This is an interesting project. Please have a look
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From: ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <viswaprabha(a)gmail.com>
Date: 9 September 2017 at 03:46
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] New portal on Wikidata: Wikidata:WikiProject
India
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>,
"Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <wikidata(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Dear Wikimedians,
As the month long country-wide Wikidata Training Tour by Asaf Bartov [*1]
is in progress through several communities and cities within India, the
term 'Wikidata' has started rolling out as a new technology buzzword among
Indian communities and media.
Choosing the occasion as most befitting, some of us have opened up a new
WikiProject portal on the Wikidata site, named WikiProject India.
The page link is https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India.
This WikiProject is to coordinate the efforts to create, enhance and
populate the coverage of topics related to India including her history,
geography, culture, society, people, infrastructure, education,
demographics and anything related between India and other fields such as
science, technology, arts, entertainment etc.
For now, an indicative list of topics of immediate interest are mentioned
in the homepage. As the project grow up and get better shape, we can expand
the scope of the project both vertically and horizontally.
A query library demonstrating some data drilling methods and samples is
also available there. Together, we can also build up this library to its
best form and beauty.
An inspiring model to this venture was WikiProject Armenia (
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Armenia), which began
around a year ago. We may fork and develop upon some of the work show-cased
there, including the model queries.
(Building new queries based upon these are quite easy even for a beginner!)
I invite all of you too visit the project homepage.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India
Are you interested to be among the pioneers of this project?
Do you want to be part of a team that will build up a great national
database that will eventually help at least one fifth of the world
population in so many ways that we can not even predict now?
If you do, if you are interested in editing and contributing to Wikidata,
then please sign up and join the project.
More questions and suggestions are welcome at the project's talk pages.
Thanks and regards,
User:Viswaprabha
*1 . Asaf's Indian path of Wikidata conquest can be seen here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Asaf_(WMF)/2017_
Technical_trainings_in_India
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Hi,
Please help us spread the news about a job opportunity for a Contract
Community Outreach Coordinator for India
<https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/772348?gh_src=hyocjp1#.WYMP_1oj…>
.
Please let me know if you need any clarification.
Thanks,
Ravi
--
Regional Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia & Eastern Europe
Wikimedia Foundation
Mobile: +91-9986993336
Skype: ravidreams(a)gmail.com
Hi,
On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation’s Partnerships & Global Reach team,
we invite all Asian Wikimedia communities to our office hours to discuss
findings from the ongoing Wikimedia 2030 Movement Strategy discussions.
Meeting Details
Date: Friday, 30th June 2017
Time: 15:00 UTC/20:30 IST
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English
Location: Google Hangout
<https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/ytl/GknWPyp26CCCSLNkVOlZ1l1_S60DH0hI…>
Please join 15 minutes before the scheduled time to sort out possible
technical issues.
If you are not able to join the hangout, you can watch the live stream with
a few seconds lag here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhONE1SFAEU>.
Etherpad: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/South_Asia_Office_Hours
<https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/Asia_Office_Hours>
Agenda
-
Sharing insights we have gathered from the Wikimedia 2030 Movement
Strategy exercise in the Asian region.
-
Planning for affiliate-salon
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Cycle_2/Re…>
events
-
Q&A
Please feel free to add your questions, comments, and expectations in the
Etherpad document shared above. You can also reach out to
rayyakkannu(a)wikimedia.org for any clarification. Please share this
invitation in community social media channels to spread the word.
Thanks,
Ravi
--
Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia
Wikimedia Foundation.
Mobile: +91-9986993336
Skype: ravidreams(a)gmail.com
Hi,
On behalf of Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Reach Team
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Reach>, 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/w5sE6IZTXERWH0VvKtDRiAm9WE1eZ5
mYcnQm0h7dHok=?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 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/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(a)wikimedia.org and rayyakkannu(a)wikimedia.org for any clarification.
Please share this invitation in community social media channels to spread
the word.
Thanks,
Ravi
--
Manager, Strategic Partnerships, Asia
Wikimedia Foundation.
Mobile: +91-9986993336
Skype: ravidreams(a)gmail.com
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:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Tra
iner_Program/2017
If you have any question, please let us know.
Regards
Hello
An edit-a-thon is being conducted with an aim to create or improve articles
related to Punjab. This edit-a-thon is a part of WikiConference India 2016.
You and your community are cordially invited to join this edit-a-thon as
participants or co-ordinators.
This will be our gift for the Chandigarh team which is hosting us for the
conference. The community that adds most number of words or bytes to the
articles will be awarded a trophy during the conference!
Participate or learn more here.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Punjab_Edit-a-thon
Regards.
WikiConference India team
(https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016)
PS. Feel free to share or forward this message
Greetings from CIS-A2K.
List of selected participants for Train-the-Trainer 2016 has been
published *here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/20…>*.
Following criteria were followed while making the selection:
1. On Wiki and Off Wiki participation and contribution.
2. Not more than two participants from a language community.
3. Application form
4. First time participants were given preference over Wikimedians who have
already participated.
Due to the incredibly large number of applications that we received it
would be difficult for us to write to all applicants individually.
Please write to us if there are any queries.
Regards,
Tito Dutta