Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Banners, India
HPN, Good work with the banners. I liked the way you have placed the various script families spread out in the banner. Of course, we can add as many more language scripts as possible to the list. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture From: Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India List wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Executive Committee, Wikimedia India wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 3:41:25 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Banners, India Here are some banners readied for Bangalore, Mysore events: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banner-6X2ft.svg http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banner-6X2ft-chapter.svg http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banner-6X2ft-languages.svg http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mysore-banner-6X2ft.svg Feel free to use those or build on those or modify those to the requirement. All graphcis above are in SVG. The 'languages' banner specifically needs further improvement (in terms of adding more Indian languages, improving the banner). Feel free to add/edit and post new versions back to commons. Cheers, -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Banners, India
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:31 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: HPN, Good work with the banners. I liked the way you have placed the various script families spread out in the banner. Of course, we can add as many more language scripts as possible to the list. Thanks Sundar. Just a designer by hobby. Glad that the banners have been timely and useful. However, I'd welcome improved versions of those I uploaded. You can download these files from tenth wiki and edit them on Inkscape. Although the banners for tomorrow's event have been sent for print by now, we can keep building on these or create new ones (as needed) for upcoming events. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration in Pune
Hi, This is a gentle reminder for the Wikipedia 10th Anniversary celebrations on 15th Jan, 6:30 pm at SICSR. Details in the rearlier mail below. Do join in. -Sudhanwa On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On January 15, 2011, Wikipedia will turn 10. Wikipedia communities across the world will be celebrating the anniversary by organising various events and activities to commemorate the tenth anniversary. There will be celebrations in Pune also and you are all invited for the event. Chief Global Development Officer of Wikimedia Foundation Mr Barry Newstead will be present for the celebrations. The meetup will be conducted on 15 January 2011 from 1830 - 2000 hrs, at Symbiosis Institute of Computer Sciences and Research, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Room No 707. 7th floor. Please checkout the details of the event here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/W10_Pune Do join the celebrations!! Best regards -Sudhanwa Jogalekar -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.projects4students.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Wikimedia Chapter Registered
Hi, Sorry for the potential muting of some responses with remarks about email etiquette as post script on my post. I am glad to see some responses. Please feel free to share suggestions, ideas, questions on how Chapter can help realize the collective dreams of Wikipedians through the mailing lists as well as wikimedia.in website. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Congrats!! This is great news!! And on a perfect timing of the 10th Anniversary celebrations. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello all, We are very pleased to announce the successful registration of the Wikimedia Chapter vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District Certificate No: SOR/BLU/DR/1137/10-11 dt 03 Jan 2011. We have become a formal entity due to the untiring efforts of Wikipedians (in alphabetical order) Anirudh Bhati, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramarathnam, Balasundararaman, Gautam John, Hari Prasad Nadig, Srinivas Gunta for over two long years with support from Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member, Bishakha Datta, Wikimedia Foundation Trustee and Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation. We would like to place on record the support by Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, specially its director, Sunil Abraham for extending their office support for chapter and community meetings and registration support by its auditor Mr MN Rao. The efforts of Gautam John and Arun Ramarathnam in working with registration authorities are appreciated. We are delighted with this development, as Wikimedians all over world are celebrating Wikipedia's Tenth anniversary this week. We have over 60 events happening in India(http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:India). At this juncture, we would like to commit ourselves to taking Wikimedia Movement to greater heights by engaging with Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedian community in India and all Indians by working with special focus on all Indian languages including English. With your active participation and support, Chapter can play a key role in enabling access to free knowledge to everyone. In the next few weeks, you will hear more actively from the Chapter on various initiatives. In the mean time, for any questions, please send a mail to executive committee mailing list wikimedia-in-e...@wikimedia.in Please do check Wikimedia India website http://wikimedia.in for further updates. Cheers On behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee, Arjuna Rao Chavala PS: Please help reduce the noise on the mailing list to the minimum by not sending your appreciation remarks to the entire list and placing the same on wikimedia.in announcement discussion page http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.projects4students.com ___ Wikimedia-IN-Exec mailing list wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-exec ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia
[press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/3117.html Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] TOI: Knowledge lovers showcase Pune through wikipedia
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[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA : Wikipedia India chapter to become a reality
[Press] : DNA : Wikipedia India chapter to become a reality http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_wikipedia-india-chapter-to-become-a-reality_1494302 Please note some of the factual errors with the article : 1) The 10th anniversary gathering is on Saturday , not Thursday 2) I will forgive the journo for writing as Tinu Cheriyan instead of Cherian but perhaps not Hari Prasad Nadig as Nadek. 3) The Anniversary venue is NIAS ( National Institute of Advanced studies ) , an institution behind IISc and not IISc itself. NIAS is related to IISc, I think. 4) It is Wikimedia India Chapter , NOT Wikipedia India Chapter. Altough I wanted the article to emphasize on the anniversary event ( to drive people to participate in the event) , somehow the article focus went to chapter, which was still yet to be announced on its formation. The journalist is not the regular one in DNA newspaper ,whom I am usually in touch with for Wikimedia/Wikipedia news and had to be educated on our history , still he made some serious errors. I have already communicated the errors to the journalist and he promptly apologized. The *good thing* was that the article with emphasis on chapter came on the exact day of announcement on its formation. Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia
And they missed you , Alolitha and Achal Prabhala too :) Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Mani Pande mpa...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 1/14/11 5:12 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/3117.html Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing listWikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l Just FYI, Nimish is not an Indian, he is from Nepal so still from the Indian sub-continent :) -- Mani Pande, PhD Global Development Research The Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: manipande Skype: manipande ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Wikimedia Chapter Registered
Feel free to express you views at the comments section http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the potential muting of some responses with remarks about email etiquette as post script on my post. I am glad to see some responses. Please feel free to share suggestions, ideas, questions on how Chapter can help realize the collective dreams of Wikipedians through the mailing lists as well as wikimedia.in website. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa.com@ gmail.com wrote: Congrats!! This is great news!! And on a perfect timing of the 10th Anniversary celebrations. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello all, We are very pleased to announce the successful registration of the Wikimedia Chapter vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District Certificate No: SOR/BLU/DR/1137/10-11 dt 03 Jan 2011. We have become a formal entity due to the untiring efforts of Wikipedians (in alphabetical order) Anirudh Bhati, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramarathnam, Balasundararaman, Gautam John, Hari Prasad Nadig, Srinivas Gunta for over two long years with support from Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member, Bishakha Datta, Wikimedia Foundation Trustee and Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation. We would like to place on record the support by Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, specially its director, Sunil Abraham for extending their office support for chapter and community meetings and registration support by its auditor Mr MN Rao. The efforts of Gautam John and Arun Ramarathnam in working with registration authorities are appreciated. We are delighted with this development, as Wikimedians all over world are celebrating Wikipedia's Tenth anniversary this week. We have over 60 events happening in India(http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:India). At this juncture, we would like to commit ourselves to taking Wikimedia Movement to greater heights by engaging with Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedian community in India and all Indians by working with special focus on all Indian languages including English. With your active participation and support, Chapter can play a key role in enabling access to free knowledge to everyone. In the next few weeks, you will hear more actively from the Chapter on various initiatives. In the mean time, for any questions, please send a mail to executive committee mailing list wikimedia-in-e...@wikimedia.in Please do check Wikimedia India website http://wikimedia.in for further updates. Cheers On behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee, Arjuna Rao Chavala PS: Please help reduce the noise on the mailing list to the minimum by not sending your appreciation remarks to the entire list and placing the same on wikimedia.in announcement discussion page http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.projects4students.com ___ Wikimedia-IN-Exec mailing list wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-exec ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Wikimedia Chapter Registered
Congratulations from New Delhi. Salmaan Haroon User:Theo10011 On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:49 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Feel free to express you views at the comments section http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Sorry for the potential muting of some responses with remarks about email etiquette as post script on my post. I am glad to see some responses. Please feel free to share suggestions, ideas, questions on how Chapter can help realize the collective dreams of Wikipedians through the mailing lists as well as wikimedia.in website. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa.com@ gmail.com wrote: Congrats!! This is great news!! And on a perfect timing of the 10th Anniversary celebrations. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello all, We are very pleased to announce the successful registration of the Wikimedia Chapter vide Registrar of Societies, Bangalore Urban District Certificate No: SOR/BLU/DR/1137/10-11 dt 03 Jan 2011. We have become a formal entity due to the untiring efforts of Wikipedians (in alphabetical order) Anirudh Bhati, Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramarathnam, Balasundararaman, Gautam John, Hari Prasad Nadig, Srinivas Gunta for over two long years with support from Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia Foundation Advisory Board member, Bishakha Datta, Wikimedia Foundation Trustee and Barry Newstead, Chief Global Development Officer, Wikimedia Foundation. We would like to place on record the support by Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, specially its director, Sunil Abraham for extending their office support for chapter and community meetings and registration support by its auditor Mr MN Rao. The efforts of Gautam John and Arun Ramarathnam in working with registration authorities are appreciated. We are delighted with this development, as Wikimedians all over world are celebrating Wikipedia's Tenth anniversary this week. We have over 60 events happening in India(http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:India). At this juncture, we would like to commit ourselves to taking Wikimedia Movement to greater heights by engaging with Wikimedia Foundation, Wikimedian community in India and all Indians by working with special focus on all Indian languages including English. With your active participation and support, Chapter can play a key role in enabling access to free knowledge to everyone. In the next few weeks, you will hear more actively from the Chapter on various initiatives. In the mean time, for any questions, please send a mail to executive committee mailing list wikimedia-in-e...@wikimedia.in Please do check Wikimedia India website http://wikimedia.in for further updates. Cheers On behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee, Arjuna Rao Chavala PS: Please help reduce the noise on the mailing list to the minimum by not sending your appreciation remarks to the entire list and placing the same on wikimedia.in announcement discussion page http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.projects4students.com ___ Wikimedia-IN-Exec mailing list wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-exec ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Prothom-Alo published article on 10 Years of Wikipedia
Kudos Belayet for the week long celebrations in Bangladesh. regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Belayet Hossain bella...@gmail.com wrote: Leading Bangladeshi daily news paper Prothom-Alo published article on 10 Years of Wikipedia, http://www.eprothomalo.com/index.php?opt=viewpage=36date=2011-01-14 Thanks to Munir bhai for the write up. Belayet Wikimedia Bangladesh -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia
The title is misleading. They are Foundation employees. anirudh On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:30 PM, Mani Pande mpa...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 1/14/11 5:12 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/3117.html Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing listWikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l Just FYI, Nimish is not an Indian, he is from Nepal so still from the Indian sub-continent :) -- Mani Pande, PhD Global Development Research The Wikimedia Foundation Twitter: manipande Skype: manipande ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:41 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: And they missed you , Alolitha and Achal Prabhala too :) Regards Tinu Cherian Well, isn't the title of this feature itself a bit misleading? There are hundreds of Indians behind Wikipedia. They should have actually titled this particular feature Indians in Wikimedia Foundation or such. Wikipedia is what it is today because of the community, the volunteers. It is rather unfair towards all the fine community members, editors from India who spend hours of their daily time editing Wikipedia when they are not included in what is titled Indians behind Wikipedia. :P -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia
Lets not forget its IBN, the people who thought Wikipedia and Wikileaks are same. Probably we need to organise a serious media - tutoring session going forward. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 00:30, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:41 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: And they missed you , Alolitha and Achal Prabhala too :) Regards Tinu Cherian Well, isn't the title of this feature itself a bit misleading? There are hundreds of Indians behind Wikipedia. They should have actually titled this particular feature Indians in Wikimedia Foundation or such. Wikipedia is what it is today because of the community, the volunteers. It is rather unfair towards all the fine community members, editors from India who spend hours of their daily time editing Wikipedia when they are not included in what is titled Indians behind Wikipedia. :P -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiProject MiniBiography of Indian Professors
Thanks Bala. Dear All I am feeling good to be a part of Wikipedia community. Although I am an avid reader of Wikipedia pages, I have never contributed to Wikipedia in any way except using it to learn and know more on diverse stuff. So, as a Wikipedia contributor, it is going to be my first assignment (hopefully, not last :)) with Wikipedia. Please feel free to discuss anything related to this project, update WikiProject page (I am novice in that so mistakes may happen) and provide us your valuable feedback. I am sure, this project will be materialized and completed within time with your immense support and feedback. I am attending the Wikipedia 10th anniversary celebrations tomorrow. Please feel free to come and talk to me in person. *About Me:* I am a software developer and currently working with Citrix RD India Pvt Ltd. This is my first job in IT industry. Prior to this, I did my Btech(CSE) from AMU (Aligarh Muslim University), Aligarh and then Mtech(CSE) from IIT Bombay. I have been born and brought up in Aligarh, UP. I love to do reading, swimming and day-dreaming. Sometimes, I also do blogging http://decodeindia.blogspot.com/. Around 6 months ago, I found an interesting scenario in wikipedia page of FIFA world cup 2010 and i wrote a blog about it as well :). Please have a look: http://decodeindia.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html I am sure, I will enjoy this journey with Wikipedia. Thanks Regards Pulkit On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:19 AM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Hi all, There's a new gift from Pulkit Gupta for Wikipedia's tenth birthday. A few days back, he got in touch with me through a common friend. As a regular reader of technical articles in English Wikipedia, Pulkit saw the big shortage in the coverage of academicians in India. He wanted to fix it and had ideas for collecting data about professors to create articles. I pointed him to the relevant policy pages on notability etc., and helped him create a Wikiproject at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_MiniBiography_of_Indian_Professors. He has done a lot more groundwork forming a team of volunteers and enlisting the support of his professor at IIT-B to objectively frame notability guidelines. Let us welcome Pulkit and please support the WikiProject and help them reach 100% coverage in the coming year. Cheers, Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture -- Pulkit Gupta Software Development Engineer Citrix RD India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore - 560052 Contact No: 91-9741 616 919 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] WP X at Indore
Dear all, just a short note to let you know that WP X events at Indore went off very well on 12th January, 2011. The agenda of the day was well received (http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indoreoldid=12187). The highlight of the day was getting a call from Bangalore during the documentary screening that the chapter registration is complete; I announced it in style at the end of the screening to a loud round of applause. I will post a detailed report in a few days' time - meanwhile, some photos of the event have been posted at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_Indore. I request all WP X celebrators to share the digital memories of their celebrations at an appropriate sub-category of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_India. Thanks and best wishes for those celebrating WP X on 15th January and later. Regards, Srinivas. Wikimedia handle: Gurubrahma ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WP X at Indore
Congratulations Srinivas!!! We saw pictures from the event on Commons. Looks like there were a lot of participants in the auditorium. regards Arun On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:49 AM, guru brahma wiki...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Dear all, just a short note to let you know that WP X events at Indore went off very well on 12th January, 2011. The agenda of the day was well received (http://ten.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indoreoldid=12187). The highlight of the day was getting a call from Bangalore during the documentary screening that the chapter registration is complete; I announced it in style at the end of the screening to a loud round of applause. I will post a detailed report in a few days' time - meanwhile, some photos of the event have been posted at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_Indore. I request all WP X celebrators to share the digital memories of their celebrations at an appropriate sub-category of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_10_India. Thanks and best wishes for those celebrating WP X on 15th January and later. Regards, Srinivas. Wikimedia handle: Gurubrahma ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia
In-line :- On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 00:34, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Lets not forget its IBN, the people who thought Wikipedia and Wikileaks are same. Probably we need to organise a serious media - tutoring session going forward. I would say the article is half-half. Frankly speaking, apart from Bhishaka and Alolita I didn't know if there are more Indians associated with Wikimedia . If I didn't know and wanted to connect with them, there are no contact details nor a way to connect with them. Of the 6 people figured, only where one person, Mr. Neil Kangdalgoankar he is based in San Francisco is known, for others no information in that regard. And they call us bloggers, yellow-journalists :P Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WP X at Indore
At bottom :- On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 03:28, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Srinivas!!! We saw pictures from the event on Commons. Looks like there were a lot of participants in the auditorium. regards Arun snipped Look forwards to the detailed report as well. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Available to help at th Bangalore Event
Hi Moka, On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Moka Pantages mpanta...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hello, everyone. I'm really excited to attend the Bangalore event tomorrow. I plan to be there all day, so if you need my help with anything at all, please let me know. I'm happy to help with whatever is needed. We are glad to have you for Bangalore event representing Wikimedia Foundation. We will firm up the specific sessions where you can speak on the agenda in the morning. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiPuneri - people coming together in Pune
Hi, Wikipedians in Pune have come together to contribute to Wikipedia and Commons. They have formed a Facebook cum Flickr group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_181231605233363 http://www.flickr.com/groups/1605961@N23/ The piece below is the philosophy behind the group. It also gives details of some activities we have already carried out. Its notable as a ready-made explanation that you can use for your own evangelism and available under CC Attribution Sharealike. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- WIKIPUNERI (Facebook Flickr group) Before I explain what WikiPuneri group does, I would like to explain in short about Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons is not an encyclopaedia, it is a media repository. Wikipedia, as you all know, is the free online encyclopaedia which anyone can edit. There are a total of 278 Wikipedias in the world, each in a different language. The English Wikipedia is the largest with 3,528,428 articles. As of now there are twenty wikipedias in Indian languages - including in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, blah, blah and blah. Of these Marathi Wikipedia is the third in size with over 30,000 articles. In addition there are twenty more wikipedias in other Indian languages in the process of being developed. Now why I have mentioned this is because all of these use photographs, video clips and sound files. Now, it is a waste of space for each Wikipedia to load its images exclusively for itself. Hence the Wikimedia Foundation has created another project called as Wikimedia Commons or in short just Commons. Commons is the media repository. All photos, video clips and sound files are uploaded here just once and they immediately become available to all wikipedias. The number of images on Wikimedia Commons about an important subject say Pune city is important. That is because all the images on Commons are free. When I say free, I mean free as in free speech as well as in free beer. You are free to use them as you wish, even commercially, as long as you attribute whose image you have used and as long as you make the material available under a free license. These images on Commons are placed under one of a variety of licenses that give you these rights and permissions - this kind of license is called a free license, which allows you to use the images as you wish, as long as you attribute and give free license to people to use your work in turn. The most common free license used around the world is the Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License Why? Why this talk about free licenses? Because images are usually copyrighted with all rights reserved by the creator. Because a person who is going to break the law and steal or illegally use your image will not bother about whether image is copyrighted or free to use. But the law abiding person can neither use a copyrighted image whose creator has kept all rights for himself without breaking the law nor can he afford it. Usually you have to pay a fee ranging from a hundred to tens of thousands of rupees to use a photograph commercially per image. Poor people cant afford that, even if the cause is noble or good for society. Many people agree to permit use of their photos free for a good cause, but it is difficult or sometimes impossible to contact people who have good images on Flickr, Picassa or web ste. So a repository of free images is required. Wikimedia Commons is exactly that - it not only stores images for Wikipedias but also makes them available for everyone in society to use, even commercially. Imagine a person, Mr Patil, who has knowledge which he wants to share with the world. Suppose he wants to write a very economically priced book on Butterflies Of Maharashtra in Marathi for all the children of Maharashtra to read. To illustrate it he will need over three hundred images. If he buys the images, the book will be extremely costly and not free or cheap. But he can take the images from Commons and use them to illustrate his book. He will have to do only two things - acknowledge the person whose photos he has used and publish it not under copyright with all rights reserved but with free Creative Commons license I mentioned to you. Mr Patil can use these images, print the book cheaply and even make a small honest profit. The free license allows people to use Mr Patil's book in a constructive manner. They can make derivatives. A biology teacher takes material from his book and makes a chart of common butterflies for display in class rooms. He acknowledges at the bottom of the chart that the information is taken from Patil's book, mentions the authors of images used and publishes the chart under a free lisense. Another person thinks that the book and chart are valuable educational resources and translates it into English, Hindi, and other Indian
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiPuneri - people coming together in Pune
Awesome project! Good luck with the first uploads. Let us know if you need help working with the Wikimedia Commons community to make this a successful project, I'm sure the experienced Wikimedians on this list as well as the community dept. at WMF would be happy to help in case there are any problems. All best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Dhaka celebrating 10 years of Wikipedia
On 14th Dhaka celebrate 10 years of Wikipedia through Kite flying for Wikipedia. Here is some photos of the event at Facebook, http://bit.ly/fIvWVq Happy Birthday Wikipedia! Belayet Wikimedia Bangladesh -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. Hillel If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiPuneri - people coming together in Pune
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 06:46, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Wikipedians in Pune have come together to contribute to Wikipedia and Commons. They have formed a Facebook cum Flickr group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_181231605233363 http://www.flickr.com/groups/1605961@N23/ The piece below is the philosophy behind the group. It also gives details of some activities we have already carried out. Its notable as a ready-made explanation that you can use for your own evangelism and available under CC Attribution Sharealike. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- WIKIPUNERI (Facebook Flickr group) Before I explain what WikiPuneri group does, I would like to explain in short about Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons is not an encyclopaedia, it is a media repository. Wikipedia, as you all know, is the free online encyclopaedia which anyone can edit. There are a total of 278 Wikipedias in the world, each in a different language. The English Wikipedia is the largest with 3,528,428 articles. As of now there are twenty wikipedias in Indian languages - including in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, blah, blah and blah. Of these Marathi Wikipedia is the third in size with over 30,000 articles. In addition there are twenty more wikipedias in other Indian languages in the process of being developed. Now why I have mentioned this is because all of these use photographs, video clips and sound files. Now, it is a waste of space for each Wikipedia to load its images exclusively for itself. Hence the Wikimedia Foundation has created another project called as Wikimedia Commons or in short just Commons. Commons is the media repository. All photos, video clips and sound files are uploaded here just once and they immediately become available to all wikipedias. The number of images on Wikimedia Commons about an important subject say Pune city is important. That is because all the images on Commons are free. When I say free, I mean free as in free speech as well as in free beer. You are free to use them as you wish, even commercially, as long as you attribute whose image you have used and as long as you make the material available under a free license. These images on Commons are placed under one of a variety of licenses that give you these rights and permissions - this kind of license is called a free license, which allows you to use the images as you wish, as long as you attribute and give free license to people to use your work in turn. The most common free license used around the world is the Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike license. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License Why? Why this talk about free licenses? Because images are usually copyrighted with all rights reserved by the creator. Because a person who is going to break the law and steal or illegally use your image will not bother about whether image is copyrighted or free to use. But the law abiding person can neither use a copyrighted image whose creator has kept all rights for himself without breaking the law nor can he afford it. Usually you have to pay a fee ranging from a hundred to tens of thousands of rupees to use a photograph commercially per image. Poor people cant afford that, even if the cause is noble or good for society. Many people agree to permit use of their photos free for a good cause, but it is difficult or sometimes impossible to contact people who have good images on Flickr, Picassa or web ste. So a repository of free images is required. Wikimedia Commons is exactly that - it not only stores images for Wikipedias but also makes them available for everyone in society to use, even commercially. Imagine a person, Mr Patil, who has knowledge which he wants to share with the world. Suppose he wants to write a very economically priced book on Butterflies Of Maharashtra in Marathi for all the children of Maharashtra to read. To illustrate it he will need over three hundred images. If he buys the images, the book will be extremely costly and not free or cheap. But he can take the images from Commons and use them to illustrate his book. He will have to do only two things - acknowledge the person whose photos he has used and publish it not under copyright with all rights reserved but with free Creative Commons license I mentioned to you. Mr Patil can use these images, print the book cheaply and even make a small honest profit. The free license allows people to use Mr Patil's book in a constructive manner. They can make derivatives. A biology teacher takes material from his book and makes a chart of common butterflies for display in class rooms. He acknowledges at the bottom of the chart that the information is taken from Patil's book, mentions the authors of images used and publishes the chart under a free lisense.
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Dhaka celebrating 10 years of Wikipedia
Fantastic photos Belayat! Particularly love the Wikipedia kite and the team in their cool Wikipedia t-shirts. Congrats! Barry Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Belayet Hossain bella...@gmail.com Sender: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:45:46 To: Discussion list for Bangladeshi Wikimedianswikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedians in and from West Bengal,Indiawikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org; Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Planning for WP 10th anniversarywiki...@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Dhaka celebrating 10 years of Wikipedia ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.comwrote: It is rather unfair towards all the fine community members, editors from India who spend hours of their daily time editing Wikipedia when they are not included in what is titled Indians behind Wikipedia. :P The same thought struck me too: part of the intensive media education needed. Btw, Anirudh: I'm not a Fdn employee.:) Bishakha -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Wikimedia Chapter Registered
Way to go! What a timing! Kudos to those who worked behind this :) -- വിക്കനഭി wikkanabhi.wordpress.com flickr.com/photos/abhishek_jacob ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:Abhishek_Jacob ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: First release of Report Card for India (Beta)
A wonderful birthday gift from Erik Zachte to all of us. Happy 10th! Bishakha -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Zachte erikzac...@infodisiac.com Date: Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:27 AM Subject: First release of Report Card for India (Beta) Dear all, Here is the first release of a Report Card for India, mostly following Mani’s proposed layout. As promised just in time for the 15th , and even including automatically generated charts. (R is a productive tool, but fine tuning chart layout is not exactly trivial). http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/ReportCardIndia.htm The charts show multi-year trends, as this provides a much better perspective than one year line plots. The plan is to switch to multi-year trends on the General Report Card as well. Of course this is only a first draft. More key metrics could be added (e.g. number of admins per 1000 editors). Shiju, I hope this also can serve as a basis to ease your monthly reporting chore, please let me know what you think it. Also I hope to generate this ‘wiki at a glance’ report for each Wikimedia and provide other regional sets. * * Happy 10th anniversary! Erik Zachte * * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
