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ৱিকিপিডিয়া চন্দ্ৰলৈ

এয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ বিষয়ে দুই মৌলিক নিৰীক্ষণৰ বিষয়ে। এটিৰ বিষয় ঠাই: ঠাই সদায় আছে, কাৰণ আমাৰ বিশ্বকোষখনত কাগজ শেষ নহয়। আনটো সময়ৰ বিষয়ে: ৱিকিপিডিয়াত সম্পাদনা কৰিবলৈ আপোনাৰ ওচৰত বিশ্বৰ সকলো সময় আছে। যেতিয়াই মন যায় কৰিব পাৰে, যেন মানৱ জাতিৰ সমগ্ৰ জ্ঞানৰ ভাণ্ডাৰক যোগ কৰা। ৱিকিপিডিয়া কেতিয়াও সমাপ্ত নহয়, মাথো বৰঙণি আগবঢ়াই যাওক। সম্পাদনাৰ কোনো শেষ তাৰিখ নাই, আখৰৰ সীমাবদ্ধতা নাই।

পিচে, আমি এই প্ৰাথমিকতাসমূহক প্ৰত্যাহ্বান জনাব বিচাৰিছো জীৱনত-এবাৰ-অহা সুযোগৰ বাবে: ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ পঞ্চদশ জন্ম বৰ্ষত, এই বিশ্ব সম্প্ৰদায়ক এক অতিকৈ বিশেষ জন্মদিনৰ উপহাৰ দিয়া হৈছে। আমি মুক্ত বিশ্বকোষখনক চন্দ্ৰলৈ পঠাব পাৰিম! আক্ষৰিকভাৱে।

আৰু এনেদৰে ই কাম কৰে: "পাৰ্ট টাইম চাইন্টিষ্টছ" নামৰ এটি দলে চন্দ্ৰলৈ এক ৰ'ভাৰ পঠিয়াব আৰু তেওঁলোকে চন্দ্ৰলৈ তেওঁলোকৰ লগতে ৱিকিপিডিয়াক লৈ যোৱাৰ পৰিকল্পনা কৰিছে। পাৰ্ট টাইম চাইণ্টিষ্টছ সেই আঙলিৰ মূৰত গণিব পৰা দলসমূহৰ অন্যতম যি "গুগল লুনাৰ এক্সপ্ৰাইজ"ৰ প্ৰতিযোগী। এই প্ৰতিযোগিতা ২০০৭ চনত আৰম্ভ হ'ল, চন্দ্ৰৰ পৃষ্ঠলৈ ৰ'ভাৰ প্ৰেৰণ কৰাৰ প্ৰত্যাহ্বান বিশ্বৰ বিজ্ঞানানুৰাগীসকলৰ সন্মুখলৈ আনি, প্ৰত্যাহ্বান ৰ'ভাৰক অন্তত ৫০০ মিটাৰ চলাই পৃথিৱীলৈ ছবি প্ৰেৰণ কৰাৰ। অনেকে যোগদান কৰিলে, কম সংখ্যকহে শেষ সীমাৰ কাষত। জাৰ্মানীৰ বাৰ্লিনৰ পাৰ্ট টাইম চাইণ্টিষ্টছ দল সেই দলসমূহৰ অন্যতম। তেওঁলোকৰ মুন ৰ'ভাৰত কেইবাটাও বৈজ্ঞানিক সঁজুলীৰ ওপৰি তথ্য সম্বলিত কৰিব পৰা ডিস্কৰ সমূহ আছে, যি চীনা মাটিৰে নিৰ্মিত। কেইবাবছৰৰপৰা ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ অনুৰাগী পাৰ্ট টাইম চাইণ্টিষ্টছৰ এই দলে ৱিকিমিডিয়া ডেউটছলেণ্ডক সেই ডিস্কসমূহৰ এখন ব্যৱহাৰ কৰাৰ সুযোগ প্ৰদান কৰিছে, ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ প্ৰবন্ধাদিৰ বাবে।

আমি এই প্ৰত্যাহ্বান স্বীকাৰ কৰি এই এই প্ৰকল্পক বিশ্বৰ ৱিকিপিডিয়া সমাজলৈ এক উপহাৰ হিচাপে আগবঢ়াবলৈ প্ৰতিজ্ঞাবদ্ধ হৈছো, কাৰণ আমি পটীয়ন গৈছো যে ই ১৫ বছৰৰ সহযোগী দৃষ্টি আৰু স্বেচ্ছাসেৱী উদ্যমক সন্মান জনোৱাৰ এক মাত্ৰ পথ: এক সমাজৰ বাবে, এক সমাজৰ দ্বাৰা।

২০০১ চনত, ৱিকিপিডিয়াই এক নতুন সহস্ৰাব্দীৰ সূচনা কৰিলে আৰু কোনেও কল্পনা কৰিব নোৱাৰিলেহেঁতেন যে ১৫ বছৰ পাছত, এই মুক্ত, সাহসী, আৰু অগ্ৰণী পৰীক্ষণে আমাৰ সময়ৰ মানৱ জ্ঞানৰ সবাটোকৈ ব্যাপক স্নেপচট হ'ব।

In 1977, the Voyager mission used the famous “Golden Record” to send greetings, music samples, and some images to outer space. Let’s make this challenge our “Golden Record 2.0” and create collaboratively a time capsule of both, knowledge and spirit. Wikipedia to the Moon!

The Challenge

Wikipedia is free knowledge. Anyone can use it and re-use it. Why don’t we just take an open dump and put it on the data disc? Well, it’s a bit more complicated than that: The English-language Wikipedia alone is much bigger than the available storage volume of about 20 Gigabyte. And that is not counting edit histories or any media files at all, just plain text of the current revision. What is more, even though the English Wikipedia contains by far the most articles of any of the Wikipedias, there are almost 300 language versions of the free encyclopedia. In short, disc space is limited while Wikipedia is abundant. Thus, there needs to be a selection of content, which reveals the true challenge behind the project: What do we choose? Who gets to decide? How do we do this?

These questions are all rooted in one of Wikipedia’s greatest strengths. Knowledge varies, and so do Wikipedia articles in their respective language versions. There isn’t a canonical knowledge core, from which all translations in every of the hundreds of languages could be copied from. To the contrary, content in various languages is shaped by numerous conditions, including but not limited to cultural factors, the number of editors, rules specific to language communities, access to the internet and many more. But if you get the chance to bring the sum of all human knowledge to the Moon, should you not strive to represent the same diversity that has made Wikipedia the world’s most famous collaborative project to date?

The Goal

Our goal is to reach community consensus on how Wikipedia ought to be represented on our “Golden Record 2.0”—and ensure that all data is prepared accordingly. In order to achieve that, we need to discuss and decide on the questions above, and finally work on content for the time capsule. There’s roughly half a year available for all preparations, because every year on December 5 the United Nations call on the world to make visible the work of volunteers all over the world. The “International Volunteers Day” was designated in 1985 and this year it will mark the perfect occasion to “wrap” our Wikipedia gift, so that it can become part of the Moon rover’s official payload for 2017.

How to do it

Millions of articles, thousands of editors, hundreds of language versions. Maybe it is possible to make a perfect selection, i. e. one that is celebrated by the global community at-large. Maybe it’s not, in which case there will be many arguments about equal representation, quality of content, or of biased selection criteria. Either way, we need to be open for suggestions, acting transparently, and assuming good faith. You will find three draft scenarios on this project’s discussion page. Their main purpose is to illustrate how the challenge could be tackled. Each scenario is bound to have advantages as well as disadvantages over the other ones. Please consider them as food for thought and be bold in evolving scenarios or drafting entirely different solutions or propositions.

Date (2016)	Event	Activities	Status
18–24 April	kick-off	Go live with the project page Initialize community discussion of available options Wikimedia Conference, live feedback	done
18 April–3 June	Phase 1: discussing	Wikipedians are invited to evaluate the initial 3 scenarios and may come up with additional ones.	done
10–24 June	Phase 2: voting	Discussion will be closed and a separate voting process for the communities’ favorite option will begin.	done
21–26 June	Wikimania Esino Lario	At Wikimania, we will announce and celebrate how the Wikipedia community plans to bring Wikipedia to the Moon.	done
Jul 1–Oct 31	Phase 3: working	Add missing content in language versions. Improve existing articles. Maybe integrate competitions like Wiki loves monuments into the challenge.	done
31 Oct.–15 Nov.	Phase 4: wrapping	Take care of last-minute issues. Prepare data.	done
5 December	International Volunteer Day	Present “Golden Record 2.0”. End the WP15 anniversary year.	done

About Part-Time Scientists

The name is telling. The team of engineers and scientists came together in 2008 and enlisted to the X challenge. Their goal is to reduce mission costs by using cheaper and more modern equipment in order to make space travel available to more scientists. The team lead is Robert Böhme. A 2013 presentation by him about the team, their motivation, and mission basics is listed below. In the early days, the Part-time Scientists literally volunteered in part-time. Team member Karsten Becker comments: “It is remarkable what people can achieve in just their free time. You see that also on the example of Wikipedia.” Today a core team of about 12 people work full-time on the final preparations for the Mission-to-the Moon. In addition, they rely on a network of another 60 or so volunteers who help them with their mission. Among them is Jack Crenshaw, who worked on the trajectory calculations for NASA’s Apollo programs.

Website http://ptscientists.com
54-min presentation “Hell yeah, it’s rocket science!” (Berlin, re:publica 2013) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlcYQOVwYKg

About the „Moon team“ at Wikimedia Deutschland’s

A number of people have been involved after we were contacted. Our own little Moon team: long-time Wikipedians Cornelius and Martin, Elisabeth who is working on texts and layout, and Jan who is our spokesperson and press contact (see below for info to join, too). Michael has coordinated the first steps.

Press contacts/local ambassadors

During Phase 1 (discussing scenarios) the project Wikipedia to the Moon is just an internal discussion what Wikipedia data should be send to the Moon. This discussion is meant to involve mainly the communities of the Wikimedia projects. Once it is decided how the project will be shaped, phase 3 (working) starts in July 2016. We plan to reach out to a broader public to invite everybody to get involved and to share their knowledge to be brought to the Moon.

The following list contains the press contacts. Please reach out to a person near you.

Country	Name	Please reach out to me via	Notes
Germany	Jan Apel	jan.apelwikimedia.de phone +49 (0)30 219 158 26-0	I work for Wikimedia Deutschland
Spain	David Abián	davidabianwikimedia.es	Member for Communications, Board of Directors, Wikimedia España
Czech Republic	Michal Reiter	michal.reiterwikimedia.cz	Board Member, Spokesperson
Bulgaria	Dimitar Dimitrov	dimitar.dimitrovwikimedia.bg	"Dimi"
Switzerland	Stéphane Coillet-Matillon	stephane.coilletwikimedia.ch	Your friendly Kiwix guy at WMCH
WMF	Sam Lien/Juliet Barbara	slienwikimedia.org	WMF media/PR contacts
Poland	Krzysztof Machocki	krzysztof.machockiwikimedia.pl +48 790 290 766	Spokesperson, Wikimedia Polska
Bangladesh	Moheen	moheenreeyadwikimedia.org.bd	Board member, Wikimedia Bangladesh