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Wikimedians of Kerala - August 2024 Newsletter

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This is Wikimedians of Kerala UG's sixth newsletter.

User group news
  • On 17th August 2024, we had our user group monthly meeting held online at Jitsi platform.
    • User:Gnoeee and User:Ranjithsiji shared their experience in attending Wikimania 2024 at Katowice, Poland from Kerala. The other known Malayali Wikimedians attended this years Wikimania in-person are User:Mujeebcpy, User:Jsamwrites and User:Leaderboard
    • User:Ranjithsiji presented a talk on Schoolwiki project and presented the poster describing activities of Wikimedians of Kerala UG. User:Gnoeee presented the poster describing the activities of OpenDataKerala community.
    • User:Ranjithsiji and User:Mujeebcpy worked on a tool named 'Vcutcli' to create small videos by cutting a large video using starting and ending timestamps during Wikimania.
    • User:Gnoeee shared updates about the Wiki Loves Onam 2024 campaign. The photography campaign in Wikimedia Commons and Edit-a-thon in Malayalam Wikipedia was discussed.
    • Discussed about organising Wikidata Birthday celebration and Wikimedians of Kerala Annual Meetup this year.
    • Discussed about the IndiaFOSS 2024 event at Bangalore and two representatives of User-group was planned to attend the event.
    • Community members are encouraged to apply for Train the Trainer (TTT) 2024, which will be held in Odisha.
    • Community members User:Gnoeee, User:Irshadpp, User:Manojk and User:Ranjithsiji shared their selection to participate in the Wiki Technology Summit taking place on 4th and 5th Oct at Hyderabad. (Read more...)

Events & activities


Wikimedians of Kerala - September 2024 Newsletter

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This is Wikimedians of Kerala UG's eighth newsletter.

User group news
  • On 21st Sept 2024, we had our user group monthly meeting held online at Jitsi platform.
    • User:Gnoeee started the meetup welcoming everyone and shared the agenta for this months meetup as listed in the event page.
    • User:Ranjithsiji shared the UG's grant proposal details and the plans for upcoming months.
    • User:Ranjithsiji shared his experience in attending IndiaFOSS along with Naveen Francis. Both of them represented the reperentative of Wikimedians of Kerala UG at IndiaFOSS. User:Gnooee's workshop on OpenRefine has been accepted for IndiaFOSS, but due to his absence for personal reasons the workshop was taken by User:Ranjithsiji and Ayushi, an Outreachy intern who has worked with the OpenRefine team.
    • User:Gnoeee has been reminded about the last date to submit the Technical Consultations form that was shared in the Village pump, mailing list and other social media platforms.
    • User:Gnoeee shared updates about the Wiki Loves Onam 2024 campaign.
    • Discussed about organising Wikidata Birthday celebration and Wikimedians of Kerala Annual Meetup this year.
    • User:Ranjithsiji shared an update about the online workshop 'Introduction to Wikipedia' he did for SFLC Delhi.
    • The Sacharam project idea was discussed. Participants mentioned it would good to discuss with the person who proposed it in the next meeting.
    • User:Tonynirappathu shared update about his Book Digitization work.
    • Shared the discussion that is going on about the planned WCI 2025

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Events & activities


Wikimedians of Kerala - October 2024 Newsletter

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This is Wikimedians of Kerala UG's nineth newsletter.

User group news
  • On 12th Oct 2024, we had our user group monthly meeting held online at Google meet. 17 members attended the meeting.
    • User:Gnoeee started the meeting welcoming everyone and shared the agenda for this months meetup as listed in the event page.
    • User:Gnoeee shared the updates about Wiki Loves Onam campaign, highlighting that over 4,000 files were uploaded by more than 100 participants between September 1st and 30th.
    • User:VSj (WMF) shared the updates about Sancharam project. During the discussion, participants actively contributed by sharing valuable feedback and raising questions to clarify specific aspects of the initiative. Challenges were noted, including technical support for uploading, handling licenses, and managing the content.
    • User:Ranjithsiji shared an update on organizing Wikidata birthday with a community gathering and workshop in Kerala, with the potential to collaborate with the OpenStreetMap (OSM) community for greater engagement and shared learning opportunities.
    • User:Gnoeee shared an update on Wikidata's 12th Birthday celebrations led by the Wikimedians of Kerala UG on Wikidata Oct 13th-19th. One week focusing on improving hospital and health center data.
    • User:Manojk shared an update on the WikiConference Kerala that is planned to be hosted at Thrissur during the month of December. More details will be shared soon. Also shared update on up-coming Malayalam Wikisource activities.
    • During the discussion, participants explored the idea to submit a bid for hosting the WCI 2025 in Kerala. The participants expressed their support for the idea, and decided to form a dedicated group was to work on the bid proposal and submit the bid for Kochi location.
Other news
  • User:Athulvis and User:Jameela P. got selection to attend Train-the-Trainer (TTT) program that is being hosted at Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
  • User:Gnoeee has received an invitation from the WikiArabia Conference team to attend the conference and to organize an OpenRefine workshop during the conference in Oman.

Events & activities