On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 5:38 AM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rgkmc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ankry, Asaf and all,
On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group (WBG), I can send formal
request to Wikisource User Group to become a partner in all Wikisource
related events organized by WBG. For last 4 years, WBG had been running
several proofread contests and campaigns on Bengali Wikisource, bringing
GLAM institutional and other partnerships and generating general awareness
around Wikisource and if it requires a formal declaration to involve
Wikisource user group into these initiatives, we will be very happy to do
that. We will not ask anything in return but if some expertise, guidance
and connections are provided by Wikisource user group members at those
events, that would be great for us.
All WBG events related to Wikisource will then can be easily incorporated
into Wikisource user group annual reports in future without any issue.
If this proposal seems OK to you all, please let me know and I will start
the process from our side as soon as possible.
I actually think that would defeat the purpose of user group activity
reports. That purpose is twofold: to share news *from* the group to peers,
and to allow *assessment* of the group's own activities. It is
specifically not the goal for the group's activity report to be a round-up
of all activities and news related to the *theme* of the group, like the
GLAM[1] and Education[2] newsletters, whether or not the group was involved.
If the *group* maintained a loose communication network between Wikisource
volunteers and communities, and that's the only *group* activity this year,
I think it is both appropriate and perfectly enough for the activity report
to say just that.
(Actually, creating a Wikisource newsletter on the model of the
GLAM/Education newsletters might itself be a perfect activity for the
group! And then could be reported in the activity report. "Maintained the
Wikisources newsletter [link]".)
Cheers,
A.
[1]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM/Newsletter/Archives
[2]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/Archive
Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)
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