Hello Wikimedians,
Hope this email finds you well. We wish you safe and healthy days ahead for
all of you.
We want to inform you that an India level IRC for April on 19 at 7–8 pm.
The agenda for the IRC is as follows -
* Online support (Ideas & methods)
* Online Wikisource activities
The link to join IRC - https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
Looking forward to your participation. Please also share this message.
regards,
Subodh Kulkarni
Programme Officer
Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme
Recently, we have built a custom scan box to scan books.
With this box and a smartphone, we can scan books easily.
Wrote about it here
https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/making-of-kaniyam-scanbox-diy-sca…
Comment there If you are interested in volunteering for scanning or post
processing using scantailor.
Hello all,
For last couple of weeks, I am trying to update state and district wise
data of COVID-19 pandemic in India on Wikidata. I have tried to organize
the workflow here
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_force>.
Thanks to Mahir for creating all the visualisation queries
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_forc…>
and Jinoy for working on the health bulletins. To check how important the
entire work is, you can check this map showing the spread of the disease at
the district level <https://w.wiki/LCs> or this line chart at the state
level, <https://w.wiki/Kvs> for example, all built from Wikidata. This is
useful for epidemiological research, distribution of relief and health
materials, planning of volunteer relief teams and many other aspects. There
are already quite a few non-Wikimedia volunteer workforce working on this.
Now, the problem is, there are huge discrepancies in data provided by WHO,
different government health bulletins, media houses and crowdsourced
volunteer initiatives and I have been trying as best as I could to find the
most accurate data and update them as far as at the district level. Also,
the Wikidata interface is not suitable for day-to-day updating like this
one, which is another problem. Needless to say, this is extremely
exhausting to do it alone for the whole country.
So, I appeal to every experienced Wikidata contributors in this list to at
least take care of the data of the districts of your states, so that the
workload is distributed and we can deliver high quality accurate
epidemiological data as the disease spreads further in the country. If I
have to do it alone, I will then have no other choice but to leave some
states behind which will create unavoidable and unwanted data gaps.
If you have any questions or want to join us, please ping me, Mahir or
Jinoy here.
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task…>
We have a fairly active messenger chat group to coordinate with, where you
are more than welcome.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Wikidata volunteer
Hello Indic Wikisource member,
As you may already know, CIS-A2K has launched Indic Wikisource
Proofreadthon in the interest of collecting, enhancing, and expanding
knowledge to encourage and stay home in the current COVID19 crisis.
Are you preparing for the Proofreadthon?
Can we use this mailing list to coordinate and understand how many
proofreadthon will be there?
* The Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_wikisource_proofreadthon
WHAT DO YOU NEED
* a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some
classical books of your language. The book should not be available in any
third party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books
and add here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Book_list
*As participants
Kindly sign your name at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Participants
*Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this Proofreadthon
and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers are also as a
participant in this Proofreadthon.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Participants
* Some social media coverage
I would request to all indic Wikisource community member please spread the
news to all social media channel, we always try to convince it your
Wikipedia/Wikisource to use their SiteNotice. Of course, you must also use
your own Wikisource site notice.
* some awards
There may be some award/prize given by CIS-A2K.
* A way to count validated and proofread pages.
https://wscontest.toolforge.org/
* Time
In India, Proofreadthon will run: from 01 May 2020 00.01 to 10 May 2020
23.59
* Rules and guidelines
The basic rules and guideline have described here
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Rules
* scoring
The details scoring method have described at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon/Rules#
Scoring_system
I really hope many Indic Wikisources will be present this year at-home
quarantine.
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K
Hello Open Source enthusiasts,
This week on #FOSSWeeks webinar series, Let’s learn about Wikimedia Commons
- a sister project of Wikimedia.
What is FOSSWeeks?
FOSSWeeks is a webinar series initiated by MozillaTN, in an effort to boost
FOSS (free & open-source software) contribution in the Tamilnadu community.
In this webinar series, we invite Subject Matter Experts(SME) & Longtime
contributors from Mozilla and various other FOSS organizations to teach you
How-to start contributing to different open source projects.
*Join us for the webinar:* https://frsh.link/commons
*Trainer: *Mr. Pavan Santhosh (User: Pavan santhosh.s)
Time? April 18, 2020, 6.00-7.00 pm IST
========================================
இந்த வாரம் #FOSSWeeks வெபினார் தொடரில், விக்கிமீடியா பொதுவகத்திற்கு எவ்வாறு
பங்களிக்கலாம் என்று தெரிந்து கொள்வோம் வாருங்கள்.
#FOSSWeeks என்றால் என்ன ?
#FOSSWeeks என்பது மொசில்லா தமிழ்நாடு அமைப்பினால் தொடங்கப்பட்ட வெபினார்
தொடர் ஆகும். இது FOSS (கட்டற்ற மற்றும் திறந்த மூல மென்பொருள் ) பங்களிப்பை
அதிகரிக்கும் முயற்சியாகும்.
இந்த வெபினார் தொடரில் நாங்கள் அனுபவம் மிக்க மொசில்லா பங்களிப்பாளர்கள்
மற்றும் FOSS பங்களிப்பாளர்களை கொண்டு உங்களுக்கு பல்வேறு திறந்த மூல
திட்டங்களுக்கு பங்களிப்பது எப்படி என்று கற்பிக்கின்றோம்.
வெபினாரில் எங்களுடன் இணையுங்கள்: https://frsh.link/commons
*பயிற்சியாளர்:* பவன் சந்தோஷ் (User: Pavan santhosh.s)
*நேரம் ? ஏப்ரல் 18, 2020, மாலை: 6.00-7.00 *( இந்திய நேரம் )
With Regards,
Mozilla TamilNadu team
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Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you all are safe and taking care in these difficult times. Recently we
have submitted proposal to WMF. The proposal can be seen here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2019-2020_round_2/The_…
We are grateful to all the Indian communities for their constant support
and well wishes,
regards,
Subodh Kulkarni
Programme Officer
Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme
Dear all,
Hope this email finds you well and safe. You are aware of the very
unfortunate coronavirus outbreak globally and in India. Earlier we informed
you that on-site/offline CIS-A2K events were postponed.[1] In this email,
we will give you some more details about the Project Tiger 2.0 community
workshop.
You know Project Tiger edit-a-thon[2] has completed some time ago, and we
were supposed to work on organizing a community skill development workshop.
However, following WMF suggestion[3], recommendation by the central and
state government in India, and after a detailed discussion with Project
Tiger team, we want to inform that we can’t conduct Project Tiger workshop
due to the current circumstances, and we will be exploring a new date for
the workshop once life gets back to normal in India.
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please write to
tito+pt2020(a)cis-india.org or reply to the email.
Thanks for understanding and please stay safe.
Footnotes:
1.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2020-March/014533.ht…
2.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia…
3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice
Best,
Team Project Tiger
This workshop will be conducted virtually. And the agenda shows there will
be a few renowned speakers. For this particular event I have applied to
attend. If any of you are interested, have a look.
PS. I am not part of the organizing committee.
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Leila Zia <lzia(a)wikimedia.org>
Date: Sat, Mar 28, 2020, 4:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikidata] Wiki Workshop 2020 Announcement and Call for Papers
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities <
wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, A mailing list for the Analytics Team
at WMF and everybody who has an interest in Wikipedia and analytics. <
analytics(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Discussion list for the Wikidata project. <
wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hi all,
I hope you are all doing well and staying healthy.
A few updates (including registration information) about Wiki Workshop 2020:
* Wiki Workshop 2020 will take place on April 21, 5:00-10:00 PST
(13:00-18:00 UTC).
* We are planning an optional 80-min event after the completion of the
workshop. More information about this once we publish the full
schedule on 2020-03-31.
* We currently have a cap of 300 people for folks to participate in
the workshop. If you know you want to participate, please register
sooner rather than later. We are still iterating over the "streaming"
idea. More updates on that in the coming weeks.
* If you like to participate in the workshop, please submit your
registration request via
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2ctfYVIokWYsvUfxcdF-FNwrymgzpNZL…
.
Best,
Leila, on behalf of Wiki Workshop 2020 organizers
On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:42 PM Leila Zia <lzia(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> We have an update for you regarding Wiki Workshop 2020 [0] in light of
> the global health situation related to COVID-19.
>
> ==Summary==
> We have turned Wiki Workshop 2020 from an in-person event to a fully
> virtual event. This was not an easy decision for us to make. We know
> that past year attendees had gained a lot from the in-person set-up of
> the workshop. This being said, we're excited about the opportunity of
> organizing the workshop in a virtual set-up: this allows us to reduce
> our carbon foot-print and to allow more people to benefit from the
> workshop.
>
> For this year's workshop, we have decided to remove the registration
> cost which is removing one more barrier for participation. The
> workshop will take place, as originally planned, on April 21 2020. We
> have changed the time of the workshop from Taipei's local time to
> afternoon UTC until evening UTC. (Exact times will be announced in the
> coming couple of weeks.) We also want you to know that we're working
> hard to transform the workshop program to one that can be engaging in
> a virtual set-up. We are making good progress on this front, thanks to
> the immense flexibility of everyone who is working with us including
> our speakers and the authors of the papers. Look for more information
> in the coming weeks about how to register (for fee). If you want to
> know more, please read on! :)
>
> ==Where?==
> Wiki Workshop 2020 is going fully virtual. All talks, conversations,
> poster sessions, and one on one meetings are moved to a virtual
> environment.
>
> ==When?==
> April 21, 2020. We will start in the afternoon UTC and will end in the
> evening UTC. Note that this is a change from the original plan to
> start at 9:00 local time in Taipei. We expect to be able to finalize
> the start and end times of the workshop no later than 2020-03-27.
>
> ==How?==
> We are testing a few different video communication options and most
> likely we will go with Zoom [1]. There is no cost for downloading
> Zoom, and there is even a web browser version of it. However, some of
> the features we will use, such as breakout rooms, will work more
> smoothly if you download Zoom. We will send specific instructions for
> how to connect to those who register for the event.
>
> ==Registration==
> If you are not an author of an accepted archival paper, you can
> request to attend the event for free. We will send the details for how
> to submit your request by 2020-03-27. We will review all registration
> requests and will let you know if your registration is through.
>
> If you are an author of an accepted paper in the workshop, you will
> need to make sure at least one of the authors of your paper is
> registered for a 1-day (or more) in-person registration option offered
> by the Web Conference 2020 organizers or the 5-day virtual attendance
> registration for the conference. Link to register:
> https://www2020.thewebconf.org/registration . Please note that your
> paper will be removed from the proceedings of the conference if you do
> not take this step and we, as workshop organizers, don't have any
> means to fix that for you.
>
> ==Program==
> We traditionally had 5-6 invited talks (45-min each) in Wiki Workshop
> along with a Featured and Lightning Talk session by the authors of the
> accepted papers followed by a poster session. The duration of the
> workshop in the old set-up was 8 hours.
>
> We have no doubt that our traditional model for the program has to
> change for this year. We know that the dynamics of engagement in the
> virtual set-ups are different from the in-person set-ups. Here is what
> we're thinking about the high-level format, the details to be
> announced as we finalize the program in the coming few weeks:
> * Ice-breaker: unchanged.
> * Introductions: some way of making sure every person knows at least a
> few other of the participants. (We can do 15-sec intros if we have 10s
> of attendees, but we can't scale that if we have many more.)
> * Keynote plus Q&A
> * A conversation: an interview style back-and-forth between two people
> with room for questions at the end.
> * A conversation: a panel style of conversation. we have a couple of
> topics in mind for the panel and are sorting out details.
> * Featured Talks and Lightning Talks: 10-min or 3-min presentations by
> the authors of the accepted papers. This is unchanged from last year,
> except that after this session we would go to a poster session and
> this year we are working on a topic-based virtual poster session. The
> authors will receive more information about this.
> * The virtual poster session
> * Wrap-up
> * One on one meetings: This is new for this year. We will be offering
> the participants the option to sign up for short one on one virtual
> meetings with a selected subset of Wikimedia researchers and volunteer
> editors for more in-depth conversations.
>
> Please expect more updates in the coming weeks on this thread. If you
> have questions, please send them to us via
> wikiworkshop(a)googlegroups.com or you can comment on this thread.
>
> We wish you, your family, and your friends health.
>
> Best,
> Leila, on behalf of Wiki Workshop organizers [2]
>
> [0] https://www2020.thewebconf.org/
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_Video_Communications
> [2] https://wikiworkshop.org/2020/#organization
>
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 7:13 PM Leila Zia <lzia(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > We are delighted to announce that Wiki Workshop 2020 will be held in
> > Taipei on April 20 or 21, 2020 (the date to be finalized soon) and as
> > part of the Web Conference 2020 [1]. In the past years, Wiki Workshop
> > has traveled to Oxford, Montreal, Cologne, Perth, Lyon, and San
> > Francisco.
> >
> > You can read more about the call for papers and the workshops at
> > http://wikiworkshop.org/2020/#call. Please note that the deadline for
> > the submissions to be considered for proceedings is January 17. All
> > other submissions should be received by February 21.
> >
> > If you have questions about the workshop, please let us know on this
> > list or at wikiworkshop(a)googlegroups.com.
> >
> > Looking forward to seeing you in Taipei.
> >
> > Best,
> > Miriam Redi, Wikimedia Foundation
> > Bob West, EPFL
> > Leila Zia, Wikimedia Foundation
> >
> > [1] https://www2020.thewebconf.org/
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