User:Nitesh (CIS-A2K)/IR2022

Content creation

Why? For the last few years, CIS-A2K is trying to engage or encourage communities to create or develop content in their languages. A2K is focusing on content enrichment because outside Wikimedia users only know about the online content and Wikimedians write for everyone. To run the community or any language's Wikipedia or Wikimedia project, this is a need to encourage the Wikimedians to enrich the content in their native languages.

What? CIS-A2K has started a mini edit-a-thon model in October 2020. It is a two-day edit-a-thon which contains a specific theme for each time. During these two days, all interested Wikimedians write articles in their own language Wikipedia. Apart from this, the edit-a-thon does not restrict to a particular project even during the edit-a-thon Wikimedians can edit any Wikimedia project to follow the theme.

'Conducted edit-a-thons and Impact In 2021-2022, A2K organised five national level edit-a-thons and those were Mahatma Gandhi 2021 edit-a-thon, Festive Season 2021 edit-a-thon, International Mother Language Day 2022 edit-a-thon, International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon and June Month Celebration 2022 edit-a-thon.

A total of 30 participants contributed, and articles were created and expanded to 381, 168 Wikidata items, and 64 proofread pages during these edit-s-thons.

Apart from this, A2K tried to engage and involve communities to enrich the content for their language Wikimedia projects. Although, A2K encouraged communities to conduct two-day edit-a-thons for their communities and make a preferable list which must be edited in their languages. Two communities initiated to organise a two-days edit-a-thon to follow the mini edit-a-thon model. The objective of the edit-a-thon was to celebrate Dalit History Month on the occasion of Ambedkar Jayanti. Punjabi did for two days and Santali for three days.

From the Punjabi community, During Ambedkar Jayanti, two-days Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was on the dates of 13-14 April 2022. In this event, 13 participants signed and showed their interest as a participant. 10 users contributed to the same and did amazing work. Editors edited articles related to Ambedkar directly or indirectly. Two articles were expanded and 32 new articles were created.

In Ambedkar Jayanti Three-day Wikipedia Edit-a-thon, five editors signed and 4 to 5 articles were created.

Supported Requests

Internet support

CIS-A2K provides financial, non-financial and intellectual support to Indian Wikimedians. In the previous year, A2K provided 23 Intenet support to requestees and they all got support as their preferences.

Apart from that A2K also supported fixing laptops & some online events like workshops and edit-a-thons which were proposed by communities and supported some needful texts which were important for content creation.

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community projects

Women's Week 2022

CIS-A2K supported the Punjabi community with their proposed idea to conduct a first on-ground activity after lockdown. The project was proposed by the Punjabi Wikimedians user group. The idea of the event was about the Women's month celebration. It was the second iteration of the previous year's event to celebrate Women’s Day. This event on-ground event was conducted two-day edit-a-thon and brainstorming discussion.

Wiki Loves Wildflowers

Wiki Loves Wildflowers is a project by Punjabi Wikimedians that focuses on documenting wildflowers of the Punjab region and integrating this information with Wikimedia projects such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia and Wikidata. Photographs of the flowers found in wild will be taken and uploaded. Additional information such as a brief description will also be added. The project was funded by CIS-A2K. During the project, the community did three field visits and one workshop to identify the flowers and uses of the collected content.

Additional Funding Request for Indic Hackathon 2022

The Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group and the organizers of Indic Hackathon 2022 made a request to ask for some support from CIS-A2K. The User Group organized a local meetup on the main hackathon during 20-22 May, in Hyderabad. The goal is to bring together technical contributors from India for a regional hackathon as a local meetup of the upcoming Wikimedia Hackathon 2022, to resolve pending technical issues, and bugs, brainstorm on tooling ideas, and foster connections between contributors. A2K supported the event for logistics and travel to make the event successful.

Maryana’s Listening Tour ― South Asia

Maryana started her Listening tour before joining as the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation. A2K took the initiative to schedule a South Asia call with Maryana under her listening tour. The meeting was organised on 26 November 2021 at 7 PM (IST) and informed South Asian Wikimedia communities and individuals. During the call, 36 participants were there and they discussed their issues, challenges and what Wikimedia Foundation has to work on. The participants started to discuss the needs of the communities and Wikimedia projects which they want to convey to the CEO. The introduction to the session did by Tanveer & Shabab who were the moderators of the call. The participants were from Bangla, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Santali, LinguaLibre community and so on.