[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] Times of India : 'The vandals of Wiki'
*Times of India : 'The vandals of Wiki'* http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/The-vandals-of-Wiki/articleshow/47941452.cms ( Article appeared on TOI Delhi on 5th July and Mumbai on 6th July print editions. ) For the better part of June 30, Kolkata was India's largest city and Bangla was the government's official language along with Hindi and Indian English. The sly attempt at misinformation also featured the national motto 'Satyameva Jayate' written in Bangla script on Wikipedia's 'India' page. Many hours later, an administrator who goes by the username SpacemanSpiff landed on the page, saw all the telltale signs of a vandal attack, and scrubbed it clean of the errors. This was right after a round of firefighting on the pages of Jawaharlal Nehru and his family, where an anonymous vandal had tried to pass off the late PM's grandfather as a Muslim. Vandalism is a fact of life at Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Administrators like Spacemanspiff are senior editors who, over the years, have been entrusted by the Wikipedia community to protect, delete or restore pages, and even block notorious editors. As* SpacemanSpiff* reminded fellow volunteers on the India notice board about the need to keep a watch on the Nehru wikis, another editor remembered that similar attempts were made in 2014. This is not a new meme on or off-Wiki. Parallel attempts to establish that Feroze Gandhi was Muslim are even more common, writes Abecedare. The popular site sees vandals of all kinds, says* A Ravishankar*, program director at the Wikimedia Chapter in India. Newbies sometimes click the edit button on a page to make some trivial changes. Some vengeful ones go on a rampage when editors reject their edits due to insufficient citation or poor sourcing. Then there are the passionate hordes that descend on their pet topics, mostly entries about religion and politics. The only way to deal with vandalism is by remaining vigilant, says Ravishankar. What's more insidious and hard to rein in are changes by editors who are paid to twist the rules at Wikipedia so that their clients' pages sparkle. We've had PR agencies editing pages for their clients, including actors. IIPM was a prime example of such paid editing, claims Ravishankar. The now-defunct business school allegedly got help from a senior editor called Wifione and an army of sock puppets (bogus user accounts) to keep out negative information about it between the years 2010 and 2012. They were reportedly reverted after severe backlash from within Wikipedia. Internationally, blog writers for Wikipediocracy, a review site examining Wiki's flaws, have criticized Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that runs the site, for not doing much to allay allegations that Croatian and Kazakh Wikipedias have been manipulated, sometimes by the government machinery itself. Bots such as @parliamentedits (UK) and @congressedits (US) came up to track anonymous edits done from official IPs after several instances of tinkering by parliamentarians and Congressmen surfaced. A similar bot from India, @AnonGoIWPEdits, linked the Nehru edits to an IP address belonging to the National Informatics Centre. The reason why so many people flock to get the content right on Wikipedia is the number of page views it gets. Indian users account for 4.1% of the total page views on the site. In December 2014 alone, there were 50,000 edits from the country with 'India' itself being the top edited entry for that year. Others on the most-edited list include wikis of actors Vijay, Shah Rukh Khan, Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Curiously, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kerala, Mahatma Gandhi and Hinduism also made it to this list as per data generated by the Centre For Internet and Society (CIS) from the Wikimedia database. Trending news items also quickly make their way in. PM Narendra Modi's estranged wife Jashodaben got a wiki last year; so did the first Indian in NBA Satnam Singh Bhamara, says Tanveer Hasan, programme officer, CIS-Access to Knowledge. For all this buzz, India has followed a global trend of slowdown in the number of edits on the English language Wikipedia. When Wiki started in 2001, the first generation of editors was in their 20s. Many of them have moved out due to family and professional commitments and not many new editors have replaced them, says Ravishankar. Senior editor* Tinu Cherian Abraham *remembers starting off in 2005 and creating entries from scratch about anything and everything, from a historic fort near Bangalore to villages in Kerala. He also used to organize meet-ups in various cities to create awareness about the site and recruit more editors. Though he still edits, he says he doesn't have much time for anything else. For now, the action has shifted to Indian language Wikipedias, where smaller and vibrant communities are busy creating pages and correcting errors. There are nearly 2,600 editors in English and close to 10,000 in Indian languages
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Blogged: India Community Consultation
Thank you for the summary blog post. Missed the meeting due to personal commitments. Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: I second Subhashish's wish. Wish I was there too! :) On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Thanks a lot Asaf and Muzammil for this. I wish I was there with you all. Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @psubhashish On 16 ନଭେମ୍ବର 2014, at 8:57 am, Abhishek Suryawanshi i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for sharing. -- Abhishek (Sent via Mobile) On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 7:24 AM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear Wikimedians, We have just published a blog post co-written by Muzammiluddin Syed and me about the Bangalore Community Consultation held last month: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/11/13/india-community-consultation-2014/ I look forward to future blog posts about some of the activities mentioned in it. :) Cheers, Asaf -- 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 ___ 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] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter
Hearty Congratulations, Ravi.. And Welcome to Bangalore :) Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Jayanta Nath jaya...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear Members of Wikimedia India Chapter, It is my pleasure to announce Ravishankar Ayyakkannu as the Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter. He was involved in various projects of the movement that dealt with the State Government of Tamilnadu and multinational firms like Google. His experiences working for the movement have been featured in media including The New York Times and BBC. He has served as the General Council member of the International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil. He is also actively involved in promoting Free and Open Source projects and Free Culture movements in Tamil. Ravishankar completed his graduation from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore and Technical University of Munich, Germany and later worked as a researcher for the Leiden University in The Netherlands.He has been working as an independent Web development consultant. The Interview committee consisting of Sudhanwa Jogalekar (Past president) , Navin Francis ( Past Secretory), Moksh Juneja (President) and myself were honored to be part of this efficient, effective, and enlightening process. Ravishankar joined Wikimedia India on 20th September 2014 as Program Director. He will be based in Bangalore. His primary roles are supporting community members in organizing and executing the various chapter programs, strategic planning for the chapter, mentoring interns and devise success measurement metrics for community projects. Please join me in officially welcoming Ravishankar Ayyakkannu to Wikimedia India Chapter! Jayanta Nath President Wikimedia India Chapter ___ 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] [Press] DNA : Wiki, in your own tongue
*DNA : Wiki, in your own tongue * http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report-heroes-2013-from-global-to-hyper-local-wikipedia-shows-the-way-1938109 http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epapermain.aspx?pgNo=18edcode=820009eddate=2013-12-20 Screenshot : https://twitter.com/tinucherian/status/414040680680284160/photo/1/large If information empowers, then Wikipedia must be a powerhouse. The world's largest data repository has gone from being an online encyclopaedia to becoming a cornucopia of global and local knowledge. If you use a computer in your day-to-day live, chances are you have used Wikipedia on more than several occasions to find countless bits of information. From history of personalities to the geography of a town, and everything in between, Wikipedia has it all. A fine example of a crowd-sourced information bank, it has grown exponentially over the years. It has become increasingly hyper local and expanded its database to accommodate micro nuggets of information. So, whether it is the history of an old temple down your street, or the heroics of a local genius you may not have otherwise heard of, or even information made available in your mother tongue, the editors on Wikipedia work relentlessly to gather and digitise every piece of information, in several languages. “When I started contributing to Wikipedia in 2005-06, it was predominantly in English,” recounts Tinu Cherian, a veteran Wikipedia editor, administrator and former Wikimedia India chapter board member. Cherian has started over 2,000 articles and has 50,000 edits to his credit. “But over the last few years, the trend has changed. There is a marked increase in local language enthusiasts, who regularly contribute in their native languages.” Wikipedia is currently available in 20 Indian languages, including in Pali; the resource is in incubation stages for another 20 languages. The Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil Wikipedias have tens of thousands of articles — respective wiki communities recently celebrated their 10th anniversaries — while pages in Hindi are close to over a lakh. “To keep language sections updated is a challenging task, and it is to the credit of our volunteers who dedicate hours ensuring accurate information is accessible,” explains Cherian. Wikipedia volunteers also organise regular meetings and academic sessions to train new volunteers. “The very first regular wiki meet-up in India was held at my place years ago,” recalls Cherian. “Since then, we've had hundreds of meet ups around the country, with a growing network of hundreds of volunteers.” The volunteer base itself is extremely diverse. Editors are as young as 14-year-olds and as senior as those in their late 70s. “They represent varied backgrounds and some even work despite limited Internet access. Their dedication is awe inspiring,” says Cherian. “Now everyone can create and incubate pages in their local languages. Apart from making information accessible, I also see this as an opportunity to preserve local languages that seem to be getting replaced by languages with commercial significance,” says Moksh Juneja, president, Wikimedia India. Talking about the growing popularity of local wiki pages, Juneja says, “Konkani is the most recent addition to the local language pages and the Konkani University in Goa is donating articles to Wikipedia. It is also remarkable to note that many local language articles are contributed and edited by non-residents Indians.” But Wikipedia's inclusivity goes beyond local languages. Wiki editor Aniruddha Kumar explains this best on his page. He says: “Wikipedia is one of the most beautiful things in the world. It takes the concept that everyone has a basic right to information and makes it into something real — a tool that’s free for anyone to access.” Aniruddha Kumar is among the most active editors on Wikipedia and he is blind. Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher (DNA) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] [Press] : The Hindu : Panoramic shot of Brihadeeswara wins Wiki India contest
*The Hindu : Panoramic shot of Brihadeeswara wins Wiki India contest* http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/panoramic-shot-of-brihadeeswara-wins-wiki-india-contest/article5387448.ece https://twitter.com/tinucherian/status/404881360113782785/photo/1/large A panoramic photo of the Brihadeeswara temple in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, has won the first prize at the ‘Wiki Loves Monuments India 2013’ contest. Ten photographs were nominated from a pool of 11,786 images for the award. The results were announced on Wednesday. *Karthik Nadar*, Secretary, Wikimedia India, organiser of Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) India, and member, WLM International team, told The Hindu that the photo of the temple was taken by Mugilkv (username). The second prize was of Itimad-ud-Daula’s Tomb, Agra, taken by Amaninder, and the third prize was for Ibrahim Roza, clicked by Aanand. The other seven winning photos at the national contest are of Mehtab Bagh facing Taj Mahal by G. Kaustav (fourth); Pushkarni tank opposite Krishna Temple, Hampi, by Dey.sandip (fifth); Jama Masjid Champaner by Hriya (sixth); Lakshmi Vilas Palace, Vadodara, by Birsa Murmu (seventh); Jal Mahal at Jaipur by Sameer6303 (eighth); a row of saints by Zain Hashmy (ninth); and Sun Temple by Prayash Giria (10th). The website had only the usernames because it was yet to contact the winners. Wikimania Apart from getting awards, these photographs will be nominated at the international level, which has another jury. The main prize winner will get to attend Wikimania, the annual meeting where Wikimedians from all over the world meet, to be held in London in July or August 2014. *Kiran*, jury member in 2012 and jury head in 2013 for WLM, said this year the jury reviewed 11,786 images, looking for photo quality and seeing if these were rare photographs. In case of a much-photographed subject, a different shot (for example, a shot of the gardens behind Taj Mahal), got importance. Emphasis was given to places that were not prominent. Participation A higher number of countries participated this year compared to last year (when Indians had participated for the first time and won the first and sixth places). *Naveen Francis*, former Secretary, Wikimedia India, organiser of WLM India 2012 and 2013, said 36 countries participated last year and 52 countries this year. This year the competition received photos, for the first time, from Antarctica. In terms of number of photos uploaded, India is ninth this year with 11,786 entries from 1,485 people. Russia is 7th with 18,897 photos, U.K. is 8th (11,995 photos), Austria is 10th (11,074 photos) and the U.S. is 11th (10,191 photos). Poland tops the list with 49,976 photos and Ukraine is second with 35,674 photos. Mr. Nadar said Wikipedians in Sri Lanka and Pakistan said they would organise similar competitions in their countries next year. He said Google had partnered with the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) for photos for Google Maps but Wikipedia photos are different as they are not copyrighted and anybody can use them. Also, those participating in WLM are volunteers. He said this year, the competition has a parallel Asia-level contest with nine countries participating: India, Nepal, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines and Hong Kong. The results will be out on November 30 this year. According to their website, WLM has been certified as the largest photo competition in the world by Guinness World Records. It says: “More than 15,000 photographers around the world participated in the 2012 edition of Wiki Loves Monuments, uploading over 350,000 freely-licensed images of historic buildings, monuments and cultural heritage sites in 35 countries to Wikimedia Commons.” The website also said, “More than 15,000 photos were uploaded from India in WLM 2012. In WLM 2012, 2,230 participants from India, making our country rank number one in number of participants.” Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher (The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] [Press] : Times of India : Snapshots of history: Global Wikipedia photo contest sending Indians scouting for rare monuments
*Times of India : Snapshots of history: Global Wikipedia photo contest sending Indians scouting for rare monuments* http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Snapshots-of-history-Global-Wikipedia-photo-contest-sending-Indians-scouting-for-rare-monuments/articleshow/23268216.cms On the pretext of a picnic, Gurgaon-based *Anupam Ganguly* recently took his family out to a place called Gandhak Ki Baoli. The journey to this medieval stepwell near Qutub Minar involved taking Google map printouts, wading through a gridlock of slums, asking several apprehensive locals for directions and assuring them that he wasn't part of an election campaign. Over the past few months, Ganguly's wife has tolerated many such picnics only because he has a legitimate reason. I intend to explore unknown monuments, says the business analyst, who has already submitted close to 1,400 pictures for a contest called 'Wiki Loves Monuments'. WLM is the biggest global photo contest around monuments organized by Wikimedia chapters and groups annually. People are invited to upload images of monuments under a free licence for use on Wikipedia. This year, with over 1,300 candidates and 10,000 photos, India ranks eighth in terms of the number of entries submitted. You need not be a professional photographer to participate , just someone who travels and takes pictures, says Mumbai-based *Karthik Nadar*, secretary of the Wikimedia India chapter. Uploading these photos can help Wikipedia, he adds. Last year, in fact, it was a beautiful photograph of the rear end of Taj Mahal taken on a cellphone that won Delhibased schoolteacher *Narender Kumar Gautam* the sixth prize in the international contest. I wanted to capture a rare angle of the Taj Mahal, says Gautam, who received a cash prize of Rs 20,000, a calendar and a certificate for his only submission. It has increased my confidence and inspired me to do better, says Gautam, who feels elated when friends recognize his photo online. However, the prize is only a small part of the motivation. Pictures tell a story beyond words, says Delhi's *Nupur Rawal*, who submitted photos of monuments last year to help people in other countries connect with India in a unique way. For instance, if a Japanese newspaper wants to write about Indian history, they can go ahead and use my images because photos on Wikipedia have a Creative Commons licence. This means they can be used freely, says Rawal. Besides, the pursuit of rare slices of Indian history has led people like Delhi-based *Ranjit Kumar* to explore the nooks of Chandni Chowk. Everyone has seen India Gate but very few outsiders have seen Ghalib Ki Haveli. I am just trying to put a place that I love online, says Kumar. On the other hand, Ganguly, who can now rattle off facts about little-known structures such as Jamali Kamali mosque and Rajaon ki Baoli in Mehrauli, has now developed an appreciation for Mughal architecture. He seeks out documentaries on Indian history. After the WLM contest closes on September 30, a jury of photographers and Wikipedians will shortlist 10 photos for the international contest. Ganguly, who was in the top 50 last year, says, I want to be in the top 20 this time. This means a few more family picnics. Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( Times of India ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] [Press] Times of India : Tamil wikipedia tops charts
*Times of India : Tamil wikipedia tops charts * http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Tamil-wikipedia-tops-charts/articleshow/23280754.cms With more than 56,000 articles, Tamil is the 60th most popular language in the world when it comes to Wikipedia. On Sunday, a group of contributors to the page gathered to celebrate its 10th anniversary at Anna University. In India, it is second to Hindi in the number of articles. When it comes to the average word length of articles and the number of references for each article, Tamil is ahead, says *Mayurnathan*, the first contributor to Tamil Wikipedia in 2003. When I began, I was the only one writing for the page in the first eight months, he said. Ten years on, there are 965 contributers, of which 300 are active at any given point. We have around 1.75 lakh page views everyday - this is more than several other Tamil magazine websites, said Mayurnathan. Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia available online to which anyone can contribute and edit existing articles. Wiktionary, a free dictionary has more than 35 lakh entries in 1,100 languages. Of this, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam have more than one lakh entries each. Our presence is bound to get better as Tamil Virtual Academy has decided to donate two lakh technical definitions, said *L Sundar*, another contributor. Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( Times of India ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] [Press] : NextBigWhat.com : Piecing Together India’s Heritage One Photo at A Time [Indians Top Contributors to World's Largest Photo Contest]
*NextBigWhat.com : Piecing Together India’s Heritage One Photo at A Time [Indians Top Contributors to World's Largest Photo Contest]* http://www.nextbigwhat.com/india-heritage-photo-wiki-loves-monuments-297/ With his point and shoot camera, *Anupam Ganguly* has been keeping busy for the last few weeks. Unlike how most professionals in Gurgaon spend their weekends, Ganguly has been frequenting architectural monuments and places of historical significance with missionary zeal. Taj Mahal Taj Mahal by Anupam Ganguly “I used to take photographs before too, but this month, I’ve been going every weekend,” says Ganguly. It is that time of the year, when hundreds of enthusiasts like him scour the country for pictures to upload to Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM), a photo contest run by Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopedia. With the help of these volunteers, India is now one of the top 10 contributing countries across the world to the contest. More than 900 contributors from India have uploaded nearly 6000 photographs to the site, making it one of the highest contributing countries. “I was not aware of the Mehrauli Archaeological Park in Delhi until I went through WLM, and on my visit I ended spending a whole day there,” says Ganguly, who is now one of the highest contributing Indian on the site. A business analyst by professions, Ganguly works for an MNC in the National Capital Region. In 2012 he submitted 794 photographs and became the highest contributor in India and 55th in the world. This year, India is leading the in the number of contributors by a huge margin with 905 contributors so far*. Russia comes in at the second position with only 458 contributing users. Wiki Loves Monuments is an annual international photography competition organized by Wikimedia, held in September every year. In 2011 The Guinness Book of World Records named it the world’s largest photographic competition. WLM 2013 Participating Countries WLM 2013 Participating Countries Participating Wikipedians take pictures of historical monuments and heritage sites in their region, and upload them to Wikimedia Commons, which is an online repository of free-use images, sound, and other media files. The contest usually runs from 1 September to 30 September, and participants should upload photographs during this period to take part in the competition. Last year, *Pranav Singh* from Delhi won the first prize in the international contest and *Narender Kumar *from Delhi, came in 6th. Tomb of Safdarjung By Pranav Singh Won WLM 2012 Tomb of Safdarjung By Pranav Singh Won WLM 2012 The interesting bit is that not all contributors are interested in the prize. According to a survey conducted by Wikimedia, “75% of the people said that they participated only because they wanted to contribute to Wikipedia and not to win anything.” *History of Wiki Loves Monuments* The first WLM was held in Netherlands back in 2010 for “Rijksmonuments”, which means national monuments in Dutch, was started as a project to encourage photographers to seek out Dutch National Heritage Sites. During its first event WLM participants submitted 12,500 photographs. The following year WLM grew to 18 participating countries in Europe in a collaboration with European Heritage Days. This time more than 5000 participants submitted 170,000 photographs making it the largest photo competition in the world. In 2012, the competition went global with 35 participating countries beyond Europe and saw submissions of nearly 350,000 photographs. A picture of Tomb of Safdarjung from Delhi, India, won the contest. *How Wiki Loves Monuments Works* National and regional heritage institutions provide official data regarding monuments, heritage and archeological sites. Each monument is assigned a unique identifier and these can be attached to the photographs at the time of upload using “Wikipedia templates”. Using Wikipedia templates also allows easy Wiki-editing. A program called erfgoedbot (‘erfgoed’ in Dutch means heritage) collates and sorts all the images and identifiers, organising them into correct categories, and updates the Wikimedia Commons database. The database then connects the photographs with the monuments list in Wikipedia using the monuments ID accordingly. Read more about WLM India here, and about the 2013 WLM contest here. *At the time of writing. Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( NextBigWhat ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] German University of Tubingen partners with Malayalam Wikipedians to digitize the works of Herman Gundert.
Hi all, Some of you would have already heard about the recent partnership between Malayalam Wikipedians German University of Tubingen to digitize the works of Herman Gundert. Dr. Hermann Gundert was a German missionary, scholar, and linguist, as well as the grandfather of German novelist and Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse. Gundert compiled a Malayalam grammar book, Malayalabhaasha Vyakaranam (1859), the Malayalam-English dictionary (1872), and contributed to work on Bible translations into Malayalam. He worked primarily at Tellicherry on the Malabar coast, in Kerala, India. Gundert also contributed to the fields of history, geography and astronomy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gundert The corpus of nearly 80 manuscripts, 150 printed works and some palm leaf manuscripts of the German scholar available with the university runs into some 42,000 pages. A detailed history of this effort can be read here http://shijualex.in/tubingen-university-gundert-collection/ ( Blog by Shiju Alex in Malayalam) Project Page in Malayalam WikiSource : https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A5%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B2:%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%82%E0%B4%AC%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%99%E0%B5%BB_%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B2_%E0%B4%B2%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%AC%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%B1%E0%B4%BF_%E0%B4%97%E0%B5%81%E0%B4%A3%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%BC%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%9F%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%B6%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%96%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82 The project named “Gundert legacy – a digitization project of the University of Tuebingen” will be started soon. Some News Coverage : The Hindu : http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Kochi/german-university-gifts-malayalam-the-legacy-of-herman-gundert/article5125550.ece Times of India : http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JS1JLTy8yMDEzLzA5LzEzI0FyMDAyMDI%3D New Indian Express : http://newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/German-University-to-digitise-Malayalam-books/2013/09/11/article1778484.ece Kudos to Shiju Alex and the Malayalam Wikipedian/WikiSource Community who are part of this effort. Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] [Press] : Deccan Herald : 'Help Konkani Wikipedia come out of incubation'
*Deccan Herald : 'Help Konkani Wikipedia come out of incubation'* http://www.deccanherald.com/content/356925/039help-konkani-wikipedia-come-incubation039.html *The functioning of the free online encyclopedia, ‘Wikipedia,’ is like a true democracy. It is for the people and by the people, said The Centre for Internet and Society Programme Officer (Indian Languages) Pavanaja U B. He was speaking after inaugurating, Wikipedia Editing Workshop, organised by Aloysius Institute of Management and Information Technology (AIMIT) in association with The Centre for Internet and Society in Mangalore on Friday. Stressing on the need for more Wikipedia contributors and editors from India, he explained to students the simplicity of creating a account in Wikipedia and editing articles. Wikipedia has 50 crore unique visitors and three crore are from India. There are 6,000 editors registered from India, of which, around 2000 people edit in Indian vernacular languages, and only 450 are very active, he said. There are around 98,000 odd articles in Hindi, 14,600 odd articles in Kannada. However, Konkani Wikipedia is in incubation for the last seven years, as there are only 133 articles and very few registered editors. “To get it out of incubation, many should write Konkani articles for Wikipedia,” he said and added that out of 133 Konkani articles in Wikipedia, over 100 are in Devnagari script, 31 in Roman and just two in Kannada script and none in Malayalam. Pavanaja added that being a contributor and editor of Wikipedia, will be a positive add on to ones resume. Today's IT companies need logical thinkers and problem solvers. Writing for Wikipedia, enables one to think and research, hence benefiting one’s personally, he said. He also regretted that some people try to vandalise Wikipedia, with disruptive editing and deleting articles. Though, this will be corrected by other Wikipedia users instantly, it wastes precious time. Everyone benefits from Wikipedia, hence the contributor should have a positive outlook with regard to helping people and sharing knowledge, he said He further added, that maintaining a neutral point of view, giving significant coverage and writing on notable topics is important. One should give opposing views and no personal views should be reflected, he added. St Aloysius College Rector Fr Denzil Lobo said that the present generation is lucky to have knowledge at their finger tips, and they should make the best use of it. AIMIT Director Rev Fr Pradeep Sequeira, Wikpedia Volunteer Harriet Vidhyasagar among others were present. * Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( Deccan Herald ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] [Press] : DNA Blog : Konkani Wikipedia climbing up the Indian language ladder
*DNA Blog : Konkani Wikipedia climbing up the Indian language ladder* http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/1885294/post-konkani-wikipedia-climbing-up-the-indian-language-ladder Recently the CIS- A2K team organised a four-day workshop in collaboration with Goa University for students of MA (Konkani). This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia, which is incubation. We hope that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this seven-year-old project out of incubation into a live Wikipedia project. Guest post by* Subhashish Panigrahi*, who works with the Access to Knowledge team. A2K works towards the promotion of Wikipedia and its sister projects in India. Recently the CIS- A2K team organised a four-day workshop in collaboration with Goa University for students of MA (Konkani). This workshop involved 38 students creating 43 new articles on Konkani Wikipedia, which is incubation. We hope that these efforts will contribute towards bringing this seven-year-old project out of incubation into a live Wikipedia project. Before a Wikipedia shapes up as a live project, it undergoes an incubation process. A community of volunteers gradually grows to sustain this Wikipedia in incubation with active contributions. The Konkani Wikipedia Incubator started way back in 2006. However, owing to many reasons it could not take off. One of the major reasons has been the usage of multiple scripts. Because of political and religious reasons, Konkani has multiple writing and verbal standards as also multiple scripts. Devanagari is the official script, but Konkani is also written in the Roman script (also known as Romi), the Kannada script (in the Konkani speaking regions of Karnataka, primarily in and around Mangalore), the Malayalam script in Kerala (Kochin region), and in Perso-Arabic script. The most used script for Konkani is Devanagari. Goa University is world's first university to offer a master's programme in the Konkani language, in which the writing standard is in Goan Konkani written in Devanagari. We met with the students and introduced Konkani Wikipedia to them. Four students volunteered to coordinate the workshop. They discussed plans for the workshop and its prerequisites, going through the list of articles on Konkani Wikipedia, writing a unique article by collecting resources before attending the workshop. To our surprise, all of the students including the four coordinators came up with at least two pages of written content before the workshop. *Day 1: Intro yourself* To start with the first day of the workshop held at Krishnadas Shama State Central Library, Goa we had an “Adjective Name” activity. It was fun to know how people judge themselves with adjectives. I turned out to be Sub-Hashish and *Nitika* turned out to be Naughty-Nitika! Then we had a discussion about the articles students planned to write. A few of them were not sure if articles on social issues or biographies of a writer could fit into Wikipedia framework. *Editing time* Article titles were decided, everyone was ready with their homework write ups and books for adding sources. Only four-five of them knew typing in Devanagari. For the first time some of them typed few words and they typed correctly. I could see the glow of triumph after they typed correctly using Transliteration layout. My experience with majority of the Indian language outreach participants had been more or the less the same; most new wikipedians struggle to type. This time we printed some handouts with the layout for typing help. It worked well. Students managed to type albeit with small typographical errors. *Game time* We had to cut the session for an activity break and invited them to play “Tumi Kashi Asat” (meaning How do you do? in Konkani). This is a game I learnt from my colleague *Vishnu*. To make it more interesting we got it translated to Konkani by our coordinator Supriya. The host has to make some body movements and ask “Tumi Kashi Asat?” and bend forward. The participants have to move their body in the reverse way and answer “Ami bari ashat” (I’m doing well). This replaced the caffeine intake for the four days and kept all of us lively. *More editing post lunch:* The editing spree went on for rest of the day. Regular doses of small fun activities were served to keep the Goan tides high. To our surprise all of the students created articles; I don’t know if I could judge them as Stub or Start class articles. For me it was the greatest start for a language to have the asset of these sweet Wikipedians, even as the Konkani Wikipedia has seen many struggles and spent seven years in incubation. *Rat and frog game* There was surprise for participating Wikipedians: Rat race. Participants sit on chairs and one of them is made to stand in the centre. The rat makes others run and replace each other's seats and one of the participants becomes the 'rat'. This rat race brought back old childhood memories and for a moment everyone forgot
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] Economic and Political Weekly: Widening Access to Educational Resources
*Economic and Political Weekly: Widening Access to Educational Resources* http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/widening-access-educational-resources.html By launching the National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) portal-a free online repository of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) courseware-the government has taken a significant step towards widening and improving access to learning resources and has provided a fillip to the movement for free and open knowledge in the country. Rohini Lakshane (rohini.laksh...@gmail.com) is a freelance technology journalist and Wikimedian based in Mumbai. Imagine a student learning a science experiment at school and supplementing her knowledge by watching a programme on the subject aired on Doordarshan many years ago. Or learning a difficult concept in geometry by using interactive software free of cost. Or a teacher adapting a useful lesson from a curriculum taught in a different language elsewhere in the country. All this and more is now possible, after the National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) http://nroer.in/home/, a free online repository of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) courseware, was launched in August 2013, by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The launch of the portal, which houses open-licensed school textbooks and other educational content developed and published by the government-funded NCERT, comes as a big breakthrough for the movement for free and open knowledge in the country; knowledge that can be accessed, applied, and shared freely. *What Does the Open License Mean?* All the NCERT course books for students from class 1 to 12 for all subjects have been available for free downloadinghttp://www.ncert.nic.in/NCERTS/textbook/textbook.htm, though under copyright restrictions, for many years. However, copyright meant that students, self learners, or teachers could not legally modify, reuse, or redistribute the books without written permission from the NCERT. About 30 textbooks of class 9 and 10 put together are now accessible on the NROER under a Creative Commons-Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (CC-BY-SA) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/. The Creative Commons license is a legal tool which enables copyright owners to manage their rights over their works. The CC-BY-SA license enables the creators of educational content to reuse, modify, build upon, or redistribute with attribution the vast collection of text files, audio files, videos, images, interactive applications and documents uploaded to the NROER. In case the content is tweaked, the same license will apply to the new work, setting up endless possibilities for NCERT courses to be modified and re-modified till they become an inextricable part of the expansive digital commons. The content could be used in classroom presentations, blogs, or books, be harvested for use on other open education resource (OER) projects such as WikiEducator and repositories such as *Wikipedia* or its sister projects. Licensing knowledge resources is a way of bringing knowledge to those who find accessing it either difficult or impossible. Those who wish to collaboratively create new courses, start their own courses, or donate the open educational resources they create can upload them to the repository. Those who remix or adapt the NCERT content can give back to the community by posting the new work on the NROER. Students and self learners can now freely access the courseware, including some finely scripted and directed audio and video programmes and appealing interactive content, which would aid their learning. Some of the videos are distance learning programmes created by the NCERT and previously aired on Doordarshan. Initially, the CC-BY-SA-NChttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/-a license with a clause to disallow commercial use of the content- was going to be appended to the NROER. This would have ruled out the use of the content, in say, a paid app, a paid online tutorial or a paid course. After much lobbying by the *Wikimedia Chapter (India)*, a non-profit organisation that promotes Wikimedia projects, and other proponents of open knowledge, the CC-BY-SA license was adopted instead. The move was in keeping with the 2012 Paris Open Educational Resources (OER) Declarationhttp://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/Events/English_Paris_OER_Declaration.pdfof the UNESCO, which recommends that governments freely license educational resources developed with public funds to maximise the impact of the investment. As the NCERT is an autonomous government body, much of the lobbying was driven by the belief that knowledge, research and information funded with public money should be freely accessible to the public. *The Platform* The Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education built the NROER website over a period of six months on the open source Gnowsys-Studio kernel. Simply put, the
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : DNA Blog : Wiki Loves Monuments, do you?
*DNA Blog : Wiki Loves Monuments, do you? * http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/1886663/post-wiki-loves-monuments-do-you Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) is a photography competition aimed at creating a freely licensed repository of photographs of historical monuments and heritage sites around the globe. Held in September every year, it is the world's largest photographic competition according to the Guinness Book of World Records. [Winning entry at WLM from 2012, Safdarjung's Tomb, Delhi, India, by *Pranav Singh*] Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) is a photography competition aimed at creating a freely licensed repository of photographs of historical monuments and heritage sites around the globe. Held in September every year, it is the world's largest photographic competition according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Fifty countries including oceanic Antarctica are participating this year in the contest, which is organised by Wikimedia Chapters in the respective countries and various Wikimedia groups. Started in 2010 in the Netherlands, WLM has attained lasting popularity. In 2011, 18 European countries joined the Netherlands and created a collection of nearly 170,000 photographs, achieving the Guinness record. Thirty five countries participated in 2012 in the contest, which received more than 350,000 photos overtaking its own record from the previous year. *Participate* To enter Wiki Loves Monuments, participants upload their entries to the Wikimedia Commons under a Creative Commons license. The Wikimedia Commons is a media repository that serves Wikipedia and its sister projects. Like Wikipedia, it is free and open to all. Learn more about participating in Wiki Loves Monuments. *WLM in India* India has more than 7,000 historical sites spread across its 28 states and seven union territories. In India, where WLM is in its second year, it is supported by the Wikimedia India Chapter, a non-profit organisation. Last year, WLM received more than 15,000 photos of Indian monuments, most of which were those of the Taj Mahal. Over 2,000 people participated from India, which made India rank the highest in the contest in terms of the number of participants. A few winning photos from India went on to be a part of the international WLM contest. Pranav Singh from Delhi won the first prize in the international contest. Narender Kumar, also from Delhi, ranked sixth. *Awards* The main for the international contest is a trip to Wikimania, the annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement. Every country awards a few prizes nationally as WLM is a federated contest. The highest prize in India is Rs 25,000. Read more about Indian prizes here, and the International ones here. Indian website: http://wikilovesmonuments.in International website: http://wikilovesmonuments.org Contact details: w...@wikimedia.in More links: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2013/Media Contact* Rohini Lakshané*: rohini at wikimedia dot in Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( DNA ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikipedia-BN] 10 years of Bangla Wikipedia
Bangla Wikipedia is celebrating its 10th anniversary on January 27, 2014. Might want to plan some celebrations in India too. Regards Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Belayet Hossain bella...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:50 AM Subject: [Wikipedia-BN] 10 years of Bangla Wikipedia To: Discussion list for Bangladeshi Wikimedians wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org, Bengali Wikipediabr/( wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org) wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear Wikipedians! Bangla Wikipedia is the largest encyclopedia in Bangla Wikipedia, also the largest encyclopedia in Bangladesh. I am happy to let you know that the next year on January 27, 2014 Bangla Wikipedia will be 10[1] years old. All of you will agree with me that 10 years of Bangla Wikipedia deserves a grand celebration. We have only 5 month to plan, design, arrangements and celebrate. I think this is the right time to start community discussion and set the plan how we will work on that and make celebrate this grand anniversary. I've create a project page[2] on Bangla Wikipedia for the discussion and coordination of the events centrally. Tou can discuss in the mailing lists, But make sure that your idea goes to Wikipedia page as well. I would like to invite you to join the discussion. Please write down your ideas, plans and suggestions to celebrate this unique occasion for Bangla Wikipedia. [1]http://bn.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Main_Pageaction=info [2]http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/wp:10_years_of_Bangla_Wikipedia Cheers, -- Belayet Hossain http://www.facebook.com/bellayet http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:bellayet http://twitter.com/bellayet http://bellayet.wordpress.com (Bangla) Knowledge is universal ...so share it. ___ Wikipedia-BN mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-bn ___ 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] [Press]: Times of India : Malayalam Wikipedia chugs on as more contributions pour in
*Times of India : Malayalam Wikipedia chugs on as more contributions pour in * http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JS1JLTy8yMDEzLzA4LzEyI0FyMDA0MDI= * After two successful attempts to expand its database, the Malayalam Wikipedia’s third edition of Malayalam Loves Wikipedia project is also gaining strength. The project aims at uploading copyright-free images to Wikimedia Commons, an online repository of free-use images, sound and other media files. More than 10,000 pictures have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons, since the project was launched on July 25. One of the biggest language wiki communities, Malayalam Wikipedia has got overwhelming response for its first and second edition of Malayalam Loves Wikipedia project in the past two years. In 2011, the duration was two weeks and as many as 2,155 images were uploaded. Last year, the number had risen to 11,159. This edition will conclude on August 15. Images ranging from Malayali’s favourite snack, kumbilappam, to rare birds have been uploaded. “We are not free to use all images available in Google. Malayalam Loves Wikipedia is a platform to share copyright-free images, videos, audio clips, books, PDF files etc., to Wikimedia Commons for the benefit of users. Wikimedia Commons has more than one crore media files and images. But images related to Kerala are limited. Our aim is to persuade people to contribute more,” said K Manoj, an active Wikimedian. A similar programme, Wiki Loves Monument, was launched last year, where copyright-free images of monuments were uploaded to Wikipedia. The project witnessed huge participation from India and the prize winning picture, Tomb of Safdarjung, was uploaded from the country. Malayalam Wikipedia is active with other interesting projects such as wiki nikhandu (wiktionary), wiki chollukal (wikiquotes), wiki grandasala (wikisource), wiki padasala (wikibooks) and wiki sarvakalasala (wikiversity) as well. Many people including school students are active wikimedians in grandasala, where copyright-free books are being uploaded. * Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( Times of India ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] The Hindu : ‘We need more Kannada content in Wikipedia’
*The Hindu : ‘We need more Kannada content in Wikipedia’ * http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/we-need-more-kannada-content-in-wikipedia/article4998269.ece *There are 48,000 Sanskrit-speaking people in the country (as per the 2011 Census report) but there are nearly 10,000 articles in that language on Wikipedia. However, consider that there are nearly 6 crore Kannadigas, but only 14,500 Kannada entries on Wikipedia. It took the Kannada Wikipedia 10 years to reach this figure, after its inception in June 2003, which is indicative of the Kannadiga apathy to contribute, edit and publish Kannada content in the free encyclopaedia. In a step to reverse this situation, a workshop on generating content for Wikipedia in Kannada was organised by the Centre for Proficiency Development Placement Services, University of Mysore and Centre for Internet Society, Bangalore (CIS), here on Tuesday. The number of Kannada entries or articles on Wikipedia is in contrast to 4 million-plus English articles. Among Indian languages Hindi has prime position with nearly 1 lakh articles. U.B. Pavanaja of CIS, Bangalore, who describes himself as an ‘Indian language computing enthusiast’, said the growth and evolution of Kannada hinges on its use and adaptation in the realm of science, technology, commerce, law and medicine. “People want information in the realm of current affairs and non-fiction, but it is not available in Kannada. It is for you and me to bring it to them.” Applications “Kannada’s growth does not hinge on the works of Pampa, Ponna and Ranna but in its [Kannada’s] use and application in daily life and in the marketplace. But Kannada litterateurs and protagonists are not contributing to it and suffer from technophobia,” said Dr. Pavanaja who described Wikipedia as one of the outlets for Kannada to grow and evolve and bring the world to the people in that language. It was pointed out that there were nearly 3 crore Indians who access Wikipedia regularly, of whom only 5,500 contribute to enrich it. Of them 2,000 write in Indian languages of whom only 360 are Kannada contributors. But even here, there are about 38 active editors and only 4 of them are active editors who edit or contribute more than 100 articles a month in Kannada, according to Pavanaja. For the record, two of the four active editors are senior citizens. Niranjan Vanalli, Director, CPDPS, described the workshop as “a significant milestone” which would go a long way in enriching Kannada content on Wikipedia. P. Nagabhushan, HoD of Computer Sciences, University of Mysore, inaugurated the workshop and said Wikipedia could facilitate the growth of Kannada in this digital era. Nearly 50 participants took part in the workshop.* Regards Tinu Cherian Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] [Press]: Techcrunch : India’s Indigenous Languages Drive Wikipedia’s Growth
*Techcrunch : India’s Indigenous Languages Drive Wikipedia’s Growth* http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/06/indian-languages-drive-wikipedia-growth/ *Despite accommodating the world’s second largest English-speaking population behind the United States, it is India’s indigenous language speakers that are creating and consuming the content that is driving Wikipedia’s growth on the subcontinent. The Wikimedia Foundation last year issued a $440,000 grant to the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), which, along with the local Wikimedia chapter, has trained almost 2,500 Indians how to edit and create content in their local languages. While the country’s official languages are Hindi and English (when the country earned its independence in 1947, the states couldn’t agree to be represented by a single local tongue) there are over a thousand recognised dialects, and 22 official languages spoken by over a million people. Last September, CIS targeted ten tongues — Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Odia, Punjabi and Telugu — and started working with India’s Wikimedia chapter, responsible for coordinating the local volunteer efforts, to boost the amount of local language content being created on a range of websites including, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and WikiCommons. CIS said that between September 2012 and April 2013 the number of page views increased by almost four million. Additionally: - 13,400 articles were added in the top four languages, Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. - Page views on the 25,000 Bengali entries grew by 1.4 million to about 4 million. - There were consistently over 100 active Malyayam Wikipedia editors. While each community used the platform for a different purpose there were three themes that cut across the different languages: cinema, places, and local personalities. The training attracted people from all walks of life. Tamil grandfather Sengai Podhuvan didn’t even know how to switch on a computer before the training, but the 78-year old has become one of the site’s biggest contributors; a blind man now edits Hindi Wikipedia entries; and Sujarta, a Chennai stay-at-home mum, who doesn’t speak English, now edits the Telugu Wikipedia between the hours of 11am and 3pm, when most housewives, who, like herself, did not go to university, are usually watching India’s colourful soap operas. While the program has had an impact, director T. Vishnu Vardhan admitted there were some ominous findings. After CIS stopped supporting the Assamese Wikipedia in January 2013, the 20 active editors all but left the site. “The decline over the last three months also alerts us to the possibility of building dependencies on the program, which is a concern that we need to address going forward,” Vishnu said. ”We need to ensure this community and new people are sustained, that we engage them keep and them interested by showing them the excitement of being part of open knowledge building.” Ultimately, Vardhan hopes this capacity building exercise will spark a self-fulfilling cycle of local Wikipedia content production and consumption. These reach of these tools is growing as last month, mobile operator Aircel and Wikimedia India announced that subscribers could freely access m.wikipedia.org, available in 19 Indian languages, from their mobile phones. “Everyone is now Googling stuff but what if an ordinary Urdu-speaking guy sitting in Lucknow, using a smartphone, wants to learn about Delhi? Where is the content? While the majority of the population understands bits and pieces of English they’re not fluent in writing or reading and still need to access information in their mother tongue. This is where I personally see a huge potential for Indian language Wikipedias,” Vardhan said.* Regards Tinu Cherian Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( Techcrunch ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] : Times of India : Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages
Thanks Ramesh. May be Vishnu ( A2K-CIS) can help. I wanted to feature a few Indic Wikipedians in the story, but apparently the reporter was short of time for the deadline and had to go ahead with the current form. Regards Tinu Cherian On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 1:14 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tinu Thanks for sharing. Pretty impressive news coverage. Any idea where do we get the CIS report on this study. Regards User :rameshng Sent using Mobile. On 1 Aug 2013 10:59, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: *Times of India : Wikipedia boom in Marathi, Malayalam and other desi languages* http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Wikipedia-boom-in-Marathi-Malayalam-and-other-desi-languages/articleshow/21518534.cms *A vibrant vernacular Wikipedia seems to be taking root in India. In the last eight months, the number of Wikipedia entries has grown substantially in 20 Indian languages, says a study by the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society (CIS). Wiki, the world's largest online encyclopaedia where anyone can write and edit articles, didn't have much content in vernacular till a few years ago. According to the study, Wikis in Tamil, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi have added thousands of new articles on various subjects from September 2012 to April 2013. A few of these pages were viewed more during this period. Marathi, which had 30 lakh page views per month previously, had another 10 lakh visitors, while Bengali Wikipedia had 14 lakh page views. While Malayalam Wiki took the top position with an enviable team of 100 plus editors, the number Hindi, Marathi and Sanskrit editors came down. Marathi has 40,000 articles. But most editors in Mumbai prefer to work on English. Pune has more Marathi editors,' says T Vishnu Vardhan, programme director, Access to Knowledge project at CIS. In the last two years, the demand for knowledge in Indian languages has grown as we have moved to the motto of 'roti, kapda and internet', says Vardhan. One of the reasons for growth is that many browsers now support Indian language scripts. But this was not the case in early 2000. Though many wanted to read and type in their own language, there was no browser support, says Shiju Alex, blogger and Malayalam Wiki editor. Moreover, many didn't know how to type in their mother tongues. But once Indian languages were encoded in Unicode, the fonts became accessible. There was no need to write Malayalam in English and people started blogging in their mother tongues, says Alex. According to Vardhan, communities with better literacy rates seem to have taken the lead online. Telugu Wiki is stronger as internet penetration in Andhra Pradesh is higher than in places where Bhojpuri or Assamese is spoken. As with most online language initiatives, the Wiki movement was also fuelled by the diaspora. Tinu Cherian Abraham, a former board member of the Wikimedia India chapter, talks about how an NRI's love for Malayalam kick-started the project. But now there are many Wiki foot soldiers in India, including a blind editor of Hindi Wikipedia and an elderly contributor from Kerala whose passion for free knowledge has helped him forget his ailments. * Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( Times of India ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] [Press] Herald Goa : Konkani Wikipedia next ?
*Herald Goa *: Konkani Wikipedia next ? http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10085boxid=173254781uiddat=7%2F28%2F2013 Regards Tinu Cherian http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/Details.aspx?id=10085boxid=173254781uiddat=7%2F28%2F2013 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IRC with WMIN Executive Committee Election Candidates
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:07 AM Subject: Re: [WMIN-Members] Re: IRC with WMIN Executive Committee Election Candidates To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Hi, On behalf of the Election Committee, we thank everyone who had attended the IRC with the candidates yesterday. For the full log, please see http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/July_30,2013 Please reach out to Election Committee for any clarifications and we strongly encourage to actively participate in the Elections Cheers For Election Committee Tinu Cherian On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, The IRC has just started. Tinu is moderating. Please join soon Cheers Arjuna 2013/7/27 Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Hi All, An IRC with Executive Committee Election Candidates is scheduled for *30th July 2013, Tuesday from 09:00PM to 10:00PM IST* on #wikimedia-inhttp://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-inchannel. All the candidates have confirmed their availability. Election Committee thanks them for their prompt confirmations and support. Kindly mark the session on your calendars. Responses to Questions have been initiated by some of the candidates. I request all the candidates to update their responses by the time of IRC, so that participants can have a more focused discussion on topics of interest. Looking forward to your participation. For Election Committee Arjuna Rao Chavala. ___ 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] #IWikiWhen trends in Twitter
I am afraid, you must have been referring to Aircel. AirTel is another telcom provider ( One of the top 3) in India Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Kul Wadhwa kwad...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 2013/7/26 Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in Dear Wikimedians, thanking the Wikimedia Foundation for deploying Wikipedia Zero in India in association with Aircel, I was surprised to see that - #IWikiWhen https://twitter.com/search?q=%23IWikiWhensrc=tren was trending in Twitter India and Mumbai trend-lists. That is because Aircel India is running a contest asking their fans for the reason they wiki, and I can see that it has actually worked. They are giving away HTC One X Phone.[1] Would request everyone to take this up and tweet about Wikipedia (you can also participate :D)!! People will be looking at the trending hashtags! :D 1. https://twitter.com/Aircel/status/360361785104166912 Nice promotion from Aircel. It was surprise for me also. I wish the interaction between WMF and Chapter can be improved so that more chapter members and community can support India initiatives better. Hi Arunja, We're glad to see this promotion from Airtel as well. They ran a few marketing ideas by us before the launch but we weren't aware of this one in advance; we found out the same time as everyone else. We don't have the available staff to work with Airtel on these promotions so we rely on them, as we do with other partners, to run many of them at their own discretion. I also believe it would be great if WMF could coordinate with the chapters more but we'll need additional resources to do so. It's definitely worth talking about... Kul -- Kul Wadhwa Head of Mobile Wikimedia Foundation ___ 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] Media coverage on Aircel Wikipedia free access
Media coverage on Aircel Wikipedia free access *The Economics Times : *Aircel to offer free mobile Wikipedia access http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/aircel-to-offer-free-mobile-wikipedia-access/articleshow/21334289.cms *The NextWeb :* Wikipedia Zero arrives in India, dropping mobile data charges for 60m Aircel subscribers http://thenextweb.com/media/2013/07/25/wikipedia-zero-arrives-in-india-dropping-mobile-data-charges-for-60m-aircel-subscribers/ *The Times of India :* Aircel subscribers to get free Wikipedia access http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/telecom/Aircel-subscribers-to-get-free-Wikipedia-access/articleshow/21335458.cms *The Hindu Business Line : *Aircel to offer free mobile Wikipedia access http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/aircel-to-offer-free-mobile-wikipedia-access/article4952423.ece * Business Standard :* Aircel partners Wikimedia Foundation to offer free mobile Wikipedia access http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/aircel-partners-wikimedia-foundation-to-offer-free-mobile-wikipedia-access-113072500541_1.html *Deccan Chronicle (via PTI) : *Aircel to offer free mobile Wikipedia access http://www.deccanchronicle.com/130725/news-businesstech/article/aircel-offer-free-mobile-wikipedia-access *NDTV : *Aircel customers can now access Wikipedia on their mobile phones for free http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/aircel-customers-can-now-access-wikipedia-on-their-mobile-phones-for-free-397035 Indian Express : http://www.indianexpress.com/news/aircel-to-offer-free-mobile-wikipedia-access/1146624/ FoneArena http://www.fonearena.com/blog/76372/aircel-partners-with-wikimedia-foundation-to-offer-free-wikipedia-access-on-mobile-phones.html MSN http://news.in.msn.com/business/aircel-to-offer-free-mobile-wikipedia-access-1 The Mobile Indian : http://www.themobileindian.com/news/13297_Aircel-users-can-now-access-Wikipedia-for-free-on-mobiles The Financial Express : http://www.financialexpress.com/news/aircel-to-offer-free-mobile-wikipedia-access/1146624 Voice Data : http://www.voicendata.com/voice-data/news/192334/aircel-join-hands-wikimedia-foundation Zee News : http://zeenews.india.com/business/news/technology/aircel-to-offer-free-mobile-wikipedia-access_80586.html SIFY : http://www.sify.com/news/aircel-to-offer-free-mobile-wikipedia-access-news-business-nhzq92cdjde.html Next Big What : http://www.nextbigwhat.com/wikipedia-zero-india-aircel-297/?utm_source=rssutm_medium=rssutm_campaign=wikipedia-zero-india-aircel One India Tamil : http://tamil.oneindia.in/news/2013/07/25/india-aircel-wikimedia-foundation-deal-customers-have-free-access-wikipedia-179861.html Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] Spooky entry on Wikipedia
The most interesting irony of this ( noticed by T Sowmyan) is that, what The Indian Express called as spooky was actually referenced by 2 articles from The New Indian Express and The Indian Express itself. http://www.indianexpress.com/news/spooky-entry/1139880/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._K._Narayanan http://newindianexpress.com/nation/article476970.ece http://www.indianexpress.com/oldStory/53364/ For those who doesn't know the history of Indian Express, In 1991, following the death of the then owner Ramnath Goenka, the Goenka family split the group into two separate companies. Initially, the two groups shared the Indian Express title, and editorial and other resources. But in 13 August 1999, the northern editions, headquartered in Mumbai, retained and renamed Indian Express as The Indian Express, while the southern editions became The New Indian Express. Today, the two newspapers and the two companies are separate entities. Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Holalkere Laxmivenkatesh hrl.venkat...@gmail.com wrote: I read it. Being a man contributing to kannada wikipedia, one has to be careful. thanks pavanaja sir. -hrlv On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Pavanaja U B pavan...@vishvakannada.com wrote: I did not find the sentences quoted by IE in this page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._K._Narayanan Regards, Pavanaja From: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of CherianTinu Abraham Sent: 13 July 2013 22:58 To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Spooky entry on Wikipedia Wondering if anybody noticed this article on indian express saying Spooky entry on Wikipedia http://www.indianexpress.com/news/spooky-entry/1139880/ Thoughts? Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] Spooky entry on Wikipedia
Wondering if anybody noticed this article on indian express saying Spooky entry on Wikipedia http://www.indianexpress.com/news/spooky-entry/1139880/ Thoughts? Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] Improve Indian Biography Images Project
This is just a personal project as of now and just an example/experimental. Other Wikipedians can directly upload to Commons or go via the OTRS route as needed. The project page is just an interface to notable people that I can trying to reach for their photos. If there are sufficient interest and work from other Wikipedians too, we can move this under WikiProject:India in the future. -Tinu Cherian On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Pavanaja U B pavan...@vishvakannada.comwrote: Tinu, ** ** Do you want the images to be sent to you only? That’s what your page says. What if I upload them to commons? I already have some in commons. ** ** Regards, Pavanaja ** ** ** ** *From:* wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *CherianTinu Abraham *Sent:* 08 July 2013 12:06 *To:* Wikimedia India Community list *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Improve Indian Biography Images Project ** ** Thanks Pavanaja Srikanth. Meanwhile, I have renamed the project to Incredible Indians per suggestion by one of my friends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian/Incredible_Indians Regards Tinu Cherian On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Good initiative Tinu, I'll do my bit! ** ** On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Pavanaja U B pavan...@vishvakannada.com wrote: Good idea Tinu. I have many photos but mostly from literary worlds of Karnataka. I have already added some of them. Regards, Pavanaja *From:* wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] *On Behalf Of *CherianTinu Abraham *Sent:* 04 July 2013 17:34 *To:* Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia.; wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Improve Indian Biography Images Project*** * Hi all, I am working on a personal Wikipedia project aimed at getting more images of Notable Indians into Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons. I am calling it Improve Indian Biography Images Project for now... ( I know that it is a very boring title.. But if you want to suggest better names, do help me :) ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian/Improve_Indian_Biography_Images_Project The strategy is to use your influences to persuade people to donate their images to Wikipedia/Creative Commons. The result , in my opinion, would be 1) Better images of Notable Indians celebrities to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. 2) Improve the awareness of releasing the images to free licenses and Creative Commons. There are already two successes: Ashwin Sanghi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashwin_Sanghi, author — Persuaded to change licenses of the images on Flickr to CC by SA. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with Flickr Bot Amish Tripathi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_Tripathi, author — Released 4 images on CC by SA by email. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons . OTRS pending I am already in talks with several others. One of the my learning from this exercise is that, while the celebrity might hold the copyrights of the images technically , it is also important to get signed consent of the actual photographer for transfer of the rights, if you are going via the OTRS route.. If someone instructs or pays another to take his photo, who holds the copyright? the photographer or the subject? In legal terms, it is always the photographer who is the copyright owner. The photographer should transfer the copyright by a contract or written terms if the subject needs to have the copyright. In most cases, it sound stupid, but that's how the law is written. ( Thanks to User:Sreejithk2000 for this gyan) Thoughts? Regards Tinu Cherian User:Tinucherian ** ** ___ 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 ** ** -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] ** ** Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter todayhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Election-2013 IRC Notice for 6 July 2013 from 9PM to 10PM
Just a reminder of the IRC today at 9 PM. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-in Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, The proposed IRC details are at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election-2013_IRC_Jul2013 Election committee and EC looks forward to interacting with you Sincerely For Elections Committee-2013 Arjuna Rao Chavala ___ 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] Improve Indian Biography Images Project
Hi all, I am working on a personal Wikipedia project aimed at getting more images of Notable Indians into Wikipedia Wikimedia Commons. I am calling it Improve Indian Biography Images Project for now... ( I know that it is a very boring title.. But if you want to suggest better names, do help me :) ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tinucherian/Improve_Indian_Biography_Images_Project The strategy is to use your influences to persuade people to donate their images to Wikipedia/Creative Commons. The result , in my opinion, would be 1) Better images of Notable Indians celebrities to Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. 2) Improve the awareness of releasing the images to free licenses and Creative Commons. There are already two successes: Ashwin Sanghi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashwin_Sanghi, author — Persuaded to change licenses of the images on Flickr to CC by SA. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with Flickr Bot Amish Tripathi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish_Tripathi, author — Released 4 images on CC by SA by email. Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons . OTRS pending I am already in talks with several others. One of the my learning from this exercise is that, while the celebrity might hold the copyrights of the images technically , it is also important to get signed consent of the actual photographer for transfer of the rights, if you are going via the OTRS route.. If someone instructs or pays another to take his photo, who holds the copyright? the photographer or the subject? In legal terms, it is always the photographer who is the copyright owner. The photographer should transfer the copyright by a contract or written terms if the subject needs to have the copyright. In most cases, it sound stupid, but that's how the law is written. ( Thanks to User:Sreejithk2000 for this gyan) Thoughts? Regards Tinu Cherian User:Tinucherian ___ 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] Malayalam Wikipedia crosses 1000 contributors milestone.
Congratulations Best wishes to the Malayalam Wiki Community. Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, Malayalam Wikipedia crosses 1000 contributors milestone. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaML.htm Congrats for the awesome community. 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] [WMIN-Members] [Press] : The Hindu : Tamil teacher to participate in Wikimania
You are right. English Wikipedia has more than 42 lakh articles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics The reporter should have researched on the stats. -TC On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 8:09 PM, Yogesh Khandke yogesh_khan...@yahoo.comwrote: Doesn't Wikipedia English have 40 lakh articles, Hindu is supposed to be reliable. -- *From:* Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) tinucher...@wikimedia.in *To:* Wikimedia India community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; wikit...@lists.wikimedia.org; WMIN chapter members list wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com *Cc:* Wikimedia India Press pr...@wikimedia.in *Sent:* Saturday, 22 June 2013 5:22 PM *Subject:* [WMIN-Members] [Press] : The Hindu : Tamil teacher to participate in Wikimania *The Hindu : Tamil teacher to participate in Wikimania * http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tamil-teacher-to-participate-in-wikimania/article4810118.ece *She will be one among the 10 persons selected from the country and one among the two persons selected from the State for participating in Wikimania 2013, an annual international conference of the Wikimedia movement, to be held in Hong Kong, China between August 7 and 11. S. Parvathi, a Tamil teacher at Panchayat Union Middle School, Kandampatti in Salem rural block, has contributed 500 articles, edited 10,500 articles and wrote three books for children in the Tamil language edition of Wikipedia and was selected for her continuous contribution to the portal. Talking about her journey in the knowledge world, she said that while searching for projects for class eight students in the website, she could not find suitable documents in Tamil and that made her mind to contribute something to the growth of development of the language. “It is the passion towards Tamil that started contributions in 2001. An article on Onam festival was published as main story and it motivated me,” she said. The Tamil Wikipedia currently has 52,000 articles when compared to 12 lakh in English. It is the second largest Wikipedia among Indian languages by article count and 59 largest in the world. Ms. Parvathi along with Sengai Podhuvan from Chennai were selected for contributions to Tamil while the rest eight were selected for their contributions in Oriya, Gujarati, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. Her contributions were in subjects dealing with noble laureates, scientists, Tamil literature and grammar apart from general issues. “Penetration of internet is increasing and more articles in Tamil are becoming essential nowadays,” added the teacher. Though there is no financial incentive for posting articles and editing works, she is happy about the contributions to the growth of Tamil language. She wanted more women to contribute for the Tamil Wikipedia and be a part of knowledge sharing society. About 2,500 people representing 200 languages are expected to take part in the conference that would help them to learn and share experience and come out with new knowledge initiatives across the world. -- * Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news *Important Note : *Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups wmin-members group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups wmin-members group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. ___ 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] RIP Atul Chitnis.
Atul Chitnis, a Wikipedian from Bangalore active open source evangelist passed away today. http://www.nextbigwhat.com/atul-chitnis-297/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atul_Chitnis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Achitnis http://tools.wmflabs.org/xtools/pcount/index.php?name=Achitnislang=enwiki=wikipedia May his soul Rest in Peace. You will be missed. Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] [Press] : Programme on #Wikipedia on #HMTV (#Telugu News Channel)
Programme on #Wikipedia on #HMTV (#Telugu News Channel), featuring Vishnu Vardhan, A2K and Telugu Wikipedians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr1Tk82EdKE [Video] It was also a phone-in live programme. Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] Exceptional and inspiring Wikipedians from India
Hi all, I am helping a journalist on a national newspaper, who is working on a story that features some of our Exceptional and inspiring Wikipedians from India. The people I have already in mind as Sengai Podhuvan, Babu G. Gopalan , Aniruddha Kumar and many others.. Do you know more of such amazing Wikipedians who have touching stories to tell? Can you share the details of such Wikipedians whom you know but less known to many ? Please do reply to me *privately*. Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] Wikimania proposals about India
Thank you, Sumana. Arun, If you are looking for all the presentation proposals from india or Indians, you can find it here. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2013#Presentation.2FTalk_proposals_from_Indian_Wikipedians.2F_India For all proposals for Wikimania Hong Kong - http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission_review Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 05/10/2013 08:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: From: arun vm arunweb...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania proposals about India Why cant you include submission for technical persons also i am a php programer i am not found any intresting catagory to me Arun, Hi there. Because this is the Wikimedia India community mailing list, I wanted to point out several proposals specifically interesting to the Wikimedia India community. It would be a waste of most subscribers' time for me to list out this year's many Wikimania submissions that are specifically about technology: https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submission_review#Technology_and_Infrastructure You might also like to attend the pre-Wikimania DevCamp: https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/DevCamp Best wishes, Sumana -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Fwd: 10th Anniversary Marathi Wikipedia will be available in (free) DVD Format, Aimed to reach 10, 000 schools.
This is great news. After Malayalam Wikipedia, another Indic language is
making an offline version.
Congratulations and Best wishes to Marathi Wikipedians involved in this
project,
Hopes to see more such initiatives.
Regards
Tinu Cherian
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote:
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Sudhanwa,
2013/5/1 Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com
FYI
Media coverage in Sakal newspaper- Mumbai, Pune edition.
~~~
10th Anniversary Special - Marathi Wikipedia will be available in
(free) DVD Format, Aimed to reach 10,000 schools.
विकिपीडिया आता डीव्हीडीच्या रूपात
- मनीषा फाळके - सकाळ वृत्तसेवा
मंगळवार, 30 एप्रिल 2013
http://online3.esakal.com/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsId=4965158952679418726SectionId=11SectionName=%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%AC%E0%A4%88NewsDate=20130430NewsTitle=%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+%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%A4%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B5%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B9%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%9A%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE+%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%82%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A4
Excellent! Congratulations to everyone involved with this! Can you share
the background story of how this is accomplished preferably in English as
it will be a good learning for fellow native language wikipedians?
Cheers
Arjuna
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crossess 50, 000 article mark
Congratulations to all Tamil Wikipedians to this milestone. Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Tamil Wikipedia crossed 50,000 article milestone on December 18th, 2012. The first 1000 articles took 1 year and 11 months. The last 25,000 articles were created in just 2 years and 2 months ! You can find the growth captured in the graph at http://ta.wikipedia.org/s/3ys During the last few months, we focused on clean up, improving article quality and creating most important articles listed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vital_articles 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] India wins at globally in Wiki Loves Monuments
Yes, Verification of the identity is absolutely necessary. How about also asking him to log in via his already registered wiki account and ascertain his identity too. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: We are st,ill verifying his identity, but someone claiming to be the winner did contact us via Facebook. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 8:24 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: I was told that the 1st prize winner reached out to us after seeing the The Hindu article. -TC On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Great stuff, though unfortunate they couldnt locate the winner! That's rather unfortunate. regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: Dear all, It is immense pleasure for me and Naveen to announce that India has won officially at the photo-contest Wiki Loves Monuments internationally. Two of the photos from India among 3,60,000+ have made it to the top-10. 1. Tomb of Safdarjunghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomb_of_Safdarjung,_New_Delhi.jpg from Delhi has received from the highest ranking by the international jury, as the image *wins first prize globally*. The photo plays with the light and gives a wonderful contrast between the darkness of the room and the lighted tomb, giving it a dramatic effect. The photographer is Pranav Singh, from Delhi. *Safdarjung's Tomb, a garden tomb with a marble mausoleum in New Delhi, India. It was built in 1754 in the late Mughal Empire style, and was described as the last flicker in the lamp of Mughal architecture.* *Comments from Jury: **The strong light contrast between the lighted tomb and the darkness of the room emphasizes the monument, and gives it a dramatic component. The tomb is sharp and detailed, and free of visual distractions; with gravity and a perfect sense for the angle of view and light this picture presents the object - the architecture and light forming a stage for the tomb, focusing on the details of the stone carving. All in all a nicely framed and executed picture that seems to speak of the significance of this tomb.* * * 2. The Taj Mahalhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rear_side_of_Tajmahal.jpg is no where lying behind. The winning photo from India *ranks 6th internationally*. The photographer is Narender Kumar, again from Delhi. *The Taj Mahal, is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, that was built under Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It is one of the most famous Indian buildings and considered a symbol for love world wide.* *Comments from Jury: **The Taj Mahal is probably one of the most photographed monuments in the world - and definitely in this competition. This particular image gives an impressive view of the silhouette, showing also the adjoining buildings. The complex seems to wake up, out of the mist. It gives context and mystery at the same time showing just a bit more than on most pictures.* * * * * * * It's happy moment for the Indian community. Congratulations to all winners. Thanks to the entire Indian community and to the Wikimedia India Chapter for constant cooperation. * * * * - Official announcement: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/and-the-2012-winner-is/ - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners(2012 contest finalists) - Stats: More than 3,60,000 images was uploaded globally. 15,000 participants, most of them (2000+) were from India alone. -- Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. *Donate to Wikipedia, support free knowledge.* 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 ___ 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 -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Member of the Executive Committee Wikimedia Chapter [India] ___ 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] India wins at globally in Wiki Loves Monuments
I was told that the 1st prize winner reached out to us after seeing the The Hindu article. -TC On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Great stuff, though unfortunate they couldnt locate the winner! That's rather unfortunate. regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: Dear all, It is immense pleasure for me and Naveen to announce that India has won officially at the photo-contest Wiki Loves Monuments internationally. Two of the photos from India among 3,60,000+ have made it to the top-10. 1. Tomb of Safdarjunghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tomb_of_Safdarjung,_New_Delhi.jpg from Delhi has received from the highest ranking by the international jury, as the image *wins first prize globally*. The photo plays with the light and gives a wonderful contrast between the darkness of the room and the lighted tomb, giving it a dramatic effect. The photographer is Pranav Singh, from Delhi. *Safdarjung's Tomb, a garden tomb with a marble mausoleum in New Delhi, India. It was built in 1754 in the late Mughal Empire style, and was described as the last flicker in the lamp of Mughal architecture.* *Comments from Jury: **The strong light contrast between the lighted tomb and the darkness of the room emphasizes the monument, and gives it a dramatic component. The tomb is sharp and detailed, and free of visual distractions; with gravity and a perfect sense for the angle of view and light this picture presents the object - the architecture and light forming a stage for the tomb, focusing on the details of the stone carving. All in all a nicely framed and executed picture that seems to speak of the significance of this tomb.* * * 2. The Taj Mahalhttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rear_side_of_Tajmahal.jpg is no where lying behind. The winning photo from India *ranks 6th internationally*. The photographer is Narender Kumar, again from Delhi. *The Taj Mahal, is a mausoleum located in Agra, India, that was built under Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It is one of the most famous Indian buildings and considered a symbol for love world wide.* *Comments from Jury: **The Taj Mahal is probably one of the most photographed monuments in the world - and definitely in this competition. This particular image gives an impressive view of the silhouette, showing also the adjoining buildings. The complex seems to wake up, out of the mist. It gives context and mystery at the same time showing just a bit more than on most pictures.* * * * * * * It's happy moment for the Indian community. Congratulations to all winners. Thanks to the entire Indian community and to the Wikimedia India Chapter for constant cooperation. * * * * - Official announcement: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/and-the-2012-winner-is/ - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners(2012 contest finalists) - Stats: More than 3,60,000 images was uploaded globally. 15,000 participants, most of them (2000+) were from India alone. -- Karthik Nadar. Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. *Donate to Wikipedia, support free knowledge.* 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 ___ 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 Hindu : Indians win in Wiki mega photo contest
BBC also republished the article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-20637540 Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Pranav Curumsey pra...@wikimedia.inwrote: *The Hindu : Indians win in Wiki mega photo contest* http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/indians-win-in-wiki-mega-photo-contest/article4172761.ece http://www.twitpic.com/bjqjvm ( Print coverage) - Large coverage on rear cover page !! *WLM beat its own record this year with more than 3,50,000 images Two photographs sent by Indians have won the first and sixth places in what Guinness World Records has called the largest photo competition. Called ‘Wiki Loves Monuments 2012!’ (WLM), the online competition was organised by Wikipedians all over the world, Karthik Nadar, secretary and Board member, Executive Committee, Wikimedia India Chapter, told The Hindu . Pranav Singh’s photo of Safdarjung’s tomb in New Delhi secured the first place internationally while Narender Kumar’s photo of the Taj Mahal got the sixth place. The two photos had been rated ninth and first respectively in the competition held at the India level. Other Indian finalists sent photos of the country’s tombs, temples and military forts. Narender Kumar told The Hindu that most photos of the Taj are “touristy,” so he took an unusual angle. “Luckily, there was foggy weather,” he said. A record While WLM had set the Guinness record for the world’s largest photo contest with 1,68,208 images in 2011, it beat its own record this year with more than 3,50,000 images. India participated for the first time in the competition this year. It sent the highest number of participants, representing 15 per cent of the 15,000 total contributors from around the world. Over 2,200 photographers contributed nearly 16,000 photos, according to sources in Wikimedia India Chapter. There is no free-to-use image of more than 99 per cent of monuments in India listed by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The aim of the contest was to encourage people to contribute photos to Wikimedia Commons, said Mr. Nadar. The Wikimedia Commons is a sister project of Wikipedia. It is a media file repository that makes available freely licensed educational content (such as images, sound and video clips) to everyone in the world. It acts as a common repository for various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, including Wikipedia. (Wikipedia.org ) He said anyone could use the photos from the Commons, including for commercial purposes provided the photographer’s name was mentioned. A ‘Photo Walk’ was organised in Mumbai in September (when the contest was on) during which participants took photos for the contest. Naveen Francis, former secretary and board member, Wikimedia India chapter, told The Hindu that participation from India was “almost uniform” with photos coming from contestants from across the country. The highest participation was from Delhi, with more photos taken of the Taj Mahal and the Qutub Minar. Mumbai followed with photos of Gateway of India. Mr. Francis said contestants were asked to photograph those monuments recognised by the ASI. The focus was on structures of national and international importance. However, some contestants sent photos of monuments not recognised by the ASI. Those were excluded from the competition. However, they will be used in Wiki Voyage, a new travel website that has launched recently. The international jury considered 324 images from 33 participating countries in the finale. There were 10 nominations from each participating country for the international round. The Indian jury for the country round had six jury members, who nominated 10 photos from 16,000. Three professional photographers, Gauri Gill, Anup Mathew Thomas and Ryan Lobo, made up the team along with three Wikipedians Arun Ganesh, Kiran Ravikumar, and Sreejith K. * Regards Pranav Curumsey Press Team, Wikimedia India Chapter pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher ( The Hindu ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] Fast inverse square root Wikipedia article blocked by DOT/ Vodafone India.
Strangely Fast inverse square root Wikipedia article is blocked by DOT/ Vodafone India. https://twitter.com/mixdev/status/269306415229829120/photo/1 Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] Fast inverse square root Wikipedia article blocked by DOT/ Vodafone India.
Yes, it was working with Reliance and Airtel. What I find iweird is the nature of this article ! What is potentially a national threat/defamatory on this article ? -TC On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Gaurav Pruthi gaurav.pruth...@gmail.comwrote: Use Airtel Broadbandits opening with that :). -Gaurav On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:52 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Strangely Fast inverse square root Wikipedia article is blocked by DOT/ Vodafone India. https://twitter.com/mixdev/status/269306415229829120/photo/1 Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India
Great work. Congratulations to all who worked hard behind this. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: This was a great initiative by such a young group of volunteers - Karthik, Naveen and everyone involved, a big Thank you and Congratulations, for getting this done. India desperately needed to be included in WLM, I hope you can keep up the momentum. On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Karthik, Thanks for the update. Thanks to you, Naveen and the jury for all the hardwork and perseverance. Can you update the (user names/ real names and location of winners on the web site? I am sure that the winners must be eagerly waiting to receive the prizes and hope you will have some more updates on the same. I'm not sure which web site you are referring to above - commons? chapter wiki? Karthik's email mentions the link to each winning picture on commons, and if you look closely below each picture is a section for Author. 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. 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. 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, sure. They don't have to do anything, like the majority of winners from other countries. Thanks again guys, and Keep up the good work! Regards Theo [1]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_winners [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Outing#Posting_of_personal_information ___ 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] An adieu to the Wikimedia India Movement
An Adieu to the @WikimediaIndia Movement http://dreamingcherries.com/2012/07/adieu-to-the-wikimedia-india-movement/ Thanks all Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] Bangalore Monthly Meetup 46 on 13th may 2012
A gentle reminder to the Wikimeetup 46 Bangalore tomorrow. Please do note the change of venue this time .. Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:24 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally arkris...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi All, Please join the Bangalore Monthly meetup 46 on this weekend. Please note the new Venue. Hope this will bring-in more North Bangalore Wikipedians ! http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore46 *Date:* : Sunday, *13-May-2012* *Time:* 3:00 PM IST *Venue:* Alcatel-Lucent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcatel-Lucent, Silver Oak, Manyata Embassy Tech Park, Nagawara Village, Outer Ring Road, Bangalore-92 -- Thanks Regards, RadhaKrishna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna Next Wikimedia Bangalore Meetup on 13th May http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WP:MBL46 ___ 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] Wikimania 2012 scholarships
That is great, Arnav. I hope everybody who are planning to attend this year get the visa . Can you update a detailed visa procedure here ? http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2012 similar to the one here http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Wikimania2011action=historysubmitdiff=3954oldid=3940 I also suggest to get in touch with other attendees and help them in visa and co-ordinate the travel. -TC On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.comwrote: Hey everyone, I appeared for visa interview on 8th May at US Consulate Mumbai, and I successfully got one :) If anyone is interested in knowing about the process or anything, please feel free to get in touch with me, I would be more than happy to share my knowledge and Visa interview with you. Thanks. On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 10:47 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Special congratulations to all those who received Wikimania Scholarships this year. As Sodabottle commented, last year, it was extremely useful by knowing each other, who all are traveling and helping each other with visa applications and other formalities. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Wikimania2011action=historysubmitdiff=3954oldid=3940. A lot of offline discussions and muutal helps ensured that most people get their visas in time and was able to attend the Wikimania. This year, there is a page created for this purpose * http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2012 * Requesting all those who received the Scholarships or attending Wikimania from India, to add their details here. If you have received the scholarship, don't forget to confirm your acceptance, book the tickets with the foundation travel agent and also work on the US visa asap. With USA this year, it is going to difficult with the visas, so please ensure that you do the homework and work on the visa formalities with due diligence. You have received scholarships from among hundreds of applications world wide, so request to kindly take it very seriously and ensure that you utilize this precious opportunity. If wasted, please remember that another deserving person could have instead attended the Wikimania. For those whose applications were rejected this year, don't worry... it has nothing to do with your accomplishments or your good work for the Wikimania Movement. I am also one among those rejected this year. :) I got my first Wikimania scholarship in 2010 after applying for several years With so many applications from world over and hundreds of Wikimedians from different languages and countries, it is difficult to accommodate lots of people with the limited number of scholarships. And don't forget to apply next year ! And Keep up the great work ! Best wishes again to all those who received Wikimania Scholarships this year. Regards Tinu Cherian On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Wikimania 2012 scholarships have been announced. Indian wikimedians who have been awarded full/partial scholarships - please enter your details in the page: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2012 This will be helpful for mutual help with visa application, travel etc (last year it proved very helpful) - Bala ___ 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 -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati ___ 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] Wikimania 2012 scholarships
Hi all, Special congratulations to all those who received Wikimania Scholarships this year. As Sodabottle commented, last year, it was extremely useful by knowing each other, who all are traveling and helping each other with visa applications and other formalities. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Wikimania2011action=historysubmitdiff=3954oldid=3940. A lot of offline discussions and muutal helps ensured that most people get their visas in time and was able to attend the Wikimania. This year, there is a page created for this purpose * http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2012 * Requesting all those who received the Scholarships or attending Wikimania from India, to add their details here. If you have received the scholarship, don't forget to confirm your acceptance, book the tickets with the foundation travel agent and also work on the US visa asap. With USA this year, it is going to difficult with the visas, so please ensure that you do the homework and work on the visa formalities with due diligence. You have received scholarships from among hundreds of applications world wide, so request to kindly take it very seriously and ensure that you utilize this precious opportunity. If wasted, please remember that another deserving person could have instead attended the Wikimania. For those whose applications were rejected this year, don't worry... it has nothing to do with your accomplishments or your good work for the Wikimania Movement. I am also one among those rejected this year. :) I got my first Wikimania scholarship in 2010 after applying for several years With so many applications from world over and hundreds of Wikimedians from different languages and countries, it is difficult to accommodate lots of people with the limited number of scholarships. And don't forget to apply next year ! And Keep up the great work ! Best wishes again to all those who received Wikimania Scholarships this year. Regards Tinu Cherian On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, Wikimania 2012 scholarships have been announced. Indian wikimedians who have been awarded full/partial scholarships - please enter your details in the page: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania2012 This will be helpful for mutual help with visa application, travel etc (last year it proved very helpful) - Bala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Meet-Up 45 Bangalore: Sunday 29th April @ 4pm
A gender reminder for the Wiki Meet-Up 45 Bangalore on this weekend. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore45 *Time: * Sunday 29th April @ 4pm *Venue : * The Centre for Internet and Society No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, 4th Main Domlur 2nd Stage Opposite to Domlur Club Bangalore 560 071 Karnataka Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 9:50 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally arkris...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi All, Bangalore Meetup 45 is planned on Sunday 29th April in the view of Barry Hisham arrival. Please register on the meetup page. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore45 Best Regards, RadhaKrishna On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks Barry and I were going to be in Bangalore on Sunday 29th. (For those who don't know, Barry is the Chief Global Development Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation and is normally based out San Francisco. He is visiting India on a short visit.) I thought it would be nice if we could have an informal community meetup with folks from as many communities (Indic as well as English.) It would be a good opportunity to talk about individual projects and communities - and to share stories of individual editors. I know of active community members from English, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Sanskrit and Odia in Bangalore. Can I request you folks to pass on the invite to others who might be interested. I am planning this for Sunday 29th between 4 -6 pm at CIS - but happy to look at a different location. (I know there were discussions on this mailing list about alternative venues to CIS.) Please do reply back so we can agree the venue. Feel free to reply offlist. Thanks. *hisham* ___ 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-en] Kalyan Varma on why Free Art is Profitable
And there is a Wikipedia article about him too :) On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: Is an interesting talk especially in the context of Wikipedia and Kalyan's work on Commons. http://youtu.be/mLf58wZEhQ4 He talks about freedoms, Creative Commons, Wikipedia and Commons. He's on the list too. Even if he's a lurker. :) Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimedia-in-en mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en ___ 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] [Press] : IANS : 60% Wikipedia entries contain factual errors
*IANS : 60% Wikipedia entries contain factual errors* Times of India : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/news/internet/Wikipedia-entries-full-of-factual-errors-says-researcher/articleshow/12721517.cms The Hindu : http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-in-school/article3329517.ece Zee News : http://zeenews.india.com/news/net-news/60-wikipedia-entries-contain-factual-errors_770494.html IBN Live : http://ibnlive.in.com/news/60-pc-of-wikipedia-entries-have-factual-errors/249873-11.html NYDaily : http://india.nydailynews.com/business/03617903ccd176f0e5c85a8c45644ee5/wikipedia-entries-full-of-factual-errors-says-researcher http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/communication/article00268.html http://www.tgdaily.com/software-features/62818-companies-struggle-to-correct-faulty-wikipedia-entries http://www.science20.com/news_articles/60_percent_wikipedia_entries_about_companies_incorrect-89076 http://www.business2community.com/public-relations/wikipedias-many-errors-frustrate-pr-people-0165798 *WASHINGTON: Sixty per cent of Wikipedia articles about companies contain factual errors, according to a new research, which warned people not to rely on the website for accurate and balanced information. It does not surprise me that so many Wikipedia entries contain factual errors, said Marcia W DiStaso, assistant professor of public relations at Penn State University, who conducted the research. A high amount of factual errors doesn't work for anyone, especially the public, which relies on Wikipedia for accurate, balanced information, says DiStaso. DiStaso surveyed 1,284 professionals from Public Relations Society of America, the International Association of Business Communicators, the Word of Mouth Marketing Association, the Institute for Public Relations and the National Investor Relations Institute to assess their working relationship with Wikipedia, the Public Relations Journal reports. Results of the survey indicate a gap exists between public relations professionals and Wikipedia concerning the proper protocol for editing entries, according to a Penn statement. When respondents attempted to engage editors through Wikipedia's Talk pages to request corrections of facts in entries, 40 percent said it took days to receive a response, 12 percent indicated weeks, while 24 percent never received any type of response. According to Wikipedia, its standard response time to requests for corrections is between two and five days. Only 35 per cent of respondents were able to engage with Wikipedia, either by using its Talk pages to converse with editors or through direct editing of a client's entry. Respondents indicated this figure is low partly because some fear media backlash over making edits to clients' entries. Respondents also expressed a certain level of uncertainty regarding how to properly edit Wikipedia entries. Of those who were familiar with the process of editing Wikipedia entries, 23 percent said making changes was near impossible. Twenty-nine percent said their interactions with Wikipedia editors were never productive. What is surprising, however, is that 25 per cent of survey respondents indicated they are not familiar with the Wikipedia articles for their company or clients. At some point most, if not all, companies will determine they need to change something in their Wikipedia entries, said DiStaso. Without clear, consistent rules from Wikipedia regarding how factual corrections can be made, this will be a very difficult learning process for public relations professionals. * Regards Tinu Cherian pr...@wikimedia.in http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news Important Note : Non-commercial reproduction for informative purposes only. The publisher (IANS ) of the above news article owns the copyrights of the article / content. All copyrights are duly acknowledged. ___ 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] : IANS : 60% Wikipedia entries contain factual errors
The biggest irony is how our news publications summarized the titles : The so called research finds that 60 % of the respondents found that their company articles on Wikipedia having factual errors .. But our new agencies conclude that 60 % of the Wikipedia entries contain factual errors ! Anyways don't expect any sympathies from the PR industry towards Wikipedia ! :) On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 14:32, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: IANS : 60% Wikipedia entries contain factual errors Wonderful report I have ever seen. 6th grade kid would do far better in what is called comprehending the original statement. The irony is it talks of factual errors. In fact, 60% of respondents who were familiar with their company or recent client’s Wikipedia article indicated that it article contained factual errors. -- The actual statement from page 20 of the research report[1]. Who were the people who responded? PR professionals, yes people who try to promote a brand / entity for money. End of the day its about Paid editing. [1] http://www.prsa.org/Intelligence/PRJournal/Documents/2012DiStaso.pdf -- 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] WikiConference India 2012 - Bootstrap Team
Hi Mandar, I guess you are referring to the Videos of the 2011 Conference. It was answered earlier in this thread earlier http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-March/007738.html Btw I am not sure if all bold large fonts are considered the same way as all capital letters. :) -TC On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Apart from the formal report, we still have not received the VDOs which were been promised in Nov. and nobody in the mailing list is commenting on that. Who owns that responsibility? If no body can take the ownership of that, why you cannot declare that we will not publish the VDOs or those will not be made available ever. There are many such open points/pain area which needs to be taken care in the next conference. With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni http://mr.wikipedia.org http://mr.wikisource.org http://live.wikimedia.in *From:* Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com *To:* Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Monday, 26 March 2012, 8:56 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2012 - Bootstrap Team On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 06:32, Tinu Cherian ( Wikimedia India) tinucher...@wikimedia.in wrote: In 2011, WikiConference India was held for the first time and turned out to be a landmark event. It was the largest Wikipedia conference in the world, ever held to date! Can we keep niceties aside and look at how the event was run / challenges faced by organizers (Includes chapter-OC coordination and a semi-public spat) and do a thorough discussion on the conference list before talking of any next steps for WCI 2012. Also there has been no report that has been made available public for the community. It is for the community's own good health, issues are ironed out even before there is *any* discussion on next WCI. It might be good for the chapter / IP to keep having a conference every year and showcase India story, but volunteers(including the bootstrap team) who are interested in organizing must know what are the pain points in making a conference happen and the kind of support they would be getting from chapter / IP. Pranav / Pradeep, Can we have your conference OC report any sooner? -- 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] WikiConference India 2012 - Bootstrap Team
I didn't know the passion for continued volunteering for the Wikimedia movement was dependent on the availability of the videos of the WikiConference :P ( We should definitely add that as one of the key expectations for next Conference) The fact that those who didn't attend last time was their own personal choice again. No one can predict they will attend next Conference , not even all those who attended the conference last year. BTW Personally I would love to see the videos soon. I couldn't attend all the sessions :D -TC On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Tinu, whether the videos and reports are out or not, the fact of the matter is that not many of those who didn't attend last time know what happened and this may result in noone volunteering. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l 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] India Programs Additional IRC: Thursday March 22nd @ 9pm IST(Open House) (#wikimedia-office)
While I humbly request Pradeep to reconsider his decision of retirement, I personally agree with one of his statements. *I find that the level of trust and even the assumption of good faith seems to have gone down. Every action is seen through the lens of forwarding or stopping a particular agenda. '* http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3APrad2609diff=483871238oldid=482060009 To add up my thoughts here, the passion and joy of contributing to the movement is subsiding...But personal agendas caballing are on high tide here... Sad, but the truth... :( I just hope ( and pray that) good faith , sense conscience prevails among us .. -TC On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, this thread seems to be having a negative impact on our editors and their editing. Pradeep, has written whatever he wrote about trust and good faith here on his user page and put up a Retired banner. Please help. All the best in life, hoping you reconsider your decision. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l 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] Malayalam Wiktionary reached 1 lakh mile stone!
Thanks Anoopan for sharing this good news. Congratulations all those who contributes to Malayalam Wiktionary. If possible, can someone also share with some stats growth of Malayalam Wiktionary , especially on earlier key milestones ike when 25k, 50k,etc happened. And who are the key contributors for the growth ... What are the best practices? Did Malayalam Wiktionary get data from any Government Dictionary projects etc. It would certainly help other language Wiktionary projects. Regards Tinu Cherian On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am happy to inform you that Malayalam Wiktionaryhttp://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%A8_%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BE%E0%B5%BEhas completed 1 lakh entrieshttp://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%87%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%82:%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82today. Please join me to congratulate Malayalam Wikitionary team for achieving this milestone. -- With Regards, Anoop ___ 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] India Programs Additional IRC: Thursday March 22nd @ 9pm IST(Open House) (#wikimedia-office)
Logs of the previous IRC meeting ( March 15, 2012) is available on this page http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/meetings but it is not linked here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program#Communication Hisham/ Noopur, may be you want to update there too or just avoid the need to update on both pages. -TC On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:19 AM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Last log was on 12 October http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program . Please update On 23 March 2012 22:11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote: Heya, since I was unable to join in yesterday, can I have a link to the archive/log? On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: We're starting in 15 minutes at 9pm IST. Speak soon. *hisham* On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:14 AM, Hisham wrote: Dear All Reminder that there's an IRC for the community with India Program on 22nd March at 9:00 pm IST in #wikimedia-office. This session is an open house with no specific topics to be discussed. (This was scheduled because we ran out of time in the previous IRC. To avoid spamming lists, I won't be sending this to any other lists apart from this one. Please do share this mail with whoever you know might be interested. (To join the IRC, all you have to do is go to: http://webchat.freenode.net/ and enter a nickname ( it does not require prior registration) and enter #wikimedia-office as the channel name.) I'll send a reminder 15 minutes before the session. *hisham* On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Hisham wrote: Here's the linkhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/IRC_meeting_2012-03-15 that gives the log of this meeting - for those who couldn't attend. As planned, the major topic of discussion was the Indic Languages initiatives. We talked about the overall approach that Shiju has been following with several dozen community members. We walked through the Medical project - currently underway in Assamesehttp://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE:%E0%A7%B1%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8D%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA_%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BF%E0%A7%8E%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9E%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%A8 , Teluguhttp://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%AA%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE:WikiProject/Medicine , Oriya (Odia)http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%B3%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%AA_%E0%AC%9A%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A4%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%B8%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%9C%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%9E%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%A8 Malayalamhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A7%E0%B4%A4%E0%B4%BF/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%A6%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AF%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%A4%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%82. (This seeks to create vital articles in Indic wikis with the help of community members with medical/healthcare background, or users who are interested in healthcare articles.) During the IRC, Jayanta informed us that the Bengali community have also started ithttp://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MED - which is great. We also discussed the Translated Articles Enhancement Projecthttp://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:%E0%B2%85%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BE%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%97%E0%B3%8A%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%A1_%E0%B2%B2%E0%B3%87%E0%B2%96%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%97%E0%B2%B3_%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%82%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%A7%E0%B2%A8%E0%B2%BE_%E0%B2%AF%E0%B3%8B%E0%B2%9C%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%86 which has been started by the Kannada community. Thank you to every one but a special thank you to the new folks who came on today. It's always nice to see new faces! We ran out of time on this IRC. As discussed, I would like to suggest Thursday March 22nd @9pm IST for another IRC. (This is in addition to the IRC planned for March 29th.) The March 22nd IRCwill be an open house - and will not therefore have a predetermined agenda. As always, do visit the India Program pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program for more information on everything we do. Best *hisham* On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Hisham wrote: Reminder that we are starting in 15 minutes. Do join in! Details below. *hisham* On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Hisham wrote: Gentle reminder. Do join in. *hisham* On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Hisham wrote: Hi Folks One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work
[Wikimediaindia-l] Encyclopaedia Britannica stops print editions
Encyclopaedia Britannica stops print editions http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450004577280143864147250.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Not to mention who killed the Goliath ;D -TC ___ 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] India WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon
*Why shud girls have all the fun ? * :D Just kidding ! Nice initiative ... All the best wishes! On a related note, it is good to find reasons on why Wikipedia attract very less woman editors ( much less in India than global benchmarks) and how to solve this gender gap. Thoughts ? -TC On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for pulling this together Netha :) I am in! Regards Noopur On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Pradeep. We will be working on 1-4 articles depending upon the volunteer turnout. I am thinking of conducting a similar Edit-a-thon in Malayalam Wikipedia. If anybody else would like to conduct WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thon's in other Indic languages, please let me know. Together, we shall celebrate the Women's month! In WikiLove, Netha Hussain On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Netha, Great initiative! Wondering why you're limiting yourself to one article? Why not do multiple articles in small groups of 3 to 4 people? Also, why not do it across languages as well? It might get slightly messy but will be more fun and might foster some healthy competition between the groups as well :) Pradeep Handheld On Mar 13, 2012 8:36 PM, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.com wrote: Hey All, I am writing to invite each one of you to India WikiWomen's Edit-a-Thonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thonthat has been scheduled for 25th March 2012, Sunday from 12:00pm to 2:00pm. It's probably not possible for all of us to meet physically to celebrate Women's Month but we all meet virtually - online! During the two hour time slot we all will be editing an article which will be pre-selected by way of nomination and votes. Depending on the number of members joining in we can also organise an IRC meet to meet each other before and during the event. Everyone is welcome to come edit Wikipedia with us at this event. Women, new editors, all those who relate to women's history or women's issues, those who want to learn how to edit or can teach others how, and anyone with an interest in women's history are particularly encouraged to attend. Please sign Up herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon#Sign_upand suggest and vote for articles herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon#Article_Selection. Nomination for articles will be closed by 22nd of March and the voting will be closed by 24th March. Hurry! :) Thanks Nitika http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t, for bringing up this idea! I welcome all of you to participate by editing subjects about women's history and more. Everyone is welcome! Thanks -- Netha Hussain User : Netha Hussain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussainon Wikiprojects Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ 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 -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] RFC over hindi wiki bureaucrat actions
Interesting.. Thanks Jyothis Theo for sharing this. It is sad to see that a very inportant Wikipedia like Hindi-wiki is in such a huge mess. Such issues occur when the communities are not strong big enough, which results in a few individuals having a free run. This is also an important lesson for the newly emerging language Wikipedias, something that needs to be watchful for. -TC :ccing Hindi Wiki list so that the Hindi community also responds. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:22 AM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com wrote: All, Please note that hindi wikipedia's bureaucrats has been removed temporarily for concerns over improper rights management, transparency of the actions and possible privacy violations due to the rights that was requested and implemented over the course of time. An RfC has been openedhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Userrights_on_hi.wikiand all are welcome to comment. Thanks Jyothis. This is really appreciated. This might also be relevant. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Vibhijain_and_Mayur I'd like to invite chapter and community members who commented on the last RfC to take a look. Regards Theo ___ 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] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012
Thanks Srikanth for the clarification. chapter hat The India Chapter is here to serve the community. It makes no distinction between chapter or (other) community members in these efforts. AFAIK, Naveen had told RSrikanth that his travel expenses ( related to NITT) will be reimbursed by the chapter ( Before his travel after). There was no reason why he had a different thought. If any chapter member has told you differently, it is his personal view and not the chapter's . Everyone is free to join the chapter as member or not. But regardless of whether you are a member or not, we will support you in your Wikimedia activities in the best efforts we can and the limited resources we have. /chapter hat personal cap I think this thread has gone too far with unnecessary off-topic discussions, personal attacks .. While I stand by my personal views expressed in this thread, the tone used by me wasn't the best of me. I think I got a bit carried by the emotions and heat in this discussion. Please understand that there was nothing personal, but I was just standing up for the values and philosophies that I personally believe in. If I have unknowingly unintentionally hurt anyone through my words, I express my deepest apologies.. personal cap Enjoy your weekend. For those in Bangalore, Don't forget to come for the monthly meetup tomorrow. :) -TC On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, so the person who blasted me about Trichy caught me on this one too. Let me clarify. Tinu, I know the Chapter has been supportive of my actions even though I'm not a member [yet]. Naveen was more than ready to sign the MoU much before I informed Nitika. I am NOT claiming travel amount from the Chapter as I feel there is NO justification in me claiming INR 395 [275+120 Kovai-Tiruchi-Kovai], from a Voluntary Non profit organisation, especially when I made so many mistakes and errors before, after and during the T'palli event. The India Chapter has always been supportive of the Community, whether they're members or not. Naveen, as an EC member of the Chapter was the first person to offer support to me for setting up the Coimbatore community. Apart from this, the India Chapter has been the only body [in India, the Chair of the UK chapter offered his support] that has supported me for my QR Pedia ideas. I hope this clarifies everything. On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Tinu, Someone from the Chapter, [I DO NOT want to name him] told me so. I do not want to take the matter furtheer because I travelled at my expense. I am NOT claiming it from the Chapter. Good Day, Cheerio. -- On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 4:01 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Srikanth, Who told you that your travel expenses for NITT will not be reimbursed since you are not a chapter member ? Don't spread false accusations ! Didn't Naveen say that your travel expenses related to NIIT, even before you are traveling to Trichy? Regards Tinu Cherian On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: This was the sole reason I went to Trichy, [at my expense, There is some ambiguity, there too, I was told that the Chapter would reminburse my travel amount, later was told that since I'm not a member, it wouldn't be possible, whatever be the case, I don't care, I still had fun]. ___ 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 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 -- 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Wikipedia WikiMeetup 43 on Sunday, 11 Mar 2012 , 3 PM
Hi all, On behalf of the Bangalore Wikipedia / Wikimedia Community, we would like to co-cordially invite you to attend the 43rd Bangalore Wikimeetup on*Sunday, 11 Mar 2012 3 PM * http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43 *Date: *: Sunday, 11-March-2012 Time: 3:00 PM IST *Venue:* The Centre for Internet and Society ( Wikimedia India Office) No. 194, 2nd 'C' Cross, 4th Main Domlur 2nd Stage Opposite to Domlur Club Bangalore 560 071 Karnataka *Agenda*: - *Native language transliterations in English Wikipedia articles* - Swaroop G Rao (User:MikeLynch) In English Wikipedia articles, articles with strong non-English connections usually carry a transliteration (along with pronunciation) in the language of origin. There was many disputes regarding these transliterations. This presentation will focus primarily on these transliterations, exploring many possible points of view into the problem. Since India is a large country of over 28 states and 22 official languages (and hundreds of other recognized languages), we can expect this problem to be more pronounced in Indian articles. And not surprisingly, it is so. This is a contentious issue many a times; and more often than not, regional polarization occurs, even among established editors. Swaroop will speak about looking into these problems objectively, and in the meantime, also looking into possible solutions. Along the way, he will also present some case studies of contentious discussions/edit wars which have already taken place. - *NASSCOM Initiative - Engineering Services* - RadhaKrishna Arvapally (User:Arkrishna) NASSCOM (Under Human Resources Ministry) has few initiative of which one of them is Education Initiative: Under this initiative, NASSCOM aims to enhance graduate employability through appropriate skill enrichment and act as bridge between industry, academia and government. As being part of one of the working groups, RadhaKrishna made a framework to add WikiMedia to this course. He will be talking more about this. - *Kerala Sarvavijnanakosham and Malayalam Wikipedia *- Ramesh N G (User:Rameshng) This story is about an effort to increase the content of the Malayalam Wikipedia where the community is successful in getting the content from the Kerala Government officially published Encyclopedia called as SarvavijnanaKosham. In 2008, Kerala government Education minister announced about giving the content of SarvavijnanaKosham to Malayalam Wikipedia. The SarvavijnanaKosham contains nearly 21 volumes, each with ~1600 article; out of which four volumes are published online. The license of the website content is changed to GNU Free Documentation License 1.2. Malayalam wikipedian a groups 7 users started transferring the content from the website to Malayalam Wikipedia. Under the project while transferring the content the users make sure that it wikified, possible images added, interwiki given etc. This presentation is about the idea behind getting the content, the project coordination, current status and future of this project. This project is one of the motivating project and rich in content where we are getting the article content which are written by subject matter expert in SarvavijnanaKosham for last 70 years. - *Community activities and Outreach in Kannada Wikipedia* - Omshivaprakash H L(User:Omshivaprakash) Omshivaprakash will talk about the recent increase in the Community Activities around Kn-wiki and its future plans for outreach. He will be also taking on how kn-wiktionary has adopted its best projects and practices. If you are planning to attend , you can sign up here http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43#Sign_Up or the facebook event page https://www.facebook.com/events/119678494824154/ ( Note that facebook page shows the wrong time due to some bug) If you need any help, feel free to contact us. See you all there ! Regards RadhaKrishna Arvapally Tinu Cherian ___ 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] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012
I strongly agree that we should NOT categorize or sideline any Wikipedians based on how they came to project or any particular association. The idea of any Wikimedia project is bring in more and more users ( editors and readers) and not bring in any kind of caste system. But I won't see English Wikipedia Community has a large problem and not Indic Languages ! The number of people that comes to the English Wikipedia is much much larger and also comes from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Hence many individuals coming to English Wikipedia may have highly varied perceptions, politics, prejudices and views. There are lots of people in English Wikipedia who are very welcoming and helpful to new comers or any others for that matter. On the other hand ( No offense, ok ? ), those coming to a particular Indic language comes mostly from the same state, culture and language ( with an exception of Hindi and very few others) and the incoming flow is much less than those coming to the English Wikipedia in terms of numbers. We must not forget than the number of active contributors in English Wikipedia ( just from India) is much larger than the sum total of all Indic languages. I am in not in any way saying that Indic Language Wikipedias are not important. There are also very important and has lots of the potential . But a blind generalization that English Wikipedia is bad and Indic Wikipedias are good may be also wrong. Regards Tinu Cherian ( Statuary Warning: Any mails from my personal email indicate my personal views as a community member, until otherwise specified . Any resemblance to any other person or mail , living or dead, chapter or community member is purely coincidental ) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: IEP volunteers This is another branding going on to side line wikipedia editors. Remember once a person start editing in Wikipedia they are wikipedians. But here we are branding and sidelining them to prove our POV. I have seen members (both in this list and in other lists) using the words outsiders, non-xyz language speakers, non-xyz city people to sideline few community members (especially if they are newcomers). See now I am side lined as an *ex-volunteer* so that the interested parties can prove their POV. For me that is not an issue since my wiki contributions are not depending on these branding and I will continue my volunteer contribution. The community atmosphere in Indic wikis is entirely different especially when it comes towards treatment towards new users. But when new members joining wiki if they are branded and sidelined how will community grow for any language. From my experience with Malayalam wikipedia, I must say Indic wiki communities perform better in this aspect. When a user start editing in wiki, we must value their wiki contributions, not by their association or non-association with any organization/groups/individuals. Shiju (Again this mail is sent as a current volunteer of Malayalam wiki projects) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Let me take the focus of discussions back to the report/s where it all started. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mar 7, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: In retrospect, I also understand the need for seperating the Foundation activities as well. I think it is best to either go for total seperation of community, chapter and Office or have general statements. The work that India Program is doing is integrally embedded in community building. This means we work directly with interested community members across the world and with the Chapter. I don't think a total separation is either practical or advisable. We should obviously avoid taking the option of general statements - and we need to find a suitable island in between. I was going through the report and also saw another page here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Outreach_Sessions/Feb that gives listing of outreach sessions by IP. Another page by chapter also shows outreach reports. It is on the main page of wiki. IP and Chapter are having more or less similar functions. They do similar outreach efforts and have same people in some functions. Somehow, the reports from IP as well has chapter has about 9 entries each for outreach program and only 2 are common !! One of them is the now famous NITT academy and the other one is GNUnify. I was surprised to see only the English academy entry in GNUnify that was conducted by Ashwin and helped by IEP volunteers. The Marathi academy conducted at the same lab immediately after the lunch break is not mentioned at all. Also surprising was the entry where Moksh was involved. Possibly, it was supported by some IP person. General observation is that the report from IP shows the
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource is approved
Excellent news ! Looking forward to see Wikisources in all other Indic languages too. Time to update http://wikisource.in :) -TC On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Gerard, that is really very very good news. Hopefully we will see valuable heritage texts in Gujarati come into open access. I feel that each Indic language community must ask for Wikisource if not already held in that language. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, The good news is that there is approval for the Gujarati Wikisource. We are quite happy to post a bug asking for the creation of this new Wiki but for one small detail. There is information lacking that is necessary for the creation of this new wiki. I am happy to share this news and I hope it will not take long before I can inform you about the creation of the Gujarati Wikisource. Thanks, Gerard ___ 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] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012
Dear Anirudh Shiju, I would strongly dispose this as NOT the official position of the chapter. I have a different opinion but again I won't attribute to the chapter. What I say below is my personal opinion. Just because someone decides to work full time ( and paid too) doesn't mean it ceases to do anything as a volunteer. If someone is not able to spend the same extent of time to the movement as a volunteer, there is their own problem. Nobody is going to ask anyone why you are not doing your job as a volunteer. I have a high pressured day job to keep and family friends to take care, and I do my volunteer work with the limited time , it is my choice. If I decide to work as full time as a paid staff ( for the same movement), I don't need advise from someone else to tell me what I should be doing as a volunteer and what I should not ! On a very hypothetical case, if you were working on a legal position for WMF India, would you like someone to define that what your volunteer work should be ? As I clearly explained earlier, many a times, due to nature of our involvement with the movement, it is practically separate whether we does something as a volunteer, chapter member or chapter board member or even foundation staff. Pranav and Pradeep were working on a Foundation paid Fellowship for an event like WikiConference that was supported by Community and conducted on the banner of the Wikimedia India Chapter. Both are chapter members and leaders ( as well as community members). Where does the work for the Conference end as a Foundation full time Fellow end and where does it start as community or chapter member? Everyone is encouraged to volunteer for the chapter , regardless of what his or her day job is. There is nothing that prevents even a foundation staff or contractor even being the board member of the chapter , less alone any volunteer or member. There are several Wikimedia chapters in the world who has paid and full time staff working for them. The Secretary ( volunteer) of the Dutch chapter is also a Foundation Full time Contractor. Hope that clarifies -TC On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: I am replying to this mail as a *Malayalam wikimedia community member*. Fact: Subhashish, *former volunteer*, and now paid consultant with India Programs. What do you mean by this? I Shiju Alex is a Indic language wikipedian now close to 6 years. According to Mr. Anirudh (an EC member of India chapter) I am a former volunteer. is this is the official position of wikimedia India chapter? As a community member I require an explanation for this. Shiju, you and Subhashish have been volunteers but now you are paid contractors hired by the Foundation. Any work you do within the purview of your contractual relationship with the Foundation will be work as a paid contractor and cannot be deemed to be the same as a volunteer. You can continue being volunteers once your contractual assignment is complete. Is that so difficult to understand? The difference is this: I am an unpaid volunteer who cannot expend the same amount of time and energy towards our projects as you are currently able to. ___ 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] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012
If it matters, if you have read the MoA or the Chapters agreement of the Wikimedia India Chapter or most of the chapters, the Foundation and Chapters are independent organizations. Wikimedia Foundation is NOT a parent organization of the Wikimedia India Chapter. IMHO, It would be only a conflict of interest if I am both a paid employee of the chapter and also a board member of the chapter as well. The bigger problem is we have lots of work to do, very very little hands and too many arm chair advisers. Period. -TC On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:37 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone is encouraged to volunteer for the chapter , regardless of what his or her day job is. There is nothing that prevents even a foundation staff or contractor even being the board member of the chapter , less alone any volunteer or member. There are several Wikimedia chapters in the world who has paid and full time staff working for them. The Secretary ( volunteer) of the Dutch chapter is also a Foundation Full time Contractor. Hope that clarifies I'm not sure what you are talking about above. The issue with Siebrand is a conflict of interest, as far as I know, they should/would have declared it to their members. Laws in several countries dictate that board of non-profit can not be paid employees of their own or parent organizations. Several chapter board members usually resign to take up employee position. It used to be that they had to resign to take up any position as staff, but contractor is a relatively new feature with confusing legality, but there are still individuals who see the distinction and resign or declare their conflicts upfront. Board members by definition can not be paid employees, this is not my distinction but a legal one. Something I believe all WIkimedia organizations should adhere to. I believe Ashwin explained it much better than I could. If we can demarcate what role someone does something as, it would help a lot. The community staff at WMF usually keep 2 accounts to demarcate this clearly, on wiki. It might not be practically separate whether we does something as a volunteer the distinction is actually quite simple. One that en.wp, staff and majority of the community holds- paid vs. non-paid. What one does as an employee is separate from what one does as an employee. That is why they have two accounts and rather large disclaimers on their user pages, demarcating this very difference. Regards Theo P.S. @achal lol ___ 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] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012
And to add That is why they have two accounts and rather large disclaimers on their user pages, demarcating this very difference. This is only possible in virtual worlds, while editing Wikipedia or writing mails. Not in real life work ! I cannot have one face or voice when I am acting as board member of the chapter and another when I am helping the community. Many of us, live and breathe Wikimedia, making it difficult to separate on which capacity each of our action is. You are a long time community member, you were working as Wikimedia Foundation paid contractor for some time, does that mean all the volunteer work you would have done before/after or during being a full time and paid staff of Foundation cease to have any value ? -TC On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:14 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: If it matters, if you have read the MoA or the Chapters agreement of the Wikimedia India Chapter or most of the chapters, the Foundation and Chapters are independent organizations. Wikimedia Foundation is NOT a parent organization of the Wikimedia India Chapter. IMHO, It would be only a conflict of interest if I am both a paid employee of the chapter and also a board member of the chapter as well. The bigger problem is we have lots of work to do, very very little hands and too many arm chair advisers. Period. -TC On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:37 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone is encouraged to volunteer for the chapter , regardless of what his or her day job is. There is nothing that prevents even a foundation staff or contractor even being the board member of the chapter , less alone any volunteer or member. There are several Wikimedia chapters in the world who has paid and full time staff working for them. The Secretary ( volunteer) of the Dutch chapter is also a Foundation Full time Contractor. Hope that clarifies I'm not sure what you are talking about above. The issue with Siebrand is a conflict of interest, as far as I know, they should/would have declared it to their members. Laws in several countries dictate that board of non-profit can not be paid employees of their own or parent organizations. Several chapter board members usually resign to take up employee position. It used to be that they had to resign to take up any position as staff, but contractor is a relatively new feature with confusing legality, but there are still individuals who see the distinction and resign or declare their conflicts upfront. Board members by definition can not be paid employees, this is not my distinction but a legal one. Something I believe all WIkimedia organizations should adhere to. I believe Ashwin explained it much better than I could. If we can demarcate what role someone does something as, it would help a lot. The community staff at WMF usually keep 2 accounts to demarcate this clearly, on wiki. It might not be practically separate whether we does something as a volunteer the distinction is actually quite simple. One that en.wp, staff and majority of the community holds- paid vs. non-paid. What one does as an employee is separate from what one does as an employee. That is why they have two accounts and rather large disclaimers on their user pages, demarcating this very difference. Regards Theo P.S. @achal lol ___ 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] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012
Theo, * Err... I have no idea who or what implied that. * I am referring to your previous full time and paid work for the Wikimedia Foundation 2010-2011 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_contractors#Individuals * I don't think anyone said anything to that effect so far. * Look at the similar comments from Anirudh on this thread related to people like Shiju and Subhashish. As I have clearly explained earlier, such a segregation is only possible in virtual user accounts, not in real world action. If you want know, come do the donkey work ! -TC On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:38 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: You are a long time community member, you were working as Wikimedia Foundation paid contractor for some time, does that mean all the volunteer work you would have done before/after or during being a full time and paid staff of Foundation cease to have any value ? Err... I have no idea who or what implied that. I don't think anyone said anything to that effect so far. Just said volunteer and staff work is separate, not that it goes away or one negates the other. I completely agreed with Ashwin on the need for better demarcation. Here's some example- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Theo_(WMF) - my old contractor account- read the disclaimer http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ATheo10011diff=2165185oldid=2156716 - my volunteer account at the time- read the disclaimer/announcement Shijus's staff account -http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju and volunteer account - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shijualex Subha's staff account http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Subha_WMF and volunteer accoun t- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Psubhashish They all have disclaimers, and explanation that this work is separate from staff work. It's a pretty clean and simple staff policy, that I have discussed with Philippe in the past. This might be harder to do in offline work, but there should be some attempt at demarcation like on-wiki. Their volunteer work and standing will never go away, no one remotely suggested that. Just that, like on-wiki, there should be better communication about which is which, nothing more. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Errm Theo, Do remember that the India TRUST is DIFFERENT form the Chapter. It is from the WMF side and has absolutely NO relation with the Chapter. lol I know Srikanth. My question was about its current legal status. Is it independent? different or same as the chapter? Regards Theo ___ 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] Polish Wikimedia scholarships for Wikimania 2012
Just a reminder. The last date of applications for Wikimania scholarships by Wikimedia Polska (Poland) is March 9, 2012. The application should be submitted by e-mail sent to the Secretary of the Commission (at powere...@gazeta.pl ) More details here http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/en#Application_process -Tinu Cherian On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Tinu Cherian tinucher...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi all, Wikimedia Polska (Poland) has announced its own scholarships programme for Wikimedians willing to attend Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C Apart from up to 10 scholarships for Wikimedians from Poland, they are also going to grant up to 6 scholarships for Wikimedians from other countries ( which includes India). More details can be found here : http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/en We spoke to the Committee, and they expressed that all willing Indian Wikimedians are free to apply and they will treat them with all due consideration. Please also note that the recipients will be required to cover all the expenses on their own and then present the documentation of those expenses to the them in order to qualify for the refund. While the number of WMF scholarships for Wikimania are limited,We strongly encourage Wikimedians from India to also apply and utilize this opportunity too. Best wishes ! Regards Tinu Cherian Wikimedia India http://wiki.wikimedia.in P.S. Feel free to forward this to various other India-related Wikimedia mailing lists. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:01 AM, Tomasz Ganicz polime...@gmail.compolime...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Wikimedia Polska (Poland) has just launched its own scholarships programme for Wikimedians willing to attend Wikimania 2012 in Washington, D.C. This year, apart from up to 10 scholarships for Wikimedians from Poland, we are also going to grant up to 6 scholarships for Wikimedians from other countries. Only countries which have lower national income per capita than Poland (according to World Bank 2010 stats) are eligible. We are particularly willing to reach out to the Wikimedians from the former USSR countries (except Estonia, which doesn't meet the income criteria) and from the Balkans (except Greece and Slovenia, for the same reason). The scholarship covers travel and accommodation expenses, as well as conference fee. More details are available here: http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/** Wikimania_2012/en http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/en The closing date for applications is March 9. Regards, -- Tomek Polimerek Ganicz http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/**User:Polimerekhttp://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Polimerek http://www.ganicz.pl/poli/ http://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.**php?id=29title=tomasz-ganiczhttp://www.cbmm.lodz.pl/work.php?id=29title=tomasz-ganicz __**_ Wikimania-l mailing list Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.**org wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimania-lhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-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] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012
Hi Pranav, In India, it is extremely difficult to hairline separate who has done which event. - Chapter, Community and WMF India Programs. Let us take the case of the Trichy event, the request came to a community member Rsrikanth to the chapter. Nitika was actively involved along with me and Naveen. The chapter signed the MoU and supplied some goodies. Nitika was actively involved in coaching Sohan, a chapter member and Rsrikanth. One must not also forget that both Hisham Nitika are also chapter members. Another event in Chennai (Jaya eng college) , where Subha led, his travel expenses was reimbursed by the Chapter, Subha is a Chapter SIG Chair .. The event is supported by Hisham Nitika too. Subha is also an India Programs executive. I actively organize Bangalore Meetups and support several others .. Should I be worrying whether I am doing as a chapter member, board member or a community member? As with Assam meetup recently, coordinated by Shiju, some of the expenses were met from a personal grant from the Foundation to me Shiju. There was a recent Malayalam Wiki Academy in Bangalore organised by Malayalam Community. Some of them are also Chapter members. People like me and Naveen actively helped the event ..Are we doing as chapter board member or community member? We don't really know.. But we are just genuinely helping the movement, with worrying about what capacity we are doing it. The various academies that we do, some of the requests comes directly to the chapter, community or India programs, but each supporting each other in different capacities. Now Noopur is a GLAM Champion, Chapter member and Delhi SIG Chair and also part of Chapter Communications Team. She now also heads the Communication PR for the India Programs. As I explained, it is difficult to separate the contributions of different entities or individuals for the Wikimedia movement in India. IMHO, we should be only concerned about the outcomes of the event and not who gets the credit. -TC On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:12 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Im a bit confused. IIRC, for the Trichy event, the Chapter signed an MoU, which means it was a chapter outreach session which India Programs may have supported (correct me if I am wrong). Hisham, can you please divide outreach activities into two - those conducted by India Programs and those conducted by Community/Chapter but supported by India Programs, giving details on how you supported them? Likewise, if the chapter supports an India Programs initiative, it must mention in its report that it was a supportive role and not a chapter event. As things stand, both the Chapter and India Programs will put in a report stating they conducted x events, which will overlap with one and other, thus not giving a clear picture of who conducted how many events. -- From: his...@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 12:06:10 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012 I'm starting a monthly update on India Program activities. The report for February is posted herehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Reports/Community_Monthly_Reports/Feb_2012. I hope you find it useful. Please do add comments on the discussion pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk%3aIndia_Program/Reports/Community_Monthly_Reports/Feb_2012, or on this mail trail, or offlist to me. Many thanks. *hisham* ___ 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] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons
Hi all, I am happy to share the news that User:Sreejithk2000 is now an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000 AFAIK, Sreejith is the only Indian with administrative rights on the Commons. Do note that User:Yann http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Yann and User:Wikitanvir http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Wikitanvir ( Bangladesh ) are also sysops on Commons. Sreejith is a prolific contributor to English Malayalam Wikipedias and Commons. He has been a registered user since 2006, and has 88,000 global edits, including 33,000 on Commons. He is also an administrator on Malayalam Wikipedia. So next time if you have doubts about Commons and Image Copyrights, you know whom to sees help. :) Wishing the very best to Sreejithk2000! Looking forward to see more people from India active in Commons. Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] The Great NITT fiasco ...
Sheesh ! Those comments were so harsh and insensitive. May I ask how many outreach events have you co-ordinated led ? Give some respect for the volunteers who take out their valuable personal time to travel far and conduct events just for the love and passion for the movement ! It takes lots of sacrifice dedication to do such stuff which they could have otherwise well spent with the family and friends. If you are unable to appreciate, least don't demoralize them. It was just because of his humility that RSrikanth wrote as below apologizing for all the faults. The truth is by far different. The fact is that the NIT Trichy student organisers this year didn't honour the promises and minimum courtesies/facilities that were expected/guaranteed. Last year the NITT/Pragyan organizers had approached us for the Wikipedia event and we had one of the best experiences of support and hospitality from them. Me , Srikanth L ( Logicwiki) and Bala/Sodabottle led the event at the college. The student volunteers were there waiting to receive us at the bus station at 5 AM ! They escorted each of us ( coming from different directions) to the pre-arranged hotel accommodation. They ensured that we were at our comfort and ease. Dedicated taxis ( with volunteer escort) were arranged for our transportation between the town and the college. Food and our other needs were taken care. The Computer lab was arranged for the session and dedicated stall for interacting with the crowd. Since there was a huge demand, AFAIK, they had to do some kind of written test, to only permit the 100 attendees. Their hospitality and support was awesome and I still cherish them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Tiruchirappalli/Tiruchirappalli1 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tiruchirappalli_Meetup_Feb2011 http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-February/002334.html This year, when we were approached, they asked us to sign an MoU as it was needed as the event was ISO certified. One of the conditions they wanted was a guarantee for swags which we politely refused. The MoU was signed with a bare minimum clause that we will conduct a day of Wikipedia event/workshop. A lot of people were involved in the discussions, Naveen, Nitika , Sohan , Hisham, me and many others. Once we removed the guarantee of swags, it was evident that the organizers were not largely interested. Still we moved ahead to conduct the event, in spite of last time promise that they could allow only a 2 hour slot. Much were promised which weren't fulfilled. I am extremely thankful to Sohan Maheshwar RSrikanth for volunteering and traveling ( an overnight journey from Bangalore Coimbatore to Trichy) in spite of all these hurdles on a precious weekend. If they have screwed up, I have equally screwed up. But I am proud of it. We have done events that were largely successful and the ones that were nothing to talk about.. But it is all part of this game. I strongly stand behind our volunteers who help the movement. Their time and efforts are very very precious ! I just hope that this one-off incident will not discourage them ( or anyone else) from further future contributions. I am grateful to Nitika Naveen for all those innumerable calls and followups with the organizers and volunteers. I have strongly communicated our displeasure and disappointment to the organizers and last heard, they were being blasted from the college authorities and seniors for their mismanagement. Apologies if I appeared to be a bit rude and harsh. No hard feelings. Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Sushant R sushi2coo...@hotmail.com wrote: so u agre? gud. cos u scrwd up n did it big tym. nxt tym u think of anythin, don kay? u don hav a lptop, no isssus. get 1. can't afford one? get lost. v aint got no place 4 ppl lyk u. -- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:39:48 +0530 From: parakara.gh...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Great NITT fiasco ... Heya all. I guess, I really need to explain something here. I was wrong when I blamed the organisers of Pragyan for what happened. The Fiasco, isn't a FIASCO anymore. We've got four users from the event and I'm proud of that. I believe I have inadvertently caused a flare up which has resulted in a lot of people getting shouted out. Tensions are soaring and I believe I caused it. As far as Accomodation/Travel is considered, from my POV, what I got was perfect. Saagar had informed me that guesthouses weren't good enough and I took [and still take] his word for it. He slept in the lab so I could sleep in his room. As for the event, as Sohan pointed out the, delay and internet issues were the only issue. The internet issue was mine in entirety. I didn't mention that, OR mention anything about a lab. That makes it my fault. The MoU: I admit, I didn't read the MoU at all, both the edited and
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Live Search
Thanks Theo. More details on the announcement here http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-February/007059.html -TC Sent from Mobile On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I just saw this Live search project http://live.wikimedia.in/ supported by Wikimedia India. I was travelling recently, so I must have missed the announcements for it. Can someone fill me in about how this came to be? This looks like an excellent project, the chapter did an outstanding job supporting it. I love the twitter-ish font-end. It seems like a great tool that can even be a new general Wikimedia project. A live version. I would like to learn more about it. Regards Theo ___ 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] Announcing live search for the Wikimedia projects
That is the idea... ! Once it is stable, and the primary developer agrees, we will release this on an appropriate open source license. Thanks for all the feedback suggestions... Will definitely pass them to the development team -TC On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 9:44 PM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Like the work, probably except that tiny all rights reserved part. ;-) i hope developers will add some features to go directly to required site+lang+im without using select options (using query strings or something like ?project=wplang=mlim=tr). Just thinking loud because i have seen in similar cases that a user always wanted direct focus on input field for searching. On 23/02/2012, Tinu Cherian tinucher...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi all, Greetings from Wikimedia India !!! We are proud to announce live search for the Wikimedia projects http://live.wikimedia.in. The site was developed by Shrey Gokani under guidance of Wikimedia India Chapter. We want to thank Shrey Gokani for volunteering to do this project and making this a reality. We also want to thank Santhosh Thottingal and Junaid P V for the contributions for this project. Special thanks to Naveen Francis for leading this initiative. How to use ? * Select your Wikimedia Project, say “Wikipedia” * Select language of the project to search, say “English” * Input your search string in the Search: Box * The site auto displays possible pages based on the string match. * The site is also integrated with Narayam to support Indic language search. So select the corresponding input method ( if available) while searching on a Indic Project. This is still a beta version and further improvements are needed. As of now, it supports only English and Indic Language projects. For further queries, reporting bugs and suggestions, please contact us :- socialme...@wikimedia.in Thanks, Tinu Cherian. Wikimedia India http://wiki.wikimedia.in -- With love Praveen http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Praveenp:talk http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Praveenp ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter receives FCRA Prior Permission
A slight correction. The date of actual application is 4 NOV 2011 and not 4 Sep 2011. Apologies for the oversight! -TC On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:14 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations and thanks to all who worked behind this ! And special Hats off to Arjuna Rao Chavala. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, We are very happy to announce that the Ministry of Home Affairs has granted us prior permission under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA) to receive funds from the Wikimedia Foundation, USA for Chapter programs. Through this development, we pass the first hurdle of acquiring limited funds from the foundation for running programs and enabling volunteers across the country. The application was made to the Government on 4 September 2011 and was granted on 13 February 2012. This would not have been possible without the persistent efforts of Arjuna Rao Chavala, the President of Wikimedia India. He worked tirelessly over months properly following up with the government and did not leave any stone unturned to ensure that we received the permissions in time. On this occasion, we would also like to thank our consultant M Narsimha Rao, Gautam John, Asaf Bartov and Barry Newstead, for their help and guidance throughout. We are working out the modalities of actual implementation of getting funds into Chapter Bank account and will keep you updated. On behalf of the Wikimedia India, Anirudh Bhati Treasurer, Wikimedia India -- 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 ___ 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] Please sign up for WikiProject India if you are an English language Wikipedian (yes, English is an Indic language)
And a few editors decided to work on real life outreach programmes ... :) On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: I think we need to contact dormant editors and ask them why they stopped editing. Here is something to think about - is there such a thing as a lifecycle of a Wikipedia where a person goes through stages finally burns out? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: And User:GaneshK, who started it will be God. On a serious note, Ashwin, I would like it if you and I could do a look-up [We can call it Research and award ourselves PhDs later] on what happened to WPIN between mid 2009 and mid 2011. Why the community died out. -- On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: In that case, I wanna be Velociraptor! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:31 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: In that case, users like Srikeit and Anirudh who have been a part of WP:India since it was formed in 2006 should be called dinosaurs ;) Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:36:09 +0530 From: ashwin.bain...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please sign up for WikiProject India if you are an English language Wikipedian (yes, English is an Indic language) I am thinking the title of gaon budhas or village elders be given to such people :) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Just a pointer. Tinu, Logic, Me, Ravichander, etc have been part of WP:India from 2009. : ) On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: I suddenly realised that amongst the guys who signed up for WikiProject India in Jan-Feb are such hardcore Wikipedians as RSrikanth05, Joyson Prabhu, Karthikndr Sitush. Which brings me to the corollary - there are oodles of established Indian editors who are not yet members of WikiProject India! Gosh, guys please sign up! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Members 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 -- 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 ___ 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 -- 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Eleven celebrations in India.
Hi all, This is a brief report on the Wikipedia Eleven celebrations in India. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Eleven Wikipedia turned Eleven on the 15th of January 2012. The Wikimedia India chapter also completed its first year of operation on 3rd of Jan 2012. The eleventh anniversary of Wikipedia was celebrated in different parts of the country. More than 8 Indian cities and towns and over 200 Wikimedians Wiki enthusiasts celebrated this occasion of Wikipedia anniversary, around the nation. Some of the meetups had a Wikipedia anniversary cake to celebrate the occasion. Don't miss those mouth watering images at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Eleven#Anniversary_cakes :) Google Hangout was also conducted between different cities celebrating at the same time. The New Wikimedia India portal ( wikimedia.in ) was launched on this day. It is designed to provide quick and rapid access to Indic wikimedia projects - Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikisource, Wikibooks, Wikinews, Wikiquote and Commons. A full collection of images related to the celebrations, around the nation, can be found here http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_11_in_India Cheers to all who organized and participated the celebrations in different places ! Long Live Wikipedia ! Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter receives FCRA Prior Permission
Congratulations and thanks to all who worked behind this ! And special Hats off to Arjuna Rao Chavala. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, We are very happy to announce that the Ministry of Home Affairs has granted us prior permission under the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010 (FCRA) to receive funds from the Wikimedia Foundation, USA for Chapter programs. Through this development, we pass the first hurdle of acquiring limited funds from the foundation for running programs and enabling volunteers across the country. The application was made to the Government on 4 September 2011 and was granted on 13 February 2012. This would not have been possible without the persistent efforts of Arjuna Rao Chavala, the President of Wikimedia India. He worked tirelessly over months properly following up with the government and did not leave any stone unturned to ensure that we received the permissions in time. On this occasion, we would also like to thank our consultant M Narsimha Rao, Gautam John, Asaf Bartov and Barry Newstead, for their help and guidance throughout. We are working out the modalities of actual implementation of getting funds into Chapter Bank account and will keep you updated. On behalf of the Wikimedia India, Anirudh Bhati Treasurer, Wikimedia India -- 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 ___ 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-blr] Bangalore WikiMeetup 42 - A report !
Thanks Radha Krishna for the detailed report. May be other cities can also make utilize of the Watch list Geo Notices for future meetups . Put a request here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice and notify me or one of the admins on English Wikipedia. Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:56 AM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally arkris...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear all, The 42nd Bangalore Wikipedia Wikimeetup was held on 12 Feb 2012, at Wikimedia India Chapter office ( The Centre for Internet and Society), Domlur. [1] Five Wikimedians attended the meetup. This time, we introduced GeoNotice on English Wikipedia for announcing the meetup on the same morning in the Bangalore area [2]. A geonotice is a notice similar to a sitenotice, but it is displayed only to users who are physically located in some subset of the Earth. This is only a watchlist geonotice , appearing on the watchlist page of logged in users. May be we should try this at least a week ahead, next time, to catch enough attention of regular Wikipedians, and possibly on other Wikipedias too. Arun Ramaratnam gave a talk and demo on How QR codes work, How QRPedia (http://qrpedia.org/) used this technology in an innovative way. QRpedia is a mobile Web based system which uses QR codes to deliver Wikipedia articles to users, in their preferred language. When a user scans a QRpedia QR code on their mobile device, the device decodes the QR code into a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) using the domain name qrwp.org and whose path (final part) is the title of a Wikipedia article, and sends a request for the article specified in the URL to the QRpedia Web server. It also transmits the language setting of the device [3] The crowd discussed on the possible ways of implementing QRPedia in Indian contexts and museums in India. We discussed about the current limitations and how they can be improved. We discussed on how to take forward the Wiki Loves Monuments initiative in India [4]. Naveen Francis announced the registration of wikilovesmonuments.in We discussed about the MoU with National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum, New Delhi . It was decided to follow up and close the loop in signing the MoU with the Museum. Radhakrishna Arvapally also discussed about a possible partnership with Brain Museum of NIMHANS, Bangalore (Only Brain Musium in India). Arun talked about his earlier interactions with the Government Museum of Bangalore [5]. We need to complete this list of Museums in India. [6] and identify volunteers to work with them. The Meetup was adjourned with the customary group photo sessions. You can find more photos here [6]. The next Bangalore Wikimeetup ( Meetup 43) is to be held on Sunday, 11-March-2012 Time: 3:00 PM IST. [8] Notes: 1) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore42 2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geonotice#Bangalore_Meetup_42 3) Source : Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QRpedia 4) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline 5) http://www.bangaloreindia.org.uk/tourist-attractions/government-museum.html 6) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/List_of_Museums_in_India 7) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_February_2012 8) http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore43 Thanks to Tinu for help ! -- Thanks Regards, RadhaKrishna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna ___ Wikimedia-in-blr mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr ___ 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-en] Please add your name to the Geographical List of Indian Wikipedians
And This page http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Mailing_Lists , gives you more information on which are lists that you should forward this to :) Btw to edit this public wiki, you will need to create a username and email confirm ihttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Special:UserLogintype=signupt ( takes only ~20 sec to do). Wanted to keep it IP editable too, but thanks to heavy spam which we weren't able to handle, we had to keep it this way. Thanks Tinu Cherian 2012/2/16 Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com Hello friends, This is a link I recommend you to bookmark. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians This list is useful for outreach also whenever someone needs Wiki-Help in a particular city. It would be great if Wikipedians could update this list.:) We have the following completely unrepresented states/UTs: * Andaman Nicobar Islands * Arunachal Pradesh * Assam * Chandigarh * Chhattisgarh * Dadra, Nagar Haveli * Daman Diu * Goa * Himachal Pradesh * Jammu Kashmir * Jharkhand (AngPradesh is in Mumbai) * Lakshadweep * Manipur * Meghalaya * Mizoram * Puducherry * Punjab (oye, ye ki hoya!) * Nagaland * Uttar Pradesh * Uttarakhand Okay, all you admins, please update your status (Mikey my boy, that means you too)! Abroad, we dont have Indic Wikipedians listed for: * Africa * Australia * Asia (other than India) * Middle East * North America * South America Unless you would like to stay off list, of course that's acceptable too. May I also request Tinu / list admins to please forward it all the Indic language city Wikimedia lists. We need this resource to be as comprehensible as possible. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimedia-in-en mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Formation of Communications, PR Media Relations Team
Thanks SJ, Bishakha , Ramesh and et all. SJ, Currently the internal details of the team are only available on the members wiki ( members.wikimedia.in) . May be I will put it on the public wiki too ( wiki.wikimedia.in) Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote: Good job Tinu. good to see the energetic members of wiki are in the list. On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) tinucher...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi all, We are pleased to announce the first batch of our team for Communications, PR Media Relations of the Wikimedia India Chapter. - Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications - Arun Ramaratnam, Official Spokesperson - Anirudh Bhati - Srikeit Tadepalli - Noopur Raval - Srikanth Lakshmanan - Naveen Francis - Pranav Curumsey - Ram Shankar Yadav - Mitra Sharma - Anivar Aravind We are still discussing with lots of potential people who are interested and have the necessary skills. We will be adding them as we progress. *Scope of Work* Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to the following: *General :* - Development of a comprehensive multi-language Communications Plan for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the Chapter's strategic objectives. This plan must include social media, digital outreach, Public Relations (PR) and supporting community and chapter outreach. - Implementation of the Communications Plan - including measuring of results focused on growth in participation and readership within India and continuous improvement as required. - Identification, selection and onboarding of specialised agencies as required. - Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia Foundation India Programs to support communications and media outreach. - Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee and subscribed to its mailing list: wmfc...@mail.wikimedia.org * Communications :* - Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia community which includes Chapter members, general public and media. - Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that is send to the members and the community. - Providing ad hoc support to the Chapter Community on all aspects of communications as may be deemed necessary. *Public/ Media Relations :* - Coordinating communications with the press, including press releases, interviews, and inquiries. - Handling press enquiries and answering them. - Build a close partnership and working relation with a network of journalists and news editors all over India and abroad. - Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted interviewed by the media. - Identify potential media worthy stories and getting them published into the mass media. - Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press coverage to request that corrections be published as needed. - Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships with media and drive messaging that promotes participation. - Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media coverage, both negative and positive. - will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR campaigns on behalf of the chapter. - Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian local languages. - Supporting the media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia Foundation and Community led events and initiatives in India like Wikiconference, wikimeeetups, wikiacademies, workshops etc * Digital Properties/Social Media :* - Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and education and movitation to participate in various projects from within the existing readership base. - Social media includes managing and driving social media vehicles to drive participation (i.e., building awareness and driving traffic to Indic language editions, raising awareness of how content is created on various projects and motivating and enabling participation.) - Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode: #wikimedia-in and regularly conduct planned IRC sessions. - Maintain the social media properties including the ones on facebook twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing Digital resources like the wiki, blog and website. - Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News sections on the public wiki up to date. - Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team. - Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter, WikiPatrika * Team Structure* - The team is led
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pure Fiction: Nichalp and Wifione
Another one http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Makrandjoshioldid=108166042 ( No translation needed) On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:53 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: I think, some are getting it all wrong. It is not about sympathies to Nichalp or who so ever. The problem is not conflict of interest editing... It is not even a philosophical debate of Paid editing Vs Volunteer editing... The problem is getting paid to white wash negative materials in favor of the clients, which eventually render Wikipedia articles biased and information suppressed... And if those people can get favors from the level of Admins, it is definitely wrong. What is more shocking is that if that if an account created possibly with a single purpose ( of protecting the interests of a business group) can manage to climb up the ladder of admin-ship of a stronger Wikipedia like en.wiki , it is definitely alarming ! At this point of time, I am giving the benefit of doubt of whether Wifione is actually Nichalp or not. But definitely an account like Wifione aka Wireless Fidelity Class One must be investigated. It is not the first time, IIPM related folks tried to infiltrate Wikipedia to get the articles in their favour. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Mrinal_Pandey I am sure that scores of such sock puppet users are still having a free run with related articles. Previous sockpuppet investigations against Wifione in 2009 returned a possible result. Imagine having an admin also with ACC ( Account Creation) toolserver authorization in the favour. What is more shocking is that one user who slapped the notice on Wifione got this message on his talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Makrandjoshioldid=104617335 (which closely translates to DONT YOU GET SCARED? THESE IIPM GUYS WILL KILL YOU) Now tell me, can volunteers like you and me fearlessly edit articles related to IIPM to remove its bias, in such situations of death threats? Least I want to go to Silichar after being sued. -TC On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I think we mean this criticism only in the Wikipedia reference. It's not as if we're going to catch and hand over this guy to the Police. Such paid editing lowers the morale of other editors. Efforts must be made to stop such work that is detrimental to other Wikipedia volunteers. Then again, we're putting the cart in front of the horse. It's not been proved Nichalp and wifione are one and the same. It is hence best to discuss only about paid editing and how this practise can be identified and stopped. Pradeep Handheld On 09/02/2012, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: I would only like to remind people that showing some sympathy is not a bad thing . Coming from armed forces where there are no second places - to me the greatest sin is lack of competence, whether in language, wiki-writing, techniques or otherwise. I was told by someone that Wikipeding was a voluntary activity so high standards should not be expected in competence. If that is true, then we should not suddenly start witch-hunting on the basis of principle when we are ourselves so casual about other qualities in other ways! Without mentioning specific incidents, I have come across this tendency to crucify others in India community - which is deplorable. Before any one becomes high mighty on morals here, one should look closely at what are harmful crimes against humanity (murder, rape etc) and what are social misdemeanours (wiki-crimes). So many of us condone other faults all the time in Indian society; it is hypocrisy to be principled in issues concerning others, when we ourselves don't apply the highest standards to ourselves. In my opinion. it is NOT the business of this community to go searching for culprits unless the culprit has affected us in some manner, which does not appear to be the case. As Jesus Christ said, let he who is without blame cast the first stone. There are far better and much more important things to do here. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:23 PM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: I feel no sympathy for Nichalp or any such users ___ 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 -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pure Fiction: Nichalp and Wifione
I think, some are getting it all wrong. It is not about sympathies to Nichalp or who so ever. The problem is not conflict of interest editing... It is not even a philosophical debate of Paid editing Vs Volunteer editing... The problem is getting paid to white wash negative materials in favor of the clients, which eventually render Wikipedia articles biased and information suppressed... And if those people can get favors from the level of Admins, it is definitely wrong. What is more shocking is that if that if an account created possibly with a single purpose ( of protecting the interests of a business group) can manage to climb up the ladder of admin-ship of a stronger Wikipedia like en.wiki , it is definitely alarming ! At this point of time, I am giving the benefit of doubt of whether Wifione is actually Nichalp or not. But definitely an account like Wifione aka Wireless Fidelity Class One must be investigated. It is not the first time, IIPM related folks tried to infiltrate Wikipedia to get the articles in their favour. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_checkuser/Case/Mrinal_Pandey I am sure that scores of such sock puppet users are still having a free run with related articles. Previous sockpuppet investigations against Wifione in 2009 returned a possible result. Imagine having an admin also with ACC ( Account Creation) toolserver authorization in the favour. What is more shocking is that one user who slapped the notice on Wifione got this message on his talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Makrandjoshioldid=104617335 (which closely translates to DONT YOU GET SCARED? THESE IIPM GUYS WILL KILL YOU) Now tell me, can volunteers like you and me fearlessly edit articles related to IIPM to remove its bias, in such situations of death threats? Least I want to go to Silichar after being sued. -TC On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I think we mean this criticism only in the Wikipedia reference. It's not as if we're going to catch and hand over this guy to the Police. Such paid editing lowers the morale of other editors. Efforts must be made to stop such work that is detrimental to other Wikipedia volunteers. Then again, we're putting the cart in front of the horse. It's not been proved Nichalp and wifione are one and the same. It is hence best to discuss only about paid editing and how this practise can be identified and stopped. Pradeep Handheld On 09/02/2012, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: I would only like to remind people that showing some sympathy is not a bad thing . Coming from armed forces where there are no second places - to me the greatest sin is lack of competence, whether in language, wiki-writing, techniques or otherwise. I was told by someone that Wikipeding was a voluntary activity so high standards should not be expected in competence. If that is true, then we should not suddenly start witch-hunting on the basis of principle when we are ourselves so casual about other qualities in other ways! Without mentioning specific incidents, I have come across this tendency to crucify others in India community - which is deplorable. Before any one becomes high mighty on morals here, one should look closely at what are harmful crimes against humanity (murder, rape etc) and what are social misdemeanours (wiki-crimes). So many of us condone other faults all the time in Indian society; it is hypocrisy to be principled in issues concerning others, when we ourselves don't apply the highest standards to ourselves. In my opinion. it is NOT the business of this community to go searching for culprits unless the culprit has affected us in some manner, which does not appear to be the case. As Jesus Christ said, let he who is without blame cast the first stone. There are far better and much more important things to do here. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:23 PM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: I feel no sympathy for Nichalp or any such users ___ 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 -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pure Fiction: Nichalp and Wifione
Unbelievable but Shocking ! I am not sure if Wikifone is same as Nichalp, but a look at the edit history of Wikifone, the editor has some serious interest to protect the interests of IIPM and its stakeholders. He seems to even change policy pages to suit his cause http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia%3ANo_original_researchaction=historysubmitdiff=475525747oldid=475410422 Wifione seems to be working on IIM and Amity ( Competitors to IIPM) articles as well, possibly trying to show them in bad light. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amity_Universityaction=historysubmitdiff=475405890oldid=474606800 Nevertheless , this has be investigated or possibly reported to Arb Com. -TC On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I do not understand why this accusation is written as a work of fiction. Whatever the problems faced by an individual, it does not provide grounds for crimes like theft. If the person does resort to these methods, has to face the consequences, if found out. I am sure we appreciated User:Nichalp's contributions when they were made. However, when he/she has made mistakes and makes them multiple times, I think this also warrants serious investigation. Pradeep Handheld On 07/02/2012, guptc...@ovi.com guptc...@ovi.com wrote: This is the story of Nichalp[1], an Indian student from Mumbai who became obsessed with editing Wikipedia at a young age. He transformed several articles into featured articles, and became a role model for many editors. He was granted the bureaucrat, oversight and administrator privileges - nobody deserved these rights more than him, not even Jimbo. A major change in Nichalp's life came when he came to Australia for higher education. Facing a severe financial crunch, Nichalp decided to use the only extraordinary skill he had - editing Wikipedia - for making money. He put up ads on several freelancer recruiting websites, promising to write articles in oexchange for small amounts of money.[2] These were the days when the PR professionals had started realizing the importance of Wikipedia. There were many takers for Nichalp's services. With his sockpuppet accounts, Nichalp made a number of contributions (many of which stand deleted now). Unfortunately for Nichalp, the Wikizealots live in an idealistic world. They don't realize that, in the long run, editors cannot be expected to devote their time to the project for free.[3] When the Wikihounds came to know about one of Nichalp's paid editing accounts they came after him. Nichalp knew he would be stalked in real life, so he made his main account inactive. Meanwhile, he continued to be active through his other paid editing accounts. A man of foresight, Nichalp started another account in April 2009 to gain back his admin rights.[4] The Wikihounds have an astonishing ability to track the suspicious accounts - they tracked another one of Nichalp's paid editing accouents.[5] The drama prompted the Arbitration Committee to send him an email enquiry about the paid editing concerns. Nichalp's identity was well-known to those who had exposed his paid editing. The personal information that he had posted earlier on his user page and elsewhere on Wikipedia (and social networking sites) had made it easy for Wikihounds to stalk him in real life. Denial was not an option - Nichalp knew the Wikihounds were capable of producing evidence against him. Pleading not guilty would only gather more eyeballs and possibly lead to media attention - that could sabotage his post-college career. Pleading guilty was not an option either - it would lead to the same fate. Nichalp did what he felt was the best option before him. He neither accepted the charge, nor denied it. What happened next was unfortunate for him. Ignoring his 5-year long devotion to the project, the Arbitration Committee took away his bureaucrat, administrator and oversight rights in an unopposed judgment.[6] Realizing that his paid editing accounts may be under survelliance from the Wikihounds, Nichalp abandoned all of them. All of them, except one - the one he had started in April 2009 with the objective of gaining back his admin rights: Wifione. Nichalp carefully crafted his new wiki identity. He devoted this new account to earning money from India's most notorious self-styled management guru. To make sure his paid editing does not appear blatantly obvious, Nichalp (or shall we call him Wifione, now?) engaged in a wide range of edits. Wifione rose up in the wiki-hierarchy and became the administrator. He tried not to appear like a paid editor, but the constant pressure from his client forced him to make constant edits to the pages associated with the client. Anyone looking at his top 50 edits would not fail to notice that much of his work in the article namespace was
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikipedia query
The IP address may have been range blocked due to vandalism or similar reasons. You can ask for the IP address and we can check if it is blocked . When people ask me to create Wikipedia profile page for non-notable websites or organizations, I generally just pass these links to them http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28organizations_and_companies%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28web%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:COI#Promotional_article_production_on_behalf_of_clients Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Can someone help me out with this? I am still looking up wwwireframe for notability purposes but what about the ban? Thanks Noopur -- Forwarded message -- From: Vishveshwar Jatain vishveshwar.jat...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:48 PM Subject: Wikipedia query To: noopur.ra...@gmail.com Hi Noopur, Thanks for responding. I run an online technology magazine for a leading tech support firm called iYogi http://www.iyogi.com/, the magazine is called wwwireframehttp://www.wwwireframe.com/ (which is also currently undergoing a rebranding and redesign to offer a much better responsive UI to readers). In the eight months since the project has been in existence -- we've done over 500 pages of original content spread across topics such as technology, business, social media, science, startups, green technology and nonprofits. What are the benchmarks for eligibility? I wouldn't like to face a situation where I create a page only to see it deleted by an editor. As I found out, the IP range of the parent organization, iYogi, has been banned by a Wikipedia editor. I don't know why that is, maybe the page they created was badly done or perhaps it was a total sales pitch with no value. Now that I've shared some history with you. (1) My first priority is to create a page for my magazine (wwwireframe), how do I do it? (2) If possible, I'd like to look into the possibility of reviving the iYogi page -- do it well this time. It's actually quite a trusted company with its investors (Sequoia being one of them) and customers (majority from US) with global competitors like Geek Squad. Sorry for the long-ish email, tried to keep it short. Would really appreciate your opinion on this. Warm Regards VJ -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikipedia query
and Contributions check on some of the users that had created/ edited iYogi may show up some interesting patterns ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IYogiaction=history -TC On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Let's see, first, there is WP:COI, conflict of interest, since this person is promoting his own magazine or one he works for, editing a page about his magazine or company is strongly discouraged. Of course that won't deter him, I suppose IP range of parent organization is the IP address or the username he chose to edit with. IP bans by local admins usually don't last longer than 24 hours, unless he's lucky enough to be caught in range block from a steward, which is unlikely. The simplest solution is creating an account, and then editing with it, not using IP address to edit. The IYogi page is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IYogi , I'm not sure what he means by reviving it, he can edit it as much as he wants. This sounds like a common marketing query, tell him to read the help section or ask in the help channel on IRC. #wikipedia-en-help Regards Theo On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Can someone help me out with this? I am still looking up wwwireframe for notability purposes but what about the ban? Thanks Noopur -- Forwarded message -- From: Vishveshwar Jatain vishveshwar.jat...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:48 PM Subject: Wikipedia query To: noopur.ra...@gmail.com Hi Noopur, Thanks for responding. I run an online technology magazine for a leading tech support firm called iYogi http://www.iyogi.com/, the magazine is called wwwireframehttp://www.wwwireframe.com/ (which is also currently undergoing a rebranding and redesign to offer a much better responsive UI to readers). In the eight months since the project has been in existence -- we've done over 500 pages of original content spread across topics such as technology, business, social media, science, startups, green technology and nonprofits. What are the benchmarks for eligibility? I wouldn't like to face a situation where I create a page only to see it deleted by an editor. As I found out, the IP range of the parent organization, iYogi, has been banned by a Wikipedia editor. I don't know why that is, maybe the page they created was badly done or perhaps it was a total sales pitch with no value. Now that I've shared some history with you. (1) My first priority is to create a page for my magazine (wwwireframe), how do I do it? (2) If possible, I'd like to look into the possibility of reviving the iYogi page -- do it well this time. It's actually quite a trusted company with its investors (Sequoia being one of them) and customers (majority from US) with global competitors like Geek Squad. Sorry for the long-ish email, tried to keep it short. Would really appreciate your opinion on this. Warm Regards VJ -- 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] Fwd: Wikipedia query
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/59.165.202.253 The story of a former Indian bureaucrat of En.wiki (also creator/major contributor of scores of India related FA articles) is well known. The lucrative offers to get paid for creating Wikipedia pages ( or even whitewashing negative contents) is something we as Wikipedians should be watchful for. But good faith requests on removing BLP ( Biographies of Living Persons) violations, without references from reliable sources, can be sometimes entertained on case by case basis. -TC On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Have conveyed these to him. Here's the ip: 59.165.202.253 thanks all of you :) ps. The publicist of Amish Tripathi, the writer of Immortals of Meluha has been plaguing me to take money and help promote their next book on WP. I tried to make an article for the third book in the trilogy and showed him how it's unpaid and anyone can do it. If he approaches more people, please beware! On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:35 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Just tagged http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prathap_Suthan - apparently CCO at iYogi for possible COI, been edited by users by the name of Writerpatsuthan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Writerpatsuthan and Manish-iyogi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Manish-iyogi, the second of which seems to be a company employee from the name. -- From: tinucher...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 15:31:18 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikipedia query and Contributions check on some of the users that had created/ edited iYogi may show up some interesting patterns ;) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IYogiaction=history -TC On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Let's see, first, there is WP:COI, conflict of interest, since this person is promoting his own magazine or one he works for, editing a page about his magazine or company is strongly discouraged. Of course that won't deter him, I suppose IP range of parent organization is the IP address or the username he chose to edit with. IP bans by local admins usually don't last longer than 24 hours, unless he's lucky enough to be caught in range block from a steward, which is unlikely. The simplest solution is creating an account, and then editing with it, not using IP address to edit. The IYogi page is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IYogi , I'm not sure what he means by reviving it, he can edit it as much as he wants. This sounds like a common marketing query, tell him to read the help section or ask in the help channel on IRC. #wikipedia-en-help Regards Theo On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Can someone help me out with this? I am still looking up wwwireframe for notability purposes but what about the ban? Thanks Noopur -- Forwarded message -- From: *Vishveshwar Jatain* vishveshwar.jat...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:48 PM Subject: Wikipedia query To: noopur.ra...@gmail.com Hi Noopur, Thanks for responding. I run an online technology magazine for a leading tech support firm called iYogi http://www.iyogi.com/, the magazine is called wwwireframehttp://www.wwwireframe.com/ (which is also currently undergoing a rebranding and redesign to offer a much better responsive UI to readers). In the eight months since the project has been in existence -- we've done over 500 pages of original content spread across topics such as technology, business, social media, science, startups, green technology and nonprofits. What are the benchmarks for eligibility? I wouldn't like to face a situation where I create a page only to see it deleted by an editor. As I found out, the IP range of the parent organization, iYogi, has been banned by a Wikipedia editor. I don't know why that is, maybe the page they created was badly done or perhaps it was a total sales pitch with no value. Now that I've shared some history with you. (1) My first priority is to create a page for my magazine (wwwireframe), how do I do it? (2) If possible, I'd like to look into the possibility of reviving the iYogi page -- do it well this time. It's actually quite a trusted company with its investors (Sequoia being one of them) and customers (majority from US) with global competitors like Geek Squad. Sorry for the long-ish email, tried to keep it short. Would really appreciate your opinion on this. Warm Regards VJ -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : First Post : Good News: Indians most willing to donate to Wikipedia
The news article is primarily based on this foundation blog post http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/02/05/who-are-wikipedias-donors/ -TC On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Just a question. The 'study' mentioned at the bottom of the page. Was it the one done by Oliver Keyes of the foundation? Oliver? huh, why on earth would it be done by Oliver Keyes of the foundation? That's Ironholds, he's a long standing en.wp community member and a friend. He has been contracted recently to work on Article feedback tool for WMF. It cites Ayush and Mani, the data analyst and the surveyor and the editor study WMF did last year as source. Regards Theo ___ 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] Letters of authority or press cards (was: Backup for Wikipedians)
The chapter can officially decide it only after a discussion within Board , SIG leadership and the members. But on a personal level, I agree with Anirudh's view on this. Since it brings strong accountability for the chapter on the use of the ID by the recipients , this has to be done with caution and utmost care. May be we can set up an empowered committee to review such requests and grant them. ( just a suggestion) Nevertheless, IMHO, such id cards should be issued to only trusted Wikimedians with a substantial amount of history with our projects and mission. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: We do need a Chapter EC Board member to respond to this. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: The question whether the Chapter will help someone if they get into some sort of trouble with the authorities is an important one and should be addressed. Once a letter of authority is issued to a volunteer, the chapter's reputation and credibility is on the line. Therefore, the chapter must endeavor to only approve those members who have a substantial amount of history with our projects and their mission. In such a scenario, I would expect the chapter to extend help to those it endorses. anirudh (personal opinion) On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:52 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 18:24, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Will the chapter or India Programs provide assistance? IIRC both of them lie outside the content boundary and wouldn't be helping. I dont recollect reading anything like protecting interests of wikipedians on the chapter's mission / vision. Form a political party (since asking the current ones might not help!) and fight for it, else sit at home and edit non controversial stuff like Brinjal :P Supporting Wikimedia volunteers in their mission to expand the scope and variety of content on Wikimedia projects is an important part of our stated goals. I think this is a very good idea, and a little help to the volunteers from the chapter would go a long way in giving their work some credibility in the eyes of authorities, private and public both. anirudh (personal opnion) ___ 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] Fwd: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info
Vandalism? Not necessarily. Point of View push? Probably yes... Neutral Maps is a tricky issue. :) The speed at which these changes are done through interwiki links, a bot was likely been used ! Interestingly it avoided English Wikipedia. -TC On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: Same case was observed and discussed (in VP) in ta wiki too. All the IPs changes are being reverted now. We cant decide whether this is the case of someone of replacing their preferred files from commons or deliberately stirring up controversy On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Mrutyunjaya Kar mkr...@gmail.com wrote: Same case at Odia wikipedia http://or.wikipedia.org/ On 2/2/12, Harish mghar...@gmail.com wrote: This has been observed and reverted in Kannada wikipedia. -- Forwarded message -- From: Tejas jain teju2frie...@gmail.com Date: 2012/2/2 Subject: [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Global Vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org Some one has done global vandalism through IP 212.121.219.1 http://toolserver.org/%7Eluxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.219.1 on Indian territory info. User's edit list: http://toolserver.org/~luxo/contributions/contributions.php?user=212.121.219.1 Arunachal pradesh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arunachal_Pradesh and Jammu_and_Kashmir http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir are hatched as disputed. Was there any discussion before these changes? All the edits on Kannada wiki http://kn.wikipedia.org/ have been reverted because of following reasons, 1. No discussion prior to the changes 2. No references were made 3. Changes done anonymously 4. No change log message 5. No such changes are done on English wiki If it is sure case of vandalism, changes have to be reverted globally. Thanks, Tejas jain http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Teju2friends ___ Wikikn-l mailing list wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l -- Harish 9740069624 ___ 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] WCI 2012
A good idea is to do similar to Wikimania, by inviting bids from respective local city communities. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2013_bids A panel consisting of representatives from the Wikimedia India Chapter, Community and the Wikimedia Foundation can be formed to select the city. I think we need to develop this page further http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiConference_India_2012 While in no particular order, it is advisable to select a city in a different region each time. Regards Tinu Cherian On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, I suggest that we conduct WikiConference India 2012 @ some place on the east coast of India. Considering that WikiConference India 2011 was held @ West Coast (Mumbai), we can plan something in Orissa, West Bengal, Andra Pradesh , Tamil Nadu. We can also have it like 2011 was in Bombay (notice B), 2012 can be in Calcutta (notice C), 2013 can be in Delhi (notice D) like B, C,D alphabetical order. I know A is missing... we can have sometime in Ahmedabad or Assam It will be like we are following a fashion in organizaing events. Just my opinion. Open for suggestions. Regards, Ade. On 25 January 2012 13:49, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Personally, I dont think Mumbai is in a position to do another one this year. Also, imo, like Wikimania has an unofficial rotation policy wherein the event takes place in different continents each year, we should make sure that the locations are in different parts of the country to give everyone the opportunity and make sure its not the same people traveling long distances each time. Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:03:59 +0530 From: ashwin.bain...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WCI 2012 (Was: REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid) +1 to Pranav. Pranav's text serves to remind us why an annual WikiConference India is a good idea. Now that we are mostly no longer thinking of Wikimania 2013, it is time to begin thinking of WikiConference 2012. Can cities other than Mumbai Pune please start considering on this issue as to whether they have the whereall for this event? We would naturally hope that cities having existing large community setups such as Bangalore may please consider. Naturally, we may chose to do it simpler and easier than last year but if it is happen at all in this year, then by the end of February, a city community should volunteer. Else it may be difficult to do if there is a later start. There is also a school of thought which feels that even WikiConference India should be once in two years. What are your thoughts? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 12:43 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Agree and disagree. Though WCI takes a lot of effort, yes, the results are for all of us to see. A new incubator has been initiated (Ahirani), there is talk of revival of other Indic pedias such as Kashmiri, several Photowalks, hackathons, Workshops and Academies have been held (or are being planned) in the last couple of months, COTM has been revived on en.wiki. Several people who came as attendees are now active members of the community. These are just some of the major happenings - When we came up with the idea, we never imagined this sort of impact. Each community seems to have taken a leaf out of anothers book. No one can take credit for this, it is just a result of mingling with one another. WCI was ridden with mistakes and severly short on manpower, but hey - it was our first attempt at anything like this and Im sure we did a decent job given the circumstances. Im also sure it is a lesson for the future, the start of a learning curve. On the other hand, there need to be resources available to do it all over again. So, IMO if a certain local community anywhere in the country feels it can take it up, yes they should go ahead with another version in 2012 as hosting it on an annual basis will only take the event to the next level and give us exposure that no local event can give. The only advice I can give to communities interested, dont think holding it is a cakewalk, horrendous things will happen and you will need to deal with them, be prepared to work your ass off (literally, 16 to 18 hours a day, 7 days a week), have atleast 5 people working on it full time and 20 people who can give atleast 5 hours a week to begin with and 10 hours a week in the last couple of months and be ready to face the worst with a brave face. We will soon be coming out with our report on WCI 2011 and hope that it would help future organisers of similar events in their endevours. Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:16:16 +0530
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012 registration is OPEN!
Fyi Sent from Mobile. -- Forwarded message -- From: James Hare messedroc...@gmail.com Date: Jan 24, 2012 3:48 AM Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012 registration is OPEN! To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikimedia...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone! After much delay, I am pleased to announce that Wikimania 2012, the eighth annual Wikimedia conference, has opened registration! Wikimania 2012 will be held in Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States. We will announce the specific venue shortly. To register, please read http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Registration and then proceed to the linked registration form. Until April 23, the registration fee is $55; Wikimedia students and volunteers can register at the discounted $35 rate. This does not cover accommodations, which will be handled by a separate process. If you need financial aid to attend, consider applying for a scholarship: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships. Wikimania is made possible by the excellent presentations delivered by enthusiastic Wikimedia volunteers. If you are interested in presenting at Wikimania, please read our Call for Participation: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions. If you have any issues during the registration process, do not hesitate to email wikimania-registrat...@wikimedia.org. For other inquiries, see our Contact page: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contact. Thank you for your patience, and we hope to see you in Washington! Sincerely, James Hare Wikimania 2012 Coordinator ___ Wikimania-l mailing list wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-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
I strongly concur with the most of the thoughts of Ashwin below. The need of the hour is the build the strong Indian Wikipedias and Wiki-communities within India. IMHO, We are too early to host a Wikimania in India. While we had a successful Wikiconference Mumbai, I think we all agree that we were still short of lot of hands and infrastructure. Based on my experiences of attending previous Wikimanias, I can say that the standards should be much high, when you are hosting a Wikimania, where more than 500+ international delegates attend. ( Except yea, in Gdansk ;) ) My personal suggestion is that we withdraw the bids for Delhi / Mumbai for Wikimania 2013. We should a host a few more Wiki-Conferences at different cities in India annually, till we are mature enough for a Wikimania ( may be in 2014-16). Also, there is no need of a national Wikiconference on the same year we are hosting a Wikimania. Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: As one intimately involved in the planning and execution of the last WikiConference India, we need to have a cold rational thought on this process for bidding for Wikimania, not hubris. Without prejudice to User:Vibhijain, a bid from Delhi cannot be made unilaterally by an under-age editor who is not in a position to execute any of the responsible roles. There should be a requirement for each bidding city community to show support and backing. Otherwise the bid should be thrown out. That Delhi has editors is without question, the real question is does Delhi have a strong and united wikicommunity which will be able to take on this kind of huge commitment? There are few signs of such an established community, not withstanding lot of relatively new editors such as Noopur taking up new activities to do which hopefully will lead to a strong and vibrant community in the future. For the reasons mentioned above, the Delhi bid should be re-examined in all seriousness. I'm not siding with Mumbai either. In my opinion, we should have a few more WikiConferences India before we ask for Wikimania. India needs WikiConference Indias, not to host the international community. It is akin to the person who has not yet furnished his house or setup his residence in a city falling over himself to invite others from outside. WikiConference India 2011 stretched the volunteer community of the nation's Wikipedians and was possible due to the unflinching support of so many others not from the city. Which is as it should be. So can the country deal with both a WikiConference and Wikimania in the same year? I think not. Suppose another city, say Kolkata hosted WikiConference India, where would the funds, volunteers attention go? I think it is a raw deal for the city hosting the WikiConference. The amount of volunteer effort which goes into these is not funny. I think around 5000 edits worth of effort of mine went into the Conference. WikiConference India 2011 proved to be beyond the resources of Mumbai wikipedians alone. If they have bid for Wikimania 2013, can they assure the Indian wikipedian community that they can tackle this even larger event without extensive external help when they could not tackle the smaller? If Indian editors are supposed to all join in loyally to support Mumbai should it win the bid, isn't it right that Mumbai ask the community's opinion at large first before bidding instead of taking it for granted that Indian volunteers will pitch in when needed? I do not grudge supporting Mumbai, I identify strongly with it and will do whatever I can do to help those wonderful guys, but I strongly feel that this light hearted attitude to such serious subjects in fact takes the rest of the Indian community for granted. My own personal take is let this opportunity go. Let us have WikiConferences 2012 and 2013 and bid instead for Wikimania 2014 and that year we should not have a WikiConference. 2013 is too early. The need of the hour is building strong Indian wikipedias and communities not hosting foreigners. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: 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 (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. 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works
This is not good. On one side we are thinking for lobbying for Government works to be moved to public domain in India.. on another side this is happening... -TC On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 12:57 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: FYI: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#URAA_affirmed_by_US_Supreme_Court_-_deletion_request_opened -- Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:50:36 +0530 From: jayanta...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works hi all, May be re-post, Plz look the below link http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-re-copyright-decision/ -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal __ ___ 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-OR] successful wiki academy at Secondary Board High school , Cuttack
Thanks Asutosh for sharing this. The whole Indian Wikimedia community is proud of the Odia Wikipedian Community. You guys, rocks ! Regards Tinu Cherian On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:40 PM, asutosh kar kar.asut...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Odia Community today we conducted the first Odia wiki Academy at the Secondary board high school , Cuttack to an enthusiastic crowd of 50+ students of class 9. in today's initiative i was joined by Srikant, Jyotiprakash Kalakanta on the venue, as well as great support as usual by subhashis at the foundation . today's sessions covered the introduction to wiki, wiki @ Indian languages Odia wiki. the session was of 1.30 hr duration joined by computer teachers of the school. Due to time constraint we parked the technical session to happen after two weeks at the same format. the session seems to have good impact on the young minds and lets hope we will get good traction with some enthusiastic young wikipedians. if this is successful the school is interested to conduct the same for class 8 or other students in future. At this moment i thank valuable support by all of u good support by Mr Daitari Sir, HeadMaster , SBHS Cuttack Swagatika Didi for their support . the event details images are uploaded in the following locations. Also attched the ppt presented to the student on this occasion . feel free to use, modify it in future events. http://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%89%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%AA%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC%E0%AC%BF%E0%AC%86:%E0%AC%AE%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%B3%E0%AC%A3/%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%9F%E0%AC%95/%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%95%E0%AD%87%E0%AC%A3%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%BF_%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8B%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%A1%E0%AC%BC_%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%87%E0%AC%B8%E0%AD%8D%E0%AC%95%E0%AD%81%E0%AC%B2%E0%AD%A7 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Secondary_Board_High_School,_Cuttack Thanks regards Asutosh Kar ___ Wikipedia-OR mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or ___ 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] Wikimedia India mailing lists
Hi all, Based on my conversations with many others, I realized that many people are not aware of the existence of different Wikimedia India/ India related mailing lists. A consolidated list of all known mailing lists ( India related) is made here. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Mailing_Lists This info page was originally curated by Arun Ram, I have updated it with latest information. Feel free to share this information with others and also join the mailing lists of your interest. Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Wiki Photowalk - Mysore
Nice initiative, Kiran. All the best wishes ! Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Kiran Ravikumar kiran...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This sunday we've 11th Mysore Photowalk. And thought of including Wiki 11th anniversary theme for the walk. For details please go through the following links https://www.facebook.com/events/287657154626534/ http://mysorephotowalk11.doattend.com/ Thank you -- Regards, Kiran Ravikumar Mysore http://twitter.com/kiranravikumar http://twitter.com/#%21/kiranravikumar http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirantr/ -- 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 ___ 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] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 7:30 AM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org Please also see the related blog post, http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/01/16/wikipedias-community-calls-for-anti-sopa-blackout-january-18/ The release is posted here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/English_Wikipedia_to_go_dark *English Wikipedia to go dark January 18 in opposition to SOPA/PIPA * San Francisco -- January 16, 2012 -- On January 18, 2012, in an unprecedented decision, the Wikipedia community has chosen to blackout the English version of Wikipedia for 24 hours, in protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the U.S. House of Representatives, and PROTECTIP (PIPA) in the U.S. Senate. If passed, this legislation will harm the free and open Internet and bring about new tools for censorship of international websites inside the United States. Wikipedia administrators confirmed this decision Monday afternoon (PST) in a public statement ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Action#Summary_and_conclusion ): Over the course of the past 72 hours, over 1800 Wikipedians have joined together to discuss proposed actions that the community might wish to take against SOPA and PIPA. This is by far the largest level of participation in a community discussion ever seen on Wikipedia, which illustrates the level of concern that Wikipedians feel about this proposed legislation. The overwhelming majority of participants support community action to encourage greater public action in response to these two bills. Of the proposals considered by Wikipedians, those that would result in a blackout of the English Wikipedia, in concert with similar blackouts on other websites opposed to SOPA and PIPA, received the strongest support. “Today Wikipedians from around the world have spoken about their opposition to this destructive legislation, said Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia. This is an extraordinary action for our community to take - and while we regret having to prevent the world from having access to Wikipedia for even a second, we simply cannot ignore the fact that SOPA and PIPA endanger free speech both in the United States and abroad, and set a frightening precedent of Internet censorship for the world. We urge Wikipedia readers to make your voices heard. If you live in the United States, find your elected representative in Washington ( https://www.eff.org/sopacall). If you live outside the United States, contact your State Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs or similar branch of government. Tell them you oppose SOPA and PIPA, and want the internet to remain open and free. *About the Wikimedia Foundation *http://wikimediafoundation.org http://blog.wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. According to comScore Media Metrix, Wikipedia and the other projects operated by the Wikimedia Foundation receive more than 474 million unique visitors per month, making them the fifth-most popular web property world-wide (comScore, November 2011). Available in 282 languages, Wikipedia contains more than 20 million articles contributed by a global volunteer community of more than 100,000 people. Based in San Francisco, California, the Wikimedia Foundation is an audited, 501(c)(3) charity that is funded primarily through donations and grants. *Media Contact: * Jay Walsh Head of Communications Wikimedia Foundation Tel. +1 415 839 6885 x 6609 jwa...@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] [Press]: The Indian Express : Would Gandhi have been a Wikipedian?
*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, “No Rights Reserved”. Now it can be told: Gandhi was a free knowledge activist. Consider what he was encouraging his readers to do. In short order, a person reading Indian Home Rule in 1910 would have been able to copy the book freely, distribute those copies widely, translate the book into other languages, and join the conversation as a participant and not merely as an observer. I know of Gandhi’s radical copyright intentions because I’ve seen an image
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia 11th anniversary / Bangalore Wikimeetup 41
Hi all, Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year 2012 !!! Wikimedians in Bangalore cordially invites you to attend the Wikipedia 11th anniversary celebrations in Bangalore ! 15th January 2012 is the 11th Anniversary of Wikipedia ! The Wikimedia India Chapter turned one year on 3rd Jan 2012 ! Join us to celebrate the Wikipedia anniversary at the 41st Wiki-meetup in Bangalore. And Cake - cutting too ! *Date :* Sunday, *15-January-2012 Time: 4:00 PM *IST *Venue :* The Centre for Internet and Society, No. 194, , 2nd 'C' Cross, 4th Main Domlur 2nd Stage , Opposite to Domlur Club, Bangalore 560 071 Karnataka *Agenda : * - Introductions. - Welcoming , and About Wikipedia 11 and other Wikipedia Projects - 15 Minute Google hangout with all cities that are doing parallel events at the same time 4:30 PM - Wikimedia India Chapter - 1 year - Launch of Wikimedia Portals - - Cake Cutting More details : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore41 https://www.facebook.com/events/327765823923926/ ( Facebook invite) 7 other Indian cities are also celebrating Are you attending? http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Eleven Regards Tinu Cherian ( P.S. Feel Free to forward this to your friends, colleagues and other possibly interested mailing lists) ___ 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] Happy Birthday Wikipedia !
Happy Birthday Wikipedia ! Change your profile pictures in your social networking sites :) Suggestions : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:11yrs_carry-our-message-EN.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:11mark_Wikipedia.svg Thanks Arjuna for making the new images. Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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] Wikipedia turns Eleven on the 15th of January 2012 ! 7 Indian cities are celebrating...Are you attending?
Wikipedia turns Eleven on the 15th of January 2012 ! 7 Indian cities are celebrating...Are you attending? http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Eleven Regards Tinu Cherian P.S. Feel free to add information , if you are planning for more events in other cities and towns. ___ 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 India IRC meetup
Hi all, The chat logs of the previous IRC sessions are updated. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#Past_sessions Thanks all for attending. Regards Tinu Cherian. On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Remainder... in 20 mins On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi friends, We will have our IRC meetup on Jan 7, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Jan_07,2012 We from Wikimedia India Chapter invites you all to take part in the IRC meetup. On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter (India) Thanks, Naveen Francis ___ 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
