Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] http://gu.wikisource.org/
Hoi, Congratulations :) I hope the Wikisource will do well for you. Thanks, Gerard On 28 March 2012 02:17, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, For the Gujarati language it is one of those golden days today. We have got our own Wikisource created at http://gu.wikisource.org/. it has been a long journey and took just over 3 years for the subdomain creation. We had created request on 5th March 2009 and it has been created Today on 27th March. This 3 years has brought many of us, Gujarati wikip(m)edians close and lastly, many of my fellows from Gujarati Wikipedia became active there. We had set our first benchmark of creating 1000 entries, which was achieved early last week. As soon as we achieved that goal, we started creating first complete book, and selected Mahatma Gandhi's Rachanatmak Karyakram (રચનાત્મક કાર્યક્રમ). User Sushant Savla came up with an idea of collaborative project and 6 users participated with zeal. Sushant very coordinated the entire project and we completed the small book in just 5 days. Attracted by the success of this project, now we have started Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography - સત્યના પ્રયોગો અથવા આત્મકથા, and this project is being coordinated by another user Ashok Modhvadia. It must be noted that both, Sushant and Ashok are very old Gujarati Wikipedians, we all started around the same time (myself in late 2007 and they both in 2008). This time, we have 2 additional users contributing in this project and 1 more from the previous task is about to join very soon, making the total count of 8 users. I take this opportunity to thank all of my Gujarati Community for cooperating us, right from the supporting our request through to localisation of messages and to the contributions till date. I pray that they all and myself remain active always on wikipedia and its sister projects and serve to our mother language and we continue bringing more and more literature from the public domain into gu.wikisource.org tirelessly. Dhaval User:Dsvyas ___ 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] Blog post on Netha Hussain/ Introduction to Storytelling
Dear all, To celebrate Women's History Month, I thought it would be really nice to celebrate an Indian woman editor's story. A short story on User: Netha Hussain was posted on the WMF bloghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/ . (Netha is an editor on Malayalam Wikipedia, has been involved in women topics and recently coordinated the first women's edit-a-thonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon in India.) While I was preparing this, I was wondering if we could make story-telling of this nature a regular feature, and see how it can support community building. We could do a series of short profiles of editors - in the form of stories - covering your life as well as your wiki journey. The intent is to reflect the diversity of our community - language, age, profession, projects. I am going to try and bring out at least one such story every month - but we can always try and work on as many more as we can get. I am already looking for new story ideas and would love to hear from interested community folks. Here is how it works. I prepare a short set of questions and points for the story and send it across to you. Once you reply, I draft out a story and send it back for your approval. After we make necessary changes to the draft, I can publish it. If you are ok, we can also look at forwarding these stories to the local media as well. Please do write to me at nra...@wikimedia.org and let's start working on your story! Don't forget to go through the Netha's storyhttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/; it's really inspiring! Regards, Noopur Raval ___ 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] Wikipatrika: Next Issue
Dear all, I'm writing with regard to Wikipatrika. For the folks who don't know, this is the community newsletter which has come out twice (in September 2010http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf June 2011 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06) It's a really wonderful way documenting and celebrating the amazing work done by so many community members across so many communities in the various projects. It helps share ideas with and helps pick up ideas from other communities. I think Wikipatrika is something that could be more frequent - given the range of activities across communities - and I'd like to support it. In this regard, I approached all the editors who were involved in the previous 2 issues to ask their interest in bringing out the next one in end April covering Jan - Mar 2012, and to see if we can make it more regular (potentially every quarter.) 5 community members from different languages have already offered to help. Another community member will setup a template that all languages can use (on wiki.wikimedia.in) I have also started reaching out to editors who might not have been involved before, and hence this mail. The template for Wikipatrika will be ready only by April 2nd week. In the meantime, can I ask whoever is interested to create a page on their respective languages wikipedias and start sharing stories and updates on this page. I'd encourage everyone to write these in whatever language they are comfortable in to begin with. (Once the template is set up on wiki.wikimedia.in, these individual pages could then be posted there.) To start off, you could start with the following sections (which I'm illustrating using the Bengalihttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/Community_News/bn page from a previous Wikipatrika), and just start adding content. 1. General overview 2. Bengali Wikipedia 3. Bengali Wikisource 4. Bengali Wiktionary 5. Bengali Wikibooks 6. News reports 7. Any other section(s) you want to add Please do add as much as you want on - Updates on the various projects - Landmarks, birthdays, celebrations, events, conferences, etc between Jan-Mar 2012 - Reports on outreach sessions conducted - Links to meetups and where to find the next ones - Please feel free to add sections that you think would be nice. I could suggest Featured Wikimedians and Featured Newbies as examples. Here
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 14:44, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear all, I'm writing with regard to Wikipatrika. Great to hear about the revival, shall pitch in some bytes for tamil now and then. Got some requests for you. Here http://This%20should%20go%20on%20India%20and%20Indic%20mailing%20lists%20%28except%20for%20Marathi%20%20Urdu%29%20and%20the%20respective%20village%20pumps%20%28except%20for%20Marathi%20%20Urdu%29%2E%20%20In%20addition,%20the%20mail%20can%20then%20be%20forwarded%20by%20Noopur%20to%20as%20many%20editors%20as%20possible%20%28and%20by%20Shiju%20too%2E%29%20%20I%27m%20writing%20with%20regard%20to%20Wikipatrika%2E%20%20For%20the%20folks%20who%20don%27t%20know,%20this%20is%20the%20community%20newsletter%20which%20has%20come%20out%20twice%20%28in%20September%202010%20%20%20June%202011%29%20%20It%27s%20a%20really%20wonderful%20way%20documenting%20and%20celebrating%20the%20amazing%20work%20done%20by%20so%20many%20community%20members%20across%20so%20many%20communities%20in%20the%20various%20projects%2E%20%20It%20helps%20share%20ideas%20with%20and%20helps%20pick%20up%20ideas%20from%20other%20communities%2E%20%20%20%20I%20think%20Wikipatrika%20is%20something%20that%20could%20be%20more%20frequent%20-%20given%20the%20range%20of%20activities%20across%20communities%20-%20and%20I%27d%20like%20to%20support%20it%2E%20%20In%20this%20regard,%20I%20approached%20all%20the%20editors%20who%20were%20involved%20in%20the%20previous%202%20issues%20to%20ask%20their%20interest%20in%20bringing%20out%20the%20next%20one%20in%20end%20April%20or%20early%20May%20covering%20Jan%20-%20Mar%202012,%20and%20to%20see%20if%20we%20can%20make%20it%20more%20regular%20%28potentially%20every%20quarter%2E%29%20%205%20community%20members%20from%20different%20languages%20have%20already%20offered%20to%20help%2E%20%20Anther%20community%20member%20will%20setup%20a%20template%20that%20all%20languages%20can%20use%20%28on%20the%20chapter%20wiki%29%20%20I%20have%20also%20started%20reaching%20out%20to%20editors%20who%20might%20not%20have%20been%20involved%20before,%20and%20hence%20this%20mail%2E%20%20The%20template%20for%20Wikipatrika%20will%20be%20ready%20only%20by%20April%202nd%20week%2E%20%20In%20the%20meantime,%20can%20I%20ask%20whoever%20is%20interested%20to%20create%20a%20page%20on%20their%20respective%20languages%20wikipedias%20and%20start%20sharing%20stories%20and%20updates%20on%20this%20page%2E%20%20I%27d%20encourage%20everyone%20to%20write%20these%20in%20whatever%20language%20they%20are%20comfortable%20in%20to%20begin%20with%2E%20%20%20%28Once%20the%20template%20is%20set%20up%20on%20Chapter%20Wiki,%20these%20individual%20pages%20could%20then%20be%20posted%20there%2E%29%20%20To%20start%20off,%20you%20could%20start%20with%20the%20following%20sections%20%28which%20I%27m%20illustrating%20using%20the%20Bengali%20page%20from%20a%20previous%20Wikipatrika%29,%20and%20just%20start%20adding%20content%2E%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20General%20overview%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikipedia%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikisource%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wiktionary%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikibooks%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20News%20reports%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Any%20other%20section%28s%29%20you%20want%20to%20add%20%20Please%20do%20add%20as%20much%20as%20you%20want%20on%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Updates%20on%20the%20various%20projects%20%20%20%20%20Landmarks,%20birthdays,%20celebrations,%20events,%20conferences,%20%20etc%20between%20Jan-Mar%202012%20%20%20%20%20Reports%20on%20outreach%20sessions%20conducted%20%20%20%20%20Links%20to%20meetups%20and%20where%20to%20find%20the%20next%20ones%20%20%20%20%20Please%20feel%20free%20to%20add%20sections%20that%20you%20think%20would%20be%20nice%2E%20%20I%20could%20suggest%20%22Featured%20Wikimedians%22%20and%20%22Featured%20Newbies%22%20as%20examples%2E%20%20After%20you%20set%20up%20the%20page,%20please%20do%20post%20this%20on%20your%20respective%20village%20pumps%20or%20mailing%20lists%20and%20any%20other%20forums%20so%20that%20all%20community%20members%20know%2E%20%20Please%20do%20share%20the%20page%20with%20me%20%28offlist%29%20so%20I%20can%20help%20out%20too%2E%20%20If%20you%20are%20facing%20any%20difficulties,%20please%20do%20not%20hesitate%20to%20contact%20me%20%28noo...@wikimedia.org%29/is how the Nepali community did it last time. After you set up the page, please do post this on your respective village pumps or mailing lists and any other forums so that all community members know. Please do share the page with me (offlist) so I can help out too. 1. Can you please and add the links at bottom referencing them inline? Not that there will be NSFW links on the list, but its better for people to know where they would be landing before clicking, also helps mobile folks. It will also help you avoid things like below one. 2. Here is linked erroneously to URL encoded message of the same mail, which you can see here[1]. You may want to post the
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue
Dear Srikanth, Surely, Will add the links at the end of the mail. The link to Nepali Wikipedia's page is herehttp://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:Wikimedia_India_Newsletter/2011_Juneagain. Regarding Marathi and Urdu, I wasn't subscribed there yet. But, have forwarded the mails there and posted on village pump as you suggested. Look forward to sharing Tamil Wikipedia stories. [1]http://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:Wikimedia_India_Newsletter/2011_June Thanks Regards Noopur On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 14:44, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear all, I'm writing with regard to Wikipatrika. Great to hear about the revival, shall pitch in some bytes for tamil now and then. Got some requests for you. Here
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue
The line that is inadvertently visible was part of an email from me. There are some sensitivities regarding posting content in English on the Marathi Urdu mailing lists and village pumps. My apologies for this. hisham On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: ___ 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] Wikipatrika: Next Issue
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 16:53, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: The line that is inadvertently visible was part of an email from me. There are some sensitivities regarding posting content in English on the Marathi Urdu mailing lists and village pumps. May be posting in respective wiki's Embassy pages[1] will help. Marathi,Urdu stories cant be missed due to this! [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Embassy -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue
Dear Hisham, As far as understand, there is no such thing on Marathi mailing list. All the usual mailing list guidelines apply there. If you face any problems, have you raised it to any list administrators? Please be careful when writing such statements. Regards -Sudhanwa On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: The line that is inadvertently visible was part of an email from me. There are some sensitivities regarding posting content in English on the Marathi Urdu mailing lists and village pumps. My apologies for this. hisham On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue
Happy to help with English and maybe the Commons as well. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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] My post to User:Prad2609
FYI ... One more user[1] has retired on English Wikipedia[2]. Whats going on !! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Abhijay [2] http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Abhijay On 28 March 2012 02:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: Srikeit, he might've had an account for five years but only recently did he start contributing. While the case of Pradeep is indeed different, we must take steps to prevent other potential editors from leaving. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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 -- Kind Regards ansuman smileyansu http://twitter.com/smileyansu *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ http://or.wikipedia.org/* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609
No its not so serious as you make it out to be. I don't mean to discriminate on basis of age, but User:Abhijay claims to be a 16 year old user from South East Asia; and I don't know, we can probably expect WP:DIVA to be more prevalent among teenagers? (again, not discriminating; I'm one myself!). So lets cool down a bit and not get into a frenzy. Besides, he was facing an interaction ban with another editor and all that, and for all we know, was probably under a lot of stress. Situations like these aren't uncommon on enwiki, and there have been many times when users have returned back, stronger and better. Give them have some time to cool off. I don't know why Pradeep decided to retire, and I do not intend to pry. I agree with Srikeit's opinions and observations; I hope Pradeep's retirement will only be temporary. Regards, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 22:16, Yash Thakkar yasht...@gmail.com wrote: Now, this is a major issue On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:11 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: FYI ... One more user[1] has retired on English Wikipedia[2]. Whats going on !! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Abhijay [2] http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Abhijay On 28 March 2012 02:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: Srikeit, he might've had an account for five years but only recently did he start contributing. While the case of Pradeep is indeed different, we must take steps to prevent other potential editors from leaving. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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 -- Kind Regards ansuman smileyansu http://twitter.com/smileyansu *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ http://or.wikipedia.org/* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l 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] My post to User:Prad2609
What is and editor-interrection ban? On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote: No its not so serious as you make it out to be. I don't mean to discriminate on basis of age, but User:Abhijay claims to be a 16 year old user from South East Asia; and I don't know, we can probably expect WP:DIVA to be more prevalent among teenagers? (again, not discriminating; I'm one myself!). So lets cool down a bit and not get into a frenzy. Besides, he was facing an interaction ban with another editor and all that, and for all we know, was probably under a lot of stress. Situations like these aren't uncommon on enwiki, and there have been many times when users have returned back, stronger and better. Give them have some time to cool off. I don't know why Pradeep decided to retire, and I do not intend to pry. I agree with Srikeit's opinions and observations; I hope Pradeep's retirement will only be temporary. Regards, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 22:16, Yash Thakkar yasht...@gmail.com wrote: Now, this is a major issue On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:11 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: FYI ... One more user[1] has retired on English Wikipedia[2]. Whats going on !! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Abhijay [2] http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Abhijay On 28 March 2012 02:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: Srikeit, he might've had an account for five years but only recently did he start contributing. While the case of Pradeep is indeed different, we must take steps to prevent other potential editors from leaving. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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 -- Kind Regards ansuman smileyansu http://twitter.com/smileyansu *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ http://or.wikipedia.org/* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Discussion points during March meet up in Pune
Dear All, Sorry for sending email for the discussion points so late It was a new place called Ranade institute where we had our monthly meet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Pune/Pune19 The mail agenda for meet up was - *Set up a long-term plan for a year's worth of Wikipuneri activities, with detailed planning for Wikipedia activities* . 1. Discuss and plan for outreach activities in Pune 2. Communication and reporting of various activities of events 3. Reporting of past events like Marathi Wikisrot launch, Wiki academies 4. Discuss on increase member strength in Pune 5. Discuss immd. project in Pune and the support required The response was good and many points and ideas came from wikipedians. Here is the brief summery of the same. 1. Discussed more on the launch of Marathi Wikisource and discussed various activities to grow it further. Radha madam suggested to have a program with Madhav Vaze (who played the role of Shyam in the movie Shyamchi Aai when all the books epecially Shyamchi Aai gets uploaded on Marathi Wikisrot. 2. Abhijit Safai suggested some ideas including discussion with MS-CIT members for increase the contribution in Wikipedia and wikisrot. A meeting is getting planned. 3. Abhishek suggested to have 2 day residential program on May to increase the reach of Wikipedia in nearby districts like Nagar, Satara, Nashik, Kolhapur. We all will support him. 4. Mandar briefed about the activities in Ranade institute including wiki academy. We need support from more members in this. 5. It was also agreed that we are doing activities in good pace but are bit lazy in reporting the same in various mailing lists, mail groups and media. We can make of google groups for the same. 6. All members are requested to get added in the yahoo mailing list. 7. Ashwin also shared some ideas regarding the India English Wikipedia and Wikipedia loves monuments activity. Pls. add any more points if I missed anything. -- Regards, Mandar V Kulkarni Email: mandar.kulka...@wikimedia.in Website: http://mr.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IBAN . I appreciate you trying to learn, but do try and keep the mailing list threads on topic. I'll be happy to assist you on my talkpage, so you can post there! Thanks, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 22:42, Yash Thakkar yasht...@gmail.com wrote: What is and editor-interrection ban? On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote: No its not so serious as you make it out to be. I don't mean to discriminate on basis of age, but User:Abhijay claims to be a 16 year old user from South East Asia; and I don't know, we can probably expect WP:DIVA to be more prevalent among teenagers? (again, not discriminating; I'm one myself!). So lets cool down a bit and not get into a frenzy. Besides, he was facing an interaction ban with another editor and all that, and for all we know, was probably under a lot of stress. Situations like these aren't uncommon on enwiki, and there have been many times when users have returned back, stronger and better. Give them have some time to cool off. I don't know why Pradeep decided to retire, and I do not intend to pry. I agree with Srikeit's opinions and observations; I hope Pradeep's retirement will only be temporary. Regards, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 22:16, Yash Thakkar yasht...@gmail.com wrote: Now, this is a major issue On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:11 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: FYI ... One more user[1] has retired on English Wikipedia[2]. Whats going on !! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Abhijay [2] http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Abhijay On 28 March 2012 02:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Srikeit, he might've had an account for five years but only recently did he start contributing. While the case of Pradeep is indeed different, we must take steps to prevent other potential editors from leaving. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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 -- Kind Regards ansuman smileyansu http://twitter.com/smileyansu *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ http://or.wikipedia.org/* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609
The issue is a bit serious. A contributor, no matter who or where they come from, somehow or the other impacts another editors contributions. There have been numerous instances of non Indians helping out with Indian pages. We need to give more thought to editor retention. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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] Discussion points during March meet up in Pune
Good report Mandar, but I do have a question. What is Wikisrot ? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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] Discussion points during March meet up in Pune
Sorry Srikanth. I should have clarified in the first place itself. *Wikisrot* is a Marathi version of the word, *Wikisource* [http://mr.wikisource.org]. So normally we call the same Marathi Wikisrot. But I agree, on India/global level, we should speak Marathi Wikisource only. We have already over 200 pages now in just 1 month over there . !!! Regards, Mandar On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Good report Mandar, but I do have a question. What is Wikisrot ? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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, Mandar V Kulkarni Email: mandar.kulka...@wikimedia.in Website: http://mr.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Hackathon Report
1. Can Shrinivasan (or anyone else) provide us with english subtitles or english audio of the video that you uploaded on Youtube? Here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd4KNbNX4_Y 2. Can Shrinivasan update the Readme file on voice-recorder-for-tawictionary / repo? https://github.com/tshrinivasan/voice-recorder-for-tawictionary/blob/master/README Thanks for your interest. -- Regards, T.Shrinivasan My Life with GNU/Linux : http://goinggnu.wordpress.com Free/Open Source Jobs : http://fossjobs.in Get CollabNet Subversion Edge : http://www.collab.net/svnedge ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digitization of books in Wikisource using DjVu
Thanks Shiju, As discussed, Marathi Wikisource has started using this from last month and have created more than 5 books. Still we would like to have more knowledge sharing from other languages on the same On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear Wikimedians, This mail is more relevant to wikimedians working in Wiksiource. Here is a small blog post about the digitization of books using DjVu (or about using Proofread extension). http://shijualex.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/digitization-of-books-in-wikisource-using-djvu/ Post is also placed in metawiki at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Digitization_of_books_in_Wikisource_using_DjVu Few Indic wiki source communities (Sanskrit and Malayalam) are using this method extensively to digitize the books. But some other communities are not aware about the use of such an extension. This post is for sharing the best practices from differenent Indic wiki communities. Going forward I will be sharing these type of best practices and lessons from various Indic language wiki communities. This is essential since in most cases challenges, issues, and solutions are similar for Indic wiki communities. Shiju Alex ___ 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, Mandar V Kulkarni Email: mandar.kulka...@wikimedia.in Website: http://mr.wikipedia.org ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 29th @ 9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
Hisham, you say you're conducted 22+ sessions. How would you rate the relative success of each of them? Four people editing on the day isn't good enough. Long term editors should be used to measure success. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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 Program: Pilot Designs
Hi Folks One of the aspects that India Program constantly works on is that the the work that your team does for and with our community is based on clear objectives, robust design and relevant progress parameters. India Program has / is / will be undertaking a series of pilots. Pilots by nature indicate that we try innovative things out sometimes, and we may or may not always suceed. We must be bold and try them out - but we must also carefully build these pilots out and measure progress. On the main India Program meta page, I've created a tab that links to a new sub-page called Pilot Designs - where I have published 3 of these pilot designs. More will follow as they are ready, or as we undertake new work, so do add the page to your watchlists. Basic Community Building is the work that Shiju is doing with small Indic communities - in this case, Assamese. It will show what steps can be taken to build such communities - from communication to collaboration to outreach. This work is especially relevant to small Indic communities - but there are pointers even for larger communities (including English.) Story-telling for Community Building is the work that Noopur just announced (and as illustrated by the profile on Netha) - where we want to celebrate the diversity and magic in our community. Supporting Community Communications Initiatives (Wikipatrika) for Community Building is the initiative just announced by Noopur to support our community's newsletter, Wikipatrika. The attempt is to see how Wikipatrika can become more participative, richer in content and more regular in publication. Do go through these. Do also add your comments on the respective talk pages. The constant endeavor of all the work that we do is to help community members who want to take up the various initiatives that we are piloting (with them or with other community members.) Do go through these pilot designs and if you are interested in getting involved, or if you need clarification, or if you want support - please feel free to ask for it on the talk pages or offlist to any of us. 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] India Program: Pilot Designs
Hi Hisham, Could you also provide full links as reference like how Srikanth L suggested to Noopur yesterday? I cannot click through inline links when checking mails on my Nokia phone. The Story Telling and Wikipatrika initiatives that you list here as pilots were efforts undertaken by the Chapter. Instead of doing this seperately as a pilot, does not collaborating with the Chapter make more sense? I would also suggest including in the pilot design itself ways for the community to feel ownership of the project so that these projects would continue despite the Chapter or the WMF. Also, a nudge to the Chapter to take more responsibility for and interest in the projects that (some very innovative) it undertakes. Pradeep Handheld On Mar 29, 2012 10:36 AM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks One of the aspects that India Programhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program constantly works on is that the the work that your teamhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Team does for and with our community is based on clear objectives, robust design and relevant progress parameters. India Program has / is / will be undertaking a series of pilots. Pilots by nature indicate that we try innovative things out sometimes, and we may or may not always suceed. We must be bold and try them out - but we must also carefully build these pilots out and measure progress. On the main India Program meta page, I've created a tab that links to a new sub-page called Pilot Designs http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs - where I have published 3 of these pilot designs. More will follow as they are ready, or as we undertake new work, so do add the page to your watchlists. - Basic Community Buildinghttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building is the work that Shiju is doing with small Indic communities - in this case, Assamese. It will show what steps can be taken to build such communities - from communication to collaboration to outreach. This work is especially relevant to small Indic communities - but there are pointers even for larger communities (including English.) - Story-telling for Community Buildinghttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Storytelling is the work that Noopur just announced (and as illustrated by the profile on Netha) - where we want to celebrate the diversity and magic in our community. - Supporting Community Communications Initiatives (Wikipatrika) for Community Buildinghttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Wikipatrika is the initiative just announced by Noopur to support our community's newsletter, Wikipatrika. The attempt is to see how Wikipatrika can become more participative, richer in content and more regular in publication. Do go through these. Do also add your comments on the respective talk pages. The constant endeavor of all the work that we do is to help community members who want to take up the various initiatives that we are piloting (with them or with other community members.) Do go through these pilot designs and if you are interested in getting involved, or if you need clarification, or if you want support - please feel free to ask for it on the talk pages or offlist to any of us. 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
