Dear Wikimedians,
*Pune Nadi Darshan* is a campaign cum photography contest on Wikimedia
Commons organised jointly by Rotary Water Olympiad and CIS-A2K. The contest
started on 16 March on the occasion of World Water Week and received good
response from citizens as well as organisations working on river issues.
Taking into consideration the feedback from community and organisations
about extending the deadline of 16 April, the organisers have decided to
extend the contest till 16 May 2022. Some leading organisations have also
shown interest in donating their archive and need a sufficient time period
for the process.
We appeal to all Wikimedians to contribute under this campaign to enrich
river related content on Wikimedia Commons.
Click on the link to know more -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Pune_Nadi_Darshan_2022
with regards,
Satish Khade,
Rotary Water Olympiad coordinator
&
Subodh Kulkarni
CIS-A2K
Dear Wikimedians,
We are happy to announce that the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group
will be organizing Indic Hackathon 2022, a regional event as part of the
main hackathon taking place in a hybrid mode during 20-22 May 2022. The
event will take place in Hyderabad.
As we have mentioned in our previous email informing about the grant
proposal, the regional event will be in-person with support for virtual
participation. As it is with any hackathon, the event’s program will be
semi-structured i.e. while we will have some sessions in sync with the main
hackathon event, the rest of the time will be upto participants’ interest
on what issues they are interested to work on. The event page can be seen
at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Hackathon_2022.
In this regard, we would like to invite community members who would like to
attend in-person to fill out a form for scholarship applications by 17
April, which is available on the event page. Please note that the hackathon
won’t be focusing on training of new skills, and it is expected that
applications have some experience/knowledge contributing to technical areas
of the Wikimedia movement.
Please post on the event talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Hackathon_2022> if you have any
queries.
Regards
Hello,
CIS-A2K has submitted the annual plan for the program year 2022–2023 under
Wikimedia Community Fund. The plan may be seen here on Meta-Wiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/An…
On behalf of the program, we thank the communities and community members
for their participation, collaboration and suggestions. Please feel free to
comment on the talk page of the plan.
You may also email us at program(a)cis-india.org
Regards,
Tito Dutta
Member, CIS-A2K
Hello all,
We are pleased to share with you all that we have submitted a fund
application for the 2022-23 annual plan of West Bengal Wikimedians User
Group. You can find the meta link here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/WB…
.
Like previous years, all our program plans were planned by community
volunteers in a decentralized way which were placed on our request page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians/Requests>. It is
to be noted that all our programs and activities mentioned in this proposal
are being conducted for the last 1-5 years. In this proposal, we have not
included Wiki Loves Butterfly, which has a separate funding process and all
other activities, where funding is managed by other sources or is not
required at all.
To check, how the user group operates, please find the annual activity
report from last year -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians/Reports/Annual_Acti…
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)
Hi Everyone,
The Community Resources team and the Let’s Connect Working Group are
excited to announce the launch of the Peer Learning Program – Let’s Connect
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/25/lets-connect-register-now-for-the-pee…>.
It is a response to requests gathered during the Movement Strategy process
and for building capacities through knowledge sharing amongst community
members (peers) in a way that promotes collaboration and
people-centeredness.
Let's Connect is bringing you monthly learning clinics and one-on-one
matches around various subjects in the Wikimedia movement. This program is
carefully created with the involvement of community members scattered all
over the various regions in the Wikimedia Movement. The programs can be
based on both regional and cross-regional connections.
Do you want to join? You can register to be a part of the “Let’s Connect”
through this form <https://forms.gle/eySNYTsMBqA5V8sM7>. We will use this
information to match you with others and invite you to learning clinics!
To reach out to anyone on the working group or the WMF concerning “Let’s
Connect” kindly visit the Meta-Page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect> or you
can send an email to the Working Group at letsconnectteam(a)wikimedia.org
We look forward to engaging with the wonderful Wikimedia movement and we
thank our working group, WMF and Wikimedians across the world for making
sure these programs come to life.
Thank You.
Regards,
“Let’s Connect” Working Group.
[1] Registration Form <https://forms.gle/eySNYTsMBqA5V8sM7>
[2] Let's Connect Meta Page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect>
[3] Let's Connect Diff Posts
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/25/lets-connect-register-now-for-the-pee…>
--
Pavan Santhosh.
Dear proofreaders,
We are going into the last days of Infrastructural Needs of Indian Language
Wikisource Communities survey but we still want to hear from you.
This is a reminder for you to please give us your suggestions by April
10,2022.
Google form link -
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemIo2Ioc7vF-ksKNiPv3sYyXsSkfUvo0X…
Please write in detail. We would like to discuss over phone/email also if
needed. Contact sneha(a)cis-india.org if you have a question(s) or for
further details or detailed comment.
Looking forward to your survey completion.
With best wishes,
Jayanta Nath
Centre for Internet & Society
Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K)