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Request for comment on Commons: Should Wikimedia support MP4 video?

I apologize for this message being only in English. Please translate it if needed to help your community.

The Wikimedia Foundation's multimedia team seeks community guidance on a proposal to support the MP4 video format. This digital video standard is used widely around the world to record, edit and watch videos on mobile phones, desktop computers and home video devices. It is also known as H.264/MPEG-4 or AVC.

Supporting the MP4 format would make it much easier for our users to view and contribute video on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects -- and video files could be offered in dual formats on our sites, so we could continue to support current open formats (WebM and Ogg Theora).

However, MP4 is a patent-encumbered format, and using a proprietary format would be a departure from our current practice of only supporting open formats on our sites -- even though the licenses appear to have acceptable legal terms, with only a small fee required.

We would appreciate your guidance on whether or not to support MP4. Our Request for Comments presents views both in favor and against MP4 support, based on opinions we’ve heard in our discussions with community and team members.

Please join this RfC -- and share your advice.

All users are welcome to participate, whether you are active on Commons, Wikipedia, other Wikimedia project -- or any site that uses content from our free media repository.

You are also welcome to join tomorrow's Office hours chat on IRC, this Thursday, January 16, at 19:00 UTC, if you would like to discuss this project with our team and other community members.

We look forward to a constructive discussion with you, so we can make a more informed decision together on this important topic. Keegan (WMF) (talk) 06:47, 16 জানুৱাৰী 2014 (UTC)

Universal Language Selector will be enabled by default again on this wiki by 21 February 2014

On January 21 2014 the MediaWiki extension Universal Language Selector (ULS) was disabled on this wiki. A new preference was added for logged-in users to turn on ULS. This was done to prevent slow loading of pages due to ULS webfonts, a behaviour that had been observed by the Wikimedia Technical Operations team on some wikis.

We are now ready to enable ULS again. The temporary preference to enable ULS will be removed. A new checkbox has been added to the Language Panel to enable/disable font delivery. This will be unchecked by default for this wiki, but can be selected at any time by the users to enable webfonts. This is an interim solution while we improve the feature of webfonts delivery.

You can read the announcement and the development plan for more information. Apologies for writing this message only in English. Thank you. Runa

Amendment to the Terms of Use

Hello all,

Please join a discussion about a proposed amendment to the Wikimedia Terms of Use regarding undisclosed paid editing and we encourage you to voice your thoughts there. Please translate this statement if you can, and we welcome you to translate the proposed amendment and introduction. Please see the discussion on Meta Wiki for more information. Thank you! Slaporte (WMF) 22:00, 21 ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী 2014 (UTC)

ऐए अथवा अइ नदी (असमिया भाषा: এই নদী

Hi

Seasons Greetings.

Sorry for using English language. Just we created a page for Aie river on Marathi language wikipedia at mr:ऐए नदी. We could not get much information of this river on internet.

Please do guide us

What is correct writing of Aie river in (Devnagari/Hindi/Marathi/Nepali script) whether ऐए is more correct or अइ is more correct ?
Whether এই নদী is correct writing for অসমীয়া ভাষা Assamese language ?
Please provide us a link if you have an article on your wikipedia for this river
How it is written in Bhutan languages
Would like to know about specific place of begining or mouth of the river and names of places on banks of this river.

You can also reply us at mr:चर्चा:ऐए नदी .

Thanks and Regards

Mahitgar (talk) 14:43, 24 ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী 2014 (UTC)

From Marathi language wikipedia

@ সদস্য:Gitartha.bordoloi Thanks for your reply at mr:चर्चा:ऐए नदी . We will redirect that article to mr:आइ नदी Would like to add one more querry here

Whether word আই is from Assamese language itself ?
Does that word have any specific meaning in Assamese. Like আই in hindi means a woman answers "I am coming" In Marathi with Dorgho ई meaning of आई is mother Or any other etymology for word আই

Thanks and regards

Mahitgar (talk) 03:26, 25 ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী 2014 (UTC)

@ Mahitgar, yes, the word 'আই' is from Assamese language itself and it means 'mother'. — গীতাৰ্থ বৰদলৈ (talk) 07:01, 25 ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী 2014 (UTC)

@ সদস্য:Gitartha.bordoloi It is very nice of you. I have included the info in Marathi Wikipedia article accordingly. As far as i know word আই in Assamese and आई Marathi as mother is not used in Sanskrit and Hindi so there is some thing more in language sharing across such a long distance and it is for linguists to find out more. Any way thanks for sharing this information. Will be waiting for ansewrs for rest of the questions from fellow Assamese language wikipedias.

Thanks and Warm Regards

Mahitgar (talk) 14:38, 25 ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী 2014 (UTC)

Call for project ideas: funding is available for community experiments

I apologize if this message is not in your language. Please help translate it.

Do you have an idea for a project that could improve your community? Individual Engagement Grants from the Wikimedia Foundation help support individuals and small teams to organize experiments for 6 months. You can get funding to try out your idea for online community organizing, outreach, tool-building, or research to help make অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়া better. In March, we’re looking for new project proposals.

Examples of past Individual Engagement Grant projects:

Organizing social media for Chinese Wikipedia ($350 for materials)
Improving gadgets for Visual Editor ($4500 for developers)
Coordinating access to reliable sources for Wikipedians ($7500 for project management, consultants and materials)
Building community and strategy for Wikisource (€10000 for organizing and travel)

Proposals are due by 31 March 2014. There are a number of ways to get involved!

Hope to have your participation,

--Siko Bouterse, Head of Individual Engagement Grants, Wikimedia Foundation 19:44, 28 ফেব্ৰুৱাৰী 2014 (UTC)

Proposed optional changes to Terms of Use amendment

Hello all, in response to some community comments in the discussion on the amendment to the Terms of Use on undisclosed paid editing, we have prepared two optional changes. Please read about these optional changes on Meta wiki and share your comments. If you can (and this is a non english project), please translate this announcement. Thanks! Slaporte (WMF) 21:56, 13 মাৰ্চ 2014 (UTC)

Changes to the default site typography coming soon

This week, the typography on Wikimedia sites will be updated for all readers and editors who use the default "Vector" skin. This change will involve new serif fonts for some headings, small tweaks to body content fonts, text size, text color, and spacing between elements. The schedule is:

April 1st: non-Wikipedia projects will see this change live
April 3rd: Wikipedias will see this change live

This change is very similar to the "Typography Update" Beta Feature that has been available on Wikimedia projects since November 2013. After several rounds of testing and with feedback from the community, this Beta Feature will be disabled and successful aspects enabled in the default site appearance. Users who are logged in may still choose to use another skin, or alter their personal CSS, if they prefer a different appearance. Local common CSS styles will also apply as normal, for issues with local styles and scripts that impact all users.

For more information:

Summary of changes and FAQ
Discussion page for feedback or questions
Post on blog.wikimedia.org

-- Steven Walling (Product Manager) on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation's User Experience Design team

Media Viewer

Greetings, my apologies for writing in English.

I wanted to let you know that Media Viewer will be released to this wiki in the coming weeks. Media Viewer allows readers of Wikimedia projects to have an enhanced view of files without having to visit the file page, but with more detail than a thumbnail. You can try Media Viewer out now by turning it on in your Beta Features. If you do not enjoy Media Viewer or if it interferes with your work after it is turned on you will be able to disable Media Viewer as well in your preferences. I invite you to share what you think about Media Viewer and how it can be made better in the future.

Thank you for your time. - Keegan (WMF) 21:29, 23 মে' 2014 (UTC)

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Media Viewer is now live on this wiki

Media Viewer lets you see images in larger size

Greetings— and sorry for writing in English, please translate if it will help your community,

The Wikimedia Foundation's Multimedia team is happy to announce that Media Viewer was just released on this site today.

Media Viewer displays images in larger size when you click on their thumbnails, to provide a better viewing experience. Users can now view images faster and more clearly, without having to jump to separate pages — and its user interface is more intuitive, offering easy access to full-resolution images and information, with links to the file repository for editing. The tool has been tested extensively across all Wikimedia wikis over the past six months as a Beta Feature and has been released to the largest Wikipedias, all language Wikisources, and the English Wikivoyage already.

If you do not like this feature, you can easily turn it off by clicking on "Disable Media Viewer" at the bottom of the screen, pulling up the information panel (or in your your preferences) whether you have an account or not. Learn more in this Media Viewer Help page.

Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about Media Viewer. You are invited to share your feedback in this discussion on MediaWiki.org in any language, to help improve this feature. You are also welcome to take this quick survey in English, en français, o español.

We hope you enjoy Media Viewer. Many thanks to all the community members who helped make it possible. - Fabrice Florin (WMF) (talk) 21:54, 19 জুন 2014 (UTC)

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en:wikt:Appendix:Indo-Iranian Swadesh lists (extended)

Please add variant word of you languages in this list.---Kaiyr (talk) 08:15, 17 আগষ্ট 2014 (UTC)

Letter petitioning WMF to reverse recent decisions

The Wikimedia Foundation recently created a new feature, "superprotect" status. The purpose is to prevent pages from being edited by elected administrators -- but permitting WMF staff to edit them. It has been put to use in only one case: to protect the deployment of the Media Viewer software on German Wikipedia, in defiance of a clear decision of that community to disable the feature by default, unless users decide to enable it.

If you oppose these actions, please add your name to this letter. If you know non-Wikimedians who support our vision for the free sharing of knowledge, and would like to add their names to the list, please ask them to sign an identical version of the letter on change.org.

-- JurgenNL (talk) 17:35, 21 আগষ্ট 2014 (UTC)

Process ideas for software development

’’My apologies for writing in English.’’

Hello,

I am notifying you that a brainstorming session has been started on Meta to help the Wikimedia Foundation increase and better affect community participation in software development across all wiki projects. Basically, how can you be more involved in helping to create features on Wikimedia projects? We are inviting all interested users to voice their ideas on how communities can be more involved and informed in the product development process at the Wikimedia Foundation. It would be very appreciated if you could translate this message to help inform your local communities as well.

I and the rest of my team welcome you to participate. We hope to see you on Meta.

Kind regards, -- Rdicerb (WMF) talk 22:15, 21 আগষ্ট 2014 (UTC)

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Grants to improve your project

Apologies for English. Please help translate this message.

Greetings! The Individual Engagement Grants program is accepting proposals for funding new experiments from September 1st to 30th. Your idea could improve Wikimedia projects with a new tool or gadget, a better process to support community-building on your wiki, research on an important issue, or something else we haven't thought of yet. Whether you need $200 or $30,000 USD, Individual Engagement Grants can cover your own project development time in addition to hiring others to help you.

Submit your proposal
Get help: In IdeaLab or an upcoming Hangout session MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:51, 2 ছেপ্টেম্বৰ 2014 (UTC)

VisualEditor available on Internet Explorer 11

VisualEditor will become available to users of Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 during today's regular software update. Support for some earlier versions of Internet Explorer is being worked on. If you encounter problems with VisualEditor on Internet Explorer, please contact the Editing team by leaving a message at VisualEditor/Feedback on Mediawiki.org. Happy editing, Elitre (WMF) 07:29, 11 ছেপ্টেম্বৰ 2014 (UTC).

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ফাইল আপল'ড কৰক, File upload wizard?

Hello! Sorry for writing in English. It was noted that on this wiki there is little community activity around uploads: less than 50 "বিলোপ কৰক" actions in "চিত্ৰ" last year.

I guess this wiki doesn't have the interest or energies to maintain complex templates and metadata, especially for EDP files. I propose to

send users to commons:Special:UploadWizard from the sidebar and
limit local "ফাইল আপল’ড কৰক" to the "প্ৰশাসকসকল" group (for any emergency uploads),

so that no new work is needed on this wiki and all users can have a functioning, easy upload interface in their own language. All registered users can upload on Commons.

All this will be done around 2014-09-30.

If you disagree with the proposal, just remove this wiki from the list.
To make the UploadWizard even better, please tell your experience and ideas on commons:Commons:Upload Wizard feedback.
In all cases, existing files will not be affected, but everyone is welcome to join m:File metadata cleanup drive. The goal is to give better credit to the authors who provided us their works.

Nemo 19:12, 18 ছেপ্টেম্বৰ 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for considering my proposal. 50 wikis changed their configuration and this wiki wasn't among them. Regards, Nemo bis (talk) 07:19, 2 অক্টোবৰ 2014 (UTC)

ফেচবুকৰ আলোচনা

গীতাৰ্থৰ উদ্যোগত 20 September তাৰিখত বিষয়টো লৈ ফেচবুকৰ অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়া গোটত আলোচনা কৰা হ'ল। সেইখিনিৰ সাৰাংশ তলত দিয়া হ'ল।

Prabhakar Sarma Neog .

এই বাক্যদুটা লক্ষণীয়:

It was noted that on this wiki there is little community activity around uploads: less than 50 "বিলোপ কৰক" actions in "চিত্ৰ" last year.
I guess this wiki doesn't have the interest or energies to maintain complex templates and metadata, especially for EDP files.

বিশেষকৈ ২ নং বাক্যটো: এই মন্তব্যটো কিহৰ ওপৰত আধাৰিত হ'ব পাৰে? ১ নং বাক্যটো ইয়াৰ আধাৰ হোৱাৰ কোনো যুক্তি মই নেদেখোঁ। আমি চিত্ৰ বিলোপ নকৰা মানে আমি চিত্ৰ বা তেনেকুৱা অন্য আপল'ডৰ ওপৰত গুৰুত্ব নিদিয়া বুলি বুজাৰ কিবা থল আছে নে কি?

ইয়াৰ বাহিৰেও মেচেজটোৰ বাকী কথাখিনি সম্পৰ্কেও আৰু আলোচনাৰ থল আছে, কিন্তু সদ্যহতে ইমানেও যথেষ্ট বুলি মই ভাবোঁ।

Gitartha Bordoloi

জধেমধে কিছুমান আপল'ড হোৱাটো আৰু সেইবোৰৰ চাফাই কৰাৰ হেলা হোৱাটো সঁচা। তথাপিও মই অসমীয়া ৱিকিত কেৱল প্ৰশাসকৰ বাবে আপল'ড সীমিত হোৱাটো সমৰ্থন নকৰোঁ। তাতকৈ স্থানীয় আপল'ডৰ বাবে কাঢ়া নিয়ম কিছুমান সাজিব লাগে। এই কথাটো মই তাত লিখি তালিকাৰ পৰা অসম ৱিকিৰ নাম আঁতৰাই দিয়াৰ পক্ষপাতী।

Complex templates and metadata ঠিক কৰিবলৈ আমাৰ আগ্ৰহ আৰু শক্তি নাই বুলিছে যদিও লগত দিয়া লিংকটো Media Viewer নামৰ ছবি চোৱা নতুন সঁজুলিটোৰহে দিছে। সেইটো ৱিকিমিডিয়াই জোৰ-জবৰদস্তি জাপি দিয়া বস্তু বুলিহে ৰাইজে কয় আৰু সেইটোৰ কাৰণেই জাৰ্মান ৱিকিত চুপাৰপ্ৰটেক্ট বিতৰ্কটো হৈছে।

Prabhakar Sarma Neog

আপল'ড হোৱা সমল আৰু ইহঁতৰ মেটা ডেটাত কেতিয়াবা ভুল ভ্ৰান্তি থাকি যোৱাটো সম্ভব। সক্ৰিয় সম্পাদকৰ সংখ্যালৈ চাই সেইবোৰ নিৰোৱাত পলম হোৱাও অস্বাভাবিক নহয়। মইও অসমীয়া ৱিকিত আপল'ডৰ ক্ষমতা কেৱল প্ৰশাসকৰ বাবে সীমিত হোৱাতো সমৰ্থন নকৰোঁ। স্থানীয় আপল'ডৰ বাবে স্থানীয় কপিৰাইট আইনৰ লগত সংগতি ৰাখি উপযুক্ত বিধি থকাতোও বাঞ্ছনীয় - সেয়ে আপল'ড প্ৰক্ৰিয়াটো নিখুট হ'ব লাগে। (ই সাধাৰণ মানুহে বুজিব পৰাকৈ সৰলো হ'ব লাগে - এনে কৰাটো অৱশ্যে জটিল কাম।) এই কথাখিনিৰ ওপৰত আমি যথেষ্ট গুৰুত্ব দিওঁ - এই কথাটোকে লিখি তালিকাৰ পৰা অসমীয়া ৱিকিৰ নাম আঁতৰাই দিব লাগে - গীতাৰ্থৰ লগত মই সহমত।

চুপাৰপ্ৰটেক্ট সম্পৰ্কীয় কথাটো মূল মেচেজ দিওঁতাজনে প্ৰত্যক্ষভাবে উথ্থাপন কৰা নাই যেতিয়া সেই বিষয়ে আমি এতিয়াই ইয়াতে আলোচনা নকৰিলেও হ'ব।

Bishnu Saikia

Agree with Gitartha Bordoloi

Gitartha Bordoloi

মই অসমীয়া ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ নামটো তালিকাখনৰ পৰা আঁতৰালোঁ।

Prabhakar Sarma Neog

ৱিকিপিডিয়াৰ ৰাইজৰ চ'ৰা (বিবিধ) পৃষ্ঠাত আলোচনাখিনি সংৰক্ষণ কৰি থোৱা হ'ল। সকলোলৈকে ধন্যবাদ।

Wikipedia Monument

Hi there and sorry for not speaking your language, but we need your help. On October 22, 2014, at 6:00 p.m., at the Plac Frankfurcki (Frankfurt Square) in Słubice the Wikipedia Monument will be unveiled. It was neither created nor supported by the wiki community, but it's a nice gesture nevertheless. We would like to express our thanks to the originators of the Monument, i.e. the employees of Collegium Polonicum in Słubice and the Mayor of the town, by preparing a commemorative book.

The book will include short thank you notes from Wikipedians all around the world. We are gathering the notes at Polish wiki. If you wish to add your own thank you note (preferably in your own language) to the book - PLEASE DO SO HERE. Deadline is October 18 (Saturday), 23:59 CET. Halibutt (talk) 21:17, 16 অক্টোবৰ 2014 (UTC)

Meta RfCs on two new global groups

Hello all,

There are currently requests for comment open on meta to create two new global groups. The first is a group for members of the OTRS permissions queue, which would grant them autopatrolled rights on all wikis except those who opt-out. That proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Creation of a global OTRS-permissions user group. The second is a group for Wikimedia Commons admins and OTRS agents to view deleted file pages through the 'viewdeletedfile' right on all wikis except those who opt-out. The second proposal can be found at m:Requests for comment/Global file deletion review.

We would like to hear what you think on both proposals. Both are in English; if you wanted to translate them into your native language that would also be appreciated.

It is possible for individual projects to opt-out, so that users in those groups do not have any additional rights on those projects. To do this please start a local discussion, and if there is consensus you can request to opt-out of either or both at m:Stewards' noticeboard.

Thanks and regards, Ajraddatz (talk) 18:04, 26 অক্টোবৰ 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses

Hello, Dear wikipedians. I invite you to edit and improve this article and to add information about your and other country.--Kaiyr (talk) 10:59, 31 অক্টোবৰ 2014 (UTC)

CIS-A2K PO Selection

Dear Wikipedians,
CIS-A2K is seeking applications for the post of Programme Officer (Institutional Partnerships). The position will be based in its Bangalore office. Programme Officer will collaboratively work with the A2K Team and would report to the Programme Director, Interested applicants are encouraged to deeply engage with the CIS-A2K Work Plan before making the application. The last date of submitting applications is November 14, 2014. You can also find the job posting on our website (http://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-institutional-partnership).
Thank you
రహ్మానుద్దీన్ (talk)
Program officer, CIS-A2K

Invitation to Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration Conference 2015

Hi Community members,

Bengali Wikipedia community is organizing its 10th Anniversary Celebration Conference at Kolkata on 9 & 10 January 2015.
You can see our Official event page and the Facebook event page.

We are planning to invite our friends and well-wishers from different language wiki communities in India to this most auspicious occasion hosted by Bengali Wikimedia community! We are also planning to arrange few 30 scholarships for non-Bengali Indic Wikimedians who are interested in participating in this event. Please select your Five (5) scholarship ^[1] delegates from your community member for this conference and announce it here before 10th December 2014.

To participate in Conference, please register here

To participate in Conference as a speaker please submit your paper here.

To participate Photography Contest , click here

We look forward to see you at Kolkata on 9 & 10 January 2015

^{1) Scholarship included with Travel reimbursement upto 2000/- + dormitory or shared accommodation + meals during the conference hours}

On behalf of Bengali Wikipedia Community (Sorry for writing in English)

Global AbuseFilter

Hello,

AbuseFilter is a MediaWiki extension used to detect likely abusive behavior patterns, like pattern vandalism and spam. In 2013, Global AbuseFilters were enabled on a limited set of wikis including Meta-Wiki, MediaWiki.org, Wikispecies and (in early 2014) all the "small wikis". Recently, global abuse filters were enabled on "medium sized wikis" as well. These filters are currently managed by stewards on Meta-Wiki and have shown to be very effective in preventing mass spam attacks across Wikimedia projects. However, there is currently no policy on how the global AbuseFilters will be managed although there are proposals. There is an ongoing request for comment on policy governing the use of the global AbuseFilters. In the meantime, specific wikis can opt out of using the global AbuseFilter. These wikis can simply add a request to this list on Meta-Wiki. More details can be found on this page at Meta-Wiki. If you have any questions, feel free to ask on m:Talk:Global AbuseFilter.

Thanks,

PiRSquared17, Glaisher

— 17:36, 14 নৱেম্বৰ 2014 (UTC)

Community Participation Support at Swatantra 2014

Dear Wikimedians,

ICFOSS, Govt of Kerala in collaboration with FSF-India, CIS, SFLC.in, Swatantra Malayalam Computing and other like minded organisations is celebrating Swtantra-2014, fifth international free software confrence of Kerala. This is scheduled during 18-20 December 2014 at Thiruvananthapuram. More details about the event can be seen at : http://icfoss.in/fs2014/ .

CIS-A2K will be providing limited travel and stay scholarships to interested Wikimedians from various language communities to attend this event and benefit from it. Upto 10 scholarships are available for Wikimiedians applying from Kerala. Upto 3 scholarships will be considered from other Indic Wikimedians and India based English Wikipedians. If you are interested please register your name here on Meta.

Eligibility: You should have been a Wikimedian with a minimum of 200 edits on Wikimedia projects as on June 1, 2014.

Important dates: Nominate yourself by December 8, 2014 (many apologies for this delay and short notice). We will confirm support by December 9, 2014.

Travel & Stay information: (applicable only once the support is confirmed)

Low fare flight costs will be considered if your travel by bus/train is more than 24 hours to Thiruvananthapuram.
Stay in budget hotels, preferably on twin sharing basis.
All costs of the selected Wikimedians will be reimbursed on actual basis upon submission of original bills to CIS Office in Bangalore within 10 days of receipt.
It is essential to submit boarding passes along with tickets if you travel by a flight.
CIS could help book flight tickets upon request. Those interested to avail this support need to fill a form that we will circulate

Queries and correspondence:

For all queries, please write to rahim{at}cis-india.org and vishnu{at}cis-india.org

Expectations from selected Wikimedians:

Please see if you could utilize this opportunity to find solutions to some of the technical/other problems your community may be facing.
Do consider giving back the learning to your respective communities.
We would appreciate if you could share your experience and learning publicly. CIS-A2K will be happy to publish your write-up on our blog

If you know of a Wikimedian in your community who could benefit from this event and also could bring back learning to benefit your community, please encourage them to apply. --రహ్మానుద్దీన్ (talk) 11:43, 4 ডিচেম্বৰ 2014 (UTC)

Copyright and CC primer for Indian Wikimedians

Apologies for writing in English

Dear Wikimedians,

I would like to introduce you all to Thomas, a fourth year law student at the National Law University Jodhpur. He has joined CIS-A2K as an intern and will be developing a primer on Copyright and Creative Commons for the use of Indian Wikimedians.

Thomas' aim is to cater to the broad spectrum of Wikimedia users and to provide both an introduction to copyright law and to address more advanced questions of copyright law that users might encounter with regards to issues like digitisation, public domain works, etc.

His approach thus far has been to comb the India Mailing List to discover the common questions or concerns that Indian Wikimedians face while dealing with content. He hopes to then transpose answers to these queries along with general copyright related information onto a primer following a mixture of a FAQ based and prose based format to allow for better transposition of information as well as to allow for better readability and engagement.

As you will realise, this approach suffers from a number of defects: 1. There are a large number of queries or concerns that users might have which are not addressed onto the mailing lists and are near impossible to pre-empt. 2. There are a number of unique processes that Wikimedia implements (like the “precautionary principle”) that is unique to the context of copyright and Wikimedia which he is yet to familiarise himself and such a familiarity can only be built with periodic use. 3. There are a large number of Wikimedians who might be unrepresented on the Mailing List and might have queries regarding the use of content.

To this end, Thomas hopes to get some support from the community here in terms of: 1. Asking any queries that you may have regarding copyright law and its application to the Wikimedia Universe. 2. Passing along any queries or issues that you may have heard of from other users, so that this may be introduced. 3. Passing along any other information that may be specifically relevant to this endeavour, in terms of experience with Wikimedia policy, practice that has been developed over the past few years and the like.

Any support in this regard would be extremely helpful. This primer will of course be a work in progress for subsequent authors to edit and build upon, true to the Wikimedia ethos, however for the sake of at least an initial completeness, I request you to reply in over the course of this week, latest by the 3rd of January 2015. You can reach Thomas at thomasjv93{at} gmail.com or on his EN Wikipedia User Talk page --Pavanaja (talk) 11:44, 29 ডিচেম্বৰ 2014 (UTC)

New Wikipedia Library Accounts Now Available (December 2014)

Apologies for writing in English, please help translate this into your local language. Hello Wikimedians!

The TWL OWL says sign up today :)

The Wikipedia Library is announcing signups today for, free, full-access accounts to published research as part of our Publisher Donation Program. You can sign up for new accounts and research materials from:

Elsevier - science and medicine journals and books
Royal Society of Chemistry - chemistry journals
Pelican Books - ebook monographs
Public Catalogue Foundation- art books

Other partnerships with accounts available are listed on our partners page. Do better research and help expand the use of high quality references across Wikipedia projects: sign up today!
--The Wikipedia Library Team.00:22, 18 ডিচেম্বৰ 2014 (UTC)

You can host and coordinate signups for a Wikipedia Library branch in your own language. Please contact Ocaasi (WMF).

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