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17-11-2023: The November DCW Progress Prism is happening on November 28.

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2023[edit]

10-11-2023: The Conversation Hour for November 2023 is scheduled on 16 November at 08:30 PM IST. The subject of the conversation is Tools For Wikimedia Event Organizers, and the speaker is Ilana Fried, a senior product manager at the Wikimedia Foundation.
14-11-2023: Wiki Club Jamia is hosting an offline interactive workshops on the basics of Wikimedia projects in collaboration with the DCW and Eng Res Co on 15 November at 14:30 IST.
27-10-2023: The October DCW Progress Prism is happening on October 30.
27-10-2023: Join us in celebrating the eleventh anniversary of Wikidata. We are conducting Wikidata Sprint for from 28 to 30 October.
18-10-2023: The Conversation Hour for October 2023 is scheduled on 24 October at 08:30 PM IST. The subject of the conversation is Voice & Vision: Exploring Digital Audio and its Role, and the speaker is Marcel Heyne, the founder of the Audiopedia Foundation.
22:09:2023: The upcoming DCW Progress Prism is scheduled to happen at 7:30 PM IST, on 24 September.
09:09:2023: The second iteration of the Deoband Yoruba Collaborative Project is running for fifteen days from 10 to 25 September 2023.
15-08-2023: The strategic learnings from July 2023 have been published on the Diff blog.
06:09:2023: The Conversation Hour for September 2023 is scheduled on 21 September at 20:30 IST. The subject of the conversation is Transformational Leadership and Open Education, and the speaker is Nichole Saad.
05-07-2023: An individual proposal has been submitted to help DCW participate in the second phase of Movement Charter Conversations.
21-08-2023: The Conversation Hour for August 2023 is scheduled on 24 August at 09:30 IST. The subject of the conversation is Books, Institutional Partnerships and Wikipedia, and the speaker is Professor Laurie Bridges from the Oregon State University.
26-07-2023: Digital Empowerment Seminar in collaboration with Bayt al-Hikmah is happening tonight on-site at Bayt al-Hikmah, Deoband, at 9:30 PM IST.
23-07-2023: The first iteration of the Heritage Lens is being conducted in Deoband and Saharanpur from 23 to 25 July 2023.
21-07-2023:The first DCW-K Editathon has concluded with a total of 77 articles having been created on Kashmiri Wikipedia.
30-06-2023: DCW has submitted a rapid grant proposal concerning its activities from September 2023 to February 2024.
16-07-2023: DCW would be organising an online workshop entitled The Other Side of Wikipedia on 23 July 2023 (8:00 PM IST) in collaboration with the English Researchers Collective (Eng Res Co), Jamia Millia Islamia, on Google Meet.
03-07-2023: The strategic learnings from June 2023 have been published on the Diff blog.
02-07-2023: The Conversation Hour for July 2023 is scheduled on 9 July at 15:00 UTC. The subject of the conversation is Navigating the Wikipedia Library, and the speaker is Sam Walton from the Wikimedia Foundation.
01-07-2023: DCW has begun working on its leadership development and skills infrastructure plan.
20-06-2023: One month long DCW-K Editathon, which aims to enrich Kashmiri Wikipedia with the knowledge related to the themes associated with the DCW, begins at 00:00, 21 June 2023.
10-06-2023: A blog has been published on Diff about Wikipedia 101, our educational collaborative project with Wikimedia Community User Group Turkey.
09-06-2023: DCW's leadership development and skills infrastructure proposal has been approved by the Wikimedia Foundation in its entirety.
02-06-2023:The strategic learnings from May 2023 have been published on the Diff blog.
10-06-2023: The Conversation Hour for June 2023 is scheduled on 17 June at 8:00 PM, IST. The subject of the conversation is Building Brand Equity: Amplifying Impact of Wikipedia Projects and the speaker is Chitraparna Sinha from Lekhak.xyz
27-05-2023: DCW would be organising a thematic contest on Kashmiri Wikipedia from 15 June to 14 July 2023.
24-05-2023: Our regular meetup for May 2023 has concluded with discussions on our upcoming budget plan.
15-05-2023: The strategic learnings from April 2023 have been published on the Diff blog.
13-05-2023: We had our first offline meet-up in Srinagar, Kashmir.
24-04-2023: The request page has been made live. DCW volunteers may request for internet support from now onwards.
15-04-2023: A proposal concerning leadership development and skills infrastructure has been submitted to the Movement Strategy and Governance Team.
15-05-2023: DCW Conversation Hour for May is scheduled at 22:30 IST on 21st, with Bilal Ali Ansari of Darul Qasim College, IL, as the speaker.
15-04-2023: March 2023 learnings from the strategic research study have been published on the Diff blog.
03-04-2023: An independent website, exclusive to the DCW Conversation Hour has been launched at hour.dcwwiki.org.
02-03-2023: February 2023 learnings from the strategic research study have been published on the Diff blog.
09-02-2023: Two volunteers from DCW, TheAafi and Khaatir, have been awarded with full scholarships to attend the WikiConference India 2023.
31-03-2023: The DCW Conversation Hour for April 2023 is scheduled to take place on 16 April 2023 with Rohini Lakshané as the guest speaker.
15-03-2023: The DCW Conversation Hour for March 2023 is scheduled to take place on 17 March 2023. The guest speaker would be Dr. Nicole Schwitter.
12-03-2023: The general meetup for March has been scheduled to take place on 20 March 2023, in New Delhi.
09-02-2023: The strategic meet-up for February is scheduled to take place on 18 February 2023 in New Delhi.
30-01-2023: A one-to-one strategic meet was organised in New Delhi to discuss the research proposal that the DCW has proposed for defining its development trajectory.
15-01-2023: DCW has submitted its annual activities report for 2022 to the Affiliation Committee.

2022[edit]

19-12-2022: DCW has proposed a six monthly strategic grant request for February-July 2023 term.
12-12-2022: Ciell from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee would be our guest on Thursday, 15 December 2022 (7:00 – 8:00 PM IST). The conversation will be all about the Roles and Responsibilities Chapter of the Charter.
28-11-2022: Our Movement Charter Ambassador Program researcher Muntaqibah had an online conversation with C. Sinha, Movement Strategy and Governance facilitator for South Asia, on 28 November 2022 at 8:00 PM IST, about Movement Charter and its applications.
05-11-2022: Dr. Ashraf Dockrat from the University of Johannesburg would be giving an address on Islamic scholarship and Wikipedia on Sunday, 13 November 2022, 03:00 PM SAST (06:30 PM IST).
01-11-2022: DCW volunteers celebrated first successful decade of Wikidata on 30 and 31 October 2022.
08-10-2022: DCW is looking forward to changing its current logo with such a logo that describes its connection with both the global Deobandi scholarship and free knowledge movement. The winning logo designer would be awarded an e-certificate.
30-09-2022: Donia Al Domiaty had a one-hour long online interaction with DCW's female volunteers. The meet was hosted by Browniewikipedian at 9:30 PM on Google Meet app.
29-09-2022: The Bhopal Photo Event is scheduled to happen from 15 to 20 October 2022.
01-09-2022: DCW received a rapid grant of 980 USD to conduct the Bhopal Photo Event.
10-08-2022: DCW conducted a series of events related to Wikiquote in New Delhi.
25-07-2022: DCW received Dell Latitude 3410 laptop from the CIS-A2K as a community support.
01-07-2022: The first drive of the Deoband Yoruba Collaborative Project was conducted throughout the month of July.
25-06-2022: Deoband Yoruba Collaborative Project was initiated in collaboration with Yoruba Wikimedians User Group
19-06-2022: The community members met physically in Deoband to decide the future goals of the group.