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
Hello Indic Wikisource proofreaders,
We are happy to announce that the Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
[1] will be starting from tomorrow 01 March 2022 and will continue up to
16th March 2022.
We are also expecting higher participation than in previous contest.
We heartily welcome new Wikimedians from various parts of the country to
work on restoring our literary heritage to the digital era. Just like the
previous contest held in August 2020, we again promise to wrap up
everything within the expected timeline after the competition ends. We are
going to keep our promise again. :-)
Welcome you all to the contest.
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon_March_2022
Hello all,
This is to inform you all, that the Rapid Grants report for Annual Plan
2021-22 of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group has been submitted. The link
is here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/WBG/Annual_Plan_2021-2…
With this grant, we had organized two national level photographic
competitions on Wikimedia Commons and 3 proofread competitions on Bengali
Wikisource; ran a digitization program and provided infrastructure support
to some of our volunteers. We have spent INR 122169 for these activities
and still have INR 25501 left which is expected to be utilized for our next
years' activities.
Thanks and Regards,
Ananya, Bodhisattwa and Jayanta
(On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)
Hello all,
It is planned an Indic Wikisource Meetup on 19th February 2022 - 7:30 PM
(IST) - 8:30 PM (IST) on behalf of all Indian Wikisource community. This
Online meetup is organized to discuss and plan the coming Wikisource
proofreadthon 2022 and International Mother Language Day celebration.
So I would request that Indic Wikisource admins and active proofreaders who
are willing to participate in Indic Wikisource proofreadthon, please join
this meetup. This will fulfil the following things.
- Show your Wikisource Status to the all India community.
- Share the standard practice followed by your community.
- Queries regarding Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
- Suggest anything regarding the Contest procedure.
- Gift and prizes.
For details and updates, please follow the event page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Community/Online_meetup_19…
Coming Indic Wikisource proofreadthon:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon_March_2022
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
CIS-A2K
Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you are doing well. As A2K announced in January that Wikimedia
Wikimeet India 2022 is postponed for now. The dates were for the event from
18 to 20 February. Last year we were together to celebrate International
Mother Language Day which is on 21 February during WMWM.
This time we will celebrate the day by creating & developing articles on
local Wikis, proofreading the content on Wikisource, items that need to be
created on Wikidata [Labels & Descriptions], some language-related content
must be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and so on. Therefore, the same dates
19 & 20 February are blocked for a two-days long edit-a-thon to increase
content about languages or related to languages. Anyone can participate in
this event and the link you can find below
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Mother_Language_Day_2022_edit…
Thank you
Nitesh Gill
(CIS-A2K)
Hello,
Forwarding this relevant information to Wikimedia India mailing list. With
regards,
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প্রেরক: Camelia Boban <camelia.boban(a)gmail.com>
Date: বৃহস্পতি, ১৭ ফেব, ২০২২ তারিখে ৬:৪৪ PM টায়
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Deoband Community Wikimedia User Group
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Affiliations Committee list <AffCom(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Affiliations
Committee <affcom(a)wikimedia.org>
Hi everyone!
I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
[1] *Deoband Community Wikimedia User Group* [2] as a Wikimedia User
Group. Is a group of Wikimedia editors primarily based in India, who aim to
write about issues related to the famous Islamic seminary, Darul Uloom
Deoband at a global level, in any language Wikipedia. The group promotes
such projects, as the name indicates.
Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognit…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deoband_Community_Wikimedia_User_Group
Regards,
*Camelia Boban*
*Chair*
*Affiliation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>*
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Dear Wikimedians,
Applications for Round 2 of Wikimedia Community Fund will be open for the
SAARC region from 1 March 2022. The last date for submission of application
is 14 April 2022. For a detailed timeline please refer here [1].
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund#Ap…>
*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.*
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.
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#Ap…>
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund#Ge…>[1]has
been published on Meta-wiki.
-
Deadline for General Support Fund proposals is 14 April 2022.
Getting support before submitting your proposal
-
Conversation hours are scheduled for providing support both during the
drafting of the application and later during the review process. The
schedule for conversation hours can be found here [4].
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Regions/SAARC>
-
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…>
[5] 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 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://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-I7F2rwXc2EEI5nld5AIkAeCacnr4p0jKPh…
--
*Tanveer Hasan *(him/his/they/their)
Community Resources
Wikimedia Foundation Grants
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>