विकिपिडिया:चबुतरा/२०१७ मे भेल वार्तासभ

मैथिली विकिपिडियासँ, एक मुक्त विश्वकोश

Invitation for Office Hours with WMF's Global Reach team[सम्पादन करी]

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 --२२:०८, १७ जनवरी २०१७ (NPT)

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. १६:००, १ फरबरी २०१७ (NPT)

Train-the-Trainer 2017: Invitation to participate[सम्पादन करी]

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 (वार्ता) ११:२०, १८ जनवरी २०१७ (NPT)

MediaWiki Training 2017: Invitation to participate[सम्पादन करी]

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 (वार्ता) ०९:१०, २१ जनवरी २०१७ (NPT)

सम्मुख पन्ना परिवर्तन अनुरोध[सम्पादन करी]

नमस्ते विकिपिडियन मित्र लोकनि,

मैथिली विकिपिडियाक सम्मुख पन्नाके नव रूप देवाक प्रयास केनए छी । ई पृष्ठ पर जाए कृपया एक बेर समीक्षा कएल जाए । धन्यवाद --बिप्लब आनन्द (वार्ता) ०७:३३, २६ फरबरी २०१७ (NPT)

  1. नव रुप देबाक प्रयास खुब निक अछि । पंकज देव (वार्ता) ०८:४२, २६ फरबरी २०१७ (NPT)
  2. नव रुप देबाक प्रयास खुब निक अछि । अहाँ आगा बढि सकै छी । धन्यवाद!! Kay Kay (KK) (वार्ता) १३:०१, २६ फरबरी २०१७ (NPT)
  3. मैथिली विकिपिडियाक सम्मुख पन्ना बहुत देवाक प्रयास उल्लेखनिय अछि । Zee10dr@ ») १७:५३, १ मार्च २०१७ (NPT)
  4. हमर विचार सऽ कनिक आर रंग मे सुधार करल जईत बहुत निक, खास कैरक मैथिली विकिपिडिया बाला आ बोडर सभमे । --Bijay Chaurasia (वातचीत) २३:२३, १ मार्च २०१७ (NPT)
  5. नव रूप रक्षण करी । हमर  समर्थन अछि । — तुल्सी भगत (वार्तालाप) २१:२७, २ मार्च २०१७ (NPT)

टिप्पणी[सम्पादन करी]

I think use of colors in the box borders needs some attentions. They appear to be randomly selected and too bold. --SM7--talk-- १३:११, ३ मार्च २०१७ (NPT)

महिला सम्पादनथन[सम्पादन करी]

विश्व भरिक अन्य भाषाक विकिपिडिया जका मैथिली भाषाक विकिपिडियामे महिला सम्पादनथन आरम्भ करैक लेल हम समुदायसँ निम्न बुँदा उपर सहमति चाहैत छी ।
- महिला सम्पादनथन ३ दिन धरि चलत । (२०१७ मार्च ६, ७ आ ८)
- ई सम्पादनथनक नेतृत्व महिलाद्वारा होवाक चाही कियाकी ई पूर्णत महिला सम्बन्धी कार्यक्रम छी । एकर नेतृत्वक लेल हम निलम कर्ण (संयोजक) आ बबिता साह (सह-संयोजक) क नाम सिफारिस करैत छी ।
- ३ दिन धरि चलैवाला ई कार्यक्रममे चर्चित महिला सम्बन्धी लेख बनाएल जाइत ।
- मैथिली विकिपिडियाक प्रबन्धक गण ई कार्यक्रमक आगा बढाबैक लेल प्रतिबद्ध रहत ।
- सम्पादनथनक पृष्ठ ई उल्लेखित बुँदा उपर चर्चा कएला बाद बनाबल जाइत ।

हम सम्पूर्ण मैथिल विकिपिडियनसभसँ निम्न बुँदा उपर चर्चा करैलेल अनुरोध करैत छी । धन्यवाद --बिप्लब आनन्द (वार्ता) ११:०४, ३ मार्च २०१७ (NPT)

लोगो सम्बन्धमे[सम्पादन करी]

महिला सम्पादनथन लोगो

हम समुदायसँ पुन: एक बेर आग्रह करै लेल चाहै छी जे कृपया एक बेर ई लोगो देख उचित विचार प्रकट कएल जाए--बिप्लब आनन्द (वार्ता) २१:३४, ६ मार्च २०१७ (NPT)

उच्च प्रदर्शित लेख[सम्पादन करी]

मैथिली विकिपिडियाक सम्पादक तथा पाठकसभ समक्ष बेसी लोकप्रिय लेखसभ कऽ सुधार करि गुणस्तर तथा जानकारी युक्त बनेबाक लेल उच्च प्रदर्शित लेखकऽ मुख्य पृष्ठमे राखि दैनिक रूपमे परिवर्तन होबाक व्यवस्था करऽक प्रस्ताव करैत छी । पंकज देव (वार्ता) ०९:३०, २१ मार्च २०१७ (+0545)[उत्तर दें]

समर्थन[सम्पादन करी]

टिप्पणी[सम्पादन करी]

विकिमिडियन्स अफ नेपाल, प्रयोगकर्ता समूह[सम्पादन करी]

नमस्ते, सम्पादक मित्र लोकनि,
नेपाली विकिपिडियामे प्रस्ताव कएल गेल विकिमिडियन्स अफ नेपाल, प्रयोगकर्ता समूहक पुनर्स्थापन सम्बन्धित बातचीतमे भाग ली आ अपन अमूल्य मत प्रदान करी ।--बिप्लब आनन्द (वार्ता) २२:२७, ३० अप्रैल २०१७ (+0545)[उत्तर दें]

New notification when a page is connected to Wikidata[सम्पादन करी]

Hello all,

(कृपया अपनी भाषा में अनुवादित करने में सहायता करें)

The Wikidata development team is about to deploy a new feature on all Wikipedias. It is a new type of notification (via Echo, the notification system you see at the top right of your wiki when you are logged in), that will inform the creator of a page, when this page is connected to a Wikidata item.

You may know that Wikidata provides a centralized system for all the interwikilinks. When a new page is created, it should be connected to the corresponding Wikidata item, by modifying this Wikidata item. With this new notification, editors creating pages will be informed when another editor connects this page to Wikidata.

This feature will be deployed on May 30th on all the Wikipedias, excepting English, French and German. This feature will be disable by default for existing editors, and enabled by default for new editors.

This is the first step of the deployments, the Wikipedias and other Wikimedia projects will follow in the next months.

If you have any question, suggestion, please let me know by pinging me. You can also follow and leave a comment on the Phabricator ticket.

Thanks go to Matěj Suchánek who developed this feature!

धन्यवाद! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (talk)

Hi, you are invited to participate in the discussion on the proposal to make a banner through m: centralnotice to inform more people around the world about what the Turkish government has done about Wikipedia, ie all the language versions of Wikipedia are You are obscured, so in Turkey it is impossible to view the * .wikipedia.org site. To hope that the Turkish government will remove the block, it is necessary to raise awareness of this fact around the world because it is important to succeed in this mission because Wikipedia can not be seen in Turkey. With this message also for those interested, I invite him to sign the Wikimedian appeal.

If you have any questions or questions do not hesitate to contact me. Thanks best regards. --Samuele2002 (Talk!) १०:४४, ४ जुन २०१७ (+0545)[उत्तर दें]

विकिमिडिया आन्दोलन रणनीति २०३० चर्चा तथा निर्माण २० के दोसर चरणक बैठक सम्बन्धमे|Strategy/Wikimedia movement/2017/Cycle 2[सम्पादन करी]

विकिमिडिया आन्दोलन रणनीति २०१७ चर्चा तथा निर्माणक दोसर चरण आन्दोलन रणनीति चर्चामे निम्नलिखित ५ विषयमे चर्चा करवाक हेतु काठमाडौँमे एक कार्यक्रम राखल गेल अछि। जहि कार्यकर्ममे विकिमिडिया आन्दोलन रणनीति २०१७ चर्चा तथा निर्माणसभक बिषयमे चर्चा कएल जाइत । कार्यकर्ममे सहभागी होमएक लेल निमन्त्रणा सहित स्थान आ समयके बारेमे जानकरी करावैत छी कृपया सहभागी भऽ विकिमिडिया आन्दोलन रणनीति २०१७ चर्चा तथा निर्माणके दोसर चरणमे योगदान करी । धन्यवाद !

विकिमिडिया आन्दोलन रणनीति २०१७ मे चर्चाके बिषयसभ
  1. स्वस्थ आ सभ कियो मिलि आगा बढ़ेबाक लेल एक समुदाय
  2. प्राविधिक समय
  3. वास्तवमे एक विश्वयापी आन्दोलन
  4. ज्ञानक सबसँ सम्मानित स्रोत
  5. ज्ञान पारिस्थितिक तन्त्रमे जोड

चर्चामे उपस्थित होम्एवाला व्यक्तिसभक नाम आ छोट परिचय

  1. पप्पु कुमार मण्डल
  2. सुनिल कुमार शाह
  3. प्रबिन कुमार देव
  4. रेश्मा मिश्रा
  5. सरु पौडेल
  6. मनोज कुमार कुशवाहा
  7. अरुण कुमार यादव
  8. बिपिन आचार्य
  9. दिनेश राय
  10. झन्क कुमारी थापा मगर
  11. महेन्द्र राय
  12. कृष्ण कुमार साह
  13. शैलेन्द्र कुमार यादव
  14. जितेन्द्र कुमार यादव
  15. राम कुमार यादव
  16. भगवती कुमार यादव
  17. रेणु कुमारी यादव
  18. जय प्रकाश मण्डल
  19. शिब कुमार सिंह
  20. सुनिल कुमार साह
  21. मोहन कुमार शाह
  22. हरी चौधरी
  23. बाबु कुमार मण्डल
  24. सम्झना थापा मगर
  25. सुधा सिंह
  26. पूजा सिंह
  27. जुना कार्की

समय आ स्थान १७ जुन, २०१७ शनि दिन
कीर्तिपुर, काठमाडौँ

समर्थन[सम्पादन करी]

  •  समर्थन Zee10dr@ ») १४:५६, १३ जुन २०१७ (NPT)
  •  समर्थन कार्यक्रममे निमन्त्रणाक लेल धन्यवाद @Zeetendra:जी, हम उल्लेखित स्थान आ समयपर उपस्थित होमएक पूर्ण प्रयास करब । कार्यक्रमक विषयवस्तु नीक लागल- शुभकामना --बिप्लब आनन्द (वार्ता) २१:१०, १३ जुन २०१७ (NPT)
  •  समर्थन Pops M (वार्ता) २१:४४, १३ जुन २०१७ (NPT)
  •  समर्थन @Zeetendra:जी, खूब निक प्रयास कार्यक्रमक पूर्ण सफलताक शुभकामना अछि । हम सेहो कार्यक्रममे सहभागी होएब ।-- पंकज देव (वार्ता)
  •  समर्थन Babita shah (वार्ता) १५:११, १४ जुन २०१७ (NPT)
  •  समर्थनतुल्सी भगत (वार्तालाप) २२:५८, १४ जुन २०१७ (NPT)
*  समर्थन Kay Kay (KK) (वार्ता) १७:१९, १५ जुन २०१७ (NPT)

टिप्पणी[सम्पादन करी]

Wikidata changes now also appear in enhanced recent changes[सम्पादन करी]

Hello, and sorry to write this message in English. You can help translating it.

Starting from today, you will be able to display Wikidata changes in both modes of the recent changes and the watchlist.

Read and translate the full message

धन्यवाद! Lea Lacroix (WMDE) १४:१८, २९ जुन २०१७ (NPT)

(wrong target page? you can fix it here)

CIS-A2K Technical Wishes 2017 Announcement[सम्पादन करी]

Sorry for posting this message in English, please feel free to translate the message

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 (वार्ता) २३:५०, १ जुलाई २०१७ (NPT)

CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2017[सम्पादन करी]

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 (वार्ता) ०९:४६, ५ अगस्त २०१७ (NPT)

विकी लव विलेज[सम्पादन करी]

नमस्कार विकिपिडियन मित्रगण, विकि लभ भिलेज नामक परियोजनाक आवेदन केनए छी । ई पृष्ठ पर जाए कृपया एक बेर समीक्षा कएल जाए । परियोजनाक लक्ष्य विकि लभ भिलेजक समग्र उद्देश्य विकिमिडिया कमन्समे नेपालक जिलाक नगरपालिका आ गाउँपालिका (ग्रामीण नगरपालिका) सँ सम्बन्धित स्वतन्त्र रूपी लाइसेन्स प्राप्त सामग्रीक वृद्धि केनाए अछि । --Bijay Chaurasia (वातचीत) २१:४६, १६ अगस्त २०१७ (NPT)

समर्थन[सम्पादन करी]

विरोध[सम्पादन करी]

बातचित[सम्पादन करी]

CIS-A2K Newsletter July 2017[सम्पादन करी]

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 (वार्ता) ०९:४३, १७ अगस्त २०१७ (NPT)

Wiki Loves Monuments 2017 in India[सम्पादन करी]

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 (वार्ता) १७:३५, २५ अगस्त २०१७ (NPT)

Wikidata Workshops in India in September 2017[सम्पादन करी]

Apologies for writing the message in English. Please feel free to translate the message to your language.

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 (वार्ता) १९:२२, २५ अगस्त २०१७ (NPT)

Featured Wikimedian [September 2017][सम्पादन करी]

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".

Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon 2017[सम्पादन करी]

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. -- User:Titodutta (sent using MediaWiki message delivery (वार्ता) १५:०५, ४ अक्टुबर २०१७ (NPT))

विकिपिडिया विविध कार्यक्रम सम्बन्धमे[सम्पादन करी]

प्रिय विकिपिडियन मित्रसभ, मैथिली विकिमिडियन्स प्रयोगकर्ता समूहद्वारा नवम्बर महिनामे विविध विकिपिडिया कार्यक्रम सञ्चालन करेवाक निर्णय कएल गेल अछि । कार्यक्रम सञ्चालन हेतु एतय अपन धारणा राखी ।--Biplab Anand (वार्ता) १६:२९, ३० अक्टुबर २०१७ (NPT)

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CIS-A2K Newsletter August September 2017[सम्पादन करी]

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.

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Featured Wikimedian [November 2017][सम्पादन करी]

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

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Featured Wikimedian [December 2017][सम्पादन करी]

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

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Train-the-Trainer 2018[सम्पादन करी]

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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 (वार्ता) २२:४८, १ दिसम्बर २०१७ (NPT)

CIS-A2K Newsletter October 2017[सम्पादन करी]

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.
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Supporting Indian Language Wikipedias Program: Needs Assessment Survey[सम्पादन करी]

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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 (वार्ता) १४:३६, ८ दिसम्बर २०१७ (NPT)