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Wikidata:WikiProject India/Events/International Mother Language Day 2023 Datathon

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International Mother Language Day 2023 Datathon will be a one-week Datathon that is to be conducted from 21 February 2023 to 28 February 2023. CIS-A2K will organise it to celebrate "International Mother Language Day" in 2023. There is a special day on 21 February but we will celebrate it for a week.

This is an activity for participants who are interested in editing Wikidata and Languages. CIS-A2K already did a Label-a-thon in 2021 to celebrate Mother Language day but that was a one-day activity. This time through this datathon, we might attract new editors to edit Wikidata to provide some basic instructions, this datathon will focus only on language (Q34770).

Objective edit

  • Create and Improve the Wikidata items by adding and improving the statements
  • Update and Improve the labels of Wikidata items and properties in your mother tongue

Date & Time edit

Date: Feburary 21, 2023 00:01 IST to Feburary 28, 2022 23:59 IST.

Mode edit

During this event, the on-ground activity won't take place. This is an entirely online event.

Online Training Session edit

Rules edit

Adding Labels, Descriptions and Alias edit

Although the examples given are in English, these guidelines are intended to be language-agnostic and mostly India-oriented, so that they can apply to the labels/descriptions/aliases of any Indian language. You may also find Help:Label, Help:Description, and Help:Aliases useful.

Read the rules for Adding Labels, Descriptions and Alias
  • Use the most common name of an entity for its label, and use any abbreviations or longer, official, or less common names as aliases.
    • e.g. "Gurgaon" is the English label for Gurgaon (Q238508), while "Gurugram" is an alias for that item.
    • e.g. "Delhi" is the English label for Delhi (Q1353), while "National Capital Territory of Delhi" and "NCT" are aliases for that item.
  • Any disambiguation information, whether dates or other major identifying characteristics, should be placed in the description unless it is particularly significant. This usually means that any parenthesized information that would ordinarily be at the end of a Wikipedia title and is not part of the original title of the entity should be absorbed into the description somehow.
    • e.g. the English labels for Rabindranath Tagore (Q7241) and Rabindranath Tagore (Q1818133) are identical, with the portion "(film)" in the latter's enwiki article title subsumed into the description "1961 film by Satyajit Ray".
    • e.g. different seasons of a sports league have to have a date present in the title, as with the English labels for 2017 Indian Premier League (Q28026374) and 2018 Indian Premier League (Q30640893).
    • e.g. until, heaven forbid, another massacre takes place in Jallianwala, the English label for Jallianwala Bagh massacre (Q208855) should remain "Jallianwala Bagh massacre", with no reference to when it happened in the label.
    • e.g. if there happened to be two enwiki articles with distinct Wikidata items about two versions of Jambalaya (On the Bayou) (Q1413414)—an instance where there'd be two parenthesized expressions next to each other for disambiguation—the portion "(On the Bayou)" would remain in the label for both items and the second expression (most likely of the form "{artist name} song") would go into the description.
  • Descriptions should not be too long; if you find yourself adding more information than would be needed to distinguish the entity you're editing from something else, you're probably writing too much.
    • e.g. it is sufficient to call sodium an "element with the atomic number of 11" in English; adding its atomic weight and its group in the periodic table is redundant for the description.
    • e.g. it would not be sufficient to call Satsvarupa dasa Goswami (Q132162) just a 'guru', a 'poet', or a 'writer' in English, without the other two items also present; as there are lots of gurus, poets, and writers, more information for the description would be necessary in those cases.
  • Do not end a description with a full-stop (or danda "।", for those languages that use it). Descriptions are not meant to be complete sentences—they are intended to be small guides for distinguishing like-named items and as an initial bit of clarifying information otherwise.
  • When adding a description for an administrative territorial entity (state/district/subdistrict/town/village/city), identify the two levels of the administrative division above it, only adding more levels if the top-most level may be ambiguous. (There is generally no need to identify anything larger than a country in such a description.)
    • e.g. Araria Block (Q12414138)'s English description is "community development block in Bihar's Araria District", identifying the two levels of administrative division (district and state) above it.
    • e.g. Domai (Q12431207)'s English description is "village in Araria District's Araria C.D. Block", identifying the two levels of administrative division (C.D. block and district) above it.
    • e.g. Jhumai (Q12429835)'s English description is "village in Barun C.D. Block in Bihar's Aurangabad District", identifying three levels of administrative division (C.D. block, district, and state) above it because omitting "Bihar"—the topmost level—would make the description ambiguous between the Aurangabad Districts of Bihar and Maharashtra (even if it is apparent that Barun C.D. Block is not in Maharashtra).
  • Do not insert information into the description that is volatile, biased, or controversial in any way.
    • e.g. Manmohan Singh (Q41914) was in fact the "13th Prime Minister of India" according to the English description, and this is very unlikely to change. If, back in 2013, he were the "current Prime Minister of India", "a politician from the Indian National Congress" or even a "famous Indian politician", all of those would have had greater risks of becoming incorrect in the future—what if he wasn't the prime minister in 2015? what if he decided to leave Congress? what if he were to become engrossed in scandal? (The description "Indian politician" would still be an unambiguous, neutral, non-volatile description of him, even if all of the previous hypothetical scenarios happened, he had retired from Indian politics, and had decided to become an artist or a yogi.)
    • e.g. it suffices for Virat Kohli (Q213854) to be listed as an "Indian cricket player"; listing any specific team he has played on in the past or plays on at present adds volatility and should be avoided.
  • You can include potential misspellings of the label as aliases, but be sure to 1) make sure that those misspellings can actually be found in the wild, rather than just anticipating such misspellings, and 2) at least keep spellings of the same word across item labels consistent, as a way of standardizing them.
    • e.g. keeping "Santhali" as an English alias for Santali (Q33965) is acceptable, and adding "Santhali Wikipedia" as an English alias for Santal Wikipedia (Q55950814) is acceptable to parallel the presence of the alias on the item for the language, but unless some organization uses the spelling "Santhali" in its name in English—for which using "Santhali" in the label would be appropriate—the alternate spelling should be avoided in any other labels that refer to the language and should be relegated to aliases.
    • e.g. in Bengali, the name of the French president elected in 2017 is properly rendered "এমানুয়েল মাক্রোঁ", but some misspellings of his name, including "এমানুয়েল ম্যাক্রন" and "ইমানুয়েল মেকরন", are found in newspaper articles. These misspellings should never be used for any labels that make reference to him—unless, as above, they are used in an organization's spelling of its own name—and should be relegated to aliases to help those who cannot spell it. (If the subject of an item renders its own name in some way counter to your own conception of how it should be rendered—e.g. আলি vs. আলী for "Ali" in Bengali—you should still defer to the way the item's subject renders it for a label.)
  • Do not add as aliases anything that is not notable on its own as a way to refer to the item's subject.
    • e.g. Shah Rukh Khan (Q9535) may have "King Khan", "SRK", and perhaps many other names by which people refer to him as aliases (be sure that they are actually used somewhere before putting them down!), but the names of his children should never be aliases on his item.
    • e.g. A. R. Rahman (Q108560) can have both "Allahrakka Rahman" and "A. S. Dileep Kumar" as aliases, as those are his full and birth names, but the item should not have names of his songs (such as "Latka Dikha Diya Humne") or any section headings in his Wikipedia article (such as "Musical style and impact of A. R. Rahman") as aliases.
  • Avoid adding honorifics and titles to the label for a person.

Adding Statements, Qualifiers, Sources and Ranking edit

Tasks edit

Participants can check the tasks added on the this page to improve the Wikidata items by adding and improving the statements, improving the labels on Wikidata items and properties and the usage of India related properties.

Check out the tasks at: this page

Participants edit

(Feel free to add your name below by adding #~~~~)

  1. Vikashegde (talk) 15:12, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Meenakshi nandhini (talk) 18:03, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Akbarali (talk) 19:26, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  4. – Yahya (talk) 05:27, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Sreenandhini (talk) 15:10, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  6. -J. Ansari Talk 16:34, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Tulspal (talk) 14:28, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Anupamdutta73 (talk) Anupamdutta73 (talk) 16:47, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  9. —Vis M (talk) 16:51, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Sridhar G (talk) 16:53, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Snehrashmi (talk) 17:11, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  12. Pranayraj1985 (talk) 17:17, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  13. দিব্য দত্ত (talk) 18:23, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  14. 511KeV (talk) 18:53, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  15. Nazrul Islam Nahid (talk) 19:07, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  16. Sumita Roy Dutta (talk) 09:02, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Tamanpreet Kaur (talk) 09:42, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  18. EBENEZER
  19. Kuldhar Rabha (talk) 13:58, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  20. Kasyap (talk) 14:31, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  21. Meghdhanu (talk) 15:31, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  22. KartikMistry (talk) 16:28, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Aishik Rehman (talk) 22:32, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Joy sagar Murmu (talk) 08:18, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  25. তনয় [t̪ɔnɔj] 15:00, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  26. Sangram Keshari Senapati (Gapu) (talk) 15:17, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  27. --BHARATHESHA ALASANDEMAJALU (talk) 18:23, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  28. Gangaasoonu (talk) 05:46, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  29. --Kavitha G. Kana (talk) 16:04, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  30. --Babitha Shetty (talk) 16:07, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  31. Salil Kumar Mukherjee (talk) 17:34, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  32. ᱥᱟᱹᱜᱩᱱ ᱗ (talk) 00:40, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  33. Jagseer S Sidhu (talk) 08:56, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  34. Gill jassu (talk) 15:48, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  35. Bijendra Hansda Purudhul (talk) 11:12, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  36. JIT (talk) 18:00, 28 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Punjabi Community edit

  1. ̴̴̴̴ Tulspal
  2. Satpal Dandiwal (talk) 08:58, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Jagseer S Sidhu (talk) 09:03, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Rajdeep ghuman (talk) 09:02, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Navu chauhan (talk) 09:03, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Parveen Punjabi (talk) 09:03, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Jagvir Kaur (talk) 09:04, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Kuldeepburjbhalaike (talk) 09:05, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Prabhjot Kaur Gill (talk) 09:05, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Gurtej Chauhan (talk) 09:06, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  11. Gill jassu (talk) 15:48, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Others edit

  1. Sukeerti Dwivedi (talk) 18:08, 27 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Track the activity edit

Resource edit

Submissions edit

Meenakshi nandhini (Malayalam) edit

  1. ml:Baram language
  2. ml:Bhujel language
  3. ml:Byangsi language
  4. ml:Central Tibetan
  5. ml:Chantyal language
  6. ml:Chepang language
  7. ml:Chepangic languages
  8. ml:Chintang language
  9. ml:Chulung language
  10. ml:Classical Tibetan
  11. ml:Danwar language
  12. ml:Dhimal language
  13. ml:Dhimalish languages
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