Wikimedians of Nepal/Events/Wikisource Loves Nepali Manuscripts

An edit-a-thon organized by Archive Nepal in collaboration with Wikipedia Foundation and Wikimedians of Nepal with the aim to creating awareness about Historical Nepali Manuscripts .

Wikisource Loves Nepali Manuscripts
Logo of Wikimedians of Nepal
Begins	December 5, 2024
Location(s)	Yala Maya Kendra, Patandhoka Road, Lalitpur
Years active	2024
Inaugurated	2024
Coordinator	Nabin K. Sapkota
Participants	All Wikipedians and Manuscripts enthusiasists
Patron(s)	Satdeep Gill
Organised by	Archive Nepal - Discover Nepal through its History

Background

The aim of Wikisource Loves Nepali Manuscripts is to discover and preserve manuscripts pertaining to Nepal's diverse ethnic, minority, and marginalized communities. Leveraging AI-powered tools, we aim to digitally archive these manuscripts. Subsequently, we will engage the global community, particularly in Nepal, to transcribe and translate them into accessible languages such as Nepali and English. Through this initiative, we address existing inequalities that hinder access to manuscripts from these groups.

Furthermore, our project endeavors to digitally safeguard these manuscripts for posterity, ensuring that future generations can benefit from them. We will actively involve members of the ethnic, minority, and marginalized communities in interacting with and deriving knowledge from their own historical manuscripts.

By rendering manuscripts and their knowledge accessible in widely spoken languages like Nepali and English, we aim to make them more approachable for the general public. Additionally, our efforts will grant free access to the wealth of knowledge contained within these manuscripts, fostering greater inclusivity and understanding.

Event detail/Venue

• Date: December 5, 2024
• Venue: Yala Maya Kendra, Patandhoka Road, Lalitpur
• Time: 1:30 PM - 5 PM NST
• Organizer: Archive Nepal International Team
• Local organizer: Archive Nepal, Nepal
• Global Supporter: Wikimedia Foundation
• Local Supporter: Wikimedians of Nepal

Schedule

Timing	Topics to be covered	Coordinator / Resource Person / Participation
☼ 01:00 pm - 01:15 pm	Welcome and Event sign up	Archive Nepal
☼ 01:30 pm - 02:00 pm	Introduction from the Archive Nepal and the Wikimedians of Nepal	Members
☼ 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm	Project Overview from the Archive Nepal team	Samip Shrestha
☼ 02:30 pm - 03:00 pm	Demo on Uploading manuscripts on Wikimedia Commons	Satdeep Gill
☼ 03:00 pm - 03:45 pm	Wikisource demo	Satdeep Gill
☼ 03:45 pm - 04:30 pm	Q/A	All
☼ 04:30 pm – 05:00 pm	☕ Lunch and group photo

Organizers/Roles

Samip Shrestha – Off-wiki Organizer
Outreach Manager - Archive Nepal

Satdeep Gill -Trainer
Senior Program Officer, Culture and Heritage, Wikimedia Foundation

Nabin K. Sapkota – On-wiki Coordinator
Executive Member - Wikimedians of Nepal

Saroj Kumar Dhakal – Mentor/Demonstrator
Patron - Wikimedians of Nepal

Nirmal Dulal – Mentor
Bureaucrat - Nepali Wikipedia, Member - Wikimedians of Nepal

Logistics and Support

Archive Nepal Team

Objectives

• Aim to creating awareness about Historical Nepali Manuscripts
• To increase Sanskrit, Nepali and Newari language contents over Wikisource/issues
• To built Reference Repository for Nepalese contents all over Wikipedia projects
• To familiarize Language and Manuscripts enthusiasist to contribute in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects

Contribution Language and topics

Language

• English Wikipedia
• Nepali Wikipedia
• Newari Wikipedia
• Sanskrit Wikipedia

Participants are free to choose the language they want to contribute.

Participants

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Help Us

• Tell your friends
• Share on your social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc) using Our social media hashtags: #NepaliManuscripts
• Write a blog post about us

Contact us

• For any queries regarding the eit-a-thon and technical support please contact at
  wikipedia-nelists.wikimedia.org

Questions and suggestions

If you have any questions ask them in the discussion page here

Output

• Contents created and modified during the Edit-a-thon