Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] OT FOSS assist WAS Re: Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects
An interesting blog post that touches upon the same subject: and serendipitously provides a very powerful reason for engineering colleges in particular to be more aware of and to foster the environment of open knowledge working. http://manypossibilities.net/2011/12/everyday-internet-miracles/ I agree with Amir's point that simply switching browsers is a big step forward for the college, as all users will sooner or later understand why using Firefox is intrinsically superior, apart from trivial features (glossware). However, I also feel that in terms of maximising the potential of the college-bought computers, users will probably experience a performance upgrade, even more if unnecessary software and processes are tuned out, more than continuing with XP. Still, this is only an opinion, not a guarantee. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: I didn't get the feeling that Vickram is saying that it's your fault. It's not possible and not desirable to force everybody to switch to a different browser. It is possible, however, to educate people about having a choice. That's what FOSS activism is about and that's how i understand Vickram's suggestion. Why is FOSS activism relevant in this discussion, you ask? Not just because the Wikimedia movement is very strongly related to FOSS, but because in this case FOSS technologies provide a tangible benefit - the ability to use Indic fonts. And FOSS relies on word-of-mouth promotion and activism rather than on marketing professionals. Moving from IE to Firefox is much easier than moving between operating systems or compilers. Millions of people wouldn't imagine moving from Windows to Linux, but can easily move to Firefox. Both Firefox and IE can be installed side-by-side and the presence of a different browser doesn't require any more maintenance. And if the people don't like Firefox despite its better font support, they can always move back to IE with zero effort. (In general, everything i say about Firefox applies to Google Chrome/Chromium, too - it's open source, modern and standards-compliant. However, for the particular issue of fonts Firefox is better - from my experience Chrome has more bugs in this field.) 2011/12/14 Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com: Vickram, your tone makes it look like everything is our fault. We cannot switch over to Firefox/Linux for one simple reason. Most students here are from a Rural background and won't be able to adjust to new stuff. They had a tough time adjusting from Windows 7 to XP when the rollback was done due to issues with Turbo C++ and Microsoft COBOL compiler. -- On 12/13/11, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: 2011/12/14 Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com: Pardon my intrusion on this thread, but within reason*, if any college or other educational institution chooses to be 'proprietary only' (never mind antediluvian - IE6? really? or is that an XP issue?) FOSSers are prepared to take it up 'officially' with them, reminding them of the nation's commitment to education without strings attached. This is fyi to listers, and I shan't mention it again, but please do consider notifying your friendly neighbourhood FOSSer with details of the person to contact (principal/director etc) for assistance and action. This in turn will get reflected to a FOSS forum (fosscomm is one such) and will hopefully result in notifying the institution concerned as well as the possibility of a local FOSS-based firm offering upgrade services. *ie FOSS as a movement is in continuous need of resources as well, but education is a major priority It is a very valid point. Installing Firefox or at least updating to IE8 on Windows XP costs nothing and has very tangible and easy-to-demonstrate benefits for language support. Wiki Community members should BE BOLD and tell libraries, schools and colleges that they should do it. While you are at it, make sure that auto-updates are enabled and consider installing a version of Firefox with menus translated to the local language (see http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html ; if you can't find it your language, see https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n .) -- Amir E. Aharoni ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedians Help! Is this an image of Abanindranath Tagore?
You are welcome, Ashwin! Regards, Kalyan Sarkar On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:33 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Thank you Kalyan, that was awesome! Less than an hour to solve the puzzle, Hooray for crowd-sourcing. You deserve a barnstar! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:28 PM, Kalyan Sarkar kalyan.sar...@gmail.comwrote: Yes. It is Abanindranath Tagore. Please visit http://www.clicktobuyboi.in/catalog/product/view/id/9452/, which shows a book on him titled 'Agranthita Abanindranath' (Unpublished Abanindranath). The image in the front cover of the book shows the side view of a slightly younger Abanindranath. But one can easily make out that the image is of the same person as that of the image in the LIFE repository. Thanks and regards, Kalyan Sarkar On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: The LIFE repository of public domain images has this image on its Google site http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=7cbc71f276cdecd4 The caption is completely botched up by the Life data input guy (presumably) - it cant be Rabindranath Tagore who sported a beard most of his life. I suspect it is RT's famous painter nephew Abanindranath Tagore (teacher of famous Shantiniketan painter, Nandalal Bose)- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abanindranath_Tagore Even this blog page says so : http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2010/04/abanindranath-tagore-famous-artist-of.html What I'm looking from Bengali Wikipedians is to please help me confirm this with some kind of proof. This image is p-d India and uploadable to Commons since Abanindranath died in 1951 at age 80 and this image would be around when he was around 60. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] OT FOSS assist WAS Re: Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects
Whenever Open Source activism and Indian colleges come up, I can't help but point people to http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads.html#shakthimaan-indian-challenge-of-floss-advocacy. Is a good read, and is still relevant today. -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts on Mobile
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33176 has more details ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie)
Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell what we cover -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader
Shrinivasan, On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:40 PM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: Friends. Tamil Wikipedia announced a Media Contest to increase the commons media files like photos, audio and video in the wikipedia world. --cut-- DigiKam has it, but due to some issues, the mediawiki plugin is not released. So, I started to write my own script for uploading all the files in a folder to upload to mediawiki. Here is it. http://code.google.com/p/mediawiki-uploader Thanks a lot for your innovation to ease upload of images to commons. Thanks also for making it open source, as it can be inspiration for others to improve it and/or build other tools, which can simiplify working with wiki projects. Based on my previous experience with commons, the category addition is a pain point, even with current default tools on commons. Categories are not added as part of Upload. After few days, a bot will flag all those images with the uncategorised warning. Can you explore enhancing the tool to support categorisation along with Upload? I will try your tool in couple of weeks and provide more feedback. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader
hi arjuna, thanks for the wishes. I am also very new to wikipedia. please give some more details on categories. shall we give any text as category or some pre defined text are there to pick up from? use gthumb to add some meta data. we can parse it and use them as categories. please share your ideas. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
hi, Would India be interested? How do we put forth our interest? I'll be happy to help. Pradeep -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com Date: 2011/12/18 Subject: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global? To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, As you may have heard, a little while ago some organizers of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 came together in a rainy and cold Amsterdam to evaluate the 2011 edition, and kick off documentation for 2012. We would like to share some of the results of our meeting with you. The first and most important information is: * There is going to be a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 -- and if there is interest, we are going global! We would like to get a feeling of in how many countries there would be people potentially interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments nationally; but firstly, let us start with the basics. Wiki Loves Monuments is a photo contest organized in 2010 and 2011 in, respectively, the Netherlands and in Europe. The contest asks the general audience to upload pictures of monumental/historical sites and buildings during September. It has a federal structure and is organised separately in every participating country by the local people who know how things work in their area; best photos from all countries are nominated for an international contest. In 2011 this contest was very successful, with more than 165.000 photos of monuments in 18 participating countries submitted in total. This was possible thanks to the hard work of hundreds of volunteers in those countries who helped organise Wiki Loves Monuments in one way or another. The winning pictures have been published on http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu and on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011_winners. Besides the wonderful direct impact on the overall quality and coverage of heritage and culture topics, Wiki Loves Monuments is a fantastic opportunity to reach some of our important goals: we had a participation of over 4.000 new users who created the first ever community-driven contribution peak on Wikimedia Commons (http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/#new_editors_per_month); we have also helped in establishing cooperation between Wikimedia groups chapters and some of their local cultural institutions and organisations in several countries. Would you be interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 in your country? Would you like to know more? Find all the details at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012. We have put together some information there for you -- and much more will follow soon. We would also like you to join our public mailing list where everyone is welcome to ask any questions about the details on how to organise a Wiki Loves Monuments in your country. This is a place where many organizers of 2011 are already on and we will use that as our main channel for communications and information dispersion in 2012. Be bold and sign up for the list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments. So, please speak up if you're interested! Best regards, Lodewijk, Maarten Tomasz (on behalf of so many others) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
I already took the liberty of registering personal support :) Count me in too. We are planning a photo walk in Ahmedabad this January. I guess India's participation will have to be coordinated city/state wise? On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Would India be interested? How do we put forth our interest? I'll be happy to help. Pradeep -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com Date: 2011/12/18 Subject: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global? To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, As you may have heard, a little while ago some organizers of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 came together in a rainy and cold Amsterdam to evaluate the 2011 edition, and kick off documentation for 2012. We would like to share some of the results of our meeting with you. The first and most important information is: * There is going to be a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 -- and if there is interest, we are going global! We would like to get a feeling of in how many countries there would be people potentially interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments nationally; but firstly, let us start with the basics. Wiki Loves Monuments is a photo contest organized in 2010 and 2011 in, respectively, the Netherlands and in Europe. The contest asks the general audience to upload pictures of monumental/historical sites and buildings during September. It has a federal structure and is organised separately in every participating country by the local people who know how things work in their area; best photos from all countries are nominated for an international contest. In 2011 this contest was very successful, with more than 165.000 photos of monuments in 18 participating countries submitted in total. This was possible thanks to the hard work of hundreds of volunteers in those countries who helped organise Wiki Loves Monuments in one way or another. The winning pictures have been published on http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu and on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011_winners. Besides the wonderful direct impact on the overall quality and coverage of heritage and culture topics, Wiki Loves Monuments is a fantastic opportunity to reach some of our important goals: we had a participation of over 4.000 new users who created the first ever community-driven contribution peak on Wikimedia Commons (http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/#new_editors_per_month); we have also helped in establishing cooperation between Wikimedia groups chapters and some of their local cultural institutions and organisations in several countries. Would you be interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 in your country? Would you like to know more? Find all the details at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012. We have put together some information there for you -- and much more will follow soon. We would also like you to join our public mailing list where everyone is welcome to ask any questions about the details on how to organise a Wiki Loves Monuments in your country. This is a place where many organizers of 2011 are already on and we will use that as our main channel for communications and information dispersion in 2012. Be bold and sign up for the list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments. So, please speak up if you're interested! Best regards, Lodewijk, Maarten Tomasz (on behalf of so many others) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
hi, If the cities interested and languages interested express their interest, we could go ahead at a national level through the chapter or as a community. The choice is with the community. Hence the question. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 18 December 2011 21:47, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: I already took the liberty of registering personal support :) Count me in too. We are planning a photo walk in Ahmedabad this January. I guess India's participation will have to be coordinated city/state wise? On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Would India be interested? How do we put forth our interest? I'll be happy to help. Pradeep -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com Date: 2011/12/18 Subject: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global? To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, As you may have heard, a little while ago some organizers of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 came together in a rainy and cold Amsterdam to evaluate the 2011 edition, and kick off documentation for 2012. We would like to share some of the results of our meeting with you. The first and most important information is: * There is going to be a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 -- and if there is interest, we are going global! We would like to get a feeling of in how many countries there would be people potentially interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments nationally; but firstly, let us start with the basics. Wiki Loves Monuments is a photo contest organized in 2010 and 2011 in, respectively, the Netherlands and in Europe. The contest asks the general audience to upload pictures of monumental/historical sites and buildings during September. It has a federal structure and is organised separately in every participating country by the local people who know how things work in their area; best photos from all countries are nominated for an international contest. In 2011 this contest was very successful, with more than 165.000 photos of monuments in 18 participating countries submitted in total. This was possible thanks to the hard work of hundreds of volunteers in those countries who helped organise Wiki Loves Monuments in one way or another. The winning pictures have been published on http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu and on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011_winners. Besides the wonderful direct impact on the overall quality and coverage of heritage and culture topics, Wiki Loves Monuments is a fantastic opportunity to reach some of our important goals: we had a participation of over 4.000 new users who created the first ever community-driven contribution peak on Wikimedia Commons (http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/#new_editors_per_month); we have also helped in establishing cooperation between Wikimedia groups chapters and some of their local cultural institutions and organisations in several countries. Would you be interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 in your country? Would you like to know more? Find all the details at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012. We have put together some information there for you -- and much more will follow soon. We would also like you to join our public mailing list where everyone is welcome to ask any questions about the details on how to organise a Wiki Loves Monuments in your country. This is a place where many organizers of 2011 are already on and we will use that as our main channel for communications and information dispersion in 2012. Be bold and sign up for the list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments. So, please speak up if you're interested! Best regards, Lodewijk, Maarten Tomasz (on behalf of so many others) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
It is a wiki :) Pradeep 2011/12/18 Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com Along with this, just throwing up an idea. Since, the timeline is not yet decided, can we simultaneously have a Wikimedia India page to document all the Wiki loves monuments in India that happen in 2012? 2011/12/18 Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com hi, If the cities interested and languages interested express their interest, we could go ahead at a national level through the chapter or as a community. The choice is with the community. Hence the question. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 18 December 2011 21:47, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: I already took the liberty of registering personal support :) Count me in too. We are planning a photo walk in Ahmedabad this January. I guess India's participation will have to be coordinated city/state wise? On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Would India be interested? How do we put forth our interest? I'll be happy to help. Pradeep -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com Date: 2011/12/18 Subject: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global? To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, As you may have heard, a little while ago some organizers of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 came together in a rainy and cold Amsterdam to evaluate the 2011 edition, and kick off documentation for 2012. We would like to share some of the results of our meeting with you. The first and most important information is: * There is going to be a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 -- and if there is interest, we are going global! We would like to get a feeling of in how many countries there would be people potentially interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments nationally; but firstly, let us start with the basics. Wiki Loves Monuments is a photo contest organized in 2010 and 2011 in, respectively, the Netherlands and in Europe. The contest asks the general audience to upload pictures of monumental/historical sites and buildings during September. It has a federal structure and is organised separately in every participating country by the local people who know how things work in their area; best photos from all countries are nominated for an international contest. In 2011 this contest was very successful, with more than 165.000 photos of monuments in 18 participating countries submitted in total. This was possible thanks to the hard work of hundreds of volunteers in those countries who helped organise Wiki Loves Monuments in one way or another. The winning pictures have been published on http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu and on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011_winners. Besides the wonderful direct impact on the overall quality and coverage of heritage and culture topics, Wiki Loves Monuments is a fantastic opportunity to reach some of our important goals: we had a participation of over 4.000 new users who created the first ever community-driven contribution peak on Wikimedia Commons (http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/#new_editors_per_month); we have also helped in establishing cooperation between Wikimedia groups chapters and some of their local cultural institutions and organisations in several countries. Would you be interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 in your country? Would you like to know more? Find all the details at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012. We have put together some information there for you -- and much more will follow soon. We would also like you to join our public mailing list where everyone is welcome to ask any questions about the details on how to organise a Wiki Loves Monuments in your country. This is a place where many organizers of 2011 are already on and we will use that as our main channel for communications and information dispersion in 2012. Be bold and sign up for the list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments. So, please speak up if you're interested! Best regards, Lodewijk, Maarten Tomasz (on behalf of so many others) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
Yes, that. A wiki (if one does not exist already) for Wiki loves monuments in India in 2012. 2011/12/18 Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com It is a wiki :) Pradeep 2011/12/18 Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com Along with this, just throwing up an idea. Since, the timeline is not yet decided, can we simultaneously have a Wikimedia India page to document all the Wiki loves monuments in India that happen in 2012? 2011/12/18 Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com hi, If the cities interested and languages interested express their interest, we could go ahead at a national level through the chapter or as a community. The choice is with the community. Hence the question. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 18 December 2011 21:47, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: I already took the liberty of registering personal support :) Count me in too. We are planning a photo walk in Ahmedabad this January. I guess India's participation will have to be coordinated city/state wise? On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Would India be interested? How do we put forth our interest? I'll be happy to help. Pradeep -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com Date: 2011/12/18 Subject: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global? To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, As you may have heard, a little while ago some organizers of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 came together in a rainy and cold Amsterdam to evaluate the 2011 edition, and kick off documentation for 2012. We would like to share some of the results of our meeting with you. The first and most important information is: * There is going to be a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 -- and if there is interest, we are going global! We would like to get a feeling of in how many countries there would be people potentially interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments nationally; but firstly, let us start with the basics. Wiki Loves Monuments is a photo contest organized in 2010 and 2011 in, respectively, the Netherlands and in Europe. The contest asks the general audience to upload pictures of monumental/historical sites and buildings during September. It has a federal structure and is organised separately in every participating country by the local people who know how things work in their area; best photos from all countries are nominated for an international contest. In 2011 this contest was very successful, with more than 165.000 photos of monuments in 18 participating countries submitted in total. This was possible thanks to the hard work of hundreds of volunteers in those countries who helped organise Wiki Loves Monuments in one way or another. The winning pictures have been published on http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu and on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011_winners. Besides the wonderful direct impact on the overall quality and coverage of heritage and culture topics, Wiki Loves Monuments is a fantastic opportunity to reach some of our important goals: we had a participation of over 4.000 new users who created the first ever community-driven contribution peak on Wikimedia Commons (http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/#new_editors_per_month); we have also helped in establishing cooperation between Wikimedia groups chapters and some of their local cultural institutions and organisations in several countries. Would you be interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 in your country? Would you like to know more? Find all the details at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012. We have put together some information there for you -- and much more will follow soon. We would also like you to join our public mailing list where everyone is welcome to ask any questions about the details on how to organise a Wiki Loves Monuments in your country. This is a place where many organizers of 2011 are already on and we will use that as our main channel for communications and information dispersion in 2012. Be bold and sign up for the list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments. So, please speak up if you're interested! Best regards, Lodewijk, Maarten Tomasz (on behalf of so many others) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
By the statement, I meant that you did not need permission to make a wiki since it is a wiki. Do go ahead and create one! Pradeep Mohandas 2011/12/18 Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com Yes, that. A wiki (if one does not exist already) for Wiki loves monuments in India in 2012. 2011/12/18 Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com It is a wiki :) Pradeep 2011/12/18 Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com Along with this, just throwing up an idea. Since, the timeline is not yet decided, can we simultaneously have a Wikimedia India page to document all the Wiki loves monuments in India that happen in 2012? 2011/12/18 Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com hi, If the cities interested and languages interested express their interest, we could go ahead at a national level through the chapter or as a community. The choice is with the community. Hence the question. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 18 December 2011 21:47, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: I already took the liberty of registering personal support :) Count me in too. We are planning a photo walk in Ahmedabad this January. I guess India's participation will have to be coordinated city/state wise? On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Would India be interested? How do we put forth our interest? I'll be happy to help. Pradeep -- Forwarded message -- From: Tomasz Kozłowski odder.w...@gmail.com Date: 2011/12/18 Subject: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global? To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, As you may have heard, a little while ago some organizers of Wiki Loves Monuments 2011 came together in a rainy and cold Amsterdam to evaluate the 2011 edition, and kick off documentation for 2012. We would like to share some of the results of our meeting with you. The first and most important information is: * There is going to be a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 -- and if there is interest, we are going global! We would like to get a feeling of in how many countries there would be people potentially interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments nationally; but firstly, let us start with the basics. Wiki Loves Monuments is a photo contest organized in 2010 and 2011 in, respectively, the Netherlands and in Europe. The contest asks the general audience to upload pictures of monumental/historical sites and buildings during September. It has a federal structure and is organised separately in every participating country by the local people who know how things work in their area; best photos from all countries are nominated for an international contest. In 2011 this contest was very successful, with more than 165.000 photos of monuments in 18 participating countries submitted in total. This was possible thanks to the hard work of hundreds of volunteers in those countries who helped organise Wiki Loves Monuments in one way or another. The winning pictures have been published on http://www.wikilovesmonuments.eu and on Wikimedia Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2011_winners . Besides the wonderful direct impact on the overall quality and coverage of heritage and culture topics, Wiki Loves Monuments is a fantastic opportunity to reach some of our important goals: we had a participation of over 4.000 new users who created the first ever community-driven contribution peak on Wikimedia Commons (http://stats.wikimedia.org/reportcard/#new_editors_per_month); we have also helped in establishing cooperation between Wikimedia groups chapters and some of their local cultural institutions and organisations in several countries. Would you be interested in organizing a Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 in your country? Would you like to know more? Find all the details at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012 . We have put together some information there for you -- and much more will follow soon. We would also like you to join our public mailing list where everyone is welcome to ask any questions about the details on how to organise a Wiki Loves Monuments in your country. This is a place where many organizers of 2011 are already on and we will use that as our main channel for communications and information dispersion in 2012. Be bold and sign up for the list at https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments. So, please speak up if you're interested! Best regards, Lodewijk, Maarten Tomasz (on behalf of so many others) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
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Prad, Noopur, I'm with you on this one. I think what we need to do is, create a category on the Commons, customise the Upload Wizard if needed, set up a committee to check for copyright violations, create a page on Meta, translate it into every language, get your cameras, phones ready, stock up on film rolls and Memory Cards, batteries, etc. See, it's that simple. Let's not wait for Chapter or Foundation, and start NOW! -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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Hey guys, I'm kinda new to the Wiki community, so correct me if my suggestions are out of the way. The Wiki loves monuments sounds really interesting...can we spread the word via social media for us newbies? On 18 December 2011 23:01, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: Prad, Noopur, I'm with you on this one. I think what we need to do is, create a category on the Commons, customise the Upload Wizard if needed, set up a committee to check for copyright violations, create a page on Meta, translate it into every language, get your cameras, phones ready, stock up on film rolls and Memory Cards, batteries, etc. See, it's that simple. Let's not wait for Chapter or Foundation, and start NOW! -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
Dear Mitra and others, Welcome Mitra :) Here is a link to a start page: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Loves_Monuments. I just created it for the India community. I think to sign up you might need to be a member. You can always get more info on the mailing list while we try and fix this. Do tell us which city you belong to and we can connect you to active ppl there :) Warmly Noopur On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Mitra sharma mittyko...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I'm kinda new to the Wiki community, so correct me if my suggestions are out of the way. The Wiki loves monuments sounds really interesting...can we spread the word via social media for us newbies? On 18 December 2011 23:01, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Prad, Noopur, I'm with you on this one. I think what we need to do is, create a category on the Commons, customise the Upload Wizard if needed, set up a committee to check for copyright violations, create a page on Meta, translate it into every language, get your cameras, phones ready, stock up on film rolls and Memory Cards, batteries, etc. See, it's that simple. Let's not wait for Chapter or Foundation, and start NOW! -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
Noopur, I strongly suggest that you create a page on Meta instead. People who have an account on any Wikipedia or Wikimedia project can sign in without having to register for again. Mitra, sure Social Media is exactly what Bala, Logic and I use for spreading word on anything Wiki related. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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Will do, can you? Just need to copy. I don't have a comp for a bit. On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Noopur, I strongly suggest that you create a page on Meta instead. People who have an account on any Wikipedia or Wikimedia project can sign in without having to register for again. Mitra, sure Social Media is exactly what Bala, Logic and I use for spreading word on anything Wiki related. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
Noopur, sorry, I don't have a computer at all here. Hence the WikiBreak ... Others, whoever creates the page, a something like Wiki Loves Monuments (2012), India should do. If it is incorrect, don't worry, an admin would move and redirect. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
May I suggest to then at least use Commons for that? That is where all the rest of the documentation is also located. I suggest to link it from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012 and create http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India. Best, Lodewijk No dia 18 de Dezembro de 2011 21:07, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com escreveu: Noopur, sorry, I don't have a computer at all here. Hence the WikiBreak ... Others, whoever creates the page, a something like Wiki Loves Monuments (2012), India should do. If it is incorrect, don't worry, an admin would move and redirect. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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hi, Would suggest Commons as well. Will try and create the page in the hour. Pradeep Handheld On 19/12/2011, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: May I suggest to then at least use Commons for that? That is where all the rest of the documentation is also located. I suggest to link it from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012 and create http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India. Best, Lodewijk No dia 18 de Dezembro de 2011 21:07, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com escreveu: Noopur, sorry, I don't have a computer at all here. Hence the WikiBreak ... Others, whoever creates the page, a something like Wiki Loves Monuments (2012), India should do. If it is incorrect, don't worry, an admin would move and redirect. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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Done. Created the page and linked to it. Pradeep On 19 December 2011 02:25, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: May I suggest to then at least use Commons for that? That is where all the rest of the documentation is also located. I suggest to link it from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012 and create http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India. Best, Lodewijk No dia 18 de Dezembro de 2011 21:07, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com escreveu: Noopur, sorry, I don't have a computer at all here. Hence the WikiBreak ... Others, whoever creates the page, a something like Wiki Loves Monuments (2012), India should do. If it is incorrect, don't worry, an admin would move and redirect. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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hi, Also suggest spreading it to the various language lists by people in the languages? warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 19 December 2011 09:15, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.comwrote: Done. Created the page and linked to it. Pradeep On 19 December 2011 02:25, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: May I suggest to then at least use Commons for that? That is where all the rest of the documentation is also located. I suggest to link it from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012and create http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India. Best, Lodewijk No dia 18 de Dezembro de 2011 21:07, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com escreveu: Noopur, sorry, I don't have a computer at all here. Hence the WikiBreak ... Others, whoever creates the page, a something like Wiki Loves Monuments (2012), India should do. If it is incorrect, don't worry, an admin would move and redirect. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
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Its a great idea to have a Wiki loves monuments. Support from SIGs was mentioned. Speaking as a member of Indic Wikipedians on English Wikipedia, you have our support. I would only say that September being partly/mostly a rainy month, our events should be summer holiday poised when it would be convenent for people to students to participate. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Would suggest Commons as well. Will try and create the page in the hour. Pradeep Handheld On 19/12/2011, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: May I suggest to then at least use Commons for that? That is where all the rest of the documentation is also located. I suggest to link it from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012 and create http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India . Best, Lodewijk No dia 18 de Dezembro de 2011 21:07, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com escreveu: Noopur, sorry, I don't have a computer at all here. Hence the WikiBreak ... Others, whoever creates the page, a something like Wiki Loves Monuments (2012), India should do. If it is incorrect, don't worry, an admin would move and redirect. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
We need to have the documentation translated too. On 12/18/11, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Also suggest spreading it to the various language lists by people in the languages? warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 19 December 2011 09:15, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.comwrote: Done. Created the page and linked to it. Pradeep On 19 December 2011 02:25, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote: May I suggest to then at least use Commons for that? That is where all the rest of the documentation is also located. I suggest to link it from here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012and create http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India. Best, Lodewijk No dia 18 de Dezembro de 2011 21:07, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com escreveu: Noopur, sorry, I don't have a computer at all here. Hence the WikiBreak ... Others, whoever creates the page, a something like Wiki Loves Monuments (2012), India should do. If it is incorrect, don't worry, an admin would move and redirect. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?
Hi Srikanth everyone else, This is a really good question and one that I've been thinking about and working on as we look at outreach in general. From my discussions with various editors and my observing and participating in outreach sessions, I think the biggest challenge when we do outreach is why to contribute. Of course, how to edit is essential - but unless someone believes there is a strong enough reason to participate, it's unlikely they're going to get involved or stay involved after a couple of exploratory edits. From my conversations and readings, the motivators of existing editors are any or a combination (or variants) of promoting free knowledge or sharing knowledge in general or improving education or passion for their languages or interest in a particular subject (e.g. astronomy or railways or butterflies.) However, my opinion is that it is relatively complex to convey these in an initial outreach session. It's best to motivate and train and support potential newbies to join the movement and community - and allow them to discover for themselves what is the inspiration for them (especially because it is likely to be unique to that individual.) Personally, i think there are a number of really compelling answers to the What's in it for me? question - and I do want to share my take on it. I'm dividing my answer into students and faculty/institutions. (The tone I'm using is what can be used when actually answering the question.) These answers are a little clinical and conceptual but I've found they work - and I believe they will provide an adequate incentive to try and learn a little bit more about editing and to hopefully become regular editors. Academia - Students It improves your writing skills. Writing skills are essential when you move ahead in life either to do further studies or to work. Our education system (unfortunately) doesn't adequately teach writing skills and we all struggle when we have to write a formal report or research paper. When you move into the working world, you'll find that you can be as good as you are at your work but unless you are able to write those written reports properly, you'll always find it hard to succeed. It will help your critical thinking. Concepts like Neutral Point of View (which you will sometimes see in Wikipedia being referred to as NPOV) help you see all sides of a story. In your future careers, you need to consider the pros and cons of anything - because only that way will you be a better professional. If you're into software, look at the article on waterfall development model and how it looks at pros and cons. If you're in economics, look at the article on the Euro bailout and see how it looks at all the multiple complex issues involved. Very little in life is purely good or totally evil; we need to be neutral and consider all sides. You will find this incredibly useful in both your personal and professional lives. This thinking will help you decide who to vote for in elections or which version of Lok Pal you support or which IPL team to follow! This thinking will help you understand your subjects even better. It'll strengthen your research skills. Editing a wikipedia article requires you to do a lot of referencing (or what wikipedia sometimes calls citations.) This means you need to look beyond just the wikipedia article and research online references and also go into that forgotten room called the library and look up books or journal. This is a skill you cannot live without if you are writing a thesis or working on a research project. It teaches you how to collaborate! Editing wikipedia is magical. You add some content and someone from some other part of the class or school or town or country or somewhere else in the world adds a little bit more and makes your contribution that much better. The days of sitting alone under a tree and having an apple fall on your head and discovering gravity are over. In today's world, we will need to collaborate to achieve anything. If you're into biotechnology, you might be based in Hyderabad but the team you are part of might have someone in Scotland or Brazil- from a different culture and with a different accent - but you need to work together. Wikipedia helps you learn how to collaborate! It gives you a global audience of - literally, thousands! If you submit a class report, the maximum audience is 2; 1 being you and 1 being your teacher. After your paper is marked, it will normally be thrown away. If you edit a wikipedia article, it is there *forever* and the audience can be any number from the 500 million who read wikipedia every month! You can show your article to you mother and grandfather and friends! If you upload pictures to Wikimedia Commons, you will have an audience so much bigger than the 500 friends on Facebook who will see it. So many more can see your talents and appreciate your work! It'll boost
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?
Nice...:) Deepon On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Srikanth everyone else, This is a really good question and one that I've been thinking about and working on as we look at outreach in general. From my discussions with various editors and my observing and participating in outreach sessions, I think the biggest challenge when we do outreach is why to contribute. Of course, how to edit is essential - but unless someone believes there is a strong enough reason to participate, it's unlikely they're going to get involved or stay involved after a couple of exploratory edits. From my conversations and readings, the motivators of existing editors are any or a combination (or variants) of promoting free knowledge or sharing knowledge in general or improving education or passion for their languages or interest in a particular subject (e.g. astronomy or railways or butterflies.) However, my opinion is that it is relatively complex to convey these in an initial outreach session. It's best to motivate and train and support potential newbies to join the movement and community - and allow them to discover for themselves what is the inspiration for them (especially because it is likely to be unique to that individual.) Personally, i think there are a number of really compelling answers to the What's in it for me? question - and I do want to share my take on it. I'm dividing my answer into students and faculty/institutions. (The tone I'm using is what can be used when actually answering the question.) These answers are a little clinical and conceptual but I've found they work - and I believe they will provide an adequate incentive to try and learn a little bit more about editing and to hopefully become regular editors. * Academia - Students* 1. It improves your *writing skills*. Writing skills are essential when you move ahead in life either to do further studies or to work. Our education system (unfortunately) doesn't adequately teach writing skills and we all struggle when we have to write a formal report or research paper. When you move into the working world, you'll find that you can be as good as you are at your work but unless you are able to write those written reports properly, you'll always find it hard to succeed. 2. It will help your *critical thinking*. Concepts like Neutral Point of View (which you will sometimes see in Wikipedia being referred to as NPOV) help you see all sides of a story. In your future careers, you need to consider the pros and cons of anything - because only that way will you be a better professional. If you're into software, look at the article on waterfall development model and how it looks at pros and cons. If you're in economics, look at the article on the Euro bailout and see how it looks at all the multiple complex issues involved. Very little in life is purely good or totally evil; we need to be neutral and consider all sides. You will find this incredibly useful in both your personal and professional lives. This thinking will help you decide who to vote for in elections or which version of Lok Pal you support or which IPL team to follow! This thinking will help you understand your subjects even better. 3. It'll strengthen your *research skills.* Editing a wikipedia article requires you to do a lot of referencing (or what wikipedia sometimes calls citations.) This means you need to look beyond just the wikipedia article and research online references and also go into that forgotten room called the library and look up books or journal. This is a skill you cannot live without if you are writing a thesis or working on a research project. 4. It teaches you how to *collaborate*! Editing wikipedia is magical. You add some content and someone from some other part of the class or school or town or country or somewhere else in the world adds a little bit more and makes your contribution that much better. The days of sitting alone under a tree and having an apple fall on your head and discovering gravity are over. In today's world, we will need to collaborate to achieve anything. If you're into biotechnology, you might be based in Hyderabad but the team you are part of might have someone in Scotland or Brazil- from a different culture and with a different accent - but you need to work together. Wikipedia helps you learn how to collaborate! 5. It gives you a *global audience of - literally, thousands! * If you submit a class report, the maximum audience is 2; 1 being you and 1 being your teacher. After your paper is marked, it will normally be thrown away. If you edit a wikipedia article, it is there *forever* and the audience can be any number from the 500 million who read wikipedia every month! You can show your
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?
Hi Noopur, Thanks for warm welcome! :) :) I'm based out of Delhi and know a few people who would love to contribute for Gujurat and Mumbai. I already am a member, how do I go about it post that? Best, Mitra On 18 December 2011 23:58, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mitra and others, Welcome Mitra :) Here is a link to a start page: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Loves_Monuments. I just created it for the India community. I think to sign up you might need to be a member. You can always get more info on the mailing list while we try and fix this. Do tell us which city you belong to and we can connect you to active ppl there :) Warmly Noopur On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Mitra sharma mittyko...@gmail.comwrote: Hey guys, I'm kinda new to the Wiki community, so correct me if my suggestions are out of the way. The Wiki loves monuments sounds really interesting...can we spread the word via social media for us newbies? On 18 December 2011 23:01, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Prad, Noopur, I'm with you on this one. I think what we need to do is, create a category on the Commons, customise the Upload Wizard if needed, set up a committee to check for copyright violations, create a page on Meta, translate it into every language, get your cameras, phones ready, stock up on film rolls and Memory Cards, batteries, etc. See, it's that simple. Let's not wait for Chapter or Foundation, and start NOW! -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
