Greetings everyone,
We are delighted to announce that applications to participate in Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India) to be tentatively held in the last weekend of September 2018 at Hyderabad are now open.
This is going to be a three-day training workshop to equip the participants with the skills to create illustrations and digital drawings in SVG format, using software like Inkscape.
Minimum eligibility criteria to participate is as below:
* Active Wikimedians from India contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia projects.
* At least 1,500 global edits till 30 May 2018.
* At least 500 edits to home-Wikipedia (excluding User-space)
Please apply at the link below before 16th June 2018:
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Ow_o7z2gEIsJy3PYbt0ippnwgU8tMbH…>
Wikigraphists Bootcamp application form
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Dear all,
We've opened a discussion on Meta-Wiki to discuss about the selection criteria for users to attend the Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). Kindly give your opinion at https://goo.gl/d8G74b. Your responses will help the organizers and the scholarships team to select right participants for the workshop.
Note: The discussion will be open until the end of 25 May 2018.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Dear all,
I am happy to announce that Wikimedia India Chapter's Quarterly Report for the period from January to March 2018 has been published.
The report can be viewed at: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/Jan-Mar_2018
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Greetings,
#1Lib1Ref is happening again in May!
It is an annual campaign where librarians add references to improve Wikipedia, is coming back again this year, running from May 15th to June 5th, 2018. It is being run for the second time from this year because we heard from you a desire to run it again out of excitement. Librarians, community members, and affiliates are encouraged to make 1Lib1Ref [their own]. So whether we call this 1Lib1Ref May, 1Lib1Ref for the Southern Hemisphere, or 1Lib1Ref Strikes Back, the point is the excitement is building again, and we'd like you to be a part of it.
If you would like host a session at a local library, here are some materials for you:
1.) Helpful multimedia (logos, videos, flyers, stickers)<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:1lib1ref>
2.) Connect with local librarians<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Connect>
3.) Lets take a Coffee Break and contribute to #1lib1ref. Here's how! <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Coffee_Kit>
4.) Read the 1Lib1Ref 2018 January report and learnings<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Library/1Lib1Ref/Lessons/2018>.
"Imagine a World where Every Librarian Added One More Reference to Wikipedia" Wikipedia is a first stop for researchers. Let's make it better! Your goal today is to add one reference to Wikipedia! Any citation to a reliable source is a benefit to Wikipedia readers worldwide.
For any assistance, kindly contact wikipedialibrary(a)wikimedia.org.
Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
Outreach Coordinator | The Wikipedia Library
on behalf of
Felix Nartey
Global Coordinator | The Wikipedia Library
Hello,
Wikipedia Education programme at CHRIST (Deemed to be University) began in
2013 with a goal of piloting Wikipedia as a pedagogic tool for the
undergraduate students. Both the educators of the WEP and of the university
were new to one such approach. But inside an institution that sees over 20K
new faces every year, educating students on creating Wikipedia articles and
enhancing the same was very exciting. Students of five Indian
languages--Hindi, Kannada, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Urdu--were chosen as these
languages were taught as second languages for many students. During the
first and second year, almost all the students created new Wikipedia
articles where the majority of the articles were below accepted standard.
The difficulty in making students learn about input tools in their
languages, Wikipedia basics, and wiki markup pushed for creating "how-to"
video tutorials in Hindi and Kannada. Working with Urdu was discontinued
after the second year because of program staff exit. Slowly, the program
was reoriented in a manner that new students learned native language input
and markup for the first two semesters by digitizing books on Wikisource
and later by editing Wikipedia articles during the next two semesters. This
helped better the output by increasing the quality of articles by nearly
30%. From 2015 the program was further improved by helping students get
more hands-on training of input, wiki markup by intensive typing during the
first semester, a few advanced options like interacting with each other on
user talk page during the second semester, moving to Wikipedia editing and
developing articles on Wikipedia sandbox during third semester, and finally
moving the articles by peer-review from fellow batchmates, faculty and the
larger Wikipedia community. The faculty is involved in the development and
on-wiki review process ensuring quality.
The program so far has gone to the level of producing about 70% very good
quality articles where nearly 0.6% of the articles are of really poor
quality. The female to male ratio is surprisingly equal and at times, there
are more female students as compared to the male ones. However, there is
little concern in integrating the student-Wikimedians to the larger
Wikimedia community.
Also, there is little exchange of learning and best practices between
cross-language outreach programs across India across several different
languages. One of the ways to better this process is making program leaders
talk to each other.
To know more about us follow on
*Twitter- https://twitter.com/wepchrist <https://twitter.com/wepchrist>*
*Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/ChristWEP/
<https://www.facebook.com/ChristWEP/>*
Thanks and Regards,
*ANANTH SUBRAY P V(ಅನಂತ್)*
Programme Associate
Access to Knowledge program
The Centre for Internet & Society
+91-9739811664
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
