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; Wikidata: Before Wikimania 2015, I only created inter-wiki links for articles in Wikidata. During the conference, I attended as many sessions of Wikidata as possible and learnt a lot about its projects and how to contribute there. I would like to mention [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Sum_of_all_paintings the presentation on Sum of all paintings] and [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/State_of_Wikidata_-_giving_more_people_more_access_to_more_knowledge_one_edit_at_a_time State of Wikidata - giving more people more access to more knowledge one edit at a time], which helped me clear many technical doubts about Wikidata. After Wikimania, I am becoming more and more active in Wikidata, helping to add or increase properties in different labels. I also learned about [https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/ Reasonator], which seemed very cool to me.
; Wikidata: Before Wikimania 2015, I only created inter-wiki links for articles in Wikidata. During the conference, I attended as many sessions of Wikidata as possible and learnt a lot about its projects and how to contribute there. I would like to mention [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Sum_of_all_paintings the presentation on Sum of all paintings] and [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/State_of_Wikidata_-_giving_more_people_more_access_to_more_knowledge_one_edit_at_a_time State of Wikidata - giving more people more access to more knowledge one edit at a time], which helped me clear many technical doubts about Wikidata. After Wikimania, I am becoming more and more active in Wikidata, helping to add or increase properties in different labels. I also learned about [https://tools.wmflabs.org/reasonator/ Reasonator], which seemed very cool to me.
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; OCR: I was active in Bengali Wikisource few months back, but lost my interest as it was too much tiring and time-consuming for me to proof-read even a single page there because of lack of a good quality OCR software. I interacted with Indic community members and developers about this necessity, but before Wikimania, it was all in vain. During Wikimania, I approached Indian developer [[User:Vikassy|Vikas Yaligar]] who
insantly
got interested into the matter and started his project to develop an open source Bengali OCR software. Though I am not a technical guy, I am learning how to work in [https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/langdata/tree/master/ben
Tessaract
OCR lab] and train the software. Things are getting organised when [[User:ravidreams|Ravishankar]] is trying to get together all Indic language community members who are trying to work in this field.
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; OCR: I was active in Bengali Wikisource few months back, but lost my interest as it was too much tiring and time-consuming for me to proof-read even a single page there because of lack of a good quality OCR software. I interacted with Indic community members and developers about this necessity, but before Wikimania, it was all in vain. During Wikimania, I approached Indian developer [[User:Vikassy|Vikas Yaligar]] who
instantly
got interested into the matter and started his project to develop an open source Bengali OCR software. Though I am not a technical guy, I am learning how to work in [https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/langdata/tree/master/ben
Tesseract
OCR lab] and train the software. Things are getting organised when [[User:ravidreams|Ravishankar]] is trying to get together all Indic language community members who are trying to work in this field.
== Connections ==
== Connections ==
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* [[User:Manojk|Manoj Karingamadathil]] from Malayalam WikiSource - Though we are from the same country, Wikimania 2015 gave us rthe opportunity to meet with each other. He talked with me about his interest in [[Wikipedia Treks Mountains]] project. Apart from that, we met at Indic language meetup to sort out our future plans.
* [[User:Manojk|Manoj Karingamadathil]] from Malayalam WikiSource - Though we are from the same country, Wikimania 2015 gave us rthe opportunity to meet with each other. He talked with me about his interest in [[Wikipedia Treks Mountains]] project. Apart from that, we met at Indic language meetup to sort out our future plans.
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* [[User:mxn|Minh Nguyễn]] from
Vietnameese
Wikipedia - We met at Asian meetup for possible collaboration.
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* [[User:mxn|Minh Nguyễn]] from
Vietnamese
Wikipedia - We met at Asian meetup for possible collaboration.
* [[User:Hindustanilanguage|Muzammil]] from Hindi and Urdu Wiki Community - We met at Indic language meetup to sort out our future plans.
* [[User:Hindustanilanguage|Muzammil]] from Hindi and Urdu Wiki Community - We met at Indic language meetup to sort out our future plans.
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* [[User: Netha Hussain|Netha Hussain]] from Malayalam Wikipedia and Med-Glam - Though we are from the same country, this is my first encounter with Netha face-to-face. I attended her session on her GLAM project. I also informed her [[:commons:Commons:Kolikata Little Magazine Library o Gabeshana Kendra|about the GLAM project, which we are conducting at Kolikata Little Magazine Library o Gabeshana Kendra]] in Kolkata, India. Being a doctor, I offered my help to take part online in her GLAM project and she suggested me to provide description and translation to the GLAM images of pathology specimens, which I will definitely do in my near future.
* [[User: Netha Hussain|Netha Hussain]] from Malayalam Wikipedia and Med-Glam - Though we are from the same country, this is my first encounter with Netha face-to-face. I attended her session on her GLAM project. I also informed her [[:commons:Commons:Kolikata Little Magazine Library o Gabeshana Kendra|about the GLAM project, which we are conducting at Kolikata Little Magazine Library o Gabeshana Kendra]] in Kolkata, India. Being a doctor, I offered my help to take part online in her GLAM project and she suggested me to provide description and translation to the GLAM images of pathology specimens, which I will definitely do in my near future.
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* [[User:The Interior|Patrick Peter Earley]] from WMF - During a casual talk, accidentally we found out that mountains are the common passion for bot of us. We had an informal meeting about possible collaboration in [[Wikipedia Treks Mountains]] project. Patrick made some necessary changes in the meta event page. He extended his helping hand to make possible the event an
internattional
one in near future. I am really looking forward now.
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* [[User:The Interior|Patrick Peter Earley]] from WMF - During a casual talk, accidentally we found out that mountains are the common passion for bot of us. We had an informal meeting about possible collaboration in [[Wikipedia Treks Mountains]] project. Patrick made some necessary changes in the meta event page. He extended his helping hand to make possible the event an
international
one in near future. I am really looking forward now.
* [[User:RashiqAhmad |Rashiq Ahmad]] from Germany and Kiwix developer- I learnt few details about Kiwix.
* [[User:RashiqAhmad |Rashiq Ahmad]] from Germany and Kiwix developer- I learnt few details about Kiwix.
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* [[User:Satdeep Gill|Satdeep]] from Punjabi Wikipedia- This is the second time we met. He was also my room mate and travel partner during the trip! We talked about possible online collaborations between our two different language communities.
* [[User:Satdeep Gill|Satdeep]] from Punjabi Wikipedia- This is the second time we met. He was also my room mate and travel partner during the trip! We talked about possible online collaborations between our two different language communities.
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* [[User:Takot|Takashi Ota]] from
Japaneese
Wikipedia - We met at Asian meetup for possible collaboration. We also talked about common topics related to both India and Japan.
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* [[User:Takot|Takashi Ota]] from
Japanese
Wikipedia - We met at Asian meetup for possible collaboration. We also talked about common topics related to both India and Japan.
* [[User:Taweetham|Taweetham]] from Thai Wikipedia - We met at Asian meetup for possible collaboration.
* [[User:Taweetham|Taweetham]] from Thai Wikipedia - We met at Asian meetup for possible collaboration.
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* [[User:Thamizhpparithi Maari|Thamizhpparithi Maari]] from Tamil Wikipedia community- I learnt that [[User:Thamizhpparithi Maari|Thamizhpparithi Maari]] is the Assistant Director in Tamil Virtual Academy, which is a Government-run institute in Tamil Nadu, India. This Institute has been closely working with Tamil Wikimedia community in releasing thousands of books in public domain and uploading them in Commons in near future. It was really a new experience to meet an government employee from India working on content release, who is simultaneously an active Wikipedian, as in my state of West Bengal, government staffs and officers of different libraries and museums are very difficult to approach in this area. Along with [[User:ravidreams|Ravishankar]], we discussed about the possibilities to approach to other state governments of India, if the Tamil Nadu government shows the path and sets a new example in the country.
* [[User:Thamizhpparithi Maari|Thamizhpparithi Maari]] from Tamil Wikipedia community- I learnt that [[User:Thamizhpparithi Maari|Thamizhpparithi Maari]] is the Assistant Director in Tamil Virtual Academy, which is a Government-run institute in Tamil Nadu, India. This Institute has been closely working with Tamil Wikimedia community in releasing thousands of books in public domain and uploading them in Commons in near future. It was really a new experience to meet an government employee from India working on content release, who is simultaneously an active Wikipedian, as in my state of West Bengal, government staffs and officers of different libraries and museums are very difficult to approach in this area. Along with [[User:ravidreams|Ravishankar]], we discussed about the possibilities to approach to other state governments of India, if the Tamil Nadu government shows the path and sets a new example in the country.
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* [[User:Vikassy|Vikas Yaligar]] from Mediawiki - It was my first encounter with Indian developer [[User:Vikassy|Vikas Yaligar]]. I
ewarnt
from him that he is working on Automatic cross-language screenshots for Mediawiki extensions as a part of GSOC-2014. I told him about the difficulties we are facing in Bengali Wikisource due to lack of an open source Bengali OCR software. I was able to persuade him to develop the said software in the coming months.
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* [[User:Vikassy|Vikas Yaligar]] from Mediawiki - It was my first encounter with Indian developer [[User:Vikassy|Vikas Yaligar]]. I
learnt
from him that he is working on Automatic cross-language screenshots for Mediawiki extensions as a part of GSOC-2014. I told him about the difficulties we are facing in Bengali Wikisource due to lack of an open source Bengali OCR software. I was able to persuade him to develop the said software in the coming months.
* [[User:Viswaprabha|Viswa Prabha]] from Malayalam Wiki Community- We met at Indic language meetup to sort out our future plans.
* [[User:Viswaprabha|Viswa Prabha]] from Malayalam Wiki Community- We met at Indic language meetup to sort out our future plans.
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; '''Indic Meetup''': Participated in [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Meetup Indic Meetup]. In this meetup we strongly advocated about the collaborative efforts among Wikimedians from SAARC countries. We also shared our collective dreams to go for a bid for Wikimania 2019 from Indian Wikipedia community. For that reason, I am actively volunteering and organizing the pilot project of [[WikiConference India 2016]], to bring all Indic languages communities to come together, work as one national team and prepare for the bidding for Wikimania 2019 in India.
; '''Indic Meetup''': Participated in [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Meetup Indic Meetup]. In this meetup we strongly advocated about the collaborative efforts among Wikimedians from SAARC countries. We also shared our collective dreams to go for a bid for Wikimania 2019 from Indian Wikipedia community. For that reason, I am actively volunteering and organizing the pilot project of [[WikiConference India 2016]], to bring all Indic languages communities to come together, work as one national team and prepare for the bidding for Wikimania 2019 in India.
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; '''Wikimedia India Booth''': Participated as a Volunteer in [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Village Wikimedia India Community Village] in all the 3 days. This gave me the opportunity to meet and interact with many Wikimedians from different part of world. It was a great experience to represent all the Indian Wikipedia communities in the booth and explain about the multilingual diverse culture of our country to the attendees. As Indian community members, we also utilized the opportunity to interact with each other to know each others projects in details, discussed about possible collaborations with each other, learn and adapt different useful
stategies
from other Indic language community members and outline future strategies like organizing [[WikiConference India 2016]], more GLAM projects etc.
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; '''Wikimedia India Booth''': Participated as a Volunteer in [https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Village Wikimedia India Community Village] in all the 3 days. This gave me the opportunity to meet and interact with many Wikimedians from different part of world. It was a great experience to represent all the Indian Wikipedia communities in the booth and explain about the multilingual diverse culture of our country to the attendees. As Indian community members, we also utilized the opportunity to interact with each other to know each others projects in details, discussed about possible collaborations with each other, learn and adapt different useful
strategies
from other Indic language community members and outline future strategies like organizing [[WikiConference India 2016]], more GLAM projects etc.
; '''Photographs''': I have a very bad internet connection in my home, so I need some time to upload few hundreds of photographs, which I clicked during Wikimania 2015. My photographs taken during the conference can be found [[:c:Category:Wikimania 2015 photographs by Bodhisattwa Mandal|here]].
; '''Photographs''': I have a very bad internet connection in my home, so I need some time to upload few hundreds of photographs, which I clicked during Wikimania 2015. My photographs taken during the conference can be found [[:c:Category:Wikimania 2015 photographs by Bodhisattwa Mandal|here]].