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Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022[edit]

Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022/Online Meetup 10 Dec 2022[edit]

A2K has done calls with two user groups, the Odia user group and the Santali user group. A2K is working on making communities comfortable and sharing their problems and issues to sort out. The objectives of the call were Participation in Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022, Queries regarding Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022, a list of the content creation for the event, Suggestions/opinions/reviews anything is welcome regarding the improve-a-thon procedure, On-ground activity under Improve-a-thon and all. Only one participant attended the meeting who was Suyash Dwivedi, the chairperson of the Wikimedia Commons Community.

Event[edit]

What?

Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022 Indic Wiki Improve-a-thon 2022 was a 20-day-long improve-a-thon event. It started as an online activity, so, communities could participate together and create or develop content in their own languages. It started on 15 December 2022 and ended on 5 January 2023. The event was not restricted to any particular project and the event was followed by a theme "Azadi ka Amrut Mahotsav".

Why?

For the last couple of years, A2K is organising a few online activities so Indian communities can involve and engage in some activities. Before the improve-a-thon, A2K started a series of Mini edit-a-thons which were conducted for two days only. This time A2K decided to encourage communities to improve the content on their own or local Wikis.

How?

Many individuals and language communities participated in the event. A total of 21 participants showed their interest to participate in this event and three language communities, Odia Wikimedians User Group, Wikimedians of Kerala, Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group, signed up to contribute together. A total of 7 languages participated in the event: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Malayalam, Odia, Punjabi, and Santali. Mainly two projects, Wikipedia & Wikidata, were edited during the event,

Meenakshi nandhini created 31 articles on Malayalam Wiki. Snehrashmi who is a part of the Gujurati Community, created 27 articles, Punjabi Wikimedian Simranjeet Sidhu created 20 articles on the local Wiki, Ssgapu22 created 1 article on Odia Wiki, Tamanpreet Kaur created one article on Punjabi Wikipedia and JyotiPN created an article on Assamese Wikipedia. Also Rocky 734 edited two articles on Santali Wikipedia. Salil Kumar Mukherjee is from the Bengali language community, he created 3 articles on Bengali Wikipedia and he edited 40 items on Wikidata during the event.

Santali Wikimedians User Group Event[edit]

Under this event, Santali communities organised a one-day in-person event. The event was organised on 01 January 2023 from 10.00 AM-5.00 PM and the venue of the event was Baba Tilka Library, Patra Mahulbani, Bahalda, Mayurbhanj. It was a well planned event and 12 participants participated Ramjit Tudu, ᱥᱟᱹᱜᱩᱱ ᱗, Joy sagar Murmu, Rocky 734, R Ashwani Banjan Murmu, Bijendra Hansda Purudhul, Fagu Baskey, Shibu Murmu, Premchand murmu thakur, Durga Soren, User:Rimil Shyam Sundar Besra, User:Surendra Hemram.

Outcome

Total articles: 94 Interested communities: 3 Interested individual participants: 21 Participants: 20 In-person event: 1 (Indic-Wiki-Imrove-a-thon on the theme of Azadi Ka Amrut Mahotsav of Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group

Obstacles
  • It's difficult to plan a suitable activity and involve communities in this kind of event.
  • Communities or individuals have a lot of things to participate and it's quite difficult to engage them everywhere.
Learning
  • 20 days long improve-a-thon went well due to brilliant editors who never ask for the event appreciation or recognition.
  • Santali community organised an event under the improve-a-thon. The community organised this event for the very first time after the lockdown. We realised these kinds of activities should be planned wisely for the language communities.

Indian Community Capacity Development[edit]

What?

A2K is working with Indian communities closely and A2K realised after COVID-19 communities progressing very slowly. This is an idea to boost communities and start taking initiatives for their own activities, growth and development.

Why?

A2K is working with Wikimedia communities very closely from the beginning. A2K is concerned about the growth of the communities and realised there is a need to focus more towards the Wikimedia movement in India. Communities need to take initiative to encourage more people and they have to initiate.

How?

A2K has tried to engage communities by scheduling some calls with user groups. There is page A2K that has started Indian Community Capacity Development, however, it is still under construction, is a program which is inspired by the Community Capacity Development program. The program was run by Asaf (WMF). CIS-A2K is following the initiative and trying to implement it in India. Community Capacity Development was an initiative that aims at identifying needs and ways to build capacity in different Wikimedia communities and then initiating specific actions to build specific capacities in specifically interested communities. CIS-A2K is also doing the same efforts with Indian communities and User groups. A2K has done calls with two user groups, the Odia user group and the Santali user group. A2K is working on making communities comfortable and sharing their problems and issues to sort out. A2K is focusing on their activities, growth, leadership, building capacity and etc. The program is for all Indian communities who want to work for their growth and want to make a strong user group. The program is going on with user groups or communities separately and the page will be completed after the first in-person meeting with a minimum of one community.

Links to approach communities:

Obstacles
  • COVID affects their energy which takes time to get active again
  • Communities are not much ready to put their energy into this due to their own personal reasons or commitments

Request Page[edit]

In 2022, A2K has worked on its request page policies and guidelines. There is a different kind of policies for different support such as Internet Support, IT Allowance, Project and Event Support, Project specific IT Allowance, and Non-financial Support. The requests or applications are reviewed according to policies only.

Internet Support[edit]

There were a total of 11 internet support requests 4 requests which are accepted, 1 is on hold and 6 were not approved to follow the policies and guidelines strictly.

Project Support[edit]

Under the Project support, A2K supports 4 community projects.

Deoband Yoruba Collaborative Project[edit]

It was the Deoband Yoruba Collaborative Project and it was the first international collaboration that the Deoband Community Wikimedia did with the Yoruba Wikimedians User Group The support was given to Deoband community.

Digitalizing Sikh Manuscripts[edit]

Punjabi Wikimedians proposed one more project which is called Digitalizing Punjabi Manuscripts (Phase I) which was a pilot project by Punjabi Wikimedians that focuses on the digitalization of rare and prestigious historical Punjabi Manuscripts. These manuscripts are scanned and uploaded on Wikicommons and Wikisource.

There is scanned and uploaded content below:

  1. Aadi Guru Granth Sahib (1152 pages)
  2. Japuji Sahib (440 pages)
  3. Gurbani Holy Text (might know as 'Gurbilas Patshahi Chhevi') (701 pages)
  4. Punjabi Manuscript (Sakhi Bhai Ajitha) (193 pages)

Karavali Wikimedians/Events/Conclave seminar[edit]

Karavali Wikimedians User Group, Karnataka Arebhashe Samskruthi mathu Sahitya Academy, St Aloysius College (Autonomous) Mangaluru, are collaborating & conducting a one-day conclave seminar with the support of A2K.


Plan for second half of program year[edit]

  • Mini edit-a-thon: At least two content enrichment online/offline activities/mini edit-a-thon on the National level for all the language communities. This is a strategic activity to engage communities for two days so they can write collectively on the same topic and at the same time. Thorugh mini edit-a-thon communities feel enthusiastic because it takes only two days for editing. Within next six months A2K will organise ~2 mini edit-a-thons.
  • Photowalks: A2K did not organise any Photowalk activity in the first half but for the second half there will be 2 photo walks activities to encourage the communities to bridge the visual content gap via capturing photos and upload on Wikimedia Commons.
  • Indian Community Capacity Development In-person Meetings: A2K will conduct minimum two in-person meetings under Indian Community Capacity Development program with a user group to resolve their issues, to note where the group needs A2K's support and plan their future activities for their group. The effort is for the good health, growth and development of the group. It will consider any editing activity or training session as well.
  • Women Month Celebration: The month of March is a women month and there will be a special event on Women's History Month to encourage more women editors and increase content related to women. We will encourage Indian women to get together and meet with each other on the special occasion of Women's Month. There will be a one more activity to encourge new female editors and conduct workshop for them.
  • Diff posts for sharing the Stories: A2K will publish atleast 4 diff posts for the A2K learning stories and will try to notify the communities about A2K's work elaborativly.
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