 Behind the Screen is a campaign that we've done in various regions wherein we want to show the stories of people who are actually behind the screen. It's an impact campaign. It's a campaign through which we want to showcase the work that's been done by various members of the communities and the work that they've done and how they've truly made an impact for their culture, their heritage, their people and their communities as well. In this video, we're going to see the stories of community members from various parts of India and South Asia. These are the real stories that need to be told. These are the voices that people need to hear. And I look forward to you seeing the stories of behind the screen in South Asia. I started the journey in a very young age. I was a student and I was associated with a lot of volunteer support network in that region. With that, I came to know about Wikipedia first. Then I came to know about Odia Wikipedia. I'm from Sri Lanka, Jaffna. I actually registered with Tamil Wikipedia back in 2007. So it's been about 14 years now. It started when I was a very young student. I got involved with the Bangla Popularization Movement helping people typing in Bangla. I am from Rajviraj, Nepal. If you talk about the movement, I joined in 2015 when I started Wiki Education Program. I took the grant to conduct the education program in Rajviraj. I live in Gothenburg, Sweden. I'm originally from India. I came to Wikipedia in 2009 as an anonymous user. So I started my contribution journey to Wikipedia in the year 2017 on English Wikipedia. I am working as a technical contributor in Wikipedia. I joined the movement since 2015. I created one tool that was very impactful. That is called IndigoCR. And what it do is that they take the image, any image and then try to extract the text from that. This facility was available for most of the languages like the big languages. The small languages doesn't have this feature. In India, we have language editors who contribute and create the articles. But they are having all lacking the technical support. So I founded IndicTech.com to provide the technical support to community members. The one project that I'm really proud of is the technical space of Wikipedia. Contributions in the technical spaces were related to the retention of the users. We are trying to keep track of how participants are contributing and how are these bringing the impact on other Wikibedias and how can we improve it is something that I'm interested in. I participate in activities for bridging the gender gap. I write articles related to women's biographies. Most often, Indian women scientists and Indian women politicians. The result of hard work is more hard work, they say. Each year, during the month of February and March, Wikimedia Bangladesh organizes an article contest called Omore Kushe article contest to commemorate the historical event of the Bangla language movement that happened in 1952. Hundreds of Bangladesh speaking editors participated in this contest from all over the world, especially from Bangladesh and West Bengal, India where the most Bangladesh speaking population lives. Wikimedias from Bangladesh and India have been working together hand in hand on various Wikimedia projects for years. There is a project on Wikimedia Commons named as Project Parijaya. We tried to communicate with some regional female writers. We collected their voice intros, their own signatures, biographies, the list of books and thankfully we got few books also so we bought it to Wikisource also. That's something I really feel proud of. We organized 16th year celebrations of Tamil Wikipedia in Jaffna. 20 participants from Tamil Nadu also came. We partnered with Tamil Sangam of Jaffna, the Tamil Society of Jaffna. So that was a good partnership. There is a huge gap between the technical spaces and the content spaces. There needs to be a collaboration between these two particular parties. In Wikimedia technical community, I find that the community health is so good. Be kind and just work on some things that makes you happy. We need to practice empathy a lot more than we are currently having right now so we can nurture and foster a better culture for future regardless of their demographic, quantity or quality. The South Asia community is very vibrant. We have a lot of energy. There are a lot of people who write content in all these languages but there has been too little coordination between these languages. We are always focused on our own Wikipedia, our own project, our own tool. We need to change this by making it possible for people to meet, people to understand each other's perspectives, cross-pollinate their ideas with other global projects. So I see a great future in South Asian communities, especially the Indic communities and as they keep growing, the ship keeps growing, I hope the editorship also grows. Hi, my name is Ratchit. My name is Chinmay Mishra. Siva Kosaran. Vibhla Banan. Shabab. Natha Hussain. Nivas. Shia Prakash. I am from Bhubaneswar, Odisha. From Bangladesh. From India. Sri Lanka. Eastern Nepal. And this is Behind the Screen, South Asia.