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News and announcements
- 09-11-2024: Second Mehfil-e-Wiki is scheduled to take place on 14 November at 4:30 PM. It will be hosted by Wiki Club Jamia.
- 09-11-2024: An online wokrshop on Conflict of Interest in Wikipedia Editing is scheduled to take place on 11 November at 8:30 PM IST.
- 21-10-2024: Eingaben von der Gemeinschaft bezüglich der Veränderung und Verbesserung unserer Verfahrensweisen sind gern gesehen. Bitte teilt bis zum 15. November eure Rückmeldungen über dieses Erhebungsformular.
Archives
2024
- 29-10-2024: We celebrate 12th Wikidata Anniversary with Wikidata Sprint, a three-days long thematic label-a-thon, coupled with few offline celebratory events from 29 to 31 October.
- 25-10-2024: The 22nd DCW Conversation Hour on Sustaining Open Knowledge Initiatives is scheduled on 27 October 2024 at 11:30 AM IST. The conversation features Stacy Burnett from IKHATA, the parent company of digital library website, JSTOR.
- 19-10-2024: An online wokrshop on NPOV and Wikipedia is scheduled to take place on 25 October at 8:30 PM.
- 27-09-2024: The 21st DCW Conversation Hour on Impactful Communication Strategies is scheduled on 29 September 2024 at 08:30 PM IST. The conversation features Rachit Sharma from the Wikimedia Foundation.
- 27-09-2024: The next edition of DCW Progress Prism is happening on September 28, at 8:30 PM.
- 01-08-2024: A rapid grant request has been submitted to the Wikimedia Foundation for supporting our activities from October 2024 to March 2025. Endorsement and feedback is requested from the community.
- 24-08-2024: The 20th DCW Conversation Hour on Elevate with Evaluation is scheduled on 31st August 2024 at 08:30 PM IST. The conversation features Jessica Stephenson from the Wikimedia Foundation.
- 03-08-2024: We invite our Delhi-based volunteers to join us in our 3rd Anniversary Celebration on August 6, at The Eden Rooftop, Jamia Nagar.
- 24-07-2024: The 19th DCW Conversation Hour on Exploring Community Wishlist is scheduled on 28th July 2024 at 08:30 PM IST. The conversation features Runa Bhattacharjee from the Wikimedia Foundation.
- 20-07-2024: Join us in an interactive workshop on Wiki Notability Criterias on 21 July 2024 at 9:00 PM IST.
- 10-07-2024: Applications are invited for our Heritage Lens Fellowship. Last date to apply is 18 July 2024.
- 25-06-2024: Wikidata 101, a basic interactive training workshop is scheduled on 26 June 2024 at 8:00 PM IST.
- 03-06-2024: The second edition of DCW-K Editathon is happening between 11 and 25 June 2024. We invite Kashmiri language enthusiasts to participate in this thematic article writing contest on Kashmiri Wikipedia.
- 17-06-2024: The 18th DCW Conversation Hour on Impact and Implications of Movement Charter is scheduled on 22 June 2024 at 08:30 PM IST. The conversation features Manavpreet Kaur from the Movement Charter Drafting Committee.
- 20-05-2024: The 17th DCW Conversation Hour is scheduled on 27 May 2024 at 10:00 PM IST. It features Jake Orlowitz, the founder of The Wikipedia Library and the Wiki Blueprint.
- 16-05-2024: An interactive workshop on Wikimedia Commons: Copyright & Licensing is scheduled on 21 May 2024 at 9:00 PM IS.
- 25-04-2024: The 16th DCW Conversation Hour is scheduled on 28 April 2024 at 08:30 PM IST. The conversation features Praveen Das, Lead Partnerships Manager for South Asia at the Wikimedia Foundation.
- 13-04-2024: The upcoming DCW Progress Prism is scheduled for 15 April 2024, 9:00 PM IST.
- 22-02-2024: We have moved our website at dcwwiki.org to MediaWiki and the site is currently under maintenance. The sub-website for DCW Conversation Hour will also be merged for convenience. We don't have plans to maintain a separate site for the Conversation Hour anymore.
- 17-03-2024: The 15th DCW Conversation Hour is scheduled on 24 March 2024 at 08:30 PM IST. The conversation features Amal Ramadan, a Senior Community Relation Specialist at the Wikimedia Foundation.
- 01-03-2024: Applications are invited for our Heritage Lens Fellowship. Last date to apply is 7 March 2024.
- 22-01-2024: The 14th DCW Conversation Hour is scheduled on 18 February 2024 at 6:00 PM IST. The conversation features Butch Bustria, the event lead of Wikimania Singapore.
- 16-01-2024: A rapid grant request has been submitted to the Wikimedia Foundation for supporting our activities from April to September 2024. Endorsement and feedback is requested from the community.
- 15-01-2024: 2023 annual activity report has been submitted on the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal in accordance with our agreement with the Wikimedia Foundation.
- 08-01-2024: First edition of Wiki Loves Muslim Academia is running between January 15 and February 16, 2024.
- 22-01-2024: The 13th DCW Conversation Hour is scheduled on 25 January 2024 at 6:00 PM IST. The conversation focuses on Organizer Lab, and features Alex Stinson, a Lead Program Strategist at the Wikimedia Foundation.
2023
- 21-12-2023: An offline workshop and edit-a-thon, Wikiquote Insights is scheduled for 28th December in New Delhi. Registration is open until 23:59, 27th December, IST.
- 09-12-2023: The 12th DCW Conversation Hour is scheduled on 16 December 2023, focusing on affiliate and community relationships in Wikimedia ecosystem. The speaker is Tanveer Hasan from the Centre for Internet and Society.
- 09-12-2023: The second iteration of the Heritage Lens is happening between 10 and 14 December 2023, targeting South Kashmir.
- 17-11-2023: The November DCW Progress Prism is happening on November 28.
- 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
- 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.