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

[balaji]

Congratulations for the scholarship recipients.


Regards,
J. Balaji
User:Balajijagadesh

On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 5:59 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: Research : Need assessment for Indic language Wikisource

[balaji]

Hi..
Thanks for carrying out the research project. As of now I couldnt comment
on anything. Because I couldnt understand the requirement for the research
and what is the expected outcome and what is the practical use of the
project.

Regards,
J. Balaji

On Fri, Oct 29, 2021 at 3:30 PM Jayanta Nath  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> CIS-A2K has initiated a short-term pilot research project called *Study
> on Infrastructural Needs of Indian Language Wikisource Projects*, to
> collect baseline data on the challenges and needs of Wikisource projects in
> India. We would like to invite you to share your valuable feedback on the
> research design. For more details on this, including the objective and
> process, you may see:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Research/Study_on_Infrastructural_Needs_of_Indian_Language_Wikisource_Projects
>
> We request you to kindly give your feedback on the following points which
> would be very useful to refine the study before we commence our research
> work:
>
> 1. Are the objectives of the research clear?
> 2. What do you think of the process outlined for this research?
> 3. Kindly give us your general opinion/suggestions/comments about this
> study.
>
> For any queries, kindly reply to this thread, or write to
> sn...@cis-india.org.
>
> Best,
> Jayanta Nath
> Centre for Internet and Society
>
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Heartiest congratulations, Indians awarded the Wikimedian of the Year 2021 (Who? Read the post! :D)

[balaji]

Congratulations to Ananya, Jay Prakash and Netha. 

Regards,
Balaji

On Sun, 15 Aug, 2021, 8:25 pm Tito Dutta,  wrote:

> Congratulations to Ananya, Jay Prakash and Netha. Great news.
>
> Thanks for sharing this news on the list.
>
>
> রবি, 15 আগ., 2021 8:13 PM তারিখে Ashwin Baindur 
> লিখেছেন:
>
>> Dear Wikimedians,
>>
>> Just a few minutes ago,three Indian Wikimedians have been selected as
>> Wikimedians of the Year. Heartiest congratulations to:
>>
>> Ananya Mondal (User:Atudu) - Wikimedian of the Year 2021, Rich Media
>> Jay Prakash AB (User:Jayprakash12345) - Wikimedian of the Year 2021,
>> Technology Innovator
>> Netha Hussain (User:Netha_Hussain) - Wikimedian of the Year 2021,
>> WikiProject Medicine, Honourable Mention
>>
>> All Wikimedians from India jointly wish you all heartiest
>> congratulations. You have made India and Indian Wikimedians proud. We are
>> all immensely happy that you got recognised globally from the Movement. May
>> you win many more distinctions in future and go on to greater heights. You
>> are truly inspirational figures to our new Wikimedians.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Ashwin Baindur (User:AshLin)
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webinar: Possible modes of engagement of Wiki Communities with NDLI

[balaji]

Interesting project. Would love to know more about it.

On Thu, 19 Nov, 2020, 8:14 pm Bodhisattwa Mandal, <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Pavanaja for pointing out the error. The date would be December 1,
> 2020 Sunday. Sorry for the unintentional mistake.
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020, 19:48  wrote:
>
>> December 1, 2021 ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pavanaja
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Wikimediaindia-l  *On
>> Behalf Of *Bodhisattwa Mandal
>> *Sent:* Thursday, November 19, 2020 7:46 PM
>> *To:* wikimediaindia-l 
>> *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Webinar: Possible modes of engagement of
>> Wiki Communities with NDLI
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> You might know, that National Digital Library of India (NDLI)[1] has
>> signed a memorandum of understanding with CIS-A2K and WMF early this year,
>> for future collaboration to enrich open knowledge platforms on Wikimedia
>> sites, focussing on Wikidata and Wikisource. The intended collaborative
>> activities were stalled since then due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
>>
>>
>>
>> On December 1, 2021, Sunday from 6 pm to 8 pm IST, NDLI would like to
>> introduce themselves and discuss possible modes of engagement between the
>> Wikimedia community and themselves.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you would like to join the conversation, please block the dates. The
>> link of the video platform will be shared soon.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bodhisattwa
>>
>> Wikidata coordintor, CIS-A2K
>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing two new WikiCite grant programs: Project & events, and e-scholarships

[balaji]

Regards,
J.Balaji
User: Balajijagadesh

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From: Liam Wyatt 
Date: Fri, 21 Aug, 2020, 1:13 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Announcing two new WikiCite grant programs: Project
& events, and e-scholarships
To: wikicite-discuss , <
wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org>, 


Dear all,
I have the great pleasure to announce two new grant programs for projects
that support the goals of WikiCite: the promotion open citations and linked
bibliographic data to serve free knowledge.

The steering committee is now accepting applications for the following two
types of grants. For both types the application deadline is 1 October 2020,
and all projects must be completed by 1 May 2021.

--- Project & Event grants ---

Grants between $2,000 and $10,000 (USD equivalent) are available to
individuals, groups, and organisations with a project that supports the
goals of Wikicite.

All the details, the eligibility criteria (especially for in-person
events[1]), and the application form are available on the WikiCite project
& event grants homepage:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/grants

Individuals, groups, and organizations may apply, and projects may be of
any nature. This includes technical (e.g. software, tools), event (online,
or in-person), resources (training materials, documentation), or other
forms not mentioned – as long as it supports the goals of WikiCite.

--- e-Scholarships ---

The e-scholarship program is a new kind of grant in Wikimedia, created in
response to an era of COVID-19 quarantines, and the 2030 Movement strategy
goals.

An e-scholarship provides a per-diem equivalent allowance for 1-5 people to
stay at their home(s) and work for 2-4 days on a project supporting the
mission of WikiCite. e-scholarship recipients' projects can be the kinds of
things they might have previously undertaken with a scholarship for an
in-person hackathon, unconference, or research trip, for example.

All the details, eligibility criteria, program design principles, and the
application form are available on the WikiCite e-scholarships homepage:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiCite/e-scholarship

Funding will:
- be provided in advance;
- be calculated at the WMF per-diem rate for the city where the
e-scholarship recipient lives;
- and (as it is a living allowance) not require recipients to submit
expense reports.

"Remote group" applications are encouraged, as are projects which focus on
content or communities which are historically underrepresented in Wikimedia
projects. Building a bot, fixing a tool, wrangling a dataset, writing
complete documentation... all are valid e-scholarship projects. A
confirmation letter (in advance) and/or participation certificate
(afterwards) can also be provided.

Liam Wyatt [Wittylama]
-- 
Program Manager for WikiCite 
Wikimedia Foundation

- WikiCite is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Wikimedia
Foundation -

[1] Applications for in-person events are eligible. The WMF will release a
risk assessment calculator for in-person events and a checklist of
precautions in early September. This protocol will apply to all Wikimedia
Foundation supported events. Applicants may publish a draft of their
proposals now, and edit it before the submission deadline to include a copy
of the results from the risk assessment protocol once it is published.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tool of the day

[balaji]

Hi,
Looks like the tool is down again. trying to upload  a book from IA. But it
is failing. The tool is down often.

Regards,
J. Balaji.

On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 6:43 PM Rajeeb Dutta  wrote:

> Great to know that. Thanks Tito for the update.
>
> Best Regards,
> Rajeeb.
> (U: Marajozkee)
> (Sent from my iPhone pardon the brevity)
>
> On 15-Aug-2020, at 5:10 PM, Tito Dutta  wrote:
>
> 
> Happy Independence Day,
> From today we have started discussing one Wiki-tool every day. Today we
> have talked about a tool "Internet Archive Uploader:  IA-upload (
> https://ia-upload.toolforge.org/) is a tool which can transfer PDF or
> DjVu files directly from Internet Archive (IA) to Wikimedia Commons without
> even downloading them to your computers!
> You may follow the archive on the Meta-Wiki:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Tool_of_the_day
> These posts will be shared on social media channels such as Facebook also:
> https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k/posts/1448046552069027
>
> 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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> On Wed, 12 Aug 2020 at 20:05, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> CIS-A2K will be featuring one Wikimedia tool or script on this meta page
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Tool_of_the_day> daily
>> from 15th August, 2020 onward for next 30 days. 10 tools will be selected
>> from Wikimedia Commons, Wikisource and Wikidata each, which are extremely
>> useful for everyday editing. This initiative is intended not only to help
>> new editors to familiarise with existing tools but also to help experienced
>> editors recap.
>>
>> The tool will also be featured from the official social media channels of
>> CIS-A2K on the same day. You can keep an eye on Facebook
>> <https://www.facebook.com/cisa2k> and Twitter
>> <https://twitter.com/CISA2K>.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Bodhisattwa
>>
>> Wikidata coordinator, CIS-A2K
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

[balaji]

Mostly of people asked of if the donation notice was geninue or scam. Since
they know I am closely associated with wikipedia movement they asked me.

Sudden popup of donation notice seems like a spam or hacking by external
agency. Totally uncool. And seeing the count shown I felt like I am being
tracked. It's too much of a bad feeling.

Totally unhappy about the way fundraising banners are shown.

Regards
J. Balaji.


On Mon, 3 Aug, 2020, 11:40 PM Sudhanwa Jogalekar, 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here is some note by Amit Abhyankar on Facebook. There are similar
> comments on this post.
> -
> I guess most of us have received this message when accessing Wikipedia.
> While there is nothing wrong in asking for donations, I didn't like the
> tone of this appeal.
> The way it says 'reader in India' and 'This is the 6th appeal' doesn't
> sound right to me... Not sure why... but it just doesn't.
> I mean, we have not entered into a contract that says we will donate
> whenever you need us to... Then what's with counting the number of times
> this appeal has been shown?
> I ofcourse support Wiki as a movement, have donated in the past and will
> donate again in future... But how about telling us how much money you need
> and a live tracker that shows how much of the goal has been achieved?
> Transperency is the key to running a movement.
> 
>
> If a common person gets such feeling from the fundraiser banner, the
> thought arises about what kind of survey/study is made by WMF before
> pushing this to the users.
>
> btw,
>
> Someone pinged me to ask if I know anyone of mailing list admins as
> his/her mails were not reaching to the mailing list. Dont know if there is
> any problem. (was using a nickname)
> More interesting was what he/she mentioned about the fundraiser. The QR
> code mentions "to pay" some company from Delhi that is not so old and has
> just Rs. 1 lakh capital !! I havent got time to get into these things but
> if this is true, I suppose WMF study/research/selection of partner is
> questionable.
>
> I hope WMF people will respond to this.
>
> Regards,
> -Sudhanwa
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 10:03 PM Joseph Seddon 
> wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> It makes me very happy to announce we have at last launched our
>> fundraiser in India :) This has been a huge effort and I want to thank the
>> community members who have passed on feedback, tested our infrastructure,
>> forwarded tweets and news stories, and just generally been amazingly
>> supportive :)
>>
>> Like our other fundraising campaigns this will run for around 4 weeks. If
>> you are regularly seeing banners, I recommend you log in to your wikimedia
>> accounts on wiki. We don't show banners to logged in users so as to not
>> disrupt their work.
>>
>> As before:
>>
>> * If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a
>> phabricator ticket [https://phabricator.wikimedia
>> .org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?template=118862].
>> * If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS or social media having
>> difficulties in donating, please refer them to don...@wikimedia.org.
>> * If you have specific ideas to share, please feel invited to add them to
>> our fundraising ideas page [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki
>> /Fundraising/2019-20_Fundraising_ideas].
>>
>> You can also contact me directly with my email address
>> sed...@wikimedia.org and I can forward your feedback to the right person
>> on the team.
>>
>> Thank you everyone!
>>
>> --
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>>
>>
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>> *Advancement (Fundraising), Wikimedia Foundation*
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [ILUGC] sh - Posix Shell - 5 Day Session - July 6, 2020 to July 10, 2020 (Through https://training.ilugc.in)

[balaji]

Thanks for sharing the training schedule Shrinivasan. I find it
interesting. The training bis via irc using where we have an online
terminal to try. Since the training is in text mode and in irc platform so
need of registration, download of apps etc. And can undergo training in low
bandwidth situation too.

Regards,
J. Balaji
User:Balajijagadesh

On Sat, 4 Jul, 2020, 7:14 PM Shrinivasan T,  wrote:

> Learning linux commands will help a lot.
>
> Attend this free online training.
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> அனுப்புநர்: Mohan R 
> Date: சனி, 4 ஜூலை, 2020, பிற்பகல் 4:10
> Subject: [ILUGC] sh - Posix Shell - 5 Day Session - July 6, 2020 to July
> 10, 2020 (Through https://training.ilugc.in)
> To: 
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Date(s): From July 06, 2020 to July 10, 2020
> Time: Evening 5.00 PM
> Duration: 1 Hour
> Place: https://training.ilugc.in
>
> Let's get into the basics of Posix 'sh' Shell. Here are the Topics we
> will be covering
>
> Day 1: (July 06, 2020)
>
> 1. Basic commands (like ls, cd, find, rm, cat etc.,)
> 2. How shell works when we execute a command
> 3. Where commands are stored
> 4. Importance of PATH variable
> 5. Difference between regular commands, built-in commands, aliases
>
> Day 2: (July 07, 2020)
>
> 1. How to read manual page
> 3. Compound commands, redirection, pipes and background execution
> 1. Subshell execution
>
> Day 3: (July 08, 2020)
>
> 1. Variables, Environment Variables, control structures and loops
> 2. Functions
> 3.Variable Expansion, Parameter Expansion, Arithmetic Expansion and
> Command Substitution
> 4. Positional Parameters, Special Parameters and Special Variables
>
> Day 4: (July 09, 2020)
>
> 1. Shell Patterns and find command
> 2. Basic Regular Expression, grep, sed and awk commands
> 3. Shell Built-in Commands.
> 4. Structure of a Shell Script and 'getopt' command
>
> Day 5: (July 10, 2020)
>
> 1. Writing one shell script to show real time metrics of the current
> system (cpu/memory/network)
> 2. Conclusion
>
> All are welcome to participate in this session to understand how
> terminals work in a Unix based system.
>
> Thanks,
> Mohan R
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Netha wins 2020 RedHat Women in Open Source Award!

[balaji]

Wonderful news. Congrats Netha.!!

Regards,
J. Balaji

On Wed, 29 Apr, 2020, 8:54 PM Tito Dutta,  wrote:

> Congratulations Dr. Netha. That's a great news. Good wishes.
>
> Thanks Subha for sharing.
>
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 8:48 PM Subhashish  wrote:
>
>> Hope everyone is keeping safe and well in a difficult time like now.
>> There is a good news - Netha Hussain has won the 2020 RedHat Women in Open
>> Source Award. [1][2]
>>
>> Congratulations Netha - this is such a proud moment for all of us!
>>
>> Also, see WikiProject COVID-19, where Netha is a leader, for those who
>> are interested to contribute on coronavirus-related articles:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_COVID-19
>>
>> 1. https://www.redhat.com/en/about/women-in-open-source
>> 2. https://twitter.com/Wikimedia/status/1255513602951430145
>>
>> Subha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic-TechCom Oct-Dec 2019 Report

[balaji]

Wonderful. I almost use all the tools. They have saved me a lot of time and
effort.

Kudos to the tech team.

Regards,
J. Balaji

On Sun, 26 Jan, 2020, 2:12 AM Jay prakash, <0freerunn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Indic-TechCom's quarterly report has been ready. Details are the following.
>
> == Tools ==
> 1. *Wikifile-transfer
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/Wikifile-transfer> 
> (New)*-
> This tool helps the users to upload non-free images from one wiki to
> another wiki. Work on this started from CIS MediaWiki training 2019.
> * **   Releasement of the tool in October 2019 (phab:T225377
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T225377>)
>
> 2. *BookReader
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/BookReader> (New)* -
> This tool allows users to PDF/DjVu in book format. It is mainly created for
> Wikisource to read the Index pages.
>
>- Creation of tool (phab:T240178
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240178>)
>- Support for locally uploaded books (phab:T240683
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240683>)
>- Give the option to the input file name instead of file URL (
>phab:T240744 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240744>)
>- Allow users to write file name without File Prefix (phab:T241489
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241489>)
>- Autocompletion of File Name (phab:T241491
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241491>)
>
>
> 3*. Indic Wikisource Stats
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/Indic_Wikisource_Stats> 
> (Feature
> Added)* -
>
>- Added monthly active users activity regarding
>Proofreading/Validations (phab:T241430
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241430>)
>- Added newly created Hindi Wikisource in the tool (phab:T241431
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241431>)
>
>
> 4.* Indic Wikisource Contest
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/Indic_Wikisource_Contest>
>  (New)* -
> This tool allows the Wikisource community to run the
> proofreading/validation contest. This was very hard to implement as it
> required most of the technologies like OAuth, MediaWiki API.
>
>- Creation of tool (phab:T241537
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241537>, 6 Patches)
>
>
> == UserScripts ==
> 1.* BookReader Script
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/BookReader#UserScript>* -
> This script allows us to embed BookReader within wiki for Index pages.
> Currently, it enabled for Punjabi Wikisource. Bangla Wikisource is in
> progress of the deployment. If any Wikisource community wants this
> UserScript as Gadget. then they can follow these steps
> <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240758#5784057>.
>
>- Creation of UserScript (phab:T241490
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T241490>)
>- Incorporate Bookreader tool on Punjabi Wikisource (phab:T240758
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T240758>)
>
>
> == Other ==
>
>- Scores is not getting Update (phab:T236953
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T236953>)
>- Create Portal namespace for sawikisource (phab:T235343
><https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T235343>)
>- Two logo created by User:KCVelaga.
>
>
> For the update, You can keep eye on
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Report/Oct-Dec_2019.
>
> Thanks to Rammanojpotla, KCVelaga, Bodhisattwa, Wikilover90,  Jayantanth,
> and CIS-India to involving with us.
>
> Thanks :) Regard
>
> Jayprakash12345
> Developer, Indic-TechCom
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the Trainer Programme 2020

[balaji]

Please finalize the location of training soon. Better if before the final
date to apply. Many need to consider logistics, mobility issues, number of
travel days before and after the training. It's hard to assume blind faith
from applicants that they should be ready where ever the final location.

Regards,
J. Balaji.

On Mon, 20 Jan, 2020, 5:48 PM Tito Dutta,  wrote:

> Thanks for pointing that out, It is generally the last date of the last
> month before announcing. We are correcting it to 31 December 2019. Upcoming
> notificationson village pumps etc.will have this information.
>
> 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 Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 17:26,  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>>
>> Under selection criteria, I noticed this-
>>
>> An editor with at least 800 edits on zero-namespace before 31 October
>> 2019.
>>
>>
>>
>> Why Oct 31, 2019? Since the notice has come out today, it can be till
>> today or end of last month. I have a reason to say this. Many people got
>> laptops and/or Internet connections as part of Project Tiger in Nov 2019. I
>> am sure at least some have increased their edit count heavily due to this.
>> Hence the cut-off date should be changed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pavanaja
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Wikimediaindia-l  *On
>> Behalf Of *subodh kulkarni
>> *Sent:* Monday, January 20, 2020 1:59 PM
>> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list <
>> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the Trainer Programme 2020
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello Wikimedians,
>>
>>
>>
>> CIS-A2K is glad to announce Train the Trainer programme 2020 (TTT 2020)
>> from 28 February - 1 March 2020. This is the 7th iteration of this
>> programme. We are grateful to all the community members, resource persons
>> for their consistent enthusiasm to participate and support. We expect this
>> to continue as before.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please see the event page for more details here -
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2020
>>
>>
>>
>> The important dates are as follows -
>>
>> * Main event : 28, 29 Feb & 1 Mar (Participants are expected to reach
>> before 5 pm on 27 February i.e. Day 0)
>>
>> * Last date of registration - 5 February 2020
>>
>>
>>
>> Please share this information widely among the Wikimedians.
>>
>>
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Subodh Kulkarni
>>
>> Programme Officer
>>
>> Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the Trainer Programme 2020

[balaji]

Agreed with Pavanja

On Mon, 20 Jan, 2020, 5:26 PM ,  wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
>
> Under selection criteria, I noticed this-
>
> An editor with at least 800 edits on zero-namespace before 31 October 2019.
>
>
>
> Why Oct 31, 2019? Since the notice has come out today, it can be till
> today or end of last month. I have a reason to say this. Many people got
> laptops and/or Internet connections as part of Project Tiger in Nov 2019. I
> am sure at least some have increased their edit count heavily due to this.
> Hence the cut-off date should be changed.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Pavanaja
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Wikimediaindia-l  *On
> Behalf Of *subodh kulkarni
> *Sent:* Monday, January 20, 2020 1:59 PM
> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list  >
> *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the Trainer Programme 2020
>
>
>
> Hello Wikimedians,
>
>
>
> CIS-A2K is glad to announce Train the Trainer programme 2020 (TTT 2020)
> from 28 February - 1 March 2020. This is the 7th iteration of this
> programme. We are grateful to all the community members, resource persons
> for their consistent enthusiasm to participate and support. We expect this
> to continue as before.
>
>
>
> Please see the event page for more details here -
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2020
>
>
>
> The important dates are as follows -
>
> * Main event : 28, 29 Feb & 1 Mar (Participants are expected to reach
> before 5 pm on 27 February i.e. Day 0)
>
> * Last date of registration - 5 February 2020
>
>
>
> Please share this information widely among the Wikimedians.
>
>
>
> regards,
>
>
>
> Subodh Kulkarni
>
> Programme Officer
>
> Centre for Internet & Society - Access to Knowledge Programme
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Newbie biting in Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias

[balaji]

Was the article written in sandbox or main name space. ?

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 6:10 PM Ashwin Baindur 
wrote:

> Raise this in village pump of Tulu & Kannada Wikipedia too, in case you
> haven't.
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 5:45 PM Dhanalakshmi K. T. 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We are all aware of Newbie biting. One editor by User name Lokesha
>> kunchadka
>> 
>>  who
>> is indulging in Newbie biting in Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias from almost
>> last 2-3 months. He was issued a warning by the admin in Kannada Wikipedia,
>> link is here
>> 
>> .
>>
>> I have been conducting Diversity Editathons from last 3 months. One of
>> the major aims of these editathons is to bring more women editors. Before
>> the new editor completes the article this person jumps in and adds
>> templates to imply the article is not of good quality. The new editors,
>> especially the women editors, are scared to continue editing because of
>> this newbie biting. Apart from this I had written an article on 13th
>> October 2019 with the template Under constriction for which he commented
>> saying there is no such topic. I was planning to complete the article with
>> reference to the title today.
>>
>> I would like to hear suggestions from experienced people on how do deal
>> with this kind of situation.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dhanalakshmi K T
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from WikidataCon

[balaji]

Congrats... !! Happy news!!

On Sat, Oct 26, 2019, 10:56 AM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am happy to inform you all that Wikidata WikiProject India has won the
> Wikidata Award for Community Building this year. The award was declared
> during WikidataCon 2019 in Berlin. Thanks to the power users and regular
> contributors from all over India participating in the project in different
> ways, without whom this would have not been possible. Special thanks to
> Asaf, Mahir and Tito, who have played extremely crucial roles in
> development of this project.
>
> Link of the project -
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 - Article Writing Contest

[balaji]

Thanks for the update.

Cheers

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 7:05 AM Suswetha Kolluru 
wrote:

> Hi Balaji,
>
> No, Nitesh will not be judging all the articles. We are waiting for two
> more communities to come up with jury members. Nevertheless, fountain tool
> will be updated in 2-3 days for sure :)
>
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2019, 2:43 AM balaji  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> In all language of the fountain related to project tiger 2.0 the jury
>> till writing is just Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
>> <https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nitesh%20(CIS-A2K)>. No other
>> local jury member is added. Please add the local jury member of each
>> language. so that the jury can start the work. last year local jury members
>> were there. example
>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/fountain/editathons/project-tiger-2018-ta (am
>> i missing something? in this year all the articles will be judged only by
>> Nitesh?).
>>
>> Regards,
>> J. Balaji
>> User:Balajijagadesh
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:26 PM Suswetha Kolluru 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> As you know, Article Writing contest as a part of Project Tiger 2.0 has
>>> started on 10 October 2019 and will run till 10 January 2020.
>>> If you are interested to participate or to know more about the contest,
>>> please visit this page.[1]
>>>
>>> Offline edit-a-thons definitely enhance participation of the community
>>> and help in bringing in new editors! If you are interested in conducting
>>> offline events as part of this contest, please write to Nitesh Gill (
>>> gillte...@gmail.com) or Suswetha Kolluru (suswetha...@gmail.com)
>>>
>>> The last date to apply as jury for article writing contest in respective
>>> communities is 15 October 2019. If you are interested in reviewing and
>>> assessing articles written by your community members, please visit this
>>> page and add your name. [2]
>>>
>>> Let's join our hands and play our role in growing the Wikimedia movement
>>> in India! :D
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Writing_Contest
>>> [2]
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Writing_Contest/Jury
>>> --
>>> *Regards,*
>>> *Suswetha Kolluru*,
>>> *Project Tiger coordinator 2019*
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 - Article Writing Contest

[balaji]

Hi,
In all language of the fountain related to project tiger 2.0 the jury till
writing is just Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
<https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nitesh%20(CIS-A2K)>. No other
local jury member is added. Please add the local jury member of each
language. so that the jury can start the work. last year local jury members
were there. example
https://tools.wmflabs.org/fountain/editathons/project-tiger-2018-ta (am i
missing something? in this year all the articles will be judged only by
Nitesh?).

Regards,
J. Balaji
User:Balajijagadesh

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 10:26 PM Suswetha Kolluru 
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> As you know, Article Writing contest as a part of Project Tiger 2.0 has
> started on 10 October 2019 and will run till 10 January 2020.
> If you are interested to participate or to know more about the contest,
> please visit this page.[1]
>
> Offline edit-a-thons definitely enhance participation of the community and
> help in bringing in new editors! If you are interested in conducting
> offline events as part of this contest, please write to Nitesh Gill (
> gillte...@gmail.com) or Suswetha Kolluru (suswetha...@gmail.com)
>
> The last date to apply as jury for article writing contest in respective
> communities is 15 October 2019. If you are interested in reviewing and
> assessing articles written by your community members, please visit this
> page and add your name. [2]
>
> Let's join our hands and play our role in growing the Wikimedia movement
> in India! :D
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Writing_Contest
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Writing_Contest/Jury
> --
> *Regards,*
> *Suswetha Kolluru*,
> *Project Tiger coordinator 2019*
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for bids to host Wikisource Advance Training 2019

[balaji]

Hello Tito,

Thanks for the detailed reply.

I have few feedback for the reply.

//C. >>If there is an agenda for this training and format of the training,
it would be good to know before bidding.
Agenda is decided after the needs-assessment of the participants. If you
have topics to suggest, please let us know. About format, let me answer in
the last part, as it is similar to "hands-on proofreading".//

If not a detailed schedule atleast some broad topics and formats need to be
determined. Because people are dedicating two days from their busy life for
this training. They should make a informed decision regarding weather the
topics are already covered in previous training ? whether it is worth to
apply for this training. Also only then we may know the difference between
previous trainings and proposed advanced training.

//D. >> What would be the criteria for selection of people to attend this
training?
Excellent question. Please feel to suggest what selection criteria should
be (number of edits, number of proofread/validated pages, recent activity).
I'll check and get back to this with more details.//

A suggestion regarding this point. since this is advance training, to
implement the learnings from the training many a times some privileges such
as interface admin, admin is required. so atleast one person of a language
of such privileges may be selected. or those who are selected be given such
privileges temporarily by the community.

//any proposal for the trainers?//
The above point is not covered in the reply

Thanks and regards,
J. Balaji.


On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 2:13 PM Tito Dutta  wrote:

> Hello Balaji,
> Thanks for your questions, let me try to answer to these.
> A. >>The title for the meeting in fixed as "Wiki Advanced Training".
> Already minimum one training was conducted by CIS for many of the Indic
> wikisource community. How the "Wiki Advanced Training" training is going to
> be different from the earlier trainings.
> -- Yes, the event name is Wiki Advanced Training, where on a project is
> focused every year. This year the project we are focusing on is Wikisource,
> next year we have not planned or decided yet.
> So far Wikisource training (zonal) has been conducted/supported by CIS-A2K
> in the last one year for (in alphabetical order) Assamese, Gujarati,
> Marathi, Punjabi, Sanskrit community (in Bangalore), and Tamil community.
> Those have been mostly first-level or basic training. But, as "Advanced
> Wiki Training": name suggests, the training should be for experienced
> Wiki-librarians with advanced topics (*what advanced topics, answering in
> the next points)*
> B. *>>Because in many of the advance trainings people without basics also
> attend and pull down the average level of the trainings. (or they won't
> benefit from such trainings).*
> There should be basic eligibility criteria (see D). About participants, as
> mentioned earlier, yes, it is expected that the participants have both
> basic Wikisource knowledge and contribution experience. One thing comes
> here, does this ensure participation from all communities? I hope you
> understand this point. However, it is true that Advanced Training ideally
> should not have very basic topics.
> Also note, we have community-selection process where a community will
> discuss on village pump and select Wiki-librarians to represent their
> communities.
>
> C. >>If there is an agenda for this training and format of the training,
> it would be good to know before bidding.
> Agenda is decided after the needs-assessment of the participants. If you
> have topics to suggest, please let us know. About format, let me answer in
> the last part, as it is similar to "hands-on proofreading".
>
> D. >> What would be the criteria for selection of people to attend this
> training?
> Excellent question. Please feel to suggest what selection criteria should
> be (number of edits, number of proofread/validated pages, recent activity).
> I'll check and get back to this with more details.
>
> E. >> Also to few members I spoke in Tamil wikisource community felt that
> instead of training a two day editathon can be conducted with experts
> helping people who face problems while proofreading.
> That's a format-related question. I, personally, find this idea an
> interesting one. Whether it 'll be 50%, 75% or 100%  of hands-on training,
> it is to be decided by all the participating community members.
>
> Abhinav,
> Thanks for your comments.
> >>Similar to the suggestions I had raised during TTT 2019, having a
> community jury to decide on the bids would be beneficial. Also, the idea
> floated by Balaji on proposal for trainers is welcoming, this makes the
> community inclusive (a community-run initia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for bids to host Wikisource Advance Training 2019

[balaji]

Hi,

The title for the meeting in fixed as "Wiki Advanced Training". Already
minimum one training was conducted by CIS for many of the Indic wikisource
community. How the "Wiki Advanced Training" training is going to be
different from the earlier trainings. If there is an agenda for this
training and format of the training, it would be good to know before
bidding. Also any proposal for the trainers? What would be the criteria for
selection of people to attend this training? Because in many of the advance
trainings people without basics also attend and pull down the average level
of the trainings. (or they won't benefit from such trainings). Also to few
members I spoke in Tamil wikisource community felt that instead of training
a two day editathon can be conducted with experts helping people who face
problems while proofreading.

Regards
J. Balaji
(User:Balajijagadesh)

Note: Same was posted in meta talk page :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki_Advanced_Training/2019/Bids#Agenda_for_the_meeting

On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 1:53 AM Jayanta Nath  wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Wikisource Advance Training
> 2019 program organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 11 October & 13
> October 2019.
>
>
>
> Advance Wikisource Training is a residential training program is planned
> for Indic Wikisource community (including English) members. Last year we
> focused on Wikipedia and conducted the Wiki Advanced Training at Ranch,
> India.  Also, Earlier Indic Wikisource Community Consultation has been
> conducted in 2018 at Kolkata.
>
> This year CIS-A2K is interested to collaborate with the community in
> hosting the event. Interested community members, please check the following
> link for proposal for hosting at their city:
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki_Advanced_Training/2019/Bids
>
> It is requested to All Indic Wiki-librarians, kindly apply your request
> to join this event at your language wikisource village pump with separate
> section.  As per community decision, we will select the participants.
>
> Please consider sharing this process details with your community members.
>
>
>
> If you have any questions, please let us know.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Jayanta Nath
>
> Wikisource Advisor
>
> CIS-A2K
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Santhosh Thottingal wins the President's Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for 2019

[balaji]

Congrats Santosh and Rajeev.

On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 8:44 AM Arun Ramarathnam 
wrote:

> Kudos to Santosh and Dr. Rajeev for this amazing honour!!!
>
> Regards
> Arun
>
> On Thu, 15 Aug, 2019, 22:27 manoj k,  wrote:
>
>> Santhosh Thottingal
>> 
>> has won the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman by the Hon. President of India
>> .
>> This is in recognition of his substantial contribution in the field of
>> Malayalam language. The award, instituted in 2016, is given to the
>> substantial contributions to languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Arabi,
>> Pali and Classical Oriya, Classical Kannada, Classical Telugu, and
>> Classical Malayalam. This is given to young scholars in the age group of
>> 30 to 45 years
>> .
>> The Presidential award carries a certificate of honor, a memento and a
>> one-time cash prize of Rs.1 lakh.
>>
>> Santhosh is one of the most active contributors of Swathanthra Malayalam
>> Computing and a principal engineer in Wikipedia's language computing
>> department. He has designed and released several algorithms and tools that
>> serve computing needs in many Indian languages including Malayalam. He
>> heads the maintenance of a dozen or so of the popular Malayalam fonts.
>> Santhosh (along Kavya) designed two of these fonts, Chilanka and Manjari
>> .
>> He has contributed
>> 
>> tools that serve a broad range of language computing needs - input tools,
>> layout tools, fonts, font rendering, text to speech, translation,
>> localization are just a few of these areas. He has also contributed and
>> presented papers at several international conferences.
>>
>> Dr. Rajeev R. R from the e-governance and training department of ICFOSS
>> has also been selected for this award along with Santhosh.
>>
>> We hope this award inspires Santhosh and Rajeev to push the boundaries of
>> Language computing.
>>
>>
>> https://blog.smc.org.in/santhosh-thottingal-wins-the-presidents-maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-for-2019/
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikidata Advisor position: Update

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Best wishes Bodhi!!

Regards
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On Fri, Jul 19, 2019, 7:29 PM Abhilash S Unni 
wrote:

> Congratulations, all the best wishes.
>
> സ്നേഹപൂര്‍വ്വം അഭി
> Email : abhilashu...@gmail.com
>
> Save Paper, Save Environment. Think before you print this email.
> Before opening any attachments please check them for viruses and defects.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:36 PM Tito Dutta  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Sometime ago we informed about Wikidata advisor position.
>> https://cis-india.org/a2k/wikidata-advisor-consultant-position-open We
>> got several applications for this position.
>> After reviewing all the applications, Bodhisattwa Mandal
>> (User:Bodhisattwa)[1] has been selected for this position. We hope that he
>> will be able to support Wikidata project in India in future, and bring/work
>> on interesting projects and ideas.
>>
>> [1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Bodhisattwa
>>
>> Thanks
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India

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Best wishes for the fund raising campaign in India.

Regards
J.Balaji

On Sat, Jul 6, 2019, 9:28 PM Joseph Seddon  wrote:

> Hey Everyone!
>
> My name is Seddon, I’ve been a Wikipedian since 2006, was heavily involved
> in my local affiliate in the UK for a number of years and since 2016 I’ve
> supported the Wikimedia Foundation Fundraising team in their community
> outreach particularly around our online fundraising campaigns.
>
> As many of you know our grant programmes, servers and websites are
> supported mainly through online fundraising. This takes the form of web
> banners on our projects on both mobile and desktop devices. We produce an
> annual report of our fundraising activities that might be useful to read to
> get a background of the history of this type of fundraising. [1] [2]
>
> It’s been a number of years since we last fundraised in India and over the
> next 12 months we’ve set ourselves a goal to return to India.
>
> The first step in this process will be to test out our payment systems.
> Fundraising in a new country comes with a significant amount of technical
> work. Through the end of July we’ll running some pre-existing banners to
> test out our infrastructure. These tests will generally run for a couple of
> hours at a time.
>
> Our main campaign will be run in 2020. Between now and then we will be
> looking to work with community members, affiliates, CIS-A2K, research
> partners and other local experts from across India to build our first
> campaign and develop the messaging together.
>
> Throughout this period we’ll be looking for suggestions about ideas,
> themes and values that we should convey in our fundraising appeals. Input
> from people across the Indian communities is going to be vital to make our
> campaign successful.
>
> Personally I’m really quite excited to get to know the communities in
> India and I through this work, I’m really looking forward to getting to
> know all of you and your work.
>
> Thank you all in advance!
>
> --
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>
> *Community and Audience Engagement Associate*
> Advancement, Wikimedia Foundation
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2017-18_Report
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2016-17_Report
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Announcement] Community Relationship Specialist - India

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Best wishes!!

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 12:45 PM Stalinjeet Brar  wrote:

> Congratulations Manav. ☺️
>
> On Fri 21 Jun, 2019, 11:18 AM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, <
> kcvel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations Manavpreet, I am happy for you. All the best for your new
>> role.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 10:54 AM Rajeeb Dutta 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Congrats Manav, all my best wishes.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Rajeeb Dutta.
>>> (U: Marajozkee)
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On 21-Jun-2019, at 10:18 AM, Santosh Shingare 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Congratulations Manav
>>>
>>> Thanks & Regards
>>>
>>> Santosh Shingare,
>>> Executive member, Wikimedia India Chapter
>>> +91 9890984632
>>> Skype: cherishsantosh |  http://wiki.wikimedia.in
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 9:03 AM Parul  wrote:
>>>
 What a great news!
 Congratulations, Manav! Very well deserved!

 On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 at 8:55 AM, Suswetha Kolluru 
 wrote:

> Congratulations Manav!
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 7:44 AM Runa Bhattacharjee <
> rbhattachar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce Manavpreet Kaur as a
>> Community Relationship Specialist with a particular focus towards India.
>> Ms.Kaur is based in India, and will be working with the Wikimedia
>> Foundation. She will be on a short-term contract, and during this period
>> primarily act as a liaison to conduct timely interactions with community
>> members for a few project rollouts. She will be available through on-wiki
>> channels and also conduct off-wiki or in-person meetings to facilitate
>> discussions for topics that may need a collaborative understanding of
>> requirements and implementation.
>>
>> As part of ongoing Wikimedia Foundation product initiatives, we
>> realized an immediate need to further strengthen the community 
>> interactions
>> within India. This arises as we gain momentum towards providing more
>> structured support through our products, towards languages and 
>> communities
>> who have faced severe challenges around availability and creation of
>> content.
>>
>> Manavpreet will reach out very shortly with more details on these
>> projects, and the plans around them. We hope these interactions will help
>> us support the wider mission, with additional focus on local needs, to
>> build a more inclusive and contemporary vision for our projects.
>>
>> --
>> best regards,
>> Runa Bhattacharjee (she/her)
>> Senior Engineering Manager, Language
>> Wikimedia Foundation
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Co-option of New Executive Committee member to Wikimedia India

[balaji]

Hi
I too became member again recently. But I am not seeing any mails in the
chapter mailing list.

Regards
J. Balaji

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 8:17 AM Abhinav srivastava 
wrote:

> Dear Ashwin Sir,
>
> I find you are a very old member at Wikimedia India and there are also
> communication logs where you have been conversing on the Mailing List.
>
> However, I do not find your Mail ID in the subscriber's list.  Generally
> with membership renewal an invitation mail to join Member's Mailing is
> followed.
>
> I am reaching out to you on a personal thread to sort this out.
>
>
>
> Abhinav
>
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 23:27, Ashwin Baindur 
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for answering my query.
>>
>> Another query. Would newly added members have to apply for the Chapter
>> mailing list or do they get added automatically?
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 9:17 PM Subhashish Panigrahi 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes yes, good times indeed! :)
>>>
>>> Thanks for clarifying - really appreciate it and also for your tireless
>>> contribution to the chapter's growth by taking these extra miles.
>>>
>>> Subha
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 6:01 PM Abhinav srivastava 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear Subhashish,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the wishes. I recollect my previous iteration with WMIN when
>>>> you were with CIS-A2K and we had worked together :)
>>>>
>>>> By perks and benefits I mean no qualification for* serving WMIN *but
>>>> only a qualification *on  merits of a volunteer*. Take an example,
>>>> CIS-A2K invited WMIN as a resource person for a regional workshop or
>>>> conference and decides to arrange for flights, hotel, food, airport
>>>> transfers etc. I will not be accepting such* perks* since I am a
>>>> co-opted EC. If I wish to attend the event, I would apply like an ordinary
>>>> community member and be subject to the decision of the jury on the
>>>> scholarship award.
>>>>
>>>> Similarly, volunteers can always avail for Taxi, Food etc even when
>>>> undergoing administrative work for their affiliates. Although at WMIN, we
>>>> never get such benefits, even if a miracle happens (we should believe in
>>>> miracle or THE BATMAN)  no reimbursements would be taken or any overdraft
>>>> cheque created so that when WMIN gets funding, my claims can be cleared.
>>>>
>>>> If ever I am compelled to go against the said statement, I would first
>>>> put up a public request (including this mailing list) and based on
>>>> community endorsement, I would proceed.
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> Abhinav
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 16:09, Subhashish Panigrahi <
>>>> psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Congratulations Abinav - good to see you back again! :) All the best
>>>>> for the upcoming elections.
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW I have a question about this - "I would also like to make a public
>>>>> declaration, I will not take privilege of any perks or benefits while
>>>>> serving the office of WMIN as a co-opted EC". Isn't it given that the
>>>>> Chapter EC members are all volunteers?
>>>>>
>>>>> Subha
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 2:43 PM Yohann Thomas 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Ashwin sir
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When EC members resign, the EC has an option to co-opt executive
>>>>>> committee members to fill the vacancy..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As per Chapter bye laws, Article VII, point A, sub point f,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Any vacancy caused in the membership of the Executive Committee
>>>>>> shall be filled from within the membership of the Society, and the
>>>>>> incumbent shall hold the post/position till the next General Body 
>>>>>> Meeting.
>>>>>> Such members chosen to fill the said vacancy shall be decided by the
>>>>>> Executive Committee.*
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In this case, we have two vacancies of Krishna Chaitanya & Suyash
>>>>>> Dwivedi. For now.. We are filling only one of the vacancies..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Co-option of New Executive Committee member to Wikimedia India

[balaji]

In the event project tiger consultation it was informed by chapter
Representatives that election will be held soon. When is the election
planned ?

Regards
J. Balaji

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 12:09 PM Ashwin Baindur 
wrote:

> Shouldn't there be an election? Is co-opting permitted as per bye laws?
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 10:56 AM Asaf Bartov  wrote:
>
>> That's good to know, and thanks for the update. Best wishes to Abhinav!
>>
>> Is there any update on the state of the chapter, vis-a-vis its compliance
>> difficulties? Or its activities? It would be good to keep the wider
>> communities informed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>A.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 07:11 Yohann Thomas  wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Community members
>>>
>>> With a current board strength of only 5 members, Wikimedia India has 2
>>> vacant board member seats. I am pleased to inform you that Abhinav
>>> Srivastava has been Co-opted to the board of Wikimedia India.
>>>
>>> He will be available on the email - abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Yohann Thomas
>>> Wikimedia India
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki Training 2019

[balaji]

Hi,

In the mail and in the program it is written an "MWT2019 participation will
be an invitation-based" and then later you are asking to send the
application. Kindly clarify.

Regards

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 10:26 PM Ananth Subray 
wrote:

> I request you all to send your applications to *tito+mwt2...@cis-india.org
> *
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
>
> *ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
>
> Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
> 
>
> Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
> 
>
> Co-founder of Lakshya
> 
>
> +91-9739811664
>
>
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 8:42 PM Ananth Subray 
> wrote:
>
>> Greetings from CIS-A2K,
>>
>> MediaWiki Training 2019 (MWT2019) will take place on 7-9 June at
>> Bangalore. MWT2019 will be a residential workshop where topics related to
>> MediaWiki, Toolforge will be discussed. Earlier MWT iterations were
>> conducted in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. MWT2019 participation will be an
>> invitation-based. The invitation will be sent to MediaWikians who are
>> working on Phabricator, Gerrit and Extensions creation.  For more
>> information, you can look at -
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/MediaWiki_Training/2019
>>
>> Last year Tony Thomas was the primary trainer. This year Jay Prakash will
>> lead the training, and Srishti Sethi is helping in the planning,
>> participation selection, program structuring.
>>
>> If any community members from India, who are working on MediaWiki, would
>> like to part in this year MWT please write an email to
>> tito+mwt2...@gmail.com answering the following questions. Detailed
>> answers, and links (wherever applicable) will be helpful.
>>
>>- Please tell your contribution related to MediaWiki and
>>Wiki-technical topics
>>- Please also let us know some of the areas you want to learn during
>>the workshop.
>>- It is desired that the participants utilise their learning in
>>future to improve different projects, hence, please let us know some of 
>> the
>>future tasks or activities you expect to do after this workshop training.
>>
>> *The last date of showing interest to participate is 31 May 2019.*
>>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>>
>>
>> *ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
>>
>> Programme Associate at The Centre for Internet & Society
>> 
>>
>> Secretary of Wikipedia & Education User Group
>> 
>>
>> Co-founder of Lakshya
>> 
>>
>> +91-9739811664
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Marathi Wikimedians User Group

[balaji]

Congrats Marathi UG..

Balaji

On Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 10:38 PM Subhashish Panigrahi  Congratulations friends from Marathi Wikimedians UG! Really look forward
> to collaborating with you all. :)
>
> Subha
>
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Kirill Lokshin
> Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 8:48 PM
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Marathi Wikimedians User Group
> To: Wikimedia Movement Affiliates discussion list, Wikimedia Mailing List
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] the Marathi Wikimedians User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The
> group aims to increase awareness about Marathi Wikipedia and other
> Wikipedia projects, and to develop programs which will improve editors'
> work on the project and work towards addressing the gender gap on Marathi
> Wikipedia.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
> [1]
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition_of_Marathi_Wikimedians_User_Group
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Marathi_Wikimedians
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wikisource IRC 17th February 2019

[balaji]

Thanks for the reminder.

Balaji

On Sun, Feb 17, 2019, 7:05 PM Jayanta Nath  Reminder:  Within an hour we have   Indic Wikisource IRC .   (@8PM IST
> Sunday)  on  #cis-a2k
>
> Hope to see you there!
>
> https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
>
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 7:11 PM Jayanta Nath  wrote:
>
>> Reminder:  17th February 2019 (@8PM IST Sunday)  on # #cis-a2k
>> The  IRC Meeting is a support event for Indic Wikisource volunteers.
>> Hope to see you there!
>>
>> Jayanta Nath
>> Wikisource Project advisor
>> Access to Knowledge program
>> The Centre for Internet & Society
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 12:54 AM Jayanta Nath 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> Firstly I would like to thank you for the continuous support and
>>> contribution to the Wikimedia movement specially in Wikisource.
>>>
>>> You are aware that after first wikisourse workshop organized in Patiala,
>>> the Punjabi Wikisource Community is growing rapidly, reaching a total of
>>> 7000+ pages proofreaded in last two month. For updated page/
>>> digitized content you go here[2]
>>>
>>> But Indic community members have not got any chance to advantages for
>>> this kind of Workshop for their language community. Workshop for Wikisource
>>> of Punjabi, Sanskrit &  Kannada language community  is completed.
>>> Assamese, Gujarati & Tamil have shown their interest for workshop in coming
>>>  month. Keeping this in mind we are planning to have an IRC[1] on 17th
>>> February 2019 (@8PM) for the Indic Wikisource community. Please suggest
>>> more Agenda for the IRC.
>>>
>>> :Agenda
>>>
>>>- Update status of what we have done after first IRC and IWCC2018
>>>- Major issues we faced, and how do I help personally towards the
>>>specific community ( Offline and Online both)
>>>- Organize edit-thon for Wikisource  ( Offline and Online both)
>>>- Workshop planning for other community for Oriya Malayalam, Tamil
>>>and Telugu.
>>>- Advance Wikisource Workshop for Punjabi Community.
>>>- Add more if you have to discuss ….
>>>
>>> [1]. https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
>>> [2]. https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Indic_Wikisource_Stats
>>>
>>> Thanks and Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>> Jayanta Nath
>>> Wikisource Project advisor
>>> Access to Knowledge program
>>> The Centre for Internet & Society
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bylaws of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group

[balaji]

Hi Bodhi

Just curious to know what is the meaning of non bot edit. ? Will the semi
automatted edits come under non bot or bot edits ? Also the automated edits
using different applications done under a non bot account will it come
under non bot edit or bot edit ?

Regards,
J.Balaji.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019, 10:56 AM Ashwin Baindur  Just saying... tens of thousands of edits seems far too large a number
> for a person to qualify for membership of your EC. Gives substance for
> the argument of number of edits being used to exclude people by
> drastically reducing the number of people qualified. Arguments about
> "process" accepted by a community does not hold water. Much more
> logical would have been a fairly large number so that EC members are
> experienced but not so large that people can be kept out on that
> pretext, such as 3000 to 5000 range. Ten thousand image uploads to
> Commons is rubbish. Hardly anyone can put up a thousand images or more
> which are of encyclopedic value. Commons is not meant to be a place
> where thousands of images are dumped without reference to quality,
> utility, educational value etc.
>
> I don't edit on Bn WP and my User name is AshLin. I applaud good work
> done by individual editors of Bengali community and in some cases by
> the community as a whole. But I am just being frank here in telling it
> like it is.
>
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 2:06 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal
>  wrote:
> >
> > Hi Samir,
> >
> > Although your mail had baseless allegations against the user group
> without any references, but anyway, thanks for your reply. Please note
> that, this is not an official reply from the user group, as the
> representative committee, which is to be formed in very near future, may
> consider to respond officially, if needed at all. This is my completely
> personal reply as I have started the thread to inform the larger community.
> >
> >> The content of the bylaws are very disturbing. It sees like a executive
> club purposely made to leave some people leave. The Wikipedia culture is
> quite open and this kind of policies is made by some people nd passed in a
> small amount of window gives only bad vibes to the other Wiki community.
> Accept my Condolences to all people who got thrown out of the user group
> because some people decided to make all  about "number of edits". As if
> that is the only thing a member can contribute towards progress of
> Wikimedia.
> >
> >
> > If you have read the bylaws carefully, you can see that the user group
> is open to all Wikimedia account holders, who can become General members
> just by signing up. No one is thrown out as you say. To become a
> representative of the user group, a general member needs to pass some
> criteria, which was set up after community consultation, because
> representing user group in a forum is a serious affair. The user group
> decided to take account of online editing for representative membership,
> because a person who edits and work online with the community closely
> understands the issues and dynamics of the community better than who
> doesn't. No one objected to that when that article was raised for
> discussion. Byt the way, what is the executive club anyway? Never heard of
> it.
> >
> >>
> >> Even sad is people are  congratulating instead of expressing concerns
> over the type of bullying done openly to Wikimedians of West Bengal. I am
> happy thati left its nd I not there in it animore
> >
> >
> > Can you please refer where the bullying was done to Wikimedians of West
> Bengal regarding the bylaws, where everyone congratulated in stead of
> expressing concerns? We had opened up the draft for community consultation
> for one month (see talk page) and had online meetups for general members. I
> cant remember any bullying in any discussion. I remember each and every
> user who participated in the discussions, but there was no user named Samir
> or likewise. Maybe I am having some memory loss again and others can help
> me remember better.
> >
> > Sorry to hear that you are not there anymore, but you are not where? Can
> you please specify. I have just checked the history of the general members,
> couldn't find anyone with user name Samir. May be you have a different user
> name, but that I don't know.
> >
> >>
> >> It is to say that the editors working in wiki data are not having any
> knolej. And other of them are disqalified. This is nothing more than
> hitlership and if they are going in this way, the User Group, then I am sad
> for everyone who have to go through this harassment.
> >
> >
> > Where did you learn that the user group stated that the editors working
> in Wikidata have no knowledge? Please cite that. Do you even know that one
> of the main arena of work of the user group is to improve Wikidata entries
> of different aspects of West Bengal. If you don't know that, consider
> checking Wikidata:WikiProject West Bengal. Anyway, please keep your false
> assumptions with you.
> >
> >> "Ache din 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] QR Code Generator

[balaji]

Can they be installed as optional gadget ?

On Tue, Feb 5, 2019, 1:23 PM Jay prakash <0freerunn...@gmail.com wrote:

> First, Start the discussion on your wiki's village pump. If there is no
> objection then put the code[1] on your wiki's MediaWiki:Common.js page.[2]
> And to edit MediaWiki:Common.js, you need to interface-admin right.
>
> Thanks :)
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/qrCodeGenerator#Installation
> [2] https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.js like for te.wiki
>
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 1:13 PM  wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> This is really useful. I added it to my common.js. How can I make it
>> available for everyone? I am an admin.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Pavanaja
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Wikimediaindia-l  *On
>> Behalf Of *Jay prakash
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 5, 2019 2:40 AM
>> *To:* Wikimedia India Community list <
>> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
>> *Cc:* mediawiki-in...@lists.wikimedia.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] QR Code Generator
>>
>>
>>
>> There is a little correction. It is SVG instead of SVF.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 2:37 AM Rajeeb Dutta  wrote:
>>
>> Congratulations, great job done, all my best wishes to the entire team.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Rajeeb Dutta.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>> On 05-Feb-2019, at 12:32 AM, Jay prakash <0freerunn...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Wikimedians, Indic-TechCom just completed their work on QR Code
>> Generator.[1][2] This UserScript will help Wikimedians to Generator QR Code
>> of Current Page onwiki. And you can also Download it as PNG format.
>>
>>
>>
>> For good user experience, We used OOUI library to create the widget.[3]
>> Install it and give your experience on its talk page. We are also planning
>> to add Download as SVF format option.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks :)
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom
>>
>> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Tools/qrCodeGenerator
>>
>> [3] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/OOUI
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Security Notification: Malware creating fake Wikipedia donation banner

[balaji]

-- Forwarded message -
From: John Bennett 
Date: Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 7:32 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Security Notification: Malware creating fake
Wikipedia donation banner
To: , , <
wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org>


Hello,

In order to keep the community informed of threats against Wikimedia
projects and users, the Wikimedia Security team has some information to
share.

Malware installed via pirated contented downloaded from sites such as the
Pirate Bay can cause web browsers compromised by the malware to create a
fake donation banner for Wikipedia users. While the actual malware is not
installed or distributed via Wikipedia, unaware visitors may be confused or
tricked by it's activities.

The malware seeks to trick visitors to Wikipedia by looking like a
legitimate Wikipedia banner asking for donations. Once the user clicks on
the banner, they are then taken to a portal that leads them to transfer
money to a fraudulent bitcoin account that is not controlled by the
Foundation.

The current version of this malware is only infecting Microsoft Windows
users at the time of this notification. To date, the number of people
affected is small. The fraudulent accounts have taken approximately $700
from infected users. However, we strongly encourage all users to use and
update their antivirus software.


Additional details and a screenshot of the fake donation banner on can be
found at Bleepingcomputer.com. [0]

[0]
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-movie-file-infects-pc-to-steal-cryptocurrency-poison-google-results/

Thanks,

John Bennett
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the trainer 2019

[balaji]

Wonderful news. Would enhance the community participation and interest of
local community.

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019, 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] IRC with pan-Indian community

[balaji]

Thanks for the info

Regards
J.Balaji

On Wed, Jan 2, 2019, 12:08 PM Ananth Subray  wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Wish you a Happy New Year, I am writing this email to inform you that we
> will be having the Pan-Indian community IRC on  13-01-2019  (@8:00 PM)[1].
> The agenda of the meeting will be as follows:
>
>- General discussion and recent development related to Wikisource.
>- TTT-2019 General discussion.
>- Wikidata General discussion.
>- Open for General discussion after the above-mentioned points.
>
> [1].https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
>
> *ANANTH SUBRAY P V*
>
> Programme Associate
>
> Access to Knowledge program
>
> The Centre for Internet & Society
>
> +91-9739811664
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Structured data on Commons: Multilingual captions beta testing

[balaji]

interesting

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 3:22 AM Tito Dutta  wrote:

>
> Might be of great interest.
>
> 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.
>
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Keegan Peterzell 
> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 02:20
> Subject: [Wikidata] Structured data on Commons: Multilingual captions beta
> testing
> To: Wikimedia Commons Discussion List , <
> wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org>
>
>
> The Structured Data on Commons team has begun beta testing of the first
> feature, multilingual file captions, and all community members are invited
> to test it out. Captions is based on designs discussed with the community
> [1][2] and the team is looking forward to hearing about testing.
>
>
> ***If all goes well during testing, captions will be turned on for Commons
> around the second week of January, 2019.***
>
> Multilingual captions are plain text fields that provide brief, easily
> translatable details of a file in a way that is easy to create, edit, and
> curate. Captions are added during the upload process using the
> UploadWizard, or they can be added directly on any file page on Commons.
> Adding captions in multiple languages is a simple process that requires
> only a few steps.
>
> The details:
>
>
>-
>
>There is [[mw:Help:File_captions|a help page available on how to use
>multilingual file captions]]
>-
>
>Testing will take place on Beta Commons. If you don’t yet have an
>account set up there, you’ll need one. (direct link:
>https://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page )
>-
>
>Beta Commons is a testbed, and not configured exactly like the real
>Commons site, so expect to see some discrepancies with UI elements like
>search
>-
>
>Structured Data introduces the potential for many important page
>changes to happen at once, which could flood the recent changes list.
>Because of this, Enhanced Recent Changes
> is
>enabled as it currently is at Commons, but with some user interface 
> changes.
>-
>
>Feedback and commentary on the file caption functionality are welcome
>and encouraged on the discussion page for this post:
>
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Structured_data/Beta_captions_testing
>-
>
>Some testing has already taken place and the team are aware of some
>issues. A list of known issues can be seen below
>-
>
>If you discover a bug/issue that is not covered in the known issues,
>please file a ticket on Phabricator and tag it with the “Multimedia” tag.
>Use [
>
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?projects=multimedia
>this link to file a new task] already tagged with "Multimedia."
>
>
> Known issues:
>
>
>-
>
>Search is not currently working on Beta Commons. Search is not needed
>for testing captions, but service should be restored soon.
>-
>
>Language name display inconsistencies in multilingual file captions -
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209380
>-
>
>Language names for multilingual File captions can run into the caption
>value in the mobile view - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209333
>-
>
>Deleting a caption field that has text that exceeds the limit does not
>re-enable the "publish" button -
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209329
>-
>
>"Edit" tab for past revisions should be "restore" -
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T209187
>-
>
>When using the back button, recently added captions sometimes don't
>display in Chrome - https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208894
>-
>
>File Captions can't be edited on mobile browsers -
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208993
>-
>
>Wrong font weight for some language labels on SDC captions box -
>https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T208902
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> 1.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/Multilingual_Captions
> 2.
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Structured_data/Get_involved/Feedback_requests/Multilingual_Captions_and_MediaInfo
>
> --
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Women's World Boxing Championship 2018

[balaji]

Good work.

Balaji.

On Thu, Nov 29, 2018, 1:57 PM Shweta Yadav  wrote:

> Congratulations to the entire team.
> Shypoetess
>
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2018 at 4:18 PM, Japleen Pasricha <
> japleenpasri...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Recently, we organised a Wikipedia editathon on Indian women boxers to
>> commemorate the Women's World Boxing Championship 2018 being held in New
>> Delhi this month.
>>
>> The editathon was successful, although we had only 5 editors, we were
>> able to create new articles for many Indian women boxers. You can read the
>> report here:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FII_Wiki_Project/Edit-a-thons/Indian_Women_Boxers
>>
>> Also, Outlook Magazine did a video feature on our editathon and I wanted
>> to share it with all of you. Please do watch the video here:
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-knUOsh7cT0
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Japleen
>>
>> On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 at 12:45, Japleen Pasricha 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I recently saw an email from Odia Wikimedia that they are organising
>>> month long editathons for Men's Hockey World Cup. This is a great
>>> initiative!
>>>
>>> And also gave me the idea to do something similar in November. As many
>>> of you may know Delhi
>>> <https://www.firstpost.com/sports/womens-world-boxing-championships-to-start-in-new-delhi-on-15-november-5233551.html>
>>> will host the Women's World Boxing Championship from 15 - 24 November.
>>>
>>> Could we all hold online and offline events around this topic editing
>>> and creating pages of women boxers etc across several Indic languages.
>>>
>>> I will definitely organise one Wikipedia editathon in Delhi in November
>>> on this topic and would love if other people can join us and/or organise
>>> their own in their language communities.
>>>
>>> Tito/CIS, can we get some help for this?
>>>
>>> Let me know your thoughts.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Japleen
>>> --
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>>> Feminist Activist
>>> Founder & Editor-in-chief of Feminism in India
>>> <http://feminisminindia.com/>
>>> Personal Blog <http://japleenpasricha.wordpress.com/>| Facebook
>>> <https://www.facebook.com/japleen.pasricha> | Twitter
>>> <https://twitter.com/japna_p>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
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>> Feminist Activist
>> Founder & Editor-in-chief of Feminism in India
>> <http://feminisminindia.com/>
>> Personal Blog <http://japleenpasricha.wordpress.com/>| Facebook
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IISc, Bangalore organizing Photography Contest in collaboration with WMIN

[balaji]

Can any one participate or only IISc ?
Question may have been answered in the event page. But still wish to
confirm.

Thanks.
J.Balaji

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 1:53 PM Yohann Thomas  wrote:

> Hello one & all,
>
>
> Wikimedia India (WMIN) is partnering with IISc Bangalore to organise
> a Wikimedia commons based photography contest as a part of IISc’s annual
> science and cultural festival, Pravega 2019.
>
>
> To participate in this competition, you are required to upload your images
> on Wikimedia commons and submit image links on event portal on Pravega 2019
> website. You can submit a maximum of five images.
>
>
> Pravega webpage: https://www.pravega.org/
>
> Event page: https://www.pravega.org/events/wikimediaphotography/
>
> Pravega Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PravegaIISc/
>
>
>
> The Last date to submit is December 10th, 2018. Please refer to the event
> page for more information.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Yohann Thomas
> yohan...@gmail.com
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Community wishlist survey

[balaji]

Hello everyone,

The community wish list survey is underway. Today is the last day for the
wishlist. Is there any India specific wish to be added in the wishlist? if
so today is the last day to do that.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019

In addition recently the old wiktionary app from the wikimedia foundation
was withdrawn form the google playstore for some odd reasons. So now to
access wiktionary content we need to depend on adware/malware ridden third
party apps. Now there is a wishlist proposal for the wiktionary app. Please
leave your feedback regarding that here.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019/Wiktionary/Wiktionary_as_pilot_app

Regards,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [The Wikipedia Library] Translation Tool: Termsoup

[balaji]

Good news

On Sat, Oct 27, 2018, 1:17 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
kris...@wikipedialibrary.org> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am happy to inform you that through The Wikipedia Library, we now have a
> premium online collaborative translation tool "Termsoup" available for
> access to active users of any Wikimedia project (with demonstrated
> translation experience or able to prove the need).
>
> Termsoup is a translation tool with features to assist in translating
> content, including a simple user interface, term translating, edit history,
> and collaborative editing. It is a cloud-based platform that helps
> translators and organisations to increase translation productivity. Though
> Termsoup is not not a machine translation (MT), but they offer several MTs
> for your reference. You can decide by yourself whether to use these TMs or
> not.
>
> You may apply for access at:
> https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/70/
> To know more about Termsoup: https://termsoup.com/?locale=en
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Government of Telangana Re-licensed content and Felicitated Wikimedians

[balaji]

Wow.
Wonderful. Best wishes for all involved in the project. Hope it serves as
an eye opener to other states too !!

Regards,
J. Balaji.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2018, 4:13 PM pavan santhosh 
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> Greetings from Telugu Wikipedia community and CIS-A2K!
>
> The Language and Culture Department of the Government of Telangana and
> Digi”Tel” Telangana organized Conference about “Telangana Culture,
> Literature, Language and Festivals in Digital Medium[1]” on October 12 and
> 13. The event was supported by CIS-A2K where Telugu Wikipedian Pranayraj,
> Ajay Bandi and Pavan were part of the event. Some of the outcomes of this
> event were:
>
>-
>
>19 Telugu Wikipedians were felicitated by the Government of Telangana
>during the event for their effort and contributions on Telugu Wikipedia.
>-
>
>Mamidi Harikrishna, Director of Telangana Language and Culture
>Department announced to relicense 8 books into CC-BY license which includes
>Magnus opus of the department’s work “Telangana Tejo Murthulu” (Life
>sketches of 153 luminaries of Telangana). He also re-licensed oil paintings
>of 38 Telangana luminaries into CC-BY license.
>
>
>-
>
>Yerra Ramarao showcased the “Telangana Village Project[2]” (which is
>part of Telugu Village project) in the conference, this project has helped
>to improve content about revenue villages of Telangana in Telugu
>Wikipedia.[Notes1] Along with him, other Wikipedians also shared their
>experiences, ideas, and projects with the participants.
>
>
>-
>
>The Government of Telangana will publish the papers presented by
>writers, historians, and researchers contributing in digital media as a
>book under CC-BY license.
>
>
> I would like to thank Pranayraj for his effort in this process and thanks
> to Telugu Wikipedia community and my colleagues at CIS-A2K for all their
> help and support.
>
>
> [1]
> https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:డిజిటల్_మాధ్యమాల్లో_తెలంగాణ_సాహిత్యం,_కళలు,_సంస్కృతి,_పండుగలు_-_సదస్సు
>
> [2]
> https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/తెలంగాణ_జిల్లాల,_మండలాల,_గ్రామాల_మార్పుచేర్పుల_జిల్లాల_వారి_సమీక్ష.
>
> [Notes1] Ramarao updated information and templates according to 2011
> census and Telangana districts' reorganisation
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_districts_in_Telangana#2016> for
> more than 9000 Telangana Village articles.
>
> Best!
>
> Pavan Santhosh
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Resignation as an EC member

[balaji]

You have tried your part best. best wishes for your future endeavors.

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 6:18 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> This is to inform you all that I've resigned as an EC member of Wikimedia
> India on 23 September 2018.
>
> Thanks to you all, I hope I was of help to community members. Since this
> is not related to personal volunteer work, you can always reach out to me
> on my personal email, kcvel...@gmail.com.
>
> Regards,
> Krishna
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiSource Ebooks Download Count

[balaji]

Hi Dhaval S. Vyas,
Sorry for intruding the conversation. Gujarati wikisource looks like has
implemented ws-export gadget tool. If it is installed then the users would
find it easy to download the books. Because unlike wikipedia, wikisource
users would prefer to read the content offline in a variety of devices.

Regards
J. Balaji.

On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 12:24 AM Dhaval S. Vyas  wrote:

> Hi Srinivasan,
>
> This seems to be a very useful tool, thanks for sharing and even greater
> thanks for creating it.
>
> How does it work? Do you need to index books first and then create a link
> or it will work by simply replacing the language code at the end of these
> urls? The reason I am asking this is, I would like to see Gujarati
> Wikisource ebooks count.
>
> Regards,
> Dhaval Vyas
>
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2018, 19:19 Shrinivasan T,  wrote:
>
>> Check the download counts for ebooks in various formats for the
>> wikisource in Tamil, Telugu and Bengali languages here.
>>
>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/shrinitools/WSDownloadReport/bn
>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/shrinitools/WSDownloadReport/te
>> https://tools.wmflabs.org/shrinitools/WSDownloadReport/ta
>>
>> source - https://github.com/KaniyamFoundation/WikisourceEbooksReport
>>
>> Thanks Balaji for reminding on this year long pending task.
>>
>>
>> --
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>> T.Shrinivasan
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Appointing Community Advocate for Punjabi Wikimedians

[balaji]

Congrats Satpal. Happy to see people who attended CSK-A2K training programs
likes TTT are doing well.

On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 3:32 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:

> Congratulations and the best wishes to Satpal for his new role.
>
> I am sure Satpal will do his best.
>
> Krishna
>
> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:55 PM, Abhinav srivastava 
> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations Satpal!
>>
>> This is a great news.
>>
>> Abhinav
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 12:24 PM Satdeep Gill 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>> , 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
>>> Satdeep Gill
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Jayantanath as Wikisource Project Advisor

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Good initiative by CIS and Jayanta. Need of the hour.

Best wishes.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 4:37 PM Subhashish Panigrahi 
wrote:

> What a great news! So happy to see Jayanta with the new hat. 
>
> Subhashish
>
> On Aug 22, 2018, at 4:34 PM, Satdeep Gill  wrote:
>
> 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
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiCamp Nepal 2018

[balaji]

Best wishes for the event.

Regards,
J. Balaji.

On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 11:21 AM Tulsi Bhagat 
wrote:

> *Namaste !*
>
> I'm here to let you know about the most awaited & first event of it's kind
> being held in Nepal is *Wikicamp Nepal 2018 (#WCN2018) is a three day
> event for experienced and new Wikipedians of Nepal.* The main objective
> of the event is to increase the Wikimedia offline activities in Nepal,
> develop skill of the new Wikipedians and bring together experienced and
> newbies Wikipedians. This brought together Wikipedians from Nepali,
> Maithili, Doteli, Newari (Nepal Bhasha), Bhojpuri and Sanskrit Community as
> well as 2 emerging Incubator community- Awadhi and Marwari.
> This is first event which intended to become an annual national flagship
> event for Wikipedia/Wikimedia in the country.
>
> For more info: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WCN2018
>
> *Regards,*
> *Tulsi*
> *(User:Tulsi Bhagat)*
> Organizing Team Member | WCN2018;
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2018 in India (10 days to go!)

[balaji]

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 
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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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Punjabi Wikipedia Tales - Animation Movie

[balaji]

Congrats,

Effort well done. Like in my previous interactions is it possible to dub it
in other languages. In that way it would be cheaper for other languages.
Also since the videos are of cartoon characters it would be easy and nice
to translate in other languages. Also kindly let us the licence of the
video. Would love to hear from New readers team too !!

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 8:22 PM Anne Gomez  wrote:

> Congrats on the launch of this video! It's so great to see this cute and
> informative video. Kudos!
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018 at 9:32 PM, Parul  wrote:
>
>> I loved it. Very sweetly done. Informative and calls out how reading
>> Wikipedia is learning :)
>> Good work there!
>>
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 at 9:20 PM, subodh kulkarni 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Rupika,
>>>
>>> Great initiative! Congrats to all involved in it.
>>> BTW small correction in your mail... It is 72nd Independence day..
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Subodh
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2018, 21:16 Rupika Sharma  wrote:
>>>
 *What's making you happy this week?*

 Dear Wikimedians,

 With great pleasure, dedication and team effort, Punjabi Wikimedians
 User Group brings you something that will definitely bring a smile to your
 face! On the occasion of 71st independence day of India, we present you
 Wikipedia animation movie: Punjabi Wikipedia Tales - A Trip to Lahore!

 What's the wait! Grab your popcorn and enjoy this delicious movie we
 cooked with a delight! Thank You New Readers Team from WMF who helped in
 making this possible in the first place!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SANTzQkC3-o

 Cheers!

 Rupika Sharma
 Co-Founder
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 Project Lead
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruiting Community Advocate for Punjabi Wikimedians

[balaji]

Hi,
Thanks for letting us know the information happening in Punjabi
community. One of the common problem while scanning many books is that some
pages may be missed while scanning. Or even sometimes the printed books
itself might have some missing pages. Such books are not useful in
wikisource and it would drain away lot of precious volunteer time. Imagine
a situation while after proofreading a hundred page then it is discovered a
page is missing in between :(  So kindly evolve  a mechanism to crosscheck
pages, pagenumbers, total scan count etc. If the community is already aware
of this issue then kudos and all the best.

Regards,
J. Balaji
User:Balajijagadesh
Project: taws, tawikt

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:41 PM Satdeep Gill  wrote:

> 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] Tulu WIkipedia 2nd anniversary

[balaji]

Best wishes..!!

J. Balaji

On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 8:56 AM  wrote:

> Greetings on 2nd anniversary of Tulu Wikipedia becoming live. Tulu
> Wikipedia URL - tcy.wikipedia.org <https://t.co/AU5cqUitt4> Thanks to all
> volunteers who made it possible
>
>
>
> Regards,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

[balaji]

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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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania 2018: More participation from India

[balaji]

congratulations and best wishes!!

Thanks & Regards,
J.Balaji.

Sent from a mobile device usually on the move. Kindly excuse the brevity
and/or spelling/ grammatical errors.

On 9 May 2018 11:41 a.m., "Ashwin Baindur"  wrote:

> Heartiest congrats to Shyamal, Aliva & Jayanta :) Have a blast at Cape
> Town.
>
> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 9:53 AM, Tito Dutta  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Hope this email will find you well. The preparation of Wikimania is going
>> on, and we hope to see enthusiastic participation from India this year as
>> well.
>>
>> You know that in addition to the main Wikimania scholarship, there has
>> been a practice to offer scholarship to Indic Wikimedians. As per the
>> earlier practice, WMIN and CIS-A2K is offering full scholarships which
>> includes:
>>
>>- The cost of an individual's round-trip travel as arranged by CIS-A2K
>>- Shared accommodation for up to 6 nights as arranged by CIS-A2K
>>- Conference registration fee. Note that some meals during the
>>conference are covered by the conference registration fee, such as lunches
>>and receptions
>>- The cost of obtaining a visa (Visa Fees)
>>
>> The participants are selected based on the decision of Wikimania
>> Scholarship Committee 2018 and were next in line as per their analysis to
>> receive full scholarship. Note: WMIN or CIS didn't make these selection.
>>
>> Following is the suggestion list of Wikimania committee, the Wikimedians
>> who have been selected are:
>>
>>- User:Jayantanth
>>- User:Shyamal
>>- User:Aliva Sahoo
>>
>> We congratulate them for the selection, and hope for a smooth visa
>> process ahead. :)
>> ​We are unable to support partial scholarship for budgetary constraint. ​
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tito Dutta
>> Note: If I don't reply to your email in 2 days, please feel free to
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New caching center for readers of Wikipedia in Asia

[balaji]

Thanks for sharing the interesting new. Hope the traffic from India too
will be diverted from singapore data center.

Regards,
J. Balaji

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:22 AM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hello, folks.
>
> A piece of relevant news:
> https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/04/24/new-data-center-singapore/
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Featured Wikimedian] April 2018

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Congrats  Sangram!

Regards,
J. Balaji.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Arul George Scaria <aru...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hearty congratulations, Sangram. All the best!
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> arul
> --
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> Competition and Innovation, Munich]
> Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director - Centre for Innovation,
> Intellectual Property and Competition (CIIPC)
> National Law University, Delhi,
> Sector 14 Dwarka,
> New Delhi 110078,
> India.
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>
>
> On 4 April 2018 at 09:50, Jnanaranjan Sahu <gyana...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations Sangram.
>>
>> Good luck ahead.
>>
>> Regards,
>> *Jnanaranjan Sahu*
>> *Bhubaneswar*
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
>> kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I am happy to introduce you to the Featured Wikimediam for April
>>> 2018, Sangram Keshari Senapati (User:Ssgapu22
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Ssgapu22>) from
>>> Odia Wikimedia community.
>>>
>>> Sangram is an active Odia Wikimedian from Bhadrk, Odisha. Sangram was
>>> introduced to Wikipedia by his senior at college. He later signed up, and
>>> created two articles on English Wikipedia. Upon knowing about Odia
>>> Wikipedia, he started contributing to it. But as his writing skills were
>>> not good, he used to proofread works on Odia Wikisource, and from that
>>> experience he learnt the exact pattern of writing in Odia. He recalls that
>>> users MKar and Psubhashish greatly helped him during his initial days.
>>>
>>> From his contributions, it can be said that Sangram is an ambassador of
>>> #100Wikidays challenge. After having participated in Rathajatra
>>> Edit-a-thon, Nabakalebara Edit-a-thon, and Wikipedia Asian Month in 2016 &
>>> 2017, he decided to regularly commit himself towards improving the coverage
>>> of information on Odia Wikipedia. His first challenge was
>>> #100WikiWomanDays
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100WikiWomenDays>, which
>>> he started on 8 March 2017 i.e. International Women's Day. Having
>>> successfully completed it on 15 June, he took up another #100Wikidays
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100wikidays(2nd_Challenge)>
>>> on 13 July. Immediately after its completion 20 October, he took up his
>>> third challenge
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100wikidays(3rd_Challenge)>
>>> on 21 October, and completed it on 28 January 2018. As this journey
>>> continues, he is now amid of his fourth Challenge
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100wikidays(4th_Challenge)>,
>>> which was started on 29 January. With these, he aspires to complete his
>>> WikiYear some day.
>>>
>>> Sangram is a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering, and is now
>>> working as an editor at an Odia magazine. He also an avid photographer, and
>>> maintains a photography club. He advocates that new editors need to focus
>>> on learning the rules of Wikipedia, and contribute to good quality articles.
>>>
>>> Wishing him all the best to to complete his WikiYear;
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
>>> *on behalf of* *Wikimedia India*
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Featured Wikimedian] April 2018

[balaji]

Congrats  Sangram!

Regards,
J. Balaji.

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 10:01 AM, Arul George Scaria <aru...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hearty congratulations, Sangram. All the best!
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> arul
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> Intellectual Property and Competition (CIIPC)
> National Law University, Delhi,
> Sector 14 Dwarka,
> New Delhi 110078,
> India.
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> On 4 April 2018 at 09:50, Jnanaranjan Sahu <gyana...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations Sangram.
>>
>> Good luck ahead.
>>
>> Regards,
>> *Jnanaranjan Sahu*
>> *Bhubaneswar*
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 9:31 AM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
>> kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>> I am happy to introduce you to the Featured Wikimediam for April
>>> 2018, Sangram Keshari Senapati (User:Ssgapu22
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth/Ssgapu22>) from
>>> Odia Wikimedia community.
>>>
>>> Sangram is an active Odia Wikimedian from Bhadrk, Odisha. Sangram was
>>> introduced to Wikipedia by his senior at college. He later signed up, and
>>> created two articles on English Wikipedia. Upon knowing about Odia
>>> Wikipedia, he started contributing to it. But as his writing skills were
>>> not good, he used to proofread works on Odia Wikisource, and from that
>>> experience he learnt the exact pattern of writing in Odia. He recalls that
>>> users MKar and Psubhashish greatly helped him during his initial days.
>>>
>>> From his contributions, it can be said that Sangram is an ambassador of
>>> #100Wikidays challenge. After having participated in Rathajatra
>>> Edit-a-thon, Nabakalebara Edit-a-thon, and Wikipedia Asian Month in 2016 &
>>> 2017, he decided to regularly commit himself towards improving the coverage
>>> of information on Odia Wikipedia. His first challenge was
>>> #100WikiWomanDays
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100WikiWomenDays>, which
>>> he started on 8 March 2017 i.e. International Women's Day. Having
>>> successfully completed it on 15 June, he took up another #100Wikidays
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100wikidays(2nd_Challenge)>
>>> on 13 July. Immediately after its completion 20 October, he took up his
>>> third challenge
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100wikidays(3rd_Challenge)>
>>> on 21 October, and completed it on 28 January 2018. As this journey
>>> continues, he is now amid of his fourth Challenge
>>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ssgapu22/100wikidays(4th_Challenge)>,
>>> which was started on 29 January. With these, he aspires to complete his
>>> WikiYear some day.
>>>
>>> Sangram is a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering, and is now
>>> working as an editor at an Odia magazine. He also an avid photographer, and
>>> maintains a photography club. He advocates that new editors need to focus
>>> on learning the rules of Wikipedia, and contribute to good quality articles.
>>>
>>> Wishing him all the best to to complete his WikiYear;
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
>>> *on behalf of* *Wikimedia India*
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Wiki Loves Butterfly in North-East India (WLB-NEI)

[balaji]

congrats. Let this new initiative be a success like previous programs.


Regards,
J. Balaji

On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 6:48 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Ananya,
>
> West Bengal Wikimedians User Group will be glad to support for any online
> and offline help you need for your project as before.
>
> Best wishes,
> Bodhisattwa
>
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2018, 17:09 Ananya Mondal, <ananyanutrition...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Wikimedians,
>>
>>
>>
>> As per my previous mail, you all know that we have successfully completed
>> the *Wiki Loves Butterfly (WLB) part-1* and duly submitted the report of
>> the same and in course of *Wiki Loves Butterfly (WLB) part-2* project,
>> running nicely towards its targeted goal.
>>
>>
>> This gives me a great pleasure to announce the *Wiki Loves Butterfly in
>> North-East India (WLB-NEI)* project is going to start 1st May,2018.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hereby the WLB team is requesting all wikimedians to visit the project and
>> contribute as per their choice species and create or develop articles in
>> their respective native languages and thus resulting in a multilingual
>> approach to the project. Your honest feedback and suggestion is also
>> welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> If anybody wants to start a similar project in his or her native language,
>> the WLB team is willing to support in every possible aspect.
>>
>>
>> For further details https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Butterfly
>> Important links:
>> *Rapid Grants: *
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/
>> Atudu/Wiki_Loves_Butterfly_in_North-East_India_(WLB-NEI)
>> *Wikimedia Commons:*
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wiki_Loves_Butterfly
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC on 6 April 2018 at 8:00 pm, please join

[balaji]

much needed IRC

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 11:54 AM, Abhijeet Safai 
wrote:

> Thanks a lot for information.
>
> Possible topic (if time permits) can include - *Medical information on
> Wikipedia* (and responsibility of the editors to keep it trust-able (with
> more efforts) and for the same purpose involvement of healthcare workers in
> it).
>
> Thanking you,
> Yours sincerely,
>
> --
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>
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 1:25 PM, Tito Dutta  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> Third IRC discussion of 2018 will be conducted on 6 April 2018 at 8:00
>> pm Indian Standard Time.
>>
>> Possible topics of discussions are but not limited to:
>> Wikisource OCR issue
>> General Wikipedia discussion
>> Focused Project Area
>> +(Please suggest topic)
>>
>> The channel will be #cis-a2k at Freenode, may be accessed from any chat
>> client or using the web version: 
>> https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#cis-a2k
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tito Dutta
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Content donation

[balaji]

wonderful effort!!

Thanks & Regards,
J.Balaji.

Sent from a mobile device usually on the move. Kindly excuse the brevity
and/or spelling/ grammatical errors.

On 21 Mar 2018 9:31 a.m., "Arun Ramarathnam"  wrote:

> Kudos to all Wikimedians behind this excellent initiative. And thanks to
> Dr. Bhattacharjee.
>
> Regards
> Arun
>
> On 21 Mar 2018 9:24 am, "Ashwin Baindur"  wrote:
>
> This is a great step. Its wonderful when an author opens his work to
> humanity at large and that too in a licence which permits derivatives and
> preserves freedom. :) We commend Dr. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee  for this bold,
> pioneering step and hope his works flourish because of this gesture.
>
> Also congrats to the inspirers and facilitators Tanmay & Jayanta. Great
> work. :)
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 5:05 AM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
> kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>
>> That is awesome.
>>
>> Thanks for the efforts.
>>
>> Best,
>> KCV.
>>
>> On 20-Mar-2018 11:54 PM, "Bodhisattwa Mandal" <
>> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group, I am happy to announce
>>> that Dr. Tapodhir Bhattacharjee, Ex-Vice chancellor of Assam University,
>>> has kindly released copyright of 5 of his books under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
>>> The books are uploaded to Commons and are now in the hands of Bengali and
>>> English Wikisourcers for further work. Kudos to Dr. Tanmay Bir and Jayanta
>>> Nath for their effort to release, scan and upload the content.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Featured Wikimedian] March 2018

[balaji]

Congrats Nitesh Gill.

Regards,
J. Balaji

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 10:07 AM, Parul <sri.pa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Congrats Nitesh! So impressive. Keep up the good work. You make us all
> proud.
>
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Suyash Dwivedi <
> suyash.dwiv...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations!!!
>>
>> sent via mobile please consider any typos
>>
>> On Mar 4, 2018 8:26 AM, "Ashwin Baindur" <ashwin.bain...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Congratulations, Nitesh! That is an impressive list of achievements.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 12:21 AM, Tito Dutta <trulyt...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Great. Thanks for informing Krishna.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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 4 March 2018 at 00:16, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
>>>> kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am happy to introduce you to the Featured Wikimedian for March 2018, 
>>>>> Nithesh
>>>>> Gill
>>>>> <https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%B0%E0%A8%A4%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%95%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0:Nitesh_Gill>
>>>>> from the Punjabi Wikimedia community.
>>>>>
>>>>> *Nitesh Gill* is a young and energetic Punjabi Wikipedian from Moga,
>>>>> Punjab, and is studying Punjabi literature from University of Delhi. Her
>>>>> Wikimedia journey started in August 2015, when fellow Wikimedian Satdeep
>>>>> Gill introduced her to Wikipedia and taught her how to edit.
>>>>>
>>>>> One of her main focus on Punjabi Wikipedia is the Gender Gap. In her
>>>>> attempts to bridge the gap, she has been a trainer to BBC 100 Women
>>>>> Edit-a-Thon and also collaborated with "Feminism in India". She has also
>>>>> organized many outreach activities & edit-a-thons like Sanjh, Asian Month,
>>>>> Womens History Month, LGBT Edit-a-thon etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nitesh's another major achievement has been the #WikiYear challenge,
>>>>> which she completed successfully on 28th February 2018, wherein she has
>>>>> created a Wikipedia article everyday, continuously for 365 days. The most
>>>>> interesting part of the story comes to say that all the articles that have
>>>>> been created are about women. She also contributes to Wiktionary,
>>>>> Wikisource, and Wikimedia Commons.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>>  Yohann Varun Thomas
>>>>>  Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IRC on 22 February 2018 at 8:00 pm, please join

[balaji]

Thanks for sharing the IRC chat.

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Sailesh Patnaik <
sailesh.patnaik...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Shrinivasan and others,
>
> Please find the chat log of 22nd February IRC:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/IRC/2018-02-20
>
> Thanks and Regards
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> *Twitter*: @saileshpat
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 12:36 PM, Shrinivasan T 
> wrote:
>
>> Missed to attend this meet.
>>
>> Is there any irc chat log?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Shrini
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)

[balaji]

Nice initiative.

Best wishes,

J. Balaji

On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am planning for Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, please fill out the
> survey form to help the organizers. Your responses will help organizers
> understand what level of demand there is for the event (how many people in
> your community think it is important that the event happens).
>
> Survey form: https://goo.gl/forms/JeyW7vDzGnYohdyv2
>
> To start with, English Wikipedia has a dedicated team of editors to work
> on computer generated images, illustrations, and maps. The platform is
> referred as the Graphics Lab <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
> /Wikipedia:Graphics_Lab>, and the contributors are called Wikigraphists.
> Wikigraphists work to improve the quality of the images that have been
> proposed by the community. This involves work such as extracting key
> elements from photos, improving the color of images or emphasizing the main
> subject, stitching multiple images together and often vectorizing images —
> converting to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). They also create new
> drawings, diagrams and maps when requests are made to do so. The Graphics
> lab functions as Illustration workshop, Photography workshop, and Maps
> workshop, depending upon the type of request by a user.
>
> However, the use of SVG format, and other above mentioned graphic
> techniques are not seen much seen in practice among the Indian community.
> The plan is to organize a bootcamp for 3–4 days to train the participants
> on the above said. The workshop will emphasize on the "Graphics lab" of
> Wikipedia, and the technicalities and image parameters of Quality images
> (QI) and Featured pictures (FP), on Wikimedia Commons. At the end of the
> day, the participants will turn out to have knowledge to create drawings,
> illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and get to know to
> how to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria.
>
> Survey form: https://goo.gl/forms/JeyW7vDzGnYohdyv2
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian [January 2018]

[balaji]

Happy new year all,
   Congrats *Mr. Yercaud Elango*. All the
best..

Regards,
J. Balaji.

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 6:00 AM, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
kcvel...@wikimedia.in> wrote:

> Happy New Year greetings,
>
> I'm glad to announce the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for January
> 2018, *Mr. Yercaud Elango*.
>
> *Yercaud Elango* (*User:Yercaud-elango*
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yercaud-elango>) is a prolific
> science writer from Tamil Wikimedia community. Born in 1961, Elango
> graduated in Botany and mastered in Population Studies from Annamalai
> University. Since 1987, he has been associated with the Tamil Nadu Science
> Forum. He wrote 85 books, most of which are exclusive to science stream.
>
> In November 2014, he got his first exposure to the Commons community, and
> has been very active ever since. Within three years of his joining, he has
> uploaded more than 10,800 photographs to Wikimedia Commons. He frequently
> visits Yercaud Hills, Yellagiri Hills, and Sitheri, to photograph various
> species of plants, animals, and birds. His uploads include 2,450 plant
> species, and 7,675 sub classifications of plants. He spends minutes, hours,
> days, even months and years to identify scientific names, before uploading
> them to Commons.
>
> One of his significant works include, uploading images of 200 rare and
> endangered plant species that belong to Yercaud Hills to Commons.
> Interestingly, of the 1003 Moth images available on Commons, 300 were
> contributed by Elango. He also has credit of uploading images of some of
> the rarest species like Shortts shield snake, Yercaud day gecko, Green
> lizard etc. and modern stone age tools like Dolmens, Cairns, Menhir etc.
> that are available in and around Yercaud Hills. Elango's uploads to
> Wikimedia Commons can be seen at the category:*Category:Files by
> User:Yercaud-elango*
> <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Files_by_User:Yercaud-elango>
>
> Elango says that he daily allocates one hour to work on Wikimedia Commons,
> and he feels that allocating time for Commons is something that we do for
> the society. In 2014, he published his first eBook, and in the last three
> years, he has published 21 eBooks, which have been downloaded 3,94,303
> times. Apart from his regular work, he is now planning to upload his eBooks
> to Tamil Wikisource. For his services to the society, the Tamil Nadu
> Governemnet conferred him various awards and titles, which include
> Yezhluthu Sirpi, Ariviyal Mamani and Vallamaimigu Yezhluthalar.
>
>
> Regards,
> Krishna Chaitanya Velaga
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedia [November 2017]

[balaji]

Thanks shri. Jnanaranjan Sahu.

Regards,
J. Balaji.

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Jnanaranjan Sahu <gyana...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Congratulations Balaji.
>
> Regards,
> *Jnanaranjan Sahu*
> *Bhubaneswar*
>
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Suyash Dwivedi <
> suyash.dwiv...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations Balaji
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2017 10:34 PM, "Asaf Bartov" <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Congrats, Balaji anna!
>>>
>>>A.
>>>
>>> On Nov 13, 2017 03:37, "Satdeep Gill" <sg...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Balaji is an amazing contributor and this is a well deserved
>>>> recognition for him.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Satdeep
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Tito Dutta <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 T

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

[balaji]

Best wishes Satdeep!

Thanks & Regards,
J.Balaji.

Sent from a mobile device usually on the move. Kindly excuse the brevity
and/or spelling/ grammatical errors.

On Nov 17, 2017 12:10 AM, "Shrinivasan T"  wrote:

> Congratulations Satdeep.
>
> Tons of wishes.
>
> Shrini
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedia [November 2017]

[balaji]

​​
Hello wikimedians,
   Thank you all for wishes and kind words.
Looking forward for greater collaboration and contribution to the wiki

Regards,
J. Balaji.

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Congrats, Balaji anna!
>
>A.
>
> On Nov 13, 2017 03:37, "Satdeep Gill" <sg...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Balaji is an amazing contributor and this is a well deserved recognition
>> for him.
>>
>> Best,
>> Satdeep
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 8:06 PM, Tito Dutta <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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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Installing Tamil Text-to-Speech system from IITM Donlab

[balaji]

​Heard the voice. really nice.. keep doing the project. Hope we would get a
working TTS soon for Tamil.

Regards,
J. Balaji​

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 2:36 AM, Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Shrinivasan T <tshriniva...@gmail.com>
> Date: 2017-09-20 2:35 GMT+05:30
> Subject: Installing Tamil Text-to-Speech system from IITM Donlab
> To: il...@freelists.org
>
>
> IITM donlab is working on TTS system for various Indic Languages.
> SSN Engineering college provided them the TTS system for Tamil.
>
> Few months ago, filed a RTI to get the source and install it in local
> systems
> https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2017/03/10/filed-a-rti-to-
> get-info-on-tamil-tts-by-iitm-and-ssn/
>
> They replied promptly and they told that all their TTS systems are
> already open source. :-)
>
>
> IITM released it as OpenSource here -
> https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/voices.php
>
>
> After following up with IITM team in few mail threads,
> On August 12, 2017, Myself, Mohan and Padmakumar visited IITM Donlab.
>
> Prof Hema and Anju Thomas welcomed us.
> We spent an entire day, trying to build the entire TTS system.
>
> As the documentation was suitable for the preconfigured systems there,
> we can not proceed further.
>
> In the evening, we discussed and found that we dont need to build the
> entire system.
> They have already providing voice model files for festival.
> We have just to download them and compile them to make them work with
> festival.
>
> we can download the voice models from
> https://www.iitm.ac.in/donlab/tts/voices.php
>
> This seems easier for us.
>
> Then, we were trying to compile the voice models. Again, with lesser
> documentation,
> we can not proceed much.
>
> On Sep 15, Invited mohan to my home to work on this.
> We spent a day with no much result.
>
> Today, I mailed Anju of IITM and asked for help.
> Viola.
> We have compiled it already and we need to know where the tts script is.
>
> It really works well.
>
> Here is the demo - https://soundcloud.com/shrinivasan/tamil-tts-demo
>
> Full Details of the installation script -
> https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2017/09/20/how-to-compile-
> tamil-tts-engine-from-source/
>
> Automated all the installation and make a single script to do all the
> magics - https://github.com/tshrinivasan/tamil-tts-install
>
> There are still few improvements needed.
> Currently it reads upto empty line.
> Have to make to read entire page or chapter.
> Will work on this.
>
> Tons of thanks for IITM team, SSN team, Prof Hema, Anju, Mohan,
> Padmakumar for all their great support on this.
>
> --
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> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
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>
> Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
> http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
>
>
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>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian of the month-June 2017

[balaji]

Congrats Satpal... 

Regards,
J.Balaji

On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Tito Dutta  wrote:

> Great, Congrats Satpal. Please continue your good works. :)
>
> On 4 June 2017 at 11:37, Yohann Thomas  wrote:
>
>> Dear Community
>>
>> It gives me great pleasure to inform that Mr Satpal Singh is the
>> Wikimedian of the month for June 2017. Please find an excerpt on him below.
>>
>> Satpal Singh is a wikimedian who largely edits on Punjabi Wikimedia
>> projects with the user name Sony dandiwal. He has started editing since
>> July 2015 at the age of 16 and is the second youngest pubjabi wikimedian.
>> He has more than 8,000 edit counts on punjabi wikipedia and he also holds
>> the rights of administrator, patroller and autopatroller on the punjabi
>> wikipedia. His main areas of interest on wikipedia are cricket in sports,
>> history in academics and biographies as inspiration.
>>
>> Satpal belongs to a village Chotian in Mansa district of Punjab and edits
>> on wikipedia through his mobile phone, having no access to a personal
>> computer. Besides that, Satpal has made significant achievements, being
>> ranked first on Article Improvement Edit-a-thon 2016
>> 
>> in April, having started Wikiproject Women and Wikiproject Cricket on
>> punjabi wikipedia. He is also the Wikipedia Asian Month Ambassador.
>>
>> I want to thank Abhinav Srivastava for helping us in this for this
>> month's edition & for the month of May too
>>
>> If you know any such contributors who deserve to be the featured as
>> wikimedian of the month,please nominate him here - http://wiki.wikimedia
>> .in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations. You can also contact me on my email
>> for nominating anyone.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yohann Thomas
>> Wikimedia India
>>
>>
>>
>>
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