Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone
Thanks for these stats and the descriptions of policy you have all shared. I find them quite interesting. Cheers, Asaf On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: In fact, bot edits in Indian Wikis is also an interesting metric. For example, see the below table to understand share of the *percentage of bot edits* across some major Indian wikis. - Bengali - 76 - Bishnupriya Manipuri - 97 - Gujarati - 37 - Hindi - 50 - Kannada - 59 - Malayalam - 42 - Marathi - 62 - Sanskrit - 85 - Tamil - 51 - Telugu - 51 - Urdu - 59 I know that for some Indian language wikipedians the only relevant metric is *number of articles*. But of course, not for the Malayalam wikipedians. We saw much value in all the metric that is published at http://stats.wikimedia.org/. I know many others are also finding value to it, that is why it is published every month. Shiju Alex On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:33 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Praveen, You've shown how much insight we can glean by provoking Malayalam Wiki friends. ;) We all got a great inside view of the different aspects of participation in one of the finest Indian wikis. So if anybody believes that Malayalam Wikipedia is irrelevant, I welcome them to there to check its irrelevancy and contribute their home wikii until it become irrelevant like Malayalam Wikipedia. :) I don't think anyone doubted that. - 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:* praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com *To:* Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Thu, January 27, 2011 5:58:25 PM *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone On Thursday 27 January 2011 10:31 AM, Ravishankar wrote: Its not just about stubs. We have users in Tamil Wikipedia who bulk upload 100s of complete articles they wrote offline with just one edit per article. One great article can be uploaded in one click and one mediocre article can have 100s of edits. According to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias *Depths above 300 for Wikipediashttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#Notesbelow 100 000 articles have been automatically dismissed as irrelevant. * When we focus on number of articles, some end up creating useless stubs. The same should not happen when we focus on edit counts. Ravi This may be nothing related to original thread. Sorry. Malayalam wikipedia has its strength and its weakness. Depth is just an indicator of collaborative character of editors. For a massive multiauthor collaboration site, some measurement mechanism is better than none. But I don't think large number of edits are bad. If anyone thinks that articel by single edit is better than multi edited article, I must say thats not wiki style :( . But there is an another issue, number of bot edits. Many ml users, mainly students, like to play with bots. Malayalam Wikipedia has never discouraged anyone for testing their bots (if their edits are okay), because user satisfaction is also a Wikipedia goal. We know that eventually they will create a great bot :). Sometimes running a bot is not very simple. I had a spell checker bot and I had to overview all of its edits, because of Malayalam's ligatures and grammatical rules [or may be because bad logic ;-)]. Even after running couple of months, it threw exceptions. So I'll say bot edits also are a kind of manual inputs. Now there are many global bots, most of them contributing interwiki. Bot conflict and bot-edit-war occurs occasionally which we usually avoided by protecting the page or by noticing the owner (Recent eg: See history of വർഗ്ഗം:ഫലകങ്ങൾhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%97%E0%B4%82:%E0%B4%AB%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%BEaction=history). Malayalam Wikipedia is a small wiki, just over 16000 pages on main namespace, so it is easy to exaggerate bot contribution. But actually it is not, whenever a bot identified as doing unwanted edit it gets blocked. There are many wiki-projects which always engage users to do something on wiki. So whenever a user find an error, even it is the minute one, he/she corrects it. Nobody waits for large content to edit. Many portal (കവാടം) pages are there, which helps users to find their favourite topic. In ml.wp - many pages in category namespace (there is an active categorization wiki-project, which keeps articles finely categorized), large number of templates and many help pages and project pages with good content (I'm sure that many of these help pages and project pages are really useful to new
[Wikimediaindia-l] Can we aggregate news related to wikipedia / wikimedia in India in one place
Hi All, Wouldn't it be great if there was a single wiki page where all such links and news could be posted by wikipedians? Maybe we can make one and then program the group to display a link to that page at the bottom of all communications, so that anyone sharing something awesome also posts it there. This way we can show people a single-place resource for all news related to wikipedia / wikimedia in India and hence bring in a lot more visibility and publicity. It's not plausible to collect all these news sources by traversing through the myriad emails, so it would be great to have one page where everything comes together. And it's too tall a task for any one individual, but if everybody pitches in then we can build something amazing together. I don't know how to go about setting this up, so evoking this here. If it's already been created, then please share it. For an external example, I've setup something similar in a mindmap, now a wiki-map, for Teach For India and have got a very good response for it. You can see there how various useful links are now collected in one place. http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/76500874 Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow, 2011-13 www.nikhilsheth.tk Find me on: Twitter http://twitter.com/nikhiljs | Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/nikjs| LinkedIn http://in.linkedin.com/in/nikhiljs | Google http://www.google.com/profiles/nikhil.js| RangDehttp://www.rangde.org/investor/nikhilsheth Join me on: Pune Documentary Clubhttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=138497769525636| Let's Do it Pune http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-do-it-Pune/103857326346659 | Toastmasters in Punehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Toastmasters-in-Pune/148767611833746| Wikipedia For Schools projecthttp://education.wikia.com/wiki/Wikipedia_For_Schools_Offline_Edition ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Can we aggregate news related to wikipedia / wikimedia in India in one place
Hi Nikhil: Wouldn't it be great if there was a single wiki page where all such links and news could be posted by wikipedians? There is this: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/ReportCardIndia.htm Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Can we aggregate news related to wikipedia / wikimedia in India in one place
Are you referring to http://wikimedia.in/wiki/In_the_news ? - Tinu Cherian On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Nikhil Sheth nikhil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Wouldn't it be great if there was a single wiki page where all such links and news could be posted by wikipedians? Maybe we can make one and then program the group to display a link to that page at the bottom of all communications, so that anyone sharing something awesome also posts it there. This way we can show people a single-place resource for all news related to wikipedia / wikimedia in India and hence bring in a lot more visibility and publicity. It's not plausible to collect all these news sources by traversing through the myriad emails, so it would be great to have one page where everything comes together. And it's too tall a task for any one individual, but if everybody pitches in then we can build something amazing together. I don't know how to go about setting this up, so evoking this here. If it's already been created, then please share it. For an external example, I've setup something similar in a mindmap, now a wiki-map, for Teach For India and have got a very good response for it. You can see there how various useful links are now collected in one place. http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/76500874 Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow, 2011-13 www.nikhilsheth.tk Find me on: Twitter http://twitter.com/nikhiljs | Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/nikjs| LinkedIn http://in.linkedin.com/in/nikhiljs | Google http://www.google.com/profiles/nikhil.js| RangDehttp://www.rangde.org/investor/nikhilsheth Join me on: Pune Documentary Clubhttp://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=138497769525636| Let's Do it Pune http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lets-do-it-Pune/103857326346659| Toastmasters in Punehttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Toastmasters-in-Pune/148767611833746| Wikipedia For Schools projecthttp://education.wikia.com/wiki/Wikipedia_For_Schools_Offline_Edition ___ 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 India chapter
Thanks Gautam , Would it be a good idea to record the Agenda MoM of the EC meetings ( hopefully previous ones, if there are ) ? That may possibly help the community to be in sync with what the chapter is thinking planning.. and important decisions that are taken. Thoughts ? Not sure, whether there is a possibility of an annual meeting within this financial year as articulated by MoA. One person raised a question to me privately, I thought it might be good to ask here, that whether the current term of office bearers like President etc and EC members starts from the date of approval of the chapter or registration date of the chapter in India ? Last year 2010, Arunram Hari Nadig represented India at the Chapter committees in Berlin , as chapter to be. It will be a proud moment as we are representing us as an official chapter for the first time, this year. Was wondering if the community has some expectations on this. Thoughts? Congrats and best wishes to Anirudh who is representing India at Frankfurt, Germany on the movement roles Project http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles_project As we wait for the announcements of Wikimedia Foundation office in India National Program Director, I believe 2011 will be a great year for the Wikimedia India movement. Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: Thank you, Tinu. Praveen, we probably have been less than ideal in our communication and we still trying to find our feet here. Suggestions are welcome, please. As for membership, as soon as we have our bank account which should happen in four weeks or so. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 30 January 2011 07:57, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Changed the subject line again.. ( Subject deviation again :) ) Hi Praveen, May I ask , what is not really clear about the chapter ? Wikimedia India chapter is registered now as a legal entity in India [1] in Jan 2010 ; there is an Executive committee with 7 members , the office bearers are [2] Arun Ramarathnam, President ; BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Secretary ; Arjuna Rao Chavala, Treasurer etc May be it is time for the chapter to open up the membership to the community? or even making the agenda meeting minutes of the Wikimedia India chapter EC available to all like the Wikimedia Foundation Board [3] ( so that these confusions to common Wikimedians can be avoided) ? If there are still any misunderstandings/unclear things, the EC members must be happy to answer them. I'm all excited to see the Wikimedia India chapter getting more active and the chapter community working closely in the coming days. [1] http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-PostChapComVer [3] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings Regards Tinu Cherian N.B. I am not speaking on behalf of the chapter , neither am I a EC member/ordinary member. My understandings are based on various threads on the mailing lists. On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:40 AM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: I like that incidental fallout phrase. ;-) I can now understand why chapter and none of its activities are clear to common wikimedian. :) ___ 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
I am from Kolkata West Bengal ( Bengali Wikipedia). I would like to know what kind of support want from me and vice versa regarding membership. On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: Thank you, Tinu. Praveen, we probably have been less than ideal in our communication and we still trying to find our feet here. Suggestions are welcome, please. As for membership, as soon as we have our bank account which should happen in four weeks or so. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 30 January 2011 07:57, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Changed the subject line again.. ( Subject deviation again :) ) Hi Praveen, May I ask , what is not really clear about the chapter ? Wikimedia India chapter is registered now as a legal entity in India [1] in Jan 2010 ; there is an Executive committee with 7 members , the office bearers are [2] Arun Ramarathnam, President ; BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Secretary ; Arjuna Rao Chavala, Treasurer etc May be it is time for the chapter to open up the membership to the community? or even making the agenda meeting minutes of the Wikimedia India chapter EC available to all like the Wikimedia Foundation Board [3] ( so that these confusions to common Wikimedians can be avoided) ? If there are still any misunderstandings/unclear things, the EC members must be happy to answer them. I'm all excited to see the Wikimedia India chapter getting more active and the chapter community working closely in the coming days. [1] http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-PostChapComVer [3] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings Regards Tinu Cherian N.B. I am not speaking on behalf of the chapter , neither am I a EC member/ordinary member. My understandings are based on various threads on the mailing lists. On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:40 AM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: I like that incidental fallout phrase. ;-) I can now understand why chapter and none of its activities are clear to common wikimedian. :) ___ 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 -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://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 India chapter
On 30 January 2011 07:57, CherianTinu Abrahamtinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Changed the subject line again.. ( Subject deviation again :) ) Hi Praveen, May I ask , what is not really clear about the chapter ? Wikimedia India chapter is registered now as a legal entity in India [1] in Jan 2010 ; there is an Executive committee with 7 members , the office bearers are [2] Arun Ramarathnam, President ; BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Secretary ; Arjuna Rao Chavala, Treasurer etc May be it is time for the chapter to open up the membership to the community? or even making the agenda meeting minutes of the Wikimedia India chapter EC available to all like the Wikimedia Foundation Board [3] ( so that these confusions to common Wikimedians can be avoided) ? If there are still any misunderstandings/unclear things, the EC members must be happy to answer them. I'm all excited to see the Wikimedia India chapter getting more active and the chapter community working closely in the coming days. [1] http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-PostChapComVer [3] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings Regards Tinu Cherian N.B. I am not speaking on behalf of the chapter , neither am I a EC member/ordinary member. My understandings are based on various threads on the mailing lists. :) I believe I've sent a couple of mails on this matter. And on a quick search I found my last query is not answered :( BTW don't interpret my queries as I am a candidate for membership. I do not and will not want any kind of membership there, I've my limitations. But I want it open, I want clear communication, I want answers, I want a clear view of Its procedures and actions. And I am certain that we need more ground based members, who can effectively communicate common users and holding wiki ideology. I expect encouragements from a chapter and its members. But I found no encouragements but teasing from that side in the parent thread. I'm sorry If I hurt anyone; But I really have to ask my doubts, I am an Indian Wikimedian :) On Sunday 30 January 2011 09:26 AM, Gautam John wrote: we still trying to find our feet here. Suggestions are welcome, please. In that case what was the urgency to such a premature creation? As for membership, as soon as we have our bank account which should happen in four weeks or so. I believe I am clear above. May I know how you are connected wikimedia communities? I don't understand that how a man reluctant to edit wikies (UL http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ACentralAuthtarget=GKJohn) is so passionate to lead other users from WMIN. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
Dear Tinu and Jayanta: Thank you very much for the ideas and suggestions. The minutes and resolutions should be part of the public record. As much as I think it would be nice to have an AGM this year, there is a good chance that we will get out PAN/Bank Account etc. too late for this to be possible in a meaningful way with a significant general body. What might be a good idea is to have an EC public meeting of some sorts some time soon? As for the term, I think it runs from the date of the first EC meeting post registration but will check. A thought was maybe we could create a new page on http://wikimedia.in/ and start to fill in the what the community thinks the role of the EC ought to be and use that as a starting point for discussions? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:27 AM, Gautam John wrote: Dear Praveen: In that case what was the urgency to such a premature creation? I don't quite understand - urgency? One can only find one's feet after the body is created, right? Sorry, I think a concrete foundation is necessary to create a body. I believe I am clear above. May I know how you are connected wikimedia communities? I don't understand that how a man reluctant to edit wikies (UL) is so passionate to lead other users from WMIN. Fair criticism Praveen and you aren't the first one to ask either. Wikimedia, to me, is larger than the just projects and embodies philosophies and ideals that I find very dear. Much of my work revolves around these ideals and you can read some of it here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/24780 I have no desire to lead but one to bootstrap a body that is supportive of the community - of all of you. I am immaterial in the larger scheme of the things and the Chapter should and must be a reflection of the community. Thank you. Fair, But I think not enough :( ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
On 30 January 2011 11:39, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I think a concrete foundation is necessary to create a body. Well, that does exist in the aims and objective in the MoA that is up on Meta and while those are broad, direction-ary goals, it behooves upon us all to detail them. Fair, But I think not enough :( I respect your criticism. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
@Praveen,Chapter just now created. So in future there must be openness for all issue. Anyone can join our advocacy programme without edit wikimedia. Nos of edit is not criteria. The chapter created as society so there must be voting system. So not worry!! On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 30 January 2011 11:39, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I think a concrete foundation is necessary to create a body. Well, that does exist in the aims and objective in the MoA that is up on Meta and while those are broad, direction-ary goals, it behooves upon us all to detail them. Fair, But I think not enough :( I respect your criticism. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://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] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone
Hi Praveen, I like that incidental fallout phrase. ;-) I can now understand why chapter and none of its activities are clear to common wikimedian. :) Glad you liked the phrase. :) However, I don't understand the connection between that and your following sentence about the chapter's activities. I'm as much a common wikimedian as you, by the way. - 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 - Original Message From: praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sun, January 30, 2011 1:40:40 AM Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone On Friday 28 January 2011 11:16 AM, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: Hi Praveen, Unfortunately I cannot find any fun there. And provoking is not an option in collaboration. You could have just ask. I do agree. I was only referring to the incidental fallout of you getting provoked. I wouldn't support intentionally provoking anyone for that matter. And, I'm sure nobody else had such an intention as well. I'm sorry if you're offended. - Sundar I like that incidental fallout phrase. ;-) I can now understand why chapter and none of its activities are clear to common wikimedian. :) ___ 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 India chapter
Dear Praveen, I think I am missing some of the points here. Can you please put up your ideas and give some examples so that people here will get some more clarity. As you mentioned, things are fair but not enough please put up your ideas so that things will be enough and more All of us can think and work in achieving it.. Best regards, -Sudhanwa On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:39 AM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 30 January 2011 11:27 AM, Gautam John wrote: Dear Praveen: In that case what was the urgency to such a premature creation? I don't quite understand - urgency? One can only find one's feet after the body is created, right? Sorry, I think a concrete foundation is necessary to create a body. I believe I am clear above. May I know how you are connected wikimedia communities? I don't understand that how a man reluctant to edit wikies (UL) is so passionate to lead other users from WMIN. Fair criticism Praveen and you aren't the first one to ask either. Wikimedia, to me, is larger than the just projects and embodies philosophies and ideals that I find very dear. Much of my work revolves around these ideals and you can read some of it here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/24780 I have no desire to lead but one to bootstrap a body that is supportive of the community - of all of you. I am immaterial in the larger scheme of the things and the Chapter should and must be a reflection of the community. Thank you. Fair, But I think not enough :( ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.projects4students.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GSOC 2011
Thanks Santhosh. I've forwarded it to my alumni 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 - Original Message From: Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 6:57:53 PM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] GSOC 2011 Google has announced GSoC2011. http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2011/01/google-summer-of-code-announced-at-lca.html l The timeline is here: http://www.google-melange.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2011/timeline e This is a very good opportunity for students to participate and showcase their skills. Read the above links for more details. As you can read from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011 Mediawiki plans to participate in GSOC 2011. So students or mentors having wonderful project ideas to improve mediawiki, please add here http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Summer_of_Code_2011/Project_ideas Thanks Santhosh Thottingal ___ Wikimediaindia-l 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
