Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Vote on the Community Tech Wishlist!

[Naveen Francis]

Hello fellow wikimedians,

I would like to canvas for this feature.
Please do vote in favor for this feature.
So that we can have localized maps in all language wikipedia.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey/Miscellaneous/Kartographer_improvements

Last year, WMF has stopped major works on Maps. If this ends up as 1st in
community wishlist, WMF may restart the work.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps

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Thanks,
Naveen Francis


On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> It is time to vote on the Community Tech Wishlist.  This *directly
> determines* what the Community Tech team at WMF will work on, and every
> vote counts!
>
> If you want to help out spreading the word in your communities, feel very
> welcome to do so.
>
> You can see the final proposals here:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/2017_Community_Wishlist_Survey
>
> Just click on the categories. Voting will close on December 10.
>
> Cheers,
>
>A.
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Scholarship Committee, Help wanted for new applicants and African community

[Krishna Chaitanya Velaga]

Call for scholarships committee

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From: Martin Rulsch 
Date: Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 5:41 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Call for Scholarship Committee, Help wanted for new
applicants and African community
To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" <
wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <
wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>


Dear Wikimaniacs,

we are now calling for the Scholarship Committee.

The Scholarship Committee is an important and diverse group of volunteers
who help to run the scholarship program. We encourage people from all
Wikimedia wikis to apply for this position so that the committee can handle
applications in many different languages.

The main duties of the committee members prior to Wikimania 2018 are:
* Participation in periodic online meetings with scholarships program
manager and other committee members.
* Review and edit communications material (e.g. application questions).
* Assistance in determination of scholarship applicant requirements.
* Assurance of due consideration and speedy response time to Wikimania
scholarship applications in multiple languages.

For further information please visit
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Handbook#Scholarships and
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships.

We are looking for Wikimedians from all over the world, who are:
* fluent in written English and have good communication skills, or can name
local community member(s) who help them with English translations.
* discreet and able to handle confidential applicant information, and
objectively assess candidates.
* willing to review scholarship applications remotely in early 2018,
estimated time is 30 hours. A review guide can be found on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_
scholars/Reviewer%27s_guide
.
* having either or both:
** previously attended Wikimania,
** strong knowledge of the cross-project Wikimedia community.

Scholarship Committee members may not apply for a scholarship themselves
but there is a small budget for supporting committee members to attend
Wikimania. Please tell us if you need financial support in case you’ll be
selected.

If you're interested in serving on the Scholarship Committee, please send
us an email to  wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org. If you have any
questions, please don't hesitate to contact us there as well.

Deadline to apply is Sunday, December 10, 2017. The organizers will contact
all candidates and publish the list of scholarship committee members right
afterwards.

Proposed timeline
* Nov 30–Dec 10: Call for Scholarship Committee
* mid-December: Selection of the Scholarship Committee and start of the
submission time
* 5–26 February (estimated time frame): main review time

Before the start of the submission time, we are adapting the application
process to take recent activities more into account than the years before,
as proposed on wikimania-l. On the one hand we want to encourage returning
Wikimania participants to share their knowledge, on the other newcomers to
Wikimania to apply for a scholarship at all. Former scholarship recipients
can help us with the latter by sharing their successful applications on
MetaWiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_
scholars#2017_WMF_Wikimania_Scholarships.
In case you don’t have your text at hand, you can send us a confirmation
mail to wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org where you allow us to publish
it for you.

Above all, we want to support African community members with applying for
scholarships. To achieve that, we are especially looking for volunteers who
want help us with encouraging people, assisting with the application form,
finding the right level of presenting one’s activities, etc. Please reach
out to us if you'd like to help.

Many thanks,
David Richfield
 and Martin
Rulsch 
Wikimania 2018 Scholarship Committee co-organizers
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Call for Scholarship Committee, Help wanted for new applicants and African community

[Asaf Bartov]

This is your chance to influence Wikimania scholarship decisions. (But you
won't be able to get a scholarship yourself.)

   A.
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From: Martin Rulsch 
Date: Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 4:11 PM
Subject: [Wikimania-l] Call for Scholarship Committee, Help wanted for new
applicants and African community
To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) <
wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikimedia Mailing List <
wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>


Dear Wikimaniacs,

we are now calling for the Scholarship Committee.

The Scholarship Committee is an important and diverse group of volunteers
who help to run the scholarship program. We encourage people from all
Wikimedia wikis to apply for this position so that the committee can handle
applications in many different languages.

The main duties of the committee members prior to Wikimania 2018 are:
* Participation in periodic online meetings with scholarships program
manager and other committee members.
* Review and edit communications material (e.g. application questions).
* Assistance in determination of scholarship applicant requirements.
* Assurance of due consideration and speedy response time to Wikimania
scholarship applications in multiple languages.

For further information please visit
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Handbook#Scholarships and
https://wikimania2018.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships.

We are looking for Wikimedians from all over the world, who are:
* fluent in written English and have good communication skills, or can name
local community member(s) who help them with English translations.
* discreet and able to handle confidential applicant information, and
objectively assess candidates.
* willing to review scholarship applications remotely in early 2018,
estimated time is 30 hours. A review guide can be found on
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars/Reviewer%27s_guide
.
* having either or both:
** previously attended Wikimania,
** strong knowledge of the cross-project Wikimedia community.

Scholarship Committee members may not apply for a scholarship themselves
but there is a small budget for supporting committee members to attend
Wikimania. Please tell us if you need financial support in case you’ll be
selected.

If you're interested in serving on the Scholarship Committee, please send
us an email to  wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org. If you have any
questions, please don't hesitate to contact us there as well.

Deadline to apply is Sunday, December 10, 2017. The organizers will contact
all candidates and publish the list of scholarship committee members right
afterwards.

Proposed timeline
* Nov 30–Dec 10: Call for Scholarship Committee
* mid-December: Selection of the Scholarship Committee and start of the
submission time
* 5–26 February (estimated time frame): main review time

Before the start of the submission time, we are adapting the application
process to take recent activities more into account than the years before,
as proposed on wikimania-l. On the one hand we want to encourage returning
Wikimania participants to share their knowledge, on the other newcomers to
Wikimania to apply for a scholarship at all. Former scholarship recipients
can help us with the latter by sharing their successful applications on
MetaWiki:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/Wikimania_scholars#2017_WMF_Wikimania_Scholarships.
In case you don’t have your text at hand, you can send us a confirmation
mail to wikimania-scholarsh...@wikimedia.org where you allow us to publish
it for you.

Above all, we want to support African community members with applying for
scholarships. To achieve that, we are especially looking for volunteers who
want help us with encouraging people, assisting with the application form,
finding the right level of presenting one’s activities, etc. Please reach
out to us if you'd like to help.

Many thanks,
David Richfield
 and Martin
Rulsch 
Wikimania 2018 Scholarship Committee co-organizers
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Satdeep Gill joining WMF New Reader's program

[Jnanaranjan Sahu]

Congratulations Satdeep! Nice to know that.

Regards,
*Jnanaranjan Sahu*
*Bhubaneswar*

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Jayanta Nath  wrote:

> Congrats Satdeep!!
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedia [November 2017]

[Jnanaranjan Sahu]

Congratulations Balaji.

Regards,
*Jnanaranjan Sahu*
*Bhubaneswar*

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Suyash Dwivedi  wrote:

> Congratulations Balaji
>
> On Nov 13, 2017 10:34 PM, "Asaf Bartov"  wrote:
>
>> Congrats, Balaji anna!
>>
>>A.
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2017 03:37, "Satdeep Gill"  wrote:
>>
>>> Balaji is an amazing contributor and this is a well deserved recognition
>>> for him.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Satdeep
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Tito Dutta  wrote:
>>>
 Many congrats Balaji. Great to see you getting this recognition.

 Thanks Krishna for the update.
 On Nov 10, 2017 3:46 PM, "Mourya Biswas" 
 wrote:

> Congratulations Balaji (anna)! You are indeed a prolific editor. It's
> a very well deserved recognition and wish you many more accolades.
>
> Best
>
> On 10-Nov-2017 15:39, "Parul"  wrote:
>
>> Congrats Balaji! Well deserved recognition.
>>
>> On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 at 3:10 PM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
>> kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I am happy to announce the Featured Wikimedian for November 2017.
>>>
>>> *Balaji Jagadesh*
>>>  is
>>> one of the top contributors from the Tamil Wikimedia community. Though 
>>> he
>>> started contributing since 2009, he was quite active after his
>>> participation in WikiConference India 2011. Initially he started
>>> contributing to Tamil Wikipedia, but was later attracted towards Tamil
>>> Wikisource, Tamil Wikitionary, and Wikidata. His global contributions 
>>> count
>>> to whooping 2,50,000 edits. He is an admin on Tamil Wikitionary.
>>>
>>> After his interaction with Mr. Loganathan (User:Info-farmer
>>> ),
>>> Balaji was very much motivated to contribute to Wikimedia projects. He
>>> says, "When I was editing in Tamil Wikipedia, I used to translate 
>>> science
>>> articles from English to Tamil. But faced problem in finding equivalent
>>> Tamil words. The English to Tamil dictionaries were inadequate. Hence I
>>> felt the need to work in the Tamil Wikitionary. After a while there was 
>>> a
>>> collaboration with Tamil Wikisource and Tamil Nadu Government through 
>>> Tamil
>>> Virtual University through 2000 CC0 books were uploaded".
>>>
>>> As an active contributor to Wikidata, he says that the vision of
>>> Wikimedia movement is, "Imagine a world in which every single human 
>>> being
>>> can freely share in the sum of all knowledge", but with Wikidata we can
>>> make it, "Imagine a world in which every single human being *and
>>> every single machine* can freely share in the sum of all
>>> knowledge". Apart from regular contributions, he also created templates 
>>> to
>>> Tamil Wikimedia projects, and also maintains Tamil Wikisource's
>>> official Twitter handle .
>>>
>>> Balaji hails from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and is a post-graduate is
>>> Physics. He currently works as a Senior Geophysicist in Oil and Natural 
>>> Gas
>>> Corporation Limited (ONGC).
>>>
>>> *Nominations for Featured Wikimedian can be made at:*
>>> https://goo.gl/Fpf4D2, *or can be suggested to this email ID.*
>>> Regards,
>>> Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
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>> Thanks!
>>
>> Parul
>>
>> My Blog 
>> My Professional Profile 
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Satdeep Gill* 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Satdeep Gill joining WMF New Reader's program

[Satdeep Gill]

Thanks a lot everyone. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions 
or ideas regarding New Readers programs.

Best
Satdeep

Satdeep Gill // Community Outreach Coordinator (India), New Readers
https://wikimediafoundation.org/

Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment. Donate.


From: Wikimediaindia-l  on behalf 
of Suyash Dwivedi 
Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:19:30 AM
To: Wikimedia India Community list
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Satdeep Gill joining WMF New Reader's program

Congratulations, Satdeep!

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi 
> wrote:
Congratulations Satdeep. Happy to see you in such an important role which is 
going to contribute to the 2030 strategy.

Subhashish

> On Nov 14, 2017, at 1:45 PM, Jayanta Nath 
> > wrote:
>
> Congrats Satdeep!!
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