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First Newsletter: Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

We are glad to inform you that the second iteration of Wikimedia Wikimeet India is going to be organised in February. This is an upcoming online wiki event that is to be conducted from 18 to 20 February 2022 to celebrate International Mother Language Day. The planning of the event has already started and there are many opportunities for Wikimedians to volunteer in order to help make it a successful event. The major announcement is that submissions for sessions has opened from today until a month (until 23 January 2022). You can propose your session here. For more updates and how you can get involved in the same, please read the first newsletter

If you want regular updates regarding the event on your talk page, please add your username here. You will get the next newsletter after 15 days. Please get involved in the event discussions, open tasks and so on.

MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ২৩:১০, ২৩ ডিচেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

The Board of Trustees is preparing a call for feedback about the upcoming Board Elections, from January 7 - February 10, 2022.

While details will be finalized the week before the call, we have confirmed at least two questions that will be asked during this call for feedback:

• What is the best way to ensure fair representation of emerging communities among the Board?

• What involvement should candidates have during the election?

While additional questions may be added, the Movement Strategy and Governance team wants to provide time for community members and affiliates to consider and prepare ideas on the confirmed questions before the call opens. We apologize for not having a complete list of questions at this time. The list of questions should only grow by one or two questions. The intention is to not overwhelm the community with requests, but provide notice and welcome feedback on these important questions.

Do you want to help organize local conversation during this Call?

Contact the Movement Strategy and Governance team on Meta, on Telegram, or via email at msgwikimedia.org.

Reach out if you have any questions or concerns. The Movement Strategy and Governance team will be minimally staffed until January 3. Please excuse any delayed response during this time. We also recognize some community members and affiliates are offline during the December holidays. We apologize if our message has reached you while you are on holiday.

Thank you, CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৪:০১, ২৮ ডিচেম্বৰ ২০২১ (IST)

Second Newsletter: Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022

Good morning Wikimedians,

Happy New Year! Hope you are doing well and safe. It's time to update you regarding Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022, the second iteration of Wikimedia Wikimeet India which is going to be conducted in February. Please note the dates 18 to 20 February 2022 of the event. The submissions has opened from 23 December until 23 January 2022. You can propose your session here. We want a few proposals from Indian communities or Wikimedians. For more updates and how you can get involved in the same, please read the second newsletter

If you want regular updates regarding the event on your talk page, please add your username here. You will get the next newsletter after 15 days. Please get involved in the event discussions, open tasks and so on.

MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১১:১২, ৮ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Wiki Loves Folklore is back!

অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 an international photography contest organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore and intangible cultural heritage from different regions, including, folk creative activities and many more. It is held every year from the 1st till the 28th of February.

You can help in enriching the folklore documentation on Commons from your region by taking photos, audios, videos, and submitting them in this commons contest.

You can also organize a local contest in your country and support us in translating the project pages to help us spread the word in your native language.

Feel free to contact us on our project Talk page if you need any assistance.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

--MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১৮:৪৪, ৯ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)

Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections is now open

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now open and will close on 7 February 2022.

With this Call for Feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team is taking a different approach. This approach incorporates community feedback from 2021. Instead of leading with proposals, the Call is framed around key questions from the Board of Trustees. The key questions came from the feedback about the 2021 Board of Trustees election. The intention is to inspire collective conversation and collaborative proposal development about these key questions.

There are two confirmed questions that will be asked during this Call for Feedback:

1. What is the best way to ensure more diverse representation among elected candidates? The Board of Trustees noted the importance of selecting candidates who represent the full diversity of the Wikimedia movement. The current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Europe.
2. What are the expectations for the candidates during the election? Board candidates have traditionally completed applications and answered community questions. How can an election provide appropriate insight into candidates while also appreciating candidates’ status as volunteers?

There is one additional question that may be presented during the Call about selection processes. This question is still under discussion, but the Board wanted to give insight into the confirmed questions as soon as possible. Hopefully if an additional question is going to be asked, it will be ready during the first week of the Call for Feedback.

Join the conversation.

Thank you,

Movement Strategy and Governance CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৫:৫০, ১২ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)

Subscribe to the This Month in Education newsletter - learn from others and share your stories

Dear community members,

Greetings from the EWOC Newsletter team and the education team at Wikimedia Foundation. We are very excited to share that we on tenth years of Education Newsletter (This Month in Education) invite you to join us by subscribing to the newsletter on your talk page or by sharing your activities in the upcoming newsletters. The Wikimedia Education newsletter is a monthly newsletter that collects articles written by community members using Wikimedia projects in education around the world, and it is published by the EWOC Newsletter team in collaboration with the Education team. These stories can bring you new ideas to try, valuable insights about the success and challenges of our community members in running education programs in their context.

If your affiliate/language project is developing its own education initiatives, please remember to take advantage of this newsletter to publish your stories with the wider movement that shares your passion for education. You can submit newsletter articles in your own language or submit bilingual articles for the education newsletter. For the month of January the deadline to submit articles is on the 20th January. We look forward to reading your stories.

Older versions of this newsletter can be found in the complete archive.

More information about the newsletter can be found at Education/Newsletter/About.

For more information, please contact spatnaikwikimedia.org.

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Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5

অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022Read the full newsletter

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Welcome to the fifth issue of Movement Strategy and Governance News (formerly known as Universal Code of Conduct News)! This revamped newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the Movement Charter, Universal Code of Conduct, Movement Strategy Implementation grants, Board elections and other relevant MSG topics.

This Newsletter will be distributed quarterly, while more frequent Updates will also be delivered weekly or bi-weekly to subscribers. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive these updates.

• Call for Feedback about the Board elections - We invite you to give your feedback on the upcoming WMF Board of Trustees election. This call for feedback went live on 10th January 2022 and will be concluded on 16th February 2022. (continue reading)
• Universal Code of Conduct Ratification - In 2021, the WMF asked communities about how to enforce the Universal Code of Conduct policy text. The revised draft of the enforcement guidelines should be ready for community vote in March. (continue reading)
• Movement Strategy Implementation Grants - As we continue to review several interesting proposals, we encourage and welcome more proposals and ideas that target a specific initiative from the Movement Strategy recommendations. (continue reading)
• The New Direction for the Newsletter - As the UCoC Newsletter transitions into MSG Newsletter, join the facilitation team in envisioning and deciding on the new directions for this newsletter. (continue reading)
• Diff Blogs - Check out the most recent publications about MSG on Wikimedia Diff. (continue reading)

CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৩:৩২, ১৯ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022 Postponed

Dear Wikimedians,

We want to give you an update related to Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022. Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2022 (or WMWM2022) was to be conducted from 18 to 20 February 2022 and is postponed now.

Currently, we are seeing a new wave of the pandemic that is affecting many people around. Although WMWM is an online event, it has multiple preparation components such as submission, registration, RFC etc which require community involvement.

We feel this may not be the best time for extensive community engagement. We have also received similar requests from Wikimedians around us. Following this observation, please note that we are postponing the event, and the new dates will be informed on the mailing list and on the event page. Although the main WMWM is postponed, we may conduct a couple of brief calls/meets (similar to the Stay safe, stay connected call) on the mentioned date, if things go well.

We'll also get back to you about updates related to WMWM once the situation is better. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১২:৫৮, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)

Nitesh Gill

on behalf of WMWM

Centre for Internet and Society

ৱিকিউৎসৰ প্ৰশাসক পদৰ বাবে আবেদন

অসমীয়া ৱিকিউৎসৰ কোনো স্থায়ী প্ৰশাসক নথকা বাবে মই (সদস্য:ঈশান জ্যোতি বৰা)ই সাধাৰণ আৰু ইণ্টাৰফেইচ প্ৰশাসক পদৰ বাবে আবেদন জনাইছোঁ। মোক এই ক্ষমতাৰ অধিকাৰী কৰিবৰ বাবে আপোনালোকৰ ভোটৰ প্ৰয়োজন হৈছে| ভোট দিবৰ বাবে চাৰিডাল টাইল্ড চিহ্নৰে তলত নিজৰ স্বাক্ষৰ কৰিব পাৰিব। ধন্যবাদ।

I hereby nominate myself for admin and interface right in Assamese wikisource for a period of 6 months to perform some tasks. Hope the members of Assamese Wiki Society will support this proposal. You are requested to put your signature under 'yes' if you support this. Thank you.ঈশান জ্যোতি বৰা (বাৰ্তা) ১৩:৪৯, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)

হয় (yes)

1. Babulbaishya (বাৰ্তা) ১৪:০২, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
2. --চন্দন চিৰিং ফুকন ^{বাৰ্তা} ১৪:১৮, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
3. চাণক্য (বাৰ্তা) ১৪:৩০, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
4. দিব্য দত্ত (বাৰ্তা) ১৪:৩৬, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
5. অনামিকা(চুমু) বড়া (বাৰ্তা) ১৪:৫৬, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
6. জোনালী বৰুৱা (বাৰ্তা) ৬:১৫, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (CST)
7. Gitartha.bordoloi (বাৰ্তা) ১৬:৫৯, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
8. 𝒦𝓊𝓁𝒹𝒽𝒶𝓇 ℛ𝒶𝒷𝒽𝒶 ^{(𝒯𝒶𝓁𝓀)} ১৭:৪০, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
9. Rumi Borah~aswiki (বাৰ্তা) ১৭:৪৯, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
10. প্ৰণামিকা অধিকাৰী Pranamikaadhikary (বাৰ্তা) ১৮:২০, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
11. Priyankush Deka (বাৰ্তা) ২০:০৮, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
12. Nayan j Nath (বাৰ্তা) ২০:৩২, ২৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
13. ৰাজদ্বীপ ৰাজবংশী (বাৰ্তা) ২২:২৮, ২ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)
14. Joli Rumi (বাৰ্তা) ০০:৪৫, ৩ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)

[Announcement] Leadership Development Task Force

Dear community members,

The Invest in Skill and Leadership Development Movement Strategy recommendation indicates that our movement needs a globally coordinated effort to succeed in leadership development.

The Community Development team is supporting the creation of a global and community-driven m:Leadership Development Task Force (Purpose & Structure). The purpose of the task force is to advise leadership development work.

The team seeks community feedback on what could be the responsibilities of the task force. Also, if any community member wishes to be a part of the 12-member task force, kindly reach out to us. The feedback period is until 25 February 2022.

Where to share feedback?

#1 Interested community members can add their thoughts on the Discussion page.

#2 Interested community members can join a regional discussion on 18 February, Friday through Google Meet.

Date & Time

• Friday, 18 February · 7:00 – 8:00 PM IST (Your Timezone) (Add to Calendar)
• Google Meet link: https://meet.google.com/nae-rgsd-vif

Thanks for your time.

Regards, CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৬:১৭, ৯ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)

Wiki Loves Folklore is extended till 15th March

অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

Greetings from Wiki Loves Folklore International Team,

We are pleased to inform you that Wiki Loves Folklore an international photographic contest on Wikimedia Commons has been extended till the 15th of March 2022. The scope of the contest is focused on folk culture of different regions on categories, such as, but not limited to, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, etc.

We would like to have your immense participation in the photographic contest to document your local Folk culture on Wikipedia. You can also help with the translation of project pages and share a word in your local language.

Best wishes,

International Team
Wiki Loves Folklore

MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১০:২০, ২২ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines & Ratification Vote

In brief: the revised Enforcement Guidelines have been published. Voting to ratify the guidelines will happen from 7 March to 21 March 2022. Community members can participate in the discussion with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members on 25 February (12:00 UTC) and 4 March (15:00 UTC). Please sign-up.

Details:

The m:Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of acceptable behavior for the entire Wikimedia movement. The UCoC and the Enforcement Guidelines were written by volunteer-staff drafting committees following community consultations. The revised guidelines were published 24 January 2022.

What’s next?

#1 Community Conversations

To help to understand the guidelines, the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team will host conversations with the UCoC project team and drafting committee members on 25 February (12:00 UTC) and 4 March (15:00 UTC). Please sign-up.

Comments about the guidelines can be shared on the Enforcement Guidelines talk page. You can comment in any language.

#2 Ratification Voting

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees released a statement on the ratification process where eligible voters can support or oppose the adoption of the enforcement guidelines through vote. Wikimedians are invited to translate and share important information.

A SecurePoll vote is scheduled from 7 March to 21 March 2022.

Eligible voters are invited to answer a poll question and share comments. Voters will be asked if they support the enforcement of the UCoC based on the proposed guidelines.

Thank you. CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ২১:৪৪, ২২ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২২ (IST)

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed. This Call ran from 10 January and closed on 16 February 2022. The Call focused on three key questions and received broad discussion on Meta-wiki, during meetings with affiliates, and in various community conversations. The community and affiliates provided many proposals and discussion points. The reports are on Meta-wiki.

This information will be shared with the Board of Trustees and Elections Committee so they can make informed decisions about the upcoming Board of Trustees election. The Board of Trustees will then follow with an announcement after they have discussed the information.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback to help improve Board election processes.

Thank you,

Movement Strategy and Governance
CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৩:৪১, ৫ মাৰ্চ ২০২২ (IST)

UCoC Enforcement Guidelines Ratification Vote Begins (7 - 21 March 2022)

The ratification of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) enforcement guidelines has started. Every eligible community member can vote.

For instructions on voting using SecurePoll and Voting eligibility, please read this. The last date to vote is 21 March 2022.

Vote here - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:SecurePoll/vote/391

Thank you, CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ২২:৩৬, ৭ মাৰ্চ ২০২২ (IST)

CIS-A2K Newsletter February 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about February 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.

Conducted events

• Wikimedia session with WikiProject Rivers team
• Indic Wikisource online meetup
• m:International Mother Language Day 2022 edit-a-thon
• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team

Ongoing events

• Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022 - You can still participate in this event which will run till tomorrow.

Upcoming Events

• International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon - The event is 19-20 March and you can add your name for the participation.
• Pune Nadi Darshan 2022 - The event is going to start by tomorrow.
• Annual proposal - CIS-A2K is currently working to prepare our next annual plan for the period 1 July 2022 – 30 June 2023

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 08:58, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends tomorrow

International photographic contest Wiki Loves Folklore 2022 ends on 15th March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. This is the last chance of the year to upload images about local folk culture, festival, cuisine, costume, folklore etc on Wikimedia Commons. Watch out our social media handles for regular updates and declaration of Winners.

(Facebook , Twitter , Instagram)

The writing competition Feminism and Folklore will run till 31st of March 2022 23:59:59 UTC. Write about your local folk tradition, women, folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, folk activities, folk games, folk cuisine, folk wear, folklore, and tradition, including ballads, folktales, fairy tales, legends, traditional song and dance, folk plays, games, seasonal events, calendar customs, folk arts, folk religion, mythology etc. on your local Wikipedia. Check if your local Wikipedia is participating

A special competition called Wiki Loves Falles is organised in Spain and the world during 15th March 2022 till 15th April 2022 to document local folk culture and Falles in Valencia, Spain. Learn more about it on Catalan Wikipedia project page.

We look forward for your immense co-operation.

Thanks Wiki Loves Folklore international Team MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ২০:১০, ১৪ মাৰ্চ ২০২২ (IST)

Pune Nadi Darshan 2022: A campaign cum photography contest

Dear Wikimedians,

Greetings for the Holi festival! CIS-A2K is glad to announce a campaign cum photography contest, Pune Nadi Darshan 2022, organised jointly by Rotary Water Olympiad and CIS-A2K on the occasion of ‘World Water Week’. This is a pilot campaign to document the rivers in the Pune district on Wikimedia Commons. The campaign period is from 16 March to 16 April 2022.

Under this campaign, participants are expected to click and upload the photos of rivers in the Pune district on the following topics -

• Beauty of rivers in Pune district
• Flora & fauna of rivers in Pune district
• Religious & cultural places around rivers in Pune district
• Human activities at rivers in Pune district
• Constructions on rivers in Pune district
• River Pollution in Pune district

Please visit the event page for more details. We welcome your participation in this campaign. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১২:৫১, ১৫ মাৰ্চ ২০২২ (IST)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Invitation to join the first Wikisource Triage meeting on 21st March 2022

Hello everyone,

Sam Wilson and I are excited to share that we will be hosting regular Wikisource Triage meetings, starting from 21st March 2022.

These meetings aim to foster the growth of a technical community of Wikisource developers and contributors. The meetings will be primarily focused on identifying, prioritizing and estimating tasks on the All-and-every-Wikisource and ProofreadPage workboards (among others) on Phabricator and eventually reduce the backlog of technical tasks and bugs related to Wikisource by making incremental improvements to Wikisource infrastructure and coordinating these changes with the Wikisource communities.

While these meetings are technology focused, non-technical Wikisource contributors are also invited to join and share any technical challenges that they are facing and we will help them to create phabricator tickets. Newbie developers are also more than welcome!

The first meeting has been scheduled for 21st March 2022 at 10:30 AM UTC / 4:00 PM IST (Check your local time). If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on sgill@wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest topics for the agenda.

On behalf of Sam Wilson and Satdeep Gill

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ২১:২২, ১৫ মাৰ্চ ২০২২ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

Greetings,

The ratification voting process for the revised enforcement guidelines of the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) came to a close on 21 March 2022. Over 2300 Wikimedians voted across different regions of our movement. Thank you to everyone who participated in this process! The scrutinizing group is now reviewing the vote for accuracy, so please allow up to two weeks for them to finish their work.

The final results from the voting process will be announced here, along with the relevant statistics and a summary of comments as soon as they are available. Please check out the voter information page to learn about the next steps. You can comment on the project talk page on Meta-wiki in any language.

You may also contact the UCoC project team by email: ucocprojectwikimedia.org

Best regards,

CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৫:০৭, ২৩ মাৰ্চ ২০২২ (IST)

Announcing Indic Hackathon 2022 and Scholarship Applications

Dear Wikimedians, we are happy to announce that the Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group will be organizing Indic Hackathon 2022, a regional event as part of the main Wikimedia Hackathon 2022 taking place in a hybrid mode during 20-22 May 2022. The event will take place in Hyderabad. The regional event will be in-person with support for virtual participation. As it is with any hackathon, the event’s program will be semi-structured i.e. while we will have some sessions in sync with the main hackathon event, the rest of the time will be upto participants’ interest on what issues they are interested to work on. The event page can be seen on this page.

In this regard, we would like to invite community members who would like to attend in-person to fill out a form for scholarship application by 17 April, which is available on the event page. Please note that the hackathon won’t be focusing on training of new skills, and it is expected that applications have some experience/knowledge contributing to technical areas of the Wikimedia movement. Please post on the event talk page if you have any queries. MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ০০:০১, ৮ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)

CIS-A2K Newsletter March 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about March 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events and ongoing events.

Conducted events

• Wikimedia session in Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal Pradesh
• Launching of the GLAM project with RIWATCH, Roing, Arunachal Pradesh
• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
• m:International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon
• m:Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022
• Relicensing & digitisation of books, audios, PPTs and images in March 2022
• Presentation on A2K Research in a session on 'Building Multilingual Internets'

Ongoing events

• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
• Two days of edit-a-thon by local communities [Punjabi & Santali]

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 09:33, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Join the South Asia / ESEAP Annual Plan Meeting with Maryana Iskander

Dear community members,

In continuation of Maryana Iskander's listening tour, the Movement Communications and Movement Strategy and Governance teams invite you to discuss the 2022-23 Wikimedia Foundation Annual Plan.

The conversations are about these questions:

• The 2030 Wikimedia Movement Strategy sets a direction toward "knowledge as a service" and "knowledge equity". The Wikimedia Foundation wants to plan according to these two goals. How do you think the Wikimedia Foundation should apply them to our work?
• The Wikimedia Foundation continues to explore better ways of working at a regional level. We have increased our regional focus in areas like grants, new features, and community conversations. How can we improve?
• Anyone can contribute to the Movement Strategy process. We want to know about your activities, ideas, requests, and lessons learned. How can the Wikimedia Foundation better support the volunteers and affiliates working in Movement Strategy activities?

Date and Time

The meeting will happen via Zoom on 24 April (Sunday) at 07:00 UTC (local time). Kindly add the event to your calendar. Live interpretation will be available for some languages.

Regards, CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৫:২৯, ১৭ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)

দ্বিতীয় অসমীয়া ৱিকিউৎস কৰ্মশালা

২০২২ চনৰ ২১ এপ্ৰিল তাৰিখে চিআইএছ-এটুকে (Centre for Internet and Society - Access to Knowledge)ৰ তৰফৰ পৰা শ্ৰী জয়ন্ত নাথ ডাঙৰীয়াই গুৱাহাটী বা অসমৰে আন কোনো ঠাইত অসমীয়া ৱিকিউৎসৰ এখন উচ্চতৰ (Advanced) আৱাসিক কৰ্মশালা অনুষ্ঠিত কৰাৰ প্ৰস্তাৱ আগবঢ়ায় আৰু অসমীয়া ৱিকিসমাজৰ পৰা এই সম্পৰ্কে মতামত বিচাৰে৷ বিষয়টো অনতিপলমে অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়া সমাজৰ হোৱাটছ্ আপ গোটত আলোচনাৰ বাবে আগবঢ়োৱা হয়৷ বিভিন্নজনৰ মন্তব্যৰ আধাৰত একেটা বিষয়েই এতিয়া কেন্দ্ৰীয় আলোচনাত সমূহীয়া আলোচনাৰ বাবে মোকলাই দিয়া হৈছে৷

সদ্যহতে সদস্যসকলে ২০২২ চনৰ জুন মাহৰ ১১ আৰু ১২ তাৰিখ, শনিবাৰ আৰু দেওবাৰে, গুৱাহাটীতে কৰ্মশালাখন দুদিনীয়াকৈ অনুষ্ঠিত কৰাৰ পোষকতা কৰে৷ সদস্যসকলে এই সিদ্ধান্তৰ সপক্ষে আৰু বিপক্ষে নিজৰ সমৰ্থনবোৰ মন্তব্যসহকাৰে তলত আগবঢ়াব পাৰে৷ মন্তব্যৰ অন্তত নিজৰ স্বাক্ষৰ কৰিবলৈ নাপাহৰিব৷

কৰ্মশালাৰ বিষয়ে জানিবলৈ এই লিংকটো অনুসৰণ কৰক: ৱিকিউৎস:মেজমেল/দ্বিতীয় ৱিকিউৎস কৰ্মশালা

ধন্যবাদ৷ ঈশান জ্যোতি বৰা (বাৰ্তা) ২৩:১৩, ২২ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)

সমৰ্থন

1. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ। JyotiPN (বাৰ্তা) ২৩:৩৬, ২২ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)JyotiPN
2. উপস্থিত থাকিবলৈ যত্ন কৰিম।-চন্দন চিৰিং ফুকন ^{বাৰ্তা} ০৬:৫৫, ২৩ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)
3. সম্পূৰ্ণ সমৰ্থন। উপস্থিত থাকিব পাৰিম। -Nayan j Nath (বাৰ্তা) ১২:০৪, ২৩ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)
4. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ। Bhaskarjyoti Bhuyan (বাৰ্তা) ১৩:৩৭, ২৩ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)
5. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ৷ Pallabi Dutta.Baruah (বাৰ্তা) ১৪:১২, ২৩ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)
6. সমৰ্থন কৰিলোঁ৷Pranamikaadhikary (বাৰ্তা) ১৫:৩৪, ২৩ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)
7. আগ্ৰহী। সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ।দীপকজ্যোতি মহন্ত (বাৰ্তা) ১৬:২৭, ২৩ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)
8. উপস্থিত থাকিবলৈ চেষ্টা কৰিম।Rumi Borah~aswiki (বাৰ্তা) ২২:২৭, ২৩ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)
9. সমৰ্থন৷ Gitartha.bordoloi (বাৰ্তা) ১২:৫৫, ৩০ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)
10. সমৰ্থন৷ হানিফ আলী (বাৰ্তা) ১৮:৩৫, ৩০ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)
11. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ৷ -𝒦𝓊𝓁𝒹𝒽𝒶𝓇 ℛ𝒶𝒷𝒽𝒶 ^{(𝒯𝒶𝓁𝓀)} ২২:৫৮, ১ মে' ২০২২ (IST)
12. Bezboruah Imon (বাৰ্তা) ২০:৪১, ১২ মে' ২০২২ (IST)

মন্তব্য

1. যিহেতু এই কৰ্মশালাৰ কাৰ্যসূচী দুদিনীয়া হ'ব সেইহেতু আমি দুৰৈৰ পৰা উপস্থিত হোৱা সকলৰ থকা খোৱাৰ ব্যৱস্থা কেনে হ'ব ? নিজাববিয়াকৈ কৰিব লাগিব নে ইয়াৰ বাবে কিবা ব্যৱস্থা হ'ব? অহা-যোৱা গাড়ি ভাৰাও আছে। হানিফ আলী (বাৰ্তা) ০৯:৪০, ২৩ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST

পূৰ্বৰ অভিজ্ঞতাৰ পৰা দেখিছো, এনে কৰ্মশালাবোৰৰ সম্পূৰ্ণ খৰচ, যেনে থকা, খোৱা-বোৱা আৰু যাতায়ত- সকলো ফাউণ্ডেচনে বহন কৰে। এইবাৰো নিশ্চয় কৰিব। এই বিষয়ে সমন্বয়ক ঈশান জ্যোতি বৰাই সদুত্তৰ দিব পাৰিব। Babulbaishya (বাৰ্তা) ১০:২৭, ২৩ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)

হানিফ আলী: চিন্তাই কৰিব নালাগে৷ থকা-খোৱাৰ সুবিধা আৰু আন খৰচ পাবা৷ Gitartha.bordoloi (বাৰ্তা) ১২:৫৯, ৩০ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)

Call for Candidates: 2022 Board of Trustees Election

Dear community members,

The 2022 Board of Trustees elections process has begun. The Call for Candidates has been announced.

The Board of Trustees oversees the operations of the Wikimedia Foundation. Community-and-affiliate selected trustees and Board-appointed trustees make up the Board of Trustees. Each trustee serves a three year term. The Wikimedia community has the opportunity to vote for community-and-affiliate selected trustees.

The Wikimedia community will vote to elect two seats on the Board of Trustees in 2022. This is an opportunity to improve the representation, diversity, and expertise of the Board of Trustees.

Kindly submit your candidacy to join the Board of Trustees. CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৪:১৫, ২৯ এপ্ৰিল ২০২২ (IST)

Editing news 2022 #1

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New editors were more successful with this new tool.

The New topic tool helps editors create new ==Sections== on discussion pages. New editors are more successful with this new tool. You can read the report. Soon, the Editing team will offer this to all editors at the 20 Wikipedias that participated in the test. You will be able to turn it off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

Whatamidoing (WMF) ০০:২৬, ৩ মে' ২০২২ (IST)

CIS-A2K Newsletter April 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about April 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, ongoing events and upcoming events.

Conducted events

• Annual Proposal Submission
• Digitisation session with Dakshin Bharat Jain Sabha
• Training sessions of organisations working on river issues
• Two days edit-a-thon by local communities
• Digitisation review and partnerships in Goa
• Let's Connect: Learning Clinic on Qualitative Evaluation Methods

Ongoing events

• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team

Upcoming event

• Indic Wikisource Work-plan 2022-2023

Please find the Newsletter link here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 15:47, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election 2022 - Call for Election Volunteers

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

The Movement Strategy and Governance team is looking for community members to serve as election volunteers in the upcoming Board of Trustees election.

The idea of the Election Volunteer Program came up during the 2021 Wikimedia Board of Trustees Election. This program turned out to be successful. With the help of Election Volunteers we were able to increase outreach and participation in the election by 1,753 voters over 2017. Overall turnout was 10.13%, 1.1 percentage points more, and 214 wikis were represented in the election.

There were a total of 74 wikis that did not participate in 2017 that produced voters in the 2021 election. Can you help increase the participation even more?

Election volunteers will help in the following areas:

• Translate short messages and announce the ongoing election process in community channels
• Optional: Monitor community channels for community comments and questions

Volunteers should:

• Maintain the friendly space policy during conversations and events
• Present the guidelines and voting information to the community in a neutral manner

Do you want to be an election volunteer and ensure your community is represented in the vote? Sign up here to receive updates. You can use the talk page for questions about translation.
CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৫:৩৯, ১২ মে' ২০২২ (IST)

Poll regarding Third Wikisource Triage meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We will be organizing the third Wikisource Triage meeting in the last week of May and we need your help to decide on a time and date that works best for the most number of people. Kindly share your availabilities at the wudele link below by 20th May 2022:

https://wudele.toolforge.org/ctQEP3He1XCNullZ

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest topics for the agenda.

Regards

Sam Wilson (WMF) and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ০৯:০৮, ১৪ মে' ২০২২ (IST)

Invitation to join the third Wikisource Triage meeting (28th May 2022)

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting the Wikisource Triage meeting on 28th May 2022 at 11 AM UTC / 4:30 PM IST (check your local time) according to the wudele poll. We will be welcoming some developers who contributed to Wikisource related tasks during the recently concluded Indic Hackathon.

As always, you don't have to be a developer to participate in these meetings but the focus of these meetings is to improve the Wikisource infrastructure.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on sgill@wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Regards

Sam Wilson (WMF) and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ০৯:০৯, ২৩ May ২০২২ (IST)

CIS-A2K Newsletter May 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

I hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about May 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned our conducted events, and ongoing and upcoming events.

Conducted events

• Punjabi Wikisource Community skill-building workshop
• Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team

Ongoing events

• Assamese Wikisource Community skill-building workshop

Upcoming event

• June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:23, 14 June 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Poll regarding Fourth Wikisource Triage meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We will be organizing the fourth Wikisource Triage meeting in the last week of June and we need your help to decide on a time and date that works best for the most number of people. Kindly share your availabilities at the wudele link below by 20th June 2022:

https://wudele.toolforge.org/wstriage4

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest topics for the agenda.

Regards

Sam Wilson (WMF) and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১৮:৫২, ১৪ জুন ২০২২ (IST)

Invitation to join the fourth Wikisource Triage meeting (29th June 2022)

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting the fourth Wikisource Triage meeting on 29th June 2022 at 10:00 AM UTC / 3:30 PM IST (check your local time) according to the wudele poll.

There is some exciting news about a few technical projects related to Wikisource that are getting started right now and we will be sharing more information during the meeting.

As always, you don't have to be a developer to participate in these meetings but the focus of these meetings is to improve the Wikisource infrastructure.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on sgill@wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Regards

Sam Wilson (WMF) and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১৩:০৯, ২৩ জুন ২০২২ (IST)

Bot policy

Hello. To facilitate steward granting of bot access, I suggest implementing the standard bot policy on this wiki. In particular, this policy allows stewards to automatically flag known interlanguage linking bots (if this page says that is acceptable) or bots that fix double redirects. The policy also enables global bots on this wiki (if this page says that is acceptable), which are trusted bots that will be given bot access on every wiki that allows global bots.

This policy makes bot access requesting much easier for local users, operators, and stewards. To implement it we only need to create a redirect to this page from Project:Bot policy, and add a line at the top noting that it is used here. If you use or prefer to use a dedicated project page for handling bot flag requests, that is also acceptable. Please read the text at Meta-Wiki before commenting. If you object, please say so; I hope to implement in two weeks if there is no objection, since it is particularly written to streamline bot requests on wikis with little or no community interested in bot access requests. Thank you for your consideration. --Rschen7754 ১০:১৮, ২৭ জুন ২০২২ (IST)

Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

Hi all,

Community members are invited to propose statements to use in the Election Compass for the 2022 Board of Trustees election.

An Election Compass is a tool to help voters select the candidates that best align with their beliefs and views. The community members will propose statements for the candidates to answer using a Lickert scale (agree/neutral/disagree). The candidates’ answers to the statements will be loaded into the Election Compass tool. Voters will use the tool by entering in their answer to the statements (agree/neutral/disagree). The results will show the candidates that best align with the voter’s beliefs and views.

Here is the timeline for the Election Compass:

• July 8 - 20: Community members propose statements for the Election Compass
• July 21 - 22: Elections Committee reviews statements for clarity and removes off-topic statements
• July 23 - August 1: Volunteers vote on the statements
• August 2 - 4: Elections Committee selects the top 15 statements
• August 5 - 12: candidates align themselves with the statements
• August 15: The Election Compass opens for voters to use to help guide their voting decision

The Elections Committee will select the top 15 statements at the beginning of August. The Elections Committee will oversee the process, supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team. MSG will check that the questions are clear, there are no duplicates, no typos, and so on.

Regards,

Movement Strategy & Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৩:৩৫, ১২ জুলাই ২০২২ (IST)

CIS-A2K Newsletter June 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope you are doing well. As you know CIS-A2K updated the communities every month about their previous work through the Newsletter. This message is about June 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.

Conducted events

• Assamese Wikisource Community skill-building workshop
• June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon
• Presentation in Marathi Literature conference

Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.

Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:23, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

ৱিকিউৎসৰ প্ৰশাসক পদৰ বাবে আবেদন

অসমীয়া ৱিকিউৎসৰ কোনো স্থায়ী প্ৰশাসক নথকা বাবে মই (সদস্য:ঈশান জ্যোতি বৰা)ই সাধাৰণ আৰু ইণ্টাৰফেইচ প্ৰশাসক পদৰ বাবে আবেদন জনাইছোঁ। মোক এই ক্ষমতাৰ অধিকাৰী কৰিবৰ বাবে আপোনালোকৰ ভোটৰ প্ৰয়োজন হৈছে| ভোট দিবৰ বাবে চাৰিডাল টাইল্ড চিহ্নৰে তলত নিজৰ স্বাক্ষৰ কৰিব পাৰিব। ধন্যবাদ।

I hereby nominate myself for admin and interface right in Assamese wikisource for a period of 12 months. Hope the members of Assamese Wiki Society will support this proposal. You are requested to put your signature under 'yes' if you support this. Thank you.ঈশান জ্যোতি বৰা (বাৰ্তা) ১২:৫১, ৮ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)

সমৰ্থন (Support)

1. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ অনামিকা(চুমু) বড়া (বাৰ্তা) ১৩:২৪, ৮ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)
2. প্ৰদ্যুৎ প্ৰতীম দত্ত (বাৰ্তা) ১৩:৪০, ৮ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)
3. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ। -Chandan Chiring Phukon ^Chat ১৪:১১, ৮ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)
4. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ। — চাণক্য (বাৰ্তা) ১৪:১৯, ৮ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)
5. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ। - Priyankush Deka (বাৰ্তা) ১৬:২৫, ৮ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)
6. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ। - দিব্য দত্ত (বাৰ্তা) ১৯:১৫, ৮ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)
7. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ৷ - Pranamikaadhikary (বাৰ্তা) ১৯:৫০, ৮ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)
8. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ৷ -𝒦𝓊𝓁𝒹𝒽𝒶𝓇 ℛ𝒶𝒷𝒽𝒶 ^{(𝒯𝒶𝓁𝓀)} ২০:৪৯, ৮ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)
9. সমৰ্থন জনালোঁ।- Rumi Borah~aswiki (বাৰ্তা) ১০:১৬, ৯ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)
10. সমৰ্থন। Gitartha.bordoloi (বাৰ্তা) ০৫:৪১, ১০ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)

Invitation to join the fifth Wikisource Triage meeting (18th August 2022)

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting the fifth Wikisource Triage meeting on 18th August 2022 at 4 PM UTC / 9:30 PM IST (check your local time) according to the wudele poll and also based on the previous feedback to have a Europe-Americas friendly meeting.

As always, you don't have to be a developer to participate in these meetings but the focus of these meetings is to improve the Wikisource infrastructure.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on sgill@wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Regards

Sam Wilson (WMF) and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

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WikiConference India 2023: Initial conversations

Dear Wikimedians,

Hope all of you are doing well. We are glad to inform you to restart the conversation to host the next WikiConference India 2023 after WCI 2020 which was not conducted due to the unexpected COVID-19 pandemic, it couldn't take place. However, we are hoping to reinitiate this discussion and for that we need your involvement, suggestions and support to help organize a much needed conference in February-March of 2023.

The proposed 2023 conference will bring our energies, ideas, learnings, and hopes together. This conference will provide a national-level platform for Indian Wikimedians to connect, re-connect, and establish their collaboration itself can be a very important purpose on its own- in the end it will empower us all to strategize, plan ahead and collaborate- as a movement.

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

Here is a survey form to get your responses on the same notion. Unfortunately we are working with short timelines since the final date of proposal submission is 5 September. We request you please fill out the form by 28th August. After your responses, we can decide if we have the community need and support for the conference. You are also encouraged to add your support on this page, if you support the idea.

Regards, Nitesh Gill, Nivas10798, Neechalkaran, ১২:০৯, ২৪ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)

2022 Board of Trustees Community Voting Period is now Open

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

Dear community members,

The Community Voting period for the 2022 Board of Trustees election is now open. Here are some helpful links to get you the information you need to vote:

• Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
• Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions
• Learn more about the skills the Board seeks and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
• Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community.

If you are ready to vote, you may go to SecurePoll voting page to vote now. You may vote from August 23 at 00:00 UTC to September 6 at 23:59 UTC. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page.

Regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee

CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৭:৫২, ২৬ আগষ্ট ২০২২ (IST)

The 2022 Board of Trustees election Community Voting is about to close

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অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

Hello,

The Community Voting period of the 2022 Board of Trustees election started on August 23, 2022, and will close on September 6, 2022 23:59 UTC. There’s still a chance to participate in this election. If you did not vote, please visit the SecurePoll voting page to vote now. To see about your voter eligibility, please visit the voter eligibility page. If you need help in making your decision, here are some helpful links:

• Try the Election Compass, showing how candidates stand on 15 different topics.
• Read the candidate statements and answers to Affiliate questions.
• Learn more about the skills the Board seek and how the Analysis Committee found candidates align with those skills
• Watch the videos of the candidates answering questions proposed by the community.

Regards,

Movement Strategy and Governance

CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৮:১৩, ১ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২২ (IST)

WikiConference India 2023: Proposal to WMF

Hello everyone,

We are happy to inform you that we have submitted the Conference & Event Grant proposal for WikiConference India 2023 to the Wikimedia Foundation. We kindly request all the community members to go through the proposal -- including the community engagement survey report, program plan, venue and logistics, participation and scholarships, and the budget, and provide us with your suggestions/comments on the talk page. You can endorse the proposal in the endorsements section, please do add a rationale for supporting this project.

According to the timeline of the Conference and Event Grants program, the community can review till 23 September 2022, post that we will start integrating all the received feedback to make modifications to the proposal. Depending on the response of community members, an IRC may be hosted next week, especially if there are any questions/concerns that need to be addressed.

We reopened the survey form and if you are still interested in taking part in the survey and you have something in mind to share or want to become a part of the organizing team, please fill out the form so we all can work together.

Let us know if you have any questions.

Regards, Nitesh Gill, Nivas10798, Neechalkaran, ১৩:০৫, ১৯ ছেপ্টেম্বৰ ২০২২ (IST)

Poll regarding sixth Wikisource Triage meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We will be organizing the sixth Wikisource Triage meeting in the next week of October and we need your help to decide on a time and date that works best for the most number of people. Kindly share your availabilities at the wudele link below:

https://wudele.toolforge.org/aE86KsnqQsBDNdkj

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest topics for the agenda.

Regards

Sam Wilson (WMF) and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ২০:০৩, ১৭ অক্টোবৰ ২০২২ (IST)

Invitation to join the sixth Wikisource Triage meeting (26th October 2022)

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting the sixth Wikisource Triage meeting on 26th October 2022 at 2 PM UTC / 7:30 PM IST (check your local time) according to the wudele poll.

As always, you don't have to be a developer to participate in these meetings but the focus of these meetings is to improve the Wikisource infrastructure. We will be discussing the newly launched Wiki Rescues Manuscripts project and two Wikisource Fellows who will be supporting that project until June 2023 will be joining the conversation as well.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on sgill@wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Regards

Sam Wilson (WMF) and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

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Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022

Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translate it

Dear Proofreader,
Thank you and congratulation to you for your participation and support last year. The CIS-A2K has been conducted again this year Online Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022 to enrich our Indian classic literature in digital format.

WHAT DO YOU NEED

• Booklist: a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some books in your language. The book should not be available on any third-party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books and add our event page book list. You should follow the copyright guideline described here. After finding the book, you should check the pages of the book and create <pagelist/>.
• Participants: Kindly sign your name at Participants section if you wish to participate in this event.
• Reviewer: Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this proofreadthon and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers could participate in this Proofreadthon.
• Some social media coverage: I would request to all Indic Wikisource community members, please spread the news to all social media channels, we always try to convince your Wikipedia/Wikisource to use their SiteNotice. Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource site notice.
• Some awards: There may be some award/prize given by CIS-A2K.
• A way to count validated and proofread pages:Indic Wikisource Contest Tools
• Time : Proofreadthon will run: from 14 November 2022 00.01 to 30 Novemeber 2022 23.59 (IST)
• Rules and guidelines: The basic rules and guideline have described here
• Scoring: The details scoring method have described here

I really hope many Indic Wikisources will be present this time.

Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)- 9 November 2022 (UTC)
Wikisource Program officer, CIS-A2K

WikiConference India 2023: Program submissions and Scholarships form are now open

Dear Wikimedians,

We are really glad to announce that WikiConference India 2023 has been successfully funded and it will take place from 3 to 5 March 2023. The theme of the conference will be Strengthening the Bonds.

We also have exciting updates about the Program and Scholarships.

The applications for scholarships and program submissions are open now! You can find the form for submission here and for program you can go here.

For more information and regular updates please visit the Conference Meta page. If you have something in mind you can write on talk page.

‘‘‘Note’’’: Scholarship form and the Program submissions will be open from 11 November 2022, 00:00 IST and the last date to submit is 27 November 2022, 23:59 IST.

Regards

MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ২৩:৩৫, ১০ নৱেম্বৰ ২০২২ (IST)

(on behalf of the WCI Organizing Committee)

Invitation to join the Online Indic Wikisource meetup (12th November 2022)

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting the Indic Wikisource Community Online meetup on 12 November 2022 7:30 PM IST.

The objectives are below.

• Participate in m:Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022 book collection.
• Queries regarding m:Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon November 2022
• Suggestions/opinions/reviews anything are welcome regarding the Contest procedure.
• Gift and prizes for the contest selection.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on jayanta@cis-india.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Thanks for your attention

Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Program officer, CIS-A2K

Poll regarding 7th Wikisource Triage meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We will be organizing the seventh Wikisource Triage meeting in the last week of November and we need your help to decide on a time and date that works best for the most number of people. Kindly share your availabilities at the wudele link below:

https://wudele.toolforge.org/3rNRZDjKn1oaXM7h

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest topics for the agenda.

Regards

KLawal-WMF and PMenon-WMF

Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১৫:৩৬, ১৪ নৱেম্বৰ ২০২২ (IST)

Invitation to participate in Wikisource Triage Meeting (26 November 2022)

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting the seventh Wikisource Triage meeting on 26th November 2022 at 10 AM UTC / 3:30 PM IST (check your local time) according to the wudele poll.

There are going to be updates about a few technical projects related to Wikisource and we will be sharing more information during the meeting.

As always, you don't have to be a developer to participate in these meetings but the focus of these meetings is to improve the Wikisource infrastructure.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on sgill@wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Regards

PMenon-WMF and KLawal-WMF

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১৭:৩৯, ২২ নৱেম্বৰ ২০২২ (IST)

WikiConference India 2023: Open Community Call and Extension of program and scholarship submissions deadline

Greetings Wikimedians,

Thank you for supporting Wiki Conference India 2023. We are humbled by the number of applications we have received and hope to learn more about the work that you all have been doing to take the movement forward. In order to offer flexibility, we have recently extended our deadline for the Program and Scholarships submission- you can find all the details on our Meta Page.

COT is working hard to ensure we bring together a conference that is truly meaningful and impactful for our movement and one that brings us all together. With an intent to be inclusive and transparent in our process, we are committed to organizing community sessions at regular intervals for sharing updates and to offer an opportunity to the community for engagement and review. Following the same, we are hosting the first Open Community Call on the 3rd of December, 2022. We wish to use this space to discuss the progress and answer any questions, concerns or clarifications, about the conference and the Program/Scholarships.

Please add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward to seeing you on the call

• [WCI 2023] Open Community Call
• Date’’’: 3rd December 2022
• Time’’’: 1800-1900 (IST)
• Google Link: https://meet.google.com/cwa-bgwi-ryx

Furthermore, we are pleased to share the email id of the conference contact@wikiconferenceindia.org which is where you could share any thoughts, inputs, suggestions, or questions and someone from the COT will reach out to you. Alternatively, leave us a message on the Conference talk page. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ২১:৩৯, ২ ডিচেম্বৰ ২০২২ (IST)

On Behalf of, WCI 2023 Core organizing team.

WikiConference India 2023: Revised Conference Dates & Program-Scholarship Submission Reminder

Please feel free to translate into your language.

Dear Wikimedians,

We want to inform you that due to specific reference to conference operational and logistical challenges, we had to revise the conference dates. The new dates for WikiConference India 2023 are 28, 29, and 30 April 2023 (Friday to Sunday), Hyderabad, India. The new dates have been finalized after a thorough check to avoid any overlaps or challenges.

Reminder: The last date for Program and Scholarships submission is 14 December 2022, 11:59 pm IST. For any questions and support, reach out to contact@wikiconferenceindia.org or leave a message on the conference talk page. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ০১:৪৯, ১৩ ডিচেম্বৰ ২০২২ (IST)

Nivas & Nitesh

(On behalf of the WCI 2023 organizing team).

Community Wishlist Survey 2023 opens in January

অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

(There is a translatable version of this message on MetaWiki)

নমস্কাৰ

The Community Wishlist Survey (CWS) 2023, which lets contributors propose and vote for tools and improvements, starts next month on Monday, 23 January 2023, at 18:00 UTC and will continue annually.

We are inviting you to share your ideas for technical improvements to our tools and platforms. Long experience in editing or technical skills is not required. If you have ever used our software and thought of an idea to improve it, this is the place to come share those ideas!

The dates for the phases of the Survey will be as follows:

• Phase 1: Submit, discuss, and revise proposals – Monday, Jan 23, 2023 to Sunday, Feb 6, 2023
• Phase 2: WMF/Community Tech reviews and organizes proposals – Monday, Jan 30, 2023 to Friday, Feb 10, 2023
• Phase 3: Vote on proposals – Friday, Feb 10, 2023 to Friday, Feb 24, 2023
• Phase 4: Results posted – Tuesday, Feb 28, 2023

If you want to start writing out your ideas ahead of the Survey, you can start thinking about your proposals and draft them in the CWS sandbox.

We are grateful to all who participated last year. See you in January 2023!

ধন্যবাদ! Community Tech, STei (WMF) ২২:১৩, ১৫ ডিচেম্বৰ ২০২২ (IST)

WikiConference India 2023:Open Community call on 18 December 2022

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may know, we are hosting regular calls with the communities for WikiConference India 2023. This message is for the second Open Community Call which is scheduled on the 18th of December, 2022 (Today) from 7:00 to 8:00 pm to answer any questions, concerns, or clarifications, take inputs from the communities, and give a few updates related to the conference from our end. Please add the following to your respective calendars and we look forward to seeing you on the call.

• [WCI 2023] Open Community Call
• Date: 18 December 2022
• Time: 1900-2000 [7 pm to 8 pm] (IST)
• Google Link: https://meet.google.com/wpm-ofpx-vei

Furthermore, we are pleased to share the telegram group created for the community members who are interested to be a part of WikiConference India 2023 and share any thoughts, inputs, suggestions, or questions. Link to join the telegram group: https://t.me/+X9RLByiOxpAyNDZl. Alternatively, you can also leave us a message on the Conference talk page. Regards MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১৩:৩৫, ১৮ ডিচেম্বৰ ২০২২ (IST)

On Behalf of, WCI 2023 Organizing team

Upcoming vote on the revised Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct

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অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

Hello all,

In mid-January 2023, the Enforcement Guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct will undergo a second community-wide ratification vote. This follows the March 2022 vote, which resulted in a majority of voters supporting the Enforcement Guidelines. During the vote, participants helped highlight important community concerns. The Board’s Community Affairs Committee requested that these areas of concern be reviewed.

The volunteer-led Revisions Committee worked hard reviewing community input and making changes. They updated areas of concern, such as training and affirmation requirements, privacy and transparency in the process, and readability and translatability of the document itself.

The revised Enforcement Guidelines can be viewed here, and a comparison of changes can be found here.

How to vote?

Beginning January 17, 2023, voting will be open. This page on Meta-wiki outlines information on how to vote using SecurePoll.

Who can vote?

The eligibility requirements for this vote are the same as for the Wikimedia Board of Trustees elections. See the voter information page for more details about voter eligibility. If you are an eligible voter, you can use your Wikimedia account to access the voting server.

What happens after the vote?

Votes will be scrutinized by an independent group of volunteers, and the results will be published on Wikimedia-l, the Movement Strategy Forum, Diff and on Meta-wiki. Voters will again be able to vote and share concerns they have about the guidelines. The Board of Trustees will look at the levels of support and concerns raised as they look at how the Enforcement Guidelines should be ratified or developed further.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৫:৩২, ৮ জানুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)

Voting Opens on the Revised Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) Enforcement Guidelines

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Hello all,

The voting period for the revised Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines is now open! Voting will remain open for two weeks and will close at 23:59 UTC on January 31, 2023. Please visit the voter information page for voter eligibility information and details on how to vote.

For more details on the Enforcement Guidelines and the voting process, see our previous message.

On behalf of the UCoC Project Team,

CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৭:২০, ১৭ জানুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)

Poll regarding January 2023 Wikisource Community meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We will be organizing the January 2023 Wikisource Community meeting in the last week of January and we need your help to decide on a time and date that works best for the most number of people. Kindly share your availabilities at the wudele link below:

https://wudele.toolforge.org/5tauCFqk8NJQBcBv

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest topics for the agenda.

Regards

KLawal-WMF and PMenon-WMF

Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ০৯:১৮, ২০ জানুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)

Invitation to join Wikisource Community meeting (28 January 2023)

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting the first Wikisource Community meeting of the year on 28th January 2023 at 12 PM UTC / 5:30 PM IST (check your local time) according to the wudele poll.

The first half of the meeting will be focused on non-technical updates and conversations like events, conferences, proofread-a-thons and collaborations. The second half will be focused on technical updates and conversations, such as talking about major challenges faced by Wikisource communities, similar to the ones conducted in previous Triage meetings.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on sgill@wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Regards

KLawal-WMF, PMenon-WMF, Sam Wilson (WMF), and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

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অসমীয়া ৱিকিউৎসৰ বাবে স্কেনাৰ

২০২৩ চনৰ ২৯ জানুৱাৰী তাৰিখে অনুষ্ঠিত হোৱা অসমীয়া ৱিকিমিডিয়া সমাজৰ অনলাইন গুগল মিটত অসমীয়া ৱিকিউৎসৰ বাবে এটা নিজাববীয়া স্কেনাৰ বিচাৰি চিআইএছ-এটুকেৰ(CIS-A2K)ৰ সমুখত এক প্ৰস্তাৱ আগবঢ়োৱাৰ প্ৰসংগ উত্থাপিত হয়৷ এই স্কেনাৰটোৰ সহায়ত আমি আমাৰ ওচৰত মজুত থকা কপিৰাইট-মুক্ত ছপা কিতাপসমূহ স্কেন কৰিম৷ পৰ্যায়ক্ৰমে সেই গ্ৰন্থসমূহৰ মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধন, বৈধকৰণ আৰু ট্ৰেন্সক্লুছন কৰা হ'ব৷ স্কেনাৰটোৰ জৰিয়তে আমি মানসম্পন্ন স্কেনৰ ভালেকেইখন গ্ৰন্থ ৱিকিউৎসৰ পুথিভঁৰালত সন্নিৱিষ্ট কৰিবলৈ সমৰ্থৱান হ'ম৷ সমান্তৰালভাৱে সদস্যসকলৰ আভ্যন্তৰীণ সক্ৰিয়তাও ইয়াৰ জৰিয়তে বৃদ্ধি পাব৷ এইক্ষেত্ৰত আগবাঢ়ি যাবৰ বাবে আপোনালোকৰ পৰা পৰামৰ্শ-দিহা আৰু মন্তব্য বিচৰা হৈছে৷--Ishanjyotibora (বাৰ্তা) ২১:৪১, ১ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)

সমৰ্থন

1. Rumi Borah~aswiki (বাৰ্তা) ২১:৪৫, ১ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)
2. দিব্য দত্ত (বাৰ্তা) ২১:৪৭, ১ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)
3. অনামিকা(চুমু) বড়া (বাৰ্তা) ২২:০১, ১ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)
4. Joli Rumi (বাৰ্তা) ১৮:৪০, ২ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)
5. Pallabi Dutta.Baruah (বাৰ্তা) ২২:১৪, ৫ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)
6. -Chandan Chiring Phukon ^Chat ২২:১৭, ৫ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)
7. Pranamikaadhikary (বাৰ্তা) ২২:৪৯, ৫ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)
8. দীপকজ্যোতি মহন্ত (বাৰ্তা) ০৮:৪৮, ৬ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)
9. Babulbaishya (বাৰ্তা) ১৫:২৪, ৬ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)
10. Rajdweep225 (বাৰ্তা) ২১:১৮, ৬ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)

Global ban for PlanespotterA320/RespectCE

Per the Global bans policy, I'm informing the project of this request for comment: m:Requests for comment/Global ban for PlanespotterA320 (2) about banning a member from your community. Thank you.--Lemonaka (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Poll regarding February 2023 Wikisource Community meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We will be organizing this month’s Wikisource Community meeting in the last week of February and we need your help to decide on a time and date that works best for the most number of people. Kindly share your availabilities at the Wudele link below:

https://wudele.toolforge.org/qDEHHRJRNJLmwsi4

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest topics for the agenda.

Regards PMenon-WMF and KLawal-WMF

PMenon-WMF (talk) ১২:৩৮, ১৪ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)

Community feedback-cycle about updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use starts

You can find this message translated into additional languages on Meta-wiki.

অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

Hello community members,

Wikimedia Foundation Legal Department is organizing a feedback-cycle with community members to discuss updating the Wikimedia Terms of Use.

The Terms of Use (ToU) are the legal terms that govern the use of websites hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. We will be gathering your feedback on a draft proposal from February through April. The draft will be translated into several languages, with written feedback accepted in any language.

This update comes in response to several things:

• Implementing the Universal Code of Conduct.
• Updating project text to the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license.
• Proposal for better addressing undisclosed paid editing.
• Bringing the Terms of Use in line with current and recently passed laws affecting the Wikimedia Foundation, including the European Digital Services Act

As part of the feedback cycle two office hours will be held: the first on 2 March and the second on 4 April.

For further information, please consult:

• The proposed update of the ToU by comparison
• The page for your feedback
• Information about the office hours

On behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Legal Team,

CSinha (WMF) (বাৰ্তা) ১৩:২৬, ২২ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)

Editing news 2023 #1

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This newsletter includes two key updates about the Editing team's work:

1. The Editing team will finish adding new features to the Talk pages project and deploy it.
2. They are beginning a new project, Edit check.

Talk pages project

Some of the upcoming changes

The Editing team is nearly finished with this first phase of the Talk pages project. Nearly all new features are available now in the Beta Feature for আলোচনা সঁজুলি.

It will show information about how active a discussion is, such as the date of the most recent comment. There will soon be a new "বিষয় যোগ কৰক" button. You will be able to turn them off at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion. Please tell them what you think.

Daily edit completion rate by test group: DiscussionTools (test group) and MobileFrontend overlay (control group)

An A/B test for আলোচনা সঁজুলি on the mobile site has finished. Editors were more successful with আলোচনা সঁজুলি. The Editing team is enabling these features for all editors on the mobile site.

New Project: Edit Check

The Editing team is beginning a project to help new editors of Wikipedia. It will help people identify some problems before they click "সালসলনি প্ৰকাশ কৰক". The first tool will encourage people to add references when they add new content. Please watch that page for more information. You can join a conference call on 3 March 2023 to learn more.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (আলোচনা) ০৪:৫৫, ২৩ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)

Invitation for February 2023 Wikisource Community Meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting this month's Wikisource Community meeting on 26th February 2023 at 11 AM UTC (check your local time) according to the wudele poll.

The first half of the meeting will be focused on non-technical updates and conversations like events, conferences, proofread-a-thons and collaborations. The second half will be focused on technical updates and conversations, such as talking about major challenges faced by Wikisource communities, similar to the ones conducted in previous Community meetings.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on sgill@wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Regards

KLawal-WMF, PMenon-WMF, Sam Wilson (WMF), and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Your wiki will be in read only soon

Read this message in another language • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

The Wikimedia Foundation tests the switch between its first and secondary data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster. To make sure everything is working, the Wikimedia Technology department needs to do a planned test. This test will show if they can reliably switch from one data centre to the other. It requires many teams to prepare for the test and to be available to fix any unexpected problems.

All traffic will switch on 1 March. The test will start at ১৪:০০ UTC.

Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.

You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.

• You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 1 March 2023.
• If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.

Other effects:

• Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
• We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
• GitLab will be unavailable for about 90 minutes.

This project may be postponed if necessary. You can read the schedule at wikitech.wikimedia.org. Any changes will be announced in the schedule. There will be more notifications about this. A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. Please share this information with your community.

Trizek (WMF) (আলোচনা) ০২:৫১, ২৮ ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী ২০২৩ (IST)

Wikimania 2023 Welcoming Program Submissions

Do you want to host an in-person or virtual session at Wikimania 2023? Maybe a hands-on workshop, a lively discussion, a fun performance, a catchy poster, or a memorable lightning talk? Submissions are open until March 28. The event will have dedicated hybrid blocks, so virtual submissions and pre-recorded content are also welcome. If you have any questions, please join us at an upcoming conversation on March 12 or 19, or reach out by email at wikimania@wikimedia.org or on Telegram. More information on-wiki.

Poll regarding March 2023 Wikisource Community meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We will be organizing this month’s Wikisource Community meeting in the last week of March and we need your help to decide on a time and date that works best for the most number of people. Kindly share your availabilities at the wudele link below:

https://wudele.toolforge.org/U2feqmZBy62FJjVd

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest topics for the agenda.

Regards

KLawal-WMF and PMenon-WMF

Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১১:০১, ১৯ মাৰ্চ ২০২৩ (IST)

March 2023 Wikisource Community meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting this month’s Wikisource Community meeting on 27th March 2023 at 10 AM UTC / 3:30 PM IST (check your local time) according to the wudele poll.

The first half of the meeting will be focused on non-technical updates and conversations like events, conferences, proofread-a-thons and collaborations. The second half will be focused on technical updates and conversations, such as talking about major challenges faced by Wikisource communities, similar to the ones conducted in previous Community meetings.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on sgill@wikimedia.org and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Regards

KLawal-WMF, PMenon-WMF, Sam Wilson (WMF), and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

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Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon April 2023

Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translate it

Dear Wikimedians,
Thank you and congratulation to you for your participation and support last year. The CIS-A2K has already been conducted Online Indic Wikisource proofread-a-thon April 2023 to enrich our Indian classic literature in digital format.

WHAT DO YOU NEED

• Booklist: a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some books in your language. The book should not be available on any third-party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books and add our event page book list. You should follow the copyright guideline described here. After finding the book, you should check the pages of the book and create <pagelist/>.
• Participants: Kindly sign your name at Participants section if you wish to participate in this event.
• Reviewer: Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this proofreadthon and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers could participate in this Proofreadthon.
• Some social media coverage: We would request to all Indic Wikisource community members, please spread the news to all social media channels, we always try to convince your Wikipedia/Wikisource to use their SiteNotice. Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource site notice.
• Some awards: There may be some award/prize given by CIS-A2K.
• A way to count validated and proofread pages:Indic Wikisource Contest Tools
• Time : Proofreadthon is already started: from 1 April 2023 00.01 to 30 April 2023 23.59 (IST)
• Rules and guidelines: The basic rules and guideline have described here
• Scoring: The details scoring method have described here

We are hoping all Indic Wikisources to participate in this event.

Thanks for your attention
On behalf of Jayanta (CIS-A2K)- 4 April 2023 (UTC)
Wikisource Program officer, CIS-A2K MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ১৫:৪১, ৪ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)

অসমীয়া ৱিকিউৎসৰ বাবে মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধন প্ৰতিযোগিতা

২০২৩ বৰ্ষৰ ১ এপ্ৰিলৰ পৰা আৰম্ভ হোৱা চিআইএছ-এটুকেৰ উদ্যোগত সৰ্বভাৰতীয় পৰ্যায়ত অনুষ্ঠিত হোৱা মুদ্ৰণ সংশোধন প্ৰতিযোগিতাত একাধিক অসুবিধাবশতঃ অসমীয়া ভাষাই এক তাৰিখৰ পৰা অংশগ্ৰহণ কৰিব নোৱাৰিলে। এই বিষয়ে প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ আহ্বায়ক আৰু নিয়ন্ত্ৰক জয়ন্ত নাথ ডাঙৰীয়াৰ লগত কথা পতা হয়। নাথ ডাঙৰীয়াই অসমীয়া ৱিকিউৎসৰ বাবে পৃথককৈ এই প্ৰতিযোগিতা আয়োজন কৰাৰ সিদ্ধান্ত লয় আৰু সেই মৰ্মে মে' মাহত অসমীয়া ৱিকিউৎসৰ বাবে প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ সময়সীমা নিৰ্ধাৰণ কৰিবলৈ অনুৰোধ কৰে। সময়সীমা নিৰ্ধাৰণৰ দায়িত্বটো তেখেতে অসমীয়া ভাষাৰ সদস্যসকলকে সমূহীয়াকৈ ল'বলৈ কয়। প্ৰিয় সদস্যসকল, উক্ত বিষয়টোৰ গুৰুত্ব বুজি আপোনালোকে নিম্নোক্ত তিনিটা সময়সীমাৰ পৰা যিকোনো এটা নিৰ্বাচন কৰি প্ৰতিযোগিতাৰ দিনাংকটো বাছি উলিওৱাত সহায় কৰে যেন। অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি নিৰ্দিষ্ট তাৰিখৰ তলত আপোনাৰ স্বাক্ষৰ আগবঢ়াব।-Ishanjyotibora (বাৰ্তা) ২২:২৬, ৬ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)

৫-২০ মে' ২০২৩

1. Ishanjyotibora (বাৰ্তা) ২২:২৬, ৬ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)
2. Gitartha.bordoloi (বাৰ্তা) ২২:০০, ৭ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)
3. Das Mousumi (বাৰ্তা) ২৩:১৪, ৭ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)
4. Joli Rumi (বাৰ্তা) ১৯:০৩, ৮ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)
5. Pallabi Dutta.Baruah (বাৰ্তা) ২৩:৪৯, ৮ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)
6. Rumi Borah~aswiki (বাৰ্তা) ০৬:৫০, ৯ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)
7. Rajdweep nlb (বাৰ্তা) ২২:২৬, ১৩ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)

Poll regarding April 2023 Wikisource Community meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We will be organizing this month’s Wikisource Community meeting in the last week of April and we need your help to decide on a time and date that works best for the most number of people. Kindly share your availabilities at the wudele link below:

https://wudele.toolforge.org/kXlPUgNFBo8TdWE9

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest topics for the agenda.

Regards

KLawal-WMF and PMenon-WMF

Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ২১:১৭, ১৪ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)

Invitation for April 2023 Wikisource Community Meeting

Hello fellow Wikisource enthusiasts!

We are the hosting this month’s Wikisource Community meeting on 25th April 2023 at 8 AM UTC / 1:30 PM IST (check your local time) according to the wudele poll.

The first half of the meeting will be focused on non-technical updates and conversations like events, conferences, proofread-a-thons and collaborations. The second half will be focused on technical updates and conversations, such as talking about major challenges faced by Wikisource communities, similar to the ones conducted in previous Community meetings.

There are going to be updates about Transkribus and we will be sharing more information during the meeting.

If you are interested in joining the meeting, kindly leave a message on swilson@wikimedia.org' and we will add you to the calendar invite.

Meanwhile, feel free to check out the page on Meta-wiki and suggest any other topics for the agenda.

Regards

KLawal-WMF, PMenon-WMF, Sam Wilson (WMF), and Satdeep Gill (WMF)

Wikimedia Foundation’s 2023-2024 Annual Plan and Upcoming Community Conversations

Hi Everyone,

The draft annual plan of the Wikimedia Foundation applicable from July 2023 to June 2024 has been published and is open for feedback.

While the entire annual plan is available in multiple languages, a short summary is available in close to 30 languages including many from the region.

Two-Way Planning/Conversations

Since last year, the Foundation has prioritized two-way planning with communities by asking community members to share their goals for the coming year. We are hosting a series of calls/discussions across various time zones to collaborate across the movement, for South Asia-based communities;

1. In-person session during WikiConference India, on the 28th of April with the attendees of the conference. (recording to be uploaded on meta).
2. Virtual Discussion on the 30th of April, 2023 (0600 UTC)- Join Us!

We would like to invite you all to participate in the virtual discussion on the 30th of April where Lisa Seitz Gruwell, Chief Advancement Officer, and Deputy to the Chief Executive Officer would be sharing and discussing the plans with the movement.

Call Details

Virtual Discussion (Via Zoom)

Date: 30th April 2023 (Sunday)

Time: 0600 UTC (ZoneStamp)

Diff Calendar Link

Look forward to seeing you on the call.

Please add the above details to your respective calendars, and do get in touch with me if you have any further questions.

Rachit Sharma (WMF)

Sent using MediaWiki message delivery (বাৰ্তা) ০৯:৫৯, ২৫ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)

Seeking volunteers for the next step in the Universal Code of Conduct process

অধিক ভাষা • অনুগ্ৰহ কৰি আপোনাৰ ভাষালৈ অনুবাদ কৰাত সহায় কৰক

Hello,

As follow-up to the message about the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines by Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Vice Chair, Shani Evenstein Sigalov, I am reaching out about the next steps. I want to bring your attention to the next stage of the Universal Code of Conduct process, which is forming a building committee for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). I invite community members with experience and deep interest in community health and governance to nominate themselves to be part of the U4C building committee, which needs people who are:

• Community members in good standing
• Knowledgeable about movement community processes, such as, but not limited to, policy drafting, participatory decision making, and application of existing rules and policies on Wikimedia projects
• Aware and appreciative of the diversity of the movement, such as, but not limited to, languages spoken, identity, geography, and project type
• Committed to participate for the entire U4C Building Committee period from mid-May - December 2023
• Comfortable with engaging in difficult, but productive conversations
• Confidently able to communicate in English

The Building Committee shall consist of volunteer community members, affiliate board or staff, and Wikimedia Foundation staff.

The Universal Code of Conduct has been a process strengthened by the skills and knowledge of the community and I look forward to what the U4C Building Committee creates. If you are interested in joining the Building Committee, please either sign up on the Meta-Wiki page, or contact ucocprojectwikimedia.org by May 12, 2023. Read more on Meta-Wiki.

Best regards,

Xeno (WMF) ০০:৩১, ২৭ এপ্ৰিল ২০২৩ (IST)

কিতাপৰ তালিকা

অসমীয়া ৱিকিউৎসই এটা উন্নতমানৰ স্কেনাৰ লাভ কৰিবলৈ কমেও ৫০খন কিতাপৰ তালিকা প্ৰস্তুত কৰাৰ প্ৰয়োজন হৈছিল আৰু এই তালিকাখন প্ৰস্তুত কৰাৰ দায়িত্ব মোক দিয়া হৈছিল, যি অতি কষ্টসাধ্য৷ সেয়ে, যিখিনি কিতাপ এতিয়ালৈ সংগ্ৰহ কৰা হ’ল, তাৰে এখনি তালিকা ইয়াত সন্নিৱিষ্ট কৰা হ’ল আৰু লগতে সন্মানীয় সদস্যসকললৈ অনুৰোধ, তেওঁলোকেও যাতে পাৰ্যমানে এই তালিকাখন বহলাবৰ যত্ন কৰে৷

(তালিকাত সূৰ্য্যকুমাৰ ভূঞাৰ কিতাপো দিয়া হৈছে, যিহেতু এবছৰ পিছত তেখেতৰ কিতাপ ’কপিৰাইট’ মুক্ত হ’ব৷ সকলোৰে সহযোগিতা আৰু পথ নিৰ্দেশনা আশা কৰিলোঁ৷ (২৩, ২৪, ২৫ আৰু ২৬ নম্বৰৰ কিতাপকেইখনৰ অনুমতি দিয়া আছে) আৰু ২৭, ২৮, ২৯, ৩০ আৰু ৩১ নম্বৰৰ কিতাপকেইখনৰ কপিৰাইট সম্বন্ধে নিশ্চিত নহয়৷) আৰু ৬৬ৰ পৰা ৭৮লৈ কিতাপকেইখন মৃদুল কুমাৰ শৰ্মাৰ হাতত আছে৷ Pranamikaadhikary (বাৰ্তা) ২২:২৫, ৯ মে' ২০২৩ (IST)

তালিকা

1. ডিম্বেশ্বৰ নেওগৰ “শ্বহিদান’’
2. চন্দ্ৰধৰ বৰুৱাৰ “কামৰূপ জীয়াৰী’’,
3. সূৰ্যকুমাৰ ভূঞাৰ “বৰফুকনৰ গীত’’
4. নলিনীবালা দেৱীৰ “পৰশমণি’’
5. সূৰ্যকুমাৰ ভূঞাৰ “নিৰ্মালী’’
6. চন্দ্ৰধৰ বৰুৱাৰ “ৰঞ্জন’’
7. ডিম্বেশ্বৰ নেওগৰ “বিচিত্ৰা’’
8. পদ্মনাথ গোহাঞিবৰুৱাৰ “লীলা’’
9. ৰত্নকান্ত বৰকাকতিৰ “শেৱালী’’
10. সূৰ্যকুমাৰ ভূঞাৰ “জয়মতী’’
11. ডিম্বেশ্বৰ নেওগৰ “থাপনা’’
12. চন্দ্ৰকুমাৰ আগৰৱালাৰ “চন্দ্ৰামৃত’’
13. দণ্ডীনাথ কলিতাৰ “অসম সন্ধ্যা’’
14. সূৰ্যকুমাৰ ভূঞাৰ “ত্ৰিপদী’’
15. মহেশ্বৰ গোস্বামী প্ৰকাশিত “সাহিত্য-সংগ্ৰহ’’( ১৯০৫ চনৰ এন্ট্ৰেন্সৰ পাঠ্যপুথি)
16. পুৰুষোত্তম ঠাকুৰৰ “ন-ঘোষা’’
17. ইন্দ্ৰেশ্বৰ বৰঠাকুৰৰ “ৰণ-জেউতি’’
18. ধৰ্মেশ্বৰী দেৱী বৰুৱানীৰ “প্ৰাণৰ পৰশ’’
19. হেমচন্দ্ৰ বৰুৱাৰ “বাহিৰে ৰংচং ভিতৰে কোৱাভাতুৰী’’
20. দণ্ডিনাথ কলিতাৰ “প্ৰদীপ’’
21. বিৰিঞ্চিকুমাৰ বৰুৱা সম্পাদিত মহামোহকাব্য, ৰামানন্দ দ্বিজৰ
22. প্ৰভাত হালৈৰ “মা দুৰ্গা’’
23. সুৰেন গোস্বামীৰ “সেৱা সদন’’
24. সুৰেন গোস্বামীৰ “ৰাইনা আৰু শিয়ালৰ সাধু’’
25. সুৰেন গোস্বামীৰ “সুকোমল দেশৰ সাধু’’
26. ভোলানাথ ফুকন সম্পাদিত “মুক্তি’’ সংকলন
27. গোপীনাথ দাসৰ “বিহুৱা জেউতি’’
28. পদ্মকুমাৰী গোহাঁইৰ “হিন্দু নাৰী’’
29. দামোদৰ দেৱগোস্বামীৰ “মহাপুৰুষ শ্ৰীশ্ৰীহৰিদেৱ’’
30. কৃষ্ণচন্দ্ৰ দেৱগোস্বামীৰ “সাধক পদ্মনাভ’’
31. ৰজনীকান্ত বৰদলৈৰ ৰহদৈ লিগিৰী
32. ৰজনীকান্ত বৰদলৈৰ ৰাধা-ৰুক্মিণীৰ ৰণ
33. ৰজনীকান্ত বৰদলৈৰ খাম্বা-থুইবীৰ সাধু
34. শৰৎচন্দ্ৰ গোস্বামীৰ ময়না
35. শৰৎচন্দ্ৰ গোস্বামীৰ অসমীয়া সাধুকথা
36. শৰৎচন্দ্ৰ গোস্বামীৰ পানিপথ
37. শৰৎচন্দ্ৰ গোস্বামীৰ আদি পাঠ (দ্বিতীয় ভাগ)
38. হিতেশ্বৰ বৰবৰুৱাৰ ঢোপকলি
39. হিতেশ্বৰ বৰবৰুৱাৰ যুদ্ধক্ষেত্ৰত আহোম ৰমণী
40. বেণুধৰ ৰাজখোৱাৰ চন্দ্ৰ সম্ভৱ
41. বেণুধৰ ৰাজখোৱাৰ দশগীত
42. বেণুধৰ ৰাজখোৱাৰ সৰু লৰাৰ গান
43. বেণুধৰ ৰাজখোৱাৰ ডেকা-গাভৰু
44. বেণুধৰ ৰাজখোৱাৰ দুৰ্যোধনৰ উৰুভঙ্গ
45. সত্যনাথ বৰাৰ “বহল ব্যাকৰণ’’
46. চন্দ্ৰধৰ বৰুৱাৰ “মেঘনাদ বধ’’
47. চানেকি পাঠ (১৯৬৯ পাঠ্যপুথি)
48. সাহিত্য ৰত্নাৱলী (সপ্তমমানৰ পাঠ্যপুথি ১৯৬৫)
49. পাটীগণিত (চতুৰ্থ শ্ৰেণীৰ ১৯৬৩)
50. পাটীগণিত (সপ্তম শ্ৰেণীৰ ১৯৬৮)
51. আধুনিক ব্যৱহাৰিক গণিত (১৯৬২)
52. শিশু বিজ্ঞান (১৯৬৭)
53. অমৰ মানৱ (১৯৭৫)
54. সিংহগড় বিজয় (১৯৭৪)
55. সৰল ভূগোল (১৯৬৯)
56. আমাৰ দেশ (১৯৬৭)
57. গল্পগুচ্ছ (১৩৫৭ শক)
58. সোণালী পাঠ (১৯৬৭)
59. ভাৰতৰ বুৰঞ্জী (১৯৭৫)
60. এছিয়াৰ জ্যোতি (১৯৬৭)
61. বিশ্ব ইতিহাসত এভূমুকি (১৯৭১)
62. পৃথিৱীৰ নতুন বুৰঞ্জী (১৯৬০)
63. নতুন ভূগোল (১৯৬৯)
64. শিশু বিজ্ঞান (১৯৬৪)
65. অসমৰ নতুন বুৰঞ্জী (১৯৬৯)........
66. Sri Sri Candi শ্ৰীশ্ৰী চণ্ডী
67. Batsarar Dalil বাটসৰৰ দলিল
68. Bastu Sastrare Sundar Jivan বাস্তু শাস্ত্ৰৰে সুন্দৰ জীৱন
69. Kalpanar pora Bastaboloi কল্পনাৰ পৰা বাস্তৱলৈ
70. Studies of the Atharvaveda with particular reference to non-secular Hymns
71. Adhunik-sanskrit-Asamiya-Abhidhan আধুনিক-সংস্কৃত অসমীয়া অভিধান
72. The Island of Adventure কালিকা লগা দ্বীপ
73. Lawam Kuwari লাবাম কুঁৱৰী
74. Mayur konwar ময়ুৰ কোঁৱৰ
75. Patal Purar Sadhu পাতাল পুৰৰ সাধু
76. Alohi Gharar Chor আলহী ঘৰৰ চোৰ
77. Parijat Haran পাৰিজাত হৰণ
78. Sagar সাগৰ

Selection of the U4C Building Committee

The next stage in the Universal Code of Conduct process is establishing a Building Committee to create the charter for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C). The Building Committee has been selected. Read about the members and the work ahead on Meta-wiki.

-- UCoC Project Team, ০৯:৫১, ২৭ মে' ২০২৩ (IST)