
Candidates from across the movement have submitted their candidatures. Learn
about each candidate to inform your vote
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candida…>.
The statements are translated to a number of languages, so you can have
access to the information in many of your preferred languages.
Additionally, we are piloting a so-called “Election Compass
<https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>” for this election. Click
yourself through the tool and respond to the 19 statements, and you will
see which candidate is closest to you! The tool is available in ~9
languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Arabic,
Indonesian, Hausa).
Voting
Similar to the previous Board elections, we have chosen Single Transferable
Vote
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>
for the voting system. The benefit of this is voters can rank their choices
in order of preference. Learn more about voting requirements
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>,
how to vote
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>,
and frequently asked questions about voting
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…>
.
To cast your vote, please go to SecurePoll
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Electio…>
.
We also offer two question and answer times, if you have any questions
regarding the Movement Charter and the voting process:w
-
Wednesday, 19:00 UTC, on Google Meet
-
Thursday, 13:00 UTC, on Zoom (that’s the Conversation Time with Maggie
Dennis)
Please write a short message to answers(a)wikimedia.org if you want to
participate in one of these.
Please help select people who best fit the needs of the movement at this
time. Vote and spread the word so more people can vote for candidates. Our
aim is to have a committee with Wikimedians that combine the diversity of
the Wikimedia Movement as well as a great mix of competencies.
Best,
Kaarel Vaidla, on behalf of the Movement Strategy & Governance team,
Wikimedia Foundation
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Kaarel Vaidla (he/him)
Movement Strategy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/2030>
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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Hello,
Apologies for posting several times in the last few days.
Yesterday we held a meeting for the SAARC region regarding its selector.
The selector will represent the region when casting the affiliates vote for
choosing members of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee. The result
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Affiliates_by_Region/SAARC…>
was
agreement on *User:Suyash.dwivedi* as the region's selector. Suyash will be
one among eight representatives of other regions who will take part on
behalf of affiliates.
Additionally, all of you, as Wikimedians, have the chance to cast your
votes in the *Drafting Committeee's elections* that will start in a few
hours and run until 24 October. Here's a link to the candidates page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candida…>
(the
option for voting will appear there soon).
All the best,
Abbad.
--
Knowledge Management Coordinator
Strategy Team
Hello everyone,
Thank you to all of those who attended today's meeting to discuss the
selection process for the selector of the SAARC/South Asia region.
Based on the results of the discussion, you will have a chance to nominate
yourself as a selector
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Affiliates_by_Region/SAARC…>
(or to encourage people from your affiliate/group to self-nominate!) until *5
PM on 10 October*, according to the local time *anywhere in the SAARC
region*.
*Anyone can self-nominate. *You're not obliged to be a representative of a
particular affiliate, although you'll need to be a member of one -
communities, on the other hand, will have a chance to participate in the
open elections that will start in a couple of days.
All the best,
Abbad.
--
Knowledge Management Coordinator
Strategy Team