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Growing Local Language Content on Wikipedia (Project Tiger 2.0)/Support/Tanay barisha

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Contact details

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Wikipedia username
Tanay barisha
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Your contribution

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Please tell us which existing Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Commons, etc.) and language versions you are contributing to, and some of your best contribution towards the project and movement. Please add relevant Wiki/external link wherever applicable

I contribute mostly to Bengali Wikipedia and Wikidata (with more than 80k edits), with bits of edits on Bengali Wikisource thrown in:

A more general idea of my contributions can be found here and here.

Support details

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Support type

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What type of support you need

  • Chromebook
  • Internet

Reason

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Why do you need this support (Internet and/or Chromebook)

I do have a decade old computer, which runs on electricity and a whole lot of Indian jugaad (and it includes, but is not limited to, slapping and cursing). And I don't get to spend that much time in front of it. Wanting to take a bigger part in this free knowledge movement, and not being able to do so as much I as I want to, feels like an itch that I can't scratch. With a Chromebook by my side I would be able to edit on the go (and while I spend my time on the couch after a day's hard work, when sitting on a chair feels nothing less than torture). To sum it up, I would be able to spend more time contributing to Wiki(m/p)edia. I am not comfortable with editing on a mobile as contributing on the Wiki projects needs a lot of searching and verifying data, which isn't an easy task to do on a mobile.

Do you have a working laptop? : No.

Had you received the support in the first iteration of Project Tiger?  : No.

Future activities

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How will you use this in the next six months?

By adding more language related articles on Bengali Wikpedia (completing one language family at a time; currently doing Turkic family, which will be followed by Dravidian), create continent/country-wise language related templates, play a small part in achieving 15 lakh Bengali labels on Wikidata, and start working on Bengali Lexicographic Data on Wikidata. And hope to see the Chromebook being plastered with lots of stickers won from contests and -a-thons.

Community discussion and endorsements

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Status
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