[Wikimediaindia-l] Merchandise giveaway for Wikidata WikiProject India

2020-02-10 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal 
Hi all,

Wikidata WikiProject India
 is initiating
merchandise giveaway activity to encourage and appreciate Wikidata editors
in India and/or editors enriching India related contents on Wikidata. The
initiative is supported and sponsored by CIS-A2K and is inspired by a similar
project started by WMF
.

More details on the initiative is here -
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Merchandise_giveaways

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Wikidata Advisor, CIS-A2K
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Invitation to apply to Outreachy and Google Summer of Code program with Wikimedia!

2020-02-10 Thread Asaf Bartov 
-- Forwarded message -
From: Srishti Sethi 
Date: Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 11:58 PM
Subject: [Wikidata] Invitation to apply to Outreachy and Google Summer of
Code program with Wikimedia!
To: Wikimedia developers , Wikimedia
Mailing List , <
wikid...@lists.wikimedia.org>, 
Cc: Pavithra Eswaramoorthy 



*(feel free to forward the message as is to your friends, family members &
colleagues)*
Hello folks,

We would like to invite you to apply to the Outreachy and Google Summer of
Code program with the Wikimedia Foundation (a non-profit organization
behind Wikipedia)!

*About the Outreachy program*
Wikimedia will be mentoring ~7 projects in the Outreachy program in the May
to August 2020 round. The initial applications are due February 25th at 4
pm UTC.

Apply today: https://www.outreachy.org/apply/

Outreachy offers three-month internships to work remotely in Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS) projects with experienced mentors. The internships
may include programming, user experience, documentation, illustration and
graphic design, or data science.

Outreachy internships run twice a year – from May to August and December to
March. Interns are paid a stipend of $5,500 USD for the three months of
work. They also have a $500 USD stipend to travel to conferences and
events. Interns often find employment after their internship with Outreachy
sponsors or in jobs that use the skills they learned during their
internship.

Outreachy is open to both students and non-students. Outreachy expressly
invites the following people to apply:
* Women (both cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people.
* Anyone who faces under-representation, systematic bias, or discrimination
in the technology industry in their country or residence is invited to
apply.
* Residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are
Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American Indian,
Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander.

*About the Google Summer of Code program*
Wikimedia is planning to mentor 8-10 projects in 2020’s Google Summer of
Code (GSoC) program. Beginning February 20th, pending Wikimedia’s
acceptance as a mentoring organization, applicants can begin discussing
ideas with the mentors!

The student application will be due on March 31st 18:00 UTC:
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/

Google Summer of Code now in its 16th year, is Google's summer program for
university students who want to get involved in open source software. Over
15,960 students from 109 countries have already participated. Google Summer
of Code is a unique program that pairs students with mentors who introduce
them to the open-source community and provide guidance while they work on
real-world open-source projects during their summer break from university.

Projects cover a wide range of fields including: Cloud, Operating Systems,
Graphics, Medicine, Programming Languages, Robotics, Science, Security and
many more. It's a highly competitive program (and this year is expected to
be even bigger than last year), so don't wait until the last minute to
prepare!

*About the Wikimedia Foundation*
The Wikimedia Foundation  is the
nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other
Wikimedia
free knowledge projects
. Our vision
is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all
knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute
something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to
access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia
projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing
Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make
Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and
free knowledge to thrive.

*Resources*
* Browse through the participants’ guides, to learn more about the
application process steps:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Outreachy/Participants
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/Participants
* All the projects will be showcased here:
https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/wikimedia/
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2020

We hope you will help us spread the word about Wikimedia’s participation in
these programs: https://twitter.com/mediawiki/status/1224790357361098752
(by retweeting the post in the link or by sharing this email)

Looking forward to your participation!

Cheers,
Srishti & Pavithra (Wikimedia organization administrators for GSoC &
Outreachy)

*Srishti Sethi*
Developer Advocate
Wikimedia Foundation 

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 - Overall winners and monthly top contributors

2020-02-10 Thread Suswetha Kolluru 
Dear Wikimedians,

It has been exactly one month since Project Tiger 2.0 article writing
contest has ended. The writing contest began on 10 October 2019 and ran
till 11 January 2020.
The contest witnessed 331 editors who participated from 16 communities in
India :)
We are happy to announce that the project saw 12406 articles from all the
communities and the Tamil community stands top with 2924 articles
created/expanded followed by the Punjabi (Gurumukhi)  community with 1747
articles!

The list of monthly top contributors list from all the languages is
published here[1]

We sincerely thank and appreciate all the Wikipedians who have contributed
time and effort to create articles and increase content in their respective
Indic language Wikipedias, jury members of both hardware support and
article writing contest, Wikipedians who have conducted offline events as
part of Project Tiger and last but not the least, User:Neechalkaran from
Tamil community for creating statistics tool

and
making it easier for everyone to understand the numbers!

We will get back to the top contributors from each community & winner and
runner up communities via an IRC soon.

Overall stats:
Language Articles submitted Articles Accepted
Assamese 205 175
Bengali 1460 1194
Gujarathi 202 201
Hindi 417 253
Kannada 249 199
Malayalam 229 229
Marathi 220 97
Odia 155 154
Punjabi (Gurumukhi) 1768 1747
Punjabi (Shamukhi) 3216 3216
Sanskrit 19 19
Santali 566 566
Tamil 2959 2924
Telugu 416 24
Tulu 32 32
Urdu 1377 1376

Total number of articles accepted
12406

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Writing_Contest/Winners


*NOTE:*
Following the discussion on bulk article creation

by
different community members about using a tool and articles being evaluated
by the same volunteer who has created them, we are withholding rewards to
Punjabi (Shamukhi) community.

-- 
*Best,*
*Team Project Tiger.*
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