Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Social Media Pilot
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Noopur, thank you for posting the report. I have a few questions for the India Programs team which I have listed under, would appreciate if you could respond: 1. How do you plan on scaling the Social Media pilot beyond your own networks? 2. Do you believe you can effectively create a mechanism for recruitment of editors through this project in a manner that justifies the cost and time involved? I am asking this because I noticed that you make serious attempts at trying to convince users to edit Wikipedia pages. 3. How many hours per week do you spend on the Wikipedia support group? To Hisham and the rest of the India Program team: I am still waiting for answers to these questions. They were asked with seriousness, and they deserve your serious consideration. ___ 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] Update on Social Media Pilot
Even these answers would be interesting for me. Hope we get them soon. On 2 Jun 2012 11:04, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: Noopur, thank you for posting the report. I have a few questions for the India Programs team which I have listed under, would appreciate if you could respond: 1. How do you plan on scaling the Social Media pilot beyond your own networks? 2. Do you believe you can effectively create a mechanism for recruitment of editors through this project in a manner that justifies the cost and time involved? I am asking this because I noticed that you make serious attempts at trying to convince users to edit Wikipedia pages. 3. How many hours per week do you spend on the Wikipedia support group? To Hisham and the rest of the India Program team: I am still waiting for answers to these questions. They were asked with seriousness, and they deserve your serious consideration. ___ 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] Wiki Loves Monuments in India
Hello everyone! Has there been any discussion about participating in Wiki Loves Monuments this year? I'm sitting in berlin working on some of the code behind it, and looking at the test data and seeing 'us', 'de', 'nl' but no 'in' makes me feel sad. Would the Indian community be participating this year? I'd gladly volunteer to do whatever I can! -- 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] Vandalism in Wikipedia
Recently I came across the problem of vandalism in one of the articles to which I am a contributor. Dr.Narisetty Innaiah, 75 years old is a famous rationalist and atheist from India and currently living in USA. He is author of several books on M.N.Roy’s philosophy in Telugu.He is also translator of the books ‘A Letter to Christian Nation’ and ‘God Delusions’ written by Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins respectively into Telugu. Mr.Innaiah presented these translations to the original authors at a function held in USA. A video of the event can be seen at the following link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGTN1Mj7hV8blend=8lr=1ob=5 More details about Innaiah can be found at http://innaiahn.tripod.com/hr.html Now let us have a look into the Wikipedia article about Mr Innaiah at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innaiah_Narisetti In the current version of the article, a pervert contributor Mr.Steeldrumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Steeldrumaction=editredlink=1distorted the facts in the article and presents Mr Innaiah not only as a staunch believer of Christianity but also a canvasser of Christianism. I have corrected these blunders on 28th April 2012 but Steeldrumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Steeldrumaction=editredlink=1reverted back to his old dirty practice of distortion and vandalism of the article about Innaiah on 2nd May 2012. Rationalists from USA besides Mr Innaiah brought to my notice about this heinous act of Mr.Steeldrumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Steeldrumaction=editredlink=1, who is doing this repeatedly. These vicious writings of Mr.Steeldrum ahttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Steeldrumaction=editredlink=1re bringing bad reputation to Wikipedia.There is a need to put an urgent stop to these acts by Mr.Steeldrumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Steeldrumaction=editredlink=1. I request the seniors in the group to do the needful in the matter before Steeldrumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Steeldrumaction=editredlink=1spreads his tentacles in furthering his malicious acts. -Cbrao http://toolserver.org/~pathoschild/stalktoy/?target=Cbrao http://deeptidhaara.blogspot.com/ ___ 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] Wiki Loves Monuments in India
Hi YuviPanda, I'm sure the India community is too doing this year, and I guess Naveen was very much involved for this. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone! Has there been any discussion about participating in Wiki Loves Monuments this year? I'm sitting in berlin working on some of the code behind it, and looking at the test data and seeing 'us', 'de', 'nl' but no 'in' makes me feel sad. Would the Indian community be participating this year? I'd gladly volunteer to do whatever I can! -- 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 -- Thanks and Regards, (User:Karthikndr), *Karthik Nadar.* ___ 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] Narayam - is your language supported well?
Hello, A few months ago the Localization team of the Wikimedia Foundation enabled the Narayam extension in some projects in Indic languages and also in the Incubator. We know that in projects in some languages it is actively used. Some projects, for example Telugu, Kannada, Marathi and Bengali, also asked for fixes, which we are happy to make. We know less about other projects, however. Can you tell us, please: * If Narayam is already used in your language: Is it good? Does it have all the characters? Is it easy to use? Is it documented well? Does it help people to create more content? * If Narayam is not used in your language: Why not? Do you think that it is not needed? Or is it needed, but the current layout is buggy? Thank you, -- 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] Narayam - is your language supported well?
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:50 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hello, A few months ago the Localization team of the Wikimedia Foundation enabled the Narayam extension in some projects in Indic languages and also in the Incubator. We know that in projects in some languages it is actively used. Some projects, for example Telugu, Kannada, Marathi and Bengali, also asked for fixes. In some languages Narayam is enabled only in Wikipedia. Other Wikiprojects continue to use old javascript solution / don't have any typing tool at all. Can you please make sure Narayam is available on *all* existing wikiprojects of your language, so that it could give consistent experience to contributors. It just a bug away[1] [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimediacomponent=Extension%20setup -- 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] Update on Social Media Pilot
Dear all, Please find the responses inline On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Even these answers would be interesting for me. Hope we get them soon. On 2 Jun 2012 11:04, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: Noopur, thank you for posting the report. I have a few questions for the India Programs team which I have listed under, would appreciate if you could respond: 1. How do you plan on scaling the Social Media pilot beyond your own networks? The Social Media Pilot does not run on our personal networks. However, given the interstitial nature of social networks, we might have mutual friends with people. Otherwise, most of these participants are people from previous outreach sessions and users who had 'liked' our various pages and activities but did not know what to do after that. Coming to the scaling bit, even outside the current network, I welcome you and all other Wikipedians to help us spread the word and even add a few friends of yours who might be interested in learning about Wikipedia. The next steps are to reach out to interest groups on social networks, such as - and this is purely by way of example - groups that are interested in railways or modern Indian art, etc and see if the profile of members of these groups is such that there might be potential new editors and explore if we can generate curiosity in these members to join our group. The work that has been done on Odia and already done (at least building the group, if not the more methodical approach to encouraging new editor) on Kannada point to the potential of interest groups. Kannada - for instance - already has 2000+ members. In both these cases, they drew members from people who were active or interested in language interest social groups (in these cases, the interest is the language itself.) Additionally, social media is being used in various ways by communities across India including the Assamese, Bengali, Tamil and Malayalam and we want to observe them, how they reach out to people, what works and what doesn't before we make more interventions. 2. Do you believe you can effectively create a mechanism for recruitment of editors through this project in a manner that justifies the cost and time involved? I am asking this because I noticed that you make serious attempts at trying to convince users to edit Wikipedia pages. There is a fine difference between convincing people to edit Wikipedia and going that extra mile to help them out. In my humble opinion if these are users who have previously liked various pages of ours and activities, the former is already achieved. However, if they lost interest or simply saw no new activity happening on the page, it is useful to tell them we are doing something new. Unlike physical outreach, we are able to resolve internet issues, barriers of consumption, familiarity and individual engagement. Remember how Anirudh and I answered Commons queries for the Ahmedabad photo walk? I am happy to say that of those we actually ended up meeting 2 (correct me if I am mistaken) long term editors. The major effort I put into social media was analysing the way the various Facebook pages were functioning, what were the challenges opportunities, how we could construct a set of guidelines and walking community members through these guidelines - which I detailed out as part of a very specific nearly 20 point plan here ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media#Process ) 3. How many hours per week do you spend on the Wikipedia support group? As is with the pervasive nature of social media networks and the stuff we do on them, there is no way you can tell the actual time spent. I also answers queries of people on Saturday and Sunday just because I want to help and that doesn't depend on my office timings. Similarly, as explained earlier, mentors come in and go out depending on their schedules. Going further though, we'd love to scale it to a point where only mentors can handle the group and actually make meaningful relationships with new editors. I invite you as well to join in as a mentor and would love to have a Skype call with you. Just to give you a sense of what all is happening on Communications simultaneously - I have worked on Wikipatrikahttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News, supporting the Malayalam conference, the Assamese 10th anniversary, the Kannada 10th anniversary, the Nepali 9th anniversary as well as stories that we have published for the Tamil media contesthttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/20/postcard-from-the-tamil-community/, the Gujarati Wikisourcehttp://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/04/realizing-the-dreams-of-communities-3-years-6-users-1000-articles-counting-the-source-of-gujarati-wikisource/(and Indic
