Hi everyone,
As you know, WikiProject India
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India> is celebrating
the 8th birthday of Wikidata
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India> this October
and on this occasion, CIS-A2K <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K>
will be sending *Wikidata special merchandise* to *all Indian affiliates*
and *communities* upon request as well as *active Wikidata contributors
residing in India*.
*Affiliates and Communities*
Please note,
- *All Indian affiliates* are welcome to request for Wikidata special
merchandise and/or infrastructure. There is no need for community
notification. But, affiliate contacts or board members or executive
committee members or people in similar positions, who can represent the
affiliate, need to do the request.
- *All Indian language communities*, except those who have geographical
affiliates, are welcome to request for Wikidata special merchandise
requests. But, the community should decide on-wiki and have clear consensus
to whom the merchandise will be sent.
- Indian language communities having geographical affiliates are
requested to discuss any need with their respective affiliates first and
ask them to request them on their behalf.
- Only *one request for each* affiliate or language community will be
accepted.
- It is expected that the requests for merchandise and/or infrastructure
should be practical enough to be used by community members and within the
budget of *maximum INR 10,000 for each affiliates*.
- CIS-A2K will not design for the merchandise. If any custom design is
preferred, the affiliate or the community should upload it to Wikimedia
Commons as svg format and send the link to CIS-A2K, which will be taken
care of, while printing it. The design should be Wikidata specific only.
If this sounds interesting, please feel free to request here -
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India#Affiliates_and…
*Active contributors*
- CIS-A2K will *pro-actively send* different gifts or merchandise as
small token of appreciation for active Wikidata contributors from India.
Contributors *do not have to request* them.
- Merchandise can be in the form of T-shirts or mementos or other
things. The budget allocated for each contributor is *INR 1,000*.
- CIS-A2K will take care of the designing part.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Wikidata Co-ordinator, CIS-A2K
Hello,
Greetings from CIS-A2K, hope this email finds you well. On 2 and 3 October
during Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary, we are planning to conduct a
wiki-event. This is an edit-a-thon on Mahatma Gandhi and his works and the
event is not restricted to any particular project.
Please see the event page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi_2020_edit-a-thon
If you are interested to contribute please participate. You may also share
the news and ask others to participate.
Thank You
Nitesh
Dear Wikimedians,
The chapter agreement recognizing Wikimedia India ended on September 14,
2019 -- officially ending the chapter's status as a recognized Wikimedia
movement affiliate. In this email, we are providing background information
and suggestions about how to participate in active organizations supporting
Wikimedia in India. Furthermore, the purpose of this communication is to
notify the Indian communities about the status of the former Wikimedia
India Chapter and to share brief background information to clarify the
timeline of communications with the former affiliate.
It has come to the Affiliation Committee’s (AffCom) attention that the
formerly-recognized chapter in India has continued to operate using the
Wikimedia name and trademarks. Recognition as a Wikimedia movement
affiliate -a chapter, thematic organization, or user group- is a privilege
that allows an independent group to officially use the Wikimedia trademarks
to further the Wikimedia mission.
While most affiliates adhere to the basic compliance standards set forth in
their agreements with the Wikimedia Foundation, a protocol exists to
address the exceptional cases when a Wikimedia affiliate fails to maintain
the specified compliance standards and its continued recognition as a
Wikimedia affiliate presents a risk to the Wikimedia movement [1].
On November 10, 2018, Wikimedia India was notified of its suspension as a
Wikimedia affiliate due to long-standing non-compliance with reporting
requirements. Along with the notice, the chapter was provided with an
explicit list of tasks and deadlines as action items to return to
compliance with its chapter agreement. The chapter could not manage, or
failed, to take the corrective actions by the deadline of May 30, 2019, and
was consequently notified in June that it would no longer be recognized as
a Wikimedia chapter after the termination of their Chapter Agreement on
September 14, 2019. Even though Wikimedia India is presently not a
Wikimedia affiliated group, they are still obligated to abide by the
guidelines and permitted trademark usage policy. For that reason, we once
again ask that the group immediately ceases to use the Wikipedia trademarks
while not an officially recognized Wikimedia affiliate organization.
October 7, 2019, following some back and forth on the chapter’s meta talk
page about specific criteria [2], the committee communicated via email to
the Executive Committee to reaffirm that the September revocation was final
and to remind the former chapter of required next steps for ending all use
of “Wikimedia” wordmark, the Wikimedia logo, or any other Wikimedia
trademarks as an organization.
If you have questions about what this means for community members in the
affected affiliates’ regions or languages, we have put together a very
basic FAQ [3]. Feel free to ask additional questions on the Wikimedia India
meta talk page [2]. For a list of affiliates and their compliance status,
please consult the affiliate status page on Meta [4]; there is also a page
linked from there that lists formerly-active affiliates.
The Wikimedia Foundation remains committed to supporting volunteer editors,
contributors, readers, and donors across India. We recognize that Wikimedia
has a very engaged and growing community in India who together have created
a significant and lasting impact within our global movement. We continue to
support Indian community user groups who lead meet-ups, contests, and other
local events.
Wikimedia India was not the sole representative of the movement in India,
and there are many other new and existing affiliates in the region. AffCom
stands ready to support the remaining affiliate members and Indic
communities in their continuing efforts to collaboratively grow the
affiliate infrastructure of the movement in India. We are deeply grateful
for the efforts of Indic communities to support Wikimedia’s free knowledge
mission and we look forward to continuing this work together.
Regards,
AffCom
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates/Protocol_for_…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_India
[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Wikimedia_India/FAQ
[4]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_movement_affiliates/Affiliates_St…
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From: Asaf Bartov <abartov(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020, 11:37
Subject: Wikimedia Clinic #009 digest (Abstract Wikipedia); #010 today at
13:00 UTC
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
I have posted the digest for Wikimedia Clinic #009. [1]
The topics discussed were:
* Abstract Wikipedia
* Translation of modules
* Feedback on Abstract Wikipedia in various existing communities
I encourage those of you interested in any of the above topics to read the
digest. [1]
Today (Sep 15th) at 13:00 UTC we will be hosting Wikimedia Clinic #010,
with the scheduled segment again being Denny Vrandečić introducing Abstract
Wikipedia (this time in an Asia-friendly time zone).
As always, beyond this scheduled segment, there will be time to bring up
any Wikimedia-related questions or topics other call attendees are
interested in.
The link to the call is:
https://meet.google.com/dsd-rypz-xjf
Cheers,
A.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Clinics/009
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities
Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
https://donate.wikimedia.org
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அனுப்புநர்: Shrinivasan T <tshrinivasan(a)gmail.com>
Date: வியா., 10 செப்., 2020, முற்பகல் 9:13
Subject: Create Searchable Tamil PDF using PDF/A in libreoffice writer
To: <ilugc(a)freelists.org>
Creating searchable Tamil PDF is a long time dream for Tamil People.
For so many reasons like PDF standards, Unicode Issues with Tamil,
Issues with rendering engines, etc, we could not copy/paste any tamil
content from PDF files.
We have a issue for this here
https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/ProjectIdeas/issues/78
Today morning, I was reading this issue and explored about PDF files.
Found a PDF/A standard. It promised to give Unicode support. Is it
means a PDF/A file in Tamil is searchable?
YES. YES. YES.
Tested this using Libreoffice Writer and yeah. It works. I can copy
the tamil text as it is and even do a search within the PDF.
Here is a demo video on this in Tamil.
https://youtu.be/Ug7UM_da7m8
Read more about it here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/Ahttps://www.pdf-tools.com/pdf20/en/resources/pdf-iso-standards/10-most-impo…https://www.pdfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/PDFA_in_a_Nutshell_211.pdf
--
Regards,
T.Shrinivasan
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Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com
Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
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