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Indic language Wikisource Skill Share
by Jayanta Nath 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

Hi Indian Wikisource Community, As COVID-19 has forced the Wikimedia communities to stay at home and like many other affiliates, CIS-A2K has decided to suspend all offline activities till 15th September 2020 (or till further notice).I present to you for an online training session for future coming months 1. Wikisource Skill Share,[1] a capacity-building initiative, where Indic Wikisource contributors, both newcomers and experienced, can share knowledge and skills with each other and clear confusions. Most of the time, it will be done online on 1:1 basis, so it is just the right time to participate there if you have not planned to do it or done it already. Let's learn Wikisource together! I would like to invite experienced Indic Wikisource contributors and sign your name at Willing to respond section [2]. Newcomer or any Indic Wikisource contributors are welcome to join the session with your queries and doubts. 2. Intensive Personalized Training (or IPT),[3] this also a capacity-building initiative, where Indic Wikisource contributors, especially newcomers could come with his/her queries and doubts. I, myself will share my knowledge and skills with each contributor and clear confusions. It will be done online on a 1:1 basis, so it is just the right time to participate there if you have not planned to do so. 3. Online Proofread-edithon for all 12 Indic Wikisource language projects. We are planning for an indic level online proofreadthon from 1 May 2020 to 10 May 2020. The book of the subject will be the classical literature of your languages. We’ll share details about this in a separate email in a couple of days. Regards, Jayanta Nath Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K 1) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Helpdesk/Skill_sharing 2) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Helpdesk/Skill_sharing#Wil… 3) https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Helpdesk/Intensive_Persona…

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Google Books resumes scanning, in Antwerp
by Federico Leva (Nemo) 25 Mar '20

25 Mar '20

After a few years of near hiatus, it seems that Google Books has found a new partner, the city of Antwerp. They had been scouting for a while now, looking for a partner willing to scan at least 100k books. https://www.blog.google/around-the-globe/google-europe/city-antwerp-and-goo… I've checked a few versions of the press release circulated in Belgium and there's no clear statement on how the city/library will make the scans available, only a generic mention of the books being added to its online catalogue. For example: <https://www.computable.be/artikel/nieuws/digital-transformation/6901998/544…> If someone finds the original press release, please share the link. I couldn't find anything on https://www.consciencebibliotheek.be/ nor https://www.antwerpen.be/ . Federico

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Fwd: [Wikidata] Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library
by Pine W 24 Mar '20

24 Mar '20

Forwarding to the WikiSource list also. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Mark Graham <mark(a)archive.org> Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 3:55 PM Subject: [Wikidata] Internet Archive has launched a National Emergency Library To: wikicite-discuss <wikicite-discuss(a)wikimedia.org>, <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org> On top of our efforts to add links to citations, in Wikipedia articles, to digital versions of referenced book available from archive.org (150K books from 10 Wikipedia language editions and counting…) The Internet Archive just launched a National Emergency Library. We would like to collaborate with, and otherwise support, every related WikiCite project. The team at the Internet Archive that is now working on this project include: Maximilian Doerr (cyberpower678) Stephen Balbach (GreenC) James Hare (harej) Jake Orlowitz (ocaasi) Please reach out to me directly if you would like to explore what we can do together! - Mark Graham Director, the Wayback Machine @ the Internet Archive (917) 697-0110 _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list Wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata

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Memorandum of Understanding with NDLI, CIS and WMF
by Bodhisattwa Mandal 15 Mar '20

15 Mar '20

Hi all, It gives us immense pleasure to announce to the Wikimedia community that National Digital Library of India <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Digital_Library_of_India> (NDLI), Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) and Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) have signed a tripartite non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a 2-years partnership. National Digital Library of India is a Ministry of Human Resource Development <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Human_Resource_Development> project, developed at IIT Kharagpur <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Kharagpur> which aims to build a virtual repository of learning resources and literature metadata. Through this understanding, we will work together on: - integrating Wikisource and Wikidata contents on NDLI website. <https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/> - building up technical infrastructure on NDLI website to crowdsource metadata curation on Wikidata and proofreading on Wikisource websites. - importing relevant contents and data from NDLI website to Wikidata and Wikisource. - identifying and pursuing collaboration opportunities around other Wikimedia projects, such as Wikibooks. After months of discussion among the three parties, the understanding was finalized during International Symposium on Knowledge Engineering for Digital Library Design 2019, <http://kedl2019.ndl.gov.in/> an international conference organized collaboratively by NDLI and UNESCO at IIT Delhi <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_Delhi>, where WMF was a technical partner. Many apologies for cross-posting the announcement in different relevant mailing lists. Regards, Jayanta and Bodhisattwa CIS-A2K

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Cancellation of WikiCite Satellite New Delhi
by Hardarshan Benipal 13 Mar '20

13 Mar '20

Dear Wikimedians, Thank you for your patience. With careful consideration of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic <https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/summary.html>, we have made a decision to cancel the physical WikiCite Satellite New Delhi. We are in contact with the Wikimedia Foundation, they support this decision and are ready and flexible to support any follow-up actions. We will shift the format of the conference to online discussions and presentations and will be postponing this virtual event to the next month. The format and the dates of this virtual event would be determined by the Program Committee in collaboration with presenters. We are disappointed that we won’t be able to collaborate in person but the safety of the conference participants is our highest priority and we look forward to engaging with you in our virtual program. We will be in touch soon with further plans and next steps for participating. Thank you for your understanding. Please direct any questions to info(a)openheritagefoundation.org. On behalf of Open Heritage Foundation Kind regards, Hardarshan [1] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite_Satellite_Event_India_2020> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Resources/COVID-19_Notice [2] <https://forms.gle/L4tU6tDwcHRmFMcE9> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite_Satellite_Event_India_2020 [3] http://openheritagefoundation.org/

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Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal
by balaji 07 Mar '20

07 Mar '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Dumisani Ndubane <dndubane(a)wikimedia.org> Date: Fri, 6 Mar, 2020, 11:22 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> TL;DR: Launch of Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal We are launching a new form-based annual reporting system for Wikimedia affiliates [1], as well as a basic Affiliates data query system. We would love your feedback. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hello, Affiliate Leaders & Community Members, Tired of the affiliate reports [2] wiki table of death? SO are we! The Learning & Evaluation team is pleased to announce the launch of the Wikimedia Affiliates Data (WAD) Portal [1]. This portal will serve three purposes as follows: 1. It introduces a new Object-Oriented User Interface (OOUI) [3] form-based report submission interface for annual activity and financial reports. This replaces the wiki mark-up based submission via the [[Reports]] page on meta. 2. It introduces the ability for Organizations to update their information using OOUI forms on the fly. 3. It introduces a new simple data query form that allows anyone logged-in to their public wiki accounts to run a query and view results on available Affiliates data. The query tool will be improved in the coming financial year, as we work to code data in Affiliate reports into structured data, to allow for richer analysis. The [[Reports]] page on meta will continue to be visible on meta until the end of June 2020, after which it will be protected and archived. All organizations that are due to submit annual reports at the end of March are encouraged to use the new report submission forms. If you do use the new forms, please share any feedback you have about this new process on the Portal’s talk page We will hold training seminars for those who wish to be onboarded to the submission forms and the Query system during the months of March and April 2020 (Dates will be communicated soon). We have taken time to pre-populate the system with basic information about each recognized Wikimedia affiliate, however, should you find any incorrect or outdated information about your group, please use the organization information page[4] to provide updated information. We trust that you will enjoy the new portal and that you will find it useful. Should you have any problems or encounter bugs in the new forms, please use the Portal talk page [5] to log these, or to simply ask questions. We will collect similar questions to create an FAQ page in due time. Kindest regards *Dumisani Ndubane* - Lead Designer *Derick Alangi* - Software Developer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - *Learning & Evaluation team* Wikimedia Foundation *Links:* [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Data_Portal [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reports [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Affiliates_Data_Portal/Organizati… [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Affiliates_Data_Portal _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>

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Wikisource at the Wikimedia Summit 2020
by Nicolas VIGNERON 28 Feb '20

28 Feb '20

Hi all, This year again, we need to select the representative of the Wikisource Community User Group to the Wikimedia Summit 2020. This year summit is even more focused on strategy and the deadline is December 16. There was some issues with last year process (as pointed by Gurlal report) and time is short, so I think the best would be an online meeting sometimes this week (when ?). Who is interested and available ? (both for the meeting but also to go to Berlin). Cheers, Nicolas

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WikiCite Satellite Conference India 2020
by Hardarshan Benipal 26 Feb '20

26 Feb '20

Hello everyone, With great pleasure, we would like to invite you to the WikiCite Satellite Event hosted by the Open Heritage Foundation in New Delhi on April 18,19 2020. Wikicite is a Wikimedia event to develop open citations and linked bibliographic data to serve free knowledge. The Wikimedia community and the GLAM institutions need to understand the dynamics of open bibliographic data better and how it can be scaled proactively with Wikimedia projects and other open-source platforms that are involved in open data. This event will be aimed at addressing the prevalent gap between Wikidata and Wikisource integration for works and their consecutive items. The format and structure of the event would have open calls for collaborators/presenters/participants. The event will be of 2 days and the attendance would be around 15-25 people, including, the stakeholders working with GLAM institutions, Wikisourcers, and Wikidatans interested in bibliographical data. The scholarships and registrations are open from February 26, 2020 and close on March 15, 2020. We also invite the community members to submit proposals for sessions. The date for submissions starts from February 26, 2020 and close on March 11, 2020. The submissions will be taken into account for prioritizing the candidates for scholarships. We look forward to welcoming you to New Delhi in April with the collaborative spirit of this year’s Wikimania theme ‘Sharing knowledge brings people together’ and ‘Power of Diverse Collaboration’. On behalf of the OHF and the organizing committee, WikiCite Satellite Con India 2020 Hardarshan Benipal [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicite_Satellite_Event_India_2020 [2] https://forms.gle/L4tU6tDwcHRmFMcE9 [3] http://openheritagefoundation.org/

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Heritage GLAM
by Rupika Sharma 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Hello everyone, In Punjab, India, we have been working on GLAM Wiki Project with government institutions of Punjab along with our community, a partnership we have maintained over the last year with numerous meetings with the officials. This year, like last year, we are putting a project grant proposed by Open Heritage Foundation in 2020 round. We have successfully completed the 2019 project and are now moving forward with the second phase of the project which has now grown in scale with a non profit that we have built and grown over the past year. Open Heritage Foundation is a non-profit based in India that works on focussed GLAM initiatives in alignment with Wikimedia's strategic direction. This project is a Glam wiki project centered around Community growth supported by the GLAM partnerships for content generation, Integration with Community engagement around Wikisource and Wikidata, Wikipedia integration via the new tools we are creating in this project grant and the last and one of the crucial elements of the project is improving and expanding the readership scale for Wikisource project. We will also be supporting other Communities via our micro grants and skill sharing knowledge pool that we have collected and grown over the years. We lack adequate sources for citations for curating local encyclopedia content. To improve that, we need projects like these to generate that data so we can document our local knowledge with adequate sources to support that work, similar to the oral wiki project idea that talks about covering the indigenous knowledge sources with non traditional sources of information and knowledge creation. Please feel free to ask any questions if you want to understand more about the project or have any questions for more clarification. We look forward to your feedback, advice and suggestions for improvement in the proposal. We also welcome you to join us as Advisors and collaborators to work together for the success of the project. Regards, >From behalf of Open Heritage Foundation Rupika Sharma Charan Gill Sumita Roy Dutta [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Heritage_GLAM_2020 [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Wikilover90/Heritage_GLAM/ [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_Heritage_Foundation/Strategic_Plan_for… [4] http://openheritagefoundation.org/

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Wikisource Community User Group 2019 report
by Ankry 12 Feb '20

12 Feb '20

Dear subscribers, the 2019 report of Wikisource Community User Group is ready: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikisource_Community_User_Group/2019_Report Thank you very much to all who helped with the work on it. Best regards, Ankry

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