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Invitation for Office Hours with WMF's Global Reach team
Hi,
On behalf of Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Reach Team, we would like to invite all the South Asian Wikimedia communities to our office hours to discuss our work in the region.
Meeting Details
Date: Thursday, 19th January 2017
Time: 16:00 UTC/21:30 IST
Duration: 1 hour
Language: English
Google Hangout Location:
If you are not able to join the hangout, you can watch the live stream with a few seconds lag at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD-VCpQkVSk
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Global_Reach_South_Asia_Office_Hours
Agenda
- Introduction of Global Reach Team and office hours
- Research around New Readers and our partnership themes
- Feedback for next office hours
- Q&A
We plan to hold these office hours at regular intervals. FYI, office hours for South East Asia and Central Asia/Eastern Europe will be held separately; given the size of communities, we needed to break down the regions.
Please feel free to add your questions, comments, and expectations in the Etherpad document shared above. You can also reach out to sgupta@wikimedia.org and rayyakkannu@wikimedia.org for any clarification. Please help us translate and share this invitation in community social media channels to spread the word.
Thanks,
Ravishankar Ayyakkannu, Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia, Wikimedia Foundation --16:23, 17 جنوری 2017 (م ع و)
- We thank everyone for participating in the Office hours with WMF's Global Reach team. Meeting notes can be found here. You can also watch the YouTube recording here.
- --Ravishankar Ayyakkannu, Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia, Wikimedia Foundation. 10:17, 1 فروری 2017 (م ع و)
Train-the-Trainer 2017: Invitation to participate
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- Sorry for writing in English, please translate this message to your language, if possible
Hello,
It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2017 programme organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 20-22 February 2017.
What is TTT?
Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. Earlier TTT have been conducted in 2013, 2015 and 2016.
Who should join?
- Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project is eligible to apply.
- An editor must have 500+ edits.
- Anyone who have already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, can not apply.
Please see more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the deserving candidates from your community to do so: CIS-A2K/Events/Train the Trainer Program/2017
If you have any question, please let us know.
Regards. Tito Dutta (CIS-A2K) sent using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 05:35, 18 جنوری 2017 (م ع و)
MediaWiki Training 2017: Invitation to participate
Hello,
We are glad to inform that MediaWiki Training or MWT 2017 is going to be conducted between 24-26 February 2017 at Bangalore.
MWT is a residential training workshop that attempts to groom technical leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. We invite active Indian Wikimedia community members to participate in this workshop.
Please find details about this event here.
Let us know if you have any question.
Regards. -- Tito Dutta (CIS-A2K) sent using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 03:25, 21 جنوری 2017 (م ع و)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:
- American Psychiatric Association – Psychiatry books and journals
- Bloomsbury – Who's Who, Drama Online, Berg Fashion Library, and Whitaker's
- Gaudeamus – Finnish humanities and social sciences
- Ympäristö-lehti – The Finnish Environment Institute's Ympäristö-lehti magazine
Expansions
- Gale – Biography In Context database added
- Adam Matthew – all 53 databases now available
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Project MUSE, EBSCO, Taylor & Francis and Newspaperarchive.com.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:52, 2 مئی 2017 (م ع و)
- You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Aaron.
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
Editing News #1—2017
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Did you know that you can review your changes visually?
In visual mode, you will see additions, removals, new links, and formatting highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
The wikitext diff is the same diff tool that is used in the wikitext editors and in the page history. You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and adding the new visual diff tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor as a beta feature, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
- A new wikitext editing mode is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. The 2017 wikitext editor has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. Go to خاص:Preferences#mw-prefsection-betafeatures to enable the ⧼Visualeditor-preference-newwikitexteditor-label⧽.
- A new visual diff tool is available in VisualEditor's visual mode. You can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. More features will be added to this later. In the future, this tool may be integrated into other MediaWiki components. [1]
- The team have added multi-column support for lists of footnotes. The
<references />block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [2] - You can now use your web browser's function to switch typing direction in the new wikitext mode. This is particularly helpful for RTL language users like Urdu or Hebrew who have to write JavaScript or CSS. You can use Command+Shift+X or Control+Shift+X to trigger this. [3]
- The way to switch between the visual editing mode and the wikitext editing mode is now consistent. There is a drop-down menu that shows the two options. This is now the same in desktop and mobile web editing, and inside things that embed editing, such as Flow. [4]
- The زمرہ جات item has been moved to the top of the اختیارات صفحہ menu (from clicking on the "hamburger" icon) for quicker access. [5] There is also now a "Templates used on this page" feature there. [6]
- You can now create
<chem>tags (sometimes used as<ce>) for chemical formulas inside the visual editor. [7] - Tables can be set as collapsed or un-collapsed. [8]
- The خصوصی حروف menu now includes characters for Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics and angle quotation marks (‹› and ⟨⟩) . The team thanks the volunteer developer, Tpt. [9]
- A bug caused some section edit conflicts to blank the rest of the page. This has been fixed. The team are sorry for the disruption. [10]
- There is a new keyboard shortcut for citations:
Control+Shift+Kon a PC, orCommand+Shift+Kon a Mac. It is based on the keyboard shortcut for making links, which isControl+KorCommand+Krespectively. [11]
Future changes
- The team is working on a syntax highlighting tool. It will highlight matching pairs of
<ref>tags and other types of wikitext syntax. You will be able to turn it on and off. It will first become available in VisualEditor's built-in wikitext mode, maybe late in 2017. [12] - The kind of button used to نمائش, تبدیلیاں دکھائیں, and finish an edit will change in all WMF-supported wikitext editors. The new buttons will use OOjs UI. The buttons will be larger, brighter, and easier to read. The labels will remain the same. You can test the new button by editing a page and adding
&ooui=1to the end of the URL, like this: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sandbox?action=edit&ooui=1 The old appearance will no longer be possible, even with local CSS changes. [13] - The outdated 2006 wikitext editor will be removed later this year. It is used by approximately 0.03% of active editors. See a list of editing tools on mediawiki.org if you are uncertain which one you use. [14]
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. شکریہ!
18:05, 12 مئی 2017 (م ع و)
CIS-A2K Technical Wishes 2017 Announcement
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Greetings from CIS-A2K!
CIS-A2K is happy to announce the Technical Wishes Project beginning July 2017. We now welcome requests from Indic language communities on our Technical Request page. This project, inspired by WMDE, is an effort to document and hopefully resolve the technical issues that have long plagued Indian Wikimedians. For more details, please check our Technical Requests page. Please feel free to ask questions or contact us at tito@cis-india.org and manasa@cis-india.org. Regards. --MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:05, 1 جولائی 2017 (م ع و)
سرائیکی ملت پارٹی پاکستان
سرائیکی ملت پارٹی پاکستان (SMPP) ایک سیاسی جماعت ہے جو جنوبی پنجاب کے پسماندہ اور دیہاتی لوگوں کے حقوق کےلیے کام کر رہی ہے وضاحت :سرائیکی ملت پارٹی پاکستان کے بانی محمد اصغر خان نہڑ جلال پور پیر والا جو ضلع ملتان کی تحصیل ہے سے تعلق رکھتے ہیں پیشے کے لحاظ سے اصغر خان نہڑ وکیل ہیں ایک پسماندہ علاقے سے تعلق کی بنا پر خان صاحب سے سرائیکی وسیب کی پسماندگی اور ضروری سہولیات کے فقدان کی وجہ سے ابتر صورت حال دیکھی نا جا سکی اور محمد اصغر خان نہڑ نے سرائیکی وسیب کی خدمت کے لیے ایک سیاسی پارٹی اکیلے تشکیل دی جس کا نام انہوں نے سرائیکی ملت پارٹی پاکستان رکھا اور عوام فلاح وبہبود کے لیے دن رات ایک کر کے کوشش کرتے رہے بالاخر نوجوان نسل آپ کا ساتھ دینے کے تیار ہو گئی اور اس طرح سرائیکی ملت پارٹی پاکستان متحرک ہونے لگی اور نوجوان اس میں جوق درجوق حصہ لینے لگے یہاں تک کہ اب سرائیکی ملت پارٹی پاکستان نے 2018 کے الیکشن بھی لڑنے کا کھلم کھلا اعلان کر دیا ہے
محمد یوسف ثانی
- جماعت کی ویب سائٹ اور رجسٹریشن کے بارے میں معلومات صفحہ پر درج کریں۔ --طاہر محمود (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:24, 16 جولائی 2017 (م ع و)
CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2017
Hello,
CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the months of June 2017. The edition includes details about these topics:
- Wikidata Workshop: South India
- Tallapaka Pada Sahityam is now on Wikisource
- Thematic Edit-a-thon at Yashawantrao Chavan Institute of Science, Satara
- Asian Athletics Championships 2017 Edit-a-thon
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here. --MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 04:01, 5 اگست 2017 (م ع و)
CIS-A2K Newsletter July 2017
Hello,
CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the months of July 2017. The edition includes details about these topics:
- Telugu Wikisource Workshop
- Marathi Wikipedia Workshop in Sangli, Maharashtra
- Tallapaka Pada Sahityam is now on Wikisource
- Wikipedia Workshop on Template Creation and Modification Conducted in Bengaluru
Please read the complete newsletter here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here. --MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 03:58, 17 اگست 2017 (م ع و)
Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 in India
Greetings from Wikimedia India! Wiki Loves Monuments in India is an upcoming photo competition, part of the bigger Wiki Loves Monuments 2017. We welcome you all to be part of it, as participants and as volunteers. The aim of the contest is to ask the general public—readers and users of Wikipedia, photographers, hobbyists, etc.—to take pictures of cultural heritage monuments and upload them to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and its sister projects. This in turn would lead to creation of new articles along with development of new articles in Indian languages.
We seek your support to make this event a grand success ! Please sign up here -- Suyash Dwivedi, sent using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 11:50, 25 اگست 2017 (م ع و)
Wikidata Workshops in India in September 2017
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Hello,
We are glad to inform you that Asaf Bartov will visit India in the month of September, and will be conducting local workshops on Wikidata and other recent technologies and tools. You might be aware that Asaf is a promoter and trainer of Wikidata, and before and during this year's Wikimania, Indic Wikimedians from two communities requested Asaf to visit India to conduct more Wikidata workshops.
The workshop would include extensive Wikidata training, from absolute beginner level through querying and embedding Wikidata in Wikipedia (incl. infoboxes), as well as a general tools demonstration, including
Quarry. Additionally, time would be made for general Q&A ("ask me anything") to let people use
the opportunity to directly ask a WMF representative anything that they have on their mind.
Asaf would come to India on 29 August. Please see the detailed plan here. Please contact here or write to Asaf if you have any question. Regards. -- Titodutta, sent using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:37, 25 اگست 2017 (م ع و)
Featured Wikimedian [September 2017]
Greeting, on behalf of Wikimedia India, I, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga from the Executive Committee, introduce you to the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for September 2017, Swapnil Karambelkar.
Swapnil Karambelkar is one of the most active Wikimedians from the Hindi community. Swapnil hails from Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, and by profession a Mechanical Engineering, who runs his own firm based on factory automation and education. Swapnil joined Wikipedia in August 2016, through "Wiki Loves Monuments". He initially started off with uploading images to Commons and then moved onto Hindi Wikipedia, contributing to culture and military topics. He also contributes to Hindi Wikibooks and Wikiversity. Soon after, he got extensively involved in various outreach activities. He co-organized "Hindi Wiki Conference" in January 2017, at Bhopal. He delivered various lectures on Wikimedia movement in various institutions like Atal Bihari Hindi University, Sanskrit Sansthanam and NIT Bhopal. Along with Suyash Dwivedi, Swapnil co-organized the first ever regular GLAM project in India at National Museum of Natural Heritage, Bhopal. Swapnil is an account creator on Hindi Wikipedia and is an admin on the beta version on Wikiversity. Swapnil has been instrumental in establishing the first Indic language version of Wikiversity, the Hindi Wikiversity. As asked regarding his motivation to contribute to the Wikimedia movement, Swapnil says, "It is the realization that though there is abundance of knowledge around us, but it is yet untapped and not documented".
- Dear @Krishna Chaitanya Velaga:
- Has the Wikimedia India Chapter made a note of this request from Urdu Wikipedia?
- The above request was posted on Wikimedia India Chapter on September 22. We would love to hear from you on this.
--مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 14:52, 4 اکتوبر 2017 (م ع و). --مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 14:52, 4 اکتوبر 2017 (م ع و).
Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon 2017
Hello,
The Odia Wikimedia Community and CIS-A2K are happy to announce the "Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon" between 12 October and 10 November 2017
This Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon aims to create, expand, and improve articles related to monuments in the Indian city of Bhubaneswar.
Please see the event page here.
We invite you to participate in this edit-a-thon, please add your name to this list here.
You can find more details about the edit-a-thon and the list of articles to be improved here: here.
Please feel free to ask questions. -- صارف:Titodutta (sent using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:20, 4 اکتوبر 2017 (م ع و))
CIS-A2K Newsletter August September 2017
Hello,
CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the months of August and September 2017. Please find below details of our August and September newsletters:
August was a busy month with events across our Marathi and Kannada Focus Language Areas.
- Workshop on Wikimedia Projects at Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College, Satara
- Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal
- Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at MGM Trust's College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aurangabad
- Orientation Program at Kannada University, Hampi
Please read our Meta newsletter here.
September consisted of Marathi language workshop as well as an online policy discussion on Telugu Wikipedia.
- Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at Solapur University
- Discussion on Creation of Social Media Guidelines & Strategy for Telugu Wikimedia
Please read our Meta newsletter here: here
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here.
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Featured Wikimedian [November 2017]
On behalf of Wikimedia India, I hereby announce the Featured Wikimedian for November 2017.
Balaji Jagadesh is one of the top contributors from the Tamil Wikimedia community. Though he started contributing since 2009, he was quite active after his participation in WikiConference India 2011. Initially he started contributing to Tamil Wikipedia, but was later attracted towards Tamil Wikisource, Tamil Wikitionary, and Wikidata. His global contributions count to whooping 2,50,000 edits. He is an admin on Tamil Wikitionary.
After his interaction with Mr. Loganathan (User:Info-farmer), Balaji was very much motivated to contribute to Wikimedia projects. He says, "When I was editing in Tamil Wikipedia, I used to translate science articles from English to Tamil. But faced problem in finding equivalent Tamil words. The English to Tamil dictionaries were inadequate. Hence I felt the need to work in the Tamil Wikitionary. After a while there was a collaboration with Tamil Wikisource and Tamil Nadu Government through Tamil Virtual University through 2000 CC0 books were uploaded".
As an active contributor to Wikidata, he says that the vision of Wikimedia movement is, "Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge", but with Wikidata we can make it, "Imagine a world in which every single human being and every single machine can freely share in the sum of all knowledge". Apart from regular contributions, he also created templates to Tamil Wikimedia projects, and also maintains Tamil Wikisource's official Twitter handle.
Balaji hails from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, and is a post-graduate is Physics. He currently works as a Senior Geophysicist in Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC).
Any editor can propose a fellow to be a Featured Wikimedia at: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations
MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:59, 10 نومبر 2017 (م ع و)
Featured Wikimedian [December 2017]
Greetings, on behalf of Wikimedia India, I, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga introduce you to the Featured Wikimedian of the Month for December 2017, Hrishikes Sen.
Hrishikes Sen is one of the most active contributors from the Bengali community. Though he started editing English and Bengali Wikipedia in 2007, he had to take a long break due to professional constraints. Later he started working on Bengali Wikisource from 2012, and ever since, he has been an active contributor, and expanded to English Wikisource as well. With more than 45,000 global edits, he is an admin on English Wikisource.
As a child, Hrishikes always found reading books as a fascinating task. He says that he finds reference books as interesting as mystery novels. That interest, over years motivated him to contribute to Wikisource. The journey and motivation behind his contributions to Wikisource can be read from a post on WMF's blog, Why I contribute to Wikisource?. He says that till date he's been only active online, but he plans to do outreach in the coming future. He hopes that attending the 10th Anniversary Celebratory Workshop of Bengali Wikisource in Kolkata on 10 December may be a harbinger to his future offline activities.
Hrishikes believes that Wikisource will one day emerge as of the top digital libraries in the world, and says that as a store-house for primary and secondary source materials for Wikipedia, the importance of Wikisource is steadily becoming invaluable. Much of his time, Hrishikes spends working around Indian works, with a special focus on the works of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Rabindranath Tagore. Apart from being a proofreader, he uploaded more than 750 books spreading over five languages to Wikimedia Commons.
Hrishikes hails from Kolkata, but is presently based in Lucknow. By profession, he is a doctor serving in paramilitary forces. To his Bengali friends, he welcomes them to contribute to Bengali Wikisource which has more than 676,000 that have completed Optical Character Recognition and are waiting to be proofread.
Nomination can be made at: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations
MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:09, 1 دسمبر 2017 (م ع و)
Train-the-Trainer 2018
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Hello,
We are delighted to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2018 programme organised by CIS-A2K will be held from 26-28 January 2018, in Mysore, Karnataka, India.
What is TTT? Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community (including English) members. Earlier TTT have been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Who should join?
- An editor who is interested to conduct real-life and online Wiki-events such as outreach, workshop, GLAM, edit-a-thon, photowalk etc.
- Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project is eligible to apply.
- The editor must have 500+ global edits before 1 November 2017
- Anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, can not apply.
Please learn more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the deserving candidates from your community to do so. -- Titodutta using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 17:03, 1 دسمبر 2017 (م ع و)
- جیساکہ ٹیٹو دتہ صاحب نے ارشاد فرمایا ہے، Anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, cannot apply یعنی جو کوئی اس تربیتی پروگرام کے سابقہ مرحلوں میں شریک ہو چکا ہے، وہ اس بار شرکت کا مجاز نہیں رکھتا۔ ماضی میں اس پروگرام میں میں اور سنجری صاحب شریک ہو چکے ہیں۔ فعال بھارتی صارفین میں دو نام ذہن میں آتے ہیں: وہ صارف:محمد_شعیب اور صارف:Faranjuned صاحبین ہیں۔ اگر آپ لوگ اردو ویکیپیڈیا کی نمائندگی اس بھارتی تربیتی پروگرام کے لیے آگے آئیں تو بہتر ہوگا۔ لہٰذا یہ لوگ اپنا نام آگے کر سکتے ہیں۔ میری ان دو حضرات کے لیے پوری تائید ہے--مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 08:21, 2 دسمبر 2017 (م ع و)
- @محمد شعیب اور Faranjuned: آپ لوگ اپنی رضامندی آگے کریں۔ --مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:12, 2 دسمبر 2017 (م ع و)
CIS-A2K Newsletter October 2017
Hello,
CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the months of October 2017. The edition includes details about these topics:
- Marathi Wikipedia - Vishwakosh Workshop for Science writers in IUCAA, Pune
- Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon
- Odia Wikisource anniversary
- CIS-A2K signs MoU with Telangana Government
- Indian Women Bureaucrats: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
- Interview with Asaf Bartov
Please read the complete newsletter here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here.
Sent using --MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 05:44, 4 دسمبر 2017 (م ع و)
Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program: Needs Assessment Survey
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Hello,
We are extremely delighted to inform that the Wikimedia Foundation and CIS-A2K have come together in a partnership with Google to launch a pilot project Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program to address local online knowledge content gaps in India. In order to engage and support active Wikipedia volunteers to produce valuable new content in local Indian languages, we are conducting a needs assessment survey. The aim of this survey is to understand the needs of the Indic Wikimedia community and ascertaining their infrastructure requirements that we can fulfill during the course of this project.
Please help us by participating in the survey [ here].
Your opinion will help to make the program better. Kindly share this survey across your communities, user groups and network of fellow Indic Wikimedians. -- m:User:Titodutta, sent using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 08:51, 8 دسمبر 2017 (م ع و)
@محمد شعیب، Faranjuned، اور Drcenjary:
پورا کا متن ملاحظہ فرمایئے۔
جہاں تک میں سمجھ پایا ہوں:
- ہم کو اولًا یہ گوگل فارم بھرنا ہو گا جو پانچ مرحلوں پر مشتمل ہے۔
- فارم پُر کرنے کے بعد بھارتی ویکیپیڈین کی ضرورتوں کو سمجھنے کی کوشش کی جائے گی۔
- انٹرنیٹ بل، حوالہ جاتی کتب، لیاب ٹاپ وغیرہ جیسے کچھ امور میں ممکن ہے آگے مدد کی جا سکتی ہے۔
- کچھ خصوصی انعامی مقابلوں وغیرہ میں بھی ہماری مدد ممکن ہے۔ لہٰذا آپ حضرات توجہ فرمائیں اور حصہ لیں۔ --مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 15:33, 13 دسمبر 2017 (م ع و)
صارف:Hindustanilanguage بھائی میں اپنا فارم پْر کر دیا ہے۔ اور اپنے جوابات بھیج دیے ہیں۔شکریہ۔Faranjuned (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:09, 13 دسمبر 2017 (م ع و)
- اعلٰی، جنید بھائی۔ یہی درخواست @محمد شعیب اور Drcenjary: بھائیوں اور اگر کوئی اور بھارتی صارف ہے تو اس کے لیے بھی ہے۔--مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:28, 13 دسمبر 2017 (م ع و)
Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India)
Greetings,
It is being planned to organize Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, please fill out the survey form to help the organizers. Your responses will help organizers understand what level of demand there is for the event (how many people in your community think it is important that the event happens). At the end of the day, the participants will turn out to have knowledge to create drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and get to know to how to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria. For more information and link to survey form, please visit Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 12:43, 15 جنوری 2018 (م ع و)
Wikigraphists Bootcamp Survey Reminder
Greetings,
As it has already been notified about Wikigraphists Bootcamp in India, for training related to creation drawings, illustrations, diagrams, maps, graphs, bar charts etc. and to tune the images to meet the QI and FP criteria, please fill the survey form linked from Talk:Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India). It'll help the organizers to assess the needs of the community, and plan accordingly. Please ignore if already done. Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 03:03, 21 جنوری 2018 (م ع و)
International Mother Langage Day and Open Data Day Wikidata Edit-a-thon
- Please translate the message to your language, if applicable
Hello,
We are happy to inform you that a national level Wikidata editing campaign "IMLD-ODD 2018 Wikidata India Edit-a-thon" on content related to India is being organized from from 21 February 2018 to 3 March 2018. This edit-a-thon marks International Mother Language Day and Open Data Day.
Please learn more about this event: here.
Please consider participating in the event, by joining here.
You may get a list of suggested items to work on here.
Please let us know if you have question. -- Titodutta using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 07:12, 21 فروری 2018 (م ع و)
Editing News #1—2018
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Did you know that you can now use the visual diff tool on any page?
Sometimes, it is hard to see important changes in a wikitext diff. This screenshot of a wikitext diff (click to enlarge) shows that the paragraphs have been rearranged, but it does not highlight the removal of a word or the addition of a new sentence.
If you enable the Beta Feature for "⧼visualeditor-preference-visualdiffpage-label⧽", you will have a new option. It will give you a new box at the top of every diff page. This box will let you choose either diff system on any edit.
Click the toggle button to switch between visual and wikitext diffs.
In the visual diff, additions, removals, new links, and formatting changes will be highlighted. Other changes, such as changing the size of an image, are described in notes on the side.
This screenshot shows the same edit as the wikitext diff. The visual diff highlights the removal of one word and the addition of a new sentence.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.
Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has spent most of their time supporting the 2017 wikitext editor mode, which is available inside the visual editor as a Beta Feature, and improving the visual diff tool. Their work board is available in Phabricator. You can find links to the work finished each week at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. Their current priorities are fixing bugs, supporting the 2017 wikitext editor, and improving the visual diff tool.
Recent changes
- The 2017 wikitext editor is available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices. It has the same toolbar as the visual editor and can use the citoid service and other modern tools. The team have been comparing the performance of different editing environments. They have studied how long it takes to open the page and start typing. The study uses data for more than one million edits during December and January. Some changes have been made to improve the speed of the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual editor. Recently, the 2017 wikitext editor opened fastest for most edits, and the 2010 WikiEditor was fastest for some edits. More information will be posted at mw:Contributors/Projects/Editing performance.
- The visual diff tool was developed for the visual editor. It is now available to all users of the visual editor and the 2017 wikitext editor. When you review your changes, you can toggle between wikitext and visual diffs. You can also enable the new Beta Feature for "Visual diffs". The Beta Feature lets you use the visual diff tool to view other people's edits on page histories and خاص:RecentChanges. [15]
- Wikitext syntax highlighting is available as a Beta Feature for both the 2017 wikitext editor and the 2010 wikitext editor. [16]
- The citoid service automatically translates URLs, DOIs, ISBNs, and PubMed id numbers into wikitext citation templates. It is very popular and useful to editors, although it can be a bit tricky to set up. Your wiki can have this service. Please read the instructions. You can ask the team to help you enable citoid at your wiki.
Let's work together
- The team will talk about editing tools at an upcoming Wikimedia Foundation metrics and activities meeting.
- Wikibooks, Wikiversity, and other communities may have the visual editor made available by default to contributors. If your community wants this, then please contact Dan Garry.
- The
<references />block can automatically display long lists of references in columns on wide screens. This makes footnotes easier to read. You can request multi-column support for your wiki. [17] - If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. شکریہ!
20:56, 2 مارچ 2018 (م ع و)
Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge
Wikipedia:Galicia 15 - 15 Challenge is a public writing competition which will improve improve and translate this list of 15 really important articles into as many languages as possible. Everybody can help in any language to collaborate on writing and/or translating articles related to Galicia. To participate you just need to sign up here. Thank you very much.
- — بخاری سعید تبادلہ خیال 14:59, 12 مارچ 2018 (م ع و)
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2018)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to research and tools as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:
- Rock's Backpages – Music articles and interviews from the 1950s onwards - 50 accounts
- Invaluable – Database of more than 50 million auctions and over 500,000 artists - 15 accounts
- Termsoup – Translation tool
Expansions
- Fold3 – Available content has more than doubled, now including new military collections from the UK, Australia, and New Zealand.
- Oxford University Press – The Scholarship collection now includes Electronic Enlightenment
- Alexander Street Press – Women and Social Movements Library now available
- Cambridge University Press – Orlando Collection now available
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Loeb Classical Library, Cairn, Gale and Bloomsbury.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 18:03، 30 مئی 2018ء (م ع و)
- You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
امن کے پیامبر (רוחות של שלום ”رخوت شیل شالوم“)
آداب!
میری ابھی اوفک جیراسی (عبرانی ویکیپیڈیا کے منصوبوں کے ناظم) سے بات ہوئی۔ ہم نے کافی لمبی بات کی، پہلے منصوبہ ”امن کے پیامبر“ پر، پھر ہم دوسرے موضوعات (پاکستانی و اسرائیلی کلچر مذہب و عقیدہ وغیرہ) پر آ گئے۔ اثنائے گفتگو ہم اس نکتے پر متفق ہوئے کہ پاکستان اسرائیل تنازع کی اصل وجہ فلسطین اسرائیل تنازع ہے اور بالآخر ہم اس نتیجے پر پہنچے کہ اس منصوبہ سے تین فائدے ہوں گے:
- انہوں نے کہا کہ پہلے عبرانی صارفین پاکستان و بھارت اور ان کے متعلقہ موضوعات پر توجہ دیں گے، جواب میں میں نے کہا کہ ہم لوگ اسرائیل اور یہودیت پر توجہ دیں گے۔
- دوسرا یہ کہ تینوں پاکستان/بھارت - اسرائیل کا باہمی اختلاف ختم ہوگا اور امن و بھائی چارے کی فضا قائم ہو گی۔
- تیسرا یہ کہ اس سے ہم دونوں ویکیپیڈیاؤں کو بہت سے مضامین ملیں گے۔
اس ہمکاری کے ذریعے ہم عبرانی، اسرائیل اور یہودیت متعلقہ موضوعات پر بہت سے مضامین لکھ سکیں گے۔ دوسری طرف وہ اردو، پاکستان اور بھارت متعلقہ موضوعات پر مضامین لکھیں گے۔
ایک آخری بات: منصوبہ میں ٹائیگر مسابقے کی طرح فاؤنٹین ٹول (ایک آلہ جس میں مضامین شامل ہوں گے) استعمال ہوگا جس میں اردو ویکیپیڈیا کے صارفین کے لیے مضمون کے کم از کم حجم کی شرط 2000 بائٹ اور 250 الفاظ ہوگی جبکہ عبرانی میں 3000 بائٹ اور 250 الفاظ۔
آپ سب کو منصوبہ امن کے پیامبر میں حصہ لینے کے لیے مدعو کیا جاتا ہے جو 20 جون 2018ء سے شروع ہو کر 20 اگست 2018ء تک جاری رہے گا۔
شکریہ— بخاری سعید تبادلہ خیال 01:04، 6 جون 2018ء (م ع و)
تائید
مستعد :)
—خادم— مورخہ 6 جون 2018ء، بوقت 6 بج کر 55 منٹ (بھارت)- تائید--Obaid Raza (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:09، 6 جون 2018ء (م ع و)
- تائید--مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 23:25، 6 جون 2018ء (م ع و)
تجاویز
خیال: اگر بقیہ ساتھیوں کی تائید بھی مل جاتی ہے تو آپ متعلقہ موضوعات کی فہرست کا مسودہ تیار کرنا شروع کر دیں۔ میری رائے ہے کہ ہمکاری شروع ہونے کے بعد ہر صارف کو حسب مرضی ایک ناوبکس/کناری سانچہ/زمرہ دے دیں کہ ترتیب وار اس کے مضامین مکمل کریں۔ اس طرح موضوع وار اور مربوط کام ہوگا۔ اگر اس تجویز سے دیگر صارفین بھی اتفاق کریں تو ہمکاری شروع ہونے کے بعد اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر ایک صفحہ بنایا جائے جس میں پہلے کالم میں صارف کا نام اور دوسرے کالم میں اس کے لیے تجویز کردہ ناوبکس/زمرہ کا عنوان درج ہو۔ :) —خادم— مورخہ 6 جون 2018ء، بوقت 7 بج کر 05 منٹ (بھارت)
- یہ بالکل ایشیائی مہینے کی طرح ہے جیسے اُس میں موضوعات کی تمیز نہیں ہوتی اور صرف ایشیائی موضوع ہونا لازمی ہوتا ہے، اِس میں بھی یہودی/اسرائیلی موضوعات ہوں گے۔ :) — بخاری سعید تبادلہ خیال 07:28، 6 جون 2018ء (م ع و)
Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India): Applications are open
Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India) to be tentatively held in the last weekend of September 2018. This is going to be a three-day training workshop to equip the participants with the skills to create illustrations and digital drawings in SVG format, using software like Inkscape.
Minimum eligibility criteria to participate is as below:
- Active Wikimedians from India contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia projects.
- At least 1,500 global edits till 30 May 2018.
- At least 500 edits to home-Wikipedia (excluding User-space).
Please apply at the following link before 16th June 2018: Wikigraphists Bootcamp (2018 India) Scholarships.
MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 11:12، 12 جون 2018ء (م ع و)
ویکیپیڈیا:منصوبہ ایشیائی فلمی شخصیات، 2018ء
Editing News #2—2018
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Tap on the pencil icon to start editing. The page will probably open in the wikitext editor.
You will see another pencil icon in the toolbar. Tap on that pencil icon to the switch between visual editing and wikitext editing.
Remember to publish your changes when you're done.
You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has wrapped up most of their work on the 2017 wikitext editor and the visual diff tool. The team has begun investigating the needs of editors who use mobile devices. Their work board is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are fixing bugs and improving mobile editing.
Recent changes
- The Editing team has published an initial report about mobile editing.
- The Editing team has begun a design study of visual editing on the mobile website. New editors have trouble doing basic tasks on a smartphone, such as adding links to Wikipedia articles. You can read the report.
- The Reading team is working on a separate mobile-based contributions project.
- The 2006 wikitext editor is no longer supported. If you used that toolbar, then you will no longer see any toolbar. You may choose another editing tool in your editing preferences, local gadgets, or beta features.
- The Editing team described the history and status of VisualEditor in this recorded public presentation (starting at 29 minutes, 30 seconds).
- The Language team released a new version of Content Translation (CX2) last month, on International Translation Day. It integrates the visual editor to support templates, tables, and images. It also produces better wikitext when the translated article is published. [18]
Let's work together
- The Editing team wants to improve visual editing on the mobile website. Please read their ideas and tell the team what you think would help editors who use the mobile site.
- The Community Wishlist Survey begins next week.
- If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly. We will notify you when the next issue is ready for translation. شکریہ!
14:17، 2 نومبر 2018ء (م ع و)
Call for bids to host Train-the-Trainer 2019
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Hello everyone,
This year CIS-A2K is seeking expressions of interest from interested communities in India for hosting the Train-the-Trainer 2019.
Train-the-Trainer or TTT is a residential training program which attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community (including English) members. Earlier TTT has been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
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 Community members should come together and propose the city. Women Wikimedians in organizing team is highly recommended.
- The city should have at least an International airport.
- Venue and accommodations should be available for the event dates.
- Participants size of TTT is generally between 20-25.
- Venue should have good Internet connectivity and conference space for the above-mentioned size of participants.
- Discussion in the local community.
Please learn more about the Train-the-Trainer program and to submit your proposal please visit this page. Feel free to reach to me for more information or email tito
cis-india.org
Best!
Pavan Santhosh ( MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 05:52، 6 جنوری 2019ء (م ع و) )
New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)
Hello Wikimedians!
The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for free, full-access, accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials on the Library Card platform:
- Kinige – Primarily Indian-language ebooks - 10 books per month
- Gale – Times Digital Archive collection added (covering 1785-2013)
- JSTOR – New applications now being taken again
Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Taylor & Francis, Cairn, Annual Reviews and Bloomsbury. You can request new partnerships on our Suggestions page.
Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team 17:40، 13 مارچ 2019ء (م ع و)
- You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).
- This message was delivered via the Global Mass Message tool to The Wikipedia Library Global Delivery List.
مہر جلال شائق (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 18:50، 23 مارچ 2019ء (م ع و)mehar jalal
Train-the-Trainer 2019 Application open
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Hello,
It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2019 programme organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 31 May, 1 & 2 June 2019.
What is TTT?
Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. Earlier TTT has been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Who should apply?
- Any active Wikimedian contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project (including English) is eligible to apply.
- An editor must have 600+ edits on Zero-namespace till 31 March 2019.
- Anyone who has the interest to conduct offline/real-life Wiki events.
- Note: anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, cannot apply.
Please learn more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the deserving candidates from your community to do so. Regards. -- Tito (CIS-A2K), sent using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 05:07، 26 اپریل 2019ء (م ع و)
Wikimedia Education SAARC conference application is now open
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Greetings from CIS-A2K,
The Wikimedia Education SAARC conference will take place on 20-22 June 2019. Wikimedians from Indian, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Afghanistan can apply for the scholarship. This event will take place at Christ University, Bangalore.
Who should apply?
- Any active contributor to a Wikimedia project, or Wikimedia volunteer in any other capacity, from the South Asian subcontinent is eligible to apply
- An editor must have 1000+ edits before 1 May 2019.
- Anyone who has the interest to conduct offline/real-life Wikimedia Education events.
- Activity within the Wikimedia movement will be the main criteria for evaluation. Participation in non-Wikimedia free knowledge, free software, collaborative or educational initiatives, working with institutions is a plus.
Please know more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the deserving candidates from your community to do so. Regards.Ananth (CIS-A2K) using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:54، 11 مئی 2019ء (م ع و)
CIS-A2K: 3 Work positions open
Hello,
Greetings for CIS-A2K. We want to inform you that 3 new positions are open at this moment.
- Communication officer: (staff position) The person will work on CIS-A2K's blogs, reports, newsletters, social media activities, and over-all CIS-A2K general communication. The last date of application is 4 June 2019.
- Wikidata consultant: (consultant position), The person will work on CIS-A2K's Wikidata plan, and will support and strengthen Wikidata community in India. The last date of application is 31 May 2019
- Project Tiger co-ordinatorː (consultant position) The person will support Project tiger related communication, documentation and coordination, Chromebook disbursal, internet support etc. The last date of application is 7 June 2019.
For details about these opportunities please see here. -- Tito (CIS-A2K), sent using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 10:02، 22 مئی 2019ء (م ع و)
Mobile visual editor test
Please help translate to your language.
Hello all,
The mw:Editing team has been improving the mw:Mobile visual editor. They would like to test it here. The purpose of the test is to learn which editor is better for new contributors. This is a great opportunity for your wiki to learn the same. This is an easy test that requires no work from you. You can read more about it at mw:VisualEditor on mobile/VE mobile default.
What? The test compares the mobile visual editor and the mobile wikitext editor, for newer registered editors (<100 edits).
Who? Half the people who edit from the mobile site will start in the mobile visual editor. The other half will start in the mobile wikitext editor. Remember: Most editors are not using the mobile site and will not be affected by this test. Also, users can switch at any time, and their changes will be automatically remembered and respected. If you have already tried the mobile visual editor, your preference is already recorded and will be respected.
When? The test will start soon, during June. The test will take about six weeks. (Then it will take a few weeks to write the report.)
Why? This test will help the team recommend initial preference settings. It will help them learn whether different wikis should have different settings.
How can I switch? It's easy to switch editing environments on the mobile site.
- Go to the mobile site, e.g., https://test.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random or https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
- Open any page to edit (click the pencil icon).
- Click the new pencil icon to switch editing modes.
- Choose either "بصری ترمیم" or "ماخذی ترمیم" from the menu.
- Done! You can do the same thing to switch back at any time.
If you have any questions, please leave a note at mw:Talk:VisualEditor on mobile/VE mobile default. Thank you! Whatamidoing (WMF) (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 22:21، 31 مئی 2019ء (م ع و)
Editing News #1—July 2019
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Did you know?
Did you know that you can use the visual editor on a mobile device?
Every article has a pencil icon at the top. Tap on the pencil icon 
to start editing.
Edit Cards
This is what the new Edit Cards for editing links in the mobile visual editor look like. You can try the prototype here: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
Welcome back to the Editing newsletter.
Since the last newsletter, the team has released two new features for the mobile visual editor and has started developing three more. All of this work is part of the team's goal to make editing on mobile web simpler.
Before talking about the team's recent releases, we have a question for you:
Are you willing to try a new way to add and change links?
If you are interested, we would value your input! You can try this new link tool in the mobile visual editor on a separate wiki.
Follow these instructions and share your experience:
Recent releases
The mobile visual editor is a simpler editing tool, for smartphones and tablets using the mobile site. The Editing team recently launched two new features to improve the mobile visual editor:
- Section editing
- The purpose is to help contributors focus on their edits.
- The team studied this with an A/B test. This test showed that contributors who could use section editing were 1% more likely to publish the edits they started than people with only full-page editing.
- Loading overlay
- The purpose is to smooth the transition between reading and editing.
Section editing and the new loading overlay are now available to everyone using the mobile visual editor.
New and active projects
This is a list of our most active projects. Watch these pages to learn about project updates and to share your input on new designs, prototypes and research findings.
- Edit cards: This is a clearer way to add and edit links, citations, images, templates, etc. in articles. You can try this feature now. Go here to see how: 📲 Try Edit Cards.
- Mobile toolbar refresh: This project will learn if contributors are more successful when the editing tools are easier to recognize.
- Mobile visual editor availability: This A/B test asks: Are newer contributors more successful if they use the mobile visual editor? We are collaborating with 20 Wikipedias to answer this question.
- Usability improvements: This project will make the mobile visual editor easier to use. The goal is to let contributors stay focused on editing and to feel more confident in the editing tools.
Looking ahead
- Wikimania: Several members of the Editing Team will be attending Wikimania in August 2019. They will lead a session about mobile editing in the Community Growth space. Talk to the team about how editing can be improved.
- Talk Pages: In the coming months, the Editing Team will begin improving talk pages and communication on the wikis.
Learning more
The VisualEditor on mobile is a good place to learn more about the projects we are working on. The team wants to talk with you about anything related to editing. If you have something to say or ask, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
18:32، 23 جولائی 2019ء (م ع و)
Project Tiger 2.0
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Hello,
We are glad to inform you that Project Tiger 2.0/GLOW is going to start very soon. You know about Project Tiger first iteration where we saw exciting and encouraging participation from different Indian Wikimedia communities. To know about Project Tiger 1.0 please see this page
Like project Tiger 1.0, This iteration will have 2 components
- Infrastructure support - Supporting Wikimedians from India with internet support for 6 months and providing Chrome books.
- Article writing contest - A 3-month article writing contest will be conducted for Indian Wikimedians communities. Following community feedback, we noted some community members wanted the process of article list generation to be improved. In this iteration, there will be at least two lists of articles
- Google-generated list,
- Community suggested a list. Google generated list will be given to the community members before finalising the final list. On the other hand, the community may create a list by discussing among the community over Village pump, Mailing list and similar discussion channels.
Thanks for your attention,
Ananth (CIS-A2K) (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکت • منتقلی • پابندی • شماریات)
Message sent by MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:42، 20 اگست 2019ء (م ع و)
ٹائیگر دوم (2.0) کے لیے فہرست موضوعات کی تیاری
اوپر موجود پیغام میں دو قسم کی فہرستوں کا ذکر کیا گیا ہے جن میں سے ایک فہرست ویکی برادری کے افراد کو تیار کرنی ہے۔ آپ احباب سے درخواست ہے کہ ذیل میں اس فہرست کی تیاری سے متعلق اپنی آرا سے نوازیں، ممنون! :) 
—خادم— مورخہ 21 اگست 2019ء، بوقت 8 بج کر 29 منٹ (بھارت)
- یہ جو فہرست کہہ رہے ہیں وہ ان مضامین کے بارے میں ہے جنہیں بہتر کیا جا سکتا ہے۔ ہماری کوشش نئے صفحات بنانے کی ہونی چاہیے۔ تاکہ صفحات کی تعداد بڑھے۔ امین اکبر (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 15:07، 21 اگست 2019ء (م ع و)
- @امین اکبر: بھائی کی بات سے اتفاق ہے۔ نئے مضامین کی فہرست تیار کی جائے اور انہیں تقسیم بھی کر دیا جائے تاکہ تکرار نہ ہو۔ یہ کام ایک ہفتہ میں ہو جانا چاہیے۔ فیسمین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 15:36، 21 اگست 2019ء (م ع و)
- https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Writing_Contest/Topics/Urdu
ملاحظہ ہو۔ فیسمین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 07:09، 22 ستمبر 2019ء (م ع و)
Project Tiger important 2.0 updates
Did you know that applications for Chromebooks and Internet stipends under Project Tiger 2.0 are open since 25th August 2019?
We have already received 35 applications as of now from 12 communities. If you are interested to apply, please visit the support page and apply on or before 14 September 2019.
As part of the article writing contest of Project Tiger 2.0, we request each community to create their own list by discussing on the village pump and put it on respective topic list.
We also request you to create a pan India article list which needs to be part of writing contest by voting under each topic here
For any query, feel free to contact us on the talk page 😊
Thanks for your attention
Ananth (CIS-A2K) using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:20، 29 اگست 2019ء (م ع و)
Wikimedia movement strategy recommendations India 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 conference and the event 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, 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 7 September 2019.
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
Thanks for your attention
Ananth (CIS-A2K) sent through MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:15، 2 ستمبر 2019ء (م ع و)
Project Tiger Article writing contest Update
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Hello all,
We would like to give some of the important updates about Project Tiger 2.0.
- It was informed about the community-generated list for the Article writing contest. The deadline for this has been extended till 30 September 2019 since few communities are working on it.
- We are expecting the Project Tiger 2.0 article writing contest to begin from 10 October 2019 and also there is a need for creating the writing contest page in the local Wiki's if you are interested to help please contact تبادلۂ خیال صارف:Nitesh (CIS-A2K) & تبادلۂ خیال صارف:SuswethaK(CIS-A2K).
Looking forward to exciting participation this year! Please let us know if you have any doubts.
Thanks for your attention
Ananth (CIS-A2K)
sent by MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:40، 27 ستمبر 2019ء (م ع و)
GLOW edit-a-thon starts on 10 October 2019
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Hello everyone,
Hope this message finds you well. Here are some important updates about Project Tiger 2.0/GLOW edit-a-thon.
- The participating communities are requested to create an event page on their Wikipedia (which has been already updated with template link in the last post). Please prepare this local event page before 10 October (i.e. Edit-a-thon starting date)
- All articles will be submitted here under Project Tiger 2.0. Please copy-paste the fountain tool link in the section of submitted articles. Please see the links here on this page.
Regards. -- صارف:Nitesh (CIS-A2K) and صارف:SuswethaK(CIS-A2K) (on benhalf of Project Tiger team) using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 19:41، 4 اکتوبر 2019ء (م ع و)
Project Tiger 2.0: Article contest jury information
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Hello everyone,
We want to inform you that Project Tiger 2.0 is going to begin on 10 October. It's crucial to select jury for the writing contest as soon as possible. Jury members will assess the articles.
Please start discussing on your respective village pump and add your name here as a jury for writing contest if you are interested. Thank you. --MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 17:06، 8 اکتوبر 2019ء (م ع و)
ٹائیگر ترمیمی دوڑ کا فاونٹیں
اردو ویکیپڈیا کے صارفین ٹائگر ترمیمی دوڑ میں مضامین جمع کرنے کے لیے درج ذیل ربط کا استعمال کریں۔
واضح ہو کہ یہ مسابقہ 10 اکتوبر رات 12 بجے سے شروع ہو چکا ہے اور تین ماہ جاری رہ کر 10 جنوری کو اختتام پزیر ہوگا۔ فیسمین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 08:39، 10 اکتوبر 2019ء (م ع و)
Project Tiger Article writing contest Jury Update
Hello all,
There are some issues that need to be addressed regarding the Juries of the Project Tiger 2.0 article writing contest. Some of the User has shown interest to be a jury and evaluate the articles created as the part of the writing contest. But they don't meet the eligibility criteria. Please discuss this aspect with the community, if the community feel that they have the potential to be a jury then we can go ahead. If not please make a decision on who can be the jury members from your community within two days. The community members can change the juries members in the later stage of the writing contest if the work done is not satisfactory or the jury member is inactive with the proper discussion over the village pump.
Regards,
Project Tiger team at CIS-A2K
Sent through--MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 10:51، 17 اکتوبر 2019ء (م ع و)
Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages
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Inside this newsletter, the Editing team talks about their work on the mobile visual editor, on the new talk pages project, and at Wikimania 2019.
Help
What talk page interactions do you remember? Is it a story about how someone helped you to learn something new? Is it a story about how someone helped you get involved in a group? Something else? Whatever your story is, we want to hear it!
Please tell us a story about how you used a talk page. Please share a link to a memorable discussion, or describe it on the talk page for this project. The team wants your examples. These examples will help everyone develop a shared understanding of what this project should support and encourage.
Talk pages project
The Talk Pages Consultation was a global consultation to define better tools for wiki communication. From February through June 2019, more than 500 volunteers on 20 wikis, across 15 languages and multiple projects, came together with members of the Foundation to create a product direction for a set of discussion tools. The Phase 2 Report of the Talk Page Consultation was published in August. It summarizes the product direction the team has started to work on, which you can read more about here: Talk Page Project project page.
The team needs and wants your help at this early stage. They are starting to develop the first idea. Please add your name to the "Getting involved" section of the project page, if you would like to hear about opportunities to participate.
Mobile visual editor
The Editing team is trying to make it simpler to edit on mobile devices. The team is changing the visual editor on mobile. If you have something to say about editing on a mobile device, please leave a message at Talk:VisualEditor on mobile.
- On 3 September, the Editing team released version 3 of Edit Cards. Anyone could use the new version in the mobile visual editor.
- There is an updated design on the Edit Card for adding and modifying links. There is also a new, combined workflow for editing a link's display text and target.
- Feedback: You can try the new Edit Cards by opening the mobile visual editor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Edit cards talk page.
- In September, the Editing team updated the mobile visual editor's editing toolbar. Anyone could see these changes in the mobile visual editor.
- One toolbar: All of the editing tools are located in one toolbar. Previously, the toolbar changed when you clicked on different things.
- New navigation: The buttons for moving forward and backward in the edit flow have changed.
- Seamless switching: an improved workflow for switching between the visual and wikitext modes.
- Feedback: You can try the refreshed toolbar by opening the mobile VisualEditor on a smartphone. Please post your feedback on the Toolbar feedback talk page.
Wikimania
The Editing Team attended Wikimania 2019 in Sweden. They led a session on the mobile visual editor and a session on the new talk pages project. They tested two new features in the mobile visual editor with contributors. You can read more about what the team did and learned in the team's report on Wikimania 2019.
Looking ahead
- Talk Pages Project: The team is thinking about the first set of proposed changes. The team will be working with a few communities to pilot those changes. The best way to stay informed is by adding your username to the list on the project page: Getting involved.
- Testing the mobile visual editor as the default: The Editing team plans to post results before the end of the calendar year. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: VisualEditor as mobile default project page.
- Measuring the impact of Edit Cards: This study asks whether the project helped editors add links and citations. The Editing team hopes to share results in November. The best way to stay informed is by adding the project page to your watchlist: Edit Cards project page.
– PPelberg (WMF) (talk) & Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk)
11:12، 29 اکتوبر 2019ء (م ع و)
Project Tiger update: Let's walk together with Wikipedia Asian Month and WWWW
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Greetings!
First of all "Happy Dipavali/Festive season". On behalf of the Project Tiger 2.0 team we have exciting news for all. Thanks for your enthusiastic participation in Project Tiger 2.0. You also know that there is a couple of interesting edit-a-thons around. We are happy to inform that the Project Tiger article list just got bigger.
We'll collaborate on Project Tiger article writing contest with Wikipedia Asian Month 2019 (WAM2019) and Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing 2019 (WWWW-2019). Most communities took part in these events in the previous iterations. Fortunately this year, all three contests are happening at the same time.
Wikipedia Asian Month agenda is to increase Asian content on Wikipedias. There is no requirement for selecting an article from the list provided. Any topic related to Asia can be chosen to write an article in WAM. This contest runs 1 November till 30 November. For more rules and guidelines, you can follow the event page on Meta or local Wikis.
WWWW focus is on increase content related to women's health issues on Indic language Wikipedias. WWWW 2019 will start from 1 November 2019 and will continue till 10 January 2020. A common list of articles will be provided to write on.
In brief: The articles you are submitting for Wikipedia Asian Month or WWWW, you may submit the same articles for Project Tiger also. Articles created under any of these events can be submitted to fountain tool of Project Tiger 2.0. Article creation rule will remain the same for every community. -- sent using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 12:44، 29 اکتوبر 2019ء (م ع و)
Project Tiger 2.0 - Hardware support recipients list
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Hello everyone,
Thank you all for actively participating and contributing to the writing contest of Project Tiger 2.0. We are very happy to announce the much-awaited results of the hardware support applications. You can see the names of recipients for laptop here and for laptop see here.
78 Wikimedians will be provided with internet stipends and 50 Wikimedians will be provided with laptop support. Laptops will be delivered to all selected recipients and we will email you in person to collect details. Thank you once again.
Regards. -- صارف:Nitesh (CIS-A2K) and صارف:SuswethaK(CIS-A2K) (on benhalf of Project Tiger team)
using --MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 07:15، 8 نومبر 2019ء (م ع و)
What was the criteria for the support? Is no one from Urdu Wikipedia eligible for Internet support despite our deep involvement in the "Tiger Editathon"؟ --مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:14، 8 نومبر 2019ء (م ع و)
I am really sad to know that no one from Urdu Wikipedia is in the list of 78 internet recepinets . --فیسمین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:14، 8 نومبر 2019ء (م ع و)
- Thanks all for your kind support. It's been approved. فیسمین (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 15:43، 8 نومبر 2019ء (م ع و)
[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 (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:05، 18 دسمبر 2019ء (م ع و)
Project Tiger updates - quality of articles
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Hello everyone,
It has been around 70 days since Project Tiger 2.0 started and we are amazed by the enthusiasm and active participation being shown by all the communities. As much as we celebrate the numbers and statistics, we would like to reinstate that the quality of articles is what matters the most. Project Tiger does not encourage articles that do not have encyclopedic value. Hence we request participants to take care of the quality of the articles submitted. Because Wikipedia is not about winning, it is about users collectively building a reliable encyclopedia.
Many thanks and we hope to see the energy going! (on behalf of Project Tiger team)
sent using --MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 16:21، 19 دسمبر 2019ء (م ع و)
Project Tiger 2.0 - last date of the contest
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Greetings from CIS-A2K!
It has been 86 days since Project Tiger 2.0 article writing contest started and all 15 communities have been performing extremely well, beyond the expectations.
The 3-month contest will come to an end on 11 January 2020 at 11.59 PM IST. We thank all the Wikipedians who have been contributing tirelessly since the last 2 months and wish you continue the same in these last 5 days!
Thanks for your attention
using --MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 13:35، 6 جنوری 2020ء (م ع و)
Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2020
Wiki Loves Women is back with the 2020 edition. Join us to celebrate women and queer community in Folklore theme and enrich Wikipedia with the local culture of your region. Happening from 1 February-31 March, Wiki Loves Women South Asia welcomes the articles created on folk culture and gender. The theme of the contest includes, but is not limited to, women and queer personalities in folklore, folk culture (folk artists, folk dancers, folk singers, folk musicians, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklores, witches and witch hunting, fairytales and more). You can learn more about the scope and the prizes at the project page.
Best wishes,
--MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 09:52، 19 جنوری 2020ء (م ع و)
Train-the-Trainer 2020 Application open
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Hello,
CIS-A2K is glad to announce Train the Trainer programme 2020 (TTT 2020) from 28 February - 1 March 2020. This is the 7th iteration of this programme. We are grateful to all the community members, resource persons for their consistent enthusiasm to participate and support. We expect this to continue as before.
What is TTT?
Train the Trainer or TTT is a residential training program. The program attempts to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community members. Earlier TTT has been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
Who should apply?
- Any active Wikimedian from India, contributing to any Indic language Wikimedia project (including English) is eligible to apply.
- An editor with at least 800 edits on zero-namespace before 31 December 2019.
- Anyone who has the interest to conduct offline/real-life Wiki events and to train others.
- Anyone who has already participated in an earlier iteration of TTT, cannot apply.
Please learn more about this program and apply to participate or encourage the deserving candidates from your community to do so.
Thanks for your attention, --MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیال • شراکتیں) 15:46، 21 جنوری 2020ء (م ع و)
فطرت انسانی اور ماحول
فطرت کیا ہے اس کے بارے میں کچھ علم جو میرے خیال میں ہے وہ کیا ہے اس پر بات کرتے ہیں
جیسا کہ آپ حضرات اکثر یہ الفاظ سنتے ہیں کہ فلاں شخص فلاں فلاں فطرت کا مالک ہے (قرآن مجید میں آتا ہے) کہ ہم نے انسان کو فطرت اسلام پر پیدا فرمایا ہے جیسا کہ ایک انسان کسی بھی گھر میں ہو وہ اسلام کی فطرت پر ہی پیدا ہوتا ہے آگے دیھکا یہ جاتا ہے ماحول کیسا ہے جس گھر میں انسان پیدا ہوا ہے کیا وہ مسلمان کے گھر میں پیدا ہوا ہے کیا وہ کسی غیر مسلم کے گھر میں پیدا ہوا ہے اب وہ جس ماحول میں پیدا ہوا ہے وہ لوگ اسے اسی ماحول میں اسی پرورش کرتے ہیں جس ماحول میں پرورش پائی ہے اسی ماحول میں بدل دیا جاتا ہے اگر گھر کا ماحول مسلمان کے گھر کا ہو تو مسلمان اگر غیر مسلم گھر ہوا تو غیر مسلم بن جاتا ہے لیکن فطرت اسلام پھر بھی اس میں رہتی ہے جب وہ قدرت کے مناظر دیکھے گا تو فطرت اسلام بولے گی یہ سب کون کر رہا ہے کیوں کر رہا کیسے کر رہا ہے؟