Dear Holalkere Rangarao Laxmivenkatesh,

Every Wikimedian's contribution is of great value and the movement should respect their volunteer contribution perpetually. So is yours contribution. But this mailing list is not a place to fix a IP address block. You should discuss on Kannada Wikipedia Village Pump (http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VP), and NOT here. If you have already discussed and the issue is unsolved you can contact a steward instead. But all that should happen in your home community -- the Kannada Wikipedia and Kannada Wikimedia projects.

I have seen your messages several times in this list. If none has flagged it already, it seems to me like hijacking another discussion. This particular discussion is about a Wikipedia event, not solving an issue with IP addresses. It would be very unfortunate if such a time-sensitive issue is hijacked to solve a personal user account issue. There is a separate forum to discuss and solve that. Please refrain from such repeated spams. I will also request mods to moderate such posts while assuming good faith.

Subhashish


On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:40 AM Holalkere Rangarao Laxmivenkatesh <hrl.venkatesh@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Sir, 
I'm very happy to learn that 20 years of wikipedia (Eng)  service is going to be +,  celebrated and lots of preparations are going on. This is a worthy cause. I remember a decade of service of Wikipedia was Celebrated at Sophia college, churchgate, South Mumbai on  31st October, 2010, where I participated as Kannada language editor along with my friends, Shri. Hariprasad nadig, and Shrikant mishrikoti. I met Mr. Jimmy Wales after his presentation of his lecture.
Even in the year 2005 :
It was way back in 2005,  Shri. Hari Prasad Nadig and  we started contributing to kannada wikipedia, which was in the embryonic state. (It has not made a beginning and very few articles were there in kannada language) Now wikipedia has grown in length and breadth, including, Konkani, Tulu languages by the efforts of various Administrators and other staff members.
Battle cry :
I would like to call it a battle cry in my case. My IP has been blocked and not allowed me to contribute articles and edit the old ones. Of course I admit that I have violated some rules. That is purely because I'm an old timer (now I'm going to be 77 on 24th, January, 2021)  and not accustomed with the modern rules and regulations. Believe me  my intention was purely to  contribute as many number of articles as possible in kannada language. 
In spite of contributing nearly a thousand articles, in kannada and half dozen articles in English, I'm sidelined and my pride is hurt, and now I face so much insult among my family members. This is a terrible  insult for me.
I know very well that this is not a place to tell my egony, but there is no one to listen to me. Please pardon me. and allow me continue my work of editing and creating articles with pictures taken by my camera.

I have decided,  and hardened  my mind not to brood over the past. I deserve this humiliation and insult. I will face it. All the best and let Wikipedia further grow to greater heights. God bless Wikipedia !

-Radhatanaya (H.R.Laxmivenkatesh)
Mumbai-84
M : 9004356819




On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 7:40 AM Tito Dutta <trulytito@gmail.com> wrote:
Namaskara,
This is an interesting thought " Gift Wikipedia a Citation on its 20th Wikipedia". Perhaps some of you would like to try it/find the email interesting.
Quick link: The tool mentioned at [1] in the email below is Citation Hunt: https://citationhunt.toolforge.org/
I checked and it looks like we do not have this tool for a few Indian languages. This page states how to add a new language support: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Citation_Hunt#Adding_support_for_a_new_language
Thanks
User:Titodutta


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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Gift Wikipedia a Citation on its 20th Birthday!
To: <wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia & Libraries <libraries@lists.wikimedia.org>, #1Lib1Ref general list <1lib1ref@lists.wikimedia.org>


To commemorate Wikipedia's birthday, we will once again be adding citations to improve the reliability of the platform. This year's 1Lib1Ref campaign however is very different as Wikipedia turns 20; we are celebrating the humans that make Wikipedia possible, highlighting their contributions and commitment to the platform. In view of this we are asking every human out there to join us in the celebration by gifting Wikipedia a citation to make it more reliable, starting from the 15th Jan to 5th Feb 2021!


We are adding a new layer of contribution to celebrate the humans that contribute to the success of the platform as part of the Wikipedia20 celebrations. Join the #1Lib1Ref Human Challenge by contributing citations to improve the quality of articles around human rights on Wikipedia and with top contributors receiving swags from the Wikimedia Store.[1]


How can I contribute?

Add a citation

  1. Let the tool suggest a citation needed statements for you, or use the search menu at the bottom to choose a category (Wikipedia's version of a tag) of an article that you have a special expertise in (for example, British novels or Provinces of Afghanistan ).

  2. Go to the article, find the statement

  3. Click edit in the section header

  4. Add the source following the source guidelines

  5. Remove the "Citation needed" template (highlight and backspace in Visual Editor, or remove the template which adds that tag (it looks like {{citation needed}} ))

  6. Add the hashtag #1lib1ref to your edit summary

  7. Save the page.

Visit the participate page to learn more.[2]


Communicate 

  • Share a post from our communicate and share page.[3] 

  • We will be sharing a post on diff on Friday, as part of the Wikipedia birthday communication, keep an eye out for that.

 

Help organize?

If you are from the CEE don’t miss out on the 1Lib1Ref CEE regional competition, contact Gorana Gomirac WMRS (gorana.gomirac@vikimedija.org ) and Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska WMPL (natalia.szafran@wikimedia.pl ) for more information.[4] You can also find an activity around you as some countries and institutions such as Canada, Israel, France, Spain, AfLIA, etc. are organizing their own activities.[5]


If you are organizing, add your event to the 1lib1ref Event Dashboard or your virtual event to digital events list to enable people across the world participate in your activity.[6][7] 


It is not too late to schedule an event -- the campaign runs through February 5th and in past years organizers have run #1lib1ref events year round or scheduled activities for #1lib1ref May during the January campaign. 


Remember to add #1Lib1Ref in the edit summary of your contribution to help us track your activity!


Happy 20th Birthday!

Felix Nartey

[1] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate#Participate_in_our_%E2%80%9CHuman%E2%80%9D_challenge!

[2] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Participate

[3] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Share

[4] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/1Lib1RefCEE_campaign

[5] - https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2021/overview

[6] - https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/campaigns/1lib1ref_january_2021/overview

[7] - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Virtual_Coffee_Kit

--
Felix Nartey
Community and Partnerships Coordinator, Campaigns


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