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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #3

Hello,
Happy New Year! The third edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened proposals for session submissions. If you want to conduct a session during the event, you can propose it here before 24 Jamuary 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

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આપની ટિપ્પણી માટે વિનંતી - પ્રૂફરીડથોન

પ્રિય મિત્રો, પ્રૂફરીડથોન પર ટિપ્પણી અને મંતવ્યો માટેની ચર્ચા અહીં ચાલુ કરવામાં આવી છે. ગયા વર્ષે આપણે બે પ્રૂફરીડથોન સ્પર્ધાનું આયોજન કર્યું હતું. ભવિષ્યમાં ઇંડિક વિકિસ્રોતની આ સ્પર્ધાના આયોજનની આકારણી માટે આપની ટિપ્પણીઓ, સુઝાવો, મંતવ્યો આદિની જરૂર છે. આ મંતવ્યો લખવા માટે અંગ્રેજી ભાષાનો પ્રયોગ ઇચ્છનીય છે તેમ છતાં જો આપ અંગ્રેજી ન લખી શકોઇ તો આપની માતૃભાષામાં પણ વિન કોઈ ખચકાટ આપના મંતવ્યો જણાવશો.

વિકિસ્રોત સમુદાય વતી,

Jayanta (CIS-A2K) (ચર્ચા) ૨૩:૨૭, ૧૪ જાન્યુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #4

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Happy New Year! The fourth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.MediaWiki message delivery (ચર્ચા) ૨૧:૪૨, ૧૭ જાન્યુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Understanding the technical challenges

Greetings, hope this message finds you all in the best of your health, and you are staying safe amid the ongoing crisis.

Firstly, to give you context, Small wiki toolkits (SWT) is an initiative to support small wiki communities, to learn and share technical and semi-technical skills to support, maintain, and grow. In India, a series of workshops were conducted last year, and they received good response. They are being continued this year, and the first session is: Understanding the technical challenges of wikis (by Birgit): Brainstorming about technical challenges faced by contributors contributing to language projects related to South Asia. The session is on 24 January 2021, at 18:00 to 19:30 (India time), 18:15 to 19:45 (Nepal time), and 18:30 to 20:00 pm (Bangladesh time).

You can register yourself by visiting this page! This discussion will be crucial to decide topics for future workshops. Community members are also welcome to suggest topics for future workshops anytime at https://w.wiki/t8Q. If you have any questions, please contact us on the talk page here. MediaWiki message delivery (ચર્ચા) ૨૨:૦૯, ૧૯ જાન્યુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Upcoming bots workshops: Understanding community needs

Greetings, as you may be aware that as part of Small wiki toolkits - South Asia, we conduct a workshop every month on technical topics to help small wikis. In February, we are planning on organizing a workshop on the topic of bots. Bots are automated tools that carry out repetitive, tedious and mundane tasks. To help us structure the workshop, we would like understand the needs of the community in this regard. Please let us know any of

• a) repetitive/mundane tasks that you generally do, especially for maintenance
• b) tasks you think can be automated on your wiki.

Please let us your inputs on workshops talk page, before 7 February 2021. You can also let me know your inputs by emailing me or pinging me here in this section. Please note that you do not need to have any programming knowledge for this workshop or to give input. Regards, KCVelaga ૧૯:૧૫, ૨૮ જાન્યુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Call for feedback: WMF Community Board seats & Office hours tomorrow

(sorry for posting in English)

Dear Wikimedians,

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. Below you will find the problem statement and various ideas from the Board to address it. We are offering multiple channels for questions and feedback. With the help of a team of community facilitators, we are organizing multiple conversations with multiple groups in multiple languages.

During this call for feedback we publish weekly reports and we draft the final report that will be delivered to the Board. With the help of this report, the Board will approve the next steps to organize the selection of six community seats in the upcoming months. Three of these seats are due for renewal and three are new, recently approved.

Participate in this call for feedback and help us form a more diverse and better performing Board of Trustees!

Problems: While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. This problem was identified in the Board’s 2019 governance review, along with recommendations for how to address it.

To solve the problem of capacity, we have agreed to increase the Board size to a maximum of 16 trustees (it was 10). Regarding performance and diversity, we have approved criteria to evaluate new Board candidates. What is missing is a process to promote community candidates that represent the diversity of our movement and have the skills and experience to perform well on the Board of a complex global organization.

Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. Meanwhile, our movement has grown larger and more complex, our technical and strategic needs have increased, and we have new and more difficult policy challenges around the globe. As well, our Movement Strategy recommendations urge us to increase our diversity and promote perspectives from other regions and other social backgrounds.

In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. What process can we all design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees?

Ideas: The Board has discussed several ideas to overcome the problems mentioned above. Some of these ideas could be taken and combined, and some discarded. Other ideas coming from the call for feedback could be considered as well. The ideas are:

• Ranked voting system. Complete the move to a single transferable vote system, already used to appoint affiliate-selected seats, which is designed to best capture voters’ preferences.
• Quotas. Explore the possibility of introducing quotas to ensure certain types of diversity in the Board (details about these quotas to be discussed in this call for feedback).
• Call for types of skills and experiences. When the Board makes a new call for candidates, they would specify types of skills and experiences especially sought.
• Vetting of candidates. Potential candidates would be assessed using the Trustee Evaluation Form and would be confirmed or not as eligible candidates.
• Board-delegated selection committee. The community would nominate candidates that this committee would assess and rank using the Trustee Evaluation Form. This committee would have community elected members and Board appointed members.
• Community-elected selection committee. The community would directly elect the committee members. The committee would assess and rank candidates using the Trustee Evaluation Form.
• Election of confirmed candidates. The community would vote for community nominated candidates that have been assessed and ranked using the Trustee Evaluation Form. The Board would appoint the most voted candidates.
• Direct appointment of confirmed candidates. After the selection committee produces a ranked list of community nominated candidates, the Board would appoint the top-ranked candidates directly.

Call for feedback: The call for feedback runs from February 1 until the end of March 14. We are looking for a broad representation of opinions. We are interested in the reasoning and the feelings behind your opinions. In a conversation like this one, details are important. We want to support good conversations where everyone can share and learn from others. We want to hear from those who understand Wikimedia governance well and are already active in movement conversations. We also want to hear from people who do not usually contribute to discussions. Especially those who are active in their own roles, topics, languages or regions, but usually not in, say, a call for feedback on Meta.

You can participate by joining the Telegram chat group, and giving feedback on any of the talk pages on Meta-Wiki. We are welcoming the organisation of conversations in any language and in any channel. If you want us to organize a conversation or a meeting for your wiki project or your affiliate, please write to me. I will also reach out to communities and affiliates to soon have focused group discussions.

An office hour is also happening tomorrow at 12 pm (UTC) to discuss this topic. Access link will be available 15 minutes before the scheduled time (please watch the office hour page for the link, and I will also share on mailing lists). In case you are not able to make it, please don't worry, there will be more discussions and meetings in the next few weeks.

Regards, KCVelaga (WMF) ૨૨:૦૦, ૧ ફેબ્રુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Research Needs Assessment for Indian Language Wikimedia (ILW) Projects

Dear All,

The Access to Knowledge (A2K) team at CIS has been engaged with work on research on Indian language Wikimedia projects as part of the APG since 2019. This year, following up on our learnings from work so far, we are undertaking a needs assessment exercise to understand a) the awareness about research within Indian language Wikimedia communities, and identify existing projects if any, and b) to gather community inputs on knowledge gaps and priority areas of focus, and the role of research in addressing the same.

We would therefore request interested community members to respond to the needs assessment questionnaire here:
Click here to respond

Please respond in any Indian language as suitable. The deadline for this exercise is February 20, 2021. For any queries do write to us on the CIS-A2K research talk page here MediaWiki message delivery (ચર્ચા) ૨૨:૩૮, ૩ ફેબ્રુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

• Hello, thanks to those who have submitted responses to this needs assessment. We want to inform you that the deadline to share your response has been extended till 5 March 2021. Click here to respond.Thanks. BhuvanaMeenakshi(CIS-A2K) (ચર્ચા) ૧૨:૩૨, ૨૪ ફેબ્રુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5

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Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
MediaWiki message delivery (ચર્ચા) ૨૩:૧૯, ૩ ફેબ્રુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #5

Hello,
Greetings!! The fifth edition of Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 newsletter has been published. We have opened the registration for participation for this event. If you want to participate in the event, you can register yourself here before 16 February 2021.

There are other stories. Please read the full newsletter here.

To subscribe or unsubscribe the newsletter, please visit this page.
MediaWiki message delivery (ચર્ચા) ૨૩:૨૩, ૩ ફેબ્રુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 is back!

Please help translate to your language

You are humbly invited to participate in the Wiki Loves Folklore 2021 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.

Please support us in translating the project page and a banner message to help us spread the word in your native language.

Kind regards,

Wiki loves Folklore International Team

MediaWiki message delivery (ચર્ચા) ૧૮:૫૫, ૬ ફેબ્રુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Bot workshop: 27 February

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the second workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "bots", and we will be learning how to perform tasks on wiki by running automated scripts, about Pywikibot and how it can be used to help with repetitive processes and editing, and the Pywikibot community, learning resources and community venues. Please note that you do not need any technical experience to attend the workshop, only some experience contributing to Wikimedia projects is enough.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

• Date: 27 February
• Timings: 15:30 to 17:00 (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BDT)
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/vri-zvfv-rci | click to add your Google Calendar.
• Trainer: Joaquin Oltra Hernandez

Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/yYg.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, ૧૫:૪૧, ૧૮ ફેબ્રુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Proposal: Set two-letter project shortcuts as alias to project namespace globally

Please help translate to your language

Hello everyone,

I apologize for posting in English. I would like to inform everyone that I created a new global request for comment (GRFC) at Meta Wiki, which may affect your project: m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

In this GRFC, I propose that two-project shortcuts for project names will become a default alias for the project namespace. For instance, on all Wikipedias, WP will be an alias to the Wikipedia: namespace (and similar for other projects). Full list is available in the GRFC.

This is already the case for Wikivoyages, and many individual projects asked for this alias to be implemented. I believe this makes it easier to access the materials in the project namespace, as well as creating shortcuts like WP:NPOV, as well as helps new projects to use this feature, without having to figure out how to request site configuration changes first.

As far as I can see, વિકિસ્રોત currently does not have such an alias set. This means that such an alias will be set for you, if the GRFC is accepted by the global community.

I would like to ask all community members to participate in the request for comment at Meta-Wiki, see m:Requests for comment/Set short project namespace aliases by default globally.

Please feel free to ask me if you have any questions about this proposal.

Best regards,
--Martin Urbanec (talk) ૧૯:૪૨, ૧૮ ફેબ્રુઆરી ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

WMF Board Governance meeting Gujarati community on March 7 (Sunday) from 12 pm to 1 pm

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees is organizing a call for feedback about community selection processes between February 1 and March 14. While the Wikimedia Foundation and the movement have grown about five times in the past ten years, the Board’s structure and processes have remained basically the same. As the Board is designed today, we have a problem of capacity, performance, and lack of representation of the movement’s diversity. Our current processes to select individual volunteer and affiliate seats have some limitations. Direct elections tend to favor candidates from the leading language communities, regardless of how relevant their skills and experience might be in serving as a Board member, or contributing to the ability of the Board to perform its specific responsibilities. It is also a fact that the current processes have favored volunteers from North America and Western Europe. As a matter of fact, there had only been one member who served on the Board, from South Asia, in more than fifteen years of history.

In the upcoming months, we need to renew three community seats and appoint three more community members in the new seats. This call for feedback is to see what processes can we all collaboratively design to promote and choose candidates that represent our movement and are prepared with the experience, skills, and insight to perform as trustees? In this regard, with the help of Dsvyas, I have scheduled a meeting with the Gujarati community to discuss the proposed ideas and collect your thoughts and feedback. The meeting is on March 7 (Sunday) from 12 pm to 1 pm. The link to join is, https://meet.google.com/ocv-stgm-syb. Please ping me if you have any questions. Also, the ideas will be explained in Gujarati. --KCVelaga (WMF) (ચર્ચા) ૧૯:૩૧, ૪ માર્ચ ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

WMF Community Board seats: Upcoming panel discussions

As a result of the first three weeks of the call for feedback on WMF Community Board seats, three topics turned out to be the focus of the discussion. Additionally, a new idea has been introduced by a community member recently: Candidates resources. We would like to pursue these focus topics and the new idea appropriately, discussing them in depth and collecting new ideas and fresh approaches by running four panels in the next week. Every panel includes four members from the movement covering many regions, backgrounds and experiences, along with a trustee of the Board. Every panel will last 45 minutes, followed by a 45-minute open mic discussion, where everyone’s free to ask questions or to contribute to the further development of the panel's topics.

• Skills for Board work - Friday, March 12, 18:00 UTC
• Support for candidates - Saturday, March 13, 13:30 UTC
• Board - Global Council - Hubs - Saturday, March 13, 16:00 UTC
• Regional diversity - Sunday, March 14, 13:00 UTC

To counter spamming, the meeting link will be updated on the Meta-Wiki pages and also on the Telegram announcements channel, 15 minutes before the official start.

Let me know if you have any questions, KCVelaga (WMF), ૧૪:૦૬, ૧૦ માર્ચ ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Workshop on "Debugging/fixing template errors" - 27 March

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we are happy to announce the third workshop of this year. The workshop will be on "Debugging/fixing template errors", and we will learn how to address the common template errors on wikis (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.).

Details of the workshop are as follows:

• Date: 27 March
• Timings: 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm (IST), 15:45 to 17:15 (NPT), 16:00 to 17:30 (BST)
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/cyo-mnrd-ryj | click here to add this to your Google Calendar.
• Trainer: Jay Prakash

Please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/36Sg.

prepare for the workshop in advance, we would like to gather all kinds of template errors (related but not limited to importing templates, translating them, Lua, etc.) that you face while working with templates on your wiki. If you plan to attend the workshop and would like your common issues related to dealing with templates addressed, share your issues using this Google Form, or under this section on the workshop's talk page. You can see examples of such errors at this category.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, ૧૨:૩૧, ૧૬ માર્ચ ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

[Small wiki toolkits] Workshop on "Designing responsive main pages" - 30 April (Friday)

As part of the Small wiki toolkits (South Asia) initiative, we would like to announce the third workshop of this year on “Designing responsive main pages”. The workshop will take place on 30 April (Friday). During this workshop, we will learn to design main pages of a wiki to be responsive. This will allow the pages to be mobile-friendly, by adjusting the width and the height according to various screen sizes. Participants are expected to have a good understanding of Wikitext/markup and optionally basic CSS.

Details of the workshop are as follows:

• Date: 30 April (Friday)
• Timings: 18:00 to 19:30 (India / Sri Lanka), 18:15 to 19:45 (Nepal), 18:30 to 20:00 (Bangladesh)
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/zfs-qfvj-hts | to add this to your Google Calendar, please use click here.

If you are interested, please sign-up on the registration page at https://w.wiki/3CGv.

Note: We are providing modest internet stipends to attend the workshops, for those who need and wouldn't otherwise be able to attend. More information on this can be found on the registration page.

Regards, Small wiki toolkits - South Asia organizers, ૨૧:૨૧, ૧૯ એપ્રિલ ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Call for Election Volunteers: 2021 WMF Board elections

Hello all,

Based on an extensive call for feedback earlier this year, the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees announced the plan for the 2021 Board elections. Apart from improving the technicalities of the process, the Board is also keen on improving active participation from communities in the election process. During the last elections, Voter turnout in prior elections was about 10% globally. It was better in communities with volunteer election support. Some of those communities reached over 20% voter turnout. We know we can get more voters to help assess and promote the best candidates, but to do that, we need your help.

We are looking for volunteers to serve as Election Volunteers. Election Volunteers should have a good understanding of their communities. The facilitation team sees Election Volunteers as doing the following:

• Promote the election and related calls to action in community channels.
• With the support from facilitators, organize discussions about the election in their communities.
• Translate “a few” messages for their communities

Check out more details about Election Volunteers and add your name next to the community you will support in this table. We aim to have at least one Election Volunteer, even better if there are two or more sharing the work. If you have any queries, please ping me under this message or email me. Regards, KCVelaga (WMF) ૧૦:૫૧, ૧૨ મે ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Proposal to integrate Wikisource with Wikidata

Hello all, during the last few months, along with other Wikimedians, I have been working on a technical project to integrate Wikisource with Wikidata - specifically to be able to use data from Wikidata on Wikisource. As a result, we have developed MediaWiki modules that will retrieve data from Wikidata and display it on index pages of a Wikisource. I am working on the technical documentation on my MediaWiki sandbox. Last week, we have implemented these modules on Punjabi Wikisource, and prior to that Bengali. All the errors have now been fixed. Here is an example:

• s:pa:ਇੰਡੈਕਸ:Julius_Ceasuer_Punjabi_Translation_by_HS_Gill.pdf - edit mode: If you observe, all the data is being pulled from Wikidata with the help of the QID in the index page form.

In addition to the modules, there will also be a bot that adds QIDs to index pages weekly. I am thinking it would be good to implement these on Gujarati Wikisource as well. We are reaching out to a few Wikisources before concluding the project (it can be done later as well, with the help of documentation). Please let me know if you have any questions and are interested. KCVelaga (ચર્ચા) ૧૪:૪૮, ૮ જૂન ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

@Sushant savla, @Vijay Barot, @Amvaishnav, @મીરા પરમાર: KCVelaga (ચર્ચા) ૧૭:૦૫, ૧૦ જૂન ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

@KCVelaga: We would love to implement the same for Gujarati Wikisource, please lets know the step by step procedure. --સુશાંત સાવલા (ચર્ચા) ૧૯:૪૯, ૧૦ જૂન ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Wikimania 2021: Individual Program Submissions

Dear all,

Wikimania 2021 will be hosted virtually for the first time in the event's 15-year history. Since there is no in-person host, the event is being organized by a diverse group of Wikimedia volunteers that form the Core Organizing Team (COT) for Wikimania 2021.

Event Program - Individuals or a group of individuals can submit their session proposals to be a part of the program. There will be translation support for sessions provided in a number of languages. See more information here.

Below are some links to guide you through;

• Program Submissions
• Session Submission Guidelines
• FAQ

Please note that the deadline for submission is 18th June 2021.

Announcements- To keep up to date with the developments around Wikimania, the COT sends out weekly updates. You can view them in the Announcement section here.

Office Hour - If you are left with questions, the COT will be hosting some office hours (in multiple languages), in multiple time-zones, to answer any programming questions that you might have. Details can be found here.

Best regards,

MediaWiki message delivery (ચર્ચા) ૦૯:૪૯, ૧૬ જૂન ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

On behalf of Wikimania 2021 Core Organizing Team

Candidates from South Asia for 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board Elections

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may be aware, the Wikimedia Foundation has started elections for community seats on the Board of Trustees. While previously there were three community seats on the Board, with the expansion of the Board to sixteen seats last year, community seats have been increased to eight, four of which are up for election this year.

In the last fifteen years of the Board's history, there were only a few candidates from the South Asian region who participated in the elections, and hardly anyone from the community had a chance to serve on the Board. While there are several reasons for this, this time, the Board and WMF are very keen on encouraging and providing support to potential candidates from historically underrepresented regions. This is a good chance to change the historical problem of representation from the South Asian region in high-level governance structures.

Ten days after the call for candidates began, there aren't any candidates from South Asia yet, there are still 10 days left! I would like to ask community members to encourage other community members, whom you think would be potential candidates for the Board. While the final decision is completely up to the person, it can be helpful to make sure that they are aware of the election and the call for candidates.

Let me know if you need any information or support.

Thank you, KCVelaga (WMF) ૧૫:૩૩, ૧૯ જૂન ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Editing news 2021 #2

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When newcomers had the Reply tool and tried to post on a talk page, they were more successful at posting a comment. (Source)

Earlier this year, the Editing team ran a large study of the Reply Tool. The main goal was to find out whether the Reply Tool helped newer editors communicate on wiki. The second goal was to see whether the comments that newer editors made using the tool needed to be reverted more frequently than comments newer editors made with the existing wikitext page editor.

The key results were:

• Newer editors who had automatic ("default on") access to the Reply tool were more likely to post a comment on a talk page.
• The comments that newer editors made with the Reply Tool were also less likely to be reverted than the comments that newer editors made with page editing.

These results give the Editing team confidence that the tool is helpful.

Looking ahead

The team is planning to make the Reply tool available to everyone as an opt-out preference in the coming months. This has already happened at the Arabic, Czech, and Hungarian Wikipedias.

The next step is to resolve a technical challenge. Then, they will deploy the Reply tool first to the Wikipedias that participated in the study. After that, they will deploy it, in stages, to the other Wikipedias and all WMF-hosted wikis.

You can turn on "ચર્ચા સાધનો" in Beta Features now. After you get the Reply tool, you can change your preferences at any time in Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-editing-discussion.

–Whatamidoing (WMF) (ચર્ચા)

૧૯:૪૫, ૨૪ જૂન ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Wikisource Satisfaction Survey 2021

કેમ છો!

Apologies for writing in English. Please help translate to your language

In the past year, there has been a lot of changes to Wikisource features and tools. This was done by the Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation, grantees funded by the Foundation or through projects like Google Summer of Code. We would like to understand what you feel about the changes. Tell us what you think about such tools as the Wikisource Pagelist Widget or the new Ebook Export tool.

Take the survey in English, French, Spanish, Polish, Hindi or Punjabi. The deadline is 25th July 2021.

This survey will be conducted via a third-party service, which may subject it to additional terms. For more information on privacy and data-handling, see the survey privacy statement (English, Spanish, French, Polish, Hindi and Punjabi).

If you prefer to send your answers via email, copy the text of the survey and send to sgill@wikimedia.org.

If you have any questions or feedback about the survey, write to me at sgill@wikimedia.org.

આભાર ! SGill (WMF) ૦૪:૦૦, ૧૭ જુલાઇ ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

[Wikimedia Foundation elections 2021] Candidates meet with South Asia + ESEAP communities

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, the 2021 Board of Trustees elections are from 4 August 2021 to 17 August 2021. Members of the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to elect four candidates to a three-year term.

After a three-week-long Call for Candidates, there are 20 candidates for the 2021 election. This event is for community members of South Asian and ESEAP communities to know the candidates and interact with them.

• The event will be on 31 July 2021 (Saturday), and the timings are:

• India & Sri Lanka: 6:00 pm to 8:30 pm
• Bangladesh: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm
• Nepal: 6:15 pm to 8:45 pm
• Afghanistan: 5:00 pm to 7:30 pm
• Pakistan & Maldives: 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm

• For registration and other details, please visit the event page at m: Wikimedia Foundation elections/2021/Meetings/South Asia + ESEAP

KCVelaga (WMF), ૧૫:૩૦, ૧૯ જુલાઇ ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

ઇન્ડિક વિકિસ્ત્રોત પ્રૂફરીડથોન ઓગસ્ટ ૨૦૨૧

પ્રિય વિકિસ્રોત સંપાદક, ગત વર્ષની ઇન્ડિક વિકિસ્ત્રોત પ્રૂફરીડથોનમાં તમારા સહયોગ અને સમર્થન માટે આભાર સહ અભિનંદન. CIS-A2K આ વર્ષે ફરીથી ઓનલાઇન ઇન્ડિક વિકિસોર્સ પ્રૂફરીડથોન ઓગસ્ટ ૨૦૨૧નું આયોજન કરી રહ્યું છે, જેથી આ વર્ષના ભારતીય સ્વાતંત્ર્ય પર્વમાં આપણા પ્રશિષ્ટ ભારતીય સાહિત્યને ડિજિટલ ફોર્મેટમાં સમૃદ્ધ બનાવી શકાય.

જરૂરિયાતો

• પુસ્તકસૂચિ: પ્રૂફરીડ કરવા માટેના પુસ્તકોની યાદી. કૃપા કરીને અમને તમારી ભાષાના પુસ્તકો પસંદ કરવામાં મદદ કરો. આ પુસ્તક યુનિકોડ ફોર્મેટ કરેલા લખાણ સાથે કોઈ ત્રીજા પક્ષની વેબસાઇટ પર ઉપલબ્ધ ન હોવું જોઈએ. કૃપા કરીને પુસ્તકો એકત્રિત કરો અને અમારી પ્રતિયોગિતા પૃષ્ઠ પરની પુસ્તકસૂચિમાં ઉમેરો. તમારે અહીં વર્ણવેલી પ્રકાશન અધિકાર માર્ગદર્શિકાનું પાલન કરવું જોઈએ. પુસ્તક શોધ્યા પછી તમારે પુસ્તકના પાનાં તપાસવા જોઈએ અને <pagelist/> બનાવવું જોઈએ.

• સ્પર્ધકો: જો તમે આ આયોજનમાં ભાગ લેવા ઇચ્છો છો તો કૃપા કરીને સહભાગી વિભાગમાં તમારા નામના હસ્તાક્ષર કરો.

• સમીક્ષક: કૃપા કરીને તમારી જાતને આ પ્રૂફરીડથોનના વહીવટકર્તા/સમીક્ષક તરીકે પ્રોત્સાહન આપો અને અહીં તમારી દરખાસ્ત ઉમેરો. વહીવટકર્તા/સમીક્ષકો આ પ્રૂફરીડથોનમાં ભાગ લઈ શકે છે.

• સોશિયલ મીડિયા કવરેજ: હું ઇન્ડિક વિકિસોર્સ સમુદાયના તમામ સભ્યોને વિનંતી કરીશ, કૃપા કરીને તમામ સોશિયલ મીડિયા ચેનલોમાં સમાચાર ફેલાવો, અમે હંમેશાં તમારા વિકિપીડિયા/વિકિસ્ત્રોતને તેમની સાઇટનોટિસનો ઉપયોગ કરવા સમજાવવાનો પ્રયાસ કરીએ છીએ. અલબત્ત, તમારે તમારી પોતાની વિકિસ્રોત સાઇટ નોટિસનો પણ ઉપયોગ કરવો જોઈએ.

• પુરસ્કાર: CIS-A2K દ્વારા કેટલાક એવોર્ડ/ઇનામ આપવામાં આવી શકે છે.

• પ્રૂફરીડ અને પ્રમાણિત પાનાં ગણવાની રીત: :ઇન્ડિક વિકિસોર્સ કોન્ટેસ્ટ ટૂલ્સ

• સમયગાળો: ૧૫ ઓગસ્ટ ૨૦૨૧ ૦૦.૦૧ થી ૩૧ ઓગસ્ટ ૨૦૨૧ ૨૩.૫૯ (ભારતીય માનક સમય)

• નિયમો અને માર્ગદર્શિકા: મૂળભૂત નિયમો અને માર્ગદર્શિકા આ પ્રમાણે છે.

• ગુણ: ગુણાંક પદ્ધતિનું અહીં વિસ્તારથી વિવરણ આપવામાં આવ્યું છે.

હું ખરેખર આશા રાખું છું કે મોટી સંખ્યામાં ઇન્ડિક વિકિસ્ત્રોત સંપાદકો આ કાર્યક્રમમાં સહભાગી થશે.

આભાર.
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
વિકિસ્રોત કાર્યક્રમ અધિકારી, CIS-A2K

2021 WMF Board election postponed until August 18th

Hello all,

We are reaching out to you today regarding the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election. This election was due to open on August 4th. Due to some technical issues with SecurePoll, the election must be delayed by two weeks. This means we plan to launch the election on August 18th, which is the day after Wikimania concludes. For information on the technical issues, you can see the Phabricator ticket.

We are truly sorry for this delay and hope that we will get back on schedule on August 18th. We are in touch with the Elections Committee and the candidates to coordinate the next steps. We will update the Board election Talk page and Telegram channel as we know more.

Thanks for your patience, KCVelaga (WMF), ૦૯:૧૯, ૩ ઓગસ્ટ ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees Election is open: 18 - 31 August 2021

Voting for the 2021 Board of Trustees election is now open. Candidates from the community were asked to submit their candidacy. After a three-week-long Call for Candidates, there are 19 candidates for the 2021 election.

The Wikimedia movement has the opportunity to vote for the selection of community and affiliate trustees. By voting, you will help to identify those people who have the qualities to best serve the needs of the movement for the next several years. The Board is expected to select the four most voted candidates to serve as trustees. Voting closes 31 August 2021.

• Learn more about candidates.
• Learn about the Board of Trustees.
• Vote

Read the full announcement and see translations on Meta-Wiki.

Please let me know if you have any questions regarding voting. KCVelaga (WMF), ૧૧:૪૧, ૧૮ ઓગસ્ટ ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct - Enforcement draft guidelines review

The Universal Code of Conduct Phase 2 drafting committee would like comments about the enforcement draft guidelines for the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC). This review period is planned for 17 August 2021 through 17 October 2021.

These guidelines are not final but you can help move the progress forward. The committee will revise the guidelines based upon community input.

Comments can be shared in any language on the draft review talk page and multiple other venues. Community members are encouraged to organize conversations in their communities.

There are planned live discussions about the UCoC enforcement draft guidelines:

• Wikimania 2021 session (recorded 16 August)
• Conversation hours - 24 August, 31 August, 7 September @ 03:00 UTC & 14:00 UTC
• Roundtable calls - 18 September @ 03:00 UTC & 15:00 UTC

Summaries of discussions will be posted every two weeks here.

Please let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), ૧૧:૫૪, ૧૮ ઓગસ્ટ ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

[Reminder] Wikimedia Foundation elections 2021: 3 days left to vote

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, Wikimedia Foundation elections started on 18 August and will continue until 31 August, 23:59 UTC i.e. ~ 3 days left.

Members of the Wikimedia community have the opportunity to elect four candidates to a three-year term.

Here are the links that might be useful for voting.

• Elections main page
• Candidates for the election
• Q&A from candidates
• 👉 Voting 👈

We have also published stats regarding voter turnout so far, you can check how many eligible voters from your wiki has voted on this page.

Please let me know if you have any questions. KCVelaga (WMF), ૧૧:૧૦, ૨૯ ઓગસ્ટ ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Results of 2021 Wikimedia Foundation elections

Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2021 Board election. The Elections Committee has reviewed the votes of the 2021 Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, organized to select four new trustees. A record 6,873 people from across 214 projects cast their valid votes. The following four candidates received the most support:

• Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight
• Victoria Doronina
• Dariusz Jemielniak
• Lorenzo Losa

While these candidates have been ranked through the community vote, they are not yet appointed to the Board of Trustees. They still need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. The Board has set a tentative date to appoint new trustees at the end of this month.

Read the full announcement here. MediaWiki message delivery (ચર્ચા) ૦૮:૨૬, ૮ સપ્ટેમ્બર ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Universal Code of Conduct EDGR conversation hour for South Asia

Dear Wikimedians,

As you may already know, the Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC) provides a baseline of behaviour for collaboration on Wikimedia projects worldwide. Communities may add to this to develop policies that take account of local and cultural context while maintaining the criteria listed here as a minimum standard. The Wikimedia Foundation Board has ratified the policy in December 2020.

The current round of conversations is around how the Universal Code of Conduct should be enforced across different Wikimedia platforms and spaces. This will include training of community members to address harassment, development of technical tools to report harassment, and different levels of handling UCoC violations, among other key areas.

The conversation hour is an opportunity for community members from South Asia to discuss and provide their feedback, which will be passed on to the drafting committee. The details of the conversation hour are as follows:

• Date: 16 September
• Time: Bangladesh: 5:30 pm to 7 pm, India & Sri Lanka: 5 pm to 6:30 pm, Nepal: 5:15 pm to 5:45 pm
• Meeting link: https://meet.google.com/dnd-qyuq-vnd | add to your calendar

You can also attend the global round table sessions hosted on 18 September - more details can be found on this page. MediaWiki message delivery (ચર્ચા) ૧૬:૧૭, ૧૦ સપ્ટેમ્બર ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Movement Charter Drafting Committee - Community Elections to take place October 11 - 24

This is a short message with an update from the Movement Charter process. The call for candidates for the Drafting Committee closed September 14, and we got a diverse range of candidates. The committee will consist of 15 members, and those will be (s)elected via three different ways.

The 15 member committee will be selected with a 3-step process:

• Election process for project communities to elect 7 members of the committee.
• Selection process for affiliates to select 6 members of the committee.
• Wikimedia Foundation process to appoint 2 members of the committee.

The community elections will take place between October 11 and October 24. The other process will take place in parallel, so that all processes will be concluded by November 1.

For the full context of the Movement Charter, its role, as well the process for its creation, please have a look at Meta. You can also contact us at any time on Telegram or via email (wikimedia2030@wikimedia.org).

Best, RamzyM (WMF) ૦૮:૧૬, ૨૨ સપ્ટેમ્બર ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Voting period to elect members of the Movement Charter Drafting Committee is now open

Voting for the election for the members for the Movement Charter drafting committee is now open. In total, 70 Wikimedians from around the world are running for 7 seats in these elections.

Voting is open from October 12 to October 24, 2021.

The committee will consist of 15 members in total: The online communities vote for 7 members, 6 members will be selected by the Wikimedia affiliates through a parallel process, and 2 members will be appointed by the Wikimedia Foundation. The plan is to assemble the committee by November 1, 2021.

Learn about each candidate to inform your vote in the language that you prefer: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Candidates>

Learn about the Drafting Committee: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee>

We are piloting a voting advice application for this election. Click yourself through the tool and you will see which candidate is closest to you! Check at <https://mcdc-election-compass.toolforge.org/>

Read the full announcement: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Go vote at SecurePoll on: <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Movement_Charter/Drafting_Committee/Elections>

Best,

Movement Strategy & Governance Team, Wikimedia Foundation

૧૧:૨૦, ૧૩ ઓક્ટોબર ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members

વધુ ભાષાઓ • Please help translate to your language

The Movement Charter Drafting Committee election and selection processes are complete.

• The election results have been published. 1018 participants voted to elect seven members to the committee: Richard Knipel (Pharos), Anne Clin (Risker), Alice Wiegand (Lyzzy), Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom), Richard (Nosebagbear), Ravan J Al-Taie (Ravan), Ciell (Ciell).
• The affiliate process has selected six members: Anass Sedrati (Anass Sedrati), Érica Azzellini (EricaAzzellini), Jamie Li-Yun Lin (Li-Yun Lin), Georges Fodouop (Geugeor), Manavpreet Kaur (Manavpreet Kaur), Pepe Flores (Padaguan).
• The Wikimedia Foundation has appointed two members: Runa Bhattacharjee (Runab WMF), Jorge Vargas (JVargas (WMF)).

The committee will convene soon to start its work. The committee can appoint up to three more members to bridge diversity and expertise gaps.

If you are interested in engaging with Movement Charter drafting process, follow the updates on Meta and join the Telegram group.

With thanks from the Movement Strategy and Governance team,
RamzyM (WMF) ૦૭:૫૭, ૨ નવેમ્બર ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Celebrating 18 years of Wikisource

Hello Wikisource enthusiasts and friends of Wikisource,

I hope you are doing alright! I would like to invite you to celebrate 18 years of Wikisource.

The first birthday party is being organized on 24 November 2021 from 1:30 - 3:00 PM UTC (check your local time) where the incoming CEO of the WMF, Maryana Iskendar, will be joining us. Feel free to drop me a message on my talk page, telegram (@satdeep) or via email (sgillઢાંચો:@wikimedia.org) to add your email address to the calendar invite.

Maryana is hoping to learn more about the Wikisource community and the project at this event and it would be really nice if you can share your answers to the following questions:

• What motivates you to contribute to Wikisource?
• What makes the Wikisource community special?
• What are the major challenges facing the movement going forward?
• What are your questions to Maryana?

You can share your responses during the live event but in case the date and the time doesn't work for you, you can share your responses on the event page on Wikisource or in case you would like to remain anonymous, you can share your responses directly with me.

Also, feel free to reach out to me in case you would like to give a short presentation about your and your community's work at the beginning of the session.

We are running a poll to find the best date and time to organize the second birthday party on the weekend right after 24th November. Please share your availability on the following link by next Friday:

https://framadate.org/zHOi5pZvhgDy6SXn

Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (ચર્ચા) ૧૪:૪૦, ૧૨ નવેમ્બર ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

on behalf of User:SGill (WMF)

કેમ છો મિત્રો !

વિકિસ્રોતની ૧૮મી વર્ષગાંઠ નિમિત્તે સૌ પ્રથમ તો સુશાંતભાઈના વડપણ હેઠળની વિકિસ્રોત ટીમ વતી આપ સૌને આજના ખાસ દિવસની શુભેચ્છાઓ પાઠવું છું. મિત્રો, આજે વિકિસ્રોતની વર્ષગાંઠ નિમિત્તે "Happy Birthday Wikisource! Let's celebrate together" વિષય આધારિત એક ઓનલાઈન મીટમાં જોડાવાનું બન્યું. વિશ્વના જુદા જુદા ભૂભાગોમાં વિકિસ્રોતની વર્તમાન સ્થિતિ અને ભવિષ્યના આયોજનો સંબંધિત ચાર જેટલા પ્રેસન્ટેશન બાદ પ્રશ્નોતરીનું આયોજન કરેલું હતું. ટૂંક સમયમાં વિકિસ્રોતના મુખ્ય કાર્યકારી અધ્યક્ષ તરીકે જોડાનારા Maryana Iskander પણ આ પ્રશ્નોતરીનો હિસ્સો રહ્યા હતા. પ્રશ્નોતરીમાં જુદી જુદી ભાષાના વિકિસ્રોત પર ચાલી રહેલા અવનવા પ્રકલ્પો વિશે વાતો થઈ. આ દરમિયાન મે ચેટ બોક્સમાં ગુજરાતી વિકિસ્રોતના ઓડિયો પ્રોજેક્ટ વિશેની નાનકડી માહિતી મૂકી હતી. એક અનઅપેક્ષિત ઘટના એ રહી કે આ ચેટ બોક્સ કડીની નોંધ લેવાઈ અને મને એના વિશે જણાવવા કહેવામાં આવ્યું. હું આ બાબત માટે તૈયાર ન હતો. ભાષાનો પણ પ્રશ્ન હતો. છેવટે મેં હિન્દીમાં થોડી ઘણી માહિતી આપી જેને સતદીપ ગીલે અંગ્રેજીમાં દુભાષિયા તરીકે રજૂ કરી હતી. મારી પાસે એના પૃષ્ઠ મુલાકાતીઓ વિશેની આંકડાકીય માહિતી માંગવામાં આવી હતી. જોકે, હું ચોક્કસ આંકડા જાણતો ન હોવાથી, મેં મારી અસમર્થતા દર્શાવી મેટા પરના પ્રોજેક્ટ પાનાની કડી Template:Guaudio શેર કરી હતી. આશા હતી કે સુશાંતભાઈ જોડાશે પણ કદાચ સમય અનુકૂળતા થઈ શકી નહિ હોય. મારું જોડાવું પણ પૂર્વ નિર્ધારિત નહોતું એટલે કડીઓ શેર કરવા સિવાય વધુ માહિતી ન આપી શક્યો. પણ જુદી જુદી જગ્યાએથી આપણા ઓડિયો પ્રોજેક્ટ માટે અભિનંદન પણ મળ્યા છે. આ માટે સુશાંતભાઈ અને વિજય ભટ્ટ (સભ્ય:મોડર્ન ભટ્ટ)ના આપણે સૌ આભારી છીએ.--Vijay Barot (ચર્ચા) ૨૨:૦૪, ૨૪ નવેમ્બર ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

આ ઉપરાંત પણ જેઓ સમય અનુકૂળતાએ વિકિસ્રોતને વધુ સમૃદ્ધ બનાવવા પોતાનો અંગત સમય આપી રહ્યા છે તે તમામ સભ્યોને પણ એટલા જ અભિનંદન ઘટે છે.--Vijay Barot (ચર્ચા) ૨૨:૦૪, ૨૪ નવેમ્બર ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

Festive Season 2021 edit-a-thon

Dear Wikimedians,

CIS-A2K started a series of mini edit-a-thons in 2020. This year, we had conducted Mahatma Gandhi 2021 edit-a-thon so far. Now, we are going to be conducting a Festive Season 2021 edit-a-thon which will be its second iteration. During this event, we encourage you to create, develop, update or edit data, upload files on Wikimedia Commons or Wikipedia articles etc. This event will take place on 11 and 12 December 2021. Be ready to participate and develop content on your local Wikimedia projects. Thank you.

on behalf of the organising committee

MediaWiki message delivery (ચર્ચા) ૧૩:૩૦, ૧૦ ડિસેમ્બર ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

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 (ચર્ચા) ૨૩:૧૦, ૨૩ ડિસેમ્બર ૨૦૨૧ (IST)

On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)

Upcoming Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections

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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) (ચર્ચા) ૧૩:૫૮, ૨૮ ડિસેમ્બર ૨૦૨૧ (IST)