Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Republic Day - Marathi Wikipedia Workshop : Report

[Offtopic] I respect your views Niraj and I do agree with your point regarding the we behave socially. But this is how people normally call others in such communities. It is not something which is mandatory and you are always free to call whatever you want. Which guy will deny being called "Sir"

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Republic Day - Marathi Wikipedia Workshop : Report

Dear Subhashish, Using the word 'sir' or "m'am" when talking to someone you're not familiar with is generally intended simply as a gesture of respect. It's not some sort of submissive term or something which indicates hierarchical structure, simply we're born and brought up in a society where resp

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Republic Day - Marathi Wikipedia Workshop : Report

Dear Niraj, Just a small point. In an open source community like Wikipedia everyone is same and equally treated. So, there is no need of adding destinations and adding Sir/ Madam for anyone irrespective of their age. Best! Subha On 11-Feb-2013, at 12:32 PM, Niraj Suryawanshi wrote: > Thank

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Republic Day - Marathi Wikipedia Workshop : Report

Thank you Sir for your appreciation! And thanks to everyone who guided & supported for the same! - Regards & Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi on behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune +91 814 992 0120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com -- View this message in context: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Republic-

[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Languages question

Dear All, Was the WMF brief for the India office limited to languages in India or did it include South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives – and by some definitions Tibet and Afghanistan as well)? According to what I could find online, the public announcement of W

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

Theo ad WIkimedians, As a member of the interview committee and as a chapter nominee on the panel a response is due from me. I have been part of the interview process post shortlist of applications by CIS. Sunil and the CIS team have extended all due process and courtesies since then till the fin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

Dear all, here's a reminder about today's IRC meet from 9:00 pm to 10: 00 pm. * * *Date and Time* February 11, 2013, 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm *How to connect ?* IRC Channel at #wikimedia-in connect

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Theo10011 wrote: > 3) I am still curious about some of the relationships here. As far as I > know achal still serves on your board? because I have a distinct memory of > there being some association here. He also still serves on the Advisory > board of WMF and had

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati wikimedians at Science fair, Bharuch

Dear Dhaval, Thank you for sharing this. Excellent work Satishchandra, Devendrasinh Gohil and Jayam Patel. Mainly because the way in which you have dovetailed the Gujarati Wiki outreach event at the primary education level. I feel this is a useful and more organic model of doing Education programm

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Republic Day - Marathi Wikipedia Workshop : Report

Great work Suryawanshi, Suryawanshi & Wikipedia Pune Club members! Ashwin On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Niraj Suryawanshi < niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Shrikant, > Have u been through the articles yet? > any reviews you want to share with us to help us improve better?? > > > > >

[Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati wikimedians at Science fair, Bharuch

Hi All, I would like to share a news with you. Recently Narmadanagar Community Science Centre, Bharuch, Gujarat organised a science fair for the schools of Bharuch District. Three of our active Gujarati Wiki community members participated in the science fair and demonstrate to the teachers and sch

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Republic Day - Marathi Wikipedia Workshop : Report

Hi Shrikant, Have u been through the articles yet? any reviews you want to share with us to help us improve better?? - Regards & Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi on behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune +91 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com -- View this message in context: http://wikimedia.7.n6.n

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India needs your support: Our First Fundraiser

Hi, Well this initiative is a good one, off-course we here in India do the fundraising, would help the whole movement for sure! But the India Chapter is INELIGIBLE! hits me bad, "INELIGIBLE"? what does that mean?! I would be glad to know about the same. - Regards & Thanks, Niraj Suryawansh

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

Yep I agree with Abhishek! the concept is very good, the participants should be guided about few things "Where" to click exactly "What" & "How" to click also the "Fun" part in it! Organized effort leads to a precise outcome. Also about the working with strangers & team building effort we here in W

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Celebrating The Success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013

Thanks! i was unaware abt the speeches recorded. thanks again! - Regards & Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi on behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune +91 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com -- View this message in context: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Re-Celebrating-The-Success-of-Wikipedia-in-Wi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Celebrating The Success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013

Thank you, Subha! On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > This is a good trend. Please write this up as a post for WikiPatrika! > > Ashwin > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi < > subhash...@cis-india.org> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Earlier I had published a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Celebrating The Success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013

This is a good trend. Please write this up as a post for WikiPatrika! Ashwin On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi < subhash...@cis-india.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Earlier I had published a video by combining short clips of various > activities during Wikipedia Summit Pune: > >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Celebrating The Success of Wikipedia in Wikipedia Summit Pune 2013

Hi All, Earlier I had published a video by combining short clips of various activities during Wikipedia Summit Pune: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Celebrating_the_success_of_Wikipedia_in_Wikipedia_Summit_Pune_2013.webm Here are the three audio podcasts of speeches uploaded: 1. http://

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Vishnu t wrote: > 'The Walls of Kolkata' are so rich and diverse, but are increasingly being > painted on. Hmm... this is an interesting perspective. Would you like to elaborate ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

Wow! This is nice.. Working in team for single spot will add new dimension. For Wikipedia Takes Pune, we had group of 4 people for one location - After introductory session, we provided them Google Map and Wikipedia Article copy of same - So along with photograph they also learn about aspects of t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Creative Commons visit to India

if video streaming is too difficult/costly, a low resolution video on Youtube would do, or an audio podcast. It would help if slideshow ppts are made available too! Ashwin On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:28 PM, Vishnu t wrote: > Dear Ashwin and friends, > > Nominating, Subha, who will be at the Pune

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

Ashwin, We do not have a list of the buildings that we photographed in our maiden Wikipedia Takes Kolkata. The photos are categorized under Category:Wikipedia Takes Kolkata. Please have a look. The page itself doesn't contain mu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

Hi Nishant That is an excellent, lengthy, professional, PR-friendly response. I congratulate and thank you on it. I appreciate the effort you took to explain and I wish that you might have disclosed the conflicts and the history before the hiring. Allow me to offer this critique that some of the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: Re: [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

I am getting a bit sick of the hypocrisy here. It's the people that are employed, people in the position of power complaining to people who have nothing to gain. It's like any other politician, government babu, complaining about the aam aadmi being angry after an year of scams and questionable cond

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Creative Commons visit to India

Dear Ashwin and friends, Nominating, Subha, who will be at the Pune and Bangalore events to post the key points at the end of the day to the List. He will also live tweet the event as much as possible and try to be present on the IRC. We are also exploring of video streaming. Will confirm this on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

Dear Kalyan, All the very best. Please let know if we could chip in with any help. 'The Walls of Kolkata' are so rich and diverse, but are increasingly being painted on. Some of the graduate students at Media Lab, Jadavpur University had done Video documentation called 'Project Wall'. Probably we

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Creative Commons visit to India

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Wish we could have a audio or video feed of these events for those far and > away! Even a writeup with interesting points would be a great boon! If the network at SICSR permits, one could try options like ustream/G+ Hangout etc -- sankar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Creative Commons visit to India

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > hi, > > Creative Commons is visiting India and was interested in working with the > Wikimedia India Chapter since the Wikimedia projects are the largest users > of the Creative Commons copyright license in India. We've worked with them > o

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Samskrit Wikiquote ( Wiki SuktayaH)

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Abhiram C wrote: [a somewhat bad snip from the forwarded email] > We had started our efforts towards this in August 2012, persuading Wikipedia > Language Committee. Over 7000 system messages were translated to samskrit, > some 800 articles of useful content rela

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding my work in OPW (under Wikimedia)

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 5:02 PM, priyanka nag wrote: > I am sharing my user page here. Details of my work can be found in the user > page here. This is nice stuff. I'd request that you update your blog with the work you are doing. it is relatively easier to pass specific blog entries as tweets/p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding my work in OPW (under Wikimedia)

Great going Priyanka, nice to see an SICSR student hands on in the Tech side! My best wishes & warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

My contact number for all concerned is 9830617962 but would prefer to be called after 1500 hours when I usually leave my office, sms earlier if you need to. Ashwin (now in Kolkata) On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Kalyan Sarkar wrote: > I don't have Ashwin's contact no. so I've included him in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding my work in OPW (under Wikimedia)

Hello Priyanka, Good to see you working on these topics (comparatively less explored in local languages). All the best! Deepon On Feb 10, 2013 5:02 PM, "priyanka nag" wrote: > Hi, > I am Priyanka Nag. I am a student of Symbiosis Institute of Computer > Studies and Research, doing my Masters in

[Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding my work in OPW (under Wikimedia)

Hi, I am Priyanka Nag. I am a student of Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, doing my Masters in Computer Applications. I am an OPW intern and working under Wikimedia foundation, under the mentorship of Amir E. Aharoni. I was asked to keep the Indian community aware of the work I

[Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons visit to India

hi, Creative Commons is visiting India and was interested in working with the Wikimedia India Chapter since the Wikimedia projects are the largest users of the Creative Commons copyright license in India. We've worked with them over the past month or so to hold meetings in Pune (February 15 and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

Arnav, In the first Wikipedia Takes Kolkata, we used the category Category:Wikipedia Takes Kolkata. We are planning to use the same category. The participants of the event would be mix of of Commons contributors and newbies. A c

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisa-l] Fwd: Samskrit Wikiquote ( Wiki SuktayaH)

Great Job!! All the best! Good Going. - Regards & Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi on behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune +91 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com -- View this message in context: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Fwd-Samskrit-Wikiquote-Wiki-SuktayaH-tp4995905p4995923.html Sent from

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

Great initiative! Let's hope you break Wikipedia Club Pune's record ;) good luck :) - Regards & Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi on behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune +91 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com -- View this message in context: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Wikipedia-Takes-Kolkata-

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisa-l] Fwd: Samskrit Wikiquote ( Wiki SuktayaH)

Congrats to the Samskrit community. Let's hope this brings up a fresh new lease of life to this wonderful language. On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi < subhash...@cis-india.org> wrote: > Congratulations to all the Sanskrit Wikipedians for the great achievement! > Kudos Dr. Su

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

Dear All, My name is Nishant Shah and I work at the Centre for Internet and Society. I am the Director-Research and have been one of the co-founders of CIS and currently on a research fellowship a the Centre for Digital Cultures, Germany. My involvement with the Wikipedia community (online and off

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

Great news! Thanks Kalyan for sharing this with all of us! It would be good if Bangla newspapers publish this in their "Today's event", this always brings a lot of enthusiasts who don't read about the announcements on mailing lists/wikipedia. All the best for this event! On 10-Feb-2013, at 3:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisa-l] Fwd: Samskrit Wikiquote ( Wiki SuktayaH)

Congratulations to all the Sanskrit Wikipedians for the great achievement! Kudos Dr. Sumana and Samskrit Bharati for being so deeply involved with the project and taking it to such a new level. Best! Subha On 10-Feb-2013, at 2:10 PM, Gaurav Pruthi wrote: > Regarding preceding mail chain, It sh

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

All the very best Kalyan, do let me know if you need any assistance from the chapter. Ping me if you need help categorising images as well. On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Arnav Sonara wrote: > Hey, > > Fantastic job. Just take care about categorizing the images properly. To > avoid confusion a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

Hey, Fantastic job. Just take care about categorizing the images properly. To avoid confusion and complexities create one unique category like WP takes Kolkata. After photographing are you going to gather once again and upload the images at same time or individuals would later do it on their own?

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

All, We are happy to announce that we are going to organize Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2 on 3rd March 2013. We are planning to cover the following - 1. Bow Barracks 2. Kapalitola Kali temple 3. Chinese temples 4. Magen David synagogue 5. Armenian Church 6. Greek Orthodox Church 7. Beth El synagogue

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisa-l] Fwd: Samskrit Wikiquote ( Wiki SuktayaH)

Regarding preceding mail chain, It should be 'Sanskrit' rather than 'Samskrit' .Please correct me if I am wrong. Congrats to all who helped Sanskrit board the wiki. On 2/10/13, Vishnu t wrote: > Dear Dr. Sumana, Shiju and all others behind Wiki-Sukthi ( *विकिसूक्तिः*), > > Wonderful achievement!

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: Re: [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

Hi, * One meaning of burnt out: "exhausted as a result of longtime stress" Refer: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/burnt-out Not only the people who have worked for former Wikimedia India office, but many from the chapter, people who have worked for the last Wiki Conference India are tired. Som

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisa-l] Fwd: Samskrit Wikiquote ( Wiki SuktayaH)

Dear Dr. Sumana, Shiju and all others behind Wiki-Sukthi ( *विकिसूक्तिः*), Wonderful achievement! We should celebrate this!! Many congratulations and keep it going. Best, Vishnu On 10 February 2013 11:55, Karthik Nadar wrote: > This is an awesome news. > > Congratulations to all behind this o