Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [BCB] [X-post] Unofficial Bangalore Wikimedia Hackathon on May 19, 2012

2012-04-18 Thread omshivaprak...@gmail.com 
Looks like we are going to have fun!
On Apr 18, 2012 5:07 PM, "Sohan Maheshwar"  wrote:

> +1 to what Srikanth said.
>
> Thanks Kiran!
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Kiran,
>> Thank you very much for your generosity. This means a lot to all
>> Wikipedians in Bangalore.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:
>>
>>> Wh!
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda 
>>> wrote:
>>> > HasGeek will sponsor the internet connection for this event. If you
>>> have any
>>> > experience pulling data from Wikipedia, you know that the internet
>>> > connection makes all the difference.
>>>
>>> As someone who has experienced how awesomely fast the HasGeek
>>> connection is, this is incredibly good news :D Thanks Kiran!
>>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Fortnightly IRC: Thursday April 19 at 9pm IST: Indic Outreach & Communications

2012-04-18 Thread Noopur Raval 
Hey folks

The next India Program IRC (2nd for April) is scheduled for Thursday 19th
April at 9 p.m. IST.  Do join us using this link:
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.

We'll be discussing Outreach, Communications and Education in this one.
Here is what we plan to discuss this time:

*Outreach*

Over the past few months we have conducted several outreach sessions and
have been able to curate outreach standard presentation decks, best
practices and tips. Now we want to assist community members in
adopting/adapting these to conduct effective outreach sessions in their
respective cities/languages. We'll be soon working on 2 aspects for
increasing the number of outreach sessions we are doing on Indic languages
but we need your help on this:

1. Start translating outreach supporting documents to Indic languages - To
start with we want Indic language community members to help us translate
outreach documents and presentations to Indic languages.

2. Create opportunities for Indic outreach - We have been mailing/calling a
lot of institutes to organize a Wikipedia session (see list
here)[1]
in their regional language but we have not able to get as many outreach
sessions as we'd like since they feel more comfortable corresponding in
their own regional language. We want help from Indic langauge editors who
are interested to do more outreach in their regional languages/cities to
help us reach out to these institutes.

I'd request all the Indic language editors who want to help us out on
either of the two points mentioned above to show up on the IRC  or write to
us offlist since we'll be discussing ways of doing effective outreach in
regional languages.


*Communications:* *Wikipatrika:*
6 communities (Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali,Odia, Telugu ) have
already created Wikipatrika pages on their respective Wikipedias. The new
template for Wikipatrika is up
here.[2]
 In tomorrow's outreach, we could discuss ideas and suggestions to make
Wikipatrika more useful. We could also discuss any problems that community
members maybe facing.

*Communications:* *Odia Social Media pilot:*
As proposed earlier,
here's[3]
the social media pilot to support the Odia community members. The end
result of this pilot is to attract more newbies and introduce them to the
Wikiverse. This pilot is to try out effective messaging strategies to use a
platform like Facebook optimally and try to recruit more editors to the
Odia Wikipedia. The most important nuance is that we have built a draft
social media messaging strategy and plan to work closely with the Odia
community to implement it - through the community members.  We hope to
discuss this plan and get your inputs on it.

As always, the first 45 minutes will be focused on these and the last 15
minutes will be open to any other topic.
Hope you all can join us.

(For those who can't join, the logs will be put up the next morning at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19

Thanks



[1]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Correspondence
[2] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Edit a thon

2012-04-18 Thread Karthik Nadar 
Ashwin, you saying about Edit-a-thon for Gateway of
India,
if yes, +1 :)

If we have many number of participants for the Edit-a-thon, then the period
should be minimum of few hours. If done for an hour or two, it leads to Edit
conflict ,
which frustrates many if doing any major edit.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:

> Can we please organise it around the INCOTM but with seperate prizes for
> the Edit-a-thon?
>
> Ashwin
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Criticism may be directed to me, praise be directed to Netha Hussain.
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> after some talking with User:Netha Hussain, who organised the last
>> edit-a-thon, I thought we could have  a monthly edit a thon of sorts.
>>
>> The point in doing this is:
>> New users can have a first hand experience of editing.
>> We can improve articles with more teamwork.
>> Existing users can teach a lot of things.
>> More fun, and interaction.
>>
>> We had proposed a date ie: 22-04-2012 from 12-1400 hrs IST.
>> The page for it is:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_Edit-a-thon
>>
>> Please suggest some ideas.
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
>> Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore.
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Edit a thon

2012-04-18 Thread Ashwin Baindur 
Can we please organise it around the INCOTM but with seperate prizes for
the Edit-a-thon?

Ashwin

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Criticism may be directed to me, praise be directed to Netha Hussain.
>
> Hi all,
>
> after some talking with User:Netha Hussain, who organised the last
> edit-a-thon, I thought we could have  a monthly edit a thon of sorts.
>
> The point in doing this is:
> New users can have a first hand experience of editing.
> We can improve articles with more teamwork.
> Existing users can teach a lot of things.
> More fun, and interaction.
>
> We had proposed a date ie: 22-04-2012 from 12-1400 hrs IST.
> The page for it is:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_Edit-a-thon
>
> Please suggest some ideas.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
> Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers, Coimbatore.
>
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [BCB] [X-post] Unofficial Bangalore Wikimedia Hackathon on May 19, 2012

2012-04-18 Thread Sohan Maheshwar 
+1 to what Srikanth said.

Thanks Kiran!

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Kiran,
> Thank you very much for your generosity. This means a lot to all
> Wikipedians in Bangalore.
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:
>
>> Wh!
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda 
>> wrote:
>> > HasGeek will sponsor the internet connection for this event. If you
>> have any
>> > experience pulling data from Wikipedia, you know that the internet
>> > connection makes all the difference.
>>
>> As someone who has experienced how awesomely fast the HasGeek
>> connection is, this is incredibly good news :D Thanks Kiran!
>>
>> --
>> Yuvi Panda T
>> http://yuvi.in/blog
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [BCB] [X-post] Unofficial Bangalore Wikimedia Hackathon on May 19, 2012

2012-04-18 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
Kiran,
Thank you very much for your generosity. This means a lot to all
Wikipedians in Bangalore.

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Yuvi Panda  wrote:

> Wh!
>
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda 
> wrote:
> > HasGeek will sponsor the internet connection for this event. If you have
> any
> > experience pulling data from Wikipedia, you know that the internet
> > connection makes all the difference.
>
> As someone who has experienced how awesomely fast the HasGeek
> connection is, this is incredibly good news :D Thanks Kiran!
>
> --
> Yuvi Panda T
> http://yuvi.in/blog
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [BCB] [X-post] Unofficial Bangalore Wikimedia Hackathon on May 19, 2012

2012-04-18 Thread Yuvi Panda 
Wh!

On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda  wrote:
> HasGeek will sponsor the internet connection for this event. If you have any
> experience pulling data from Wikipedia, you know that the internet
> connection makes all the difference.

As someone who has experienced how awesomely fast the HasGeek
connection is, this is incredibly good news :D Thanks Kiran!

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http://yuvi.in/blog

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Wikiacademy at LD College of Engineering, Ahmedabad

2012-04-18 Thread Anirudh Bhati 
Greetings from Ahmedabad!

I am here sitting with Konarak Ratnakar and Harsh Kothari, very
enthusiastic contributors to English and Gujarati Wikimedia projects.  They
have organized a Wikiacademy at LD College of Engineering, scheduled on 24
April 2012.  The main focus of these event is training potential users of
our Gujarati and English Wikipedia projects.  We have received confirmation
from around 34 students of the college, and we expect the numbers to go up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Workshop/Ahmedabad_Workshop_1

Please sign up if you are interested in joining the event.  Computers are
available at the venue, but they are most likely to be occupied by students
from the college, so it's best if you can get your own computers!

Hisham, you are specially invited to join us for the event. :-)

Best,
anirudh
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