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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger 2.0 - Jury for hardware support

2019-09-25 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Is there a certain number of jury members you're looking for?

On 25 September 2019 19:36:41 GMT+05:30, Suswetha Kolluru 
 wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>The last date to apply for Jury for hardware support is extended till
>26
>September 2019 (tomorrow).
>If you are interested to be part of jury, please visit the Jury page[1]
>and
>apply soon.
>
>[1]
>https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Local_Language_Content_on_Wikipedia_(Project_Tiger_2.0)/Jury
>
>On Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 4:10 PM Suswetha Kolluru 
>wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> As you know, applications for Project Tiger 2.0's hardware support
>closed
>> on 14 September 2019 and we received 126 applications
>>
>
>> .
>> If you want to become a jury member for hardware support selection,
>please
>> visit this page
>>
>
>and
>> add the required details on or before 24 September 2019.
>>
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>> *Best,*
>> *Suswetha Kolluru*,
>> *Project Tiger coordinator 2019*
>>
>>

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia-MR Digest, Vol 8, Issue 2

2017-11-08 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Forwarding with permission from the original poster.


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[Wikimediaindia-l] New project proposal: Community toolkit for greater diversity

2017-09-26 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Hello everyone,

Chinmayi S.K. and I have submitted a proposal titled "Community toolkit
for greater diversity" for the latest round of Project Grants.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Chinmayisk/Community_toolkit_for_Greater_Diversity

We would appreciate your comments and feedback on the proposal. Please
post them on the Discussion page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:Project/Chinmayisk/Community_toolkit_for_Greater_Diversity

If you would like to volunteer with the project (thank you!), please
reply to this email off this list.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiWomen's Lunch at WikiConference India 2016

2016-07-26 Thread Rohini Lakshané

August 6, 2016 at conference lunch hour (1 p.m. to 2 p.m.)

Sign-up page:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Meetups/WikiWomensLunch

Please share this with anyone who you think might be interested in
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Code of Conduct and Friendly Space Policy for WCI 2016

2016-07-24 Thread Rohini Lakshané

We have not received any offers to help with translation yet. I have set up
this page for co-ordinating translations:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Code_of_Conduct/Translations



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2016-07-16 16:44 GMT+05:30 Rohini Lakshané <rohini.laksh...@gmail.com>:

> The Code of Conduct and Friendly Space Policy for WikiConference India are
> now closed for comments.
>
> The final version is available at:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Code_of_Conduct
>
> We request all participants and members of the organising teams to
> familiarise themselves with the CoC and policy. This code of conduct
> applies to the main event, pre-conference and post-conference events,
> auxiliary tracks to the main event such as fireside chats, and online
> components of the conference such as video conferences, IRC rooms, and
> mailing lists.
>
> We also urgently need help with translating the document into different
> Indian languages before the start of WikiConference India.
>
> -- Rohini
> (On behalf of the WCI Diversity and Inclusion team)
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Code of Conduct and Friendly Space Policy for WCI 2016

2016-07-16 Thread Rohini Lakshané

The Code of Conduct and Friendly Space Policy for WikiConference India are
now closed for comments.

The final version is available at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Code_of_Conduct

We request all participants and members of the organising teams to
familiarise themselves with the CoC and policy. This code of conduct
applies to the main event, pre-conference and post-conference events,
auxiliary tracks to the main event such as fireside chats, and online
components of the conference such as video conferences, IRC rooms, and
mailing lists.

We also urgently need help with translating the document into different
Indian languages before the start of WikiConference India.

-- Rohini
(On behalf of the WCI Diversity and Inclusion team)


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Scholarship decision for WCI 2016 participation has been finalized

2016-07-09 Thread Rohini Lakshané

*//We have offered 103 scholarships covering 20 language communities and
five different Wikimedia projects. Among them, 25 recipients are women.*
Many thanks for following the recommendations of the Diversity and
Inclusion Team. We hope that this sets a precedent for future national and
regional conferences in India.




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2016-07-09 14:34 GMT+05:30 Ravishankar <ravidre...@gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> Scholarship decision for WCI 2016 participation has been finalized.
>
> We have offered 103 scholarships covering 20 language communities and five
> different Wikimedia projects. Among them, 25 recipients are women.
>
> The recipients have been informed about the decision through email. Please
> check your email inbox (or even spam folder) and respond to it. We will
> publish a final list of scholarship recipients on 16th July 2016.
>
> Please visit
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Scholarships
> for more details.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ravi
>
> WCI 2016 Team
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimania 2015 participants from India

2015-04-14 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Hi,

I checked with my travel agent; Indians need to visit the Mexican embassy
in New Delhi for recording biometrics for the visa.

Congrats to everyone who got the scholarship!

Regards,
Rohini
On 13 Apr 2015 16:30, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu ravidre...@wikimedia.in
wrote:

Hi,

I request Wikimania 2015 participants from India to register at

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania_2015#Participants

Please correct me if I am wrong, but it looks like Indian citizens will
have to personally appear for an interview at the Mexico Embassy in New
Delhi. For people far away from New Delhi, to and fro flight charges plus a
day's stay plus Visa fee can easily come around 25,000 INR.

Since 14th April is the last day for accepting scholarships from WMF,
please be aware of this additional expense and inform Wikimania Scholarship
committee if you need additional funding to meet this expense.

We can discuss and summarize more such details at

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimania_2015

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Women's History Month 2015 : Bangalore Edit-a-thon on March 7

2015-03-04 Thread Rohini Lakshané

I'll try to join the edit-a-thon online as I can't make it in person. Many
thanks to you, Chinmayi, and the Chapter for stepping forth and organising
this!

Regards,


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2015-03-04 19:24 GMT+05:30 Parul sri.pa...@gmail.com:

 Hi All,



 We, at Wikimedia India community are happy to announce an edit-a-thon
 on Women’s History Month on *7th March* and celebrate International
 Women’s Day with fellow Wikipedians.


 This will be a day-long event (10 am to 4 pm) which will consist of
 encouraging new women editors to learn editing and also creating/expanding
 some new articles in order to increase women specific content on Wikipedia.
 Apart from creating articles, you could also help us by
 identifying/correcting or expanding existing ones.



 Here is a little more information for your reference:
  http://goog_1624597231/


1.  Event Page

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2015/Events/Women%27s_Day,_Bangalore
2.  Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/events/430016040489156/

 We would love for those of you in Bangalore on March 7th to join us and
 help make this event a success. Feel free to join remotely or help us in
 adding/choosing articles to improve or write.



 If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Chinmayi
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Chinmayisk or me
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ParulThakur.


 Thanks!

 Parul

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell, Sowmyan !

2014-11-25 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Farewell Sowmyan! You will be missed. Thank you for everything.

-- Rohini


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On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Thanks, Sowmyan, your contributions have gone largely unsung.

 Ashwin

 On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Anwar Hussain anwar2...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Had the chance to meet him during the course of a Wiki-GLAM at National
 Museum New Delhi.In fact he is the person who introduced me to this mailing
 list in the first place. A very humble person he is indeed. Wish him all
 the very best. :)

 On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 1:53 AM, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu 
 ravidre...@wikimedia.in wrote:

 Hi,

 Please join me in wishing a fond farewell for Sowmyan as he is getting
 relieved from his role as an Executive Manager for Wikimedia India
 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Staff.

 His 40 years of experience and wisdom served the movement well when we
 were going through a crucial phase. Those who were closely involved with
 the chapter operations know that he went many miles beyond the call of his
 duty.

 Sowmyan has promised to serve the movement as a community member and I
 greatly look forward to it.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia edit-a-thons in Delhi and Bangalore for Women's History Month -- March 29

2014-03-27 Thread Rohini Lakshané

An edit-a-thon for Women's History Month takes place simultaneously in
Delhi and Bangalore on Saturday, March 29, from 1 pm to 6pm.

List of articles:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India/To-do-list

Details of the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/285700978254131/

Please contact me offlist if you are interested in volunteering for this.

Regards,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Women's Day events and WikiWomen's History Month, 2014

2014-02-14 Thread Rohini Lakshané

The project page for coordinating online and offline events for
International Women's Day (March 8) and Women's History Month has been
published on Meta at:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2014

I urge Indian language editors to add lists of articles to create and
expand as a part of the edit-a-thon:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_India-2014/To_do_list

The theme of the edit-a-thon this year on the English Wikipedia is Women
Parliamentarians. The articles listed for creation, expansion and
improvement as a part of the Lilavati's Daughters edit-a-thon on women
scientists could be taken up again during Women's History Month.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Dec 7-8 in Delhi for articles on violence against women

2013-12-06 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Thank you all for your good wishes and words of praise.

For those who wish to participate remotely, an IRC channel #hack4change has
been created on Freenode. The edit-a-thon takes place in New Delhi. I am
joining via Skype from Mumbai.

This is the list of articles: (There are 7, not 10 as announced earlier)
*Vina Mazumdar
*Vishakha Guidelines
*Urvashi Butalia
 *Mathura Rape case
*Kamla Bhasin (no article yet, it will be created)
 *Flavia Agnes
*Agnes Kharshiing

Suggestions and inputs are welcome.

Regards,
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On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:07 AM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote:

 Great Rohini!!

 Keep it up!!



 On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Niraj Suryawanshi 
 niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Rohini, Great job! As Vishnu said a much needed one!! Will be unable to
 join you, but can do my part here from Pune. Is there any possibility that
 we can coordinate  edit remotely?

 Regards  Thanks

 *Niraj Suryawanshi*
 +91 8149 920 120


 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Rohini Lakshané roh...@wikimedia.inwrote:

 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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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Dec 7-8 in Delhi for articles on violence against women

2013-12-04 Thread Rohini Lakshané

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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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Winners of WLM India 2013

2013-11-20 Thread Rohini Lakshané

They are all breathtaking! Kudos to you and the WLM team. Congrats to all
the winners.

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On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 12:26 AM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote:

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 http://www.wikilovesmonuments.in/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] FW: Tenth Anniversary Celebration of Kannada Wikipedia

2013-11-14 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Please share the event report in English and a few photos with me. I'll put
them up with attribution on WikipeDNA.
http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/wikipedna

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2013/11/14 Pavanaja U B pavan...@vishvakannada.com

 Dear friends,

 Kannada Wikipedia has completed 10 years. The Kannada Wikipedia community
 will be celebrating the tenth anniversary of Kannada Wikpedia on Nov 17,
 2013 from 9:30 am to 1:30 pm at H N Multimedia Hall, National College,
 Basavanagudi, Bangalore. The guests of honour will be Dr. U R
 Ananthamurthy, Prof G Venkatasubbiah and Ravi Hegde. There will be speeches
 by the chief guests from 10:00 to 11:00am. That will be followed by talk by
 some Kannada Wikipedians. At the end there will be a edit-a-thon where
 Wikipedians will add some articles to Kannada Wikipedia.

 Registration page - http://bit.ly/KNWP10

 Thanks and regards,
 Pavanaja

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 -ನವಂಬರ್ ೧೭, ೨೦೧೩ ಭಾನುವಾರ

 ಎಲ್ಲರಿಗೂ ಈಗಾಗಲೆ ತಿಳಿದಿರುವಂತೆ, ಅರಳಿಕಟ್ಟೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಹಾಗೂ ಸಮ್ಮಿಲನ ಪುಟದಲ್ಲಿ
 ಘೋಷಿಸಿರುವಂತೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮವನ್ನು ನವಂಬರ್ ೧೭ರಂದು
 ಹಮ್ಮಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲಾಗಿದೆ.



 ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ ವಿವರ:-

 · ೯:೩೦-೧೦:೦೦ ನೋಂದಣಿ

 · ೧೦:೦೦ ರಿಂದ ೧೧:೦೦ ಸಭಾ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ರಮ

 o   ಸ್ವಾಗತ ಗೀತೆ – ಲಕ್ಷ್ಮಿ ಚೈತನ್ಯ

 o   ಸ್ವಾಗತ ಮತ್ತು ನಿರ್ವಹಣೆ – ಡಾ. ಎ. ಸತ್ಯನಾರಾಯಣ

 o   ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವನೆ – ಡಾ. ಯು. ಬಿ. ಪವನಜ

 o   ಮುಖ್ಯ ಅತಿಥಿಗಳ ಮಾತು

 §  ಡಾ. ಯು. ಆರ್. ಅನಂತಮೂರ್ತಿ, ಜ್ಞಾನಪೀಠ ಪ್ರಶಸ್ತಿ ಪುರಸ್ಕೃತರು

 §  ನಾಡೋಜ ಪ್ರೊ. ಜಿ. ವೆಂಕಟಸುಬ್ಬಯ್ಯ

 §  ರವಿ ಹೆಗಡೆ, ಸಮೂಹ ಸಂಪಾದಕ, ಉದಯವಾಣಿ

 §  ಹತ್ತು ವರ್ಷದಲ್ಲಿ ಉತ್ತಮ ಕೆಲಸ ಮಾಡಿದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನರುಗಳಿಗೆ ಮತ್ತು
 ನಿರ್ವಾಹಕರುಗಳಿಗೆ ಸ್ಮರಣಿಕೆ ನೀಡಿಕೆ

 o   ಧನ್ಯವಾದ ಸಮರ್ಪಣೆ

 · ೧೧:೦೦ – ೧೧:೧೫ – ಚಹಾ

 · ೧೧:೧೫-೧೨:೦೦

 o   ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಪ್ರಾತ್ಯಕ್ಷಿಕೆ -  ಓಂಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ

 o   ಕ್ರಿಯೇಟಿವ್ ಕಾಮನ್ಸ್ – ಕಿರಣ್ ರವಿಕುಮಾರ

 o   ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯನ್ನರುಗಳ ಮಾತು –

 · ೧೨:೦೦-೧೩:೦೦ – ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ಸಂಪಾದನೋತ್ಸವ (edit-a-thon)

 o   ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಸಿದ್ಧ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಬಂದು ಲೇಖನ ಸೇರಿಸುವುದು. ದಯವಿಟ್ಟು ಲ್ಯಾಪ್‌ಟಾಪ್,
 ಇಂಟರ್‌ನೆಟ್ ಡಾಂಗಲ್ ಮತ್ತು ಕನಿಷ್ಠ ಒಂದು ಲೇಖನ ಸಿದ್ಧಮಾಡಿಕೊಂಡು ಬಂದು ಲೇಖನ
 ಸೇರಿಸಬೇಕಾಗಿ ವಿನಂತಿ.
 ಸ್ಥಳ: ಡಾ. ಎಚ್. ನರಸಿಂಹಯ್ಯ ಸಭಾಂಗಣ, ನ್ಯಾಶನಲ್ ಕಾಲೇಜು, ಬಸವನಗುಡಿ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು -
 ೫೬೦೦೦೪ ಕನ್ನಡ ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ ದಶಮಾನೋತ್ಸವ

 Regards,

 Kiran
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Looking for scanning contractors

2013-10-11 Thread Rohini Lakshané

I am looking for scanning contractors in Mumbai for a large-scale
digitisation project. Please contact me offlist if you are interested.

Regards,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Gendergap] Free access to the Royal Society resources - creating articles about Women in Science

2013-10-10 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Royal Society's online resources are available free for 24 hours.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Daria Cybulska daria.cybul...@wikimedia.org.uk
Date: Oct 10, 2013 11:39 PM
Subject: [Gendergap] Free access to the Royal Society resources - creating
articles about Women in Science
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects 
gender...@lists.wikimedia.org

HI all,

Wikimedia UK is running a Women in Science themed editing event on Friday
11 October 2013 in London to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day. Great news
is, Royal Society has opened its online resources for 11th October midnight
to midnight BST - no paywall. This will be available to everyone, from
anywhere in the world, at http://royalsocietypublishing.org/. You can also
search particular journals [http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals].

If you would like to join us in editing while making use of the Royal
Society resource, please feel free! For an inspiration on what to edit
about, you could have a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society
There are many more suggestions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Ada_Lovelace_Day_2012#Royal_Society

If you do join us, you are welcome to
sign up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/The_Royal_Society_2013#Online_participation
and add the articles you created.

For those in London or around, you are welcome to attend the evening talk
on the 11th about Women in Science -
http://rs-women-in-science.eventbrite.co.uk/

All the best,
Daria

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+44 (0) 207 065 0994
+44 7803 505 170
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From: Rohini Lakshané roh...@wikimedia.in
Date: Oct 11, 2013 12:37 AM
Subject: Fwd: [Gendergap] Free access to the Royal Society resources -
creating articles about Women in Science
To: Rohini Lakshané rohini.laksh...@gmail.com

Sent from my bright yellow Xperia go. Pardon the typos, if any.
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From: Daria Cybulska daria.cybul...@wikimedia.org.uk
Date: Oct 10, 2013 11:39 PM
Subject: [Gendergap] Free access to the Royal Society resources - creating
articles about Women in Science
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects 
gender...@lists.wikimedia.org, Tom Morris t...@tommorris.org, Andrew
Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk, Анастасия Львова stasielv...@gmail.com,
Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.com, Kounila Keo 
kounila...@gmail.com, Lila Pagola lilapag...@gmail.com, Charlene
Foster afrastocr...@gmail.com

HI all,

Wikimedia UK is running a Women in Science themed editing event on Friday
11 October 2013 in London to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day. Great news is, *Royal
Society has opened its online resources for 11th October midnight to
midnight BST* - no paywall. This will be available to everyone, from
anywhere in the world, at http://royalsocietypublishing.org/. You can also
search particular journals
[http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journalshttp://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals
] http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals.

If you would like to join us in editing while making use of the Royal
Society resource, please feel free! For an inspiration on what to edit
about, you could have a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society
There are many more suggestions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Ada_Lovelace_Day_2012#Royal_Society

If you do join us, you are welcome to
sign up
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/The_Royal_Society_2013#Online_participation
and add the articles you created.

For those in London or around, you are welcome to attend the evening talk
on the 11th about Women in Science -
http://rs-women-in-science.eventbrite.co.uk/

All the best,
Daria

-
Daria Cybulska - Programme Manager, Wikimedia UK
+44 (0) 207 065 0994
+44 7803 505 170
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[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiWomen's Collaborative India Facebook Group

2013-10-06 Thread Rohini Lakshané

The Closed Group is up at www.facebook.com/groups/gendergapindia

Participants at workshops or newbie editors often ask for easy ways to seek
help on Wikipedia and off it. Please share the URL with such participants.
The Group could be used a discussion board and to publicise Gender gap
related events.

- Rohini
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] WikiWomen's Collaborative India Facebook Group

2013-10-06 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Hi Sibi,

Gender-sensitive men who have previously contributed to Gender gap
activities or those who intend to do so, are welcome. I have updated the
Group's description to reflect this.

Regards,
Rohini

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On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 6:47 PM, sibi kanagaraj civil.si...@gmail.comwrote:

 Is the group intended to have only female members ? Or even male members
 who intend to narrow down the gender gap can get involved ?

 -Sibi


  On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Rohini Lakshané 
 rohini.laksh...@gmail.com wrote:

  The Closed Group is up at www.facebook.com/groups/gendergapindia

 Participants at workshops or newbie editors often ask for easy ways to
 seek help on Wikipedia and off it. Please share the URL with such
 participants. The Group could be used a discussion board and to publicise
 Gender gap related events.

 - Rohini
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Gender gap work plan

2013-09-25 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Hello everyone,

I have attempted to put together a work plan for Gender gap activities in
India: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap_India_work_plan

I request inputs, comments, and suggestions from everybody.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Proposed advanced level editing workshop for women in Mumbai

2013-08-22 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Hello everyone,

I am taking a straw poll to know if any women in Mumbai, who already edit
Wikipedia are interested in attending an advanced level editing workshop.
If you are, please get in touch with me offlist. You could have
participated in a previous, basic editing workshop or learnt the ropes by
yourself.

In case you know anyone who fits the bill, but isn't likely to be
subscribed to this mailing list, please share this email with her.

Regards,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Lilavati's Daughters Edit-a-thon

2013-08-22 Thread Rohini Lakshané

I've added a few more ideas and also proposed dates.

http://about.me/rohini


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote:

 Completely second Srikanth on the idea. Let's take the initiative of
 involving them as many of the Indian language Wikimedians may not be on the
 list.

 Vishnu


 On 14 August 2013 13:41, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.inwrote:

 Request all Indian language Wikipedians to have a look at this as it
 might pave way for future multilingual collaborations.

 Sent from the touchscreen equivalent of a Nokia 1100, pardon the sender.
 --
 Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
 Treasurer.
 On Aug 11, 2013 11:23 PM, Pradeep Mohandas prad2...@yahoo.com wrote:

 hi,

 If you're interested in participating, please do - discussions on the
 talk page.

 Link -
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lilavati%27s_Daughters_Edit-a-thon

 warm regards,
 Pradeep

 Pradeep Mohandas
 How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian language Wikipedias as on June 30, 2013

2013-08-17 Thread Rohini Lakshané

@Pradeep: I can guess what you trying to say, but can you flesh out your
thoughts/response for everyone's benefit?

http://about.me/rohini


On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 2:50 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:

 Please read the Odi*y*a language as Odia language.

 On 15 August 2013 21:51, Pradeep Mohandas prad2...@yahoo.com wrote:

 ?

 Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPhone

 @Pradeep  iPhone doesn't support to view the table format?


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New Programme Officer CIS-A2K (Announcement)

2013-08-16 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Congrats and best wishes, Muzammiluddin.

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On Aug 16, 2013 4:38 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:




 2013/8/16 Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com

 Dear All,

 I am happy to inform you about the selection of the new Programme
 Officer, who has joined the CIS-A2K Team on August 15, 2013. Please join me
 in welcoming Muzammiluddin Syed.


 Congratulations Muzammiluddin Syed
 Best wishes

 Arjuna

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digitization workshop for Indic WikiSource enthusiasts

2013-08-15 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Are similar workshops likely to be held in other parts of the country?

http://about.me/rohini


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi 
subhash...@cis-india.org wrote:

 Dear Wikimedians,


 Wikimedia India in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and
 Society is organizing a workshop on Digitization of books for Indic
 language WikiSource on 18th August 2013, Sunday at the Centre for
 Internet and Society, Bangalore at 2:30 pm. Malayalam Wikimedian
 Viswanathan Prabhakaran is going to conduct this workshop. Anyone
 interested in learning about the process of digitizing old
 manuscripts, books and creating text based documents could join this
 workshop. Please log in and register in the event page to take part in
 this event.[1]

 1.
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Bangalore/Digitization_workshop_18August2013#Interested_participants

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 Best!
 Subhashish Panigrahi
 Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge
 Centre for Internet and Society
 @psubhashish

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Regarding the involvement of WMIN Chapter in Wikipedia Club Pune's Independence Day Workshop.

2013-08-12 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Maybe we should switch to Lojban, at least on the mailing list. ;-)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lojban
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On Aug 12, 2013 6:47 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote:

 This is a bit like this link, to be on the lighter side :)..

 http://i.imgur.com/wshoK6Z.jpg

 Ashwin


 On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Pranav Curumsey pra...@wikimedia.inwrote:

 I think Srikanth covered it.


 On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote:

 Hi, to clarify:

 *Niraj had originally stated: I'am very glad to inform you that we the
 members of WMIN  Wikipedia Club Pune are planning to conduct Workshops and
 Edit-a-thons in Pune on 14th  15th of August '13.*


 Wikimedia India did not know anything about or is a part of this event.
 The chapter must be informed and formally communicate that it is a part of
 the event, which it did not.

 Pranav, and the Chapter have not stated that we have no intention of
 being part of an event, and I will let Pranav get back on this matter.



  On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.comwrote:

  Hi Niraj

 Did Pranav tell you why WMIN has no intention in getting
 involved with Wikipedia Club Pune for the
 Independence Day Events (Edit-a-thons)?

 Yohann Thomas
 yohan...@gmail.com

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 Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] [WMIN-Members] Re: End of the GLAM pilot project at BNHS

2013-08-11 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Hi Ashwin,

Thank you for your appreciation and all your help and support during the
project and thereafter. I shall keep in mind these suggestions when
negotiating further with the BNHS.

Regards,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] End of the GLAM pilot project at BNHS

2013-08-10 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Hi Srikanth,

While my work on the pilot project is over, the BNHS is still taking a look
at it. The BNHS is yet to convey its decision about forming a partnership
with the Wikimedia community. I shall soon write at length about
transferable lessons and experiences from the pilot project and I hope to
be able to address the points Ashwin and Vickram have raised above.

Regards,
Rohini


On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote:

 Hi Rohini, can you share some of your experiences, wrt to what Ashwin and
 Vickram have pointed out?


 On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 7:15 AM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com
  wrote:

 As Ashwin points out, from the point of view of a partnership, this was
 less than a resounding success.

 However, Rohini does not call it a partnership, because it isn't one.
 This was a pilot, intended to demonstrate to persons of influence at BNHS
 what a partnership could achieve for the Society. The partnership lies
 ahead.

 Pradeep does not call it a partnership either, he squarely labels it a
 pilot, and suggests to Wikimedians everywhere that they initiate similar
 efforts with similar physical archives in other parts of India.

 It would have been exceedingly unrealistic to imagine that the philosophy
 of open knowledge be instantly understood and enthusiastically embraced.
 None of us did at any stage of this pilot, which we well understand to be a
 foot in the door. I was warned by other senior Wikimedians, recognised
 naturalists in their own right, as well as naturalists who are not
 Wikimedians, but know the Society well, that this would be an uphill task,
 long before we even took the first steps. Dissing the organisation for its
 traditional mindset is easy, but not fruitful.

 For all I know, it may be easier to do this elsewhere, with other
 organisations. And the very best to others who take up that challenge.
 Everyone should do what they can, when they can, wherever they can.

 This is a work in progress. And I wish Rohini the very best, every
 encouragement, to continue her efforts to get that door opened wider now.

 --
 Vickram
 Fool On The Hill communicall.wordpress.com
  He's still watching me watching you watching ...
 And the way he stares - feel like locking my door
 and pulling my phone from the wall.
 His eyes, like lights from a laser, burn
 making my hair stand - making the goose-bumps crawl. 
 Jethro Tull: Watching Me Watching You (1982)
 On Aug 9, 2013 8:12 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 From a point of view of GLAM partnership this was emphatically NOT a
 success. It was not a complete failure also, because brave Rohini persisted
 in the face of an unresponsive BNHS. In the end BNHS and Wikipedia got a
 better article on Humayun Abdulali and Rohini got some hard-won experience
 - that is all.

 But the potential for this project could have been so much greater. The
 experiences of Wikipedians-in-residence in the Smithsonian and the British
 Museum (and other initiatives) was so wonderful, so engaging to both sides
 and so fruitful that the lacklustre report in the link Pradeep mentions
 feels like ashes in one's mouth.

 BNHS has been for many years the iconic symbol of private wildlife
 research. It has a very long history, had some truly wonderful people in it
 including Salim Ali and Humayun Abdulali, has a very good library and a
 very good collection of skins, shells, eggs etc. It has a peer-reviewed
 scientific journal more than 100 years old which has high repute. It was
 the place where eminent scientists like Johnsingh, Ravi Sankaran and Bharat
 Bhushan, besides many others, began their careers or were encouraged.
 Whether it is mammals, birds, reptiles, marine life or insects; anywhere in
 India one can definitely say about BNHS - been there, done that!

 So one would expect BNHS to be open to the idea of helping Indians to
 learn more about wildlife, nature, environment and conservation? Wrong.

 Check the site of BNHS for stuff which educates or informs or which
 guides or helps and see the complete paucity of material. Its a nice enough
 looking website  tells you very much what the organisation, its goals and
 programmes, but there is zilch information about India's wildlife, from
 India's premier wildlife NGO.  If you compare that with a comparable
 organisation in the USA and UK say Audobon or RSPB, you will find they have
 useful articles, knowledge material aside from what they are involved in.
 Compare Audobon which gives Tips on how to get nature to the classroom or
 taking schoolchildren outdoors, or RSPB which provides a complete bird list
 with short writeup.

 BNHS does not have an altruistic outlook towards IP and the resources
 they hold. The reason for that is not difficult to understand. BNHS
 publishes a variety of handbooks, coffee-table books etc and their
 employees derive additional income from their publication, sale of
 photographs they take on BNHS funded

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia editing session for journalism students at Sophia College, Mumbai

2013-08-01 Thread Rohini Lakshané

This is an unedited report of the lecture-cum-demo written by one of the
students who attended it.

*Wikipedia: Democratic Ritual of Knowledge Transfer *

What can I say about Wikipedia? Ok, let me ask, can you imagine a world
without Wikipedia? I always wonder who wrote, reviewed, edited, curated and
moderated 30 million articles in 286 languages. Answer is you and me and us!

Wikipedia, world’s largest and the most referenced work on Internet, has
been ranked at seventh position globally on Alexa as of June 2013. It has,
estimated, 365 million readers worldwide. Though numbers are impressive
enough to boggle one’s mind, what truly electrifies the spinal cord is the
way Wikipedia functions. Anyone from any corner of the world (Now, you can
ask if earth is round or square? Go to Wikipedia, you will get interlinked
references from Heliocentricism to Geocentrism, from Copernicus to Galileo,
from Copernican Revolution to Renaissance, and thus traverse the complete
circle of knowledge!) can write an article. Then some other volunteers keep
the wheel rolling by editing and validating the existing article and by
adding required citation, views and counterviews. This invisible
chain-reaction keeps flourishing Wikipedia just like an unnoticed food
chain of natural ecosystem.


On Saturday, 13th July 2013, workshop on Wikipedia was organized by
volunteers of Wikimedia Foundation, in association with SCM, Sophia
Polytechnic, Mumbai. The workshop was conducted by Bishakha Datta and
Rohini Lakshane from Wikimedia Foundation, Mumbai. After giving the brief
on history of Wikipedia, how Wikipedia functions and how one can become a
part of this knowledge thriving community, instructors and volunteers
facilitated SCM students to create articles on Wikipedia. SCM students
successfully created two articles on Dina Vakil, the first woman resident
editor of The Times of Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_of_India's
Bombay edition and Ritu Menon, the co-founder, writer and publisher of
India's first feminist publishing house, *Kali for
Women*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_for_Women.
The workshop truly helped students to realize that how the power of
technology, information and collaborative effort can drive people towards
the informed and knowledge-intensive society.

After attending the workshop I couldn’t stop myself and posted the
following note dedicated to my all friends:

· Do you think 30 million articles in 286 languages is too loud a
figure? If you are sceptical, then that’s great. Go and investigate
further. Provide the correct figure (if the given figure is erroneous) and
yeah provide the reference/citation as well.



Bingo! That’s how the whole Wikipedia has been erected, by sharing and
contributing knowledge. Contribute about your locality, personalities,
culture, tradition, etc.

· Believe in good faith. Knowledge is a path not the signboard. Be
in good faith, put information, views and counter-views with reference, and
don’t be judgmental. Neutrality is the nature of Wikipedia.

· Acknowledge the effort. Not only when you write a research paper
or contribute to Wikipedia, but also when you receive help, love and care
of someone, do acknowledge. Democracy cannot exist without thankfulness and
compassion. Wikipedia is truly democratic way of knowledge transfer - for
the people, of the people, by the people.

-   Parth Vyas (22nd July 2013, Mumbai)



On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Abhijeet Safai abhijeet.sa...@gmail.comwrote:

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia editing session for journalism students at Sophia College, Mumbai

2013-07-19 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Bishakha Datta, Krutikaa Jawanjal, Nikita Belavate and I delivered a
lecture and demonstration on researching for and editing Wikipedia to
students of Sophia College, Mumbai, on July 13. Sunitha Chitrapu, the head
of the Social Communications Media department at Sophia College had
attended the Wiki Women's Workshop held in Mumbai in November 2012, and
invited us to conduct this activity. A report of the event has been
published on WikipeDNA
http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/1863070/post-wikipedia-editing-session-for-journalism-students-at-sophia-college

and cross-posted on the Wikimedia India Chapter blog
http://blog.wikimedia.in/2013/07/19/wikipedia-editing-session-for-journalism-students-at-sophia-college-mumbai/

Photos are up on the Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_workshop_at_Sophia_College
and Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.485361131545134.1073741829.141404175940833

Best,
Rohini Lakshané
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Vacancy for Programme Officer, Pilot Projects (Access to Knowledge)

2013-04-21 Thread Rohini Lakshané

@Theo: I believe, by the word post, Srikanth is referring to the job
vacancy, not the email posting.

On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote:

 Hi Nitika,
 I was just curious:
 ! How come this post is in Bangalore and not Delhi?


 What do you mean? It was on the Delhi list. (
 https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/private/wikimedia-in-del/2013-April/000172.html)
 You can also see the header has the lists mentioned.


 2 Also, you have not mentioned any last date for application.


 Regards
 Theo

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikipedia Blog on DNA

2013-03-18 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Thank you so much, reindeer.

On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 11:55 PM, Rudolph the Rd Nosed Reindeer
rednosedr...@hotmail.com wrote:

Way to go Rohini,
keep up the awesomeness of your work.

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Thank you all for your wishes. Please consider contributing to the blog.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:28 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:

Great initiative. Thank you!

*I live beside DNA office in Bangalore, let me know if that can help this
anyway! just joking!*

Best wishes
,
Ansuman http://twitter.com/an5um*
*

On 14 March 2013 22:58, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote:

Congrats on this. Good see a blog on wikipedia on newspaper site.

best wishes
Arun

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Rohini Lakshané
rohini.laksh...@gmail.com wrote:

WikipeDNA, a community blog on topics pertaining to Wikipedia and other
projects, is now live on DNA Blogs.
http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/wikipedna

This is the first blog post:
http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post_wikipedia-celebrates-women-s-history-month-with-edit-a-thons-and-workshops_1811125

I'll be putting up stuff related to events, how tos, etc. If you'd like to
contribute to the blog, drop me a line.

Regards,
Rohini

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikipedia Blog on DNA

2013-03-15 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Thank you all for your wishes. Please consider contributing to the blog.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 11:28 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:

Great initiative. Thank you!

*I live beside DNA office in Bangalore, let me know if that can help this
anyway! just joking!*

Best wishes
,
Ansuman http://twitter.com/an5um*
*

On 14 March 2013 22:58, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote:

Congrats on this. Good see a blog on wikipedia on newspaper site.

best wishes
Arun

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Rohini Lakshané
rohini.laksh...@gmail.com wrote:

WikipeDNA, a community blog on topics pertaining to Wikipedia and other
projects, is now live on DNA Blogs.
http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/wikipedna

This is the first blog post:
http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post_wikipedia-celebrates-women-s-history-month-with-edit-a-thons-and-workshops_1811125

I'll be putting up stuff related to events, how tos, etc. If you'd like
to contribute to the blog, drop me a line.

Regards,
Rohini

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Blog on DNA

2013-03-14 Thread Rohini Lakshané

WikipeDNA, a community blog on topics pertaining to Wikipedia and other
projects, is now live on DNA Blogs. http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/wikipedna

This is the first blog post:
http://www.dnaindia.com/blogs/post_wikipedia-celebrates-women-s-history-month-with-edit-a-thons-and-workshops_1811125

I'll be putting up stuff related to events, how tos, etc. If you'd like to
contribute to the blog, drop me a line.

Regards,
Rohini
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Appointment of new SIG chair

2013-03-08 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Thank you everyone for giving me this opportunity -- those who voted for
me, Krutikaa and Netha who nominated me, and the members of the EC who
conducted the election process.

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote:

 Heya, this is inform you that Rohini Lakshane has been appointed as
 the chair of the Gender-gap SIG. This was the first nomination for an
 SIG chair where there were other candidates, in this case Pavithra H.
 Rohini was nominated and seconded by Krutikaa Jawanjal and Netha
 Hussain, and got 20 votes in her favour, the highest in any Wikimedia
 India voting process, beating Karthik's record of 19 votes in
 September 2012. Rohini can be contacted on roh...@wikimedia.in

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Appointment of new SIG chair

2013-03-08 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Also, thanks for the contest, Pavithra.

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote:

 Heya, this is inform you that Rohini Lakshane has been appointed as
 the chair of the Gender-gap SIG. This was the first nomination for an
 SIG chair where there were other candidates, in this case Pavithra H.
 Rohini was nominated and seconded by Krutikaa Jawanjal and Netha
 Hussain, and got 20 votes in her favour, the highest in any Wikimedia
 India voting process, beating Karthik's record of 19 votes in
 September 2012. Rohini can be contacted on roh...@wikimedia.in

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Women's Day events in India, March 8

2013-03-04 Thread Rohini Lakshané

A few online and offline events are being conducted in on the occasion of
International Women's Day on March 8. The events continue thereafter too as
March has been declared as Women's History Month.

There is a Wikipedia editing workshop in Goa on March 8 at Nirmala
Institute of Education from 3 pm to 5 pm. It is followed by an offline and
online editathon.
The online editathon is a month-long affair, which will be held every
weekend starting with the weekend after March 8.  Details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_India

The goal of the month-long event is to encourage more women to contribute
to Wikipedia and increase representation of articles related to women in
Wikipedia. The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing
stubs and translating English articles to various Indian languages.

Members are requested to start edithons in regional language Wikipedias.

Regards,
Rohini Lakshane
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Appointment of new office bearer

2013-02-27 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Congratulations, Srikanth. All the best for your new role.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote:

 Dear all,

 at the F2F meeting held previous week, your Executive Committee has
 appointed a new Treasurer to fill in the position previously help by
 Anirudh Singh Bhati. Srikanth Ramakrishnan would be the new treasurer as
 appointed unanimously by the EC.

 Srikanth was nominated by Karthik (me) and his candidate was seconded by
 Viswa Prabha. Since there was no other nominations, he was been appointed
 unanimously. Please join me in welcoming him for this new office bearing
 role.





 Regards,
 Karthik Nadar,
 Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Creative Commons Event - Mumbai

2013-02-18 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Hello ,

Photos from the workshop can be found at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Creative_Commons_Workshop,_Mumbai_2013

Regards,
Rohini

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas prad2...@yahoo.comwrote:

 hi,

 Today, we had the Mumbai event of Creative Commons. They are in India in
 February visiting Pune, Mumbai, New Delhi and Bangalore.
 We had a turnout of about 30-40 people today in Mumbai. We met at the
 Victor Menzes Conference Center at IIT-Bombay.

 We began with a brief on Creative Commons in India, a brief idea on the
 various Creative Commons license and why to use it.

 We covered extensive ground especially on areas that the Creative Commons
 is now being applied in - Culture, Education, Government and Science.

 All in all, a good day with many Wikipedians in Mumbai turning up. Thank
 you for coming.

 Our thanks to Prof. Shishir Jha of IIT-Bombay for help with getting the
 venue. We'd like to thank Jessica Coates and Jane Hornibrook of Creative
 Commons for spending time talking to us. They also expressed hope that they
 would be able to revive CC-India and an associated mailing list.

 warm regards,
 Pradeep Mohandas

 Pradeep Mohandas
 How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

2013-02-14 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Abhishek,

I have been on-board several Wiki mailing lists and closed emailing groups
for a few years now, but this is the first time I have been piqued to
respond to such a 'discussion'. Your efforts to prove what you are trying
to prove are outstanding. I won't be surprised if Doctor Hakim (I
appreciate the wordplay) is a troll or a sock puppet who has planted this
thread to get the discussion where it is.

Almost every community member I have interacted with or met in person over
the years has gone out of pocket for volunteer activities. I have known of
community members refusing grants while going out of pocket, and I respect
them all the more for that. Some of us have spent astounding amounts of
money this way. As I see it, the Chapter has committed to transparency and
accountability; nothing is wrong with it having some money of its own. When
you become a member of the Chapter again, maybe you can help bring about as
much transparency as you'd like.

Regards,
Rohini

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Abhishek Suryawanshi 
i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote:


 Dear Sunil,

 Could you please share information about CIS supporting Chapter Travel
 expenses?

 And Its nice and positive move, Great to see CIS continues to support
 movement in India.
 Volunteers can devote their time in doing activities and CIS can support
 as per request.

 As Chapter is shy/silent about acknowledging funding from CIS - Hope so
 your reply will clarify that CIS is there to support Chapter activities
 irrespective of criticism.


 Keep Supporting, Keep Inspiring! :)



 Regards,

 Abhishek Suryawanshi,
 On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune







   --
 *From:* Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in

 *To:* Wikimedia India Community list 
 wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 *Sent:* Tuesday, 12 February 2013 11:31 PM

 *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

 Membership under processing is differnt from memvership alreadt
 processed. INDI-31 is non existant and will remain so.

 As for CIS funding, you still havwn't said where you have got the
 information from.
 The Chapter has alwaya made things public and will xontinue to do so. If
 the CIS funds us, it will be madw public.

 n Tuesday, February 12, 2013, Abhishek Suryawanshi 
 i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 
  Dear Srikanth,
  I appreciate you keep a check of the Chapter Membership List. But at
 the same time I guess you will also respect the Chapter President's word. I
 have had a talk with Sudhanwa (President,Wikimedia India Chapter) and just
 two days back he informed me that my Chapter-membership is being proceed. I
 would like you to have or increase your communications with other EC
 members (or at-least with President) before claiming me or anybody else
 with allegations such as a 'Cheat' :)
 
  P.S : How does it affects my query about CIS funding chapter's travel
 for Board meeting or not ?
 
 
 
  Regards,
  Abhishek Suryawanshi,
  On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune
 
 
 
 
  On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:50 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote:
 
  Just to  inform you that Abhishek Suryawanshi, who claims to be a
  Chapter Member with membership number INDI-31 is NOT a member. The
  entry currently doesn't exist in our membership list. Mr. Suryawanshi
  was a member of the Chapter during the earlier Financial Year and did
  NOT renew his membership. I hope the community is now aware of what
  kind of people it is dealing with.
 
  On 2/12/13, Abhishek Suryawanshi i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  *@Karthik - *
 
 
  *If you have a question, you can ask it in the form of a question *
 
 
  Why Chapter is denying/ignoring fact flight tickets for members are
 covered
  by third party?
 
   *instead **of making unsubstantiated claims on a public mailing
 list,*
 
 
  Do you mean to say 'CIS is supporting' part is unsubstantiated? Then
 please
  state who is covering travel expenses?
 
  *which is frankly unproductive since it requires us to spend time to
 send
  out clarifications.  *
 
 
  Could you please elaborate 'unproductive' term and 'sending out
  clarification' part? What clarification is given? On contrary You are
  putting up efforts to blur whole situation.
 
 
  *@Sudhanwa - *
 
 
  * 2)Major Chapter Expenses such as Flight Tickets for AGM are
 covered by
  CIS.
 
  Absolutely wrong information you have go*t.
 
 
  AGM word is wrong and Board Meeting is correct, right? Please correct
 if
  wrong.
 
 
  * I am waiting for someone to answer simple query - How much money is
  required
   for next year activities? and Which activities are planned?
 
  Grant requests are always on public wiki and the numbers are always
  open to all for discussions. You will find these details in the
  upcoming requests. Asaf has already indicated the same on the list.
 
  If you have any activities planned, please let us know. We will plan
  the resources accordingly (budgets, people etc)

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Samskrit Wikiquote ( Wiki SuktayaH)

2013-02-11 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Suvaartaa asti. Great news.

On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Abhiram C abhivasish...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello Wikipedians,

A new way to contribute to Samskrit is here The Samskrit Wikiquote is
officially open for contributions. Thanks to all the people who have
striven hard to make it count.

The webpage can be found at *sa.wikiquote.org* http://sa.wikiquote.org

-- Forwarded message --
From: Sumana sumana.koundi...@gmail.com

Namaste,

It is with immense pleasure, I wish to announce that Samskrit Wikiquote
project ( *विकिसूक्तिः*) is out of Incubator and is available as an open
source project like Wikipedia now. It was in a dormant stage with very
limited editing options and visibility since its inception.

We had started our efforts towards this in August 2012, persuading
Wikipedia Language Committee. Over 7000 system messages were translated to
samskrit, some 800 articles of useful content related to this project were
created and uploaded, which were some of the requirements to approve new
projects.Thanks to dedicated Wikipedians like Shiju Alex, that today we
have the project out of incubator, which means, this project would be
readily available for everyone to edit and use now on.

The project is a store house of Subhashitas extracted from different
scriptures like Veda, Upanishat Puraana, RamayaNa, Mahabharatam etc,
categorised based on the topics with explanations. Also, it contains the
idioms and phrases, witty puzzles, sayings of great people, Chitrakaavyam
etc, everything in Samskrit. It is to be noted that all these, in a single
webpage is not available anywhere else in such an easily available form. We
have about 1260 pages under various categories, for a ready review at *sa.
wikiquote.org*

I request everyone to visit once for guidance, comments or contributions...

Once again, Congratulations to one and all who have been instrumental in
crossing this milestone...

Thanks and Warm Regards,

Dr Sumana
Wikipedia Wing, Samskrita Bharati
98807 93423

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Thanks Regards,
Abhiram C,
Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org Editor,
User: sbblr0803 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sbblr0803

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[Wikimediaindia-l] 20th Wikipedia Meet-up Mumbai

2013-01-13 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Hello everyone,

Wikipedia turns 12 on January 15. As a part of Wikipedia Day celebrations
worldwide, the Mumbai community is meeting on Sunday, Jan 13.

January 15 is a weekday and we believe Sunday would be convenient for
everyone to attend the celebrations.

Apologies for the short notice.

*Date and Time*: 13 January 2013, 4 pm
*Venue*: Pinstorm, Swati Building, North Avenue, Santacruz West, Mumbai
*Landmarks*: Swati building is behind Kotak Mahindra Bank, Linking Road,
and across the street from Arya Samaj Mandir.
*Wikipedia event
page*:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai20
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia COO was convicted felon

2013-01-05 Thread Rohini Lakshané

I spotted it in conjunction with an article published recently (Wikipedia
doesn't need your money - so why does it keep pestering
you?http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/cash_rich_wikipedia_chugging)
and ended up assuming both belonged to the same time frame.  This one
suggests that WMF fundraisers put out incomplete and misleading
information. I was just wondering what the community's thoughts about these
matters were.

Also, found a recent discussion on the same topic on Quora: Is Wikipedia
collecting more money than required?
www.quora.com/Wikipedia/Is-Wikipedia-collecting-more-money-than-required

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote:

 On 25 December 2012 09:17, Rohini Lakshané rohini.laksh...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/wikimedia_coo_convicted_felon

 It's more than a few years old, what?

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia COO was convicted felon

2012-12-30 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Something I stumbled upon

Wikipedia COO was convicted felon:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/13/wikimedia_coo_convicted_felon

Regards,
Rohini
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge

2012-12-09 Thread Rohini Lakshané

Hello Amir,

Thank you for your feedback. Yes, I am aware of parts of the roadmap for
Wikidata and some of its challenges. I might follow up on my work, based on
some of the future developments you have mentioned.

Cheers,
Rohini

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Amir E. Aharoni 
amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote:

 Thank you very much for this article!

 It is coming at the right right time. It's starting up, and it needs
 localization. I wrote why its localization is especially important here:
 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/11/10/translate-wikidata-user-interface/

 That post also has relevant links.

 It's localization is EASY, because there aren't so many strings to
 translate, but its influence is going to be very large. If all goes
 according to the plan, in a few months Wikidata will become a repository of
 useful statistical data about many subjects - countries, populations, dates
 of birth and death, etc. So, while the data is pretty much the same for
 everybody, the names of the data properties, such as population, must be
 translated to all languages. Property names cannot be translated yet, but a
 crucial first step towards making this possible is to translate the
 Wikibase extension, which is the technical framework of Wikidata.

 Before you approach this, I also strongly suggest to at least read the
 following doc:
 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Glossary

 ... and, it would be great to translate it, too - it will help you to
 translate the software.

 Thanks!

 --
 Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
 http://aharoni.wordpress.com
 ‪“We're living in pieces,
 I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬



 2012/12/8 Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com

  *Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge*
 *By Rohini Lakshané*

 Have you ever wished you could query Wikipedia with a question? Have you
 ever wanted to run a search on Wikipedia to extract data rather than trawl
 through reams of Wikipedia pages and interlinks? Have you ever imagined a
 world where everyone could freely pool knowledge even without sharing a
 common language? Wikidata is set to do all this, and more.



 Wikidata, deployed in October this year, is the newest project by the
 Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation that runs Wikipedia and its sister
 projects. It is a semantic, multilingual, structured database that anyone
 can read and edit. It is machine readable, which makes searching, sorting
 and handling of data efficient and fast. Like with its siblings, Wikidata’s
 content and software are published under a free license.



 *Central repository of links*

 Wikidata aims to streamline Wikipedia’s rich but chaotic linking
 structure. Every Wikipedia page has ‘interwiki links’ that link it to other
 Wikipedia pages. ‘Interlanguage links’ connect pages to other pages on the
 same topic published on Wikipedias in different languages, creating a mesh
 of links. With around 23 million articles in 285 languages, the linking
 structure leads to immense duplication. Wikidata will act as a central
 repository for all language links on all Wikipedias, with the ultimate
 objective of levelling off the raw data in the language versions. Under the
 *first 
 phasehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Sprint_archive
 * of Wikidata deployment, which is now 
 livehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Development/Sprint_archive,
 editors can add interlanguage links (sitelinks) on Wikidata pages.


 *Ask Wikipedia a question*

 The *future 
 phaseshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Technical_proposal
 * of Wikidata deployment involve converging the data found 
 in*Infoboxeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Infobox
 * (December 2012 or January 2013), and the enabling of the creation of
 lists on Wikipedia (April or March 2013).



 Infoboxes -- tables with the summary of the most important information on
 the pages -- across Wikipedias are not uniform. Internationalised export
 and import of data present in Wikipedia templates such as the Infobox would
 greatly enrich its encyclopaedic value. All information present in all
 Infoboxes will then come to one central repository from where it could be
 updated everywhere else at the same time.



 Wikipedia houses lists on assorted topics created by users -- episodes of
 the most popular TV shows, heads of state, and even inventors killed by
 their own inventions. However, it is currently not possible to query these
 lists and cull out specific information. For example, searching the string
 “countries with highest GDP” leads to a search results page with the
 entries ‘List of countries with the highest GDP per capita’ and ‘Historical
 list of ten largest countries by GDP’. But if you were to search for ‘ten
 countries with highest GDP in Asia’ you wouldn’t quickly reach the relevant
 information even though it exists in these lists. Wikidata will
 automatically create a user-queried list to answer semantic queries such
 as, “What were the ten

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] [WCI11] Best wishes and a request.

2011-11-08 Thread Rohini Lakshané

That's great. Please share the link to the channel here. :)

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:

Srikanth, Ansuman all others unable to make it for the conference,

We have partnered with Youtube who will be lve streaming the event from
the Convocation Hall, University of Mumbai - so you can catch the action as
it unfolds!

Kind Regards,

Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:59:43 +0530
From: rsrikant...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WCI11] Best wishes and a request.

Please record videos and upload to the Commons or YouTube so that we
can see it later. All the very best guys. Google mail is acting
strange now, so forgive the second mail. All the best.

On 07/11/2011, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:
Heya guys, with the India conference and hackathon barely two weeks
away from now, I just wanted to wish you All the very best for the
event. Hopefully we shall, at the other end of the event. know better
methods me sharing knowledge.
As a non attendee, I put forth a request. Please keep us updated on
the events as they progress, both in real time, and post. Tweet about
it, blog about it, post on Facebook. Please don't tweet about what you
eat though, that is for our meetups. Use the conference twitter ha

http://www.google.com/gwt/x?wsc=hgwsi=b27749e54f1fa0ecsource=mu=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noyyal_Riverei=TdK2Tr7dCdCQiAeVl52HAg

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Regards,
Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers Gang, Ukkadam, Coimbatore.
My Commons uploads, now exceeding 75.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Rsrikanth05

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