Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-gu] GLAM Lakhota Museum Jamnagar (Gujarat) on Commons
This is really cool work, Arnav! anirudh On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, As said earlier couple of weeks ago in my mail, I covered the Lakhota Museum Jamnagar through my camera as a part of small GLAM activity, I am happy to announce that my work is almost over. I urge everyone to have a look at Lakhota Museum Jamnagar Gallery. Two of the images from it Lakhota (building) and Shri Ranjit Singh got rated as Quality Image too. Also some of the images in exhibit section at the bottom have some problems like reflection of light from the room, its simply because I was in a bit hurry to cover the entire museum, and it was my debut to cover any museum. I would love to hear from you guys about it. Please do reply. -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) ___ Wikipedia-gu mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu ___ 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] A report on SSN College Academy
Hi, A Wiki workshop/academy was conducted at SSN College of Engineering, Chennai on 11 January. It was organised by SSN opensource enthusiasts under the aegis of the SSN Tamil Club. Me, Srikanth Lakshmanan and Arunmozhi from the Tamizha FOSS group. [1] 60 students attended the academy. The academy began at 9 in the morning with a presentation of open web and open source from SSN opensource enthusiasts. I followed it up with a intro section on wikipedia and a hands on editing session for about an hour. I covered the basics of wikipedia, notability standards, five pillars, copyright issues. I also covered basics of Wiktionary and Commons. Next Srikanth took a session on technology behind wikipedia and how the students could contribute technically to Wiki projects. We broke for lunch at 12 and reconvened an hour later. The afternoon session began with a audio recording exercise, where songs of the Tamil poet Subramania Bharathi were sung and uploaded to commons.[2] This served as a hands on exercise to identify the common copyright problems and which material can be added to Wiki projects without copyright issues. Public domain, nationalisation, copyright term expiry, threshold of originality, open source file formats etc were discussed. Next Arunmozhi ( a student of a College of Engineering Guindy and a developer of Tamil open source software) took a session on the initiatives of the Tamizha group. After that we went on a photo walk of the SSN campus. We split into two groups and walked around the SSN campus taking pictures. The images were uploaded to Commons. [3]. This served as an oppurtunity to explain copyright issues like freedom of panorama and derivative works. The academy ended with a vote of thanks from the Tamil Club convener. Over all it was a highly successful exercise (IMO) and a lot of productive work was done. The attendees were highly motivated and asked a lot of pertinent questions which lead to some interesting discussions. They also gave a few interesting suggestions about improving the usability of Wiki pages from newbie perspective (Srikanth has already started work on implementing one of the suggestions). I would like to thank the organising team (Dwaraka, Harvesh, Jason and others) for doing an excellent job in organising the event , SSN Tamil Mandram for its patronage and Wikimedia India Chapter for its help with swag and printed material (though the quantity was nowhere sufficient :-). Please ramp up the operation guys). ==Links== [1]http://thamizha.com/ [2]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tamil_audio_songs [3]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SSN_College_of_Engineering ___ 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] A report on SSN College Academy
great work. thanks to the efforts. On 16 Jan 2012 14:47, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A Wiki workshop/academy was conducted at SSN College of Engineering, Chennai on 11 January. It was organised by SSN opensource enthusiasts under the aegis of the SSN Tamil Club. Me, Srikanth Lakshmanan and Arunmozhi from the Tamizha FOSS group. [1] 60 students attended the academy. The academy began at 9 in the morning with a presentation of open web and open source from SSN opensource enthusiasts. I followed it up with a intro section on wikipedia and a hands on editing session for about an hour. I covered the basics of wikipedia, notability standards, five pillars, copyright issues. I also covered basics of Wiktionary and Commons. Next Srikanth took a session on technology behind wikipedia and how the students could contribute technically to Wiki projects. We broke for lunch at 12 and reconvened an hour later. The afternoon session began with a audio recording exercise, where songs of the Tamil poet Subramania Bharathi were sung and uploaded to commons.[2] This served as a hands on exercise to identify the common copyright problems and which material can be added to Wiki projects without copyright issues. Public domain, nationalisation, copyright term expiry, threshold of originality, open source file formats etc were discussed. Next Arunmozhi ( a student of a College of Engineering Guindy and a developer of Tamil open source software) took a session on the initiatives of the Tamizha group. After that we went on a photo walk of the SSN campus. We split into two groups and walked around the SSN campus taking pictures. The images were uploaded to Commons. [3]. This served as an oppurtunity to explain copyright issues like freedom of panorama and derivative works. The academy ended with a vote of thanks from the Tamil Club convener. Over all it was a highly successful exercise (IMO) and a lot of productive work was done. The attendees were highly motivated and asked a lot of pertinent questions which lead to some interesting discussions. They also gave a few interesting suggestions about improving the usability of Wiki pages from newbie perspective (Srikanth has already started work on implementing one of the suggestions). I would like to thank the organising team (Dwaraka, Harvesh, Jason and others) for doing an excellent job in organising the event , SSN Tamil Mandram for its patronage and Wikimedia India Chapter for its help with swag and printed material (though the quantity was nowhere sufficient :-). Please ramp up the operation guys). ==Links== [1]http://thamizha.com/ [2]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tamil_audio_songs [3]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SSN_College_of_Engineering ___ 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] Fwd: SOPA - Action
Srikanth R (User:Rsrikanth05) requested me to forward this mail to the Wikimedia India list. Please do have a look. -- Forwarded message -- From: Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 6:27 PM Subject: SOPA To: Swaroop Rao swaroop...@wikimedia.in Note: Forward to the India mailing list on my behalf please. Heya Mike, Since you are an admin on Sa, I thought this would be of importance to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action Do intimate other Indic languges also. The deadline to submit proposals to the Foundation is less than 13 hours away. Take a call and spread the word. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore. -- Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch) ___ 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] [Wikipedia-gu] GLAM Lakhota Museum Jamnagar (Gujarat) on Commons
Awesome work, Arnav. Heartiest congratulations. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: Great work Arnav. An excellent example of GLAM in action rather than GLAM in planning. :-) On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: This is really cool work, Arnav! anirudh On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, As said earlier couple of weeks ago in my mail, I covered the Lakhota Museum Jamnagar through my camera as a part of small GLAM activity, I am happy to announce that my work is almost over. I urge everyone to have a look at Lakhota Museum Jamnagar Gallery. Two of the images from it Lakhota (building) and Shri Ranjit Singh got rated as Quality Image too. Also some of the images in exhibit section at the bottom have some problems like reflection of light from the room, its simply because I was in a bit hurry to cover the entire museum, and it was my debut to cover any museum. I would love to hear from you guys about it. Please do reply. -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) ___ Wikipedia-gu mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu ___ 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] HT covers Delhi Wikimeetup
Dear all, HT covered our Delhi wiki meetup. I think it's a lovely writeup and quite comprehensive too. :) http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/PersonalTech-Updates/Wikipedia-11-years-of-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/SP-Article1-798137.aspx Cheers Noopur ___ 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] HT covers Delhi Wikimeetup
It's great that along with everything else they put in a section for upcoming projects that people can be a part of. On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, HT covered our Delhi wiki meetup. I think it's a lovely writeup and quite comprehensive too. :) http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/PersonalTech-Updates/Wikipedia-11-years-of-sharing-the-sum-of-all-knowledge/SP-Article1-798137.aspx Cheers Noopur ___ 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] Experience of taking Wiki academy at lesser known site of digital devide
Hi all, 12.05 pm 13th Jan 2012 ,Principal's Cabin at Abasaheb Prashala Day School near 15August Square Rastapeth Pune ; A visibly anoyed mother with her middle school son visits principal to discuss her sons school absentism the mother informs sons father is expired five years ago , She is working as home maid at some middle class families and making a living; Principal does her job very well ; seems such situations are quite regular and routin to the principal madam. 12.15-12.30 School prayer And at 12.30 bell Wikipedia Academy -Sans any projector or laptop only help available is the black board , a chalk and a duster- begins in Standard 8A aprox 35-40 students (An equal mix of girls and boys) Students are asked to show their hands to find out what do they know about internet only one hand comes up and rest of the faces are blank and now the Wikipedian knows the challenge at hand. Mind the fact that the day before School teacher informs that Wikipedia is part of School syllabus in english language for 8th standard since 1999 usually he teaches the first page of the lesson the rest of the pages can not be given justice without internet support (for aprox 20,00,000 every year ) students across Maharashtra .The class goes ahead the wikipedians requests to make stack of all their books on a table and request for a Home Work note book with a promis that it will not be opened, one girl gets convinced and provides the same . Childern smartly give different different answers when asked what is their in their bunch of school books , Most of them say study one Student answers as Mahiti ie.information and a shy girl answers as Knowldge.The students know that knowledge available in bunch of school is limited and there on concept of encyclopedia is explained the word they never heared before, they answer smartly the wikipedian explains By now children are getting in interactive mode discussion goes about curiosity information and knowldge . Without any teaching aid demo laptop how do one explains what is internet ? Luckily children knew about computers So with crude examples a book was a web portal and pages ther in were web pages and then rest of internet story without internet at hand .(May be few schools in rural areas still wont have computers too and wont know how a teacher explains what is Computer) Now the student who provided Home Work note book is asked What will be her reaction if not herself but other students from the class write her home work note book turn by turn ,The entire class of students smiles freely and a smile comes even on the face of the class teacher , who was very patiantly sitting in last row of the class for wikipedia academy. Wikipedia home page is drawn on black-board and The black board itself is edit window . When asked any doubts faces blank, about a thing they never saw what doubts they will ask ? But when asked what is Wikipedia ? a girl student Laxmi stands up and answers what she understood to her best about wikipedia in learned in Wiki academy Students are requested to clap for her correct answer and a chorus of clapps begins !! Later Principal agrees to importance of introduction to internet and informs about their schools steps to upgradation of computer lab infrastructure , After a cup of tea with the class teacher,the Wikipedia leaves school premises for next meeting. Before one day that is on 12th Jan we receive info that a pilot project in some of Maharashtra schools will be extended from coming academic year to all schools mandatorily along with practical unicode Marathi typing and internet , with a chance to explore further collaboration for marathi language wikisource and school board . Rgds -Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia___ 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] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
LinkedIn Dr. Krishna N. Sharma requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Moksh, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Dr. Krishna N. Accept invitation from Dr. Krishna N. Sharma http://www.linkedin.com/e/6vtwj7-gxg9wf7i-49/vjaStsyHDU1pd3fj8yL5iWKbDwQCu5Bh80nSq5eHH6YpwEfVWyyXq_/blk/I3323192345_2/1BpC5vrmRLoRZcjkkZt5YCpnlOt3RApnhMpmdzgmhxrSNBszYOnPkQcP8VcjcOcPd9bSVMckNQpRZlbPsPcPkOdjoOdjkLrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/?hs=falsetok=0NrI_A45MmoB41 View invitation from Dr. Krishna N. Sharma http://www.linkedin.com/e/6vtwj7-gxg9wf7i-49/vjaStsyHDU1pd3fj8yL5iWKbDwQCu5Bh80nSq5eHH6YpwEfVWyyXq_/blk/I3323192345_2/39vdjgPczANcP8PcQALqnpPbOYWrSlI/svi/?hs=falsetok=3di05EP5EmoB41 -- Why might connecting with Dr. Krishna N. Sharma be a good idea? Dr. Krishna N. Sharma's connections could be useful to you: After accepting Dr. Krishna N. Sharma's invitation, check Dr. Krishna N. Sharma's connections to see who else you may know and who you might want an introduction to. Building these connections can create opportunities in the future. -- (c) 2011, LinkedIn Corporation___ 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] Attachments will be hence forth discarded on list
Hi all, Please DONOT add attachments to the list. If you want to share something, put it up in commons(if its valid, like wikipedia stats, designs etc) or in some file sharing site and put the link here for people to download. All mails greater than 256K will not go through instantly and will have to be cleared manually. I just bombed all your mail boxes(Sorry for those using limited space mail IDs), hope not to in the future. Thanks for your understanding. -- Regards Srikanth.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] [Wikipedia-gu] Wikipedia Gujarati is quite active and not at all Dead
Dhaval, Before writing such a scathing email criticizing an administrator (which is me) who allegedly made this statement, perhaps you should have verified it with me first? I was making a reference to Wikiproject Gujarat on the English Wikipedia, which has run out of contributors. You can independently confirm it with the others who were present at the meet up. I encouraged the rest of the participants to contribute to guwp. It's shameful that you are drawn to make personal attacks on a public platform without checking your facts in the first place. And I'll really appreciate if you drop the polemics. Thanks, Anirudh Sent from my iPhone On 17-Jan-2012, at 4:30 AM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I have come to know a surprising fact that in the Wiki meetup recently held in Ahmedabad, while discussing about Gujarati Wikipedia, one of the administrators conveyed that Gujarati project is almost inactive or dead (in gujarati વિકિપીડિયા ગુજરાતી પ્રોજેક્ટ લગભગ બંધ છે.). This is very shameful for anybody to convey wrong message. If one is not aware of the project activity, despite of presentation made by one of the Gujarati Wikipedian in WikiConference India and from the site statistics/traffic report shared with all Indian WIki Language wikipedia by Wikimedia Foundation's India chapter (Shiju Alex recently shared this), they should have accepted their lack of knowledge and conveyed that they are not aware of what's happening with Gujarati Wikipedia or they are ignorant of its state. It is damaging for the growing community that in such vital events people convey wrong message to the masses. I hope some of the attendess of the meetup would read this and correct their mistake by spreading the word of Gujarati WIkipedia and its current state in successive meetups as their moral duty to pay back the debt. This email is not at all intended to hurt anyone, but just to make everyone aware that there has never been a single day, including Gujarati New Year day or Uttarayan, when gu.wiki would have fewer than 50 edits. What else could be an indication of how active this project is? We have almost 22,000 pages on gu.wiki. If anyone need full statistics, please contact me and I will be more than happy to share the same. Regards, Dhaval ___ Wikipedia-gu mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu ___ 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] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:30 AM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org Please also see the related blog post, http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-sopa-blackout-january-18/ The release is posted here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark *English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA * San Francisco -- January 16, 2012 -- On January 18, 2012, in an unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States. Wikipedia administrators confirmed this decision Monday afternoon (PST) in a public statement ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action#Summary_and_conclusion ): Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take against SOPA and PIPA. This is by far the largest level of participation in a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation. The overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a blackout of the English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support. “Today Wikipedians from around the world have spoken about their opposition to this destructive legislation, said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. This is an extraordinary action for our community to take - and while we regret having to prevent the world from having access to Wikipedia for even a second, we simply cannot ignore the fact that SOPA and PIPA endanger free speech both in the United States and abroad, and set a frightening precedent of Internet censorship for the world. We urge Wikipedia readers to make your voices heard. If you live in the United States, find your elected representative in Washington ( https://www.eff.org/sopacall). If you live outside the United States, contact your State Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs or similar branch of government. Tell them you oppose SOPA and PIPA, and want the internet to remain open and free. *About the Wikimedia Foundation *http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 474 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November 2011). Available in 282 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 20 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. *Media Contact: * Jay Walsh Head of Communications Wikimedia Foundation Tel. +1 415 839 6885 x 6609 jwa...@wikimedia.org ___ 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] Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report
Dear all, Greetings from Wikimedia India !!! We are delighted to present the last monthly Wikimedia India report of the year 2011, almost a year after the chapter received the formal recognition from the Government of Karnataka on 3 January 2011. The journey so far wasn't easy, but we appreciate your continued patronage , support and participation. *Organisational Updates* *Formation of Task Forces:* As announced earlier, with the objective of increasing the engagement and participation of the members of the chapter actively in various initiatives, the India chapter has come up with focused Task Forces for coordinating and driving various chapter activities [1]. There are two types of Task Forces - Project Task Forces and Operations Task Forces. The Project Task Forces are focused on growing the Wikimedia projects. The Operations Task Forces are critical functions to enable the Project Task Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement. The operations group consists of Administration, Fund raising, Communications. The Projects task force consists of City and Langugage SIGs and Special Projects. The new task forces will be led by the following people: - Anirudh Bhati, Head, Fundraising. - Arun Ramarathnam, Chair, Special Projects. - Srinivas Gunta, Head, Administration. - Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language Special Interest Groups. - Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications, PR Media Relations. *Membership:* The Chapter membership stands at 190 members as of 31 December 2011. *Donations:* Total donations received in Dec 2011 - INR 700 Average donations in Dec 2011 - INR 350 *FCRA:* Our application for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act with the Government of India is still pending. An official from the Home Ministry has visited Arjuna Rao Chavala, President. *Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):* From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat sessions. The Dec 17, 2011 was anchored by Arun with the focus on Chapter City Language Special Interest Groups. [2] *Board Meetings:* The Chapter Executive Committee had two Tele-conference meetings in the month of December (dated 07 Dec and 14 Dec, 2011). The Wikimedia India chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 21 Dec 2011, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov and Hisham Mundol. The summary of the joint coordination call was shared earlier [3]. Community City and Language Special Interest Groups City and Language Special Interest Groups are a mechanism to engage the diverse interests of members across India. The objective is to grow the wiki projects in their areas of interest by reviewing the status, planning and executing events of interest through growing the community involvement. The leadership of these groups is part of the extended leadership of the Chapter. The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the appointment of the next batch of City and Language Special Interest Group Chairs [4] as given below: *City* - Delhi SIG - Noopur Raval (noopur [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Bangalore SIG - RadhaKrishna (Arkrishna [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Mumbai SIG - Kundan Amitabh (kundan.amitabh [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Pune SIG - Mandar Kulkarni(mandar.kulkarni [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Kolkata SIG - Kalyan Sarkar (kalyan [at] wikimedia [dot] in) *Languages* - English SIG - Ashwin Baindur (ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Kannada SIG - Omshivaprakash H L (omshivaprakash [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Marathi SIG - Mahitgar (mahitgar [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Telugu SIG - Rahimanuddin Shaik (rahimanuddin [at] wikimedia [dot] in) The current sign-ups of Members for the SIGs are as follows: *City Special Interest Groups* City Members Bangalore 10 Delhi 2 Mumbai 3 Pune 6 Kolkata 2 *Language Special Interest Groups* Language Volunteers Bengali 1 English 15 Hindi 1 Kannada 3 Marathi 4 Malayalam 8 Nepali 1 Odia 3 Sanskrit 2 Telugu 3 Events A round-up of Wikimedia events and initatives around the nation is as follows. - *Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college * ( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized by the Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained basics of Wikipedia, how it is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedia, how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took the audience through active editing by signing up, searching for articles, choosing articles to create. Then he demonstrated about creating an article by using the Edit toolbar, citing the text by searching
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Design for Wikipdia India sites
And few points I would like to add: When the new user land up in this page; 1. Where does he finds the link HOW TO EDIT WIKIPEDIA? 2. How he/she can learn HOW TO SIGN UP AND BECOME AN USER? 3. The user should not keep on visiting 2/3 pages to search where he can know about Wikipedia. IMO though the site is specifically about WMIN but the focus is to bring new users into the Wikipedia initiative, so the core message LETS EDIT WIKIPEDIA should be very clearly visible in all the the pages wikimedia.in, wiki.wikimedia.in and blog.wikimedia.in as a link which has instructions for him to learn. Best Subha On 11 January 2012 00:23, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Many of you would know PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh), and I had asked him to see if he can design anything for Wikipedia.in, etc. He's sent me a mockup that I absolutely love, and am willing to spend time htmlizing. Thoughts? /me hopes attachment goes through -- Forwarded message -- From: Arun Ganesh arungra...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:40 PM Subject: Re: Wiki India Designs To: Yuvi Panda m...@yuvi.in questions that a user has: 1) where am i? 2) what do i get here? 3) how do i find it? the current landing pages are actually quite cryptic to someone new. something like this would help someone explore and learn. click any language tab and all the text changes to that language. The project boxes stay visible, the search flyout loads on hover. will it work? On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Yuvi Panda m...@yuvi.in wrote: Anything? On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Arun Ganesh arungra...@gmail.com wrote: indeed, figured if i dont get things done this month, i probably never will :) On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Yuvi Panda m...@yuvi.in wrote: Wah wah wah. Earmarking and organizing and all. On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Arun Ganesh arungra...@gmail.com wrote: i have earmarked certain hours tomorrow for work. i'll let you know if i get somehing On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Yuvi Panda m...@yuvi.in wrote: http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/wikipedia.html http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/index.html http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/wikisource.html is what they have. Planning on launch in a few weeks. Have a better Idea I could code up? -- Yuvi T http://yuvi.in/ -- j.mp/ArunGanesh -- Yuvi T http://yuvi.in/ -- j.mp/ArunGanesh -- Yuvi T http://yuvi.in/ -- j.mp/ArunGanesh -- Yuvi T http://yuvi.in/ -- 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To subscribe 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] Media : Gandhi would have been a Wikipedian
FYI by our very own Achal Prabhala http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
*The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?* ( Article by Achal Prabhala) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 ( Single Page Version) * In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His inspiration was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and science-fiction pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a mathematical nightmare of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking off from the mythical Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction) spawned a minor publishing industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a happy place: its chronically overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish cults periodically vandalised the books, people spent lifetimes searching for a catalogue without success, and — wondrous as it all was — no one expected to find anything useful there ever. Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a cautionary tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at their word. When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect search engine, he is reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of God.” Preposterous, yes; but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to adopt this as a mission statement would do well to have a cold shower, and heed Borges’ conclusion on the topic — “The library is unlimited and cyclical”. Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations of the desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the pre-biblical city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical Tower of Babel; a bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In the present day, we are no closer to knowing everything, but we have Wikipedia: a bustling website where diverse people from everywhere in the world create miracles. Wikipedia’s humility is the flip-side to its success, and it comes from wanting to be precisely the opposite of the total library: call it a perpetually partial library, if you will. No one who has spent even a minute contributing anything to it would dare assume that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the game won. Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the underlying software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this time, the benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were apparent, and it was extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and images. Wikipedia was among the early exponents of this free culture experiment, quickly followed by sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more. Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s wildest expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website — and the sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our online landscape. There are thriving communities of volunteers in countries like India and South Africa, among several other places, who are helping us discover that learning does not have to be a passive act, and that the value of generosity can be productive and revolutionary at once. Interestingly enough, it was about a hundred years ago that a young, idealistic lawyer set off on a similar journey. Affected by colonialism in his home, India, and faced with debilitating segregation laws in his adopted home, South Africa, he saw the productive and revolutionary potential in generous knowledge. Over a long sea journey from London to Cape Town, he wrote down his ideas on self-determination and independence. The young lawyer was, of course, Gandhi, and his book, Hind Swaraj, would go on to become the intellectual blueprint for the Indian freedom movement. The original was written in Gujarati in 1909. One year later, it was translated into English and published as Indian Home Rule. On the cover of the first edition of this English translation is a prominent, if unusual, copyright legend. It reads, “No Rights Reserved”. Now it can be told: Gandhi was a free knowledge activist. Consider what he was encouraging his readers to do. In short order, a person reading Indian Home Rule in 1910 would have been able to copy the book freely, distribute those copies widely, translate the book into other languages, and join the conversation as a participant and not merely as an observer. I know of Gandhi’s radical copyright intentions because I’ve seen an image
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter : December 2011 Report
Wonderful report. Thanks for sharing Naveen On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.inwrote: Dear all, Greetings from Wikimedia India !!! We are delighted to present the last monthly Wikimedia India report of the year 2011, almost a year after the chapter received the formal recognition from the Government of Karnataka on 3 January 2011. The journey so far wasn't easy, but we appreciate your continued patronage , support and participation. *Organisational Updates* *Formation of Task Forces:* As announced earlier, with the objective of increasing the engagement and participation of the members of the chapter actively in various initiatives, the India chapter has come up with focused Task Forces for coordinating and driving various chapter activities [1]. There are two types of Task Forces - Project Task Forces and Operations Task Forces. The Project Task Forces are focused on growing the Wikimedia projects. The Operations Task Forces are critical functions to enable the Project Task Forces and the Chapter in growing the movement. The operations group consists of Administration, Fund raising, Communications. The Projects task force consists of City and Langugage SIGs and Special Projects. The new task forces will be led by the following people: - Anirudh Bhati, Head, Fundraising. - Arun Ramarathnam, Chair, Special Projects. - Srinivas Gunta, Head, Administration. - Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Chair, City and Language Special Interest Groups. - Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications, PR Media Relations. *Membership:* The Chapter membership stands at 190 members as of 31 December 2011. *Donations:* Total donations received in Dec 2011 - INR 700 Average donations in Dec 2011 - INR 350 *FCRA:* Our application for FCRA prior permission under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act with the Government of India is still pending. An official from the Home Ministry has visited Arjuna Rao Chavala, President. *Internet Relay Chat(IRCs):* From time to time, Wikimedia India conduct planned online IRC chat sessions. The Dec 17, 2011 was anchored by Arun with the focus on Chapter City Language Special Interest Groups. [2] *Board Meetings:* The Chapter Executive Committee had two Tele-conference meetings in the month of December (dated 07 Dec and 14 Dec, 2011). The Wikimedia India chapter and Wikimedia Foundation had one joint co-ordination call on 21 Dec 2011, which was attended by Arjuna Rao Chavala, Arun Ramaratnam, Naveen Francis, Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Tinu Cherian, Anirudh Bhati, Asaf Bartov and Hisham Mundol. The summary of the joint coordination call was shared earlier [3]. Community City and Language Special Interest Groups City and Language Special Interest Groups are a mechanism to engage the diverse interests of members across India. The objective is to grow the wiki projects in their areas of interest by reviewing the status, planning and executing events of interest through growing the community involvement. The leadership of these groups is part of the extended leadership of the Chapter. The Wikimedia Chapter is proud to announce the appointment of the next batch of City and Language Special Interest Group Chairs [4] as given below: *City* - Delhi SIG - Noopur Raval (noopur [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Bangalore SIG - RadhaKrishna (Arkrishna [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Mumbai SIG - Kundan Amitabh (kundan.amitabh [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Pune SIG - Mandar Kulkarni(mandar.kulkarni [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Kolkata SIG - Kalyan Sarkar (kalyan [at] wikimedia [dot] in) *Languages* - English SIG - Ashwin Baindur (ashlin [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Kannada SIG - Omshivaprakash H L (omshivaprakash [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Marathi SIG - Mahitgar (mahitgar [at] wikimedia [dot] in) - Telugu SIG - Rahimanuddin Shaik (rahimanuddin [at] wikimedia [dot] in) The current sign-ups of Members for the SIGs are as follows: *City Special Interest Groups* City Members Bangalore 10 Delhi 2 Mumbai 3 Pune 6 Kolkata 2 *Language Special Interest Groups* Language Volunteers Bengali 1 English 15 Hindi 1 Kannada 3 Marathi 4 Malayalam 8 Nepali 1 Odia 3 Sanskrit 2 Telugu 3 Events A round-up of Wikimedia events and initatives around the nation is as follows. - *Wiki Academy @Jaya Engineering college * ( 10 Dec 2011) : The first Wiki Academy in Jaya Engineering college, Chennai,[5] was organized by the Wikimedia chapter and co-hosted by Jaya FOSS Club. Odia Wiki Chair Chapter member, Subhashish Panigrahi explained basics of Wikipedia, how it is edited by millions of volunteers, how Wikipedia is exclusively encyclopedic and kind of articles and notability of articles in Wikipedia, how Wikipedians communicate and form community, and organization of Wikimedia foundations and active projects. Then he took
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Design for Wikipdia India sites
Just saw this. I like the design a lot. It's cleaner and attractive. The free images can be rotated periodically. Thank you, Planemad and Yuvi! anirudh On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Many of you would know PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh), and I had asked him to see if he can design anything for Wikipedia.in, etc. He's sent me a mockup that I absolutely love, and am willing to spend time htmlizing. Thoughts? /me hopes attachment goes through -- Forwarded message -- From: Arun Ganesh arungra...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 11:40 PM Subject: Re: Wiki India Designs To: Yuvi Panda m...@yuvi.in questions that a user has: 1) where am i? 2) what do i get here? 3) how do i find it? the current landing pages are actually quite cryptic to someone new. something like this would help someone explore and learn. click any language tab and all the text changes to that language. The project boxes stay visible, the search flyout loads on hover. will it work? On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Yuvi Panda m...@yuvi.in wrote: Anything? On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Arun Ganesh arungra...@gmail.com wrote: indeed, figured if i dont get things done this month, i probably never will :) On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Yuvi Panda m...@yuvi.in wrote: Wah wah wah. Earmarking and organizing and all. On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Arun Ganesh arungra...@gmail.com wrote: i have earmarked certain hours tomorrow for work. i'll let you know if i get somehing On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Yuvi Panda m...@yuvi.in wrote: http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/wikipedia.html http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/index.html http://www.malayalabhasha.org/indportal/india/wikisource.html is what they have. Planning on launch in a few weeks. Have a better Idea I could code up? -- Yuvi T http://yuvi.in/ -- j.mp/ArunGanesh -- Yuvi T http://yuvi.in/ -- j.mp/ArunGanesh -- Yuvi T http://yuvi.in/ -- j.mp/ArunGanesh -- Yuvi T http://yuvi.in/ -- 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 ___ 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
