विकिस्रोत:चावडी/इतर चर्चा

(सर्व चावड्यातील बदल | मुख्य चावडीतील अलीकडील बदल | सर्व चावड्या एकत्र पहा) चावडी विभागवार:
चर्चा (विपी इतर चर्चा) इतर विभागात समाविष्ट न होणारे चर्चा विषय नवी चर्चा जोडा | वाचा वादनिवारण वादांवर उहापोह करण्यासाठी नवीन विषय जोडा | वाचा	साहाय्य | मदतकेंद्र नवागतांसाठी मदतकेंद्र नवाप्रश्न जोडा | वाचा	दूतावास (Embassy) नवी चर्चा जोडा (Start new discussion)	प्रचालकांना निवेदन प्रचालकांना निवेदन देण्यासाठी निवेदन जोडा | वाचा प्रचालकांचे मूल्यांकन प्रचालकांचे कार्य आणि कृतींबद्दल उहापोह करण्यासाठी नवीन विषय जोडा | वाचा	तांत्रिक तांत्रिक मुद्दयांवर चर्चा. विपी आज्ञावलीच्या त्रुटी अहवाला साठी बगझीला वापरा. नवीचर्चा जोडा | वाचा	ध्येय आणि धोरणे सद्द आणि प्रस्तावित ध्येय आणि धोरणे, नीती-संकेत इत्यादींबाबत चर्चेसाठी नवीचर्चा जोडा | वाचा	प्रगती मराठी विकिस्रोतच्या प्रगती बाबत चर्चा नवीचर्चा जोडा | वाचा

विदागार (अर्काइव्हज) आणि इतर चर्चापान दुवे  ()

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चावडी (सुचालन)
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स्वागत आणि साहाय्य चमू ,आलेले सदस्य,विकिभेट,कळपट हवा,सुलभीकरण, लेख/मजकुराची दखल पात्रता? चर्चा
इतर चावडी/चर्चा विभाग () चावडी/कालगणना चावडी/लोगो,लेखन कळपट विकिपीडिया चावड्यांचे व्यवस्थापन काही निवडक चर्चा जुन्या रंगलेल्या किंवा महत्वाच्या चर्चा -- "उचित वापर" (फेअर यूझ) उचित आहे काय?|"उचित वापर" (फेअर यूझ) उचित आहे काय? पुन्हा एकदा दर्जा लेख संख्या नियंत्रण आणि आशयघनता प्रस्ताव परिभाषिक शब्द आणि प्रतिशब्द संबंधी सूचना व्यक्तिनामाबद्दलची धोरणे मराठी भाषेतील अक्षरे इतर भाषात वापरणे साचे बदल वर्गाची उपयुक्तता, इ. पारिभाषिक शब्द, इ.
विदागार मध्यवर्ती चावडी(चालू)  () साचा:विकिस्रोत:चावडी/जुन्या चर्चा
विदागार मध्यवर्ती चावडी(चालू)  () साचा:विकिस्रोत:चावडी/प्रगती/जुन्या चर्चा
मराठी बंधुप्रकल्पातील चावड्या () मराठी विक्शनरी सहप्रकल्प विक्शनरी:चावडी मराठी विकिस्रोत सहप्रकल्प प्रस्तावित प्रकल्प मराठी विकिविद्यापीठ सहप्रकल्प विद्यापीठ चावडी मराठी विकिबुक्स सहप्रकल्प विकिबुक्स चावडी मराठी विकिक्वोट्स सहप्रकल्प विकिक्वोट्स चावडी मराठी विकिकॉमन्स सहप्रकल्प Talk:मुखपृष्ठ मराठी विकिन्युज सहप्रकल्प प्रस्तावित प्रकल्प इंग्लिश भाषेतील सहप्रकल्प Talk:विकिप्रॉजेक्ट महाराष्ट्र हिंदी भाषेतील सहप्रकल्प हिंदी भाषेतील सहप्रकल्प नेपाल भाषेतील सहप्रकल्प देवनागरी टेम्प्लेट परियोजना संस्कृत भाषेतील सहप्रकल्प संस्कृत भाषेतील सहप्रकल्प मराठी विकिमिडिया सहप्रकल्प मराठी विकिमीडीया प्रसिद्धी प्रकल्प इतर मीडियाविकि सहप्रकल्प दक्षिण आशियाई स्क्रिप्ट एनहान्समेंट प्रकल्प

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साहित्यिक नामविश्वासाठी लघुरुप

सध्या साहित्यिक विषयक लेखापाशी पोहोचण्यासाठी 'साहित्यिक' हा शब्द पूर्ण टंकावा लागतो जसे साहित्यिक:साहित्यिकाचे नाव. मराठी विकिस्रोत प्रकल्पाने साहित्यिक शब्दासाठी 'सा' अक्षर अथवा 'ले' (लेखक/लेखिकाचे अद्याक्षर) हे अक्षर लघुरुप म्हणून स्विकारल्यास केवळ सा: अथवा केवळ ले: हे अक्षर आणि साहित्यिकाचे नाव टंकल्यास संबंधीत साहित्यिकापर्यंत पोहोचता येईल.

सा: अथवा ले: पैकी कोणते स्विकारावे या बद्दल आपापले ओपीनियन मांडण्याची विनंती आहे.

Mahitgar (चर्चा) १८:०८, १३ सप्टेंबर २०१५ (IST)

मराठी विकिपीडिया, विकिस्रोत व विक्शनरी प्रकल्पांवर चर्चासत्र

मराठी विकिपीडिया, विकिसोर्स व विक्शनरी हे लोकसहभागातून ज्ञान निर्मितीचे उपक्रम आहेत. अनेकांनी विधायक सहभाग घेतल्यास, एकमेकांशी सौजन्याने वागल्यास व चुका दुरुस्त करत राहिल्यास किती उत्तम दर्जाची विश्वसनीय माहिती संकलित होऊ शकते ह्याचे इंग्रजी, जर्मन, जपानी, कोरियन असे अनेक विकिपीडिया हे उत्तम उदाहरण आहेत. भारतीय लोक फेसबुक, व्हॉटसअप, ट्विटर इ. सोशल मिडिया खूप हाताळतात, पण २१ भारतीय भाषांत हा प्रकल्प सुरु झाला असूनही त्यांनी विकिपीडिया, विकिसोर्स व विक्शनरीकडे दुर्लक्ष केलेले आहे.बहुभाषीय भारतात तर ह्या प्रकल्पाचा प्रभावी विस्तार करणे खूपच समयोचित आहे.

हे उद्दिष्ट समोर ठेवून विविध विषयातील ज्ञान आणि विश्वसनीय माहिती मराठीतून सर्व समाजाला सहजपणे व मुक्तपणे उपलब्ध व्हावी यासाठी मराठी विकिपीडिया, विकिसोर्स व विक्शनरी या प्रकल्पांमध्ये सुव्यवस्थित योजना बनवून काम करण्याची गरज आहे. यासाठी रावत नेचर अकॅडमी , गोखले राज्यशास्त्र व अर्थशास्त्र संस्था यांनी पुढाकार घेतला आहे. तांत्रिक सहकार्य द सेंटर फॉर इंटरनेट अँड सोसायटी करत आहे. या विषयावर प्रात्यक्षिकांसह चर्चासत्र गोखले संस्थेमधील सेमिनार हॉलमध्ये २९ एप्रिल २०१७ रोजी दुपारी ३ ते ६ या वेळेत आयोजित करण्यात आले आहे. सर्वांना सदर निमंत्रण.
-सुबोध कुलकर्णी (चर्चा) ११:१५, २८ एप्रिल २०१७ (IST)

अनुक्रमणिका संपादित करण्यात अडचण

'हिंदीचलन पद्धतीचा इतिहास'या पुस्तकाची तसेच इतर पुस्तकांची अनुक्रमणिका संपादित करण्यात अडचण येत आहे.कृपया मदत करावी.
--सुबोध कुलकर्णी (चर्चा) २०:०४, १९ जानेवारी २०१८ (IST)

अनुक्रमणिका दिसत नाही

Tiven2240:, मी अलीकडेच तयार केलेल्या इरावती कर्वे यांच्या भोवरा, परिपूर्ती व गंगाजल या पुस्तकांच्या अनुक्रमणिका दिसत नाहीत. असे वारंवार का होते हे कृपया पहावे. प्रुफ रीडिंग कार्यशाळा योजत आहे. त्यानुळे लवकर दुरुस्ती करावी ही विनंती.
--सुबोध कुलकर्णी (चर्चा) १३:२३, ३ सप्टेंबर २०१८ (IST)

सुबोध कुलकर्णी: नक्की काय झाले आहे ते सांगावे. मी सर्व पाहिले व सर्व बरोबर दिसत आहे. --टायवीन२२४०^{माझ्याशी बोला} १४:३४, ३ सप्टेंबर २०१८ (IST)

मुद्रितशोधन करण्यास आवाहन व प्रस्तावित कार्यशाळा

प्रिय सहकारी, सस्नेह नमस्कार. आपण सारे विकिस्रोत समृद्ध करण्यासाठी योगदान देत आहात. मी आपले लक्ष विकिस्रोत प्रकल्पातील साहित्याकडे वेधू इच्छितो. ही पुस्तके वाचता वाचता मुद्रितशोधन केल्यास आनंदही मिळेल आणि समाजाला शोधनीय रुपात उपलब्ध होतील. अलीकडे चांगले साहित्य मिळत आहे. उदा. इरावती कर्वे यांची ५ पुस्तके, जयंत व मंगला नारळीकर यांची २ पुस्तके इ. पुढील दुव्यावर सर्व अनुक्रमणिका पाने आहेत. एकेक पान उघडून जसे मूळ छापील रुपात आहे, तसेच युनिकोडमध्ये आणायचे आहे. शुद्धलेखन नियम लावावयाचे नाहीत. प्रथम मजकूर दुरुस्त करणे आणि पुढची पायरी म्हणजे रचना (लेआऊट) विषयक सुधारणा करणे.
विकिस्रोत अनुक्रमणिका पाने

या प्रकल्पात काम करण्यास इच्छुक असणाऱ्या सदस्यांची कार्यशाळा पुढील काळात घेण्याचे योजले आहे. तरी आपला प्रतिसाद कळवावा ही विनंती.
--सुबोध कुलकर्णी (चर्चा) १६:४८, २१ नोव्हेंबर २०१८ (IST)

विकिस्रोत समुदाय चर्चासत्र

CIS-A2K च्या वतीने भारतीय भाषांमधील विकिस्रोत प्रकल्पांत सक्रीय असणाऱ्या व जास्त योगदान असणाऱ्या प्रतिनिधी सदस्यांचे चर्चासत्र २४ व २५ नोव्हेंबर रोजी कोलकाता येथे आयोजित करण्यात आले आहे. मेटावरील पानाचा हा दुवा आहे. सध्या जाणवणाऱ्या गरजा व उपाय यावर चर्चा होईल. आपल्या सूचना जरूर मांडाव्यात.
--सुबोध कुलकर्णी (चर्चा) १७:३५, २१ नोव्हेंबर २०१८ (IST)

प्रस्तावित मुद्रितशोधन कार्यशाळा

प्रिय सहकारी, सस्नेह नमस्कार. मी आपले लक्ष विकिस्रोत प्रकल्पातील नवीन साहित्याकडे वेधू इच्छितो. ही पुस्तके वाचता वाचता मुद्रितशोधन केल्यास आनंदही मिळेल आणि समाजाला शोधनीय रुपात उपलब्ध होतील. अलीकडे चांगले साहित्य मिळत आहे. उदा. इरावती कर्वे यांची ५ पुस्तके, जयंत व मंगला नारळीकर यांची २ पुस्तके, सुनीलकुमार लवटे यांची २१ पुस्तके, लक्ष्मीकांत देशमुख यांची ४ पुस्तके, लेक लाडकी अभियान प्रकाशित ८ पुस्तके इ.
पुढील दुव्यावर सर्व अनुक्रमणिका पाने आहेत. एकेक पान उघडून जसे मूळ छापील रुपात आहे, तसेच युनिकोडमध्ये आणायचे आहे. शुद्धलेखन नियम लावावयाचे नाहीत. प्रथम मजकूर दुरुस्त करणे आणि पुढची पायरी म्हणजे रचना (लेआऊट) विषयक सुधारणा करणे.
विकिस्रोत अनुक्रमणिका पाने

या प्रकल्पात काम करण्यास इच्छुक असणाऱ्या सदस्यांची कार्यशाळा मे महिन्यात घेण्याचे योजले आहे. तरी आपला प्रतिसाद कळवावा ही विनंती.
--Subodh (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) ११:५०, १२ एप्रिल २०१९ (IST)

सदर कार्यशाळा विज्ञान आश्रम, पाबळ, जि. पुणे येथे २५ व २६ मे रोजी योजली आहे. तरी सहभागी होऊ इच्छिणाऱ्या सदस्यांनी subodhkiran@gmail.com या मेलवर मला संपर्क करावा ही विनंती.
--Subodh (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) ०८:३८, १५ मे २०१९ (IST)

इच्छुक सदस्य

1. --कोमल संभुदास (चर्चा) ०९:५०, १ मे २०१९ (IST)
2. --जाधव प्रियांका (चर्चा) १०:४१, १ मे २०१९ (IST)
3. --पूजा अवघडे (चर्चा) १२:२५, १ मे २०१९ (IST)
4. --Pooja Jadhav (चर्चा) २२:५१, ३ मे २०१९ (IST)

Wikisource Advance Training 2019 host for Bid & Application open

Call for bids to host Wikisource Advance Training 2019 & participation of the program.

Apologies for writing in English, please consider translating the message.

Hello everyone,

It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Wikisource Advance Training 2019 programme organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 11 October & 13 October 2019.This year CIS-A2K is seeking expressions of interest from interested communities in India for hosting the Wikisource Advance Training 2019.Wikisource Advance Training is a 3 (three) days residential training program for which attempts to aims to groom experienced Wiki-librarians for Indic language Wikisource to proofread even better quality content on Wikisource.

If you're interested in hosting the program, Following are the per-requests to propose a bid:

• Active local community which is willing to support conducting the event.
• At least 4 active Wikimedian ( not specific for Wikisource contributor) community members should come together and propose the city. They should reside in the city/nearby or states.
• Women Wiki-librarian in organizing team is highly recommended.
• City should have at least a national airport.
• Venue and accommodations should be available for the event dates.
• Participants size of Wikisource Advance Training generally will be around 22.
• Needed a venue which will have good internet connectivity and conference space for the above mentioned size of participants.
• Discussions/announcement with the local community by mailing list/village pump.

For participation in this program, you should apply here:

• The selection will be done by each Indic Wikisource community.
• We may select maximum 2 (two) Wiki-librarian from each language community.
• Eligibility criteria for supporting a candidate for a participation: He/she should have a minimum 50 proofread in their languages Wikisource before 15th August 2019.
• The applicant for participation in this program should have a minimum 500 proofread in their languages Wikisource before 15th August 2019.
• Self nomination can be done at with a new section.
• We encourage for female participants.

Please learn more about the Wikisource Advance Training program please visit this page and to submit your bid please visit this page. Feel free to reach to me for more information or email jayanta@cis-india.org.

Best! Jayanta (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) २३:२२, १४ ऑगस्ट २०१९ (IST)

Wikimedia Strategy Draft Recommendation Discussion Salon

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Greetings,
You know Strategy Working Groups have published draft recommendations at the beginning of August. On 14–15 September we are organising a strategy salon/conference at Bangalore/Delhi (exact venue to be decided) It'll be a 2 days' residential event and it aims to provide a discussion platform for experienced Wikimedians in India to learn, discuss and comment about the draft recommendations. Feedback and discussions will be documented.

If you are a Wikipedian from India, and want to discuss the draft recommendations, or learn more about them, or share your valuable feedback you may apply to participate in the event.

Please have a look at the event page for more details The last date of application is 5 September.

It would be great if you share this information who needs this. For questions, please write on the event talk page, or email me at tito+indiasalon@cis-india.org

Regards. --MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १३:२०, २९ ऑगस्ट २०१९ (IST)

Event page can be seen for more details at Wikimedia movement strategy recommendations India salon--Ananth (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) ०८:५३, ३ सप्टेंबर २०१९ (IST)

विकिस्रोत प्रगत प्रशिक्षण कार्यक्रम २०१९ (Wikisource Advance Training 2019)

प्रिय सदस्य,
विकिस्रोत प्रकल्पात सक्रीय असणाऱ्या संपादकांसाठी प्रगत पातळीचे प्रशिक्षण CIS-A2K तर्फे ११ ते १३ ऑक्टोबर या कालावधीत पुणे येथे आयोजित करण्यात आले आहे. प्रकल्पाचा दर्जा सुधारण्याच्या विविध तांत्रिक बाबींवर या तीन दिवसीय निवासी कार्यक्रमात सत्रे होणार आहेत.
इच्छुक सदस्यांनी खालील दुव्यावर जावून आपली नोंदणी करावी -
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Uhab4qpMUZYMnO_VeHRfN0FinbhNiCwiooSxHFPGxpI/edit

नंतरचे अधिक तपशील निवड झालेल्या सदस्यांना कळविण्यात येतील. अधिक माहितीसाठी मेटावरील Wikisource Advance Training हे पान पहावे. काही प्रश्न असल्यास jayanta@cis-india.org या ईमेलवर संपर्क साधावा.Jayanta (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) २३:०२, १२ सप्टेंबर २०१९ (IST)

[WikiConference India 2020] Invitation to participate in the Community Engagement Survey

This is an invitation to participate in the Community Engagement Survey, which is one of the key requirements for drafting the Conference & Event Grant application for WikiConference India 2020 to the Wikimedia Foundation. The survey will have questions regarding a few demographic details, your experience with Wikimedia, challenges and needs, and your expectations for WCI 2020. The responses will help us to form an initial idea of what is expected out of WCI 2020, and draft the grant application accordingly. Please note that this will not directly influence the specificities of the program, there will be a detailed survey to assess the program needs post-funding decision.

• Please fill the survey at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7_hpoIKHxGW31RepX_y4QxVqoodsCFOKatMTzxsJ2Vbkd-Q/viewform
• The survey will be open until 23:59 hrs of 22 December 2019.

MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १४:३६, १८ डिसेंबर २०१९ (IST)

Bot Access करण्यासाठी मदत

नमस्कार,

मी वर गेले अडीच वर्ष काम करत आहे. यामध्ये मी पायथॉन भाषेचा वापर करून ११,१५१ पाने ocr केली आहेत. आणि आणखी करायची पण आहेत . तर त्यासाठी मला नवीन Bot Access चे खाते तयार करायचे आहे आणि पुढील प्रोसेस तर यासाठी मला तुमची मदत हवी आहे. हे करण्यासाठी तुमचा पाठिंबा मिळावा ही विनंती. --Pooja Jadhav (चर्चा) ११:१०, ३१ जानेवारी २०२० (IST)

पाठिंबा- या प्रयत्नास माझे समर्थन आहे. - QueerEcofeminist

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - ज्ञानदा गद्रे-फडके

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - Komal Sambhudas

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - Aliva Sahoo

पाठिंबा- सध्या विकिस्रोतमध्ये नवीन व जुनी अशी बरीच पुस्तके येत आहेत. यामुळे हजारो पाने ओसीआर करावी लागणार आहेत. आपण पुढाकार घेवून हे काम करणार आहात याबद्दल आपले अभिनंदन आणि पुढील कामासाठी शुभेच्छा! वेगाने व अचूक काम होण्यासाठी Pooja Jadhav यांनी बॉट खाते वापरण्यास माझे समर्थन आहे. - सुबोध कुलकर्णी

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - Svnavare

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - [[सदस्य:--कल्याणी कोतकर (चर्चा) १७:२१, ११ फेब्रुवारी २०२० (IST)|--कल्याणी कोतकर (चर्चा) १७:२१, ११ फेब्रुवारी २०२० (IST)]]

• {{कौल|Y|Gopala Krishna A|Sorry I am writing in English. I believe Pooja can have use this rights for good. All the best and keep up your good work.

mul:सप्त्श्लोकी दुर्गा

Somebody uploaded this Marathi text into multilingual Wikisource. Could you, please, check if there is any reason (eg. being copyrighted in country of origin and free in US) that this text should be hosted in multilingual Wikisource and not here? Ankry (चर्चा) ०४:५४, ७ फेब्रुवारी २०२० (IST)

@सदस्य:कल्याणी कोतकर --Ooswesthoesbes (चर्चा) १२:३९, ६ मार्च २०२० (IST)

Indic language Wikisource Skill Share

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Hello all,

As COVID-19 has forced the Wikimedia communities to stay at home and like many other affiliates, CIS-A2K has decided to suspend all offline activities till 15th September 2020 (or till further notice). I present to you for an online training session for future coming months.

1. Wikisource Skill Share, a capacity-building initiative, where Indic Wikisource contributors, both newcomers and experienced, can share knowledge and skills with each other and clear confusions. Most of the time, it will be done online on 1:1 basis, so it is just the right time to participate there if you have not planned to do it or done it already. Let's learn Wikisource together! I would like to invite experienced Indic Wikisource contributors and sign your name at Willing to respond section. Newcomer or any Indic Wikisource contributors are welcome to join the session with your queries and doubts.

2. Intensive Personalized Training (or IPT), this also a capacity-building initiative, where Indic Wikisource contributors, especially newcomers could come with his/her queries and doubts. I, myself will share my knowledge and skills with each contributor and clear confusions. It will be done online on a 1:1 basis, so it is just the right time to participate there if you have not planned to do so.

3. Online Proofread-edithon for all 12 Indic Wikisource language projects. We are planning for an indic level online proofreadthon from 1 May 2020 to 10 May 2020. The book of the subject will be the classical literature of your languages. We’ll share details about this in a separate email/announcement in a couple of days.

Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K

Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon

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Hello all,

As COVID-19 has forced the Wikimedia communities to stay at home and like many other affiliates, CIS-A2K has decided to suspend all offline activities till 15th September 2020 (or till further notice). I present to you for an online training session for future coming months. The CIS-A2K have conducted a Online Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon to enrich our Indian classic literature in digital format.

WHAT DO YOU NEED

• Booklist: a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some classical literature your language. The book should not be available in any third party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books and add our event page book list.

• Participants: Kindly sign your name at Participants section if you wish to participant this event.

• Reviewer: Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this proofreadthon and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers could participate in this Proofreadthon.

• Some social media coverage: I would request to all Indic Wikisource community member, please spread the news to all social media channel, we always try to convince it your Wikipedia/Wikisource to use their SiteNotice. Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource site notice.

• Some awards: There may be some award/prize given by CIS-A2K.

• A way to count validated and proofread pages:Wikisource Contest Tools

• Time : Proofreadthon will run: from 01 May 2020 00.01 to 10 May 2020 23.59

• Rules and guidelines: The basic rules and guideline have described here

• Scoring: The details scoring method have described here

I really hope many Indic Wikisources will be present this year at-home lockdown.

Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K

मुद्रितशोधन अभियान (Proofreadthon)

सस्नेह नमस्कार,
आपणा सर्वांना पुस्तक वाचनाचा आनंद घेता घेता प्रूफ रीडिंग व काही संपादने करून विकिस्रोतवर या अभियानात १ मे ते १० मे या कालावधीत सामील होण्यासाठी आवाहन करत आहे. आपली बरीच पुस्तके चांगली स्कॅन झालेली असल्याने उत्तम ओसीआर झाले आहे. त्यामुळे तसे फार काम नाही. फक्त बारकाईने एकदा पाहून काही दुरुस्त्या व थोडे फार format करावे लागेल. यासाठी मदत घेता येईल. तरी अवश्य नावे नोंदवा आणि पुस्तके निवडा.

• पहा - अभियान पान
• येथे नाव नोंदवा - सदस्य यादी
• आपल्या आवडीचे पुस्तक इथे नोंदवा. फक्त नाव व विकिसोर्स दुवा दिला तरी चालेल. - पुस्तके यादी
• इथे सर्व पुस्तके आहेत - अनुक्रमणिका यादी

धन्यवाद! --Subodh (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) १७:५६, २३ एप्रिल २०२० (IST)

नमस्कार, अभियानातील उत्तम कामगिरीबद्दल सर्व सहभागी सदस्यांचे हार्दिक अभिनंदन!आपण समन्वयासाठी केलेल्या प्रकल्प पानावर अंतिम गुण व सविस्तर तपशील दिले आहेत. वर दिलेल्या मेटा दुव्यावर सर्व भाषांची कामगिरी आपण पाहू शकता. पहिल्या तीन सदस्यांचे आणि देशात पहिल्या दहांत आलेल्या चार सदस्यांचेही विशेष अभिनंदन. सर्वांना पुढील कामासाठी शुभेच्छा!
--Subodh (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) १०:२६, १४ मे २०२० (IST)

मुद्रितशोधन अभियानाचा कालावधी अलीकडे घेण्याबद्दल

नमस्कार. मुद्रितशोधन अभियानाचा कालावधी १ ते १० मे असा ठरवण्यात आलेला आहे. ३ मे पर्यंत देशात लॉक डाऊन आहे, पण त्यानंतर महाराष्ट्रातील काही भागात लॉक डाऊन शिथील होण्याची शक्यता आहे, असे वाटते. या पार्श्वभूमीवर १ ते १० मे पेक्षा ३ मेपर्यंत सर्वाना या अभियानात काम करण्यासाठी जास्त वेळ देणे शक्य आहे, असे काही इच्छुक लोकांशी बोलल्यावर लक्षात आले आहे. तर हा कालावधी अलीकडे आणता येईल का? आणि मराठी विकीस्रोतासाठी हे अभियान लगेचच सुरू करता येईल का? यावर विचार व्हावा. इतर सदस्यांनीसुद्धा याबाबत आपले मत मांडावे,अशी विनंती.
ज्ञानदा गद्रे-फडके (चर्चा) १३:५७, २५ एप्रिल २०२० (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits – Indic workshop series 2020] Register now!

Greetings, hope this message finds you all in the best of your health, and you are staying safe amid the ongoing crisis.

Firstly, to give you context, Small wiki toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wiki communities, to learn and share technical and semi-technical skills to support, maintain, and grow. We are happy to inform you that the SWT group has planned a series of four online workshops for Indic Wikimedia community members during June & July 2020. These workshops have been specifically designed and curated for Indic communities, based on a survey conducted early this year. The four workshops planned in this regard are;

• Understanding the technical challenges of Indic language wikis (by Birgit): Brainstorming about technical challenges faced by contributors to Indic language Wikimedia projects.
• Writing user scripts & gadgets (by Jayprakash12345): Basics to intermediate-level training on writing user scripts (Javascript and jQuery fundamentals are prerequisites).
• Using project management & bug reporting tool Phabricator (by Andre): Introduction to Phabricator, a tool used for project management and software bug reporting.
• Writing Wikidata queries (by Mahir256): Introduction to the Wikidata Query Service, from writing simple queries to constructing complex visualizations of structured data.

You can read more about these workshops at: SWT Indic Workshop Series 2020/Workshops -- exact dates and timings will be informed later to selected participants.

Registration is open until 24 May 2020, and you can register yourself by visiting this page! These workshops will be quite helpful for Indic communities to expand their technical bandwidth, and further iterations will be conducted based on the response to the current series. Looking forward to your participation! If you have any questions, please contact us on the talk page here. MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २३:०८, १६ मे २०२० (IST)

Bot Access करण्यासाठी मदत

नमस्कार,

मी एप्रिल २०१८ पासून काम करत आहे. ocr करण्यासाठी मी पायथॉन भाषेचा वापर करून ८,९००+ पाने ocr केली आहेत. अजूनही ocr चे खूप काम बाकी आहे.Category:Books by Rajendra Mane, Category:Books with Public Library, Rajgurunagar published before 1900,Category:Books by Jai Nimbkar,Category:Books by Sharad Joshi यांसारखे अजून काही पुस्तकांचे ocr करायचे आहे. ते करण्यासाठी मी Komal Sambhudas Bot या खात्यासाठी Bot Access वापरायचे आहे. आणि पुढील प्रक्रिया करण्यासाठी मला तुमची मदत हवी आहे. हे करण्यासाठी तुमचा पाठिंबा मिळावा ही विनंती.--Komal Sambhudas (चर्चा) १४:३५, १० जुलै २०२० (IST)

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - Svnavare

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - दिपक कोतकर

पाठिंबा- Full support, as they were doing the same work before, which needs bot access now. So they should have the flag.. - QueerEcofeminist

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - जाधव प्रियांका

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - ज्ञानदा गद्रे-फडके

पाठिंबा- समर्थन. There is only one user using bot account for doing OCR of books on this project. We need more such users as there are few thousand pages need to be OCR'd. As the community is active, more books are being added day by day. The user Komal has successfully demonstrated her skill here for such process.. - सुबोध कुलकर्णी

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - Pooja Jadhav

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - कल्याणी कोतकर

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - पूजा देशपांडे

पाठिंबा- माझे समर्थन आहे. - Shreya Savadi

Comments

नाही झाले नमस्कार Komal Sambhudas: सांगकाम्या अधिकार साठी नवीन सदस्य खाता तयार करावे. नवीन खाता तयार करण्यासाठी हा दुवा वापरावे. या नवीन खातेचे नाव आपण Komal SambhudasBot असे ठेवू शकता. त्याच्या सदस्य पानावर जाहीर करावे की आपण ही हा खाता वापरत आहेत. यासाठी {{सांगकाम्या}} वापरावे. त्यानंतर इथे नवीन नामांकन सुरू करावे. धन्यवाद --टायवीन२२४०^{माझ्याशी बोला} ११:३५, १२ जुलै २०२० (IST)

Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon II and Central Notice

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Hello Proofreader,

After successful first Online Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon hosted and organised by CIS-A2K in May 2020, again we are planning to conduct one more Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon II.I would request to you, please submit your opinion about the dates of contest and help us to fix the dates. Please vote for your choice below.

Click here to Submit Your Vote

Last date of submit of your vote on 24th September 2020, 11:59 PM

I really hope many Indic Wikisource proofreader will be present this time.

Please comment on CentralNotice banner proposal for Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon 2020 for the Indic Wikisource contest. (1 Oct2020 - 15 Oct, all IPs from India, Bangladesh, Srilanka, all project). Thank you.

Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K

Mahatma Gandhi edit-a-thon on 2 and 3 October 2020

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Hello,
Hope this message finds you well. We want to inform you that CIS-A2K is going to organise a mini edit-a-thon for two days on 2 and 3 October 2020 during Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary. This is not related to a particular project rather participants can contribute to any Wikimedia project (such as Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikiquote). The topic of the edit-a-thon is: Mahatma Gandhi and his works and contribution. Please participate in this event. For more information and details please visit the event page here. Thank you. — User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K) using MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०१:५३, २९ सप्टेंबर २०२० (IST)

Indic Wikisource Newsletter - Issue 02

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Hello Proofreader,

I am preparing the Indic Wikisource Community newsletter Issue 02, July–September 2020. Please help me to add the content in below section of your community.

Please add your content/news at Newsletter talk page. You could add the below details for your reference.

• Book proofreaded of the month July–September 2020
• Book validation of the month July–September 2020
• Book re-release of the month July–September 2020
• Any events happed in betweeb July–September 2020 to your community.

Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K

मुद्रितशोधन अभियान, १-१५ नोव्हेंबर २०२० (Proofreadathon November 2020)

सस्नेह नमस्कार,
आपणा सर्वांना पुस्तक वाचनाचा आनंद घेता घेता प्रूफ रीडिंग व काही संपादने करून विकिस्रोतवर या अभियानात १ नोव्हेंबर ते १५ नोव्हेंबर या कालावधीत सामील होण्यासाठी आवाहन करत आहे. मे २०२० मध्ये झालेल्या अभियानात मराठी समूहाने देशात सर्वोत्तम कामगिरी केली होती. यावेळी पण सदस्य चांगले योगदान देतील अशी खात्री आहे. आपली बरीच पुस्तके चांगली स्कॅन झालेली असल्याने उत्तम ओसीआर झाले आहे. त्यामुळे तसे फार काम नाही. फक्त बारकाईने एकदा पाहून काही दुरुस्त्या व थोडे फार format करावे लागेल. यासाठी मदत घेता येईल. तरी अवश्य नावे नोंदवा आणि पुस्तके निवडा.

• अभियान पान - विकिस्रोत:मुद्रितशोधन अभियान (नोव्हेंबर २०२०) येथे सहभागी सदस्य म्हणून नाव नोंदवा. आपल्या आवडीचे पुस्तक निवडून दुवा द्या, समोर आपले नाव नोंदवा.
• इथे सर्व पुस्तके आहेत - अनुक्रमणिका यादी
• पहा - Meta Event Page
• येथेही नाव नोंदवा - सदस्य यादी
• इथेही पुस्तक नोंदवा. फक्त नाव व विकिसोर्स दुवा दिला तरी चालेल. - पुस्तके यादी

धन्यवाद! Subodh (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) १७:०२, २७ ऑक्टोबर २०२० (IST)

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021

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Hello,

Hope this email finds you well. We want to inform you about Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021, an online wiki-event to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day. Please see the event page here. also Please subscribe to the event-specific newsletter to get regular news and updates.

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3. We need help to translate a few messages to different Indian languages. Could you help?

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Dear all,
Greetings!
It has been 15 days since Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon 2020 online proofreading contest has started and your communities have been performing extremely well.
However, the 15 days contest comes to end on today, 15 November 2020 at 11.59 PM IST. We thank you for your contribution tirelessly for the last 15 days and we wish you continue the same in future events!

• See more stats at https://indic-wscontest.toolforge.org/contest/

Apart from this contest end date, we will declare the final result on 20th November 2020. We are requesting you, please re-check your contribution once again. This extra-time will be for re-checking the whole contest for admin/reviewer. The contest admin/reviewer has a right revert any proofread/validation as per your language community standard. We accept and respect different language community and their different community proofreading standards. Each Indic Wikisource language community user (including admins or sysops) have the responsibility to maintain their quality of proofreading what you have set.

Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Program officer, CIS-A2K

Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon on 5-6 December 2020

Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon is on 5 – 6 December 2020

Namaskara/Hello,

Hope you are doing well. On 5–6 December, A2K will conduct a mini edit-a-thon on the theme Festivals of India. This edit-a-thon is not restricted to a particular project and editors can contribute to any Wikimedia project on the theme. Please have a look at the event page, and please participate. Some tasks have been suggested, please feel free to expand the list.

Regards. Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १४:३४, ३० नोव्हेंबर २०२० (IST)

WMWM 2021 Newsletter #1

Namaskar,

You are receiving this notification as you are one of the subscriber of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter. We are sharing with you the first newsletter featuring news, updates and plans related to the event. You can find our first issue here. If you do not want to receive this kind of notification further, you can remove yourself from here.

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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #2

Hello,
The second edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have started a logistics assessment. The objective of the survey is to collect relevant information about the logistics of the Indian Wikimedia community members who are willing to participate in the event. Please spend a few minutes to fill this form.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page. --MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०७:१०, १७ डिसेंबर २०२० (IST)

Submission Open for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021

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Hello,

We are excited to announce that submission for session proposals has been opened for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021, the upcoming online wiki-event which is to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The submission will remain open until 24 January 2021.

You can submit your session proposals here -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Wikimeet_India_2021/Submissions
Click here to Submit Your session proposals

A program team has been formed recently from highly experienced Wikimedia volunteers within and outside India. It is currently under the process of expansion to include more diversity in the team. The team will evaluate the submissions, accept, modify or reject them, design and finalise the program schedule by the end of January 2021. Details about the team will come soon.

We are sure that you will share some of your most inspiring stories and conduct some really exciting sessions during the event. Best of luck for your submissions!

Regards,
Jayanta
On behalf of WMWM India 2021

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #3

Hello,
Happy New Year! The third edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened proposals for session submissions. If you want to conduct a session during the event, you can propose it here before 24 Jamuary 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page. -- MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १४:२६, १ जानेवारी २०२१ (IST)

सुचनांसाठीची विनंती-प्रुफरिडेथोन

प्रिय मित्र/मैत्रीणींनो,

मी discussion and Request for comment here येथे चर्चेची सुरूवात केली आहे. मागच्या वर्षी आपण प्रुफरिडेथोन स्पर्धा आयोजित केली होती. त्या स्पर्धेविषयीच्या तुमच्या सुचना आणि टिप्पण्या आम्हांला कळवा. तुमच्या सुचना भारतीय विकिस्त्रोतांच्या प्रगतीसाठी आवश्यक आहेत. तुम्ही तुमच्या सुचना इंग्रजीमध्ये किंवा इतर कोणत्याही भारतीय भाषांमध्ये मांडू शकता.

भारतीय विकिस्त्रोत समुदायाकडून
Jayanta (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) २३:१४, १४ जानेवारी २०२१ (IST)

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #4

Hello,
Happy New Year! The fourth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २१:४२, १७ जानेवारी २०२१ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Understanding the technical challenges

Greetings, hope this message finds you all in the best of your health, and you are staying safe amid the ongoing crisis.

Firstly, to give you context, Small wiki toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wiki communities, to learn and share technical and semi-technical skills to support, maintain, and grow. In India, a series of workshops were conducted last year, and they received good response. They are being continued this year, and the first session is: Understanding the technical challenges of wikis (by Birgit): Brainstorming about technical challenges faced by contributors contributing to language projects related to South Asia. The session is on 24 January 2021, at 18:00 to 19:30 (India time), 18:15 to 19:45 (Nepal time), and 18:30 to 20:00 pm (Bangladesh time).

You can register yourself by visiting this page! This discussion will be crucial to decide topics for future workshops. Community members are also welcome to suggest topics for future workshops anytime at https://w.wiki/t8Q. If you have any questions, please contact us on the talk page here. MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २२:०९, १९ जानेवारी २०२१ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming bots workshops: Understanding community needs

Greetings, as you may be aware that as part of Small wiki toolkits - South Asia, we conduct a workshop every month on technical topics to help small wikis. In February, we are planning on organizing a workshop on the topic of bots. Bots are automated tools that carry out repetitive, tedious and mundane tasks. To help us structure the workshop, we would like understand the needs of the community in this regard. Please let us know any of

• a) repetitive/mundane tasks that you generally do, especially for maintenance
• b) tasks you think can be automated on your wiki.

Please let us your inputs on workshops talk page, before 7 February 2021. You can also let me know your inputs by emailing me or pinging me here in this section. Please note that you do not need to have any programming knowledge for this workshop or to give input. Regards, KCVelaga १९:१५, २८ जानेवारी २०२१ (IST)

Call for feedback: WMF Community Board seats & Office hours tomorrow

(sorry for posting in English)

Dear Wikimedians,

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. Below you will find the problem statement and various ideas from the Board to address it. We are offering multiple channels for questions and feedback. With the help of a team of community facilitators, we are organizing multiple conversations with multiple groups in multiple languages.

During this call for feedback we publish weekly reports and we draft the final report that will be delivered to the Board. With the help of this report, the Board will approve the next steps to organize the selection of six community seats in the upcoming months. Three of these seats are due for renewal and three are new, recently approved.

Participate in this call for feedback and help us form a more diverse and better performing Board of Trustees!

Problems: While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. This problem was identified in the Board’s 2019 governance review, along with recommendations for how to address it.

To solve the problem of capacity, we have agreed to increase the Board size to a maximum of 16 trustees (it was 10). Regarding performance and diversity, we have approved criteria to evaluate new Board candidates. What is missing is a process to promote community candidates that represent the diversity of our movement and have the skills and experience to perform well on the Board of a complex global organization.

Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. Meanwhile, our movement has grown larger and more complex, our technical and strategic needs have increased, and we have new and more difficult policy challenges around the globe. As well, our Movement Strategy recommendations urge us to increase our diversity and promote perspectives from other regions and other social backgrounds.

In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. What process can we all design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

Ideas: The Board has discussed several ideas to overcome the problems mentioned above. Some of these ideas could be taken and combined, and some discarded. Other ideas coming from the call for feedback could be considered as well. The ideas are:

• Ranked voting system. Complete the move to a single transferable vote system, already used to appoint affiliate-selected seats, which is designed to best capture voters’ preferences.
• Quotas. Explore the possibility of introducing quotas to ensure certain types of diversity in the Board (details about these quotas to be discussed in this call for feedback).
• Call for types of skills and experiences. When the Board makes a new call for candidates, they would specify types of skills and experiences especially sought.
• Vetting of candidates. Potential candidates would be assessed using the Trustee Evaluation Form and would be confirmed or not as eligible candidates.
• Board-delegated selection committee. The community would nominate candidates that this committee would assess and rank using the Trustee Evaluation Form. This committee would have community elected members and Board appointed members.
• Community-elected selection committee. The community would directly elect the committee members. The committee would assess and rank candidates using the Trustee Evaluation Form.
• Election of confirmed candidates. The community would vote for community nominated candidates that have been assessed and ranked using the Trustee Evaluation Form. The Board would appoint the most voted candidates.
• Direct appointment of confirmed candidates. After the selection committee produces a ranked list of community nominated candidates, the Board would appoint the top-ranked candidates directly.

Call for feedback: The call for feedback runs from February 1 until the end of March 14. We are looking for a broad representation of opinions. We are interested in the reasoning and the feelings behind your opinions. In a conversation like this one, details are important. We want to support good conversations where everyone can share and learn from others. We want to hear from those who understand Wikimedia governance well and are already active in movement conversations. We also want to hear from people who do not usually contribute to discussions. Especially those who are active in their own roles, topics, languages or regions, but usually not in, say, a call for feedback on Meta.

You can participate by joining the Telegram chat group, and giving feedback on any of the talk pages on Meta-Wiki. We are welcoming the organisation of conversations in any language and in any channel. If you want us to organize a conversation or a meeting for your wiki project or your affiliate, please write to me. I will also reach out to communities and affiliates to soon have focused group discussions.

An office hour is also happening tomorrow at 12 pm (UTC) to discuss this topic. Access link will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled time (please watch the office hour page for the link, and I will also share on mailing lists). In case you are not able to make it, please don't worry, there will be more discussions and meetings in the next few weeks.

Regards, KCVelaga (WMF) २२:००, १ फेब्रुवारी २०२१ (IST)

Research Needs Assessment for Indian Language Wikimedia (ILW) Projects

Dear All,

The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team at CIS has been engaged with work on research on Indian language Wikimedia projects as part of the APG since 2019. This year, following up on our learnings from work so far, we are undertaking a needs assessment exercise to understand a) the awareness about research within Indian language Wikimedia communities, and identify existing projects if any, and b) to gather community inputs on knowledge gaps and priority areas of focus, and the role of research in addressing the same.

We would therefore request interested community members to respond to the needs assessment questionnaire here:
Click here to respond

Please respond in any Indian language as suitable. The deadline for this exercise is February 20, 2021. For any queries do write to us on the CIS-A2K research talk page here MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २२:३८, ३ फेब्रुवारी २०२१ (IST)

• Hello, thanks to those who have submitted responses to this needs assessment. We want to inform you that the deadline to share your response has been extended till 5 March 2021. Click here to respond.Thanks.BhuvanaMeenakshi(CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) १२:२६, २४ फेब्रुवारी २०२१ (IST)

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5

Hello,
Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5

Hello,
Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
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[Small wiki toolkits] Bot workshop: 27 February

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the second workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "bots", and we will be learning how to perform tasks on wiki by running automated scripts, about Pywikibot and how it can be used to help with repetitive processes and editing, and the Pywikibot community, learning resources and community venues. Please note that you do not need any technical experience to attend the workshop, only some experience contributing to Wikimedia projects is enough.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

• Date: 27 February
• Timings: 15:30 to 17:00 (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BDT)
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/vri-zvfv-rci | click to add your Google Calendar.
• Trainer: Joaquin Oltra Hernandez

Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/yYg.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, १५:४१, १८ फेब्रुवारी २०२१ (IST)

Wikimedia Foundation Community Board seats: Call for feedback meeting

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes[1] between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. As a matter of fact, there had only been one member who served on the Board, from South Asia, in more than fifteen years of history.

In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees? In this regard, it would be good to have a community discussion to discuss the proposed ideas and share our thoughts, give feedback and contribute to the process. To discuss this, you are invited to a community meeting that is being organized on March 12 from 8 pm to 10 pm, and the meeting link to join is https://meet.google.com/umc-attq-kdt. You can add this meeting to your Google Calendar by clicking here[2]. Please ping me if you have any questions. Thank you, --KCVelaga (WMF) (चर्चा) १६:२९, ८ मार्च २०२१ (IST)

WMF Community Board seats: Upcoming panel discussions

As a result of the first three weeks of the call for feedback on WMF Community Board seats, three topics turned out to be the focus of the discussion. Additionally, a new idea has been introduced by a community member recently: Candidates resources. We would like to pursue these focus topics and the new idea appropriately, discussing them in depth and collecting new ideas and fresh approaches by running four panels in the next week. Every panel includes four members from the movement covering many regions, backgrounds and experiences, along with a trustee of the Board. Every panel will last 45 minutes, followed by a 45-minute open mic discussion, where everyone’s free to ask questions or to contribute to the further development of the panel's topics.

• Skills for Board work - Friday, March 12, 18:00 UTC
• Support for candidates - Saturday, March 13, 13:30 UTC
• Board - Global Council - Hubs - Saturday, March 13, 16:00 UTC
• Regional diversity - Sunday, March 14, 13:00 UTC

To counter spamming, the meeting link will be updated on the Meta-Wiki pages and also on the Telegram announcements channel, 15 minutes before the official start.

Let me know if you have any questions, KCVelaga (WMF), १४:०६, १० मार्च २०२१ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Workshop on "Debugging/fixing template errors" - 27 March

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the third workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "Debugging/fixing template errors", and we will learn how to address the common template errors on wikis (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.).

Details of the workshop are as follows:

• Date: 27 March
• Timings: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BST)
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/cyo-mnrd-ryj | click here to add this to your Google Calendar.
• Trainer: Jay Prakash

Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/36Sg.

prepare for the workshop in advance, we would like to gather all kinds of template errors (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.) that you face while working with templates on your wiki. If you plan to attend the workshop and would like your common issues related to dealing with templates addressed, share your issues using this Google Form, or under this section on the workshop's talk page. You can see examples of such errors at this category.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, १२:३१, १६ मार्च २०२१ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Workshop on "Designing responsive main pages" - 30 April (Friday)

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we would like to announce the third workshop of this year on “Designing responsive main pages”. The workshop will take place on 30 April (Friday). During this workshop, we will learn to design main pages of a wiki to be responsive. This will allow the pages to be mobile-friendly, by adjusting the width and the height according to various screen sizes. Participants are expected to have a good understanding of Wikitext/markup and optionally basic CSS.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

• Date: 30 April (Friday)
• Timings: 18:00 to 19:30 (India / Sri Lanka), 18:15 to 19:45 (Nepal), 18:30 to 20:00 (Bangladesh)
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/zfs-qfvj-hts | to add this to your Google Calendar, please use click here.

If you are interested, please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/3CGv.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, २१:२१, १९ एप्रिल २०२१ (IST)

कोविड-१९ सहाय्य योजना

आपण सर्व जण गेल्या वर्षभराहून अधिक काळ कोविडच्या साथीमुळे अवघड परिस्थितीतून जात आहोत. या कठीण प्रसंगात विकी सदस्यांना एक सहाय्य योजना सीआईएस तर्फे राबविण्यात येत आहे. यामध्ये सुरक्षा संच, लसीकरण खर्च तसेच समुपदेशन सेवा देण्याचे योजले आहे. या योजनेचे अधिक तपशील पाहण्यासाठी पुढील दुवे उघडा –

• मेटावरील मुख्य पान – https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_support_for_Wikimedians/India
• नेहमी विचारले जाणारे प्रश्न/शंका - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_support_for_Wikimedians/India/FAQ
• सदस्याने भरावयाचा अर्ज – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScYcjEeuT7vUxP3NJg7KfIiZaude9IXLyCagsDarTx11J4ymA/viewform

तरी इच्छुक सदस्यांनी वरील अर्ज लवकरात लवकर भरावा ही विनंती. इतर शंका, सूचना इ. साठी wmwm@cis-india.org वर अवश्य संपर्क साधावा ही विनंती.
--Subodh (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) १०:२९, ४ मे २०२१ (IST)

Call for Election Volunteers: 2021 WMF Board elections

Hello all,

Based on an extensive call for feedback earlier this year, the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced the plan for the 2021 Board elections. Apart from improving the technicalities of the process, the Board is also keen on improving active participation from communities in the election process. During the last elections, Voter turnout in prior elections was about 10% globally. It was better in communities with volunteer election support. Some of those communities reached over 20% voter turnout. We know we can get more voters to help assess and promote the best candidates, but to do that, we need your help.

We are looking for volunteers to serve as Election Volunteers. Election Volunteers should have a good understanding of their communities. The facilitation team sees Election Volunteers as doing the following:

• Promote the election and related calls to action in community channels.
• With the support from facilitators, organize discussions about the election in their communities.
• Translate “a few” messages for their communities

Check out more details about Election Volunteers and add your name next to the community you will support in this table. We aim to have at least one Election Volunteer, even better if there are two or more sharing the work. If you have any queries, please ping me under this message or email me. Regards, KCVelaga (WMF) १०:५१, १२ मे २०२१ (IST)

Candidates from South Asia for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may be aware, the Wikimedia Foundation has started elections for community seats on the Board of Trustees. While previously there were three community seats on the Board, with the expansion of the Board to sixteen seats last year, community seats have been increased to eight, four of which are up for election this year.

In the last fifteen years of the Board's history, there were only a few candidates from the South Asian region who participated in the elections, and hardly anyone from the community had a chance to serve on the Board. While there are several reasons for this, this time, the Board and WMF are very keen on encouraging and providing support to potential candidates from historically underrepresented regions. This is a good chance to change the historical problem of representation from the South Asian region in high-level governance structures.

Ten days after the call for candidates began, there aren't any candidates from South Asia yet, there are still 10 days left! I would like to ask community members to encourage other community members, whom you think would be potential candidates for the Board. While the final decision is completely up to the person, it can be helpful to make sure that they are aware of the election and the call for candidates.

Let me know if you need any information or support.

Thank you, KCVelaga (WMF) १५:३३, १९ जून २०२१ (IST)

गरजेनुसार व्यक्तिगत प्रशिक्षण सत्र

CIS-A2K ने प्रत्येक सदस्यासाठी गरजेनुसार व्यक्तिगत पशिक्षण सत्रांची योजना बनवली आहे. हे प्रशिक्षण ऑनलाइन पद्धतीने सोयीच्या वेळा ठरवून देण्यात येते. इच्छुकांनी पुढील दुवा उघडून अवश्य नोंदणी करावी. समन्वयक जयंत नाथ हे आपल्याला पुढील मार्गदर्शन करतील. नोंदणी करताना काही मदत लागल्यास जयंत किंवा माझ्या सदस्यपानावर साद द्यावी ही विनंती.

• नोंदणीसाठी दुवा - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Helpdesk/Intensive_Personalized_Training

-Subodh (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) १७:३२, २८ जून २०२१ (IST)

ट्रान्सक्लुजन अभियान २०२१

सस्नेह नमस्कार!
सध्याच्या कोविडच्या काळात आपण सारे सुरक्षित असाल अशी आशा आहे. सन २०२० मध्ये झालेल्या मुद्रितशोधन अभियान (मे २०२०) आणि मुद्रितशोधन अभियान (नोव्हेंबर २०२०) मध्ये मराठी समुदायाने अतिशय उत्तम सहभाग नोंदविला. एकूण २५ पेक्षा अधिक पुस्तके जवळपास पूर्ण करण्यात आली. यानंतर काही पुस्तके प्रमाणित करण्यात आली. विकिस्रोतमधील पुस्तके मुख्य नामविश्वात ईबुक रुपात दिसण्यासाठी तसेच वेबवर सर्चेबल होण्यासाठी ट्रान्सक्लुजन प्रक्रिया पूर्ण होणे आवश्यक आहे. सध्या अद्भुत दुनिया व्यवस्थापनाची, मी भरून पावले आहे, युगान्त, कानोसा भारतातील मुस्लिम मनाचा, महाबळेश्वर, गांव-गाडा, महाराष्ट्रातील १०० सामान्य पक्षी, वनस्पतिवर्णन भाग १, वनस्पतिविचार इ. काही पुस्तके ट्रान्सक्लुजन प्रक्रिया पूर्ण झालेली आहेत. अजून अनेक पुस्तके मुद्रितशोधन व प्रमाणित झालेली आहेत. हे मराठी साहित्य सहजपणे उपलब्ध होण्यासाठी मराठी विकिस्रोत समूह आणि सीआईएस संस्थेच्या संयुक्त विद्यमाने ट्रान्सक्लुजन अभियान करण्याचा प्रस्ताव समोर ठेवत आहे. यामध्ये काही सदस्यांचे प्रशिक्षण आणि अनुभवी सदस्यांसाठी स्पर्धा असा दोन्हींचा समावेश असावा असे वाटते. इच्छुक सदस्यांनी आपले विचार व प्रतिसाद अवश्य नोंदवावेत ही विनंती.
--Subodh (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) १४:३४, ६ जुलै २०२१ (IST)

[Wikimedia Foundation elections 2021] Candidates meet with South Asia + ESEAP communities

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, the 2021 Board of Trustees elections are from 4 August 2021 to 17 August 2021. Members of the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to elect four candidates to a three-year term.

After a three-week-long Call for Candidates, there are 20 candidates for the 2021 election. This event is for community members of South Asian and ESEAP communities to know the candidates and interact with them.

• The event will be on 31 July 2021 (Saturday), and the timings are:

• India & Sri Lanka: 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
• Bangladesh: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
• Nepal: 6:15 pm to 8:45 pm
• Afghanistan: 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
• Pakistan & Maldives: 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm

• For registration and other details, please visit the event page at m: Wikimedia Foundation elections/2021/Meetings/South Asia + ESEAP

KCVelaga (WMF), १५:३०, १९ जुलै २०२१ (IST)

2021 WMF Board election postponed until August 18th

Hello all,

We are reaching out to you today regarding the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. This election was due to open on August 4th. Due to some technical issues with SecurePoll, the election must be delayed by two weeks. This means we plan to launch the election on August 18th, which is the day after Wikimania concludes. For information on the technical issues, you can see the Phabricator ticket.

We are truly sorry for this delay and hope that we will get back on schedule on August 18th. We are in touch with the Elections Committee and the candidates to coordinate the next steps. We will update the Board election Talk page and Telegram channel as we know more.

Thanks for your patience, KCVelaga (WMF), ०९:१९, ३ ऑगस्ट २०२१ (IST)

ऑनलाइन इंडिक विकिस्रोत प्रूफरीडथॉन ऑगस्ट २०२१

प्रिय संपादकहो,

गेल्या वर्षी प्रूफ्रीडाथॉनमध्ये आपल्या सहभागासाठी आणि समर्थनाबद्दल धन्यवाद आणि अभिनंदन. सीआयएस-ए2के ने या वर्षी भारतीय स्वातंत्र्य दिनानिमित्त मराठी साहित्य डिजिटल स्वरूपात समृद्ध करण्यासाठी ऑनलाइन इंडिक विकिस्रोत प्रूफरीडथॉन ऑगस्ट २०२१ चे आयोजन केले आहे.

सुरुवात कशी करायची आहे;

बुकलिस्ट: प्रूफरीड होण्यासाठी पुस्तकांचा दिलेला संग्रह. युनिकोड मजकुरासह पुस्तक कोणत्याही इतर वेबसाइटवर उपलब्ध नसावे. कृपया पुस्तके निवडा आणि ती इव्हेंट पृष्ठ पुस्तक सूचीमध्ये जोडा. आपण येथे नमूद केलेल्या कॉपीराइट मार्गदर्शक तत्त्वांचे पालन करणे आवश्यक आहे. तुम्हाला पुस्तक सापडल्यानंतर, तुम्ही पुस्तकाची पाने तपासा आणि <pagelist/> तयार करा.

सहभागी: जर तुम्हाला या कार्यक्रमात सहभागी व्हायचे असेल तर कृपया सहभागी विभागात स्वाक्षरी करा.

पुनरावलोकनकर्ता: कृपया या प्रूफरीडाथॉनचे आयोजक व परीक्षक म्हणून काम करण्यासाठी पुढाकार घ्या आणि तुमचा प्रस्ताव येथे जोडा. आयोजक व परीक्षक या प्रूफरीडाथॉनमध्ये सहभागी होऊ शकतात.

मीडिया कव्हरेज: आम्ही इंडिक विकिस्रोत समुदायाच्या सर्व सदस्यांना विनंती करतो, कृपया सर्व सोशल मीडिया चॅनेलवर माहिती सामायिक करा, आम्ही तुमच्या विकिपीडिया/विकिस्रोतला साइटनोटीस लावण्याची विनंती करू. अर्थात, तुम्ही तुमची स्वतःची विकिसोर्स साइटनोटीस देखील वापरावी.

काही पुरस्कार: काही पुरस्कार CIS-A2K द्वारे दिले जातील. वैध आणि प्रूफरीड पृष्ठे मोजण्याचा एक मार्ग: इंडिक विकिस्रोत स्पर्धा साधने <https://indic-wscontest.toolforge.org/>

वेळ: ००.०१, १५ ऑगस्ट २०२१ ते ३१ ऑगस्ट २०२१ २३.५९ (IST)

नियम आणि मार्गदर्शक तत्त्वे: मूलभूत नियम आणि मार्गदर्शक तत्वे येथे दिली आहेत.

स्कोअरिंग: स्कोअरिंग पद्धतीचे तपशीलवार वर्णन येथे केले आहे. आम्हाला आशा आहे की अनेक भारतीय विकीस्त्रोत समुदाय यामध्ये सामील होतील.

धन्यवाद!

जयंत नाथ

मुद्रितशोधन अभियान, १५-३१ ऑगस्ट २०२१

सस्नेह नमस्कार,
आपणा सर्वांना पुस्तक वाचनाचा आनंद घेता घेता प्रूफ रीडिंग व काही संपादने करून विकिस्रोतवर या अभियानात १५-३१ ऑगस्ट २०२१ या कालावधीत सामील होण्यासाठी आवाहन करत आहे. मे २०२० मध्ये झालेल्या अभियानात मराठी समूहाने देशात सर्वोत्तम कामगिरी केली होती. यावेळी पण सदस्य चांगले योगदान देतील अशी खात्री आहे. आपली बरीच पुस्तके चांगली स्कॅन झालेली असल्याने उत्तम ओसीआर झाले आहे. त्यामुळे तसे फार काम नाही. फक्त बारकाईने एकदा पाहून काही दुरुस्त्या व थोडे फार format करावे लागेल. यासाठी मदत घेता येईल. तरी अवश्य नावे नोंदवा आणि पुस्तके निवडा.

• अभियान पान - विकिस्रोत:मुद्रितशोधन अभियान (१५ ते ३१ ऑगस्ट २०२१) येथे सहभागी सदस्य म्हणून नाव नोंदवा. आपल्या आवडीचे पुस्तक निवडून दुवा द्या, समोर आपले नाव नोंदवा.
• इथे सर्व पुस्तके आहेत - अनुक्रमणिका यादी
• पहा - मेटा पान

धन्यवाद! सुबोध कुलकर्णी (चर्चा) ११:५४, ११ ऑगस्ट २०२१ (IST)

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election is open: 18 - 31 August 2021

Voting for the 2021 Board of Trustees election is now open. Candidates from the community were asked to submit their candidacy. After a three-week-long Call for Candidates, there are 19 candidates for the 2021 election.

The Wikimedia movement has the opportunity to vote for the selection of community and affiliate trustees. By voting, you will help to identify those people who have the qualities to best serve the needs of the movement for the next several years. The Board is expected to select the four most voted candidates to serve as trustees. Voting closes 31 August 2021.

• Learn more about candidates.
• Learn about the Board of Trustees.
• Vote

Read the full announcement and see translations on Meta-Wiki.

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding voting. KCVelaga (WMF), ११:४१, १८ ऑगस्ट २०२१ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review

The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee would like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.

These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.

Comments can be shared in any language on the draft review talk page and multiple other venues. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.

There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:

• Wikimania 2021 session (recorded 16 August)
• Conversation hours - 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC
• Roundtable calls - 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC

Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks here.

Please let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), ११:५४, १८ ऑगस्ट २०२१ (IST)

[Reminder] Wikimedia Foundation elections 2021: 3 days left to vote

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, Wikimedia Foundation elections started on 18 August and will continue until 31 August, 23:59 UTC i.e. ~ 3 days left.

Members of the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to elect four candidates to a three-year term.

Here are the links that might be useful for voting.

• Elections main page
• Candidates for the election
• Q&A from candidates
• 👉 Voting 👈

We have also published stats regarding voter turnout so far, you can check how many eligible voters from your wiki has voted on this page.

Please let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), ११:१०, २९ ऑगस्ट २०२१ (IST)

Results of 2021 Wikimedia Foundation elections

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2021 Board election. The Elections Committee has reviewed the votes of the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, organized to select four new trustees. A record 6,873 people from across 214 projects cast their valid votes. The following four candidates received the most support:

• Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
• Victoria Doronina
• Dariusz Jemielniak
• Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the community vote, they are not yet appointed to the Board of Trustees. They still need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. The Board has set a tentative date to appoint new trustees at the end of this month.

Read the full announcement here. MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०८:२६, ८ सप्टेंबर २०२१ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct EDGR conversation hour for South Asia

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of behaviour for collaboration on Wikimedia projects worldwide. Communities may add to this to develop policies that take account of local and cultural context while maintaining the criteria listed here as a minimum standard. The Wikimedia Foundation Board has ratified the policy in December 2020.

The current round of conversations is around how the Universal Code of Conduct should be enforced across different Wikimedia platforms and spaces. This will include training of community members to address harassment, development of technical tools to report harassment, and different levels of handling UCoC violations, among other key areas.

The conversation hour is an opportunity for community members from South Asia to discuss and provide their feedback, which will be passed on to the drafting committee. The details of the conversation hour are as follows:

• Date: 16 September
• Time: Bangladesh: 5:30 pm to 7 pm, India & Sri Lanka: 5 pm to 6:30 pm, Nepal: 5:15 pm to 5:45 pm
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/dnd-qyuq-vnd | add to your calendar

You can also attend the global round table sessions hosted on 18 September - more details can be found on this page. MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १६:१७, १० सप्टेंबर २०२१ (IST)

Movement Charter Drafting Committee - Community Elections to take place October 11 - 24

This is a short message with an update from the Movement Charter process. The call for candidates for the Drafting Committee closed September 14, and we got a diverse range of candidates. The committee will consist of 15 members, and those will be (s)elected via three different ways.

The 15 member committee will be selected with a 3-step process:

• Election process for project communities to elect 7 members of the committee.
• Selection process for affiliates to select 6 members of the committee.
• Wikimedia Foundation process to appoint 2 members of the committee.

The community elections will take place between October 11 and October 24. The other process will take place in parallel, so that all processes will be concluded by November 1.

For the full context of the Movement Charter, its role, as well the process for its creation, please have a look at Meta. You can also contact us at any time on Telegram or via email (wikimedia2030@wikimedia.org).

Best, RamzyM (WMF) ०८:१६, २२ सप्टेंबर २०२१ (IST)

Voting period to elect members of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee is now open

Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are running for 7 seats in these elections.

Voting is open from October 12 to October 24, 2021.

The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1, 2021.

Learn about each candidate to inform your vote in the language that you prefer: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>

Learn about the Drafting Committee: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>

We are piloting a voting advice application for this election. Click yourself through the tool and you will see which candidate is closest to you! Check at <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>

Read the full announcement: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Go vote at SecurePoll on: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Best,

Movement Strategy & Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation

११:२०, १३ ऑक्टोबर २०२१ (IST)

Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members

अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

The Movement Charter Drafting Committee election and selection processes are complete.

• The election results have been published. 1018 participants voted to elect seven members to the committee: Richard Knipel (Pharos), Anne Clin (Risker), Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy), Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), Richard (Nosebagbear), Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan), Ciell (Ciell).
• The affiliate process has selected six members: Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati), Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini), Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin), Georges Fodouop (Geugeor), Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur), Pepe Flores (Padaguan).
• The Wikimedia Foundation has appointed two members: Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF), Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF)).

The committee will convene soon to start its work. The committee can appoint up to three more members to bridge diversity and expertise gaps.

If you are interested in engaging with Movement Charter drafting process, follow the updates on Meta and join the Telegram group.

With thanks from the Movement Strategy and Governance team,
RamzyM (WMF) ०७:५७, २ नोव्हेंबर २०२१ (IST)

Festive Season 2021 edit-a-thon

Dear Wikimedians,

CIS-A2K started a series of mini edit-a-thons in 2020. This year, we had conducted Mahatma Gandhi 2021 edit-a-thon so far. Now, we are going to be conducting a Festive Season 2021 edit-a-thon which will be its second iteration. During this event, we encourage you to create, develop, update or edit data, upload files on Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia articles etc. This event will take place on 11 and 12 December 2021. Be ready to participate and develop content on your local Wikimedia projects. Thank you.

on behalf of the organising committee

MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १३:३०, १० डिसेंबर २०२१ (IST)

First Newsletter: Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

We are glad to inform you that the second iteration of Wikimedia Wikimeet India is going to be organised in February. This is an upcoming online wiki event that is to be conducted from 18 to 20 February 2022 to celebrate International Mother Language Day. The planning of the event has already started and there are many opportunities for Wikimedians to volunteer in order to help make it a successful event. The major announcement is that submissions for sessions has opened from today until a month (until 23 January 2022). You can propose your session here. For more updates and how you can get involved in the same, please read the first newsletter

If you want regular updates regarding the event on your talk page, please add your username here. You will get the next newsletter after 15 days. Please get involved in the event discussions, open tasks and so on.

MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २३:१०, २३ डिसेंबर २०२१ (IST)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

The Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.

While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:

• What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?

• What involvement should candidates have during the election?

While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions.

Do you want to help organize local conversation during this Call?

Contact the Movement Strategy and Governance team on Meta, on Telegram, or via email at msgwikimedia.org.

Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.

Thank you, CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १३:५४, २८ डिसेंबर २०२१ (IST)

Second Newsletter: Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022

Good morning Wikimedians,

Happy New Year! Hope you are doing well and safe. It's time to update you regarding Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022, the second iteration of Wikimedia Wikimeet India which is going to be conducted in February. Please note the dates 18 to 20 February 2022 of the event. The submissions has opened from 23 December until 23 January 2022. You can propose your session here. We want a few proposals from Indian communities or Wikimedians. For more updates and how you can get involved in the same, please read the second newsletter

If you want regular updates regarding the event on your talk page, please add your username here. You will get the next newsletter after 15 days. Please get involved in the event discussions, open tasks and so on.

MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ११:१२, ८ जानेवारी २०२२ (IST)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections is now open

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now open and will close on 7 February 2022.

With this Call for Feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team is taking a different approach. This approach incorporates community feedback from 2021. Instead of leading with proposals, the Call is framed around key questions from the Board of Trustees. The key questions came from the feedback about the 2021 Board of Trustees election. The intention is to inspire collective conversation and collaborative proposal development about these key questions.

There are two confirmed questions that will be asked during this Call for Feedback:

1. What is the best way to ensure more diverse representation among elected candidates? The Board of Trustees noted the importance of selecting candidates who represent the full diversity of the Wikimedia movement. The current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Europe.
2. What are the expectations for the candidates during the election? Board candidates have traditionally completed applications and answered community questions. How can an election provide appropriate insight into candidates while also appreciating candidates’ status as volunteers?

There is one additional question that may be presented during the Call about selection processes. This question is still under discussion, but the Board wanted to give insight into the confirmed questions as soon as possible. Hopefully if an additional question is going to be asked, it will be ready during the first week of the Call for Feedback.

Join the conversation.

Thank you,

Movement Strategy and Governance CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १६:०३, १२ जानेवारी २०२२ (IST)

Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5

अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive these updates.

• Call for Feedback about the Board elections - We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 16th February 2022. (continue reading)
• Universal Code of Conduct Ratification - In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (continue reading)
• Movement Strategy Implementation Grants - As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (continue reading)
• The New Direction for the Newsletter - As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (continue reading)
• Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about MSG on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १३:४०, १९ जानेवारी २०२२ (IST)

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022 Postponed

Dear Wikimedians,

We want to give you an update related to Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022. Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022 (or WMWM2022) was to be conducted from 18 to 20 February 2022 and is postponed now.

Currently, we are seeing a new wave of the pandemic that is affecting many people around. Although WMWM is an online event, it has multiple preparation components such as submission, registration, RFC etc which require community involvement.

We feel this may not be the best time for extensive community engagement. We have also received similar requests from Wikimedians around us. Following this observation, please note that we are postponing the event, and the new dates will be informed on the mailing list and on the event page. Although the main WMWM is postponed, we may conduct a couple of brief calls/meets (similar to the Stay safe, stay connected call) on the mentioned date, if things go well.

We'll also get back to you about updates related to WMWM once the situation is better. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १२:५८, २७ जानेवारी २०२२ (IST)

Nitesh Gill

on behalf of WMWM

Centre for Internet and Society

[Announcement] Leadership Development Task Force

Dear community members,

The Invest in Skill and Leadership Development Movement Strategy recommendation indicates that our movement needs a globally coordinated effort to succeed in leadership development.

The Community Development team is supporting the creation of a global and community-driven m:Leadership Development Task Force (Purpose & Structure). The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.

The team seeks community feedback on what could be the responsibilities of the task force. Also, if any community member wishes to be a part of the 12-member task force, kindly reach out to us. The feedback period is until 25 February 2022.

Where to share feedback?

#1 Interested community members can add their thoughts on the Discussion page.

#2 Interested community members can join a regional discussion on 18 February, Friday through Google Meet.

Date & Time

• Friday, 18 February · 7:00 – 8:00 PM IST (Your Timezone) (Add to Calendar)
• Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/nae-rgsd-vif

Thanks for your time.

Regards, CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १७:२८, ९ फेब्रुवारी २०२२ (IST)

मुद्रितशोधन अभियान, १-१५ मार्च २०२२

सस्नेह नमस्कार,
आपणा सर्वांना पुस्तक वाचनाचा आनंद घेता घेता प्रूफ रीडिंग व काही संपादने करून विकिस्रोतवर या अभियानात १-१५ मार्च २०२२ या कालावधीत सामील होण्यासाठी आवाहन करत आहे. मे २०२०मध्ये झालेल्या अभियानात मराठी समूहाने देशात सर्वोत्तम आणि ऑगस्ट २०२१ अभियानातही चांगली कामगिरी केली होती. यावेळी पण सदस्य चांगले योगदान देतील अशी खात्री आहे. आपली बरीच पुस्तके चांगली स्कॅन झालेली असल्याने उत्तम ओसीआर झाले आहे. त्यामुळे तसे फार काम नाही. फक्त बारकाईने एकदा पाहून काही दुरुस्त्या व थोडे फार format करावे लागेल. यासाठी मदत घेता येईल. तरी अवश्य नावे नोंदवा आणि पुस्तके निवडा.

• अभियान पान - विकिस्रोत:मुद्रितशोधन अभियान (१-१५ मार्च २०२२) येथे सहभागी सदस्य म्हणून नाव नोंदवा. आपल्या आवडीचे पुस्तक निवडून दुवा द्या, समोर आपले नाव नोंदवा.
• इथे सर्व पुस्तके आहेत - अनुक्रमणिका यादी
• पहा - मेटा पान

धन्यवाद! - Subodh (CIS-A2K) (चर्चा) १६:१५, १५ फेब्रुवारी २०२२ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines & Ratification Vote

In brief: the revised Enforcement Guidelines have been published. Voting to ratify the guidelines will happen from 7 March to 21 March 2022. Community members can participate in the discussion with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members on 25 February (12:00 UTC) and 4 March (15:00 UTC). Please sign-up.

Details:

The m:Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement. The UCoC and the Enforcement Guidelines were written by volunteer-staff drafting committees following community consultations. The revised guidelines were published 24 January 2022.

What’s next?

#1 Community Conversations

To help to understand the guidelines, the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team will host conversations with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members on 25 February (12:00 UTC) and 4 March (15:00 UTC). Please sign-up.

Comments about the guidelines can be shared on the Enforcement Guidelines talk page. You can comment in any language.

#2 Ratification Voting

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees released a statement on the ratification process where eligible voters can support or oppose the adoption of the enforcement guidelines through vote. Wikimedians are invited to translate and share important information.

A SecurePoll vote is scheduled from 7 March to 21 March 2022.

Eligible voters are invited to answer a poll question and share comments. Voters will be asked if they support the enforcement of the UCoC based on the proposed guidelines.

Thank you. CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) २१:३६, २२ फेब्रुवारी २०२२ (IST)

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed. This Call ran from 10 January and closed on 16 February 2022. The Call focused on three key questions and received broad discussion on Meta-wiki, during meetings with affiliates, and in various community conversations. The community and affiliates provided many proposals and discussion points. The reports are on Meta-wiki.

This information will be shared with the Board of Trustees and Elections Committee so they can make informed decisions about the upcoming Board of Trustees election. The Board of Trustees will then follow with an announcement after they have discussed the information.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback to help improve Board election processes.

Thank you,

Movement Strategy and Governance
CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १३:४६, ५ मार्च २०२२ (IST)

UCoC Enforcement Guidelines Ratification Vote Begins (7 - 21 March 2022)

The ratification of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) enforcement guidelines has started. Every eligible community member can vote.

For instructions on voting using SecurePoll and Voting eligibility, please read this. The last date to vote is 21 March 2022.

Vote here - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/391

Thank you, CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) २२:४०, ७ मार्च २०२२ (IST)

CIS-A2K Newsletter February 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about February 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.

Conducted events

• Wikimedia session with WikiProject Rivers team
• Indic Wikisource online meetup
• m:International Mother Language Day 2022 edit-a-thon
• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team

Ongoing events

• Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022 - You can still participate in this event which will run till tomorrow.

Upcoming Events

• International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon - The event is 19-20 March and you can add your name for the participation.
• Pune Nadi Darshan 2022 - The event is going to start by tomorrow.
• Annual proposal - CIS-A2K is currently working to prepare our next annual plan for the period 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 08:58, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Pune Nadi Darshan 2022: A campaign cum photography contest

Dear Wikimedians,

Greetings for the Holi festival! CIS-A2K is glad to announce a campaign cum photography contest, Pune Nadi Darshan 2022, organised jointly by Rotary Water Olympiad and CIS-A2K on the occasion of ‘World Water Week’. This is a pilot campaign to document the rivers in the Pune district on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign period is from 16 March to 16 April 2022.

Under this campaign, participants are expected to click and upload the photos of rivers in the Pune district on the following topics -

• Beauty of rivers in Pune district
• Flora & fauna of rivers in Pune district
• Religious & cultural places around rivers in Pune district
• Human activities at rivers in Pune district
• Constructions on rivers in Pune district
• River Pollution in Pune district

Please visit the event page for more details. We welcome your participation in this campaign. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १२:५१, १५ मार्च २०२२ (IST)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Greetings,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over 2300 Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.

The final results from the voting process will be announced here, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out the voter information page to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page on Meta-wiki in any language.

You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Best regards,

CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १५:११, २३ मार्च २०२२ (IST)

Announcing Indic Hackathon 2022 and Scholarship Applications

Dear Wikimedians, we are happy to announce that the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group will be organizing Indic Hackathon 2022, a regional event as part of the main Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 taking place in a hybrid mode during 20-22 May 2022. The event will take place in Hyderabad. The regional event will be in-person with support for virtual participation. As it is with any hackathon, the event’s program will be semi-structured i.e. while we will have some sessions in sync with the main hackathon event, the rest of the time will be upto participants’ interest on what issues they are interested to work on. The event page can be seen on this page.

In this regard, we would like to invite community members who would like to attend in-person to fill out a form for scholarship application by 17 April, which is available on the event page. Please note that the hackathon won’t be focusing on training of new skills, and it is expected that applications have some experience/knowledge contributing to technical areas of the Wikimedia movement. Please post on the event talk page if you have any queries. MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ००:०१, ८ एप्रिल २०२२ (IST)

CIS-A2K Newsletter March 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about March 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events and ongoing events.

Conducted events

• Wikimedia session in Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh
• Launching of the GLAM project with RIWATCH, Roing, Arunachal Pradesh
• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
• m:International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon
• m:Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
• Relicensing & digitisation of books, audios, PPTs and images in March 2022
• Presentation on A2K Research in a session on 'Building Multilingual Internets'

Ongoing events

• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
• Two days of edit-a-thon by local communities [Punjabi & Santali]

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 09:33, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Join the South Asia / ESEAP Annual Plan Meeting with Maryana Iskander

Dear community members,

In continuation of Maryana Iskander's listening tour, the Movement Communications and Movement Strategy and Governance teams invite you to discuss the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan.

The conversations are about these questions:

• The 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy sets a direction toward "knowledge as a service" and "knowledge equity". The Wikimedia Foundation wants to plan according to these two goals. How do you think the Wikimedia Foundation should apply them to our work?
• The Wikimedia Foundation continues to explore better ways of working at a regional level. We have increased our regional focus in areas like grants, new features, and community conversations. How can we improve?
• Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy process. We want to know about your activities, ideas, requests, and lessons learned. How can the Wikimedia Foundation better support the volunteers and affiliates working in Movement Strategy activities?

Date and Time

The meeting will happen via Zoom on 24 April (Sunday) at 07:00 UTC (local time). Kindly add the event to your calendar. Live interpretation will be available for some languages.

Regards, CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १५:४५, १७ एप्रिल २०२२ (IST)

Call for Candidates: 2022 Board of Trustees Election

Dear community members,

The 2022 Board of Trustees elections process has begun. The Call for Candidates has been announced.

The Board of Trustees oversees the operations of the Wikimedia Foundation. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.

The Wikimedia community will vote to elect two seats on the Board of Trustees in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board of Trustees.

Kindly submit your candidacy to join the Board of Trustees. CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १४:२४, २९ एप्रिल २०२२ (IST)

CIS-A2K Newsletter April 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about April 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.

Conducted events

• Annual Proposal Submission
• Digitisation session with Dakshin Bharat Jain Sabha
• Training sessions of organisations working on river issues
• Two days edit-a-thon by local communities
• Digitisation review and partnerships in Goa
• Let's Connect: Learning Clinic on Qualitative Evaluation Methods

Ongoing events

• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team

Upcoming event

• Indic Wikisource Work-plan 2022-2023

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 15:47, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election 2022 - Call for Election Volunteers

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.

The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.

There were a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 that produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help increase the participation even more?

Election volunteers will help in the following areas:

• Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
• Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions

Volunteers should:

• Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
• Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner

Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is represented in the vote? Sign up here to receive updates. You can use the talk page for questions about translation.
CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १५:५०, १२ मे २०२२ (IST)

CIS-A2K Newsletter May 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about May 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, and ongoing and upcoming events.

Conducted events

• Punjabi Wikisource Community skill-building workshop
• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team

Ongoing events

• Assamese Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

Upcoming event

• June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:23, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Hi all,

Community members are invited to propose statements to use in the Election Compass for the 2022 Board of Trustees election.

An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/neutral/disagree). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:

• July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
• July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
• July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
• August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
• August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
• August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision

The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.

Regards,

Movement Strategy & Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १३:४५, १२ जुलै २०२२ (IST)

CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about June 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.

Conducted events

• Assamese Wikisource Community skill-building workshop
• June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon
• Presentation in Marathi Literature conference

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:23, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

WikiConference India 2023: Initial conversations

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope all of you are doing well. We are glad to inform you to restart the conversation to host the next WikiConference India 2023 after WCI 2020 which was not conducted due to the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic, it couldn't take place. However, we are hoping to reinitiate this discussion and for that we need your involvement, suggestions and support to help organize a much needed conference in February-March of 2023.

The proposed 2023 conference will bring our energies, ideas, learnings, and hopes together. This conference will provide a national-level platform for Indian Wikimedians to connect, re-connect, and establish their collaboration itself can be a very important purpose on its own- in the end it will empower us all to strategize, plan ahead and collaborate- as a movement.

We hope we, the Indian Wikimedia Community members, come together in various capacities and make this a reality. We believe we will take learnings from earlier attempts, improve processes & use best practices in conducting this conference purposefully and fruitfully.

Here is a survey form to get your responses on the same notion. Unfortunately we are working with short timelines since the final date of proposal submission is 5 September. We request you please fill out the form by 28th August. After your responses, we can decide if we have the community need and support for the conference. You are also encouraged to add your support on this page, if you support the idea.

Regards, Nitesh Gill, Nivas10798, Neechalkaran, १२:०९, २४ ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

2022 Board of Trustees Community Voting Period is now Open

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अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Dear community members,

The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:

• Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
• Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions
• Learn more about the skills the Board seeks and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
• Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community.

If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page to vote now. You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १८:०५, २६ ऑगस्ट २०२२ (IST)

The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to close

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अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Hello,

The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the SecurePoll voting page to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page. If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:

• Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
• Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions.
• Learn more about the skills the Board seek and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
• Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community.

Regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १८:३०, १ सप्टेंबर २०२२ (IST)

WikiConference India 2023: Proposal to WMF

Hello everyone,

We are happy to inform you that we have submitted the Conference & Event Grant proposal for WikiConference India 2023 to the Wikimedia Foundation. We kindly request all the community members to go through the proposal -- including the community engagement survey report, program plan, venue and logistics, participation and scholarships, and the budget, and provide us with your suggestions/comments on the talk page. You can endorse the proposal in the endorsements section, please do add a rationale for supporting this project.

According to the timeline of the Conference and Event Grants program, the community can review till 23 September 2022, post that we will start integrating all the received feedback to make modifications to the proposal. Depending on the response of community members, an IRC may be hosted next week, especially if there are any questions/concerns that need to be addressed.

We reopened the survey form and if you are still interested in taking part in the survey and you have something in mind to share or want to become a part of the organizing team, please fill out the form so we all can work together.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Regards, Nitesh Gill, Nivas10798, Neechalkaran, १३:०५, १९ सप्टेंबर २०२२ (IST)

Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022

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Dear Proofreader,
Thank you and congratulation to you for your participation and support last year. The CIS-A2K has been conducted again this year Online Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022 to enrich our Indian classic literature in digital format.

WHAT DO YOU NEED

• Booklist: a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some books in your language. The book should not be available on any third-party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books and add our event page book list. You should follow the copyright guideline described here. After finding the book, you should check the pages of the book and create <pagelist/>.
• Participants: Kindly sign your name at Participants section if you wish to participate in this event.
• Reviewer: Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this proofreadthon and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers could participate in this Proofreadthon.
• Some social media coverage: I would request to all Indic Wikisource community members, please spread the news to all social media channels, we always try to convince your Wikipedia/Wikisource to use their SiteNotice. Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource site notice.
• Some awards: There may be some award/prize given by CIS-A2K.
• A way to count validated and proofread pages:Indic Wikisource Contest Tools
• Time : Proofreadthon will run: from 14 November 2022 00.01 to 30 Novemeber 2022 23.59 (IST)
• Rules and guidelines: The basic rules and guideline have described here
• Scoring: The details scoring method have described here

I really hope many Indic Wikisources will be present this time.

Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)- 9 November 2022 (UTC)
Wikisource Program officer, CIS-A2K

WikiConference India 2023: Program submissions and Scholarships form are now open

Dear Wikimedians,

We are really glad to announce that WikiConference India 2023 has been successfully funded and it will take place from 3 to 5 March 2023. The theme of the conference will be Strengthening the Bonds.

We also have exciting updates about the Program and Scholarships.

The applications for scholarships and program submissions are open now! You can find the form for submission here and for program you can go here.

For more information and regular updates please visit the Conference Meta page. If you have something in mind you can write on talk page.

‘‘‘Note’’’: Scholarship form and the Program submissions will be open from 11 November 2022, 00:00 IST and the last date to submit is 27 November 2022, 23:59 IST.

Regards

MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २३:३५, १० नोव्हेंबर २०२२ (IST)

(on behalf of the WCI Organizing Committee)

Invitation to join the Online Indic Wikisource meetup (12th November 2022)

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting the Indic Wikisource Community Online meetup on 12 November 2022 7:30 PM IST.

The objectives are below.

• Participate in m:Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022 book collection.
• Queries regarding m:Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022
• Suggestions/opinions/reviews anything are welcome regarding the Contest procedure.
• Gift and prizes for the contest selection.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on jayanta@cis-india.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Thanks for your attention

Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Program officer, CIS-A2K

WikiConference India 2023: Open Community Call and Extension of program and scholarship submissions deadline

Greetings Wikimedians,

Thank you for supporting Wiki Conference India 2023. We are humbled by the number of applications we have received and hope to learn more about the work that you all have been doing to take the movement forward. In order to offer flexibility, we have recently extended our deadline for the Program and Scholarships submission- you can find all the details on our Meta Page.

COT is working hard to ensure we bring together a conference that is truly meaningful and impactful for our movement and one that brings us all together. With an intent to be inclusive and transparent in our process, we are committed to organizing community sessions at regular intervals for sharing updates and to offer an opportunity to the community for engagement and review. Following the same, we are hosting the first Open Community Call on the 3rd of December, 2022. We wish to use this space to discuss the progress and answer any questions, concerns or clarifications, about the conference and the Program/Scholarships.

Please add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward to seeing you on the call

• [WCI 2023] Open Community Call
• Date’’’: 3rd December 2022
• Time’’’: 1800-1900 (IST)
• Google Link: https://meet.google.com/cwa-bgwi-ryx

Furthermore, we are pleased to share the email id of the conference contact@wikiconferenceindia.org which is where you could share any thoughts, inputs, suggestions, or questions and someone from the COT will reach out to you. Alternatively, leave us a message on the Conference talk page. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २१:३९, २ डिसेंबर २०२२ (IST)

On Behalf of, WCI 2023 Core organizing team.

WikiConference India 2023: Revised Conference Dates & Program-Scholarship Submission Reminder

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Dear Wikimedians,

We want to inform you that due to specific reference to conference operational and logistical challenges, we had to revise the conference dates. The new dates for WikiConference India 2023 are 28, 29, and 30 April 2023 (Friday to Sunday), Hyderabad, India. The new dates have been finalized after a thorough check to avoid any overlaps or challenges.

Reminder: The last date for Program and Scholarships submission is 14 December 2022, 11:59 pm IST. For any questions and support, reach out to contact@wikiconferenceindia.org or leave a message on the conference talk page. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०१:४९, १३ डिसेंबर २०२२ (IST)

Nivas & Nitesh

(On behalf of the WCI 2023 organizing team).

WikiConference India 2023:Open Community call on 18 December 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may know, we are hosting regular calls with the communities for WikiConference India 2023. This message is for the second Open Community Call which is scheduled on the 18th of December, 2022 (Today) from 7:00 to 8:00 pm to answer any questions, concerns, or clarifications, take inputs from the communities, and give a few updates related to the conference from our end. Please add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward to seeing you on the call.

• [WCI 2023] Open Community Call
• Date: 18 December 2022
• Time: 1900-2000 [7 pm to 8 pm] (IST)
• Google Link: https://meet.google.com/wpm-ofpx-vei

Furthermore, we are pleased to share the telegram group created for the community members who are interested to be a part of WikiConference India 2023 and share any thoughts, inputs, suggestions, or questions. Link to join the telegram group: https://t.me/+X9RLByiOxpAyNDZl. Alternatively, you can also leave us a message on the Conference talk page. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १३:३५, १८ डिसेंबर २०२२ (IST)

On Behalf of, WCI 2023 Organizing team

Upcoming vote on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

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अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Hello all,

In mid-January 2023, the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This follows the March 2022 vote, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’s Community Affairs Committee requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.

The volunteer-led Revisions Committee worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.

The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewed here, and a comparison of changes can be found here.

How to vote?

Beginning January 17, 2023, voting will be open. This page on Meta-wiki outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.

Who can vote?

The eligibility requirements for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.

What happens after the vote?

Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १६:०१, ८ जानेवारी २०२३ (IST)

Voting Opens on the Revised Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines

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Hello all,

The voting period for the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is now open! Voting will remain open for two weeks and will close at 23:59 UTC on January 31, 2023. Please visit the voter information page for voter eligibility information and details on how to vote.

For more details on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process, see our previous message.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १७:४२, १७ जानेवारी २०२३ (IST)

Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts

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अधिक भाषा • कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Hello community members,

Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The Terms of Use (ToU) are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.

This update comes in response to several things:

• Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct.
• Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license.
• Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing.
• Bringing the Terms of Use in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Wikimedia Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act

As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held: the first on 2 March and the second on 4 April.

For further information, please consult:

• The proposed update of the ToU by comparison
• The page for your feedback
• Information about the office hours

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

CSinha (WMF) (चर्चा) १३:४१, २२ फेब्रुवारी २०२३ (IST)

Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon April 2023

Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translate it

Dear Wikimedians,
Thank you and congratulation to you for your participation and support last year. The CIS-A2K has already been conducted Online Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon April 2023 to enrich our Indian classic literature in digital format.

WHAT DO YOU NEED

• Booklist: a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some books in your language. The book should not be available on any third-party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books and add our event page book list. You should follow the copyright guideline described here. After finding the book, you should check the pages of the book and create <pagelist/>.
• Participants: Kindly sign your name at Participants section if you wish to participate in this event.
• Reviewer: Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this proofreadthon and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers could participate in this Proofreadthon.
• Some social media coverage: We would request to all Indic Wikisource community members, please spread the news to all social media channels, we always try to convince your Wikipedia/Wikisource to use their SiteNotice. Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource site notice.
• Some awards: There may be some award/prize given by CIS-A2K.
• A way to count validated and proofread pages:Indic Wikisource Contest Tools
• Time : Proofreadthon is already started: from 1 April 2023 00.01 to 30 April 2023 23.59 (IST)
• Rules and guidelines: The basic rules and guideline have described here
• Scoring: The details scoring method have described here

We are hoping all Indic Wikisources to participate in this event.

Thanks for your attention
On behalf of Jayanta (CIS-A2K)- 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Wikisource Program officer, CIS-A2K MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १५:४१, ४ एप्रिल २०२३ (IST)

Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023-2024 Annual Plan and Upcoming Community Conversations

Hi Everyone,

The draft annual plan of the Wikimedia Foundation applicable from July 2023 to June 2024 has been published and is open for feedback.

While the entire annual plan is available in multiple languages, a short summary is available in close to 30 languages including many from the region.

Two-Way Planning/Conversations

Since last year, the Foundation has prioritized two-way planning with communities by asking community members to share their goals for the coming year. We are hosting a series of calls/discussions across various time zones to collaborate across the movement, for South Asia-based communities;

1. In-person session during WikiConference India, on the 28th of April with the attendees of the conference. (recording to be uploaded on meta).
2. Virtual Discussion on the 30th of April, 2023 (0600 UTC)- Join Us!

We would like to invite you all to participate in the virtual discussion on the 30th of April where Lisa Seitz Gruwell, Chief Advancement Officer, and Deputy to the Chief Executive Officer would be sharing and discussing the plans with the movement.

Call Details

Virtual Discussion (Via Zoom)

Date: 30th April 2023 (Sunday)

Time: 0600 UTC (ZoneStamp)

Diff Calendar Link

Look forward to seeing you on the call.

Please add the above details to your respective calendars, and do get in touch with me if you have any further questions.

Rachit Sharma (WMF)

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ०९:५९, २५ एप्रिल २०२३ (IST)

Invitation to join at WikiConverse India Call - June 24th, 2023

Apologies to write in English please help us to translate the message into your language

Greetings! WikiConverse India is a new initiative that A2K is working on to improve collaboration among communities in India. WikiConverse India aims to initiate and foster dialogue within the Indian language Wikimedia community on various topics that are important for the growth of the Wikimedia movement. Currently, we are conducting regular calls as part of this initiative. For the month of June, this call will be scheduled on June 24th, 2023, from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM IST. A2K will invite Indian participants from recent international conferences, namely the Wikimedia Hackathon and EduWiki Conference, to share their important takeaways specifically relevant to India.

To join the WikiConverse India Call, You can find the call details below:

• WikiConverse India Call, June 24th, 2023
• Saturday, June 24 · 6:00 – 7:30pm IST
• Video call link: https://meet.google.com/qcm-rrac-qzk

If you have any questions, please write to a2k@cis-india.org. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) ००:००, १७ जून २०२३ (IST)

Announcement of Train the Trainer 2023 and Call for Scholarship

Dear all,

We are excited to announce the reactivation of the Train the Trainer (TTT) initiative by CIS-A2K in 2023. TTT aims to empower Indian Wikimedians like you with essential skills to support Wikimedia communities effectively. Through this program, we seek to enhance your capacity, encourage knowledge sharing, identify growth opportunities, and enable a positive impact on the communities you serve. The scholarship application period is from ‘‘‘1st to 14th August 2023’’’. Unfortunately, we regretfully cannot consider applications from non-Indian Wikimedians due to logistical and compliance-related constraints. The event is scheduled for the end of September or the beginning of October 2023, and final dates and venue details will be announced soon. We encourage your active participation in TTT 2023 and welcome you to apply for scholarships via the provided form.

For inquiries, please contact us at a2K@cis-india.org or nitesh@cis-india.org. We look forward to your enthusiastic involvement in making Train the Trainer 2023 a resounding success!

Regards, Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Reminder for TTT Scholarship and announcement about Event dates

Dear all,

We wanted to remind you about the Scholarship form for the Train the Trainer 2023 program and also provide you with the event dates. We encourage you to apply for scholarships to participate in Train the Trainer 2023, as it offers a valuable opportunity for you to actively contribute to your language communities. The scholarship form is accessible here, and the submission window will remain open until 14th August 2023. If you are genuinely interested in promoting knowledge sharing and community empowerment, we strongly encourage you to fill out the form. (Please note that we won't be able to consider applications from Wikimedians based outside of India for TTT 2023.)

The Train The Trainer program will take place on 29th, 30th September, and 1st October 2023. This program provides you an opportunity to enhance your leadership and community-building skills. Thank you for your attention. MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १०:५६, ८ ऑगस्ट २०२३ (IST)

Invitation to the Indic Community Monthly Engagement Call on September 8, 2023

Dear Wikimedians,

A2K is excited to invite you to the third call of the Indic Community Monthly Engagement Calls initiative scheduled for September 8, 2023, where A2K is hosting “Learning Clinic: Collective learning from grantee reports in South Asia” by Let’s Connect. This event is designed to foster collaboration and knowledge-sharing among community members interested in the region's progress, grantees, potential grantees, and Regional Fund Committee members. The dedicated meta page is here. Here are the details:

• Date: September 8th
• Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM IST
• Language: English
• Facilitation: Jessica Stephenson (WMF - Let’s Connect), Pavan Santhosh (CIS-A2K), Chinmayee Mishra (Let’s Connect working group)
• Duration: 1.5 hours
• Zoom Link: Zoom Link

You can find detailed information on the given meta page. We look forward to meeting you there tomorrow :) Regards Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 10:58, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

Announcing Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 and Invitation to Participate

Dear Wikimedians,

The Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group is happy to announce Indic Wikimedia Hackathon 2023 on 16-17 December 2023 in Pondicherry, India.

The event is for everyone who contributes to Wikimedia’s technical spaces code developers, maintainers, translators, designers, technical writers and other related technical aspects. Along with that, contributors who don't necessarily contribute to technical spaces but have good understanding of issues on wikis and can work with developers in addressing them can join too. You can come with a project in mind, join an existing project, or create something new with others. The goal of this event is to bring together technical contributors from India to resolve pending technical issues, bugs, brainstorm on tooling ideas, and foster connections between contributors.

We have scholarships to support participation of contributors residing in India. The scholarship form can be filled at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd_Qqctj7I87QfYt5imc6iPcGPWuPfncCOyAd_OMbGiqxzxhQ/viewform?usp=sf_link and will close at 23:59 hrs on 15 October 2023 (Sunday) [IST].

Please reach out to contactindicmediawikidev.org if you have any questions or need support.

Best, Indic MediaWiki Developers UG, १०:१०, ४ ऑक्टोबर २०२३ (IST)

A2K Community Needs Assessment Form

In late November, A2K hosted a significant call as part of WikiConverse India discussions, aiming to understand the diverse needs of Indian Communities! We deeply appreciate the active participation of every community member, as your valuable suggestions and opinions will be instrumental in shaping A2K's future initiatives.

To enrich this collaborative effort, we've crafted a form. Your responses will provide key components for a broader needs assessment, offering profound insights into the community's suggestions and guiding A2K’s future plans. We invite you to invest just a few precious minutes in sharing your thoughts, ideas, efforts, and impactful initiatives! If you have any doubts or queries, feel free to reach out to nitesh@cis-india.org.

Thank you for being an integral part of our vibrant community! Regards MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १४:१६, ५ डिसेंबर २०२३ (IST)

Enhancing Your Wikimania 2024 Scholarship Application: Community Call and Volunteer Support

Dear Wikimedians,

I hope this message finds you well. A2K is excited to share news about an upcoming A2K initiative to support Indian Wikimedians in the Wikimania 2024 scholarship process.

Community Call with Experienced Wikimedians

Join the community call on December 9, 2023, featuring experienced Indian Wikimedians. Gain insights into the Wikimania scholarship process, key application elements, and participate in a Q&A session.

Volunteer Committee

A dedicated volunteer committee will assist applicants through Zoom Room Support Sessions, offering one-on-one discussions, personalized feedback, and application enhancement strategies.

For more details and to register:

• Community Call Meta page: link
• Date: 9 December 2023
• Time: 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM IST

We invite your active participation and look forward to your engagement in this community call. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १२:२२, ७ डिसेंबर २०२३ (IST)

CIS-A2K announcing Community Collaborations program

Please feel free to translate this into your preferred language.

Dear Wikimedians,

Exciting news from A2K! We're thrilled to announce that CIS-A2K is now seeking proposals for collaborative projects and activities to advance Indic Wikimedia projects. If you've got some interesting ideas and are keen on co-organizing projects or activities with A2K, we'd love to hear from you.

Check out all the details about requirements, process, timelines, and proposal drafting guidelines right here.

We're looking forward to seeing your proposals and collaborating to boost Indic Wikimedia projects and contribute even more to the open knowledge movement.

Regards MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) १९:५६, १८ मार्च २०२४ (IST)

WMF’s Annual Plan Draft (2024-2025) and Session during the South Asia Open Community Call (SAOCC)

Hi Everyone,

This message is regarding the Wikimedia Foundation’s Draft Annual Plan for 2024-2025, and in continuation of Maryana’s email; inviting inputs from members of the movement. The entire annual plan is available in multiple languages and a shorter summary is available in close to 30 languages including many from South Asia; and open for your feedback.

We invite you all to a session on the Annual Plan during 19th May's [:m:South Asia Open Community Call|South Asia Open Community Call (SAOCC)]], in line with the collaborative approach adopted by the foundation for finalizing Annual Plans. The discussion will be hosted by members of the senior leadership of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Call Details (Please add the details to your respective calendars)

• Google Meeting
  • Date/Time: 19th May 2024 @ 1230-1400 UTC or 1800-1930 IST

You can add any questions/comments on Etherpad [१]; pre-submissions welcomed.

Ps: To know more about the purpose of an Annual Plan, please read our listed FAQs. Look forward to seeing you on the call.

Best MediaWiki message delivery (चर्चा) २२:०५, १४ मे २०२४ (IST)

Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2024: Call for Applications

Apologies for writing in English, please feel free to post this into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

We are thrilled to announce the 9ninth iteration of the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) program, co-hosted by CIS-A2K and the Odia Wikimedians User Group. TTT 2024 will be held from October 18-20, 2024, in Odisha.

This event aims to enhance leadership and training skills among active Indian Wikimedians, with a focus on innovative approaches to foster deeper engagement and learning.

Key Details

• Event Dates: October 18-20, 2024
• Location: Odisha, India
• Eligibility: Open to active Indian Wikimedians
• Scholarship Application Deadline: Thursday, August 15, 2024

We encourage all interested community members to apply for scholarships. Please review the event details and application guidelines on the Meta page before submitting your application. Apply Here: Scholarship Application Form For any questions, please post on the Event talk page or email nitesh@cis-india.org.

We look forward to your participation and contributions!

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Reminder: Apply for TTT 2024 Scholarships by August 22

Dear Wikimedians,

Important Reminder: The scholarship application deadline has been extended till Thursday, August 22, 2024. We encourage active Wikimedians to submit their applications before the deadline.

Please ensure you review the essential details on Meta page regarding this event.

Scholarship Application form

For any questions, please reach out on the Event talk page or via email at nitesh@cis-india.org or Chinmayee at chinumishra70@gmail.com.

Regards,

TTT 2024 Organising team

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Announcing Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024 & scholarship applications

Dear Wikimedians,

We hope you are well.

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming Indic Wikimedia Hackathon Bhubaneswar 2024, hosted by the Indic MediaWiki Developers UG (aka Indic-TechCom) in collaboration with the Odia Wikimedians UG. The event will take place in Bhubaneswar during 20-22 December 2024.

Wikimedia hackathons are spaces for developers, designers, content editors, and other community stakeholders to collaborate on building technical solutions that help improve the experience of contributors and consumers of Wikimedia projects. The event is intended for:

• Technical contributors active in the Wikimedia technical ecosystem, which includes developers, maintainers (admins/interface admins), translators, designers, researchers, documentation writers etc.
• Content contributors having in-depth understanding of technical issues in their home Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, etc.
• Contributors to any other FOSS community or have participated in Wikimedia events in the past, and would like to get started with contributing to Wikimedia technical spaces.

We encourage you to follow the essential details & updates on Meta-Wiki regarding this event.

Event Meta-Wiki page: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikimedia_Hackathon_Bhubaneswar_2024

Scholarship application form: Click here to apply

(Scholarships are available to assist with your attendance, covering travel, accommodation, food, and related expenses.)

Please read the application guidance on the Meta-Wiki page before applying.

The scholarship application is open until the end of the day 2 November 2024 (Saturday).

If you have any questions, concerns or need any support with the application, please start a discussion on the event talk page or reach out to us contact@indicmediawikidev.org via email.

Best,

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Expressions of Interest to host Wikimania 2027 in India: Initial conversation

कृपया आपल्या भाषेत भाषांतर करण्यास मदत करा

Dear Wikimedians,

We are excited to Initiate the discussions about India’s potential bid to host Wikimania 2027, the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement. This is a call to the community to express interest and share ideas for organizing this flagship event in India.

Having a consortium of a good number of country groups, recognised affiliates, thematic groups or regional leaders primarily from Asia for this purpose will ultimately strengthen our proposal from the region. This is the first step in a collaborative journey. We invite all interested community members to contribute to the discussion, share your thoughts, and help shape the vision for hosting Wikimania 2027 in India.

Your participation will ensure this effort reflects the strength and diversity of the Indian Wikimedia community. Please join the conversation on Meta page and help make this vision a reality!

Regards,
Wikimedians of Kerala User Group and Odia Wikimedians User Group
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