Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiProject Covid-19 in Indic languages

Hi Pavan, Great initiative! I shall be very happy to make more short versions of any COVID-19 related articles for the Wikiproject. Regards Netha On Sun, 19 Apr 2020, 12:17 pavan santhosh &lt;pavansanthosh.s(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I would like to start the mail with a word of love. I hope everyone of > us are doing well during this difficult times. I believe that we will get > through this situation and collectively world will outlive this pandemic. > What we are contributing to this world become enormously important during > this difficult times than any time ever before. Several volunteers around > the world contributing to create, improve, and update content about the > Covid-19 and pandemic which in many ways is service to the world. > > During 3rd week of March, I created and worked on a WikiProject to > co-ordinate efforts (prioritize, list-out articles and resources, organize > workflow, etc.,) to create, improve and update content about Covid-19 in > Telugu Wikipedia. After that, on March 22, I started doing the same for > Indian languages by creating page for WikiProject Covid-19 in Indic > languages in meta. Unfortunately, due to a personal loss, I couldn't do > much about it for few weeks. Later I started coordinating people and > improving the Project page which finally took a shape: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages > . > > *What is Wikiproject Covid-19 in Indic languages? Why is this > required?* > > *Wikiproject Covid-19 in Indian languages* is a meta-wiki project > dedicated to co-ordinate efforts to coverage about topics related in Indian > language Wikipedias. Although there are several efforts going on in various > Indian languages, there needs a central co-ordination project to ensure > more collaboration and better outcomes. > > Some of the things that we can do together: > > - Co-ordinating efforts to create, share, and localise materials > and media needed to improve the articles. > - Collaborating with other projects like Wikidata taskforce (ex: > finding ways to integrate Wikidata and Wikipedia, so that no one needs to > update figures in every Wikipedia separately), Wikigraphists from India > (ex: can take help to localize several graphs, pictures, etc.,), and other > projects. > - Bringing several ideas and best practices across the world > together and making use of it. > - Ex: From my personal experience, Very long articles in English > Wikipedia makes translators life difficult. There is a good effort popped > up in English Wikipedia by Netha Hussain to create short form of important > articles which helps translation of those articles into our languages. We > can co-ordinate with them, get help from Indian English Wikipedians to > create several short form articles and medium-long from articles to make > translation easy. > - Encouraging various language communities to run quality > assessment of the articles and also equip them useful criteria to do so. As > these articles have high visibility and usability, we can ensure quality by > doing so. > - Conduct webinars and IRCs to learn from each other (like a > session from Wikidata experts to help others learn integration of Wikidata > and Wikipedia in this regard), celebrate some achievements, and to share > our camaraderie during these tough times. > > These are some of the efforts we can take up if we collaborate and > coordinate, there can be many such things I couldn't imagine right now. I > would like to request everyone who is interested to join here: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages. > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages> > You can either start a discussion thread about this in your language > Wikipedia village pumps and let everyone know in the talk page of project > or anyway, I can go ahead & inform this in English in all the Wikipedia > Village pumps. > > With love, > Pavan Santhosh. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l