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Universal Code of Conduct conversation hour for South Asia
by Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Dear Wikimedians, As you may already know, the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of behaviour for collaboration on Wikimedia projects worldwide. Communities may add to this to develop policies that take account of local and cultural context while maintaining the criteria listed here as a minimum standard. The Wikimedia Foundation Board has ratified the policy in December 2020. The current round of conversations is around how the Universal Code of Conduct should be enforced across different Wikimedia platforms and spaces. This will include training of community members to address harassment, development of technical tools to report harassment, and different levels of handling UCoC violations, among other key areas. The conversation hour is an opportunity for community members from South Asia to discuss and provide their feedback, which will be passed on to the drafting committee. The details of the conversation hour are as follows: - Date and Time: 16 September, 5 pm to 6:30 pm IST - Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/dnd-qyuq-vnd | add to your calendar <https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NmVzbnVzbDA2Y3BwbHU…> You can also attend the global round table sessions hosted on 18 September - more details can be found on this page <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Universal_Code_of_Conduct/2021_consultation…> . -- Krishna Chaitanya Velaga (he/him) Movement Strategy and Governance, Wikimedia Foundation

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Khilkhilat (ખિલખિલાટ/ખીલકીલાત)
by Tito Dutta 09 Sep '21

09 Sep '21

Hello, Khilkhilat (Lit: Giggles) is an ambulance service that provides free ambulance service to a mother and her newly-born child. The free ambulance service started in Gujarat in 2012, and started expanding in other states such as Maharashtra (project name "Vastsalaya"). We have had a short Wikipedia article on this project, which is being expanded at this moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khilkhilat You may help 1) Image upload: The ambulance is pink in color ( https://civilhospitalahd.gujarat.gov.in/writereaddata/images/ambulance-khil…), however we do not seem to have a free photograph on Wikimedia Commons. An image in the infobox will definitely improve the article. If anyone from Gujarat, or any other state, has a free photograph of Khilkhilat, please upload it on Wikimedia Commons and add in the article. 2) If you know Gujarati, can you tell which is the correct spelling ખિલખિલાટ or ખીલકીલાત? The ambulance and the posters/news articles use both the spellings at different places? (I am co-mailing Gujarati mailing list) 3) The article has scope of improvement/expansion, including factual accuracy check. You may help to expand/improve or do an accuracy check (please add reliable references while adding information). If properly expanded we can try taking the article to DYK under the 5X expansion category. Thanks, ইতি, টিটো দত্ত (মাতৃভাষা থাক জীবন জুড়ে)

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Wiki Media India Membership
by Mallikarjuna S J 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Dear WIkimedia India Community Members, Few of us had applied for Wikimedia India Membership in 2019 March. I get that there was an earlier issue & then, dissolution & etc happened. Any ETA (Estimated Turn Around) time, for some updates? -Regards, Mallikarjuna S J, Well-Done is better than Well-Said. - Ben Franklin.

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Thank you!
by pavan santhosh 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Hello Friends and Colleagues, Thank you to everyone who supported my candidature in the board elections and also thanks to everyone who voted in this election. WMF Board elections 2021 results are now announced: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/07/results-for-the-most-contended-wikime… The following four candidates received the most support and are going to be appointed to board after a background check: 1. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight 2. Victoria Doronina 3. Dariusz Jemielniak 4. Lorenzo Losa Except for an unfavourable result, It has been a really great journey for me. I have spent hours in preparing and attending several meetings with communities arranged by the election team or individual communities. I forced myself to think of some very important questions about governance, community development and other aspects of our movement. This is really good learning for me. I felt happy to have a good number of Indian Wikimedians who are also experienced in movement and projects to contest in this election. Although none of us could make it, I believe these efforts by candidates would ignite some necessary awareness and discussion about movement governance in the Indian Wikimedia movement. Good wishes to the elected board members and once again thanks to everyone who voted in this election. Thanks and Regards, Pavan Santhosh.

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The Userscript Tour
by Jay prakash 02 Sep '21

02 Sep '21

Dear Indian Wikimedians, This year, as part of Outreach, Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group[1] has mentored a project in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program.[2] The project's goal was to create a guided tour on the topic "Writing userscript and gadget".[3] The project primarily focuses on newbie developers and existing Wikimedia community members who have little bit knowledge about JavaScript. It is a step-by-step guided tour to illustrate writing wiki userscripts and gadgets. It covers basic to advanced topics. I am very happy to introduce Devyansh Chawla to this community.[4] He was the Wikimedia Intern for this project in GSoC and successfully completed this project. The guided tour is currently located on the test wiki. Please find it at https://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Userscript_Tour. If you have any suggestions. Please leave it on its talk page. Regards, Jay Prakash Volunteer Developer, WIkimedia Community [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_MediaWiki_Developers_User_Group [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2021 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T274635 [4] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Novusistic

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Extending Share Your Struggle until 15 September 2021
by Satdeep Gill 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Sat shri akal everyone, The *first Share Your Struggle* photography competition has been running since 15 August 2021 and we have received around 300 images so far <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Share_Your_Struggle…>. We are *extending the campaign until 15 September 2021*, mainly to allow a few potential partners to be able to upload their images. We do recognize that *Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) has started today* and we hope it is a huge success as it has been in the previous years. We are not going to actively promote Share Your Struggle via CentralNotice or other community channels to avoid any conflict with WLM. Best Satdeep On behalf of Share Your Struggle team

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Thank you to the Indian Wikimedian Community for your support during the WMF Board of Trustees Election
by Ashwin Baindur - User AshLin 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Dear friends, I wish to thank all Indian Wikimedians for your support during the WMF BOT elections which concluded early this morning. I am especially grateful to all the Indic language communities which gave me an opportunity to present my candidacy to their members. My best wishes to all the four candidates who stood from India for this election. A special shout-out to Krishna Chaitanya Velaga for all his hard work to make this election a success. :) I hope that this election throws up at least one candidate from India. Regardless of outcome, I am honoured to have been chosen by the Indian community to stand as one of its candidates. Warm regards, stay safe and happy editting! Ashwin Baindur (User:AshLin)

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Proofread competition starts on Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with British Library
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hello all, We are excited to announce a 3-months long proofread competition which will run on Bangla Wikisource from September 1 to November 30, 2021 as a result of an ongoing GLAM collaboration between the Two Centuries of Indian Print (2CIP) project of the British Library (BL) and the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group (WBG). This is the second proofread competition under the GLAM project, the first one happened in March-April. The event page of the competition is here - https://bn.wikisource.org/s/gwen (in Bangla) The GLAM event page is here - https://bn.wikisource.org/s/gt5i (also in Bangla) Under the project, 2CIP officials will be uploading public domain Bangla books from their collection on Wikimedia Commons and our volunteers will take care of the rest of the work from indexing, proofreading, transcluding etc. on Wikisource along with building their data on Wikidata. The prizes to the top 5 winners for this competition will be sent by WBG and BL will send digital certificates to each one of them. For those who are interested to learn more about the project, there is a video recording of the Wikimania session on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQlYepYs3yw (2:32 - 7:42) Regards, Bodhisattwa (On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group)

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Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board of Trustees election: ~ 4 days to go + A Question
by Tito Dutta 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

Hello, Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board of Trustees election is going on now, and votes will be accepted until 1 September 2021, 5:29 am IST[1]. So, it is around ~4 days to left. If you are interested you may consider participating. * Board election main page, a page with overview and details about the election, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021 * List of Candidates, a page with details about candidates, skill analysis etc, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candida… * Candidate questions and answers, candidates answer their views on different Wikimedia topics https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candida… * Additional answers to community questions: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candida… * Voting details and instruction: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Voting Please use your best understanding, and knowledge to vote for the candidates, if you wish to do so. This post is for information-purpose only. +A Question During a general conversation with a Wikifriend, someone asked me a question. I'll treat that question as "anonymous". The question is: * Why should someone vote in the board election process? How is it going to affect my project such a a regional-language Wikisource, or Wikivoyage, or a project without much support? I have my own view on why I should vote (or voted), very briefly— this is an important process, and a trustee is a powerful and decision-making position. Hence it is important to ensure the best candidates are elected. Every well-thought vote helps in this process. That's my answer very briefly. I have rechecked the board election project page, and the FAQ page, and I don't see this question is answered directly (unless I missed something) If anyone from the board election organising team, the board/Community Affairs Committee(CAC), or community wants to help, by answering this question, kindly feel free to do so. I think it is OK, if someone does not want to vote, or have their own reasons of not voting (feel free to share your thoughts). The discussion possibly will help one (I believe "many") Wikimedian(s) who are wondering "why should I vote?" Footnotes [1] The voting ends on 31 August 2021, 23:59 UTC. In the India mailing list, I have used Indian Standard Time, that's why it is 1 September 2021, 5:29 am IST. Kind regards, User:Titodutta As a Wikimedia volunteer

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Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India starts in 2 days!
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Hello all, 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 <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_in_Ind…> this year again in the month of September. The organizing team <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_in_Ind…> remains the same. We have a list of news to share. - Like previous years, we are adding more and more data about Indian monuments, both for designated and non-designated ones, on Wikidata and the WLM lists of monuments <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_India/Mo…> are fetched 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 us know, so that we can include them. - We are introducing one more way to upload photographs of monuments this year. In this page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_India/Up…>, you will get a map of India with states and UTs in it and if you click on your desired state or UT, it will automatically direct you to the respective upload wizard buttons. Our 3 other options to upload in the tables designated for monuments, i.e. through Upload Wizard, Wikidocumentaries and WLM maps tools remain the same as the previous year. - This year, most probably, the Wikimedia Commons app <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fr.free.nrw.commons> will support WLM and photographers can upload easily through their mobile devices. - The national prize money also remains the same as the previous year. But we have two more special prizes this year. For details, please visit this page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_in_Ind…> . - Also the Monuments database <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database> has included <https://heritage.toolforge.org/api/api.php?action=search&srcountry=in&srnam…> our lists of monuments <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_in_India/Mo…> from Commons this year, which will help a bot <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:ErfgoedBot> to crawl more Indian monuments than before to do regular maintenance works. There are still some bugs to resolve though. - We are contacting potential jury members for the national competition. This page <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2021_in_Ind…> will be updated as soon as we get confirmation from them. A lot of efforts were taken to build structured databases related to Indian monuments in the previous years. Still, most of our monuments lack coordinates and it would be great if this gap can be filled up by the community volunteers. Without coordinates, maps won't show the location of the monuments and powerful tools cannot be utilized fully. If you start adding coordinates or correcting faulty coordinates one at a time starting from your locality, we might fill up the huge data gap one day. For perspective, we have coordinates for more than 3000 Indian designated monuments and still around 7000 designated monuments don't have them. I would like to sincerely thank Krishna from the WLM international team; André Costa and Jean-Frédéric from the Monuments database and Susanna Ånäs from the Wikidocumentaries for partnering with us in different ways and helping us execute our plans. Regards, Bodhisattwa (On behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India team)

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