[Wikimediaindia-l] My resignation as President and EC member of Wikimedia India chapter

[Moksh Juneja]

Dear all,

It's with a heavy heart that I would like to announce my resignation from
as the President and Executive Committee of the Wikimedia India Chapter
with immediate effect. With this, my respect for all of your contributions
to the Movement has only increased, knowing about all the sweat and blood
that goes into the creation of the community that defines the Movement as
we know it, today.

The reasons for my silence on the public list are for the same reasons that
I am quitting today. They are personal. As a Person grows, the
responsibility also grows and a point comes where the personal becomes more
important than the public.

I've had a hard time balancing work, life and my interests. In the
balancing act, it is my family that has missed out the most, especially now
that I have become a father of a 3 month old girl. The demands on me have
grown and I find that I can no longer contribute usefully to the Movement
or that someone else can do more justice to the role.

I thank you all for your love, help and support. I hope to keep
contributing to the Movement when I can.

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Moksh Juneja
Wikimedia India
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias

[Moksh Juneja]

In my suggestion/ recommendation we need to create vertical projects within
wiki-projects. It could be Indian space Environment, local destinations in
your city, etc. With this we should tap into colleges, schools and the
senior editors can look into inspiring the new and junior editors.

I am saying this in my personal capacity as a contributor to Wikipedia.

--
Moksh Juneja
Wikimedia India


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:52 PM, ansuman  wrote:

> Yes, rightly said..here money is not solving one but creating many...
> And only the community can save itself...not paid organizations... :)
> On 29-Jul-2014 10:00 pm, "Ravishankar"  wrote:
>
>> Ansuman,
>>
>> Money can't solve all problems and it can bring new problems too :)
>>
>> Irrespective of availablilty or lack of funds, communities can really
>> manage things themselves.
>>
>> If the communities don't plan and take initiatives, nothing can save the
>> projects.
>>
>> Ravi
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thons

[Moksh Juneja]

Parul & Abhirami, Connecting you to Rohini, Netha. It would be a great idea
We should to do a online Edit-a-thon and probably focus on improving
articles on Indian prominent women.

Rohini is SIG for Gender Gap and Netha is already collaborating on
http://wikiwomen.in/

All the best wishes!
Moksh Juneja


On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Abhirami G  wrote:

> Same here. If not an edit-a-thon, then certainly an online event.
>
> Best regards,
> Abhirami.
>
>
> On 24 April 2014 19:57, Parul  wrote:
>
>> I too would love to join this!
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Parul
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Pradeep Mohandas <
>> pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This may be of interest. I hope we can do this in India in May?
>>>
>>> Warm regards,
>>> Pradeep
>>>
>>> -- Forwarded message --
>>> From: *Sarah Stierch* 
>>> Date: Saturday, 19 April 2014
>>> Subject: Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thons
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> I have created the event page for the Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute
>>> Edit-a-thons that will be taking place around the world in May. This event
>>> is a coordinated project of HASTAC and FemTech. We hope you'll plan an
>>> event - no matter how big or small - and participate.
>>>
>>> Please spread the word and add your event listing here:
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wadewitz_Tribute_Edit-a-thons
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Sarah
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Sarah Stierch
>>>
>>> -
>>>
>>> Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization.
>>>
>>> www.sarahstierch.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> Parul
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Women Scientists edit-a-thon: March 15-16

[Moksh Juneja]

Congrats, this is very encouraging and motivating! Hoping to see more of
these articles.


On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Tejaswini Niranjana wrote:

> These are excellent criteria sent by Dr Mani  - carefully thought out. It
> might be good to adopt them while deciding on notability.
>
>
> All best to the women in science editathon.
>
> Tejaswini
>
>
>
> On 16 March 2014 00:37, A. Mani  wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Parul  wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > India has a lot of successful women scientists who have made a mark in
>> their
>> > respective fields. However, it is unfortunate that these women still do
>> not
>> > have an existence on Wikipedia. Read this blog post to  know a little
>> more.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > We are organizing a Women Scientists edit-a-thon tomorrow and day after.
>> > Join us by editing as many articles as possible during these the two
>> days.
>> > Apart from creating articles, you could also help us by correcting or
>> > expanding existing ones. Adding names to the existing list of scientists
>> > would go a long way too.
>>
>>
>>
>> What criteria (relative academic accomplishments) is being used for
>> qualifying as a "women scientist"?
>> Some days ago, I saw some entries for fresh people with a couple of
>> publications (it was part of an earlier round of editing).
>> One cannot really go by the few awards (politicized) and such.
>>
>> If that is the criteria, then I know at least 95 women who would fit
>> in. If I set the cut off point at 5 years in research, then the number
>> would be 60 - 72+ (I am not sure ).
>>
>> If the criteria is 100pp of publication in refereed international
>> journals or 10 years in research or some high impact work (requires
>> peer review), then the number would be much less.
>>
>> ps. I don't want an article on myself as I have enough publicity :)
>>
>>
>> Best
>>
>> A. Mani
>>
>>
>>
>> A. Mani
>> [Last_Name. First_Name Format]
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014

[Moksh Juneja]

Dear Manoj, this is a great initiative and others language communities
should try emulate the same to encourage more contributors and content.

Moksh Juneja



On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:37 PM, manoj k wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> New year wishes to all.
>
> Wikisource project, a project of Wikimedia foundation is celebrating its
> tenth anniversary. As a part of the decennary celebrations, the
> Wikisource projects in various languages all over the world are conducting
> competitions that enrich their contents including but not limited to proof
> -reading and digitization. Being a part of it, Wikisource's Malayalam
> version - Wiki Grandhasala community, a voluntary unit engaged in
> collecting and digitizing  valuable Malayalam books of yesteryears, is
> organizing a digitization (Typing & Proofreading) competition, along with
> various Government as well as Non-Government establishments and other
> voluntary organisations with similar interests like Kerala Sahithya
> Academy, IT@ school Project,  Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and Center
> for  Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) under the banner of  Malayalam Wiki
> community.. This digitisation competition is being conducted as a part of
> an effort that collects Malayalam Books whose copyright date has expired in
> digital form (in unicode format) preserving the content and makig them more
> accessible and popular. The competition lasts for a month, starting on
> January 1, 2014 and ending on Jan 31, 2014. The competition focuses
> especially individuals and schools and includes some attractive prizes
> including E-book readers, Tablets and selected books for those who lead
> the scoreboard. In this competition, books that was recently released by
> Kerala Sahithya Academy to its public collection will be digitised.
>
> Details of the competition;There are two specific competitions
>
> *Competition for individuals:-*
> This competition is for the general public. It includes typing and
> proofreading of selected books. The main aim is to attract people who are
> active in social media into Wiki Grandhasala activities. Those who wish
> to participate in this competition should register before January 31st
> 2014. Here are the pages which are to be typed in as part of this
> competition.
>
> *Competition for schools:-*
> Presently many student groups, through the IT Cell of their respective
> schools, participate actively in the Wiki Grandhasala effort. This
> version of the competition aims to increase the participation of such
> student groups. The idea is to inculcate more love for their mother tongue
> among the students. The process also aims at providing awareness out aboutsuch
> collaborative activities, getting them interested in computer related
> areas, specifically Language Computing. Scanned copies of books that are
> in public domain will be made available to the respective schools. Under
> the supervision of  IT@school coordinators  of each school, students have
> to type them and proof read, which will be added to Wiki Grandhasala.
>
> The prizes (like E-book readers, Portable scanners) are sponsored by
> Center for Internet and Society, Kerala Sahithya Academy and Swathanthra
> Malayalam Computing. Also, certificates will be awarded to all students
> who participate in the school level competition and IT@school coordinators
> ,  for their coordination activities.
>
> Those who wish to sponsor more prizes, and those who wish to makescanned/hard 
> copiesbooks in
> the public domain availale to Wiki Grandhasala can contact
> mlwikisou...@gmail.com.
>
> Project Page: https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:DC2014
> Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/265018530322640/
> Score Bord : http://balasankarc.in/ProofreadingContest/index.html
>
> For Malayalam Wikisource Community
>
> Manoj.K/മനോജ്.കെ
> General Convener, Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN meet at Lal Bagh Bangalore- Schedule (Sowmyan Tirumurti)

[Moksh Juneja]

This is a brilliant initiative and thanks for spearheading. QR Code only
help people learn more about the flora of Bangalore.


On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Sanket Oswal  wrote:

> Congrats and Best Wishes.
>
> Regards,
> Sanket.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Yohann Thomas wrote:
>
>> Congrats on having this event successfully & hoping fr many such
>> successful events in the future.
>>
>>
>> Yohann Thomas
>> Wikipedia Club Pune
>>  yohan...@gmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Dec 7-8 in Delhi for articles on violence against women

[Moksh Juneja]

Good initiative, wishing all success to your event. Hoping it spreads it
wings to other cities.


On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Rohini Lakshané  wrote:

> Breakthrough, a global human rights organisation that runs campaigns such
> as Bell Bajao, and Wikimedia Chapter (India) are conducting a Wikipedia
> edit-a-thon in Delhi on December 7 and 8 for editing articles pertaining to
> violence against women. Facebook page of the event:
> http://www.facebook.com/events/181325168737101
>
> *Basic idea behind this session*:  A crucial problem with several
> Wikipedia articles on sexual violence, especially in the Indian context, is
> that often there are no articles or that articles have been deleted). It
> would be a knowledge advocacy session to increase gender sensitive editing
> in Wikipedia.
>
> The session will involve editing of articles pertaining to various aspects
> of violence against women in India. A list of about 10 Wikipedia articles
> has been drawn up for editing.  The session will be live-blogged. Remote
> participation will be enabled through IRC channels.
>
> The edit-a-thon is a part of the "16 days of activism against gender based
> violence" starting 25th November (International Day for the Elimination of
> Violence against Women) to 10 December (International Human Rights Day).
> This is a global campaign that aims at raising awareness about gender-based
> violence as a human rights issue. This hackathon will be mainly focussed
> towards data visualisation and several organisations are providing us with
> statistical datasets and other kinds of data including audio and video.
> --
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> Wikimedia Chapter (India)
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone

[Moksh Juneja]

Congratulations to the community!! This is awesome growth news!


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Ravishankar  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> October 2013 stats for Tamil Wikipedia is out. We have crossed many
> milestones in one jump coinciding with our Tenth Anniversary Celebrations!
>
> * 1017 Total contributors . We have crossed the 1000 milestone after
> Malayalam Wikipedia. Next in line is Hindi Wikipedia with 988 total
> contributors.
>
> * 118 active editors who edit 5 times a month. Highest in ten years and
> the first time we crossed 100.
>
> * 27 new editors joined this month. This is the second highest enrollment
> in ten years after the 2010 June state wide essay contest time.
>
> * 25 very active editors who edit 100 times a month. Highest in ten years.
>
> * We went from 1 to  2 contributors for every one million Tamil speaking
> population now.
>
> * Registered 8.5m million page views. That is 2,83,000 per day. Highest in
> ten years.
>
> We hope to sustain this activity through various initiatives.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ravi
>
> References:
>
> 1. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm
>
> 2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryTA.htm
>
> 3. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Winners of WLM India 2013

[Moksh Juneja]

Some of them are really amazing photographs. Congrats to the winners. Great
initiative.



On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Rahmanuddin Shaik wrote:

> Congrats to winners. Hope this sets a trend to display photographs over
> commons for Indian photographers.
>
>
> 2013/11/21 Dhaval S. Vyas 
>
> Congratulations to all the winners and kudos to the Jury members for their
>> time spent and enormous efforts put in this task.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dhaval
>> On 20 Nov 2013 18:57, "Karthik Nadar"  wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> This year, we received 11,000 images if monuments in Wiki Loves
>>> Monuments India 2013. Over a month, the jury team has been working on to
>>> select and nominate best images for the WLM international contest and thus
>>> also selecting the winning images of India contest. Here are they: 
>>> http://www.wikilovesmonuments.in/here-are-the-winners-of-the-wiki-loves-monuments-2013-india-contest/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to take a moment to thank all those who helped to make this
>>> happen. Thank you Naveen and Kiran Ravikumar for sharing your shoulders.
>>> Thanks to jury  for sending
>>> their valuable time in reviewing images. Also thanks to Pavithra, Arun
>>> Ganesh and Manoranjan for been part of special jury. Never to forget the
>>> international team for their kind help at all the times!
>>>
>>> Thanks to Wikimedia India for funding the contest, to INTACH for
>>> partnering it for the first time. Apologies if I have missed anyone, but
>>> you shall also owe a thousand of thanks from the WLM team.
>>>
>>>
>>> *PS: *Could you help us spread the work through media, get in touch
>>> with me or Naveen or Kiran!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Karthik Nadar.
>>> On behalf of WLM India team.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia user group in Pakistan

[Moksh Juneja]

Dear Saqib,

Thank you for the mail informing us. This is a great step :-)


On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Saqib Qayyum wrote:

> Dear Indian Wikimedians,
>
> Although Wikimedia chapter for Pakistan is still in the discussion phase,
> we've working on creating of an official Wikimedia User Group, since the
> numbers of our community members at the moment are not sufficient for the
> creation of a chapter.
>
> The main objective of this user group will be to act as a voice and
> representative for the Pakistani Wikimedian community and to promote
> Wikipedia and various Pakistani language Wikimedia Foundation projects
> throughout Pakistan and further strengthen the community.
>
> The initial goals our user group will be:
>
>- Organise regular meetings and meetups in major cities of Pakistan
>for discussions etc and planning of a Wikipedia workshop and Wikipedia
>Takes The City photo contest in 2014
>- To empower and engage Pakistani Wikimedians in both on-wiki and
>off-wiki activities
>- Growth of the Wikimedian community in Pakistan
>- Creation of Wikimedia Pakistan chapter in the long run
>
>
> Some ideas and suggestions from Indian chapter members will be welcomed
> and highly appreciated.
>
> regards
>
> Saqib
> Admin, English Wikivoyage
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Few concerns

[Moksh Juneja]

A question came up on this list about some employer-employee relationships
within the chapter board. This is to clarify that the stated relationships
between the said persons have ended/in the process of ending with notice
being served prior to this issue being brought up (certainly not because of
this email and prior to it).

This is not to brag but to state background. I would like to further state
in particular have been extremely generous in supporting Wikipedia
activities in Mumbai for several years now, organising local events,
offering my office for meetups and official purposes, bearing expenses in
some cases, offering pro-bono services through my company and even offering
jobs to several Wikipedians.

Pranav and I were two people instrumental in ensuring the success of our
first national conference 2 years ago. This is something that is yet to be
replicated. Pranav was recently instrumental in our first victory with the
government recently, a major win for the chapter in India to have them
apply a Wikipedia complaint license to open knowledge resources for the
first time ever. Karthik has been one of the lead organisers of the
chapters biggest photo contest, our biggest success of the last financial
year. All of us have been an integral part of several chapter activities
during the last year. In the recent weeks, both Pranav and Karthik have
been involved in preparing our FDC application, spending several hours a
week, into the wee hours of the night on a regular basis apart from
juggling their professional commitments during the day. All of us have been
actively involved in the Wikimedia Conference bid.

All of us were Wikipedians first before anything else, meeting each other
through Wikipedia, having our own independent thinking which remains
unaffected and one common goal as unpaid volunteers working out of love for
the movement as a cause. We assure everyone that there is no COI that may
affect any of our functioning in the EC and performing our duties at the
chapter.

One thing we have learnt from this is that there is a need for a formal
public document that details what COI is and when disclosures need to be
made. We will push for such a document to be created within the EC. At the
same time, we humbly appeal that the community  "assume good faith" towards
our efforts and help/support the chapter and movement in India. We are
working towards building greater synergies, understanding and team-building
within the EC leadership, SIG Chairs and key members of the chapter and
volunteers in India in an effort to strengthen our very foundations with a
long term view and we cannot do this without your help and support.

Moksh

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:

> Shyamal,
>
> You reminded me of the good old days of Wikipedia - the movement that
> wasn't centered around money, but driven by interest and volunteering.
>
> I hope that what you've written about Wikiculture shall be read by many
> here and if that is understood by more people in coming days, the Indian
> 'community' can get a wee bit healthier.
>
> Of late, whenever I switch over to read the conversations on this list, it
> is not just intrigue but profound disgust that emerges.
>
> On 25 September 2013 10:03, Shyamal L.  wrote:
>
>> Apologies for the rant that follows and can be conveniently skipped by
>> the busy folks here.
>>
>> I am quite intrigued by the kinds of discussion on this list and indeed
>> intrigued by most of the characters that seem to be involved in the
>> Wikimedia movement in India and how it stands out in contrast to the spirit
>> of Wikipedia and its sister projects. Whereas the project is more a culture
>> of giving, most of what we see here seems to be more about merely getting
>> things for oneself and getting ahead of each other which I suppose is
>> inspiration drawn from street traffic. Having observed the movement from
>> the outside, it is my hope that the best values of  Wikipedia culture are
>> imbibed rather than the worst of Indian culture.
>>
>> * Wikiculture -  Deal with issues not the persons raising them - what
>> matters more than who. Those who actually interact with the *community* (an
>> earlier thread gave the suggestion that people would get an opportunity to
>> interact with the *community* only by attending Wikimania) on Wikipedia
>> will know this aspect. This is a symptom of the fact that hardly anyone out
>> here is really editing substantially.
>>
>> * Wikiculture - Think independently and question everything - Wikipedia
>> achieved a lot and is interesting because it questions(or questioned)
>> paradigms that are (or were) taken for granted. It uses direct interaction,
>> direct democracy, rather than representatives. So voting people into
>> committees / positions that work in private is not the way things are done
>> here, it is by discussing ideas. Independence requires that you question
>> any sense of group identity.
>>
>> * Wikiculture - Forsake cliques,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Let's *Talk*

[Moksh Juneja]

+1

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:52, Hisham  wrote:

> Hi Folks
>
> I'm deliberately opening a new mail chain on this.  This is at the risk of
> me being told off for doing so - but I believe that email protocol is one
> thing - but communication philosophy is (arguably) even more critical.
>
> I (and personally upsetting to me, others at India Programs - namely
> Nitika & the Campus Ambassadors) have taken some beating over the past few
> days.  Some has been personal and not been circumspect or constructive;
> not pretty.  I have been touched by the offlist messages of comfort and
> support that I and the others have got.
>
> I am exceedingly worried about the impact it has had on team morale.  To
> all those who have criticised the India Education Program, spare a thought
> for the volunteers who have helped out on this.  I want to tell the Campus
> Ambassadors to be strong and keep your chins up.  You guys have been
> incredible.  Hand on heart, you have given your hearts and souls and have
> conducted probably the single biggest Wikipedia outreach program in the
> world.  (btw, I really don't care if someone wants to tag this as {citation
> required.})  You have taken time out of your working lives and college
> days.  I know how tough it's been  - conducting more than 100 in-class
> sessions, working with so many students and faculty, reaching out on email
> and talk pages and SMS and mobile calls and social networks and in
> canteens, poring over student entries, learning Wikipedia policies,
> figuring out new tools to help your work, building relationships  with
> other editors across the globe, doing the back-breaking documentation
> that's been required on project & course pages, and I can go on and on and
> on.  I know that sustaining this level of motivation and energy over months
> has been hard on you.  I also know some of you faltered.  I know some of
> you wanted to scream and kick someone some times, maybe even many people
> many times! Keep the faith, guys.
>
> I am sorry for the personal attack on Nitika.  To her, I want to publicly
> apologise.  I know her to be hard-working, diligent, honest, competent and
> an all-round professional.  She's new and she's learning and has and will
> make mistakes - like all of us do.  It is fantastic to have her on the
> team.  Period.
>
> The program is a pilot - and we made a ton of mistakes.  Sorry, let me
> rephrase that.  I led the initiative so all responsibility should be mine.
>  I made a ton of mistakes.  I promise the following.  We will have a
> thorough, honest and fact based evaluation.  We will be open to make all
> the changes that are required.  We will not let the events of the past few
> days force us into a bunker mentality.  We will be open and we will be
> intellectually rigorous.  We will learn and we will improve.  The India
> opportunity is massive - and our ambitions are huge.  It is also fraught
> with challenges.  Unless we try and do things - new and tough and complex
> things - we will never be able to realise our true potential.
>
> I know that some who have participated in these exchanges are driven by an
> awe-inspiring love and passion for Wikipedia.  I urge you to continue to
> come forward and work with others and us.  Come forward early though - and
> stay engaged through the journey.  It will have ups and downs.
>
> On communication, I urge everyone to maintain WP:CIVILITY and WP:NPOV in
> all our interactions.  On this - and to be fair - quite a few other
> interactions recently on totally unrelated topics (and involving a whole
> host of others), I daresay we have drifted from core Wikipedia principles.
>  These should apply to us to all our community's interactions as
> religiously as we apply them to our projects.
>
> I would urge folks who agree with me to write back.  Even a +1 will do.
>  Let's hear the voices of the quieter folks.  Let's hear from the folks who
> don't always get involved in mailing list exchanges out of either
> apprehension or apathy.  Let's move forward.
>
> Warm Regards,
>
> hisham
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Announcement to offer sponsorship to WikiConference India 2011

[Moksh Juneja]

Dear Kundan,
This is awesome news. Thank you very much to be the first sponsor for the
WikiConference India.

Please do send us the logos of both Ang India Technologies and
Sarkarinaukari.com

Moksh

On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 23:07, Kundan Amitabh wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It is with great pleasure that I am able to extend offers of sponsorship
> from *Ang India Technologies * and *
> SarkariNaukri.com *, a flagship non-profit
> sister organisation of *Ang India Technologies  *for
> WikiConference India 
> 2011
> * *being organized in Mumbai, India, on 18-20 November 2011.
>
> Here at *Ang India Technologies * we are
> dedicated to fostering the use of Hindi, Marathi, Angika and other Indic
> Languages on the Web, Computers and Mobile Phones. At 
> *Sarkarinaukri.com
> * we make available the information freely to general public for their
> employment in government sectors.  We believe that WikiConference India
> 2011 * *has what
> it takes to make a huge impact in using Indic languages on the web and
> mobile phones and in sharing the information free of cost.
>
> To help Wikipeidia, Wikimedia in general and WikiConference India 
> 2011 in
> particular we would like to offer the following;
>
> 1.On behalf of *Ang India Technologies * a
> donation of Rs. One Lakh and one full scholarship to WikiConference India
> 2011   to bear
> the travelling costs for the persons coming from U.K. to attend the
> conference as external speakers.
>
> 2.On behalf of *SarkariNaukri.com * a
> donation of Rs. One Lakh and full scholarship to WikiConference India 
> 2011
>   to bear the train travelling costs for 8 persons coming from rural areas
> of  Jharkhand / Bihar/West Bengal / Maharashtra as participants.
>
> In return we request that organizers of WikiConference India 
> 2011 display
> *Ang India Technologies *'s  and *
> SarkariNaukri.com  *‘s promotional signs
> and literature throughout .
>
> I look forward to hearing from you soon so that we can move forward with
> this wonderful opportunity for *Ang India 
> Technologies
> *  , *SarkariNaukri.com  *and WikiConference
> India 2011 *.*
>
> --
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> Kundan Amitabh
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> Ang India Technologies,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

[Moksh Juneja]

Hi, 

Respect your views on using open platforms. At the same time, I feel strongly 
we need to use platforms where there users and specially indian users. 

One small correction, we have not created any Twitter account. We are tracking 
and encouraging users to use #wci11 as the hashtag for conversations on 
WikiConference 2011. 

Moksh from BB

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Global Fund raising Support to Indian Currency

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Similar to justgiving.com in UK, we have something closer home giveindia.org.
We can actually use their platform for commerce. Give India provides these
facilities only to charities. They keep a nominal fees for a transaction.

If everyone is ok with this. I would be happy to connect the individual to
the giveindia.org.

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On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:25,  wrote:

>  Iv had some fundraising experience with charities - both in India and the
> UK. The simplest method of accepting payment is tying up with an external
> party such as http://www.justgiving.com/ (from experience - this is one of
> many that specialise in online fundraising for charities in the UK). If the
> amount is relatively small this makes sense, however for higher amounts we
> may as well sign up with a merchant as that would be cheaper if we have
> volume. Rather than requesting funds through NEFT (which is a better mode
> for payments such as membership fee etc), for this you could opt for Net
> Banking or even cheques by post!
>
> As for 80G, the more you run after it the more the babu will want from you.
> If you put a bundle on the table, the certificate will be in your hand in
> days. However, from experience I can tell you, if you dont bother about it -
> just complete official formalities, the form will come by post to your
> office in due course.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> --
> Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 06:22:03 +0530
> From: ravidre...@gmail.com
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Global Fund raising Support to Indian
> Currency
>
>
> I think 80G is nice to have, but shouldnt stop us. Also we are not probably
> looking at large scale(We would love if they come), but typically my
> equivalents to 5 10 20 dollors would 250 500 1000 INR for which most would
> not take trouble of getting receipts and eventually getting the
> benefit(Atleast the folks who do online donations) since the tax benefit
> would be negligible.
>
>
> +1
>
>
>
> So my next question is without which are we eligible to collect donations
> online, would just like to know the bureaucracy around it? I now know the
> chapter can receive donations through NEFT[1].If we are good to go then the
> next thing to work out would be a payment gateway / payments partner helping
> us in giving options to various bank netbanking / credit/debit cards,
> ofcourse a decent API. The more the merrier. Also if we could get some
> sponsorship/deal from them in terms of the cut they take for transaction
> cost. People who have experience with online payment solutions can add their
> inputs.
>
>
> http://www.ccavenue.com/ works best for accepting payments online from
> various netbanking accounts in India.
>
> Thanks for the timely reminder and initiative on this, Srikanth.
>
> Ravi
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Community-Chapter Relations

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Dear All,

Since the past behind, lets all of us move forward with the single objective
in mind to roll out the Mumbai-Pune hosted WikiConference in November 2011.
Lets not fret over the lost time, lets make the best of all the resources
that we can pool in together.

Let the enthusiasm prevail and contagious!!

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On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:45,  wrote:

>  Open Response to Members and office bearers of the Executive Committee,
> Wikimedia Chapter (India),
>
> Thank you for your letter of unconditional support for the Mumbai-Pune
> hosted WikiConference in November 2011. We highly appreciate and are humbled
> by this support from the chapter as well as vocal public support from all
> communities across India for for us hosting this event.
>
> We now look forward to a new dawn by putting the past behind us and hosting
> a benchmark conference. We request communities across the country to
> continue supporting us the way they have and come forward with proposals for
> the event program/theme etc.
>
> We welcome to Gautam K John and Arun Ramanathan onto our Event Organising
> Committee.
>
> On behalf of the Mumbai and Pune Community,
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> User:AroundTheGlobe
>
> --
> Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:46:31 +0530
> From: arjunar...@googlemail.com
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] [Wikimedia-in-mum]
> Community-Chapter Relations
>
>
> Hi Wikimedians
>
> We wholeheartedly supported the Mumbai-Pune bid for organising the
> conference. It has received widespread community support from Wikipedians
> across the country on the mailing list. We also take note of the fact that
> there is no visible active intent to make a bid to host the event from other
> cities.
> The previous note from Executive Committee (EC) clearly indicates the
> intent and commitment to run an annual event, year on year, with the support
> of other stakeholders in the movement. To that end we request that the
> organising team of this year's event keep this an important objective.
> EC had previously made a proposal for such an event many in early 2011 but
> it was then deferred to September due to other procedural hurdles in getting
> all aspects of a formal entity up and running - A bank account being a
> prerequisite to execute the plan.
> EC regrets the communication gaps and discomfort caused in some quarters
> due to misunderstandings of intent which our earlier email clearly and
> directly addresses. The Wikimedia movement is community driven and we
> reiterate that involving the community is and will be a key priority for
> your Chapter and Executive Committee.
> We request everyone's support for the Mumbai-Pune efforts to organise the
> 2011 WikiConference.
> Please consider this note a full and complete support of the India Chapter
> for the event. We thank the Mumbai and Pune Wikimedians again for the
> passion and leadership in working towards organising the first edition of
> this event.
> We will engage and work with the Mumbai team and other Wikipedians on the
> specific aspects of the frame work. As indicated in the earlier email, it
> was meant to be a draft seeking comments from other stakeholders.
> There were

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Jimbo at WikiConference 2011

[Moksh Juneja]

Dear All, then this an indication to begin work in full swing. :-)

Hopefully, no more delays expected, specially now we need start to thinking,
planning, organizing backwards from this day on.

Looking froward to kickstart the good work!!

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On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:03, Surya Prakash wrote:

> Congrats. Very happy to hear this. :)
>
> *$U®¥∩*
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> 2011/6/10 
>
>>  Hi All,
>>
>> As Pradeep announced late last night, Jimmy Wales (aka Jimbo, Founder,
>> Wikipedia and Member of Global Board of Trustees) was approached by the
>> Mumbai/Pune Community along with other supporters from various parts of the
>> country requesting him to attend the First National WikiConference in India
>> later this year.
>>
>> *Late last night we received a response from Jimbo expressing
>> availability on 18-19-20 November 2011.* There is consensus among the
>> Mumbai/Pune Community that we reschedule the conference dates in order to
>> facilitate Jimbo's presence. I am sure the entire Indian Community (and the
>> Chapter) will be extremely pleased to host Jimbo for this event. This is a
>> big push for us now to go ahead with this benchmark event and do conduct it
>> in the best possible way.
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> User:AroundTheGlobe
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Event Support Request

[Moksh Juneja]

Hi I can help with the following

•Press and Media coordination
Deciding on a path for media promotion of event, giving interviews, inviting
media and taking care of them during the event

•Promotion and Advertisement
There will be a promotion budget which will have to be judiciously used for
maximum benefit - again person with experience or qualification preferred.

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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 22:28,  wrote:

>  Cross posting on India/Mumbai/Pune mailing lists
>
> Just to follow up on the minutes of Mumbai X - we would like to invite
> members of the national wikicommunity to come and support WikiConference
> 2011, Mumbai/Pune.
>
> It was felt important that to move forward we need an Event Organising
> Committee (OC) for the WikiConference and sub-committee members. Kindly note
> we are not looking for people who just lend their names but people who will
> actually come forward and put in time and effort in the entire 6 month
> preceding period.
>
> Sub-Committees suggested:
>
> •Conference Programming  (Includes Themes, Tracks, Keynote Speakers and
> Scheduling)
> Deciding the direction this meet should take.
>
> •Finance (Includes both budgeting, raising finances and scholarships)
> People who are either qualified or have experience preferred. Handling
> finance of such an event
>
> •Conference Venue and Catering
> Coordination of venue and catering booking to helping things move on the
> floor during the event
>
> •Major Events (Attendee Party/Mega Event)
> Undertaking responsibility of any major events other than actual conference
>
> •Press and Media coordination
> Deciding on a path for media promotion of event, giving interviews,
> inviting media and taking care of them during the event
>
> •Accommodation and Registration
> Reserving the accommodation, picking people up and making sure they find
> their accommodation, registering people on the event day.
>
> •Promotion and Advertisement
> There will be a promotion budget which will have to be judiciously used for
> maximum benefit - again person with experience or qualification preferred.
>
> •Technical and IT
> Running the event site, setting up wifi and other electronic goods, webcast
> of the event online for those who cannot make it in person
>
> •Volunteer
> On ground. Running around during the event
>
> Whoever is interested in being on the OC or any of the sub-committees,
> kindly write to the Mumbai list (*wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org*).
>
> Kind Regards,
> User:AroundTheGlobe
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