Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika
Welcome aboard Nikita and Shiju :) On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Folks, I'm really pleased to send out this email welcoming the first 2 new members of the India Programs team. Just before I introduce them, I thought I'd share with you the background of their selection. *Context* As you might be aware, the Foundation had decided to undertake a catalyst operation in India to promote the growth of the community and projects here. The team is expected to be a small, nimble 5 person group. We had put out 2 job postings - for Indic Initiatives and for Participation. (Please refer: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-May/003007.html) We posted them on linkedin and on the Indian FOSS community list as well as announcing them on various Facebook pages and Twitter feeds. The response was wonderful. 110 applications for Indic Initiatives and nearly 175 applications for Participation. These were short-listed to 10 (3 for Indic Language and 7 for Participation.) These were a mix of existing previous Wikipedians, Wikipedia newbies and open source advocates. In June, the shortlisted 10 were interviewed and further down-selected to 4. These 4 were then further interviewed by a group of other staff members from the Foundation. I am pleased to inform the community of the final selected 2. *Shiju Alex - Indic Initiatives* Most of you already know Shiju. For those who don't, Shiju is a long-time Wikipedian [User: shijualex] and is active on Malayalam Wikipedia, English wikiprojects and Wikimedia Commons, as well as Wikisource and offline. He has been passionately involved with the establishing and building of Indic language Wikipedias. He's participated in a series of outreach activities and is also (jointly) undertaking a grant from the Foundation for outreach across India. He's a regular member of the Bangalore community. Shiju is from Palakkad, Kerala and is married with a 2 year old baby. He currently works as a Senior Technical Writer with ABB in Bangalore. Even those of you who know him might not know the following 2 things that I was lucky to discover during the selection process. Shiju is an MSc in Physics with a specialisation in Astronomy and Astrophysics - and he retains a deep interest in anything astronomical. Feel free to quiz him vigorously on this! He also enjoys trekking and misses his time in Pune where he could be up close the gorgeous Sahyadri Hills. Shiju is going to lead our work on promoting Indic language projects across India. The challenges are enormous - from technical constraints to low levels of awareness of these projects to vibrant but nascent communities. However, these only point to the massive size of the opportunity for Indic language projects - which is the joint top-2 strategic priority of the movement in India. After he joins, he'll collaboratively put together a plan for Indic language projects and work towards quality execution of high-impact initiatives. Shiju is currently serving out his notice period so will be able to join us only around September - October. *Nitika Tandon - Participation* Nitika [User:nitika.t] is relatively newer to the community - and has been brushing up her editing. She's been immersing herself in the Wikimedia world and attended community meet-ups as well as reviews of the Wikipedia India Education Program. She is from Delhi - and is currently based in Mumbai - where she works as a Strategic Partnerships Manager with Directi. (If you're not aware, they are one of the most prominent internet domain solutions providers in India.) Nitika has an MBA and has also worked on research analytics. A fascinating detail I discovered about a previous assignment of hers - and you must ask her about it - is how African drums can be used for management coaching! She also reliably informs me that there are 7 Spanish dance forms and she instructs in all of them! Nitika is going to be working on Participation - which is primarily focussed on increasing the contributor base of non-Indic language projects, primarily Wikipedia. One of her first tasks will be to expand the Wikipedia India Education Program from the Pune pilot to a more national footprint. She'll also work on other initiatives to promote participation - and I can foresee Wikimedia Commons being a potential initiative. Nitika will join us on August 1st. *Introductions* I'm going to be scheduling the August Monthly India Programs IRC on Thursday August 18th to introduce them both to you. Please do join us. I'll send a reminder closer to the date. Also, needless to say, they'll be attending a series of community meet-ups over the next months. In the meantime, please do join me in welcoming them onboard. I'm really excited because this means that we will now have the capacity and capability to dramatically accelerate our
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika
Welcome onboard Shiju Nikita, Warm welcome on behalf of the Pune community! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav ramshankarya...@gmail.com wrote: Welcome aboard Nikita and Shiju :) On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Folks, I'm really pleased to send out this email welcoming the first 2 new members of the India Programs team. Just before I introduce them, I thought I'd share with you the background of their selection. *Context* As you might be aware, the Foundation had decided to undertake a catalyst operation in India to promote the growth of the community and projects here. The team is expected to be a small, nimble 5 person group. We had put out 2 job postings - for Indic Initiatives and for Participation. (Please refer: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-May/003007.html) We posted them on linkedin and on the Indian FOSS community list as well as announcing them on various Facebook pages and Twitter feeds. The response was wonderful. 110 applications for Indic Initiatives and nearly 175 applications for Participation. These were short-listed to 10 (3 for Indic Language and 7 for Participation.) These were a mix of existing previous Wikipedians, Wikipedia newbies and open source advocates. In June, the shortlisted 10 were interviewed and further down-selected to 4. These 4 were then further interviewed by a group of other staff members from the Foundation. I am pleased to inform the community of the final selected 2. *Shiju Alex - Indic Initiatives* Most of you already know Shiju. For those who don't, Shiju is a long-time Wikipedian [User: shijualex] and is active on Malayalam Wikipedia, English wikiprojects and Wikimedia Commons, as well as Wikisource and offline. He has been passionately involved with the establishing and building of Indic language Wikipedias. He's participated in a series of outreach activities and is also (jointly) undertaking a grant from the Foundation for outreach across India. He's a regular member of the Bangalore community. Shiju is from Palakkad, Kerala and is married with a 2 year old baby. He currently works as a Senior Technical Writer with ABB in Bangalore. Even those of you who know him might not know the following 2 things that I was lucky to discover during the selection process. Shiju is an MSc in Physics with a specialisation in Astronomy and Astrophysics - and he retains a deep interest in anything astronomical. Feel free to quiz him vigorously on this! He also enjoys trekking and misses his time in Pune where he could be up close the gorgeous Sahyadri Hills. Shiju is going to lead our work on promoting Indic language projects across India. The challenges are enormous - from technical constraints to low levels of awareness of these projects to vibrant but nascent communities. However, these only point to the massive size of the opportunity for Indic language projects - which is the joint top-2 strategic priority of the movement in India. After he joins, he'll collaboratively put together a plan for Indic language projects and work towards quality execution of high-impact initiatives. Shiju is currently serving out his notice period so will be able to join us only around September - October. *Nitika Tandon - Participation* Nitika [User:nitika.t] is relatively newer to the community - and has been brushing up her editing. She's been immersing herself in the Wikimedia world and attended community meet-ups as well as reviews of the Wikipedia India Education Program. She is from Delhi - and is currently based in Mumbai - where she works as a Strategic Partnerships Manager with Directi. (If you're not aware, they are one of the most prominent internet domain solutions providers in India.) Nitika has an MBA and has also worked on research analytics. A fascinating detail I discovered about a previous assignment of hers - and you must ask her about it - is how African drums can be used for management coaching! She also reliably informs me that there are 7 Spanish dance forms and she instructs in all of them! Nitika is going to be working on Participation - which is primarily focussed on increasing the contributor base of non-Indic language projects, primarily Wikipedia. One of her first tasks will be to expand the Wikipedia India Education Program from the Pune pilot to a more national footprint. She'll also work on other initiatives to promote participation - and I can foresee Wikimedia Commons being a potential initiative. Nitika will join us on August 1st. *Introductions* I'm going to be scheduling the August Monthly India Programs IRC on Thursday August 18th to introduce them both to you. Please do join us. I'll send a reminder closer to the date. Also, needless to say,
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika
Congratulations to Shiju and Nitika. It has been great working along with Shiju, closely for years now and I don't have to tell that how much he deserves this. I wondered how he gets time to really work with ABB with all his wiki activities ;) and I am sure that this position would help him concentrate on one thing he is really passionate about. Welcome on-board, Nitika ! Looking forward to work with you too. Best wishes again to both Shiju and Nitika ! Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi Folks, I'm really pleased to send out this email welcoming the first 2 new members of the India Programs team. Just before I introduce them, I thought I'd share with you the background of their selection. *Context* As you might be aware, the Foundation had decided to undertake a catalyst operation in India to promote the growth of the community and projects here. The team is expected to be a small, nimble 5 person group. We had put out 2 job postings - for Indic Initiatives and for Participation. (Please refer: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-May/003007.html) We posted them on linkedin and on the Indian FOSS community list as well as announcing them on various Facebook pages and Twitter feeds. The response was wonderful. 110 applications for Indic Initiatives and nearly 175 applications for Participation. These were short-listed to 10 (3 for Indic Language and 7 for Participation.) These were a mix of existing previous Wikipedians, Wikipedia newbies and open source advocates. In June, the shortlisted 10 were interviewed and further down-selected to 4. These 4 were then further interviewed by a group of other staff members from the Foundation. I am pleased to inform the community of the final selected 2. *Shiju Alex - Indic Initiatives* Most of you already know Shiju. For those who don't, Shiju is a long-time Wikipedian [User: shijualex] and is active on Malayalam Wikipedia, English wikiprojects and Wikimedia Commons, as well as Wikisource and offline. He has been passionately involved with the establishing and building of Indic language Wikipedias. He's participated in a series of outreach activities and is also (jointly) undertaking a grant from the Foundation for outreach across India. He's a regular member of the Bangalore community. Shiju is from Palakkad, Kerala and is married with a 2 year old baby. He currently works as a Senior Technical Writer with ABB in Bangalore. Even those of you who know him might not know the following 2 things that I was lucky to discover during the selection process. Shiju is an MSc in Physics with a specialisation in Astronomy and Astrophysics - and he retains a deep interest in anything astronomical. Feel free to quiz him vigorously on this! He also enjoys trekking and misses his time in Pune where he could be up close the gorgeous Sahyadri Hills. Shiju is going to lead our work on promoting Indic language projects across India. The challenges are enormous - from technical constraints to low levels of awareness of these projects to vibrant but nascent communities. However, these only point to the massive size of the opportunity for Indic language projects - which is the joint top-2 strategic priority of the movement in India. After he joins, he'll collaboratively put together a plan for Indic language projects and work towards quality execution of high-impact initiatives. Shiju is currently serving out his notice period so will be able to join us only around September - October. *Nitika Tandon - Participation* Nitika [User:nitika.t] is relatively newer to the community - and has been brushing up her editing. She's been immersing herself in the Wikimedia world and attended community meet-ups as well as reviews of the Wikipedia India Education Program. She is from Delhi - and is currently based in Mumbai - where she works as a Strategic Partnerships Manager with Directi. (If you're not aware, they are one of the most prominent internet domain solutions providers in India.) Nitika has an MBA and has also worked on research analytics. A fascinating detail I discovered about a previous assignment of hers - and you must ask her about it - is how African drums can be used for management coaching! She also reliably informs me that there are 7 Spanish dance forms and she instructs in all of them! Nitika is going to be working on Participation - which is primarily focussed on increasing the contributor base of non-Indic language projects, primarily Wikipedia. One of her first tasks will be to expand the Wikipedia India Education Program from the Pune pilot to a more national footprint. She'll also work on other initiatives to promote participation - and I can foresee Wikimedia Commons being a potential initiative. Nitika will join us on August 1st. *Introductions* I'm going to be
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 1:41 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations to Shiju and Nitika. It has been great working along with Shiju, closely for years now and I don't have to tell that how much he deserves this. I wondered how he gets time to really work with ABB with all his wiki activities ;) and I am sure that this position would help him concentrate on one thing he is really passionate about. Welcome on-board, Nitika ! Looking forward to work with you too. Best wishes again to both Shiju and Nitika ! Dear Tinu, i was writing same lines . you stole my words Kudos to expanded India Team !!! Anivar ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika
Congratulations to Shiju and Nitika. -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Top indic Administrators
Hi guys, So this survey teased you all and also Hindi Wiki extension upgradation teased you all.First of all sorry for that but I can comment rather than smiing on your comments.Hindi Wiki communtiy wanted some extensions that why I requested those extensions and the consensus was in enough mass.All candidates were very active in Hindi Wiki, Not ony Hindi Wikipedians but also some new users from English wiki supported that.There is no harm to avail any facility if there is no security concern.We don't care if anybody outside of our community have some another Concern or thinking however we welcome everybody to comment and keep their views.So think positively so that we may grow our indic wikis.There is no advantage to condem anybody as everyone here is an volunteer and Nobody gets a single paisa for their work. Regarding Survey that was just a statistics like other but my fault was that I conducted it.So we should think and make a cooperative behaviour with each other.However you still want to condem me or Hindi Wiki then proceed further but I shall not waste my time on such nasty matters because I have to do lots of things for my project with my job and I think you all are also busy and dedicated to your wiki project. Best! Mayur On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:09 AM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Asaf Bartov, Every thing has its own Importance, We need development and progess in each and every area.Adminstrators are first of all supposed to do admin activities as mentioned in this survey bcoz thats why they have given this tool by community. Newbies can be mentored by each Senior user of the community and it should be done as its the most important thing to do for the growth of any wiki project.But we cann't measure this on any scale however a Wiki project growth may show some part of this.I think we need improvement in each and every area.Creating artices are very easy but its very difficult to preserve them on wikipedia as they got vandalised many times so this most important work go to the hands of Administrators.So Doing admin activites as an Administrator is very important specially in Indic Wiki projects. In my opinion These both are completely different but both are important and need to be taken care. Warm Regards Mayur On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:33 AM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ashwin, Sorry for Inconvenience but I have included both Shyam and Shaymal in the list. Perhaps you coundn't see Shyamal at 82th position.This list is based on number of sysop actions by Indic wiki admins not number of edits.BTW Thank you for your attention. With Regards Mayur On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:47 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi tinu, We would have surely included english Wikipedian but the main problem is, http://toolserver.org/~vvv/adminstats.php?wiki=enwiki_ptlimit=none is not running for en wikipedia.Its very sad to miss our reals gems in this list.Can anybody provide me any such stats link for en wikipedian, I shall surely consider that one. Thank you and Regards Mayur On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:21 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Will count Indian Wikipedians in English Wikipedia too ? ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IND_EDITS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IND_EDITSRegards Tinu Cherian On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:50 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry srikant I have just updated that sheet, Intestingly In this survey we have found that 4 malyalam wikipedians grabbed first 10 spots, Congratulations to ml wiki community, just behind ml wiki is tamil wiki whose 2 admins are among the top ten.One user from bishnupriya wikipedia has also grabbed a rank among top 10 that is very good for this community that some one is taking care of Sysop tasks. Regards Mayur On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Srikant Kedia wikiodis...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Mayur, You have missed user:Psubhashish http://toolserver.org/~vvv/adminstats.php?wiki=orwiki_ptlimit=none On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 11:09 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, i just go through a interesting survey regarding Top Indic wikipedians, This survey was carried out by Hindi wikipedians to measure Activeness of all Indic Sysops.Generally we count no of edits but No of sysop actions are also an interesting thing that how much a sysop is active in his sysop activities.This parameter is also a good measure for any wikiproject active community and controll over vandalism.Link for This survey is as following-
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Top indic Administrators
@Praveen, One more thing regarding my right changes and actions I don't think I should answer it to you.I Spend nearly rest of my time with wiki.The abusefilter that was blocking mayurbot was to filter good articles based on thier size as I was running a application from my bot.To protect article from any harm action I made that filter.I do lots of things for my project whether it is abusefiter or technical deveopment.But you seem me overjealous of me thats why you are asking such questions.This is really sad that you invest a buch of your time to keep trac on me but cann't learned anything.But isten one thing you comments etc cann't demoralise me.I shall continue to work with my project.Best Wishes to you if you can devote your time to do some good activites for your home project rather than keeping track on me.Cheers Regards Mayur On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, So this survey teased you all and also Hindi Wiki extension upgradation teased you all.First of all sorry for that but I can comment rather than smiing on your comments.Hindi Wiki communtiy wanted some extensions that why I requested those extensions and the consensus was in enough mass.All candidates were very active in Hindi Wiki, Not ony Hindi Wikipedians but also some new users from English wiki supported that.There is no harm to avail any facility if there is no security concern.We don't care if anybody outside of our community have some another Concern or thinking however we welcome everybody to comment and keep their views.So think positively so that we may grow our indic wikis.There is no advantage to condem anybody as everyone here is an volunteer and Nobody gets a single paisa for their work. Regarding Survey that was just a statistics like other but my fault was that I conducted it.So we should think and make a cooperative behaviour with each other.However you still want to condem me or Hindi Wiki then proceed further but I shall not waste my time on such nasty matters because I have to do lots of things for my project with my job and I think you all are also busy and dedicated to your wiki project. Best! Mayur On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:09 AM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Asaf Bartov, Every thing has its own Importance, We need development and progess in each and every area.Adminstrators are first of all supposed to do admin activities as mentioned in this survey bcoz thats why they have given this tool by community. Newbies can be mentored by each Senior user of the community and it should be done as its the most important thing to do for the growth of any wiki project.But we cann't measure this on any scale however a Wiki project growth may show some part of this.I think we need improvement in each and every area.Creating artices are very easy but its very difficult to preserve them on wikipedia as they got vandalised many times so this most important work go to the hands of Administrators.So Doing admin activites as an Administrator is very important specially in Indic Wiki projects. In my opinion These both are completely different but both are important and need to be taken care. Warm Regards Mayur On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:33 AM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ashwin, Sorry for Inconvenience but I have included both Shyam and Shaymal in the list. Perhaps you coundn't see Shyamal at 82th position.This list is based on number of sysop actions by Indic wiki admins not number of edits.BTW Thank you for your attention. With Regards Mayur On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:47 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi tinu, We would have surely included english Wikipedian but the main problem is, http://toolserver.org/~vvv/adminstats.php?wiki=enwiki_ptlimit=none is not running for en wikipedia.Its very sad to miss our reals gems in this list.Can anybody provide me any such stats link for en wikipedian, I shall surely consider that one. Thank you and Regards Mayur On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:21 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Will count Indian Wikipedians in English Wikipedia too ? ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IND_EDITS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IND_EDITSRegards Tinu Cherian On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:50 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry srikant I have just updated that sheet, Intestingly In this survey we have found that 4 malyalam wikipedians grabbed first 10 spots, Congratulations to ml wiki community, just behind ml wiki is tamil wiki whose 2 admins are among the top ten.One user from bishnupriya wikipedia has also grabbed a rank among top 10 that is very good for this community that some one is taking care of Sysop tasks. Regards Mayur On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Srikant Kedia wikiodis...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Mayur, You have missed
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika
Guys do u have any community members in Delhi to meet and learn from? Sent on my BlackBerry® from Vodafone -Original Message- From: Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com Sender: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:22:52 To: Wikimedia India Community listwikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika ___ 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] Top indic Administrators
On Friday 29 July 2011 03:21 PM, mayur wrote: @Praveen, One more thing regarding my right changes and actions I don't think I should answer it to you. Frankly I hate this kind of attitude. Which is no help for Hindi Wiki Community. You should answer the community for each and every action. And this attitude exactly reflects on excessive abuse filter use. Hindi Wiki (or any other Indian wiki) is no English Wikipedia (English wikipedia itself now suffering the bad effect of excessive warning). I am sure no one will be happy to get warning for their innocent edits. I Spend nearly rest of my time with wiki.The abusefilter that was blocking mayurbot was to filter good articles based on thier size as I was running a application from my bot.To protect article from any harm action I made that filter.I do lots of things for my project whether it is abusefiter or technical deveopment. I think it is better to mentor some users other than using abuse filter on every occasion. If you are not playing on user rights and extensions, why don't you share ur activities, otherwise how we know? But you seem me overjealous of me thats why you are asking such questions. lol This is really sad that you invest a buch of your time to keep trac on me but cann't learned anything.But isten one thing you comments etc cann't demoralise me.I shall continue to work with my project. Mayur, Pls don't get sentimental :), You imported a file from commons [Image:Cave_from_inside.jpg], original was uploaded by me, so I noted it and wonder why. Eventually reached Hindi Wikipedia import log and it didn't make any sense to me. So I checked other logs (which are just clicks away), and I didn't get any ideas from those also. I am surely not on your tail. :) If you can provide some valid reasons, those will be useful to other admins. Best Wishes to you if you can devote your time to do some good activites for your home project rather than keeping track on me. You may check this http://toolserver.org/%7Eluxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=Praveenpblocks=true (pls note that I have not edited hi.wp, all my edits in hi.wp are from *imported images* from *commons*!!) and this http://translatewiki.net/wiki/Special:Contributions/Praveenp (Hindi doing this locally?, particularly by Mayur http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_Indic_Admins?! If so I like to know the reason also). Anyway thanks for the advice. Cheers Regards Mayur Cheers praveenp On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com mailto:mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, So this survey teased you all and also Hindi Wiki extension upgradation teased you all.First of all sorry for that but I can comment rather than smiing on your comments.Hindi Wiki communtiy wanted some extensions that why I requested those extensions and the consensus was in enough mass.All candidates were very active in Hindi Wiki, Not ony Hindi Wikipedians but also some new users from English wiki supported that.There is no harm to avail any facility if there is no security concern.We don't care if anybody outside of our community have some another Concern or thinking however we welcome everybody to comment and keep their views.So think positively so that we may grow our indic wikis.There is no advantage to condem anybody as everyone here is an volunteer and Nobody gets a single paisa for their work. Regarding Survey that was just a statistics like other but my fault was that I conducted it.So we should think and make a cooperative behaviour with each other.However you still want to condem me or Hindi Wiki then proceed further but I shall not waste my time on such nasty matters because I have to do lots of things for my project with my job and I think you all are also busy and dedicated to your wiki project. Best! Mayur On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:09 AM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com mailto:mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Asaf Bartov, Every thing has its own Importance, We need development and progess in each and every area.Adminstrators are first of all supposed to do admin activities as mentioned in this survey bcoz thats why they have given this tool by community. Newbies can be mentored by each Senior user of the community and it should be done as its the most important thing to do for the growth of any wiki project.But we cann't measure this on any scale however a Wiki project growth may show some part of this.I think we need improvement in each and every area.Creating artices are very easy but its very difficult to preserve them on wikipedia as they got vandalised many times so this most important work go to the hands of Administrators.So Doing admin activites as an Administrator is very important
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Top indic Administrators
@Praveen, Thank you atleast I was expecting no attack from you as you really devote your time to ml wiki.I imported many pics from commons bcoz there were 3400 unlicensed images on hi wiki which was categorised by me.many of them were available on commons n en wiki.So i imported from them so as to overlap licenses.This is a very good trick to decrease non licensed images without deleting them. Best! Mayur On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:21 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: @Praveen, One more thing regarding my right changes and actions I don't think I should answer it to you.I Spend nearly rest of my time with wiki.The abusefilter that was blocking mayurbot was to filter good articles based on thier size as I was running a application from my bot.To protect article from any harm action I made that filter.I do lots of things for my project whether it is abusefiter or technical deveopment.But you seem me overjealous of me thats why you are asking such questions.This is really sad that you invest a buch of your time to keep trac on me but cann't learned anything.But isten one thing you comments etc cann't demoralise me.I shall continue to work with my project.Best Wishes to you if you can devote your time to do some good activites for your home project rather than keeping track on me.Cheers Regards Mayur On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, So this survey teased you all and also Hindi Wiki extension upgradation teased you all.First of all sorry for that but I can comment rather than smiing on your comments.Hindi Wiki communtiy wanted some extensions that why I requested those extensions and the consensus was in enough mass.All candidates were very active in Hindi Wiki, Not ony Hindi Wikipedians but also some new users from English wiki supported that.There is no harm to avail any facility if there is no security concern.We don't care if anybody outside of our community have some another Concern or thinking however we welcome everybody to comment and keep their views.So think positively so that we may grow our indic wikis.There is no advantage to condem anybody as everyone here is an volunteer and Nobody gets a single paisa for their work. Regarding Survey that was just a statistics like other but my fault was that I conducted it.So we should think and make a cooperative behaviour with each other.However you still want to condem me or Hindi Wiki then proceed further but I shall not waste my time on such nasty matters because I have to do lots of things for my project with my job and I think you all are also busy and dedicated to your wiki project. Best! Mayur On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:09 AM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Asaf Bartov, Every thing has its own Importance, We need development and progess in each and every area.Adminstrators are first of all supposed to do admin activities as mentioned in this survey bcoz thats why they have given this tool by community. Newbies can be mentored by each Senior user of the community and it should be done as its the most important thing to do for the growth of any wiki project.But we cann't measure this on any scale however a Wiki project growth may show some part of this.I think we need improvement in each and every area.Creating artices are very easy but its very difficult to preserve them on wikipedia as they got vandalised many times so this most important work go to the hands of Administrators.So Doing admin activites as an Administrator is very important specially in Indic Wiki projects. In my opinion These both are completely different but both are important and need to be taken care. Warm Regards Mayur On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 11:33 AM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ashwin, Sorry for Inconvenience but I have included both Shyam and Shaymal in the list. Perhaps you coundn't see Shyamal at 82th position.This list is based on number of sysop actions by Indic wiki admins not number of edits.BTW Thank you for your attention. With Regards Mayur On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:47 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi tinu, We would have surely included english Wikipedian but the main problem is, http://toolserver.org/~vvv/adminstats.php?wiki=enwiki_ptlimit=none is not running for en wikipedia.Its very sad to miss our reals gems in this list.Can anybody provide me any such stats link for en wikipedian, I shall surely consider that one. Thank you and Regards Mayur On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 6:21 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Will count Indian Wikipedians in English Wikipedia too ? ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IND_EDITS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IND_EDITSRegards Tinu Cherian On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 5:50 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry srikant I have just updated that sheet, Intestingly In this
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Top indic Administrators
In reply to- What? Why don't you import license templates? Why this much mediawiki edits in hi.wp while translation in translatewiki still lagging? Why are you changing your user rights so frequently? is there any criteria? How people reacting for this excessive use of abuse filter? May I see some reactions? Is there any dictatorship in hi.wp? (I felt something like that here *@Praveen, One more thing regarding my right changes and actions I don't think I should answer it to you.) *I feel I can dig more! (Let me be on your tail :) ) I just found Mayurbot is reverting user edits, is that possible through API?* Hi, We have also imported licenses but if you have same image in common or en wiki and hindi wiki, In case hindi wiki has no licenses on those images and there are lots off images(3400) then it better to import and replace many of those images by common images with same licenses. So we can get rid of such non licensed images. Secondly I and hi wiki is not interested in translate wiki as its a wikipedian choice where he wants to edit we are not a serviceman.But now just before some days I joined that as translator and translated many messages.But its all upon our interest we can't force any body to go there. Regarding my right changes I think stewards also change their rights so frequently to do many tasks.There are lots of group in hindi Wiki.Yeah we have policy for each user group! Everything is done after a discussion with community, so don't get any wrong meaning.BTW this abuse filter extension is going to be enabled globally.plz take care of that fact. Nope no dictatorship on hi or any wikimedia foundation wiki as I already said we all here to share knowledge not to dictate anybody.We all are volunteer and we should be thankful to wikimedia foundation that they have given us a chance to expand knowledge in our mother tongue. You can dig me as anybody can do such kind of tasks.But it would be better if you can push your interest to development of your own project which will be beneficial for all native speakers of your language. Everything can be done by scripts and tools so don't take burden regarding mayurbot. AT last as per Achal request to both of us to close this discussion I shall not proceed further in this discussion as it has already waited lot of mine time and your time too.I think we could to a lots of goodthings for our home projects.:-) Best wishes Mayur On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 8:10 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: @Praveen, Thank you atleast I was expecting no attack from you as you really devote your time to ml wiki.I imported many pics from commons bcoz there were 3400 unlicensed images on hi wiki which was categorised by me.many of them were available on commons n en wiki.So i imported from them so as to overlap licenses.This is a very good trick to decrease non licensed images without deleting them. Best! Mayur On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:21 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: @Praveen, One more thing regarding my right changes and actions I don't think I should answer it to you.I Spend nearly rest of my time with wiki.The abusefilter that was blocking mayurbot was to filter good articles based on thier size as I was running a application from my bot.To protect article from any harm action I made that filter.I do lots of things for my project whether it is abusefiter or technical deveopment.But you seem me overjealous of me thats why you are asking such questions.This is really sad that you invest a buch of your time to keep trac on me but cann't learned anything.But isten one thing you comments etc cann't demoralise me.I shall continue to work with my project.Best Wishes to you if you can devote your time to do some good activites for your home project rather than keeping track on me.Cheers Regards Mayur On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:00 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, So this survey teased you all and also Hindi Wiki extension upgradation teased you all.First of all sorry for that but I can comment rather than smiing on your comments.Hindi Wiki communtiy wanted some extensions that why I requested those extensions and the consensus was in enough mass.All candidates were very active in Hindi Wiki, Not ony Hindi Wikipedians but also some new users from English wiki supported that.There is no harm to avail any facility if there is no security concern.We don't care if anybody outside of our community have some another Concern or thinking however we welcome everybody to comment and keep their views.So think positively so that we may grow our indic wikis.There is no advantage to condem anybody as everyone here is an volunteer and Nobody gets a single paisa for their work. Regarding Survey that was just a statistics like other but my fault was that I conducted it.So we should think and make a cooperative behaviour with each other.However you still want to condem me or Hindi Wiki then proceed
[Wikimediaindia-l] Oral citations project update: more articles + full English subtitle track
*apologies for cross-posting* Dear friends, A quick update on the oral citations project. 1) We have now posted sample articles in all 3 project languages, Malayalam, Sepedi and Hindi: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations#Articles.2F_Discussions_.28in_development.29 2) A full English subtitle track for the film is now available on Wikimedia Commons (the previous one only covered non-English speech): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:People-are-Knowledge.ogv.en.srt --- There are a couple of things yet to come, some of which are intrinsically linked to the suggestions and comments coming in from the discussion on the previous thread. These are: a) A few more articles in development, which will be posted when done b) Transcripts of the audio interviews in Hindi, Sepedi and Malayalam, each accompanied by an English transcript (in development) c) An FAQ, where we can begin thinking collaboratively about ways in which an exercise like this could work/be made to work under existing policies within the Wikimedia movement, and Wikipedia specifically; as well as ways in which this project could be extended to think about sources and citations generally. --- Lastly, if you haven't had a chance to see the work of the project, you can do that here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Oral_Citations ...and if you would like to watch the film made during the course of the project, please check it out: on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:People-are-Knowledge.ogv or on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/26469276 Cheers, Achal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika
Fantastic news - a warm welcome to both of you. :-) A small team, with the help of our vast community of volunteers, can make a huge difference. Really excited to see what you will come up with. -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika
Lovely news! Welcome aboard, and look forward to meeting you soon, Nitika, and you Shiju, now in this new avatar. :) Cheers Bishakha ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika
This is great news. A warm welcome and best wishes to Shiju and Nitika in their new roles. Regards Arun On Jul 29, 2011 1:42 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations to Shiju and Nitika. It has been great working along with Shiju, closely for years now and I don't have to tell that how much he deserves this. I wondered how he gets time to really work with ABB with all his wiki activities ;) and I am sure that this position would help him concentrate on one thing he is really passionate about. Welcome on-board, Nitika ! Looking forward to work with you too. Best wishes again to both Shiju and Nitika ! Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks, I'm really pleased to send out this email welcoming the first 2 new members of the India Programs team. Just before I introduce them, I thought I'd share with you the background of their selection. *Context* As you might be aware, the Foundation had decided to undertake a catalyst operation in India to promote the growth of the community and projects here. The team is expected to be a small, nimble 5 person group. We had put out 2 job postings - for Indic Initiatives and for Participation. (Please refer: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-May/003007.html) We posted them on linkedin and on the Indian FOSS community list as well as announcing them on various Facebook pages and Twitter feeds. The response was wonderful. 110 applications for Indic Initiatives and nearly 175 applications for Participation. These were short-listed to 10 (3 for Indic Language and 7 for Participation.) These were a mix of existing previous Wikipedians, Wikipedia newbies and open source advocates. In June, the shortlisted 10 were interviewed and further down-selected to 4. These 4 were then further interviewed by a group of other staff members from the Foundation. I am pleased to inform the community of the final selected 2. *Shiju Alex - Indic Initiatives* Most of you already know Shiju. For those who don't, Shiju is a long-time Wikipedian [User: shijualex] and is active on Malayalam Wikipedia, English wikiprojects and Wikimedia Commons, as well as Wikisource and offline. He has been passionately involved with the establishing and building of Indic language Wikipedias. He's participated in a series of outreach activities and is also (jointly) undertaking a grant from the Foundation for outreach across India. He's a regular member of the Bangalore community. Shiju is from Palakkad, Kerala and is married with a 2 year old baby. He currently works as a Senior Technical Writer with ABB in Bangalore. Even those of you who know him might not know the following 2 things that I was lucky to discover during the selection process. Shiju is an MSc in Physics with a specialisation in Astronomy and Astrophysics - and he retains a deep interest in anything astronomical. Feel free to quiz him vigorously on this! He also enjoys trekking and misses his time in Pune where he could be up close the gorgeous Sahyadri Hills. Shiju is going to lead our work on promoting Indic language projects across India. The challenges are enormous - from technical constraints to low levels of awareness of these projects to vibrant but nascent communities. However, these only point to the massive size of the opportunity for Indic language projects - which is the joint top-2 strategic priority of the movement in India. After he joins, he'll collaboratively put together a plan for Indic language projects and work towards quality execution of high-impact initiatives. Shiju is currently serving out his notice period so will be able to join us only around September - October. *Nitika Tandon - Participation* Nitika [User:nitika.t] is relatively newer to the community - and has been brushing up her editing. She's been immersing herself in the Wikimedia world and attended community meet-ups as well as reviews of the Wikipedia India Education Program. She is from Delhi - and is currently based in Mumbai - where she works as a Strategic Partnerships Manager with Directi. (If you're not aware, they are one of the most prominent internet domain solutions providers in India.) Nitika has an MBA and has also worked on research analytics. A fascinating detail I discovered about a previous assignment of hers - and you must ask her about it - is how African drums can be used for management coaching! She also reliably informs me that there are 7 Spanish dance forms and she instructs in all of them! Nitika is going to be working on Participation - which is primarily focussed on increasing the contributor base of non-Indic language projects, primarily Wikipedia. One of her first tasks will be to expand the Wikipedia India Education Program from the Pune pilot to a more national footprint. She'll also work on other initiatives to
