Community Archives – Tulsi Bhagat / Nepalese blogger, Internet and Social activist Wed, 06 Oct 2021 07:57:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 https://i0.wp.com/tulsibhagat.com.np/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-TB-logo-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Community Archives – Tulsi Bhagat / 32 32 195221087 With Tokyo Olympics 2021, Wiki Loves Sport begins /2021/07/28/with-tokyo-olympics-2021-wiki-loves-sport-begins/ Wed, 28 Jul 2021 02:31:40 +0000 /?p=1199 Image by Syced / CC0 1.0 The 2020 Summer Olympics which was postponed; kickstarted with an opening ceremony in Tokyo on Friday, 23 July 2021. With this, the third edition of Wiki Loves Sport has started till 5th of September 2021 to improve and extend the content related to sport in general (Olympic & Paralympic Games in particular). Wikipedians from...

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The 2020 Summer Olympics which was postponed; kickstarted with an opening ceremony in Tokyo on Friday, 23 July 2021. With this, the third edition of Wiki Loves Sport has started till 5th of September 2021 to improve and extend the content related to sport in general (Olympic & Paralympic Games in particular). Wikipedians from any language of Wikipedia are invited to participate.

Wiki Loves Sport is the first multi-language and cross-wiki campaign that encourage the participation and promotes creation of contents about (not exclusively) women, non-binary and para-athletes in Wikimedia projects.

This contest is organized to fill Wikipedia content gaps based on gender, linguistic and ethnic minorities, etc. The contest is organized by WikiDonne User Group. The main motive is to improve the free knowledge about sport (with a special focus on women, LGBT+ communities, minorities and underrepresented groups), the Olympic & Paralympic games in all languages.

On it’s first edition, 117 new articles were created, 153 articles were edited with overall 1.01K total edits coming from 19 editors across Wikimedia movement.

Camelia Boban, AffCom member and Co-founder of WikiDonne User Group has brought this Wikipedia online writing contest in June 2019.

Here’s the 2021 event page for more details to follow up.

// Originally published on Wikimedia Diff by Tulsi Bhagat, 27 July, 2021

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]]> 1199 Wiki Loves Folklore 2020 announces winners /2020/06/15/wiki-loves-folklore-2020-announces-winners/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 03:03:13 +0000 /?p=896 In February, Wiki Loves Folklore 2020—an international photographic contest—with the unique theme and first event of its kind was held. It was organized by the Wikimedia community for the very first time to document folk cultures of different regions of the world at Wikimedia Commons. However, It is continuation of Wiki Loves Love 2019. Over 118 countries across the globe has participated in...

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In February, Wiki Loves Folklore 2020—an international photographic contest—with the unique theme and first event of its kind was held. It was organized by the Wikimedia community for the very first time to document folk cultures of different regions of the world at Wikimedia Commons. However, It is continuation of Wiki Loves Love 2019.

Over 118 countries across the globe has participated in the contest. During the folklore month, over 18,500 free-licensed media files uploaded on the Wikimedia Commons with folk cultures theme. This proved the great success of the contest worldwide.

The top three winning photographs of the contest are as follows:

1st prize: 淚中之愛 by 黃孝擎 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0
2nd prize: Tbourida Moroccan folklore fantasy by Houssain tork / CC BY-SA 4.0
3rd prize: Viva for Niño by Herbert Kikoy / CC BY-SA 4.0

Here is the full list of winners: Commons:Wiki Loves Folklore winners

Originally published on tulsibhagat.com by Tulsi Bhagat, June 15, 2020

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]]> 896 Introducing Wiki Awareness Campaign in Nepal /2020/03/16/introducing-wiki-awareness-campaign-in-nepal/ Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:32:28 +0000 /?p=884 Image by Tulsi Bhagat / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0 A campaign to improve recognition of Wikipedia and understanding of its uses among the different communities of Nepal. This campaign is initiated and coordinated by Tulsi Bhagat and his team. It aims to increase awareness of Wikipedia across the country, Nepal. What are we trying to accomplish with this...

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A campaign to improve recognition of Wikipedia and understanding of its uses among the different communities of Nepal.

This campaign is initiated and coordinated by Tulsi Bhagat and his team. It aims to increase awareness of Wikipedia across the country, Nepal.

What are we trying to accomplish with this campaign

  • Improve recognition of Wikimedia projects in Nepal
  • Engage new readers
  • Promote Wikimedia projects in Nepal
  • Promote different language wiki-communities of Nepal
  • Encourage people of Nepal to freely share in the sum of all knowledge

Projects

  1. The Billboards Initiative: In this project, we had focused on installation of static and digital billboards around two major cities of Nepal and shared the entire project data via social media sites.
  2. The Calendar Initiative: In this project, we will be distributing Wiki-informative Calendars to the students of different universities, educational institution and professionals.

Contact

 

Tulsi Bhagat, an open source and free knowledge enthusiast is the coordinator of this project. Follow him on Twitter, @Genesis2Rise.

Originally published on Medium.com by Tulsi Bhagat, March 16, 2020

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