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:

https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ytl/w5sE6IZTXERWH0VvKtDRiAm9WE1eZ5mYcnQm0h7dHok=?hl=en_US&authuser=0

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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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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 03:25, 21 جنوری 2017 (م ع و)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (May 2017)

Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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:

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

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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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
Please read the complete newsletter here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here. --MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 14:52, 4 اکتوبر 2017 (م ع و). --مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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.

  1. Workshop on Wikimedia Projects at Ismailsaheb Mulla Law College, Satara
  2. Marathi Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal
  3. Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at MGM Trust's College of Journalism and Mass Communication, Aurangabad
  4. 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.

  1. Marathi Wikipedia Workshop at Solapur University
  2. 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.

Sent using --MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیالشراکتیں) 04:23, 6 نومبر 2017 (م ع و)

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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 08:21, 2 دسمبر 2017 (م ع و)
@محمد شعیب اور Faranjuned: آپ لوگ اپنی رضامندی آگے کریں۔ --مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 08:51, 8 دسمبر 2017 (م ع و)


@محمد شعیب، Faranjuned، اور Drcenjary:

پورا کا متن ملاحظہ فرمایئے۔

جہاں تک میں سمجھ پایا ہوں:

  1. ہم کو اولًا یہ گوگل فارم بھرنا ہو گا جو پانچ مرحلوں پر مشتمل ہے۔
  2. فارم پُر کرنے کے بعد بھارتی ویکیپیڈین کی ضرورتوں کو سمجھنے کی کوشش کی جائے گی۔
  3. انٹرنیٹ بل، حوالہ جاتی کتب، لیاب ٹاپ وغیرہ جیسے کچھ امور میں ممکن ہے آگے مدد کی جا سکتی ہے۔
  4. کچھ خصوصی انعامی مقابلوں وغیرہ میں بھی ہماری مدد ممکن ہے۔ لہٰذا آپ حضرات توجہ فرمائیں اور حصہ لیں۔ --مزمل الدین (تبادلۂ خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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

 
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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 خیالشراکتیں) 07:12, 21 فروری 2018 (م ع و)

Editing News #1—2018

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 TWL OWL says sign up today!

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

Many other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page, including Baylor University Press, Loeb Classical Library, Cairn, Gale and Bloomsbury.

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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

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 خیالشراکتیں) 11:12، 12 جون 2018ء (م ع و)

ویکیپیڈیا:منصوبہ ایشیائی فلمی شخصیات، 2018ء

جناب دیوان عام/خبریں/وثق 5 کی خدمت میں آداب عرض ہے۔

'ایشیائی فلمی شخصیات اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر ایک منصوبہ ہے جس کے تحت ایشیائی فلمی شخصیات کے متعلق مضامین تخلیق کرنے اور پرانے مضامین میں توسیع کرنی ہے۔ منصوبے کا آغاز 1 اکتوبر، 2018ء سے ہے اور اختتام 1 نومبر کو ہوگا۔ آپ سے منصوبے میں شرکت کی درخواست ہے۔

  • آپ باہمی تعاون کے اصول و ضوابط یہاں ملاحظہ کر سکتے ہیں۔

  • آپ 11:59 PM (یو ٹی سی)، 1 نومبر 2018ء تک کسی بھی وقت شامل ہو سکتے ہیں۔

اس منصوبے کا اہم مقصد ایشیاء کی فلمی شخصیات کو اردو ویکیپیڈیا کے قارئین سے متعارف کروانا ہے۔ اردو ویکیپیڈیا پر کئی اہم ایشیائی اداکاروں، فلم پروڈیوسروں اور فلم ہدایتکاروں کے صفحہ/مضامین نہیں ہیں۔ اس منصوبہ کے ذریعے ہم ان سب اشخاص کا اردو ویکیپیڈیا کے قارئین سے متعارف کروا سکتے ہیں۔

امید ہے کہ آپ اس تعاون میں شامل ہو کر اردو زبان کی خدمت فرمائیں گے۔ اگر آپ کو اس ضمن میں کوئی سوال دریافت کرنا ہو تو بلا جھجھک یہاں رابطہ کریں۔ ممنون — ناظمین منصوبہ ایشیائی فلمی شخصیات (تبادلۂ خیال!)

Editing News #2—2018

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 خیالشراکتیں) 05:52، 6 جنوری 2019ء (م ع و) )

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Available Now (March 2019)

Hello Wikimedians!

 
The TWL OWL says sign up today!

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)

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مہر جلال شائق (تبادلۂ خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 10:02، 22 مئی 2019ء (م ع و)


Mobile visual editor test

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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.

 
Switching editing tools is quick and easy on mobile.

How can I switch? It's easy to switch editing environments on the mobile site.

  1. Go to the mobile site, e.g., https://test.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random or https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
  2. Open any page to edit (click the pencil icon).
  3. Click the new pencil icon to switch editing modes.
  4. Choose either "بصری ترمیم" or "ماخذی ترمیم" from the menu.
  5. 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 خیالشراکتیں) 22:21، 31 مئی 2019ء (م ع و)

Editing News #1—July 2019

18:32، 23 جولائی 2019ء (م ع و)

Project Tiger 2.0

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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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 07:09، 22 ستمبر 2019ء (م ع و)

Project Tiger important 2.0 updates

For any query, feel free to contact us on the talk page 😊
Thanks for your attention
Ananth (CIS-A2K) using MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 09:15، 2 ستمبر 2019ء (م ع و)

Project Tiger Article writing contest Update

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GLOW edit-a-thon starts on 10 October 2019

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Hello everyone,

 
tiger face

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 خیالشراکتیں) 19:41، 4 اکتوبر 2019ء (م ع و)

Project Tiger 2.0: Article contest jury information

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Hello everyone,

 
tiger face

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 خیالشراکتیں) 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۔

مضمون جمع 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 خیالشراکتیں) 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 خیالشراکتیں) 10:51، 17 اکتوبر 2019ء (م ع و)

Editing News #2 – Mobile editing and talk pages

11:12، 29 اکتوبر 2019ء (م ع و)

Project Tiger update: Let's walk together with Wikipedia Asian Month and WWWW

 
The Tiger says "Happy Dipavali" to you
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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 خیالشراکتیں) 12:44، 29 اکتوبر 2019ء (م ع و)

Project Tiger 2.0 - Hardware support recipients list

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Hello everyone,

 
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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 خیالشراکتیں) 07:15، 8 نومبر 2019ء (م ع و)

@Ananth (CIS-A2K)، SuswethaK(CIS-A2K)، اور Nitesh (CIS-A2K):

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 خیالشراکتیں) 09:14، 8 نومبر 2019ء (م ع و)

@Ananth (CIS-A2K)، SuswethaK(CIS-A2K)، اور Nitesh (CIS-A2K):

I am really sad to know that no one from Urdu Wikipedia is in the list of 78 internet recepinets . --فیسمین (تبادلۂ خیالشراکتیں) 13:14، 8 نومبر 2019ء (م ع و)

Thanks all for your kind support. It's been approved. فیسمین (تبادلۂ خیالشراکتیں) 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.

MediaWiki message delivery (تبادلۂ خیالشراکتیں) 09:05، 18 دسمبر 2019ء (م ع و)

Project Tiger updates - quality of articles

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Hello everyone,

 
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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)
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Project Tiger 2.0 - last date of the contest

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Greetings from CIS-A2K!

 
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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
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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,

Wiki Loves Women Team

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Train-the-Trainer 2020 Application open

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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؟