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
Hello,
We are thankful for showing interest to participate in the call.
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Regards
Jayanta
Hello everyone,
Greetings of Wikisource's 18th Birthday! This is a reminder that this
conversation takes place in about 3.5 hours from now. Looking forward to
seeing you all there and celebrating this occasion together.
Best
Satdeep
Hello,
We are thankful for showing interest to participate in the call.
The call will take place on 26 November at 1:30 pm UTC / 7 pm Indian
Standard Time / 7:30 pm Bangladesh Standard Time.
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The session will be moderated by Shabab Mustafa and Tanveer Hasan.
Regards
Jayanta
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
Hello,
As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer Maryana’s
Listening Tour, a meeting is scheduled for conversation with communities in
South Asia.
Please see the event page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maryana%E2%80%99s_Listening_Tour_%E2%80%95_…
The meet will be on *Friday 26 November 2021 - 1:30 pm UTC [7:00 pm IST].*
Maryana Iskander, Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer (CEO), will
be the guest of the session.
We invite you to join the meet. The session will be hosted on Zoom and will
be recorded. Please fill this short form, if you are interested to attend
the meet.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/bDrJgdHFXTQh4otPA
Please follow the event page for updates.
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
CIS-A2K Team
