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From: Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group <contact(a)indicmediawikidev.org>
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022, 7:02 pm
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Indic Hackathon 2022 and Scholarship
Applications
To: <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
We are happy to announce that the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group
will be organizing Indic Hackathon 2022, a regional event as part of the
main hackathon taking place in a hybrid mode during 20-22 May 2022. The
event will take place in Hyderabad.
As we have mentioned in our previous email informing about the grant
proposal, the regional event will be in-person with support for virtual
participation. As it is with any hackathon, the event’s program will be
semi-structured i.e. while we will have some sessions in sync with the main
hackathon event, the rest of the time will be upto participants’ interest
on what issues they are interested to work on. The event page can be seen
at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Hackathon_2022.
In this regard, we would like to invite community members who would like to
attend in-person to fill out a form for scholarship applications by 17
April, which is available on the event page. Please note that the hackathon
won’t be focusing on training of new skills, and it is expected that
applications have some experience/knowledge contributing to technical areas
of the Wikimedia movement.
Please post on the event talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Hackathon_2022> if you have any
queries.
Regards
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Hi Everyone,
The Community Resources team and the Let’s Connect Working Group are
excited to announce the launch of the Peer Learning Program – Let’s Connect
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/25/lets-connect-register-now-for-the-pee…>.
It is a response to requests gathered during the Movement Strategy process
and for building capacities through knowledge sharing amongst community
members (peers) in a way that promotes collaboration and
people-centeredness.
Let's Connect is bringing you monthly learning clinics and one-on-one
matches around various subjects in the Wikimedia movement. This program is
carefully created with the involvement of community members scattered all
over the various regions in the Wikimedia Movement. The programs can be
based on both regional and cross-regional connections.
Do you want to join? You can register to be a part of the “Let’s Connect”
through this form <https://forms.gle/eySNYTsMBqA5V8sM7>. We will use this
information to match you with others and invite you to learning clinics!
To reach out to anyone on the working group or the WMF concerning “Let’s
Connect” kindly visit the Meta-Page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect> or you
can send an email to the Working Group at letsconnectteam(a)wikimedia.org
We look forward to engaging with the wonderful Wikimedia movement and we
thank our working group, WMF and Wikimedians across the world for making
sure these programs come to life.
Thank You.
Regards,
“Let’s Connect” Working Group.
[1] Registration Form <https://forms.gle/eySNYTsMBqA5V8sM7>
[2] Let's Connect Meta Page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect>
[3] Let's Connect Diff Posts
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/25/lets-connect-register-now-for-the-pee…>
--
Pavan Santhosh.
Dear Proofreaders,
CIS-A2K is in a process to community survey and being conducted as part of a pilot study to collect baseline data on infrastructural needs of Wikisource platforms in India. The objective of the study is to identify current challenges and knowledge gaps in technological capacity, resources and training on Wikisource platforms in selected languages. Through an analysis of this data, the study aim will provide learnings and recommendations on potential strategies to address these gaps, including through collaborative intervention and training. You may read more about the study here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Research/Study_on_Infrastructural_N…
To design the programs based on the needs of the community and volunteers, we invite your valuable suggestions and thoughts. We would like to improve our working continuously taking into consideration the responses/feedback about the events conducted previously. We request you to go through the various sections in the form and respond.
Google form link - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemIo2Ioc7vF-ksKNiPv3sYyXsSkfUvo0X…
Please write in detail. We would like to discuss over phone/email also if needed. Contact sneha(a)cis-india.org if you have a question(s) or for further details or detailed comment.
With best wishes,
Jayanta Nath
Centre for Internet & Society
Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K)
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From: Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2022, 5:28 am
Subject: [Indic-wikisource] Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
To: indic-wikisource(a)lists.wikimedia.org <
indic-wikisource(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Wikimedia India <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Mailing list
for discussions about Tamil wikisource / தமிழ் விக்கிமூலம் <
tawikisource(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, discussion list for Wikisource, the free
library <wikisource-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello Indic Wikisource proofreaders,
We are happy to announce that the Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
[1] will be starting from tomorrow 01 March 2022 and will continue up to
16th March 2022.
We are also expecting higher participation than in previous contest.
We heartily welcome new Wikimedians from various parts of the country to
work on restoring our literary heritage to the digital era. Just like the
previous contest held in August 2020, we again promise to wrap up
everything within the expected timeline after the competition ends. We are
going to keep our promise again. :-)
Welcome you all to the contest.
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon_March_2022
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From: Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2022, 12:31 pm
Subject: [Indic-wikisource] Online Indic Wikisource meetup : 19th February
2022 - 7:30 PM (IST)
To: indic-wikisource(a)lists.wikimedia.org <
indic-wikisource(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: Wikimedia India <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello all,
It is planned an Indic Wikisource Meetup on 19th February 2022 - 7:30 PM
(IST) - 8:30 PM (IST) on behalf of all Indian Wikisource community. This
Online meetup is organized to discuss and plan the coming Wikisource
proofreadthon 2022 and International Mother Language Day celebration.
So I would request that Indic Wikisource admins and active proofreaders who
are willing to participate in Indic Wikisource proofreadthon, please join
this meetup. This will fulfil the following things.
- Show your Wikisource Status to the all India community.
- Share the standard practice followed by your community.
- Queries regarding Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
- Suggest anything regarding the Contest procedure.
- Gift and prizes.
For details and updates, please follow the event page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Community/Online_meetup_19…
Coming Indic Wikisource proofreadthon:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon_March_2022
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
CIS-A2K
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From: Jayanta Nath <jayantanth(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2022, 10:29 am
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022 postponed
To: Wikimedia India <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Hello,
We want to give you an update related to Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022.
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022 (or WMWM2022) was to be conducted on 18 to 20
February 2022, and is postponed now.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2022
Currently we are seeing a new wave of the pandemic that is affecting many
people around. Although WMWM is an online event, it has multiple
preparation components such as submission, registration, RfC etc which
require community involvements.
We feel this may not be the best time for extensive community engagement.
We have also received similar requests from Wikimedians around us.
Following this observation, please note that we are postponing the event,
and the new dates will be informed on the mailing list and on the event
page.
Although the main WMWM is postponed, we may conduct a couple of brief
calls/meets (similar to Stay Safe Stay Connected call) on the mentioned
date, if things go well.
We'll also get back to you about updates related to WMWM once the situation
is better.
Stay safe,
Jayanta Nath
on behalf of WMWM
Centre for Internet and Society
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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
Dear All,
As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer Maryana’s Listening Tour, a meeting is scheduled for conversation with communities in South Asia.
Please see the event page here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maryana%E2%80%99s_Listening_Tour_%E2%80%95_…
The meet will be on Friday 26 November 2021 - 1:30 pm UTC [7:00 pm IST]. Maryana Iskander, Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer (CEO), will be the guest of the session.
We invite you to join the meet. The session will be hosted on Zoom and will be recorded. Please fill this short form, if you are interested to attend the meet.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/bDrJgdHFXTQh4otPA
Please follow the event page for updates.
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
CIS-A2K Team