Wikimedians of Kerala/Newsletter/November 2024
This is Wikimedians of Kerala UG's tenth newsletter.
- User group news
- On 9th Nov 2024, we had our user group monthly meeting held online at Google meet. 15 members attended the meeting.
- User:Gnoeee started the meeting welcoming everyone to the meeting and shared the agenda for this months meetup.
- User:Gnoeee shared the updates about Wiki Loves Onam Video documentation, that features a collection of 10 videos documented in Commons that capture key events and customs associated with the festival.
- User Gnoeee shared the update about the selection of the Kochi venue for the WikiConference India 2025 bid proposal submitted by the User Group.
- User:Irvin calicut shared an update of Wiki Loves Birds in India photography campaign dedicated to celebrating and documenting the remarkable avian biodiversity across India.
- User:Gnoeee shared his experience participating in WikiArabia 2024 and providing training on OpenRefine to the participants. He also shared an update on his discussion with User:VSj (WMF) during the event about the Sancharam project.
- User:Akhilan shared the update on പള്ളിക്കൂടത്തിലേക്ക് വീണ്ടും (Back to School) campaign which focus to digitize old Malayalam textbooks in Malayalam Wikisource. Members User:Tonynirappathu and User:Manoj also part of the discussion of the project.
- User:Ranjithsiji and User:Gnoeee shared the update on celebrating Wikidata's 12th Birthday in collabration with OSM community during SoTM Kerala 2024 event.
- User:Athulvis shared his experience in attending TTT 2024 at Bhubaneswar.
- User:Ranjithsiji and User:Gnoeee shared the update on submitting Grant proposal for organsing User group events and collabrating with other communities.
- User:Ranjithsiji shared the update on starting a workspace page at Phabricator for UG.
- User:Ranjithsiji shared the update on bringing Wikivoyage Malayalam out of the Incubator. User:Gnoeee also invloved in the discussion about the futhur plans that needs to be carried out.
- Other news
- User:Athulvis, User:Gnoeee and User:Ranjithsiji got selected to attend Indic Wikimedia Hackathon organized by Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group in collaboration with the Odia Wikimedians User Group that is being hosted at Bhubaneswar, Odisha.
Events & activities
- On-going events & activities supported by User Group
- Astrophotography Campaign 2024
- എന്റെ ഗ്രാമം 2024 (My Village 2024) - Edit-a-thon in Malayalam Wikipedia.
Upcoming meeting: Annual General Body Meetup 2024 - 29th December 2024 - Register for the event