Hello Wikimedians,
As you might have noticed already from our central banners, Wiki Loves
Monuments 2022 has started from today and will continue until the end of
this month. If you are interested to participate in the competition and
upload photographs of built heritage structures, please visit this link -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:WLMIN2022
We are also excited to announce that our 3-members national jury team is
finalized and honored to introduce them with you all. The jury members are -
- Biswarup Ganguly - a veteran Wikimedian from the West Bengal community
who has contributed immensely for open knowledge through his documentary
photographs of life, culture and heritage of Bengal, especially of Kolkata
and surroundings for around 13 years. His photographs on Wikimedia Commons
are frequently being used in different news media outlets and by book
authors
- Humayunn Niaz Ahmed Peerzaada - a professional photographer based in
Mumbai, Maharashtra who has been in the field of photography since 2007.
Though Humayunn has been involved in photography of all genres, he
specializes in architecture, table top & making 360° virtual panoramas. His
two series of panoramas of built heritage of West Bengal have earned him
wide accolades.
- Sugato Mukherjee - a photographer and writer from West Bengal with
bylines in BBC, Al Jazeera, Nat Geo Traveller, Deutsche Welle, Mint and
several international inflight magazines. His coffee table book on Ladakh
was published in 2013 and received critical acclaim. Winner of multiple
photography prizes, Sugato's documentary project on the sulphur miners of
East Java was awarded distinctions by the UNESCO.
You can find them here -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022_in_Ind…
Our team member Amitabha Gupta will be coordinating with the jury members
during the review process, which will happen during late October.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 in India team)
West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
Greetings Wikimedians,
This email is a reminder that today is the last day to fill out the survey
form[1]. As of today, we have received 43 responses to the form, which will
be used to create a report for the grant proposal application. Although
today is the last date to fill out the survey form, we will be accepting
responses from members who are interested in joining the organizing team.
We also request you to go through the Meta-Wiki page[2] created for initial
conversations and endorsements to support if you are happy with the idea of
having the next WikiConference India in 2023.
Please note that we will be using the budget from the previous grant
proposal used for planning WCI 2020[3] and adjust the costs according to
the current situation. We will also be sharing the draft of the grant
proposal with you all shortly.
Looking forward to hearing from you and taking collective steps towards
having us all together in 2023!
Thanks & Regards,
Nivas, Nitesh & Neechalkaran
Links:
1. https://forms.gle/VMnqcy9Kd9yipGoC8
2.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023:_Initial_conversa…
3.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WikiConference_India_2020
Hello Wikimedians!
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 in India
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022_in_Ind…>
this year again during the entire month of September for the 5th
consecutive time. We have a list of news to share.
- This year, we have Amitabha Gupta
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Amitabha_Gupta> as a new member
in our organizing team
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022_in_Ind…>.
He will be replacing Sumit Surai
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sumitsurai>, who will be busy
in his personal life during the competition and so, will not be able to
volunteer as an organizer. The rest of the team remains the same as last
year. The team members had their preparatory meeting and distributed the
responsibilities last weekend.
- Like previous years, we are interested in adding more and more data
about Indian monuments, both designated and non-designated ones, on
Wikidata because the WLM lists of monuments
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_India/Mo…>
are fetched directly 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 me know, so that we can include them for the competition.
- This year, the tables of monuments will look different from the last
years. The co-ordinates will be displayed as dynamic maps and the districts
where the monuments will be located will have their locator images, if
available. An example of such a table is here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_India/Mo…>.
However, many monuments still lack coordinates and you can help to add them
on respective Wikidata items.
- Unlike previous years, we are looking for Indian-only jury members
both inside and outside of the Wikimedia movement with experience in
documentary photography of monuments and heritage structures. We have felt
that this decision might bring less known Indian monuments in the
limelight. The jury members will be declared during the event,
- The national prizes will be slightly different from the previous year.
Details can be found here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022_in_Ind…>
.
- We have temporarily closed the feature to upload photographs directly
from Wikidocumentaries until further notice as the site is undergoing major
maintenance.
We will be sharing more updates and news in the coming days related to the
event.
In the meantime, make your plans and get ready with your photographic
equipment.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments 2022 in India team)
West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
P.S. - sorry for the unintentional error regarding the year 2022 in the
previous mail
Hello Wikimedians!
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 in India
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022_in_Ind…>
this year again during the entire month of September for the 5th
consecutive time. We have a list of news to share.
- This year, we have Amitabha Gupta
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Amitabha_Gupta> as a new member
in our organizing team
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022_in_Ind…>.
He will be replacing Sumit Surai
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sumitsurai>, who will be busy
in his personal life during the competition and so, will not be able to
volunteer as an organizer. The rest of the team remains the same as last
year. The team members had their preparatory meeting and distributed the
responsibilities last weekend.
- Like previous years, we are interested in adding more and more data
about Indian monuments, both designated and non-designated ones, on
Wikidata because the WLM lists of monuments
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_India/Mo…>
are fetched directly 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 me know, so that we can include them for the competition.
- This year, the tables of monuments will look different from the last
years. The co-ordinates will be displayed as dynamic maps and the districts
where the monuments will be located will have their locator images, if
available. An example of such a table is here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_India/Mo…>.
However, many monuments still lack coordinates and you can help to add them
on respective Wikidata items.
- Unlike previous years, we are looking for Indian-only jury members
both inside and outside of the Wikimedia movement with experience in
documentary photography of monuments and heritage structures. We have felt
that this decision might bring less known Indian monuments in the
limelight. The jury members will be declared during the event,
- The national prizes will be slightly different from the previous year.
Details can be found here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2022_in_Ind…>
.
- We have temporarily closed the feature to upload photographs directly
from Wikidocumentaries until further notice as the site is undergoing major
maintenance.
We will be sharing more updates and news in the coming days related to the
event.
In the meantime, make your plans and get ready with your photographic
equipment.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India team)
West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
*Hello All,*
Greetings from the IndicWiki Project by the International Institute of
Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIITH). We are pleased to announce
*Wikimedia
Technology Summit 2022*, to be held on December 2nd and 3rd, 2022. This
conference is free and open to students, researchers, and technology
enthusiasts in Wikimedia.
We are writing to invite all Wikimedians to participate in the Community
Engagement Survey, please click on the link
<https://forms.gle/nJYEVq33Bn9ERbvk6>to access it or paste the following
URL in your browser to access it. ( https://forms.gle/nJYEVq33Bn9ERbvk6 ).
This survey intends to identify the respondent's interests and preferences
to plan the event more effectively, post which, we will start integrating
all the received feedback to make modifications to the proposal.
After taking consent from the wikimedians from different groups and
affiliates (Pre-event survey), we are going to submit a grant request to
organize it in December 2022 in India at IIIT-H. Please feel free to share
your ideas, and suggestions and help us update the meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Technology_Summit_2022>.
We would also appreciate any kind of support that you may offer to plan and
we would love your feedback so we can try to make our next gathering
better!
Note: The survey will be open until 23:59 hrs IST on 29 August 2022.
Cordially
Krupal Kasyap
IndicWiki Project <https://indicwiki.iiit.ac.in/>Team
International Institute of Information Technology
Professor CR Rao Rd, Gachibowli,
Hyderabad, Telangana 500032
9014120442, kasyap.krupal(a)research.iiit.ac.in
[image: IndicWiki all IIIT.png]
Dear Wikimedians,
Applications for Round 1 of Wikimedia Community Fund will be open for the
South Asia region from 31 August 2022. The last date for submission of
application is 29 September 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 categorise 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 sa_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/>
Dear Wikimedians,
Hope all of you are doing well. We are writing this email to restart the
conversation to host the next WikiConference India.
As you may remember, some of our fellow Wikimedians started a conversation
regarding the next WCI in 2020 but due to the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic,
it couldn't go on stage. However, we are hoping to reinitiate this
discussion and for that, we need your involvement, suggestions, and support
to help organize a much-needed conference in February-March of 2023.
As you may remember, we have had two national-level conferences in India — the
first one in Mumbai in 2011[1], and the second one in Chandigarh in
2016[2]. Both the conferences had been effective in bringing diverse Indian
communities together for a collective effort. The cross-community
connections made during these conferences led to many collaborations across
the communities and further strengthens our work as a collective movement.
The Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation published Global
Event Strategy[3] which stressed on more and regular regional conferences,
in 2022 conferences are being organized in other regions such as WikiIndaba,
CEE Meeting, North America, Iberocoop, Francophone convention, Wikiarabia,
ESEAP, etc. As a community, it is crucial to have a national
inter-community gathering annually or at least bi-annually. However, we
only had a single conference in the past six years.
The proposed 2023 conference will bring our energies, ideas, learnings, and
hopes together. It will help us in our journey towards better
collaborations, and diversified efforts and reinforce our identity as the
Indian Wikimedia community. This conference will enable us to have better
knowledge about current capacities, and gaps and also to build equitable
leadership. Apart from all these, providing a national-level platform for
Indian Wikimedians to connect, re-connect, and establish their
collaboration itself can be an essential purpose on its own- in the end, it
will empower us all to strategize, plan ahead and collaborate- as a
movement.
We hope we, the Indian Wikimedia Community members, come together in
various capacities and make this a reality. We believe we will take
learnings from earlier attempts, improve processes & use best practices in
conducting this conference purposefully and fruitfully.
Here is a survey form[4] to get your responses on the same notion. We would
like to know if you are interested in participating in a national-level
conference where we can meet and plan our next activities, and purposes,
learn new skills, come to know new ideas, and so on. We can proceed further
only when you respond to us, actively.
Please note: Unfortunately we are working with short timelines since the final
date of proposal submission is 5 September. We request you please fill out
the form by 28th August. After your responses, we can decide if we have the
communities' needs and support for the conference. We plan to reuse the
2020 proposal[5] and remodel it according to the current needs of the
community.
Please note that this organizing is not tied to a single community, we have
formed an initial group of volunteers from different language and technical
communities. For a national conference, we will of course be needing more
volunteers and support. The form linked above has a section to join the
organizing team if you are interested. We have created a Meta-Wiki page[6]
for initial conversations and endorsements to support if you are happy with
the idea of having the next WikiConference India in 2023. Please add your
comments and suggestions to the talk page[7] directly which will be
constantly monitored and updated once every 48 hours.
Look forward to hearing from you and also taking some collective steps
towards having us all together in 2023!
Thanks & Regards,
Nivas, Nitesh, Neechalkaran & Vasanth
Links:
1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011
2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016
3.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Reading_material#…
4. https://forms.gle/VMnqcy9Kd9yipGoC8
5.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WikiConference_India_2020
6.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2023:_Initial_conversa…
7.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2023:_Initial_con…
Hello everyone,
Very excited to share *Wiki Loves Museums India 2022* with you all.
This campaign
<https://streaklinks.com/BKEoy2er6-sFds5QvA2NEJkE/http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Fwiki…>
invites everyone to participate in making India's cultural treasures and
museum collections visible on the internet, through a Wiki-Commons upload
contest. The contest is open from *August 16 - September 30, 2022* to all
residents of India.
Later in September-October, we'd also be opening a Fellowship call
(especially for those with Wiki experience) to contribute in making
educational resources. The fellowship will also include Wikidata-related
work etc.
We'd love to have your involvement and support.
A special thank you to Krishna Chaitanya Velaga & Satdeep Gill for helping
us with the WikiCommons Campaign page
<https://streaklinks.com/BKEoy2uzs8lbfl2N_Q5iziEx/https%3A%2F%2Fcommons.wiki…>
and Aarya Joshi & Tanveer Hasan for their invaluable inputs during the
planning / grant-making stage.
My colleague & fellow Wikipedian Arunesh (DesiBoy101) and I (Medhavigandhi)
are still working on the campaign page this week. If you have any
inputs/feedback, we look forward to hearing from you.
Meanwhile, we are excited to have our first shout-out by Mumbai's Midday
Dossier.
Trust you will help us spread the word about the campaign.
On behalf of Medhavi Gandhi
- Satdeep Gill
[image: photo_2022-08-14_23-19-13.jpg]
Hello,
I am not sure whether I am posting this in the correct way.
The article Darjeeling is going to be featured on the Main Page of English
Wikipedia on 15 August. The article has underwent (and, technically
speaking, still undergoing) Featured Article review, but essentially is
ready for Main Page appearance. The incredible amount of work done,
primarily by User:Fowler&fowler is monumental.
Darjeeling, as of now, probably is the best city article among Indian
cities, and certainly a contender for best article of all cities! Please
have a look at the article on 15 August.
Thanks!
Regards.
Dwaipayan Chakraborti
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> https://cis-india.org/jobs/a2k-programme-manager
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> Deadline: 20 August 2022.
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> Please share this across your circles too.
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