Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group/Annual Report 2021-2022

Report of activities: 2021-2022

Overview

The Wikimedians of Santali Language User Group was approved on 21 September 2019 to contribute to the development of Santali Wikipedia and the Santali language. The year 2021 -2022 is the year of revival for the Santali Wikipedian after Covid. The user group tried to participate in various online and off line event in this period. The report of activities of the User Group are as follows.

Online Event

The members of the User Group participated in WIKI LOVES WOMEN SOUTH ASIA 2021The event was conducted from 1st September 2021 to 30th September 2021.The members of the user Group contributed 103 Articles in this event with the participation of 6 members including two female members.

The members of the user group participated in Feminism and Folklore 2022.The event was conducted from 1st February 2022 to 31st March 2022. Three users from the user Group Participated and contributed 15 articles in the event

The members of the user group participated in the Three Day Ambedkar Jayanti Edit-a-Thon . The 4 users of the group contributed 14 articles in this three days event

On the ocassion of 4th Anniversary of Santali Wikipedia the community conducted a Santali Wikitionary edit-a-thon from 02/08/2022 to 01/09/2022 for its incubator Wikitionary Project page in order to make the project live. During the event improvement of 19 words were done by the users of the Group.

The user Bodi Baski of the user group participated in Wiki Loves Literature 2022 in collaboration with Punjabi Wikimedians and Bodi Baski alone contributed 12 articles from the community.

Offline event

On 13 th and 14th August 2022 Durga Soren and Ramjit Tudu participated from the Santali User Group in the Wikimania Offline event organized by the Odia Wikimedians User Group at Bhubaneswar.

Similarly on 12 th August 20222 Manik Soren and Subas Murmu from the Santali user group participated in Wikimania Bangladesh 2022 at Dhaka organised by Wikimedia Bangladesh

The Users of Santali language Ramjit Tudu Prasanta Hembram R Ashwani Banjan Murmu had attended Movement Charter Community Consultations 2022 Odia Language held on 18 December 2022.

New Achievement

Our user Bodi Baski became the 1st Santali Wikimedian to complete the 1000 days wiki edit as well as 1000+ articles in santali Wikipedia on 15/06/2022
42 number of books has been digitized by our user R Ashwani Banjan Murmu with the support of CIS-A2K. The project was completed on 20th March 2022.

Resolutions

The year 2021-2022 is the 1st year after the Covid. Though the user group associated itself with various on line edit-athon and joint meet up with other community , the Group could not accelerated back to the pre covid level. The user group looks for the more collaboration and outreach event for the next year i.e 2022-23.