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Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group - Report 2021
by Jay prakash 28 Jan '22

28 Jan '22

Hi everyone, I would like to share that the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group[0] has published its 2021 activity report on MetaWiki. Please find this report at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_MediaWiki_Developers_User_Group/Repor… . This report includes our technical work on tools, and outreach on technical topics to communities. Best regards, Jay Prakash (User:Jayprakash12345), Volunteer developer, Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group [0] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_MediaWiki_Developers_User_Group

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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022 postponed
by Jayanta Nath 22 Jan '22

22 Jan '22

Hello, We want to give you an update related to Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022. Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022 (or WMWM2022) was to be conducted on 18 to 20 February 2022, and is postponed now. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2022 Currently we are seeing a new wave of the pandemic that is affecting many people around. Although WMWM is an online event, it has multiple preparation components such as submission, registration, RfC etc which require community involvements. We feel this may not be the best time for extensive community engagement. We have also received similar requests from Wikimedians around us. Following this observation, please note that we are postponing the event, and the new dates will be informed on the mailing list and on the event page. Although the main WMWM is postponed, we may conduct a couple of brief calls/meets (similar to Stay Safe Stay Connected call) on the mentioned date, if things go well. We'll also get back to you about updates related to WMWM once the situation is better. Stay safe, Jayanta Nath on behalf of WMWM Centre for Internet and Society

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Update regarding Oral Culture Transcription Toolkit
by Nitesh Gill 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

Hi everyone, In continuation of the our previous email had shared with you about the toolkit for transcription of oral culture, we would like to inform you that the report for the finished project is ready. The link of the report is here- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Oral_Culture_Transcrip… We welcome community members to look at the finished toolkit and provide feedback- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oral_Culture_Transcription_Toolkit Regards Nitesh Gill & Amrit Sufi

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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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West Bengal Wikimedians User Group is now a partner of Wikidocumentaries!
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 02 Jan '22

02 Jan '22

Hi all, Happy New Year to you all! We are happy to inform you all that the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group has been announced as a partner of Wikidocumentaries project along with different open knowledge organisations, GLAM institutes and academic institutions of Finland. Wikidocumentaries, as you might know, is a project by Open Knowledge Finland, which combines different aspects of a topic from different platforms including Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, FlickR, Europeana, OSM etc. into one place and provides a comprehensive display of knowledge to the readers. The link of the website is here - https://wikidocumentaries-demo.wmflabs.org You may have noticed earlier, that the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group has engaged with the Wikidocumentaries project for more than 2 years now. The tables listing monuments in Wiki Loves Monuments in India competition have been providing a Wikidocumentaries links for each monuments for the last 2 years, using which photographers can upload photographs from that website directly into the competition. Bengali Wikisource has also provided Wikidocumentaries links in different namespaces for more than a year now. Wiki Loves Butterfly has very recently started to provide their links too in their tables of butterflies. WikidataCon 2021 also had a presentation showcasing the above collaborations and some idea-level ambitious discussions to integrate in more potential areas in near future. Hope this year, our partnership will start bringing those ideas to reality. Regards, Bodhisattwa (On behalf of the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)

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Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Youth Skill Development Program to Document Oral Culture in Endangered Indian Languages
by Nitesh Gill 28 Dec '21

28 Dec '21

Hi everyone, *This email was sent from Amrit's account but has not been approved yet. Apologies in advance for overwhelming the mailing list in case the other email is also approved.* I am pleased to inform you that Amrit and I have prepared a toolkit for transcription of oral culture which enables non-expert to document their language and culture and digitize them on Wikimedia platforms. We have built upon the OpenSpeaks toolkit and Elicitation Protocol of Wikitongues in order to provide a unified toolkit with content on technical knowledge, oral history elicitation interview questions, wiki workflow and introduction to language documentation. The volunteers who tested this toolkit were mostly female, thus forwarding our aim of inclusivity as an aim of this project. We request you to go through the toolkit on the following page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oral_Culture_Transcription_Toolkit Please share your ideas and recommendations on it on the Discussion page of the toolkit. Further, we are planning to utilize this toolkit in the new project that we have proposed. In this project, we plan to teach youths speaking endangered languages to document their culture, hold workshops for training in audio-visual documentation and train them for the wiki workflow. We would love to hear from you on this plan of ours, your suggestions are very welcome. Also, if you are interested to participate or volunteer in this project, do let us know on the talk page or via email. We are sharing the link to this project below: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Yo… We are also inviting volunteers to join this project in any capacity. Feel free to add your name to the Volunteers section on the project page. Regards Nitesh and Amrit

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Fwd: [datameet] Digest for datameet@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic
by Shyamal Lakshminarayanan 27 Dec '21

27 Dec '21

Of interest... datameet(a)googlegroups.com <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/…> Google Groups <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overv…> <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email/#!overv…> Topic digest View all topics <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/…> - plug -- data story on wikipedia abuse in India <#m_2941445850799524427_group_thread_0> - 1 Update plug -- data story on wikipedia abuse in India <http://groups.google.com/group/datameet/t/a7b03e58922fbe17?utm_source=diges…> Shijith Kunhitty <shijithpk(a)gmail.com>: Dec 21 12:37AM -0800 Hi, my name is Shijith, and I'm a freelance data journalist. (Worked previously at Hindustan Times and IndiaSpend, have also contributed to datameet.org in the past <http://datameet.org/author/shijithpk/>.) Just wanted to plug a data story I did recently about Wikipedia abuse in India. Such abuse is an old problem, but it's getting more media attention with users distorting facts on pages about the Delhi riots or farmer protests. Sometimes users engage in straight out vandalism where they delete whole sections from a page. I tried to determine which wikipedia pages faced the most abuse this year, and I also introduce a twitter account that allows people to track wikipedia abuse weekly. This is the link to the story: https://shijith.com/blog/wikipedia-page-abuse/ This is the twitter account for tracking wikipedia abuse every week: http://twitter.com/abuse_checker And here's the python code I used for the project: https://github.com/shijithpk/wikipedia_abuse_checker (Am in the process of re-working the code. Right now it's querying the wikipedia API every week for the edit histories of over 150k articles, and the whole run is taking 2 days now. Discovered an API endpoint for recent changes that should make things more efficient.) Have any questions or feedback, do let me know! Thanks, Shijith Back to top <#m_2941445850799524427_digest_top> You received this digest because you're subscribed to updates for this group. You can change your settings on the group membership page <https://groups.google.com/forum/?utm_source=digest&utm_medium=email#!forum/…> . To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it send an email to datameet+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com.

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Upcoming Call for Feedback (CfF) about the Board of Trustees Elections
by Chitraparna Sinha 27 Dec '21

27 Dec '21

Hello everyone, The Board of Trustees is preparing a Call for Feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from *7 January - 10 February 2022*. While the details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked: - What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board? - What involvement should candidates have during the election? While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions. Do you want to help organize local conversation during this call? Contact the Movement Strategy and Governance team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Strategy_and_Go…> on Meta, on Telegram <https://t.me/wmboardgovernancechat>, or via email at msg(a)wikimedia.org. Kindly reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until 3rd January. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize that some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday. Regards, Chitraparna Sinha (Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>) Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance>, SAARC, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Invitation: Movement Strategy Implementation Grants (MSIG) Call for Wikimedians of India - 18 December 2021 (Saturday)
by Chitraparna Sinha 23 Dec '21

23 Dec '21

Hello everyone, I am Chitraparna Sinha <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>, the community facilitator of Movement Strategy <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy> for South Asia after Krishna Chaitanya Velaga. I would like to invite Wikimedians of India for a getting to know each other session and discuss Movement Strategy Implementation Grants <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:MSIG/About> (MSIG), and how it can fund your projects surrounding Movement Strategy Initiatives <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy/Initiatives>. Proposed Agenda - Introduction with each other & learn about what all is going on in the community; and how I can support the community to grow. - A brief overview of MSIG (what it is & how it will work) & discuss concerns. Meeting Language English / Hindi / Bangla - this could be a multilingual conversation. Meeting Details: (India) Grants Community Conversation Saturday, December 18 · 6:00 – 7:00 pm IST (12:30 to 13:30 UTC) Google Meet joining info Video call link: https://meet.google.com/oug-bfih-vva Or dial: ‪(US) +1 415-604-0877‬ PIN: ‪951 921 494‬# More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/oug-bfih-vva?pin=4923022866600 Please share the message among community members. Thanks for sharing your valuable time. Regards, Chitraparna Sinha (Meta <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:CSinha_(WMF)>) Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Strategy_and_Governance>, SAARC, Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>

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Submission Open for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022 until 23 January 2022
by subodh kulkarni 23 Dec '21

23 Dec '21

Dear Wikimedians, Greetings for the New Year 2022! We are excited to announce that submission for session proposals has been opened for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022, the upcoming online wiki-event which is to be conducted from 18 – 20 February 2022 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The submission will remain open until 23 January 2022. You can submit your session proposals here - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2022/Submissions A program team has been formed recently from highly experienced Wikimedia volunteers within and outside India. It is currently under the process of expansion to include more diversity in the team. The team will evaluate the submissions, accept, modify or reject them, design and finalise the program schedule by the end of January 2022. Details about the team will come soon. *Guidelines for submissions:* * The sessions will be on any Wikimedia related topics. * Submissions are not restricted to India. Wikimedians from outside India are also welcome to submit proposals. * The decision to accept or reject a submission will depend on the Program Team. Their decision will be final. * The event will have different formats of sessions, like presentations, workshops, panel discussions and 5-minutes lightning talks. * All sessions will be conducted online. * The organisers will provide the support to help the presenter understand the use of online platforms like Zoom etc prior to the event.. * The organisers will also communicate with the presenter prior to the event to help understand the entire process, or for general preparation. * A session can be around 20 minutes long or more. A lightning talk should be no longer than 5 minutes. * There can be more than one presenter in one session. Feel free to make a group for your session. * The presenters for long duration sessions must ensure that they will be available for the preparation and during their sessions. * The presenters for lightning talks however can pre-record their sessions earlier, if they want and send it to the organizers to play the recording during their allotted time. * A session will be conducted in English or any Indian language. * Similar topics may be grouped together, or format may be changed by the program team. The program team will contact the session presenters if those decisions are taken. We are sure that you will share some of your most inspiring stories and conduct some really exciting sessions during the event. Best wishes for your submissions! Regards, Subodh (On behalf of WMWM India 2022)

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