[Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Fundraising Testing - 16th March

[Camille de Nes]

Hello all,

The Wikimedia Foundation will be running a fundraising test on March 16
from 14-17 UTC (19:30-22:30 IST) to prepare for our fundraising campaign in
May/June. We are looking to ensure our payment methods & processors are
functioning optimally. We thank you all in advance for your support.

As before:

* If you need to report a bug or technical issue, please create a
phabricator ticket [
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/task/edit/form/1/?template=118862
].
* If you see a donor on a talk page, OTRS or social media having
difficulties in donating, please refer them to donate at wikimedia.org
.
* If you have specific ideas to share, please feel invited to add them to
our fundraising ideas page [
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising/2020-21_Fundraising_ideas].

Many Thanks,

Camille


*Camille de Nes *(she/her)

*Lead Global Campaign Strategist*

The Wikimedia Foundation 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proofread contest in collaboration with British Library on Bengali Wikisource

[Bodhisattwa Mandal]

Hello all,


The contest has started today and it will go on for next one month.

Tom Derrick, the digital curator of the Two Centuries of Indian Print
project of British Library, has published a blog post about it on BL
website.

https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2021/03/wikisource-competition-to-proofread-indian-books.html

BL has also tweeted:
https://twitter.com/BL_IndianPrint/status/1371427115850215424

Regards,

Bodhisattwa

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021, 20:07 Bodhisattwa Mandal 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are happy to announce that the West Bengal Wikimedians User Group [1]
> will run a proofread contest [2] from 15 March 2021 to 14 April 2021 on
> Bengali Wikisource in collaboration with Two Centuries of Indian Print
> project (TCIP) [3] of British Library.
>
> The TCIP project officials are uploading the public domain books under
> their collection on Wikimedia Commons [4]. From the user group, we are
> working on the next steps like renaming files, indexing, metadata related
> work on Wikidata etc. and will be organizing the event.
>
> The top five winners will receive T-shirts and/or books from the user
> group and digital certificates from British Library.
>
> Regards,
> Bodhisattwa
> On behalf of West Bengal Wikimedians User Group
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal_Wikimedians
> [2] https://bn.wikisource.org/s/gpia
> [3] https://www.bl.uk/projects/two-centuries-of-indian-print
> [4]
> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Two_Centuries_of_Indian_Print
>
>
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Food 2021in India just Begin

[Ananya Mondal]

Hello,
Hope this email finds you well. As you all know, Wiki Loves Food 2021 in
India has started from today and will continue till 14th April 2021.

Wiki Loves Food 2021 in India is a public photo competition on Wikimedia
Commons. It shall aim at developing and improving the quality and quantity
of pictures of various cuisines found from all over India and thus
highlighting and celebrating the profusion, diversity and ethnicity of
Indian cuisines.

Those who have not participated yet, hurry and upload images of Indian food
to Wikimedia Commons and get a chance to win exciting prizes! We will be
very delighted to see you!

Event page link:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food_2021_in_India

Diff link:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/03/10/wiki-loves-food-photography-contest-starts-15-march-2021/

Best wishes
Ananya
(on behalf of Wiki Loves Food 2021in India team)
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