Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia to be free on mobiles in Africa, Middle East (SciDev.net)
I agree wholeheartedly with Ashwin. India Programs need not focus on Outreach as long as the Chapter is there. In India, we see mobile operators giving free Facebook and Twitter access but not to Wiki. -- 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] Fwd: [Mediawiki-i18n] IRC office hours with the Localisation team 2012-04-18 16:30 UTC
Forwarding for the benefit of those who are not in mediawiki-i18n list. Topics that will be discussed. Language support; internationalisation of MediaWiki, language support teams, User Interaction and User Interface design for language tools See you there! -- Regards Srikanth.L -- Forwarded message -- From: Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 18:35 Subject: [Mediawiki-i18n] IRC office hours with the Localisation team 2012-04-18 16:30 UTC To: Wikimedia Foundation foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org, MediaWiki internationalisation mediawiki-i...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi everyone, I just wanted to give advance notice about IRC office hours with the Localization team [1] at the Wikimedia Foundation. Date: 2012-04-18 (every third Wednesday of the month from now on) Time: 16.30 UTC Venue: #wikimedia-office As usual, more logistical info and time conversion links are available on Meta.[2] For a taste of what the localization team has been up to, I highly recommend the blog posts we are have written since out last office hours in February.[3] Thanks, and we'll talk to you later next week! -- Siebrand Mazeland Product Manager Localisation Wikimedia Foundation 1. https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Localisation_team 2. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours 3. http://blog.wikimedia.org/c/technology/features/internationalization-and-localization/ Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Mediawiki-i18n mailing list mediawiki-i...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-i18n ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia to be free on mobiles in Africa, Middle East (SciDev.net)
Hi all, On mobile: We are working on this. Deals take time to consummate and are confidential until they are finalized with partners, but there is work going on in India and we hope to have some good stuff soon. @Ashwin: At one level I agree, but another way to think about this is as follows...It is useful to differentiate between things an editor can do and what an editor actually chooses to do. There may be thing that an editor can do, but chooses not to do that is still worth doing and India Programs can fill that gap. On Outreach, India Programs is a) helping to cross-pollinate learning across the community and take more of an analytical approach to assessing Outreach than had been done before Nitika started to really focus on this; and b) bring added capacity to help us all reach more groups (look at the volume of outreach that has happened since Nitika started pushing on this theme - not pure coincidence).[1] @Srikanth: I don't think we should be ready to say there is no need for group X to focus on activity area Y, since group Z exists. Existence does not equate with satisfying all of the needs in India. India Programs will stop supporting outreach the moment the chapter or local communities feel they are fully able to met all of the demand for learning about the Wikimedia projects from groups across India. Even today, the India Program team seeks ways to support community members or the chapter to do the outreach and does outreach sessions when a) they are asked to provide support; or b) where there aren't community members ready to take the lead. General point: IMO the debates which crop up regularly on this list over who should do what is tangential to the goals we all share of strengthening our community and realizing our mission in India. The capacity represented by Existing Community + Chapter + India Programs is nowhere near the need required to reach the full potential of the movement in India, so what is there to fight over? The more appropriate question IMO to ask is: How best to work together in a way that we utilize the differing capabilities to maximum effective, given we're a long way from reaching a point where we are finished with our mission? It would also be cool if we celebrate what people actual do and debate the efficacy based on the results (since all of our work is experimental in nature and unproven at this time) rather than debate who should do the work. My 2 paise. ;) [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs Kind regards, Barry On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:09 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: I agree wholeheartedly with Ashwin. India Programs need not focus on Outreach as long as the Chapter is there. In India, we see mobile operators giving free Facebook and Twitter access but not to Wiki. -- 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 -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ 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] Odia Wikipedia Outreach Programs in Odisha (Mar-Apr)
Congratulations, Odia Wikimedians, for an extraordinarily productive weekend. You all should all be really proud of: a) The sheer level of activity over 3 days: 3 outreach sessions and 1 meet-up is awe-inspiring! b) The fact that even relatively new folks in the community are standing up and taking initiatives, such as MKar conducting (what I think) is his first outreach session! MKar, loved reading your mail about how you explained to folks that only the most interested need remain in the outreach session after the initial introductory bit (http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-April/007897.html). It came from the heart, and it was a delight to read! c) Looking at all aspects of the various activities - from planning out the venues to getting a beautiful Odia version of the prezi presentation for your outreach sessions (http://prezi.com/ljk3w0m44w6x/copy-of-introduction-to-wikipedia/) to talking in detail about the next steps d) Showing wonderful initiative like approaching work colleagues for an outreach session at work. We should try that in other places too. e) Working collaboratively as a community on all the various activities - which you have done so magnificently across this weekend! You are a warm, friendly community - and that comes from each of you as individuals! f) Having a constructive meetup which was focussed on specific issues and from emerged clear plans and way forward! I am sure this will encourage more meetups and more attendance in these meetups! g) The press coverage that has been shared on this link is great, but I also have been seeing the social media that you are using (facebook, etc.) which is also going to be very useful for a language that has a decent level of activity on the Internet. h) The medical outreach will give you great benefits for you Medicine Project. I know there are exams for the students right now, but let's approach them after that and see how they can join your community and projects. i) You've put in huge physical effort and time - and I know some guys have travelled for hours to get to the various places! All the very best for everything going forward. Also, as always, please reach out if you need any help from India Program. Do reach out to Subha or Shiju for anything. Warmest Regards, hisham On Apr 9, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Mrutyunjaya Kar wrote: Hi all Apologies for the delayed report. Odia Wikimedia Community had a very eventful, exciting and constructive weekend last week! i want to share with you a report of 3 (yes THREE!) outreach sessions and the community meet up held between March 30 and April 1. Odia Wikipedia Editing Workshop - Anugul - March 30 *Summary* An Editing Odia Wikipedia workshop was conducted on 30th March at the National Institute of Computer Education, Nalconagar, Anugul. It was attended by 14 newbies. Odia WikipedianMrutyunjay Karhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:MKar conducted the workshop by introducing Odia Wikipedia to the newbies. (In fact, Mrutyunjay single-handedly organized the session and most of the audience were his work colleagues who he had told about Odia Wikipedia.) He talked briefly about Wikipedia, five pillars and policies. Then there was a demonstration session on how to edit Odia Wikipedia. One of the attendees was called up to create his own account and then Mrutyunjaya demonstrated basics of editing by interacting with the audience. Once we had shown everyone this, we invited those who were interested to stay for a more detailed and hands-on editing to stay, and told everyone else they were free to leave. A few of the audience left the lab, and the remaining 9 created their user accounts. 4 of the new wikipedians have made small but significant edits. *Challenges Solutions* - An issue that was faced was that newbies initially had problems typing in Odia. We requested the newbies to check the *Typing Help*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/or:Help:Typing page to understand the key combination. Mrutyunjaya explained how they can improve by gradual exercise, using the Show Preview option and that making corrections is allowed on Wikipedia. *Next Steps* - Mrutyunjaya will personally interact with the new editors, either 1-on-1 or in groups to give them more support on editing and to address doubts - Mrutyunjaya could conduct more physical meetups in Anugul where help more newbies with editing *Lessons* - Mrutyunjaya's initiative to reach out to his colleagues and friends to introduce them to Odia Wikipedia and to encourage them to learn about editing by attending the session is really interesting because it increases the chances of like-minded folks attending outreach sessions. - When we do outreach sessions, it will be nice to share a small note about the session (with some useful links) beforehand - so that interested participants can read up and be
