Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort
Dear All, If you guys won't think I am repeating a similar incident like Deba and Sri, i had a similar experience too... After our WikiConference @ Mumbai, I traveled on Kingfisher flight back to my place (Chennai, I am from Chennai btw). I am usually a last minute guy.. so I went to the airport pretty early and i was given access to the Lounge. When I was looking through the pics taken during our conference, a middle aged biz man asked me if I attended the conference... I said yes.. and he told me tht he wanted to come.. but cudn make it cos of his work... I was not wearing wiki T shirt, but i pinned the Wikipedia badge given by Ashwin Baindur on to my t-shirt. he was very eager and asked if I can share what al happened I walked him thro th entire conference and he wanted to know what exactly we guys did... so i took the liberty of tellin our editing stuffs in a nut shell he took serious interest in the initiative...and as luck would have it. we were on th same flight... and had a few editing session inside th lounge.. i felt happy tht i was able 2 contribute 2 our cause.!! Thanks, Ade. On 10 March 2012 14:04, nischay nahata nischay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have recently been involved with Wikimedia activities and would like to know who gets a Wikipedia T-shirt? Or rather how do I get a wikipedia T-shirt Nischay Nahata 3rd year Dept. of IT NITK, Surathkal ___ 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] An Innovative Outreach effort
Something similar happened to me and PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh) in Mumbai. I was wearing Pune T shirt and him Mumbai T Shirt, and the person serving us food from the canteen was having fun reading the word 'Wikipedia' in the languages he could read (Kannada and Hindi, I believe?) - he could not read the english. Arun spent a while explaining Wikipedia to him, a conversation I was not able to take part in because of my lack of Hindi knowledge (sigh). -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort
2012/3/10 Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com: Something similar happened to me and PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh) in Mumbai. I was wearing Pune T shirt and him Mumbai T Shirt, and the person serving us food from the canteen was having fun reading the word 'Wikipedia' in the languages he could read (Kannada and Hindi, I believe?) - he could not read the english. Brilliant!! A strong case for making more Wikipedia t-shirts in Indic languages! -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort
I won't say it was very fruitful, or that I showed them any live demo or ppt. Rather I focused on a few crucial question which were on their minds: If you DIDN'T show them a ppt, the chance that it WAS fruitful is a lot HIGHER :) If you spoke about so much things to these people, then most likely it was fruitful, because they will now at least understand Wikipedia better as readers, and maybe they will even try to edit. For a casual chat in a train, this is very good. If a lot of Indian take a lot of long train rides, then consider preparing something more structured and taking people's emails for follow-up. Just don't get too pushy with strangers :) -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort
Perhaps something like street theatre? Pradeep Handheld On Mar 10, 2012 4:35 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: I won't say it was very fruitful, or that I showed them any live demo or ppt. Rather I focused on a few crucial question which were on their minds: If you DIDN'T show them a ppt, the chance that it WAS fruitful is a lot HIGHER :) If you spoke about so much things to these people, then most likely it was fruitful, because they will now at least understand Wikipedia better as readers, and maybe they will even try to edit. For a casual chat in a train, this is very good. If a lot of Indian take a lot of long train rides, then consider preparing something more structured and taking people's emails for follow-up. Just don't get too pushy with strangers :) -- 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 ___ 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] WikiWomen's History Month
hi, Sad to see not even one event organised in India - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month for this. The only event in Asia is in Dubai, so far. Hope that changes soon. Pradeep -- 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] New version of Malayalam fonts released
FYI. Just saw on Santhosh's site: Might interest the Indic guys if you've not seen it already! Do forward it to Malayalam list too! New Version of Malayalam fonts released http://thottingal.in/blog/2012/03/10/new-version-of-malayalam-fonts-released/ -- 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] WikiWomen's History Month
We had created the gender task force to give women editors a platform and I sent out messages to women editors. Sadly, nothing came up though Bishakha did some footwork and outreach for the recruitment of a new set of women editors, but I think that's yet to happen . Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Sad to see not even one event organised in India - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month for this. The only event in Asia is in Dubai, so far. Hope that changes soon. Pradeep -- 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] WikiWomen's History Month
Speaking in personal capacity, for me it was a delightful moment to edit Dance in India as INCOTM last month. That was a celebratory moment as far as women's participation goes. Although I do understand that this is something more symbolic about March, it was a nice thing to do in Feb and maybe continue every few months. Just a thought though. Cheers Noopur On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: We had created the gender task force to give women editors a platform and I sent out messages to women editors. Sadly, nothing came up though Bishakha did some footwork and outreach for the recruitment of a new set of women editors, but I think that's yet to happen . Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:16 AM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Sad to see not even one event organised in India - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month for this. The only event in Asia is in Dubai, so far. Hope that changes soon. Pradeep -- 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 -- 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] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Projects Hackathon on 17th March
Hello everyone! Me and SrikanthLogic are conducting a small Unofficial Wikimedia Projects hackathon in Chennai on 17th March. You can find more details and register for it here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012 Also, I'd request the community to add ideas here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012/Ideas. Note that this hackathon is *not* a purely MediaWiki hackathon, and the aim is to build hacks/tools/gadgets around the API/Content than mediawiki extensions itself (Extensions/Patches to MW are welcome too, but not the goal). So tools that make your life as an editor easier, tools that make content discovery in multiple languages easier, tools that help Wiki* spread, anything at all your mind can think of - please post on the Ideas page. Thanks! -- 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] Four more volunteers for coordinating WikiProject India
I would like to inform the broad community of glad tidings - we have a number of volunteers who have agreed to coordinate WikiProjects. These are: * Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism - Redtigerxyz. * Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian Cinema - Vensatry. * Wikipedia WikiProject Mumbai - Karthikndr. * Introducing Newbies to WikiProject India initiative - Debastein (based on his Teahouse participation). We welcome them to their new responsibilities and they are now proud members of a select club indeed - people who have publicly volunteered to look after an area of responsibility on WikiProject India. Please welcome them on their talk pages and not on the list(s). They join Bpositive (INCOTM), Kondicherry (WikiProject Gujarat) ssriram_mt (Tag Assess 2012). Redtigerxyz has asked for fellow co-coordinators for WikiProject Hinduism, if any one is willing and forthcoming. We would like to intimate readers that we are constantly looking for editors to help with the various departments and task forces. There are more than seventy more areas needing looking after. And if the project you are interested in already has one, welcome to it - we need lots of dedicated voluntees per department or task force not just one. Warm regards, AshLin -- ___ 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] India Programs-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
Hi Folks
One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work out is
keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so that this
work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a wider set of
community members who might not have been engaged on specific village pump /
talk page discussion or involved in particular activities (e.g. outreach
events) or wikiprojects.
We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program. (For
those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system similar
to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can join in by
clicking on the following link:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.) I have been remiss
in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to make amends by
restarting, with a couple of modifications.
a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly. (I was wary of doing it
any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if there would
be enough on the plate to discuss. I have changed my mind now - because there
is too much to discuss to cover in a single monthly session.) I'd like to
propose that we do it in the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 9pm IST
(which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH - BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE
TIMELINE. Just for March, we will do it on March 15th and March 29th (both at
9pm IST which is GMT + 0530)
b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams instead
of general. The reason I say this is that - as with many community meet-ups,
folks will give time to attend a meet-up or participate in an IRC only if there
is a topic of relevance to them. To that extent, we could do one IRC on Indic
languages and one on Outreach Communications. I'd start both the IRCs with a
re-cap of India Programs activities for the fortnight (or so) prior to the IRC
and forward from the IRC - and then we could talk about either Indic langauges
or Outreach Communications.
The March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages and the one on March
29th will be on Outreach Communications.
Having said that, there is quite a bit of overlap on these topics - so feel
free to join both. The more the merrier! Please do also invite anyone who is
interested to know more about India Program or - even more importantly -
interact with fellow Wikimedians interested in a particular activity to join
in. (It's quite a lot of of fun {citation required} - and i've heard a rumour
{citation required} that there was actually a romance that started on one of
the IRCs...)
As always, the logs will be put up on meta for the benefit of those who can't
attend and for the record.
I'll send a reminder on the day of the session and one 30 minutes before the
session.
Thanks
hisham
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012
Dear All, I would like to join Tinu in apologizing for any emotional comments that I made. I care for our movement. I want our movement to grow. I will do my very best for our movement. *NOTE*:My access to Internet is limited now due to the change in service provider. Sorry for not sending this note earlier. Shiju Alex (Malayalam Wiki projects volunteer) On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:48 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Srikanth for the clarification. chapter hat The India Chapter is here to serve the community. It makes no distinction between chapter or (other) community members in these efforts. AFAIK, Naveen had told RSrikanth that his travel expenses ( related to NITT) will be reimbursed by the chapter ( Before his travel after). There was no reason why he had a different thought. If any chapter member has told you differently, it is his personal view and not the chapter's . Everyone is free to join the chapter as member or not. But regardless of whether you are a member or not, we will support you in your Wikimedia activities in the best efforts we can and the limited resources we have. /chapter hat personal cap I think this thread has gone too far with unnecessary off-topic discussions, personal attacks .. While I stand by my personal views expressed in this thread, the tone used by me wasn't the best of me. I think I got a bit carried by the emotions and heat in this discussion. Please understand that there was nothing personal, but I was just standing up for the values and philosophies that I personally believe in. If I have unknowingly unintentionally hurt anyone through my words, I express my deepest apologies.. personal cap Enjoy your weekend. For those in Bangalore, Don't forget to come for the monthly meetup tomorrow. :) -TC On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, so the person who blasted me about Trichy caught me on this one too. Let me clarify. Tinu, I know the Chapter has been supportive of my actions even though I'm not a member [yet]. Naveen was more than ready to sign the MoU much before I informed Nitika. I am NOT claiming travel amount from the Chapter as I feel there is NO justification in me claiming INR 395 [275+120 Kovai-Tiruchi-Kovai], from a Voluntary Non profit organisation, especially when I made so many mistakes and errors before, after and during the T'palli event. The India Chapter has always been supportive of the Community, whether they're members or not. Naveen, as an EC member of the Chapter was the first person to offer support to me for setting up the Coimbatore community. Apart from this, the India Chapter has been the only body [in India, the Chair of the UK chapter offered his support] that has supported me for my QR Pedia ideas. I hope this clarifies everything. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Tinu, Someone from the Chapter, [I DO NOT want to name him] told me so. I do not want to take the matter furtheer because I travelled at my expense. I am NOT claiming it from the Chapter. Good Day, Cheerio. -- On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:01 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Srikanth, Who told you that your travel expenses for NITT will not be reimbursed since you are not a chapter member ? Don't spread false accusations ! Didn't Naveen say that your travel expenses related to NIIT, even before you are traveling to Trichy? Regards Tinu Cherian On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: This was the sole reason I went to Trichy, [at my expense, There is some ambiguity, there too, I was told that the Chapter would reminburse my travel amount, later was told that since I'm not a member, it wouldn't be possible, whatever be the case, I don't care, I still had fun]. ___ 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 -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiWomen's History Month
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: We had created the gender task force to give women editors a platform and I sent out messages to women editors. Sadly, nothing came up though Bishakha did some footwork and outreach for the recruitment of a new set of women editors, but I think that's yet to happen Did propose an editing workshop for women in March at Akshara in Mumbai (women's library), after Pranav and I met with them in late Feb - but dates not working out. That will probably now spill to April, am on top of it. Ok, will take the bait and write offlist to all the women editors I know in India, past and present, including those who were there at the gender gap session at the wikiconference, and see if we can come up with something doable for March that also meets this need - online or offline. More soon, hopefully :) Bishakha ___ 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
