[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: CIS-A2K Scholarships for Indic Wikimedians

[Satdeep Gill]

Oh, this is such a lovely news! This is a worthy investment. Congratulations to the selected participants. I am sure it will be a great experience. Do make sure seek advice on submitting a good visa application. I am sure CIS is already thinking about that.I would recommend some orientation for first-time Wikimania attendees, similar to the one for Wikimedia Summit organised earlier this year. It would be valuable even if it’s an online conversation.Regards Satdeep GillOn 15 May 2024, at 6:54 PM, Neechal Karan  wrote:Congratulations for the recipients. This initiative definitely helps to bridge the representation gap between many communities in yesteryears.Regards,Neechalkaran.On Wed, 15 May, 2024, 5:58 pm Pavan Santhosh,  wrote:Dear Indic Wikimedians,I hope this email finds you well.I am pleased to announce that CIS-A2K is extending scholarships to four Indian Wikimedians. These scholarships aim to provide an opportunity for these individuals to represent their community and projects on the global Wikimedia stage, connect with various Wikimedia communities and bring back ideas and good energy to their home communities.The selected candidates have been chosen based on criteria and in consultation with Wikimania Organising Committee 2024 such as their online contributions and diversity, including both community and gender representation. Here are the names of the scholarship recipients:Nettime Sujata (Bangla Wikisource)Komal Sambhudas (Marathi Wikisource)Ramjit Tudu (Santali Wikipedia)Nayan JNath (Assamese Wikipedia)The major objective behind offering these scholarships is to provide an avenue for Indian Wikimedians who have been actively contributing to the community but have not yet had the opportunity to connect with the global Wikimedia community. We believe that facilitating their participation in global events can further enrich the diversity and collaboration within the Wikimedia movement.We extend our heartfelt congratulations to the scholarship recipients and thank them for their valuable contributions to the Wikimedia community. Please join us in celebrating their achievements and supporting them in this exciting journey.If you have any questions or would like further information, please feel free to reach out to us.Best regards,Pavan Santhosh,Program Manager,On behalf of CIS-A2K.
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[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: Announcing Finalists of Wiki Loves Vizag 2024

[Satdeep Gill]

These are beautiful pictures. Thank you for sharing.

Looking forward to seeing these images embedded in Wikipedia articles and
other Wikimedia projects. I am guessing there would be plans around that
already.

Regards
Satdeep

On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 3:30 PM iMahesh  wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> In February 2024, we organized a Photography contest named *Wiki Loves
> Vizag 2024 *in association with CIS-A2K, where local photographers are
> encouraged to participate and showcase Visakhapatnam's beauty. Commons has
> received 1400+ images related to Visakhapatnam and its surroundings from
> this contest.
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Vizag_2024
>
> We are happy to announce the finalists for 5 categories of the contest at:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Vizag_2024/Winners
>
> We are expecting to announce the final winners (3 best images of the
> contest) by the mid of this month, and have a workshop with Vizag
> photographers who are interested in Commons at the end of this month.
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> *I.Mahesh*
> Architect I Photographer
> Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:IM3847
> Contact: +91 9000223847
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
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[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: Welcome Chris to the A2K Team!

[Satdeep Gill]

Many congratulations to Chris for joining the amazing A2K team. 

Looking forward to getting to know you and working with you soon! 

Regards 
Satdeep

> On 19-Feb-2024, at 7:09 PM, pa...@cis-india.org wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear Wikimedians,
> 
> I hope this email finds you well. We are thrilled to announce a new addition 
> to our A2K family. Please join us in welcoming Chris (Christeena), who 
> officially joined A2K on February 15th as A2K's new Program Associate 
> (Communications).
> 
> Chris brings with them a wealth of skills and enthusiasm that will 
> undoubtedly enhance the A2K team and contribute to the success of our 
> projects. They have a helpful nature, and we're confident they'll quickly 
> become an integral part of our team.
> 
> Let's extend our warmest congratulations and extend a heartfelt welcome to 
> Chris as they embark on this exciting journey with us.
> 
> Regards,
> Pavan Santosh
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[WikimediaIndia-l] Invitation for Wiki contests and fellowship by The Heritage Lab

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Forwarding the following message on behalf of Arunesh Varade, The Heritage LabHello everyone,The Heritage Lab is organizing two Wiki contests in the month of November on the occasion of World Heritage Week and Wiki Asian Month.First contest is an edit-a-thon where open access content from GLAMs would be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons with relevant data to improve the accessibility of these images.The second contest is where people can share the stories of visiting museums. It can be a photo essay, illustration, etc. The submissions in this contest will be uploaded on Commons and the best entries from them will be rewarded.We have exciting prizes for the winners so we look forward to your active participation in both these events.Further, we have also opened applications for the second edition of Open Knowledge Fellowship where we host a cohort of fellows to research and create new knowledge about Indian art and cultural heritage and contribute the same to Wikimedia projects.Please pass on the word to the people who would be interested in being a part of this.Thanks and Regards,Arunesh Varadeon behalf of The Heritage Lab___
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Update about my role at CIS-A2K

[Satdeep Gill]

Dear Tito,

Thank you so much for your commitment to the Wikimedia movement over the
past decade. I realize that sometimes we need to prioritize health and
other matters otherwise we can burnout.

CIS-A2K will be missing out on a lot of movement knowledge and expertise
with your departure.

Best wishes for your future endeavors.
I am sure we will keep crossing paths and hoping to see you sometime soon.

Regards
Satdeep

On Sun, Jun 12, 2022, 4:18 PM Subhashish  wrote:

> Wishing you a quick recovery, Tito. Thank you for your contribution to the
> Wikimedia movement both through programmatic and volunteer roles. As a
> former coworker, I wish you all the best in your future endeavors. Glad
> that you are going to continue as a Wikimedian.
>
> On Sun, Jun 12, 2022, 3:01 AM Tito Dutta  wrote:
>
>> Greetings/Namaskara,
>> Hope this email finds you well. I want to give an update about my role at
>> CIS-A2K. On 11 July 2022, I'll step down from my position at CIS-A2K.
>> Because of health issues, and personal reasons, this was important for me
>> to take a break from programmatic activities.
>>
>> This has been a very delightful and wonderful experience. I have learnt a
>> lot from the communities and the community members. There have been many
>> wonderful memories.
>> I sincerely thank you for everything.
>>
>> Although I'll leave the program, this is not a retirement from the
>> Wikimedia movement, I'll continue to edit and work on Wikimedia projects in
>> my volunteer capacity.
>>
>> Programmatic updates or upcoming plans will be shared by CIS-A2K
>> separately.
>>
>> Thanking you once again,
>> Sincerely,
>> Tito Dutta
>> Member, Access to Knowledge
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Leadership Development Working Group: Apply to join! (14 March to 10 April 2022)

[Satdeep Gill]

Many congratulations Nitesh and Rafi sahib!

Best
Satdeep

On Thu, May 12, 2022, 8:05 PM Dr. Manavpreet Kaur <
dr.manavpreetk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations to both Nitesh & M.Rafi.
>
> -Manav
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 5:31 PM Chitraparna Sinha <
> csinha-...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear community members,
>>
>> I am happy to announce the selection of two members from South Asia for
>> the Leadership Development Working Group. They are M. Rafiul Bahar Rafi
>>  and Nitesh Gill
>> .
>>
>>
>> The detailed announcement and the profile of all the 15 chosen members
>> can be read here
>> 
>> .
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta
>> )
>>
>> Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance
>> ,
>> SAARC, Wikimedia Foundation 
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 15 Mar 2022 at 18:18, Chitraparna Sinha 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear community members,
>>>
>>> Thank you for sharing your feedback for the Leadership Development
>>> Working Group
>>> .
>>> You can read the summary of the feedback here
>>> .
>>> The feedback will be shared with the Leadership Development Working Group
>>> to guide their work.
>>>
>>> We are inviting applications to join the Leadership Development Working
>>> Group. The last date is 10 April 2022. Please review the information
>>> about the working group
>>> ,
>>> share with community members who might be interested, and apply if you
>>> are interested
>>> .
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Chitraparna Sinha (she/her) (Meta
>>> )
>>>
>>> Facilitator, Movement Strategy and Governance
>>> ,
>>> SAARC, Wikimedia Foundation 
>>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing results for the first-ever Share Your Struggle campaign

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello everyone,

The first iteration of the Share Your Struggle campaign ran from 15 August
2021 and ran until 15 September, and gathered 600+ images

 and 25+ videos

from
30+ participants. Apart from a CentralNotice banner across Wikimedia
platforms, focused outreach efforts helped to engage professional
photographers, photojournalists and social activist organizations such as Lok
Sangharsh Morcha

 and Narmada Navnirman Abhiyan

.

Five of the top ten images are related to the 2020-2021 Indian farmers’
protest
,
which has been going on for over one year at various borders of the
national capital, Delhi. Three images are related to the COVID-19 pandemic
and the lockdown .
Three photographers (JK Photography, Ravan Khosa and TAPAS KUMAR HALDER)
have two photographs each in the top ten images.

Read the entire blog post here:

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/11/30/winning-photographs-from-the-first-ever-share-your-struggle-campaign/

Thank you so much for your interest and participation. We will be reaching
out to the winners in the coming days.

- Satdeep (on behalf of the SYS team)
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: South Asia's Selector for the Movement Charter Process

[Satdeep Gill]

I really hope to be able to join this conversation.

Best
Satdeep

On Sat, Oct 9, 2021, 12:15 AM Suyash Dwivedi  wrote:

> Hi
> I would like to urge affiliate members to proactively participate in this
> discussion. The meeting is scheduled for 7pm tomorrow and the day after is
> the last late to nominate the selector for the region. The selectors will
> play a very important role in selecting some members for the drafting
> committee. To have our voices heard, it's important to have our
> representative as selector. Please consider nominating yourself for the
> role of selector as well.
> *Regards,*
>
> [image: File:Affiliations Committee logo black.svg]
> *Suyash Dwivedi *(He/Him/His)
> *Member:* Wikimedia Affiliations Committee
> 
> *Skype*: suyash.india (UTC+05:30)
>
>
>
> 
>  Virus-free.
> www.avast.com
> 
> <#m_131313728690481484_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2021 at 6:40 PM Abbad Diraneyya <
> adiraneyya-...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Dear Wikimedians,
>>
>> I am reaching out to you in regarding the Movement Charting Drafting
>> Committee
>> setup
>> and to have a selector on behalf of the South Asian region (SAARC).
>> Although the representatives of the region's affiliates have been notified
>> in advance, I would like, upon requests, to extend the information to the
>> community that the decision on the selector from South Asia should be made
>> by *10 October*.
>>
>> In order to help make a decision, a meeting has been proposed on *October
>> 9, 2021, *to be facilitated by Wikimedia Bangladesh, during which we
>> hope that decision will be reached. More details about the meeting and the
>> process are on the *SAARC selection page*
>> 
>> on Meta.
>>
>> The chosen selector will be one of 9 selectors who will select, on behalf
>> of affiliates, six members of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee
>> .
>> The process is an opportunity to take part in choosing the members of the
>> committee, who will be responsible for writing a governance document that
>> is expected to be of much importance to affiliates and for the Wikimedia
>> Movement's future.
>>
>> Please note that this announcement is regarding a process that is *limited
>> to Wikimedia affiliates (only local user groups and chapters*). The
>> wikiproject communities will be able to cast their votes for the Movement
>> Charter's Drafting Committee through a separate election process that will
>> open on 11 October.
>>
>> Apologies if this information comes a bit late. Please feel free to share
>> around in the relevant spaces, and let me know if there's anything I can
>> help with.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Abbad.
>>
>> --
>> Knowledge Management Coordinator
>> Strategy Team
>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Extending Share Your Struggle until 15 September 2021

[Satdeep Gill]

Sat shri akal everyone,

The *first Share Your Struggle* photography competition has been running
since 15 August 2021 and we have received around 300 images so far
.
We are *extending the campaign until 15 September 2021*, mainly to allow a
few potential partners to be able to upload their images.

We do recognize that *Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) has started today* and we
hope it is a huge success as it has been in the previous years.

We are not going to actively promote Share Your Struggle via CentralNotice
or other community channels to avoid any conflict with WLM.

Best
Satdeep
On behalf of Share Your Struggle team
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Launching "Share Your Struggle 2021" (15 August 2021 - 31st August 2021)

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello everyone,

Today India celebrates 75 years of independence from British rule but this
date also reminds us of the partition and its aftermath. To both celebrate
and commemorate this occasion, we are excited to launch a new photography
competition named Share Your Struggle:


*https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Share_Your_Struggle_2021
*

The first iteration of Share Your Struggle will run from *15 August 2021 to
31st August 2021*. For this pilot, the scope is limited to images and
videos from India. The goal of the project is to improve coverage of free
usable media files related to various struggles, such as, natural disasters
, health crises such
as COVID-19
pandemic , social movements
, conflict-torn areas, and
any other humanitarian crises
. The goal is not only
to document crises, but also humanitarian efforts and acts of kindness that
happen during such crises. The scope of the project includes *images* and
*video* files.

Make sure to read the *Rules and FAQ
*
for the competition before uploading any images or videos. We also suggest
you read *"Photographs of identifiable people
"*
and *"Exif "* pages on
Wikimedia Commons..

We are still looking for more people to join the team of volunteers

to help organize this event now and hopefully in the future as well. If you
are interested to join, feel free to sign up on this form

.

For any questions or feedback, feel free to write to us at
*shareyourstruggle2...@gmail.com
.*

Regards
Satdeep
On behalf of Share Your Struggle Team
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Do we have a Tibetan Wikimedia Community in India?

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi Ashwin,

This has been something of a concern to me as well. I even learnt the
Tibetan alphabet at one point in my life. That aside, looking at the
activity at Tibetan Wikipedia, there doesn't seem to be anything but
certain IP edits and some users creating random pages in English. So, I
think it would be safe to assume that there isn't any Tibetan Wikimedia
community in India right now.

Looking at the number of manuscripts that are there in Tibetan and have
been carefully preserved at various monasteries, I believe digitizing those
manuscripts and creating a Tibetan Wikisource might be a great first step
of engagement with the community. I see that thousands of manuscripts in
Tibetan have been scanned by various organizations such as the Buddhist
Digital Resource Center
.

If good enough input methods are available to type Tibetan, then I think
transcribing these texts on Wikisource can be really useful to the Tibetan
community. This is very different from trying to build a Wikipedia.
Wikipedia needs to be updated every now and then but on Wikisource, once a
text has been transcribed and validated, It would remain useful forever
with a scope for improvement such as annotations but the text in itself
will have its value, forever.

Best
Satdeep


On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 at 13:49, Ashwin Baindur 
wrote:

> Dear fellow Indian Wikimedians,
>
> Would you know if there are Tibetan language (bo) Wikimedia project
> editors in India? I ask because presently Tibetan is not listed in the set
> of what we consider language wikimedia communities concerning India.
>
> In India, Tibetic people are found in the regions of Ladakh (Ladakhi and
> Balti), Spiti valley, Uttarakhand (Bhotiya), Sikkim (Bhutia), and Arunachal
> Pradesh (Khamba, Lhoba and Monpa people). There are also nearly 100,000
> Tibetans living in exile in India since 1959.
>
> (Please see:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_people#In_India)
>
> It is highly unlikely that the Tibetan community, which has the maximum
> population in Tibet proper, and which uses the Tibetan script for writing
> the language, would get any support in their homeland. As we have lakhs of
> Indian citizens of ancestral Tibetic origin who belong to this community
> and most likely use these Tibetan language (bo)  Wikimedia projects in
> India, we need to look out for them.
>
>
> Ashwin Baindur (User:AshLin)
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Stay Safe Stay Connected: Session III: Neighbourhood Community Solidarity discussion

[Satdeep Gill]

 Hello everyone / Sat Sri Akal / Namaskar / Adaab,

The third session of Stay safe, stay connected will take place on *Sunday,
20 June 2021 *at *7:00 pm to 8:30 pm IST*. In this session, we are inviting
Wikimedians from neighbourhood countries to participate. Wikimedians from
*Bangladesh*, *India*, *Nepal*, *Pakistan*, *Sri Lanka* etc. are expected
to participate.

For more details, feel free to see the event page here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Stay_safe,_stay_connected#Session_III

In this neighbourhood community solidarity session, the participants can—
1. share about the projects and exciting events they are doing in the
countries;
2. learn what is going on in other regions in the neighbourhood;
3. possibly think or discuss past cross-border collaboration or
collaborative projects;
4. possibly discuss any point of tension among the Wikimedia projects;

(Please read more on Diff:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/06/08/stay-safe-stay-connected-session-iii-neighbourhood-community-solidarity/
)

*Asaf Bartov *will be the facilitator of this meeting. The session will be
hosted on Zoom. Please fill this short form, if you are interested to
attend the talk: https://forms.gle/e85k84tX4oroKkjx7

You may alternatively send an email to w...@cis-india.org if you have
trouble filling the Google form or if you have any query.

P.S. Feel free to speak in your native language during the call. That's
cool. We'll try to translate.

Regards
Satdeep
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India

[Satdeep Gill]

Also, would it possible to generate a list of food items that currently
don't have a picture at all? I have seen that the worklists like the ones
in WLM help the photographers a lot.

Best wishes once again
Satdeep

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 8:33 PM Satdeep Gill  wrote:

> This is amazing. Full credit to West Bengal Wikimedians for taking
> initiative to regularly organize WLM for the past few years and now taking
> charge of other photography competitions that haven't been organized in a
> while.
>
> Perhaps, Wiki Loves Earth can be organized sometime in the future as well.
>
> I am definitely looking forward to WLF for now.
>
> Best
> Satdeep
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 8:13 PM Ananya Mondal 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Wikimedians,
>>
>> Hope this mail finds you well. I would like to inform you that West
>> Bengal Wikimedians User Group is going to organize a national level
>> photography competition entitled *Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India* from *15th
>> March to 14th April 2021*. Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India is a public
>> photo competition on Wikimedia Commons. It shall aim at developing and
>> improving the quality and quantity of pictures of various cuisines found
>> from all over India and thus highlighting and celebrating the profusion,
>> diversity and ethnicity of Indian cuisines.
>>
>> We are requesting all amazing wikimedians from India to participate in
>> this event and make the event a grand success. More details can be seen in
>> the event page.
>>
>> *Important link:*
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food_2021_in_India
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ananya Mondal
>> On behalf of Wiki Loves Food 2021 Team
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India

[Satdeep Gill]

This is amazing. Full credit to West Bengal Wikimedians for taking
initiative to regularly organize WLM for the past few years and now taking
charge of other photography competitions that haven't been organized in a
while.

Perhaps, Wiki Loves Earth can be organized sometime in the future as well.

I am definitely looking forward to WLF for now.

Best
Satdeep

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021, 8:13 PM Ananya Mondal 
wrote:

> Hi Wikimedians,
>
> Hope this mail finds you well. I would like to inform you that West Bengal
> Wikimedians User Group is going to organize a national level photography
> competition entitled *Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India* from *15th March to
> 14th April 2021*. Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India is a public photo
> competition on Wikimedia Commons. It shall aim at developing and improving
> the quality and quantity of pictures of various cuisines found from all
> over India and thus highlighting and celebrating the profusion, diversity
> and ethnicity of Indian cuisines.
>
> We are requesting all amazing wikimedians from India to participate in
> this event and make the event a grand success. More details can be seen in
> the event page.
>
> *Important link:*
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food_2021_in_India
>
> Regards,
> Ananya Mondal
> On behalf of Wiki Loves Food 2021 Team
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Happy Birthday Wikipedia: 20th anniversary: With 20 Wikipedia Facts and Anecdotes (please add to this list)

[Satdeep Gill]

Thank you for sharing these interesting anecdotes and facts Tito.

Let me share another anecdote:

11.* Punjabi Wikipedia* (pa.wikipedia.org) and *Odia Wikipedia* (
or.wikipedia.org) were launched on 3 June *2002 *while *Hindi Wikipedia* (
hi.wikipedia.org), a much larger language, was launched almost a year later
on 11 July *2003*. The first articles on Punjabi Wikipedia were not created
until 2004 though. There must be more to this story. Does anyone know it?

Best
Satdeep


On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 18:43, Tito Dutta  wrote:

> Namaskara,
> This is the 20th anniversary of Wikipedia. Happy birthday to Wikipedia and
> more importantly, to the collaborative effort of the volunteers in these 20
> years. On this day perhaps we can make a bouquet of 20 randomly selected
> facts/anecdotes related to Wikipedia.
> * I am starting with 10 stories/anecdotes related to Wikipedia. If "you"
> know an interesting Wikipedia story (fact, achievement, specific community
> achievement/glory, specially India-related), why don't you share by
> responding to this email on the "Wikipedia anniversary"?
> * You can also comment on these stories. #3, #6, #8, and #9 below have
> open questions where you can share your knowledge.
>
> 20 Amazing Facts or Anecdotes related to Wikipedia on its 20th birthday
> (first 10 as of now. Please add stories from your side, which we all can
> read.)
>
>1. We have Wikipedias in 25 Indian languages. As of 14 January 2021,
>there are 4,823 active editors on Wikipedias on these projects (it does not
>include English Wikipedia). As of 14 January, 32.5 million edits have been
>made on Indian-language Wikipedias. There are 173 admins on these projects.
>2. The domains wikipedia.com and wikipedia.org were registered on 12
>and 13 January 2001. Then it was a single-domain edition
>www.wikipedia.org. One of the very first policies on Wikipedia was
>"Neutral Point of View"
>3. The first, second Wikipedians (and possibly the third also)  to
>complete #1000wikidays (thousand wikidays) are from India (personally
>speaking: perhaps this achievement needed better documentation (blog post
>or other mediums)?)
>4. Magnus Manske has been an amazing developer Wikimedian to support
>Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the Wikimedia movement in general. He developed
>MediaWiki and MANY other tools we use today. Learn more about him in your
>language: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13520818#identifiers There is
>a day called Magnus Manske Day:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Magnus_Manske_Day
>5. Wikipedia has been edited from space. An astronaut from space made
>edits on Wikipedia:
>https://diff.wikimedia.org/2017/11/29/astronaut-spoken-voice/
>6. Wikipedia was proposed as a world heritage site. In 2011, when we
>were celebrating the 10th anniversary it was in the news.
>
> https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/8538333/Wikipedia-seeks-World-Heritage-Site-status.html
>I am not sure what happened to the attempt after that. Does anyone know the
>recent updates? Did we apply to be a part of the intangible list?
>7. There is an asteroid named after Wikipedia: Read in your language
>https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3913001#identifiers
>8. A very large number of books, scholarly articles have been
>published on Wikipedia. Wikidata queries all the items where the "main
>subject" is Wikipedia: https://w.wiki/uPn (feel free to share a better
>query)
>9. Wikipedia has been widely used as a reference in popular culture (
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_in_culture). In India also
>several. In India also, we have seen references to Wikipedia in songs (song
>in Chennai Express film). Has Wikipedia in mentioned in songs, films,
>books, etc in your language? Could you mention it?
>10. There is a Wikipedia Monument is Poland:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Monument There is an
>anthem/hymn on Wikipedia:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_hymn_1.0.ogv
>
> Please share any Wikipedia story you find interesting so that we can make
> it a bouquet of 20.
>
> (Congratulations and good wishes to Bangla Wikipedia for completing
> 100,000 articles, and Hindi Wikipedia for completing 5 millionth edits
> recently. (Do you know more stories? Please share.))
>
> Happy Birthday, Wikipedia. (Bengali: শুভ জন্মদিন উইকিপিডিয়া)।
>
> Thanks
> User:Titodutta
> (As a Wikipedian/Wikimedian)
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in India winners

[Satdeep Gill]

Lovely pictures! Thanks for sharing Bodhi.

Interestingly, this year's winner (no. 1) has been contributing to Commons
only during WLM for the past 4-5 years.

Perhaps a small interview can be conducted with them! Maybe we can learn on
how to keep them engaged even before and after WLM.

Regards
Satdeep

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 12:37 AM Rajeeb  wrote:

> Congratulations to each and every winner.
>
> Namaste,
>
> Rajeeb.
>
> On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 23:40, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> It gives us immense pleasure to inform you all that the 3-members
>> national jury team
>> 
>> of Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in India
>> 
>> photo-competition has announced the 10 winning photographs of the national
>> competition, before deadline.
>>
>> The winning photographs are as follows-
>>
>>1. Daulatabad fort
>>
>> 
>>by Aman.arch 
>>2. Gayne Castle
>>
>>by Amitabha Gupta
>>
>>3. Bawali Rajbari
>> by
>>DeepanjanGhosh
>>
>>4. Inside out view of the Tomb of Itimad-ud-daula
>>
>> 
>>by Rupeshsarkar
>>
>> 
>>5. Tomb of Itimad-ud-daula
>>
>> 
>>by Jashjashjash
>>
>> 
>>6. View from Jaisalmer fort
>>
>> 
>>by Ganesh.Subramaniam85
>>
>> 
>>7. Old Budge Budge railway station
>>
>> 
>>by DeepanjanGhosh
>>
>>8. Doddabasappa Temple
>>
>> 
>>by Sharvarism
>>
>> 
>>9. Diwan-i-Am at Red Fort
>>
>> 
>>by Syed07 
>>10. Mahabat Maqbara
>>
>> 
>>by Vijay Barot 
>>
>> All these photographs are listed here
>> 
>> and now will be forwarded to the international WLM team to include them in
>> the international competition. From the first week of November, we will
>> start contacting the winning photographers, so that we can eventually send
>> the national prizes to them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bodhisattwa
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A2K: Programme Director update

[Satdeep Gill]

Thank you for the update Tito.

I am looking forward to work with Amber in the near future. Congratulations
to him on this new role.

Best
Satdeep

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 10:44 AM Tito Dutta  wrote:

> Hello,
> Hope this email finds you well and safe. Here is an update from the Access
> to Knowledge (A2K) team. Currently Mr. Amber Sinha is the Programme
> Director of the Access to Knowledge team for this programme year. He is
> also the the current executive director (ED) of the Centre for Internet and
> Internet and Society (CIS). Amber Sinha has been associated with CIS for a
> few years now. He is a free-knowledge enthusiast and eager to serve the
> Wikimedia movement in India. To know more about him please see:
> https://cis-india.org/about/people/cis-team-members#Amber%20Sinha and
> writings: https://cis-india.org/author/amber
> We wanted to send this email earlier, but this update is a little delayed
> for various reasons.
>
> Once on-ground Wiki-events resume he will be attending Wiki-events so that
> the community can talk to him in person. He can be reached at:
> am...@cis-india.org and on Meta-wiki with Wikimedia username: Amber
> (CIS-A2K).
> Regards,
> Tito Dutta
> Acceess to Knowledge
> t...@cis-india.org
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM-wiki contractor opportunity at Wikimedia Foundation

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello,


The Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> is looking for
a part-time temporary contractor to work remotely for 20 hours a week from
August or September until June 2021. The contractor will support movement
allies, affiliates, and organizers interested in bringing high impact
collections to Wikimedia projects. The hourly rate is up to $55 (USD).

We’d like you to do these things:

   -

   Mentor a cohort of cultural institutions making large content
   contributions to develop shared practices for Structured Data on Commons,
   particularly for captions and copyright statements.
   -

   Take part in monthly office hours for the wider Wikimedia-GLAM community.
   -

   Analyze and document innovations and workflows, in order to inform and
   inspire Wikimedia communities and staff.
   -

   Actively monitor communications to support the Wikimedia-GLAM community
   to stay in touch, network, document, and exchange practices.
   -

   Facilitate information sharing and product alignment with volunteers
   maintaining software for GLAM-Wiki projects, such as OpenRefine, pywikibot,
   and Pattypan.


We’re looking for someone with these skills:

   -

   A practical understanding of using linked open data and broad open
   platforms for sharing collections, including active use of Wikidata and/or
   Wikimedia Commons.
   -

   Comfortable wrangling data with some experience scripting and using
   command line tools.
   -

   A good track record of promoting digital skills development or shared
   practices through social media, written case studies, conference
   presentations, and/or workshop facilitation.
   -

   Comfort working with product teams and supporting products in an open,
   networked ecosystem, through documentation and community consultation.
   -

   Experience working with a distributed and remote team with people of
   diverse skill sets and backgrounds.
   -

   Strong written and spoken English.


And it would be even more awesome if you have:

   -

   Proficiency in languages other than English.
   -

   An existing network of collaborators and contacts in international open
   knowledge, cultural heritage communities, or in the Wikimedia community.


   -

   Experience working with communities that are not based in Europe or
   North America.


Please send a cover letter and CV or LinkedIn profile to g...@wikimedia.org
by Friday 7 August.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic language Wikisource Skill Share

[Satdeep Gill]

Wonderful initiatives, Jayanta da!

I am particularly looking forward to the 12 language Wikisource
Proofread-a-thon which will be a first of it's kind.

Best
Satdeep


On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 14:52, Jayanta Nath  wrote:

> 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#Willing_to_respond
> 3)
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Helpdesk/Intensive_Personalized_Training
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: Update about TTT selection

[Satdeep Gill]

t;>
>>>>> Good luck.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 6:20 PM subodh kulkarni 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Wikimedians,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We are thankful for the response to TTT this year. We received total
>>>>>> 60 applications, out of which 25 participants were selected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Two jury members from the community and A2K team selected the
>>>>>> participants. The selection criterion were as follows -
>>>>>>
>>>>>>- Wikimedian from India
>>>>>>- Minimum 800 edits on zero-namespace before 31 December 2019.
>>>>>>- Should not be previous TTT participant
>>>>>>- Should be active recently, for last one year preferably (Aware
>>>>>>about present active community and happenings)
>>>>>>- Who has the interest to conduct offline/real-life Wiki events
>>>>>>and to train others.
>>>>>>- Should not be too experienced (already leading the community or
>>>>>>user groups or any affiliate)
>>>>>>- Should not be involved in any vandalism, abuse etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks & regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A2K team
>>>>>> Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 10:07 AM  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I think this email did not reach the India mailing list. Hence I am
>>>>>>> fwd-ing it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pavanaja
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *From:* Vishwanatha Badikana 
>>>>>>> *Sent:* Wednesday, February 19, 2020 3:26 PM
>>>>>>> *To:* kishoresheni69 ; Pavanaja U B <
>>>>>>> pavan...@gmail.com>; Bharathesha A B ; Dr.
>>>>>>> Manavpreet Kaur ; Kavitha Ganesh <
>>>>>>> gkav...@gmail.com>; Dhanalakshmi K. T. ;
>>>>>>> Rohini Lakshané ; Kannada Wikipedia
>>>>>>> Discussion List ; Wikimedia India
>>>>>>> Community list ;
>>>>>>> subodhki...@gmail.com; Vikas Hegde ; vinoda
>>>>>>> jaya prasad 
>>>>>>> *Subject:* Fwd: Update about TTT selection
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What is going on the TTT Selection.  I don't want future TTT
>>>>>>> selection.  The Kannada Community members depressed.  I think the 
>>>>>>> selection
>>>>>>> committee have lot of politics.  Who are the selection committee?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- Forwarded message -
>>>>>>> From: *subodh kulkarni* 
>>>>>>> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 22:14
>>>>>>> Subject: Update about TTT selection
>>>>>>> To:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear applicant,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are thankful for showing interest to participate in TTT 2020. We
>>>>>>> are sorry to inform you that your application was not selected in the
>>>>>>> process.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We value your contribution to the Wikimedia movement and looking
>>>>>>> forward to work with you in future.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Subodh Kulkarni
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> on behalf of
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Dr. Vishwanatha Badikana*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Assistent Professor, Department of Kannada*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *St. Aloysius College(Autonomous), Light House Hill, Mangalore - 575
>>>>>>> 003*
>>>>>>> *9449615474, 9141676453*, 8618361841
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *badikan...@gmail.com *
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference India 2020] Closure of initial conversations and next steps

[Satdeep Gill]

Hey Pavanaja,

I just checked, the page now exists at the following address:


https://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia/

Regards
Satdeep Gill


On Tue, 12 Nov 2019 at 10:16,  wrote:

> The page  “WikiConference India Facebook page
> https://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016/
> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016/%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D157347244461=D=1573472444622000=AFQjCNHY6YEWXktq0avI9o-RAfmSAntT9g>
>  “
> does not exist.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Pavanaja
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Wikimediaindia-l  *On
> Behalf Of *pavan santhosh
> *Sent:* Monday, November 11, 2019 4:19 PM
> *To:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference India 2020] Closure of
> initial conversations and next steps
>
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> It is well known for many of us that the initial conversations for
> WikiConference India 2020[1] started on 2 October 2019. It has been around
> 40 days (~7 weeks) since then. The support received from both individual
> Wikimedians and language communities has been incredible, and we are very
> much delighted to witness this. During this period, 91 Wikimedians[2]
> endorsed the proposal and 14 language communities[3] have held separate
> discussions about this on their local village pumps, and officially
> endorsed the proposal as a community.
>
> As there was an almost consensus, we held an IRC on 20 October 2019 to
> clarify questions and address concerns community members may have. It was
> attended by 28 people at peak point, and several queries have been
> clarified[4]. Post IRC, we took time to address all the outstanding
> comments by various Wikimedians on the talk page — all of which are now
> resolved[5]. Finally, acknowledging the response from the larger Indian
> Wikimedia community, Wikimedians from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana passed a
> resolution on Telugu Wikipedia to formally take responsibility of the
> conference and go forward with the next steps[6]. The same has been
> communicated on the Meta-Wiki proposal page here[7].
>
> We are considering this as the closure of initial conversations and would
> like to proceed with the next steps involved. We thank everyone who
> participated in the discussions related to this proposal, and all of them
> have been helpful to expand our knowledge in organising a better conference.
>
> The next major step is the Conference Grant proposal to WMF. There are
> several other smaller steps involved before going submitting proposal, such
> as the Community Engagement Survey. We will get back to you with the survey
> soon, and this will be crucial to develop the grant application or more
> importantly shape the program of WCI 2020 — we look forward to all of your
> active participation in this regard.
>
> Also before finally submitting the proposal to WMF, we will notify the
> community after drafting the proposal and keep it for review (including the
> budget) for at least 2 weeks, which will most probably be around mid-Jan
> 2020.
>
> Apart from the major announcements, we would like to shift our
> communication to people interested in WCI 2020 only — we mean that this
> mailing list might not be the right place to post regular updates. In this
> regard, community members who wish to receive regular updates regarding WCI
> 2020 please subscribe yourself to one of the following WCI exclusive
> communication channels. Few of these still talk WCI 2016, they will soon be
> updated to reflect the latest changes.
>
>1. 1. WikiConference India mailing list:
>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india
>
> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1573472444609000=D=1573472444621000=AFQjCNEHwKr4nl168lL7JRVRvsw0xyeykg>
>2. 2. on-Wiki talk page message delivery:
>https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/WCI2020
>
> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/WCI2020%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D157347244461=D=1573472444622000=AFQjCNELwilQPuEpDoNmrowEDM4X25Bezw>
>3. 3. WikiConference India Facebook page
>https://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016/
>
> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016/%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D157347244461=D=1573472444622000=AFQjCNHY6YEWXktq0avI9o-RAfmSAntT9g>
>
> Thank you all again for your enormous support and active participation.
>
> Regards

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger coordinator update

[Satdeep Gill]

Heartfelt congratulations to both of you, Suswetha and Nitesh.

I believe both of you will help in taking Project Tiger 2.0 to the next
level after a brilliant first iteration under the leadership of Ravi and
rest of the partners.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 21:39, Dr. Manavpreet Kaur <
dr.manavpreetk...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulations to Nitesh and Suswetha. Heartiest wishes for this new
> journey.
>
> Best,
> Manav
>
> On Thu, 22 Aug 2019, 10:58 sunny sumanth,  wrote:
>
>> Congratulations suswetha 
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:40 PM Jagseer Sidhu 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Congratulations 
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019, 4:28 PM Ananth Subray 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Greetings from CIS-A2K, Sometime ago we informed about Project Tiger
>>>> Coordinator position.
>>>> https://cis-india.org/jobs/project-tiger-2019-co-ordinator-position-open  
>>>> We
>>>> got several applications for this position.
>>>> After reviewing all the applications, Nitesh Gill (User:Nitesh Gill)[1]
>>>>  & Suswetha Kolluru (User:SuswethaK ) [2]  has been selected for this
>>>> position.
>>>>
>>>> [1]. https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/ਵਰਤੋਂਕਾਰ:Nitesh_Gill
>>>> [2].  https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:SuswethaK
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>>
>>>> *ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
>>>> Programme Associate
>>>> Access to Knowledge program <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
>>>> The Centre for Internet & Society
>>>>
>>>> +91-9739811664
>>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monument 2019 India

[Satdeep Gill]

Ananya and West Bengal Wikimedians UG,

This is so exciting. I really appreciate that the West Bengal Wikimedia UG
is doing WLM in India this year as well. I am hoping this will year will be
even better. I see a lot of work around documenting monuments on Wikidata
and that is really commendable.

Also, please consider using ISA tool <https://tools.wmflabs.org/isa/> after
the contest (maybe a follow up campaign) to add depicts to all the images
because most of the images uploaded during such contests don't have useful
titles or descriptions.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

On Sat, 17 Aug 2019 at 14:17, Ananya Mondal 
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
>
> It gives us a great pleasure to announce that the  *Wiki Loves Monument
> 2019 India*  is going to start from 1st September'19 to 30st September'19.
>
>
> West Bengal User Group plans to organize this event in India for the
> second time. Please look at this link page and do participate and make the
> event a grand success.
>
>
>
> Important link
>
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2019_in_India
>
>
>
>
> Best,
>
> Ananya Mondal
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: Gujarati Wikisource starts AudioBook Section

[Satdeep Gill]

This is a really good interview. Thanks for sharing.

Best
Satdeep

On Tue, 25 Jun, 2019, 8:13 PM Sanket Oswal,  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Wikimedia India is happy to do it's small bit in recognising this
> noteworthy Wikimedian, Mr Modern Bhatt.
>
> Please find an interview where Mr Bhatt shares his learning, motivation,
> struggle and his future plans. Special thanks to Sushant for facilitating
> this.
>
> http://blog.wikimedia.in/2019/06/25/wikisource-for-a-social-justice/
>
> Regards,
> Sanket
>
> On Sun, 9 Jun 2019 at 7:12 PM, Satdeep Gill  wrote:
>
>> This is amazing work by Mr. Modern Bhatt! Thank you for sharing this,
>> Sushant.
>>
>> Best
>> Satdeep
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 5:45 PM Asaf Bartov  wrote:
>>
>>> Excellent initiative!  Worth sharing on the international Wikisource
>>> mailing list[1] as well.
>>>
>>> One suggestion for improvement is to better categorize the audio files
>>> on Commons.  Currently the one I sampled only had "Gujarati Wikisource" as
>>> a category.  It would be useful to further categorize as audio books in
>>> Gujarati, and by author as well.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> A.
>>>
>>> [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 3:49 PM sushant savla <
>>> sushant_sa...@rediffmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> We are please to inform that Gujarati Wikisource Community has started
>>>> "Audio Book" section for the benefit of the visually impaired people as
>>>> well as for the people who do not take out time to read due to compulsions
>>>> of busy schedule.
>>>>
>>>> The idea of an audio book was there for a long time in mind but due to
>>>> small community size the attention could not be made on this front. In the
>>>> Gujarati Wikisoruce Conference at Ahmadabad (23 & 24 February 2019), One of
>>>> the Participant Mr. Modern Bhatt showed keen interest on this project and
>>>> he started working on the same. He has single handedly completed 5 books
>>>> and working on the next book. The community highly appreciates the great
>>>> work by Mr. Modern Bhatt.
>>>>
>>>> So far 5 full books have been converted to Audio Format. Their links
>>>> can be found at the Gujarati Wikisource main page. The Audio file link is
>>>> placed at Chapter Header as well as, as an Audio Book Index, wherein All
>>>> the Audio files are placed as per Index. an Example of the same can be
>>>> viewed here https://w.wiki/4j9
>>>>
>>>> Thanking you,
>>>>
>>>> Sushant Savla
>>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org>
>>>
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>>> in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
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>>
>> --
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>>
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>>
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>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wikimedia Campaigns/Contests Survey

[Satdeep Gill]

Yes. Community members have participated in such campaigns are also
encouraged to participate in this survey. Feel free to leave any questions
which are more related to organizing.

Thank you.

On Fri, 14 Jun, 2019, 9:50 AM ravinder jadeja,  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have not organised but participated in Asian Month when I saw a notice
> while editing. Can I also fill the form?
>
> Results should be interesting and I will read them.
>
>
> On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 22:30, Satdeep Gill  wrote:
>
>> Hello Indic Wikimedians,
>>
>> I am delighted to share a survey that will help us in the building a
>> comprehensive list of campaigns and contests organized by the Indic
>> communities on various Wikimedia projects like Wikimedia Commons,
>> Wikisource, Wikipedia, Wikidata etc. We also want to learn what's working
>> in them and what are the areas that needs more support.
>>
>> If you have organized or participated in any campaign or contest (such as
>> Wiki Loves Monuments type Commons contest, Wikisource Proofreading Contest,
>> Wikidata labelathons, 1lib1ref campaigns etc.), we would like to hear from
>> you.
>>
>> You can find the *Privacy Policy for the Survey* at:
>>
>> https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikimedia_Campaigns_and_Contests_Survey_Privacy_Statement
>>
>> *Please find the link to the Survey below:*
>> https://forms.gle/eDWQN5UxTBC9TYB1A
>>
>> P.S. If you have been involved in *multiple campaigns/contests*, feel
>> free to *submit *the form *multiple times*.
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing and learning from you.
>>
>> Best
>> Satdeep
>>
>> --
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wikimedia Campaigns/Contests Survey

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello Indic Wikimedians,

I am delighted to share a survey that will help us in the building a
comprehensive list of campaigns and contests organized by the Indic
communities on various Wikimedia projects like Wikimedia Commons,
Wikisource, Wikipedia, Wikidata etc. We also want to learn what's working
in them and what are the areas that needs more support.

If you have organized or participated in any campaign or contest (such as
Wiki Loves Monuments type Commons contest, Wikisource Proofreading Contest,
Wikidata labelathons, 1lib1ref campaigns etc.), we would like to hear from
you.

You can find the *Privacy Policy for the Survey* at:
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikimedia_Campaigns_and_Contests_Survey_Privacy_Statement

*Please find the link to the Survey below:*
https://forms.gle/eDWQN5UxTBC9TYB1A

P.S. If you have been involved in *multiple campaigns/contests*, feel free
to *submit *the form *multiple times*.

Looking forward to hearing and learning from you.

Best
Satdeep

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: Gujarati Wikisource starts AudioBook Section

[Satdeep Gill]

This is amazing work by Mr. Modern Bhatt! Thank you for sharing this,
Sushant.

Best
Satdeep

On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 5:45 PM Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> Excellent initiative!  Worth sharing on the international Wikisource
> mailing list[1] as well.
>
> One suggestion for improvement is to better categorize the audio files on
> Commons.  Currently the one I sampled only had "Gujarati Wikisource" as a
> category.  It would be useful to further categorize as audio books in
> Gujarati, and by author as well.
>
> Cheers,
>
> A.
>
> [1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisource-l
>
> On Sat, Jun 8, 2019 at 3:49 PM sushant savla 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> We are please to inform that Gujarati Wikisource Community has started
>> "Audio Book" section for the benefit of the visually impaired people as
>> well as for the people who do not take out time to read due to compulsions
>> of busy schedule.
>>
>> The idea of an audio book was there for a long time in mind but due to
>> small community size the attention could not be made on this front. In the
>> Gujarati Wikisoruce Conference at Ahmadabad (23 & 24 February 2019), One of
>> the Participant Mr. Modern Bhatt showed keen interest on this project and
>> he started working on the same. He has single handedly completed 5 books
>> and working on the next book. The community highly appreciates the great
>> work by Mr. Modern Bhatt.
>>
>> So far 5 full books have been converted to Audio Format. Their links can
>> be found at the Gujarati Wikisource main page. The Audio file link is
>> placed at Chapter Header as well as, as an Audio Book Index, wherein All
>> the Audio files are placed as per Index. an Example of the same can be
>> viewed here https://w.wiki/4j9
>>
>> Thanking you,
>>
>> Sushant Savla
>>
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>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Launching Wiki Loves Wild Flowers

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi Aswhin,

If you check the project page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Wild_Flowers, you will find the
the list with scientific names in roman script. Common names haven't been
added in any language yet.

Best
Satdeep

On Fri, 24 May, 2019, 9:12 AM Ashwin Baindur, 
wrote:

> Request that a list of the plants (with scientific names) in Roman script
> be made available. So that others can help too.
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019, 10:14 PM sushant savla 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Very nice initiative and Best wishes for the project... May soon it come
>> an international campaign.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 22 May 2019 22:05:29 +0530 Satdeep Gill wrote
>> >Hi everyone,
>> I am excited to share with all of you that User:Varinder Naturaphile
>> previously known as User:ਵਰਿੰਦਰ ਸ਼ਰਮਾ has officially launched Wiki Loves
>> Wild Flowers today, 22 May 2019 which is the International Day for
>> Biological Diversity.[1]
>>
>> Varinder is a member of the Faridkot District Biodiversity Committee and
>> a Coordinator for documentation of flora and fauna. I am glad that his
>> expertise will help in including quality content on our platforms. This
>> will range from adding images to Commons to add local names in Wikidata and
>> possibly create new Wikipedia articles.
>>
>> Over the next few months, he will be working on the initial list of 124
>> different species of wild flowers found in the Punjab region as a pilot.
>>
>> Your feedback will be deeply appreciated.
>>
>> 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Wild_Flowers
>> Regards
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Launching Wiki Loves Wild Flowers

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi everyone,

I am excited to share with all of you that User:Varinder Naturaphile
previously known as User:ਵਰਿੰਦਰ ਸ਼ਰਮਾ has officially launched Wiki Loves
Wild Flowers today, 22 May 2019 which is the International Day for
Biological Diversity.[1]

Varinder is a member of the Faridkot District Biodiversity Committee and a
Coordinator for documentation of flora and fauna. I am glad that his
expertise will help in including quality content on our platforms. This
will range from adding images to Commons to add local names in Wikidata and
possibly create new Wikipedia articles.

Over the next few months, he will be working on the initial list of 124
different species of wild flowers found in the Punjab region as a pilot.

Your feedback will be deeply appreciated.

1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Wild_Flowers

Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wikisource Stats Version 2.0

[Satdeep Gill]

This is awesome Jay. You rock!

Thank you so much for working on this.

Best
Satdeep


On Fri, 3 May, 2019, 11:34 AM Jay prakash, <0freerunn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> @ccing mediawiki-in...@lists.wikimedia.org
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 11:30 AM Jay prakash <0freerunn...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Wikimedians,
>> Indic-TechCom just released the Indic Wikisource
>> Stats Version 2.0.[1] And deployed on tools forge also.[2] If you have any
>> suggestions or feedback then please write here or on Indic-TechCom's talk
>> page.[3]
>>
>> == What's new in Version 2.0 ==
>> 1. Added interactive graph Visualization [4]
>> 2. Added API route for Other Developers [5]
>> 3. The Stats will update hourly.
>> 4. Added Navbar, Made UI better.
>>
>> Thanks :) Regards
>>
>> Jay Prakash
>> Member, Indic-TechCom
>>
>> [1] https://tools.wmflabs.org/indic-wsstats/
>> 
>> [2]
>> https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nova_Resource:Tools.indic-wsstats/SAL
>> [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom
>> [4] https://tools.wmflabs.org/indic-wsstats/graph
>> [5] https://tools.wmflabs.org/indic-wsstats/api/stats
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the trainer 2019

[Satdeep Gill]

I really like the idea of a regional event in Assam soon as the community
has started gaining momentum.

To VVIT Wikiconnect, I know you folks will organize a good event. Best
wishes from my side.

To CIS, this is a really nice initiative to involve communities in
organizing national events and building capacity but I would also like to
reiterate what Ravi said on the event's talk page. To engage more
communities in the future in such processes, it would be important to have
an incentive, such as 2 extra participants, similar to local participation
during Project Tiger consultation 2019.

That aside, collaborating with different communities each time is a good
practice.

Best
Satdeep



On Fri, 8 Mar, 2019, 5:34 PM Ananth Subray,  wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> First of all, on behalf of CIS-A2K, we would like to thank you for your
> interest in hosting the 2019 iteration of Train the Trainer (TTT). We feel
> that TTT is one of the major events A2K conducts. TTT has been conducted in
> 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. This year we wanted to further improve the
> program structure. One change we thought to make this year: was inviting
> community members/communities to host TTT. We believe this might help to
> organise TTT more collaboratively. This year we have started this process,
> in the next year or in the next iteration we strongly believe the process
> and event will be further improved.
>
> We are delighted to see the two applications. Thanks to the Assamese
> community, and VVIT Wikiconnect. We thoroughly studied the two
> applications. We also talked to 2 external reviewersn(not CIS-A2K members)
> and requested their observation/opinion. It was a tough decision to select
> a city here. Based on the reviewers' suggestion, our own analysis this year
> we are doing in: Visakhapatnam.
>
> On behalf of the CIS-A2K, I thank the Assamese community for your
> interest. What we feel at this moment it would be better if we
> conduct/support zonal/state-level workshop/wiki-event in Assam where (in
> comparison to an event like TTT) more and more Assamese Wikimeedian can
> participate. We'll work on such a skill-building workshop/event.
>
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
>
> *ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
>
> MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
>
> Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
> 
>
> Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
> 
>
> Co-founder of Lakshya
> 
>
> +91-9739811664
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 11:08 AM pavan santhosh 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Wikimedians,
>>
>> Train-the-Trainer or TTT is a residential training program that attempts
>> to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community (including
>> English) members. Earlier TTT has been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
>> and 2018. This year CIS-A2K is interested to collaborate with the community
>> in hosting the event. Interested community members please check the
>> following link:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2019/Bids
>>
>> If you have any questions, please let us know.
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

[Satdeep Gill]

>>
>>>>> Post Script : Just a general though based on today morning newspapers.
>>>>> India has become a hub of online trolling where one asks the other to
>>>>> respond. I am happy they are restricted to social media and not us here.
>>>>>
>>>>> I personally respect you for your work on en Wikipedia and also
>>>>> helping the chapter. I will not reply if you feel so. Suggestion taken.
>>>>>
>>>>> Abhinav
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu 13 Sep, 2018, 10:34 PM Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka, <
>>>>> srikar.kash...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dear Abhinav,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I feel you have been overly enthusiastic in responding to the mails
>>>>>> in this thread. I clearly don't find *anything* personal and offensive in
>>>>>> Satdeep's email. That was a totally uncalled for attack on him. It is
>>>>>> indeed true that Rahul must answer a few questions raised in this thread
>>>>>> *himself*. I strongly suggest that we let Rahul address all the concerns
>>>>>> himself in this thread once and for all. I don't expect your reply to 
>>>>>> this
>>>>>> mail and hope you don't too. It's not necessary.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>> Srikar
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 10:19 PM Abhinav srivastava <
>>>>>> abhinav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Comrade Satdeep,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Respect one's personal privacy. You can approach CIS-A2K or Mr
>>>>>>> Deshmukh and WMIN and know who invited. Rest, report and documentation 
>>>>>>> has
>>>>>>> already been shared. You can also write on the discussion page on Meta
>>>>>>> where report has been shared and find out, if you really want an
>>>>>>> individual's name public. I am not convinced why an international
>>>>>>> volunteers name need to be called.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You are not even an elected member at Affcom, if my memory serves me
>>>>>>> correctly. You did not hold any work experience which was written as
>>>>>>> mandatory for the office you are holding. I am not sure if you shared 
>>>>>>> any
>>>>>>> report for the Hindi contractual job. You want to discuss everything 
>>>>>>> about
>>>>>>> you on a personal mail.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Why the difference?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Abhinav
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thu 13 Sep, 2018, 9:35 PM Satdeep Gill, 
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Rahul,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It's very sad to hear about your loss. I totally understand how
>>>>>>>> difficult it must have been for you and rest of your family.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks a lot responding to this thread. I understand your request
>>>>>>>> to personally email you but there are many unanswered questions such as
>>>>>>>> information about the inviting organization, reporting etc. in this 
>>>>>>>> thread
>>>>>>>> and it would be better if you can answer all the questions one by one 
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> one email on this thread itself.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Let me know if you need any help in collecting all the questions in
>>>>>>>> one email. I am available to help you. Otherwise, just go through the 
>>>>>>>> whole
>>>>>>>> thread (which will provide you with enough context as well).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I agree with you that this discussion will help WMIN and the larger
>>>>>>>> wikimedia community as well. It will also help us ensure more 
>>>>>>>> transparency
>>>>>>>> in our processes.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>&

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Education SAARC conference -2019

[Satdeep Gill]

This seems like a really nice initiative Ananth! Looking forward to it.

Best
Satdeep

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 8:08 PM Ananth Subray 
wrote:

> Greetings from CIS-A2K,
>
> I am writing this email to inform you about the Wikimedia Education SAARC
> conference which is going to be organised at Christ University on 20-22
> June 2019. The CIS-A2K team has been working with the language department
> of Christ University and other institutions to enrich the content of Indic
> Wikimedia projects with the help of students.
>
> Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will be the first of its kind
> conference in SAARC countries which will engage students, education program
> leaders, educators and researchers engaged with Open Education and free
> knowledge movement. This conference will allow us to understand the
> different efforts made by the communities involved in the Wikimedia
> Education movement.
>
> We're thankful to Christ University for helping us to the host the event,
> for more details and further updates, Please have a look at this page
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference>[1].
>
> [1]. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Education_SAARC_conference
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
>
> *ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
>
> MSc Candidate at CHRIST (Deemed to be University)
>
> Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
> <https://cis-india.org/a2k/cis-a2k>
>
> Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_%26_Education_User_Group>
>
> Co-founder of Lakshya
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Job openings at the Wikimedia Foundation

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello all,

I’m writing to let you know about two open positions with the Wikimedia
Foundation that may be of interest. Both positions can be done remotely.
Even if the roles don’t interest you personally, please help us spread the
word to anyone you think may be interested!

The Trust and Safety Team <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Trust_and_Safety>
is looking for a full-time Trust and Safety Specialist with native command
of a major Dravidian or Indic language and working fluency in English. The
Specialist will help protect and empower people involved in or impacted by
the Wikimedia movement by investigating and responding to threats to the
safety of the Wikimedia projects. The Specialist will seek to enhance
community health and facilitate the work of our community of international
volunteers. Learn more and apply at Greenhouse.
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1495308?gh_src=70fb2de81>

The Movement Strategy Team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People>
is looking for a part-time Strategy Liaison from the Hindi community. The
Liaison should have working fluency in English. He or she will help
communities participate in the strategy process by coordinating,
facilitating, encouraging, summarizing, and translating, among other
responsibilities. The position is 20 hours/week, and lasts from February
2019 through December 2019 with the possibility of extension. Learn more
and apply at Greenhouse.
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/1478679?gh_src=2a6a8b121>

If either of these positions seem like a fit for you or someone you know,
please consider applying or spreading the word.

Thank you for your time.

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GLAM and Underrepresented Knowledge, Community Programs
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Programs_team>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wikisource Stats

[Satdeep Gill]

@Jay,

Can we visualize these stats on a graph?

Best
Satdeep

On Thu, 27 Dec, 2018, 5:17 PM Tito Dutta  Good work Jayprakash.
>
> On Wed 26 Dec, 2018, 10:55 PM Jay prakash, <0freerunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> A new tool has been created for displaying and maintaining Indic-language
>> Wikisource statistics. The statistics page contains page the stats of Page
>> namespace, Main namespace and their subcategories like not proofread,
>> proofread, validated, with the scan, without the scan and et. You may sort
>> the table, distinguishably see the row on mouse hover or export it in
>> Wikitable format. Please see the tool here:
>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/indic-wsstats/, To follow its development you
>> can subscribe the T212517.[1]
>>
>> This tool was requested at the Wikisource India Community Consultation.
>> Feedback and suggestion are welcome.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212517
>>
>> User:Jayprakash12345
>> Indic-TechCom
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wikisource Stats

[Satdeep Gill]

This is really nice Jay. Thank you for working on this.

Best
Satdeep

On Wed, 26 Dec, 2018, 10:55 PM Jay prakash <0freerunn...@gmail.com wrote:

> Hello,
> A new tool has been created for displaying and maintaining Indic-language
> Wikisource statistics. The statistics page contains page the stats of Page
> namespace, Main namespace and their subcategories like not proofread,
> proofread, validated, with the scan, without the scan and et. You may sort
> the table, distinguishably see the row on mouse hover or export it in
> Wikitable format. Please see the tool here:
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/indic-wsstats/, To follow its development you
> can subscribe the T212517.[1]
>
> This tool was requested at the Wikisource India Community Consultation.
> Feedback and suggestion are welcome.
>
> Thanks
>
> [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T212517
>
> User:Jayprakash12345
> Indic-TechCom
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Leaving the New Readers

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi all,

It has been a pleasure for me to have collaborated with many of you as I
have been working with the New Readers program for over a year as Community
Outreach Coordinator (India) but now, I have joined the Community Programs
team at the Wikimedia Foundation as Program Officer, GLAM and
Underrepresented Knowledge.

Some of you might already know that starting October 2018, we kicked
off Community
Marketing Experiments
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers/Community_Marketing_Experiments>
that I was leading with guidance from Anne Gomez and Zack McCune. Both the
teams have agreed upon a transition plan so that the work at CMEs can be
finished, and I will be finishing the marketing experiments and some other
projects for the New Readers through mid-January.

In case you have any queries about the New Readers program, feel free to
contact Anne Gomez, Senior Program Manager (ago...@wikimedia.org).

Best

Satdeep
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikisource OCR tool

[Satdeep Gill]

Tito, Thank you for sharing the link here. This tool is really helpful.
Barnstars to Jay Prakash.

On Mon, 26 Nov, 2018, 7:27 AM Tito Dutta  Hello,
> We just completed Indic Wikisource consultation 2018, and one of the most
> important part of the consultation was the Wikisource tech needs-assessment
> We have got a few tools and scripts suggestion which Indic TechCom may
> work on.
>
> Meanwhile, please have a look at:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/IndicOCR or the tool
> link directly https://tools.wmflabs.org/jayprakashbot/
> This is a web OCR tool. Currently Google OCR does not support the
> following languages and it will help there
>
>1. Malayalam Wikisource
>2. Telugu Wikisource
>3. Odiaa Wikisource
>4. Gujarati Wikisource
>5. Kannada Wikisource
>6. Punjabi Wikisource
>
>
> I'll keep the list informed about further development.
>
>
> Thanks
> Tito Dutta
> Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind
> me over email or phone call.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindi Wikisource

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi Yann,

Interestingly, the Hindi community is going to meet in January 2019 for a
conference and Hindi Wikisource is on the agenda. I am hoping that we will
get more community members involved now.

Best
Satdeep


On Wed, 14 Nov, 2018, 8:35 PM Yann Forget  Hi,
>
> Help needed here
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Language_committee#Hindi_Wikisource
>
> Best regards,
>
> Yann Forget
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] Pdf2Text - need help to test and port to windows

[Satdeep Gill]

This is great news Shrini. Looking forward to it.

Best
Satdeep

On Sat, 27 Oct, 2018, 8:29 AM Shrinivasan T,  wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I am working on a new project pdf2text using Google VISION API.
> This is easy on setup and hopefully can be ported to windows.
>
> Check it for ubuntu here
> https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/Pdf2Text
>
> Need help from windows users on setup.
>
> Please read the issue here
> https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/Pdf2Text/issues/1
>
> and install the required binaries for windows and try to setup the same.
>
> Feel free to file more issues and enhancements.
>
> Once the basic PDF to Text conversion is done, then we can add the
> wikisource upload part as a separate project.
>
> --
> Regards,
> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
> My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
> Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com
>
> Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
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[Wikimediaindia-l] World Heritage Cuisine Summit 2018 Edit-a-thon (1-10 October 2018)

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello everyone,

World Heritage Cuisine Summit & Food Festival is being organized in
Amritsar, Punjab, India from 12th to 14th October 2018.*[1]* The event will
have chefs from around 40 different countries who will present their local
cuisines.

Punjabi Wikimedians User Group is a partner in the event and we plan to put
up QR codes for every food item to be presented.

We are organizing an edit-a-thon
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Cuisine_Summit_2018_Edit-a-thon>*[
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Cuisine_Summit_2018_Edit-a-thon>2]*
to write articles about these different food items and we also plan to take
quality images during the event to illustrate the articles.

The list is still being improved as we are waiting for more entries from
the organizers.

Please add your name in the list of participants
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Cuisine_Summit_2018_Edit-a-thon/Participants>
*[3]* and feel free to start creating articles from the current list of
articles
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Cuisine_Summit_2018_Edit-a-thon/list>
.*[4] *Make sure to add your language Wikipedia in the list as well.

---
1. http://heritagesummit2018.com
2.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Cuisine_Summit_2018_Edit-a-thon
3.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Cuisine_Summit_2018_Edit-a-thon/Participants
4.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/World_Heritage_Cuisine_Summit_2018_Edit-a-thon/list

Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi Rahul,

It's very sad to hear about your loss. I totally understand how difficult
it must have been for you and rest of your family.

Thanks a lot responding to this thread. I understand your request to
personally email you but there are many unanswered questions such as
information about the inviting organization, reporting etc. in this thread
and it would be better if you can answer all the questions one by one in
one email on this thread itself.

Let me know if you need any help in collecting all the questions in one
email. I am available to help you. Otherwise, just go through the whole
thread (which will provide you with enough context as well).

I agree with you that this discussion will help WMIN and the larger
wikimedia community as well. It will also help us ensure more transparency
in our processes.

Looking forward to hear from you! Thank you once again for taking out some
time to reply here. I believe you must not be fully available yet. So, take
your time and respond whenever you can in the coming weeks.

Best
Satdeep


On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 7:09 PM Rahul Deshmukh 
wrote:

> *Dear all,*
>
> *I am extremely sorry to inform you that my younger cousin brother passed
> away last Friday from severe medical complications. He was just 38 and had
> been hospitalised for several weeks in critical stage. *
>
> *Being engrossed in the family issue I was not able to reply the thread
> for which I am extremely sorry.*
>
> *Regarding the issue as discussed in the thread I had requested for
> sponsorship with all needful information from external funding agency CIS,
> and CIS agreed to it.  Wikimedia India did not spend any fund from its
> account. *
>
> *However this discussion will be helpful for Wikimedia India while
> disseminating WMIN’s funds in future.  *
>
> *In case someone wants any other information  in this regard I would
> request community members to personally email me.*
>
> *Thanks*
>
> *Rahul Deshmukh*
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 2:06 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <
> sudhanwa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 3:47 PM Subhashish Panigrahi <
>> psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Just a technical clarification - Asaf copied Rahul in his first emai so
>>> he must have received the email. I have copied Rahul again. In worst case
>>> scenario (if he is not there in the mailing list), others from the chapter
>>> board would have informed him. It’s very hard to believe that the
>>> discussion has gone so far without Rahul not being aware Also, it’s
>>> important for movement partner reps to be on mailing lists of their own
>>> country.
>>>
>>
>> My bad. Haven't noticed Rahul is also marked in the mails.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Sorry, I don’t find the argument — that Rahul hasn’t replied back
>>> because he isn’t there in the mailing list — a strong one.
>>>
>>
>> Completely agree that he should reply.
>>
>> Regards
>> -Sudhanwa
>>
>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Appointing Community Advocate for Punjabi Wikimedians

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello everyone,

Punjabi Wikimedians is collaborating with CIS-A2K for the growth of Punjabi
Wikisource as a focused project for the next fiscal year. We received only
one application during the first deadline and no new application was
received during the second deadline either. We gave a task to the applicant
which included visiting a library in Ludhiana which belongs to one of our
partner organizations and to digitize some works and to write a small
report. The task was completed by applicant. Hence, we have decided to hire
the applicant, User:Satpal Dandiwal
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Satpal_Dandiwal>, as Community
Advocate.

The CA will be responsible for the following tasks but not limited to these:

1. Primary task would be digitizing PD works or CC released works to be
uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and subsequently integrating them with
Punjabi Wikisource.

2. The person will be responsible for maintaining financial records of
existing and future grants of Punjabi Wikimedians.

3. The person will also be helping with logistics and organizing regular
events.

We are excited to announce this to the larger Indic community.

Best
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WLM updates

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi Parul,

Quick answers:

1. All the National and State Protected monuments of UP should be listed in
the three lists provided. Agra, Lucknow and Patna are just the names of the
circles and the lists for each of these contains the monuments from other
cities of UP as well.

2. Currently, there are no ASI recognized monuments from Andaman and
Nicobar, hence no monument has been included in the list. We are generally
limiting the participation to the ASI protect national and state monuments
only. We have given an exemption to Tamil community which reached out to us
before the event started.

I hope I have answered your questions.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

Community Outreach Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers>
Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians>
Member, Affiliations Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>
Member, Language Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee>


On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 18:08, Parul  wrote:

> Team - Quick question and maybe I am writing to the larger community for a
> small query. Apologies in advance.
>
> If there are monuments out of the list that someone wants to share, how
> should that be done?
> e.g.
>
>1. I see Uttar Pradesh has Agra, Lucknow and Patna listed but no other
>city.
>2. Andaman and Nicobar has no monuments listed.
>
> Are we expecting participants to build the list or we want to restrict the
> participation to the list of monuments?
>
> Thank you!
>
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 7:57 PM Suyash Dwivedi 
> wrote:
>
>> All the best
>>
>> Regards,
>> Suyash Dwivedi
>> (U:Suyash.dwivedi)
>> sent from mobile, please consider any typos
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, 6:21 AM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
>> kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>>> All the best
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 12:14 AM, Tito Dutta 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> All the best for the event. Glad to know about the progress.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Tito Dutta
>>>> Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to
>>>> remind me over email or phone call.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 at 00:07, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
>>>> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> WLM will start tomorrow. \0/
>>>>>
>>>>> Few things:
>>>>>
>>>>>- Here is a page where you can create or modify the WLM central
>>>>>notice banner for your language wiki, which will be displayed 
>>>>> throughout
>>>>>September.  -
>>>>>
>>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018/CentralNotice
>>>>>- Tamil community is working on the list of ASI non-protected
>>>>>monuments in Tamil Nadu which will be included in WLM. Currently they 
>>>>> have
>>>>>included around 1500 monuments and the list is growing. -
>>>>>https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/7bs9
>>>>>- Meet our judges for the national competition -
>>>>>
>>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_India/Jury
>>>>>- Please do not forget to check the judging criteria set be the
>>>>>jury team, which is very very important for the event -
>>>>>
>>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_India
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Thank You :-)

[Satdeep Gill]

Tanveer ji,

I would wholeheartedly like to thank you for your contribution to the
development of the Indic communities. CIS has grown a lot under your
leadership and I know your absence is going to leave a void. You have
always been a source of inspiration.

Best of luck for your future endeavors.

Also, thank you for being a great friend :)

Regards
Satdeep

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018, 4:24 AM Abhinav srivastava 
wrote:

> Congratulations Tanveer on competing this wonderful journey.
>
> Wishing you the very best for future endeavours.
>
>
> Additional Comments : I request you to address the responses  as on
> Friday, 10th August at 4.57pm on
> 'CIS-A2K : Transparency and Other Issues' on the other thread.
>
>
>
> On Sun 26 Aug, 2018, 11:56 PM Tanveer Hasan, 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Wikimedians and Friends,
>>
>> I am writing to inform all of you that I will be stepping down as Senior
>> Program Manager of  Access to Knowledge (A2K Team) at The Centre for
>> Internet and Society, Bangalore on 31 August, 2018.
>>
>> It has been an honour to have worked with amazing Wikimedians during my
>> time with the A2K team. I have learnt immensely during my interactions with
>> Wikimedians, WMIN members and the WMIN EC, various user groups and WMF
>> staff.
>>
>> The last three and half years have been an amazing experience and have
>> helped me grow intellectually and I have been lucky to make friends for
>> life. I wish to thank all the Wikimedians for their questions, feedback,
>> advice and ideas. I also thank WMIN and User Groups and Partner
>> Institutions for their unflinching support during this time.
>>
>> I request all of you to extend your support to the A2K team for the
>> current plan year and for activities that shall be proposed in the upcoming
>> plan as well. I would also like to take this opportunity to apologise for
>> any inconvenience that I might have caused during my time at CIS-A2K.
>>
>> I will continue to be associated with the A2K team as an advisor. I would 
>> love
>> to be in touch and be of any help that I can, please feel free to write to
>> me on 'hasanrememb...@gmail.com'.
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Jayantanath as Wikisource Project Advisor

[Satdeep Gill]

This is a great news! Indic Wikisource communities need special support to
grow and there is a big potential for Wikisource in India. Jayanta da is a
Wikisource expert and hence a perfect choice for this role.

I am hoping this would be immensely significant for the Indic Wikisource
communities.

Best
Satdeep

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 4:26 PM Tito Dutta  wrote:

> Hello,
> I want to inform Indian Wikimedia community that Jayantanath, an
> experienced Indian Wikisource admin is collaborating with CIS-A2K in order
> to support and strengthen Indian Wikisource communities. Wikisource is an
> important project, and several Indian Wikiosurce communities are working
> hard on it. Jayantanath will serve as a Wikisource Project Advisor, India.
>
> (Jayanta Nath is cc-ed in the email)
>
> Thanks
> Tito Dutta
> Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to remind
> me over email or phone call.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in India (10 days to go!)

[Satdeep Gill]

Abhinav,

We will add an option for volunteers to sign up. We can then see who can
help in which tasks.

For now, we are working and trying to engage others to work on creating
Wikidata items about all ASI recognized monuments of National importance.
This is something where everyone can start contributing right now and this
will be very useful for the future iterations of WLM as well. Here is the
link:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Built_heritage/ASI_Monuments

Best
Satdeep

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018, 2:23 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Balaji,
>
> Thanks for your interest -
> The main page comes from these two pages-
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_India/About
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_India/Howto
>
> The pages are already marked for translation.
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
>
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2018, 09:54 balaji,  wrote:
>
>> It looks like not all content is marked for translation in the main page
>> for Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in India. If different sections are marked up
>> for translation in small bits it would be easy to translate them.
>>
>> Regards,
>> J. Balaji
>> (User:Balajijagadesh)
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 11:29 PM Suyash Dwivedi <
>> suyash.dwiv...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Great
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Suyash Dwivedi
>>> (U:Suyash.dwivedi)
>>> sent via mobile please consider any typos
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 8:14 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
>>> kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Wow! The landing page looks stunning and quite comprehensive with all
>>>> the required information—even for a newbie to contribute.
>>>>
>>>> All the best,
>>>> User:KCVelaga
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Satdeep Gill 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> We are excited to announce that West Bengal Wikimedians User Group and
>>>>> Punjabi Wikimedians User Group are jointly organizing Wiki Loves Monuments
>>>>> 2018 in India from 1st September 2018 to 30th September 2018.
>>>>>
>>>>> This year we are focusing on ASI protected monuments of national
>>>>> importance and state protected monuments. For more details about
>>>>> participating in the contest, visit the link below:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_India
>>>>>
>>>>> Alternatively, you can help in creating Wikidata items about these
>>>>> monuments. Check the following link for more information:
>>>>>
>>>>> <http://goog_494423713>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Built_heritage/ASI_Monuments
>>>>>
>>>>> Looking forward to your active participation in the event! Feel free
>>>>> to reach out to us for any query.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Satdeep Gill
>>>>> On behalf of the organizing team
>>>>> Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in India (10 days to go!)

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello everyone,

We are excited to announce that West Bengal Wikimedians User Group and
Punjabi Wikimedians User Group are jointly organizing Wiki Loves Monuments
2018 in India from 1st September 2018 to 30th September 2018.

This year we are focusing on ASI protected monuments of national importance
and state protected monuments. For more details about participating in the
contest, visit the link below:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2018_in_India

Alternatively, you can help in creating Wikidata items about these
monuments. Check the following link for more information:


https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Built_heritage/ASI_Monuments

Looking forward to your active participation in the event! Feel free to
reach out to us for any query.

Regards
Satdeep Gill
On behalf of the organizing team
Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Recruiting Community Advocate for Punjabi Wikimedians

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello everyone,

I wanted to share with you that Punjabi Wikimedians is going to work with
CIS-A2K for the next one year with Punjabi Wikisource being the Focused
Project Area. We invited community members interested in digitizing and
Wikisource to apply for the post of Community Advocate.

After one month, we have only received one application and now we are going
to assign a task to the person. The task will be to visit our partner
organization in Ludhiana and to digitize (scanning and post processing) two
different works to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Scanning quality will
be accessed by a Wikisourcer from the wider Indic Community. The person
will also be writing a report regarding challenges and learnings from the
activity.

Any kind of feedback is welcome.

Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] CIS-A2K : Transparency and Other Issues

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi all,

Documentation and Reporting has generally been an issue. As Subha mentioned
about a lot of footage and no bandwidth to upload, it reminds me of WCI2018
where we had 500 GB data and could only work around about a 100 GB of that.

And yes some communities/volunteers have been doing a lot of great
activities but don't publicize it much and nor do they write blogposts
about the same. I believe this is something where we need some support from
each other.

@Abhinav srivastava  I believe everyone who was going
to Berlin was invited to attend the event in Bangalore. I do know about one
person not being available during those dates and another one was refused
visa. I might be missing out on something here.

Regarding disturbed neutrality at my end, I just wanted to say that I am
first a volunteer and then a part-employee and in my view my volunteer
activities (which includes my role in AffCom) are very much different from
my role in the New Readers program. I am happy to discuss more about this
in private email.

Regards
Satdeep Gill


On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 18:38, Ashwin Baindur 
wrote:

> Thanks. I was just expressing my concerns.
>
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018, 6:24 PM Abhinav srivastava 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Ashwin Sir,
>>
>>
>>
>> It is a matter of one’s personal privacy. Otherwise, I would have shared
>> the delegate name immediately. This is similar to sharing Bodisattwa’s talk
>> about 2016 Wikimania where I shared the relevant link on his personal
>> email.  If anyone is not comfortable then why force and take his name. Yes,
>> 2 lakhs is not the issue but you can see why I had stated so.
>>
>> Anyways, I would like to say, in future if I ever need a help from say
>> Bengali, Punjabi, Oriya community; Bodhisattwa, Satdeep, Subhashish would
>> be the first people to come and offer their support. There is enough good
>> in the Indian community and at times it does not get reflected on the
>> mailing list. 
>>
>> Let me tell you, I am working on a GLAM partnership and nobody else but
>> Satdeep offered me help and support. This happened this Monday itself.
>>
>> Discussions and Debates are just a part of the community interactions. As
>> they say, the democratic process is strengthened more only when you
>> practice it. By practice only we learn, ‘we learn how to be polite’, ‘how
>> to maintain friendly space’, ‘how to be kind etc’.  Anyways, If I have been
>> rude, I would like to apologize straight away.
>>
>>
>>
>> @ Subhashish: Thank You For The Positive Message. I am also happy to
>> learn about activities in your User Group.
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 5:57 PM Subhashish Panigrahi <
>> psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Abhinav, I think it's a valid expectation for a public report from any
>>> volunteer in the movement when the donation money is spent. So, please
>>> don't apologize to me. But there are many factors — priorities in life,
>>> time commitment, need for something, and many more that stops one from
>>> being available for post-event documentation.
>>>
>>> Maybe the following would help explain. Our user group tries to document
>>> a lot. To put things into a perspective, our recent-most event, the 16th
>>> anniversary of Odia Wikipedia, has a long and detailed documentation in
>>> Odia (https://or.wikipedia.org/s/1bia) - thanks to contributors like
>>> Sangram Keshari Senapati, Bikash Ojha and many others who managed to
>>> document a lot of valuable portions from the discussions. We have recorded
>>> about 50 Gb of interviews and sessions just during this event that we now
>>> have no bandwidth to edit and upload. It will take a few more months for us
>>> to do that. :)
>>>
>>> As a new user group, we have also supported neighboring communities like
>>> Santali where we interviewed many of the active and new Wikimedians (almost
>>> 50 Gbs of media again) during a workshop that we helped organize with
>>> support from A2K.
>>>
>>> These are just a couple of examples of what we intend to do and how
>>> things turn up differently in reality. Trust me, we really want to document
>>> publicly as much as we can and there are genuine factors that slow many of
>>> us down. But point noted - there is always a room for improvement. I
>>> personally assumed that as there is a Etherpad note that Tito and others at
>>> A2K had created during the two-day meeting, sharing that with the community
>>> was enough. We indeed had a discussion and Sailesh who works at A2K and
>>> other colleagues at our user group can share mor

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi Yohann,

1. I would like to know more about the fact that who was the inviting
person for this informal meetup? Can you also share the record written
invitation?

2. Since, this was something that not a part of the official program of the
Wikimania, how was it deemed important enough to be attended?
(For example, what if some random person (such as Bodhi) sends an
invitation to (let's say Manav) attend and present about Punjabi
Wikimedians UG at Asia Meetup at Wikimania 2019.)

3. Since, the invitation was one particular meetup, was the possibility of
a remote participation considered? 2 WMIN representatives present at
Wikimania (Krishna and Viswa) could also have presented with the help of
the slides prepared by Rahul.

4. It would be great if the presentation can be shared on Commons, if it
hasn't been done already (If it's there please provide a link). Also, it
would be good if Rahul writes a report (if already not done) about his
participation in the whole event, just like the scholarship attendees.
(Just for information purposes, Punjabi UG has decided to ask all its
representatives at all national and international events to prepare a
report about their participation and to try and organize local events to
pass on the learnings.)

5. Sadly no one knew of the availability of this kind of support from any
organization. What Manav was saying that last year her session was selected
for the official Wikimania program and she didn't know whether any support
was available.

6. What should be the process for making such decisions in the future?
Let's start thinking about this as this is not just about one particular
incident but the decision making in the movement in general.

I am sure this has been a good learning for the chapter. I believe ensuring
transparency and adequate decision making process is very much required to
ensure that the wider community's faith in our organizations remain intact.

Regards
Satdeep Gill


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> Hello,
> A couple of Indian communities have plan to conduct small edit-a-thons
> during/around 15 August. As of now, I know about Marathi, Telugu, and
> recently Hindi has added an event page. Today morning I was talking on
> Wikidata India noticeboard on Wikidata label-a-thon.
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> times.
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> Pardon my grammar & also my line to line reply, as I'm relying on my
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New Indian partner now available through The Wikipedia Library

[Satdeep Gill]

This is a great news. Thanks for sharing this.

Best
Satdeep


On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, 5:45 PM Sam Walton  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I thought you might be interested to know that free access to Economic &
> Political Weekly (https://www.epw.in/) is now available through The
> Wikipedia Library! Economic & Political Weekly is a social science journal
> with archives dating back to 1949.
>
> You can apply now at https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/71/
>
> As an Indian organisation, with translations available in a number of
> Indian languages, access is being prioritised for editors contributing to
> topics related to India.
>
> Best,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi all,

I expected more discussion on this. Although, Subhashish reposted this on
Wikimania mailing list and asked some really good questions.

I agree with Subha that if an affiliate decides to send someone to
Wikimania then the whole selection process should be transparent and also
some reporting guidelines should be established similar to Wikimania.

All this can help ensure trust of the wider Wikimedia community in our
processes and decisions.

I do want to hear why was it deemed necessary for the WMIN President to be
present at that informal meetup during Wikimania.

I do know that for some other Chapters whose chairperson's were not
attending Wikimania, some editor Board/EC member attended the meetup on
their behalf.

I expect to hear more about this.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

Community Outreach Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers>
Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians>
Member, Affiliations Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee>
Member, Language Committee
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee>


On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 at 17:30,  Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> WMIN chapter president Rahul Deshmukh attended Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town
> without being selected for any type of scholarship. My question is why was
> he sent to the conference depriving other community members from India who
> were in the waiting list.
>
> He spoke in the informal chairpersons' meetup for few minutes. The meeting
> doesn't require president of the organization's presence, and already there
> were 2 EC member of WMIN present, who could have attended the meeting.
>
> To me, this is utter misuse of power and abuse of donation money.
>
> Thanks,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India community mailing list admins

[Satdeep Gill]

Those are good suggestions too, Abhinav.

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Sent: Monday, July 30, 2018 2:59:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India community mailing list admins

This is a good suggestion Satdeep. In addition to this, I would also like to 
nominate User: Naveenpf and either User :Atudu or User :Manavpreet Kaur.

A suggestion is to have a female admin.

Abhinav

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 6:20 PM Satdeep Gill 
mailto:sg...@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
I am okay with this. If Shyamal and AshLin agrees, they two can be good due to 
their standing in the community.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 2:41 PM Yohann Thomas 
mailto:yohan...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I would prefer the new admin selectec to not have any connection with 
WMIN/CIS/WMF... For him to remain as neutral as possible (personal opinion)...

Regards,
Yohann

On Mon 30 Jul, 2018, 18:00 Satdeep Gill, 
mailto:sg...@wikimedia.org>> wrote:
I agree with Krishna on this. Let's add some more list admins.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 2:28 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 
mailto:kcvel...@wikimedia.in>> wrote:
Dear all,

The Indian community mailing list is arguably the most used mailing list by the 
Indian Wikimedia community. However, recently some users have reported problems 
with subscription and sending messages as non-subscribers. All these issues are 
need to be dealt by the list admins at the earliest possible. However, the 
issues remain unsolved.

So I think more active community members must be added as mailing list admins 
so that these issues can be addressed in a timely manner.

List info at: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/Wikimediaindia-l

Looking forward for comments from other members.

Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya V.
User:KCVelaga
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India community mailing list admins

[Satdeep Gill]

I am okay with this. If Shyamal and AshLin agrees, they two can be good due
to their standing in the community.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 2:41 PM Yohann Thomas  wrote:

> I would prefer the new admin selectec to not have any connection with
> WMIN/CIS/WMF... For him to remain as neutral as possible (personal
> opinion)...
>
> Regards,
> Yohann
>
> On Mon 30 Jul, 2018, 18:00 Satdeep Gill,  wrote:
>
>> I agree with Krishna on this. Let's add some more list admins.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 2:28 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
>> kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> The Indian community mailing list is arguably the most used mailing list
>>> by the Indian Wikimedia community. However, recently some users have
>>> reported problems with subscription and sending messages as
>>> non-subscribers. All these issues are need to be dealt by the list admins
>>> at the earliest possible. However, the issues remain unsolved.
>>>
>>> So I think more active community members must be added as mailing list
>>> admins so that these issues can be addressed in a timely manner.
>>>
>>> List info at:
>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/Wikimediaindia-l
>>>
>>> Looking forward for comments from other members.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Krishna Chaitanya V.
>>> User:KCVelaga
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India community mailing list admins

[Satdeep Gill]

I agree with Krishna on this. Let's add some more list admins.

On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 2:28 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> The Indian community mailing list is arguably the most used mailing list
> by the Indian Wikimedia community. However, recently some users have
> reported problems with subscription and sending messages as
> non-subscribers. All these issues are need to be dealt by the list admins
> at the earliest possible. However, the issues remain unsolved.
>
> So I think more active community members must be added as mailing list
> admins so that these issues can be addressed in a timely manner.
>
> List info at:
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/Wikimediaindia-l
>
> Looking forward for comments from other members.
>
> Regards,
> Krishna Chaitanya V.
> User:KCVelaga
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

[Satdeep Gill]

Ravi,

It has always been a pleasure working along with you over the years. I hope
we keep working together no matter where we are.

All the very best for better things in life :)

Best
Satdeep

On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 12:37 AM, balaji  wrote:

> Best wishes for your next assignment. You are destined for even bigger
> things!!
>
> Regards,
> J. Balaji.
>
> On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 2:36 PM Dhaval S. Vyas  wrote:
>
>> Hi Ravi,
>>
>> India wiki movement will surely miss you, you have made a great impact on
>> the wikimedia within the subcontinent. Wish you all the very best in your
>> next assignment.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dhaval Vyas
>>
>> On 2 Jul 2018 11:17 pm, "Ravishankar Ayyakkannu" <
>> rayyakka...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Hi, I am leaving the Wikimedia Foundation to pursue other ideas and
>> opportunities. I will be working until 15th of July 2018. During my time
>> here, it was my honor to work alongside many brilliant colleagues from all
>> the Asian Wikimedia communities, User Groups, chapters, and CIS-A2K. I am
>> especially proud that, in collaboration with my team and partners, I had
>> the opportunity to design, launch, and implement the very successful pilot
>> partnership called Project Tiger
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program>.This
>> project and many other initiatives for the Asian region will be continued
>> according to our team's Annual plan. Please contact
>> globalre...@wikimedia.org  to learn more.
>> Thanks, Ravi*
>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Call for applications: Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)

[Satdeep Gill]

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 Hyrderabad 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_o7z2gEIsJy3PYbt0ippnwgU8tMbHSP1u1OBuvigXWPA/viewform?usp=sf_link>
Wikigraphists Bootcamp application form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf1Ow_o7z2gEIsJy3PYbt0ippnwgU8tMbHSP1u1OBuvigXWPA/viewform?usp=sf_link>

Looking forward to some serious wikilearning and some serious wikifun at
the same time.

Best
Satdeep Gill
On behalf of the organizing team,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian [February 2017]

[Satdeep Gill]

I am really glad that I had the pleasure of meeting Sangappa at this year's
Train the Trainer program. He is a really motivating Wikimedian.

Best
Satdeep

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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 21:46:07 +0530
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Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian [February 2017]
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Greetings,

I am happy to introduce User:Sangappadyamani
 from
the Kannada community as the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for February
2018.

Sangappa is an inspiring Kannada Wikipedian both in spirit and at work. He
is from Kalaburagi (previously Gulbarga), Sangappa works for private firm
in Bengaluru. He started contributing to English Wikipedia in 2012, when he
found that there is no article on his native place. Even though it was
deleted due some issues, Sangappa not being discouraged, went through all
the relevant guidelines, and created nineteen articles related to Karnataka.

Having made his first edit on Kannada Wikipedia in 2016, he has been very
active ever since, and created around 170 articles, with more than ten
thousand global edits. The fascinating part of Sangappa's contributions is
linked with the Google Doodle section on Kannada Wikipedia Main Page. Every
day, the subjects that are honoured by Google by featured them as their
Doodle, are created/improved by Sangappa within a few hours of its updation
at 00:00 hrs everyday. He says that in this way, he ensures that all the
popular topics of India are well represented on Kannada Wikipedia.

Sangappa makes most of his edits through mobile, or from his friend's
laptop. He also puts the wait during traffic jams from his home to office,
and vice versa, to the best use, by making edits on Wikipedia during that
period.

Regards,
Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
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Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 23:40:16 +0530
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Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian [February 2017]
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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/

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Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 1:19:30 AM
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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 
<psubhash...@gmail.com<mailto:psubhash...@gmail.com>> 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 
> <jayanta...@gmail.com<mailto:jayanta...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Congrats Satdeep!!
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedia [November 2017]

[Satdeep Gill]

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 <trulyt...@gmail.com> 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" <mourya.bis...@gmail.com> 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" <sri.pa...@gmail.com> 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*
>>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Balajijagadesh> 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
>>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ACentralAuth=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
>>>> <https://twitter.com/tawikisource>.
>>>>
>>>> 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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>>>
>>> Parul
>>>
>>> My Blog <http://happinessandfood.com/>
>>> My Professional Profile <http://in.linkedin.com/in/parulthakur>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi everyone,

I would also like to congratulate Hindi Wikimedians. 

Regards
Satdeep Gill

Strategy Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation
Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians
Treasurer, Affiliations Committee
Member, Language Committee

> On 08-Jul-2017, at 7:38 AM, Yohann Thomas <yohan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear community 
> 
> This is another amazing news I'm happy to forward to you all after hearing 
> about it. 
> 
> The Hindi User group had been recognized by the AffCom. I'm also very much 
> pleased to know that one of the members of this user group, Mr Suyash Dwivedi 
> is also on the board of Wikimedia India. 
> 
> I am very much excited about the future & opportunities for this fledgling 
> new user group & congratulate them on this.. 
> 
> Regards 
> Yohann Thomas 
> Wikimedia India 
> 
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> From: "Kirill Lokshin" <kirill.loks...@gmail.com>
> Date: 08-Jul-2017 5:35 AM
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group
> To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia 
> Movement Affiliates discussion list" <affilia...@lists.wikimedia.org>
> Cc: 
> 
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the Hindi Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
> aims to advance the work of the Wikimedia movement in the Hindi language.
> 
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
> 
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
> 
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hindi_Wikimedians_User_Group
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Jimmy in New Delhi

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Hi all,

He is coming to New Delhi and i was told by a wikimedian that he wanted to meet 
the local community. I contacted his PA to confirm the same. Hence, it is a 
small informal meeting according to me. It is happening at the Taj Mahal Hotel, 
New Delhi.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

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>   1. Re: Jimmy Wales travelling to India (satdeepg...@gmail.com)
>   2. Re: Jimmy Wales travelling to India (Yohann Thomas)
>   3. Re: Jimmy Wales travelling to India (Tito Dutta)
>   4. Re: Jimmy Wales travelling to India (Dhaval S. Vyas)
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> There is a meeting with Jimmy at the Taj Mahal Hotel on 17th December 4 PM to 
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> Regards
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> Satdeep,
> 
> Is it Taj hotel Bombay or New Delhi
> 
> & where was it announced that he was visiting India??
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Bengali Wikimedian shares her Wiki Experience

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi all,

Bengali Wikimedian has shared her experience of getting duped by the fellow
Wikimedians during Wiki Treks Kalindi Khal:


https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/Sujay25/Wikipedia_Treks_Kalindi_Khal#Sharing_experience_of_my_first_Wikipedia_project

She claims that two Bengali Wikimedians have misused WMF funds and also got
money from her. Please share your opinion on this.

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Great news. I am waiting for the English version of the order.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2016 Logo

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello everyone,

We have received 22 Proposals for WCI16 Logo. We would like you to comment
and vote for your favorite logos within the next few days at the link given
below:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Logo_Challenge

Regards
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Alternative Media Partner

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello everyone,

Logical Indian Community is willing to become Alternative Media Partner of
WikiConference India 2016. We would like to take community comments at the
link given below:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Updates

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WCI-2016] The PEG Draft for WCI2016 is now open! Please verify and endorse!

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi Shyamal,

Thanks for this brilliant suggestion. I have added this as measure of
success. Feel free to make relevant changes as soon as possible as it is
not considered appropriate to make changes to the Grant request once it is
open.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Shyamal Lakshminarayanan <
lshya...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Satdeep and others,
>
> May I suggest that the measures of success be slightly differently looked
> at. For an event of this scale media impact and government-policy altering
> opportunities are important. Getting tax-payer funded knowledge missions to
> understand free licensing and getting them to participate would be a
> worthwhile goal to set.
>
> best wishes
> Shyamal
>
>
> On Monday, April 11, 2016, Satdeep Gill <satdeepg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I would like to thank everyone for supporting WCI till date. I would
> request you to keep adding more people to the mailing list. We still have a
> lot of work to do, so come forward and let us work as a team.
> >
> > If you wish to join a team, please add your name to the team of your
> choice at the following page:
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Community_and_Team/Team_Role
> >
> > Also, we have weekly IRC meetings at 9:30 pm every Saturday. Visit the
> following link for more information on IRCs:
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Community_and_Team/IRC
> >
> > Thank you once again.
> >
> > Regards
> > Satdeep Gill
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:10 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <
> viswapra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Dear Wikimedians on the list,
> >>
> >> 1. The PEG application has been completed. Its status has been updated
> from 'draft' to 'open'. That means now the application is due for vetting
> and consideration by the Grant approval committee.
> >>
> >>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Satdeep_Gill/WikiConference_India_2016
> >>
> >> However, it will be greatly helpful for the grant to get approved
> promptly if more of us could go through it and check its correctness and
> accuracy. If anyone finds any kind of discrepancies, please let me or
> Satdeep Gill know of the same at the earliest.
> >> Everyone is also welcome to endorse the application by signing up with
> their  Wikiuser ID in the section at the bottom of the grant request.
> >>
> >>
> >> 2. IMHO, our mutual communications, brain storming and pro-active
> engagement in the WCI2016 program needs to improve quite a lot. Please
> start discussing about the event and also share your ideas about how the
> conference should be held, mainly through this list. We have now several
> channels being used for WCI discussions. (This mail list, metawiki, the
> main India mail list, Facebook etc.). It will be much more effective and
> stimulating if we all ensure a single channel for continued interactions.
> >>
> >> Preferably, this very mail list and the metawiki page (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016) together
> should be treated as the official channel for communications as it will
> always help us keep the record of every single and small turn of events,
> activities and decision making.
> >> So,
> >> a) please ask your other wiki users and volunteers to join the list
> immediately.
> >> b) please get engaged in the efforts to make WCI2016 a grand success.
> >>
> >> To join the Wikimedia India Conference mail list, please visit
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Regards,
> >> user:Viswaprabha
> >>
> >>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WCI-2016] The PEG Draft for WCI2016 is now open! Please verify and endorse!

[Satdeep Gill]

Hi all,

I would like to thank everyone for supporting WCI till date. I would
request you to keep adding more people to the mailing list. We still have a
lot of work to do, so come forward and let us work as a team.

If you wish to join a team, please add your name to the team of your choice
at the following page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Community_and_Team/Team_Role

Also, we have weekly IRC meetings at 9:30 pm every Saturday. Visit the
following link for more information on IRCs:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Community_and_Team/IRC

Thank you once again.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 5:10 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <
viswapra...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians on the list,
>
> 1. The PEG application has been completed. Its status has been updated
> from 'draft' to 'open'. That means now the application is due for vetting
> and consideration by the Grant approval committee.
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Satdeep_Gill/WikiConference_India_2016
>
> However, it will be greatly helpful for the grant to get approved promptly
> if more of us could go through it and check its correctness and accuracy.
> If anyone finds any kind of discrepancies, please let me or Satdeep Gill
> know of the same at the earliest.
> *Everyone is also welcome to endorse the application by signing up with
> their  Wikiuser ID in the section at the bottom of the grant request.*
>
>
> 2. IMHO, our mutual communications, brain storming and pro-active
> engagement in the WCI2016 program needs to improve quite a lot. Please
> start discussing about the event and also share your ideas about how the
> conference should be held, mainly through this list. We have now several
> channels being used for WCI discussions. (This mail list, metawiki, the
> main India mail list, Facebook etc.). It will be much more effective and
> stimulating if we all ensure a single channel for continued interactions.
>
> Preferably, this very mail list and the metawiki page (
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016) together
> should be treated as the official channel for communications as it will
> always help us keep the record of every single and small turn of events,
> activities and decision making.
> So,
> a) please ask your other wiki users and volunteers to join the list
> immediately.
> b) please get engaged in the efforts to make WCI2016 a grand success.
>
> To join the Wikimedia India Conference mail list, please visit
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india
>
>
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> user:Viswaprabha
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] WCI PEG Draft - Pending

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello everyone,

I am writing this with hopes of motivating everyone once again to start
working for WCI. We have been running very late. It is high time that every
one step up and work to make this an amazing conference. Right now
requesting PEG for the event is the priority. We have to make sure we
request the grant as soon as possible.

Here is the link to the PEG Draft we are making:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/PEG_Draft

Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Affiliate Board Selection

[Satdeep Gill]

In my opinion, i think WMIN should support Siska Doviana and Jan Ainali. Other 
candidates are no less but at this moment these two candidates will be in a 
better position to represent the interests of the Global Wikimedia community.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

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> 
> 
> The Wikimedia chapters and thematic organizations select two members for
> the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. We, as the members of Wikimedia
> India have to accordingly vote for two members for the organisation.
> 
> We request the community members to kindly express their opinion and
> suggestions for the same. Visit the links below to find more relevant
> details regarding the same.
> 
> 
> 1.) About Affiliate Board
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> 
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> 
> 3.) Timeline
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016>
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> -- 
> Srivastava Abhinav
> Executive Committee Member|Wikimedia India
> Ph - +91-9711739003|Skype: abhinavsrivastava619
> Wiki Username - abhinav619
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
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> I will prefer Siska.
> No idea about others.
> 
> -Sudhanwa
> 
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Abhinav Srivastava <
> abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> 
>> The Wikimedia chapters and thematic organizations select two members for
>> the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. We, as the members of Wikimedia
>> India have to accordingly vote for two members for the organisation.
>> 
>> We request the community members to kindly express their opinion and
>> suggestions for the same. Visit the links below to find more relevant
>> details regarding the same.
>> 
>> 
>> 1.) About Affiliate Board
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats>
>> 
>> 2.) Nominated Candidates
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016/Nominations>
>> 
>> 3.) Timeline
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2016>
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
>> --
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>> Executive Committee Member|Wikimedia India
>> Ph - +91-9711739003|Skype: abhinavsrivastava619
>> Wiki Username -

[Wikimediaindia-l] IRC (12 March 2016)

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello everyone,

Please join us for the weekly status update IRC at 9:30 PM today (12 March
2016).


http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikiconferenceindia

Channel is #wikiconferenceindia

Regards
Satdeep Gill

On behalf of Organizing Committee
WCI2016
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1058, Issue 1

[Satdeep Gill]

Ravi,

Thanks a lot for your amazing contribution to the Wikimedia movement in India. 

I would also like to thank you on behalf of the Punjabi Wikimedia Community.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

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> 
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> Hi,
> 
> Effective 01 February 2016, I have changed the nature of my engagement with
> Wikimedia India (WMIN) from staff to volunteer.
> 
> I joined WMIN when the overall scene in the Indian Wikimedia movement was
> tumultuous. It wasn’t easy getting things back on track. In the last 16
> months, I hope I have succeeded in restoring the trust of all stakeholders
> including WMF, CIS-A2K, and the community. It was an honour to represent
> the movement in India, and I thank all who have helped me shoulder this
> responsibility. I know that I have played my part in empowering at least
> one Wikimedian to contribute more actively and nurturing at least one
> Wikimedia community. And that gives me immense satisfaction as I sign off
> as WMIN’s Program Director.
> 
> At the moment, WMIN cannot hire or retain any staff until it gets FCRA
> permanent registration and succeeds in securing next grant. I hope to
> continue serving WMIN as a volunteer to the best of my abilities while it
> undergoes this transition.  I will also be contributing to various
> Wikimedia projects and events as usual in my capacity as a volunteer.
> 
> I wish WMIN all the best and look forward to it playing a bigger role in
> the movement as it matures.
> 
> Thanks,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for New Project - Wikilore (Shrinivasan T)

[Satdeep Gill]

That is a pretty nice idea Shrinivasan. Making a WikiProject Folklore will
show that amount if data that can go on Wikilore.

Regards
Satdeep Gill

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for New Project - Wikilore

[Satdeep Gill]

Hello Everyone,

I have proposed a new Wikimedia project on Meta. I hope you guys can take a
look and give your views.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikilore

Regards
Satdeep Gill
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[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2016

[Satdeep Gill]

*WikiConference India 2016* (WCI 2016) is an outcome of Indic Meetup held
during Wikimania 2015
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Meetup. We had a
collective dream to bid for *Wikimania 2019* on behalf of India. If we need
to run a Wikimania successfully, it is time that the Wikimedia community in
India reboots itself and works together towards that. Conducting a
WikiConference India first will be a good start towards achieving that
goal. This will help us assess our strengths and plan accordingly for
Wikimania 2019. This is our bet to prove our unity in diversity.

You can read more about the Conference at the following link:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016

I would request all of you to sign up after clicking the link below:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Community_and_Team

Regards

Satdeep Gill
(On behalf of Volunteers for WCI 2016)
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