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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.
  • 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

2030 आंदोलन रणनीति अनुशंसाएं

हिंदी समुदाय को नमस्कार! मेटा-विकी पर 2030 आंदोलन रणनीति की अनुशंसाएं प्रकाशित हो चुकी हैं। पिछले दो वर्षों में, हमारे आंदोलन ने हमारे साझा भविष्य को बदलने के लिए इन सिफारिशों का उत्पादन करने के लिए अथक प्रयास किया है। आप में से कई ने रणनीति वार्तालापों में भाग लिया, रणनीति सैलून की मेजबानी की, क्षेत्रीय कार्यक्रमों में भाग लिया, और विकिमानिया में हमारे साथ जुड़े। ये योगदान अमूल्य थे, और आने वाले वर्षों के लिए हमारे आंदोलन को मजबूत बनाने में मदद करेंगे। 10 सिफारिशों का तैयार सेट हमारे कई मूल मूल्यों पर ज़ोर देता है, जैसे कि इक्विटी, नवाचार, सुरक्षा और समन्वय, अगले दशक में हमारे आंदोलन को मार्गदर्शन देगा। ये सिफारिशें पिछले संस्करण को स्पष्ट और परिष्कृत करती हैं, जो इस साल जनवरी में प्रकाशित हुई थी। यह एक उच्च रणनीतिक स्तर पर हैं ताकि विचार विभिन्न वैश्विक और स्थानीय पतिस्थिति के अनुकूल होने के लिए पर्याप्त लचीले हों और हमें भविष्य की चुनौतियों का सामना करने में हमे सहायता दें। सिफारिशों के साथ, हमने 10 अंतर्निहित सिद्धांतों, सारांश और बेहतर संदर्भ के लिए प्रमुख शब्दों की एक शब्दावली को रेखांकित किया है। हम आपको अपने समय में और अपनी गति से या तो ऑनलाइन या पीडीएफ में सिफारिशों को पढ़ने के लिए प्रोत्साहित करते हैं। यदि आप टिप्पणी करना चाहते हैं, तो अनुशंसाएं के वार्ता पृष्ठों पर किया जा सकता है। हालांकि, कृपया ध्यान दें कि ये सिफारिशों के अंतिम संस्करण हैं। आगे कोई संपादन नहीं किया जाएगा। सिफारिशों का यह अंतिम संस्करण इस बात की आकांक्षा का प्रतीक है कि विकिमीडिया आंदोलन को उस दिशा को आगे बढ़ाने के लिए कैसे बदलते रहना चाहिए और बदलती दुनिया में विकिमीडिया दृष्टि से मिलना चाहिए। अगले चरणों के संदर्भ में, हमारा ध्यान अब कार्यान्वयन की ओर जाता है। विकिमीडिया समिट के रद्द होने के प्रकाश में, विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन आने वाले महीनों में ऑनलाइन प्रयासों के माध्यम से आगे बढ़ने के लिए कदमों का निर्धारण कर रहा है। हम अगले कुछ दिनों में लाइव ऑफिस घंटे की मेजबानी भी करेंगे, जहां आप रणनीति बनाने और सवाल पूछने के लिए हमसे जुड़ सकते हैं! एक बार फिर से हमारे आंदोलन को आगे बढ़ाने में मदद करने के लिए हिंदी धन्यवाद। RSharma (WMF)

Community Tech Launches Wikisource Improvement Initiative

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Hello everyone,

We hope you are all healthy and safe in these difficult times.

The Community Tech team has just launched a new initiative to improve Wikisource. We will be addressing five separate wishes, which came out of the 2020 Community Wishlist Survey, and we want you to be a part of the process! The projects include the following:

For the first project, the team will focus on the #1 wish: improve ebook exports. We have created a project page, which includes an analysis of the ebook export process. We now invite everyone to visit the page and share their feedback on the project talk page. Please let us know what you think of our analysis; we want to hear from all of you! Furthermore, we hope that you will participate in the other Wikisource improvement projects, which we’ll address in the future. Thank you in advance and we look forward to reading your feedback on the ebook export improvement talk page!

-- IFried (WMF) (Product Manager, Community Tech)

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Poll regarding March 2023 Wikisource Community meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We will be organizing this month’s Wikisource Community meeting in the last week of March and we need your help to decide on a time and date that works best for the most number of people. Kindly share your availabilities at the wudele link below:

https://wudele.toolforge.org/U2feqmZBy62FJjVd

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

Regards

KLawal-WMF and PMenon-WMF

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Hindi texts added to mul:

Namaste. First off, sorry that I don't know any Hindi. I see that pages like mul:हिंदी भाषा की उत्पत्ति/अपभ्रंश-काल have been added on that wiki instead of here. Can someone here please import them to this wiki and then ping me when it's done so I can delete them from mul:? Thanks/धन्यवाद. Koavf (वार्ता) ०८:४३, २० जून २०२० (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Namaste @Koavf:. We (mostly done by John Herald Soby) have already imported all the concerned and appropriate files here. We usually don't allow without scan files like you mentioned above on hi:, so feel free to delete all the files you come across mul:. Thanks for keeping us aware about multilingual engagements. --अजीत कुमार तिवारी (वार्ता) ११:२५, २० जून २०२० (UTC)[उत्तर दें]
@अजीत कुमार तिवारी: Gotcha. Thanks! Koavf (वार्ता) ११:३६, २० जून २०२० (UTC)[उत्तर दें]
@Koavf: Thanks. --अजीत कुमार तिवारी (वार्ता) ११:३९, २० जून २०२० (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Feedback requested: Ebook Export Improvement Project

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Hello, everyone!

I am pleased to announce that the Community Tech team at WMF has posted our August update on the Wikisource Ebook Export Improvement project! This project came out of our 2020 Community Wishlist Survey, and it was the #1 wish voted on by survey participants.

So, what does this mean? In short, we want your feedback! Now that we have posted the August update, we want to know what you think. The update includes findings from our community consultation, results from two separate analyses conducted by the team (on improving WSExport reliability & font rendering support), and proposed next steps. It is our hope that people can read our analysis, share their feedback, and engage in a conversation with us on the talk page. Your feedback will be invaluable, and it will help determine the next steps of the project.

Thank you to everyone who has participated in the consultation so far! It's been a joy to explore how we can improve the ebook export experience. Now, we look forward to reading a new round of feedback on the project talk page!

-- IFried (WMF) (Product Manager, Community Tech)

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Wikisource Pagelist Widget: Ready to be enabled

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Hello everyone,

We are excited to announce that the Wikisource Pagelist widget is now available to be enabled on all Wikisources. Any interface admin on your wiki can enable it by using the instructions on the following page:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Extension:ProofreadPage/Pagelist_widget

In case, your wiki doesn’t have an interface admin, reach out to us on the ‘Help with enabling the widget on your wiki’ section of the project talk page and we will connect you with a global interface admin:

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikisource_Pagelist_Widget#Help_with_enabling_the_widget_on_your_wiki

You will need to hold a local discussion around what would be the labels for different page types in your language for the visual mode. (For example, ToC = ਤਤਕਰਾ in Punjabi, title = শিরোনাম in Bengali)

Feel free to also give us any feedback on the project talk page on Meta-Wiki as well.

Regards

Sohom Datta

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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

Wikisource Pagelist Widget: Wikisource Meetup (29th September 2020)

Hello everyone,

We hope you are doing well!

We reached out to you a couple of weeks ago to share that Wikisource Pagelist Widget is now ready to be enabled to Wikisource. Since then, many language Wikisources have enabled the widget but many are yet to do so.

So, we have decided to organize a Wikisource Meetup to give a live demonstration on how to use the widget in both wikitext and visual modes. There will be some time for the participants to share their feedback and experience with the widget. We will also provide support in case some Wikisource communities are seeking help in enabling the widget.

The meetup will take place on 29 September 2020 at 9:30 AM UTC or 3 PM IST. Google Meet link for the meeting is: http://meet.google.com/khu-dfph-qsd

Looking forward to seeing the global Wikisource community connect amid these difficult times when physical meetings have not been taking place.

P.S. If you are planning to attend this meetup and are comfortable in sharing your email address then send us your confirmation in the form of a small email to sgill@wikimedia.org, this will help us in getting a sense of the number of people that are planning to show-up. We are aware that this time-zone is not convenient for everyone and more meetups can be organized in the future.

Regards

Sohom, Sam and Satdeep

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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

Thank you for your participation and support

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

 

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!

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 (वार्ता) ०९:०४, ३० नवम्बर २०२० (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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 (वार्ता) ०१:४०, १७ दिसम्बर २०२० (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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

Collaboration with Google around Children's literature

Hello everyone,

Apologies for writing in English. Please feel free to translate this into Hindi.

Wikimedia Foundation is planning a collaboration with Google Read Along for a project around illustrated children’s literature. While the entire project is being scoped out, in the first phase Google Read Along will take works from Wikisource and integrate on their platform. This will allow younger audiences to access works from Wikisource in a mobile-friendly platform and also learn how to read the language, which, as the name suggests, the Google Read Along platform is basically designed to do.

We have shared the Portal:Children's literature from English Wikisource with Google so far. There are certain books which match the expectations and requirements of Google, such as the poems in The Real Mother Goose as it has good illustrations and short poems.

Other than English, Google Read Along supports six Indian languages (Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi and Urdu). But what’s making it difficult to find relevant works in these languages is that Portals similar to Children’s Literature or Children’s Fairy Tales don’t exist in these languages.

So, it would be really nice if Hindi Wikisource can start identifying Children’s literature in a similar fashion. Alternatively, you can share some works that you might be aware of and you think would meet the requirements of this project, here itself.

You can read more about Google Read Along here: https://readalong.google/

Feel free to ask any questions that you might have. Thank you so much!

--Satdeep Gill (वार्ता) १४:३३, २५ जनवरी २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

[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 १३:४५, २८ जनवरी २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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) १६:३०, १ फ़रवरी २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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 (वार्ता) १७:०८, ३ फ़रवरी २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

 

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) १३:२५, ६ फ़रवरी २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

[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:

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, १०:११, १८ फ़रवरी २०२१ (UTC)

Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally

कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

Hello everyone,

I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project: m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.

This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like WP:NPOV, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.

As far as I can see, विकिस्रोत currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.

I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this proposal.

Best regards,
--Martin Urbanec (talk) १४:१२, १८ फ़रवरी २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन सामुदायिक बोर्ड की सीटें: प्रतिक्रिया बैठक के लिए कॉल

A volunteer helped to translate the text to Hindi, there might be some errors. Please consider the English version as the original and for reference.
Hindi version

विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन बोर्ड ऑफ़ ट्रस्टीज 1 फरवरी से 14 मार्च के बीच सामुदायिक चयन प्रक्रियाओं के बारे में प्रतिक्रिया लेने के लिए एक कॉल का आयोजन कर रहा है। चूँकि विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन और आंदोलन पिछले दस वर्षों में लगभग पाँच गुना बढ़ चुका हैं जबकि बोर्ड की संरचना और प्रक्रिया में कोई बदलाव नहीं हुआ है। यह मूल रूप से वैसे की वैसे ही हैं। जिस स्थिति में आज बोर्ड तैयार है उसमें हमारे पास क्षमता, प्रदर्शन और आंदोलन की विविधता के प्रतिनिधित्व की कमी की समस्या है। प्रत्यक्ष चुनाव प्रमुख भाषा समुदायों के उम्मीदवारों के पक्ष में जाता है। भले ही बोर्ड के सदस्य के रूप में उनकी क्षमता और अनुभव कितना भी प्रासंगिक क्यों ना हो या अपनी विशिष्ट जिम्मेदारियों को निभाने के लिए बोर्ड की क्षमता में योगदान करता हो या ना। यह भी एक तथ्य है कि वर्तमान प्रक्रियाओं में उत्तरी अमेरिका और पश्चिमी यूरोप के स्वयंसेवकों की तरफ पक्ष किया जाता है। वास्तव में, पंद्रह वर्षों के इतिहास में केवल एक ही सदस्य था जिसने दक्षिण एशिया से बोर्ड में कार्य किया था।

आगामी महीनों में, हमें तीन सामुदायिक सीटों को नवीनीकृत करने और नई सीटों में तीन और समुदाय सदस्यों को नियुक्त करने की आवश्यकता है। फीडबैक की इन कॉल के माध्यम से हम यह देखना चाहते है कि हम उन सभी उम्मीदवारों को बढ़ावा देने और चुनने के लिए कौन-कौन सी प्रक्रियाओं को डिजाइन कर सकते हैं जो हमारे आंदोलन का प्रतिनिधित्व करते हैं। इस संबंध में, प्रस्तावित विचारों पर चर्चा करने और हमारे विचारों को साझा करने, प्रतिक्रिया देने और प्रक्रिया में योगदान देने के लिए सामुदायिक चर्चा करना अच्छा होगा। प्रस्तावित चर्चा पर चर्चा करने के लिए, आपको 12 मार्च के दिन रात 8 बजे से 10 बजे तक आयोजित होने वाली सामुदायिक बैठक में आमंत्रित किया जाता है। इसमें शामिल होने के लिए बैठक की कड़ी https://meet.google.com/umc-attq-kdt है। आप यहाँ क्लिक करके इस मीटिंग को अपने गूगल कैलेंडर में जोड़ सकते हैं। यदि आपके कोई प्रश्न हैं, तो कृपया मुझे पिंग करें। धन्यवाद। --१०:००, ८ मार्च २०२१ (UTC)

English version

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes 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. Please ping me if you have any questions. Thank you. --KCVelaga (WMF) (वार्ता) १०:००, ८ मार्च २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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.

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), ०८:३६, १० मार्च २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

[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:

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, ०७:०१, १६ मार्च २०२१ (UTC)

[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:

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, १५:५१, १९ अप्रैल २०२१ (UTC)

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) ०५:२१, १२ मई २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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) १०:०३, १९ जून २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Wikisource Satisfaction Survey 2021

 

नमस्ते!

Apologies for writing in English. कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

In the past year, there has been a lot of changes to Wikisource features and tools. This was done by the Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation, grantees funded by the Foundation or through projects like Google Summer of Code. We would like to understand what you feel about the changes. Tell us what you think about such tools as the Wikisource Pagelist Widget or the new Ebook Export tool.

Take the survey in English, French, Spanish, Polish, Hindi or Punjabi. The deadline is 25th July 2021.

This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement (English, Spanish, French, Polish, Hindi and Punjabi).

If you prefer to send your answers via email, copy the text of the survey and send to sgill@wikimedia.org.

If you have any questions or feedback about the survey, write to me at sgill@wikimedia.org.

धन्यवाद! SGill (WMF) २२:३०, १६ जुलाई २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

[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

KCVelaga (WMF), १०:००, १९ जुलाई २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

अभियान घोषणापत्र प्रारूप-लेखन समिति के लिए प्रत्याशियों को निमंत्रण

मूवमेंट स्ट्रैटेजी अभियान घोषणापत्र प्रारूप-लेखन समिति के लिए प्रत्याशियों को निमंत्रण की घोषणा करता है। यह निमंत्रण 2 अगस्त 2021 को आरंभ होगा तथा 1 सितंबर 2021 को समाप्त होगा।

अपेक्षा है कि इस समिति में विकिमीडिया अभियान की विविधता प्रदर्शित होगी। विविधता में लिंग, भाषा, भूगोल, तथा अनुभव का समावेश है। परियोजनाओं में, सम्बद्ध संस्थाओं में तथा विकिमीडिया फाउंडेशन में सहभाग लेना इसके अंतर्गत आते हैं।

सदस्य बनने के लिए अंग्रेज़ी का उत्तम ज्ञान आवश्यक नहीं है। आवश्यकता पड़ने पर अनुवाद तथा भाषांतरण की सहायता दी जाएगी। सहभाग लेने के व्ययों की प्रतिपूर्ति के लिए सदस्यों को भत्ता दिया जाएगा। इसकी राशि हर दो माह में 100 यू एस डॉलर होगी।

हम ऐसे व्यक्ति खोज रहे हैं जिनमें निम्नोक्त में से कुछ कौशल हों

  • अन्य लोगों के साथ मिलकर लेखन कर सकें (सिद्ध अनुभव को प्राधान्य)
  • मध्यमार्ग ढूँढने के लिए तत्पर हों
  • समावेशता तथा विविधता पर ध्यान देते हों
  • सामुदायिक परामर्श का ज्ञान रखते हों
  • आंतर-सांस्कृतिक संप्रेषण का अनुभव रखते हों
  • गैर-सरकारी संस्थाओं अथवा समुदायों में संचालन अथवा संगठन का अनुभव रखते हों
  • विभिन्न पक्षों से वार्ता करने का अनुभव रखते हों

समिति का 15 सदस्यों से कार्य आरंभ करना अपेक्षित है। यदि 20 से अधिक प्रत्याशी होंगे तो चुनाव और चयन की एक मिश्रित प्रक्रिया की जाएगी। यदि 19 या इससे कम प्रत्याशी हुए तो बिना चुनाव के चयन प्रक्रिया की जाएगी।

अपने प्रत्याशी आवेदन यह पृष्ठ पर भेजें। अपने प्रश्नों के साथ strategy2030 wikimedia.org पर संपर्क करें। --KCVelaga (WMF) (वार्ता) ११:१८, ३ अगस्त २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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), ०३:४९, ३ अगस्त २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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.

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

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding voting. KCVelaga (WMF), ०६:११, १८ अगस्त २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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:

Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks here.

Please let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), ०६:२४, १८ अगस्त २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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

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 (वार्ता) ०२:५६, ८ सितम्बर २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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.

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), ०५:४०, २९ अगस्त २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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:

You can also attend the global round table sessions hosted on 18 September - more details can be found on this page. MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) १०:४७, १० सितम्बर २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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) ०२:४६, २२ सितम्बर २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

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

०५:५०, १३ अक्टूबर २०२१ (UTC)

Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members

More languages • कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें

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

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) ०२:२७, २ नवम्बर २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

Celebrating 18 years of Wikisource

Hello Wikisource enthusiasts and friends of Wikisource,

I hope you are doing alright! I would like to invite you to celebrate 18 years of Wikisource.

The first birthday party is being organized on 24 November 2021 from 1:30 - 3:00 PM UTC (check your local time) where the incoming CEO of the WMF, Maryana Iskendar, will be joining us. Feel free to drop me a message on my talk page, telegram (@satdeep) or via email (sgill wikimedia.org) to add your email address to the calendar invite.

Maryana is hoping to learn more about the Wikisource community and the project at this event and it would be really nice if you can share your answers to the following questions:

  • What motivates you to contribute to Wikisource?
  • What makes the Wikisource community special?
  • What are the major challenges facing the movement going forward?
  • What are your questions to Maryana?

You can share your responses during the live event but in case the date and the time doesn't work for you, you can share your responses on the event page on Wikisource or in case you would like to remain anonymous, you can share your responses directly with me.

Also, feel free to reach out to me in case you would like to give a short presentation about your and your community's work at the beginning of the session.

We are running a poll to find the best date and time to organize the second birthday party on the weekend right after 24th November. Please share your availability on the following link by next Friday:

https://framadate.org/zHOi5pZvhgDy6SXn

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) ०९:१०, १२ नवम्बर २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

on behalf of User:SGill (WMF)

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 (वार्ता) १७:४०, २३ दिसम्बर २०२१ (UTC)[उत्तर दें]

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

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