Ranjini V
Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon
सम्पाद्यताम्Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it
Hello,
As COVID-19 has forced the Wikimedia communities to stay at home and like many other affiliates, CIS-A2K has decided to suspend all offline activities till 15th September 2020 (or till further notice). I present to you for an online training session for future coming months. The CIS-A2K have conducted a Online Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon to enrich our Indian classic literature in digital format.
WHAT DO YOU NEED
- Booklist: a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some classical literature your language. The book should not be available in any third party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books and add our event page book list.
- Participants: Kindly sign your name at Participants section if you wish to participate this event.
- Reviewer: Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this proofreadthon and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers could participate in this Proofreadthon.
- Some social media coverage: I would request to all Indic Wikisource community member, please spread the news to all social media channel, we always try to convince it your Wikipedia/Wikisource to use their SiteNotice. Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource site notice.
- Some awards: There may be some award/prize given by CIS-A2K.
- A way to count validated and proofread pages:Wikisource Contest Tools
- Time : Proofreadthon will run: from 01 May 2020 00.01 to 10 May 2020 23.59
- Rules and guidelines: The basic rules and guideline have described here
- Scoring: The details scoring method have described here
I really hope many Indic Wikisources will be present this year at-home lockdown.
Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K) १७:४१, १७ एप्रिल् २०२० (UTC)
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K
Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon II 2020
सम्पाद्यताम्Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it
Hello Proofreader,
After successfull first Online Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon hosted and organised by CIS-A2K in May 2020, again we are planning to conduct one more Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon II.I would request to you, please submit your opinion about the dates of contest and help us to fix the dates. Please vote for your choice below.
Last date of submit of your vote on 24th September 2020, 11:59 PM
I really hope many Indic Wikisource proofreader will be present this time.
Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K
Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon II
सम्पाद्यताम्Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it
Hello Proofreader,
Thank you for participating at Pool for date selection. But Unfortunately out of 130 votes 69 vote is invalid due to the below reason either the User ID was invalid or User contribution at Page: namespace less than 200.
| Dates slot | Valid Vote | % |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Oct - 15 Oct 2020 | 26 | 34.21% |
| 16 Oct - 31 Oct 2020 | 8 | 10.53% |
| 1 Nov - 15 Nov 2020 | 30 | 39.47% |
| 16 Nov - 30 Nov 2020 | 12 | 15.79% |
After 61 valid votes counted, the majority vote sharing for 1st November to 15 November 2020. So we have decided to conduct the contest from 1st November to 15 November 2020.
WHAT DO YOU NEED
- Booklist: a collection of books to be proofread. Kindly help us to find some books in your language. The book should not be available in any third party website with Unicode formatted text. Please collect the books and add our event page book list. Before adding the books, please check the pagination order and other stuff are ok in all respect.
- Participants: Kindly sign your name at Participants section if you wish to participate this event.
- Reviewer: Kindly promote yourself as administrator/reviewer of this proofreadthon and add your proposal here. The administrator/reviewers could participate in this Proofreadthon.
- Some social media coverage: I would request to all Indic Wikisource community members, please spread the news to all social media channels, we always try to convince it your Wikipedia/Wikisource to use their SiteNotice. Of course, you must also use your own Wikisource site notice.
- Some awards: This time we have decided to give the award up to 10 participants in each language group.
- A way to count validated and proofread pages:Wikisource Contest Tools
- Time : Proofreadthon will run: from 01 November 2020 00.01 to 15 November 2020 23.59
- Rules and guidelines: The basic rules and guideline have described here
- Scoring: The details scoring method have described here
I really hope many Indic Wikisource proofread will be present in this contest too.
Thanks for your attention
Jayanta (CIS-A2K)
Wikisource Advisor, CIS-A2K
Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon II 2020 - Collect your book
सम्पाद्यताम्Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it
| Dear Ranjini V, Thank you and congratulation to you for your participation and support of our 1st Proofreadthon.The CIS-A2K has conducted again 2nd Online Indic Wikisource Proofreadthon 2020 II to enrich our Indian classic literature in digital format in this festive season. WHAT DO YOU NEED
I really hope many Indic Wikisources will be present this year at-home lockdown. Thanks for your attention |
Requests for comment-Proofreadthon
सम्पाद्यताम्Dear friends,
I started a discussion and Request for comment here. Last year we conducted two Proofread-Edithon contest. Your feedback and comments are very much needed to set the future vision of Indic language Wikisource. Although, English might be a common language to discuss, feel free to write in your native language.
On behalf of Indic Wikisource Community
Jayanta Nath. १३:१०, १३ मार्च् २०२१ (UTC)
Requests for comments : Indic wikisource community 2021
सम्पाद्यताम्(Sorry for writing this message in English - feel free to help us translating it)
Dear Wiki-librarian,
Coming two years CIS-A2K will focus on the Indic languages Wikisource project. To design the programs based on the needs of the community and volunteers, we invite your valuable suggestions/opinion and thoughts to Requests for comments. We would like to improve our working continuously taking into consideration the responses/feedback about the events conducted previously. We request you to go through the various sections in the RfC and respond. Your response will help us to decide to plan accordingly your needs.
Please write in detail, and avoid brief comments without explanations.
Jayanta Nath
On behalf
Centre for Internet & Society's Access to Knowledge Programme (CIS-A2K)