Wikimedian-in-residence Kime Rilla starts workingIdu Mishmi Cultural & Literary Society members getting glimpse of lexicographical data on Wikidata
March 2019: CIS-A2K has contacted RIWATCH in 2019 to build a GLAM partnership and open up their contents on Wikimedia websites, but due to COVID-19 pandemic and resulting nation-wide restriction of movement, further communication was postponed.
January 2022: The communication has been resumed again after the second wave of the pandemic subsided.
February, 2022: CIS-A2K approaches West Bengal Wikimedians User Group (WBG) formally to help facilitate and execute the partnership. WBG accepts the request.
March 2022: A joint field-visit by CIS-A2K and WBG was conducted at RIWATCH.
Kime Rilla, a resident of Itanagar and a close associate with RIWATCH, has been given Wikimedia training and assigned as Wikimedian-in-Residence for the partnership.
Vijay Swami, the executive director, has released all RIWATCH digital contents under CC-BY-SA 4.0 license.
Wikimedian-in-residence has started uploading files.
A local tribal organization named Idu Mishmi Cultural & Literary Society has been engaged to develop Idu Mishmi language corpora and grammar for future incorporation on Wikidata.
A scanner has been couriered to RIWATCH to scan its manuscripts and publications for future.
Idu Mishmi language has been added on Lingua Libre.
provide their expertise and guidance to help document and identify their online and offline collection,
provide food and accommodation to the Wikimedian-in-Residence,
provide laptops, camera, space to work, internet to the Wikimedian-in-Residence.
CIS-A2K will
plan and coordinate the project,
remunerate the Wikimedian-in-Residence,
provide a scanner to RIWATCH for scanning of manuscripts and books,
provide the financial support for travel, stay and other expenses during the visits
West Bengal Wikimedians User Group will
provide technical support to the Wikimedian-in-Residence,
train the Wikimedian-in-Residence regularly,
conduct regular meetings with the Wikimedian-in-Residence to follow-up the work and provide feedback.
As Wikimedian-in-residence, Rilla will
organize RIWATCH collections, audios, videos, images etc.
sort suitable files to upload in co-ordination with RIWATCH
upload sorted files to Wikimedia Commons with proper title, detailed description and relevant categories.
use relevant files to different Wikimedia projects increasing the value of the articles
create data about museum artifacts along with customs, cultures and traditions of the tribes of the region.
attend regular meetings with West Bengal Wikimedians User Group to address any issues, work on feedbacks and get relevant trainings to continue and enrich the quality of her work.
submit regular reports to update about the progress.
