[Wikimediaindia-l] Fw: [Wikipedia-l] [ResourceLoader] JavaScript may break on your wiki: Fix it before that happens
FYI. We noticed some issues (like some custom tools not working) related to this in Tamil Wikipedia. Not sure whether all issues are resolved. Please check if other wikis are affected by this. - 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 - Forwarded Message From: Guillaume Paumier guillom@gmail.com To: Wikipedia mailing list wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org; English Wikipedia wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikimedia Commons Discussion List common...@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikisource mailing list wikisourc...@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikinews mailing list wikinew...@lists.wikimedia.org; Wiktionary mailing list wiktionar...@lists.wikimedia.org; Mailing list for Wikiversity wikiversit...@lists.wikimedia.org; Mailing list for the Wikiquote projects wikiquot...@lists.wikimedia.org; Wikibooks mailing list textboo...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Sat, February 12, 2011 3:23:58 PM Subject: [Wikipedia-l] [ResourceLoader] JavaScript may break on your wiki: Fix it before that happens Greetings, As you may know, the Wikimedia teach team has started to upgrade MediaWiki on some wikis. MediaWiki is the software that runs all Wikimedia wikis. The most visible change for Wikimedia users will be the deployment of ResourceLoader [1]. ResourceLoader optimizes the use of JavaScript in MediaWiki, speeding up its delivery by compressing it sometimes, and cutting down on the amount of unused JavaScript that gets delivered to the browser in the first place. The installation of ResourceLoader may cause compatibility issues with existing JavaScript code. Trevor Parscal and Roan Kattouw, the main developers of ResourceLoader, will be available on IRC [2] on Monday, February 14th, at 18:00 (UTC) [3], to answer questions and help fix issues related to ResourceLoader. *If you maintain JavaScript code on your home wiki, please attend.* Don't wait until your wiki's JavaScript is all broken. Please spread this information as widely as possible; it's critical to reach as many local JavaScript maintainers as possible. Logs of the session will be published publicly. [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/ResourceLoader [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours [3] All timezones: http://ur1.ca/3819u -- Guillaume Paumier Product manager - Wikimedia Foundation Support free knowledge: http://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikipedia-l mailing list wikipedi...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Thanks for the wikipedia session at MIT
Thanks Shrinivasan. I've copied the Wikimedia India mailing list for wider reach. I hope the top priority requirements for Wiki projects related to India will be added to http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_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: Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com To: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Thu, February 10, 2011 10:57:57 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-chn] Thanks for the wikipedia session at MIT Friends. Last sunday, I attended the wikipedia session at MIT. Thanks for the session. I see a lot of interest and enthusiasm in contributing to the wikipedia. I am from Indian Linux Users Group, Chennai [ http://ilugc.in ] We are collecting the list of projects to do for the Free Open Source Software. Here is the list. http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_List If you want any projects to be done, please add the details here. We are spreading this link to many colleges so that any students can pick any project and finish it. Please add you in the mentor page too. http://wiki.ilugc.in/index.php?title=Projects_Mentors Thanks a lot. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in ___ Wikimedia-in-chn mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-chn ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l
My last message has only 112 kb even with that embedded image. A 112 kb message is not bulky in these days. Some people told me that mail man will not block any message if there is nothing to load from outside. I remember once I used donate to wikipedia image in all my message, but never get any problem in any list. If thats also true for this list, please increase maximum message size for the list (500 kb or atleast 300 kb?). I saw Jyothis' messge to other thread was also under moderation for about 14 hrs (probably because he quoted me :D). On Saturday 12 February 2011 02:44 PM, Anirudh Bhati wrote: Hi Achal, On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com mailto:aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: As moderators of WikimediaIndia-l, could you describe the policy you normally adopt towards moderation? Thank you for the email. You can review the Wikimedia mailing lists administration page for information about the role of list admins and mods. Here is a link which you can review: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Administration Do you only block obvious spam or other messages, and if so on what basis? The spam filter on default catches spam and other bulky messages (including ones that have image(s) embedded in them.) I think Delphine's email contains a nice explanation. List mods can moderate trolls and other problem users who willfully cause or contribute to disruption on the mailing list. I am naturally curious since a message from Praveen that you only just released seems to have been sent in 3 days ago. Furthermore, I think we'd benefit from understanding how people may apply to become administrators on this list. I understand the source of curiosity and would like to clarify that Praveen's email was caught in the filter because it had an image embedded in it. In light of Anirudh's recent appointment to administrator of this list, is there an open process by which other members might apply? (Foundation-l seems to have three administrators, though I would imagine that there is nothing stopping WikimediaIndia-l from having more than three). There is no formal process for appointment of list administrators. The usual practice on Wikimedia lists is for the founder of a mailing list to appoint admins and mods whom s/he can trust with keeping the lists running as smoothly as possible. At this point of time, we don't feel the need for having more list administrators, however list subscribers who are interested in keeping a check on the spam filter as moderators can write an email to either list admins. Please note that I don't ask with persecutory intent, but merely to clear gaps in my own understanding, which might be a problem that other people on this list face as well. Since WikimediaIndia-l is such an important place for all kinds of conversations that cut across the movement in India, it's in all our interests to know exactly how it is managed. For more information, please review the following pages: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Overview Best regards, Achal Best, Anirudh Bhati ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto: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] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason
Hi all, I know that sometime back unified login happened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unified_login This is what I was doing :- a. Was in EN:WP and logged in - looked at the entries. b. Went to hindi wikipedia and tried to edit an article. I was not logged in. c. Thought perhaps I'm not chosen Unified login so went to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount, says you are unified. d. Did a shift-F5 and refreshed the page without the cache, for some reason the login didn't happen. Any pointers as to what could be the issue ? This is on Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on an Ubuntu 10.04 box although do not think its something to do with either the browser or the distribution. -- 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] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l
Hello everybody. I am a Wikipedian who is very interested in translation. I am helping with English to Kannada, but I am also learning chapter language. What is this? For eg. *Anirudh:* At this point of time, we don't feel the need for having more list administrators, however list subscribers who are interested in keeping a check on the spam filter as moderators can write an email to either list admins. *Translation:* Can all the ordinary members of this list please keep out of my business? I would prefer to continue censoring this list with my best friend HPN. After all, I am the EC of the India chapter and I have an unlimited Wikimedia Foundation sponsored travel budget which I regularly use to go to Frankfurt, Pune, Delhi, Bangalore, Berlin, etc. etc. and I would really like to get back to my travel now and stop worrying about stupid issues but if any of you slaves feels like doing my dirty work while I travel then of course I welcome that with open arms. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Please be CIVIL-- Ok Thanks Bye
I think the only option for me next is to unsubscribe due to recent decrease in Signal to Noise ratio.Please be CIVIL. No, am not asking you to assume good faith(you are free to raise questions, But just asking you to be CIVIL).I expect some support from senior members in taking a pledging to be CIVIL. Let me start, I will be CIVIL. #KThxBai Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason
AFAIK, Unified login just gives the option of logging in with the same username and password, without creating a new one for each wiki project. You still need to login manually with that unified user name and password combination. 2011/2/12 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com Hi all, I know that sometime back unified login happened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unified_login This is what I was doing :- a. Was in EN:WP and logged in - looked at the entries. b. Went to hindi wikipedia and tried to edit an article. I was not logged in. c. Thought perhaps I'm not chosen Unified login so went to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount, says you are unified. d. Did a shift-F5 and refreshed the page without the cache, for some reason the login didn't happen. Any pointers as to what could be the issue ? This is on Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on an Ubuntu 10.04 box although do not think its something to do with either the browser or the distribution. -- 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 -- Harish 9740069624 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] wikimedia india mailing list, what is it about ?
Hi all, Due to the recent nature of things and events a very basic question occured to me ? What is the purpose of this mailing list? A very broad definition or understanding which was there of the list is to co-ordinate indian activities in and around wikipedia and wikimedia. I went to the mailman interface to see if I could garner some more info. about the purpose/aims of the list but could not. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l If I look at the wikimedia india homepage I found info. about the mailing list in a stub way :- Wikimedia India Mailing List :- Important for all wikipedians to signup and stay connected. As far as the list is concerned, who is its target audience ? a. Programmers. b. Editors, baby editors and that ilk c. Users of Wikipedia. d. Translators e. Content creators, mashup creators ~ creative visionaries f. All of the above. g. Some of the above - describe who Let me talk from where I'm coming from , I come from b. and c. I am no high-level editor, I do some things for fun which leads to something learning and vice-versa. From both a community member perspective, a user perspective and a potential tester (in the near future) I see the list as a :- a. help list b. sounding board for new ideas. c. Making exciting events happen in and around the various wikipedia and wikimedia products 3-4 months ago before when I didn't even know that there was an Indian mailing list all my queries esp. while editing were on the #wikipedia IRC channel on freenode. Now while sometimes my issues used to get solved, sometimes not and I was not even that there was an Indian community and an Indian mailing list. The sad part then was any of the issues could be drowned out in the noise which has a possibility of it being documented on the mailing list. From an Indian's perspective the Village Pump is not at all adequate enwp.org/wp:vp bias if you look at that page itself, it has Americana written all over it, its all points and stuff and something about why and what it for and all those answers are atleast one link down or not more /bias If it was perhaps an Indian vp it would have somewhat of a more gentle introduction to things and perhaps then roll off into other things. Lastly, I am not looking for one person to respond on this but looking at the whole community (old and new) to participate and perhaps get some sort of feedback on this. Looking forward to the discucssion. on this topic. -- 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] unified log-in not happening in hindi wikipedia for some reason
Unified Login or SUL (Single User Login) is a mechanism which allows users to use a single global login on most of the Wikimedia Foundation's projects. It allows to maintain a consistent identity across all linked projects, and no you necessarily don't have to login manually to each Wiki. You first need to Merge your account by visiting [[Special:MergeAccount]] to perform Login Unification. if your particular wiki is not allowing access through SUL and you have to login Manually each time, for example Strategy Wiki does that from time to time, you might need to file a bug. Check with other users on your wiki if this is a consistent issue, and post on VP. For more information, read: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Unified_login Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK, Unified login just gives the option of logging in with the same username and password, without creating a new one for each wiki project. You still need to login manually with that unified user name and password combination. 2011/2/12 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com Hi all, I know that sometime back unified login happened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unified_login This is what I was doing :- a. Was in EN:WP and logged in - looked at the entries. b. Went to hindi wikipedia and tried to edit an article. I was not logged in. c. Thought perhaps I'm not chosen Unified login so went to http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MergeAccount, says you are unified. d. Did a shift-F5 and refreshed the page without the cache, for some reason the login didn't happen. Any pointers as to what could be the issue ? This is on Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3 on an Ubuntu 10.04 box although do not think its something to do with either the browser or the distribution. -- 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 -- Harish 9740069624 ___ 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] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l
I have no idea what's been happening lately on the mailing list. Please keep it civil, this is getting rude and inappropriate for a national list. It would be archived and viewed by many others, please do bear that in mind. User:Theo10011 On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Sudhir Ponappa ponappasud...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello everybody. I am a Wikipedian who is very interested in translation. I am helping with English to Kannada, but I am also learning chapter language. What is this? For eg. Thank you for helping the thread by providing an example of a message that would require moderation! Rude personal attacks such as these are the perfect examples of what should be moderated on a mailing list. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ 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 mailing list, what is it about ?
This has been discussed previously to some extent, the list is for any and all Wikimedia related activities in India. The list is intended to be as inclusive as possible. This is a national mailing list for a country of a billion people, it really shouldn't need an explanation in my opinion. User:Theo10011 2011/2/13 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com Hi all, Due to the recent nature of things and events a very basic question occured to me ? What is the purpose of this mailing list? A very broad definition or understanding which was there of the list is to co-ordinate indian activities in and around wikipedia and wikimedia. I went to the mailman interface to see if I could garner some more info. about the purpose/aims of the list but could not. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l If I look at the wikimedia india homepage I found info. about the mailing list in a stub way :- Wikimedia India Mailing List :- Important for all wikipedians to signup and stay connected. As far as the list is concerned, who is its target audience ? a. Programmers. b. Editors, baby editors and that ilk c. Users of Wikipedia. d. Translators e. Content creators, mashup creators ~ creative visionaries f. All of the above. g. Some of the above - describe who Let me talk from where I'm coming from , I come from b. and c. I am no high-level editor, I do some things for fun which leads to something learning and vice-versa. From both a community member perspective, a user perspective and a potential tester (in the near future) I see the list as a :- a. help list b. sounding board for new ideas. c. Making exciting events happen in and around the various wikipedia and wikimedia products 3-4 months ago before when I didn't even know that there was an Indian mailing list all my queries esp. while editing were on the #wikipedia IRC channel on freenode. Now while sometimes my issues used to get solved, sometimes not and I was not even that there was an Indian community and an Indian mailing list. The sad part then was any of the issues could be drowned out in the noise which has a possibility of it being documented on the mailing list. From an Indian's perspective the Village Pump is not at all adequate enwp.org/wp:vp bias if you look at that page itself, it has Americana written all over it, its all points and stuff and something about why and what it for and all those answers are atleast one link down or not more /bias If it was perhaps an Indian vp it would have somewhat of a more gentle introduction to things and perhaps then roll off into other things. Lastly, I am not looking for one person to respond on this but looking at the whole community (old and new) to participate and perhaps get some sort of feedback on this. Looking forward to the discucssion. on this topic. -- 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Hindustan Times : Wiki to tie up with city galleries, museums
*The Hindustan Times : Wiki to tie up with city galleries, museums* http://www.hindustantimes.com/Wiki-to-tie-up-with-city-galleries-museums/Article1-661728.aspx *A 14th-century manuscript of Dante’s Divine Comedy is the Asiatic Society of Mumbai’s most treasured possession. And, if all goes well, you may soon be able to read all about it and how it ended up in the city, on wikipedia.com. The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind * * * * * *Wikipedia, is in the process of tying up with galleries, libraries, archives and museums for what is unofficially called the GLAM project, a global cultural initiative that seeks to make exclusive material available to the world via the online encyclopaedia.* *Liam Wyatt, now a cultural partnerships fellow with Wikimedia Foundation, had been working independently with several museums around the world towards this end. Last month, he was roped in by the foundation for a one-year fellowship.* * * *India was Wyatt’s first destination as part of GLAM and he officially launched the project in Mumbai on Saturday.* * * *“The amount of content in Indian cultural institutions is massive,” said Wyatt. “That, combined with the potential for* * * *Internet penetration in India and the vibrant Wikipedia community here, make this a great destination for GLAM.”* * * *The project will also urge experts and curators to upload information about topics of their choice. “Enough information about the cultural heritage of India is still not available on the internet. For a young girl in a village in Maharashtra, a textbook should not be her only resource,” said Wyatt. We need experts who have this information to come on board and help.”* * * *In March, Wyatt plans to travel to Switzerland, France and Germany to promote GLAM.* Regards Tinu Cherian http://wikimedia.in/wiki/In_the_news#February_2011 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l
spelling mistake :- There were 2-3 people who were in the same boat. So one was on the road 20 days in a month, some people like traveling and others do not. -- 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiXDC Event Video
All, As you know, we celebrated the WikiXDC on Jan 22nd, 2011 at the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington DC, United States. We would like to present a 3 hour event videohttp://www.mlwiki.in/videos/wikixdc.html for everyone to enjoy (and download to keep if you like) . Some sessions could not be covered/covered at length due to technical difficulties. The event video was not a part of the original plan, but we are glad that we could at least this much. We would like to thank everyone who helped us to make the event a success. Thanks. Regards, Jyothis. http://www.Jyothis.net My Malayalam Wikipedia page http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis Metawiki page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jyothis I am the first customer of http://www.netdotnet.com My toolserver tools http://toolserver.org/~jyothis woods are lovely dark and deep, but i have promises to keep and miles to go before i sleep and *lines to go before I press sleep* completion date = (start date + ((estimated effort x 3.1415926) / resources) + ((total coffee breaks x 0.25) / 24)) + Effort in meetings ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore meetup #27 today - Invited speaker - Lodewijk Gelauff
Dear all: This is a gentle reminder to all wikimedians to attend the Bangalore monthly meetup #27. The highlight of today's session is a invited talk by Lodewijk Gelauff from Wikimedia Nederlands. The talk will be sharing experiences from the recent project *Wiki loves Monuments.* The Project intended to photograph as many of the 50,000 national monuments (“rijksmonument“) throughout the Netherlands. These included archeological sites in Drenthe, the canal houses in Amsterdam, and the Royal Palace in The Hague. The project received wide coverage on Wikimedia's blog as well as signpost. The scale of the project and the application of best practices from earlier events were significant. http://wikilovesmonuments.nl/ Today's talk is part of a series of invited speakers to share experiences and best practices at Bangalore meetups/events. Earlier speakers have been Liam Wyatt (Australia), Asaf Bartov (Israel), Josh Lim (Philipines) and Belayet Hossain (Bangaldesh). Meetup starts at 3 PM IST. lodewijk's talk is at 4:30 PM IST. Skype details on the website. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore27 regards Arun *AGENDA* - *Talks* - Invited Video Talk via Skype @ 4:30 PM IST - *Wiki loves monuments http://wikilovesmonuments.nl/* - Talk by Lodewijk Gelauffhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Effeietsanders from Wikimedia Nederlandshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland. He is Vice chair and International contact for Wikimedia Nederlands. He is also a member of Wikimedia's chapter's committeehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapters_committee . - *Discussions* - Wiki Ten Bangalore Celebrationhttp://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore - Thank you note to volunteers who participated. - Experiences from the community initiative. - Retrospective: what was done well and what needs improvement. - India GLAM events http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011 and Liam Wyatt's visit to India — Bangalore specific plans. - Liam Wyatt in Bangalore :18-Feb (Fri) to 19-Feb (Sat). - Tomasz Finc Arthur Richards in Bangalore : 2/16 - 2/19. 2/16 or 2/17 would be best as Arthur leaving on 2/18. - *Updates* - Wikimedia India chapter http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Main_Page - Update on participation in World Sanskrit Book fair eventhttp://samskritbookfair.org/ - Arunram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arunram, Vishal otherspdate on participation in Carte Blanche eventhttp://cb.csmit.org/ - Sundar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sundar - - Bangalore loves Wikipedia initiative. Intro and call for participation.-Suma Nadighttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sumanadig - Experience at Kannada Saahithya Sammelan - Suma Nadighttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sumanadig ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l
Couldn't agree more. I think that there is/ has been a lot of needless noise. It's not productive to cast insinuations against the chapter or foundation (or community for that matter) as a whole. I do think, however, that communication from the chapter regarding the last set of meetings (and changes then on) have not been communicated very well. If, for instance, some of the basic questions were to be addressed, I suspect that there would be much less basis for this kind of distracting and unhelpful noise. As far as I am concerned, I have fairly simple question: I still don't know why one set of the India chapter leadership (scroll down: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-ChapComVer) was suddenly replaced by another (as detailed here:http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Announcements/Communication_from_the_Executive_Committee_regarding_first_meeting_on_January_22,_2011). Not being on the EC, I am aware that there might well have been good reasons to reshuffle of the chapter leadership team; I would merely like to know what these reasons were. And also how you decided to change the structure, who stood for elections to various posts, etc. - as I would expect from any Wikimedia community body. Perhaps this is something that the chapter can consider in this instance, and in the future. As for Praveen's email, thanks for the explanations, Delphine, Anirudh, others. However, Anirudh, while the point about moderation/spam filters makes sense, mailman does generate emails (on a daily/per instance basis) to the admins of a list to check/approve messages caught in the filter. So I would imagine that for a message to stay unanswered/unresolved for three days indicates that the burden of administration on WikimediaIndia-l deserves to be shared by more than two people from the Wikimedia India chapter. Specifically, and to follow up on the intent expressed in previous messages (from Jyothis, Salman, Delphine and others), how can we help to immediately create a process whereby two non-chapter community members from India might be added as Admins to WikimediaIndia-l? Hari and Anirudh, I would imagine that the instant you can facilitate this process, there will be sufficient uptake from the community to fill these two slots - many thanks in advance for considering this request from us seriously. Good wishes, Achal On Sunday 13 February 2011 02:41 AM, Theo10011 wrote: I have no idea what's been happening lately on the mailing list. Please keep it civil, this is getting rude and inappropriate for a national list. It would be archived and viewed by many others, please do bear that in mind. User:Theo10011 On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Casey Brown li...@caseybrown.org mailto:li...@caseybrown.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Sudhir Ponappa ponappasud...@yahoo.com mailto:ponappasud...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello everybody. I am a Wikipedian who is very interested in translation. I am helping with English to Kannada, but I am also learning chapter language. What is this? For eg. Thank you for helping the thread by providing an example of a message that would require moderation! Rude personal attacks such as these are the perfect examples of what should be moderated on a mailing list. -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org mailto: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
