Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Nibhish Technologies :: Offline, Online and Form filling Data Processing
Please find the company performa. Regards, Sunil Nibhish Technologies On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 1:43 PM, Sunil papaiah568 <sunilpapaiah...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi, > > Hope all of you are doing well. > > I have started the New firm called Nibhish Technologies primarily focusing > on Offline, Online and Form filling Data Processing projects. Please advice > if there is any opportunity where it will help all of us in sharing the > work. Have fair and healthy business. > > *Over view of Nibhish Technologies:* > > This is pertaining to Data processing business opportunity in public and > private sector departments. India is rapidly developing in Information > technology by computerizing all the sectors and their sub departments under > Digital India program. As a startup company, we are looking for a business > opportunity to create an employment opportunity to our skilled resources > and contribution to our economic growth. > Nibhish Technologies_Performa.docx Description: MS-Word 2007 document ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Nibhish Technologies :: Offline, Online and Form filling Data Processing
Hi, Hope all of you are doing well. I have started the New firm called Nibhish Technologies primarily focusing on Offline, Online and Form filling Data Processing projects. Please advice if there is any opportunity where it will help all of us in sharing the work. Have fair and healthy business. *Over view of Nibhish Technologies:* This is pertaining to Data processing business opportunity in public and private sector departments. India is rapidly developing in Information technology by computerizing all the sectors and their sub departments under Digital India program. As a startup company, we are looking for a business opportunity to create an employment opportunity to our skilled resources and contribution to our economic growth. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] CIS-A2K 2.0 and new Programme Associates
edia community, Ananth has been a fast learner and is active as a Wikimedian. He has participated in the Mediawiki Train-the-Trainer programme conducted by CIS-A2K this year. * Konkani* The Konkani Wikipedia community has selected Ms. Melissa Simoes as the consensus candidate to become the next PA for Konkani. Here is her profile. *Melissa Simoes (User:Melissa Simoes on gom.wikipedia.org <http://gom.wikipedia.org>)*: She is a graduate and has a degree in education. She has worked as teacher in a high school at Goa. She has been a very active Konkani Wikipedian and has contributed whole heartedly to Konkani Wikipedia. She had important contribution in making Konkani Wikipedia go live. Writing poems is one of her hobbies. * Odia *The announcement for Odia Wikipedia PA was made on 14th August, but was postponed to 10th October as one of the previous selection committee members requested that he would want to apply for the post. A new selection committee was formed. The selection committee gave their decision on 1 November. Selection committee members and their profiles *Mrutyunjaya*(User:MKar): most active Wikimedian in the Odia Wikimedia community so far. Admin on Odia Wikipedia and Odia Wikisource. Been active in building the "WikiTungi" (Odia Wikimedia user group) in Nalconagar where he has brought many Wikimedians onboard. Active in conducting community surveys, designing and implementing WikiProjects and WEP; discussion and content acquisition for Wikisource from many authors. *Shitikantha Dash*(User:ଶିତିକଣ୍ଠ ଦାଶ): OR WT admin, active in WP and WT. created over 100K words by using a 1930 lexicon, created an encoding converter for Shreelipi Oriya font-Unicode conversion. MWTTT participant and active tech contributor in OR WM community. Currently pursuing MTech in Rourkela, Odisha. *Harihar Prasad Satapathy(**User:Hpsatapathy)*: Works in the court at Rayagada. Active since 2014 on OR WP and EN WP. The articles he created about Rayagada distt. been the highest no. of articles ever created about any distt. on OR WP. The selection committee has agreed to appoint Mr. Sailesh Patnaik for a period of 3 months on trial basis. If the performance is satisfactory during this period, we can continue with him. Here is a profile of Mr. Sailesh Patnaik. As he is a student, he would be employed as an intern. *Sailesh Patnaik*(User: Saileshpat): Mr. Sailesh Patnaik is a Mechanical Engineering student at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. He has been active in Wikimedia Movement from last three years. He is also involved and coordinating with CIS-A2K from 2013 for the growth of Odia Wikipedia and strengthening the community. He is already handling the social media accounts and outreach programs for Odia Wikipedia. Hope the Wikipedia communities in India will continue to guide us and hold as accountable with their feedback and criticism during A2K version 2.0 so that we can continue to evolve and change the programme. Best wishes, Sunil Ph: +91 9611100817 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Legal threat for Wikimedia community volunteers in India getting WMF grants
Dear Ravi, Thanks so much for all the feedback and the useful questions that you are asking. On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: The former WMF India programs did not get any financial support from the Wikimedia India Trusthttp://cis-india.org/news/announcement-of-wikimedia-india-program-trust. How were programs like India Education program run? Will this come under FCRA violation? How is the IEP different from any community led event in receiving foreign money and executing projects? Let us start the discussion from this :) Just to be clear - the Wikimedia India Trust was never operationalised. WIT did not manage or financially support the IEP or the activities of the former WMF India programme. The India programmes was directly run by the WMF. If I am not mistaken the team were employees or consultant of WMF. The money was not routed through any Indian entity. Best wishes, Sunil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50, 000 mark
Dear Dhaval, Thanks so much for your question. Access to CIS email id, admin privileges on our website content management system, subscription to staff newsletter, access to staff calendar etc. are only revoked when a ex-partner, ex-staffer, ex-intern and ex-volunteer makes a request or there is grave risk to our objectives. I could give you a list of ex-CIS folk with contact details if you would like to verify this. We have mostly assumed good faith since July 2008 :-) When we articulate the same value in CIS's institutional ethos as trust everybody or amorphous institutional boundary. I will have a discussion with Muzammil and the team to find out whether it would be advisable for him to post using this id to the Wikimedia mailing lists. With apologies for the confusion caused by our protocols, Sunil On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Subhashish for the clarification, I saw Muzammil using @cis-india.org email address and hence considered him CIS employee. It seems that the organisational emails are provided to ex employees as legacy or it might be my mistake in considering that an organisational email account instead of a public one. Pardon me for my ignorance. Regards, Dhaval On 25 Apr 2014 10:58, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Hi Dhaval, CIS-A2K does not have any role in the creation of these articles. Muzammil remains one of our valuable ex-employees since March 15, 2014. Please see this announcement [1]. 1. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2014-April/011040.html Thanks, Subha On 25/04/14 2:58 pm, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: Hi Asaf, Ravi, All, Please see below replies received from Muzammil on queries raised by you. I did not notice that Muzammil is part of CIS. It looks like the Urdu content generation is a task carried out by CIS A2K program under wikimedia grant. Do you (WMF) have any specific budget for such tasks? Gujarati wiki community will love to get paid for content generation. Thanks, Dhaval -- Forwarded message -- From: muzammil muzam...@cis-india.org Date: 25 Apr 2014 10:09 Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50,000 mark To: Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com Cc: Wikipedia Gujarati wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear Vyas, Good News Muzammil, But I have seen questions raised for you regarding this number. People have found out that till mid February there were only around 27 thousand pages, how did Urdu wikipedia reach 50,000 mark in 2 months? I will have to examine the extent of bot activity. However, a high level of bot activity was also seen on Hindi Wikipedia in the past. Someone also found that most of the recent activity is due to Bot operation and 90% of pages are less than 20kb in size, which means they are nearly substubs. I would rate most as stubs. But even these can be forerunners for good articles of the future. Regards, Muzammil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing listwikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Societyhttp://cis-india.org @psubhashish ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13
Dear Theo, On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: 1) I can't seem to understand the rationale behind hiring academicians here at all. There was no rationale behind hiring academics. It just happens that two of the three people that the recruitment committee selected turned out to be academics. The other finalist was not an academic. Your organization chose researchers and academicians but the job requirement was and is, for a management person to oversee and direct a team. We did not choose. The recruitment committee chose. I don't think either of the candidates present that kind of expertise. Their field of reference is narrow to begin with, limited to the discipline of their speciality, add to that how little exposure they have to Wikipedia or similar online culture - this doesn't sound like remotely a good fit. - this fact was actually the first point that made me think other interests were put ahead of the Job requirements. We did not have enough Wikipedians applying. I am sure the Recruitment Committee would have gone with a Wikipedian if there had been enough applications from the community. I have been a Free Software activist for the last 10 years. I have contributed to national policy formulation and practice w.r.t. Free Software, Open Standards and Open Content in multiple countries including Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Moldova and Tajikistan. But I have never submitted a line of code to any Free Software project. Similarly, I believe that those who don't edit Wikipedia can also make significant contributions to the Wikipedia movement. Best wishes, Sunil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate
Dear Rudolph the Rd Nosed Reindeer, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Rudolph the Rd Nosed Reindeer rednosedr...@hotmail.com wrote: Interesting isn't it? That one should have timed that A2K bulletin to come out exactly when the Chapter is having a fundraiser and leave people like the good Doctor here confused about all this? Seems a bit deliberately done, don't you think? We have been publishing the monthly bulletin since the beginning of the grant period. On most months Noopur has fwded the bulletin to this mailing list. See: 1. September 2012: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-October/008763.html 2. October 2012: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-November/008826.html - We made a mistake and did not make a mention of the size of the grant in this edition. 3. November 2012: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-December/008977.html 4. We seem to have missed out on distributing the December bulletin to this mailing list. 5. January 2013: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2013-February/009249.html We will continue to publish the bulletin on a monthly basis. Do tell us how we can improve the format and content of this newsletter. Best wishes, Sunil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate
Dear Abhishek, CIS is not supporting travel expenses for Chapter EC meetings. Nor has CIS provided funding to the Chapter so far from the Wikipedia grant. CIS has provided in-kind support to the Chapter in previous financial years for ex. society registration costs and the costs of their financial adviser during their first financial year. We strongly suppor This month, we are reimbursing the Chapter EC travel and related expenses because the Chapter EC has kindly consented to support a training programme that CIS is organising for it's A2K team in Bangalore. It is only happy coincidence that they were also organising a meeting in Bangalore during those dates. I was not aware of this when I reached out to the EC and asked for their support us. Dear Friends, In the first week of March, we hope to release a 6-monthly report of the utilization of the grant so far. Usually we only provide an annual consolidated report for all grants at the ledger group level. But for this particular grant we will increase the degree of transparency to address concerns of the community. If you have any suggestions on how we should structure this report or if you have any further questions about how CIS is spending the grant allocated do not hesitate to ask me. Best wishes, Sunil Original Message Subject: Training of CIS-A2K team on 23 or 24 of February Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:48:42 +0530 From: Sunil Abraham su...@cis-india.org To: Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org Attn: Sudhanwa Jogalekar Karthik Nadar Anirudh Singh Bhati Nikita Belavate Pranav Curumsey Srikanth Ramakrishnan Viswa Prabha Dear Members of the Wikimedia India EC, Hope 2013 has gotten of to an excellent start for all of you. CIS is organising a training for the A2K team on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th of February in Bangalore. The new Programme Director - Vishnu Vardhan will also be attending this event. We would like the EC to spend one day training the team on a variety of issues. We would prefer if you opt for either 23rd or the 24th as we have some other trainers that have confirmed for the 22nd. CIS will cover air travel and accommodation for all EC members. CIS will also provide per diem for meals that are not provided during the training. Unfortunately, we don't have a separate budget for fees. This idea has been discussed with Anasuya Sengupta and Jessie Wild at the Wikimedia Foundation and they have supported it. Best wishes, Sunil 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13
Dear Theo, On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: 2) The hiring process wasn't nearly as neutral as you are suggesting. From what I know CIS didn't have 1 in 5 vote, it first picked who got selected for the first round to even have a vote, and I am told that qualified candidates were eliminated outright by Jadine in the first week before they were put up for any vote. This is indeed a serious concern. I can think of one way of determining whether CIS [Jadine and I made those decisions jointly after some background checks regarding the ethical fibre for the candidates] has indeed eliminated qualified candidates. Could you send me or the members of the recruitment committee directly a list of such candidates? I will then organise a con-call of the recruitment committee without me participating and one of them will post to the list with their final verdict on whether those candidates should have made the short list. If indeed such mistake has been committed by CIS - I will personally publish a public apology on the CIS website which will feature in our monthly bulletin which in turn reaches 4k people and will also be fwded to this mailing list. Best wishes, Sunil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13
Dear Theo, On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: 3) I am still curious about some of the relationships here. As far as I know achal still serves on your board? because I have a distinct memory of there being some association here. He also still serves on the Advisory board of WMF and had a lot to do with selecting Bishakha. He was also a fellow for WMF, some time after the start of the India programs. Achal used to be on our board from the time we registered in July 2008. He has not attend board meetings since September 2011. Current board members of CIS are listed here: http://cis-india.org/about/people/board-members. Achal continues to be a member of the registered society and CIS does contract him occasionally for research support activities like editing manuscripts. Best wishes, Sunil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteer for CIS's A2K programme director recruitment committee
Dear Adethya, Apologies for sending the previous message prematurely. On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to nominate myself to the CIS's A2K Programme Director recruitment committee. I am based out of Chennai. Thanks for volunteering for the recruitment committee. Kindly let me know the prospects. Not sure I fully understand your question. You will be involved in scoring the CVs and other details of applicants that make the long list. You will also be responsible for conducting face to face interview with the short list in Bangalore or Delhi. Best wishes, Sunil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteer for CIS's A2K programme director recruitment committee
Dear Yuvi and Vickram, On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: On Aug 5, 2012 3:05 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Sunil Abraham su...@mahiti.org wrote: Simply out of curiosity, what would constitute 'sufficient' managerial experience? The rest of us were hoping ;-) you would explain. Apologies for the imprecise language. I was thinking of 'sufficient' being middle ground between 1) 'any managerial experience' and 2) 'significant managerial experience'. More imprecise phrases to clarify an imprecise phrase. The trouble however in the world of free knowledge and open culture - is that those playing a leadership role are not thought of as managers. But often these leaders have much more management experience than those exposed only to traditional organisations. Best wishes, Sunil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteer for CIS's A2K programme director recruitment committee
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: True. Your explanation clarifies that what is needed is leadership experience, possibly either with large or small teams, obviously somebody who has enough time to devote during the next month or two for this task, but not for the role being filled. Exactly. I could not have articulated it better myself. I suggest that instead of leaving the 'sufficient' adjective in place, simply request all volunteers with leadership experience to apply (i.e. to advise their availability), and choose the one with the greatest time spent in such roles. Excellent. However, I will only screen out those with limited experience to create a short list. The final volunteer for the committee will be selected from the short list using IETF's Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection process. So to reiterate for the other members on this list. If you have any leadership experience and have some time to spare in September - do nominate yourselves by sending an email to me. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Volunteer for CIS's A2K programme director recruitment committee
Dear Wikimedians, I would like to request members of the Indian Wikipedia community to nominate themselves to serve on the CIS's A2K Programme Director recruitment committee. This programme will hopefully receive large grant from Wikimedia Foundation and we would greatly benefit from community input during the hiring process of the new Programme Director. The volunteer must be experienced Wikipedian, based in India [ as we cannot afford international travel for the interviews] and must have sufficient managerial experience [including experience with conducting interviews]. The volunteer should be able to spare time in September to review applications remotely and also conduct face-to-face interviews for 2 days either in Bangalore or Delhi. Those who fit the description are requested to nominate yourself by sending me an email with a profile and relevant URLs before COB 25th August 2012. I will publish a long list on cis-india.org on 29th August, after removing those nominations that don't have the required qualifications. The volunteer to serve on the recruitment committee will be selected from the long list by using IETF's Publicly Verifiable Nominations Committee (NomCom) Random Selection[1]. The other members of this recruitment committee will consist of 1. One of the existing independent consultants [Hisham, Nitika, Noopur, Shiju or Subha] 2. One member from the Wikipedia Chapter (Wikimedia India Program Trust) community. To be nominated by the Chapter Executive Committee. 3. Executive Director of CIS - me. The recruitment committee will be responsible for screening the long list of eligible applications and conducting one-on-one face-to-face interviews with the short list of applicants. Best wishes, Sunil [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3797.txt The random seeds will be the 30 August 2012 result for the following national lotteries - Australia (http://www.lotto.com.au/), UK (http://www.national-lottery.co.uk) and USA (http://www.powerball.com or http://www.usamega.com) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Vacancy for Programme Director - Access to Knowledge
Dear Wikimedians, This is the announcement that we have published on the jobs sections of the CIS website for the Director of the Access to Knowledge Programme. Please share with interested friends, colleagues and communities. Please send me feedback if any, I am happy to make some incremental changes to the announcement. Best wishes, Sunil -- Vacancy for Programme Director (Access to Knowledge) http://cis-india.org/jobs/vacancy-for-programme-director The Centre for Internet Society (CIS) is seeking applications for the post of Programme Director (Access to Knowledge) for its New Delhi office. The Access to Knowledge Programme Director would report to the Executive Director, Centre for Internet Society, Bangalore. Position summary The Programme Director will manage CIS’s Access to Knowledge programme which is funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, to support the growth of Wikipedia and its sister projects and to advance access to free knowledge in India. The Programme Director will partner with the large Wikimedia community in India to focus on Indic and English languages and will manage a team of four staff members. Responsibilities Support the growth of Indic language communities and projects by designing community collaborations and partnerships that recruit and cultivate new editors, tackle technical challenges and explore innovative approaches to building the projects, e.g., donations of state encyclopedias, education partnerships, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) institution partnerships. Support India-focused initiatives to improve the quality of India-relevant content on English Wikimedia projects such as, university outreach, GLAM institution partnerships, India-relevant thematic contribution campaigns, etc. Support expanded access to free knowledge across India by developing technology-based solutions like Wikipedia (mobile) and Wikipedia (offline). Help the Indian community share experiences and tell its story to the wider Indian and global communities through traditional and social media. Generate and document lessons from programme activities that can inform the work of Indian communities and similar programmes in other countries. Manage the team and grant resources effectively; manage the programme in an open and transparent fashion with ongoing communications and reporting to the Wikimedia community and the Wikimedia Foundation. Serve as a spokesperson for the Access to Knowledge programme and build ties with the Wikimedia India chapter and other free knowledge communities and movements in India such as Free/Open Source Software, Open Access, Open Data, Open Educational Resources, Indic-computing, etc. Characteristics of the Director High level of commitment: The Programme Director should be strongly committed to CIS and Wikimedia movement missions and objectives of the programme and deeply believe in the values of CIS and Wikimedia projects in the Indian context, exude enthusiasm for the mission and can powerfully embody and communicate the mission. Intellectual curiosity and flexibility: Must enjoy tackling difficult, ambiguous problems and able to incorporate new knowledge into how one approaches situations and generates solutions, loves learning from others while expanding intellectual horizons. Open and transparent: Have a high level of integrity and be comfortable working in a highly transparent fashion, open to input and feedback, a proactive and candid communicator who wants people to know what she/he is doing and isn't afraid to bring others in when things are off-track or when you need help and able to handle criticism in a mature fashion. Community builder: It is essential that the leader sees himself as a partner to and supporter of the Wikipedians who have and will continue to be the leaders in building the Wikimedia projects. The Programme Director must be willing and able to work with a diverse array of people, many of whom come from non-traditional backgrounds and have a fervent commitment to Wikipedia’s community-led nature. Strong cultural competency: Able to navigate in a global movement and on a global team in addition to navigating the complexity of India. Proficient manager: Able to design and execute on a range of initiatives; organize and manage a team of people and responsible in use of resources (financial and human). Data-driven: Should be well versed about the Indic and English projects, subject his/her own approaches and activities as well as those of the team to rigorous analysis and willing to stop doing things that prove to be ineffective based on the data. Partnership developer: Able to initiate, negotiate and operate partnerships that advance the Wikimedia mission in Indic languages and English (as relevant to India) with a wide range of institutions across the public, NGO, philanthropic and private sector. Willing to travel: The Programme Director must regularly
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program
Dear Hari, On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig m...@hpnadig.net wrote: discussion running up to these changes. My specific concern is how the Chapter would evolve going ahead from here, and given that CIS has helped the Chapter activities in the past, what role CIS plans to play in strengthening the Chapter - whether there would be efforts to strengthen the organization or such. Please don't worry on that count. CIS will maintain status quo w.r.t. to Chapter relationships. Whatever facilities/services are currently being provided to Chapter and have been provided to the Chapter in the past - will continue to be provided from CIS's core-funding. These services will continue beyond the 22 month period of this grant and for as long as we are around. For WikimediaIndia-l users, just a note that I had earlier posted a response to Barry's email here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121523.html As mentioned in my first message to the list - CIS is very committed to increasing the accountability and transparency of this particular grant and also the organisation as a whole. For example - to control travel related costs - CIS could publicly disclose the list of hotels in each city that are affordable at our per diem rates - these hotels will be used by all staffers including the A2K team. For greater transparency around staff travel - we could provide demand-based access to the staff calendar including the A2K team. In other words, if you wanted to know what I or any member of the A2K team was doing or will be doing on a particular date - you could email our publication's manager and he would tell you. Hopefully measures such as these will increase the bang you are getting for your buck. I hope you will also point out other areas where we could make improvements as CIS. Best wishes, Sunil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program
Dear Hari, On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig m...@hpnadig.net wrote: discussion running up to these changes. My specific concern is how the Chapter would evolve going ahead from here, and given that CIS has helped the Chapter activities in the past, what role CIS plans to play in strengthening the Chapter - whether there would be efforts to strengthen the organization or such. Please don't worry on that count. CIS will maintain status quo w.r.t. to Chapter relationships. Whatever facilities/services are currently being provided to Chapter and have been provided to the Chapter in the past - will continue to be provided from CIS's core-funding. These services will continue beyond the 22 month period of this grant and for as long as we are around. For WikimediaIndia-l users, just a note that I had earlier posted a response to Barry's email here: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2012-July/121523.html As I said in my first message to the list - CIS is very committed to increasing the accountability and transparency of this particular grant and also the organisation as a whole. For example - to control travel related costs - CIS could publicly disclose the list of hotels in each city that are affordable at our per diem rates - these hotels will be used by all staffers including the A2K team. For greater transparency around staff travel - we could provide demand-based access to the staff calendar including the A2K team. In other words, if you wanted to know what I or any member of the A2K team was doing or will be doing on a particular date - you could email our publication's manager and he would tell you. Hopefully measures such as these will increase the bang you are getting for your buck. I hope you will also point out other areas where we could make improvements as CIS. Best wishes, Sunil ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Changes to India Program
Dear Wikipedians, On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Barry Newstead (WMF) bnewst...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hisham’s departure coincides with another change in the India Program. We are pleased to announce that the Wikimedia Foundation has approved a grant to the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in Bangalore to expand their Access to Knowledge programme to support the achievement of the Wikimedia mission in India. CIS is a leading organization in India working on Internet policy. They are part of the broad free and open community. CIS is a long time friend of Wikimedia, our community in Bangalore, and the Wikimedia India chapter. I would like to first like to thank Wikimedia Foundation for giving us a grant to expand our Access to Knowledge Programme with a greater focus on Wikipedia. I look forward to working with colleagues from the Foundation and serving the community in India. A little bit about my self since I am posting for the first time on this list, I was elected an Ashoka fellow in 1999. I was part of the founding team of Mahiti.org though no longer formally involved. Between 2004 and 2007, I managed IOSN.net, a project of APDIP-UNDP that focussed on promoting FOSS, open standards and open content policies in the Asia-Pacific region. Apart from the Government of India, I have worked with the governments of Moldova, Tajikistan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq on free software and open standards policies. I currently serve on the boards of Samvada and Tactical Technology Collective and also on the sub-board of Open Society Foundation's Information Programme. Now a little about CIS that is not in the FAQ. We are most often in the news for our work around Freedom of Expression under our Internet Governance programme. But most of our budget is spent on the other less controversial areas. As a research organisation CIS does not enforce party positions across staff members and fellows, like the Kamasutra we encourage a multiplicity of positions. CIS has hosted inclusiveplanet.com in the past and is currently hosting hasgeek.in. CIS's garage has been converted into a hacker space called The Lab. In the past, we have had the privilege to useful in small ways to individual Wikipedians, the Indian Wikipedia community and India chapter. The whole team looks forward to stepping-up that dramatically with this grant. As a registered non-profit society, CIS will strive to maintain high levels of transparency and accountability to the Wikipedia community and the general public. We will make the budget and programme plan publicly available shortly. We will be transparent about staff remuneration and travel-related costs – as is the case with other CIS staffers. We will setup a recruitment panel for the Programme Director with hopefully participation from the community and the chapter as was the case in Brazil. More on that soon. For now, if there are any questions for me regarding CIS and this particular grant – I would be happy to answer them. Best wishes, Sunil P.S. Apologies for posting from my Mahiti id. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Academies in Indic Languages.
Narayam is also available on meta On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, Translate is installed on Meta.. or are you planning on translating on the India server ? Is it part of the WMF clusters if so, we can easily install the software and ensure that it remains up to date both for localisation and the weekly software updates. Thanks, Gerard On 7 November 2011 06:37, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: First we need to install http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam If it helps ... definitely we needs to install translate extension. On 6 November 2011 21:20, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, Do you want to translate it using the translate extension ... eg on Meta ? Thanks, Gerard On 3 November 2011 17:18, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Can anyone help me to translate the Wiki Academy Brochure to Indic languages ? Thanks, Naveen Francis ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam is now enabled at Meta
The IME tool Narayam http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam is now enabled at Meta WIki http://meta.wikimedia.org/. At present Narayam supports 10 Indic languages.http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Narayam#IndicYou can enable Narayam by selecting one of the supported language in your preferences. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Inbuilt Tamil typing tool added in Tamil Wikimedia projects
Great!. This will surely increase edits in tamilwikis On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:44 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We are glad to inform that inbuilt Tamil typing tool has been added in Tamil Wikipedia and Tamil WikiNews. After some testing, we will add it in other Wikimedia projects and release the code for use in all sites using MediaWiki. We hope that this will help many first time editors and increase Tamil word searches in the site search box. This was possible as a follow up of the recent Chennai Wikimedia meetup when Malayalam Wikimedia user Shiju Alex urged us to have this tool. Then Malayalam Wikimedia user Junaid. P. V. joined the team to transfer the code from Malayalam Wiki and modified it for Tamil needs. All work done in a week and three cheers for the interwiki collaborative spirit of Malayalam Wikipedians. Regards, Ravi ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiktionary now Top 10 globally
Great news. Congrats to all On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:21 AM, theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations, Ravi and all other Tamil Wiktionarians, that is quite an achievement. Looking forward to seeing Tamil Wiktionary grow larger. Regards Salmaan Haroon On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Tamil Wiktionarians added 70,000+ English words recently to make it the 9th biggest Wiktionary globally. Now, we have 1,90,000+ words. http://www.wiktionary.org/ This addition was done by a community run auto Wiki Browser bot account after a 3 month long careful planning and redesign of page format for Tamil Wiktionary. The words are mainly technical in nature and donated in an excel sheet format by the State Government of Tamilnadu during Tamil Internet Conference, 2010. We hope to bring more such publicly available sources to Tamil Wiki projects in future. Regards, Ravi (On behalf of Tamil Wiktionarians) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crossed the 15, 000 article mark
I think it will cross 20k within a year. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: How long did it take for the first 3 five thousands? - 0 - 5000 - *60 Months* - 5000- 10,000 - *18 Months* - 10,000 -15,000 - *17 Months* By the current pace when might the 20K milestone be achieved? No idea about this. Our focus is not on increasing the article count, but on *building the community*. Article number will automaticaly increase as a by-product if we have an active community. Shiju Alex On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Great stuff Malayalam Wikipedians! Crossing yet another milestone!! Kudos. How long did it take for the first 3 five thousands? By the current pace when might the 20K milestone be achieved? regards Arun On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.comwrote: Malayalam Wikipedia has crossed the 15,000 article milestone today. Congrats Malayalam wiki community !!! -- Naveen Francis ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crosses the 25, 000 article mark
Hearty congrats to all tamil wikipedia members. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Congratulations! On 10/06/2010 02:16 AM, Rajesh Pandey wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: Congrats to Tamil wiki community for their hard work. And Tamil Wikipedia happens to be the 4th Indian language Wikipedia to cross the 25,000 article milestone. On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:41 AM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: I'm pleased to inform you all that Tamil Wikipedia has crossed the 25,000 article milestone now. :-) Wow Congratulations :) - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Rajesh Pandey ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing listwikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.orghttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Barry Newstead Chief Global Development Officer Wikimedia Foundation Tel: +1-415-839-6885 x. 634 Skype: barry.wikimedia Twitter: @bazanews ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
