[Wikimediaindia-l] B y t e s F o r A l l :: MAY-2023 :: Moving images from WikiConferenceIndia 2023

[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] B y t e s F o r A l l MAY-2023 -------------------------------------------------- Moving images from WikiConferenceIndia 2023 Compiled by Frederick Noronha / @fn +91-9822122436 fredericknoronha2(a)gmail.com [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] A TECHIE WHO LOVES [FREE AND OPEN] DICTIONARIES: The intersection of Indic languages, open data and FOSS .... from Kailash. Dictionaries too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxCUiFiEbH4 ANGIKA GETS ITS OWN WIKIPEDIA: Did you even know that a language called Angika existed... and was spoken by so many? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHZF1hsM5J0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhEkqge3o2I TECH SOLUTIONS FOR GARNERING INFORMATION: Info-Farmer, a Tamil self-thought programmer and Wikipedian, finding solutions to share information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7I4v08iCzc FROM TECHNOLOGY TO INFO: Kartik Mistry... from the FOSS movement to being a Wikipedian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4uokEd97pI TRIBAL LANGUAGES NEED ENCYCLOPEDIAS TOO: Gondi, that's the newest Indian language to get a Wikipedia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=724sC0oLd5o COPYRIGHT-FREE BOOKS CAN BE DIGITISED: Digitising Marathi books and texts... from near Poona/Pune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1vTJq4KM2s REMEMBERING HISTORY FROM THE FOSS WORLD: Down memory lane... the FOSS (Free/Open Source Software) movement of the late 1990s and early 2000s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXz24wQmdOE THESE WERE INDIAN TECH EXPERIMENTS OF THE PAST: Dr Subbu Shastry... on the NewsRack.in story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF9RrbhCR0g REBUILDING NETWORKS -- FREE AND OPEN SOURCE IN INDIA: FOSS United... and attempt (growing fast) of promoting Free and Open Source in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K5j-mD9ZDo A PIC IS WORTH.... : Why sharing photos (on the Wikimedia Commons) is important https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Va_4dwnN-A REMINISCING THE PAST IN YOUNG INDIA'S TECH HISTORY: Early days of the Wikipedia in India, Hindi editing and more such stories... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GnFUFBuvls THIS HELPS YOU TRAVEL: What is Wikivoyager all about (incomplete) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MiSXeKoWVo PICS TIPS: How to take better photos... in four quick steps! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnmlokJntH4 VISIONS OF SHARING INFORMATION: What's it like being visually challenged... and trying to edit the Wikipedia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTQXfQib3Ic FROM KERALA TO SWEDEN, WITH WORDS AND IDEAS: A radiologist in Sweden ... a Wikipedian for Malayalam (and English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhXw074C5Z4 COMPUTING IN KERALA'S SCHOOLS, SOME BACKGROUND: Tony Antony, promoting Free Software in schools... and going beyond that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJUSd4GL078 EDITING A CROWDSOURCED ENCYCLOPEDIA CAN BE FUN: Abhinav619.... cricket, books, volunteering on the Wikipedia, creating shareable knowledge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUQWhVUT81Q GLOSSARIES AND DICTIONARIES FOR LANGUAGES YOU DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED: Building a glossary/dictionary for Arebhashe.... in South India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nmu9J-AOfs OLD BOOKS, NEW LIFE: Reviving Telugu books of another era, another century... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzD2KaiQjME MINORITY CULTURES AND THEIR SOLUTIONS: Understanding the Deobandi Wikipedians' community in India... and documenting its work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZAv7j5vWQU WHEN TECHIES TAKE TO HELPING: Tech solutions from the Villupuram GNU/Linux Users Group... that make knowledge sharing easier An encounter in April 2023. This work makes it easier for everyone to share information. It struck me as a very practical use for India's tech skills (which unfortunately seldom get used to local needs, but largely go to earn the export dollar). Check out the presentation here: Presentation about Spell4Wiki, SpotWikiEdit, QuickWiktionary, Wiki-Bulky Tools https://bit.ly/3NFA6RA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn_7WT32tF8 This is what it takes to click a photo of 250-odd Wikipedians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFFzuId3e2M [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] BytesForAll was launched circa July 1999, to focus on how software, hardward and the Internet could play a role in social development -- even before the ICT4D debate became a "fashion". Cofounded by Frederick Noronha and Partha Sarkar. http://groups.google.com/group/bytesforall_readers See a historical snapshot at https://tinyurl.com/yjjoreya -- FN * +91-9822122436 * 784 Saligao 403511 Bardez Goa ------------------- YouTube Channels ------------------- FN https://www.youtube.com/c/FrederickFNNoronha/videos or https://bit.ly/FNOnYouTube FN1 https://bit.ly/FNVideos1 FN2 https://bit.ly/FNVideos2 ------------------- ------------------- ----------------