[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikidata 8th birthday events in India

[Bodhisattwa Mandal]

Hello everyone,

I am happy to inform you all that we are organizing a series of events on
the occasion of the 8th birthday of Wikidata
 on behalf of Wikidata
WikiProject India 
in the form of webinars, datathon and merchandise distribution.

*Details of the events* can be found here -
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India

1) *Webinars* - 3 sessions on 3 very interesting topics will be conducted
as follows. The sessions will be open for all.

   1. October 11 2020, 6 pm IST :-
   Jane Darnell  will talk
   about Sum of all Paintings ,
   describe and demonstrate the workflow on improving data about paintings on
   Wikidata. A data-thon on Indian paintings will follow for the next 16 days
   (See 2.1 below).
   2. October 17 2020, 7 pm IST :-
   Denny Vrandecic 
   will be introducing the newest sister project of the Wikimedia universe,
   the Abstract Wikipedia and WikiLambda
    to the Indian
   community and how as a community, we need to be prepared for this upcoming
   exciting and ambitious project.
   3. October 18 2020, 7 pm IST :-
   Mahir Morshed  will conduct
   a session on the Wikidata Lexeme
   . He will explain the
   importance of lexicographical data and demonstrate the workflow.

2) *Datathon* -

   - *October 12 to October 28, 2020*:- A 16-days long online datathon
   

   will be conducted on Indian paintings. The output of the datathon will be
   given as a birthday gift
    to
   WIkidata on October 29.

3) *Merchandise distribution*-

   - During the month of October, CIS-A2K
    will be sending Wikidata
   special merchandise to *Indian affiliates and communities* upon request
   as well as *active contributors* of Wikidata *residing in India*.


   - Details on how to request merchandise can be found here in *this link*
   -
   https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Eighth_Birthday/India#Merchandise


   - Please note, due to COVID-19 pandemic or postal delay, merchandise
   might arrive late despite best efforts from CIS-A2K officials.

The above mentioned activities are already finalised. If any of the Indian
communities or affiliates are planning activities on the occasion of
Wikidata's 8th birthday, please feel free to enlist them here
.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa
Wikidata Co-ordinator, CIS-A2K
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia Clinic #009 digest (Abstract Wikipedia); #010 today at 13:00 UTC

[Asaf Bartov]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Asaf Bartov 
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020, 11:37
Subject: Wikimedia Clinic #009 digest (Abstract Wikipedia); #010 today at
13:00 UTC
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Dear Wikimedians,

I have posted the digest for Wikimedia Clinic #009. [1]

The topics discussed were:

* Abstract Wikipedia
* Translation of modules
* Feedback on Abstract Wikipedia in various existing communities

I encourage those of you interested in any of the above topics to read the
digest. [1]

Today (Sep 15th) at 13:00 UTC we will be hosting Wikimedia Clinic #010,
with the scheduled segment again being Denny Vrandečić introducing Abstract
Wikipedia (this time in an Asia-friendly time zone).

As always, beyond this scheduled segment, there will be time to bring up
any Wikimedia-related questions or topics other call attendees are
interested in.

The link to the call is:
https://meet.google.com/dsd-rypz-xjf

Cheers,

   A.

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Clinics/009

Asaf Bartov (he/him/his)

Senior Program Officer, Emerging Wikimedia Communities

Wikimedia Foundation 

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