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Hardware donation program/Aliva Sahoo/2nd

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Your contact information

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your username
Aliva Sahoo
your contact e-mail (optional)
angelaliva98@gmail.com

Explain your plan

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Tell us about how you contribute currently, and how you would contribute if WMF were to gift a used laptop to you.

Since 2016, I have been contributing to Odia wikipedia, Odia Wikisource and Commons. For more than a year now I have been using an entry-mid-level smartphone to contribute to Wikimedia projects. It has been incessantly difficult to edit many of the articles that have complex templates as my phone browser crashes and gets stuck during editing. I have even lost hundreds of my edits after spending hours in creating them, a gross loss of labor in a volunteer’s life. It was already quite difficult when I was contributing to Wikipedia only but after I started actively contributing to Odia Wikisource, more recently after the second anniversary of the project, there are new layers of complications as most of the Wikimedia projects are not very mobile-friendly when it comes to editing. The lack of access to a laptop or a PC is stopping me from contributing to particularly Wikipedia and Wikisource even though I want to contribute to these. Apart from contributing to the Wikimedia projects myself, I am also planning to contribute in offline outreach in my home state Odisha in India, and online outreach programmes where a computer will become really handy. My recent encounter with Wikidata has made me take more interest in the project, more because there are many entries in Odia Wikipedia that need to be added to Wikidata.

My activity has been limited to Wikipedia projects only because of the poor working condition of my laptop. The laptop battery drains so fast, problematic and hangs too. Now for a few months I am using mobile for my contribution. If I get a laptop as a gift from WMF it would be a great help for my contribution, while putting an end to the edits and effort I am bound to waste while editing.


Affected projects

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Add the existing Wikimedia projects (Wikipedia, Commons, etc.) and language versions that you seek to impact with this equipment.

  • Odia wikipedia

https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/or.wikipedia.org/Aliva%20Sahoo

  • Odia wikisource

https://or.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%B6%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B7%3A%E0%AC%85%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%A6%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8&target=Aliva+Sahoo&namespace=all&tagfilter=&start=&end=&limit=50

  • Hindi Wikipedia

https://xtools.wmflabs.org/pages/hi.wikipedia.org/Aliva%20Sahoo

  • Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Aliva_Sahoo

  • Commons

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Aliva_Sahoo

  • Odia Audio Files

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Odia_pronunciation_by_Aliva_Sahoo


Work you're proud of

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Show us (through links) some of your best Wikimedia work, on or off wiki, to help us get a sense for the kind of work you do. (no more than3 or 4 links at most, please.)

● Opportunity: Ambassador from Odia Wikipedia in the 2016 Wikipedia Asian Month: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Asian_Month/2016/Ambassadors

● Outreach and collaboration initiatives :

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program

● 100 Wiki days :

  • 100 Wiki days about Odia Wikipedia (1st Attempt)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aliva_Sahoo/100wikidays

  • 100 Wiki days about Wikidata (1st Attempt)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aliva_Sahoo/100wikidata_days

  • 100 Wiki days about Odia Wikisource (1st Attempt)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aliva_Sahoo/100wikisource_days

  • 100 Wiki days about Odia Wikipedia (2nd Attempt)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aliva_Sahoo/100wikidays_(2nd_attempt)

● Edit-a-thon:

  • Bhubaneswar Heritage Edit-a-thon

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bhubaneswar_Heritage_Edit-a-thon

  • Karnataka Rajyotsava month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karnataka_Rajyotsava_month

  • Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Women India

https://or.wikipedia.org/s/1dvl

  • Wikipedia: Project Tiger 2019

https://or.wikipedia.org/s/1fg2

  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Asian Month/2019

https://or.wikipedia.org/s/1fhc

  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Women

https://or.wikipedia.org/s/19ri

  • Wikipedia:Wikipedia Asian Month/2018

https://or.wikipedia.org/s/1c9g

  • Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Women South Asia/2021

https://or.wikipedia.org/s/1l98

  • Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Literature

https://or.wikipedia.org/s/1nh3

  • विकिपीडिया:प्रोजेक्ट टाइगर लेख प्रतियोगिता/२०१९

https://hi.wikipedia.org/s/g6yb

Affiliate?

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IF YOU ARE REQUESTING THIS ON BEHALF OF A WIKIMEDIA AFFILIATE (i.e. to be owned by a Wikimedia affiliate rather than an individual), please type your affiliate name below, and add a link to your affiliate's public equipment tracking page.

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Endorsements

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  1.   Strong support-Manisha yadav12 (talk) 14:09, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  2.   Strong support R Ashwani Banjan Murmu (talk) 14:43, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  3.   Strong support --Jayprakash >>> Talk 15:14, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  4.   Strong support --Dhanalakshmi .K. T (talk) 15:54, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  5.   Strong support Aliva is one of the most committed Wikimedians I've met. Many have come and gone for various reasons but she has balanced life and work to be able to contribute, showing remarkable resilience. This support would only catalyse her work. --Psubhashish (talk) 15:58, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  6.   Support --Sumitsurai (talk) 16:13, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  7.   Strong support Aliva is a dedicated, long term contributor to the Wikimedia projects. She put the first laptop she got through the hardware donations program to really good use, until the battery died and it was no longer usable. I am sure she will put any device she receives to similar good use and bring knowledge to the projects from areas where we miss contributions, especially from female perspectives. She is also really a person to care about the community and to encourage others, so a device for her will have impact beyond her own contributions. --Kritzolina (talk) 16:31, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  8.   Support --Chinmayee Mishra (talk) 16:41, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  9.   Strong support-2401:4900:3EE6:2577:0:6D:C4F5:5F01 17:01, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  10.   Strong support — The preceding unsigned comment was added by अनुश्री साव (talk) 17:06, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  11.   Strong support Undoubtedly she is doing a fabulous Jon by writing for 100wikidays on women and this would help to reduce gender gap. Being a fellow contributor I always talk to her and she this issue she is unable to contribute as much as she want. -Sangram Keshari Senapati (talk) 19:03, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  12.   Strong support --Wasiul Bahar (talk) 20:17, 9 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  13.   Support, prolific female contributor. Deserving one. Kind regards, Tulsi 24x7 02:24, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  14.   Strong support - Hardworker getting Hardware will be awesome. She has been contributing to Odia Wikimedia and other projects for a long time. She deserves it. Soumendrak (talk) 03:57, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  15.   Support - Janak Bhatta (talk) 06:01, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  16.   Strong support -- Brahmavadini (talk) 09:45, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  17.   Strong support Strong support for AlivaPooja Jadhav (talk) 19:53, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  18.   Strong support Keep up the great work, Aliva, all the very best! Bhuvana Meenakshi (talk) 14:46, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  19.   Support Dedicated long term contributor. --Netha Hussain (talk) 14:49, 10 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  20.   Strong support Strongly supporting Aliva Sahoo for her dedication in wiki. --Pkp05 (talk)
  21.   Strong support Gurlal Maan (talk) 01:32, 11 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  22.   Support
  23.   Support--Jnanaranjan sahu (talk) 02:19, 12 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  24.   Strong support Sumita Roy Dutta (talk) 06:41, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  25.   Strong support She is a very dedicated contributor of Odia Wikipedia community and indeed highly deserving of the hardware support. I've seen her facing issues contributing because of a non-optimal device, which should never be the case for such a dedicated Wikimedian, and one of the few female editors on the Odia Wiki. --Prateek Pattanaik (talk) 07:51, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  26.   Support--Yakshitha (talk) 15:07, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  27.   Support- I hope the hardware support will helps Aliva for her current works in Wikimedia projects as well as the upcoming outreach activities where hardware support is very useful.- ❙❚❚❙❙ GnOeee ❚❙❚❙❙ ✉ 19:08, 22 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
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