User:Satpal (CIS-A2K)/Progress report 2018-19/1

Scanning work [TEMPORARY HEADING]

When Punjabi Wikisource became live Wikimedia project there was a little number of books available on the web. CIS-A2K conduct content enrichment program coordinated with Punjabi Wikimedians through scanning the rare books from different libraries and different organizations. There is the list of the 25 books which are uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and these books are used by Punjabi Wikimedians on Punjabi Wikisource.

Learning

• CIS-A2K use Scansnap SV600 scanner for scanning. During the process, CIS-A2K found that the scanner we currently have is not supportable when we scan big books or dictionaries. It can damage rare books; For example, opening a book 180 degrees can be damaging to its spine.

Follow-up

• By this program we will upload 30 books on Wikimedia Commons till the month of June 2019.

Punjabi community meetups in Patiala

CIS-A2K supported 2 Punjabi community meetups in Punjab, India, and financially supported one of those meetups. The meetups took place on 28 October 2018 and 28 November 2018.

28 October 2018 meetup

Participants of the meetup conducted on 28 October 2018

The community meetup took place on 28 October 2018 at Patiala Bites. Meetup event page may be seen here. 9 Punjabi Wikimedians participated in this workshop. This meet-up being conducted during Women Wellbeing Editathon and Hockey World Cup Editathon. Some of the topics discussed during this meetup were: Wikipedia Asian Month, choosing lead persons for Punjabi Wikisource Training Workshop, Patiala and Project Tiger Training 2018, and Wikidata birthday celebration.

28 November 2018 meetup
The community meetup took place on 28 November 2018 at Punjabi University, Patiala. Meetup event page may be seen here. 8 Punjabi Wikimedians participated in this workshop. Some of the topics discussed during this meetup were: Project Tiger Training community event division of role and responsibilities, to choose new contact persons of the Punjabi Wikimedians User Group, Bathinda Literary Festival, bringing featured books on Punjabi Wikisource. Two participants shared their learning from the events in which they participated.

Follow-up

• CIS-A2K will conduct 2 more meetups before the month of June in Punjab, India.

Collaboration with Punjabi author

Balram during releasing his play 'Gainde' under CC-SA-4.0

Balram is a Punjabi author and translator. He mainly is known as a playwright as he wrote plays Jooth, It's Not an Affair, Maat Lok, No Exit (About Bhagat Singh), Tai Ki Dard Na Aaya and Saaz Razi Hai. He translates some work of Samuel Beckett, P. D. Ouspensky, Rahul Sankrityayan and Jiddu Krishnamurti. CIS-A2K approached the author and after understanding free licenses he released his two plays - Saaz Razi Hai (A Play) and Gainde (A Play) under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International. The collaboration page can be seen here.

Learning

• It was learning for CIS-A2K that there are authors in language communities who are willing to release their work under the free license but they don't know where they can upload their work. [CHANGE NEEDED}

Follow-up

• The author will release his one book in the month of February.
• CIS-A2K will approach two Punjabi authors to release their work under the free license before June 2019.