CIS-A2K/Requests/List

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Community support

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Sl No. Date of request Name Details of support extended Status When the request was fulfilled
1 11 February2013 Rahimanuddin, Telugu Wikimedia Community Support for swags for wiki academy at BV Raju Institute of Technologies.

Swags:

  • 40 badges
  • 200 stickers
Fulfilled 28 February 2013
2 July 2013 Diptiman Panigrahi, Odia Wikimedia Community Odia Wikipedia Workshop/Meetup Expenses in the month of June-July 2013 Fulfilled 01.08.2013
3 18 April 2013 Radhakrishna, Telugu Wikimedia Community Swags for Wikimedia presentation at Alcatel-Lucent (5 T-shirts) Fulfilled April 2013
4 24 March 2013 Rahimanuddin, Telugu Wikimedia Community Request for funding Telugu Wikipedia Mahotsavam 2013
Sl.No Budget Item Planned Actuals
1 Food (08-13 April 2013) 50,000/- 19,900/-
2 Travel and Stay (community members) 80,000/- 62,984/-
3 Event logistics 30,000/- 36,940/-
4 Printing & Stationary 40,000/- 7,140/-
5 T-Shirts - 79,800/-
6 Internet Wi-Fi at the event (2 days) - 18,654/-
Total support extended 200,000/- 225,418/-
Fulfilled 11-12-2013
5 11 July 2013 Shirish Nag, English Wikimedia Community Swags for Wikipedia outreach activities in Nagpur
  • 50 badges and 200 stickers
Fulfilled 24 July 2013
6 2 August 2013 Gorvachove Pothal, Odia Wikimedia Community Odia Wikipedia Workshop/Meetup Expenses in the month of June–July 2013. details below:
  • To & fro Bus fair : Rs. 700/-
  • Printing cost of A3 size posters for circulation to different Hostels : Rs. 500/-
  • Arrangement of Tea & Snacks for 100+ participants : Rs. 500/-
  • Miscellaneous [Local travel & office accessories] : Rs. 300/-

Grand Total Rs. 2000/-

Fulfilled 17 September 2013
7 15.09.2013 Ravishankar, Tamil Wikimedia Community Contingency funding request for Tamil Wikipedia's 10th anniversary Fulfilled 03-10-2013
8 15.092013 Ravishankar, Tamil Wikimedia Community Swags for Tamil Wikipedia's 10th anniversary (25 Wikipedia T-Shirts and 100 Wikipedia stickers) Fulfilled 3 September 2013
9 04.10.2013 Anivar, Malayalam Wikimedia Community 12th Year Celebrations of Swathanthra Malayalam Computing. Details below:
  • Travel (partial):₹ 41,765.96/- (flight tickets for Resource Persons)

Total = 41,765.96

Fulfilled 7 November 2013
10 10 November 2013 Kiran Ravikumar, Kannada Wikimedia Community Support for 10th anniversary of Kannada Wikipedia 2013. Details:
  • Food - Rs. 1000
  • Hall - Rs. 5000
  • Transport for guests - 2*2500 - Rs. 5000

Total: Rs. 11,000

Fulfilled 11 December 2013
11 20 November 2013 Adv. T.K. Sujith, Malayalam Wikimedia Community Support for WikiSangamotsavam 2013/Malayalam Wiki Conference 2013
  • Funding support: Rs. 150,000
  • Printing 300 T-Shirts (approximate cost of Rs. 100,000)
In progress --
12 10 January 2014 Pranayraj Vangari, Telugu Wikimedia Community Support for Tewiki10 /Telugu Wikipedia Dasabdi Utsavalu 2014
  • Funding support: Rs. 150,000
  • Printing 300 T-Shirts (approximate cost of Rs. 100,000)
Fulfilled 24 January 2014
13 13 January 2014 Jayanta Nath, Bengali Wikimedia Community Kolkata Bookfair 2014 and Wikipedia 13 celebration
Item Amount in INR
2.6 Banner INR2000
4.3 Internet Charges INR4000
5.1 Bengali FAQ, 10000 copies INR20,000
5.2 Bengali Promotion leaflet INR4000
5.3 English Wikipedia leaflet INR4000
4.4 Other incidentals INR1,000
Total INR 35,000
Wikipedia 13 celebration
  • Conference Hall booking : 3,000/-
  • Cake: 500/-
  • Snacks: 1500/-
Total: INR 40,000
Funded, unused money to be refunded 17 January 2014
14 23 January 2014 Mrutyunjaya Kar, Odia Wikimedia Community Support for Odiawiki10 /Odia Wikipedia 10th Birthday celebration, 2014
  • Funding support: Rs. 50,000
  • 30 T-Shirts
  • 200 badges
  • 200 stickers
Funded, unused money refunded 28 January 2014
14 11 March 2014 Mrutyunjaya Kar, Odia Wikimedia Community Support for Odisha Day 2014
  • Funding support: INR 1,85,000
  • 50 T-Shirts
  • 100 badges
  • 200 stickers
Funded INR 50,000, final expenses settled, 50 T-Shirts and 100 stickers provided 30 March 2014
15 5 August 2014 Shubha, Sanskrit Wikimedia Community Training on Wikisource In progress
16 18 November 2014 Mrutyunjaya Kar, Odia Wikimedia Community Support for Odia Wikisource Sabha 2014
  • Funding support: INR 62,500
  • 14 T-Shirts
  • 50 badges
Funded INR 50,000, final expenses to be settled, 50 T-Shirts provided 19 November 2014

Request for outreach programs

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Sl No. Date Name Details of the outreach program Status When the request was fulfilled
1 October 2012 Assamese Wikimedia Community Support for Assamese Education Program In progress
2 October 2012 Gujarati Wikimedia Community Support for Gujarati Education Program
3 October 2012 Mumbai Wiki Community Support for WikiWomenDay 2012
4 January 2013 Punjabi Wikimedia Community Support for outreach programs in January in Patiala Being planned to be done in March
5 January 2013 Odia Wikimedia Community Support for closing ceremony of Odia Education Program and Celebration of Odia Wikipedia's 9th anniversary Supported 26 and 29 January
6 May 2013 Kannada Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program at Hassan Supported Conducted on 4 June 2013
7 May 2013 Kannada Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program at Sagar Planned Planned for July 28
8 May 2013 Kannada Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program for Kannada bloggers Supported Conducted on Jun 23, 2013
9 June 5, 2013 Kannada Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program for Bangalore dotnet users group Planned date not yet finalised
10 June 6, 2013 Kannada Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program for Mumbai University Kannada Department Planned Planned for August 23
11 June 2013 Kannada Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program at Hubli Supported Conducted on July 21, 2013
12 June 2013 Kannada Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program at Sagar Supported Conducted on July 28, 2013
13 July 2013 Kannada Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program at Mysore Supported Conducted on Aug 06, 2013
14 July 29, 2013 Kannada Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program at K R Pet Supported Conducted on Aug 11, 2013
15 July 2013 Kannada Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program at Karnataka Sangha, Mumbai Planned Did not happen
16 July 2013 Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Educaiton, TISS Wikipedia Training programme in Marathi and Hindi for TISS, Pandhrapur campus students Supported Conducted on Aug 16, 2013
17 Aug 2, 2013 Kannada Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program at KRVP, Bangalore Planned Did not happen
18 Jan 21, 2014 Odia Wikimedia Community Request to organize outreach program at NIT, Warangal In progress

Technical

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Bugs

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Sl No. Date Name Details of the bug Status When the request was fulfilled
1 October 2012 Chaipau, Bishnu Saikia, Gitartha, Jyoti, Assamese Wikimedia Community English numbers in Assamese Wikipedia, Collation issue Unsolved - Problem from browser end -
2 10 October 2012 Subhashish, Odia Wikimedia Community Update Lekhani typing scheme for Narayam based on jquery.ime changes WONTFIXed as the codebase had changed. Please open seprate Bugzilla tickets for remaining issues. -
3 4 November 2012 Bill William Compton, Siddhartha, Hindi Wikimedia Community Old pending bug for enabling special:import on Hindi Wikipedia Fixed in May 2013 -
4 8 January 2013 Guglani, Punjabi Wikimedia Community DRCHatrik Phonetic Gurumukhi keyboard layout: Font kerning problem and problems with web fonts Resolved, will be enabled in the next version of 1.21wmf8 16 January 2013
5 13 January 2013 Abhishek Suryawanshi and members of Wikipedia Club Pune 2 bugs(1 and 2) reported for account creation during the Wikipedia Summit India 13 January 2013 Done, 13 January 2013
6 15 January 2013 Subhashish Deploy Narayam or ULS on the multilingual WikiSource Discussion and community consensus done, resolved 14 February 2013
7 24 January 2013 Subhashish Indic typing not working for search field even when Narayam is enabled Resolved 29 May 2013
8 29 May 2013 Pavanaja Remove IP throttle for account creation Still in process -
9 14 June 2013 Praveenp ULS icon is too small and unidentifiable Works for developers as they say, but still issues to be addressed -
10 16 June 2013 Subhashish Icon for switching between languages missing in Indic Wikipedias Resolved Invalid -
11 21 June 2013 Subhashish Auto-capitalization for Indic typing in mobiles to be disabled Pending (missing good steps to reproduce) -
12 21 June 2013 Subhashish Reloading of page because of changing webfont and loss of data Closed - not successful to reproduce the problem -
13 24 June 2013 Guglani, Punjabi Wikimedia Community Lohit Panjabi font display error of siharis (vowel short I) UNCONFIRMED -
14 27 June 2013 Subhashish ULS doesn't work while using VisualEditor NEW Duplicate of bug 49569 -
15 28 June 2013 Pavanaja ULS doesn't work while using VisualEditor NEW Duplicate of bug 49569 -
16 28 June 2013 Pavanaja VE does not support typing in Kannada NEW -
17 5 July 2013 Subha Faulty display of typing layouts for ULS Odia Wikipedia NEW -
18 25 Aug 2013 Pavanaja VE-ULS support needed in dialog boxes NEW -
19 25 Aug 2013 Pavanaja VE-Inserting and editing tables NEW Duplicate of bug 52181 -
20 25 Aug 2013 Pavanaja VE-Search and replace feature needed NEW Duplicate of bug 48368 -
21 04 Nov 2013 Pavanaja Mediaviewer does not show full screen preview sometimes WORKSFORME 07 Feb 2014
22 21 Nov 2013 Pavanaja Wrong display for Kannada in ULS Resolved 22 Nov 2013
23 10 Dec 2013 Pavanaja Personal sandbox needed in Kannada Wikipedia Resolved 10 Dec 2013
24 10 Dec 2013 Pavanaja Request to whitelist IP numbers for Wiki Education program Resolved 31 Jan 2014
25 01 Jan 2014 Pavanaja Make ULS enabled by default for Indian language Wikipedias Resolved 02 Feb 2014
26 06 Feb 2014 Pavanaja Wrong text in Kannada Wikipedia login page Resolved 06 Feb 2014
27 14 March 2014 Muzammil Problems in ULS typing on Urdu Wikipedia NEW
28 17 September 2014 Subhashish on behalf of Preetinanda Routray, Coordinator at KIIS Odia Wikisource program Oriya webfont not getting loaded for edit field on wikisource (FF31 on Windows XP) NEW
29 12 July 2015 Subhashish followed up for Odia keyboard layout OdiScript, later discussed in the community for modifications and renaming. Push request made Ongoing
30 12 July 2015 Followed up on Assamese keyboard layout Rodali that was pending since 2014. Worked with the developer-Wikimedian Gunadeep and WMF engineer Amir for pushing this. Github thread Ongoing
31 05 August 2015 Subhashish on behalf of the Odia Wikimedia community Adding new Odia (Oriya) webfont NEW
32 05 August 2015 Subhashish on behalf of the Odia Wikimedia community Adding Odia (Oriya) Wikisource to Stats Wiki NEW
33 13 August 2015 Subhashish on behald of the Odia Wikimedia community Updates and fixing issues with Lekhani keyboard layout NEW

Other technical support

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Sl No. Date Name Details of the technical support Status When the request was fulfilled
1 January 2013 Assamese Wikimedia Community Creating IRC Channel for Assamese Wikipedia Done 17 January 2013
2 5 February 2013 Guglani, Punjabi Wikimedia Community Redirect issues with Community portal Done February 2013

Logistics-Merchandize

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Sl No. Date Name Details of the logistics support Status When the request was fulfilled
1 October 2012 Abhishek Suryawanshi, Wikipedia Club Pune Requested logistics and merchandize support for for WikiWomenDay 2012 Supported as per request October 2012
2 November 2012 Srikant Kedia, Odia Wikimedia Community Requested for logistics support for various outreach programs Supported as per request November 2012
3 December 2012 Shiju Alex, Malayalam Wikimedia Community Community requested for stickers and buttons for 10th anniversary celebration of Malayalam Wikipedia on December 21, Bangalore Supported as per request December 2012
4 January 2013 Abhishek Suryawanshi, Wikipedia Club Pune Requested for support for Wikipedia Summit India Supported as per request January 2012
5 January 2013 Mrutyunjaya Kar & Srikant Kedia, Odia Wikimedia Community Requested for logistics support for 9th anniversary celebration of Odia Wikipedia on 29 January, Bhubaneswar Supported as per request January 2013
6 February 2013 Rahimanuddin, Telugu Wikimedia Community Requested for badges and stickers, BV Raju Institute of Technologies, Andhra Pradesh Supported as per request February 2013
7 March 2013 Deepon, Bengali Wikimedia Community Requested for T-shirts for wikipedians Supported as per request
8 March 2013 Rahimanuddin, Telugu Wikimedia Community Requested for financial support for Telugu Wiki Mahotsavam, 10-11 April Supported as per request April 2013
9 April 2013 A Radha Krishna, Telugu Wikimedia Community Requested for T-shirts and stickers for Wikipedia Training Programme, Bangalore Supported as per request April 2013
10 Oct 2013 Omshivaprakash H L, Kannada Wikimedia Community Requested for banner, laptops, monitor, brochures for Kannada Wikipedia Kiosk, at BMRC Metro Boulevard on Nov.1, 2013, Bangalore supported Nov.1, 2013
11 Nov 2013 Kiran Ravikumar, Kannada Wikimedia Community Requested for food sponsorship, local travel for guests, t-shirts for 10th anniversry program of Kannada Wikipedia on Nov.17, 2013, Bangalore Supported Nov.17, 2013

Media, PR, Communications

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