Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India
*It is not a pure virtual world event, in most countries, it had photo-walks, local cultural institute partnerships, sponsors, promotion, juries, and yes, prizes among other things. (Beh, clarify here please!)* Well, I can only talk about WMPT experience, and it was so much off line work. We had like 8 in person meetings to get the list from IGESPAR (our ASI), we needed to travel several times to meet with sponsors (sometimes crossing the country), we needed to talk with promotion partners, prize partners and PR partners (all that also in person). We needed to set up a place for the jury meeting (and all the logistics involved). We had 2 Wiki Takes events and we needed to set up the prize reception. WLM is a wonderful thing to do, but definitely isn't a pure virtual event. _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 6 November 2012 13:53, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: There is actually very little that is as disappointing as people who never did the work, complaining about people who actually did. I don't recall any previous organization of WLM from you or the chapter in the last year. It is easy to nitpick an incoming batch of young volunteers, doing something for the first time, it is harder to actually do something. I didn't have the time or the energy to take this up, neither did you, but I won't criticize them now over trivial matters on an announcement email. On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not sure how familiar you are with WLM. But if you look on the commons page for the winners[1], a large majority of them are redlinks with next to no information about real names and locations of photographers. I believe the competition has more to do with the pictures themselves than the photographers. Some of the winners created their account for the sole purpose of uploading the pics, some chose their names, some didn't. It is their right if they choose to not declare their real name and location. Putting this information on commons without their permission, can be tantamount to WP:OUTING[2] and against the Wikimedia privacy policy. I very much am involved with WLM and also know the policies. You seem to have missed some mails on this topic from me. Ah, I must have forgotten the time you organized WLM in the past. Lucky for you, all mails are archived[1]. Why don't you go ahead and find it? I only see a single relevant email from you in the last year mentioning the IRC meeting time related to WLM and other business. I wasn't talking about WLM policy, just general privacy policy, which would require that information oversighted on en.wp, and commons, and the offender warned in most cases. BTW, this is just not a virtual world event as there is lot of prize money at stake. I am not advocating that Karthik share the real names without contacting the winners. If my mail was not clear in that aspect, I am sorry. Yes, it wasn't clear. You are not just haranguing what might be, a small oversight publicly, which is really supportive of these new office bearers. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Disappointed that there are no user pages or information on background of contributors of winning entries. Let's try and contain the disappointment, shall we? ;) This was a big initiative taken by such a young group of volunteers. They deserve to lauded for their achievement. The information about the individual photographer is rarely a priority during these initiatives. Sorry to disagree. As mentioned, this is just not a pure virtual world event. Once we know the winning photographs, there is a curiosity to know the author/photographers of the award winning entries. Apparently, you seem to be the only one with this burning curiosity. Actually to correct you again, it is not a pure virtual world event, in most countries, it had photo-walks, local cultural institute partnerships, sponsors, promotion, juries, and yes, prizes among other things. (Beh, clarify here please!) As I mentioned before it's a photo contest, not a photographer contest. Also after spending quite a lot of effort and money, there are more expectations on leveraging this for the movement. May be some of these people will become passionate Wikimedians and start initiatives to improve media about India. Yes, and they are answerable to you? Anyway, I must be missing where your criticism fills the gap and inspires them. Hope the winners will take action to update their pages soon so that the community knows bit about them and their passion for Photography/monuments and their approach towards the contest and also few words about their winning entry. If they choose to mention those details
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell
Calm Ashwin. Everyone has the right to say what they think about something (after all we still live in a democracy). I do understand that he was rude and that there is more than one way to express frustration and he didn't choose a good one, but we shouldn't do the same to him or anyone. And more important, we shouldn't be inviting people to leave the list or community. I'm not saying you wrong (and I do agree with the most of what you said) but let's not push people away. _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 31 July 2012 09:53, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Abdul, You have not given of your time to Wikipedia and you have no moral right to criticise Hisham for anything he has done. I wonder why you are subscribed to this list at all. You are welcome to be a Wikipedian and if not, be an constructive member of the community even if you dont edit. We have such people. But your diatribe about someone you have not met and know nothing about first-hand is not at all appreciated and not the way to go. Ashwin Baindur On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Ram Shankar Yadav ramshankarya...@gmail.com wrote: Gautam +1 On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: Abdul, honesty is a rare character and it's good to strike a dissenting note. However, all said and done, a dissenting note based in fiction is a wasted thing because it lacks a factual basis in which to assess it. Before i start, I am not a Wikipedia editor. Just someone who knows several of them. Ah. The wonders of second hand information. Always notable. None of you seem to be thinking, or else no thinker is replying. Perhaps. But your email doesn't seem to indicate that you were either. Hisham is not some war hero that you have to praise him like this. If there is anything he has done, it is not praiseworthy. Clearly the members who have replied on this list think otherwise. Myself included. yes, we weill miss him. a lot. who else do we blame for failurs and all the nonsense in the community? So you'll miss him because you have someone to blame? If that's the prism through which you view activity, then you biases are clear. For we all have clean hands and can cast the first stone. Hisham has done nothing for the community that stands out. all that he has done is what volunters do. Sure. Which is why volunteers have thanked him. he runined th english wikipedia with his IEP crap. the community is still trying to recover. But had the grace and courage to own up to his failures. We could all learn something from that. Wer'e not happy that you are leaving, but sad, because we won't have anyone to blame. Maybe it's time we looked inwards too rather than finding an easy outside mark to blame? I am sure there are more who hold dissenting views and this is a good time to air them. We can all learn from them. ___ 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 -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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] Do not donate to Wikipedia
Asaf, GAC isn't for Participation grants, I don't know why you throwing that in the people who disagree. And you said yourself you needed to consult with WMIN, they are telling a big NO, why you don't refuse the grant? _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 9 July 2012 03:00, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello, everyone. I have responded on the grant talk page. Let's keep this conversation in one place, there: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation_talk:AbhiSuryawanshi/NASA_LARSS_program#Chapter_consultation.3F Thanks, Asaf On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: *John:* Is a presentation not an internship for what I read. *Gautan*: The Grants team in this case is Asaf only. The GAC didn't review participation grants. *Ravishankar*: If you want to make your concern visible, post on Wikimedia mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 8 July 2012 11:51, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I hope I am wrong, but this doesnt look like it fits within the participation assistance scheme. Instead it looks like the assistance is to cover travel to USA for an internship at NASA-related organisation. The grant request page is quite confusing. On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 8 July 2012 16:49, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: I plan to run this campaign across all Social media networks if I continue to see any such grant. Something by way of explanation would be nice as well? As far as I can read, the WMF/Grants Team believes it fits one or more of the goals and did fund the grant. Why are you holding out such a threat? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ 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 -- John Vandenberg ___ 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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Do not donate to Wikipedia
*John:* Is a presentation not an internship for what I read. *Gautan*: The Grants team in this case is Asaf only. The GAC didn't review participation grants. *Ravishankar*: If you want to make your concern visible, post on Wikimedia mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 8 July 2012 11:51, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I hope I am wrong, but this doesnt look like it fits within the participation assistance scheme. Instead it looks like the assistance is to cover travel to USA for an internship at NASA-related organisation. The grant request page is quite confusing. On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 8 July 2012 16:49, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: I plan to run this campaign across all Social media networks if I continue to see any such grant. Something by way of explanation would be nice as well? As far as I can read, the WMF/Grants Team believes it fits one or more of the goals and did fund the grant. Why are you holding out such a threat? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ 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 -- John Vandenberg ___ 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] An easy way to improve the spelling and grammar in the Wikipedia in your language
Other thing to be said about that (since we are now promoting Mozilla add-ons) 1. You can install several dictionaries :D (I have for both Portuguese versions, English, Spanish, French, Italian and German) 2. Since we are all wikipedians and happened at least once with all of use to lost all our work because the browser crashed, you hit the close button by mistake, or any other problem, this is a very good add-on which works on Firefox, Chrome and Safari (but use it on firefox because Firefox is the best one ;) ). The name is Lazarus, and you can download here (if you use FF): https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-PT/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-recovery/ or here (for the other browsers): http://lazarus.interclue.com/download 3. If you wanna put references on your text in WP, but is too lazy to format the refs, you can use: https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-PT/firefox/addon/cite4wiki/ I do have a - very long - list of all addons you can use in your Firefox (or directly in WP) to make it work with WP easier, if someone needs it help, just send me a mail off-list. _ * * *[image: Inline images 1]* *Béria Lima* * * * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos** * ** http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 March 2012 17:05, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.ilwrote: Hello, Wikipedians in India, This just struck me: There's a very easy way to contribute to the Wikipedia in your language and to your language in general, and a lot of people are probably not aware of it. Here it is: Modern web browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome allow you to check the spelling while you type. An important thing that a lot of people don't realize is that it works not just in English, but in many other languages, too. If you use Firefox on Windows, go to this page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/language-tools/ Find the spelling dictionary for your language in the list. Most major languages of India already appear there. Some important languages, like Kannada and Telugu are not there yet; i'm working on getting them there. To make it work: 1. Click Install Dictionary and follow the instructions. 2. Restart Firefox. 3. Open some article in the Wikipedia in your language for editing. 4. Right-click in the editing area. 5. Make sure that Check spelling is checked. 6. Right-click again. Go to Languages and make sure that your language is checked. Now check: Does the spell checking work as you would expect? Does it mark incorrect words in red? If you right-click words in red, does it offer sensible corrections? If all works well, you'll be able to easily fix spelling and grammar errors in the Wikipedia in your language. It is an easy way to contribute to the Wikipedia in your language, because usually you can improve the spelling of articles even without knowing much about the subject of the article. It is also possible that the dictionary is buggy or has missing words and marks correct words in red. If this happens, please write to me and i'll do my best to report these words to the maintainer of the dictionary, so that in the next version of the dictionary they will be checked correctly. (Let me say this again: Please feel free to write to me about technical problems in support for your language. I don't know any Indic language well, but i'm sure that i'll be able to help nevertheless.) If you don't use Firefox, you should try it: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all.html (There's a good chance that there's a version in your language!) If you use Firefox on Linux or Mac, a spelling dictionary for your language is supposed to be already installed if you installed a language pack for your language in the operating system. If you are not sure how to do it or if it doesn't work as you expect, please write to me. Spell checking is supposed to work in Google Chrome, too, but it supports less languages and i also found some bugs in its spelling functionality. You are still welcome to try it: go to Preferences (wrench) - Under the hood - Languages and Spell-checker settings, and then add your language. I might be wrong, but i don't think that you can install custom spelling dictionaries in Microsoft Internet Explorer. If i'm wrong, please correct me; if i'm right, then well, that's another reason to try Firefox or Chrome :) -- 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Deadline for Wikimania submissions is Sunday
reminder _ * * *[image: Inline images 1]* *Béria Lima* * * * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos** * ** http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 15 March 2012 23:26, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: Reminder to get your Wikimania program submissions in soon! The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 18 at 11:59 (San Francisco) Pacific Daylight Time (or 06:59 UTC on 19 March 2012). We seek submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, and other types of sessions. Topics may include anything related to Wikipedia, MediaWiki tech (e.g. mobile), Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons and other sister projects, OpenStreetMap, third-party wikis (e.g. WikiHow), wikis in business, government, etc., civic local wikis, GLAM-wiki and other cultural outreach initiatives, education outreach, research into wikis and collaboration, and more. These topics are just suggestions. You can view the call for participation and make submissions here: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Cheers, Katie -- President, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org @wikimediadc / @wikimania2012 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-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] Encyclopaedia Britannica stops the print version
Every single edition of Britannica published BEFORE 1942 is public domain. All the others expire when they get their 70th anniversary of publication, which in the 2010 case will be 2080 (very close) ;) ;) _ * * *[image: Inline images 1]* *Béria Lima* * * * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos** * ** http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 14 March 2012 07:31, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Just curious to know the copyright status of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Those URLs say that the first one was published in 1768 !!! And its 2010 edition will be the last in print -Sudhanwa On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-never-ending-story-as-print-editions-bite-the-dust/story-fn5h1vlf-1226299200770 http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/03/britannica-no-more-wikipedia-wins Journalists already concluded it is due to Wikipedia --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 -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! 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 ___ 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] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Bangla Wikipedia Unconference 2012 in Chittagong
But there is one :) wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd And to send mail use: wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org _ * * *[image: Inline images 1]* *Béria Lima* * * * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos** * ** http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 14 March 2012 11:45, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote: Hmm, I think there should be a Bangladesh mailing list? Perhaps we can know from that. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:59, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All, is there any means to know about the events happening in our neighbours house?.. like th one Unconference thing in B'desh? if there is any, can we have some one representing our India in those events.. Jus a suggestion and curiosity. correct if i am wrong. Best, Ade. On 12 March 2012 11:49, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarding a report published by Wikimedia Bangladesh regarding an unconference organized in Chittagong. According to Tanvir, at least 300 participants attended. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:44 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Bangla Wikipedia Unconference 2012 in Chittagong To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone, I am so pleased to announce that Wikimedia Bangladesh, with the help of Independent University, Bangladesh, Chittagong, and Bangladesh Open Source Network, organized the first Bangla Wikipedia Unconference 2012 [1] in Chittagong [2] to promote Bangla Wikipedia [3] in Bangladesh. This outreach event was held in 2 and 3 of March and was attended by around 300 participants. It was first big-level program of Wikimedia Bangladesh and it was outside of the Dhaka (the capital) to focus on country-wide outreach. We called it an unconference to give it a less formal look and to make the appearance more welcoming. This two days event was inaugurated by the Chittagong City Mayor and and in the last it was attended by the Since and Technology minister of Bangladesh Government. It was also attended by some other popular public figures, writers, and university professors, and media personalties. During the unconference we had events like workshops, photo exhibition, cultural program, seminars, article writing contest, etc. We had several teams from the schools, colleges, and universities in Chittagong as team participants. The unconference was hosted by Chittagong campus of Independent University, Bangladesh. You can see the some of the images of the events in the Commons category [4]. Because of the presence of the popular public figures and government officials, the event got a significant amount of media coverage in national print and electronic media. We also even had billboards in the city's main crossings to let people know about Bangla Wikipedia which was the main purpose of this event and current strategic priority of Wikimedia Bangladesh. Wikimedia Bangladesh wants to thank everyone who supported us. We want to thank our sponsors and donors who helped us to arrange this big event. We want thank Wikimedia Foundation director Sue Gardner for her nice video speech that we screened in the inaugural ceremony. And of course to our participants, who eventually made this effort a success. And I apologize to let you guys know about this event in late. We are still working on putting everything on wiki. Regards, Tanvir Rahman Wikitanvir on Wikimedia Secretary, Wikimedia Bangladesh [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bangla_Wikipedia_Unconference_2012 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chittagong [3] http://bn.wikipedia.org [4] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangla_Wikipedia_Unconference_2012 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Encyclopaedia Britannica stops the print version
Probably was one of the templates here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1911_Britannica_templates As we said, all articles from 1911 edition of Britannica is PD. _ * * *[image: Inline images 1]* *Béria Lima* * * * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos** * ** http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 14 March 2012 12:45, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: I believe it already is in the public domain. Back go 2009, when I was looking up sources for Transport in India, there was a template stating that the article incorporated text from Encyclopedia Britanica, which is PD. Not to be confused with the CIA Factbook template. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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] Lesson from the past: Photowalks and other events
I think you didn't understand him Noopur. He asked you (and i'm quoting): *Please use as far as possible the category of the regarding city/town/village or district (if there's no category) etc., or, a localized better 'fitting' i.e. the 'most fitting' category(ies). Do not add - in addition - the categories of the parent category, among them cities, states and countries etc.* Or in other words: Don't add a cat and a sub-cat. Like the cake and birthday cake case, you only need to put in one, so if is a Birthday Cake, use only this category. People who want to see a birthday cake and get to category Cake, will have a link to the sub cat. Same goes to categories like India - state - city - event. If the event is in city X (Let's use Delhi for example) you don't need to add as well the cat for the city, state and Country in the image. That is called over categorization. But if you have a birthday cake for a party in Delhi in the event (again example): Wikipedia 10. You can - and you should - add the cat to the event AND the category for the cake. If you wanna see an example of a image with several categories but not overcategorized you can see this one for example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:B%C3%A9ria_at_Bom_Jesus_do_Monte.jpgwho have 6 categories, but none is subcat of another. _ * * *[image: Inline images 1]* *Béria Lima* * * * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos** * ** http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 13 March 2012 15:24, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Beria, Here is the message this user left: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Noopur28#Your_uploads_in_December_2011.2C_referring_to_India_:_Categorisation My logic for adding 3-4 categories was that people usually search by keywords and not inside larger categories. So I would add around 3-4 categories. But, then this user told me to stick to larger parent categories. I am still unsure which is a better way so I stick to only India or a state category now. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Who asked you that and why? You can add as much categories as you see fit, as long as they aren't redundant (Like add the categories Cakes and Bithday cakes to the same image). I would like the message when someone asked you that _ * * *[image: Inline images 1]* *Béria Lima* * * * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos** * ** http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 13 March 2012 14:52, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: All help is welcome, these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new one you can create those and add the cat to these files. Though, I would suggest we all refrain from adding too many categories. I was asked on Commons not to add more than 1-2 categories. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Just to add to what Konarak and Ashwin said, I am guilty as charged. We kept the Category:Ahmedabad_1 to avoid flooding the popular category. It was decided to serve as the ''maintenance category'' but none of us really got around to transferring images to the Ahmedabad category or cleaning up. There are several reasons for this: It was clearly not your fault. You are a new user and I should have migrated these files to the regular categories. I am now removing [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] and replacing with it [[Category:Ahmedabad]] and [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]]. All help is welcome, these two categories are a must, you can add further categories if they already exist or if there is a justifiable reason to create a new one you can create those and add the cat to these files. I'm no expert on Commons categorization, but there are a bunch of helpful power users available on #wikipedia-en and #wikimedia-commons who can help you out with that. We decided to go with [[Category:Ahmedabad 1]] instead of [[Category:Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad 1]] because we assumed that would make it easier for the users to add these categories easily. 1) People started using images from Ahmedabad_1 soon after the event to make Ahmedabad articles. So, the attention was diverted there. Indeed. A few good images made it to the articles, while a couple of images inspired creation of articles around important monuments. See [[Hutheesing Jain Temple]] (and thanks Srikeit for that). 2) Personally, I was unclear as to whether all these images had to be migrated
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Great NITT fiasco ...
So, I have nothing to do with the problem in hands - and I'm not even Indian, by the contrary, I born in the other side of the world - but there is one thing i needed to answer (bold is mine). *Srikanth Lakshmanan* said: *In short, when going to a college, keep your expectations to bare minimum be it on the audience / organizers. If something was good, do appreciate, otherwise accept it as reality on Indian conditions. There is nothing to be ashamed / unpatriotic in accepting certain things as Indian reality.* I also live in a country with that * **laissez-faire*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faireculture, and I can tell you right away: If we don't try to change that will never change! It is easy? No, the whole culture stands against us - I don't know how it is in India (I've never been there and I'm still hope I will be invited to the second WCI to finally go to India) - but in Brazil, if you ask them to change something they will start with a we did this way for years talk, to the bare minimum. The good thing is: we are in a very good position to change those things: We are young (at least I am! ;) ) and we are in college - most of us anyway - so WE are the college kids who plan conferences and etc. If we can change things in our own college we would have contributed to change that Indian reality. That won't change the experience Sohan and Srikanth had, but will avoid other people to go though what they did. Again, sorry for the almost completely OT mail, _ ** *Béria Lima* * * * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. **Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos** * ** http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 28 February 2012 09:48, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 16:51, Sohan Maheshwar sohanmahesh...@gmail.comwrote: The organizers cut short our time because of their problems with the internet connection and the fact that they had to shoe-horn a sponsors presentation in the same time slot as ours. This is bad. You asked for / were given only 1 hour slot? that too with out a lab / proper internet? #fail. What is the point of signing MoU and all for this. Even if this 1 hour / rest of the stuff went well, I wonder if it makes sense for 2 persons to travel for 12+ hours / spend a weekend to talk for 1 hour. Anyone else who feels it makes sense, please enlighten me. Last year we spent 8+ hours on stall, 2.5 hours on the academy part. (Effectiveness is totally another thing) Also, the fact that i'm a working professional and you are a student should not have anything to do with it. Bottom-line is that the NIT-T organizers should have treated us better. We do not need five-star type accommodation. But some simple courtesy is expected of them. Also,a week prior to the event, Saagar had promised me transport to and from the venue. The fact is that they did not seem to really care too much about the WikiAcademy and treated it like they were doing us a favour. Courtesy could have been better, but facilities may not always be (Esp in tier 2 cities). So please try and adjust (if you were asked to travel in public transport). Yes, they do/might treat you like they are doing you a favour(I don't see why they would really care), in fact they actually do *some* favour in giving space for us. The interest you (I barely know you btw) and I have towards Wikipedia might not be same any organizer at these events will have. They might have extra interest on swags etc. Most Tech fests are not run/attended by students with noble intentions of learning something technical etc.(At best they learn team work, organizational skills) I said part of the statement about attendees on this list here[1] In short, when going to a college, keep your expectations to bare minimum be it on the audience / organizers. If something was good, do appreciate, otherwise accept it as reality on Indian conditions. There is nothing to be ashamed / unpatriotic in accepting certain things as Indian reality. [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-January/006554.html -- 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 ___ 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] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees
Cross posting _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 31 January 2012 22:05, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: The Wikimedia chapters are seeking to appoint two candidates to sit on the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees for two years, starting 1 July 2012. The two new members of the board will help to decide the future direction of the world’s leading non-profit website. Wikimedia project are constructed by hundreds of thousands of volunteers worldwide, supported by a growing number of staff and an international network of chapters. Board membership is unpaid. The chapters wish to appoint two excellent board members and believe this can best be achieved by selecting from a large number of varied and skilled candidates. Therefore, the chapters call for nominations by everyone who believes they or someone they know would be suitable. The chapters ask that this call for candidates be distributed as widely as possible through such forums as mailing lists, village pumps, and blogs. The successful candidates will be committed to the Wikimedia mission and willing and able to engage constructively with the stakeholders of the movement, including the volunteers and the chapters that provide it with essential support. The successful candidates will have: - The ability to provide expertise to the board in its goal of implementing a coherent vision on how the projects’ communities, the foundation, the chapters, and other affiliated groups work together; - Sensitivity to complex issues surrounding the multiplicity of languages, cultures, and jurisdictions served by the foundation’s projects; - Knowledge and understanding of the governance of international non-profit organizations, balancing autonomy and subsidiarity; - The ability to think strategically and to work both as part of a team and independently; - A good standard of written and oral English (fluency in additional language would be well regarded); - Sufficient time to devote to the role of board member, and the ability and willingness to travel. Increasing the geographical diversity of current board membership would be an advantage. The selection process is set out here:http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats Nominations must be sent to the moderator Béria Lima (Wikimedia Portugal) and deputy moderators Milos Rancic (Wikimedia Serbia) and Mardetanha (Wikimedia steward from Iran) by 23:59 UTC, 29 February. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else, please see the instructions here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Nominate *Béria Lima*, Moderator ___ 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] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid
Not of my business what you do in India, but here is my 2 cents. I think that a nacional Conference for India is a HUGE job (Comming for a country that is equaly huge, I can imagine the several logistic problems to deslocate people from one city to another). So my suggestion is to make several mini-confereces organized by state (India is organized by states, right?) like the series of Wikipedia Academies. That will teach local teams all around India to organize small conferences (not bigger than 100 people) and minimize costs and problems. You can always have a nacional conference once every 2 years or so. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 24 January 2012 20:46, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I appreciate the wise decision from Indian Wikipedia community to opt out of Wikimania bid until next few years. Even Wikiconference India need not be an annual event considering the amount of human and financial resources spent on it. What we need is strengthening local communities in each language and city by means of more meetups, unconferences, outreach, on project activity and events with specific goals like hackathons. Ravi ___ 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] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid
Since we have not one, but two bids from India, I think that is important to be announced here (I would rather prefer if all of you could work together in a single bid, but if is not possible, at least list both under the right section in the page) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 23 January 2012 23:15, Thomas Goldammer tho...@googlemail.com wrote: Dear all, I want to remind everyone to officially start a bid for the locale of Wikimania 2013. All bids made so far are *unofficial* and cannot be considered, as long as they are not in the list of official bids on this page: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids The possibility to make an official bid closes at ***January 28, 23:59 UTC***, this is in less than five days! So hurry up if you want Wikimania to happen at your place. :) Note that you then have two more months to make your actual bid (and one more month to refine it). You don't need to have everything completely ready by now, so don't worry. :) For now, just create the bid page and list it under Official bids. Please don't forget to list your organizing team members on the bid page. (All of them should enable their email function on the Meta wiki, so that we can reach all of you easily.) On behalf of the jury Thomas. (User:Thogo) ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
Tinu, can I FW to my chapter list (is also a closed list)? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 04:08, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: *The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?* ( Article by Achal Prabhala) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 ( Single Page Version) * In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His inspiration was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and science-fiction pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a mathematical nightmare of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking off from the mythical Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction) spawned a minor publishing industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a happy place: its chronically overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish cults periodically vandalised the books, people spent lifetimes searching for a catalogue without success, and — wondrous as it all was — no one expected to find anything useful there ever. Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a cautionary tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at their word. When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect search engine, he is reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of God.” Preposterous, yes; but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to adopt this as a mission statement would do well to have a cold shower, and heed Borges’ conclusion on the topic — “The library is unlimited and cyclical”. Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations of the desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the pre-biblical city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical Tower of Babel; a bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In the present day, we are no closer to knowing everything, but we have Wikipedia: a bustling website where diverse people from everywhere in the world create miracles. Wikipedia’s humility is the flip-side to its success, and it comes from wanting to be precisely the opposite of the total library: call it a perpetually partial library, if you will. No one who has spent even a minute contributing anything to it would dare assume that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the game won. Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the underlying software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this time, the benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were apparent, and it was extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and images. Wikipedia was among the early exponents of this free culture experiment, quickly followed by sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more. Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s wildest expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website — and the sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our online landscape. There are thriving communities of volunteers in countries like India and South Africa, among several other places, who are helping us discover that learning does not have to be a passive act, and that the value of generosity can be productive and revolutionary at once. Interestingly enough, it was about a hundred years ago that a young, idealistic lawyer set off on a similar journey. Affected by colonialism in his home, India, and faced with debilitating segregation laws in his adopted home, South Africa, he saw the productive and revolutionary potential in generous knowledge. Over a long sea journey from London to Cape Town, he wrote down his ideas on self-determination and independence. The young lawyer was, of course, Gandhi, and his book, Hind Swaraj, would go on to become the intellectual blueprint for the Indian freedom movement. The original was written in Gujarati in 1909. One year later, it was translated into English and published as Indian Home Rule. On the cover of the first edition of this English translation is a prominent, if unusual, copyright legend. It reads
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) Anyway, thanks to both of you :D _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 10:28, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Beria, you dont need to ask - please go ahead :) -- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:27:06 -0200 From: berial...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? Tinu, can I FW to my chapter list (is also a closed list)? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 04:08, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: *The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?* ( Article by Achal Prabhala) http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/1 http://www.indianexpress.com/news/would-gandhi-have-been-a-wikipedian/900506/0 ( Single Page Version) * In 1941, a young Argentinian librarian who would soon go completely blind published a story about the futility of the “total” library. His inspiration was Kurd Lasswitz, a 19th century German philosopher and science-fiction pioneer, whose own idea of a “universal” library was a mathematical nightmare of frighteningly large but finite proportions. The writer was Jorge Luis Borges, and his story, The Library of Babel, (taking off from the mythical Tower of Babel, a place of linguistic dysfunction) spawned a minor publishing industry of its own. Borges’ library was not a happy place: its chronically overworked librarians were suicidal, thuggish cults periodically vandalised the books, people spent lifetimes searching for a catalogue without success, and — wondrous as it all was — no one expected to find anything useful there ever. Eighty years after it was written, Borges’ feverish fantasy is a cautionary tale for those who are tempted to take Internet-era fantasies at their word. When a Google executive was asked to describe the perfect search engine, he is reported to have said, “It would be like the mind of God.” Preposterous, yes; but also exciting. And anyone excited enough to adopt this as a mission statement would do well to have a cold shower, and heed Borges’ conclusion on the topic — “The library is unlimited and cyclical”. Happily, there are more human, and altogether more humble manifestations of the desire to learn and share and prosper. In ancient history, the pre-biblical city of Babylon was a working counterpoint to the biblical Tower of Babel; a bustling site where diverse crowds made good together. In the present day, we are no closer to knowing everything, but we have Wikipedia: a bustling website where diverse people from everywhere in the world create miracles. Wikipedia’s humility is the flip-side to its success, and it comes from wanting to be precisely the opposite of the total library: call it a perpetually partial library, if you will. No one who has spent even a minute contributing anything to it would dare assume that the job is done, the perspective complete, or the game won. Eleven years ago to this day, Jimmy Wales typed out “Hello world!” and Wikipedia was born. In 1989, Richard Stallman pioneered a form of copyright licensing for software that allowed programmers and users to do virtually anything they liked with it. This formed the basis for free and open source software, or FOSS. In 1995, Ward Cunningham used FOSS to build the underlying software for a novel form of collaboration — the “wiki”. By this time, the benefits of a generous copyright licence to software were apparent, and it was extended to mainstream culture — to words, sounds and images. Wikipedia was among the early exponents of this free culture experiment, quickly followed by sister projects of the Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikibooks and more. Wikipedia’s collaborative system of knowledge has exceeded everyone’s wildest expectations. Today, it is the world’s fifth most visited website — and the sole non-profit upstart in the oligarchical fiefdom that is our online landscape. There are thriving communities of volunteers in countries like India
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
oh common, we don't need to start a cruzade because of this. Isn't that big deal _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 11:17, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 6:16 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: Important Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. (bold is mine) When we forward the emails with the above note, to other technical mailing lists, they scold me for forwarding the copyrighted material. I do not see any info on copyright or have to put a footnote like above in any of the news websites. I request Tinu to remove the footnote or just share the links and some snippet. Thanks. You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- 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 -- 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 ___ 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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
/me is proud of being indian too Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org -- *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- 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 ___ 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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
I have a blue Brazilian one, is good enough? (At least is the same colour ;) ) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:50, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: You don't have the blue Indian passport yet. :p On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: /me is proud of being indian too Oh, I forgot I'm not indian! ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 17 January 2012 12:23, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Srikanth, There is copyright law in India for last many decades and most people were/are following the same before wikipedia had not taken a birth. There is no need to make generic comments on Indians for no reason. We are Indians and we should be proud of that. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org -- *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tuesday, 17 January 2012, 18:16 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian? On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 18:07, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Actually I do because there is a note: I*mportant Note : The publisher ( The Indian Express ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared only with an internal community who have been featured on this article. All copyrights are duly acknowledged.* (bold is mine) You are free to forward just the links. Reproducing verbatim elsewhere might not go well with fair use. Also heard elsewhere on another list on the same topic that news is meant to be shared, so no harm. Frankly all this obsession on copyright only after editing Wikipedia, otherwise since when people in India thought of copyright seriously. -- 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 ___ 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] Commons being blocked in most places.
And what you want us (Commons Admins) to do Sudhanwa? Delete all picture with a naked person in it? That didn't go well the last time someone tryed ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content/Archive_3 ). and btw, why just nude people? Muhammed are forbidden by Muslins laws and we have http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Depictions_of_Muhammad(not to mention that 2/3 of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Muhammed are drawings and pictures) . Should we delete this too? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 25 December 2011 17:16, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Is it possible to talk to Blue Coat and remove commons from their blacklist. btw, there are pictures on commons that can easily go in the porn category. Some serious admin work is needed there. -Sudhanwa On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: So I spent the afternoon doing some research on this matter [on my phone], and learnt that it isn't the network admin who has blocked the site. The so called security software, Blue Coat, in this case, tags the Commons as Media download site. So blocking sites in this category, blocks Commons, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, MetaCafe, etc. Similarily, there are some which categorise the Commons as 'Pornography' ... -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 13th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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 ___ 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] Commons being blocked in most places.
And again: We can 't act against the community. If you Community doesn't speak up, we can't do anything. And btw, even the porn article deserve a picture, no? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 25 December 2011 18:43, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Its your call Commons Admins. There is some (hidden and very thin ) dividing line between porn and naked. I am told that in some Middleeast countries, where there are restrictions on webcontent, Wikipedia is also used by youngsters for porn/naked (whatever you feel correct) pictures/content. I don't have any knowledge of the previous threads. Its your(admins) call ultimately. -Sudhanwa On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: And what you want us (Commons Admins) to do Sudhanwa? Delete all picture with a naked person in it? That didn't go well the last time someone tryed ( http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Sexual_content/Archive_3). and btw, why just nude people? Muhammed are forbidden by Muslins laws and we have http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Depictions_of_Muhammad (not to mention that 2/3 of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Muhammed are drawings and pictures) . Should we delete this too? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 25 December 2011 17:16, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Is it possible to talk to Blue Coat and remove commons from their blacklist. btw, there are pictures on commons that can easily go in the porn category. Some serious admin work is needed there. -Sudhanwa On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: So I spent the afternoon doing some research on this matter [on my phone], and learnt that it isn't the network admin who has blocked the site. The so called security software, Blue Coat, in this case, tags the Commons as Media download site. So blocking sites in this category, blocks Commons, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, MetaCafe, etc. Similarily, there are some which categorise the Commons as 'Pornography' ... -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 13th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ 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] Pre-announcement for Wikiwomen camp/conference in Argentina
More info can be found here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp(feel free to ask the organizers any question - the mails are in the page) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 19 December 2011 16:36, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats. It seems like a great initiative, Noopur. :) I saw Beria was working on the pages for this on Meta. Good luck! Regards Theo On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Just keeping you posted if you haven't seen the IRC log yet. A couple of women Wikipedians from Australia and Argentina chapters have been planning a Wikiwomen camp and conference in Argentina sometime in May, 2012. I know it's far away and probably the official announcement will happen sometime end of this month but I thought it's wise to keep you posted so that you can keep your respective Indic language women editors in loop. Those who might be interested in participating will have to apply for a WMF participation grant I guess and they might want to join the discussion on the other list to add Indian inputs. One part of the event (Camp) encourages women's participation only while the other invites all to contribute. Please do spread the word and encourage our Wikichix to participate too :) Drop me a mail if you want to join that mailing list. Warmly Noopur -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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] [Internal-l] Community Fellowships open call
Sent to Foundation-L, might be useful for someone here. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 7 December 2011 20:45, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear colleagues, WMF is now seeking fellowship applicants and project ideas for the Community Fellowships Program http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships. Community members from all Wikimedia projects and all languages are strongly encouraged to apply by the deadline of January 15th 2012! Could you please help spread the word by sharing this open call in your communities? Wikimedia Community Fellows are spearheading community projects, undertaking research, and piloting new models for engagement to help scale and increase sustainability of volunteer work in the Wikimedia movement. The Foundation provides intensive, time-limited financial and logistical support for fellows to focus on projects of strategic importance. Submissions for Spring 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia Projects. If you'd like to work with WMF on projects to boost participation and retention, or know someone who should be recommended for a fellowship, or if you've got ideas for a fellowship project WMF could support, we'd like to hear from you! Please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships, or contact Siko Bouterse at sboute...@wikimedia.org for more information. (Note: I'll be circulating on other lists as well, including some chapter mailing lists, in hopes of reaching a broad range of applicants - apologies in advance for cross-posting!) Best regards, -- Siko Bouterse Head of Community Fellowships Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-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] [Internal-l] Community Fellowships open call
Well, is on the page: *A fellowship is a temporary position at the Wikimedia Foundation in order to work on a specific project or set of projects. Fellowships can be awarded for periods as short as 2 months and as long as 12 months. Duration is determined by the scope of the fellow's project.* Being a Community Fellow means that your project falls into the Community Department of WMF. In a nutshell: If anyone wants to apply for, they need a project to help the community (not necessary to be the Global one) until 15 Jan and this project need to be approved by WMF. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 8 December 2011 12:10, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: I don't understand. What are community fellowships for? On 08/12/2011, Béria Lima beria.l...@wikimedia.pt wrote: Sent to Foundation-L, might be useful for someone here. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt (351) 963 953 042 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 7 December 2011 20:45, Siko Bouterse sboute...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear colleagues, WMF is now seeking fellowship applicants and project ideas for the Community Fellowships Program http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships. Community members from all Wikimedia projects and all languages are strongly encouraged to apply by the deadline of January 15th 2012! Could you please help spread the word by sharing this open call in your communities? Wikimedia Community Fellows are spearheading community projects, undertaking research, and piloting new models for engagement to help scale and increase sustainability of volunteer work in the Wikimedia movement. The Foundation provides intensive, time-limited financial and logistical support for fellows to focus on projects of strategic importance. Submissions for Spring 2012 are encouraged to focus on the theme of improving editor retention and increasing participation in Wikimedia Projects. If you'd like to work with WMF on projects to boost participation and retention, or know someone who should be recommended for a fellowship, or if you've got ideas for a fellowship project WMF could support, we'd like to hear from you! Please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships, or contact Siko Bouterse at sboute...@wikimedia.org for more information. (Note: I'll be circulating on other lists as well, including some chapter mailing lists, in hopes of reaching a broad range of applicants - apologies in advance for cross-posting!) Best regards, -- Siko Bouterse Head of Community Fellowships Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. sboute...@wikimedia.org ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ 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] Wikipedia XI 2012
https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.michiel1972.main (still beta, but works fine) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 4 December 2011 19:10, Abhilash abhilashu...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an APK or App in the Android Market, which I can use to upload pictures directly to creative commons from my Android Phone? Sorry for this naive question, what is uploadwizard, is that a desktop application alone, do we have a similar Android App, or Can I customize or is there available any of the photo uploaders which I can use? Abhi On 04-Dec-2011 10:10 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: Bala, I was wondering, if we could organise a scanvenger hunt in Kovai on the 15th of Jan ??? -- On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:17, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: I thought this is similar to a photowalk, where people instead of meeting in a room go around and take pics. I stand corrected. Even for a photowalk, customizing the uploadwizard will be good. Generally people upload elsewhere, never upload since people dont return to a room and sit / upload (unless there is a conscious meetup happening). There was a Chennai photowalk which failed on this part, and people met, clicked pics, but many never came online(30 pics came from 15 people for a whole day of hunt). HPN did some photowalks in Bangalore / Mysore, he had a better upload rate, though am not sure if everyone had uploaded every pic they clicked. -- 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 -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on December 10th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing listwikimediaindi...@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] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis
Tory, my impression or none of the interviews are with people from WM India? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 2 December 2011 07:44, Tory Read t...@toryread.com wrote: Hi Guys, I cc'd the three of you on this because I suddenly stopped getting my digests from the India list 2 days ago, and I want to make sure my message is properly posted. I'd also like to know how to get my digests reinstated. Thanks, Tory Sent from my mobile On Dec 2, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Tory Read t...@toryread.com wrote: Hi Folks, My apologies for not replying sooner. I am on the ground in India, doing in person interviews, while juggling communication on email, talk pages, skype, etc. Here is a summary of what I have been up to: 20 hours in US reviewing talk pages and email list communication regarding IEP Interviews so far, in order in which they were done (in person, unless otherwise noted): - Barry Newstead, WMF SF - Frank Schulenburg, WMF SF - Annie Lin, WMF SF - LiAnna Davis, WMF SF - Hisham Mundol, WMF India - Nitika Tandon, WMF India - Shiju Alex, WMF India - Ram Shankar Yadav, CA Pune - Ishita Ghosh, professor, SSE, Pune - informal conversation with 2 SSE students and 2 CAs over lunch in Pune - Rashmi Barua, SSE student - Devanchi Tripathi, SSE student and CA - Ashwin Baindur, Mandar Kulkarni (Pune WP community members) and Sudhanwa Jogalekar (OSM friend of WP, Pune), group interview over dinner - Abhilasha Sharma, SSE student - Anushikha Benazur, SSE student - Dr. Jyoti Chandiramani, SSE Director - 3 more SSE students, informal conversation over lunch - Debanjan Bandyopadhyay, CA SSE - Radha Misra, professor, SNDT Women's College, Pune - Shweta Shinde, student, COEP - Gautam Akiwate, student, COEP - informal conversation with 3 CAs and 1 student, COEP - Dr. Anil V. Sahasrabudhe, Director, COEP - Dr. Pradeep Waychal, professor, COEP - Kudpung, WP Admin (skype video) - Srikanth Lakshmanan, WP editor, OA for IEP (skype audio) - Hisham Mundol, WMF India (telephone) ___ 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] [Wikimedia-BD] Geographical distribution of Indian Wikipedians
Why not use a map like the ones in http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:CW , http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cartografia_dos_Wikipedistas/Brasiland http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Cartografia_dos_Wikipedistas/Portugal? There are a similar map to India here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India_78.40398E_20.74980N.jpg (if you don't want to use a satelite image there is a locator map: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-locator-map-blank.svg and a map with the states of India here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-map-en.svg / http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India-map-en.png ) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 22 November 2011 12:20, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Please add your name in the below link http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians Cheers! Jayanta ___ Wikimedia-BD mailing list wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-bd ___ 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] INR in 2011 Fundraising!! -- Finally
Achal appeal is here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_FRDRILL6_1012_ACHA The other one is a text for the banner (it seems) because has no appeal associate to it. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 12 November 2011 07:13, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Already possible to see Indian people in the banners (they at least were doing test with) Achal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/viewtemplate=B_FRDRILL6_1012_ACHAL Srikeit Tadepalli: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/viewtemplate=B_Srikeit_BaseBanner Clicked the link but couldn't read the appeals though. Have others read them? Bishakha ___ 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] INR in 2011 Fundraising!! -- Finally
Sorry, wrong link. the right one is: https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_FRDRILL6_1012_ACHAL/en _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 12 November 2011 10:18, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Achal appeal is here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_FRDRILL6_1012_ACHA The other one is a text for the banner (it seems) because has no appeal associate to it. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 12 November 2011 07:13, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Already possible to see Indian people in the banners (they at least were doing test with) Achal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/viewtemplate=B_FRDRILL6_1012_ACHAL Srikeit Tadepalli: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/viewtemplate=B_Srikeit_BaseBanner Clicked the link but couldn't read the appeals though. Have others read them? Bishakha ___ 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] Mails getting queued
Mark the senders as whitelisted - worked with WMPT mailing list when we had this _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 12 November 2011 15:57, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 15:15, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: For some reasons, lot of mails are getting queued for Message has a suspicious header and needs manual approval since yesterday(which is why you might have noted emails coming in bulk). Please note there will be delay in delivery of mails on list. Let me check if there is a bug already / file one with ops. Thanks. There was a bug filed last month[1] and I do not have great confidence of it being resolved any sooner. Should we move on to google groups or self hosted mailman if WMF cant support it? I / other moderators cant keep moderating mails forever and its a pain for both sender as well as moderators. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/31797 -- 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 ___ 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] INR in 2011 Fundraising!! -- Finally
Already possible to see Indian people in the banners (they at least were doing test with) Achal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/viewtemplate=B_FRDRILL6_1012_ACHAL Srikeit Tadepalli: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/viewtemplate=B_Srikeit_BaseBanner _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 11 November 2011 19:17, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: *We might be late this year, next year probably we could have Shiju / Santhosh / Hisham instead of Brandon on the Sitenotice banner :D ;) ;)* Nice thought! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hello all, As most of you have known, Fundraising for 2011 have started. The one big change is INR is added to list of currencies along with atleast ~40 other currencies it seems. As such option is present only for credit cards, heard debit cards might get added in a week and inquiries are on for adding netbanking as well. If you have any suggestions specific to India, please use the local testing talk page[1]. Now that we have INR in currency, please help translate[2] into as many Indic languages. We might be late this year, next year probably we could have Shiju / Santhosh / Hisham instead of Brandon on the Sitenotice banner :D ;) ;) [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Fundraising_2011/Local_testing/IN [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Translation -- 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 ___ 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] [Foundation-l] Wikimedia Participation Grants
As request by Asaf in Internal (sorry for the cross-posting) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 7 November 2011 23:10, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello, everyone. I am pleased to announce a new grants program available to Wikimedia community members worldwide: the Wikimedia Participation Grants program. Read all about it in our blog post: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/11/05/enabling-worldwide-participation/ Cheers, Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-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] [Wikimedia-in-del] [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Indic Languages: Shiju Alex
*Sorry, I did not notice it. BTW, Telugu wikipedia team uses teluguw...@googlegroups.com.* Why isn't a normal mailing list? Create a bug for it (here are three examples: creation of Wikiconference-indiahttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29487, creation of Wikimedia-blrhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24454and creation of wikiml-l https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15012) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 2 October 2011 04:18, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience. Arjuna, This is already done. The mail is sent to various Indic language lists also. Sorry, I did not notice it. BTW, Telugu wikipedia team uses teluguw...@googlegroups.com. Cheers Arjun Shiju On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Shiju, On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear Indic wikimedians, Thank you very much for the welcome messages and for making me feel at home. Over the past few years I have interacted with many of you for the various Indic Wiki related activities and we have done many successful projects. Thank you very much for all those wonderful projects. Now when we are moving to a different phase of growth of Wikimedia in India, I request more support from your side. To get started we shall together develop a plan for Indic language wikis and design few pilot projects to gain learnings to drive growth. I propose to develop this plan collaboratively and openly - in true wiki style. This will include focused Indic language meetups, virtual meetings, desk research and constantly synthesizing the findings from all of these into learnings. These learnings will then flow into pilots that we will implement and review and learn from. For this purpose, I will be using the following page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages. It is very preliminary right now - but will keep updating it. The page will give you a flavor of the kind of process and methodology I plan to use - and also give you a hint of the end output. However, I stress that is nothing more than a stub right now. So please provide your suggestions. --cut-- Nice to see the detailed approach. I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience. Best wishes Arjun ___ Wikimedia-in-del mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-del ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Using Wikimedia Mailing lists
Sending to Wikitech because if someone has an answer you will find in that list ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 2 October 2011 11:15, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Changed the Subject line. Arjuna and I were discussing the below issue that Beria pointed out. But as Arjuna said, some of the important features like searchability of archives, stats, and so on are missing in the mail man. As per my understanding this is one of the reason given by Telugu and Marathi wiki communities for not moving to Wikimedia list. I am just wondering whether it is possible to include these features in mail man. At least the search option which is very vital for groups is a must for wikimedia lists. Shiju On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: *Sorry, I did not notice it. BTW, Telugu wikipedia team uses teluguw...@googlegroups.com.* Why isn't a normal mailing list? Create a bug for it (here are three examples: creation of Wikiconference-indiahttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29487, creation of Wikimedia-blrhttps://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24454and creation of wikiml-l https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15012) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 2 October 2011 04:18, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience. Arjuna, This is already done. The mail is sent to various Indic language lists also. Sorry, I did not notice it. BTW, Telugu wikipedia team uses teluguw...@googlegroups.com. Cheers Arjun Shiju On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Shiju, On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 6:59 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear Indic wikimedians, Thank you very much for the welcome messages and for making me feel at home. Over the past few years I have interacted with many of you for the various Indic Wiki related activities and we have done many successful projects. Thank you very much for all those wonderful projects. Now when we are moving to a different phase of growth of Wikimedia in India, I request more support from your side. To get started we shall together develop a plan for Indic language wikis and design few pilot projects to gain learnings to drive growth. I propose to develop this plan collaboratively and openly - in true wiki style. This will include focused Indic language meetups, virtual meetings, desk research and constantly synthesizing the findings from all of these into learnings. These learnings will then flow into pilots that we will implement and review and learn from. For this purpose, I will be using the following page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages. It is very preliminary right now - but will keep updating it. The page will give you a flavor of the kind of process and methodology I plan to use - and also give you a hint of the end output. However, I stress that is nothing more than a stub right now. So please provide your suggestions. --cut-- Nice to see the detailed approach. I will suggest forwarding to respective language wiki mailing list, in addition to city mailing lists to reach the target audience. Best wishes Arjun ___ Wikimedia-in-del mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-del ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Wikimedia India - AGM and Election Results
That shouldn't be annouced in Internal-l? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 25 September 2011 19:42, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Tinu has already expressed everything that I wanted to say. So, in the typical wikipedia style, I will just say +1 to Tinu's mail. :-) Thanks to all of you for your support and encouragement !! Best regards -Sudhanwa On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:55 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to thank everyone who had supported and encouraged us to take up this position. I would also like to thank the outgoing EC members for their hard work and leadership especially during the most difficult times. My hearty congratulations to the other newly elected members, Naveen and Sudhanwa. We understand the enormity of the tasks that lie ahead and we hope to live up to the expectations. For those you couldn't make it to the committee, this does mean that your valuable contributions are going unappreciated or undermined. What more was important was our participation willingness to stand up and support the movement than winning this elections. I would sincerely request you to continue supporting helping the chapter, regardless of official position or not. Building the wiki community in India remains our top most priority, working along with the Foundation , India office and the vibrant Wiki community of India. We are strongly committed to the smooth functioning of the Wikiconference Mumbai and extends our continued full support both as a part of the board and individual capacities. We understand that the journey from here is not going to be easy but we can reach better success with your continued support and encouragement. Thanks again. Regards Tinu Cherian On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: Hello Everyone: Just to say that the AGM is over as are the EC Elections. The results are as below: Naveen Francis Sudhanwa Jogalekar Tinu Cherian More here along with the reports presented: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/AGM_and_EC_Elections We'd like to thank the Nominations Committee and everyone else who contributed to making this a success. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Wikimedia Chapter, India Member's Group. To post to this group, send email to wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wmin-members?hl=en?hl=en -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! 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 / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violations by (some) Students: Wikipedia India Education Program
There are another way (who works fine in Brazilian program): Treat then as adults they are and the articles as projects. If I cheat in a project in any college in Brazil my professor would give me a zero. In some brazilians college I may be expelled for do that (without count the fact that is also a crime in Brazil). We (and they) need to realize how serious copyright violations are. But to make sure, i'm not saying you people to threat your students, but to make them realize how serious that is. _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 12 September 2011 08:46, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks (Some) students in the Pune pilot have copy-pasted copyright material onto their articles. We are taking these copyvios extremely seriously and here's a summary of the action that we have taken. a) Conducted classroom sessions in all 3 colleges where the program is running and conveying the importance of not making this mistake - and the fact that they will be caught - and that too quickly. Between Nitika and I, we've conducted sessions in at least 10 separate classes last week (along with Campus Ambassadors.) b) Conducted meetings with the directors and faculty members to convey the gravity of the issue and asking them to pass on the message to their students in the strongest possible terms. c) Almost doubling the number of Campus Ambassadors to provide more on-ground support for students. We will be sending out an update on this soon. The issue of copyvios was taken up specifically during the training for these Campus Ambassadors. d) Started work on establishing an Online Ambassador program ( http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004299.html) to provide additional support e) Disabled the leaderboard ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Leaderboard) so that we make sure that recognition is given only to deserving students. Controlling the copyvio issue is the single biggest issue for the program and we will continue to do everything it takes to minimize it. Of course, some students who will still try and cut corners and the actions listed above should hopefully reduce the problem. Having said all this, we must not cloud the fantastic work of many students by the errors committed by (some) newbies who are unfamiliar with Wikipedia. Do continue to support and celebrate the work of the good guys! Thank you for you continued support on this. Best hisham ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Call for Translations - Registration Banner
Hi people (sorry for the cross posting) We need to have the Registration bannerhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/viewtemplate=WCI_Registrationtranslated into as many languages as possible. Any of you who can help please list your translations in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Beria/WCI_banner_translation. Is just a 2 min translation! Thanks in advance for your help :) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] STOP EMAIL TO Y. G. NEVREKAR. RE: Academy. Workshop and Mumbai Meetup - September/October schedule
If you don't want to receive mails from us, please go to https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l and follow the instructions to unsubscribe. _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 3 September 2011 07:46, yeshavant nevrekar yeshav...@live.in wrote: 1. SIR, I HAD MADE SOME INQUIRY REGARDING LECTURE IN UR PROGRAMS BUT SAME NOT POSSIBLE. 2. I AM NOW GETTING DAILY OVER 20 EMAILS FROM WIKIMEDIA MEMBERS. I AM NOT MEMBER AND WISH ALL U KINDLY STOP EMAILS TO ME AS I HAVE NO CONCERN WITH THEM. 3. KINDLY ADVISE ALL UR MEMBERS AND OBLIGE. THANK U YESHAVANT NEVREKAR 9869544005 -- From: wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com To: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org; wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 06:07:02 + Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Academy. Workshop and Mumbai Meetup - September/October schedule Hiya, Further information about each of the following will be given at a later date, this is just to give advance notice to all concerned so that you can block your diaries. 17 September - Mumbai Monthly Meetup, Venue: CED Colaba Sign up for this event: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai13* 1 October, WikiAcademy, Venue: CED Colaba Topic covered: How to edit Wikipedia, at the grassroots Sign up for this event: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Academy/Mumbai1* 8 October - OpenMaps Workshop - On ground, University of Mumbai - Fort Campus neighbourhood (venue of WikiConference India 2011) Sign up for this event: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workshop/Mumbai_Workshop_2* We hope to see good levels of participation for all these events. Kind Regards, ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach
Just one question: Anyone is checking for license fraud? We have a LONG history of users who upload copyrighted pictures in Flickr under free licenses to be send to Commons. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 28 August 2011 09:53, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Nice! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Sreejith K. sreejithk2...@gmail.comwrote: My commons id is Sreejithk2000http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sreejithk2000 On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Sreejith, what is your commons user id please? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Sreejith K. sreejithk2...@gmail.comwrote: I can be a volunteer. I am an active Commons user with over 20,000 edits and is a license-reviewer in commons. Thanks, Sreejith K. On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Aadarsh Gupta aadarshgupta...@gmail.com wrote: No I haven't yet.. yeah sure, can you pl. make it more clear, skills in what regards you are looking forward to ?? On 28 August 2011 12:58, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Adarsh, What i your user name/ Have you uploaded to Commons before? Can you kindly show that you have the skills, if you dont mind. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Aadarsh Gupta aadarshgupta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm interested to take part in this and want to be a volunteer, can you pl. forward me the link like where I need to apply and need to fill all the related data! Thanks! On 28 August 2011 08:50, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: This is relevant to all those who have written to the various lists and asked how one can participate. volunteer or help in any way. We need people to upload images to Wikimedia Commons. - We face a problem in that photographers are willing to go out shoot and donate images. But they are unfamiliar with Commons and do not upload it there. However, we find that they know Flickr and are willing to upload it under a suitable Creative Commons license. - There are hundreds of free images on the net, we can show you how to locate them. These can be uploaded to Commons. We are at this point of time interested in images pertaining to India only. It is a job requiring patience, care for details and intelligence as the images need to be categorised also. Where relevant we would like to add them to articles too. We need a small TEAM of three to five - people, age, sex, religion, etc, etc, no bar, except that they should have: * Knowledge of uploading images to Commons * know how to categorise * know how to load images into Wikipedia * Possess good judgement. * Possess an abiding love for Wikipedia and willing to contribute to it. If you are interested, let us know. This is a serious commitment under the India Loves Wikipedia initiative. Dont apply if just for time paas. Helpers will be awarded barnstars at a suitable date after the project is done. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Aadarsh Gupta Bangalore India. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Aadarsh Gupta Translator and member Wikipedia (India Team) http://www.wikipedia.org/ Bangalore India. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] News from the Chapter and the Conference
Just one not about the subject: If WMIN don't use that money to WCI, it needs to be returned to WMF. This money was not given to WMIN for no reason, was given *to be used in WCI* - if that would not be the case anymore, the money need to be returned. So all those arguments that We have better things to do with that money are not true. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 25 August 2011 08:59, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I appreciate the transparent, detailed and professional planning of conference and I am sorry I couldn't take part in WikiConference related planning earlier. For those who don't know, I am a Tamil Wikimedian since 2005 with 20,000+ edits. My major interest lies in outreach and policy decisions concerning Tamil Wikimedia projects. http://toolserver.org/~quentinv57/sulinfo/Ravidreams Am I qualified to express my opinions now ? ;) I have two major concerns: 1. The overall budget. It is huge even if we get 100% commercial sponsorship. We could do more useful things with this budget. 2. The amount of money that is being granted from the foundation. Given the indication that this may be an annual event, here are my ideas on *how a WikiConference shall be arranged. * * WikiConference need not be an annual event. * It should be planned well in advance ( a year in advance at least to allow time for planning and fund-raising ) * Let's not have an ambitious plan and wonder for funding. We should have a realistic estimate for non-grant funding and plan accordingly. *Bidding city / community should show guarantee to meet at least half the budget by means of commercial sponsors and other revenue sources.* If they cannot provide this guarantee, they should revise the budget. * Tie up with local universities / academic institutions for free venue / dorms and look for the dates when these can be available. WikiConference is a media event and I am sure there will be many hosting partners for a brand like Wikipedia. If we can convince schools to run campus ambassador programs why not they be convinced to host this? * Need not be a 3 day event. Even a 1 or 2 day event will be good. (will cut down logistics, accommodation costs) . *What if this is 2001 with no WMF and grants? How will we plan and organize?* *This is not a corporate conference to have 100% professional and rocking experience at any cost. This is a community conference and that spirit should be kept. * *Here are some ways to minimise expense and generate revenue:* * We are getting lakhs of eyeballs for sponsorship / participation announcement and they all land in WikiConference India home page. But http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Sponsorship has no info and I couldn't find sponsorship related info anywhere else. This should be the highlighted info in conference homepage asking for sponsors. * Why not convert the conference itself into a fund-raiser? Open a donation booth. Have an agreement with chapter / foundation to get 50% donations for conference expenses and donate the rest to the movement. Can we place a banner of this budget in the conference venue? Will our expenses be justified to a common man? Will people be motivated to donate? If not, we are doing something the wrong way. * Registration cost should be at least 300 INR per day. ( The current budget allots 200 INR plus per day for food alone). The value of the conference is in the knowledge they gain and not in the goodies we give. Meritorious candidates can apply for sponsorships. We don't need a crowd. The local crowd may come and forget it as yet another event. The prime focus should be to bring together best minds already active in Wikimedia at one place. The attendees party can be free for scholarship recipients but others can pay. If you compare that a movie going experience in Mumbai should cost at least 200 INR per head, we need not feel shy to charge where it is due. * Sell Wikipedia souvenirs including T-Shirts, mugs etc.,. Or give them as a freebie when people make large donations. * If we can make the event a two-day conference, we can cut down logistics and accommodation costs. Even an international event like Wikimania has some less quality presentations. Have four tracks: Language Wikipedia projects, English Wikipedia, Tech and General. ( I found only two seminar rooms in the budget and assume only 2 or 3 tracks) Have only the best papers and move the rest to lighting talks. Personally, I am not so happy with some of the ways WMF, chapters are spending the donated money and I know there are more people feeling this way. If even regular Wikipedians feel like this, we should be more responsible in how we
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: WCI invitation to Indic active Wikipedians
I need you to remove the _ in Lucia_Bot, and let it Lucia Bot. The _ for some reason don't let my bot edit there. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 12 August 2011 04:45, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote: Done it on sa wiki. Let me know if I've done it right (I've never used AWB on sawiki before, nor have I approved any users before). https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/sa/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:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage Regards, Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 07:57, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Can any administrators of Hindi and Sanskrit wikipedia help ? Naveen Francis Signature powered by http://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=footer WiseStamphttp://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=footer -- Forwarded message -- From: Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com Date: 12 August 2011 03:13 Subject: Re: WCI invitation to Indic active Wikipedians To: Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com Cc: Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com, Salman Haroon Wiki de10...@gmail.com, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com, Cherian Tinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Wiki_Outreach#Misc Hindi and Sanskrit couldn't be done because i need Lucia in the CheckWiki page to run she there. The pages are here: To hi.wiki: http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/ विकिपीडिया:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage To sa.wiki: http://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/ विकिपीडिया:AutoWikiBrowser/CheckPage _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Call for Participation
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Beria/WCI_banner_translation _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 10 August 2011 06:30, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Where exactly I need to translate the central message for Odia, I think I have already translated, but it's not coming in the site ( or.wikipedia.org ) rgds Subha On 9 August 2011 21:00, Webmaster - ThiLaStars webmas...@thilastars.comwrote: How do I unsubscribe this mail conversation? ** ** http://www.thilastars.com ** ** ** ** *From:* wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *pranjali sanap *Sent:* Monday, August 08, 2011 8:47 PM *To:* Wikimedia India Community list *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Call for Participation ** ** thank you sir. and ill surely mail my details to them thank you so much regards -pranjali sanap On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Make it Call for speakers That will give clarity. -Sudhanwa On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Call for Papers will confuse people even more as they might think that they need to submit a paper for submission. Suggest Call for Presentations, if the name needs to be changed at all. Sent from my Nokia E63, Pradeep On 07/08/2011, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Better rename it as a Call for Papers. Back from Haifa, Shiju? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, that is a good suggestion. I am fine with renaming the page. I kept the name *Call for Particpation* following the footsteps of wikimania :) Shiju On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Looks like Call for Participation in the title is misleading to many. It is supposed to be call for papers (for speakers) and not call for attendees registration. Most of us know this properly, but considering lot of students will be checking it out, it is possible to mislead them as mentioned in the other mail by the student. Looks like we have to give some more clarity on the web page. Regards -Sudhanwa On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 10:26 AM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Pranjali, The registration for the conference is yet to begin, there will be an announcement on the same shortly. We appreciate your patience in this matter. If you wish to help in any way please email details on how you can help to pradeep.mohandas (at) live.com. Kind Regards, Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 22:31:40 +0530 From: pgsa...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Call for Participation hello sir, i am a bit confuse about it ... i am a SYBSc IT student from mumbai i want to attened this conference will you please guide me any in which way i can help this cause? -pranjali sanap On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Please submit your proposals here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Call_for_Participation Kindly ensure that your proposal is on a topic related to Wikimedia. We have received quite a few proposals which are off-topic. But we are expecting lot of submissions from experienced wikimedians soon. Please note that the last date of submission is August 30. Shiju On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, The Call for Participation for WikiConference India 2011 is open now. Details are available here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Call_for_Participation Few guidelines that you need to keep in mind before submitting the proposal are available on this page. The guidelines are only meant as a pointer to help speakers and is not expected to be exhaustive. You can submit talks within all aspects of Wikimedia even if the topic is not specifically included on that page. ''' Be Bold.''' Few wikimedians had provided their wish list regarding WikiConference India 2011 here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:WikiConference_India_2011/ProgramsYou can use that also as reference
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Oral Citations mentioned in the New York Times
Ashwin Baindur, can I fw your mail to Foundation-l ? ;) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* On 8 August 2011 18:17, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 8 August 2011 21:30, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/business/media/a-push-to-redefine-knowledge-at-wikipedia.html?nl=todaysheadlinesemc=tha26 Great exposure great publicity. Indeed! More power to the spoken word! Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India wiki re-design
You really like that page? Is so plain to me (i like the upper part, but the rest ... not so good) What i can do is create my main page in User namespace and when is ready i come here show to you and you made all sugestions and alterations you want. How that sounds? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* 2011/7/4 Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com Thanks much for the offer of help, Beria. Really appreciate that. Personally, I would agree with the sentiment that a single website serves the purpose. We can simply lock some pages to make them static, the rest can work like a wiki. Are there more suggestions on this issue? Should we have two websites (one static, based on wordpress or drupal and the other a wiki) or should one (wiki) serve the purpose best? Beria, at this point of time, I would say that anything is better than the plain pages we have now. We require some standardization too, so that we can organize information better (through categories). I think the Wikimedia Hong Kong page (wikimedia.hk) looks great. Are there more examples? Maybe we need some out-of-the-box thinking to create something new. (-: anirudh On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: I can help redesign the wiki main page. But would help if you people say what do you want (as if: I would like if the main page was like WM XX wiki main page) And I agree with Salmaan, there are no point in keep wikimedia.in and wiki.wikimedia.in separated. but I would do the oposite (ie: redirect wiki.wikimedia.in to wikimedia.in but with the actual content - like in wikimedia.de and wikimedia.pt. A diferent portal would only be useful if was like wikimedia.fr one (in their case the wiki is almost not used at all). And talking about that: Do you people have it wikipedia.in domain? Because if a chapter would give good use to that would be you (with the thousand languages in India). You could do something like in wikipedia.fr(WMPT has the code, we are updating to place in our wikipedia.pt (now a redirect to pt.wikipedia.org). And btw: Hello people. Salmaan invited me to be here, but if i shouldn't please say so and i will leave. _ Béria Lima Wikimedia Portugal Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer. 2011/7/4 Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com Hi Anirudh I brought up the issue with wikimedia.in domain earlier, why not have it redirect to the wiki itself and add a section for blog/news on wiki. It would seem like there would be a lot of redundancy between the two, and it would only require more work to update both separately. Either way, I have experience with smaller wikis and new mediawiki installations. I can help with the wiki itself and better organize it. Salmaan On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The Wikimedia India portal has been up and running for a while now. I request the attention of available volunteers to help us with the Wikimedia website redesign. We mainly need help with two issues: 1. Wikimedia India wiki: The Main Page of the wiki ( wiki.wikimedia.in) requires a re-design to make it look better organized and attractive. I would appreciate if volunteers with designing and HTML skills please support us with this request. We welcome all contributions and inputs, and I request you to be bold and make changes as and how you see fit. 2. Wikimedia India landing page: The wikimedia.in domain lands at a static page and the plan is to have a wordpress or drupal based platform to support a few static pages and a blog. Would appreciate if some volunteers helped us with this as well. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati +855 975 529 803 Skype: anirudhsbh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India wiki re-design
that is a good page. But is too serious, too german. I would do something more appealing to people with aesthetic sense :) more on that in the night (when i will start to work in that) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* 2011/7/4 Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com I agree with Beria, WMHK is not that impressive. WMHK seems to be using an older version of Mediawiki with a generic background. I've always liked the German chapter's design though (http://www.wikimedia.de/wiki/Hauptseite) Salmaan On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: You really like that page? Is so plain to me (i like the upper part, but the rest ... not so good) What i can do is create my main page in User namespace and when is ready i come here show to you and you made all sugestions and alterations you want. How that sounds? _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* 2011/7/4 Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com Thanks much for the offer of help, Beria. Really appreciate that. Personally, I would agree with the sentiment that a single website serves the purpose. We can simply lock some pages to make them static, the rest can work like a wiki. Are there more suggestions on this issue? Should we have two websites (one static, based on wordpress or drupal and the other a wiki) or should one (wiki) serve the purpose best? Beria, at this point of time, I would say that anything is better than the plain pages we have now. We require some standardization too, so that we can organize information better (through categories). I think the Wikimedia Hong Kong page (wikimedia.hk) looks great. Are there more examples? Maybe we need some out-of-the-box thinking to create something new. (-: anirudh On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: I can help redesign the wiki main page. But would help if you people say what do you want (as if: I would like if the main page was like WM XX wiki main page) And I agree with Salmaan, there are no point in keep wikimedia.in and wiki.wikimedia.in separated. but I would do the oposite (ie: redirect wiki.wikimedia.in to wikimedia.in but with the actual content - like in wikimedia.de and wikimedia.pt. A diferent portal would only be useful if was like wikimedia.fr one (in their case the wiki is almost not used at all). And talking about that: Do you people have it wikipedia.in domain? Because if a chapter would give good use to that would be you (with the thousand languages in India). You could do something like in wikipedia.fr (WMPT has the code, we are updating to place in our wikipedia.pt (now a redirect to pt.wikipedia.org). And btw: Hello people. Salmaan invited me to be here, but if i shouldn't please say so and i will leave. _ Béria Lima Wikimedia Portugal Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer. 2011/7/4 Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com Hi Anirudh I brought up the issue with wikimedia.in domain earlier, why not have it redirect to the wiki itself and add a section for blog/news on wiki. It would seem like there would be a lot of redundancy between the two, and it would only require more work to update both separately. Either way, I have experience with smaller wikis and new mediawiki installations. I can help with the wiki itself and better organize it. Salmaan On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The Wikimedia India portal has been up and running for a while now. I request the attention of available volunteers to help us with the Wikimedia website redesign. We mainly need help with two issues: 1. Wikimedia India wiki: The Main Page of the wiki ( wiki.wikimedia.in) requires a re-design to make it look better organized and attractive. I would appreciate if volunteers with designing and HTML skills please support us with this request. We welcome all contributions and inputs, and I request you to be bold and make changes as and how you see fit. 2. Wikimedia India landing page: The wikimedia.in domain lands at a static page and the plan is to have a wordpress or drupal based platform to support a few static pages and a blog. Would appreciate if some volunteers helped us with this as well. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati +855 975 529 803 Skype: anirudhsbh
