[Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Dear All, I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support Communications for India Program. This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is not for day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of our responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support media PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also in co-ordination with the India Chapter's Communications Media PR team. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks (such as WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources. Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in Ahmedabad Delhi), is a member of Delhi SIG of the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month and has been actively trying to start GLAM in India. Noopur is from Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNU with a Master's in Arts Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore. She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays short stories and has co-presented a paper on Wikiwars with [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commons as well as other platforms. The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial call for selection was in September. I reported back to the community in December that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our community. It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills - because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident that she brings the right level of experience and competencies - and I'm very excited by the opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of communications for our community. Do join me in welcoming Noopur. She will start on March 12 and will be based in New Delhi. Best hisham ___ 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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
On 5 March 2012 19:19, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support Communications for India Program. Excellent news! Good luck Noopur! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Congratulations Noopur :) Well deserved! Very glad that you came along with me to Wikimeetup Bangalore 6 two years ago :) #youremember All the best! Regards -- Srikeit On Mar 5, 2012 7:29 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 5 March 2012 19:19, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support Communications for India Program. Excellent news! Good luck Noopur! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.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 ___ 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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Welcome and congratulations Noopur! You are indeed very inspiring! :) Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, and will support Communications for India Programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program. This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is *not* for day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of our responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support media PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also in co-ordination with the India Chapter http://wikimedia.in/'s Communications Media PR team http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks (such as WikimediaIndia http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources. Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in Ahmedabadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad Delhi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6), is a member of Delhi SIGhttp://members.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Groups of the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM and has been actively trying to start GLAMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glam in India. Noopur is from Gandhinagar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNUhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University with a Master's in Arts Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalorehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_College,_Bangalore. She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays short stories and has co-presented a paper on Wikiwars with [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Noopur28 as well as other platforms. The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial call for selection was in Septemberhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004252.html. I reported back to the community in Decemberhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006055.html that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our community. It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills - because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident that she brings the right level of experience and competencies - and I'm very excited by the opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of communications for our community. Do join me in welcoming Noopur. She will start on March 12 and will be based in New Delhi. Best hisham ___ 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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Congrats Noopur :) On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklah...@gmail.comwrote: Welcome and congratulations Noopur! You are indeed very inspiring! :) Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, and will support Communications for India Programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program. This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is *not* for day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of our responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support media PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also in co-ordination with the India Chapter http://wikimedia.in/'s Communications Media PR team http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks (such as WikimediaIndia http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources. Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in Ahmedabadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad Delhi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6), is a member of Delhi SIGhttp://members.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Groups of the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM and has been actively trying to start GLAMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glam in India. Noopur is from Gandhinagar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNUhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University with a Master's in Arts Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_College,_Bangalore. She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays short stories and has co-presented a paper on Wikiwars with [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commonshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Noopur28 as well as other platforms. The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial call for selection was in Septemberhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004252.html. I reported back to the community in Decemberhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006055.html that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our community. It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills - because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident that she brings the right level of experience and competencies - and I'm very excited by the opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of communications for our community. Do join me in welcoming Noopur. She will start on March 12 and will be based in New Delhi. Best hisham ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] status WLM-India
Hi all, I'm glad to see so much activity ongoing on this list! For those that do not know me: I'm Lodewijk from the Netherlands, and I'm (amongst other things) one of the people coordinating the Wiki Loves Monuments initiatives on an international level. I have been involved in the 2010 contest in the Netherlands and the 2011 in Europe. I the past there have been some discussions on whether India would be willing and able to join Wiki Loves Monuments this year. Is there any update on this? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India shows quite a big number of involved volunteers, so that is exciting! Especially of interest may be the suggested timeline we have put up on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline and which you could copy and localize (and adapt). It gives a good impression of the work ahead and what probably should take priority. Some relevant points would definitely be: * What is the status of the monument lists? Are they available, well structured and already on the wiki? * How many items do you have? To have a successful contest, there should be quite some monuments in every major city so that everyone can easily find a monument nearby where they live. That helps to decrease the threshold. At the same time, every monument needs to have a certain level of relevance of course. * Are you in contact with the relevant government authorities (that make decisions on whether a monument will be listed or not etc., but also who promote heritage in your country if there is such an organization. Possibly tourist boards.). * Will you be able to organize this at all in the whole of India, or is it only likely to succeed in a few states. I think a good project in some states is more important than a bad project in the whole country. Finally, we would like to offer our help where-ever possible. If you have your discussions on the wlm-in mailing list ( http://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in) then I can also participate in discussions where relevant. Also, if that would be helpful we could perhaps think about organizing a brainstorm session/workshop in India with the volunteers interested in organizing the contest. If there is any other way you think we could be helpful, such as contacts with supragovernmental organizations, please let us know! I'm looking forward to an update and hope for a lot of enthusiasm! Kind regards, Lodewijk ___ 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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Hey Noopur Congratulations! On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav ramshankarya...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Noopur :) On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklah...@gmail.comwrote: Welcome and congratulations Noopur! You are indeed very inspiring! :) Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, and will support Communications for India Programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program. This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is *not* for day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of our responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support media PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also in co-ordination with the India Chapter http://wikimedia.in/'s Communications Media PR team http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks (such as WikimediaIndia http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources. Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in Ahmedabadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad Delhi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6), is a member of Delhi SIGhttp://members.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Groups of the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM and has been actively trying to start GLAMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glam in India. Noopur is from Gandhinagar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNUhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University with a Master's in Arts Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_College,_Bangalore. She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays short stories and has co-presented a paper on Wikiwars with [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commonshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Noopur28 as well as other platforms. The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial call for selection was in Septemberhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004252.html. I reported back to the community in Decemberhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006055.html that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our community. It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills - because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident that she brings the right level of experience and competencies - and I'm very excited by the opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of communications for our community. Do join me in welcoming Noopur. She will start on March 12 and will be based in New Delhi. Best hisham ___ 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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Congratulations! Noopur. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 05/03/2012, Sohan Maheshwar sohanmahesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Noopur Congratulations! On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav ramshankarya...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Noopur :) On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklah...@gmail.comwrote: Welcome and congratulations Noopur! You are indeed very inspiring! :) Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, and will support Communications for India Programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program. This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is *not* for day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of our responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support media PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also in co-ordination with the India Chapter http://wikimedia.in/'s Communications Media PR team http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks (such as WikimediaIndia http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources. Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in Ahmedabadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad Delhi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6), is a member of Delhi SIGhttp://members.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Groups of the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM and has been actively trying to start GLAMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glam in India. Noopur is from Gandhinagar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNUhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University with a Master's in Arts Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_College,_Bangalore. She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays short stories and has co-presented a paper on Wikiwars with [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commonshttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Noopur28 as well as other platforms. The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial call for selection was in Septemberhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004252.html. I reported back to the community in Decemberhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006055.html that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our community. It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills - because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident that she brings the right level of experience and competencies - and I'm very excited by the opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of communications for our community. Do join me in welcoming Noopur. She will start on March 12 and will be based in New Delhi. Best hisham ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sanskrit, scripts and Wikisource
Hi, Is it possible to select other scripts other than devnagiri or brahmi on user level? I know some sanskrit but i'm more comfortable with malayalam script :-). Such an option will be an added advantage for many people like me. I've seen many sanskrit texts (usually with malayalam translation or detailing) using malayalam script. So i hope nothing wrong in it. -- With love Praveen http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Praveenp:talkhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Praveenp ___ 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] Sanskrit, scripts and Wikisource
Hoi, To be honest, I know that you can identify a language and a font to go with it. What I have to ask is how to identify Sanskrit with the Malayalam script because technically it is the only correct thing to do. Thanks, Gerard On 5 March 2012 17:33, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible to select other scripts other than devnagiri or brahmi on user level? I know some sanskrit but i'm more comfortable with malayalam script :-). Such an option will be an added advantage for many people like me. I've seen many sanskrit texts (usually with malayalam translation or detailing) using malayalam script. So i hope nothing wrong in it. -- With love Praveen http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Praveenp:talk http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Praveenp ___ 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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Congratulations Noopur, now you shall get paid for doing what you love...How awesome is that?? On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations! Noopur. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 05/03/2012, Sohan Maheshwar sohanmahesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Noopur Congratulations! On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav ramshankarya...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Noopur :) On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklah...@gmail.comwrote: Welcome and congratulations Noopur! You are indeed very inspiring! :) Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, and will support Communications for India Programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program. This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is *not* for day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of our responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support media PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also in co-ordination with the India Chapter http://wikimedia.in/'s Communications Media PR team http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks (such as WikimediaIndia http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources. Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in Ahmedabad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad Delhi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6 ), is a member of Delhi SIG http://members.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Groups of the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM and has been actively trying to start GLAMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glam in India. Noopur is from Gandhinagar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNUhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University with a Master's in Arts Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_College,_Bangalore. She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays short stories and has co-presented a paper on Wikiwars with [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Noopur28 as well as other platforms. The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial call for selection was in September http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004252.html . I reported back to the community in December http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006055.html that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our community. It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills - because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident that she brings the right level of experience and competencies - and I'm very excited by the opportunity of
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Dear all, I am overwhelmed by the warm welcome :) I sincerely hope to be able to meet all your expectations. Please do not hesitate to guide, correct and suggest things to me. Looking forward to helping the community! Warm Regards Noopur On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Noopur, now you shall get paid for doing what you love...How awesome is that?? On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations! Noopur. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 05/03/2012, Sohan Maheshwar sohanmahesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Noopur Congratulations! On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav ramshankarya...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Noopur :) On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklah...@gmail.comwrote: Welcome and congratulations Noopur! You are indeed very inspiring! :) Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, and will support Communications for India Programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program. This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is *not* for day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of our responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support media PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also in co-ordination with the India Chapter http://wikimedia.in/ 's Communications Media PR team http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks (such as WikimediaIndia http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources. Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in Ahmedabad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad Delhi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6 ), is a member of Delhi SIG http://members.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Groups of the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM and has been actively trying to start GLAMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glam in India. Noopur is from Gandhinagar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNUhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University with a Master's in Arts Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_College,_Bangalore. She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays short stories and has co-presented a paper on Wikiwars with [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Noopur28 as well as other platforms. The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial call for selection was in September http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004252.html . I reported back to the community in December http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006055.html that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [wlm-in] Fwd: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Wiki Loves Monuments (again)
Hey Lodewijk, I think that's where our private conversation stopped too. We are not sure if there is a wider definition of monuments that can provide us more than 3000. Though we are trying to get one. I am copying this conversation to India community also since many may not have joined this list. Regards Noopur PS. Those interested in Wiki loves monuments, please do join this list so we can avoid cross posting. 2012/3/5 Lodewijk Gelauff lodew...@wmnederland.nl Hi Pradeep, thanks for bringing this on here! Just my two cents and I'll be quiet again: I think that a list of 3000 is very small for a country the size of India. For comparison: in the Netherlands we use lists the size of 60.000. We have a population of 17 million. Now you don't need to go thát big, but you need a certain size to make things work otherwise the monuments are just too big and too far away for people to photograph. It would perhaps be good to mention that you shouldn't expect to get a photo of every monument. We covered roughly 10-15% of the monuments only in one contest. There is no shame at all for not being complete at the end, it is just a work in progress. More opportunities just makes it easier for people to participate - and that is the main goal, to get people participate in an easy and constructive way. Creating the lists is more work of course with more monuments, but if you can get a database from the relevant (state?) governments, that would be possible to automate. Best, Lodewijk No dia 5 de Março de 2012 17:41, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com escreveu: hi, A recent conversation we had on getting a list of monuments from India. We'd love to get help on this from others on the list. Pradeep P.S. Is everyone listed here - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India#Volunteers_to_help_organize - on this list? -- Forwarded message -- From: Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:26:07 +0530 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Wiki Loves Monuments (again) To: Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com Cc: pra...@wikimedia.in, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.in, Arun Ramarathnam arun...@wikimedia.in, Noopur Raval noo...@wikimedia.in, Tinu Cherian tinucher...@wikimedia.in hi, I think that if we can't come up with a list, we should simply ask for help on the India list. Pradeep Handheld On 03/03/2012, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: The UNESCO list is just about world heritage and that is covered in ASI. Very interesting, the INTACH bit. Here's what I found: http://www.intach.org/divi-dc-resources.asp?links=ddc2 They list a heritage listing project and echo our concerns about not listing monuments but I can't find a list as yet. On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Is there any list provided by INTACH/UNESCO etc? Pradeep Handheld On 03/03/2012, Pranav Curumsey pra...@wikimedia.in wrote: Only ASI maintained monuments seem to be on that list. This Wiki Category http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Monuments_and_memorials_in_India will help. We need to provide a list, let people chose what they want to cover. On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: In my humble opinion, also as Pranav suggested, we don't have the resources to pull off a big one so 3000 is a good number. But, the competition will span across a whole year throughout India. Do you think 3000 will last? On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Do we really need more? Pradeep Handheld On 03/03/2012, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for linking us in Naveen! Pranav, you remember you guys generated the list of requested photos for Wiki takes Mumbai and we did similar for Ahmedabad. I've been debating the idea of 'monuments' in India. I've only been able to locate ASI listed monuments of different divisions and that number is not big. It is around 3000: http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_alphalist.asp Do we have tiers of monuments or ways we can approach municipalities for city wise lists? I've been scouting for sometime but could not find any digitally available lists. Any help on this is welcome. Thanks Warm Regards Noopur On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Pranav Curumsey pra...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi, I just landed up for the call - I think Arun was coordinating it. Kind Regards, On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi Pranav. Next time try to include all the volunteers interested in WLM
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 19:19, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, and will support Communications for India Programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program. Congrats! Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources. Even if its 'Lastly', Glad that someone will be available to look into this, hoping to collaborate in a good way since am very much interested on this. -- 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] Fwd: [Kiwix-testing] [KIWIX] New version of Kiwix for Sugar
Forwarding this information about ZIM reader Kiwix, which is the reader commonly used for the Offline Wikipedia projects. Many of you on these lists I know have connections to both OLPC and/or Offline Wikipedia, so I thought that you might at a minimum interested in the update and hopefully also interested in helping test! Best wishes to all - Jessie -- Forwarded message -- From: Emmanuel Engelhart emman...@engelhart.org Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:17 AM Subject: [Kiwix-testing] [KIWIX] New version of Kiwix for Sugar To: kiwix-test...@lists.sourceforge.net kiwix-test...@lists.sourceforge.net, olpc-fra...@lists.laptop.org Dear testers, we finally have fixed the big bug impacting loading of ZIM files with 0.8x versions of the OLPC OS. So, Kiwix should work now and be able to load any ZIM file. No bug anymore concerning Kiwix on Sugar is still open on our side. Please test the last version and give us a feedback: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/fr/sugar/addon/4483 Build your own small custom ZIM file there: * https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Livre * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book If everything still runs fine, we plan to introduce pre-packaged .xo files (Kiwix+content) during the summer. Regards Emmanuel -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Kiwix-testing mailing list kiwix-test...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-testing -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ 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] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons
Hi all, I am happy to share the news that User:Sreejithk2000 is now an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000 AFAIK, Sreejith is the only Indian with administrative rights on the Commons. Do note that User:Yann http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yann and User:Wikitanvir http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wikitanvir ( Bangladesh ) are also sysops on Commons. Sreejith is a prolific contributor to English Malayalam Wikipedias and Commons. He has been a registered user since 2006, and has 88,000 global edits, including 33,000 on Commons. He is also an administrator on Malayalam Wikipedia. So next time if you have doubts about Commons and Image Copyrights, you know whom to sees help. :) Wishing the very best to Sreejithk2000! Looking forward to see more people from India active in Commons. Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am overwhelmed by the warm welcome :) I sincerely hope to be able to meet all your expectations. Please do not hesitate to guide, correct and suggest things to me. Looking forward to helping the community! Warm Regards Noopur Congratulations Noopur and best wishes. Regards Arun On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Noopur, now you shall get paid for doing what you love...How awesome is that?? On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 9:47 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations! Noopur. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas On 05/03/2012, Sohan Maheshwar sohanmahesh...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Noopur Congratulations! On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav ramshankarya...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Noopur :) On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklah...@gmail.comwrote: Welcome and congratulations Noopur! You are indeed very inspiring! :) Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, and will support Communications for India Programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program. This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is *not* for day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of our responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support media PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also in co-ordination with the India Chapter http://wikimedia.in/ 's Communications Media PR team http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks (such as WikimediaIndia http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources. Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in Ahmedabad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad Delhi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6), is a member of Delhi SIG http://members.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Groups of the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM and has been actively trying to start GLAMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glam in India. Noopur is from Gandhinagar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNUhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University with a Master's in Arts Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_College,_Bangalore. She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays short stories and has co-presented a paper on Wikiwars with [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Noopur28 as well as other platforms. The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial call for selection was in September http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004252.html . I reported back to the community in December http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006055.html that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time because
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I am happy to share the news that User:Sreejithk2000 is now an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000 Congrats Sreejith. This is indeed great to hear. regards Arun ___ 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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Congratulations Noopur! On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundationhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home, and will support Communications for India Programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program. This position will perform 4 key functions. Firstly, it will support communications with our community. This involves a regular set of updates (such as newsletters) as well as specific communication projects such as story-telling of local community initiatives (to document experiences, celebrate successes and cross-pollinate ideas.) This is *not* for day-to-day program communications - which is a core part of each of our responsibilities in the India Program team. Second will be to support media PR for local community initiatives. The single biggest challenge here will to be get more Indic language media coverage to support community building efforts. This will be done directly with community members and also in co-ordination with the India Chapter http://wikimedia.in/'s Communications Media PR team http://members.wikimedia.in/Communications. The third aspect is to build and expand existing community social networks (such as WikimediaIndia http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia on facebook) and to help with the use of social networks to support community building. Lastly, there is untapped potential of using digital outreach - to augment existing physical outreach efforts. We need to (very, very carefully) explore if we can reach out to our large and growing reader base and inform, encourage and enable them to become editors using online channels and resources. Noopur is a community member and has supported outreach activities (in Ahmedabadhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Ahmedabad Delhi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Delhi/Delhi6), is a member of Delhi SIGhttp://members.wikimedia.in/City_and_Language_Special_Interest_Groups of the Chapter, has participated in community collaborations like Collaboration of the Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INCOTM and has been actively trying to start GLAMhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Glam in India. Noopur is from Gandhinagar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhinagar and is graduating from JNUhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru_University with a Master's in Arts Aesthetics. She has a triple honors Bachelor's in Media Studies, Literature and Psychology from Christ College, Bangalorehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_College,_Bangalore. She has interned with Radio Mirchi, Times of India and the Centre for Internet Society (amongst others) - as well as done some teaching assignments. She is an active blogger (including for the India Art Summit, 2011.) She has published a novella and co-authored an anthology of poems, plays short stories and has co-presented a paper on Wikiwars with [User:Srikeit.] She is also an amateur photographer and has contributed to Commons http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Noopur28 as well as other platforms. The Communications position has taken a long time to fill. The initial call for selection was in Septemberhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004252.html. I reported back to the community in Decemberhttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/006055.html that I had failed to find the right candidate and hence the delay. There were a number of deserving candidates and this selection has taken time because of the need to find the most suitable profile for a complex role. This role requires the right mix of an academic foundation in communications, domain expertise as well as adequate familiarity with our community. It also requires adaptability and strong learning skills - because so much of what we are trying to do is pioneering. I am confident that she brings the right level of experience and competencies - and I'm very excited by the opportunity of making a step jump in the impact of communications for our community. Do join me in welcoming Noopur. She will start on March 12 and will be based in New Delhi. Best hisham ___ 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 -- Omshivaprakash H L | ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ಎಚ್.ಎಲ್ | ॐ शिवप्रकाश् एच्. एल् Kannada SIG Wikimedia India Chapter [image: File:Wikimedia India logo.svg] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons
Congratulations Sreejith! Good luck! :) Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am happy to share the news that User:Sreejithk2000 is now an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000 Congrats Sreejith. This is indeed great to hear. regards Arun ___ 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] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons
Congratulations, Sreejith! All the Best for all future assignments! Best wishes, Jobin Raju User: Jobin RV On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklah...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations Sreejith! Good luck! :) Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am happy to share the news that User:Sreejithk2000 is now an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000 Congrats Sreejith. This is indeed great to hear. regards Arun ___ 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 -- Jobin Raju Second Year, Information Technology, College of Engineering Pune. ___ 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] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons
Congrats Sreejith! This is really good news :) W00t On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Jobin Raju jobin...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations, Sreejith! All the Best for all future assignments! Best wishes, Jobin Raju User: Jobin RV On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklah...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations Sreejith! Good luck! :) Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am happy to share the news that User:Sreejithk2000 is now an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000 Congrats Sreejith. This is indeed great to hear. regards Arun ___ 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 -- Jobin Raju Second Year, Information Technology, College of Engineering Pune. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons
Congrats to Sreejith, you've done excellent work. Personally, thanks for cleaning up image details of stuff I've uploaded. : ) Cheers, On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Sreejith! This is really good news :) W00t On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Jobin Raju jobin...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations, Sreejith! All the Best for all future assignments! Best wishes, Jobin Raju User: Jobin RV On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Pratik Lahoti pr4tiklah...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulations Sreejith! Good luck! :) Best Wishes, Pratik Lahoti User:BPositive On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am happy to share the news that User:Sreejithk2000 is now an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000 Congrats Sreejith. This is indeed great to hear. regards Arun ___ 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 -- Jobin Raju Second Year, Information Technology, College of Engineering Pune. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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] The Great NITT fiasco ...
Just to clarify: I don't want to comment on Saagar's actions as a Marketting team member for PRagyaan. As an individual, he helped me a lot, and sacrificed his event for this. On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Also, a gentle reminder, there are several students who subscribe to this list after outreach sessions and though they may not respond, they would definitely read a mail concerning their college. Maybe we should be more careful so as not to ruin relations forever? Just an idea. Cheers Noopur On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 3 March 2012 22:21, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: It's a troll. We usually [[Wikipedia:Deny recognition|ignore]]. :-) Ah! Carry on then. Nothing to see here. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.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 -- 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 -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Congrats and Best Wishes to Noopur! Yes, Srikeit, Good things start from Bangalore :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikiMeetupBlore11Oct09_5.JPG Thanks for bringing along Noopur for her first Wikimeetup. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Srikeit srikeit.tadepall...@simc.eduwrote: Congratulations Noopur :) Well deserved! Very glad that you came along with me to Wikimeetup Bangalore 6 two years ago :) #youremember All the best! Regards -- Srikeit On Mar 5, 2012 7:29 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 5 March 2012 19:19, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support Communications for India Program. Excellent news! Good luck Noopur! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.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 ___ 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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Congrats Noopur, waiting eagerly to see you in office soon, you are bringing many new colors in this Holi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi:-) On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Tinu Cherian tinucher...@wikimedia.inwrote: Congrats and Best Wishes to Noopur! Yes, Srikeit, Good things start from Bangalore :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikiMeetupBlore11Oct09_5.JPG Thanks for bringing along Noopur for her first Wikimeetup. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Srikeit srikeit.tadepall...@simc.eduwrote: Congratulations Noopur :) Well deserved! Very glad that you came along with me to Wikimeetup Bangalore 6 two years ago :) #youremember All the best! Regards -- Srikeit On Mar 5, 2012 7:29 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 5 March 2012 19:19, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28] has been selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support Communications for India Program. Excellent news! Good luck Noopur! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.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 ___ 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 Subha ___ 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
