Wikimedians of Kerala/Newsletter/September 2024
Wikimedians of Kerala - September 2024 Newsletter
[edit]This is Wikimedians of Kerala UG's eighth newsletter.
- User group news
- On 21st Sept 2024, we had our user group monthly meeting held online at Jitsi platform.
- User:Gnoeee started the meetup welcoming everyone and shared the agenta for this months meetup as listed in the event page.
- User:Ranjithsiji shared the UG's grant proposal details and the plans for upcoming months.
- User:Ranjithsiji shared his experience in attending IndiaFOSS along with Naveen Francis. Both of them represented the reperentative of Wikimedians of Kerala UG at IndiaFOSS. User:Gnooee's workshop on OpenRefine has been accepted for IndiaFOSS, but due to his absence for personal reasons the workshop was taken by User:Ranjithsiji and Ayushi, an Outreachy intern who has worked with the OpenRefine team.
- User:Gnoeee has been reminded about the last date to submit the Technical Consultations form that was shared in the Village pump, mailing list and other social media platforms.
- User:Gnoeee shared updates about the Wiki Loves Onam 2024 campaign.
- Discussed about organising Wikidata Birthday celebration and Wikimedians of Kerala Annual Meetup this year.
- User:Ranjithsiji shared an update about the online workshop 'Introduction to Wikipedia' he did for SFLC Delhi.
- The Sacharam project idea was discussed. Participants mentioned it would good to discuss with the person who proposed it in the next meeting.
- User:Tonynirappathu shared update about his Book Digitization work.
- Shared the discussion that is going on about the planned WCI 2025.
Events & activities
- On-going events & activities supported by User Group
Upcoming meeting: 21st September 2024 - Register for the event