G'evening everyone,
I am happy to inform you all that a national level Wikidata editing campaign on content related to India is being organized from from 21 February 2018 to 3 March 2018, marking International Mother Language Day and Open Data Day respectively. The campaign will be considered as active from "00:01 hrs on 21 February 2018" to "23:59 hrs on 3 March 2018", contributions on the content related to India will only be considered.
Event page: https://goo.gl/PmBLqJ
To participate: https://goo.gl/uWcCdU
Item lists: https://goo.gl/Yvbhoc
Note: We also have a limited fund to support community led activities as a part of the campaign. So if any editor is interested to organize a physical edit-a-thon, please let me know. The event has to be organized on or before 3 March 2018.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Dear All,
Firstly I would like to thank you for the continuous support and
contribution to the Wikimedia movement.
Wikisource is originally called Project Sourceberg as a play on words
for Project Gutenberg <https://www.gutenberg.org/>. Wikisource began in
November 2003, as a collection of supporting texts for articles in
Wikipedia. Grew rapidly, reaching a total of 20,000 text units in various
languages by May 18, 2005. For updated page/ digitised content you go here
<https://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/statistics.php?diff=0>
In August and September of 2005, Wikisource moved to separate subdomains
for different languages. From that time Indic community members are
actively taking part to increase the content in your language Wikisource.
But Indic community members have not got any chance to meet each other and
share best practices of their community. Keeping this in mind we are
planning to have an IRC[1] on 25th February 2018 (@8:00 PM) for the Indic
community. Please suggest Agenda for the IRC in Google Doc
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T9qUpNfx6wY06mVQ8XqXox26PP34eEPyswz8qP…>
[3]
[1]. https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
[2]. https://tools.wmflabs.org/phetools/statistics.php?diff=0
[3]. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11T9qUpNfx6wY06mVQ8X
qXox26PP34eEPyswz8qP_xwU/edit?usp=sharing
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V(ಅನಂತ್)*
Programme Associate
Access to Knowledge program
The Centre for Internet & Society
+91-9739811664
