[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in India starts tomorrow

2020-08-30 Thread Bodhisattwa Mandal 
Hello Wikimedians,

We are very happy to announce that the Wiki Loves Monuments 2020 in India
is starting from tomorrow and will continue for the entire month of
September.

As this year, we are facing devastating effects of COVID-19,  we urge you
to stay inside your home to avoid exposure to the deadly virus. You do not
have to go outside of your safe zone to photograph monuments. We are
completely okay if you can upload old photographs taken by you. Please be
safe first!

We are also expecting lesser participation than previous years due to the
restriction of movement due to the pandemic. So, to increase awareness
about the competition, we have created a promotional video at the last
moment (special thanks to Ananya and Rahul) and boosted it on Facebook.
Thanks to CIS-A2K for sponsoring the promotion part.
You can find the video on Commons here -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2020_in_India_(Promotional_video).webm
and on Facebook here - https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1616065545227639

Regarding the list of monuments, it will grow even during the competition
as the data entry is a continuous work for us throughout the year. We
heartily welcome Wikimedians from different parts of the country to work on
monuments protected by different local agencies and inform us in the event
talk page. We will find ways together to include them in the master list.

Just like previous years, we again promising to wrap up everything within
the expected timeline after the competition ends and we are going to keep
our promise again. :-)

Welcome you all in the competition,

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
(On behalf of WLM India organizing team)
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat and India(n) channel

2020-08-30 Thread pavanaja 
I created channels – kannada and tulu

 

Regards,

Pavanaja

 

 

From: Wikimediaindia-l  On Behalf 
Of Tito Dutta
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2020 11:05 PM
To: Wikimedia India Community list 
Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat and India(n) 
channel

 

Hello,

I hope you might find this interesting. In case you join/wanna try this 
Wikimedia Chat option, please join the India channel

https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/india

 

There is also an mlwiki channel, I see:

https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/mlwiki

 

There is also a Bangla channel. I am unsure why it is currently not showing in 
the channel list (is it because of Indic-script in the channel title?)

https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/bangla

 

Thanks 

Tito Dutta

 

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প্রেরক: Amir Sarabadani <ইমেল লোকানো হয়েছে>
Date: রবি, ৩০ আগস্ট, ২০২০ তারিখে ৫:৩০ AM টায়
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat
To: Wikimedia Mailing List mailto:wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org> >, wikitech-l 
mailto:wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org> >



Hello,
Due to the current situation, there are more and more collaborations
happening online instead. and now you can see Wikimedia-related discussion
groups in Slack, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and many more. Besides being
scattered and inaccessible to people who don't have accounts in those
platforms (for privacy reasons for example), these platforms use
proprietary and closed-source software, are outside Wikimedia
infrastructure and some harvest our personal data for profit.

IRC on freenode is a good alternative but it lacks basic functionalities of
a modern chat platform. So we created Wikimedia Chat, a mattermost instance
in Wikimedia Cloud. Compared to IRC, you have:
* Ability to scrollback and read messages when you were offline
* Push notification and email notification
* You don't need to get a cloak to hide your IP from others
* Proper support for sharing media
* Two factor authentication
* A proper mobile app support
* Ability to add custom emojis (yes, it's extremely important)
* Profile pictures
* Ability to ping everyone with @here
* much much more.

You can use Wikimedia Chat by going to https://chat.wmcloud.org, anyone can
make an account. This is part of Wikimedia Social suite [1], the oher
similar project is "Wikimedia Meet". [2]

Some notes:
* This is done in my volunteer capacity and has been maintained by a group
of volunteers. If you're willing to join the team (either technical or
enforcing CoC, kicking out spammers, other daily work), drop me a message.
* Privacy policy of Wikimedia Cloud applies: https://w.wiki/aQW
* As a result, all messages older than 90 days get automatically deleted.
* As a Wikimedia Cloud project, all of discussions, private and public are
covered by Code of conduct in technical spaces:  https://w.wiki/AK$

Hope that would be useful for you, if you encounter any technical issues,
file a bug in the phabricator.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Social_Suite
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet

Best
-- 
Amir (he/him)
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat and India(n) channel

2020-08-30 Thread Tito Dutta 
Hello,
I hope you might find this interesting. In case you join/wanna try this
Wikimedia Chat option, please join the India channel
https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/india

There is also an mlwiki channel, I see:
https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/mlwiki

There is also a Bangla channel. I am unsure why it is currently not showing
in the channel list (is it because of Indic-script in the channel title?)
https://chat.wmcloud.org/wikimedia/channels/bangla

Thanks
Tito Dutta


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প্রেরক: Amir Sarabadani <ইমেল লোকানো হয়েছে>
Date: রবি, ৩০ আগস্ট, ২০২০ তারিখে ৫:৩০ AM টায়
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Chat
To: Wikimedia Mailing List , wikitech-l <
wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org>


Hello,
Due to the current situation, there are more and more collaborations
happening online instead. and now you can see Wikimedia-related discussion
groups in Slack, Discord, Telegram, Facebook, and many more. Besides being
scattered and inaccessible to people who don't have accounts in those
platforms (for privacy reasons for example), these platforms use
proprietary and closed-source software, are outside Wikimedia
infrastructure and some harvest our personal data for profit.

IRC on freenode is a good alternative but it lacks basic functionalities of
a modern chat platform. So we created Wikimedia Chat, a mattermost instance
in Wikimedia Cloud. Compared to IRC, you have:
* Ability to scrollback and read messages when you were offline
* Push notification and email notification
* You don't need to get a cloak to hide your IP from others
* Proper support for sharing media
* Two factor authentication
* A proper mobile app support
* Ability to add custom emojis (yes, it's extremely important)
* Profile pictures
* Ability to ping everyone with @here
* much much more.

You can use Wikimedia Chat by going to https://chat.wmcloud.org, anyone can
make an account. This is part of Wikimedia Social suite [1], the oher
similar project is "Wikimedia Meet". [2]

Some notes:
* This is done in my volunteer capacity and has been maintained by a group
of volunteers. If you're willing to join the team (either technical or
enforcing CoC, kicking out spammers, other daily work), drop me a message.
* Privacy policy of Wikimedia Cloud applies: https://w.wiki/aQW
* As a result, all messages older than 90 days get automatically deleted.
* As a Wikimedia Cloud project, all of discussions, private and public are
covered by Code of conduct in technical spaces:  https://w.wiki/AK$

Hope that would be useful for you, if you encounter any technical issues,
file a bug in the phabricator.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Social_Suite
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Meet

Best
-- 
Amir (he/him)
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