WikimediaIndia-l August 2021

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Condition of a Wikimedian, arrested by UP Police
by praveenp 09 Sep '22

09 Sep '22

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 ------------- Siddique's en.wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sidheeq

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Subhas Chandra Bose's 125th birth anniversary Wikimedia celebration
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 20 Apr '22

20 Apr '22

Hello all, 23 January 2022 will mark the 125th birth anniversary of Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose West Bengal Wikimedians User Group is planning to conduct a series of events to improve free-content related to Subhas Chandra Bose on different Wikimedia sites. Today, on the 124th birth anniversary of Bose, we have inaugurated the initiative and will continue to work for the next one year. Learn more about the program here- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose%27s_125th_birth_anniver… (under construction and to be expanded gradually). You may also read a blog post on Diff: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/24/125th-birth-anniversary-of-subhas-cha… If you like, you can share your thoughts and good wishes here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Subhas_Chandra_Bose%27s_125th_birth_an… Regards, Bodhisattwa On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

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India grants and communication to Wikimediaindia-l
by Tito Dutta 05 Jan '22

05 Jan '22

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

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Proofread competition starts on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with British Library
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hello all, We are excited to announce a 3-months long proofread competition which will run on Bangla Wikisource from September 1 to November 30, 2021 as a result of an ongoing GLAM collaboration between the Two Centuries of Indian Print (2CIP) project of the British Library (BL) and the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group (WBG). This is the second proofread competition under the GLAM project, the first one happened in March-April. The event page of the competition is here - https://bn.wikisource.org/s/gwen (in Bangla) The GLAM event page is here - https://bn.wikisource.org/s/gt5i (also in Bangla) Under the project, 2CIP officials will be uploading public domain Bangla books from their collection on Wikimedia Commons and our volunteers will take care of the rest of the work from indexing, proofreading, transcluding etc. on Wikisource along with building their data on Wikidata. The prizes to the top 5 winners for this competition will be sent by WBG and BL will send digital certificates to each one of them. For those who are interested to learn more about the project, there is a video recording of the Wikimania session on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlYepYs3yw (2:32 - 7:42) Regards, Bodhisattwa (On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)

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Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board of Trustees election: ~ 4 days to go + A Question
by Tito Dutta 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Hello, Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board of Trustees election is going on now, and votes will be accepted until 1 September 2021, 5:29 am IST[1]. So, it is around ~4 days to left. If you are interested you may consider participating. * Board election main page, a page with overview and details about the election, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021 * List of Candidates, a page with details about candidates, skill analysis etc, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candida… * Candidate questions and answers, candidates answer their views on different Wikimedia topics https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candida… * Additional answers to community questions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candida… * Voting details and instruction: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Voting Please use your best understanding, and knowledge to vote for the candidates, if you wish to do so. This post is for information-purpose only. +A Question During a general conversation with a Wikifriend, someone asked me a question. I'll treat that question as "anonymous". The question is: * Why should someone vote in the board election process? How is it going to affect my project such a a regional-language Wikisource, or Wikivoyage, or a project without much support? I have my own view on why I should vote (or voted), very briefly— this is an important process, and a trustee is a powerful and decision-making position. Hence it is important to ensure the best candidates are elected. Every well-thought vote helps in this process. That's my answer very briefly. I have rechecked the board election project page, and the FAQ page, and I don't see this question is answered directly (unless I missed something) If anyone from the board election organising team, the board/Community Affairs Committee(CAC), or community wants to help, by answering this question, kindly feel free to do so. I think it is OK, if someone does not want to vote, or have their own reasons of not voting (feel free to share your thoughts). The discussion possibly will help one (I believe "many") Wikimedian(s) who are wondering "why should I vote?" Footnotes [1] The voting ends on 31 August 2021, 23:59 UTC. In the India mailing list, I have used Indian Standard Time, that's why it is 1 September 2021, 5:29 am IST. Kind regards, User:Titodutta As a Wikimedia volunteer

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India starts in 2 days!
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Hello all, We are excited to announce that the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians> is going to organize Wiki Loves Monuments <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_in_Ind…> this year again in the month of September. The organizing team <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_in_Ind…> remains the same. We have a list of news to share. - Like previous years, we are adding more and more data about Indian monuments, both for designated and non-designated ones, on Wikidata and the WLM lists of monuments <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_India/Mo…> are fetched from there. If you find monuments from your locality or district or state that are present on Wikidata but are not reflected on our list <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_India/Mo…>, please let us know, so that we can include them. - We are introducing one more way to upload photographs of monuments this year. In this page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_India/Up…>, you will get a map of India with states and UTs in it and if you click on your desired state or UT, it will automatically direct you to the respective upload wizard buttons. Our 3 other options to upload in the tables designated for monuments, i.e. through Upload Wizard, Wikidocumentaries and WLM maps tools remain the same as the previous year. - This year, most probably, the Wikimedia Commons app <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons> will support WLM and photographers can upload easily through their mobile devices. - The national prize money also remains the same as the previous year. But we have two more special prizes this year. For details, please visit this page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_in_Ind…> . - Also the Monuments database <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database> has included <https://heritage.toolforge.org/api/api.php?action=search&srcountry=in&srnam…> our lists of monuments <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_India/Mo…> from Commons this year, which will help a bot <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ErfgoedBot> to crawl more Indian monuments than before to do regular maintenance works. There are still some bugs to resolve though. - We are contacting potential jury members for the national competition. This page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_in_Ind…> will be updated as soon as we get confirmation from them. A lot of efforts were taken to build structured databases related to Indian monuments in the previous years. Still, most of our monuments lack coordinates and it would be great if this gap can be filled up by the community volunteers. Without coordinates, maps won't show the location of the monuments and powerful tools cannot be utilized fully. If you start adding coordinates or correcting faulty coordinates one at a time starting from your locality, we might fill up the huge data gap one day. For perspective, we have coordinates for more than 3000 Indian designated monuments and still around 7000 designated monuments don't have them. I would like to sincerely thank Krishna from the WLM international team; André Costa and Jean-Frédéric from the Monuments database and Susanna Ånäs from the Wikidocumentaries for partnering with us in different ways and helping us execute our plans. Regards, Bodhisattwa (On behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India team)

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Tag& Assess 2021 commences on WikiProject India (English Wikipedia)
by Ashwin Baindur - User AshLin 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

Hello friends, This is to announce Tag & Assess 2021 drive for assessing the class and importance of WikiProject India articles (on English Wikipedia) that haven't been assessed so far, a total of about 10,800 articles. The drive is planned for the period from 0001 hrs on 1st September to 2359 hrs on 30th September 2021. The landing page for the drive is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Assessment/Tag_%2… On this page, you can find : * a place to add your name; * information about the drive; * guidance about how to participate in the drive; * the running score of how many articles we have collectively assessed, * the individual tallies of the participants; * the rewards; * and userboxes. Editors will be classified into two groups, less than 3000 edits and editors with 3000 or more edits. There will be 1st, 2nd and 3rd place medals for those with the highest tallies in each group of editors . In addition, barnstars will be awarded for those who cross 200, 400, 600, 1000, 2000, 300 or 4000 total articles assessed. For those interested in automated edits, the script '''Rater.js''' has been tested and found to work on WikiProject India articles. All are welcome to participate in the drive, including those who are not part of WikiProject India :) . Expect to find periodic updates on this talk page and on <wikimedia-india> and <wikimedia-in-en> mailing lists :) Happy editing, Ashwin Baindur (User:AshLin)

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Congratulations to Ananya, Netha and Jay Prakash
by pavan santhosh 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Congratulations to Wikimedians of the year from India: - Ananya Mondal - Rich media - Netha Hussain - Honorable mention - Jay Prakash - Technology innovator Happy to see 3 Indian Wikimedians getting such a honour on Indian Independence day. Best, Pavan Santhosh.

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Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Fwd: Internet Support for Wikimedians in India 2021
by Nitesh Gill 24 Aug '21

24 Aug '21

Hello everyone, Hope you are doing well. As you know Internet Support Program for Indian Wikimedian is running from 1 June. Now, after three months, we are taking a break from the program on 31 August for the assessment. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet_support_for_Wikimedians_in_India Please note after 31 August requests will not be accepted. Thank you Nitesh Gill On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 11:18 PM Dhaval S. Vyas <dsvyas(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > From: Nitesh Gill <gillteshu(a)gmail.com> > Date: Sun, 30 May 2021, 17:08 > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Internet Support for Wikimedians in India 2021 > To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> > > > Hello all, > > We hope that you are doing well. We wanted to inform you that A2K is going > to initiate an internet support program for the Wikimedians in India from 1 > June 2021. This will continue till 31 August 2021. It will be a part of > Project Tiger, this time we are starting with the internet support, writing > contest and other things that will follow afterwards. Currently in this > first phase applications for the Internet will be accepted. > > An event page has been started, you can visit the link: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet_support_for_Wikimedians_in_India > You may also see the FAQ section: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Internet_support_for_Wikimedians_in_India#F… > > For reviewing the applications, there will be a committee that will make > decisions for the applications. After the committee's response, support > will be provided. For more information please visit the event page (linked > above). The criteria and application procedure is set up already. Please go > through the page and apply if you find you are eligible for applying. > Please also share this information with your community. > Stay safe, stay connected, > > Thanks & Regards, > Nitesh Gill > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list -- wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimediaindia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > _______________________________________________ > Wikipedia-gu mailing list -- wikipedia-gu(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikipedia-gu-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org >

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election is open.
by Tito Dutta 18 Aug '21

18 Aug '21

Hello, The election process has started. The email below has a detailed process narration and the relevant URLs. ---------- Forwarded message --------- প্রেরক: Jackie Koerner <jkoerner-ctr(a)wikimedia.org> Date: বুধ, ১৮ আগস্ট, ২০২১ তারিখে ৫:৫৫ AM টায় Subject: [Wikimedia-l] The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election is open. To: <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Friends, Here is a message from the Elections Committee: Voting for the 2021 Board of Trustees election <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> is now open. Candidates from the community were asked to submit their candidacy. After a three week long Call for Candidates, there are 19 candidates for the 2021 election <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candida…> . The Wikimedia movement has the opportunity to vote for the selection of community-and-affiliate trustees. By voting, you will help to identify those people who have the qualities to best serve the needs of the movement for the next several years. The Board is expected to select the four most voted candidates to serve as trustees. Voting closes 31 August 2021. The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Boa…> oversees the Wikimedia Foundation's operations. The Board wants to improve their competences and diversity as a team. They have shared the areas of expertise <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candida…> that they are currently missing and hope to cover with new trustees. Learn more about candidates <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candida…> . Learn about the Board of Trustees <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trust…> . Vote <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> . Read the full announcement and see translations on Meta-Wiki <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_ele…> . -- *Jackie Koerner* *she/her* Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance *English language communities and Meta-Wiki* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org… To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-leave(a)lists.wikimedia.org

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