Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Announcing the Hardware donation program

[Sudhanwa Jogalekar]

On Mar 21, 2017 4:36 AM, "Abhishek Suryawanshi" <
i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Great initiative!

Is there any way to contribute to this initiative?
ex - I have additional devices and I would like to donate.



You can donate your pocket projector to me ;-)

Regards
Sudhanwa



Best,
Abhishek
(Sent via handheld device, pardon the brevity)



On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 10:37 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote:

> FYI.
>
>   A.
>
> -- Forwarded message -
> From: Asaf Bartov 
> Date: Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:06 PM
> Subject: Announcing the Hardware donation program
> To: Wikimedia Mailing List 
>
>
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation is pleased to announce a small new program called
> the Hardware Donation Program.  In a word, it is a program designed to
> donate depreciated (but fully working) hardware from the WMF office to
> community members who would put it to good use.
>
> The program, including instructions on how to apply, is described on Meta,
> here:
>
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hardware_donation_program
>
> Please read the information carefully. I especially encourage you to pay
> attention to the program's design considerations, which determine most of
> the decisions we'll be making.
>
> We currently have approximately 20 laptops ready to be donated.
> Applications are welcome.
>
> The upcoming Wikimedia Conference in Berlin (in about two weeks) would be
> an excellent opportunity to deliver some of those laptops in person to
> approved applications, so if you think you might be interested, I'd
> encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
>
> Please also help spread the word about this program, by forwarding this
> e-mail to other Wikimedia lists you're on, and posting the link to the
> program page on village pumps and *community* (not public) social media
> channels or other communication forms you use.
>
> Special thanks to User:Anntinomy from Wikimedia Ukraine, who had the idea
> of asking about possible donation of older machines from WMF, and inspired
> this program.
>
> Mini-FAQ:
>
> Q: Why are you doing this?
> A: WMF's Office IT determines a lifetime for work machines, and regularly
> replaces older machines.  This creates a stock of older, working machines,
> that are available for donation.  We can donate them locally to San
> Francisco charities, but figure that if we can find low-cost ways to
> deliver them to our own community members, that's so much better.
>
> Q: Am I eligible?
> A: Read the fine program documentation.
>
> Q: If I'm eligible, am I guaranteed a donated laptop?
> A: no.
>
> Q: Once these 20 laptops are donated, will there be others?
> A: yes, eventually.
>
> Q: How can you ensure people would use the machines for Wikimedia purposes?
> A: We can't.  We'll be making a good-effort assessment of the likelihood
> of Wikimedia use, and make a decision to donate (or not) the equipment.
> Once donated, the equipment no longer belongs to WMF. We encourage, but
> can't enforce, reporting on impact achieved using the equipment.
>
> Q: I need a few laptops for my event in two weeks! Can I get them through
> this program?
> A: No. Read the fine program documentation.
>
> Q: I'm really happy about this!
> A: So are we! :)
>
> Q: I'm really angry about this!
> A: So it goes.
>
> Q: I have more questions!
> A: Hit 'Reply'. :)
>
> Cheers,
>
>Asaf
>
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia 2.0 - Building VideoWiki

[Pratik Shetty]

Hey Wikipedians,

Have you ever wondered why there isn't a video version of Wikipedia? It's 2017,
streaming images and videos isn't a big deal but Wikipedia is still a
predominantly atext-based encyclopedia.

* Okay, times up *


The reason for this is because videos once uploaded on the internet cannot be
edited again and Wikipedia relies on being continuously edited.


We have cracked this problem and are building VideoWiki. VideoWiki is a free
multi-media encyclopedia built by the people using VideoWiki Software. In
simpler words, we are building the video version of Wikipedia.


You can enhance your Wikipedia articles and create a VideoWiki article by simply
dragging and dropping images to the relevant Wikipedia text. You can check out
the 1st ever VideoWiki article on Elon Musk as demo at -
https://www.videowikipedia.org/


We will be launching VideoWiki in the next 3-4 months and would love your
valuable feedback on the ease of use of the VideoWiki Software.


Will keep you updated with the progress and let you know when you can beta test
the product.


Meanwhile, would love your thoughts and opinions on the demo multi-media
article. Is it something you would love to see happen to all the Wikipedia
articles?



Love, now and always,

Pratik Shetty
Creator of VideoWiki and a open-content enthusiast
Email - 
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