[Wikimediaindia-l] A2K: Programme Director update

[Tito Dutta]

 Hello,
Hope this email finds you well and safe. Here is an update from the Access
to Knowledge (A2K) team. Currently Mr. Amber Sinha is the Programme
Director of the Access to Knowledge team for this programme year. He is
also the the current executive director (ED) of the Centre for Internet and
Internet and Society (CIS). Amber Sinha has been associated with CIS for a
few years now. He is a free-knowledge enthusiast and eager to serve the
Wikimedia movement in India. To know more about him please see:
https://cis-india.org/about/people/cis-team-members#Amber%20Sinha and
writings: https://cis-india.org/author/amber
We wanted to send this email earlier, but this update is a little delayed
for various reasons.

Once on-ground Wiki-events resume he will be attending Wiki-events so that
the community can talk to him in person. He can be reached at:
am...@cis-india.org and on Meta-wiki with Wikimedia username: Amber
(CIS-A2K).
Regards,
Tito Dutta
Acceess to Knowledge
t...@cis-india.org
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [MediaWiki-India] Indic-TechCom (July-Sep 2020) Report

[Suyash Dwivedi]

Great going

Regards,
Er. Suyash Dwivedi (pronouns - he/his/him)
(U:Suyash.dwivedi)
Member: Affcom
IST (Indian Standard Time) UTC+5:30
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On Sun, Oct 18, 2020, 12:19 AM Jay prakash <0freerunn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> Indic-TechCom's quarterly report has been ready. Details are the following.
>
> *== Tools ==*
>
>- *Indic Wikisource Contest
>
> 
>  (Improvement)*
>   - Add revision ID link (phab:T252876
>   )
>   - Code refactoring (phab:T263352
>   , 4 Patches)
>   - Added scoring system methodology (phab:T251908
>   )
>
>
>
>- *BookReader
> 
> (Improvement)*
>   - 15 Translation updates checkout into production
>
>
>
>- *QRCode-Generator (Improvement)*
>   - 11 Translation updates checkout into production
>
>
> *== UserScript ==*
>
>- *InsertWikiDataImage
> 
> (New)* -
>This script allows users to insert an image from Wikidata on their local
>wiki page.
>
>
>- *IndicOCR for Visual Editor
> (New)* -
>This script allows users to do OCR in Visual Editor mode.
>
>
> *== Others ==*
>
>- Provided support and create templates and modules in Punjabi
>Wikipedia. (Requests
>
> 
>)
>- Changed the content model of "பயனர்:Fathima kaniyam/common.js" (
>phab:T257026 )
>- Fixed Italian Wikisource Vis (MediaWiki:Gadget-vis.js) for bangla
>wiki (phab:T252682 )
>- Google OCR is not giving any output (phab:T257410
>)
>- Enabled Telugu wikipedia as Import source for Telugu Wikibooks (
>phab:T260107 )
>- Added import sources for mlwiktionary (phab:T260716
>)
>- Upgraded pywikisource library to 0.0.2 on PyPI (phab:T263321
>)
>- Fixed the Main page errors in Punjabi Wikisource.
>- Fixed Module:Protection banner on Nepali Wiki
>
>
>
> Apart from that, we have also provided support on social channels like IRC
> and Facebook. Thank you everyone for involving with us.
>
> For the update, You can keep eye on
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic-TechCom/Report/July-Sep_2020.
>
> Thanks :) Regard
>
> User:Jayprakash12345
> Voluntary Developer, Indic-TechCom
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New Wikipedia mobile app now available for KaiOS phones

[Rajeeb]

Hello Runa,

Hope my mail finds you in the best of health and spirit. This is Rajeeb,
Wikimedian from Kolkata. I like to thank you for your informative email and
like to volunteer in any capacity whatsoever.

Hoping to hear from you soon.

Namaste,

Rajeeb.
(U:Marajozkee).

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 at 12:19, Runa Bhattacharjee <
rbhattachar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> There is now an additional way to browse Wikipedia in India! We are happy
> to confirm that the Wikipedia app is available on the top 3 mobile phone
> operating system platforms in India  - Android, iOS and newly KaiOS, which
> is provided through Jiophones [1]. Jiophone users can download and install
> the Wikipedia app on the JioStore.
>
> This first release is focused on how to make it easier to read Wikipedia
> on a phone that does not have a touch screen.  The platform supports over
> 100 languages for reading, and we appreciate that volunteers have fully
> translated the Wikipedia app user interface into five Indian languages so
> far: Bangla, Gujarati, Hindi, Odia, and Punjabi. The app will continue to
> have updates and reach more countries over time.
>
> If you (or someone you know) own a Jiophone, please give the app a try by
> downloading it from the JioStore. We would like to hear about your
> experience with it. Let us know about issues or bugs through the in-app
> feedback feature, through the project talk page [2], or through Phabricator
> [3].
>
> To enable the app to reach readers in even more Indian languages, we would
> greatly appreciate  additional translations of the user interface on
> Translatewiki.net [4].
>
> To know more about the app and our work, and why we believe this project
> is so important to help us reach new users, you can see the main page for
> the app [5] and the Questions and Answers page [6]. We welcome your
> comments, suggestions, and feedback on the related talk page [2].
>
> Lastly, please, do share this message on other venues of interest for
> community members in India.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Angie Muigai, Lead Product Manager
> Runa Bhattacharjee, Engineering Director
> (on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Inuka team[7])
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jio#JioPhone
> [2] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_for_KaiOS
> [3]
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?tags=kaios-wikipedia-app
> [4]
> https://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special:MessageGroupStats=wikimedia-mobile-wikipedia-kaios-strings#sortable:3=desc
> [5] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS
> [6] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikipedia_for_KaiOS/FAQ
> [7] https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Inuka_team
>
> --
> best regards,
> Runa Bhattacharjee (she/her)
> Director Engineering, Language and Inuka
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikidata Lexeme - webinar cum workshop

[Bodhisattwa Mandal]

Hello all,

This is a reminder that we will start the session on Wikidata Lexemes in 20
minutes. The Google meet link is here -
https://meet.google.com/ktm-fxzs-wif

Please feel free to participate.

Regards,
Bodhisattwa

On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 07:20, Bodhisattwa Mandal <
bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> The third webinar will happen this Sunday as part of a series of events
> for  8th birthday of Wikidata
>  on behalf
> of WikiProject India
>  .
>
> Details are as follows -
>
>- Topic - Wikidata Lexeme
>
>- Resource person - *Mahir256 (A)
>*
>- Date and time - October 18 2020 19:00 IST
>
>- Duration - ~ 2 hours
>- Google meet link - https://meet.google.com/ktm-fxzs-wif
>- Etherpad link - http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/wd8india3
>
>
> Please feel free to participate in the session.
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
> Wikidata Co-ordinator, CIS-A2K
>
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