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Happy New Year! to dear @Saroj, @Girmitya,@Shreya, @Abdul Kadir and all Fiji-Hindi Wikimedians! Wishing for a year filled with enthusiasm, collaboration, and vibrant activity in Fiji-Hindi Wikimedia. Let's make this year more engaging and inspiring together! Cheers to a fantastic year ahead! -- Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 14:28, 1 Janwari 2024 (UTC)

Same to you... DreamRimmer (talk) 14:29, 1 Janwari 2024 (UTC)
Happy New Year! Thank you for the warm wishes. Let's make this year amazing for Fiji Hindi Wikipedia! 🎉📚 Saroj (talk) 14:37, 1 Janwari 2024 (UTC)

Apologies for writing in English.

The Technical Wishes team at Wiki Deutschland is planning to make reusing references easier. For our research, we are looking for wiki contributors willing to show us how they are interacting with references.

• The format will be a 1-hour video call, where you would share your screen. More information here.
• Interviews can be conducted in English, German or Dutch.
• Compensation is available.
• Sessions will be held in January and February.
• Sign up here if you are interested.
• Please note that we probably won’t be able to have sessions with everyone who is interested. Our UX researcher will try to create a good balance of wiki contributors, e.g. in terms of wiki experience, tech experience, editing preferences, gender, disability and more. If you’re a fit, she will reach out to you to schedule an appointment.

We’re looking forward to seeing you, Thereza Mengs (WMDE)

 

Please help translate to your language

Dear Wiki Community,

You are humbly invited to organize the Feminism and Folklore 2024 writing competition from February 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023 on your local Wiki Fiji Hindi. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-focused topics for the project, with a Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap focus and a folk culture theme on Wiki Fiji Hindi.

You can help Wikipedia's coverage of folklore from your area by writing or improving articles about things like folk festivals, folk dances, folk music, women and queer folklore figures, folk game athletes, women in mythology, women warriors in folklore, witches and witch hunting, fairy tales, and more. Users can help create new articles, expand or translate from a generated list of suggested articles.

Organisers are requested to work on the following action items to sign up their communities for the project:

1. Create a page for the contest on the local wiki.
2. Set up a campaign on CampWiz tool.
3. Create the local list and mention the timeline and local and international prizes.
4. Request local admins for site notice.
5. Link the local page and the CampWiz link on the meta project page.

This year, the Wiki Loves Folklore Tech Team has introduced two new tools to enhance support for the campaign. These tools include the Article List Generator by Topic and CampWiz. The Article List Generator by Topic enables users to identify articles on the English Wikipedia that are not present in their native language Wiki Fiji Hindi. Users can customize their selection criteria, and the tool will present a table showcasing the missing articles along with suggested titles. Additionally, users have the option to download the list in both CSV and wikitable table-responsive formats. Notably, the CampWiz tool will be employed for the project for the first time, empowering users to effectively host the project with a jury. Both tools are now available for use in the campaign. Click here to access these tools

Learn more about the contest and prizes on our project page. Feel free to contact us on our meta talk page or by email us if you need any assistance.

We look forward to your immense coordination.

Thank you and Best wishes,

Feminism and Folklore 2024 International Team

Stay connected     

--MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:26, 18 Janwari 2024 (UTC)

RamzyM (WMF) 18:08, 19 Janwari 2024 (UTC)

RamzyM (WMF) 17:00, 31 Janwari 2024 (UTC)

Dear @Girmitya, 00sin01, Bihari, K. G. Sub, Lal123, Sampaadak, Smcnarayan: @Snandan, Sprakash, Sundaresan, Sampaadak, Tarchu, Thakurji, Tota Ram Sharma: @Tarchu, Shreya.Bhopal, Rbhai, Saroj, Pardesi: and Hindi-Fiji Wikipedians friends,

I extend a warm invitation to you to join me for an online meetup. This is an opportunity for us to share stories, discuss how to grow the community, conduct an online editathon, improve articles, and strengthen collaboration. The meetup will take place on 18 February, 2024 (Sunday) from 7:30 AM UTC (7:30 PM Fiji time) to 8:30 AM UTC (8:30 PM Fiji time). To participate, please access the meeting link [Google Meet link - meet.google.com/wnb-zsnm-min ]. I look forward to your participation. Your contribution to this dialogue will be greatly appreciated. -- Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 16:09, 7 Farwari 2024 (UTC)

Meeting Link

Google Meet : http://meet.google.com/wnb-zsnm-min

@Girmitya, 00sin01, Bihari, K. G. Sub, Lal123, Sampaadak, Smcnarayan: @Snandan, Sprakash, Sundaresan, Sampaadak, Tarchu, Thakurji, Tota Ram Sharma: @Tarchu, Shreya.Bhopal, Rbhai, Saroj, Pardesi: Meeting starts with in 1 hour 45 minutes ie at 7 UTC.

Participants

1. Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 16:09, 7 Farwari 2024 (UTC)
2. Oops! Looks like you left me hanging without a ping! DreamRimmer (talk) 16:19, 7 Farwari 2024 (UTC)
3. Saroj (talk) 17:16, 7 Farwari 2024 (UTC)
4. Shreya.Bhopal (talk) 05:43, 18 Farwari 2024 (UTC)

Outcome of discussions

A big thank you to all who joined our recent Hindi-Fiji Wikipedians online meetup! Your presence and enthusiasm made it a success.

Here's a snapshot of what we discussed and decided:

1. Gadgets Setup: We're implementing helpful gadgets to ease editing and management tasks on Hindi Fiji Wiki Fiji Hindi.

2. Local Clock Option: Soon, you'll see a local clock option on the top right side for easy timekeeping while editing.

3. Article Improvement Campaign: Get ready for campaigns to enhance existing articles on our platform.

4. Feminism and Folklore : We're gearing up to participate and contribute to articles on feminism and folklore.

Participants left excited and eager for more meetups. Let's keep the momentum going and look forward to future gatherings.

Apologies for the delayed post, and thank you once again for your valuable contributions and commitment. Together, let's make Hindi Fiji Wikipedia thrive!

Best, -- Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 18:32, 24 Farwari 2024 (UTC)

RamzyM (WMF) 18:23, 12 Farwari 2024 (UTC)

Hello Fiji Hindi Wikipedians!

Apologies as this message is not in your language, Please help translate to your language.

The WMF Language team plans to enable the Section and Content translation tools to Fiji Hindi Wikipedia by default. Also, the team is considering adding machine translation (MT) support with MinT to the tools. MinT may be providing limited support for your language, so we want to make sure it is useful for the community. For this, my team would like members of your community to:

• Test the machine translation support in a test instance. You can paste multiple pieces of content from different Wikipedia articles and check whether the provided result is a useful starting point for a translation.
• Give us feedback if the machine translation quality is okay to be on your Wikipedia by default, as an optional service or if it is not useful at all.
• Let us know if you have any objections to having the Section and Content translation enabled by default in this Wiki Fiji Hindi.

Below is background information about the tools and how you can test them.

Background information

Content Translation has been a successful tool for editors to create content in their language. Since its release in 2015, the tool has aided the translation of more than one million articles across all languages. However, the tool is in beta in Fiji Hindi Wikipedia, limiting its discoverability and use. Being in beta also blocks enabling the Section translation in your Wiki Fiji Hindi.

Section Translation extends the capabilities of Content Translation to support mobile devices. On mobile, the tool will:

• Guide you to translate one section at a time to expand existing articles or create new ones

• Make it easy to transfer knowledge across languages anytime from your mobile device

MinT (Machine in Translation) is a machine translation service hosted in the Wiki Infrastructure. It is designed to provide translations from many MT models. The model available for your Wikipedia is the MADLAD-400 open-source translation model.

Our request

The MADLAD-400 MT is available for your Wiki in our test instance. We want you to test it (translate sentences and paragraphs from articles) in our test instance:https://translate.wmcloud.org. Let us know in this thread if the quality of the automatic translation generated is okay to enable it in Fiji Hindi Wikipedia along with the Section and Content translation tool.

Our plans to enable the tools and the machine translation support

We plan to deploy the tools with the MT support by the 4th of March. If there are no objections from your community, we will deploy them. We want to provide the tools in the way they best serve the community, so we are open to make further adjustments after the deployment based on the experience of the community.

We look forward to getting your feedback in this thread. Thank you!

On behalf of the WMF Language team.

UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 03:10, 15 Farwari 2024 (UTC)

Tried the translation support to translate from English to Fiji Hindi. Although the translation was not totally correct, it would still be useful for Fiji Hindi speakers as they will be able to do further corrections after translation has been done and there are no other translation tools for Fiji Hindi. At this stage, an optional service could be tried. By the way, what is the source of Fiji Hindi used in this tool? Girmitya (talk) 10:24, 15 Farwari 2024 (UTC)
Hello @Girmitya,
Thank you for your question, and I apologise for my late reply. The training data used for Fiji Hindi is described in detail in this research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04662.
This week, the WMF Language team will enable the machine translation support and the tools by default. Let us know if you have any objections to having the tool in this Wiki.
Best regards,
UOzurumba (WMF) (talk) 14:19, 4 Maach 2024 (UTC)

 

Feminism and Folklore is an international writing contest organized on Wikipedia annually in the months of February and March. Its aim is to document folk cultures and women in folklore from different regions of the world. We are delighted to announce that Fiji-Hindi Wikipedia is also participating this year. The competition will run from March 1st to March 31st. This year, Feminism and Folklore will focus on feminism, women's issues, and gender-centric topics. Additionally, it will incorporate a Wiki Loves Folklore gender gap emphasis and a folk culture theme on Wiki Fiji Hindi. You can find more details here. We invite you to participate and help us translate the campaign page. We are also looking for jury members (maximum of 2). If you are interested, please leave a message on my talk page or send a Wikimail.

International prizes

Prizes for top contributors globally (most articles):

• 1st prize: – 300 USD
• 2nd prize: – 200 USD
• 3rd prize: – 100 USD
• Consolation top 10 winners: – 50 USD

Prizes will be given in Gift voucher/coupons.

-- Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 14:00, 25 Farwari 2024 (UTC)

RamzyM (WMF) 16:25, 5 Maach 2024 (UTC)

MPossoupe_(WMF)19:57, 12 Maach 2024 (UTC)

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