[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board of Trustees election: ~ 4 days to go + A Question

[Tito Dutta]

Hello,
The 2021 Board of Trustees election voting ends on Wednesday, 1 September
2021, 5:30 am IST.[1] That's  in just ~18 hours from now.
Interested Wikimedians, who have not voted yet, may consider doing so.
* Voting details and instruction:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Voting

Resources
* Board election main page, a page with overview and details about the
election,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021
* List of Candidates, a page with details about candidates, skill analysis
etc,
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates
* Candidate questions and answers, candidates answer their views on
different Wikimedia topics
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates/CandidateQ%26A
* Additional answers to community questions:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates/Community_Questions

Regards,
User:Titodutta

Footnotes
[1] The voting ends on 31 August 2021, 23:59 UTC. In the India mailing
list, Indian Standard Time 1 September 2021, 5:29 am IST is used.


শুক্র, ২৭ আগস্ট, ২০২১ তারিখে ১২:৫৬ PM টায় এ Tito Dutta 
লিখেছেন:

> Hello,
> Wikimedia Foundation 2021 Board of Trustees election is going on now, and
> votes will be accepted until 1 September 2021, 5:29 am IST[1]. So, it is
> around ~4 days to left. If you are interested you may consider
> participating.
> * Board election main page, a page with overview and details about the
> election,
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021
> * List of Candidates, a page with details about candidates, skill analysis
> etc,
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates
> * Candidate questions and answers, candidates answer their views on
> different Wikimedia topics
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates/CandidateQ%26A
> * Additional answers to community questions:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates/Community_Questions
> * Voting details and instruction:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Voting
>
> Please use your best understanding, and knowledge to vote for the
> candidates, if you wish to do so. This post is for information-purpose only.
>
> +A Question
> During a general conversation with a Wikifriend, someone asked me a
> question. I'll treat that question as "anonymous". The question is:
> * Why should someone vote in the board election process? How is it going
> to affect my project such a a regional-language Wikisource, or Wikivoyage,
> or a project without much support?
>
> I have my own view on why I should vote (or voted), very briefly— this is
> an important process, and a trustee is a powerful and decision-making
> position. Hence it is important to ensure the best candidates are elected.
> Every well-thought vote helps in this process.
> That's my answer very briefly. I have rechecked the board election project
> page, and the FAQ page, and I don't see this question is answered directly
> (unless I missed something)
>
> If anyone from the board election organising team, the board/Community
> Affairs Committee(CAC), or community wants to help, by answering this
> question, kindly feel free to do so. I think it is OK, if someone does not
> want to vote, or have their own reasons of not voting (feel free to share
> your thoughts). The discussion possibly will help one (I believe "many")
> Wikimedian(s) who are wondering "why should I vote?"
>
> Footnotes
> [1] The voting ends on 31 August 2021, 23:59 UTC. In the India mailing
> list, I have used Indian Standard Time, that's why it is 1 September 2021,
> 5:29 am IST.
>
> Kind regards,
> User:Titodutta
> As a Wikimedia volunteer
>
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India starts in 2 days!

[Bodhisattwa Mandal]

Hello all,

We are excited to announce that the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
 is going to
organize Wiki Loves Monuments

this year again in the month of September. The organizing team

remains the same. We have a list of news to share.


   - Like previous years, we are adding more and more data about Indian
   monuments, both for designated and non-designated ones, on Wikidata
and the WLM
   lists of monuments
   

   are fetched from there. If you find monuments from your locality or
   district or state that are present on Wikidata but are not reflected on our
   list
   
,
   please let us know, so that we can include them.


   - We are introducing one more way to upload photographs of monuments
   this year. In this page
   
,
   you will get a map of India with states and UTs in it and if you click on
   your desired state or UT, it will automatically direct you to the
   respective upload wizard buttons. Our 3 other options to upload in the
   tables designated for monuments, i.e. through Upload Wizard,
   Wikidocumentaries and WLM maps tools remain the same as the previous year.


   - This year, most probably, the Wikimedia Commons app
    will
   support WLM and photographers can upload easily through their mobile
   devices.


   - The national prize money also remains the same as the previous year.
   But we have two more special prizes this year. For details, please
visit this
   page
   

   .


   - Also the Monuments database
    has
   included
   

   our lists of monuments
   

   from Commons this year, which will help a bot
    to crawl more
   Indian monuments than before to do regular maintenance works. There are
   still some bugs to resolve though.
   - We are contacting potential jury members for the national
competition. This
   page
   

   will be updated as soon as we get confirmation from them.


A lot of efforts were taken to build structured databases related to Indian
monuments in the previous years. Still, most of our monuments lack
coordinates and it would be great if this gap can be filled up by the
community volunteers. Without coordinates, maps won't show the location of
the monuments and powerful tools cannot be utilized fully. If you start
adding coordinates or correcting faulty coordinates one at a time starting
from your locality, we might fill up the huge data gap one day. For
perspective, we have coordinates for more than 3000 Indian designated
monuments and still around 7000 designated monuments don't have them.

I would like to sincerely thank Krishna from the WLM international team;
André Costa and Jean-Frédéric from the Monuments database and Susanna Ånäs
from the Wikidocumentaries for partnering with us in different ways and
helping us execute our plans.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of Wiki Loves Monuments 2021 in India team)
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