User:Satpal (CIS-A2K)/Pr2020

Celebration of Wikidata's 7th Birthday

Group photo of participants clicked by Sukhan Saar

Wikidata's birthday cake

What?
Punjabi Wikimedians are active on Wikipedia and Wikisource. Apart from these two Wikimedia projects, Wikidata has its own value. To engage Punjabi community members with Wikidata, CIS-A2K celebrated Wikidata's 7th birthday.
When and where?
The event was organised on 3 November 2019 at Patiala.
How?
This celebration was a monthly meetup of the community members as well. 9 people have participated in this celebration and meetup. Apart from the celebration, some of the topics which were discussed during this meetup were:
After a brief introduction, tasks were assigned to participants to contribute on Wikidata. Participants contributed via Tabernacle tool and they have some added labels in Punjabi and Hindi language.

A good tool improves the way you work. There are many tools for Wikidata. It seems fun to edit Wikidata by using these tools. Tabernacle is one of them I have learned today. I am imagining that it would be fun to edit Wikisource also by using tools like this.
- User:Benipal hardarshan Administrator on Punjabi Wikisource

Satpal Dandiwal and Satdeep Gill shared their experience of WikidataCon2019 happened in Berlin. They brought laptops from Asaf (WMF) for Benipal hardarshan and Stalinjeet Brar which were given to them under Hardware donation program. Participants also discussed the upcoming activities of the Punjabi community.

Learning

It is beneficial for new members to start from translating labels rather than to start from teaching them the Wikidata query.

Follow-up

CIS-A2K will conduct one event before June 2020 related to Wikidata.
CIS-A2K will start WikiProject Punjab on Wikidata before June 2020.

City and regional Wiki-meetups

Participants during the discussion at August 2019 meeting

What and Why
CIS-A2K conducts and supports conducting regional and city Wiki-meetups. Wiki-meetups help to resolve disputes in face to face interactions. They are placed for Wikimedians to discuss ideas, activities, collaborations and future plans. CIS-A2K tries to build a bonding between community members by conducting meetups.

How
In the last 6 months, CIS-A2K conducted 1 online meeting and supported 2 Punjabi community meetups in Punjab, India.

Online meetup, 22 July 2019

The online meetup was conducted in the month of July 2019 on Google Hangouts. 7 members participated. 6 of them were male and 1 was female. The detailed discussion can be seen here. It was important as participants discussed to bring unactive experienced editors back on Punjabi Wikimedia projects. Secondly, Jagseer S Sidhu gave an update of SEABA School project and ਲਵਪ੍ਰੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਿੱਧੂ gave an update of the Heritage GLAM project. Participants were requested to participate in the village pump discussions on Punjabi Wikipedia or Punjabi Wikisource. Manavpreet Kaur shared her idea of the opportunity to collaborate with Pingalwara Amritsar.

Meetup in Patiala, 25 August 2019

The first offline meetup took place on 25 August 2019 at Patiala. The detailed report can be seen here. 15 community members participated. In that 4 participants were female and 11 were male.
As 3 members were new, so the introduction of Wikipedia, Wikisource, Commons, and Wikidata was given. Jagseer S Sidhu shared his learning from uploading audiobooks on Punjabi Wikisource and Stalinjeet Brar shared his idea of an upcoming event about Guru Nanak Dev's 550 Years birth celebration. The introduction of Project Tiger 2.0 was also given as per request by some members and participants were notified to apply for Chromebook and internet connection.

Meetup in Faridkot, 22 September 2019

The second offline meetup took place on 22 September 2019 at Government Brijindra College, Faridkot. Meetup event page may be seen here. 7 Punjabi Wikimedians participated in this workshop. This was the follow-up meetup of last year's meetup - last year's meetup. The discussion was to organize Photowalk in Faridkot and it was fruitful to meet Kulwinder guruharsahai that he had some photos clicked by himself of monuments of Punjab. He said he will share his data. Jagmit Singh Brar shared his views about the upcoming Project Tiger 2.0 competition and an update was given during this meetup by Stalinjeet Brar to document Faridkot district by capturing photos and by creating articles about villages and cities.

Learning

Follow-up

CIS-A2K will conduct 2 more meetups before the month of June 2020 in Punjab, India.
CIS-A2K will organize one meetup in another city of Punjab apart from Patiala before May 2020.

Photowalk in Patiala

This image of Samania Gate was awarded the 9th prize in the national contest of India in Wiki Loves Monuments 20

Sunami Gate

What?
Images are an important part of Wikipedia articles. There are articles on Wikipedia which don't have images but images can describe those articles in a better way. To fill this gap, CIS-A2K conducted a Photowalk for Punjabi Wikimedians as part of Wiki Loves Monuments in India 2019.
When and Where?
The Photowalk was conducted in Patiala city on 15 September 2019.
How?
4 members have participated in this Photowalk and they had basic knowledge about photography and the importance of Wikimedia Commons. A list of the monuments was prepared before the day of Photowalk and the route was planned accordingly. There are state-protected monuments in Patiala city and they don't have media files on Wikimedia projects and even on the other websites. There are 10 historical gates in Patiala and only 4 of them are under state-protected monuments. Participants started this Photowalk by visiting Sirhindi Gate. The next destinations were Samania Gate, Darshni Gate, and Sunami Gate. So, all 4 gates of state-protected monuments were captured. Qila Mubarak was under construction at that time and Sheesh Mahal was also closed on that day. So, these two monuments were not captured. Photos were uploaded after the day of Photowalk and a photo of Samania Gate by Satdeep Gill won the 9th price in Wiki Loves Monuments in India 2019.

Learning

Government is working on to renovate old monuments and their maintainers are making some changes in the original design also. So, it is necessary to document other monuments as early as possible. Otherwise, they can lose their originality. [HELP ME TO ADD PROPER NARRATION]

Follow-up

CIS-A2K will conduct one event to add these files or other photos of Punjab to related Wikipedia articles, before June 2020. It is needed because there is data about Punjab that exists on Commons but not added to Wikipedia articles.

Content Enrichment - Scanning work [TEMPORARY HEADING]

We have found the first Punjabi book of this type. It is mentioned in this work that "there is no copyright of this book."

What?
CIS-A2K in collaboration with Punjabi Wikimedians initiated a content enrichment program and started scanning or uploading rare books from different sources. Very few books are available on the web under the free licenses/public domain. So, the initiative was started to build up Punjabi Wikisource.
When and How?
27 books have been uploaded between the period of June and December 2019. These books can be seen in this category. This work has been done by using Scansnap SV600 scanner and post-processing was done by using Scan Tailor or ABBYY FineReader. These books were uploaded on Wikimedia Commons and all are licensed properly. A total of 6,398 pages have been uploaded. These books were uploaded with book template on Wikimedia Commons and index pages were also created on Punjabi Wikisource.

Learning

Digitization Capacity Building Program needs to be continued as there is more work to be digitized. [CHANGES REQUIRED TO CONVEY THE LEARNING]

Follow-up

To continue content enrichment program, CIS-A2K will scan and upload as well as relicense 35 more books on Wikimedia Commons by the end of June 2020.

Study on Content Creation on Punjabi Wikipedia

What?
The Punjabi language has two Wikipedias, Eastern Punjabi Wikipedia, and Western Punjabi Wikipedia. This study will focus on Eastern Punjabi Wikipedia which got its domain name into existence on 3 June 2002 but people started working actively from 2012 on it. The purpose of this study is to analyze the challenges for content creation and strategies to address the same. The study will include observing a specific set of Wikipedia articles related to Punjab or Punjabi language.

How
This case study will be done by interviewing experienced editors of Punjabi Wikipedia and online internet readers who use the Punjabi language.
Concept note
Study on Content Creation on Punjabi Wikipedia
Work done so far: We have finalized the research topic, concept note and research methodology for the study. We will analyze the Punjabi Wikipedia articles of five topics. The topics we have decided are villages and cities in Punjab, Punjabi literature or authors, agriculture and politics in Punjab.
Follow-up: The interviews will be scheduled in the upcoming months and the final report of the case study will be drafted by the end of May 2020.

[ROUGH WORK]

Events

Uploaded books between July and December 2019

User:Satpal (CIS-A2K)/Progress Report Jan 2020 (total pages 6,358)