[Wikimediaindia-l] Media Coverage of EN Wiki Blackout
English Wikipedia blackout story is rapidly spreading within the Indian media - just saw it on the front page of the NDTV and CNN IBN websites: http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/in-protest-wikipedia-blackout-on-wednesday-167710?pfrom=home-topstories http://ibnlive.in.com/news/wikipedia-to-go-dark-to-stop-antipiracy-act/221431-2.html ___ 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] Design for Wikipdia India sites
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:19, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: 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! +1 We could also probably have twitter feed of WikimediaIndia and link to like FB page to make it more social? -- 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] Design for Wikipdia India sites
Hoi, Do the Devanagari characters indicate a similar page in an Indic language? Thanks, Gerard On 10 January 2012 19:53, 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Experience of taking Wiki academy at lesser known site of digital devide
hi Mahitgar, Thank you for making me question some of the assumptions I have in my mind when I talk to people about Wikipedia and for reminding me to question them before every Academy and workshop. Thanks. warm regards, Pradeep Handheld On 17/01/2012, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Good job :) Students are getting to know more about wikipedia. On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia mahit...@yahoo.co.in wrote: 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 -- * *Thanks n Regards Ansuman * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://twitter.com/smileyansu * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ansumang * * ___ * * Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
[Wikimediaindia-l] Off-topic: Re: Media : Gandhi would have been a Wikipedian
hi, Just curious. Is there any other writing by Gandhi that goes under the same license? Also, any ideas on where Gandhi might have put out this note saying No Rights Reserved? Was there a precedent? I know this is clearly off-topic but curiosity cannot be satiated. Pradeep Handheld On 17/01/2012, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: FYI by our very own Achal Prabhala http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- -- 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] Design for Wikipdia India sites
Hi, The design looks nice. The photo mentions the person as a singer. Actually, it is a photograph of a person smoking a Hukka and a covered sword on the lap. Nothing to do with any musician. I also liked the current design of wikimedia.in. Rather simple but clean. If your last visit was a few days back, just have a look again. -Sudhanwa 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 -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ 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] Design for Wikipdia India sites
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 17:15, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: I also liked the current design of wikimedia.in. Rather simple but clean. If your last visit was a few days back, just have a look again. I think its important to keep the chapter landing page (wikimedia.in ) and wikipedia / wikiprojects landing page seperate. wikimedia.in can continue in form, probably add more details about the chapter on landing page (like the twitter feed / facebook / donate links etc) and wikipedia.in can be to explain about wikiprojects, can take the current design of globe / use the proposed design. -- 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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
Tinu, can I FW to my chapter list (is also a closed list)? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 04:08, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: *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,
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
Beria, you dont need to ask - please go ahead :) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:27:06 -0200 From: berial...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? Tinu, can I FW to my chapter list (is also a closed list)?_ Béria Lima (351) 925 171 484 Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. On 17 January 2012 04:08, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) Anyway, thanks to both of you :D _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 10:28, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Beria, you dont need to ask - please go ahead :) -- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:27:06 -0200 From: berial...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? Tinu, can I FW to my chapter list (is also a closed list)? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 04:08, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: *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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- 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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: Important Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. (bold is mine) When we forward the emails with the above note, to other technical mailing lists, they scold me for forwarding the copyrighted material. I do not see any info on copyright or have to put a footnote like above in any of the news websites. I request Tinu to remove the footnote or just share the links and some snippet. Thanks. You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- 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 -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge ___ 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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
oh common, we don't need to start a cruzade because of this. Isn't that big deal _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 11:17, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: Important Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. (bold is mine) When we forward the emails with the above note, to other technical mailing lists, they scold me for forwarding the copyrighted material. I do not see any info on copyright or have to put a footnote like above in any of the news websites. I request Tinu to remove the footnote or just share the links and some snippet. Thanks. You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- 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 -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge ___ 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] Off-topic: Re: Media : Gandhi would have been a Wikipedian
Few things are off-topic on en list as compared to India-list. Do consider posting there too. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Just curious. Is there any other writing by Gandhi that goes under the same license? Also, any ideas on where Gandhi might have put out this note saying No Rights Reserved? Was there a precedent? I know this is clearly off-topic but curiosity cannot be satiated. Pradeep Handheld On 17/01/2012, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: FYI by our very own Achal Prabhala http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- -- 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] Offtopic GLAM related : Anil Dharker on Museums, TOI
Pradeep's blog led to another thought train for me which you can find here on my blog: http://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/magic_shop/ regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Pradeep Mohandas has responded with a blog post on his thoughts... http://pradx.me/2012/01/16/when-was-the-last-time-you-went-to-a-museum/ Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Comments, anyone? http://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/dharkersdilemma/entry/dust-and-babudom-have-mummified-our-museums 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] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimania 2012 now accepting scholarship applications
FYI. Regards, Jyothis. -- Forwarded message -- From: James Hare messedroc...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:41 PM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Wikimania 2012 now accepting scholarship applications To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, Scholarship applications are now being accepted for Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C. The application window will be one month (through February 16). To learn more about Wikimania scholarships, see http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships To apply for a scholarship, you can fill out the application form here: https://secure.wikidc.org/wm/schols/ For the Wikimania 2012 team, James Hare ___ Please note: all replies sent to this mailing list will be immediately directed to Foundation-L, the public mailing list about the Wikimedia Foundation and its projects. For more information about Foundation-L: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ WikimediaAnnounce-l mailing list wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaannounce-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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org From: Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: Important Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- 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 ___ 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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
/me is proud of being indian too Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org -- *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- 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 ___ 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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
You don't have the blue Indian passport yet. :p On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: /me is proud of being indian too Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org -- *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- 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 ___ 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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
You know me thinks that WikiProject India should start giving out WITI passports (Wikipedia interested in things Indian) ;) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: You don't have the blue Indian passport yet. :p On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: /me is proud of being indian too Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org -- *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- 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 ___ 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] Off-topic: Re: Media : Gandhi would have been a Wikipedian
hi Yann, I think this is what the Indian Express article mentions. I mean are there any more? Pradeep Handheld On 17/01/2012, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/1/17 Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com: hi, Just curious. Is there any other writing by Gandhi that goes under the same license? Also, any ideas on where Gandhi might have put out this note saying No Rights Reserved? Was there a precedent? You mean, like this one? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gandhi-Home-Rule-First-Edition-1909.jpg I know this is clearly off-topic but curiosity cannot be satiated. Pradeep Handheld On 17/01/2012, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: FYI by our very own Achal Prabhala http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur Regards, Yann ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-AMD] [Wikipedia-gu] Wikipedia Gujarati is quite active and not at all Dead
Dhaval, I am Abhishek Joshi the Organizer of Ahmedabad Meetup and first of the thing who told you such a scrap as your are not at the meetup and you don't even know what the all we have done. We had healthy discussion on Wiki Project Gujarat and Infact Anirudh encourage us to write on Gujarati articles. Please before writing such a email verified your self and really its a shameful act to attack someone personally. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: 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 ___ Wikimedia-IN-AMD mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-amd -- * Regards, Abhi * ___ 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] Learning 2012 International Learning Convention
Hi Friends, Second Internation Learning Convention LEARNING 2012 will be held at Kochi, Kerala. Facilitators from Europe facilitating workshops realating to learning, counselling, personal development etc. More details at: www.lllindia.org Regards Dr KK Jayan Lifelong Learning Foundation On 17/01/2012, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Just curious. Is there any other writing by Gandhi that goes under the same license? Also, any ideas on where Gandhi might have put out this note saying No Rights Reserved? Was there a precedent? I know this is clearly off-topic but curiosity cannot be satiated. Pradeep Handheld On 17/01/2012, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: FYI by our very own Achal Prabhala http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- -- 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 -- KK Jayan ___ 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] Report on Ahmedabad meetup-2
Dear all, Let me give you a brief update on things we did in Ahmedabad Meet Up to celebrate Wikipedia's 11th birthday. *Our Main Agenda:* 1. Celebrating Wikipedia 11th Birthday 2. Spreading awareness of Wikipedia in Gujarat/Ahmedabad 3. Introducing Wikipedia project Gujarat to the Ahmedabad community On *11th Birthday of Wikipedia* Ahmedabad Wikimedia Community organize the Ahmedabad Second Meetup at Gandhi Ashram (Sabarmati Ashram). The meet up was organized by Anirudh Bhati Abhishek Joshi. Due to the Sankrant festival a very few wikipedian’s turned out in the meet up so we met with few community members (Parag Patel, Konark Ratnakar and Nakul Chugan). As we were *5 members* we had gone to nearest restaurant for the celebration. Anirudh started with giving a presentation on Wikipedia Project India and Wikipedia Project Gujarat. He further mentioned the role they would play to bridge the gap between people who have the freedom to edit Wikipedia and those who actually do so. He encouraged them to join one of the finest groups of people in the world - Wikipedians. He outlined the sequence of events, the training they would receive. He said that due to the need to start off the program right away, the program would begin with those aspirants who already had the skills being looked for especially the knowledge of the Wikipedia world. Our main focus is on Wikipedia Project Gujarat and on improving the articles and spreading awareness of Wikipedia over Gujarat region. The aspirants responded with interest and a lot of questions. After some discussion we have celebrated the Wikipedia’s 11th Birthday by cutting the beautiful chocolate flavoured cake. This meetup was quite productive and the Ahmedabad community took the contact details of all participants, promising to get back to them soon with different meet ups. Below are the links of Ahmedabad Meet up Details and Photographs of the same. *Ahmedabad Meetup-2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad2 * *Ahmedabad Meetup-2 Photographshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_Meetup_Jan2012 * -- * Regards, Abhi * ___ 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-AMD] [Wikipedia-gu] Wikipedia Gujarati is quite active and not at all Dead
Hello everyone, I think the issue has been solved. I request everyone to peace out. Please. Keep Editing ! Keep Inspiring ! On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Abhishek Joshi abhishek2...@gmail.comwrote: Dhaval, I am Abhishek Joshi the Organizer of Ahmedabad Meetup and first of the thing who told you such a scrap as your are not at the meetup and you don't even know what the all we have done. We had healthy discussion on Wiki Project Gujarat and Infact Anirudh encourage us to write on Gujarati articles. Please before writing such a email verified your self and really its a shameful act to attack someone personally. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: 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 ___ Wikimedia-IN-AMD mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-amd -- * Regards, Abhi * ___ 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 -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati ___ 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] Report on Ahmedabad meetup-2
Thank you, Abhishek, for the post. Abhishek and Konarak are potential long-term and high-quality contributors to Gujarati and English Wikipedia projects. Please join me in welcoming them. anirudh On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Abhishek Joshi abhishek2...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, Let me give you a brief update on things we did in Ahmedabad Meet Up to celebrate Wikipedia's 11th birthday. *Our Main Agenda:* 1. Celebrating Wikipedia 11th Birthday 2. Spreading awareness of Wikipedia in Gujarat/Ahmedabad 3. Introducing Wikipedia project Gujarat to the Ahmedabad community On *11th Birthday of Wikipedia* Ahmedabad Wikimedia Community organize the Ahmedabad Second Meetup at Gandhi Ashram (Sabarmati Ashram). The meet up was organized by Anirudh Bhati Abhishek Joshi. Due to the Sankrant festival a very few wikipedian’s turned out in the meet up so we met with few community members (Parag Patel, Konark Ratnakar and Nakul Chugan). As we were *5 members* we had gone to nearest restaurant for the celebration. Anirudh started with giving a presentation on Wikipedia Project India and Wikipedia Project Gujarat. He further mentioned the role they would play to bridge the gap between people who have the freedom to edit Wikipedia and those who actually do so. He encouraged them to join one of the finest groups of people in the world - Wikipedians. He outlined the sequence of events, the training they would receive. He said that due to the need to start off the program right away, the program would begin with those aspirants who already had the skills being looked for especially the knowledge of the Wikipedia world. Our main focus is on Wikipedia Project Gujarat and on improving the articles and spreading awareness of Wikipedia over Gujarat region. The aspirants responded with interest and a lot of questions. After some discussion we have celebrated the Wikipedia’s 11th Birthday by cutting the beautiful chocolate flavoured cake. This meetup was quite productive and the Ahmedabad community took the contact details of all participants, promising to get back to them soon with different meet ups. Below are the links of Ahmedabad Meet up Details and Photographs of the same. *Ahmedabad Meetup-2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad2 * *Ahmedabad Meetup-2 Photographshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_Meetup_Jan2012 * -- * Regards, Abhi * ___ 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] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:52, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Just to let you know that Bengali Wikipedia [1] has placed a banner on their site notice protesting SOPA and PIPA. Maybe other Indic language Wikipedias can take similar initiatives or maybe they have taken one already? If so, share with us! Great! Tamil Wikipedia is discussing a similar proposal to but sitenotice banners. In the mean time, I have an translation request for you. Maybe you have read Sue's letter [2] to the community about the blackout. I invite you all to translate that letter in your language. Since we have little time (less than 17 hours), we need be prompt. See the translation request on Meta-Wiki [3] and start your translation. IMHO Practically, its too late for translations. Get yourself up and let your people know in your language! This is more important. Please write SOPA article in your language. Tamil has a Wikipedia article on SOPA[1] and Wikinews article on the English Wikipedia blackout against SOPA[2]. [1] http://tawp.in/r/2ygn [2] http://ta.wikinews.org/wiki/இணையத்_திருட்டு_நிறுத்தல்_சட்டமூலத்துக்கு_எதிராக_விக்கிப்பீடியா_குரல் -- 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] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?
Hello Srikanth, IMHO Practically, its too late for translations. I don't think so, it has been translated to 12 languages already (in few hours). Just start, and you will see that it's ready within half an hours at most. XD And of course that SOPA article is also very important. Regards, Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia ___ 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] CfP - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge.
hi, FYI. If there is anyone working on any of these topics, etc. Pradeep -- Forwarded message -- From: Nicole Ebber nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de Date: 17 January 2012 23:35 Subject: [Foundation-l] CfP - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge. To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org (Apologies for cross-postings) CALL FOR PAPERS - Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge. June 29 - July 1, 2012 | Berlin, Germany Conference Website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Main_Page Submit your papers here: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012 The “Wikipedia Academy 2012: Research and Free Knowledge” provides a platform for the research community and the Wikipedia community to connect, present, discuss and advance research on Wikipedia in particular and on free knowledge in general. The Wikipedia Academy 2012 is organized by Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. in collaboration with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Freie Universität Berlin. The conference will take place in Berlin, June 29 to July 1, 2012. The event will be open to all interested parties and features a variety of session formats, ranging from panel discussions and tracks with traditional paper presentations to break-out sessions, lightning talks, poster presentations and a science fair. We particularly invite young doctoral and postdoctoral researcher to participate and to submit extended abstracts. For research paper and poster sessions, we encourage the submission of extended abstracts addressing issues in the overall nexus of Wikipedia and free knowledge. == Dates == * Submission of extended abstracts: March 31, 2012 * Notification of acceptance: May 01, 2012 * Submission of full papers: June 1, 2012 * Event: June 29 - July 1, 2012 == Topics of interest == Submissions are invited for the following categories, further details will be available soon on the conference website: http://wikipedia-academy.de/2012/wiki/Submission_process === Wikipedia Analytics === * Wikis and Wikipedia as a research tool * Analyzing Wikipedia as a source of Big Data * Assessing and measuring the quality of Wikipedia articles === Wikipedia Global === * Relations and Differences between national Wikipedias * Differences between and critique of free/open knowledge ideologies * Regional studies of Wikipedia and free knowledge with global lessons === Sharing Cultures and Practices === * Sharing culture(s) in Wikipedia and other projects of commons-based peer production * Incentives, innovation and community dynamics in open collaborative peer production * Wiki theory and wiki practices === Research on Users of and Contributors to Wikipedia === * Diversity among users of and contributors to Wikipedia * Influencing participation by adapting user interfaces in open collaborative settings * Using information visualization as information instrument to users and contributors === Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Free Knowledge === * Economic, regulatory and societal implications of (increased) access to free knowledge * Different Modes of Governance: Emergence of Order and Coordination in Wikipedia * The role of licensing decisions for Wikipedia and other collaborative forms of knowledge production == Submission Guidelines == Extended Abstracts must be submitted by the given deadline for peer review. Conference language is English, exceptions can be made on a case-by-case basis. Submission entails a commitment that at least one author will attend the event in the case of acceptance and deliver a full paper version prior to the event. Also, authors grant the organizers the right to publish accepted papers in the form of online proceedings or a similar format, to be determined at a later stage. In addition, accepted submissions will be automatically licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, unless the authors explicitly state in their submission that they wish to opt out of this licensing agreement. We encourage authors to use said license in order to promote open access to scholarly work, although decisions to opt out will be respected and will not influence the review process in any way. In any case, authors of accepted submissions cannot opt out from the basic condition that they grant the organizers the right to publish at least the extended abstract online. Please submit your extended abstract (about 2-3 pages) in PDF, Open Document Format (ODF) or plain text format at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpac2012 Note: You will need an easychair account to submit. You can create one on the spot if you don't already have one. -- Nicole Ebber Projektmanagerin Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. Eisenacher Straße 2 10777 Berlin Tel.: +49 30 219158260 http://wikimedia.de Helfen Sie mit, dass WIKIPEDIA von der UNESCO als erstes digitales Weltkulturerbe anerkannt wird. Unterzeichnen Sie die Online-Petition:
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-gu] Report on Ahmedabad meetup-2
I take special indulgence and pride in welcoming Abhishek and Konarak, the great discoveries of our photo walk :) I hope you guys stick around and contribute! thanks for keeping the Ahmedabad community going! On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: Thank you, Abhishek, for the post. Abhishek and Konarak are potential long-term and high-quality contributors to Gujarati and English Wikipedia projects. Please join me in welcoming them. anirudh On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Abhishek Joshi abhishek2...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, Let me give you a brief update on things we did in Ahmedabad Meet Up to celebrate Wikipedia's 11th birthday. *Our Main Agenda:* 1. Celebrating Wikipedia 11th Birthday 2. Spreading awareness of Wikipedia in Gujarat/Ahmedabad 3. Introducing Wikipedia project Gujarat to the Ahmedabad community On *11th Birthday of Wikipedia* Ahmedabad Wikimedia Community organize the Ahmedabad Second Meetup at Gandhi Ashram (Sabarmati Ashram). The meet up was organized by Anirudh Bhati Abhishek Joshi. Due to the Sankrant festival a very few wikipedian’s turned out in the meet up so we met with few community members (Parag Patel, Konark Ratnakar and Nakul Chugan). As we were *5 members* we had gone to nearest restaurant for the celebration. Anirudh started with giving a presentation on Wikipedia Project India and Wikipedia Project Gujarat. He further mentioned the role they would play to bridge the gap between people who have the freedom to edit Wikipedia and those who actually do so. He encouraged them to join one of the finest groups of people in the world - Wikipedians. He outlined the sequence of events, the training they would receive. He said that due to the need to start off the program right away, the program would begin with those aspirants who already had the skills being looked for especially the knowledge of the Wikipedia world. Our main focus is on Wikipedia Project Gujarat and on improving the articles and spreading awareness of Wikipedia over Gujarat region. The aspirants responded with interest and a lot of questions. After some discussion we have celebrated the Wikipedia’s 11th Birthday by cutting the beautiful chocolate flavoured cake. This meetup was quite productive and the Ahmedabad community took the contact details of all participants, promising to get back to them soon with different meet ups. Below are the links of Ahmedabad Meet up Details and Photographs of the same. *Ahmedabad Meetup-2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Ahmedabad/Ahmedabad2 * *Ahmedabad Meetup-2 Photographshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_Meetup_Jan2012 * -- * Regards, Abhi * ___ 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 ___ Wikipedia-gu mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-gu -- 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] Wiki 11 Pune report
Hello All This is a slightly belated report of the Wiki 11 celebrations in Pune on January 15, 2012. The celebrations were coincided with the first gathering of Wikipedia Club Pune http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Club_Pune. The Club had met on the 14th where participants were instructed on the model, nature and basics of Wikipedia. The 15th saw 40+ participants gather in the computer lab at SICSR, Pune for hands-on Wikipedia editing as well as the 11th anniversary celebrations. The numbers therefore made this the *largest Wiki 11 celebration in India*. The participants were largely high school and college students. The morning session involved a detailed explanation of the five pillars of Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars stressing the importance of contributing neutral and free content. Feedback for each sessions was immediately gathered on the Wikipedia Club Pune Facebook Pagehttps://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune . The second session involved hands-on editing beginning with talk page posting, signing of posts, sandbox editing, wiki-linking etc. Then following a detailed explanation of referencing, the participants were encouraged (under supervision) to reference articles related to Pune. The final session involved the business end of the Wiki-11 celebration with a huge Wiki-globe cakehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_Club_Pune_1.JPG. We were further buoyed by the presence of the WP English SIG chair Ashwin who encouraged and helped the participants in editing and did the honours cutting the cake. The participants and the organizers participated in a Google+ Hangout with Hisham and the rest of the WMF office in Delhi and Nitika and the WP 11 party in Kolkata. The participants were quite excited with both Wikipedia and its community. Their enthusiasm was reflected in both their editing as well as willingness to return for the next meeting of the club. The pictures of the event have been uploaded to commons and can be found here http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_11_in_India. The next meeting of the Wikipedia Club Pune will be on Saturday, 21st Jan. The Wikipedia Club and celebrations were quite excellently organized by Abhishek Suryavanshi and several other Campus Ambassadors in Pune. Warm Regards -- Srikeit Tadepalli +91-7709756798 ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
This article reminded me of one of the images on FayssalF's userpage on the English Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:FayssalF http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:FayssalFoldid=429702014 Look at the image on the left and read the caption too. anirudh On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:38 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: *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”.
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
I have a blue Brazilian one, is good enough? (At least is the same colour ;) ) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:50, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: You don't have the blue Indian passport yet. :p On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: /me is proud of being indian too Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org -- *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- 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 ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Help needed for Wiki Academy in Kolkata
On 01/12/2012 03:28 AM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 18:44:55 +0530 From: Sucheta Ghoshal sucheta.ghos...@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help needed for Wiki Academy in Kolkata To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: caf5rhfdlsyefuqg+4-b1rsr+vwj1nj3b-1uwaubzg2tyfox...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi, We are having a Wiki Academy for the first time in Kolkata at Netaji Subhash Engineering College . We would appreciate to have any kind of help to make this Wiki Academy a successful event, as of now We are looking for person who is willing to speak on the technical aspects of Wikipedia ( More specifically How a developer can contribute to the Meta-Wiki Source Code). Since it is an engineering college,and we are hosting it as a college event only so Technical part is necessary according to the students concerned. Please help us. Regards, Sucheta Ghoshal Sucheta, I will email the Wikimedia developers' list to let them know that you would like some MediaWiki developers to attend. Here are some flyers or notes that you can use if they are suitable for you. Ten things technically inclined volunteers can do to help Wikimedia projects: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Sumanah/TechVolunteersCanDo The please contribute to MediaWiki flyer -- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MediaWiki_flyer_2016_color.pdf Also, I am the coordinator for MediaWiki's participation in the Google Summer of Code, a selective paid summer internship for college students who want to work remotely on open source software projects. The homepage for that effort is https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code and the best guide is http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ . I hope these are useful to you. Please feel free to translate, print, modify, link, and so on. Thank you! Good luck and best wishes! Hope you can realize great outcomes from this event. :-) -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ 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] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:12, Alolita Sharma alolita.sha...@gmail.comwrote: HI Tanvir, Srikanth, Great to hear No-SOPA banners being considered to be on Bengali and Tamil wikipedias. Having translations on SOPA articles would be great. Here is the whitelist that we plan to have available on en.wp Thanks for the whitelist. May I request you / WMF to consider adding pages in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_censorship_by_country to whitelist as well? SOPA is a big thing in US, but similar insane things are happening elsewhere too (India too!) and even if Wikimedia Community in India prefers to be silent, protests needs to happen. We are have started one such at http://publictransit.in (http://busroutes.in will soon have this) and no better article than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India to explain. Time will tell if protests need to intensify in India and I hope the online community in India will rise to the situation if required. -- 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] A report on SSN College Academy
On 01/16/2012 07:57 PM, wikimediaindia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org wrote: Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:47:04 +0530 From: Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] A report on SSN College Academy To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: camipj9kztp2k0s6odxowsbmereqtz5k+0oq0zz9+3i4xh+x...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 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 Thank you very much for your work! I would be interested specifically in knowing what opportunities especially appealed to the students and what kinds of snags and problems they ran into when considering, or trying to start, contributing to MediaWiki and other Wikimedia technologies. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ 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] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?
+1 to Srikanth On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:12, Alolita Sharma alolita.sha...@gmail.comwrote: HI Tanvir, Srikanth, Great to hear No-SOPA banners being considered to be on Bengali and Tamil wikipedias. Having translations on SOPA articles would be great. Here is the whitelist that we plan to have available on en.wp Thanks for the whitelist. May I request you / WMF to consider adding pages in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_censorship_by_country to whitelist as well? SOPA is a big thing in US, but similar insane things are happening elsewhere too (India too!) and even if Wikimedia Community in India prefers to be silent, protests needs to happen. We are have started one such at http://publictransit.in (http://busroutes.in will soon have this) and no better article than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India to explain. Time will tell if protests need to intensify in India and I hope the online community in India will rise to the situation if required. -- 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 -- * *Thanks n Regards Ansuman * ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ * http://twitter.com/smileyansu * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ansumang * * ___ * * Wikipedia Odia (Oriya) mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or facebook.com/OdiaWiki Tweet @OdiaWiki * ___ 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] Wikipedia Blackout has started
hi, The English Wikipedia black out has started - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page A little while before that anon editing was also switched off, another creepy thing. warm regards, Pradeep -- 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] SOPA protest - Bengali Wikipedia placed a banner, what about other Indic language wikis?
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 23:12, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Great! Tamil Wikipedia is discussing a similar proposal to but sitenotice banners. We are done :) Black Banners for everyone http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Anonnotice -- 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 Blackout has started
2012/1/18 Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com: hi, The English Wikipedia black out has started - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page It's a great opportunity to read and improve Wikipedias in the languages of India :) -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore ___ 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
