Introduction to Computers is a very gentle introduction to computers for complete beginners. The course was originally taught to a real-world class and largely consists of the reworked contributions of individual students. The 12 lessons are each framed around concepts and terms used in a particular area of computing. The terms are explained simply and clearly, with the use of plenty of images. The students have also linked the course into many of their podcasts where they explain things in their own words. The value of this course lies particularly in its orientation towards complete beginners and its comprehensiveness.
We are excited to share our June newsletter, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K over the past month. This edition provides a detailed overview of our events and activities, offering insights into our collaborative efforts and community engagements and a brief regarding upcoming initiatives for next month.
I am writing to you to let you know the voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is open now through August 10, 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility.
The Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community members were invited to submit their applications for the U4C. For more information and the responsibilities of the U4C, please review the U4C Charter.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
Train-the-Trainer (TTT) 2024: Call for Applications
Apologies for writing in English, please feel free to post this into your language.
Dear Wikimedians,
We are thrilled to announce the 9ninth iteration of the Train-the-Trainer (TTT) program, co-hosted by CIS-A2K and the Odia Wikimedians User Group. TTT 2024 will be held from October 18-20, 2024, in Odisha.
This event aims to enhance leadership and training skills among active Indian Wikimedians, with a focus on innovative approaches to foster deeper engagement and learning.
Key Details
Event Dates: October 18-20, 2024
Location: Odisha, India
Eligibility: Open to active Indian Wikimedians
Scholarship Application Deadline: Thursday, August 15, 2024
We encourage all interested community members to apply for scholarships. Please review the event details and application guidelines on the Meta page before submitting your application.
Apply Here: Scholarship Application Form
For any questions, please post on the Event talk page or email nitesh@cis-india.org.
We look forward to your participation and contributions!
"Thank you so much, @Hamid Hassani! We truly appreciate your kind words and support. Reaching 50,000 articles is a significant milestone for the Punjabi Wikipedia community, and we're proud of the collaborative efforts that made it possible. KuldeepBurjBhalaike(Talk)08:00, 4 ਅਗਸਤ 2024 (UTC)[ਜਵਾਬ]
Reminder! Vote closing soon to fill vacancies of the first U4C
The voting period for the Universal Code of Conduct Coordinating Committee (U4C) is closing soon. It is open through 10 August 2024. Read the information on the voting page on Meta-wiki to learn more about voting and voter eligibility. If you are eligible to vote and have not voted in this special election, it is important that you vote now.
Why should you vote? The U4C is a global group dedicated to providing an equitable and consistent implementation of the UCoC. Community input into the committee membership is critical to the success of the UCoC.
Please share this message with members of your community so they can participate as well.
Coming soon: A new sub-referencing feature – try it!
Hello. For many years, community members have requested an easy way to re-use references with different details. Now, a MediaWiki solution is coming: The new sub-referencing feature will work for wikitext and Visual Editor and will enhance the existing reference system. You can continue to use different ways of referencing, but you will probably encounter sub-references in articles written by other users. More information on the project page.
We want your feedback to make sure this feature works well for you:
Sign up here to get updates and/or invites to participate in user research activities.
Wikimedia Deutschland’s Technical Wishes team is planning to bring this feature to Wikimedia wikis later this year. We will reach out to creators/maintainers of tools and templates related to references beforehand.
Reminder: Apply for TTT 2024 Scholarships by August 22
Dear Wikimedians,
Important Reminder: The scholarship application deadline has been extended till Thursday, August 22, 2024. We encourage active Wikimedians to submit their applications before the deadline.
Please ensure you review the essential details on Meta page regarding this event.
नमस्ते सभी को, संस्कृतविकिपीडिया के मुखपृष्ठ पर @Kuldeepburjbhalaike जी ने अत्यन्त शीघ्र और उत्तम कार्य किया है। संस्कृत विकि के प्रबन्धक के नाते मैं संस्कृत विकिपीडिया समुदाय की ओर से उनको अनेकशः धन्यवाद देता हूँ। 10 वर्ष से जो कार्य समुदाय नहीं कर पाया, वह कार्य कुलदीपजी ने पूर्ण निष्ठा और जोश से किया, अतः समुदाय की ओर से हम उनको बार्नस्टार् देना चाहते हैं। हम जानते है कि इतना पर्याप्त नही होगा, परन्तु यथाशक्ति हम अपना भाव प्रकट कर रहे है। अनेकशः धन्यवाद.... (कृपया बार्नस्टार देने मे सहायता करे।) NehalDaveND (ਗੱਲ-ਬਾਤ) 00:07, 21 ਅਗਸਤ 2024 (UTC)[ਜਵਾਬ]
Sign up for the language community meeting on August 30th, 15:00 UTC
Hi all,
The next language community meeting is scheduled in a few weeks—on August 30th at 15:00 UTC. If you're interested in joining, you can sign up on this wiki page.
This participant-driven meeting will focus on sharing language-specific updates related to various projects, discussing technical issues related to language wikis, and working together to find possible solutions. For example, in the last meeting, topics included the Language Converter, the state of language research, updates on the Incubator conversations, and technical challenges around external links not working with special characters on Bengali sites.
Do you have any ideas for topics to share technical updates or discuss challenges? Please add agenda items to the document here and reach out to ssethi(__AT__)wikimedia.org. We look forward to your participation!
The Indic MediaWiki Developers User Group is facilitating a community technical consultation process to understand the needs of the community members on various technical issues while contributing to Wikimedia projects. The goal is to better understand the challenges across communities, understand common problems, and streamline future technical development activities.
The first step is a survey where to report your common issues, ideas etc. Please fill the survey (in a language of your choice) at
google form link
The last date is 5 September 2024.
You can fill the survey more than once if you’d like to report multiple issues or ideas.
We are excited to share our July newsletter, highlighting the impactful initiatives undertaken by CIS-A2K over the past month. This edition provides a detailed overview of our events and activities, offering insights into our collaborative efforts and community engagements and a brief regarding upcoming initiatives for next month.
I am pleased to announce the following individual as regional members of the U4C, who will fulfill a term until 15 June 2026:
North America (USA and Canada)
Ajraddatz
The following seats were not filled during this special election:
Latin America and Caribbean
Central and East Europe (CEE)
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Asia
The four remaining Community-At-Large seats
Thank you again to everyone who participated in this process and much appreciation to the candidates for your leadership and dedication to the Wikimedia movement and community.
Over the next few weeks, the U4C will begin meeting and planning the 2024-25 year in supporting the implementation and review of the UCoC and Enforcement Guidelines. You can follow their work on Meta-Wiki.
The Wikimedia Foundation will switch the traffic between its data centers. This will make sure that Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia wikis can stay online even after a disaster.
All traffic will switch on 25 September. The switch will start at 15:00 UTC.
Unfortunately, because of some limitations in MediaWiki, all editing must stop while the switch is made. We apologize for this disruption, and we are working to minimize it in the future.
A banner will be displayed on all wikis 30 minutes before this operation happens. This banner will remain visible until the end of the operation.
You will be able to read, but not edit, all wikis for a short period of time.
You will not be able to edit for up to an hour on Wednesday 25 September 2024.
If you try to edit or save during these times, you will see an error message. We hope that no edits will be lost during these minutes, but we can't guarantee it. If you see the error message, then please wait until everything is back to normal. Then you should be able to save your edit. But, we recommend that you make a copy of your changes first, just in case.
Other effects:
Background jobs will be slower and some may be dropped. Red links might not be updated as quickly as normal. If you create an article that is already linked somewhere else, the link will stay red longer than usual. Some long-running scripts will have to be stopped.
We expect the code deployments to happen as any other week. However, some case-by-case code freezes could punctually happen if the operation require them afterwards.
We are excited to present our August newsletter, showcasing the impactful initiatives led by CIS-A2K throughout the month. In this edition, you'll find a comprehensive overview of our events and activities, highlighting our collaborative efforts, community engagements, and a sneak peek into the exciting initiatives planned for the coming month.
In the Limelight- Doing good as a creative person
Monthly Recap
Wiki Women Collective - South Asia Call
Digitizing the Literary Legacy of Sane Guruji
A2K at Wikimania
Multilingual Wikisource
Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities
Tamil Content Enrichment Meet
Santali Wiki Conference
TTT 2024
You can access the newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.
Hello everyone, a small change will soon be coming to the user-interface of your Wikimedia project.
The Wikidata itemsitelink currently found under the General section of the Tools sidebar menu will move into the In Other Projects section.
We would like the Wiki communities feedback so please let us know or ask questions on the Discussion page before we enable the change which can take place October 4 2024, circa 15:00 UTC+2.
More information can be found on the project page.
Invitation to Participate in Wiki Loves Ramadan Community Engagement Survey
Dear all,
Apologies for writing in English. Please help to translate in your language.
We are excited to announce the upcoming Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative aimed at celebrating Ramadan by enriching Wikipedia and its sister projects with content related to this significant time of year. As we plan to organize this event globally, your insights and experiences are crucial in shaping the best possible participation experience for the community.
To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is engaging, inclusive, and impactful, we kindly invite you to participate in our community engagement survey. Your feedback will help us understand the needs of the community, set the event's focus, and guide our strategies for organizing this global event.
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will make a difference!
Thank you for being a part of our journey to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success.
Warm regards,
User:ZI Jony 03:20, 6 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2024 (UTC)
Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team
Deployment of Dark mode in Punjabi Wikipedia
Greetings!
Apologies as this message is not written in your native language, ਕਿਰਪਾ ਕਰਕੇ ਆਪਣੀ ਭਾਸ਼ਾ ਵਿੱਚ ਤਰਜਮਾ ਕਰਨ ਵਿੱਚ ਮਦਦ ਕਰੋ.
We are happy to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation Web team have deployed dark mode here on Punjabi Wikipedia! This was possible because pages on your wiki have passed our checks for accessibility and other quality checks. Congratulations!
This was only possible due to the diligent work of editors and other technical contributors in your community who have made sure that templates, gadgets, and other parts of pages can be accessible in dark mode. Thank you all for making dark mode available for everybody!
For context, we would like to add that the Web team's work on dark mode has concluded. If on some wikis, the option is not yet available for logged-out users, this is likely because many pages do not yet display well in dark mode. As communities make progress on this work, we enable this feature on additional wikis once per month.
If you notice any issues after enabling dark mode, you can report the issues on this page.
We are thrilled to share our September newsletter, packed with highlights of the key initiatives driven by CIS-A2K over the past month. This edition features a detailed recap of our events, collaborative projects, and community outreach efforts. You'll also get an exclusive look at the exciting plans and initiatives we have in store for the upcoming month. Stay connected with our vibrant community and join us in celebrating the progress we’ve made together!
In the Limelight- Santali Wiki Regional Conference 2024
Dispatches from A2K
Monthly Recap
Book Lover’s Club in Belagavi
CIS-A2K’s Multi-Year Grant Proposal
Supporting the volunteer-led committee on WikiConference India 2025
Tamil Content Enrichment Meet
Experience of CIS-A2K's Wikimania Scholarship recipients
Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities
Train-the-trainer 2024
Indic Community Engagement Call
A2K at Wikimedia Technology Summit 2024
You can access the newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.
While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in December 2024.
Applications for the committees open on 16 October 2024. Applications for the Affiliations Committee close on 18 November 2024, and applications for the Ombuds commission and the Case Review Committee close on 2 December 2024. Learn how to apply by visiting the appointment page on Meta-wiki. Post to the talk page or email cst@wikimedia.org with any questions you may have.
Wikimedia hackathons are spaces for developers, designers, content editors, and other community stakeholders to collaborate on building technical solutions that help improve the experience of contributors and consumers of Wikimedia projects. The event is intended for:
Technical contributors active in the Wikimedia technical ecosystem, which includes developers, maintainers (admins/interface admins), translators, designers, researchers, documentation writers etc.
Content contributors having in-depth understanding of technical issues in their home Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia, Wikisource, Wiktionary, etc.
Contributors to any other FOSS community or have participated in Wikimedia events in the past, and would like to get started with contributing to Wikimedia technical spaces.
We encourage you to follow the essential details & updates on Meta-Wiki regarding this event.
(Scholarships are available to assist with your attendance, covering travel, accommodation, food, and related expenses.)
Please read the application guidance on the Meta-Wiki page before applying.
The scholarship application is open until the end of the day 2 November 2024 (Saturday).
If you have any questions, concerns or need any support with the application, please start a discussion on the event talk page or reach out to us contact@indicmediawikidev.org via email.
Hello everyone, I previously wrote on the 27th September to advise that the Wikidata item sitelink will change places in the sidebar menu, moving from the General section into the In Other Projects section. The scheduled rollout date of 04.10.2024 was delayed due to a necessary request for Mobile/MinervaNeue skin. I am happy to inform that the global rollout can now proceed and will occur later today, 22.10.2024 at 15:00 UTC-2. Please let us know if you notice any problems or bugs after this change. There should be no need for null-edits or purging cache for the changes to occur. Kind regards, -Danny Benjafield (WMDE)11:29, 22 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2024 (UTC)[ਜਵਾਬ]
Final Reminder: Join us in Making Wiki Loves Ramadan Success
Dear all,
We’re thrilled to announce the Wiki Loves Ramadan event, a global initiative to celebrate Ramadan by enhancing Wikipedia and its sister projects with valuable content related to this special time of year. As we organize this event globally, we need your valuable input to make it a memorable experience for the community.
Last Call to Participate in Our Survey: To ensure that Wiki Loves Ramadan is inclusive and impactful, we kindly request you to complete our community engagement survey. Your feedback will shape the event’s focus and guide our organizing strategies to better meet community needs.
Please take a few minutes to share your thoughts. Your input will truly make a difference!
Volunteer Opportunity: Join the Wiki Loves Ramadan Team! We’re seeking dedicated volunteers for key team roles essential to the success of this initiative. If you’re interested in volunteer roles, we invite you to apply.
Explore Open Positions: For a detailed list of roles and their responsibilities, please refer to the position descriptions here: Position Descriptions
Thank you for being part of this journey. We look forward to working together to make Wiki Loves Ramadan a success!
Warm regards,
The Wiki Loves Ramadan Organizing Team 05:12, 29 ਅਕਤੂਬਰ 2024 (UTC)
A2K Monthly Report for October 2024
Dear Wikimedians,
We’re thrilled to share our October newsletter, featuring the impactful work led or support by CIS-A2K over the past month. In this edition, you’ll discover a detailed summary of our events and initiatives, emphasizing our collaborative projects, community interactions, and a preview of the exciting plans on the horizon for next month.
In the Limelight
TTT
Dispatches from A2K
Monthly Recap
Wikimedia Technology Summit
Coming Soon - Upcoming Activities
TTT follow-ups
You can access the newsletter here.
To subscribe or unsubscribe to this newsletter, click here.
Announcing Wikifile-transfer v2, and second community call
Dear Wikimedia Community,
We are excited to announce the release of Wikifile-transfer v2, an enhanced tool to streamline media transfers across Wikimedia projects. Wikifile-transfer supports users in moving non-free images across wiki projects. This tool is helpful for contributors managing media across multiple language wikis.
We invite you to join our second community call on November 10, 2024, at 18:00 IST (6:00 PM). This meeting is an opportunity to discuss the new features, share feedback, and connect with us.
Since this is a major new release, some bugs may still exist. We encourage you to report any issues you encounter to help us improve the tool further. We're looking forward to your feedback as we continue refining WikiFile-Transfer to meet the needs of our community.
This participant-driven meeting will be organized by the Wikimedia Foundation’s Language Product Localization team and the Language Diversity Hub. There will be presentations on topics like developing language keyboards, the creation of the Moore Wikipedia, and the language support track at Wiki Indaba. We will also have members from the Wayuunaiki community joining us to share their experiences with the Incubator and as a new community within our movement. This meeting will have a Spanish interpretation.
This is a historical map of North America showing the original distribution of Native American language families, so far as can be reconstructed. ਇੱਕ ਫੁੱਲ-ਸਾਈਜ਼ ਵਰਜ਼ਨ ਲਈ ਤਸਵੀਰ ਉੱਤੇ ਕਲਿੱਕ ਕਰੋ, ਜਿਸ ਨੂੰ ਤੁਸੀਂ ਅਜ਼ਾਦੀ ਨਾਲ ਪੁਨਰ-ਵਰਤੋਂ ਕਰ ਸਕੋ ਅਤੇ ਸੁਧਾਰ ਸਕੋ. ਇਸਦੇ ਵਰਗੀਆਂ ਹੋਰ ਤਸਵੀਰਾਂ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਸਤੇ ਹੇਠਾਂ ਵਾਲੇ ਲਿੰਕ ਤੇ ਕਲਿੱਕ ਕਰੋ
