[Wikimediaindia-l] August Chapter Update
Dear Wikimedia India Members and Community, The highlights of Chapter Update for September 2011 are given below. Membership Update The membership base, as on September 4th, 2011, stands at 81 members. *Gender* Male membership is at 68 corresponding to 84% and Female membership is at 13 corresponding to 16%. *Geographic location* Maharashtra accounted for largest number of members at 30 followed by Karnataka at 26 and Kerala at 9. *Vocation* Industry members are the highest at 28 followed by Student at 19 and Academia at 10. Others category has 24. *Preferred language as Editor* English at 67 corresponding to 92% stands first followed by Malayalam 13 and Hindi 7. AGM and Executive Committee Elections Notice for the first Annual General Body Meeting to be held on the 24th of September, 2011 at the Centre for Internet and Society, 194, 2nd Cross, Dommaluru 2nd stage, Bangalore-560071 has been sent by post and by email. Simultaneous with the AGM, we are holding elections to fill three vacancies in the Executive Committee. We have six members standing for these three posts and all members who are members on or before the 23 June 2011 are eligible to vote and have been posted an authenticated ballot paper that can be used either by post or in person at the AGM. More details here: http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a4a966d3118da2bc83baffaf5id=38e6a54252 Chapter, India Office and Foundation Coordination A monthly call between the India Chapter and the Wikimedia Foundation has been instituted and members of the Chapter EC, Hisham Mundol and Asaf Bartov will participate. The objective of the call is to share information and improve collaboration between the Chapter and the Foundation on various Wikimedia projects of relevance to India. The first call was held on Aug 24, 2011. Outreach and Wiki Acadamies We have been encouraged by the early response to Wiki Acadamies and there are currently three planned at the Department of Public Libraries, Bangalore, Thatzit Pvt Ltd, Mumbai and GCET, Greater Noida. More information on these and on how to host your own Academy is available here: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Specific_segment_outreach We look forward to your continued support and appreciate all assistance to help expand our membership base and hope to see many of you at the AGM! Till next month... Best, Gautam John ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Update, Examples Request: Wikipedia India Education Program
Hi Folks, I thought I’ll share an update with you’ll on the Wikipedia India Education Program. It's running majorly in 2 colleges in Pune (Symbiosis School of Economics and College of Engineering Pune). We already have over 1000 students enrolled from just these 2 colleges. Most of these students have gone through one or more out of a total of 35 introductory, basic editing and refresher sessions conducted by Campus Ambassadors. It’s good to see big numbers but I thought I’ll also share with you some articles that the students have been working on. It’s really inspiring to see their progress! J User: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Abhilasha369 Abhilasha369 started a new article: Robinson Crusoe Economy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe_Economy User: basic.atari http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Basic.atari is working on article Human capital http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital User: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/SaurabhKB SaurabhKB is editing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_list Self-organizing list User: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aishani_Sharma Aishani Sharma on Social preferences http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_preferences User: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Jinchurikidan Jinchurikidan has been actively editing the article on Animation studio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation_studio These is still some way to go on these articles but I think they are fantastic starts! The 5 users and articles above are just illustrative. You can also track progress of the entire program here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INDIAEDU Please do reach out to the students (not just the one's listed above) and offer help and encouragement. Please do help them out on their articles as well. While they have been trained, they're going to need a lot of support because they are almost entirely newbies. Please do also leave kind words for the Campus Ambassadors. They've been doing amazing work! Thanks Nitika Tandon ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update, Examples Request: Wikipedia India Education Program
On 5 September 2011 16:40, Nitika Tandon ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Economics and College of Engineering Pune). We already have over 1000 students enrolled from just these 2 colleges. Most of these students have A 1000 students?! That is quite stupendous! I wonder if we can measure the contributions by these students over the course of the year? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update, Examples Request: Wikipedia India Education Program
Hi Nitika, Congratulations on joining the team at India operations! Can you also highlight any significant differences between the strategy for the Education programme in the US and for the one in India? Thanks. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati +855 975 529 803 Skype: anirudhsbh On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 5 September 2011 16:40, Nitika Tandon ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Economics and College of Engineering Pune). We already have over 1000 students enrolled from just these 2 colleges. Most of these students have A 1000 students?! That is quite stupendous! I wonder if we can measure the contributions by these students over the course of the year? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ 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] Update, Examples Request: Wikipedia India Education Program
My 2p in response to Anirudh's question. The nature of the program is quite different from the program in the US. The US program focuses on the topic of Public Policy while the Indian program is open to all disciplines. A significant strategic difference between the Indian and US programs is the Program Pilot. The Pilot program in Pune is to test the various facets of strategy and implementation of the Indian adaptation of the Campus Program. The immense learnings from this Pilot will be extended to the nation-wide roll-out of the program. Another major strategic decision (unique to the India Program) has been to appoint a full-time Fellow (PJ Tabit) for a from June through August 2011 to . PJ was a Campus Ambassador in the US program and the chairman of the Chairman of the Ambassador Steering committee. He was instrumental in getting the Pilot off the ground coordinating between campus ambassadors and professors. Having an experienced full-time person working for the program for the initial stages was critical. Regards On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nitika, Congratulations on joining the team at India operations! Can you also highlight any significant differences between the strategy for the Education programme in the US and for the one in India? Thanks. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati +855 975 529 803 Skype: anirudhsbh On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 5 September 2011 16:40, Nitika Tandon ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Economics and College of Engineering Pune). We already have over 1000 students enrolled from just these 2 colleges. Most of these students have A 1000 students?! That is quite stupendous! I wonder if we can measure the contributions by these students over the course of the year? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ 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 -- Srikeit Tadepalli ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindi Wiki crossed 1 lakh Article milestone
Wow! very happy to hear such a great news! Even though there are some exceptional administrative works ;-), I wonder why some links from Main Page itself leads to some title only stubs :(. http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%BC http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A1_%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%9F_%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AE http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AC%E0%A5%AD%E0%A5%AF http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A5%A7%E0%A5%AC%E0%A5%A9%E0%A5%AF http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%9F%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%AF_%E0%A4%AD%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8_%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%97%E0%A4%AE I hope someone will fix them soon. praveenp On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:50 PM, mayur mayur...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, With about 50,000 registered user, 250 active users , 14 million edits and a depth of 34http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:StatisticsHindi Wikipedia crossed 1 lakhs articleshttp://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B6%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B7:Statisticsmilestone today. Regards (User:Mayur) ___ 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
