Dear one & all
Please find below the Monthly Report of Wikimedia India for the Month of August. This also contains an program report of WikiConference India-2016 held in Chandigarh on 5th,6th & 7th August 2016
Events
India at Rio Olympics edit-a-thon 2016
Wikimedia India is organizing the India at Rio Olympics edit-a-thon 2016
to celebrate the success of Indian sportsmen at the Olympics.
The Event has been in progression all throughout August & many
articles were created and improved. Currently more than 600 articles
have been created ( stats to be published later). Find the full list of articles to be created & improved here
The event intends to end on 18th September when Paralympics Games 2017 end.
Wiki Loves Earth in India 2016
The results for Wiki Loves Earth in India 2016 were announced in
August. With over 32,000+ images uploaded for the competition by 6,000+
Contributors, the competition saw a phenomenal response from
India.Thanks to all the hardwork put by the Volunteers & the Jury was what that made this competition a success.
Jury
Three Jury from three different diversified fields were invited
- Ashish Kothari
- Santosh Shingare
- Souradeep Ghosh
You can find the Jury Biopic Here
Results
Top 10 images as selected by the Jury
- This Picture is taken behind Nirar Dam at Valparai, Tamil nadu
overlooking the beautiful Annamalai R.F division (Indra Gandhi Wildlife
Reserve) by User:JohnJoelraj
- Grey horn bill with its favourite fruit by User: Mithan B M
- A green Bee-eater trying to catch a bee by User:ARIJIT MONDAL
- Mount Kanchenjunga seen from by User:Yoghya
- A Morning in Chandratal by User:Mahendra Pal Singh
- An Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) taking a dust bath
at the Banks of the Ramganga River in Jim Corbett National park by
User:Tanmay Haldar
- Beautiful Demoiselle cranes migrate from Mongolia to Khichan near Bikaner (Rajasthan) by User:ANKITNARANG297
- Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher at Shiravali by User:P Subramanya C K
- Changu or Tsomgo Lake is at located at the east of Sikkim & at a very high altitude by User:Sudhanshu Gupta
- Bengal Tiger posing for the camera by User:NIKHIL CHAMARTY
Wiki Loves Monument
Overview
Wiki Loves Monuments
is a global photo competition that takes place generally in September.
Wikimedia India would officially be organising this competition in
India.
The aim of the contest is to ask the general public—readers and
users of Wikipedia, photographers, hobbyists, etc.—to take pictures of
cultural heritage monuments and upload them to Wikimedia Commons for use
on Wikipedia and its other sister projects.
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_India>
Call for Volunteers
The Wiki Loves Monument Team invites Wikimedians to be associated in the event as volunteers under different categories
Jury Team
Cultural Partnership Team
Press, Media and Outreach Team
Technical Team
Heritage Walk Team
Volunteer Coordinator
Rapid Grant
Rapid Grant worth INR 1,35,000 was submitted and subsequently approved by the Wikimedia Foundation.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_India#Endorsements>
Planning of Visit of Katherine Maher to India
Wikimedia India was involved in the finalization of Agenda for visit
of Katherine Maher & planning of her meetings with media &
Organizations for Future Partnerships
Post Conference, Katherine made a visit to New Delhi and met few
external partners. A synopsis of these meetings has been described
below.
Meeting with Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi
On 8th August, 11 AM, Mr Manish Siosdia (Deputy Chief Minister of
Delhi) had an interaction with the Wikimedians. The Delhi Government is
all ready to roll out education programs in the Delhi region, in fact,
to help us resolve our gender gap issues, Delhi Government would help us
focus more on women's colleges at the initial stage. The Delhi
Government has also expressed its intent to conduct a Wiki-activity in
Indian languages on M.K. Gandhi in September month, such that Delhi
Government could further facilitate (small souvenirs) the contributors
on 2nd October as a part of the M.K. Gandhi's birthday celebration.
Delhi Government is also looking at possible interventions where GLAM
activities could be undertaken. Incorporating WIkimedia projects under
Delhi Government's free-public wifi scheme has also been proposed. The
meeting was arranged by Wikimedia India and attended by Katherine Maher
along with Wikimedia India EC's (Yohann Thomas, Sanket Oswal, Abhinav
Srivastava).
Department of Electronics and Information Technology Meeting
On 8th August,1 PM, Wikimedians met Mr. Rajiv Bansal, Joint
Secretary. Government of India, Department of Electronics and
Information Technology at this office in Delhi. The talks centered
around bringing DIETY newsletter under open license, a collaboration
between Government of India and WMIN + CIS-A2K over government's
vikaspedia, drawing attention to Indian language content to be released
under Creative Commons, Collaboration with the ministry towards making
the government websites include better and accurate language content,
etc. The meeting was arranged by CIS-A2K and attended by Katherine Maher
along with CIS-A2K staff (Tanveer Hasan) and Wikimedia India EC's
(Sanket Oswal, Abhinav Srivastava).
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Meeting
On 8th August,5.30 PM. Wikimedians met Dr Ramesh Gaur (Head Libarary-
JNU) and Dr Anup Das (Documentation Officer). JNU will be opening up
its central repository of thesis (almost 22,000 units, including PhDs,
M.Phil and Master's Program) under open access. JNU will be assisting us
in providing journal articles to our editors for use on Wikipedia. 'One
Lib One Ref" workshop at JNU would also be conducted in JNU shortly
(maybe in September). JNU also has shown its intent at digitization Dr
B.R. Ambedkar's writing under the Hindi Wikisource. Further
collaborations during seminars at JNU on Wikisource projects would also
be taken up. The meeting was arranged by Wikimedia India and attended by
Katherine Maher along with Wikimedia India EC's (Sanket Oswal, Abhinav
Srivastava) and CIS-A2K staff (Tanveer Hasan).
WikiConference India 2016 (WCI 2016)
The WikiConference India 2016
was conducted on August 5,6,7 in Mohali, Punjab. The conference
happened after a gap of five years, last conference was held in Mumbai
2011.
- Wiki Conference India started on an exceptional note with the signing of an MoU
between CIS-A2K,Wikimedia India Punjabi Wikimedians User group with
the hosts of the Event, Chandigarh Group of Colleges with plans to start
an education program there
The Conference schedule was made by the Programs team.
The Programs Schedule was made by first inviting submissions
from the community.Then they were shortlisted by the Programs team
& the final list of speakers were informed on their talk page.
Chandigarh Hackathon
Chandigarh Hackathon Group Photo
The Hackathon at the WikiConference India was organized by Santosh
Shingare . The Hackathon organized in parallel track with other programs
of the Conference. It closed with 7 applications, which are all useful
to the community.
- WikiSpeak : (Web Application + Android Mobile
application).WikiSpeak lets you search text on Wikipedia at just one
click and reads aloud that text for you. Source code Link (Web
Application) : Github :https://github.com/ashjal/WikiSpeak Source code Link (Android Application) : Github :https://github.com/sandarumk/WikiSpeak
- Edit Tamil Wiktionary (Tamil community request) : - (Android
application) This is a utility application for any wikipedian who has
title of the page and its content in a spreadsheet or document. The user
will have to convert that document to .tsv which can easily be done
using any Office suite.Source code link: https://bitbucket.org/Shailumani/wiki-tsv/src
- Audio file upload to WikiData (Punjabi community request) :
Wikipedia articles on google map : This is a web application to annotate
Google Maps with location rich data.Source code link (web
application) : Github : https://github.com/Shailumani/map_annotate_wiki.git (Android application) Github: https://github.com/Atul22/wikiAudio .
- Communication platform (WebRTC) : Community can use this to
talk or conference (Audio/video web conferencing application)Github : https://github.com/cherishsantosh/Communication-Platform
- Notification (Event based) : showing popup on event eg (If
recent changes happen, It will show popup which article was updated) -
The extension which is in its inital phase at
Github:DesktopNotifications collects in live edit history from http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/RCStream and shows up desktop notifications on edit for users
Edit-a-thon
Lists of edit-a-thons which were planned for the event
Programs, Sessions & activities conducted by Wikimedia India at WikiConference India
Membership drive by Wikimedia India at WikiConference India 2016
Wikimedia India had a special booth at the conference where attendees
were coming & registering for membership. Close to 100 attendees
signed up to become member of Wikimedia India
SAARC Regional Wikimedian meeting
This meeting was in continuation with the past meetup done by
Wikimedian from the countries of Bangladesh, India, Nepal & Pakistan
in past WikiConferences conducted by WMF in Berlin in 2015 &
Wikimania Mexico. This meetup consisted of members from members of
Wikimedia Bangladesh, Wikimedia India, Representatives of Wikimedia
Nepal & Wikimedia Pakistan represented by editors of Urdu Wikipedia
Community. One of the ideas presented by the attendees was to conduct a
SAARC regional conference for Wikimedians. To reach this goal, it was
agreed to take a first step by setting up a Mailing list amongst the
chapters of the 4 countries
Other News
- Tulu-language Wikipedia goes live
- Tulu Wikipedia <https://tcy.wikipedia.org/>
has finally gone live after being in the Incubator for nine long years.
Tulu is spoken by nearly 2 million speakers in the Mangaluru, Udupi and
other South West regions of the Indian state of Karnataka and in some
places in the state of Kerala. 198 editors have contributed so far to
make this happen. The project has started seeing more activity since
2014 when the first ever community meetup was organised in April , 2014.
St. Aloysius College and St. Agnes College, two educational
institutions in Mangaluru, India have done a commendable job in
institutionalizing education programs and several outreach programs for
their students. Wikimedia India congratulates everyone who have helped
grow this project, the language committee and other friends in the
global communities who have supported and guided in working towards the
approval of the project.
- A Bangalore Meetup was organized on 21st August 2016 at the CIS office,Domlur.
- The Agenda for the conference included Wikiconference India
2016 experiences and learnings sharing, planning for Bangalore-based
Wiki activities & discussion on the India at Rio Olympics
Edit-a-Thon organized by Wikimedia India
- Government of Tamil Nadu orders its departments and institutions to release content under CC-BY-SA
- Tamil Development and Information Department of Government of
Tamil Nadu has issued a Government Order (Number: 105, Date: 01. 07.
2016) to Tamil University, Thanjavur and all other government
departments and institutions to release all their publications, archives
and collections under Creative Commons by Share-Alike license.
- This Government Order has got the approval from the TN
Government's Legal Department and issued by the order of Governor of
Tamil Nadu. The order can be seen here. An English copy will be available soon.
- This order comes as part of the public policy initiatives
undertaken through the collaboration between Global Tamil Wikimedia
Community and Tamil Virtual Academy (TVA).The community recognizes this
as a significant milestone in spreading free knowledge for the benefit
of Tamils. :Wikimedia India hopes that this sets a good precedent for
all government institutions across the country.
- OpenCon is a platform for the next generation to learn about
Open Access, Open Education, and Open Data, develop critical skills, and
catalyze action toward a more open system of research and education.
OpenCon 2016 will be held in Washington DC on November 12-14, with
satellite events around the world.
- OpenCon satellite events held in partnership with the main
conference can be of any size, in any place, at any time and are open to
anyone. OpenCon 2016 Ranchi is a satellite event which is organized by Sridar Gautam on 12th November 2016
- Kolkata meetup-13th August
- Kolkata meetup was held on 13th August
Wikimedia India Blog
In the Media
- Carpenter crafts cyber content using ancient mobile. Business Standard. Free Press Journal. The Jodhpur Gazette. NewsKerala.com. ProKerala.com. SocialNews.xyz. The Statesman. DaijiWorld.com WindowToNews.com. Business Standard. Eastern Mirror, Nagaland. Aug 10, 2016.
- How (not) to get started on Wikipedia, an 18-year-old's story. Business Standard. Financial Express. NewKerala.com. LeadersSpeak.in. Aug 8, 2016.
- Wikipedia takes a bite… at Indian food and forts. Indian Express. Millennium Post. DailyPost.in. IndiaEveryDay.in. Gizmodo.in.KollyTalk.com. New Indian Express. PunjabTribune.com. SocialNews.xyz. VishwaGujarat.com. IndRead.com. BFirst.in. The Free Press Journal. W3LiveNews.com (excerpt). Aug 8, 2016
- Wikipedia gets 'taste of Indian food'. Indian Express, Aug 8, 2016.
- India’s 23rd regional Wikipedia, in Tulu, goes live The Indian Express, DailyWorld.in, HuffingtonPost.in, The News Minute.com, DailyHunt.in, The Hindu, Debate on Reddit.com, ReadBing.in (excerpt), WikipediaReview.com, W3LiveNews.com (excerpt), IndiaEveryday.in, ViralShots.com, in.shagaqna.com (excerpt), TodayIndya.com, latestnews360.com (excerpt), electropneumaticpositioner.com (excerpt), ccm.net, makemefeed.com -- headline only, Bangladesh Sun, Aug 6, 2016
- Wikiconference India 2016: Wikipedia’s plans for growth in India are unclear Newsthrive Huntnews
WikiConference India-In the Media
All Press & Media links are available here
