Forwarding pl. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> Date: 27 February 2014 12:51 Subject: Wikipaedia and the Wilderness: Workshop by L Shyamal, Saturday, March 1, 2014 To:
A Wikipedia workshop for naturalists, photographers, artists, researchers and other outdoors enthusiasts by Shyamal Lakshminarayanan<https://www.facebook.com/lshyamal> NOTE: The event is free and volunteer driven Topics covered: - Philosophical foundations, encyclopaedias and knowledge compendia, libraries - Copyright, the public domain and licensing - The mechanics of uploading, editing on Wikipedia - Referencing, quality control, social and other aspects of Wikipedia Register here: http://goo.gl/n83vgF (The registration is j ust for logistics' sake. The event is open for public) What's in for you? - If you are a wildlife/nature photographer - You can learn how you can donate your photos to Wikipedia, get your questions and concerns addressed on licensing, copyright etc - If you are an artist- You can know how you can contribute your sketches to Wikipedia articles - If you are a researcher - You can help with references, cleaning up of scientific articles on Wikipedia - For everyone- An insight into Wikipedia and how you can contribute to Wikipedia through images, references, pages etc Venue: ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd. ACR Mansion G + 3floors 147/F, 8th Main, 3rd Block Koramangala, Bangalore-560034, India Schedule: 1. Talk for 1 hour 2. Q & A for 20 mins 3. Tea/Snacks break (10 mins) 4. Contribute to wiki live (1 hour ) NOTE: Feel free to carry your laptops and any images you would want to contribute or content you wish to add to wiki ( Wi-fi available). If you are bringing your laptop, please ensure that you register a Wikipedia login and password before getting to the venue as the Wikipedia servers have a limit on number of usernames that can be registered from a single IP address in a short time period. . __,_._,___ -- With regards, J.M.Garg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per Creative Commons license attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group (largest in the world): http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (around 2250 members & 1,80,700 messages on 31/1/14) or Efloraofindia website: https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/ (with a species database of more than 9000 species & 1,80, 000 images). Also author of 'A Photoguide to the Birds of Kolkata & Common Birds of India'. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
