Hello all,

This is a follow-up mail for the campaign commemorating the 125th birth anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose. This 2-years long campaign has encompassed Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource and Wikidata, generating resources and reference materials for Wikipedians to improve articles on Subhas Chandra Bose and related topics.

We have uploaded 862 files https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Media_files_uploaded_during_Subhas_Chandra_Bose%27s_125th_birth_anniversary_Wikimedia_celebration so far on Wikimedia Commons which includes

- pronunciation audio files of Bengali words related to Subhas Chandra Bose. See a file https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LL-Q9610_(ben)-Titodutta-%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE.wav for example - photographs from a small museum in Kurseong district of West Bengal which happened to be a residence of Bose family, See a file https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Early_photograph_of_Bose_family_displayed_at_Netaji_Museum_and_Centre_for_Studies_in_Himalayan_Languages_Society_%26_Culture.jpg for example (done) - scanned files of Azad Hind newspaper, which was the organ of the Provisional Government of Free India. See a file https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Azad_Hind_-_English_-_Vol._2_-_No._20_-_1945-01-23.pdf for example (almost done) - scanned copies of documents declassified by the Government of India and other governments like the UK etc. See a file https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Netaji_Papers_MEA-14(13)FEA-56_(Part_B)_(Netaji_Enquiry_Committee_Report,_Evidence_of_Witnesses,_Report_from_the_Japanese_Government).pdf for example (focus for this year)

There are also campaigns on two Wikisource projects

- A proofread campaign on Bengali Wikisource on books written by Bose or written about Bose. See here https://bn.wikisource.org/s/gp97 (almost done) - A Wikiproject on English Wikisource on declassified Netaji papers. See here https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_Netaji_Subhas_Chandra_Bose_papers. (started this year)

We hope to finish all these works by 23 January 2023. If you are interested in participating in any of the activities mentioned above or initiate your own planning, you are welcome to do so. The meta page is here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose%27s_125th_birth_anniversary_Wikimedia_celebration .

Regards, Bodhisattwa On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 at 22:51, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rgkmc@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello all,

23 January 2022 will mark the 125th birth anniversary of Indian freedom fighter Subhas Chandra Bose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose

West Bengal Wikimedians User Group is planning to conduct a series of events to improve free-content related to Subhas Chandra Bose on different Wikimedia sites. Today, on the 124th birth anniversary of Bose, we have inaugurated the initiative and will continue to work for the next one year.

Learn more about the program here- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Subhas_Chandra_Bose%27s_125th_birth_annivers... (under construction and to be expanded gradually).

You may also read a blog post on Diff: https://diff.wikimedia.org/2020/12/24/125th-birth-anniversary-of-subhas-chan...

If you like, you can share your thoughts and good wishes here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Subhas_Chandra_Bose%27s_125th_birth_ann...

Regards,

Bodhisattwa

On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group