Hello everyone,
Hope you all are doing well. Wikimedia is celebrating the month of March in
every corner of the world. To celebrate the month, A2K is going to conduct
a mini edit-a-thon which is named International Women Month 2022
edit-a-thon. The dates are for the event is 19 March and 20 March 2022. It
will be a two-day long edit-a-thon.
The edits are not restricted to any specific project. We will provide a
list of articles to editors and if users want to add their own list, they
are most welcome. Visit the given link on the event page and add your name
and language project.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Month_2022_edit-a-t…
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Regards
Nitesh Gill
CIS-A2K
Dear Proofreaders,
Thanks for participating in the Indic Wikisource Proofread-thon March 2022.
Please share your experience, obstacles and feedback in this below form
about the same for improvements in future.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7Py3iprZ8XmMAMXlEHiQy7GrSCvmfPPE…
Best,
Jayanta nath
Wikisource Officer
Centre for Internet and Society
Dear Wikimedians,
Greetings for the Holi festival!
We are glad to announce a campaign cum photography contest - Pune Nadi
Darshan 2022 - organised jointly by Rotary Water Olympiad and CIS-A2K on
the occasion of ‘World Water Week’, celebrated from 16 March to 22 March
2022. This is a pilot campaign to document the rivers in Pune district on
Wikimedia Commons. The campaign period is from 16 March to 16 April 2022.
Under this campaign, participants are expected to click and upload the
photos of rivers in Pune district on the following topics -
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Beauty of rivers in Pune district
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Flora & fauna of rivers in Pune district
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Religious & cultural places around rivers in Pune district
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Human activities at rivers in Pune district
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Constructions on rivers in Pune district
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River Pollution in Pune district
Please see the event page for more details -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Pune_Nadi_Darshan_2022
We welcome your participation in this campaign.
regards,
Subodh,
On behalf of CIS-A2K team
Dear Wikimedians,
As you may already know, the annual Wikimedia Hackathon
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022> is happening this
year during 20-22 May. After two years of online version, this year it will
be in a hybrid, i.e. a remote event with local in-person meetups. We are
happy to inform you that we have applied for a rapid grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/IMD/Indic_Hackathon_20…>
to organize a local hackathon parallel of the global event.
Given the pandemic remains in the current and controllable state, with less
1% positivity, the local hackathon will be an in-person event with all
safety measures. Subject to the approval of the grant, we will open a call
for participation for interested technical contributors to apply for
scholarships to participate in this event.
The reason behind organizing an in-person event is, as the world is opening
up and COVID-19 under control, we felt that it would be a good time to host
an in-person event with limited participants, as permitted by the local
government. In the last two years, we realized that many things can be
organized online, however, certain components of in-person events such as
forming new connections, which are especially cross-community, and
post-event networking are often lacking in online events. So we would like
to see how this goes after almost two years of online events.
Looking forward to your participation.
Hello all,
Hope you are doing well. This email is about the CIS-A2K Newsletter for
February 2022. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events,
ongoing events and upcoming events.
*Conducted events*
* Wikimedia session with WikiProject Rivers team
* Indic Wikisource online meetup
* International Mother Language Day 2022 edit-a-thon
* Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
*Ongoing events*
** *Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
*Upcoming events*
** *International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon
* Pune Nadi Darshan 2022
* Annual proposal
Please find the Newsletter link below
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/February_2022
Regards
Nitesh Gill
CIS-A2K
Dear all,
we are glad to inform you that we have proposed a project for the needs
assessment. You can find the link below for the same
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/_Needs_assessment_for_…
Also, we are delighted to inform you that the Oral Culture Transcription
Toolkit project has been translated into 3 languages- Hindi, Punjabi, and
Bengali exceeding our initial goal of 2 languages. Please feel free to read
them and help with any edits in the translations. If you want to translate
it into your language you are most welcome.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oral_Culture_Transcription_Toolkit
Regards,
Nitesh and Amrit
Dear all,
My name is Julia and I work for the Wikimedia Foundation's Advancement
team. I am reaching out to you all today to start a conversation with you
on the upcoming fundraising campaign in India. The fundraising banners will
be shown on Wikipedia in India throughout June and we have created a meta
page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/India2022campaign> to
gather all information for you.
I would love to hear your thoughts, questions, and input. You can contact
me via email, leave a message on the talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising/India2022campaign> or
come to the open conversation hours in the next two weeks to talk to me
directly. All this information is also on the meta page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/India2022campaign>.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Best,
Julia
--
*Julia Brungs*
Senior Community Relations Specialist
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
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From: Haley Lepp <hlepp(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 12:43 AM
Subject: [Wikitech-l] Announcing the 2022 Wikimedia Hackathon
To: <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
wikitech-ambassadors(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <cloud-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, <
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Hello everyone!
Your friendly neighborhood Hackathon committee is thrilled to announce the
2022 Global Wikimedia Hackathon! We invite you to join us for three days of
collaborating, interactive sessions, and social fun from May 20-May 22. The
Hackathon will be held online and there will be grants available to support
local in-person meetups around the world. You can find more information
about this on our MediaWiki.org page
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022>, which will
continue to grow over the next few weeks. For more details, read below.
Who: The Hackathon is for anyone who contributes (or wants to contribute
to) to Wikimedia’s technical areas - as code creators, maintainers,
translators, designers, technical writers and other technical roles. You
can come with a project in mind, join an existing project, or create
something new with others. The choice is yours! Newcomers are welcome.
We will send out more information on how to schedule a session in the
program soon. You can also add yourself to the participants list
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022/Participants>, and
mention if you would like to help with tasks such as facilitation or
welcoming newcomers. There will be scholarship stipends available- please
stay tuned for more information.
What: A Wikimedia Hackathon <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Hackathons> is
a space for the technical community to come together and work together on
technical projects, learn from each other, and make new friends.
When: May 20-May 22. The schedule will be announced shortly. We are trying
to plan events so that people in all time zones can participate
comfortably. There will be core hours several times a day when most events
will occur, and online social and hacking spaces open 24 hours a day
throughout the three days.
Where: The Hackathon will primarily be held online. However, very soon we
will share an application for local affiliates to apply for grants to host
in-person local meetups. Meetups can be anything from social gatherings
with food, to a party for watching the opening or closing ceremony, to a
pre-event workshop, to renting a venue where people can participate
together in the online event. Grants can range from 500-5000 USD. Stay
tuned for more information!
How (can you help)?:
1.
We are seeking another committee member! The commitment is around 3
hours per week. If you are interested, please contact hlepp(a)wikimedia.org
2.
We have an ideas page.
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Hackathon_2022>What are
you interested in? What would you like to see or do in this year’s
hackathon? Please share your ideas with everyone! This is a community
Hackathon and we will work together to put on a great event.
3.
Do you have any accessibility or translation requests? Please contact
hlepp(a)wikimedia.org
Cheers,
Your Hackathon Committee
Andre <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:AKlapper_(WMF)>
Haley <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:HLepp_(WMF)>
Jay <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Jayprakash12345>
Lucas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Lucas_Werkmeister>
Marios <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Magioladitis>
Neslihan <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Flanoz>
Selene
<https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=User:SYang_(WMF)&action=edit&re…>
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Dear Proofreaders,
CIS-A2K is in a process to community survey and being conducted as part of
a pilot study to collect baseline data on infrastructural needs of
Wikisource platforms in India. The objective of the study is to identify
current challenges and knowledge gaps in technological capacity, resources
and training on Wikisource platforms in selected languages. Through an
analysis of this data, the study aim will provide learnings and
recommendations on potential strategies to address these gaps, including
through collaborative intervention and training. You may read more about
the study here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Research/Study_on_Infrastructural_N…
To design the programs based on the needs of the community and volunteers,
we invite your valuable suggestions and thoughts. We would like to improve
our working continuously taking into consideration the responses/feedback
about the events conducted previously. We request you to go through the
various sections in the form and respond.
Google form link -
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemIo2Ioc7vF-ksKNiPv3sYyXsSkfUvo0X…
<https://forms.gle/WQ73j4AbjCgwCdEs5>
Please write in detail. We would like to discuss over phone/email also if
needed. Contact sneha(a)cis-india.org <tito%2B2020(a)cis-india.org> if you have
a question(s) or for further details or detailed comment.
With best wishes,
Jayanta Nath
Centre for Internet & Society
Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K)