[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: WikiConference India 2025 - City Selection Announcement

[Pavan Santhosh]

Dear Wikimedians of Kerala User Group,

On behalf of the CIS-A2K team, I would like to extend our heartfelt
congratulations to the entire team on Kochi's selection as the host city
for WikiConference India 2025!

We are truly excited to see the support from various open-source and
open-knowledge communities, along with Wikimedians, to organize WCI 2025 in
Kochi. This collaboration demonstrates the collective passion and
commitment to furthering open knowledge and fostering vibrant,
knowledge-sharing communities.

We would also like to thank the City Selection Group for their efforts in
designing and managing a fair and transparent process to select the host
city.

As mentioned earlier, CIS-A2K is happy to provide any support you may need
to make this event a success. We look forward to collaborating with you and
being part of this inspiring journey!

Best,
Pavan Santhosh,
On behalf of CIS-A2K.

On Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 2:03 PM Soni  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thank you for your interest. After discussions and looking at all the
> criteria, the City Selection Group for WikiConference India has decided
> that *WCI 25 will be held in Kochi, Kerala*. Thank you to both the cities
> and all Wikimedians who shared their opinions!
>
> You can read more about the process at the meta page on
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2025/City_Selection
>
> The WCI25 Core Organising Team are excited to work with Wikimedians of
> Kerala for hosting a successful WikiConference India.
>
> Thank you
> Soni
> On behalf of City Selection Group
> WikiConference India 2025
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[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: WikiConference India 2025 - City Selection Announcement

[Pavan Santhosh]

Dear Wikimedians of Kerala User Group,

On behalf of the CIS-A2K team, I would like to extend our heartfelt
congratulations to the entire team on Kochi's selection as the host city
for WikiConference India 2025!

We are truly excited to see the support from various open-source and
open-knowledge communities, along with Wikimedians, to organize WCI 2025 in
Kochi. This collaboration demonstrates the collective passion and
commitment to furthering open knowledge and fostering vibrant,
knowledge-sharing communities.

We would also like to thank the City Selection Group for their efforts in
designing and managing a fair and transparent process to select the host
city.

As mentioned earlier, CIS-A2K is happy to provide any support you may need
to make this event a success. We look forward to collaborating with you and
being part of this inspiring journey!

Best,
Pavan Santhosh,
On behalf of CIS-A2K.

On Sat, Nov 2, 2024 at 2:03 PM Soni  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Thank you for your interest. After discussions and looking at all the
> criteria, the City Selection Group for WikiConference India has decided
> that *WCI 25 will be held in Kochi, Kerala*. Thank you to both the cities
> and all Wikimedians who shared their opinions!
>
> You can read more about the process at the meta page on
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2025/City_Selection
>
> The WCI25 Core Organising Team are excited to work with Wikimedians of
> Kerala for hosting a successful WikiConference India.
>
> Thank you
> Soni
> On behalf of City Selection Group
> WikiConference India 2025
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[WikimediaIndia-l] Announcing Train The Trainer 2024 in collaboration with Odia Wikimedians User Group

[Pavan Santhosh]

Dear Indic Wikimedians,

I hope this message finds you well. CIS-A2K is excited to announce that we
are working on preparations for Train The Trainer

(TTT) 2024. We are pleased to introduce our co-host community for this
year's event: the Odia Wikimedians User Group
. We are
grateful to them for coming forward to collaborate with CIS-A2K to organize
TTT-2024 in Odisha.

TTT aims to bring Wikimedians together, facilitating collaborative learning
to foster leadership within Indic language Wikimedia communities. We will
make our best efforts to ensure this edition of Train the Trainer is more
impactful and beneficial for everyone involved.

Following this introduction, the Odia community will soon share further
details about TTT 2024 with you. Kudos to all involved!

Best Regards,
Pavan Santosh,
On behalf of CIS-A2K.
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[WikimediaIndia-l] CIS-A2K Scholarships for Indic Wikimedians

[Pavan Santhosh]

Dear Indic Wikimedians,

I hope this email finds you well.

I am pleased to announce that CIS-A2K is extending scholarships to four
Indian Wikimedians. These scholarships aim to provide an opportunity for
these individuals to represent their community and projects on the global
Wikimedia stage, connect with various Wikimedia communities and bring back
ideas and good energy to their home communities.

The selected candidates have been chosen based on criteria and in
consultation with Wikimania Organising Committee 2024 such as their online
contributions and diversity, including both community and gender
representation.

Here are the names of the scholarship recipients:

   - Nettime Sujata (Bangla Wikisource)
   - Komal Sambhudas (Marathi Wikisource)
   - Ramjit Tudu (Santali Wikipedia)
   - Nayan JNath (Assamese Wikipedia)

The major objective behind offering these scholarships is to provide an
avenue for Indian Wikimedians who have been actively contributing to the
community but have not yet had the opportunity to connect with the global
Wikimedia community. We believe that facilitating their participation in
global events can further enrich the diversity and collaboration within the
Wikimedia movement.

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to the scholarship recipients and
thank them for their valuable contributions to the Wikimedia community.
Please join us in celebrating their achievements and supporting them in
this exciting journey.

If you have any questions or would like further information, please feel
free to reach out to us.

Best regards,
Pavan Santhosh,
Program Manager,
On behalf of CIS-A2K.
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[WikimediaIndia-l] Introducing Global Majority Wikimedia Technology Priorities

[Pavan Santhosh]

Dear Indic Wikimedians,

I'm reaching out to highlight an important document called Global Majority
Wikimedia Technology Priorities
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Majority_Wikimedia_Technology_Priorities>.
This aims to highlight the needs of the Global Majority within the
Wikimedia movement, which includes Indic Wikimedia Projects and communities.

This document is the outcome of collaborative efforts involving nine
Wikimedia organizations and the active participation of fourteen
contributors. It was constructed through a comprehensive research process
encompassing assessment, interviews, proposals, and internalization. Wiki
Movimento Brasil led this process, in partnership with CIS-A2K.

The ten priorities laid out were around two high-priority main concepts:
the promotion of epistemic diversity, prioritizing representation and
inclusion of the Global Majority communities and knowledge in
decision-making spaces and protocols, and the decentering of tech
development, prioritizing Global Majority communities’ needs and fostering
a federated network of stakeholders to develop in the Wikimedia projects
and tools.

Your contributions, input and involvement are crucial for these priorities.
Please share your thoughts and opinions on Meta-Wiki. Feel free to endorse
the document
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_Majority_Wikimedia_Technology_Priorities#Signatures>
as an individual or on behalf of an affiliate group or other organizations
if you agree with it.

Thank you for your contributions to the Wikimedia movement.

Best regards,
Pavan Santhosh,
Program Manager,
CIS-A2K.
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[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: First record of Neptis philyra from India during Wiki Loves Butterfly field documentation in Arunachal Pradesh

[pavan santhosh]

Congratulations to Ananya and other wikimedians involved in this project.

9 ఏప్రి, 2024, మంగళ 21:36కి, Ananya Mondal 
ఇలా రాశారు:

>
> Hi all
>
> It is a joyous moment for us to inform you that the Wiki Loves Butterfly
> (WLB) team has become a witness of the first record of *Neptis philyra*
> butterfly from India. In India, a total number of 26 species of *Neptis* were
> recorded previously. Four members of the WLB team – Atanu Bose
> , Mahesh
> Baruah , 
> Abhishek
> Dutta Chaudhury
> and Anitava
> Roy , captured
> photographs of *Neptis philyra* (Long-streak Sailor) at the Tale Valley
> Wildlife Sanctuary
>  in the Lower
> Subansiri district
> of 
> Arunachal
> Pradesh  in the month of
> June 2023. The species was later identified by Tarun Karmakar
> , an expert
> associated with our team, from the photographs. The first ever record of
> this species in India has been published as a scholarly article
>  in the scientific journal named
>  Tropical Lepidoptera Research  on
> 5 April 2024.
>
> Diff link:
> https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/04/08/first-indian-record-of-the-neptis-philyra-species-of-butterfly-identified-through-wiki-loves-butterfly/
> --
> Regards,
>
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[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Telugu Wikimedians User Group

[pavan santhosh]

Namaskaram <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaste>/నమస్కారం
<https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%82>
,

As a Telugu Wikimedian, I'm delighted to see our user group get recognition
as an affiliate. We submitted our application to AffCom in August 2022, and
since then, the Telugu Wikimedia Community has made remarkable leaps in
defining its strategic direction. On this occasion, I'd like to share some
insights into our work in this area.

Our community, the Telugu Wikimedia Community, organized a community-wide
conference. This event, enriched by studies, discussions, and
consultations, focused on assessing the quality and status of our projects,
as well as identifying the opportunities and challenges that lay ahead.
These efforts resulted in a strategic document that now guides the Telugu
Wikimedia Community's initiatives. The user group has enthusiastically
begun to undertake activities and projects aligned with this strategic
direction.

For those interested, you can read our strategy and the journey to its
formation here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tewiki_Pandaga-2024/Strategy>.

Incidentally, this announcement comes just days before the Ugadi Festival,
"Telugu New Year," which is a significant festival in Telugu culture,
lending an even sweeter note to this news.

Best regards,
Pavan Santhosh,
Member, Telugu Wikimedians User Group.


On Thu, Apr 4, 2024 at 10:42 PM Affiliations Committee 
wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> [1] Telugu Wikimedians User Group [2] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
> aims to to grow and promote Telugu language in Wikimedia Projects including
> supporting Telugu Wikimedia communities in India.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Jeffrey Keefer
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Recognition
>  of Telugu Wikimedians User Group
> [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Telugu_Wikimedians_User_Group
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[WikimediaIndia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2024: Submission deadline extended

[pavan santhosh]

FYI

-- Forwarded message -
From: 
Date: Wed, Apr 3, 2024 at 12:24 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2024: Submission deadline extended
To: 


Dear all,



I am observing the inflow of programme submissions for Wikimania 2024 and I
could not be a happier programme lead than now. However, I know that there
are some session proposals that are still being developed, so we are
extending the deadline to submit your programme proposals until April 10,
2024, 12:00 UTC.



Make it the most memorable learning experience with other Wikimedians by
submitting sessions that are relevant to the Wiki-world and which bring the
Collaboration of the Open, this year’s spirit, to Katowice, Poland, and
online!



https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2024:Program



Best regards

Wojciech Pędzich, Head of Programming, Wikimania 2024


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[WikimediaIndia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Hiba Abu Nada, RIP

[pavan santhosh]

An unfortunate news

-- Forwarded message -
వీరినుండి: Andy Mabbett 
Date: 28 అక్టో, 2023, శని 18:15
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Hiba Abu Nada, RIP
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


I just learned that a Wikimedian, Hiba Abu Nada, was one of the
casualties in Gaza. She was 32, and died on 20 October, during an
airstrike.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiba_Abu_Nada

May the region soon be at peace.

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy: Summary and Report

[pavan santhosh]

FYI

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వీరినుండి: Nataliia Tymkiv 
Date: 23 అక్టో, 2023, సోమ 21:58
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy: Summary
and Report
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Dear all,

In November 2022, we announced that the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees (Board) would be embarking on creating a Wikimedia Foundation
Affiliates Strategy in collaboration with the Affiliations Committee, the
affiliates, and the broader communities [1]. The intention was to develop a
strategy that will help guide the Foundation’s immediate work in supporting
affiliates for the next few years, with a primary focus on the recognition
process, as a direct responsibility of the Board. We are now publishing the
report summary [2] and the report itself [3]. This report is presented in
the same format it was presented to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees in Singapore, with identifiable information removed to respect
respondents’ privacy, and the context added at the beginning, to make it a
stand alone document.

We would like to thank all those who attended the meetings, and calls,
filled in the survey, additionally shared materials and ideas – and also to
staff for helping us to shape the process

Please take some time to review the summary and the report. You will see
that the conversations covered several topics and captured feedback outside
of the affiliate recognition process as well. We have shared this feedback
with the Board and with leadership at the Wikimedia Foundation, so that
more can be learnt  to address feedback on these topics as well.

Maryana, the CEO of the Foundation, recently announced Talking: 2024
,
conversations to share, listen, and learn with intention as we all continue
to plan our future as a movement. You can use the Let’s Talk

feature to sign up for a time to speak with me and other trustees about the
Affiliate Recognition Strategy Report or any other topic regarding the
Wikimedia Foundation Board, Movement Strategy etc.

Best regards,

Nat & Shani & Lorenzo
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Liaisons to the Affiliations
Committee

== Wikimedia Foundation Affiliates Strategy: Summary ==

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) Board of Trustees believes that Wikimedia
affiliates are a key and integral part of the Wikimedia movement, and
affiliates’ success is vital for the Wikimedia movement’s success. To that
end, it is crucial to develop a clear vision regarding affiliates, making
it possible to assess whether the investment in, collaboration with, and
policy towards affiliates is promoting the right goals.

The Foundation’s Board decided to begin the process with creating a
strategy that will help guide the Foundation’s immediate work in supporting
affiliates for the next few years, with a primary focus on how affiliates
are recognised, as a direct responsibility of the Board.

In November 2022, the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced they
would be embarking on building this Wikimedia Foundation Affiliate Strategy

in collaboration with the Affiliations Committee, the affiliates, and the
broader communities.

Over several months, the Wikimedia Foundation Board engaged with an outside
consultant to drive a review process of what work the Foundation was doing
to support affiliates. The end goal was to have several recommended actions.

=== The process ===

The first phase of the process was largely internal to the Board and the
Affiliations Committee. This phase involved interviewing current
Affiliations Committee (AffCom) members, its advisors, staff support
(former and current), staff from different teams and departments of the
Wikimedia Foundation who work closely with affiliates (like Legal,
Community Resources, and Advancement). The interviews were conducted by Jon
Huggett, a consultant on governance related topics. Jon previously worked
on the Movement roles project (2010–2011) and has completed other
governance-related analysis for the Board of Trustees. The result of the
first phase was summarised in a report presented to the Wikimedia
Foundation Board Liaisons to AffCom. This report was then discussed with
AffCom. This initial report was used to scope out the next phase of work.

The second phase involved collecting data from affiliates. This process
included calls with affiliates and a survey open to everyone (a public
invitation went out on the Wikimedia-L mailing list). The information
collected was compiled into a report with immediate recommendations. This
report was first presented and discussed with the AffCom, Community Affairs
Committee (CAC), and t

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Affiliations Committee: Call for New Members + Membership changes

[pavan santhosh]

 been
providing considerable value as an advisor since his appointment last year.

Speaking on behalf of the Board and reflecting the sentiments voiced by
AffCom itself, we are very happy that Maor and Aleksey have agreed to
support us in this way.

You can view more details about what this important committee does on Meta
in its “What we do
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee#what-we-do>”
section and also in their charter
<https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee_Charter>.

There will be a public comment period on applicants
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Affiliations_Committee/Candidates/2023>
from 17 October to 17 November. Candidates will meet with AffCom, Board
liaisons and staff to discuss the role and their interest in it. The
Board’s Community Affairs Committee will also review the AffCom candidates,
to provide input. Per its Charter [2] the AffCom will appoint new members,
taking into account also the community feedback. The new members will be
announced in late December 2023, after individuals have been notified.

Thank you for reading this long letter, and thank you in advance for your
interest to join AffCom – or Ombuds commission and Case Review Committee!
And if you are not interested but know someone who might be, please share
this message with them, personal encouragement goes a long way in the
Wikimedia Movement. Also please let us know if you have any questions.

[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/SRHX3KLSYAEDCM4T35RSNNRWWLYVNCQB/


[2] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee_Charter

Best regards,

Nat & Shani & Lorenzo

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Liaisons to the Affiliations
Committee


--
antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees

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hours/days, as I usually can work more as a volunteer during weekend. You
should not feel obligated to answer it during your days off. Thank you in
advance!*

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Register for Let's Connect

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Hi Everyone,

The Community Resources team and the Let’s Connect Working Group are
excited to announce the launch of the Peer Learning Program – Let’s Connect
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/25/lets-connect-register-now-for-the-peer-learning-program/>.
It is a response to requests gathered during the Movement Strategy process
and for building capacities through knowledge sharing amongst community
members (peers) in a way that promotes collaboration and
people-centeredness.

Let's Connect is bringing you monthly learning clinics and one-on-one
matches around various subjects in the Wikimedia movement. This program is
carefully created with the involvement of community members scattered all
over the various regions in the Wikimedia Movement. The programs can be
based on both regional and cross-regional connections.

Do you want to join? You can register to be a part of the “Let’s Connect”
through this form <https://forms.gle/eySNYTsMBqA5V8sM7>. We will use this
information to match you with others and invite you to learning clinics!

To reach out to anyone on the working group or the WMF concerning “Let’s
Connect” kindly visit the Meta-Page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect> or you
can send an email to the Working Group at letsconnectt...@wikimedia.org

We look forward to engaging with the wonderful Wikimedia movement and we
thank our working group, WMF and Wikimedians across the world for making
sure these programs come to life.

Thank You.

Regards,

“Let’s Connect” Working Group.

[1] Registration Form <https://forms.gle/eySNYTsMBqA5V8sM7>
[2] Let's Connect Meta Page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Knowledge_Sharing/Connect>
[3] Let's Connect Diff Posts
<https://diff.wikimedia.org/2022/03/25/lets-connect-register-now-for-the-peer-learning-program/>

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: India grants and communication to Wikimediaindia-l

[pavan santhosh]

Hello Tito,

Thanks for the response.

My issue is not mainly about agreement or disagreement, not at all about
head count. I am concerned about vast majority of community members getting
atleast informed about these kind of threads due to the very nature of
mailing lists. (I am not entirely against mailing lists, but only when it
becomes mandatory for Community members)

This is not a Wiki and there are barriers for participation here on various
levels. Language, privacy, and knowing that there is a list are a few.

This platform allowed us to have this proposal, discussion and summary
happening on very platform where many users who gets affected by changes
are not even present. That is the concern I wanted to stress while I am
writing that "This thread or any such future thread in no way represents
Indian Wikimedia communities." May be wrong choice of words.

I also just wanted to clarify and rest the case here. See you!

Best,
Pavan.

4 జన, 2022, మంగళ 20:51కి, Tito Dutta  ఇలా వ్రాసారు:

> Hello,
> Thank you.
>
>> "This thread or any such future thread in no way represents Indian
>> Wikimedia communities."
>>
> — This *does *represent a viewpoint. This argument may not show a
> majority, a very large or unanimous representation, still this is a
> particular viewpoint and the argument is represented here. My viewpoint as
> a community member stays, so do your viewpoints, and so do other viewpoints.
> If we count how many people voted or if everyone on a project agreed to
> something, most of the proposals or plans on village pumps or noticeboards
> will never go forward.
> In a process, there are views and counter views, and finally the merit of
> the arguments is checked generally.
> The proposal is not entirely new, but most of the mentioned parts are
> standard practice.
>
> Anyway, I have already shared my thoughts, and I do note that there are
> other opinions also.
> I'll rest here.
> (Happy new year, stay safe...)
> ইতি,
> টিটো দত্ত/User:Titodutta
> (মাতৃভাষা থাক জীবন জুড়ে)
>
>
>
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: India grants and communication to Wikimediaindia-l

[pavan santhosh]

I strongly oppose this Idea, once again. Some more reasons are listed below:

   - This thread or any such future thread in no way represents Indian
   Wikimedia communities. For example, there are tens of Wikipedians who don't
   know that Tito proposed an idea to "Major Indian grant requests should
   come to India mailing list" & also trying to make it "mandatory". This list
   excludes several Indian Wikimedians who never voiced in this list.
   Essentially, this would increase barriers for community members instead of
   reducing it.
   - It would be an interesting idea for Tito individually or CIS-A2K
  institutionally to conduct a small study to map platforms that Indian
  language wikimedians discuss & understand how much they are
missing/present
  in this "so called Indian mailing list". I believe several
Wikimedians who
  are doing a lot of work on wikis are not here.
   - Instead of mandating grantees to publish their grant here and hoping that
   the members of the thread would follow some of the "best practices" which
   are very hard to impose, It would be better to see someone (not grantee,
   ofcourse) post links of relevant grants and encourage interested members of
   this list to comment on talk page itself.
   - You mentioned "excessive canvassing, votestacking, back-scratching,
   meatpuppetry" but not harassment, mockery, attacking grantees, etc., But, a
   range of policy violations do happen in mailing lists, and people easily
   got away with it. I don't see value in mandating people to have a discourse
   on Non-wiki platforms and then try to impose policies which are very
   difficult. This difficulty can not be mitigated after a level because this
   is not our platform (off-wiki platform). I see this as a futile exercise.
  - Food for thought: If we start asking people to post in mailing
  list, why not fb groups and whatsapp groups? Where should we
start when we
  mandate using an off-wiki platform as an official channel for
users? Is it
  just because some of us who are elite enough believe this as a decent
  platform?

I just mentioned some of my objections in this mail and not articulate
enough. But, please consider this idea is not acceptable for me and may be
for many of the Wikimedians who are not still in this list. Until there is
some sort of wider-discussion, consensus backed by strong study,  This list
is and should be just another useful discussion forum, nothing more and
nothing less.

Thanks,
Pavan.


29 డిసెం, 2021, బుధ 10:31కి, Tito Dutta  ఇలా వ్రాసారు:

> Hello,
> After the launch of the current grant process, formation of the Regional
> Grants Committee, announcement and commencement of round 1 applications, it
> is probably good to revisit this thread. I hope that the Wikimedia
> Foundation grants team and Regional Grants Committee (SAARC) would kindly
> consider these over-all process-related notes.
>
> Here are a few observations about the "over-all process"—
> A
> 1) Major Indian grant requests should come to India mailing list. The term
> "major" can be defined by an amount (more than "₹" amount) or any other
> criteria (region coverage, project coverage, duration etc). Possibly RGC
> (SAARC) can kindly set up criteria?
> 2) I would suggest separate email threads for "major" grant requests,
> however if this list gets too many emails, I would suggest to please send
> at least a digest email clearly briefing the grant proposals.
> 3) Please consider making this step a mandatory one, and mark applications
> "invalid" or "incomplete" unless the step is properly done.
> 4) This should not be done only as formality, and the community should be
> allowed at least 7 to 10 days' time to comment. I would request RGC to
> start reviewing only after this period.
> 5) There might be moderation and other issues in the list, and can be
> handled separately.
>
> B
> 1) Please consider working on an "Appropriate notification/canvassing
> policy" (or guideline). This can be a document covering best practices, and
> also possible inappropriate behaviours such as excessive canvassing,
> votestacking, back-scratching, meatpuppetry etc. Please see a similar
> thread I started on Wikimedia-l at [1]
> 2) It would be good to have a direct communication option with RGC
> (SAARC). I suggest kindly make this on-wiki. Possibly this can be created
> in form of a noticeboard at Grants_talk:Regions/SAARC or at
> Grants:Regions/SAARC/Noticeboard
>
> This or similar process may be replicated in other SAARC countries such as
> Bangladesh, Nepal, and other regions also depending on the relevant
> community request.
>
> I'll be happy to voluntarily add inputs or work on any of the things
> mentioned above such as A1, B1 etc.
>
> Thanks,
> User:Titodutta
> (In volunteer capacity)
>
> Footnotes
> [1]
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org/thread/OUHBTWFZSPAG6V42AFBI56WBTIMRA3FX/#OUHBTWFZSPAG6V42AFBI56WBTIMRA3FX
>
>
> র

[Wikimediaindia-l] Thank you!

[pavan santhosh]

Hello Friends and Colleagues,

Thank you to everyone who supported my candidature in the board elections
and also thanks to everyone who voted in this election. WMF Board elections
2021 results are now announced:
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/09/07/results-for-the-most-contended-wikimedia-foundation-board-of-trustees-election/

The following four candidates received the most support and are going to be
appointed to board after a background check:

   1.

   Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
   2.

   Victoria Doronina
   3.

   Dariusz Jemielniak
   4.

   Lorenzo Losa


Except for an unfavourable result, It has been a really great journey for
me. I have spent hours in preparing and attending several meetings with
communities arranged by the election team or individual communities. I
forced myself to think of some very important questions about governance,
community development and other aspects of our movement. This is really
good learning for me.

I felt happy to have a good number of Indian Wikimedians who are also
experienced in movement and projects to contest in this election. Although
none of us could make it, I believe these efforts by candidates would
ignite some necessary awareness and discussion about movement governance in
the Indian Wikimedia movement.

Good wishes to the elected board members and once again thanks to everyone
who voted in this election.

Thanks and Regards,
Pavan Santhosh.
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Congratulations to Ananya, Netha and Jay Prakash

[pavan santhosh]

Congratulations to Wikimedians of the year from India:

   - Ananya Mondal - Rich media
   - Netha Hussain - Honorable mention
   - Jay Prakash - Technology innovator

Happy to see 3 Indian Wikimedians getting such a honour on Indian
Independence day.

Best,
Pavan Santhosh.
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Candidature of Pavan Santhosh Surampudi for the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board election.

[pavan santhosh]

Namaste to Fellow-Wikimedians of India,

Greetings. I hope everything is well with you.

Elections to fill 4 community seats in Wikimedia Foundation's board of
Trustees is going to happen during 4-17 of August 2021. I am happy to
announce my candidature for the Wikimedia Foundation's Board Elections.
Here is my candidacy page for the same:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates/Pavan_Santhosh_Surampudi
.

In my Wikimedia experience, I am involved in improving content, working
towards community growth, planning and executing projects, and movement
governance. I have played several roles and contributed to several
activities within Indian Wikimedia movement. Contributing to Telugu
Wikipedia as one of the admins and active user, Working as Community
Advocate for CIS-A2K (Until August 2019), Taking part in Movement strategy
process as member of Community Health working group, Co-organising
conferences, Planning and rolling out projects are some of them. I am
currently working as Community Manager at Quora
<https://te.quora.com/profile/Pavan-Santhosh-Surampudi> where I work
involves building and managing Quora’s Telugu community across the world as
my day job. My activities, associations, & contributions in movement
allowed me to interact and collaborate with many of you earlier.

My work in community building, governance, and partnerships in a country
like India with diverse opportunities entangled with complex issues helped
me to have a unique experience and insights that will be helpful for me in
my work as a Board member. Working with several Wikimedia Community members
from India, helped me to understand South Asian communities, along with the
larger global south, lacking in terms of resources, support and awareness
which is hindering global diversity and growth.

As our communities have great opportunities to work with, this is infact
resulting in a great opportunity cost. The Wikimedia movement has a great
potential to make a lasting impact on even more people where current
government and societal structures are neglecting and keeping them away
from the availability of knowledge. Current issues like less diversity,
centralized power, harassment and lack of adoption to rapidly growing
technological aspects are hindering the Wikimedia movement's progress in
this direction.

We, as a movement, can change this by empowering stakeholders (like
Affiliates, Wikimedians, etc.,), investing in leadership and skill
development, making boards more accessible to community members and other such
steps
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2021/Candidates/Pavan_Santhosh_Surampudi>.
I am strongly motivated to contribute to these important aspects by serving
as a board member to Wikimedia Foundation.


I request you to support my candidature. I am happy to answer any questions
you have. Please connect me through my email id 
or meta-wiki user talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pavan_santhosh.s>.


Thank you,


Pavan Santhosh Surampudi.

User:Pavan santhosh.s
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India grants and communication to Wikimediaindia-l

[pavan santhosh]

Hello Tito,

Many of us are already doing this but before making it a more formal
process/ part of a best practice some issues need our attention. This
brings the question of active adminship of the Wikimediaindia-l mailing
list. Many times, mails to Wikimediaindia-l mailing list did not appear in
the list even after several days. Sometimes mails got published (do not
know technicality, so excuse me for using these terms) even after several
days of the deadline/event/activity. I do not know the reasons or issues in
maintaining the list, but thought it would be helpful to bring this up now.

To sum up: If we aim to get state-level, project-level, and other kinds of
grants posted here, we need to help several communities and many community
members understand the necessity, but in the first place, we need to fix
issues in maintaining this space before asking them to come here and post.
I believe we can do it together and would like to see comments from other
community members too.

Regards,
Pavan.

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 10:55 AM Tito Dutta  wrote:

> Namaskara,
> This might be some food for thought, and inputs are welcome. India mailing
> list is the largest and most widely used Wikimedia mailing list for the
> Indian community. Could we have a practice that all grant requests from the
> country (or related to) are informed on the Wikimediaindia-l mailing list?
>
> Whether it is a state-level, project-level, language-level etc, or whether
> it is a rapid grant, project grant etc it would be good to see the plan
> details on this mailing list in advance. It will ensure greater visibility,
> and it will also ensure the community's understanding/knowing of each
> other's projects.
>
> If we can have a practice like this, we can inform Wikimedia, or CR team
> or relevant support structure(s) as an India community practice.
>
> This post is in my personal capacity. Please assume good faith
> Regards,
> User:Titodutta
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation proposal to call ourselves as the Wikipedia Network, Wikipedia Movement or simply Wiki

[pavan santhosh]

Thanks for bringing this up, Tito. I recommend every Wikimedian to read
them and also voice their opinion in Survey!

ఆది, 21 జూన్, 2020 4:25 PMకి, Tito Dutta  ఇలా వ్రాసారు:

> Hello,
> This post on Wikimedia-l summarises and captures the recent updates and
> the journey so far.
> Specially, in case we need to know the background and details, the links
> shared by Florence in the post below will take through. I'll add some
> additional notes to the links (without editing the main post)
> 1) Link 1 is the main rebranding page, to know more about the rebranding
> plan. That's the main page.
> 2) Link 2 is about an RfC that took place to understand community opinion
> on "Should the Foundation call itself Wikimedia?"
> 3) Now after presenting the main idea (Link 1) and getting community
> feedback (link 2 the RfC, and different other channels were used to get
> feedback, including 2 workshops at Oslo, and Bangalore, 1 online workshop,
> mailing list discussion etc. they, as reported, gathered all feedback and
> presented 3 naming conventions. We are in "this" stage now. If you have
> got a post on your talk page or email asking to fill a survey, or talking
> about selecting one of the three naming conventions (Wikipedia network,
> Wikipedia movement, and Wiki), that's the naming convention survey. The
> naming conventions are presented in Link 3 below.
> Link 4 contains YouTube video links, where the ideas were presented in
> videos.
>
>  Actually we are slightly ahead of this stage now, especially after an
> Executive Summary was posted on 18 June 2020, you might have noticed
> another post on this mailing list yesterday. In this "for your information"
> or "let's look back/summarise" post I don't want to include that, as it
> will make the timeline more complicated, and will make it more difficult to
> follow.
>
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Roman Bustria Jr. <>
> Date: Sun, Jun 21, 2020, 3:53 PM
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation proposal to call ourselves as
> the Wikipedia Network, Wikipedia Movement or simply Wiki
> To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org 
>
> Hi Folks,
> There is a proposal initiated by the Wikimedia Foundation to call ourselves
> the "Wikipedia Network", "Wikipedia Movement" or simply "Wiki".
>
> I strongly suggest that the Foundation should allocate time & resources
> with the Wikimedia community fully involved in *identifying and resolving
> the real problem *that brought the idea of creating the brands department.
> These include opening communication channels like what was done in our
> strategy 2030 process to ask recommendations on how we strengthen the
> Wikimedia identity (like having online and offline promotion of the
> "Wikimedia" identity)
>
> I was puzzled how this Brand project was not fully integrated in the 2017
> and 2018-2020 Movement Strategy Process.
>
> But hey, we can do a counter proposal and offer a better and more
> acceptable solution to this.
>
>
> As shared by the Florence in the other mailing list:
>
> 1) if you are not aware of the topic, and arguments behind the
> proposition >
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project
> 2) if you would like to read some feedback from the community, check
> this :
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Should_the_Foundation_call_itself_Wikipedia
> 3) to read the proposals :
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Communications/Wikimedia_brands/2030_movement_brand_project/Naming_convention_proposals
> 4) to watch the presentation via youtube  :
> *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3zlBGHHHiY
> *
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Sincerely,
>
> Butch Bustria
>
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiProject Covid-19 in Indic languages

[pavan santhosh]

Dear Friends,

I would like to start the mail with a word of love. I hope everyone of us
are doing well during this difficult times. I believe that we will get
through this situation and collectively world will outlive this pandemic.
What we are contributing to this world become enormously important during
this difficult times than any time ever before. Several volunteers around
the world contributing to create, improve, and update content about the
Covid-19 and pandemic which in many ways is service to the world.

During 3rd week of March, I created and worked on a WikiProject to
co-ordinate efforts (prioritize, list-out articles and resources, organize
workflow, etc.,) to create, improve and update content about Covid-19 in
Telugu Wikipedia. After that, on March 22, I started doing the same for
Indian languages by creating page for WikiProject Covid-19 in Indic
languages in meta. Unfortunately, due to a personal loss, I couldn't do
much about it for few weeks. Later I started coordinating people and
improving the Project page which finally took a shape:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages.

*What is Wikiproject Covid-19 in Indic languages? Why is this required?*

*Wikiproject Covid-19 in Indian languages* is a meta-wiki project dedicated
to co-ordinate efforts to coverage about topics related in Indian language
Wikipedias. Although there are several efforts going on in various Indian
languages, there needs a central co-ordination project to ensure more
collaboration and better outcomes.

Some of the things that we can do together:

   - Co-ordinating efforts to create, share, and localise materials and
   media needed to improve the articles.
   - Collaborating with other projects like Wikidata taskforce (ex: finding
   ways to integrate Wikidata and Wikipedia, so that no one needs to update
   figures in every Wikipedia separately), Wikigraphists from India (ex: can
   take help to localize several graphs, pictures, etc.,), and other projects.
   - Bringing several ideas and best practices across the world together
   and making use of it.
   - Ex: From my personal experience, Very long articles in English
  Wikipedia makes translators life difficult. There is a good effort popped
  up in English Wikipedia by Netha Hussain to create short form of
important
  articles which helps translation of those articles into our languages. We
  can co-ordinate with them, get help from Indian English Wikipedians to
  create several short form articles and medium-long from articles to make
  translation easy.
   - Encouraging various language communities to run quality assessment of
   the articles and also equip them useful criteria to do so. As these
   articles have high visibility and usability, we can ensure quality by doing
   so.
   - Conduct webinars and IRCs to learn from each other (like a session
   from Wikidata experts to help others learn integration of Wikidata and
   Wikipedia in this regard), celebrate some achievements, and to share our
   camaraderie during these tough times.

These are some of the efforts we can take up if we collaborate and
coordinate, there can be many such things I couldn't imagine right now. I
would like to request everyone who is interested to join here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages.
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikiproject:Covid-19_in_Indic_languages>
You can either start a discussion thread about this in your language
Wikipedia village pumps and let everyone know in the talk page of project
or anyway, I can go ahead & inform this in English in all the Wikipedia
Village pumps.

With love,
Pavan Santhosh.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference India 2020] Conference & Event Grant proposal to WMF

[pavan santhosh]

ble costs have been
   assumed. This purely to avoid last-minute strains and be on a safer side --
   securing funds at a later stage, even if the need be, will only complicate
   things for all stakeholders involved, including the organisers, WMF, and
   CIS-A2K. However, only modest amounts will be spent, which ensures that
   everyone participating in the conference has a smooth experience. The
   remainder will either be sent back to WMF or reallocated to other community
   activities, post-approval from WMF.

3. How will the transparency of spending be maintained?

   -

   As transparency is one of the core values of the Wikimedia movement,
   especially when it comes to finances it is the key. In this regard, all
   bills worth valuing more than ₹30,000.00 will be publicly published (unless
   there is any confidential information) and linked to the final report on
   expenditure. In addition, with the help of the Centre for Internet &
   Society, the fiscal sponsor for the project, after all the transactions are
   over with respective bills/receipts received, an audit will be conducted by
   a registered auditor, who will certify the accounts. This report will be
   publicly published.


Best Regards,

Pavan Santhosh.

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WikiConference_India_2020#FAQs

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WikiConference_India_2020

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Conference/WikiConference_India_2020

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020 at 4:38 PM Yohann Thomas  wrote:

> Hi krishna
>
> If my memory serves me right, Wikiconference India 2016 had a budget
> around 33lakh INR. I haven't read the grant report yet, nor have I done a
> comparison with the 2016 event.. But according to your previous email, is
> having an event more than twice the budget of 2016 one, to almost 71lakh
> Rs.. Is it really justified..
>
> If yes.. What are you planning which is different from last times
> conference?
>
> Regards,
> Yohann
>
> On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 2:58 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Bodhi,
>>
>> Firstly, speaking of "1 crore 60 lakhs rupees" together might not be the
>> best way to look at it. I am not wrong, I am assuming that you are talking
>> about WikiWomen Camp, which is also happening in India. But that is
>> completely unrelated to WikiConference India, I mean in terns of budget,
>> goals and objectives. You might want to separately comment on each of them,
>> if you want to. To clarify the confusion for others, WikiConference India's
>> budget is ₹7,181,212.50 + additional fiscal sponsorship charge of ₹718,121.25
>> (10% of the budget). The former amount is that which goes into the spending
>> of the conference.
>>
>> An amount could be spent on several other smaller projects, but every
>> type of program has its own importance. In terms of impact, a conference
>> may not have tangible or numerical metrics to be considered, but it does
>> have impact on communities and India as a whole. Even for this conference,
>> we are trying to make the goals as objective as possible. Components of the
>> conference such as content creation campaign beforehand, and a
>> Mini-Hackathon, will try to ensure that. Also since Capacity development
>> emerged out as the most required need of the hour from the Community
>> Engagement Survey, we have specific evaluation measures to see if it really
>> helped people.
>>
>> You are most welcome to take your comments on regarding specific budget
>> items or the plan on the talk page, and it can be taken forward from there.
>>
>> Regards,
>> KC
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 12:12 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
>> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Krishna,
>>>
>>> Sorry to say, but as a volunteer, I can not find justification of
>>> spending 1 crore 60 lakhs rupees on just two conferences happening one
>>> after another. The amount is  huge and beyond my imagination.
>>>
>>> As a volunteer coming from West Bengal community which have always
>>> worked on optimal budget and respected donation money, and yet delivered
>>> consistent results through impactful projects each year, I find these
>>> expenditure out of proportion. This money could have been otherwise spent
>>> on several high impact projects for many years.
>>>
>>> I cannot say on behalf of my entire community but, personally, from my
>>> part, I cannot endorse this. Also, I guess, endorsement or opposition
>>> doesn't matter nowadays and these proposals will eventually get approved,
>>> in that case, I will not participate in

[Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference India 2020] Community Engagement Survey

[pavan santhosh]

Hello everyone,

I hope everyone is doing great.

I am writing this email to invite you all to participate in the Community
Engagement Survey for WikiConference India 2020. The Community Engagement
Survey is one of the key requirements for drafting the Conference & Event
Grant application for the Wikimedia Foundation.

The survey will have questions regarding a few demographic details, your
experience with Wikimedia, challenges and needs, and your expectations for
WCI 2020. The responses will help us to form an initial idea of what is
expected out of WCI 2020, and draft the grant application accordingly.
Please note that this will not directly influence the specificities of the
program, there will be a detailed survey to assess the program needs after
funding.

Please fill the survey at; https://forms.gle/YkA9UfcbXo3c637M6. The survey
will be open until 23:59 hrs of 22 December 2019.

Please pass on this message to your community mailing lists, and it would
be great if you post on the Village Pumps of your local Wikis. Looking
forward to all of your active participation.

Let me know if there are any questions.

Best wishes,

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[Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference India 2020] Closure of initial conversations and next steps

[pavan santhosh]

Hello everyone,

It is well known for many of us that the initial conversations for
WikiConference India 2020[1] started on 2 October 2019. It has been around
40 days (~7 weeks) since then. The support received from both individual
Wikimedians and language communities has been incredible, and we are very
much delighted to witness this. During this period, 91 Wikimedians[2]
endorsed the proposal and 14 language communities[3] have held separate
discussions about this on their local village pumps, and officially
endorsed the proposal as a community.

As there was an almost consensus, we held an IRC on 20 October 2019 to
clarify questions and address concerns community members may have. It was
attended by 28 people at peak point, and several queries have been
clarified[4]. Post IRC, we took time to address all the outstanding
comments by various Wikimedians on the talk page — all of which are now
resolved[5]. Finally, acknowledging the response from the larger Indian
Wikimedia community, Wikimedians from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana passed a
resolution on Telugu Wikipedia to formally take responsibility of the
conference and go forward with the next steps[6]. The same has been
communicated on the Meta-Wiki proposal page here[7].

We are considering this as the closure of initial conversations and would
like to proceed with the next steps involved. We thank everyone who
participated in the discussions related to this proposal, and all of them
have been helpful to expand our knowledge in organising a better conference.

The next major step is the Conference Grant proposal to WMF. There are
several other smaller steps involved before going submitting proposal, such
as the Community Engagement Survey. We will get back to you with the survey
soon, and this will be crucial to develop the grant application or more
importantly shape the program of WCI 2020 — we look forward to all of your
active participation in this regard.

Also before finally submitting the proposal to WMF, we will notify the
community after drafting the proposal and keep it for review (including the
budget) for at least 2 weeks, which will most probably be around mid-Jan
2020.

Apart from the major announcements, we would like to shift our
communication to people interested in WCI 2020 only — we mean that this
mailing list might not be the right place to post regular updates. In this
regard, community members who wish to receive regular updates regarding WCI
2020 please subscribe yourself to one of the following WCI exclusive
communication channels. Few of these still talk WCI 2016, they will soon be
updated to reflect the latest changes.


   1. 1. WikiConference India mailing list:
   https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiconference-india%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1573472444609000&sa=D&ust=1573472444621000&usg=AFQjCNEHwKr4nl168lL7JRVRvsw0xyeykg>
   2. 2. on-Wiki talk page message delivery:
   https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/WCI2020
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/WCI2020%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D157347244461&sa=D&ust=1573472444622000&usg=AFQjCNELwilQPuEpDoNmrowEDM4X25Bezw>
   3. 3. WikiConference India Facebook page
   https://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016/
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://www.facebook.com/WikiConferenceIndia2016/%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D157347244461&sa=D&ust=1573472444622000&usg=AFQjCNHY6YEWXktq0avI9o-RAfmSAntT9g>

Thank you all again for your enormous support and active participation.

Regards,

Pavan Santhosh and Krishna Chaitanya,

on behalf of Wikimedians from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1573472444612000&sa=D&ust=1573472444622000&usg=AFQjCNEiFCosBhkAmiqIlzi8AsBYzZYaxA>

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Individual_Wikimedians
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations%2523Individual_Wikimedians%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1573472444612000&sa=D&ust=1573472444622000&usg=AFQjCNHPutFXX1TF1pl9WOj3r_au1ihVEA>

[3]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Community_endorsements
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations%2523Community_endorsements%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Newbie biting in Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias

[pavan santhosh]

Hello Asaf,

Nice to hear from you. Thanks for making things clear. Kudos to your point
on balancing between quality of content and welcoming new Wikipedians. I
don't think that they are contradicting tasks. In long run, developing an
environment where experienced editors will step in and help newbies
understand how to contribute quality content that sticks to the core
content policies is, ideally, something that we need to work on. Hope we
will find another platform/thread to discuss such steps.

Bye for now.

Thanks & Regards,
Pavan.

On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 3:45 PM Asaf Bartov  wrote:

> More explicitly: Wikipedia communities are self-governing.  This means
> this mailing list has no particular ability to regulate behavior on the
> Kannada or Tulu Wikipedias.  It is to your fellow community members on
> those wikis that you should complain about the newbie-biter's behavior.
> Those communities should step up and stop the newbie-biting if they are
> interested in welcoming newcomers and seeing their community grow.
>
> (Remind people -- on-wiki -- that avoiding newbie-biting *does not* equal
> compromising on quality; it's just a better attitude to showing newcomers
> their mistakes or where (and how!) an article can be improved.)
>
> Cheers,
>
>A.
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 4:31 AM pavan santhosh 
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Dhanalakshmi KT,
>>
>> This is worth discussing in WP:Village pump as Ashwin sir suggested. I
>> believe discussions in Tulu and Kannada Wikipedia helps to resolve issue
>> better.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 5:45 PM Dhanalakshmi K. T. 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We are all aware of Newbie biting. One editor by User name Lokesha
>>> kunchadka
>>> <https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Lokesha_kunchadka>
>>>  who
>>> is indulging in Newbie biting in Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias from almost
>>> last 2-3 months. He was issued a warning by the admin in Kannada Wikipedia,
>>> link is here
>>> <https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B0_%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F:Lokesha_kunchadka#Newbie_biting>
>>> .
>>>
>>> I have been conducting Diversity Editathons from last 3 months. One of
>>> the major aims of these editathons is to bring more women editors. Before
>>> the new editor completes the article this person jumps in and adds
>>> templates to imply the article is not of good quality. The new editors,
>>> especially the women editors, are scared to continue editing because of
>>> this newbie biting. Apart from this I had written an article on 13th
>>> October 2019 with the template Under constriction for which he commented
>>> saying there is no such topic. I was planning to complete the article with
>>> reference to the title today.
>>>
>>> I would like to hear suggestions from experienced people on how do deal
>>> with this kind of situation.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Dhanalakshmi K T
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Newbie biting in Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias

[pavan santhosh]

Hey Dhanalakshmi KT,

This is worth discussing in WP:Village pump as Ashwin sir suggested. I
believe discussions in Tulu and Kannada Wikipedia helps to resolve issue
better.

On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 5:45 PM Dhanalakshmi K. T. 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are all aware of Newbie biting. One editor by User name Lokesha
> kunchadka
> <https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Lokesha_kunchadka>
>  who
> is indulging in Newbie biting in Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias from almost
> last 2-3 months. He was issued a warning by the admin in Kannada Wikipedia,
> link is here
> <https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B0_%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F:Lokesha_kunchadka#Newbie_biting>
> .
>
> I have been conducting Diversity Editathons from last 3 months. One of the
> major aims of these editathons is to bring more women editors. Before the
> new editor completes the article this person jumps in and adds templates to
> imply the article is not of good quality. The new editors, especially the
> women editors, are scared to continue editing because of this newbie
> biting. Apart from this I had written an article on 13th October 2019 with
> the template Under constriction for which he commented saying there is no
> such topic. I was planning to complete the article with reference to the
> title today.
>
> I would like to hear suggestions from experienced people on how do deal
> with this kind of situation.
>
> Regards,
> Dhanalakshmi K T
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2020: Initial conversations

[pavan santhosh]

Hello Everyone,

*Reminder to IRC. In 45 min, that is by 6 PM IST, we have an IRC.*

Details of IRC:

Website: https://webchat.freenode.net/
Channel: #wci

Looking forward for your participation. See you in 45 min.

Best,
Pavan.


On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:32 PM pavan santhosh 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> We have a few updates regarding the WikiConference India 2020 proposal for
> Hyderabad. Firstly, we are happy to share the news that there has been a
> very good positive response from individual Wikimedians
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Individual_Wikimedians>[1].
> Also there have community-wide discussions on local Village Pumps on
> various languages. Several of these discussions have reached consensus
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Community_endorsements>[2],
> and are supporting this idea.
>
> We will be engaging with more communities this week, and clear any
> concerns/doubts people may have during this week. Also to wrap up these
> discussions and conclude, we would like to call for IRC.
>
> Details of IRC:
>
> Timings and Date: 6:00 pm on 20 August 2019
>
> Website: https://webchat.freenode.net/
>
> Channel: #wci
>
> Looking forward for all your active participation. Hope you all have a
> great week ahead.
>
> Thanks & Rewards,
>
> Pavan.
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Individual_Wikimedians
>
> [2]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Community_endorsements
>
> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:45 PM pavan santhosh 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> We would like to thank everyone who have shown their interest by
>> providing support or initiating discussions on the Meta-Wiki page, or in
>> this thread.
>>
>> It is indeed thrilling to see a lot of support, interest and enthusiasm
>> in Indian Wikimedians about this proposal for Wiki Conference India 2020.
>> We will continue to engage in the talk page with the ideas and issues
>> floated about this proposal as we have already mentioned in initial mail:
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations
>> .
>>
>> If any of the communities would like to endorse the proposal as a
>> community, it would be great to see such a support. Please do it at the
>> earliest possible, latest by 18th. This will help us to speed up the
>> process, if there are any other comments, please direct them to the talk
>> page[1]
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>>
>> Pavan Santhosh & Krishna Chaitanya
>>
>> [1]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 5:09 PM Ashwin Baindur 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> This is with regards to the suggestion that the proposed forthcoming
>>> WikiConference, be a SAARC event, which was given by Abhinav Shrivastava.
>>>
>>> That is definitely a good idea, but not now in place of a national level
>>> conference pertaining to and focussing primarily on our country.
>>>
>>> The foci of a national conference and an international conference are
>>> completely different. So, that conference definitely needs to be arranged
>>> but not here, not now.
>>>
>>> A second reason is that due to the geopolitics being such, there have
>>> been cases of candidates being invited to participate in the conferences in
>>> India and visas not being granted. There seems to be no way around this at
>>> present.
>>>
>>> Thirdly, Indian issues, by virtue of our numbers of communities, size
>>> and complexities, would totally drown out the regional combined interests
>>> and the individual interests of foreign communities. So, the SAARC
>>> Conference should have Indian representation but as a participant
>>> proportionally the same as each other SAARC country, not dominating vide
>>> our size, sophistication and reach.
>>>
>>> For that and other reasons, it may be appropriate for SAARC
>>> WikiConference to be held in another country or if it is to be held in
>>> India, then a year or two down the line after WikiConference India.
>>>
>>> Of course, Wikimedian representatives of SAARC communities are welcome
>>> to attend our proposed national conference as usual.
>>>
>>> Let that SAARC Conference be planned and worked on by Abhinav for
>>> subsequent implementation, since he has moo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2020: Initial conversations

[pavan santhosh]

Thanks for pointing out, Sudhanwa. Yes, it's 20 October 2019. Sorry for the
error.

సోమ, 14 అక్టో, 2019 11:18 PMకి, Sudhanwa Jogalekar 
ఇలా వ్రాసారు:

> IRC date mentioned is 20 August. It should be October I suppose.
>
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:32 PM pavan santhosh 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> We have a few updates regarding the WikiConference India 2020 proposal
>> for Hyderabad. Firstly, we are happy to share the news that there has been a
>> very good positive response from individual Wikimedians
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Individual_Wikimedians>[1].
>> Also there have community-wide discussions on local Village Pumps on
>> various languages. Several of these discussions have reached consensus
>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Community_endorsements>[2],
>> and are supporting this idea.
>>
>> We will be engaging with more communities this week, and clear any
>> concerns/doubts people may have during this week. Also to wrap up these
>> discussions and conclude, we would like to call for IRC.
>>
>> Details of IRC:
>>
>> Timings and Date: 6:00 pm on 20 August 2019
>>
>> Website: https://webchat.freenode.net/
>>
>> Channel: #wci
>>
>> Looking forward for all your active participation. Hope you all have a
>> great week ahead.
>>
>> Thanks & Rewards,
>>
>> Pavan.
>>
>> [1]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Individual_Wikimedians
>>
>> [2]
>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Community_endorsements
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:45 PM pavan santhosh 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> We would like to thank everyone who have shown their interest by
>>> providing support or initiating discussions on the Meta-Wiki page, or in
>>> this thread.
>>>
>>> It is indeed thrilling to see a lot of support, interest and enthusiasm
>>> in Indian Wikimedians about this proposal for Wiki Conference India 2020.
>>> We will continue to engage in the talk page with the ideas and issues
>>> floated about this proposal as we have already mentioned in initial mail:
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations
>>> .
>>>
>>> If any of the communities would like to endorse the proposal as a
>>> community, it would be great to see such a support. Please do it at the
>>> earliest possible, latest by 18th. This will help us to speed up the
>>> process, if there are any other comments, please direct them to the talk
>>> page[1]
>>>
>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>>
>>> Pavan Santhosh & Krishna Chaitanya
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 5:09 PM Ashwin Baindur 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> This is with regards to the suggestion that the proposed forthcoming
>>>> WikiConference, be a SAARC event, which was given by Abhinav Shrivastava.
>>>>
>>>> That is definitely a good idea, but not now in place of a national
>>>> level conference pertaining to and focussing primarily on our country.
>>>>
>>>> The foci of a national conference and an international conference are
>>>> completely different. So, that conference definitely needs to be arranged
>>>> but not here, not now.
>>>>
>>>> A second reason is that due to the geopolitics being such, there have
>>>> been cases of candidates being invited to participate in the conferences in
>>>> India and visas not being granted. There seems to be no way around this at
>>>> present.
>>>>
>>>> Thirdly, Indian issues, by virtue of our numbers of communities, size
>>>> and complexities, would totally drown out the regional combined interests
>>>> and the individual interests of foreign communities. So, the SAARC
>>>> Conference should have Indian representation but as a participant
>>>> proportionally the same as each other SAARC country, not dominating vide
>>>> our size, sophistication and reach.
>>>>
>>>> For that and other reasons, it may be appropriate for SAARC
>>>> WikiConference to be held in another country or if it is to be held in
>>>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2020: Initial conversations

[pavan santhosh]

Hello everyone,

We have a few updates regarding the WikiConference India 2020 proposal for
Hyderabad. Firstly, we are happy to share the news that there has been a
very good positive response from individual Wikimedians
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Individual_Wikimedians>[1].
Also there have community-wide discussions on local Village Pumps on
various languages. Several of these discussions have reached consensus
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Community_endorsements>[2],
and are supporting this idea.

We will be engaging with more communities this week, and clear any
concerns/doubts people may have during this week. Also to wrap up these
discussions and conclude, we would like to call for IRC.

Details of IRC:

Timings and Date: 6:00 pm on 20 August 2019

Website: https://webchat.freenode.net/

Channel: #wci

Looking forward for all your active participation. Hope you all have a
great week ahead.

Thanks & Rewards,

Pavan.

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Individual_Wikimedians

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations#Community_endorsements

On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:45 PM pavan santhosh 
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> We would like to thank everyone who have shown their interest by providing
> support or initiating discussions on the Meta-Wiki page, or in this thread.
>
> It is indeed thrilling to see a lot of support, interest and enthusiasm in
> Indian Wikimedians about this proposal for Wiki Conference India 2020. We
> will continue to engage in the talk page with the ideas and issues floated
> about this proposal as we have already mentioned in initial mail:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations
> .
>
> If any of the communities would like to endorse the proposal as a
> community, it would be great to see such a support. Please do it at the
> earliest possible, latest by 18th. This will help us to speed up the
> process, if there are any other comments, please direct them to the talk
> page[1]
>
> Thanks & Regards,
>
> Pavan Santhosh & Krishna Chaitanya
>
> [1]
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 5:09 PM Ashwin Baindur 
> wrote:
>
>> This is with regards to the suggestion that the proposed forthcoming
>> WikiConference, be a SAARC event, which was given by Abhinav Shrivastava.
>>
>> That is definitely a good idea, but not now in place of a national level
>> conference pertaining to and focussing primarily on our country.
>>
>> The foci of a national conference and an international conference are
>> completely different. So, that conference definitely needs to be arranged
>> but not here, not now.
>>
>> A second reason is that due to the geopolitics being such, there have
>> been cases of candidates being invited to participate in the conferences in
>> India and visas not being granted. There seems to be no way around this at
>> present.
>>
>> Thirdly, Indian issues, by virtue of our numbers of communities, size and
>> complexities, would totally drown out the regional combined interests and
>> the individual interests of foreign communities. So, the SAARC Conference
>> should have Indian representation but as a participant proportionally the
>> same as each other SAARC country, not dominating vide our size,
>> sophistication and reach.
>>
>> For that and other reasons, it may be appropriate for SAARC
>> WikiConference to be held in another country or if it is to be held in
>> India, then a year or two down the line after WikiConference India.
>>
>> Of course, Wikimedian representatives of SAARC communities are welcome to
>> attend our proposed national conference as usual.
>>
>> Let that SAARC Conference be planned and worked on by Abhinav for
>> subsequent implementation, since he has mooted this on behalf of Chapter.
>>
>> However, that idea needs to be sounded out first on the international
>> list to give notice to the communities of those countries.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 2:39 PM Dhaval S. Vyas  wrote:
>>
>>> Happy Gandhi Jayanti to you and all!
>>>
>>> Very pleased to see WCI being organised again, as they say, better late
>>> than never. Thanks Telugu wiki community for taking lead. I will love to
>>> help remotely as much as I can and will hope to be able to attend it as
>>> well.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Dhaval
>>>
>>> On Wed, 2

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2020: Initial conversations

[pavan santhosh]

Hello all,

We would like to thank everyone who have shown their interest by providing
support or initiating discussions on the Meta-Wiki page, or in this thread.

It is indeed thrilling to see a lot of support, interest and enthusiasm in
Indian Wikimedians about this proposal for Wiki Conference India 2020. We
will continue to engage in the talk page with the ideas and issues floated
about this proposal as we have already mentioned in initial mail:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations
.

If any of the communities would like to endorse the proposal as a
community, it would be great to see such a support. Please do it at the
earliest possible, latest by 18th. This will help us to speed up the
process, if there are any other comments, please direct them to the talk
page[1]

Thanks & Regards,

Pavan Santhosh & Krishna Chaitanya

[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 5:09 PM Ashwin Baindur 
wrote:

> This is with regards to the suggestion that the proposed forthcoming
> WikiConference, be a SAARC event, which was given by Abhinav Shrivastava.
>
> That is definitely a good idea, but not now in place of a national level
> conference pertaining to and focussing primarily on our country.
>
> The foci of a national conference and an international conference are
> completely different. So, that conference definitely needs to be arranged
> but not here, not now.
>
> A second reason is that due to the geopolitics being such, there have been
> cases of candidates being invited to participate in the conferences in
> India and visas not being granted. There seems to be no way around this at
> present.
>
> Thirdly, Indian issues, by virtue of our numbers of communities, size and
> complexities, would totally drown out the regional combined interests and
> the individual interests of foreign communities. So, the SAARC Conference
> should have Indian representation but as a participant proportionally the
> same as each other SAARC country, not dominating vide our size,
> sophistication and reach.
>
> For that and other reasons, it may be appropriate for SAARC WikiConference
> to be held in another country or if it is to be held in India, then a year
> or two down the line after WikiConference India.
>
> Of course, Wikimedian representatives of SAARC communities are welcome to
> attend our proposed national conference as usual.
>
> Let that SAARC Conference be planned and worked on by Abhinav for
> subsequent implementation, since he has mooted this on behalf of Chapter.
>
> However, that idea needs to be sounded out first on the international list
> to give notice to the communities of those countries.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 2:39 PM Dhaval S. Vyas  wrote:
>
>> Happy Gandhi Jayanti to you and all!
>>
>> Very pleased to see WCI being organised again, as they say, better late
>> than never. Thanks Telugu wiki community for taking lead. I will love to
>> help remotely as much as I can and will hope to be able to attend it as
>> well.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> Dhaval
>>
>> On Wed, 2 Oct 2019, 05:06 pavan santhosh, 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Fellow Wikimedians, Happy Gandhi Jayanti!
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope all of you are doing well. I am writing this email to start an
>>> initial conversation to host WikiConference India 2020 in Hyderabad.
>>>
>>> Many of us know that we had two national conferences in India till date
>>> - the first one in 2011 in Mumbai, and the second one in 2016 in
>>> Chandigarh. Both the conferences had been effective in bringing the diverse
>>> and massive Indian community together for a collective effort. The
>>> cross-community connections made during these conferences led many future
>>> collaborations across the country.
>>>
>>> I was one of the participants in 2016, and as I clearly remember, during
>>> the closing note, it was stressed upon that WCI should ideally happy
>>> annually, at least bi-annually, and we shouldn’t be waiting years all
>>> together for the next conference. But it has been more than three years
>>> since the last conference, and we are yet to have one. With this as a
>>> background, we have been discussing this for quite some time, and we
>>> decided recently to take the baton forward and host the WCI in Hyderabad in
>>> 2020. We are willing to invest the required time and energy to make this
>>> happen. Also we have had an initial conversation about this on Telugu
>>> Wikipedia Village Pump, and the local community is in support of this. The
>>> discussi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: 1000-ebooks-released-in-creative-commons-license-by-thamizhmann-publishers

[pavan santhosh]

Great work. Congratulations to Tamil Wikisource community!

బుధ, 2 అక్టో, 2019 2:26 PMకి, Shrinivasan T  ఇలా
వ్రాసారు:

>
>
> Happy to announce that ThamizhMann Publishers, Chennai are released their
> 1000s of Tamil books in Creative Commons License.
>
> Read the details here
>
> In Tamil -
> http://www.kaniyam.com/1000-ebooks-released-in-creative-commons-license-by-thamizhmann-publishers/
>
> In English -
> https://goinggnu.wordpress.com/2019/10/02/1000-ebooks-released-in-creative-commons-license-by-thamizhmann-publishers/
>
> Here is the announcement in English and Tamil along with their book list.
>
> in Tamil –
> https://archive.org/download/thamizhmann-cc-declaration/Thamizhmann-cc-declaration-tamil.pdf
>
> In English –
> https://archive.org/download/thamizhmann-cc-declaration/Thamizhmann-cc-declaration-english.pdf
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> T.Shrinivasan
>
>
> My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com
> Free E-Magazine on Free Open Source Software in Tamil : http://kaniyam.com
>
> Get Free Tamil Ebooks for Android, iOS, Kindle, Computer :
> http://FreeTamilEbooks.com
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[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2020: Initial conversations

[pavan santhosh]

Dear Fellow Wikimedians, Happy Gandhi Jayanti!


Hope all of you are doing well. I am writing this email to start an initial
conversation to host WikiConference India 2020 in Hyderabad.

Many of us know that we had two national conferences in India till date -
the first one in 2011 in Mumbai, and the second one in 2016 in Chandigarh.
Both the conferences had been effective in bringing the diverse and massive
Indian community together for a collective effort. The cross-community
connections made during these conferences led many future collaborations
across the country.

I was one of the participants in 2016, and as I clearly remember, during
the closing note, it was stressed upon that WCI should ideally happy
annually, at least bi-annually, and we shouldn’t be waiting years all
together for the next conference. But it has been more than three years
since the last conference, and we are yet to have one. With this as a
background, we have been discussing this for quite some time, and we
decided recently to take the baton forward and host the WCI in Hyderabad in
2020. We are willing to invest the required time and energy to make this
happen. Also we have had an initial conversation about this on Telugu
Wikipedia Village Pump, and the local community is in support of this. The
discussion can be seen here
<https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%9A%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%9A%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1#2020_%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE_%E0%B0%9C%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AF_%E0%B0%B8%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B5%E0%B1%87%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%82_(%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80_%E0%B0%95%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AB%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%86%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%87%E0%B0%82%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE)_%E0%B0%B9%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%A6%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A6%E0%B1%81%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8B>
[1]

In 2018, the Community Resources team at the Wikimedia Foundation
published Global
Event Strategy
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Reading_material#Global_Event_Strategy>[2]
which stressed on more and regular regional conferences. Such conferences
are being organized in other parts of the world such as WikiIndaba, CEE
Meeting, North America, Iberocoop, Francophone convention, Wikiarabia,
ESEAP etc. Even next year’s Wikimania is being organized by a group of
affiliates and that journey started with them organizing ESEAP conference
in 2018.

This conference can and will bring our energies, ideas, learnings, and
hopes together. It will help us in our journey towards better
collaborations, diverse efforts and reinforce our identity as the Indian
Wikimedia community. This conference will enable us to have better
knowledge about current capacities, the gaps and also to build leadership.
Exploring opportunities, bringing out leadership, empowering communities,
providing a strategic understanding are some of which this conference can
bring out. Apart from all these, providing a national-level platform for
Indian Wikimedians to connect, re-connect, and establish their
collaboration itself can be a very important purpose on it’s own.

I hope we, the Indian Wikimedia Community members, come together in our
various capacities and make this a reality by 2020. I believe we all will
take learnings from earlier attempts and improve processes & use best
practices in conducting this conference purposefully and fruitfully.

Our entire thought has been put into this Meta-Wiki page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations>[3],
which has a more detailed explanation of what is what, and why. Since this
tends to large and an important discussion, please keep all the
conversations to talk page
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations>
of above link[4]. We can’t comfortably converse about multiple issues on
one email thread (unlike sections on a page), and multiply emails can be
annoying by spamming inboxes and tough to keep a track. So we would kindly
urge all the conversations to be kept on the above-mentioned talk page.

Thanks & regards,

Pavan Santhosh and Krishna Chaitanya


Links:

   1.


   
https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:రచ్చబండ#2020_వికీమీడియా_జాతీయ_సమావేశం_(వికీ_కాన్ఫరెన్స్_ఇండియా)_హైదరాబాదులో
   <https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/>
   2.


   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Reading_material#Global_Event_Strategy
   3.


   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations
   4.


   
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2020:_Initial_conversations
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for bids to host Wikisource Advance Training 2019

[pavan santhosh]

Hello Jayanta,

I would like to appreciate you and team for planning and rolling out this
training. Along with that, I would also like to raise a major concern which
is unrelated to bidding but is more about program design.

Meta page about this event says that "The selection [of participants] will
be done by each Indic Wikisource community.". Apart from all good
intentions behind this process, I would like to point out that in many
cases this is likely to create barriers for participation.

   - *Communities with community health issues: *For some communities which
   are having community health issues, this will only result in further damage.
   - *Even for remaining healthy communities:* Even in those communities, I
   would like to point out to you that there are still several community
   members who never felt comfortable in commenting or posting anything in
   their respective village pumps, in almost all languages.

At large, this approach is going to be counter productive to community
members who by nature are not so social. And we can not exclude them. Also,
in some cases, this will give more power to power networks and structures
which can result more exclusion. At large this is structurally creating a
way for exclusion.

Apart from my stand, I would like to acknowledge that I feel this process
is considered to set up to increase accountability in participants and
improve community involvement and agency. But, I believe we can find other
ways to solve issues with accountability. I can, with all due respect to
the people who thought out the process and people who suggested this,
strongly say this is not acceptable way to deal with accountability
question or for that matter even the question of improving community
collaboration.

Best,
Pavan.

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 10:23 PM Jayanta Nath  wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> It gives us great pleasure to inform that the Wikisource Advance Training
> 2019 program organised by CIS-A2K is going to be held from 11 October & 13
> October 2019.
>
>
>
> Advance Wikisource Training is a residential training program is planned
> for Indic Wikisource community (including English) members. Last year we
> focused on Wikipedia and conducted the Wiki Advanced Training at Ranch,
> India.  Also, Earlier Indic Wikisource Community Consultation has been
> conducted in 2018 at Kolkata.
>
> This year CIS-A2K is interested to collaborate with the community in
> hosting the event. Interested community members, please check the following
> link for proposal for hosting at their city:
>
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Wiki_Advanced_Training/2019/Bids
>
> It is requested to All Indic Wiki-librarians, kindly apply your request
> to join this event at your language wikisource village pump with separate
> section.  As per community decision, we will select the participants.
>
> Please consider sharing this process details with your community members.
>
>
>
> If you have any questions, please let us know.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
> Jayanta Nath
>
> Wikisource Advisor
>
> CIS-A2K
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Santhosh Thottingal wins the President's Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for 2019

[pavan santhosh]

This is amazing! Congratulations Santhosh!!!

Best,
Pavan.

గురు, 15 ఆగ, 2019 6:57 PMకి, manoj k  ఇలా
వ్రాసారు:

> Santhosh Thottingal
> 
> has won the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman by the Hon. President of India
> .
> This is in recognition of his substantial contribution in the field of
> Malayalam language. The award, instituted in 2016, is given to the
> substantial contributions to languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Arabi,
> Pali and Classical Oriya, Classical Kannada, Classical Telugu, and
> Classical Malayalam. This is given to young scholars in the age group of
> 30 to 45 years
> .
> The Presidential award carries a certificate of honor, a memento and a
> one-time cash prize of Rs.1 lakh.
>
> Santhosh is one of the most active contributors of Swathanthra Malayalam
> Computing and a principal engineer in Wikipedia's language computing
> department. He has designed and released several algorithms and tools that
> serve computing needs in many Indian languages including Malayalam. He
> heads the maintenance of a dozen or so of the popular Malayalam fonts.
> Santhosh (along Kavya) designed two of these fonts, Chilanka and Manjari
> .
> He has contributed
> 
> tools that serve a broad range of language computing needs - input tools,
> layout tools, fonts, font rendering, text to speech, translation,
> localization are just a few of these areas. He has also contributed and
> presented papers at several international conferences.
>
> Dr. Rajeev R. R from the e-governance and training department of ICFOSS
> has also been selected for this award along with Santhosh.
>
> We hope this award inspires Santhosh and Rajeev to push the boundaries of
> Language computing.
>
>
> https://blog.smc.org.in/santhosh-thottingal-wins-the-presidents-maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-for-2019/
>
> --
> Manoj Karingamadathil [[User:Manojk]]
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Signing off from A2K team

[pavan santhosh]

Dear Wikimedian friends,

I would like to share my decision to step down from Community advocate
position in Access to Knowledge team of The Centre for Internet and
Society. I would like to take this as an opportunity to thank Indian
Wikimedians for your collaboration and support.

I am immensely blessed to work hand in hand with many of you in my A2K
capacity. What I learnt and moments I shared in our interactions stays with
me forever. My heartfelt apologies for any inconvenience or mistakes
happened from my part in this journey.

Although this looks like a farewell mail, actually it is not! Because the
mission that tied us together continues inspiring us to collaborate
forever. Like you all, I am a Wikimedian for life. I believe you all will
continue working with me in my volunteer capacity, anyway. In that sense,
this is just changing a hat. Please reach me out over this mail and my
Wikimedia
user talk pages <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Pavan_santhosh.s>
.

Thanks & Regards,
Pavan Santhosh.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Train the trainer 2019

[pavan santhosh]

Dear All,

A gentle reminder, only 2 days left to Bid for hosting Train the trainer
program 2019. We are looking forward for seeing bids from interested
communities.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2019/Bids

Best,


On Sat, 12 Jan, 2019, 11:07 AM pavan santhosh  Dear Wikimedians,
>
> Train-the-Trainer or TTT is a residential training program that attempts
> to groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community (including
> English) members. Earlier TTT has been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
> and 2018. This year CIS-A2K is interested to collaborate with the community
> in hosting the event. Interested community members please check the
> following link:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2019/Bids
>
> If you have any questions, please let us know.
>
> Regards,
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Train the trainer 2019

[pavan santhosh]

Dear Wikimedians,

Train-the-Trainer or TTT is a residential training program that attempts to
groom leadership skills among the Indian Wikimedia community (including
English) members. Earlier TTT has been conducted in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017
and 2018. This year CIS-A2K is interested to collaborate with the community
in hosting the event. Interested community members please check the
following link:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2019/Bids

If you have any questions, please let us know.

Regards,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Government of Telangana Re-licensed content and Felicitated Wikimedians

[pavan santhosh]

Dear All,

Greetings from Telugu Wikipedia community and CIS-A2K!

The Language and Culture Department of the Government of Telangana and
Digi”Tel” Telangana organized Conference about “Telangana Culture,
Literature, Language and Festivals in Digital Medium[1]” on October 12 and
13. The event was supported by CIS-A2K where Telugu Wikipedian Pranayraj,
Ajay Bandi and Pavan were part of the event. Some of the outcomes of this
event were:

   -

   19 Telugu Wikipedians were felicitated by the Government of Telangana
   during the event for their effort and contributions on Telugu Wikipedia.
   -

   Mamidi Harikrishna, Director of Telangana Language and Culture
   Department announced to relicense 8 books into CC-BY license which includes
   Magnus opus of the department’s work “Telangana Tejo Murthulu” (Life
   sketches of 153 luminaries of Telangana). He also re-licensed oil paintings
   of 38 Telangana luminaries into CC-BY license.


   -

   Yerra Ramarao showcased the “Telangana Village Project[2]” (which is
   part of Telugu Village project) in the conference, this project has helped
   to improve content about revenue villages of Telangana in Telugu
   Wikipedia.[Notes1] Along with him, other Wikipedians also shared their
   experiences, ideas, and projects with the participants.


   -

   The Government of Telangana will publish the papers presented by
   writers, historians, and researchers contributing in digital media as a
   book under CC-BY license.


I would like to thank Pranayraj for his effort in this process and thanks
to Telugu Wikipedia community and my colleagues at CIS-A2K for all their
help and support.


[1]
https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:డిజిటల్_మాధ్యమాల్లో_తెలంగాణ_సాహిత్యం,_కళలు,_సంస్కృతి,_పండుగలు_-_సదస్సు

[2]
https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/వికీపీడియా:వికీప్రాజెక్టు/తెలంగాణ_జిల్లాల,_మండలాల,_గ్రామాల_మార్పుచేర్పుల_జిల్లాల_వారి_సమీక్ష.

[Notes1] Ramarao updated information and templates according to 2011 census
and Telangana districts' reorganisation
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_districts_in_Telangana#2016> for
more than 9000 Telangana Village articles.

Best!

Pavan Santhosh
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