Hello everyone,
I’m delighted to invite you to the 34th edition of the DCW Conversation
Hour, featuring Dumisani Ndubane, a long-time South African Wikimedian and
Director of Monitoring & Evaluation at MMG Earth. He has also worked with
the Wikimedia Foundation in various monitoring and evaluation capacities
and continues to play a pivotal role in advancing the Wikimedia Movement
Strategy.
In this session, “2030 Strategy and the Wikimedia Movement,” Dumisani will
share insights into the evolution of the Movement Strategy, its current
phase of implementation, and the key priorities guiding Wikimedia’s
collective path toward 2030. We’ll discuss how sustainability, inclusion,
equity, and community-led innovation form the pillars of the Strategy and
how affiliates, user groups, and individual contributors can align their
efforts to make meaningful impact.
The Conversation Hour is scheduled for Saturday, 25 October 2025, at 13:30
UTC (7:00 p.m. IST).
You can find event details and registration on the page below:
https://dcwwiki.org/dc-p0
We look forward to your participation and thoughtful engagement in this
important discussion. Please bring along your questions!
Kind regards,
Ariba
Deoband Community Wikimedia
Hello Wikisourcerers,
I would like to present a digital library catalogue built for Wikisource
named Sangkalak <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123617697> (in Bangla
সংকলক), which you can find here - https://sangkalak.toolforge.org . This
tool was primarily built for Bangla Wikisource back in 2023 as a Wikidata's
birthday gift
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eleventh_Birthday/Presents> and is
widely used in that project since then. It was previously presented at the GLAM
Wiki Conference 2023
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2023/Program/Wikisource_and_Wikid…!>
and Wikisource Conference 2025
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Conference_2025/Submissions/Wiki…!>.
After a presentation at the recent Wikidata and sister projects
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Event:Wikidata_and_Sister_Projects> online
event, it was decided to make this tool available for other languages
Wikisources as well and hence it can be used by any language Wikisource
communities from now, if they wish. However, as it was primarily built for
the Bangla community, the default interface language shall be Bangla.
You can search the books using 5 parameters like title, author, translator,
editor and publisher using 4 functions i.e. contains, exact match, starts
with and ends with along with and/or operators. You can query as many times
as possible using these parameters, functions and operators by simply
adding new lines. After querying for results, you can sub-filter the
results again for authors, translators, editors, publishers, places of
publication, dates of publication, forms, genres and main subjects at the
left sidebar. The tool provides the option to get permanent links, so that
you can use them on Wikisource and elsewhere. The tool can be accessed from
mobile also.
The tool is dependent on Wikidata based query and strictly follows the FRBR
data model described at Wikidata:Books
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Books>. So, if any
Wikisource community is correctly storing the descriptive metadata on
Wikidata following this page, their books can be searched in this
catalogue. Please note that, if the data model is not followed properly on
Wikidata, the books may not come in results, for which you can resolve
constraint violations in those relevant items, as necessary.
The tool only queries for those items which use P1957
<https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1957>. If any item has a sitelink
to Wikisource, the tool links to the corresponding Wikisource main
namespace and gives options to export the books with PDF, Mobi and Epub
formats using the WS-export tool. If the sitelinks have proofread and
validated badges, it displays them. If the item does not have a sitelink to
Wikisource, it links to the index namespaces. The tool also displays QR
codes for mobile users. Support for OPDS
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Publication_Distribution_System> is
underway.
The interface languages of the tool are currently Bangla and English.
However, if you want this tool to be available in your language, you can
translate the strings in the json file attached below, save it and send it
back to us, so that we can include them in the code.
I would like to specially thank Mahir Morshed who has been developing this
tool in his volunteer capacity.
Regards,
Bodhisattwa