CIS-A2K/IRC meeting 2020-04-19
Participants
edit- abartov
- abhinav619
- Ananthpv
- Ani
- Ashwani
- balaji
- bhuvana
- chanakya
- Dharampal
- Dnyanada
- Faisal
- Faismeen
- gitartha
- Hardarshan
- Jagseer
- Jayanta
- Manav
- Phadke09
- PiyushM
- satpal
- Seddon
- Snavare
- sri58
- Subodh
- Suswetha
- Tulsi
IRC Chat log
editSubodh 19:03:58
Welcome all! hope you all are safe and having happy time...
Subodh 19:08:34
Let us start. This IRC is for taking review of some online activities going on in India in this lockdown period, as well as some proposed events in near future. I request all members to give their valuable inputs, ideas and suggestions.
abhinav619 19:10:54
Hello, I had a quick question, the lockdown officially ends in India on 3rd May (so far as per the government), so why not shift Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon to an earlier date
Subodh 19:12:20
Jayanta, what is your opinion on this?
For more info see - https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Proofreadthon
Subodh 19:14:34
The event is declared today only, so communities need at least a week to prepare imo
abhinav619 19:15:12
So even say 25th April - 5th May could be a better choice
Jayanta 19:15:20
Officially lock-down end in India 3rd May, but WMF stopped all offline events still September. So this Proofreadthon for Indias lockdown period.
Subodh 19:16:51
Are there any other points regarding the Wikisource proofreadathon?
abhinav619 19:17:40
I didn't understand from the response. I do have a second question, however, will there be en.wikisource also ? I am much more active there than hi
gitartha 19:17:56
Is fountain/any other tool available for proofreadathon counting?
Dnyanada 19:18:23
As per my understanding we are supposed add books to the lists which are already OCRed and not proof read , is that correct? or we can list any classic?
Ananthpv 19:19:01
we have two different tools to track the activity on Wikisource.
1. https://wscontest.toolforge.org/
2. https://tools.wmflabs.org/indic-wscontest/
Jayanta 19:20:22
abhinav619: sorry, Proofreadthon is not conducted for Indias lockdown period.
Subodh 19:20:35
Yes Dnyanada, we have to list books, which are incomplete or just OCR'd .
Dnyanada 19:20:49
ok.
Jayanta 19:22:35
Dnyanada: OCRed or Non OCRed both can be use for this edithon.
Subodh 19:23:03
Can we know which language Wikisource communities are represented in this IRC?
gitartha 19:24:00
Assamese ✋
Jayanta 19:24:04
abhinav619: Thanks for your suggestion, 25th April - 5th May, let wait, if whole community is prepare to do this edithon, we have no issue.
Dnyanada 19:24:19
Marathi
Phadke09 19:24:34
marathi
chanakya 19:24:55
Assamese
Subodh 19:26:02
Regarding period, I think we can have more iterations also.
Subodh 19:27:54
It's good to see many communities developing COVID-19 related articles on their WP. Some have started Wiki Projects also. Can anyone explain more about this? We can list the possible collaborations also.
Subodh 19:28:44
You can mention the requirements like svg images etc.
Dnyanada 19:29:09
I have developed one article about covid pandemic in Maharashtra.
Faismeen 19:29:17
We have started the project for Covid-19 on Urduwiki and yes a collaboration is possible among indic wikies
Phadke09 19:29:25
We need guidance about how to embed real time maps in to WP
Dnyanada 19:29:32
also contributing to other Covid related articles on Marathi wiki
Ashwani 19:30:02
We in santali also have one article on COVID 19
Subodh 19:30:40
Phadke09, can you explain more by giving an example? or link?
Phadke09 19:31:53
I have prepared wikidata queries with specific Maharashtra data. they need to be embedded in Marathi article about outbreak
Subodh 19:32:10
Could we get real time visualisations from Wikidata project? See - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_force
Subodh 19:33:12
I request Wikidata experts to give inputs...
Phadke09 19:33:23
here the visualizations are with national level data
Jayanta 19:33:42
abhinav619: In english wikisource , they conduct https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Proofread_of_the_Month in every month. And we are now focusing only Indic Languages. If we got more user from India at ENWS, we may add ENWS.
satpal 19:34:29
In Punjabi, an edit-a-thon is going on: https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/ਵਿਕੀਪੀਡੀਆ:ਕੋਵਿਡ-19_StayHomeEditWiki
Faismeen 19:35:41
https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%DA%A9%DB%8C%D9%BE%DB%8C%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%A7:%D9%88%DB%8C%DA...
Phadke09 19:35:46
as we progress now with more and specific data getting generated. the statewise data and wikipedia pages will get increasing importance
abhinav619 19:36:03
Jayanta Da Thanks !
Subodh 19:36:05
Anybody working on real time maps showing COVID data in Wikipedia articles?
Subodh 19:37:28
Great to see pa and ur project pages, congrats!
Subodh 19:38:50
Many volunteers are taking efforts to update the stats in Wikidata project - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/COVID-19_task_force
satpal 19:39:23
about maps, this one is going very well: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:COVID-19_Outbreak_World_Map.svg
Subodh 19:44:13
Any ideas about other online activities we could take up for Indic communities?
Subodh 19:47:54
I request all to take advantage of two skill sharing sessions available as of now - https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_India/Skill_sharing and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikisource_Helpdesk
PiyushM 19:49:07
Can start article creation competition. It will engage users until the no event time period.
Subodh 19:51:07
Sure, any specific theme/focus or in general?
PiyushM 19:52:44
General but can create themes like technology, countries and other important topic which I think lacks in information and quality on Indic wikis.
Subodh 19:56:28
Ok, we will discuss among the communities. Thanks.
PiyushM 19:59:46
Is there any time limit for this IRC?
Subodh 20:00:19
I request all to give suggestions if any before closing this IRC...
Subodh 20:00:40
Yes, 5 min. more, @8pm
Subodh 20:04:06
On behalf of CIS-A2K, I thank all for participating in this IRC. Let us meet soon, stay safe!
