Commons:Behar Herald

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Welcome to the Behar Herald GLAM project!

Introduction

Behar Herald is the oldest English weekly newspaper of the Indian state of Bihar published from Patna, which started its journey in 1874. In 1938, the ownership of the newspaper was transferred to the Bengalee Association, Bihar, a non-profit society then created to protect the rights and preserve the language and culture of the Bengali speaking population residing in Bihar. This organization took responsibility to publish the weekly again since then. Contributions occur in several projects like Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and Wikisource. All are welcome to get to know and contribute to the dissemination of contents!

This GLAM is associated with a partnership between West Bengal Wikimedians User Group and Bengalee Association, Bihar.

• Follow the collection on Wikimedia Commons;
• Follow the use of images from the collection in the different Wikimedia projects;
• Ask questions on the talk page.

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FILES SO FAR

Tasks

• Primary visit to Bengalee Association, Bihar office in Patna  Done
• Fund application to WMF  Done
• Purchasing of a CZur 18 Pro Scanner  Done
• Assignment and training of Wikimedian-in-residence  Done
• Digitization  Done
• Upload  Doing…

Gallery

• 
  A news about a 21 days political fast by Mahatma Gandhi in 1943.
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  An article about Jawaharlal Nehru meeting 14th Dalai Lama in 1959
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  An issue on Ind-China war of 1962
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  An issue on liberartion of Bangladesh and surrender of Pakistan during 1971 war

• ...uploading the collection to Wikimedia Commons

How to help?

• On Wikimedia Commons:
  • Categorize images uploaded under the Behar Herald GLAM
  • Help with the development and documentation of this project
• On Wikisource:
  • Transcribe and proofread documents uploaded under this GLAM
  • Review and validate transcripts which are already proofread
• On Wikidata:
  • Create or improve data entries associated with entities related to this project

Members

The initiative develops around several Wikimedia projects, especially:

• Wikimedia Commons
• Wikidata
• Wikisource

Above aspects of this project is open to everyone, so feel free to subscribe to the bottom of the list if you're interested.

1. Dr. Bir - project lead
2. Apurba Bir, Wikimedian-in-residence
3. Bodhisattwa - technical and other support
4. Shivishbrahma

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Reports

• May 2023 GLAM newsletter
• Rapid Fund Final Report

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