Hello Pavan Kudos to all of you who have been working tirelessly to provide information to the people seeking it in Indic languages. I am always available to support you all in every possible manner.
Regards, Manav On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 4:27 PM Netha Hussain <nethahuss...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Pavan, > > Great initiative! I shall be very happy to make more short versions of any > COVID-19 related articles for the Wikiproject. > > Regards > Netha > > On Sun, 19 Apr 2020, 12:17 pavan santhosh <pavansanthos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear Friends, >> >> I would like to start the mail with a word of love. I hope everyone of us >> are doing well during this difficult times. I believe that we will get >> through this situation and collectively world will outlive this pandemic. >> What we are contributing to this world become enormously important during >> this difficult times than any time ever before. Several volunteers around >> the world contributing to create, improve, and update content about the >> Covid-19 and pandemic which in many ways is service to the world. >> >> During 3rd week of March, I created and worked on a WikiProject to >> co-ordinate efforts (prioritize, list-out articles and resources, organize >> workflow, etc.,) to create, improve and update content about Covid-19 in >> Telugu Wikipedia. After that, on March 22, I started doing the same for >> Indian languages by creating page for WikiProject Covid-19 in Indic >> languages in meta. Unfortunately, due to a personal loss, I couldn't do >> much about it for few weeks. Later I started coordinating people and >> improving the Project page which finally took a shape: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages. >> >> *What is Wikiproject Covid-19 in Indic languages? Why is this required?* >> >> *Wikiproject Covid-19 in Indian languages* is a meta-wiki project >> dedicated to co-ordinate efforts to coverage about topics related in Indian >> language Wikipedias. Although there are several efforts going on in various >> Indian languages, there needs a central co-ordination project to ensure >> more collaboration and better outcomes. >> >> Some of the things that we can do together: >> >> - Co-ordinating efforts to create, share, and localise materials and >> media needed to improve the articles. >> - Collaborating with other projects like Wikidata taskforce (ex: >> finding ways to integrate Wikidata and Wikipedia, so that no one needs to >> update figures in every Wikipedia separately), Wikigraphists from India >> (ex: can take help to localize several graphs, pictures, etc.,), and other >> projects. >> - Bringing several ideas and best practices across the world together >> and making use of it. >> - Ex: From my personal experience, Very long articles in English >> Wikipedia makes translators life difficult. There is a good effort >> popped >> up in English Wikipedia by Netha Hussain to create short form of >> important >> articles which helps translation of those articles into our languages. >> We >> can co-ordinate with them, get help from Indian English Wikipedians to >> create several short form articles and medium-long from articles to >> make >> translation easy. >> - Encouraging various language communities to run quality assessment >> of the articles and also equip them useful criteria to do so. As these >> articles have high visibility and usability, we can ensure quality by >> doing >> so. >> - Conduct webinars and IRCs to learn from each other (like a session >> from Wikidata experts to help others learn integration of Wikidata and >> Wikipedia in this regard), celebrate some achievements, and to share our >> camaraderie during these tough times. >> >> These are some of the efforts we can take up if we collaborate and >> coordinate, there can be many such things I couldn't imagine right now. I >> would like to request everyone who is interested to join here: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages. >> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages> >> You can either start a discussion thread about this in your language >> Wikipedia village pumps and let everyone know in the talk page of project >> or anyway, I can go ahead & inform this in English in all the Wikipedia >> Village pumps. >> >> With love, >> Pavan Santhosh. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > -- Dr. Manavpreet Kaur (Ph.D., PDF Forensic Science) Member, Affiliations Committee Wikimedia Foundation
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