विकिपिडिया:चौतारी (विविध)/अभिलेख ४
यो पृष्ठ चौतारी (विविध)मा भएका छलफलहरूको सङ्ग्रह हो। कृपया यो पृष्ठको सामग्री सम्पादन नगर्नुहोस्। यदि तपाईं यी मध्ये कुनै पनि छलफललाई पुन: सुचारू गर्न चाहनुहुन्छ भने नयाँ खण्डमा छलफल सुरू गर्नुहोस् वा त्यस विषयसँग सम्बन्धित वार्ता पृष्ठको प्रयोग गर्नुहोस्।
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केही लेखहरू सम्बन्धमा
अलिङ्गी वा तेस्रोलिङ्गी वा पारलैङ्गिक व्यक्तित्व भएका मानिसलाई समाजमा पहिचाहन नदिएर पिछडिएको हुन सक्ला, मेरो उनीहरू प्रती सम्मान नै छ र उनीहरूले आफ्नो जीवन आफ्नो तरिकाले जिउन पाउनु पर्छ भन्ने कुरामा म पनि समर्थन गर्छु तर विकिपिडियामा बनेका केही पृष्ठ जस्तै :अञ्जली लामा, पिङ्की गुरुङ, रुक्शना कपाली, भूमिका श्रेष्ठ आदी विकिपिडियामा लेख्नको लागि त्यति उल्लेखनिय भइसकेको जस्तो लाग्दैन। पिछडिएको भन्दैमा विकिपिडियामा पनि कोटा प्रणाली जस्तो पृष्ठ निर्माणमा गरिनुले पछि विकिपिडिया कै उल्लेखनियतामा पनि प्रश्न उठ्न सक्ने होलाकि भन्ने मेरो विचार छ (यो मेरो विचार मात्र हो, अलिङ्गी वा तेस्रोलिङ्गी वा पारलैङ्गिक व्यक्तित्वहरूसँग मेरो कुनै द्वेष छैन)। यसमा आफ्नो विचार राख्न @Biplab Anand, Nirjal stha, Krish Dulal, Nabin K. Sapkota, Nirajan pant, Saroj Uprety, and सरोज कुमार ढकाल: लाई अनुरोध गर्दछु। --निर्मल दुलाल (कुरा गर्नुहोस) १५:२८, १० सेप्टेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- उल्लेखनीयताको मापदण्ड निर्धारण गर्नु पर्ने आवश्यक देखिन्छ। सार्वजनिक तथा आमसञ्चारमा चर्चाहुनु उल्लेखनीयताको एक भाग रहे पनि समाजमा विषयको योगदानको पनि विचार गर्नु पर्ने देखिन्छ। सामाजिक योगदान बिनाको चर्चा स्थायी नहुन पनि सक्छ। कुनै पनि विषयको चर्चाको द्विगोपनामा पनि ध्यान दिनु जरुरी हुन्छ। कुनै पनि व्यक्तिको राजनीतिक, लैङ्गिक, धार्मिक र पदको कारणले हुने चर्चालाई उल्लेखनीयता मान्ने नमान्ने भन्ने कुरामा स्पष्ट हुनु आवश्यक छ। सरोज(Saroj) (कुरा गर्ने) २०:३८, ११ सेप्टेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- हाल यी लेखहरू ठुटो अवस्थामा छन् र उल्लेखनीयता प्रमाणित गर्ने पर्याप्त आधार पनि देखिँदैनन्। तसर्थ लेख निर्माणकर्तालाई जानकारी दिई लेख मेटाउने वा सुधार गर्ने निर्णय लिन सकिन्छ। --Nirajan pant (कुरा गर्ने) २०:४६, ११ सेप्टेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- मेरो विचारमा अञ्जली लामा, भूमिका श्रेष्ठ उल्लेखनीय हुन्। उक्त लेखहरू अन्य विकिमा पनि रहेका छन्। यदि उल्लेखित लेखहरूलाई सुधार गर्न सकिए राम्रो हुनेथियो।--Saroj Uprety (कुरा गर्ने) २०:५५, ११ सेप्टेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- माथि उल्लेखित लेखहरूले नेपाली लगायत केहि अन्य भाषाका विकिपिडियामा आफ्नो स्थान ओगटे पनि कुनै पनि विकिपिडियाको पूर्ण मापदण्ड पुरा नगरेको र जुनसुकै बेला मेटिन सक्ने भएकाले हाललाई उल्लेखित पृष्ठहरू नेपाली विकिपिडियाबाट मेटाउदा ठिक हुने विचार राख्न चाहन्छु । - Nabin K. Sapkota (कुरा गर्ने) ००:३९, १३ सेप्टेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- स्पप्रकाशित र ब्लगले लेखेका कुनै पनि लेखहरू मान्य हुँदैनन्। एउटा वेबसाइटमा एकपटक नाम देखिँदैमा उक्त व्यक्ति, फुटबल क्लब, साङ्गीतिक समूह आदीलाई उल्लेखनीय मान्न सकिन्न। तथापि, हाल नेपाली विकिपिडियामा उल्लेखनीयताको मापदण्ड छैन जुन नबनाइ हुन्न। त्यही भएर त्यहाँ यस्ता समस्याहरू नयाँ पृष्ठ सृजनासँगै बढिरहेको देखिन्छ। माथि उल्लेखित गैर उल्लेखनीय पृष्ठहरू मेट्न सुझाव दिन्छु, साथै भविष्यमा चर्चा व्यापक भयो र नाम उल्लेखनीय सञ्चार माध्यम तथा समाचारमा देखा पर्यो भने पुनः पृष्ठ सृजना गर्न सकिन्छ। پربت سُبےدی (تحدث معي) १४:३६, ११ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
विकिपिडियाको २०औँ वार्षिकोत्सव कार्यक्रम सम्बन्धमा
सन् २०२१ जनवरी १५ को दिन विकिपिडियाको २०औँ वार्षिकोत्सव कार्यक्रम हुने भएकोले सो विश्वव्यापी कार्यक्रममा नेपाली विकिपिडिया/विकिमिडिया समुदायको उपस्थिति के कसरी गराउने सम्बन्धमा यहाँहरूको विचार तथा सुझाव जान्नको लागि यो प्रस्ताव पेश गरेको छु। कार्यक्रमको सम्बन्धमा थप जानकारीको लागि मेटामा रहेको कार्यक्रम र अनुदान पृष्ठ हेरेर आफ्नो विचार राख्नुहोला। धन्यवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) ११:१३, १५ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
विचार
- १५ दिन बितिसक्दासमेत समुदायको कुनै विचार नआएकोले कृपया सबै विकिपिडियनहरूलाई यो प्रस्तावमा आफ्नो मत राख्नहुन पुन: अनुरोध गर्दछु। धन्यवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) २०:१२, ३ डिसेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- म यस विश्वव्यापी कार्यक्रममा नेपाली विकिपिडिया/विकिमिडिया समुदायको उपस्थितिलाई समर्थन गर्दछु। यसले हाम्रो समुदायको विकासमा मद्दत गर्नेछ। --Saroj Uprety (कुरा गर्ने) २१:०५, ३ डिसेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- यसमा मेरो समर्थन, हामीले नेपालमा पनि विभिन्न स्थानमा सम्भव भएसम्म का कार्यक्रम सञ्चालन गरी बार्षिकोत्सव मनाउन सकिन्छ। निर्मल दुलाल (कुरा गर्नुहोस) ०७:४७, १० डिसेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- विश्वव्यापी तथा समुदायिक कार्यक्रम भएकोले मेरो विचारमा यो विकिपिडिया २० कार्यक्रमलाई व्यक्तिगत तवरले एकजनाद्वारा मात्र हुने नगरि हामीले निर्मल ज्यूले दिनुभएको सुझाव अनुसार नेपालको विभिन्न स्थानमा सञ्चालन गर्न सक्छौँ। मेरो बुझाइमा एक मात्र अनुदान प्रस्ताव गरेर पूर्व झापामा सरोज उप्रेती जी, सप्तरीको राजविराजमा म स्वयं, धनुषाको जनकपुरमा तुल्सी भगत जी, चितवनको भरतपुरमा हिमाल सुबेदी र पर्वत सुबेदी जी र देशको राजधानी काठमाडौँमा निर्मल दुलाल लगायत रहनु भएका अन्य विकिपिडिया साथीहरूले कार्यक्रमको खाका तयार पारि यो कार्यक्रम गर्दा उपयुक्त हुने मेरो व्यक्तिगत धारणा रहेको छ। कृपया यस विचारमा मैले अङ्कित गरेको प्रयोगकर्ताहरूले अनिवार्य रूपमा आ-आफ्नो विचार राख्नुहोला साथै कुनै सल्लाह सुझाव भए वा नेपालको अन्य ठाउँमा समेत यो कार्यक्रम गर्न चाहने विकिपिडियन साथी समेत आगाडि आइ विचार राख्नहुन अनुरोध गर्दछु। धनयवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) ०८:५८, १० डिसेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- सर्वप्रथम बिप्लब जी धन्यवाद! मलाई हजुरको विचार अत्यन्त राम्रो लाग्यो र साथै, विकिपिडियाको २०औँ वार्षिकोत्सव कार्यक्रममा नेपाली समुदायको उपस्थितिलाई मेरो पूर्ण समर्थन छ। म हजुरको विचारको कदर गर्दछु तर यो कार्यक्रम लगत्तै म हाल पढिरहेका शिक्षणसंस्थाद्वारा दोस्रो वार्षिक परीक्षा आयोजित गर्ने भएको हुनाले म स्वयम् उपस्थित हुन् सक्दिनँ जस्तो छ। अफ-विकि नभए पनि अन-विकि मेरो उपस्थिति रहनेछ। सबैमा नमस्ते तथा विकिपिडियाको २०औँ वार्षिकोत्सवको अग्रिम शुभकामना दिन चाहन्छु। धन्यवाद! — तुलसी भगत [ योगदान | वार्ता ] ०९:४९, १० डिसेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- यस कार्यक्रम सञ्चालनको विषयमा विभिन्न चरणमा अन्य माध्यम द्वारा विचार आधन प्रदान भएता पनि कार्यव्यस्तताका कारण यहाँ आफ्नो मत जाहेर गर्न ढिलो भएको कुरा अवगत गराउन चाहन्छु । प्रस्तावित कार्यक्रम र कार्य योजना प्रति आफ्नो पूर्ण समर्थन जनाउन चाहान्छु । तथापि, समुदायमा चलिरहेको यस विचार विमर्शको अवमूल्यन गर्दै हिजो यहाँ देखाएको यो प्रस्ताव प्रति सम्पूर्ण विकपीडियन साथीहरुको ध्यानाकर्षण गराउन चाहन्छु । कृपया आफ्नो विचार तथा मत राखी यस र भविष्यमा आउने यस्ता असान्दर्भिक क्रियाकलापलाई रोकि समुदायको प्रक्रियागत मतलाई अवमूल्यन हुनबाट बचाउँछ समुदायको सम्पूर्ण सदस्यमा हार्दिक अनुरोध गर्दछु । -Nabin K. Sapkota (कुरा गर्ने) १३:४३, १० डिसेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- समुदायलाई जानकारी गराएर गर्नुपर्ने कार्यलाई यसरी बिना जानकारी अनुदान प्रस्ताव पेश गर्नुको अभिप्राय बुझ्नलाई निज प्रयोगकर्तालाई राखेर ठीक मुनि वार्ता चलाएको छु। यसले समुदायको वातावरणलाई प्रत्यक्ष असर गर्ने भएकोले मेरो विचारमा भोलीसम्ममा हाम्रो समुदायद्वारा गरिने यस कार्यक्रमको लागि मेटामा अनुदान पेश गर्न नवीन सापकोटा जीलाई अनुरोध गर्दछु। धनयवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) १८:३६, १० डिसेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- यो कार्यक्रमलाई हाम्रो समुदायले विभिन्न ठाउँमा आयोजना गर्नुपर्ने मेरो विचार रहेको छ। मेरो विचारमा यो प्रतिकूल समयमा कार्यक्रममा सहभागी हुने व्यक्तिहरूलाई विकिपिडियाको जानकारी मात्र दिनसके राम्रो हुने देख्छु।हिमाल सुबेदी कुरा गर्ने २२:२०, १० डिसेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
नवराज घिमिरेलाई प्रश्न
यहाँले मेटामा गर्नुभएको अनुदान प्रस्तावको बारेमा समुदायलाई जानकारी गराउनु आवश्यक थियो कि थिएन? मैले विकिपिडियाको २०औँ वार्षिकोत्सव कार्यक्रम नेपालका विभिन्न ठाउँमा गर्ने उद्देश्यले उपरोक्त छलफल २५ दिन पहिले सुरु गरेको थिए जसलाई विभिन्न प्रयोगकर्ताद्वारा भिन्न भिन्न मितिमा समर्थन जनाएको हेर्न सक्नुहुन्छ। नेपालको विकिपिडिया समुदायको बारेमा यहाँलाई जानकारी हुँदा हूँदै पनि बिना सामदायिक जानकारी व्यक्तिगत तवरले कार्यक्रम आयोजना गर्नुको मूल ध्येय के हो? छलफल, विचार र सुझावको लागि सम्पूर्ण विकिपिडियामा चौतारी भन्ने स्थान हुन्छ भन्ने यहाँलाई थाहा हुनुपर्ने हो? आफ्नो पक्ष यथाशीघ्र स्पष्ट पार्नुहोला। धन्यवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) १८:३६, १० डिसेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
विकिमिडिया रणनीति अभियान २०३०: अनलाइन सामुदायिक भेट सम्बन्धमा
कार्यक्रम समाप्त भइसकेकोले--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) १५:३४, २२ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- तलको छलफल बन्द गरिएको छ। कृपया यसलाई परिमार्जन नगर्नुहोस्। त्यसपछिको टिप्पणीहरू उपयुक्त छलफल पृष्ठमा हुनुपर्दछ। यस छलफलको लागि कुनै पनि सम्पादनहरू गरिनु हुँदैन।
विकिमिडिया रणनीति अभियान २०३०को लागि पहिलो चरणमा यहि नोभेम्बर २१ र २२ तथा दोस्रो चरणमा डिसेम्बर ५ र ६ तारिखमा हुन गइरहेको विश्वव्यापी वार्तालापमा सहभागी जनाउनको लागि नोभेम्बर २० भन्दा पहिले यो गुगल फर्म भर्नुहोला। आफ्नो समुदायको आवाजलाई विश्वव्यापी विकिमिडिया अभियानमा जोड्नको लागि यो एउटा महत्वपूर्ण स्थान हुनसक्ने मेरो बुझाई छ। यो कार्यक्रम हुनु अगावै यस सम्बन्धमा यस विकिपिडियाको समुदायिक सदस्यहरूसँग अनलाइन भेट कार्यक्रमको आयोजना गरि प्रारम्भिक रूपमा केही विषयमा छलफल गर्न सकिने भारतीय विकिमिडियन राजीव दत्तले बताएपछि यो विषयमा समुदायको धारणा जान्नको लागि सूचनामूलक खबर राखेको छु। राजीव सन्थाली विकिपिडियासँगको छलफल र दक्षिण एसिया रणनीति अभियानमा संलग्न रहेका थिए। कृपया आफ्नो धारणा यथाशीघ्र राख्नुहोला। धनयवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) ११:३७, १५ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
विचार
- समर्थन यस प्रकारको अनलाइन कार्यशालाहरूमा हाल देखिएका विविध समस्या तथा चुनौतीहरूको बारेमा खेलेर छलफल गर्न पाइने भएकाले यो कार्यक्रम समुदायलाई एकत्रित गर्न अवश्य पनि महत्त्वपूर्ण पहल बन्न सक्छ। यस अधि विकिमिडिया बाङ्लादेशद्वारा आयोजित तीन अनलाइन कार्यशालाहरूमा मैले पनि सहभागीता जनाएको थियो जहाँ यावत् समस्याहरूको समाधानका लागि निकै सकारात्मक छलफल गरिएको थियो भने यस विषयमा उनीहरूको सिको गर्नु जरुरी छ। समुदायलाई कस्तो बनाउने, कसरी अगाडि लैजाने भन्ने कुरामा यस कार्यक्रम प्रभावकारी बन्ने मेरो बुझाई छ। अन्ततः हुनलागेको विश्वव्यापी वार्तालापमा हाम्रो नेपाली विकिमिडिया समुदायको आवाजलाई विश्वव्यापी विकिमिडिया अभियानमा जोड्नको लागि यो महत्त्वपूर्ण पहल हुने भएकाले यस कार्यक्रम आयोजना गर्नु पर्छ। ہیمال سُبےدی چلو بات کرتے ہیں ०८:१९, १८ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- समर्थन आफ्नो समुदायको आवाजलाई विश्वव्यापी विकिमिडिया अभियानमा जोड्नको लागि यो विश्वव्यापी वार्तालापमा सहभागी हुनुपर्छ। यो विश्वव्यापी कार्यक्रम भन्दा पहिले हामी नेपाली समुदाय बीच अनलाइन कार्यक्रम आयोजना गर्छौं भने यो राम्रो हुनेछ। --Saroj Uprety (कुरा गर्ने) ०८:४७, १८ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- समर्थन विकिमिडिया बाङ्लादेशले हालसालै आयोजना गरेको अनलाइन कार्यशालामा म पनि सहभागी भएको थिए जहाँ विभिन्न रणनीति, समस्या र विविध विषयहरूको चर्चा गरिएको थियोे। नेपालीमा पनि यस्ता अनलाइन कार्यक्रम गर्न सकेमा नेपाली विकिपिडियालाई फाइदा अवश्य हुने थियोे। پربت سُبےدی (تحدث معي) १२:३१, १८ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
प्रस्तावमा विचार राख्नुहुने सम्पूर्ण विकी मित्रहरूलाई धन्यवाद दिँदै यहि नोभेम्बर २० तारिखका दिन बेलुका ७ बजे अनलाइन सामुदायिक भेट कार्यक्रम आयोजना हुने जानकारी गराउन चाहन्छु। कृपया उपस्थितिको लागि यो गुगल फर्म भर्नुहोला। धन्यवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) १४:०८, १८ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
विकिमिडिया रणनीति अभियान नेपालको अनलाइन सामुदायिक बैठकमा सहभागी हुनको लागि कृपया तल उल्लेखित सूत्र खोल्नुहोला।
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- माथिको छलफल बन्द गरिएको छ। कृपया यसलाई परिमार्जन नगर्नुहोस्। त्यसपछिको टिप्पणीहरू उपयुक्त छलफल पृष्ठमा हुनुपर्दछ। यस छलफलको लागि कुनै पनि सम्पादनहरू गरिनु हुँदैन।
नेपाली विकिपिडिया सम्पादनकर्ताहरू सम्मिलित नयाँ टेलिग्राम समूह बनाउने सम्बन्धमा
वार्तामा सहभागी हुनुभएकोमा सबै विकी सम्पादक साथीहरूलाई धन्यवाद। प्रस्ताव अनुरूप नयाँ टेलिग्राम समूह बनाइएको छ जसको युआरएल निम्नानुसार रहेको छ।
धन्यवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) १९:१६, २८ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- तलको छलफल बन्द गरिएको छ। कृपया यसलाई परिमार्जन नगर्नुहोस्। त्यसपछिको टिप्पणीहरू उपयुक्त छलफल पृष्ठमा हुनुपर्दछ। यस छलफलको लागि कुनै पनि सम्पादनहरू गरिनु हुँदैन।
नमस्ते विकि सम्पादक साथीहरू,
पछिल्लो अनलाइन बैठकमा नेपाली विकिपिडिया सम्पादकहरूबीच परस्पर र तीव्र वार्ताको लागि टेलिग्राममा एउटा स्वतन्त्र समूह बनाउनुपर्ने धारणा राखिएको हुँदा यो प्रस्तावलाई समुदाय समक्ष प्रस्तुत गरेको छु। मैले व्यक्तिगत तवरले अध्ययन गर्दा यो अभ्यास विभिन्न विकिपिडिया समुदायले गर्दै आएको हुँदा नेपालीमा समेत यसलाई परीक्षण गर्नुपर्ने मेरो विचार रहेको छ। यसले गर्दा विकिपिडियनहरूबीच आ-आफ्नो अनुभव साझा हुनसक्ने र एकआपसमा सौहाद्रपूर्ण वातावरण बन्न सक्ने विश्वास लिएको छु। यदि यो प्रस्ताव पारित भएमा टेलिग्राममा एउटा स्वतन्त्र समूह बनाइ त्यसलाई नेपाली विकिपिडियाको मुख्य पृष्ठमा सानो आइकन जस्तो बनाएर राख्नुपर्ने मेरो प्रस्ताव रहेको छ। कृपया आफ्नो विचार राख्नुहोला। धन्यवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) १५:५०, २२ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- उल्लेखित प्रस्तावमा मेरो पूर्ण समर्थन रहेको छ। बिप्लब ज्यूले भनेजस्तै विभिन्न विकिपिडिया समुदायले तीव्र वार्ताको लागि IRC च्यानल प्रयोग गर्ने गरेका छन्। तदनुसार, हामी टेलिग्राममा एउटा स्वतन्त्र समूह गठन गर्दै तीव्र छलफल गर्न सक्नेछौं। --Saroj Uprety (कुरा गर्ने) १६:३३, २२ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- समर्थन, विश्व भाषाका विकिपिडियाहरूले पनि यो कदम चालेका हुनाले यहाँ पनि यसको आवश्यकता छ, तसर्थ रूसी सामाजिक सञ्जाल टेलिग्राममा एउटा समूह बनाउँदा छिटो प्रतिक्रिया र अनौपचारिक छलफलमा सजिलोसँग भाग लिन सकिन्छ, र समस्या आयो भने पनि सबै मिलेर समाधान गर्न सकिन्छ। پربت سُبےدی (تحدث معي)
- समर्थन nShrestha २३:१४, २२ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- समर्थनNawaraj Ghimire (कुरा गर्ने) ०४:५५, २३ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- समर्थन -- निर्मल दुलाल (कुरा गर्नुहोस) ११:००, २४ नोभेम्बर २०२० (नेपाली समय)
- माथिको छलफल बन्द गरिएको छ। कृपया यसलाई परिमार्जन नगर्नुहोस्। त्यसपछिको टिप्पणीहरू उपयुक्त छलफल पृष्ठमा हुनुपर्दछ। यस छलफलको लागि कुनै पनि सम्पादनहरू गरिनु हुँदैन।
WMWM 2021 Newsletter #1
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Festive Season 2020 edit-a-thon on 5-6 December 2020
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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #2
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We are excited to announce that submission for session proposals has been opened for Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021, the upcoming online wiki-event which is to be conducted from 19 – 21 February 2021 during the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The submission will remain open until 24 January 2021.
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Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #3
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Wikipedia 20th anniversary celebration edit-a-thon
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We hope you are doing well. As you know, CIS-A2K is running a series of mini edit-a-thons. Two mini edit-a-thons has been completed successfully with your participation. On 15 January 2021, Wikipedia has its 20th birthday and we are celebrating this occasion by creating or developing articles regarding encyclopedias including Wikipedia. It has started today (9 January 2021) and will run till tomorrow (10 January 2021). We are requesting you to take part in it and provide some of your time. For more information, you can visit here. Happy editing. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 07:54, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
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सन् २०२१ जनवरीदेखि आगामी ६ महिनाको करार अवधिको लागि लागि म विश्वव्यापी आचार संहिता सहजकर्ताको रूपमा विकिमिडिया फाउन्डेसनसँग कार्यरत्त रहनेछु। मेरो प्रमुख कार्य अन्तर्गत नेपालमा रहेका विभिन्न विकिमिडिया परियोजनाका सम्पादकहरू तथा सम्बद्ध प्रयोगकर्ता समूहका प्रतिनिधिहरूसँग सहकार्य, विचार, छलफल गरेर विश्वव्यापी आचार संहिताको बारेमा उनीहरूको आवाजलाई विश्वव्यापी विकिमिडिया अभियानसँग जोड्नु रहेको छ। मलाई यहाँहरूको सहयोग प्राप्त हुनेछ भनि आशा गरेको छु। धन्यवाद--BAnand (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) ०८:२७, १० जनवरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- बधाई तथा सफल कार्यकालको शुभकामना। -- निर्मल दुलाल (कुरा गर्नुहोस) ०९:४१, १० जनवरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- सफल कार्यकालको धेरै धेरै शुभकामना । (Bhupendra Shrestha (कुरा गर्ने) १०:०७, १० जनवरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय))
- बधाई तथा सफल कार्यकालको धेरै धेरै शुभकामना । Nawaraj Ghimire (कुरा गर्ने) १८:२१, १० जनवरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- सफल कार्यकालको धेरै धेरै शुभकामना। nShrestha १९:४९, १२ जनवरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021 Newsletter #4
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[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 (कुरा गर्ने) २२:२४, १९ जनवरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
[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 १९:३०, २८ जनवरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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) २२:१६, १ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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:
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 (कुरा गर्ने) २२:५३, ३ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय) 44
- 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) (कुरा गर्ने) १२:२६, २४ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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 (कुरा गर्ने) २३:३४, ३ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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 (कुरा गर्ने) २३:३८, ३ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
[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, १५:५६, १८ फेब्रुअरी २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
विकिमिडिया फाउन्डेसन सामुदायिक समिति सिट: प्रतिक्रियाको लागि बैठक
विकिमिडिया फाउन्डेसन न्यासी समितिले सन् २०२१ फेब्रुअरी १ देखि मार्च १ सम्म सामुदायिक चयन प्रक्रियाहरूको बारेमा प्रतिक्रियाको लागि बैठकको आयोजना गरिरहेको छ। विकिमिडिया फाउन्डेसन र विकिमिडिया अभियान विगत १० बर्षमा लगभग पाँच गुणाले वृद्धि भएको छ भने यसको समितिको संरचना र प्रक्रियाहरू मूल रूपमा उस्तै रहिरहेको छ। वर्तमान समितिको संरचनामा हाम्रो क्षमता, प्रदर्शन, र अभियानको विविधता अनुसार प्रतिनिधित्वको अभाव एउटा समस्याको रूपमा रहेको छ। प्रत्यक्ष निर्वाचनले गर्दा अग्रणी भाषा समुदायका उम्मेदवारहरूको पक्ष लिने गरेको छ र उनीहरूको सीप र अनुभवद्वारा समिति सदस्यको रूपमा सेवा दिन कतिको सान्दर्भिक हुन सक्छ वा समितिको विशिष्ट उत्तरदायित्वहरू निर्वाह गर्ने क्षमतामा योगदान पुर्याइरहेको छ। तथ्यहरूलाई नियाल्दा वर्तमान प्रक्रियाहरूले उत्तर अमेरिका र पश्चिम युरोपका स्वयंसेवकहरूको पक्ष लिएको छ। वास्तवमा भन्ने हो भने, दक्षिण एसियाबाट अहिलेसम्मको इतिहासमा हेर्दा जम्मा एक जना सदस्यले मात्र समितिमा स्थान बनाउन सकेको छ।
आउँदो महिनाहरूमा हामीलाई तीन सामुदायिक सिटहरू नवीकरण गर्नुपर्नेछ र नयाँ सिटमा तीन थप समुदायिक सदस्यहरू नियुक्त गर्नुपर्नेछ। यो प्रतिक्रियात्मक बैठकमा हामीहरू सबै मिलेर हाम्रो अभियानलाई कसरी प्रतिनिधित्व गर्ने र अनुभव, सीप, र विश्वासका साथ अन्तरदृष्टिसहित तैयार भएका उम्मेदवारहरू छनौट गर्न प्रारूप रेखा तयार गर्न सक्छौं? यस सम्बन्धमा, प्रस्तावित विचारहरूमाथि छलफल गर्न र हामी हाम्रो विचारहरू साझा गर्न, प्रतिक्रिया दिन र प्रक्रियामा योगदान दिनको लागि सामुदायिक छलफल गर्नु राम्रो हुनेछ। यसै विषयमा छलफल गर्न, हामीले यही मार्च १३ को साँझ ७ बजे देखि ८ बजेसम्म बैठक आयोजित भइरहेको छ। बैठकको कडी निम्नलिखित रहेको छ: https://meet.google.com/ugf-xyyk-ifi
नेपालसँग सम्बन्धित भाषाहरूमा योगदान पुर्याइरहेका सम्पूर्ण भाषाका विकिपिडियन र विकिमिडियनलाई यो बैठकमा आफ्नो विचार राख्न स्वागत गरिन्छ। धन्यवाद, --KCVelaga (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) ११:२९, ७ मार्च २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
CIS-A2K Newsletter February 2021
Hello,
CIS-A2K has published their newsletter for the month of February 2021. The edition includes details about these topics:
- Wikimedia Wikimeet India 2021
- Online Meeting with Punjabi Wikimedians
- Marathi Language Day
- Wikisource Audiobooks workshop
- 2021-22 Proposal Needs Assessment
- CIS-A2K Team changes
- Research Needs Assessment
- Gender gap case study
- International Mother Language Day
Please read the complete newsletter here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscribe this newsletter, click here.
MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) २३:०९, ८ मार्च २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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), १४:२१, १० मार्च २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
[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, १२:४६, १६ मार्च २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
स्थानीय युसिओसी परामर्शमा सहभागिताको लागि धन्यवाद
नमस्ते,
स्थानीय युसिओसी परामर्शमा भाग लिनुभएकोमा धेरै धेरै धन्यवाद। स्थानीय परामर्शको नतिजा अर्को हप्ता मेटामा प्रकाशित गरिनेछ। यद्यपि युसिओसी प्रवर्तनको बारेमा नयाँ परामर्श मेटामा सुरु भइसकेको यहाँले पक्कै थाहा पाउनुभएको होला।
कृपया ध्यान दिनुहोला, हामीले फेब्रुअरीमा सम्पन्न गरिसकेको ठोस छलफललाई यस छलफलले प्रभावित गर्ने छैन। अब हुने परामर्शको अर्को चरणको मुख्य उद्देश्य पहिले देखि नै परामर्श गरिएका समुदायहरू (हाम्रो जस्तै) बाहेक छलफललाई विस्तार गर्नु हो। जे भएता पनि यहाँले छलफलमा आफ्नो विचार राख्न स्वतन्त्र हुनुहुन्छ। यदि यहाँसँग यस सम्बन्धमा कुनै प्रश्नहरू भएमा, कृपया मलाई सम्पर्क गर्न नहिचकिचाउनुहोला। धन्यवाद--BAnand (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) २०:४९, ६ अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
[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, २१:३७, १९ अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
नेपाली भाषामा विकी भिडियोहरू
मेरा सबै विकी मित्रहरूलाई नमस्कार!
सामाजिक संजालमा मलाईं धेरै व्यक्तिहरूले नेपाली विकिपिडियाको बारेमा प्रश्नहरू सोध्ने गर्छन् जस्तै कसरी सम्पादन गर्ने, कसरी खाता सिर्जना गर्ने र इत्यादी । म जानकारी प्रदान गर्छु तर विस्तृत रूपमा सबैलाई सिकाउन र जवाफ दिन सम्भव हुँदैन । कमन्स् मा भिडियोहरु त छन् तर निकै पुराना हुनका साथै नेपाली प्रयोगकर्ता मैत्री छैनन् । मानिसहरु सहज भाषामा सिक्न चाहन्छन् । तसर्थ मैले भिडियो प्रबर्धन अभियानको आयोजना गर्ने प्रस्ताव मेटामा राखेको छु जसमा हामी नेपाली भाषामा प्रयोगकर्ता मैत्री तरीकाले चारवटा भिडीयो बनाउने छौँ । यी भिडियोहरूले नयाँ आउँदो प्रयोगकर्ताहरूलाई यस निःशुल्क ज्ञान साझेदारी माध्यममा प्रवेश गर्न मद्दत गरनेछ । यदि हजुरहरुको केहि सुझाव हरु छन् भने कृपया मलाई व्यक्तिगत रूपमा वा यहाँ छलफलमा राख्न सक्नुहुने छ ।
धन्यवाद । Sandeep Raut (कुरा गर्ने) २२:२६, १९ अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- Sandeep Raut जी तपाईले विकिपिडिया:स्वशिक्षा हेर्नु भएको छैन जस्तो लाग्यो। --निर्मल दुलाल (कुरा गर्नुहोस) ०७:३५, २० अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- Sandeep Raut जी, सबैभन्दा पहिले यहाँले कार्यक्रमको बारेमा मेटामा अनुदान प्रस्ताव गर्नुभन्दा अगावै नेपाली विकिपिडिया समुदायलाई जानकारी गराउनु भएको भए बेस हुन्थ्यो होला। ढिलो आएता पनि सामुदायमा यो महत्वपूर्ण विषयलाई ल्याउनुभएकोमा धन्यवाद। यहाँले नेपाली विकिपिडियाको बारेमा जानकारी लिन चाहने वा सम्पादन गर्न चाहने नव उदयीमान पाठक (भविष्यको सम्भावित सम्पादनकर्ता)को लागि जानकारीमूलक नेपाली विकिपिडिया मैत्री भिडियो बनाउने योजना बनाउनुभएको रहेछ। सर्वप्रथम म केही नमुना भिडियोहरू हेर्न चाहन्छु जसले गर्दा यहाँको प्रस्तावमाथि थप टिप्पणी गर्न सकुम। धन्यवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) १६:५१, २० अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- धेरै धन्यबाद बिप्लब आनन्द जी र निर्मल दुलाल जी, तपाईको प्रतिक्रिया राख्नु भएकोमा । कार्य व्यस्तताको कारण हजुरहरुको प्रतिकृयाको जवाफ दिन नसकेकोमा क्ष्यमा प्रार्थी छु । नेपाली विकिपिडियाको बारेमा जानकारी लिन चाहने वा सम्पादन गर्न चाहने नव उदयीमान पाठक का लागि जानकारीमूलक नेपाली विकि प्रयोगकर्ता ईन्टरफेसमा प्रभावी एनिमेसनको साथ नयाँ भिडियोहरू बनाउने योजना गरेको छु । हजुरहरुको साथ र सहयोग को आशा गर्द्छु । हामीले कोभिड-१९ सम्बन्धित बनाएका नमूना भिडियोहरू यहाँ हेर्न सक्नुहुनेछ । Sandeep Raut (कुरा गर्ने) २१:४२, २९ अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- Sandeep Raut जी तपाईले भिडियोहरु त छन् तर निकै पुराना हुनका साथै नेपाली प्रयोगकर्ता मैत्री छैन भन्नु भयो तर विकिपिडिया:स्वशिक्षा पूर्ण रूपमा नेपाली प्रयोगकर्ता मैत्री छ। यदी कसैले तपाईलाई कसरी सम्पादन गर्ने, कसरी खाता सिर्जना गर्ने र इत्यादी सोधेमा त्यो देखाउन सक्नु हुन्छ। --निर्मल दुलाल (कुरा गर्नुहोस) १०:२१, ३० अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- Sandeep Raut जी, कार्य व्यस्तताको कारण टिप्पणी गर्न ढिलाई भएता पनि यहाँले कुन विषयहरू समावेश गरेर जानकारीमूलक भिडियो बनाउने सो सम्बन्धमा जानकारी गराउनु भएको छैन। यहाँले माथि 'नेपाली विकिपिडिया - कसरी सम्पादन गर्ने, कसरी खाता सिर्जना गर्ने र इत्यादी' साथै 'विकि प्रयोगकर्ता ईन्टरफेसमा प्रभावी एनिमेसनको साथ नयाँ भिडियोहरू बनाउने योजना' भनेर लेख्नुभएको छ तसर्थ यस विषयमा प्रकाश पार्नुहोला। धन्यवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) ०९:२३, ९ मे २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- Sandeep Raut जी तपाईले भिडियोहरु त छन् तर निकै पुराना हुनका साथै नेपाली प्रयोगकर्ता मैत्री छैन भन्नु भयो तर विकिपिडिया:स्वशिक्षा पूर्ण रूपमा नेपाली प्रयोगकर्ता मैत्री छ। यदी कसैले तपाईलाई कसरी सम्पादन गर्ने, कसरी खाता सिर्जना गर्ने र इत्यादी सोधेमा त्यो देखाउन सक्नु हुन्छ। --निर्मल दुलाल (कुरा गर्नुहोस) १०:२१, ३० अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- धेरै धन्यबाद बिप्लब आनन्द जी र निर्मल दुलाल जी, तपाईको प्रतिक्रिया राख्नु भएकोमा । कार्य व्यस्तताको कारण हजुरहरुको प्रतिकृयाको जवाफ दिन नसकेकोमा क्ष्यमा प्रार्थी छु । नेपाली विकिपिडियाको बारेमा जानकारी लिन चाहने वा सम्पादन गर्न चाहने नव उदयीमान पाठक का लागि जानकारीमूलक नेपाली विकि प्रयोगकर्ता ईन्टरफेसमा प्रभावी एनिमेसनको साथ नयाँ भिडियोहरू बनाउने योजना गरेको छु । हजुरहरुको साथ र सहयोग को आशा गर्द्छु । हामीले कोभिड-१९ सम्बन्धित बनाएका नमूना भिडियोहरू यहाँ हेर्न सक्नुहुनेछ । Sandeep Raut (कुरा गर्ने) २१:४२, २९ अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- Sandeep Raut जी, सबैभन्दा पहिले यहाँले कार्यक्रमको बारेमा मेटामा अनुदान प्रस्ताव गर्नुभन्दा अगावै नेपाली विकिपिडिया समुदायलाई जानकारी गराउनु भएको भए बेस हुन्थ्यो होला। ढिलो आएता पनि सामुदायमा यो महत्वपूर्ण विषयलाई ल्याउनुभएकोमा धन्यवाद। यहाँले नेपाली विकिपिडियाको बारेमा जानकारी लिन चाहने वा सम्पादन गर्न चाहने नव उदयीमान पाठक (भविष्यको सम्भावित सम्पादनकर्ता)को लागि जानकारीमूलक नेपाली विकिपिडिया मैत्री भिडियो बनाउने योजना बनाउनुभएको रहेछ। सर्वप्रथम म केही नमुना भिडियोहरू हेर्न चाहन्छु जसले गर्दा यहाँको प्रस्तावमाथि थप टिप्पणी गर्न सकुम। धन्यवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) १६:५१, २० अप्रिल २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- आदरणीय Sandeep Raut ज्यू, सर्वप्रथम यहाँले राख्नुभएको प्रस्ताव र समुदायमा छलफलको पहलको निम्ति हार्दिक धन्यवाद व्यक्त गर्न चाहन्छु । तर, प्रक्रियागत रूपमा यस छलफललाई अनुदान प्रस्तावमा गलत ढंगले प्रस्तुत गर्नुभएको र समुदायको आवाजहरुलाई निस्तेज परी अनुदान प्राप्त गर्ने नियति प्रति समुदायको गम्भीर ध्यााकर्षण भएको जानकारी गराउन चाहन्छु ।
- यसका साथै समुदायका सदस्यहरूले सोधिएका प्रश्नको समयमा उत्तर नदिनु र थप प्रश्नहरू लाई पनि उपेक्षा गर्नु सायदै राम्रो कुरा हैन । समुदायको कार्यका लागि अनुदान आएपनि यहाँले समुदायमा कार्यक्रम को पूर्ण खाका नबुझाउनु , थप छलफल नगर्नु तथा समुदायलाई अन्योलमा राखी गरेको कार्यलाई समुदायले समर्थन नगर्ने कुराको व्यवरा जानकारी गराउन चाहन्छु ।
- अनुदानको प्रस्तावमा समुदायको सीमित भूमिका भएता पनि, समुदायको विषयमा गरिएको कार्यलाई पूर्ण मान्यता दिने वा नदिने वा चित्त नबुझे सोही अनुदानमा पुनः निर्माण गर्ने वा गर्न लगाउने निर्णय नैतिक रूपमा समुदाय संग हुने हुँदा, यथासिघ्र समुदायमा कार्यक्रमको पूर्ण खाका प्रस्तुत गरी समुदायको छलफल पश्चात मात्र कार्य अघि बढाउन विनम्र आग्रह गर्न चाहन्छु । -Nabin K. Sapkota (कुरा गर्ने) ०७:०६, १९ मे २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
Bank जनाउन 'बैङ्क' वा 'बैंक' कुन को प्रयोग गर्ने ?
व्यवहारमा बैंक प्रचलित (चित्र हेर्नुहोस् ) भएकाले बैंक को प्रयोग गर्नुपर्छ भन्ने मेरो प्रस्ताव छ । --Bishal Shrestha कुरा गर्ने Bishaldev १९:४२, ९ मे २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
छलफल
- 'बैंक' प्रचलित लेखन शब्द हो र यसलाई नकार्न सकिन्न तर नेपाली भाषामा पञ्चम वर्णको प्रयोग सम्बन्धी नियम र नेपाली बृहत् शब्दकोशमा समेत 'बैङ्क' शब्द रहेकोले यसलाई पनि गलत भन्न नमिल्ने अवस्था रहेको छ तर यदि विकल्पकै खोजी गर्नुपर्दा मेरो बुझाइमा नेपालका बैंकहरूको नाम शीर्षकमा 'बैंक' नै राख्नुपर्छ भने अन्य स्थान वा लेखमा प्रयोगको लागि 'बैंक' र 'बैङ्क' दुवै राख्न मिल्छ। यस विषयमा एकरूपता कायम गर्न सामुदायिक छलफलको निर्णयको प्रतीक्षा गर्नुपर्ला। धन्यवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) २०:३९, ९ मे २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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) ११:०६, १२ मे २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
विकिपिडिया ट्यागलाइन
सफल भयो। छलफलको आधारमा 'विकिपिडिया, एक स्वतन्त्र विश्वकोशबाट' विकिपिडिया ट्यागलाइन चयन गरियो। धन्यवाद! — तुलसी भगत [ योगदान | वार्ता ] ०८:२९, २९ मे २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- तलको छलफल बन्द गरिएको छ। कृपया यसलाई परिमार्जन नगर्नुहोस्। त्यसपछिको टिप्पणीहरू उपयुक्त छलफल पृष्ठमा हुनुपर्दछ। यस छलफलको लागि कुनै पनि सम्पादनहरू गरिनु हुँदैन।
नमस्ते सबैमा, विकिपिडिया ट्यागलाइन के हुनुपर्छ? कृपया आफ्नो विचार राख्नुहोला। ट्यागलाइन यस प्रकार छन्:
- नेपाली विकिपिडियाबाट, एक स्वतन्त्र विश्वकोष
- स्वतन्त्र विश्वकोश, नेपाली विकिपिडियाबाट
धन्यवाद! — तुलसी भगत [ योगदान | वार्ता ] १४:३४, २२ मे २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
छलफल
- "विकिपिडिया, एक स्वतन्त्र विश्वकोशबाट" हुन्छ। -- निर्मल दुलाल (कुरा गर्नुहोस) २०:२१, २२ मे २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- 'विकिपिडिया, एक स्वतन्त्र विश्वकोशबाट' --बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) ०७:३५, २३ मे २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
- माथिको छलफल बन्द गरिएको छ। कृपया यसलाई परिमार्जन नगर्नुहोस्। त्यसपछिको टिप्पणीहरू उपयुक्त छलफल पृष्ठमा हुनुपर्दछ। यस छलफलको लागि कुनै पनि सम्पादनहरू गरिनु हुँदैन।
नेपाली विकिमिडियनको लागि निर्वाचन स्वयंसेवक परिचय
नमस्ते नेपाली विकिमिडियन साथीहरू!
म २०२१ को बोर्ड अफ ट्रस्टीको निर्वाचनको लागि एक निर्वाचन स्वयंसेवक हुँ।
विकिमिडिया फाउन्डेसनको बोर्ड अफ ट्रस्टीले विकिमिडिया फाउन्डेसनको सञ्चालनहरूको निरीक्षण गर्दछ। समुदायले समुदायका ट्रस्टीहरूलाई मतदान गर्न सक्नेछन्। यो एक सामुहिक रूपमा बोर्डको प्रतिनिधित्व, विविधता र विशेषज्ञता सुधार गर्ने अवसर हो।
२०२१ को बोर्ड अफ ट्रस्टीको निर्वाचन चाँडै नै हुँदैछ र निर्वाचन स्वयंसेवकको रूपमा मेरो भूमिका नेपाली विकिमिडियनहरू बोर्ड अफ ट्रस्टीको निर्वाचनको बारेमा पूर्ण रूपले जानकार भए/नभएको निश्चय गर्नु हो।
कृपया, यदि तपाईंसँग केहि जिज्ञासाहरू छन् भने सोध्न सक्नुहुनेछ। -- निर्मल दुलाल (कुरा गर्नुहोस) १०:०८, २५ मे २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
बैठक सम्बन्धी जानकारी
नमस्ते विकिपिडिया सम्पादनकर्ता मित्रहरू,
सिआइएस-एटुकेले सन् २०२१ जुन २० मा दक्षिण एसियाली राष्ट्रका विविध विकिपिडिया समुदायहरूबीच सहकार्य तथा जानकारी आदान प्रदान गर्ने उद्देश्य सहित सुरक्षित रहनुहोस्, सम्बद्ध रहनुहोस् नामक कार्यक्रमको तेस्रो चरणको बैठकको लागि सहभागिता आह्वान गरेको सम्पूर्णमा जानकारी गराउन चाहन्छु। बैठकको लागि सहजकर्ता आसाफ बार्तोभलाई बनाइएको छ। बैठक तथा प्रस्ताव सम्बन्धी जानकारीको लागि यो पृष्ठ हेर्नुहोला। बैठक जुम प्रयोग गरि सञ्चालन गरिने निर्धारित गरिएको छ भने बैठकमा सहभागिताको लागि यो अनलाइन फारम भर्नुहोला। धन्यवाद--बिप्लब आनन्द (म सँग कुरा गर्नुहोस) ०७:२१, १२ जुन २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
टिप्पणी: सिआइएस-एटुके संस्थाका कार्यक्रम प्रशासक टिटो दत्तको अनुरोधमा मैले यो जानकारी समुदायमा साझा गरेको छु र यो मैले पूर्ण रूपमा आफ्नो स्वयंसेवक भूमिकामा गरिरहेको छु। धन्यवाद
सुझाव/विचार/छलफल
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) १५:४८, १९ जुन २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
Internet Support for Wikimedians in India 2021
Dear Wikimedians,
A2K has started an internet support program for the Wikimedians in India from 1 June 2021. This will continue till 31 August 2021. It is a part of Project Tiger, this time we started with the internet support, writing contest and other things that will follow afterwards. Currently, in this first phase applications for the Internet are being accepted.
For applying for the support, please visit the link.
After the committee's response, support will be provided. For more information please visit the event page (linked above). Before applying please read the criteria and the application procedure carefully.
Stay safe, stay connected. Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 14:09, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021
Wiki Loves Women South Asia is back with the 2021 edition. Join us to minify gender gaps and enrich Wikipedia with more diversity. Happening from 1 September - 30 September, Wiki Loves Women South Asia welcomes the articles created on gender gap theme. This year we will focus on women's empowerment and gender discrimination related topics.
We warmly invite you to help organize or participate in the competition in your community. You can learn more about the scope and the prizes at the project page.
Best wishes,
Wiki Loves Women Team
२३:३१, ११ जुलाई २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
[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
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), ०९:३४, ३ अगस्ट २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020–2021 India call
Namaskara,
A Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020–2021 India call will take place on Sunday, 8 August 2021 at 7 pm IST with an objective to narrate and discuss the changes in the Wikimedia Grants relaunch strategy process.
Tanveer Hasan will be the primary speaker in the call discussing the grants strategy and answering questions related to that. You are invited to attend the call.
Why you may consider joining
Let's start with answering "why"? You may find this call helpful and may consider joining if—
- You are a Wikimedia grant recipient (rapid grant, project grant, conference grant etc.)
- You are thinking of applying for any of the mentioned grants.
- You are a community/affiliate leader/contact person, and your community needs information about the proposed grants programs.
- You are interested to know about the program for any other reason or you have questions.
In brief,
As grants are very important part of our program and activities, as an individual or a community/user group member/leader you may consider joining to know more—
- about the proposed programs,
- the changes and how are they going to affect individuals/communities
- or to ask your questions.
Event page:Grants Strategy Relaunch 2020–2021 India call
We request you to add your name in the participants list here.
If you find this interesting, please inform your community/user group so that interested Wikimedians can join the call.
Thank you,
Tito Dutta
Access to Knowledge,CIS-A2K
Invitation for Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021
Wiki Loves Women South Asia 2021
September 1 - September 30, 2021view details!
Wiki Loves Women South Asia is back with the 2021 edition. Join us to minify gender gaps and enrich Wikipedia with more diversity. Happening from 1 September - 30 September, Wiki Loves Women South Asia welcomes the articles created on gender gap theme. This year we will focus on women's empowerment and gender discrimination related topics.
We are proud to announce and invite you and your community to participate in the competition. You can learn more about the scope and the prizes at the project page.
Best wishes,
००:२४, १४ अगस्ट २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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.
Read the full announcement and see translations on Meta-Wiki.
Please let me know if you have any questions regarding voting. KCVelaga (WMF), ११:५६, १८ अगस्ट २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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), १२:०९, १८ अगस्ट २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
[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.
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), ११:२५, २९ अगस्ट २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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 (कुरा गर्ने) ०८:४१, ८ सेप्टेम्बर २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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 (कुरा गर्ने) १६:३२, १० सेप्टेम्बर २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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).
Mahatma Gandhi 2021 edit-a-thon to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary
Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you are doing well. Glad to inform you that A2K is going to conduct a mini edit-a-thon to celebrate Mahatma Gandhi's birth anniversary. It is the second iteration of Mahatma Gandhi mini edit-a-thon. The edit-a-thon will be on the same dates 2nd and 3rd October (Weekend). During the last iteration, we had created or developed or uploaded content related to Mahatma Gandhi. This time, we will create or develop content about Mahatma Gandhi and any article directly related to the Indian Independence movement. The list of articles is given on the event page. Feel free to add more relevant articles to the list. The event is not restricted to any single Wikimedia project. For more information, you can visit the event page and if you have any questions or doubts email me at nitesh@cis-india · org. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) १६:०४, २४ सेप्टेम्बर २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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
११:३५, १३ अक्टोबर २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
Meet the new Movement Charter Drafting Committee members
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) ०८:१२, २ नोभेम्बर २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
Maryana’s Listening Tour ― South Asia
Hello everyone,
As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation Chief Executive Officer Maryana’s Listening Tour, a meeting is scheduled for conversation with communities in South Asia. Maryana Iskander will be the guest of the session and she will interact with South Asian communities or Wikimedians. For more information please visit the event page here. The meet will be on Friday 26 November 2021 - 1:30 pm UTC [7:00 pm IST].
We invite you to join the meet. The session will be hosted on Zoom and will be recorded. Please fill this short form, if you are interested to attend the meet. Registration form link is here.
Invitation: Movement Strategy Implementation Grants (MSIG) Call for Wikimedians of Nepal - 10 December 2021 (Friday)
Hello everyone,
I am Chitraparna Sinha, the community facilitator of Movement Strategy for South Asia after Krishna Chaitanya Velaga.
I would like to invite Wikimedians of Nepal for a getting to know each other session and discuss Movement Strategy Implementation Grants (MSIG), and how it can fund projects surrounding Movement Strategy Initiatives.
Proposed Agenda
- Introduction with each other & learn about what all is going on in the community; and how I can support the community to grow.
- A brief overview of MSIG (what it is & how it will work) & discuss concerns.
Meeting Language
Hindi & English. I also understand a bit of Nepali. This could be a multi-lingual conversation.
Meeting Details:
(Nepal) Grants Community Conversation
- Friday, December 10 · 5:45 – 6:45pm (your timezone)
Google Meet joining info
- Video call link: https://meet.google.com/obs-nuig-azm
- Or dial: (US) +1 234-759-5435 PIN: 499 811 999#
- More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/obs-nuig-azm?pin=6700219854798
Please share the message among community members. Thanks for sharing your valuable time.
CSinha (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) १७:१३, ३० नोभेम्बर २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
निमन्त्रणा: नेपालका विकिमीडियनहरूका लागि आन्दोलन रणनीति कार्यान्वयन अनुदान (MSIG) कल - 10 डिसेम्बर 2021 (शुक्रबार)
सबैलाई नमस्कार,
म चित्रपर्णा सिन्हा हुँ, दक्षिण एसियाका लागि कृष्ण चैतन्य वेलागा पछिको आन्दोलन रणनीतिको सामुदायिक सहजकर्ता।
म नेपालका विकिमेडियनहरूलाई एक-अर्कालाई चिनजान गर्ने सत्र र आन्दोलन रणनीति कार्यान्वयन अनुदान (MSIG), र यसले आन्दोलन रणनीति पहलहरू वरपरका परियोजनाहरूलाई कसरी कोषपोषण गर्नसक्छ भन्ने बारे छलफल गर्नको लागि आमन्त्रित गर्न चाहन्छु।
प्रस्तावित कार्यसूची
- एकअर्कासँग परिचय & समुदायमा के भइरहेको छ; र म कसरी समुदायलाई बढ्नको लागि मद्दत गर्न सक्छु भन्ने बारे सिक्न।
- MSIG को एक संक्षिप्त सिंहावलोकन (यो के हो & यसले कसरी काम गर्नेछ) & चिन्ताहरू छलफल गर्न।
बैठक भाषा
हिन्दी & अंग्रेजी। म अलिकति नेपाली पनि बुझ्छु । यो बहुभाषिक कुराकानी हुन सक्छ।
बैठक विवरण:
(नेपाल) अनुदान सामुदायिक कुराकानी
- शुक्रबार, डिसेम्बर 10 · 5:45 – 6:45pm IST (तपाईंको समय क्षेत्र)
- Google Meet मा सामेल हुने जानकारी
- भिडियो कल लिङ्क: https://meet.google.com/obs-nuig-azm
- वा डायल गर्नुहोस्: (US) +1 234-759-5435 PIN: 499 811 999#
- थप फोन नम्बरहरू: https://tel.meet/obs-nuig-azm?pin=6700219854798
कृपया समुदायका सदस्यहरू माझ सन्देश साझा गर्नुहोस्। आफ्नो बहुमूल्य समय साझा गर्नुभएकोमा धन्यवाद।
CSinha (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) १९:४५, ९ डिसेम्बर २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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 (कुरा गर्ने) १३:३१, १० डिसेम्बर २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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 (कुरा गर्ने) २०:४३, २३ डिसेम्बर २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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.
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 msg wikimedia.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) (कुरा गर्ने) १३:०६, २८ डिसेम्बर २०२१ (नेपाली समय)
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 of the event, 18 to 20 February 2022. 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 (कुरा गर्ने) ११:२४, ८ जनवरी २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Call for Feedback about the Board of Trustees elections is now open
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:
- 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.
- 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.
Thank you,,
Movement Strategy and Governance CSinha (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) १५:३३, १२ जनवरी २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
- Please note an additional question has now been added. There are also several proposals from participants to review and discuss. CSinha (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) १२:३९, २२ जनवरी २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
Question about the Affiliates' role for the Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections
Hello,
Thank you to everyone who participated in the Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections so far. The Movement Strategy and Governance team has announced the last key question:
How should affiliates participate in elections?
Affiliates are an important part of the Wikimedia movement. Two seats of the Board of Trustees due to be filled this year were filled in 2019 through the Affiliate-selected Board seats process. A change in the Bylaws removed the distinction between community and affiliate seats. This leaves the important question: How should affiliates be involved in the selection of new seats?
The question is broad in the sense that the answers may refer not just to the two seats mentioned, but also to other, Community- and Affiliate-selected seats. The Board is hoping to find an approach that will both engage the affiliates and give them actual agency, and also optimize the outcomes in terms of selecting people with top skills, experience, diversity, and wide community’s support.
The Board of Trustees is seeking feedback about this question especially, although not solely, from the affiliate community. Everyone is invited to share proposals and join the conversation in the Call for Feedback channels. In addition to collecting online feedback, the Movement Strategy and Governance team will organize several video calls with affiliate members to collect feedback. These calls will be at different times and include Trustees.
Due to the late addition of this third question, the Call will be extended until 16 February.
Best regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 5
Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 5, January 2022Read the full newsletter
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)
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 (कुरा गर्ने) १३:१२, २७ जनवरी २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
Nitesh Gill
on behalf of WMWM
Centre for Internet and Society
CIS - A2K Newsletter January 2022
Dear Wikimedians,
Hope you are doing well. As a continuation of the CIS-A2K Newsletter, here is the newsletter for the month of January 2022.
This is the first edition of 2022 year. In this edition, you can read about:
- Launching of WikiProject Rivers with Tarun Bharat Sangh
- Launching of WikiProject Sangli Biodiversity with Birdsong
- Progress report
Please find the newsletter here. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) १४:०२, ४ फेब्रुअरी २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
Nitesh Gill (CIS-A2K)
[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) (कुरा गर्ने) १३:५०, ९ फेब्रुअरी २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
International Mother Language Day 2022 edit-a-thon
Dear Wikimedians,
CIS-A2K announced International Mother Language Day mini edit-a-thon which is going to take place on 19 & 20 February 2022. The motive of conducting this edit-a-thon is to celebrate International Mother Language Day.
This time we will celebrate the day by creating & developing articles on local Wikimedia projects, such as proofreading the content on Wikisource, items that need to be created on Wikidata [edit Labels & Descriptions], some language-related content must be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and so on. It will be a two-days long edit-a-thon to increase content about languages or related to languages. Anyone can participate in this event and users can add their names to the given link. Thank you MediaWiki message delivery (कुरा गर्ने) १८:५३, १५ फेब्रुअरी २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
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) (कुरा गर्ने) २१:००, २२ फेब्रुअरी २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
The Call for Feedback: Board of Trustees elections is now closed
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) (कुरा गर्ने) १४:०३, ५ मार्च २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
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) (कुरा गर्ने) २२:५८, ७ मार्च २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
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)
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 (कुरा गर्ने) १३:०४, १५ मार्च २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement guidelines ratification voting is now closed
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: ucocproject wikimedia.org
Best regards,
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 (कुरा गर्ने) ००:१६, ८ अप्रिल २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
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)
Extension of Pune Nadi Darshan 2022: A campaign cum photography contest
Dear Wikimedians,
As you already know, Pune Nadi Darshan is a campaign cum photography contest on Wikimedia Commons organised jointly by Rotary Water Olympiad and CIS-A2K. The contest started on 16 March on the occasion of World Water Week and received a good response from citizens as well as organisations working on river issues.
Taking into consideration the feedback from the volunteers and organisations about extending the deadline of 16 April, the organisers have decided to extend the contest till 16 May 2022. Some leading organisations have also shown interest in donating their archive and need a sufficient time period for the process.
We are still mainly using these topics which are mentioned below.
- 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
Anyone can participate still now, so, we appeal to all Wikimedians to contribute to this campaign to enrich river-related content on Wikimedia Commons. For more information, you can visit the event page.
Regards Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 04:58, 17 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) (कुरा गर्ने) १६:०१, १७ अप्रिल २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
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) (कुरा गर्ने) १४:४१, २९ अप्रिल २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
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
- Upcoming event
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
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) (कुरा गर्ने) १६:०८, १२ मे २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
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
- Upcoming event
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)
June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon
Dear Wikimedians,
CIS-A2K announced June month mini edit-a-thon which is going to take place on 25 & 26 June 2022 (on this weekend). The motive of conducting this edit-a-thon is to celebrate June Month which is also known as pride month.
This time we will celebrate the month, which is full of notable days, by creating & developing articles on local Wikimedia projects, such as proofreading the content on Wikisource if there are any, items that need to be created on Wikidata [edit Labels & Descriptions], some June month related content must be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and so on. It will be a two-days long edit-a-thon to increase content about the month of June or related to its days, directly or indirectly. Anyone can participate in this event and the link you can find here. Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 12:46, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
Propose statements for the 2022 Election Compass
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
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)
Board of Trustees - Affiliate Voting Results
Dear community members,
The Affiliate voting process has concluded. Representatives from each Affiliate organization learned about the candidates by reading candidates’ statements, reviewing candidates’ answers to questions, and considering the candidates’ ratings provided by the Analysis Committee. The shortlisted 2022 Board of Trustees candidates are:
- Tobechukwu Precious Friday (Tochiprecious)
- Farah Jack Mustaklem (Fjmustak)
- Shani Evenstein Sigalov (Esh77)
- Kunal Mehta (Legoktm)
- Michał Buczyński (Aegis Maelstrom)
- Mike Peel (Mike Peel)
See more information about the Results and Statistics of this election.
Please take a moment to appreciate the Affiliate representatives and Analysis Committee members for taking part in this process and helping to grow the Board of Trustees in capacity and diversity. Thank you for your participation.
The next part of the Board election process is the community voting period. View the election timeline here. To prepare for the community voting period, there are several things community members can engage with, in the following ways:
- Read candidates’ statements and read the candidates’ answers to the questions posed by the Affiliate Representatives.
- Propose and select the 6 questions for candidates to answer during their video Q&A.
- See the Analysis Committee’s ratings of candidates on each candidate’s statement.
- Propose statements for the Election Compass voters can use to find which candidates best fit their principles.
- Encourage others in your community to take part in the election.
Regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
Movement Strategy and Governance News – Issue 7
Movement Strategy and Governance News
Issue 7, July-September 2022Read the full newsletter
Welcome to the 7th issue of Movement Strategy and Governance newsletter! The newsletter distributes relevant news and events about the implementation of Wikimedia's Movement Strategy recommendations, other relevant topics regarding Movement governance, as well as different projects and activities supported by the Movement Strategy and Governance (MSG) team of the Wikimedia Foundation.
The MSG Newsletter is delivered quarterly, while the more frequent Movement Strategy Weekly will be delivered weekly. Please remember to subscribe here if you would like to receive future issues of this newsletter.
- Movement sustainability: Wikimedia Foundation's annual sustainability report has been published. (continue reading)
- Improving user experience: recent improvements on the desktop interface for Wikimedia projects. (continue reading)
- Safety and inclusion: updates on the revision process of the Universal Code of Conduct Enforcement Guidelines. (continue reading)
- Equity in decisionmaking: reports from Hubs pilots conversations, recent progress from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee, and a new white paper for futures of participation in the Wikimedia movement. (continue reading)
- Stakeholders coordination: launch of a helpdesk for Affiliates and volunteer communities working on content partnership. (continue reading)
- Leadership development: updates on leadership projects by Wikimedia movement organizers in Brazil and Cape Verde. (continue reading)
- Internal knowledge management: launch of a new portal for technical documentation and community resources. (continue reading)
- Innovate in free knowledge: high-quality audiovisual resources for scientific experiments and a new toolkit to record oral transcripts. (continue reading)
- Evaluate, iterate, and adapt: results from the Equity Landscape project pilot (continue reading)
- Other news and updates: a new forum to discuss Movement Strategy implementation, upcoming Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees election, a new podcast to discuss Movement Strategy, and change of personnel for the Foundation's Movement Strategy and Governance team. (continue reading)
CSinha (WMF) (कुरा गर्ने) १८:४३, २४ जुलाई २०२२ (नेपाली समय)
Vote for Election Compass Statements
Dear community members,
Volunteers in the 2022 Board of Trustees election are invited to vote for statements to use in the Election Compass. You can vote for the statements you would like to see included in the Election Compass on Meta-wiki.
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: Volunteers propose statements for the Election CompassJuly 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
Regards,
Movement Strategy and Governance
This message was sent on behalf of the Board Selection Task Force and the Elections Committee
Delay of Board of Trustees Election
Dear community members,
I am reaching out to you today with an update about the timing of the voting for the Board of Trustees election.
As many of you are already aware, this year we are offering an Election Compass to help voters identify the alignment of candidates on some key topics. Several candidates requested an extension of the character limitation on their responses expanding on their positions, and the Elections Committee felt their reasoning was consistent with the goals of a fair and equitable election process.
To ensure that the longer statements can be translated in time for the election, the Elections Committee and Board Selection Task Force decided to delay the opening of the Board of Trustees election by one week - a time proposed as ideal by staff working to support the election.
Although it is not expected that everyone will want to use the Election Compass to inform their voting decision, the Elections Committee felt it was more appropriate to open the voting period with essential translations for community members across languages to use if they wish to make this important decision.
The voting will open on August 23 at 00:00 UTC and close on September 6 at 23:59 UTC.
Best regards,
Matanya, on behalf of the Elections Committee
CIS-A2K Newsletter July 2022
Really sorry for sending it in English, feel free to translate it into your language.
Dear Wikimedians,
Hope everything is fine. As CIS-A2K update the communities every month about their previous work via the Newsletter. Through this message, A2K shares its July 2022 Newsletter. In this newsletter, we have mentioned A2K's conducted events.
- Conducted events
- Partnerships with Marathi literary institutions in Hyderabad
- O Bharat Digitisation project in Goa Central Library
- Partnerships with organisations in Meghalaya
- Ongoing events
- Partnerships with Goa University, authors and language organisations
- Upcoming events
Please find the Newsletter link here.
If you want to subscribe/unsubscibe this newsletter, click here.
Thank you Nitesh (CIS-A2K) (talk) 15:10, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
On behalf of User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)
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, १२:२४, २४ अगस्ट २०२२ (नेपाली समय)