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From: Nitesh Gill <gillteshu(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 14:46
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community
Fund/Youth Skill Development Program to Document Oral Culture in Endangered
Indian Languages
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello again,
We are seeking volunteers from North India and North-East India or those
who have actively worked in these regions to join us in this project. You
can sign-up at the section at the bottom of the project page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Yo…
Regards
Nitesh & Amrit
On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 8:00 PM Nitesh Gill <gillteshu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> *This email was sent from Amrit's account but has not been approved yet.
> Apologies in advance for overwhelming the mailing list in case the other
> email is also approved.*
>
> I am pleased to inform you that Amrit and I have prepared a toolkit for
> transcription of oral culture which enables non-expert to document their
> language and culture and digitize them on Wikimedia platforms. We have
> built upon the OpenSpeaks toolkit and Elicitation Protocol of Wikitongues
> in order to provide a unified toolkit with content on technical knowledge,
> oral history elicitation interview questions, wiki workflow and
> introduction to language documentation. The volunteers who tested this
> toolkit were mostly female, thus forwarding our aim of inclusivity as an
> aim of this project. We request you to go through the toolkit on the
> following page:
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Oral_Culture_Transcription_Toolkit
>
>
>
> Please share your ideas and recommendations on it on the Discussion page
> of the toolkit.
>
> Further, we are planning to utilize this toolkit in the new project that
> we have proposed. In this project, we plan to teach youths speaking
> endangered languages to document their culture, hold workshops for training
> in audio-visual documentation and train them for the wiki workflow. We
> would love to hear from you on this plan of ours, your suggestions are very
> welcome. Also, if you are interested to participate or volunteer in this
> project, do let us know on the talk page or via email. We are sharing the
> link to this project below:
>
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Programs/Wikimedia_Community_Fund/Yo…
>
>
> We are also inviting volunteers to join this project in any capacity. Feel
> free to add your name to the Volunteers section on the project page.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Nitesh and Amrit
>
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Dear Wikimedians,
Greetings for the New Year 2022!
We are excited to announce that submission for session proposals has been opened for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022, the upcoming online wiki-event which is to be conducted from 18 – 20 February 2022 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The submission will remain open until 23 January 2022.
You can submit your session proposals here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2022/Submissions
A program team has been formed recently from highly experienced Wikimedia volunteers within and outside India. It is currently under the process of expansion to include more diversity in the team. The team will evaluate the submissions, accept, modify or reject them, design and finalise the program schedule by the end of January 2022. Details about the team will come soon.
Guidelines for submissions:
* The sessions will be on any Wikimedia related topics.
* Submissions are not restricted to India. Wikimedians from outside India are also welcome to submit proposals.
* The decision to accept or reject a submission will depend on the Program Team. Their decision will be final.
* The event will have different formats of sessions, like presentations, workshops, panel discussions and 5-minutes lightning talks.
* All sessions will be conducted online.
* The organisers will provide the support to help the presenter understand the use of online platforms like Zoom etc prior to the event..
* The organisers will also communicate with the presenter prior to the event to help understand the entire process, or for general preparation.
* A session can be around 20 minutes long or more. A lightning talk should be no longer than 5 minutes.
* There can be more than one presenter in one session. Feel free to make a group for your session.
* The presenters for long duration sessions must ensure that they will be available for the preparation and during their sessions.
* The presenters for lightning talks however can pre-record their sessions earlier, if they want and send it to the organizers to play the recording during their allotted time.
* A session will be conducted in English or any Indian language.
* Similar topics may be grouped together, or format may be changed by the program team. The program team will contact the session presenters if those decisions are taken.
We are sure that you will share some of your most inspiring stories and conduct some really exciting sessions during the event.
Our fist newsletter also is published here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2022/Newsletter/20…
Best wishes for your submissions!
Regards,
Jayanta
(On behalf of WMWM India 2022)
Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you are well! As you already know that CIS-A2K started a series of
mini edit-a-thons in 2020. This year, we had conducted Mahatma Gandhi 2021
edit-a-thon so far.
Now, we are going to be conducting a Festive Season 2021 edit-a-thon which
will be its second iteration.
During this event, we encourage you to create, develop, update or edit
data, upload files on Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia articles etc.
This event will take place on 11 and 12 December 2021.
Be ready to participate and develop content on your local wikimedia
projects.
For more information, you can visit the event page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Festive_Season_2021_edit-a-thon
Thank you,
Nitesh Gill