Buddhist content on Wikisource and Wikipedia.
Mission: Adding authentic Buddhist facts and texts to Wikipedia to make sure WeBuddhist, ChatGPT and other AIs answer questions about Buddhism and Buddhist texts correctly.
དམིགས་ཡུལ། WeBuddhist དང་ ChatGPT སོགས་ AI གིས་ནང་ཆོས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་ལན་འདེབས་སྐབས་སྐྱག་རྫུན་མི་བཤད་པའི་ཆེད་དུ། ཝི་ཀི་རིག་མཛོད་ (Wikipedia) ནང་ནང་ཆོས་ཀྱི་ཁུངས་ལྡན་གནས་ཚུལ་དང་དཔེ་ཆ་གང་མང་ནང་འཇུག་བྱ་རྒྱུ་དེ་ཡིན།
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WG Meeting Calendar
- Annual: Strategic Planning (Board & Leads) to set the organizational vision and objectives.
- Quarterly: OKR & Epic Drafting Workshop; OKR and Epic Setting; Strategy & Roadmap Review
- Sprint (Bi-Weekly): A 10-day cycle comprising of Sprint Planning, Spring Review, Contributor Syncs, Demo & Vote, etc.
- Daily: Standup meetings
Members and Roles
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Voters:
Stakeholders who set direction, vote on features, policies, releases- @Trinley — WeBuddhist (
translations, articles on key concepts of a text, clean etexts, articles on texts & authors) - @Kaldan — WMF (number of contributors, fresh content)
- @himalayanna — BDRC (clean etexts, bibliographical metadata, articles on authors & texts)
- @ — Buddhist monastics
- @ — Tibetan language & culture contributors
- @ — Buddhist practitioners
- @Trinley — WeBuddhist (
2026 Planning Branstorming
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Brainstorm potential targets for 2026, collaborations, etc
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Pick 5 epics for the year
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Add tasks in Github Board / Userback and assign work by Sprints/Quarters
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WeBuddhist - $$ for practice/study content creation
- For selected text published on the app:
- Translations of texts and commentaries
- crowdsourced in monasteries? (english/translation workshops?)
- BO, EN, ZH Articles about text with sources
- BO, EN, ZH Articles about authors with sources
- BO, EN, ZH Articles about keywords with sources
- Translations of texts and commentaries
- Prioritization:
- common prayers from all Buddhist traditions + commentaries
- common philosophy texts + commentaries
- common mind trainings and advices
- For selected text published on the app:
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Buddhist AI users
- Authentic buddhist texts on Wikipedia to inform their go-to AI assistant
- High-quality articles on buddhism backed by sources to inform their go-to AI assistant
WMF - $ to grow Tibetan wikipedian community ($5k grants)
- Increase number of contributors
- Training events
- Participants to Wikimania 2026
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BDRC $ for etexts collection for rare/old texts (6 months if Wiki helps finding etexts)
- Increase contributors of clean etexts
- Improve metadata on texts and authors
- Advocate for open, shared data
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General Tibetan Wikipedia
- Explore high impact areas to showcase the importance of Wikipedia
- Infoboxes
- Look for potential funders
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Contributors:
Organizes events, write articles, edits, reports- Choekdup
- Gyaltsen Dhargyal
- Tseten Dolma
WG Meeting Calendar
- Meetings: [e.g., 2nd Tuesday of each month, 16:00 UTC]
- Meeting Minutes: [Link]
Strategic Roadmap (Active Epics)
Major initiatives we are prioritizing this quarter.
| Status | Epic Title |  Read (PRD) |
 Do (Work) |
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 In Progress |
[Epic Name 1](Brief 1-line summary) | View Spec | View Milestone |
| In Progress |
[Epic Name 2](Brief 1-line summary) | View Spec | View Milestone |
 Planning |
[Epic Name 3](Brief 1-line summary) | View Spec | View Label |
Contribution Zone
Ready to help? Pick a task based on your time availability.
New Contributors: Start with our “Good First Issues”.
Bug Hunters: Help us squash bugs in the Issue Tracker.
Developers: Review the Setup & Contribution Guide.
Library & Governance
- Team Roster: Who is the Chair, Maintainers, and active members?
Meeting Minutes: Archive of past decisions (tag: wg-name+minutes).
Document Store: All PRDs, Technical Specs, and RFCs.