CIS-A2K/Reports/Newsletter/February 2022
Wikimedia session with WikiProject Rivers team
CIS-A2K has collaborated with the Rotary Water Olympiad team who are taking the initiative to capture photos or collect media files of rivers at Pune district to upload on Wikimedia Commons. They have found the Wikimedia efforts important for their work either. During the session with the Rotary Water Olympiad team, they expressed their interest to get involved with CIS-A2 K's efforts towards Wikimedia projects.
Indic Wikisource online meetup
This Online meetup was organized to discuss and plan the coming Wikisource proofreadthon 2022 and International Mother Language Day celebration. This was an India level virtual meet where community members or Wikisource editors can interact with each other. During the meet, anyone could ask upcoming proofreadathon. Apart from it, queries regarding Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon March 2022, gift and prizes for the contest selection and suggestion read more...
International Mother Language Day 2022 edit-a-thon
International Mother Language Day 2022 edit-a-thon was an edit-a-thon that was conducted for two days based on the occasion of International Mother Language Day. This edit-a-thon is part of the mini edit-a-thon series. The edit-a-thon took place on 19 and 20 February. During these days, Wikimedians created or developed content regarding languages, directly or indirectly. The participants were from 6 languages, Assamese, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Santali, Telugu. From all Wikimedia project editors. especially, edited Wikipedias. Wikisource and Wikidaate were also edited. Around 34 articles were created read more...
Wikimedia Commons workshop for Rotary Water Olympiad team
As CIS-A2K has been in partnership with the Rotary Water Olympiad team for the last few months. To trained the team of the Rotary Water Olympiad, A2K conducted an online session to introduce them to Wikimedia Commons. The session was for 2 hours and via presentation, we introduce them to what Wikimedia Commons is, What is copyright & licenses and how they can upload the media file on Wikimedia commons. Participants get involved in the training session enthusiastically. They will use their learnings to conduct an online campaign cum photography contest on the occasion of world water week. We have created a Wikimedia page for the same with rules and guidelines.
Upcoming events
International Women's Month 2022 edit-a-thon
Every year Wikimedia world celebrates the month of March with the full of energy. There are many campaigns that lead the month such as Art+Feminism, Women in Red, Wikigap and so on. CIS-A2K also put its efforts to engage Indic communities for this month. So, this year A2K is going to conduct one more mini edit-a-thon on the occasion of International Women's Month 2022. This will be a two-day long edit-a-thon which is to be conducted on 19 March and 20 March 2022. Punjabi community is going to involve for these two days with the same idea on the same dates. We would invite all Indian communities or individuals to participate in this edit-a-thon and create or develop the content for your languages. The event page link is here.