Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Condition of a Wikimedian, arrested by UP Police

[Yohann Thomas]

I have been following up on news regarding him, but I didn't know he has
covid now..

I hope he recovers quickly.. & will pray for him.



On Sun, May 9, 2021, 1:36 AM praveenp  wrote:

> Dear Indian Wikimedians,
>
> As many of you may have known, one of our fellow Wikimedian was arrested
> by Uttar Pradesh Police in October 2020. His name is Siddique Kappan (His
> wikimedia username is User:Sidheeq). He is from Kerala, and he was active
> in Wikimedia projects (mainly in Malayalam Wikipedia) until his arrest.
>
> Incidently he is a journalist and he was arrested from the home of Hathras
> rape and murder victim while reporting the victim Dalit girl's family
> members. UP Police has slapped Sedition, Terrorism as well as UAPA charges
> against him.
>
> Kappen is diabetic and now COVID positive. He was admitted to hospital
> only after he collapsed in the jail cell. With his deteriorating health, it
> was accused that Kappan was chained to hospital bed like an animal. Today's
> news reports say that he is in critical condition. (You could always google
> "Siddique Kappan")
>
> As a tone deaf people I don't expect anything from this mail, I just wish
> to share the information.
>
> Stay Inside, Stay Complementary (non-critical), Stay safe, Stay healthy.
>
>
> User:Praveenp
>
> -
>
> Siddique's en.wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sidheeq
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WIRED story about Wikipedia in India | Request

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi..

This article has got published on their site..
Please find link below.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/wikipedia-culture-war

Regards,
Yohann

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020, 8:11 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 
wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> A journalist from Wired 
> [1], Omer Benjakob reached out, as he is working on a story related to
> Wikipedia in India. He is interested in talking to a few editors working on
> Wikipedia specifically. The story is mostly related to on-Wiki content
> focused around disinformation and how political tensions pan out on
> Wikipedia, in the context of India. If anyone is interested, please email
> him directly at omerbj[at]gmail.com or send a direct message at
> https://www.facebook.com/omerbj/, before Saturday.
>
> Thank you,
> KC.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference India 2020] Conference & Event Grant proposal to WMF

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi krishna

If my memory serves me right, Wikiconference India 2016 had a budget around
33lakh INR. I haven't read the grant report yet, nor have I done a
comparison with the 2016 event.. But according to your previous email, is
having an event more than twice the budget of 2016 one, to almost 71lakh
Rs.. Is it really justified..

If yes.. What are you planning which is different from last times
conference?

Regards,
Yohann

On Wed, Feb 5, 2020, 2:58 PM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 
wrote:

> Hi Bodhi,
>
> Firstly, speaking of "1 crore 60 lakhs rupees" together might not be the
> best way to look at it. I am not wrong, I am assuming that you are talking
> about WikiWomen Camp, which is also happening in India. But that is
> completely unrelated to WikiConference India, I mean in terns of budget,
> goals and objectives. You might want to separately comment on each of them,
> if you want to. To clarify the confusion for others, WikiConference India's
> budget is ₹7,181,212.50 + additional fiscal sponsorship charge of ₹718,121.25
> (10% of the budget). The former amount is that which goes into the spending
> of the conference.
>
> An amount could be spent on several other smaller projects, but every type
> of program has its own importance. In terms of impact, a conference may not
> have tangible or numerical metrics to be considered, but it does have
> impact on communities and India as a whole. Even for this conference, we
> are trying to make the goals as objective as possible. Components of the
> conference such as content creation campaign beforehand, and a
> Mini-Hackathon, will try to ensure that. Also since Capacity development
> emerged out as the most required need of the hour from the Community
> Engagement Survey, we have specific evaluation measures to see if it really
> helped people.
>
> You are most welcome to take your comments on regarding specific budget
> items or the plan on the talk page, and it can be taken forward from there.
>
> Regards,
> KC
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 12:12 PM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Krishna,
>>
>> Sorry to say, but as a volunteer, I can not find justification of
>> spending 1 crore 60 lakhs rupees on just two conferences happening one
>> after another. The amount is  huge and beyond my imagination.
>>
>> As a volunteer coming from West Bengal community which have always worked
>> on optimal budget and respected donation money, and yet delivered
>> consistent results through impactful projects each year, I find these
>> expenditure out of proportion. This money could have been otherwise spent
>> on several high impact projects for many years.
>>
>> I cannot say on behalf of my entire community but, personally, from my
>> part, I cannot endorse this. Also, I guess, endorsement or opposition
>> doesn't matter nowadays and these proposals will eventually get approved,
>> in that case, I will not participate in the events in any capacity.
>>
>> Sorry, if I sound too harsh, but that's only because English is not my
>> native language. I could have better expressed in my mother tongue.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bodhisattwa
>> (totally as a Wikimedia volunteer)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 4 Feb 2020, 11:14 Dr. Manavpreet Kaur, <
>> dr.manavpreetk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Great initiative. It's been 4 years since we all met and shared
>>> experiences. This conference will also help us plan our future initiatives.
>>>
>>> Best wishes!
>>> Manav
>>>
>>> On Tue, 4 Feb 2020, 08:41 Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Hello everyone,

 I am happy to inform you we have submitted the Conference & Event
 Grant proposal for WikiConference India 2020
 [1]
 to the Wikimedia Foundation. I kindly request all the community members to
 go through the proposal -- including the community engagement survey
 report, program plan, venue and logistics, participation and scholarships,
 and the budget + FAQs
 [2],
 and provide us with your suggestions/comments on the talk page
 [3]
  (also
 do read the FAQs section before making any comments related to the budget).
 You can endorse the proposal at
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Conference/WikiConference_India_2020#Endorsements[4],
  please
 do add a rationale for endorsing this project.

 According to the timeline of Conference and Event Grants program,
 community can review from 3 February to 14 February 2020, post that we will
 start integrating all the received feedback to make modifications to the
 proposal. Depending on the response of community members, an IRC may be
 hosted next week, especially if there are many questions/concerns that need
 to be 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Santhosh Thottingal wins the President's Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for 2019

[Yohann Thomas]

Amazing news... Congrats Santosh... :)

On Thu, 15 Aug, 2019, 22:27 manoj k,  wrote:

> Santhosh Thottingal
> 
> has won the Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman by the Hon. President of India
> .
> This is in recognition of his substantial contribution in the field of
> Malayalam language. The award, instituted in 2016, is given to the
> substantial contributions to languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Arabi,
> Pali and Classical Oriya, Classical Kannada, Classical Telugu, and
> Classical Malayalam. This is given to young scholars in the age group of
> 30 to 45 years
> .
> The Presidential award carries a certificate of honor, a memento and a
> one-time cash prize of Rs.1 lakh.
>
> Santhosh is one of the most active contributors of Swathanthra Malayalam
> Computing and a principal engineer in Wikipedia's language computing
> department. He has designed and released several algorithms and tools that
> serve computing needs in many Indian languages including Malayalam. He
> heads the maintenance of a dozen or so of the popular Malayalam fonts.
> Santhosh (along Kavya) designed two of these fonts, Chilanka and Manjari
> .
> He has contributed
> 
> tools that serve a broad range of language computing needs - input tools,
> layout tools, fonts, font rendering, text to speech, translation,
> localization are just a few of these areas. He has also contributed and
> presented papers at several international conferences.
>
> Dr. Rajeev R. R from the e-governance and training department of ICFOSS
> has also been selected for this award along with Santhosh.
>
> We hope this award inspires Santhosh and Rajeev to push the boundaries of
> Language computing.
>
>
> https://blog.smc.org.in/santhosh-thottingal-wins-the-presidents-maharshi-badrayan-vyas-samman-for-2019/
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Open Letter to Affiliations Committee : Wikimedia India's Demand For A Fair And Transparent Hearing

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Krill,



Thanks for writing & finally opening up to the community on this topic. Let
me add some more to this, so that the global community can understand the
actual situation Wikimedia India (WMIN) is in now right now, in a more
in-depth way.



Ofcourse, before going forward I need to mention very clearly that the
contents of what, I am writing below, is in my personal capacity as a
volunteer.



While Affcom continues to claim, India Chapter lacks capacity, WMIN would
continue to contest all its reports are in order (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters/Reports/Wikimedia_India#Wikimedia_India
) and let's not forget they are zero-budget.and also self-financed. Your
letter further says that the board had abdicated from communication and
handed over to Abhinav. The board had also previously communicated with the
Affcom on their suspension notice stating it has been on flawed basis and
made in secrecy.  What Abhinav has essentially asked is to put all
information in public domain and let it be for the community to review.
Everyone might not know, but Abhinav has been a board member earlier &
everything has been briefed to him with facts as cited  in previous mail.
Affcom initially in their private mail and now today continue to ignore
facts on transparency and continue to blame change in communication
leadership



Why can't Affcom reply on facts and evidences and also be transparent ?



To make our global audience more aware on the situation of not-for-profits
organisations in India, I would want them to see this article <
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/06/07/democracies-need-a-little-help-from-their-friends/
>.



There are truckloads of many more such information, on trouble with the
government. Since 2015, not-for profit organisations are under severe
scrutiny and I myself have had police officials doing check up on me at my
work place. Of course, as volunteers , we are ready to undergo these
hardships, for the betterment of the movement. But when we don't receive
basic mutual respect as an organisation from WMF, that's when it becomes
discouraging.



I was communicating with AffCom since we received the suspension notice in
November 2018 and I was also leading the April 2019 Con-call . I honestly
think that the any communication that happens between two individuals or
groups, goes ahead with mutual respect for one another. When we provide
justifications on mail, they don't reply us and ask us to be on Con-Call,
on con-call they hear us but don't take anything in action and our
responses on con-call remain not documented.



I did not see that respect from WMF to WMIN  and I don't blame them,  since
they have the other affiliate Centre of Internet & Society (CIS-A2K) , an
affiliate who has all paid employees , working full time on Wikimedia
projects in India.

If it were any other country,where WMIN was the sole affiliate, our voice
would have been better heard better and we would have been treated better.
Our annual reports were only delayed by 3.5 months due to government
bureaucracy which was delaying submission of our final financial results
(although we don't have enough funds, Chapter is mandated to share its
financial statement).

In the meantime, our quarterly reports were in line and also shared with
the wider community. There are so many affiliates who delay their
submission, so many of those affiliates have an annual budget and also
staff, WMIN had no such comfort but still it received this treatment.



I dont know what is the future of WMIN, but I can say one thing for sure
that as a board member, WMIN has been treated in bad faith by Affiliations
Committee. When thousands of NGOs struggle with a crisis and Affcom comes
up with statements, 'no evidence that the current organization’s leadership
will be able to drive this problem toward resolution”.' Why can't they see
that the same Chapter has been undergoing activities in such hard
circumstances without any funding.



 Affcom should know that even after suspension notice, WMIN is indulging in
programmatic activities and they should know till 13th September they would
find us working & serving our purpose.


Regards,

Yohann Thomas


On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 3:33 PM Kirill Lokshin 
wrote:

> Dear Wikimedia-l readers,
>
>
> AffCom understands the complexity and sensitivity of the circumstances
> surrounding the decision to de-recognize Wikimedia India as a chapter, and
> we would like to share more information around it. This decision was not
> taken lightly, and only came after consistent warnings, including
> suspensions of the chapter, and continued attempts by AffCom to bring the
> chapter’s activities in line with the requirements for chapter status. We
> understand that volunteers would like more information about this decision
> and past actions that influenced its outcome. We will attempt to provide an
> overview of the factors and history that led 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian Of The Month : July, 2019

[Yohann Thomas]

If I'm. Right... He is on the Hindi Wikipedia list..

On Tue, 2 Jul, 2019, 19:00 Asaf Bartov,  wrote:

> Congratulations, Piyush!  (Is he a member of this list?)
>
>A.
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 3:41 PM Abhinav srivastava 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Wikimedia India is happy to report The Featured Wikimedian of The Month
>> For July, 2019.
>>
>> Piyush Maurya with User Name :हिंदुस्थान वासी
>> 
>> is primarily a Hindi Wikimedian who contributes on Hindi Wikipedia where he
>> also holds the rights of an administrator. He is a native of Aligarh city
>> in Western Uttar Pradesh. Piyush has been editing on Wikimedia Projects
>> ever since 2013. He first began editing on English Wikipedia and once while
>> reading North India Floods 2013
>>  article he came
>> to know about Hindi Wikipedia from the left side bar. Hindi happens to be
>> his first language and since then he hasn't looked back. He has more than
>> 47,000 global edits which also includes Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons etc.
>> Piyush has been instrumental in taking initiatives to set up different
>> policies on Hindi Wikipedia such as User Page Policy etc. Piyush enjoys
>> editing on film articles and also enjoys reviewing edits. As an
>> administrator, he admires to have many more quality articles.  Piyush was
>> recently bestowed with the responsibility to be a User Group Representative
>> for Hindi Wikimedians by the community.
>>
>> If you have any suggestions for a Featured Wikimedian, please nominate
>> them at [1] or send a mail at abhinav.srivast...@wikimedian.in
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Co-option of New Executive Committee member to Wikimedia India

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Ashwin sir

Sorry for the delay in reply.. There was a death in my family, so due to
which, I did not reply to any questions.. & Abhinav was replying..

It is a customary practise to accept membership forms of past members &
their membership date is applicable from the date of receiving the
form+fees.

In your case, since the form was received in the ending of the previous
financial year of FY 2018-19 (please correct me if I'm wrong), a decision
was taken to start it from the next year ie 1st April 2019-31st March 2020.

I hope that solves your query

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India

On Sat, 15 Jun, 2019, 14:22 Ashwin Baindur, 
wrote:

> That's not really a satisfactory answer. If the worry was about a limited
> membership then our date could be given as 01 April 2019 onwards. But
> delaying it till May end - Jun for paperwork would have been okay,
> providing we were shown as membership dated back to 01 April 19.
>
> This giving a late date of membership does not seem like a good faith
> action to me.
>
> Suppose you have your election before September 6, then by the rules I
> would be ineligible to support a candidate through a vote.
>
> But the delay is only on Chapter side and by giving the date of membership
> is an arbitrary decision. So, by fixing my membership date, the EC denies
> me the right to vote at all.
>
> What is your comment on this?
>
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 1:26 PM Abhinav srivastava 
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Ashwin Sir,
>>
>> If your question concerns about me, I only got co-opted yesterday and got
>> access to the Membership Data this morning.
>>
>> As per the Membership Process, WMIN, "*endeavour to process all
>> applications within four weeks*" [1].  We recognise there has been a
>> long delay, we recognise in public [2] and we recognise in membership
>> acknowledge mail and we recognise and apologise here again. There have been
>> a lot of administrative burden for those shared on Member's Mailing List,
>> for those with Government of India policies, for those on meeting
>> Member's Expectations, for those on running with a zero budget and having
>> no staff for support.
>>
>> The March memberships would have expired by 31st March itself [3] , your
>> present membership would last until 31st March 2020 and the same was
>> informed to you on a public platform [2].
>>
>> As per Election Rules, Point B, sub-point  2 (a), "Members who are on
>> the rolls of the Chapter three months prior to the AGM/Election day shall
>> form the eligible voters list." [4]  In your membership case or for any
>> other member who enrolled during the said event or anyone prior to that
>> would fall under eligible voter's list.
>>
>> Hope this helps. Please feel free to ask for any clarification.
>>
>> Abhinav
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Membership-FAQ&%2FJoin_us=
>> [2]
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2019-April/013987.html
>> [3] Financial year end
>> [4] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election_Rules
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 at 12:46, Ashwin Baindur 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Abhinav,
>>>
>>> Many of us had applied in March during Project Tiger meetup complete
>>> with dues paid for the membership. I find that we are being added
>>> post-15th May, and in my case 6th June. If the form had been filled
>>> and dues paid, why a delay of three months? Why can't our membership
>>> be counted from that date, though you did the paperwork back-dated?
>>>
>>> Secondly, if there should be an election to the Executive Committee
>>> later this year, it appears that we may not be eligible to vote for
>>> those who stand for Committee posts. In the past, a cut-off date was
>>> used to decide who was eligible to vote for prospective candidates of
>>> the community. Can you please clarify whether this will be the case
>>> here?
>>>
>>> Regards, Ashwin
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 12:17 PM Abhinav srivastava
>>>  wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Dear Sudhanwa Ji,
>>> >
>>> > If your question concerns about yourself, I find that you are already
>>> there on the Member's Mailing List. Agreed in the Mobile OPT Verification,
>>> CAPTCHA code verification era, WMIN has an old-fashioned (and also tedious)
>>> membership application form. Two months back WMIN came up with Expectations
>>> from India chapter on Membership [1] and several responses have been
>>> attained 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Co-option of New Executive Committee member to Wikimedia India

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Ashwin sir

When EC members resign, the EC has an option to co-opt executive committee
members to fill the vacancy..

As per Chapter bye laws, Article VII, point A, sub point f,

*Any vacancy caused in the membership of the Executive Committee shall be
filled from within the membership of the Society, and the incumbent shall
hold the post/position till the next General Body Meeting. Such members
chosen to fill the said vacancy shall be decided by the Executive
Committee.*

In this case, we have two vacancies of Krishna Chaitanya & Suyash Dwivedi.
For now.. We are filling only one of the vacancies..

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India



On Fri, 14 Jun, 2019, 12:09 Ashwin Baindur, 
wrote:

> Shouldn't there be an election? Is co-opting permitted as per bye laws?
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 10:56 AM Asaf Bartov  wrote:
>
>> That's good to know, and thanks for the update. Best wishes to Abhinav!
>>
>> Is there any update on the state of the chapter, vis-a-vis its compliance
>> difficulties? Or its activities? It would be good to keep the wider
>> communities informed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>A.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 07:11 Yohann Thomas  wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Community members
>>>
>>> With a current board strength of only 5 members, Wikimedia India has 2
>>> vacant board member seats. I am pleased to inform you that Abhinav
>>> Srivastava has been Co-opted to the board of Wikimedia India.
>>>
>>> He will be available on the email - abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Yohann Thomas
>>> Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Co-option of New Executive Committee member to Wikimedia India

[Yohann Thomas]

Forwarding the email of Abhinav Srivastava to Ashwin sir

-- Forwarded message -
From: Abhinav srivastava 
Date: Fri, 14 Jun, 2019, 13:48
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Co-option of New Executive Committee member
to Wikimedia India
To: Wikimedia India Community list ,
Ashwin Baindur , Yohann Thomas 


Dear Ashwin Sir,

* Six-years back on April 13th, 2013 a resolution by the then General
Assembly had approved for a resolution, "Adding co-opted trustees".
Subsequently, several EC members have been co-opted. from time-to-time [1]

* The Elections are due and the reason for the same have been communicated
on WMIN Members Mailing List on 15th May. It is only for that reason I have
accepted EC's decision to be co-opted. I would also like to make a public
declaration, I will not take privilege of any perks or benefits while
serving the office of WMIN as a co-opted EC.

* For further updates, and for Community Members not on WMIN Members
Mailing List, requesting to wait for sometime. A mail has been sent
addressing to the WMF Staff who has posted a message here. It consist of
all information. [2]

[1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Memorandum_of_Association* I find there is
some problem with the document here and would fix it. *

[2] I had unsubscribed from this mailing list for the last two months due
to hectic personal life. Hence, Mailing List admins have to approve my
mail.

Abhinav

On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 at 12:09, Ashwin Baindur 
wrote:

> Shouldn't there be an election? Is co-opting permitted as per bye laws?
>
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 10:56 AM Asaf Bartov  wrote:
>
>> That's good to know, and thanks for the update. Best wishes to Abhinav!
>>
>> Is there any update on the state of the chapter, vis-a-vis its compliance
>> difficulties? Or its activities? It would be good to keep the wider
>> communities informed.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>>A.
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 07:11 Yohann Thomas  wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Community members
>>>
>>> With a current board strength of only 5 members, Wikimedia India has 2
>>> vacant board member seats. I am pleased to inform you that Abhinav
>>> Srivastava has been Co-opted to the board of Wikimedia India.
>>>
>>> He will be available on the email - abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Yohann Thomas
>>> Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Co-option of New Executive Committee member to Wikimedia India

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Community members

With a current board strength of only 5 members, Wikimedia India has 2
vacant board member seats. I am pleased to inform you that Abhinav
Srivastava has been Co-opted to the board of Wikimedia India.

He will be available on the email - abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Chapter (India) Activities 2018-19

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Krishna,

We have taken due note of your considerations and removed your name from
the report[1]. It was only written in good faith since you were then, a
very active Executive Committee member & were communicating with The
Wikipedia Library Team on Economic & Political Weekly Partnership [2],
which was a Chapter initiative, where you discussed in person about it at
Wikimania 2018.

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India



[1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/July-September_2018#Wikimania_2018

[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:TPS/KCVelaga/Wikimania/2018/Report

On Sun, 14 Apr, 2019, 00:34 Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, 
wrote:

> Hi Yohann,
>
> Thanks for sharing these reports. Of the several confusions that these
> reports pose, I would like to stress on this section;
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/July-September_2018#Wikimania_2018.
>
> Several community members, for more than eight months, have been asking
> about WMIN's President participation at Wikimania 2018. Till date, we
> haven't heard anything from the President. Being a former EC member, I
> understand that you (on behalf of the EC and the Chapter) can answer these
> questions. But considering the gravity of the situation, it would be better
> if the President of WMIN, as a responsible leader of Wikimedia India, can
> answer these questions personally on the respective thread.
>
> ... and most importantly, the report says "Three executive committee
> members attended the Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town, South Africa. Rahul
> Deshmukh, Krishna Chaitanya Velaga and Viswanathan Prabhakaran. Several
> programs were hosted by Wikimedia India EC members"
>
> ***I completely object this***
>
> Though I am not sure of Viswa, I can 100% say that I had purely attended
> Wikimania 2018 as an independent volunteer, irrespective of my affiliation
> with WMIN. Even when I applied for the scholarship, I never mentioned about
> work as a WMIN EC member (as of July 2018). I would like to highlight the
> fact that Wikimania is purely is user (volunteer) level conference, whereas
> Wikimedia Summit/Conference is an affiliate-level conference. It is very
> disappointing to see that WMIN hasn't observed any difference between them.
>
> Again I would like to stress on "Several programs were hosted by Wikimedia
> India EC members" I consciously neither conducted any activities as a WMIN
> EC member at Wikimania, nor was I invited to any such discussion
> (considering the fact that I was an "active" EC member as of July 2018).
> But publishing such reports even after resigning as an EC member; I feel it
> as a threat to my identity.
>
> The section also says that AffCom members are in without much experience
> "The framework does not answer the "who?" question. AffCom? But AffCom can
> take the affiliate status away and its members are volunteers, probably
> without much experience in this field." I would like to hear more
> explanation on this.
>
> Several such things remain unclear and disappointing to me. I'll detail
> upon them once I hear a response from WMIN about the raised issues, and
> also its President on the other thread, at the earliest possible.
>
> -Krishna C V.
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 3:30 PM Yohann Thomas  wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Wikimedia India is happy to report its annual activities undertaken in
>> the previous financial year 2018-19, beginning 1st April , 2018 until 31st
>> March 2019. All activities undertaken have been self-financed by different
>> Wikimedia India members either individually or collectively and not a
>> single penny of community funds have been spent on conducting any
>> programmatic activity.
>> No Wikimedia Foundation Grants like Rapid Grant, Project Grant etc have
>> been applied & by following with the real Wikimedia Culture,  all Wikimedia
>> India members in their individual capacity have taken to finance India
>> Chapter Activities for Capacity Developments, Awareness, Partnerships, etc.
>>
>> As you all are aware, Wikimedia India continues to undergo a financial
>> crisis because it cannot receive any funding [1] from its primary donor
>> Wikimedia Foundation(USA). However, Wikimedia India continues to do
>> whatever it can, with its current constraints, to take the Wikimedia
>> movement forward in India.
>>
>> Wikimedia India looks forward to the community review on its activities
>> hosted and more importantly on expectations from the larger community, and
>> suggestions on how they want Wikimedia India to perform this financial
>> year, holding that funding's may remain frozen.
>>
>> *Key Points*
>>
>>- Facilitated first-ever 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Chapter (India) Activities 2018-19

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Nivas,

Thank You for asking such questions.

Wikimedia India has a section called "Other News" which documents news from
the larger Indian community for their activities and at times having
involvement of Wikimedia India members, but not in Chapter hat. This is
done only for the purpose of sharing the community initiatives to the
larger audiences. Regarding July-September 2018, there was a typing mistake
and instead of "News" it was written as "Events". Thank You for pointing it
out and the change has now been incorporated.
I must confess that this mistake happened only in the July-September 2018
part & all other quarters the heading carries, "Other News" header.

The "Other News" information is not documented in the Chapter's Annual
Activity Report.

Regarding Project Tiger, besides equipment lending, both Wikimedia India
members and even executive committee members have been organisers, jury,
etc.
You may also like to read the FAQ Section on Meta for Project Tiger
Editathon 2018 for further queries[1].

The activities undertaken by Wikimedia India can be found from the Events
section, the very first section present in every quarterly report [2] while
for offline events can be found from either the events section under
quarterly reports or Wiki Academy and Wikimedia India Events section.

I hope this answers your concern. Please let us know if there are any other
queries in the reports.

Thanks,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Project_Tiger_Editathon_2018
[2] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports#2018-19

On Thu, 11 Apr, 2019, 12:23 Nivas R,  wrote:

> Hi Yohann,
>
> Some parts of the reports are confusing to a general reader. I am not sure
> if all the activities mentioned under the "Events" section are organised by
> Wikimedia India, for example, "Project Tiger Writing Contest" Apart from
> the equipment support, I would like to know WMIN's involvement in the
> writing contest itself. Also in July-September 2018 report, 11th World
> Hindi Conference 2018, Re-creation of CC-India chapter, India Independence
> Day 2018 - Label-a-thon, are mentioned. It is confusing whether these
> events are conducted by WMIN, or CIS-A2K, or other volunteers. It would be
> great if you can make these clear by explicitly mentioning who organised
> them.
>
> Thank You.
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 3:30 PM Yohann Thomas  wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> Wikimedia India is happy to report its annual activities undertaken in
>> the previous financial year 2018-19, beginning 1st April , 2018 until 31st
>> March 2019. All activities undertaken have been self-financed by different
>> Wikimedia India members either individually or collectively and not a
>> single penny of community funds have been spent on conducting any
>> programmatic activity.
>> No Wikimedia Foundation Grants like Rapid Grant, Project Grant etc have
>> been applied & by following with the real Wikimedia Culture,  all Wikimedia
>> India members in their individual capacity have taken to finance India
>> Chapter Activities for Capacity Developments, Awareness, Partnerships, etc.
>>
>> As you all are aware, Wikimedia India continues to undergo a financial
>> crisis because it cannot receive any funding [1] from its primary donor
>> Wikimedia Foundation(USA). However, Wikimedia India continues to do
>> whatever it can, with its current constraints, to take the Wikimedia
>> movement forward in India.
>>
>> Wikimedia India looks forward to the community review on its activities
>> hosted and more importantly on expectations from the larger community, and
>> suggestions on how they want Wikimedia India to perform this financial
>> year, holding that funding's may remain frozen.
>>
>> *Key Points*
>>
>>- Facilitated first-ever Library Partnership in India with Sameeksha
>>Trust Journal, Economic & Political Weekly under The Wikipedia Library.
>>- Partnered on several Wikimedia Global Programs in India such as
>>WikiGap, Wiki Asian Month etc.
>>-  Continued hosting several Wikimedia India programs such as
>>WikiAcademy, Wikimedia India Events, Featured Wikimedian of The Month.
>>- Continued working along with CIS-A2K on different projects and most
>>importantly on Project Tiger, a joint initiative between Wikimedia India
>>and CIS-A2K. [2]
>>
>> *Quarterly Reports*
>>
>>- April - June 2018
>>
>> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/April-June_2018%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1554801728669000=D=1554801728681000=AFQjCNH5pqk_mBbCffjojL3PJRDnEBLJGw>
>>

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Chapter (India) Activities 2018-19

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear All,

Wikimedia India is happy to report its annual activities undertaken in the
previous financial year 2018-19, beginning 1st April , 2018 until 31st
March 2019. All activities undertaken have been self-financed by different
Wikimedia India members either individually or collectively and not a
single penny of community funds have been spent on conducting any
programmatic activity.
No Wikimedia Foundation Grants like Rapid Grant, Project Grant etc have
been applied & by following with the real Wikimedia Culture,  all Wikimedia
India members in their individual capacity have taken to finance India
Chapter Activities for Capacity Developments, Awareness, Partnerships, etc.

As you all are aware, Wikimedia India continues to undergo a financial
crisis because it cannot receive any funding [1] from its primary donor
Wikimedia Foundation(USA). However, Wikimedia India continues to do
whatever it can, with its current constraints, to take the Wikimedia
movement forward in India.

Wikimedia India looks forward to the community review on its activities
hosted and more importantly on expectations from the larger community, and
suggestions on how they want Wikimedia India to perform this financial
year, holding that funding's may remain frozen.

*Key Points*

   - Facilitated first-ever Library Partnership in India with Sameeksha
   Trust Journal, Economic & Political Weekly under The Wikipedia Library.
   - Partnered on several Wikimedia Global Programs in India such as
   WikiGap, Wiki Asian Month etc.
   -  Continued hosting several Wikimedia India programs such as
   WikiAcademy, Wikimedia India Events, Featured Wikimedian of The Month.
   - Continued working along with CIS-A2K on different projects and most
   importantly on Project Tiger, a joint initiative between Wikimedia India
   and CIS-A2K. [2]

*Quarterly Reports*

   - April - June 2018
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/April-June_2018%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1554801728669000=D=1554801728681000=AFQjCNH5pqk_mBbCffjojL3PJRDnEBLJGw>
   -  July - September 2018
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/July-September_2018%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D155480172867=D=1554801728681000=AFQjCNHYJo7xBDZ06i9eeIuMgmTsbf4AMg>
   - October-December 2018
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/October-December_2018%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D155480172867=D=1554801728681000=AFQjCNHl_pYdMc1kVt-8dX1VUrKzu7nKkg>
   - January - March 2019
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports/January-March_2019%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D155480172867=D=1554801728682000=AFQjCNFvpUaDCd6H1378A_0gTBiM8ovKwQ>


*WikiAcademy*
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1554801728671000=D=1554801728682000=AFQjCNE-AADoKlxKP57asuEFK-fqzDZMAA>

   -  Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Indian_Institute_of_Science%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1554801728671000=D=1554801728682000=AFQjCNFT3mDqhAuP9r5kFeM5C1jjWDc5wg>
   -  Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/IIT_Kanpur%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1554801728672000=D=1554801728682000=AFQjCNGbfUdBhM1xhSxVMbgklvbZ9R5lvg>
   - Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Sree_Sankaracharya_University_of_Sanskrit%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1554801728672000=D=1554801728683000=AFQjCNGXWKCC7yrpN3Zx9h8lGd8apozOLA>



*Events*

   - Tangentia Jigyasa Quiz, Goa
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/Tangentia_Jigyasa_Quiz_2019%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1554801728673000=D=1554801728683000=AFQjCNG66_qKAyxi_elab9JLsnoythmtQg>
   - WikiGap, Kolkatta
   
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Events/WikiGap_2019_Kolkata%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;ust%3D1554801728674000=D=1554801728683000=AFQjCNHLA1AqfxHtQPyaeaIRxDrSmc92ug>


Thanks,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India

[1] Foreign Currency (Regulation) Act, 1960 compliance do not permit India
Chapter to receive money from its primary fiscal sponsor, Wikimedia
Foundation.[
2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India membership process Discussion

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Community

Taking forward the discussion on the Membership Process on a separate
thread, Wikimedia Chapter (India) is inviting members to discuss & suggest
ways to improve the current Membership process.Please find the discussion
link below
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Expectations_from_India_chapter/Membership

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Secretary
Wikimedia India
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India members

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear one & all



I would like to thank you for taking out time out of your busy schedules &
getting involved in the affairs of the chapters, members or otherwise.
Having said that, I would also invite you & everyone else to fill up
Wikimedia Chapter(India)  membership forms available in this link along
with FAQs(http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Membership-FAQ). Also, pls email to
chap...@wikimedia.in , in case of any queries.



Wikimedia Chapter(India) which is registered under Karnataka Societies Act,
1960  is governed by rules, procedures, legislations and jurisdictions
within the Republic of India.



 Wikimedia Chapter(India) submits its annual report to the registrar office
for the Karnataka society every financial year beginning 1st April till
31st March. Wikimedia Chapter(India) also submits a copy of the report to
Wikimedia Foundation(WMF), San Francisco, United States of America (USA) as
per the Chapter Agreement. Wikimedia Chapter(India) is the national
affiliate for WMF in India.



Based on Election rules & Precedence, Wikimedia Chapter(India) releases the
list of names for all its then members along with their Membership no ,so
that it becomes convenient for the members who are not in Bangalore, to
cast their postal ballots.



In my previously mentioned annual reports , the no. of members & their
geographic distribution is released every financial year. Having said that
Wikimedia Chapter(India) would be happy to hear on further suggestions from
its members and also the larger Indian community on the topic of
membership. I feel that I should remind the community that , since the
Wikimedia Chapter(India)  has no staff, it will take time for updating
membership records, since many membership forms are directly sent to our
Office to Bangalore.



Even though, it is nowhere mentioned in our Memorandum of Association (MoA)
about publishing & updating information of our members on a regular basis,
Wikimedia Chapter(India) may require to inform its members beforehand while
they apply for membership, on disclosing their personal information as per
requirement.


I have shared a link, where i am inviting all community members to discuss
& give suggestions to the Wikimedia Chapter, on how to further improve the
membership process.

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Expectations_from_India_chapter/Membership




Regards,

Yohann Thomas

Secretary

Wikimedia India




On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 9:03 PM Subhashish Panigrahi 
wrote:

> Shouldn't it be a list of usernames? I am just curious if those whose
> names and physical locations are published provided consent for the same.
>
> Subha
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 8:49 PM Anirudh S. Bhati 
> wrote:
>
>> I wasn't aware that voters' list was posted online.  I generally don't
>> think that's a good idea, given the privacy of the members.  What is the
>> view of WMIN's compliance consultant on this?
>>
>> At the same time, may I ask why many of the founding members are not on
>> that list?  I was told that we had lifetime membership without the
>> obligation to pay dues.  I don't mind paying dues personally, but since I
>> have been away for quite some time, it's not convenient to fill up a form,
>> send it and also transfer the funds.
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 8:41 PM Dhaval S. Vyas  wrote:
>>
>>> This raises a question in my mind whether Wikimedia India Chapter is
>>> still functional? There is a number of reasons to believe it is not,
>>>
>>> 1. we are still waiting a respinse from WMIN president on a separate
>>> concern raised,
>>> 2. Members list has not been updated for 2 years
>>> 3. No one from the chapter seems to be caring to respond, etc...
>>>
>>> Am I the only one having this question in mind?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Dhaval Vyas
>>>
>>> On Thu, 4 Apr 2019, 16:49 Ashwin Baindur, 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I had applied for membership of the Chapter but am yet to receive
>>>> confirmation. Requesting Sanket to tell me whether I am a member or not as
>>>> yet.
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 8:42 AM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga <
>>>> kcvel...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I see that the last update on the list of members was in March 2017
>>>>> (for Elections 2016), published as the list of eligible voters for the
>>>>> election. The list is at
>>>>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Eligible_Voters_List. But the
>>>>> list has not been updated after that. Many of these must have been expired
>>>>> by now (considering these from 2016).
>>>>>
>>>>>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India members

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Ashwin Sir,

We have received your membership form & we have started processing it. You
will receive an acknowledgement from the chapter soon.
Generally , we approve the membership within a short time, but due to
financial year end, the team was caught in administrative work .

Since the new financial year has started, your membership will reflect in
the year 2019-20. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Secretary
WIkimedia India

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 7:19 PM Ashwin Baindur 
wrote:

> I had applied for membership of the Chapter but am yet to receive
> confirmation. Requesting Sanket to tell me whether I am a member or not as
> yet.
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 8:42 AM Krishna Chaitanya Velaga 
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I see that the last update on the list of members was in March 2017 (for
>> Elections 2016), published as the list of eligible voters for the election.
>> The list is at
>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Eligible_Voters_List. But the
>> list has not been updated after that. Many of these must have been expired
>> by now (considering these from 2016).
>>
>> Also, an actual members' list is nowhere to be found on WMIN Wiki. As
>> Bodhi said, I feel that there should be somewhere on the Wiki, and it needs
>> to be updated regularly.
>>
>> Best,
>> Krishna
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 2:02 AM Bodhisattwa Mandal <
>> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am interested to know, who are the current members of Wikimedia India
>>> and since when are they members? If there is a list, please share.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Bodhisattwa
>>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Celebrating Women's Day : Wikimedia India

[Yohann Thomas]

Greetings From Wikimedia India !

Wikimedia India takes the opportunity in wishing all the Women Wikimedians,
A Very Happy Women's Day. Let's join hands and salute all Women's who are
building our open knowledge ecosystems.

Wikimedia India wishes to celebrate the occasion in its own little way
through its program, Featured Wikimedian Of The Month.

Every Month, Wikimedia India celebrates editing by recognising and writing
story for an editor working on Indian language projects. The process is
same like featured article or featured picture.

Today, Friday, 8th March, we wish to do something different. Wikimedia
India is happy to recognise 16  different  Women Wikimedians  working on
different language projects.
Since it's 2019, so we have covered stories for 19 Women Wikimedians
Please find the stories on these Super-Women from India <
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Women_Month/2019>.

Also, we have come up with a blog-post on how previously Featured Women
Wikimedians are doing today. Please give it a read <
http://blog.wikimedia.in/2019/03/07/growing-women-leadership-in-india-eyes-from-featured-wikimedian-of-the-month-program/>


We wish to thank User:Netha Hussain and User: Manavpreet Kaur for being the
special guest facilitators for this exercise.

At last, Wishing All Women Wikimedians, A VERY HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY.

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian of the Month - February 2019

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear all

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Featured Wikimedian of the
month for February 2019 is User:Gazalworld. Please find a short brief about
him below.

"Anant Rathod with User Name: Gazal world is an editor on Gujrati and
English Wikimedia Projects. He was introduced to Wikimedia by his friend
and an active editor on English Wikipedia User: Nizil Shah who helped him
by providing step-by-step guidance on Wikimedia editing. Anant's favourite
area of editing has been writing about Indian literature on English
Wikipedia and vice-versa for Gujarati Wikipedia.
On four different occasions, his work has been featured under Did You Know
section on English Wikipedia. Anant's good quality contributions have
helped him attain access rich scholarly and archive content like JSTOR,
Oxford, Project MUSE, EPW, EBSCO, Edinburgh University Press, De Gruyter
and Questia. Anant believes that pay-wall resources restrict a volunteer on
improving quality content on Wikipedia. To overcome this, he has been
working as a tireless volunteer on the resource desk on English Wikipedia
and has helped in providing more than five hundred reference material to
the volunteers. The most encouraging practice in this exercise has been
visiting the physical library - Gujarat Vidyapith Library where he gets the
books physically scanned and provides it to the needful.

Anant is associated with several literary associations and has also
participated as a poet for Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. Being a student of
Chemistry, he stays in Ahmedabad in Gujarat."

If you know any Wikimedian whom you think should be featured, please feel
free to nominate him/her on
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations
Or feel free to contact me at yohan...@wikimedia.in or Abhinav Srivastava
at abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in.

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Last day to vote for Community wishlist survey-2019

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello everyone

Today is the last day to vote for the Community wish list survey.
If you have not voted on them yet, please do vote by the end of the day -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Wishlist_Survey_2019

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IISc, Bangalore organizing Photography Contest in collaboration with WMIN

[Yohann Thomas]

Yes, anyone can participate in the event.This event is open to the public.
You only need to create an acoount on their page.

On Wed 28 Nov, 2018, 16:13 balaji  Can any one participate or only IISc ?
> Question may have been answered in the event page. But still wish to
> confirm.
>
> Thanks.
> J.Balaji
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 1:53 PM Yohann Thomas  wrote:
>
>> Hello one & all,
>>
>>
>> Wikimedia India (WMIN) is partnering with IISc Bangalore to organise
>> a Wikimedia commons based photography contest as a part of IISc’s annual
>> science and cultural festival, Pravega 2019.
>>
>>
>> To participate in this competition, you are required to upload your
>> images on Wikimedia commons and submit image links on event portal on
>> Pravega 2019 website. You can submit a maximum of five images.
>>
>>
>> Pravega webpage: https://www.pravega.org/
>>
>> Event page: https://www.pravega.org/events/wikimediaphotography/
>>
>> Pravega Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PravegaIISc/
>>
>>
>>
>> The Last date to submit is December 10th, 2018. Please refer to the
>> event page for more information.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Yohann Thomas
>> yohan...@gmail.com
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[Wikimediaindia-l] IISc, Bangalore organizing Photography Contest in collaboration with WMIN

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello one & all,


Wikimedia India (WMIN) is partnering with IISc Bangalore to organise
a Wikimedia commons based photography contest as a part of IISc’s annual
science and cultural festival, Pravega 2019.


To participate in this competition, you are required to upload your images
on Wikimedia commons and submit image links on event portal on Pravega 2019
website. You can submit a maximum of five images.


Pravega webpage: https://www.pravega.org/

Event page: https://www.pravega.org/events/wikimediaphotography/

Pravega Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PravegaIISc/



The Last date to submit is December 10th, 2018. Please refer to the event
page for more information.



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Yohann Thomas
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian of the Month - November 2018

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Community

After a small break, I'm glad to announce the Featured Wikimedian of the
Month for November 2018, Mr. Varun Chandola.

Varun Chandola with the User Name ArmouredCyborg is a Hindi Wikimedian from
Bageshwar, Uttrakhand. He primarily edits on Hindi Wikipedia along with
English Wikipedia and also tries to document Uttrakhand by uploading
pictures on Commons. Varun started editing Wikipedia since mid 2016 and has
never looked back. He has  almost 12k global edits and his created page(s)
have turned into the featured article(s) on Hindi Wikipedia. The Presently
featured article on Kashipur is also written by him. He endeavors to reduce
the number of one-line articles or stubs on Hindi Wikipedia to the lowest
number possible in the near future, expanding articles and turning them
into quality is equally important as creating new articles.
Varun's journey started on Wikipedia by editing articles on Indian Music.
He has a large collection of Music DVDs and to catalog his music library,
he started searching for information on the Internet. When he couldn't find
all the information at one place he started editing and putting the same on
Wikipedia. This turned him into a Wikipedian.

Varun presently works for Military Engineer Services and is based in
Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.

You can find his profile on our website
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home

If you know any such amazing & hard working community members, who deserved
to be our next featured Wikimedian, please write to me at
yohan...@wikimedia.in

Regards,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Bodhi

I still feel, you haven't read my email word to word. I would request you
to go by the 24 hr email rule (if not more).. which I personally do many
times.

Pardon my grammar & also my line to line reply, as I'm relying on my
phone.. Since I'm traveling..

I will again try to explain point wise (where ever possible) & try my best
to clear all doubts.

1) Mr Rahul Deshmukh, did not visit Wikimania, on scholarship, or to simply
attend a random meeting. He was invited to be one of the speakers. You can
find this on the agenda of it, during Wikimania.. followed by notes which
carry a description. The ‘Conflict Resolution’ theme on which he was a
speaker. This is generally a very long topic, on which Wikimedia Affiliates
intends to discuss and deliberate over a period of time. This theme would
be subsequently carried forward in upcoming Chairpersons Meetup as well, as
mentioned on the Meta.

If your memory serves you right.. During the Wiki Conference India 2016,
where you were also one of the organizers (& the both of us deliberated on
various topics quite extensively) , several community members who had not
applied for the scholarship but had later approached CIS-A2K for the same
were awarded appropriately.

CIS-A2K had later informed the community about this decision.

In good faith, we assumed that, CIS-A2K did not inform the community
without having any specific interest in the exercise. Wikimedia India would
also like to place on record, that it could have initiated the process of
informing on its own. Wikimedia India would like to put on record, in times
to come not only it would inform the community but also engage with its
community members on decision making for such exercises.

2)   Mr Rahul deshmukh had received an on record written invitation to
attend the meeting and be a speaker on ‘Conflict Resolution’. The above
said invitation was shown to CIS-A2K, when requesting them for travel
assistance.

*I have not stated anywhere that he received an invitation during the
Chairpersons meeting at WMCON18*. He had attended Wikimedia Conference 2018
& in it had participated in the movement strategy discussion. It was during
the movement strategy discussion that he received the invitation.

3)The chapter has full faith and belief in all its board members
in both, individual and collective levels. This invitation was to the
particular individual based on his expertise in the chapter and in
the movement. Chapter has never considered any of its board members unfit
to represent it. Personally, I feel Bodhi, it is very unfair on your part,
to even make such allegation that the chapter would even, consider such
a scenario. A well wisher of the chapter would never make such comments.

4)   The Chapter is not of an opinion that the community members should be
deprived of scholarship. Wikimedia India would like to put emphasis that
during its grant tenure, Wikimedia India used to provide two sponsorship to
its community members & we value the joy, which a volunteer gets, when he
is informed that, he is going to Wikimania.

However, in this scenario , none was deprived on anything. As I have
repeatedly said, Mr Rahul Deshmukh was invited to attend and give a talk on
conflict resolution. Since it was about the affiliates & partnerships
amongst them, the chapter approached another affiliate CIS-A2K and CCing
the chapter board members

5) The Chapter does not make any distinction between its board members and
its community members. Unlike CIS-A2K, Wikimedia India board members are
unpaid volunteers, similar to its community members, who give their time &
effort towards the community.

To Sum the entire email, the chapter has made a valuable learning, of
engaging the community in a more effective way in the future.

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Secretary
Wikimedia India

P.S. - Neither your previous email, or any other email can affect our
friendship, Bodhi .Our passion & commitment towards the movement, is what
binds us :)


On Sun 5 Aug, 2018, 12:27 Bodhisattwa Mandal, 
wrote:

> Hi Yohann,
>
> Thanks for your reply, much appreciated.
>
>
> I have read your previous e-mail very carefully, without missing a single
> word.
>
> My question still stands. Many apologies, if I have not been able to make
> it clear in my previous mails, so I am adding some more perspective.
>
> 1) Chairpersons meeting in Wikimania is informal. It's not related to the
> main program of Wikimania. For example, like many other informal meetups,
> there happens to be a steward meetup every year in Wikimania. Now, if one
> steward, who have not received scholarship, is invited in the meetup, then
> he/she will have to spend his own money to attend the meeting. Same
> principle lies here, participation for chairpersons meetup is not
> eligibility criteria to gain a scholarship as it is an informal meetup. Can
> you please provide some documenta

[Wikimediaindia-l] Answer to Manavpreet's question to why Wikimedia India Chapter is not taking initiatives to bring the communities together or to take the movement ahead as much as CIS-A2K

[Yohann Thomas]

DISCLAIMER: My following email is being sent as a volunteer and community
member & not as a board member of Wikimedia India.

Dear Manavpreet & other community members

I will try my best to answer this question using comparative analysis, why
this is happening & will be very informative for you & others.. Who have
this query..  & i obviously would want other community members to chip in,
in case u miss something out.

*CIS-A2K*

*Employees : *7 (full time & part time)
[I would also like to mention that for administrative work of any
organization like Financial audit, bookkeeping & meeting statutory
obligations, these 7 team members are not involved & to perform those
duties & the team of finance & administration team CIS is involved.So, we
can say total. Of
7+4=11 employees]
(Reference : https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/CIS-A2K/Team
https://cis-india.org/about/people/our-team)

*Funds received from **from WMF for the year 2017-18* : 180,000 ISD
(1,20,00,000 INR)
(Reference :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2016-2017_round_2
)

Note:CIS receives funds from many other donors, but we are talking here
specifically of CIS-A2K team, whose annual plan is funded by the APG

*Wikimedia India* (WMIN)
*Employees : 0*

Board members:7
 (All Board members are unpaid volunteers who have their own professional
lives apart from running the chapter)
[I would also like to mention that all these board members are also
involved in administrative work of the organization like Financial audit,
bookkeeping & meeting statutory obligations & WMIN has no special staff for
this]

(Reference : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Executive_Committee_Members)

*Funds received from WMF for the year 2017-18 :* 0 INR
(I must mention that Board members have applied for Rapid grants from WMF
to organise workshops & events)

Now, why hasn't Wikimedia India not received funds from WMF & the problems
pertaining to that has already been discussed in previous mails & community
members, who are curious, can look up the India mailing list archives, but
inspite of all adversities, Wikimedia India has a very active board who are
managing with whatever little resources the chapter has, using their time &
sometimes even their own money to organise events.

Manav, I somewhat agree with your point that the chapter is not taking as
many initiatives as much as CIS-A2K, to take the movement ahead, & yes to
some point, there is a big disconnect between the community & the chapter.
But, I see an opportunity here for you & many others who see this problem,
and can be very vital to bridge this disconnect & be part of Wikimedia
India on an active basis.

Now Im sure, you must be thinking , that you are a part of Punjabi User
group, that I'm doing well in my user group, why would i want be part of
the chapter Well i would say that you can be part of a national
identity.. Fix the system & take the chapter ahead, as a binding force
between the user groups of India.

I therefore request you & all others to be part of Wikimedia India on an
active basis. Personally, I feel that the Chapter, in entity, truly
represents what it means to be a Wikimedian & it is like every Wikimedian
around the world, who put in its time & resources to spread the sum of
knowledge.

Regards,
Yohann

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On Fri 3 Aug, 2018, 16:54 Dr. Manavpreet Kaur, 
wrote:

> Hi Asaf, Wikimedia India community members and CIS A2K Team,
>
> I am sorry for intervening in this whole discussion but I feel the
> discussion is deviating from the primary concern as we have received
> another mail where a number of concerns have been raised in response to the
> primary issue raised by Bodhi. My subscription was faulty and thanks to
> Sailesh who fixed it and I got a digest of emails. From what I've learned
> through the emails, Wikimedia India representatives are usually sent to
> attend the annual wiki gatherings like Wikimedia Conference and this time
> it was Wikimania. I am sorry to state that we (community) have never been
> approached by anyone from the Chapter to discuss issues, events, Training
> or to offer some assistance.  We have only one point of contact for all our
> issues and plans and that is CIS A2K Team. When Wikimedia India Chapter is
> not taking initiatives to bring the communities together or to take the
> movement ahead, then what is the purpose of their representatives attending
> these events, what do they have to impart to other wikimedians there?  and
> how are they using the learnings in progressing the movement?
> Can someone please clearly address these questions and then we can discuss
> the other issues raised in the different thread.
>
> Regards,
> Manavpreet Kaur
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 3:42 PM, Amritasya Putra <
> iamamritasyapu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why doesn’t my email reach this list? I have been a member for, like
>> three years.
>>
>> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 10:00 AM, Asaf Bartov 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Certainly, we can wait. But please 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Manavpreet

You have been part of the Indian community for a few years. But I'm not
surprised, you don't know, why the chapter is not giving as much  support
or training to the community, as CIS-A2K does.

I will answer this question on a separate thread on the India Mailing list
which should be informative for you & other community members who have such
doubts.

Regards,
Yohann

On Fri 3 Aug, 2018, 16:54 Dr. Manavpreet Kaur, 
wrote:

> Hi Asaf, Wikimedia India community members and CIS A2K Team,
>
> I am sorry for intervening in this whole discussion but I feel the
> discussion is deviating from the primary concern as we have received
> another mail where a number of concerns have been raised in response to the
> primary issue raised by Bodhi. My subscription was faulty and thanks to
> Sailesh who fixed it and I got a digest of emails. From what I've learned
> through the emails, Wikimedia India representatives are usually sent to
> attend the annual wiki gatherings like Wikimedia Conference and this time
> it was Wikimania. I am sorry to state that we (community) have never been
> approached by anyone from the Chapter to discuss issues, events, Training
> or to offer some assistance.  We have only one point of contact for all our
> issues and plans and that is CIS A2K Team. When Wikimedia India Chapter is
> not taking initiatives to bring the communities together or to take the
> movement ahead, then what is the purpose of their representatives attending
> these events, what do they have to impart to other wikimedians there?  and
> how are they using the learnings in progressing the movement?
> Can someone please clearly address these questions and then we can discuss
> the other issues raised in the different thread.
>
> Regards,
> Manavpreet Kaur
>
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 3:42 PM, Amritasya Putra <
> iamamritasyapu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Why doesn’t my email reach this list? I have been a member for, like
>> three years.
>>
>> On Fri, 3 Aug 2018 at 10:00 AM, Asaf Bartov 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Certainly, we can wait. But please understand I did not assert WMIN (or
>>> anyone) needs to apologize. Please reread and you'll find I posed it in a
>>> conditional, as *one* possible outcome of resolving Bodhisattwa's concern.
>>> I also described another possible scenario.
>>>
>>> A.
>>>
>>> On Aug 3, 2018 06:21, "Abhinav srivastava"  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello Asaf,
>>>
>>> In consent with my last mail on the thread, please be assured, no
>>> discussion whatsoever will take place until WMIN replies to the concerns,
>>> the community takes its time to question, inspect and interrogate the
>>> matter. Yes, all other issues will be raised on a separate thread and in
>>> good spirit only after this matter is resolved. As Subhashish pointed out,
>>> the issue is not about one person or an institution but bettering the
>>> process. That is essentially the reason they had been brought up.
>>>
>>> Asaf, It is always nice to hear from you. You have always followed the
>>> Indian community closely and helped it in whatever way. We all appreciate
>>> that.  I would look forward to hearing about the better methodological
>>> processes of debates and discussions on resolving community matter. This
>>> would also help us in the future course. The Indian community is
>>> progressing in resolving its disputes in a peaceful and coherent manner and
>>> we wish to learn more of this.
>>>
>>> In continuity with my second paragraph, it would be great if you guide
>>> us on this. This would make the community inclusive and self-sustaining. I
>>> am not very happy that when the matter is sub-judice in the people's court,
>>> you holding WMF office, is talking about on ways WMIN can apologize. To
>>> re-iterate, provide us with methodological solutions and leave the
>>> community to decide.
>>>
>>> Also, I am not sure since you holding WMF office should advise about
>>> distractions.concerning the second point clearly deals with conflicts in
>>> Wikimedia Foundation policy. Of course, the platform could be a reason and
>>> for that, we will make sure we do not jump across topics. In fact, when we
>>> move ahead on those issues (only after resolving the principal problem) I
>>> would encourage you to be a participant (representing WMF). There are few
>>> essentially questions concerning few community members regarding WMF
>>> policies which I may share with you personally, whatever you find
>>> appropriate can be further asked on the community mailing list.
>>>
>>> At last, I have spoken to different EC members. Two EC members have also
>>> written to me stating that they will reply about WMIN stand. They have
>>> assured me that they will reply as soon as possible. As a past EC member, I
>>> would like to tell, finalizing a WMIN stand takes some time since EC
>>> members need to discuss, deliberate and then provide to their consent. As
>>> you all are aware unlike CIS-A2K or WMF, Wikimedia India is a voluntary
>>> organization, EC 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

[Yohann Thomas]

(sorry for the delay, just following the 24hrs email rule)

Hi Bodhi

I would request you to please read my email completely. If you want, I can
give you an excerpt of my email, which should answer your questions.

//In a similar way, our President Mr Rahul Deshmukh had earlier attended
the Berlin Wikimedia Conference representing Wikimedia India & then
subsequently was *invited* to Wikimania, especially the Chairperson's
meeting at Wikimania. You will find the agenda in the link below.

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_July_20,_2018

With this invitation , Rahul Deshmukh had requested CIS-A2K to fund its
trip & they accepted his proposal. //


Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Secretary
Wikimedia India


On Fri 3 Aug, 2018, 18:33 Bodhisattwa Mandal, 
wrote:

> Hi Yohann,
>
> Thanks for your mail.
>
> If you check the link of chairperson's meeting, you can see, that many
> participants were not president of any affiliates, they attended the
> meeting on behalf of the president. For example, Nahid Sultan attended the
> meeting on behalf of Wikipedia Bangladesh (WMBD) as the General Secretary
> of WMBD. It is not mandatory to join the meeting as a President of any
> affiliates, usually, if one representative of an affiliate is present in
> that conference, he can represent the affiliate.
>
> In Wikimania 2018, 2 EC members, Viswa Prabha and Krishna Chaitanya
> Velaga, were present and one of them could have attended the meeting on
> behalf of WMIN. Can you please explain, why WMIN decided to spend a huge
> amount of donation money to send WMIN president to attend a meeting, where
> his presence is not at all mandatory. Does WMIN consider these two members
> unfit to attend such meeting?
>
> Waiting for your reply,
> Bodhisattwa
>
>
> On 3 Aug 2018 6:05 pm, "Yohann Thomas"  wrote:
>
> Dear Bodhi & other community members
>
> First of all, I would apologise for the delay in reply. Wikimedia India is
> run by 7 board members(as you are already aware) & any discussion on any
> topic, requires inputs from all of them.. Since all are unpaid volunteers &
> have their own professional lives apart from Wikimedia India, there was a
> delay in drafting a reply.
>
> As it is a well known fact, Wikimedia India is a volunteer run
> organisation. There are board members, who discharge their duties towards
> the chapter, as well as serve their regional communities (as well as user
> groups) in their volunteer roles.
>
> Another well known fact is that, Wikimedia India still isn't financially
> independent & is still dependent on external funding which is fraught with
> regulatory hurdles, including obstacles related to FCRA.
>
> Having said that, many community members juggle their different roles in
> community, affiliates, committees & in personal & professional roles to
> attend different conferences run by the Wikimedia & its volunteers around
> the world.
> In a similar way, our President Mr Rahul Deshmukh had earlier attended the
> Berlin Wikimedia Conference representing Wikimedia India & then
> subsequently was invited to Wikimania, especially the Chairperson's meeting
> at Wikimania. You will find the agenda in the link below.
>
>
> https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_July_20,_2018
>
> With this invitation , Rahul Deshmukh had requested CIS-A2K to fund its
> trip & they accepted his proposal.
>
> Going a little off topic & concluding my email, I would really want to
> appreciate & acknowledge the work done by Abhinav on & offline in relation
> to the chapter. Eventhough Abhinav, prematurely left the chapter before his
> term expired, he still continues to support the chapter on different
> issues, inspite of us still battling with all our regulatory hurdles. I
> wish there were more such vocal well wishers, when the chapter is going
> through a difficult time.
>
> Regards,
> Yohann Thomas
> Secretary
> Wikimedia India
>
> 
> On Fri 27 Jul, 2018, 12:32 Bodhisattwa Mandal, <
> bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> WMIN chapter president Rahul Deshmukh attended Wikimania 2018 in Cape
>> Town without being selected for any type of scholarship. My question is why
>> was he sent to the conference depriving other community members from India
>> who were in the waiting list.
>>
>> He spoke in the informal chairpersons' meetup for few minutes. The
>> meeting doesn't require president of the organization's presence, and
>> already there were 2 EC member of WMIN present, who could have attended the
>> meeting.
>>
>> To me, this is utter misuse of power and abuse of donation money.
>>
>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Bodhi & other community members

First of all, I would apologise for the delay in reply. Wikimedia India is
run by 7 board members(as you are already aware) & any discussion on any
topic, requires inputs from all of them.. Since all are unpaid volunteers &
have their own professional lives apart from Wikimedia India, there was a
delay in drafting a reply.

As it is a well known fact, Wikimedia India is a volunteer run
organisation. There are board members, who discharge their duties towards
the chapter, as well as serve their regional communities (as well as user
groups) in their volunteer roles.

Another well known fact is that, Wikimedia India still isn't financially
independent & is still dependent on external funding which is fraught with
regulatory hurdles, including obstacles related to FCRA.

Having said that, many community members juggle their different roles in
community, affiliates, committees & in personal & professional roles to
attend different conferences run by the Wikimedia & its volunteers around
the world.
In a similar way, our President Mr Rahul Deshmukh had earlier attended the
Berlin Wikimedia Conference representing Wikimedia India & then
subsequently was invited to Wikimania, especially the Chairperson's meeting
at Wikimania. You will find the agenda in the link below.

https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate_Chairpersons_meeting_July_20,_2018

With this invitation , Rahul Deshmukh had requested CIS-A2K to fund its
trip & they accepted his proposal.

Going a little off topic & concluding my email, I would really want to
appreciate & acknowledge the work done by Abhinav on & offline in relation
to the chapter. Eventhough Abhinav, prematurely left the chapter before his
term expired, he still continues to support the chapter on different
issues, inspite of us still battling with all our regulatory hurdles. I
wish there were more such vocal well wishers, when the chapter is going
through a difficult time.

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Secretary
Wikimedia India


On Fri 27 Jul, 2018, 12:32 Bodhisattwa Mandal, 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> WMIN chapter president Rahul Deshmukh attended Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town
> without being selected for any type of scholarship. My question is why was
> he sent to the conference depriving other community members from India who
> were in the waiting list.
>
> He spoke in the informal chairpersons' meetup for few minutes. The meeting
> doesn't require president of the organization's presence, and already there
> were 2 EC member of WMIN present, who could have attended the meeting.
>
> To me, this is utter misuse of power and abuse of donation money.
>
> Thanks,
> Bodhisattwa
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger: List of Internet Stipend Recipients

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello one & all

As part of the Project Tiger Community Review Team, we are glad to announce
the list of internet stipend recipients.

* 44 Wikimedians will receive internet stipends. All applicants with 100+
global edits and at least one endorsement were selected to receive the
internet stipend.

* They belong to 15 different Indian language Wikipedia communities.

* 12 among them are females (27% of recipients).

The internet stipend will cover the cost of internet access for the
recipients for a six month period. This will include the cost of monthly
internet access, any deposit for a new connection, and the purchase of any
required equipment like dongle or modem. The stipend will support the cost
of internet access which works best for each recipient be it broadband or
mobile based connection. This support is offered assuming good faith in
order to empower each recipient's contribution to the best of their
ability. We encourage fellow community members to welcome them as usual.

Each recipient will be contacted through their talk pages and contact email
address given on the application form. We plan to disperse this support
before the end of March 2018. Please contact tito at cis-india.org or
tanveer at cis-india.org ,if you need clarification or leave a message on
the talk page.

The review team hopes to publish the list of laptop recipients before the
end of this week.

More details and full list of recipients are available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_
Language_Wikipedias_Program/Support/Internet

Thanks,

Yohann Thomas
Manavpreet Kaur
Dhaval S. Vyas
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger: Request from the Review team

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello Everyone

As part of the community review team to distribute laptops and internet
stipends under Project Tiger, we would like to bring to your attention the
following:

*The last date for applying to get laptop and internet support is 25th Feb
Sunday 11:59 PM IST. Please spread the word in your communities. Encourage
and help users who need this support to apply.

*There are many applications still in draft form. Please see if you know
some of those applicants. Help them to complete their applications.

*There are many applications without endorsements. Please do endorse
applicants you know. Please note that the number of endorsements doesn't
ensure if someone gets support. However, it will help the review committee
to understand the applicant's need and merit.

Please feel free to reach out to any of us if you need help or
clarification.

See
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_Language_Wikipedias_Program/Support
for more details.

Regards ,

Dhaval S. Vyas
Manavpreet Kaur
Yohann Thomas
(Community Review Team)
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[Wikimediaindia-l] New Wikimedia India Executive Committee is Inducted

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear One & all

As you are aware, Wikimedia India (WMIN) recently in April had its election
for all its 7 Executive Committee (EC) positions
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Results>

At IIT Bombay, WMIN recently had an Induction meeting with the
newly elected Executive committee members. This session was conducted from
30th June - 1st July 2017 in the IIT Bombay campus

Since the new EC has a good mix of members from Past EC & new faces too,
the Induction process was conducted in a very smooth & planned manner.
Mr Ashwin Baindur also gave a session on the working of Community dynamics
along with the expectations by the community from the new EC.

On the last day of the Induction meeting, the EC members elected office
bearers amongst themselves. Following are the new Office bearers

   - Mr Rahul Deshmukh : President
   - Mr Yohann Thomas : Secretary
   - Mr Sanket Oswal : Treasurer
   - Mr Viswa Prabha : Member
   - Mr Suyash Dwivedi : Member
   - Mr Santosh Shingare : Member
   - Mr Krishan Chaitanya Velaga : Member

You can find the newly updated Board members page with their profiles here
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Executive_Committee_Members

I would like to thank the community for their wholehearted support they
have given to the chapter & hope to meet their expectations


Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear community

This is another amazing news I'm happy to forward to you all after hearing
about it.

The Hindi User group had been recognized by the AffCom. I'm also very much
pleased to know that one of the members of this user group, Mr Suyash
Dwivedi is also on the board of Wikimedia India.

I am very much excited about the future & opportunities for this fledgling
new user group & congratulate them on this..

Regards
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India

-- Forwarded message --
From: "Kirill Lokshin" <kirill.loks...@gmail.com>
Date: 08-Jul-2017 5:35 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Hindi Wikimedians User Group
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia
Movement Affiliates discussion list" <affilia...@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc:

Hi everyone!

I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
the Hindi Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
aims to advance the work of the Wikimedia movement in the Hindi language.

Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!

Regards,
Kirill Lokshin
Chair, Affiliations Committee

[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Hindi_Wikimedians_User_Group
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Odia Wikimedians User Group

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Odia community

My heartfelt congratulations to the Odia community on the recognition of
their user group

Regards
Yohann Thomas
-- Forwarded message --
From: "Kirill Lokshin" <kirill.loks...@gmail.com>
Date: 07-Jul-2017 8:03 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of the Odia Wikimedians User Group
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia
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Hi everyone!
>
> I'm very happy to announce that the Affiliations Committee has recognized
> the Odia Wikimedians User Group [1] as a Wikimedia User Group. The group
> aims to bring together contributors to Odia-language Wikimedia projects, as
> well as individuals who contribute to other Wikimedia projects on topics
> related to the Odia language, the Odia people, and the Indian state of
> Odisha.
>
> Please join me in congratulating the members of this new user group!
>
> Regards,
> Kirill Lokshin
> Chair, Affiliations Committee
>
> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Odia_Wikimedians_User_Group
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian of the Month - July 2017

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Community

I am pleased to announce to you that Agastya Chandrakant is one of the
first featured wikimedians we have announced who is primarily into Wikinews.
Please find the excerpt below. You can also find the full article on our
page - wiki.wikimedia.in

*User:Acagastya*

*Agastya Chandrakant from Surat, Gujarat is an editor on English Wikinews
under alias of **Acagastya* <https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/User:Acagastya>*,
currently studying in The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. *

*He is 18-years-old and has been editing Wikimedia Projects since 2014,
from his days in high school. He has more than 8,000 global edits and also
holds the review rights on Wikinews. On Wikinews, every article has to pass
the review before it is published. Agastya has written more than 200 news
articles on Wikinews. He is amongst the very few Indian editors on
Wikinews. *

*Calligraphy, reading, and photography are some of his hobbies, however,
after academic commitments whatever time he gets for himself now, he
devotes it to Wikinews. *

*Agastya believes there are lot of things happening around us in various
fields -- from crime and law to science and technology. Some events affect
a certain group of people. Some affects other groups. As a news reporter
his tries to cover news for everyone, ranging from different subjects. *

*Agastya hopes more Indian community members to contribute quality photos
from the events around the country on Wikimedia projects, and hopes they,
as an Indian, make decisions and act so that secularism, freedom, and
humanity can co-exist. *

I would like to thank Abhinav Srivastava for getting us in touch with this
amazing contributor & helping to write the article on him
I am also proud to announce that Mr Krishna Chaitnaya who got newly elected
to the board of WMIN will be taking forward the Featured Wikimedian of the
month
If you know any Wikimedian whom you think should be featured, please feel
free to nominate them here
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations>.
Contact Abhinav Srivastava/Krishna Chaitanya here -
abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in / kcvel...@wikimedia.in

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian of the month-June 2017

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Community

It gives me great pleasure to inform that Mr Satpal Singh is the Wikimedian
of the month for June 2017. Please find an excerpt on him below.

Satpal Singh is a wikimedian who largely edits on Punjabi Wikimedia
projects with the user name Sony dandiwal. He has started editing since
July 2015 at the age of 16 and is the second youngest pubjabi wikimedian.
He has more than 8,000 edit counts on punjabi wikipedia and he also holds
the rights of administrator, patroller and autopatroller on the punjabi
wikipedia. His main areas of interest on wikipedia are cricket in sports,
history in academics and biographies as inspiration.

Satpal belongs to a village Chotian in Mansa district of Punjab and edits
on wikipedia through his mobile phone, having no access to a personal
computer. Besides that, Satpal has made significant achievements, being
ranked first on Article Improvement Edit-a-thon 2016
<https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%95%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%AA%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%A1%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%86:%E0%A8%B2%E0%A9%87%E0%A8%96_%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%81%E0%A8%A7%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%B0_%E0%A8%90%E0%A8%A1%E0%A8%BF%E0%A8%9F%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A5%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%A8_(1-30_%E0%A8%85%E0%A8%AA%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%88%E0%A8%B2_2016)>
in April, having started Wikiproject Women and Wikiproject Cricket on
punjabi wikipedia. He is also the Wikipedia Asian Month Ambassador.

I want to thank Abhinav Srivastava for helping us in this for this month's
edition & for the month of May too

If you know any such contributors who deserve to be the featured as
wikimedian of the month,please nominate him here - http://wiki.wikimedia.in/
Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations. You can also contact me on my email for
nominating anyone.


Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Verification and approval of candidates.

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Sudhanwaji

For the convenience of the other subscribers of the mailing list, I will
reply on your membership question in this email & your other list of
questions in the next email.

As part of regular reminder emails for renewal, we had sent an email in
June 2016 for renewing your membership.


   - I had received an email from you on 2nd July 2016, that you have sent
   the money via Mr Shantanu Mahajan. You had also said that you had sent the
   soft copy also.
   - For this email, I have sent a reply on 4th July stating that we have
   not received your digital membership form. I had requested you to send the
   form again ,so that we could update it. But there was no reply
   - On the other hand, Shantanu Mahajan sent his membership form via email
   on 22nd May 2016, for which his membership stands renewed

So, till date we have not received your membership form via email, hence
your membership was not renewed.

Regarding the membership fees which you gave, since you did not send me
your membership form & your membership was not renewed, we have considered
it as a donation. If you want we can send a donation receipt in your name.

In case you want to become member of WMIN for 2017-18, request you to
please send me your membership form again with your bank transaction

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India

Yohann Thomas
yohan...@gmail.com

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa@gmail.com
> wrote:

> Dear Vishwa,
>
> From whatever you have mentioned, my name should also be there.
> (Especially considering that shantanu Mahajan's name is included . We send
> our money, docs together).
>
> Many more questions arise further.
> How elections can happen for previous year with this year's voters? At
> least the voters should be for the same year of voting.
> If the current EC members tenure is over, who and how elections are being
> held by them? That too for previous year.  What will be the tenure of
> elected people of this 2016 elections? Till 2018 or till 2019?
>
> I don't know if current EC has taken any advice on these matters.
> They have not updated members about any regularity matters or financial
> matters during there tenure. Whatever little bit  people know is from the
> IRC logs and that is not a good picture.
>
> Hope the current EC replies to these queries.
>
> Regards
> Sudhanwa
>
>
>
>
>
> On Apr 13, 2017 12:23 AM, "ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ)" <viswapra...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Sudhanwa,
>>
>> Greetings!
>>
>>
>>
>> From the WMINElectionAndAppointmentRules.pdf
>>
>> B. Voter’s List:
>>> 1. The electorate shall consist of the members of the Society i.e.
>>> i. Individual Members
>>> ii. Institutional Members
>>> 2. Provided:-
>>> *a. Members who are on the rolls of the Chapter three months prior to
>>> the AGM/Election day shall*
>>> *form the eligible voters list.*
>>> 3. Copy of Final Voters’ List shall be available at Registered office of
>>> the Society at least
>>> twenty one days ahead of the Election Day and in the Election premises
>>> (if some other
>>> Venue is selected as for conduct of Ballot) on the day of voting for
>>> inspection of Voters
>>> 4. Right to cast the vote shall be with the members only and is not
>>> transferable. For Institutional
>>> members/voters, the person duly authorized can vote in person.
>>>
>>
>> -ViswaPrabha
>> (Viswanathan Prabhakaran)
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Rescheduling of Wikimedia India elections to 30th April 2017

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Tony

We need a clear consensus on this from the AGM.
Hopefully in this year 's AGM, we will get that consensus.
Once consensus is done, we will also need to agree on what type of system
to use...

Maybe you can via email to the agm suggest on what type of online voting
would be preferred in our case...

Regards
Yohann


On 11 Apr 2017 9:06 p.m., "Tony Thomas" <01tonytho...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear Team,

Just my opinion but I think the community should invest in some failproof
and Open Source online election/voting management system so that the entire
process scale transparently. There are couple of solutions available
online, but I havent personally checked its credibility - so sadly I cannot
comment on it.

Thanks,
Tony Thomas <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:01tonythomas>


On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Yohann Thomas <yohan...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Forwarding from wmin mailing list
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Abhijeet Safai <abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:28 PM
> Subject: [WMIN-Members] Rescheduling of Wikimedia India elections to 30th
> April 2017
> To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>,
> wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com
> Cc: EC Wikimedia India <wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Lu
> Kishore AnnamThyagraraja Wiki <annamthyagarajakish...@gmail.com>, Yogesh <
> csyog...@gmail.com>
>
>
> ​​Dear All,
>
> Greetings!
>
> As you are all aware, in the Wikimedia India elections 2016 for all the 7
> executive committee seats, there are almost 200 members in the voters list.
> Due to this huge number, it took more time than expected to prepare ballot
> papers this time. As a result election committee eventually could only send
> all the ballot papers on last Saturday (8th April 2017).
>
> In order to have more time for all members to send back the papers,
> election committee has decided to re-schedule the Elections and annual
> general meeting from 30th April 2017, instead of 23rd April 2017. This
> decision has been taken so that everyone gets enough time to send back
> their ballot papers.
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Election Committee
>
> --
> Dr. Abhijeet Safai
>
> --
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wish You all Happy Holi

[Yohann Thomas]

The email is almost a month late...
Guess the moderator needs to be a little more active...

Thanks for the wishes anyways Suyash :)


On 12 Apr 2017 3:22 p.m., "Suyash Dwivedi"  wrote:

Wish You all Happy Holi

-- 
*Regards:*
*Suyash Dwivedi*
U: Suyash.dwivedi

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India elections: How to vote?

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Suyash

Actually we have sent postage worth Rs22 which is enough to send it by
Registered post.
In case you want to send it by Speed post, you can pay the difference
amount of Rs8 (cost of Sending by Speed post is Rs30) to the post office
while sending.

Regards
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India

On 11 Apr 2017 14:16, "Abhijeet Safai" <abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Mr. Suyash Dwivedi,
>
> Greetings!
>
> Yes, one can sent it by speed post as well. It is in fact better to send
> it by speed post. However, there cannot be any compulsion to send it back
> by speed post. Hence the option of sending it back by speed post is
> available.
>
> Thanks for your query.
>
> Thanking you,
> Yours sincerely,
>
> --
> Dr. Abhijeet Safai
>
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Suyash Dwivedi <suyash@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Can we send back the ballot papers via Speed-post instead of Regd. Post,
>> so that we can also track it online.
>> U:Suyash.dwivedi
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Abhijeet Safai <
>> abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Sir,
>>>
>>> Greetings!
>>>
>>> You can see the voter's list here
>>> <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Eligible_Voters_List>. The
>>> election page can be found here
>>> <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016>, where you can see all other
>>> election related contents.
>>>
>>> I generally use the following keywords on Google to find out this
>>> election related page. Keywords: Wikimedia + India + Elections. After using
>>> these keywords generally one can find the first or second result as a link
>>> to this page <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016>. Once we reach
>>> this page, it is easy to find other relevant information.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for your query and kindly feel free to share if there are
>>> any other queries.
>>>
>>> Thanking you,
>>> Yours sincerely,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Abhijeet Safai
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Rama krisana reddy Palagiri <
>>> ramakrisanareddyp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> where shall I get voters ID list.please inform me
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:10 PM, Abhijeet Safai <
>>>> abhijeet.sa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Members,
>>>>>
>>>>> Greetings!
>>>>>
>>>>> As mentioned in the previous mail, ballot papers for all 203 the
>>>>> eligible voters were successfully sent via speed post on 8th April 2017.
>>>>> Let's thank Yogesh for this. Every ballot paper has been signed by an
>>>>> election committee member with the seal of Wikimedia India.
>>>>>
>>>>> Members need to vote 7 candidates by checking the box next to the
>>>>> candidate name and sign the paper with their member id.
>>>>>
>>>>> Each ballot paper must have the following for it to be valid
>>>>>
>>>>>- Maximum selection of 7 candidates
>>>>>- Signature of the member (the signature should match the one on
>>>>>the membership form)
>>>>>- Membership id (Please check voters list to know your membership
>>>>>id)
>>>>>
>>>>> Ballot papers should be sent back via registered post in a small self
>>>>> addressed envelope provided with stamps of 22 rupees. They need to reach
>>>>> the office address on or before 30th April 2017.
>>>>>
>>>>> We take this opportunity to wish all the candidates all the best!
>>>>>
>>>>> In case of any doubts or queries, please feel free to ask any of the
>>>>> election committee members (myself or Mr. Kishore or Mr. Yogesh).
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks and regards,
>>>>> Election committee
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Dr. Abhijeet Safai
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Disclaimer: The Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN) is an autonomous entity
>>>>> with no direct control over the Wikipedia project and other websites 
>>>>> hosted
>>>>> by the Wikimedia Foundation, USA.
>>>>>
>>>>> This mail is sent to the members of the Chapter as part of the
>>>>> official communicatio

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Awareness on validation features to the ballot papers for the Wikimedia India elections

[Yohann Thomas]

Forwarding from wmin mailing list

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From: Abhijeet Safai 
Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:58 PM
Subject: [WMIN-Members] Awareness on validation features to the ballot
papers for the Wikimedia India elections
To: Wikimedia India Community list ,
wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com
Cc: EC Wikimedia India , Lu Kishore
AnnamThyagraraja Wiki , Yogesh <
csyog...@gmail.com>


Dear All,

Greetings!

The election committee of Wikimedia India has a very important duty to
ensure that the election takes place in a free, open & fair manner. To
enforce its duty, the election committee has taken various precautions to
ensure that each ballot papers it receives from the members are valid & the
votes given by the members are valid.

To ensure this following are the security features we have included in he
ballot papers which have been sent to all the members whose name is present
in the voters list.

   - All of the ballot papers have been signed by one of the election
   committee member (Mr. Yogesh). This is to ensure that when the votes will
   be counted, we are sure that the ballot papers are genuine.
   - All ballot papers have the original coin stamp of Wikimedia India.
   - Upon receiving the ballot papers, the sign of the election committee
   member and seal will be checked to ensure the validity of the ballot paper.
   - On the ballot paper, we will also cross verify the sign of the member
   with their membership form and also their member id, to make sure we
   received the same papers that were sent to them.

The Election committee hopes that maximum members vote for this election &
make it a success.


Thanks and regards,
Election Committee
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India elections: How to vote?

[Yohann Thomas]

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From: Abhijeet Safai 
Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 11:10 PM
Subject: [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India elections: How to vote?
To: Wikimedia India Community list ,
wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com
Cc: EC Wikimedia India , Lu Kishore
AnnamThyagraraja Wiki , Yogesh <
csyog...@gmail.com>


Dear Members,

Greetings!

As mentioned in the previous mail, ballot papers for all 203 the eligible
voters were successfully sent via speed post on 8th April 2017. Let's thank
Yogesh for this. Every ballot paper has been signed by an election
committee member with the seal of Wikimedia India.

Members need to vote 7 candidates by checking the box next to the candidate
name and sign the paper with their member id.

Each ballot paper must have the following for it to be valid

   - Maximum selection of 7 candidates
   - Signature of the member (the signature should match the one on the
   membership form)
   - Membership id (Please check voters list to know your membership id)

Ballot papers should be sent back via registered post in a small self
addressed envelope provided with stamps of 22 rupees. They need to reach
the office address on or before 30th April 2017.

We take this opportunity to wish all the candidates all the best!

In case of any doubts or queries, please feel free to ask any of the
election committee members (myself or Mr. Kishore or Mr. Yogesh).

Thanks and regards,
Election committee

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Rescheduling of Wikimedia India elections to 30th April 2017

[Yohann Thomas]

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From: Abhijeet Safai 
Date: Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 10:28 PM
Subject: [WMIN-Members] Rescheduling of Wikimedia India elections to 30th
April 2017
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Cc: EC Wikimedia India , Lu Kishore
AnnamThyagraraja Wiki , Yogesh <
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​​Dear All,

Greetings!

As you are all aware, in the Wikimedia India elections 2016 for all the 7
executive committee seats, there are almost 200 members in the voters list.
Due to this huge number, it took more time than expected to prepare ballot
papers this time. As a result election committee eventually could only send
all the ballot papers on last Saturday (8th April 2017).

In order to have more time for all members to send back the papers,
election committee has decided to re-schedule the Elections and annual
general meeting from 30th April 2017, instead of 23rd April 2017. This
decision has been taken so that everyone gets enough time to send back
their ballot papers.

Thanks and regards,
Election Committee

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 9th April 2017 - Second IRC Q session with EC Election Candidates.

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello one & all

This is just a reminder email that the 2nd IRC for the Elections WMIN will
happen on Sunday 9th April 2017. Link can be found below
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/April_9,_2017

This platform will be the best place to ask questions to the candidates of
the Election.

Thanks
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India

On 7 Apr 2017 11:26, "Yohann Thomas" <yohan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Member,
>
>
> *Subject: Second IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee
> Elections-2016*
> *Q session with EC Election Candidates.*
>
>
>
> Second IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2016 is
> scheduled on 9-April-2017 9:00PM - 10:30PM.
>
> This session is for community and members for a Q session for the new EC
> election candidates.
>
> The announcement for the same can be found on
>
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#Upcoming_Planned_Session .
>
> The above link also provides details on how to participate.
>
>
>
> The link to the IRC is as below:
>
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/April_9,_2017
>
>
>
>
>
> *Following guidelines will help facilitate the smooth conduct of the *
> *IRC**:*
>
>
>
> - Please be on-time, IRC starts at 9:00 PM.
>
> - If you have not participated in IRC earlier, it is recommended that you
> go through the following in advance
>
>   http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#How_to_participate
>
> - Participants to identify themselves on joining
>
> - Please go through the election rules and related documentation available
> at
>
>   http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016#Related_documents
>
> - Questions may be posted on http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Ta
> lk:Elections_2016#Questions_for_IRC in advance. These will be taken up
> first.
>
> - Please await confirmation from facilitator before putting up new topics
> during the IRC. Topics will be taken up one by one to allow everyone to
> contribute.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Yohann Thomas
>
> Wikimedia India
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] 9th April 2017 - Second IRC Q session with EC Election Candidates.

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Member,


*Subject: Second IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee
Elections-2016*
*Q session with EC Election Candidates.*



Second IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2016 is
scheduled on 9-April-2017 9:00PM - 10:30PM.

This session is for community and members for a Q session for the new EC
election candidates.

The announcement for the same can be found on

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#Upcoming_Planned_Session .

The above link also provides details on how to participate.



The link to the IRC is as below:

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/April_9,_2017





*Following guidelines will help facilitate the smooth conduct of the **IRC*
*:*



- Please be on-time, IRC starts at 9:00 PM.

- If you have not participated in IRC earlier, it is recommended that you
go through the following in advance

  http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#How_to_participate

- Participants to identify themselves on joining

- Please go through the election rules and related documentation available
at

  http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016#Related_documents

- Questions may be posted on http://wiki.wikimedia.in/
Talk:Elections_2016#Questions_for_IRC in advance. These will be taken up
first.

- Please await confirmation from facilitator before putting up new topics
during the IRC. Topics will be taken up one by one to allow everyone to
contribute.



Regards,

Yohann Thomas

Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Q & A with Candidates of Elections 2016

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Community

The Q & A page has been created for candidates in the Election page.
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Nominations/Q%26A

Any community member can put up any question to the candidates on this page.
*Last date to put up the Questions is 10th April 2017*

Request all the candidates to answer all the questions posted by the
community

You can also have a look at the Profiles of all the candidates here
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016/Profiles_at_a_glance


Regards,
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Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Notice of convening the 6th Annual General Meeting

[Yohann Thomas]

Forwarding the email...

-- Forwarded message --
From: Nikhil Kawale 
Date: Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 10:09 PM
Subject: [WMIN-Members] Notice of convening the 6th Annual General Meeting
To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com


Dear Member,



Sub: Notice of convening the 6th Annual General Meeting of the members of
Wikimedia , Bangalore Chapter   23rd April  2017

 -

Notice is hereby given that the Sixth Annual General Body meeting of the
members of Wikimedia Chapter, Bangalore,  will be held on 23rd April  2017
at the Chapter’s new office located at Work Adda, No.98/1, MMR Plaza, 1st
Floor, Above DCB Bank, Sarjapur Main Road, Jakkasandra, Koramangala 1st
Block, Bangalore - 560034 at 2:00 PM on 23rd April  2017, to transact the
following business:

Agenda:

   -

   Welcome
   -

   Reading of notice convening the meeting
   -

   Approval of the minutes of  previous AGM held on 29th January 2017
   -

   Consideration and approval of the report of the activities of Wikimedia
   Chapter, Bangalore  for 2015-16 (to be sent later)
   -

   Consideration and approval of the audited accounts and the report of the
   auditors thereon for the year ended 31st March 2016. (to be sent later)
   -

   Consideration and approval of the results of Wikimedia Chapter Executive
   Committee Elections for 2016-2017
   -

   Draft budget for the year 2016-17 (to be sent later)
   -

   Appointment of Auditors for 2016-17
   -

   Extension of Membership validity from 1 year to 5 years
   -

   Any other subject with the permission of the Chair
   -

   President's address


Please bring this notice for the meeting.

Yours sincerely,




*Nikhil KawaleSecretary*

*Wikimedia India Chapter+91-8446381152*

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: First IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2016

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Sudhanwaji

As mentioned in my original email

The link to the IRC is as below:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/March_19,_2017
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
You can find the log here.. on the same link only..

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] First IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2016

[Yohann Thomas]

IRC will be starting in 10 minutes.
Request all potential candidates & members to join & clear all doubts

Regards,
Yohann

Yohann Thomas
yohan...@gmail.com

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Yohann Thomas <yohan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Member,
>
>
>
> *Subject: First IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee
> Elections-2016*
>
>
>
> First IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2016 is
> scheduled on 19-March-2017 9:00PM - 10:30PM.
>
> This session is for potential candidates and members to clarify election
> rules and procedures with Election Committee and current EC.
>
> The announcement for the same can be found on
>
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#Upcoming_Planned_Session .
>
> The above link also provides details on how to participate.
>
>
>
> The link to the IRC is as below:
>
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/March_19,_2017
>
>
>
>
>
> *Following guidelines will help facilitate the smooth conduct of the *
> *IRC**:*
>
>
>
> - Please be on-time, IRC starts at 9:00 PM.
>
> - If you have not participated in IRC earlier, it is recommended that you
> go through the following in advance
>
>   http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#How_to_participate
>
> - Participants to identify themselves on joining
>
> - Please go through the election rules and related documentation available
> at
>
>   http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016#Related_documents
>
> - Questions may be posted on http://wiki.wikimedia.in/
> Talk:Elections_2016#Questions_for_IRC in advance. These will be taken up
> first.
>
> - Please await confirmation from facilitator before putting up new topics
> during the IRC. Topics will be taken up one by one to allow everyone to
> contribute.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Yohann Thomas
>
> Wikimedia India
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] First IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2016

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Member,



*Subject: First IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee
Elections-2016*



First IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2016 is
scheduled on 19-March-2017 9:00PM - 10:30PM.

This session is for potential candidates and members to clarify election
rules and procedures with Election Committee and current EC.

The announcement for the same can be found on

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#Upcoming_Planned_Session .

The above link also provides details on how to participate.



The link to the IRC is as below:

http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/March_19,_2017





*Following guidelines will help facilitate the smooth conduct of the **IRC*
*:*



- Please be on-time, IRC starts at 9:00 PM.

- If you have not participated in IRC earlier, it is recommended that you
go through the following in advance

  http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#How_to_participate

- Participants to identify themselves on joining

- Please go through the election rules and related documentation available
at

  http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016#Related_documents

- Questions may be posted on
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Talk:Elections_2016#Questions_for_IRC in advance.
These will be taken up first.

- Please await confirmation from facilitator before putting up new topics
during the IRC. Topics will be taken up one by one to allow everyone to
contribute.



Regards,

Yohann Thomas

Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2016

[Yohann Thomas]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Abhijeet Safai 
Date: Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 12:04 AM
Subject: [WMIN-Exec 18366] ​ Election Notice for Wikimedia Chapter
Executive Committee Elections-2016
To: Wikimedia India Community list ,
wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com
Cc: Lu Kishore AnnamThyagraraja Wiki ,
Yogesh , EC Wikimedia India <
wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org>


Dear Member,

The Election Committee appointed by Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee
​ ​
(EC) for notifying and conducting the Election to Wikimedia Chapter EC
election, hereby announces the election to the Wikimedia Chapter EC for the
two year term.

A detailed ‘Rules & Regulations for the Election’ is available on wiki (
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WMINElectionAndAppointmentRules.pdf) which
includes the Nomination Form for Candidature (at Page 7). Approved Members
who are on the membership roll as on 23rd Jan 2017 are eligible to
participate in the Election and contest the Election (as per by-laws, based
on the date of election and Annual General Meeting​ scheduled for 23rd Apri
l​ 2017.  This will include updates if any to the members list which will
be used for finalizing the slate of candidates as well as for mailing
ballots.

Please note the following details:

1. Date of election:
​23​
 Apr
​il​
 2017.

2. Place and timing for voting in person: As per AGM Agenda which will be
communicated by Chapter later.

3. Place of for sending postal communication:

Wikimedia Chapter, No.194, 2nd 'C' Cross, Dommaluru 2nd stage, Bangalore
560071. India.

4. Last date and time of receiving nominations:
​24​
 Mar 2017, 11:59PM IST

Elections

5. Scrutiny and Publishing Draft slate of candidates:
​25​

​March​
 2017

5. Last date for withdrawal of nominations:
​1​
 Apr
​il​
 2017 11:59PM

6. Publishing final slate of candidates:
​2​
 Apr
​il​
 2017

The Executive Committee and the Election Committee will host an IRC on
​19​
 Mar
​ch​
 2017  between 9PM and 10.30PM on IRC channel #wikimedia-in. All potential
candidates and WMIN members are requested to make use of this for any
clarifications on rules and procedures with Election Committee and
Executive Committee.

There will be second IRC meeting on
​9​
 Apr
​il​
 2017 between Candidates and the Voters. Voters can make use of this
opportunity to interact with each candidate in WMIN election. Attendance by
candidates is mandatory. Voters can share a list of questions earlier to
help manage time.

Election

   - ​
   ​
   Kishore AT: Polling Officer
   - ​
   Dr. Abhijeet S
   ​afai​
   : Polling Officer
   - Yogesh KS: Returning Officer

You can contact us via Talk:Elections 2017
 for any clarifications or
discussions.

Also, keep track of the Election process on
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Elections_2016

Thanks in advance for your cooperation to conduct the election in free and
fair manner.

​- Dr. Abhijeet Safai​
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India AGM

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Community

We recently had our AGM on 29th January 2017 at our Koramangala office in
Bangalore.

You can find more details about this AGM here
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikimedia_India_AGM-2015

Financial Audit report
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Wikimedia-India-Audit-Report-2014-15.pdf

Annual Activity Report
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:Wikimedia-India-Annual-Report-2014-15.pdf

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian of the Month - February 2017

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Community

It gives me great pleasure to announce that Kak Cenjary Ataullah Khan also
known as Dr Cenjury is our Featured Wikimedian of the month.

*Kak Cenjary Ataullah Khan*
<https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%81:Drcenjary>* also
known as Dr Cenjary has been one of the most active contributors on Urdu
Wikipedia.In just 2 years, he is now the **4th most active Urdu Wikipedian*
<https://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaUR.htm>*.A resident of
Kozhikode & coming from the education field with 19 years experience under
his belt, he got associated with Wikipedia just because he was curious. Dr
Cenjury used to regularly observe that Wikipedia used to always come at the
top of any search list on Google. After finding out, about how Wikipedia
works, he took on the job of contributing to Wikipedia by editing in Urdu. *

*Dr Cenjury frankly says that he would prefer quality over quantity. He
aims to improve all articles in Urdu Wikipedia & make them as informative
as possible. He says that this is one way he can return something back to
the Society & be part of a movement which is beyond religion, region,
border & boundaries*
You can find the full excerpt on the home page of WMIN (
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home)


If you know any WIkimedian whom you think should be featured, please feel
free to nominate them here
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations>.
Or if you want yo mail us, please contact me - yohan...@wikimedia.in

Regards,

Yohann Thomas
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] VIDEO: What is Creative Commons?

[Yohann Thomas]

Forwarding this from the another mailing list
This will be useful for explaining what is creative commons to anyone

-- Forwarded message --
From: Victor Grigas 
Date: Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:52 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] VIDEO: What is Creative Commons?
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Hi everyone,

If you have ever spent time explaining what Creative Commons is to a
'civilian', this is designed to explain the basics in 1:23

Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:What_is_Creative_Commons%3F.webm
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPZTh2NKTm4
Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/202862112
Twitter
https://twitter.com/Wikipedia/status/828993397855776769
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/videos/vb.33138223345/10154872143383346/
?type=3


--

*Victor Grigas*
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Barkha Datt's comments about the Wikipedia

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Frederick
As discussed on the talk page, it has been cleaned..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Barkha_Dutt#Barkha.27s_complaint_about_the_Wikipedia
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 2:02 PM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या
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> At around 1:04:50- 1:04:55 of this discussion
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> anchor Barkha Dutt complains: "Wikipedia says I have three husbands. I've
> not met them yet."
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> Is her complaint true? If so, can it be rectified?
>
> If not, can it be clarified?
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Call for volunteers to be part of Election Committee for Wikimedia India

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear one & all

Wikimedia India is planning to have Elections for the vacant seats of the
Executive committee members whose term will be expiring.

The Current Executive Committee has decided to reach out to the community
to either suggest names for the Election committee or request volunteers to
come forward to be part of the committee.

We would prefer that members from the committee be a resident of Bengaluru,
since Wikimedia India has its office there & this requires administration
work which can be best executed by a local resident.

To better understand it, request you to please go through the election
rules - http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Election_Rules

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Monthly report for November & December

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear one & all

Please find below Monthly Report of Wikimedia India
You can find this report along with our other monthly reports here -
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Reports#2016-17
EventsWiki Loves Monuments 2016 Results
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_India/Winners>

After going through more than 37,000 images, the results for Wiki Loves
Monuments have finally been announced. To summarise, we received 37,000+
images images in this edition from 1784 participants. 1500+ participants
contributed to the movement for the first time during the contest. From the
37,000+ images we received, 1300 images are already been used in Wikipedia
and it sister projects. Inspite of the contest ending, the flow of
knowledge doesn’t end here, there are plenty of unused ASI monument images
which is now available to utilize them across the movement. The WLM India
core team which comprised of Abhinav Srivastava,Kiran RaviKumar,Karthik
Nadar,Naveen Francis,Sanket Oswal,Santosh Shringare and Yohann Thomas show
their gratitude to the jury members, the volunteers & the participants who
made this successful. Also, the organizers want to thank Wikimedia
Foundation for funding, Wikimedia India Chapter for joining hands and WLM
International team for the support received throughout the competition.

You can find the winners here-
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_in_India/Winners
Upgradation of Wikimedia India Server

Wikimedia India's website layout has remained the same since its inception
in 2011 With an outdated server & firmware, and the website facing downtime
with periodic snags, a decision was made to upgrade the server & also the
interface of the Wikimedia India website In the months of October &
November, the software was upgraded & migrated to the new software. With a
new interface & updated layout, the website of Wikimedia India is now
better than ever.

Wikimedia India would want to thank Naveen Francis & Ranjith Siji for all
their help in this exercise.
Wikipedia Asian Month 2016
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Asian_Month>

With the 2016's iteration of the online edit-a-thon,taking place in
November 2016, the purpose of Asian Month on the English Wikipedia is to
improve the quantity and quality of articles relating to Asian countries.
Last year, over 7,000 articles were contributed in 43 languages in
Wikipedia Asian Month.

This year too, more than 500 users have enrolled themselves to contribute
to this online edit-a-thon.

As a symbol of friendship between Wikipedia's Asian communities, each
participant who creates at least four (4) articles that fulfill the
criteria will receive a specially designed Wikipedia postcard from other
participating countries. Wikipedians who create the most articles on each
Wikipedia will be honored as "Wikipedia Asian Ambassadors".
Other newsWikiSangamotsavam`2016

Wikisangamotsavam-2016, the fifth annual gathering of users and well
wishers of Malayalam Wikimedia projects, will take place from 26,27,28
December, 2016 in Kanjangad,Kasargod Kerala. Wikimedia India helped the
organizers of WikiSangamotsavam`2016 to apply for a Rapid grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/ML_Wikipedia/WikiSangamotsavam_2016-Mini_Wikisangamotsavam>
to the WMF which was successfully approved.
Raju Suthar Infrastructure Scholarship

Wikimedia India helped Raju Suthar to apply for a Rapid grant
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Raju_Suthar/Laptop>
to the WMF which was successfully approved. Raju Suthar is one of the most
active Wikipedians on the Hindi Wikipedia with almost 750+ articles to his
name. In July 2016, he was also featured on the Wikimedia India website as
the Featured Wikimedian
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Archive/2016> of the month.
Featured Wikimedia of the Month for November

Dr.Vishwanatha Badikana
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Vishwanatha_Badikana> is a Kannada
Professor at the Prestigious St. Aloysius College
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Aloysius_College_(Mangalore)> in
Mangalore.He started editing Kannada Wikipedia in Septmeber,2014 & Tulu in
January,2015 as part of Wikipedia Education Programme run in his Institute.
He was part of a small team of editors who worked & finally brought Tulu
Wikipedia out of incubator recently. Dr Vishwanatha mainly write articles
on folklore & has written close to 100+ articles in Tulu Wikipedia. He
currently working on a unique project where he is writing articles on all
the Alphabets of Tulu. Since Tulu is spoken over a small region of across
Karnataka & Kerala,he believes that these articles will be useful for
students to learn & speak Tulu which will lead to growth of the language.
Other Wikimedia news in IndiaOpen Con 2016 Ranchi

The OpenCon 2016 Ranchi was hosted at Dept. of Zoology, Ranc

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Final draft of Conflict of Interest policy for Wikimedia India

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Shyamal

Apologies for the delay in replying to the email
The process for creating the Conflict of Interest (CoI) policy had been
going on with the previous EC. The current EC took forward their discussion
with inputs from everyone. We had also floated an email some time back in
this mailing list too

Has there been a discussion of the definition of "political" here or how it
> would be differentiated from "ideological"? Is this based on an assumption
> that a knowledge-gathering project can be achieved without any "bias"
> ("knowledge is neutral")? What if "furthering the interest of WMIN" came in
> conflict with furthering the interests of the larger movement? Is there an
> "Ignore-All-Rules"-style clause?
>

By political, we mainly mean a political party.
Regarding  "Ignore-All-Rules" , there is no such clause. But here, we would
want inputs  again from the community that is such a clause required or
not??

>
> 2) The document notes that (c) voting is a situation that comes under
> "conflict of interest". What about the situation after voting - ie - there
> is a voter-expectation that leads to specific "Covered Persons" to come
> into a position of power and that there could be a conflict when favouring
> specific voting member(s).
>

For the above specified situation, the investigation panel can be
constituted to look into the probable CoI , as mentioned in the policy

>
> 3) The document does not suggest measures to reduce the effects of
> undetected (or undetectable) conflict of interest by such means as
> transparency of deliberations. Or if the organization does not wish to show
> extreme transparency, is there a system for supporting whistleblowers?
>
Currently, we are not at that level, where we need a highly specific
policy..We feel that as the Organizations matures, the CoI policy can
evolve with it..

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India


> best wishes
> Shyamal
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Yohann Thomas <yohan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear Community
>>
>> Wikimedia India has made a final draft for the Conflict of Interest
>> policy(attached)
>>
>> We would invite the community to review it & give their inputs
>>
>> Regards,
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>> Wikimedia India
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Final draft of Conflict of Interest policy for Wikimedia India

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Sudhanwaji

Sorry for the delay in reply
Wikimedia India is unaffected by the Indian government crackdown on the
NGOs.
Regarding our FCRA, we had a temporary FCRA license earlier, which had
expired.
We are currently in process of applying for a new one

Regards,

Yohann Thomas

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On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar <sudhanwa@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
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> Any updates on WMIN activities?
> Especially considering the recent stopping of NGO operations related to
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> Regards
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>> Dear Community
>>
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>> policy(attached)
>>
>> We would invite the community to review it & give their inputs
>>
>> Regards,
>> Yohann Thomas
>> Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian of the month-January 2017

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear all

It gives me great pleasure to announce the Featured Wikimedian of the
month-January 2017

*Krishna Chaitanya Velaga*
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Krishna_Chaitanya_Velaga> of Andhra
Pradesh is a 19 year old English Wikimedian editing since December 2014.
Being an NCC cadet and a defence aspirant, Chaitanya is predominantly
interested in military affairs and started editing when he found a factual
error in an article and referred to Youtube on how to fix it. Described by
fellow wikimedian and military editor Srikar Kashyap
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Strike_Eagle> as *the leading defence
article writer from India*, Chaitanya has 4 Featured and A-class lists
(FLs) and five Good Articles (GAs). His major works include Sam Manekshaw
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Manekshaw>, K.M Cariappa
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodandera_M._Cariappa> and INS Vikrant
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INS_Vikrant_(R11)>. Chaitanya is the founder
of the Indian military history work group and has won the coveted Military
History Newcomer of the Year title for 2016. In addition, Chaitanya is a
keen vandalism fighter and regularly reviews Good Article (GA) nominations

You can find his profile on our page - http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Ravishankar Ayyakkannu as Manager, Strategic Partnerships - Asia

[Yohann Thomas]

Congratulations Ravi on this & All the best for the future endeavours in
this role..!!

Regards
Yohann Thomas

On 22 Dec 2016 10:44, "Adele Vrana" <avr...@wikimedia.org> wrote:

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> I am thrilled to announce that Ravishankar Ayyakkannu is joining the
> Global Reach team as a Partnerships Manager Contractor for Asia for the
> Wikimedia Foundation.
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> As many of you may already know, earlier Ravi served as the Program
> Director for the Wikimedia India Chapter. He played a significant role in
> two recent developments from the Indian region, namely, the WikiConference
> India 2016 and the Government of Tamil Nadu issuing an order releasing all
> its content in CC-BY-SA license. Ravi is also a proud Wikimedian
> contributing to many Tamil Wikimedia projects since 2005 and has a specific
> interest in community building.
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> The Global Reach team will focus on growing Wikimedia projects along the
> themes of awareness, affordability and offline solutions in the Indian
> region. Working closely with Smriti Gupta who leads our work in the region,
> Ravi will strive to build strategic partnerships with government,
> non-profit, educational and private institutions to achieve this goal. He
> is very keen to evolve partnership models that ensure the active
> participation of Wikimedia communities and will appreciate your support on
> doing so.
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> Please join me in congratulating Ravi!
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Jimmy Wales travelling to India

[Yohann Thomas]

Satdeep,

Is it Taj hotel Bombay or New Delhi

& where was it announced that he was visiting India??


On 14 Dec 2016 6:36 p.m.,  wrote:

Hi Abhinav,

There is a meeting with Jimmy at the Taj Mahal Hotel on 17th December 4 PM
to 5 PM.

Regards
Satdeep Gill



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[Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian of the Month - November 2016

[Yohann Thomas]

Dear Community

In the Month of October, we were upgrading our server & testing our
website, due to which  we were unable to announce Featured Wikimedian for
October.

But, now that our website is fully updated & we have upgraded our server,
it gives me great pleasure to announce that Dr.Vishwanatha Badikana is our
Featured Wikimedian of the Month.

*Dr.Vishwanatha Badikana** is a Kannada Professor at the Prestigious **St.
Aloysius College** in Mangalore.He started editing Kannada Wikipedia in
Septmeber,2014 & Tulu in January,2015 as part of Wikipedia Education
Programme run in his Institute. He was part of a small team of editors who
worked & finally brought Tulu Wikipedia out of incubator recently. *

*Dr Vishwanatha mainly write articles on folklore & has written close to
100+ articles in Tulu Wikipedia. He currently working on a unique project
where he is writing articles on all the Alphabets of Tulu. Since Tulu is
spoken over a small region of across Karnataka & Kerala,he believes that
these articles will be useful for students to learn & speak Tulu which will
lead to growth of the language.*
You can find the full excerpt on the home page of WMIN (http://wiki.
wikimedia.in/Home).

If you know any Wikimedian whom you think should be featured , please feel
free to nominate them here
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations>.
Or if you want to mail us ,please contact me- yohan...@wikimedia.in

Regards,
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Monthly report for August 2016

[Yohann Thomas]

/meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2016_India#Endorsements>

Planning of Visit of Katherine Maher to India

Wikimedia India was involved in the finalization of Agenda for visit of
Katherine Maher & planning of her meetings with media & Organizations for
Future Partnerships Post Conference, Katherine made a visit to New Delhi
and met few external partners. A synopsis of these meetings has been
described below.
Meeting with Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi

On 8th August, 11 AM, Mr Manish Siosdia (Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi)
had an interaction with the Wikimedians. The Delhi Government is all ready
to roll out education programs in the Delhi region, in fact, to help us
resolve our gender gap issues, Delhi Government would help us focus more on
women's colleges at the initial stage. The Delhi Government has also
expressed its intent to conduct a Wiki-activity in Indian languages on M.K.
Gandhi in September month, such that Delhi Government could further
facilitate (small souvenirs) the contributors on 2nd October as a part of
the M.K. Gandhi's birthday celebration. Delhi Government is also looking at
possible interventions where GLAM activities could be undertaken.
Incorporating WIkimedia projects under Delhi Government's free-public wifi
scheme has also been proposed. The meeting was arranged by Wikimedia India
and attended by Katherine Maher along with Wikimedia India EC's (Yohann
Thomas, Sanket Oswal, Abhinav Srivastava).
Department of Electronics and Information Technology Meeting

On 8th August,1 PM, Wikimedians met Mr. Rajiv Bansal, Joint Secretary.
Government of India, Department of Electronics and Information Technology
at this office in Delhi. The talks centered around bringing DIETY
newsletter under open license, a collaboration between Government of India
and WMIN + CIS-A2K over government's vikaspedia, drawing attention to
Indian language content to be released under Creative Commons,
Collaboration with the ministry towards making the government websites
include better and accurate language content, etc. The meeting was arranged
by CIS-A2K and attended by Katherine Maher along with CIS-A2K staff
(Tanveer Hasan) and Wikimedia India EC's (Sanket Oswal, Abhinav
Srivastava).
Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Meeting

On 8th August,5.30 PM. Wikimedians met Dr Ramesh Gaur (Head Libarary- JNU)
and Dr Anup Das (Documentation Officer). JNU will be opening up its central
repository of thesis (almost 22,000 units, including PhDs, M.Phil and
Master's Program) under open access. JNU will be assisting us in providing
journal articles to our editors for use on Wikipedia. 'One Lib One Ref"
workshop at JNU would also be conducted in JNU shortly (maybe in
September). JNU also has shown its intent at digitization Dr B.R.
Ambedkar's writing under the Hindi Wikisource. Further collaborations
during seminars at JNU on Wikisource projects would also be taken up. The
meeting was arranged by Wikimedia India and attended by Katherine Maher
along with Wikimedia India EC's (Sanket Oswal, Abhinav Srivastava) and
CIS-A2K staff (Tanveer Hasan).
WikiConference India 2016 (WCI 2016)

The WikiConference India 2016
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016> was conducted
on August 5,6,7 in Mohali, Punjab. The conference happened after a gap of
five years, last conference was held in Mumbai 2011.

   - Wiki Conference India started on an exceptional note with the signing
   of an MoU
   
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MoU_by_and_between_CGC-CIS-WMIN-PWUG_-_Opening_Ceremony_-_Wiki_Conference_India_-_CGC_-_Mohali_2016-08-05_6698.JPG>
   between CIS-A2K,Wikimedia India Punjabi Wikimedians User group with the
   hosts of the Event, Chandigarh Group of Colleges with plans to start an
   education program there

Conference Schedule
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Programs>

The Conference schedule was made by the Programs team.

   - Bodhisattwa <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Bodhisattwa>
   - Chinmayi S K <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Chinmayisk>
   - Netha Hussain <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Netha_Hussain>
   - Rohini Lakshané <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Rohini>
   - Tito Dutta <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Titodutta>
   - User:Shyamal <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shyamal>

The Programs Schedule was made by first inviting submissions
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2016/Call_for_Participation>
from the community.Then they were shortlisted by the Programs team & the
final list of speakers were informed on their talk page.
Chandigarh Hackathon

Chandigarh Hackathon Group Photo
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chandigarh_Hackathon_Group_Photo_Wiki_Conference_India_2016_1.jpg>
The Hackathon at the WikiConference India was organized by Santosh Shingare
. The Hackathon organized in parallel track with other programs of the
Confere

[Wikimediaindia-l] Winner of Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in India

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello one & all

I am proud to announce the Wiki Loves Earth 2016 in India has finally
shortlisted its top 10 images.
This journey was never easy.. With over 32,000+ images uploaded for the
competition
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016_in_India>
by
6,000+ Contributors, we saw a phenomenal response from India.

All the hardwork put by the Volunteers
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016_in_India#Organizing_Team>
& the Jury was what that made this competition a success.

You can find all the details regarding our competition here <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016_in_India>

Jury Members
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016_in_India/Jury>

   - Ashish Kothari
   - Santosh Shingare
   - Souradeep Ghosh

Top 10 images as selected by the Jury <
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Earth_2016_in_India/Results
>

File:Nirar Anai.jpg <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nirar_Anai.jpg>
This Picture is taken behind Nirar Dam at Valparai, Tamil nadu  overlooking
the beautiful Annamalai R.F division (Indra Gandhi Wildlife Reserve) by
User:JohnJoelraj

File: Grey Horn Bill.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grey_Horn_Bill.jpg>
Grey horn bill with its favourite fruit by User: Mithan B M

File:Can it or not.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Can_it_or_not.jpg>
A green Bee-eater trying to catch a bee by User:ARIJIT MONDAL

File:The burning mountain.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_burning_mountain.jpg>
Mount Kanchenjunga seen from by User:Yoghya

File:A Morning in Chandratal.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_Morning_in_Chandratal.jpg>
A Morning in Chandratal by User:Mahendra Pal Singh

File: Elephas maximus indicusCorbett.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephas_maximus_indicusCorbett.jpg>
An Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) taking a dust bath at the
Banks of the Ramganga River in Jim Corbett National park by User:Tanmay
Haldar

File: Demoiselle cranes in Khichan near Bikaner (Rajasthan).jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Demoiselle_cranes_in_Khichan_near_Bikaner_(Rajasthan).jpg>
Beautiful Demoiselle cranes migrate from Mongolia to Khichan near Bikaner
(Rajasthan) by User:ANKITNARANG297

File: Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher (ODKF).jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oriental_Dwarf_Kingfisher_(ODKF).jpg>
Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher at Shiravali by User:P Subramanya C K

File:Changu or Tsomgo Lake.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Changu_or_Tsomgo_Lake.jpg>
Changu or Tsomgo Lake is at located at the east of Sikkim & at a very high
altitude by User:Sudhanshu Gupta

File:When the big cat turned to my camera!.jpg
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:When_the_big_cat_turned_to_my_camera!.jpg>
Bengal Tiger posing for the camera by User:NIKHIL CHAMARTY

Regards,
Yohann Thomas
President,Wikimedia India
yohan...@wikimedia.in
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Monthly report for July 2016

[Yohann Thomas]

 - Closing Wikipedia’s Gender Gap  <
   https://psmag.com/closing-wikipedias-gender-gap-1f02b247beba#.oxh2w7niu>
   July 28, 2016
   - Wikipedia content translation tool<
   
http://www.mathrubhumi.com/technology/web/wikipedia-content-translation-tool-wikimedia-santhosh-thottingal-malayalam-news-1.1239533>
   July 28, 2016
   - Increasing visibility of Indian women in science <
   
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/increasing-visibility-of-indian-women-in-science/article8837920.ece>
   July 12, 2016
   - Spotlight-on-women-scientists <
   
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/spotlight-on-women-scientists/article8861157.ece
   Spotlight-on-women-scientists> July 17, 2016


Regards
Yohann Thomas
Wikimedia India
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Exec 17841] Joint Statement from WMIN and A2K regarding WCI 2016

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello everyone

I have uploaded the document..
You can find the link here -
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JointStatementbyWMINandA2KregardingWCI-2016.pdf

Thanks
Yohann Thomas

Yohann Thomas
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Adethya Sudarsanan <adethyas...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Nope. I don't use libre office.  Yes, a link would be much helpful.
>
> Ade
>
>
> On Wednesday, 6 July 2016, Vikram Vincent <vincentvik...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 6 July 2016 at 03:34, Adethya Sudarsanan <adethyas...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, thanks for sharing this. I'm unable to open the document (.odt)
>>> file on my iPhone 6S. Do I need any specific software/reader to view the
>>> contents of the document ?
>>
>>
>> Hi, do use Libreoffice.
>> @OP
>> Better yet would be to upload a pdf somewhere and simply share the link
>> rather than the actual files.
>> Thanks
>> Vikram
>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliate Selected Board Seats - Result

[Yohann Thomas]

Forwarding

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From: Chris Keating 
Date: Mon, May 9, 2016 at 7:41 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Affiliate Selected Board Seats - Result
To: Wikimedia Mailing List 


Dear Wikimedians,

We are writing to let you know the result of the election for the 2
Affiliate Selected Board Seats on the Wikimedia Foundation board.

The successful candidates were *Christophe Henner* and *Nataliia Tymkiv.*

A total of 40 chapters and thorgs voted - all except for the Macedonia and
Macau chapters - which is a record.

The number of first preferences received by each candidate was as follows:

Christophe Henner (9.00);
Siska Doviana (6.75);
Jan Ainali (5.50);
Osmar Valdebenito (5.50);
Nataliia Tymkiv (4.75);
Susanna Mkrtchyan (3.25);
Lodewijk Gelauff (2.50);
Maarten Deneckere (1.50);
Kunal Mehta(1.25);
Leigh Thelmadatter (0.00)

As you know the election was conducted under the Single Transferable Vote,
which meant that votes were redistributed between candidates to come up
with the final result. In the 9th round of voting the final place, after
Christophe was elected, was between Nataliia (16.09) and Siska (9.91). We
will be putting the full count narrative on the Chapters Wiki so that
others can verify it if they wish.

We would like to congratulate Christophe and Nataliia and thank everyone
who stood. It is the closest ASBS result for some time, and all candidates
brought very valuable perspectives to the work of the WMF.

Regards,

Chris Keating, Lorenzo Losa, Lane Rasberry
Election Facilitators
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian : April

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello One & all

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Featured Wikimedian for the
month of April is Arnab Dutta from Bengali Wikimedia.


*Arnab Dutta is one of the most profilic and youngest Bengali Wikimedians
from India. He has been editing since April 2008 and has over 34,000 edits
till date*
You can find the full excerpt on the home page of WMIN here
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home>

If you know any Wikimedian whom you think should be featured , please feel
free to nominate them here
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Nominations>.
Or if you want to mail us ,please feel to contact me - yohan...@wikimedia.in
, or you can contact Srikar Kashyap here - srikar.kash...@gmail.com

Thanks
Yohann Thomas
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Setting Up of the Advisory Council at Wikimedia India

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Rajesh..

Just a quick reply here..
This discussion happening here is on the Advisory committee for Wikimedia
India(WMIN) which is an independent not-for-profit organization based in
Bangalore.
You can find more details on WMIN on our home page here
<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home> .


Thnx

Yohann Thomas
yohan...@gmail.com

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Rajesh Ranjan <rajeshka...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 16 March 2016 at 12:53, Abhinav Srivastava <
> abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> As a step to nurture Wikimedia India into in fact even bigger roles such
>> that it realizes its mission, beliefs and goals more efficiently, Wikimedia
>> India has decided to setup an advisory council.
>>
>> Advisory council would be a panel of experts with different expertise
>> and connections with whom WE the chapter could rely on to get specific
>> advice. However, They are not a "committee" in the usual sense to
>> discuss all issues together and provide consensus.
>>
>> While the chapter relies on senior and experienced members from the
>> community, it would now also try to enroll people outside Wiki movement.
>> This should be an ongoing process. Growth and strength of WMIN will
>> depend on how many capable members outside our community get interested in
>> us. Community members anyway will always be there to support us.
>>
>> Please find the attached document for more details.
>>
>> Thanks
>> --
>> Srivastava Abhinav
>> Executive Committee Member|Wikimedia India
>> Ph - +91-9711739003|Skype: abhinavsrivastava619
>> Wiki Username - abhinav619
>>
>>
>>
>
> No offense to anyone, but I am forced to say here that Wikipedia needs
> more worker than adviser.
>
> --
> *Rajesh Ranjan*
>
> Open Source Community Manager
> Digital India, Govt. of India
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Setting Up of the Advisory Council at Wikimedia India

[Yohann Thomas]

Dhaval, Sripathy & Yann

Thanks for Volunteering for the Advisory committee.
We will be waiting some more time for more volunteers to come forward &
once we have enough on board, we will go ahead & form the committee


Yohann Thomas
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On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas <dsv...@gmail.com> wrote:

> And you can add me as well. I have been associated with Indic wikipedia
> for last 8 years.
> On 23 Mar 2016 07:32, "sri pathy7" <sripat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Srivastava Abhinav
>> Executive Committee Member|Wikimedia India
>>
>> Dear Sir,
>>
>> Thanks for ur e-mail. U can include my name in advisory council.
>>
>> Prof.T.Sripathy
>> Department Of Electronic Media
>> Bangalore University
>> Jnanabharati Campus
>> Bangalore-560056
>>
>> Wish u all the best.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Prof.T.Sripathy
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Abhinav Srivastava <
>> abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> As a step to nurture Wikimedia India into in fact even bigger roles such
>>> that it realizes its mission, beliefs and goals more efficiently, Wikimedia
>>> India has decided to setup an advisory council.
>>>
>>> Advisory council would be a panel of experts with different expertise
>>> and connections with whom WE the chapter could rely on to get specific
>>> advice. However, They are not a "committee" in the usual sense to
>>> discuss all issues together and provide consensus.
>>>
>>> While the chapter relies on senior and experienced members from the
>>> community, it would now also try to enroll people outside Wiki movement.
>>> This should be an ongoing process. Growth and strength of WMIN will
>>> depend on how many capable members outside our community get interested in
>>> us. Community members anyway will always be there to support us.
>>>
>>> Please find the attached document for more details.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> --
>>> Srivastava Abhinav
>>> Executive Committee Member|Wikimedia India
>>> Ph - +91-9711739003|Skype: abhinavsrivastava619
>>> Wiki Username - abhinav619
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Featured Wikimedian : March

[Yohann Thomas]

1. Please add Username: so we can send Wikilove to such amazing user(s).

you can find his username on our Wikimedia India mainpage -
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home

> 2. Please post this with main list. Hidden talents need highlight!
>

When you say main list, do you mean Wikimedia-I ??


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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Featured Wikimedian : March

[Yohann Thomas]

I am forwarding this since this was not posted in Wikimedia India mailing
list
-- Forwarded message --
From: "Abhinav srivastava" 
Date: 1 Mar 2016 10:04 pm
Subject: [WMIN-Members] Featured Wikimedian : March
To: , , <
wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: "EC Wikimedia India" 

> Hello Wikipedians,
>
> Wikimedia India takes immense pleasure in announcing this month's
featured Wikipedian. Baljeet Dhaliwal from Punjabi Wikimedia has been
considered the featured Wikimedian for this month.
>
> Baljieet Dhaliwal is a Punjabi Wikimedian currently studying in the ninth
grade. Inspired by Charan Gill, father of another Wikimedian Satdeep Gill,
Baljeet began editing in mid June 2015 and is now one of the youngest and
most active editors of Punjabi Wikipedia. He mostly edits articles related
to computers and has created the articles of almost all the basic
components of computer in the Punjabi Wikipedia. A source of inspiration
for his fellow Wikimedians , he is often described as a quick
learner.Baljeet was one of the most prolific contributors at the Wikipedia
Asia Month drive with 42 articles and was honored as a Wikipedia Asia
Ambassador. Baljeet says he feels proud to see his mother tongue grow on
the internet and vows to contribute more for its growth
>
> Thanks
>
> Abhinav Srivastava
> Executive Committee, Wikimedia India
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Resignation of Noopur Raval from WMIN

[Yohann Thomas]

Noopur Raval has mentioned the following reason for her resignation

"I have been caught up in other professional duties and the time difference
makes it impossible for me to stay up. "



Yohann Thomas
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Anivar Aravind <anivar.arav...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Can you share  the reason as well?
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:36 PM, Yohann Thomas <yohan...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello one and all,
>>
>> Mrs Noopur Raval who had recently got elected to the Wikimedia India
>> Chapter has resigned from the Executive Committee.
>>
>> WMIN thanks her for all her time & energy which she has committed to the
>> organization & Wishes her all the best for her professional life.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Yohann Thomas
>>
>> President, Wikimedia India
>>
>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Resignation of Noopur Raval from WMIN

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello one and all,

Mrs Noopur Raval who had recently got elected to the Wikimedia India
Chapter has resigned from the Executive Committee.

WMIN thanks her for all her time & energy which she has committed to the
organization & Wishes her all the best for her professional life.

Thanks,

Yohann Thomas

President, Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Open letter to the community

[Yohann Thomas]

I am forwarding this email since my official wikimedia india email is still
getting blocked.

-- Forwarded message --
From: Yohann Thomas <yohan...@wikimedia.in>
Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:45 PM
Subject: Open letter to the community
To: Wikimedia Chapter India Google group <wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com>,
Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Cc: EC Wikimedia India <wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org>, Ravishankar
Ayyakkannu <ravidre...@wikimedia.in>


Dear Community

I regret to inform you that Wikimedia India has not been give periodic
updates regarding the activities of the chapter. This is in spite of the
fact that the last year, we have been doing many activities & making great
strides in reaching out to the community.Apart from that,Wikimedia India
has also not been open about the obstacles which currently our organization
is facing.

1.) No Monthly Reports were being circulated by the Office Bearer’s at
Wikimedia India. Major updates regarding to different activities were given
to the community, but a periodic update was not given to the community The
Executive Committee (EC) along with the Program Director recognize the
negligence in this regard. An assurance regarding the same has been
provided in this regard. On the first Monday of every month, we shall be
submitting our monthly report to the community.

2.) Inability to Conduct Annual General Meeting for 2014-2015: The Office
Bearers have already been apologetic in this regard. An assurance has been
provided that efforts are being undertaken to process it as soon as
possible.

3.) Current Financial obstacle faced by the Chapter: We are in Process of
renewing our FCRA license , but due to this,the Chapter at present is
facing financial challenges.

To tackle these problems ,we are taking guidance from senior community
members & founding members of the chapter. We hope to resolve these issues
soon & continue with all the good work we have been doing so far.

-- 
Yohann Thomas
Executive Committee Member
Wikimedia India
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India-New HR Intern

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello one & all

We take immense pleasure at providing some briefing pertaining to the
recent developments at Wikimedia India. In an attempt to make the
organization much more structured such that it carry forwards its beliefs,
mission and practices, EC (Executive Committee)  has decided to frame some
polices pertaining to Human Resource Developments.
They have been listed below.

1.) The EC with due consensus on 8th December decided to proceed ahead by
hiring an Intern having expertise in Human Resource Development Affairs.

2.) The Requirement for hiring the Intern was circulated on two major
internship portals; LetsIntern <http://www.letsintern.com/> and Internshala
<http://internshala.com/> on 18th December.

3.) A total of 44 Candidates were shortlisted based on their expertise in
the field along with their academic background. Preference was given to
candidate who had NGO experience.

4.) A series of interviews on Google Hangout were conducted 22nd December,
23rd December, 24th December & 2nd January/3rd January2016.

We are pleased to announce that Ms Ashmita Bose has been selected as the
new HR Intern.
She is currently Pursuing her MBA (HR) from IIM Ranchi.

Thank you
Yohann Thomas
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Live a year in four minutes: Watch #Edit2015, Wikimedia’s year-in-review video

[Yohann Thomas]

FYI

-- Forwarded message --
From: Ed Erhart 
Date: Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:35 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Live a year in four minutes: Watch
#Edit2015, Wikimedia’s year-in-review video
To: wikimediaannounce-l 


See 2015 in four minutes! #Edit2015, Wikimedia's year-in-review video, is
now live. A collaboration between the Wikimedia Foundation's Victor Grigas
and several volunteer editors, #Edit2015 celebrates the individuals all
over the world who have invested thousands, if not millions, of hours in
curating Wikimedia sites.

Please watch it and share on social media! You can simply paste the YouTube
link into a tweet or Facebook post and share with your friends.

Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_Edit_2015.webm
YouTube: https://youtu.be/Rm1LKcHD1VE
Blog: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/12/15/edit2015

Enjoy!

-- 
Ed Erhart
Editorial Associate
Wikimedia Foundation

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Inputs on Conflict of Interest Policy for WMIN

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Hello One and all

WMIN is currently in the final stages of drafting the Conflict of Interest
Policy.
Before we finalize & present it in our AGM, we needed inputs from the
Community members on this policy. Currently our draft contains inputs from
the Conflict of Interest Policy of WMF.
We welcome all kinds of suggestions to create a policy which will encompass
all aspects.


Thank you
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Wikimedia India <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Home>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Fw: Just say no to TPP

[Yohann Thomas]

In the Wikipedia article, i see India in the Potential Future members in
the membership World map picture. But i doubt India will join keeping in
mind the Indian Pharmaceutical industry & its focus on Generic drugs.

Yohann Thomas
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On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:23 PM, Vikram Vincent <vincentvik...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On 29 November 2015 at 22:20, sibi kanagaraj <civil.si...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> What would be it's impact in India ?
>>
> We are not a signatory
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Recognition of Punjabi Wikimedians User Group

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello one and all

The Affiliations Committee has just announced the recognition of Punjabi
Wikimedians as a Wikimedia User Group.

Congrats & kudos to the Punjabi Community on this achievement

Yohann Thomas
yohan...@gmail.com

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Date: Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 2:18 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Recognition of Punjabi Wikimedians User Group
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Dear all,

On behalf of the Affiliations Committee, I am honoured to announce the
recognition of Punjabi Wikimedians [1] as a Wikimedia User Group.

They are a group of wikimedians who are working together in different
projects related to the Punjabi language and culture. They have already
organized a few events and activities, like the edit-a-thon on occasion of
the 13th anniversary of the Punjabi Wikipedia, another on the International
Women's day and several Wikipedia Workshops and meetups.

Welcome!!!

1: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians
-- 
"*Jülüjain wane mmakat* ein kapülain tü alijunakalirua jee wayuukanairua
junain ekerolaa alümüin supüshuwayale etijaanaka. Ayatashi waya junain."
Carlos M. Colina
Socio, A.C. Wikimedia Venezuela | RIF J-40129321-2 | www.wikimedia.org.ve <
http://wikimedia.org.ve>
Chair, Wikimedia Foundation Affiliations Committee
Phone: +972-52-4869915
Twitter: @maor_x
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki loves expensive expeditions (Was: Re: Chapter public communication requirements)

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Shyamal

I have responded to your questions/doubts on the PEG page. But this being
the last, lets keep the PEG page discussion different & mailing list
discussion different. Don't want to unnecessary spam inboxes for those not
interested in our discussion. Those interested can always read our fruitful
discussions on the grant page.

Thanks,
Yohann Thomas
yohan...@gmail.com

PS - FYI Eastern Ghats Highest point is Arma Konda *1680 m/5512 ft* &
Garhwal Himalayas Highest point  is Kalindi Khal pass *5968 mts /19578 ft  *
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chapter public communication requirements

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Shyamal

The Executive committee is given that much liberty to take decisions which
are in the benefit of the community.

In this case, for the above mentioned grant the applicants are well known
Bengali community members. Also as seen in the grant application,
endorsements are made from the bangla community members of both India 
Bangladesh

If the chapter members feel that the EC has taken a decision in haste , the
members are welcome to discuss this in our WMIN mailing list.

Regards
Yohann Thomas
Executive Committee Member
Wikimedia India

PS Shyamal, I strongly suggest that you become a member of the chapter :) !!

Yohann Thomas
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Shyamal Lakshminarayanan 
lshya...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am not a member of the Wikimedia India Chapter although I am very much
 interested in seeing it function as a mature organization. I suppose that
 Wikimedia Chapters from around the world have evolved a set of best
 practices and have ensured that these are shared somewhere. These ideas
 will probably make the requirements of chapters a little more than just the
 minimum legal requirements involved in maintaining the status of a legal
 entity according to the laws of the lands in which the chapters operate.

 I raise this point as a rank outsider because there is a claim in a recent
 project proposal that it has been endorsed by the Wikimedia India
 Chapter. My expectation then is that this has been given due diligence,
 discussed by all members and the summary/minutes/transcripts made public.
 Even ideas on Wikipedia that do not involve any money go through a greater
 amount of (not to mention transparent) discussion than what we see here and
 it seems to me that some of these basic discussion procedures that we take
 for granted as part of the spirit of Wikipedia should be compulsory for
 organizations associated with the WMF.

 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:PEG/Sujay25/Wikipedia_Treks_Kalindi_Khal#Organization

 Would be very happy to be proved wrong here.

 best wishes
 Shyamal
 en:User:Shyamal


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking for endorsement for “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal”

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Ashwin

From what I see on the grant page, the amount requested is around 1.4
lakhs, which is about 33% of the total cost.

Yohann Thomas
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On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:42 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hi,

 I've been on a mountaneering expedition myself (Nandad Devi 7817m),
 1993 and love mountains (see
 https://thebutterflydiaries.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/sarson-patal/).

 I agree that we need good images to cover mountains in India. However,
 I cannot see how funding an expedition can be justified from WMF
 funds. Costs related to photography could perhaps be justified but not
 a complete expedition costing Rs 4.6 lakh rupees or so! It may be
 cheaper to pay photographers to surrender copyrights.

 Imho images of mountains, passes  biodiversity while required are not
 so vital as to necessitate such expenditure. We need instead to
 interact with mountaineers  ask them to donate specific images of
 encyclopedic value needed for articles.

 I'd love to see any links to discussions where the community has been
 informed about Wikipedia Treks Mountains as such. Till now, I have
 never heard of it.

 AshLin

 On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Santanu Chandra santan...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Dear my fellow Wikipedians,
 
  Greetings from Kolkata, India.
  I am pleased to inform you that we are going to organize a expedition
  project “Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal” under “Wikipedia Treks Mountain
 “in
  September 2015.
 
  This is a high-altitude trekking expedition from Gangotri to Badrinath in
  the Garhwal Himalayan region of India, targeting all language editions of
  Wikipedia, Commons, Wikspecies, Wikivoyage and other WMF projects.
 
  The overall purpose of Wikipedia Treks Kalindi Khal is to increase the
  material related to Himalayan Range with a free license in Wikimedia
 Commons
  and improve the quality and increase the amount of articles about
  diversifying Himalayan mountain range and other respective variety in
  different languages in Wikipedia. Reaching out to the majority of
 Himalayan
  mountain range during this trekking program will not only raise awareness
  among various community chapters, but also motivate them to contribute to
  the Wikimedia projects and organize this kind of trekking expedition in
  future.
 
 
  I just need an endorsement from all of you for this unique project
 
 
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:PEG/Sujay25/Wikipedia_Treks_Kalindi_Khal
 
  Feel free to discuss about the project in the discussion page.
 
  Thanks in advance,
 
  With warm regards,
 
  ---
  Santanu Chandra
  (Schwiki)
  Skype: Santanu731
 
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Honorable mentions by Jimmy Wales In WIkimania Mexico 2015

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello One and all

Just wanted to inform the community that during Wikimania 2015 - Mexico,
while announcing the Wikipedian of the year, Jimmy wales made two honorable
mentions.

One of them was to Satdeep Gill for his contributions  Promotion of
Punjabi Wikipedia.

I would like to Congratulate Satdeep for all his Hard work  dedication to
the cause leading to the recognition of it on the Global stage!! Kudos!!


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[Wikimediaindia-l] Community voting is on for WIki loves Food

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello one  all

We are finally in the last leg of Wiki Loves Food  10,000+ pictures were
uploaded for the competition.

We have almost finalized the winners, now only thing left is choosing the
Community award

The Community Prize of the photo contest will be decided by Community
members from Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons and social media related to
Wikimedia projects which will choose from the top 10 images (apart from the
3 prize winning entries) selected by the official jury.

If you want see more about Wiki Loves Food. you can see this
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food link.

Top 7 images are selected.  if you want, you can vote in 3 ways

On Wikimedia Commons - here
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food/Phase_2/Community_Award
On facebook - here
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.682808285196268.1073741831.623531817790582type=3
 (likes
will be counted)
 on twiiter - here https://twitter.com/wikilovesfood(retweets will
be counted)

Votes in Commons and engagement in social media will have 50:50 weight to
decide the community award winner.
Voting ends at 27th July 2015 at 18:00

So vote for your favorite image  be part of this wonderful competition
which celebrates the beauty  diversity of Indian Cuisine.


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] Times of India : 'The vandals of Wiki'

[Yohann Thomas]

This Article also appeared on the TOI Hyderabad edition on the 5th of July

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On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:42 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com
wrote:

 *Times of India : 'The vandals of Wiki'*

 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/The-vandals-of-Wiki/articleshow/47941452.cms

 ( Article appeared on TOI Delhi on 5th July  and Mumbai on 6th July print
 editions. )

 For the better part of June 30, Kolkata was India's largest city and
 Bangla was the government's official language along with Hindi and Indian
 English. The sly attempt at misinformation also featured the national motto
 'Satyameva Jayate' written in Bangla script on Wikipedia's 'India' page.
 Many hours later, an administrator who goes by the username SpacemanSpiff
 landed on the page, saw all the telltale signs of a vandal attack, and
 scrubbed it clean of the errors. This was right after a round of
 firefighting on the pages of Jawaharlal Nehru and his family, where an
 anonymous vandal had tried to pass off the late PM's grandfather as a
 Muslim.

  Vandalism is a fact of life at Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia that
 anyone can edit. Administrators like Spacemanspiff are senior editors who,
 over the years, have been entrusted by the Wikipedia community to protect,
 delete or restore pages, and even block notorious editors.

  As* SpacemanSpiff* reminded fellow volunteers on the India notice board
 about the need to keep a watch on the Nehru wikis, another editor
 remembered that similar attempts were made in 2014. This is not a new meme
 on or off-Wiki. Parallel attempts to establish that Feroze Gandhi was
 Muslim are even more common, writes Abecedare.

  The popular site sees vandals of all kinds, says* A Ravishankar*,
 program director at the Wikimedia Chapter in India. Newbies sometimes click
 the edit button on a page to make some trivial changes. Some vengeful ones
 go on a rampage when editors reject their edits due to insufficient
 citation or poor sourcing. Then there are the passionate hordes that
 descend on their pet topics, mostly entries about religion and politics.
 The only way to deal with vandalism is by remaining vigilant, says
 Ravishankar.

  What's more insidious and hard to rein in are changes by editors who are
 paid to twist the rules at Wikipedia so that their clients' pages sparkle.
 We've had PR agencies editing pages for their clients, including actors.
 IIPM was a prime example of such paid editing, claims Ravishankar. The
 now-defunct business school allegedly got help from a senior editor called
 Wifione and an army of sock puppets (bogus user accounts) to keep out
 negative information about it between the years 2010 and 2012. They were
 reportedly reverted after severe backlash from within Wikipedia.

  Internationally, blog writers for Wikipediocracy, a review site examining
 Wiki's flaws, have criticized Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that
 runs the site, for not doing much to allay allegations that Croatian and
 Kazakh Wikipedias have been manipulated, sometimes by the government
 machinery itself. Bots such as @parliamentedits (UK) and @congressedits
 (US) came up to track anonymous edits done from official IPs after several
 instances of tinkering by parliamentarians and Congressmen surfaced. A
 similar bot from India, @AnonGoIWPEdits, linked the Nehru edits to an IP
 address belonging to the National Informatics Centre.

  The reason why so many people flock to get the content right on Wikipedia
 is the number of page views it gets. Indian users account for 4.1% of the
 total page views on the site. In December 2014 alone, there were 50,000
 edits from the country with 'India' itself being the top edited entry for
 that year.

  Others on the most-edited list include wikis of actors Vijay, Shah Rukh
 Khan, Rajinikanth and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Curiously, Hyderabad, Mumbai,
 Kerala, Mahatma Gandhi and Hinduism also made it to this list as per data
 generated by the Centre For Internet and Society (CIS) from the Wikimedia
 database. Trending news items also quickly make their way in. PM Narendra
 Modi's estranged wife Jashodaben got a wiki last year; so did the first
 Indian in NBA Satnam Singh Bhamara, says Tanveer Hasan, programme officer,
 CIS-Access to Knowledge.

  For all this buzz, India has followed a global trend of slowdown in the
 number of edits on the English language Wikipedia. When Wiki started in
 2001, the first generation of editors was in their 20s. Many of them have
 moved out due to family and professional commitments and not many new
 editors have replaced them, says Ravishankar. Senior editor* Tinu
 Cherian Abraham *remembers starting off in 2005 and creating entries from
 scratch about anything and everything, from a historic fort near Bangalore
 to villages in Kerala. He also used to organize meet-ups in various cities
 to create awareness about the site and recruit more editors. Though he
 still edits, he says he doesn't

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Controversy / Press] : Wikipedia entries on Nehru family edited from NIC IP

[Yohann Thomas]

This issue has also been covered by the latest signpost edition dated 1st
July 2015

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single/2015-07-01#In_the_media

Yohann Thomas
yohan...@gmail.com

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote:

 I saw in one article where the media appreciated the quick reverting of
 those malicious edits by the Wikipedia community!!


 Yohann Thomas
 yohan...@gmail.com

 On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:16 PM, CherianTinu Abraham 
 tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:

 There is a current controversy in which Wikipedia entries related to
 Jawaharlal Nehru and family, edits from an IP address related to
 Government.

 Some coverage:-

 *CNN-IBN* - Nehru, his forefathers' Wikipedia pages mischievously
 altered using a government IP address: Congress
 http://www.ibnlive.com/news/politics/nehru-his-forefathers-wikipedia-pages-mischievously-altered-using-a-government-ip-address-congress-1014125.html?utm_source=IBN%20News
 *Times of India* : Wiki entries on Nehru family edited from NIC IP?

 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Wiki-entries-on-Nehru-family-edited-from-NIC-IP/articleshow/47888589.cms

 *The Economic Times* : Jawaharlal Nehru Wikipedia page: Congress demands
 'full enquiry', PM Modi's apology

 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/jawaharlal-nehru-wikipedia-page-congress-demands-full-enquiry-pm-modis-apology/articleshow/47901078.cms

 *India Today* : Congress attacks government over doctored Wikipedia
 entries

 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/jawaharlal-nehru-wikipedia-congress-digital-india/1/448450.html

 *Scroll* : Think the Nehru Wikipedia edit is bad? See what else
 government workers have been changing

 http://scroll.in/article/738084/think-the-nehru-wikipedia-edit-is-bad-see-what-else-government-workers-have-been-changing

 *First Post*: 'Nehru's grandfather was Muslim': Wikipedia pages changed
 from govt IP address, Congress demands apology

 http://www.firstpost.com/politics/nehrus-grandfather-was-muslim-wikipedia-pages-changed-from-govt-ip-address-congress-demands-apology-2321052.html

 *First Post *: Nehru Wikipedia page row: Congress demands full enquiry,
 wants PM Modi to apologise

 http://www.firstpost.com/politics/nehru-wikipedia-page-row-congress-demands-full-enquiry-wants-pm-modi-apologise-2322206.html

 *Indian Express *: Government agency tried to change Nehru’s profile on
 Wikipedia, claims Congress

 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/jawaharlal-nehrus-wikipedia-pages-altered-from-govts-ip-address-congress/

 *Hindustan Times*: Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia page edited from govt IP
 address

 http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/nehru-s-wikipedia-page-edited-from-a-govt-ip-address/article1-1364721.aspx
 *NDTV* : Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia Page 'Edited' by Government
 Department: Congress

 http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/nehru-wikipedia-page-edited-by-government-department-congress-777064

 *IBT-India* : 'Jawaharlal Nehru was Muslim', Says Wikipedia Page Edit
 Tracked to Govt IP Address

 http://www.ibtimes.co.in/jawaharlal-nehru-was-muslim-says-wikipedia-page-edit-tracked-govt-ip-address-637693

 *The Hindu *: Nehru's Wikipedia pages altered from GoI IP address:
 Congress

 http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jawaharlal-nehrus-wikipedia-pages-altered-from-goi-ip-address-congress/article7374528.ece

 *New Indian Express* : Congress Attacks Centre over Changes in Wikipedia
 Page on Jawaharlal Nehru

 http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Congress-Attacks-Centre-over-Changes-in-Wikipedia-Page-on-Jawaharlal-Nehru/2015/07/02/article2897768.ece
 *Zee news *:Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia page edited from govt IP
 address; Congress seeks PM Modi's reply

 http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/jawaharlal-nehrus-wikipedia-page-edited-from-govt-ip-address-congress-seeks-pm-modis-reply_1622948.html

 *DNA*: Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia page vandalised, Congress alleges it
 was done from government IP

 http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-jawaharlal-nehru-s-wikipedia-page-vandalised-congress-alleges-it-was-done-from-government-ip-2100641

 *Mid-day* : Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia page edited from govt IP
 address, alleges Congress

 http://www.mid-day.com/articles/jawaharlal-nehrus-wikipedia-page-edited-from-govt-ip-address-alleges-congress/16335171

 Regards
 Tinu Cherian

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Controversy / Press] : Wikipedia entries on Nehru family edited from NIC IP

[Yohann Thomas]

I saw in one article where the media appreciated the quick reverting of
those malicious edits by the Wikipedia community!!


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On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:16 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com
wrote:

 There is a current controversy in which Wikipedia entries related to
 Jawaharlal Nehru and family, edits from an IP address related to
 Government.

 Some coverage:-

 *CNN-IBN* - Nehru, his forefathers' Wikipedia pages mischievously altered
 using a government IP address: Congress
 http://www.ibnlive.com/news/politics/nehru-his-forefathers-wikipedia-pages-mischievously-altered-using-a-government-ip-address-congress-1014125.html?utm_source=IBN%20News
 *Times of India* : Wiki entries on Nehru family edited from NIC IP?

 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Wiki-entries-on-Nehru-family-edited-from-NIC-IP/articleshow/47888589.cms

 *The Economic Times* : Jawaharlal Nehru Wikipedia page: Congress demands
 'full enquiry', PM Modi's apology

 http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/jawaharlal-nehru-wikipedia-page-congress-demands-full-enquiry-pm-modis-apology/articleshow/47901078.cms

 *India Today* : Congress attacks government over doctored Wikipedia
 entries

 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/jawaharlal-nehru-wikipedia-congress-digital-india/1/448450.html

 *Scroll* : Think the Nehru Wikipedia edit is bad? See what else
 government workers have been changing

 http://scroll.in/article/738084/think-the-nehru-wikipedia-edit-is-bad-see-what-else-government-workers-have-been-changing

 *First Post*: 'Nehru's grandfather was Muslim': Wikipedia pages changed
 from govt IP address, Congress demands apology

 http://www.firstpost.com/politics/nehrus-grandfather-was-muslim-wikipedia-pages-changed-from-govt-ip-address-congress-demands-apology-2321052.html

 *First Post *: Nehru Wikipedia page row: Congress demands full enquiry,
 wants PM Modi to apologise

 http://www.firstpost.com/politics/nehru-wikipedia-page-row-congress-demands-full-enquiry-wants-pm-modi-apologise-2322206.html

 *Indian Express *: Government agency tried to change Nehru’s profile on
 Wikipedia, claims Congress

 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/jawaharlal-nehrus-wikipedia-pages-altered-from-govts-ip-address-congress/

 *Hindustan Times*: Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia page edited from govt IP
 address

 http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/nehru-s-wikipedia-page-edited-from-a-govt-ip-address/article1-1364721.aspx
 *NDTV* : Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia Page 'Edited' by Government
 Department: Congress

 http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/nehru-wikipedia-page-edited-by-government-department-congress-777064

 *IBT-India* : 'Jawaharlal Nehru was Muslim', Says Wikipedia Page Edit
 Tracked to Govt IP Address

 http://www.ibtimes.co.in/jawaharlal-nehru-was-muslim-says-wikipedia-page-edit-tracked-govt-ip-address-637693

 *The Hindu *: Nehru's Wikipedia pages altered from GoI IP address:
 Congress

 http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/jawaharlal-nehrus-wikipedia-pages-altered-from-goi-ip-address-congress/article7374528.ece

 *New Indian Express* : Congress Attacks Centre over Changes in Wikipedia
 Page on Jawaharlal Nehru

 http://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/Congress-Attacks-Centre-over-Changes-in-Wikipedia-Page-on-Jawaharlal-Nehru/2015/07/02/article2897768.ece
 *Zee news *:Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia page edited from govt IP
 address; Congress seeks PM Modi's reply

 http://zeenews.india.com/news/india/jawaharlal-nehrus-wikipedia-page-edited-from-govt-ip-address-congress-seeks-pm-modis-reply_1622948.html

 *DNA*: Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia page vandalised, Congress alleges it
 was done from government IP

 http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-jawaharlal-nehru-s-wikipedia-page-vandalised-congress-alleges-it-was-done-from-government-ip-2100641

 *Mid-day* : Jawaharlal Nehru's Wikipedia page edited from govt IP
 address, alleges Congress

 http://www.mid-day.com/articles/jawaharlal-nehrus-wikipedia-page-edited-from-govt-ip-address-alleges-congress/16335171

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 Tinu Cherian

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A certain Jayantilal Kothari on this list

[Yohann Thomas]

+1 Rohini. I completely agree with you.

But @srikanth, I am disappointed  saddened from the fact that you are
indirectly accusing that this person(who I have never heard of  I
guarantee is not from Pune Community) is from Pune community. It is totally
incorrect of you to blame any community without any proof.

Are you trying to say that anyone who criticizes you is from Pune
Community??

PS.
As being a current EC member, I strongly object  oppose any kind of
mudslinging on past as well as current EC members. The integrity of this
chapter is of my utmost importance.



On Saturday, April 18, 2015, Rohini Lakshané rohini.laksh...@gmail.com
wrote:

 I agree with Srikanth, and urge the moderators to enforce a policy to deal
 with ad homimen attacks on this list.

 Kothari's problem seems to be with Srikanth's (and other former EC
 members') past actions and not with the suggestions and comments Srikanth
 has made about Wiki Loves Food. Bringing up a bona fide member's real or
 perceived bad karma from the past only derails the conversation and does
 not nothing constructive for the community.


 Rohini Lakshané
 about.me/rohini
   [image: Rohini Lakshané on about.me]
 http://about.me/rohini

 2015-04-18 18:19 GMT+05:30 Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com
 javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rsrikant...@gmail.com');:

 There is  certain Jayantilal Kothari on this list, possibly a member of
 the Wikimedia Pune Club who is now spewing venom against me.
 As far as I know, this avcount ahs only been trolling in the past.
 The account says people like must NOT be entertained on this list.
 *MIGHT I REMIND YOU JAYANTILAL KOTHARI, THAT I HAVE BEEN A WIKIMEDIAN FOR
 10 YEARS, HAVE THOUSANDS OF CONTRIBUTIONS BOTH ONLINE AND OFFLINE so I AM
 GOING TO ASK YOU TO PIPE DOWN.*

 I have not seen you contribute to Wiki, who are you to talk about me?

 I resigned from the chapter for multiple reasons, including dilly
 dallying during Ravi's hiring. Yes, I did send a mail about the minority
 EC, so that the GoK might have handled the situation which might have
 helped the chapter. You do not know me, or my contributions to the
 movement, so YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TALK ABOUT ME AND MY INTEREST In the
 Chapter.
 I don't want to stoop to the level of saying Shut up, but should the
 matter escalate, I will do so.

 Yes, yes, thanks to certain people who saved the chapter. You have no
 clue what was happening then, so don't bother.
 PRanav and Moksh's stepping down was also for personal reasons there is
 no reason to drag all three of us into this.

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 What goes around, may not necessarily come around, it may simply bounce
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 Please sign this petition for Volvo buses in Coimbatore:

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Phase 1 of Wiki Loves Food

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi srikanth

Regarding your doubt about having high value prizes for Phase 1, this was
discussed about in IRC.


   - The main reason why we are having prizes  in phase 1, so that people
   are attracted to participate in Phase 1. If we have prizes in Phase 2  not
   phase 1, we might not get the required participants (ie 50) to participate.
   Also ppl will feel that they should participate in Phase 2, since there are
   prizes  will not be encouraged to participate in Phase 1.If we have too
   low prizes (as compared to phase 2), then also we might not get the
   required participants.

So to attract particpants to phase 1, so we kept prizes of phase 1,well
within the range of phase 2
I suggest you to go through the link again!!

Where is it written that Phase 1 is a invite only phase??
Just for your information, i will quote the text from WLF page



*This will be a pilot to understand the dynamics of Commons community
before the contest is launched for the wider Wikimedia India community.
Around 50 participants will be enrolled for this in a first come first
register basis. We will also invite 2 nominations per language community
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food/Community_Nominations
besides these 50 participants.*
I don't see it written anywhere that is it a Invite only??

Yohann Thomas
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:22 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 My only question is Why are such high value prizes being awarded for phase
 one which is both a trial period as well as invite only.
 Ideally the prizes should go for the next phase.
 On 15-Apr-2015 10:11 pm, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Sankarshan

 I would stick to the original statement of the text. It is not an
 improper usage.

 Thanks :) !!

 Yohann Thomas
 yohan...@gmail.com

 On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:45 PM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  So you can interpret it as an incentive to increase contribution and
  participation or , as an enticement.

 I am unable to comprehend why it should be based on my interpretation.
 I visited the link provided in your original email, and quoted a line
 which uses the specific word . The general usage of the word is in
 context of offering something to gain advantage. In relation to the
 broader intent of this outreach program, it felt out of place. My
 question was largely limited to whether it was an improper usage of a
 word, or, conscious choice to impart that specific meaning to this
 program.


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Phase 1 of Wiki Loves Food

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Sankarshan

You should understand that WMIN has not done any event like this on such a
large scale.
There was a trust deficit between the community  WMIN. The new EC is
trying to bridge this gap.
So you can interpret it as an incentive to increase contribution and
participation or , as an enticement.
The main aim of the new EC is to restore WMIN to its glory days  spearhead
the movement in India.

Yohann Thomas
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:45 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com
wrote:

 On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote:
  You can find all the details related to the event here

 The link at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food
 states ...we will be handing out bigger prizes to entice people to
 participate and donate their photos to Commons.  Are prizes being
 handed out as an incentive to increase contribution and participation
 or, as an enticement?


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Phase 1 of Wiki Loves Food

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Karthik

The planning of the competition in Phase 2 constantly will evolve as the
pilot project proceeds.
Phase 1 will be a constant learning for all the volunteers as it proceeds.
I don't see any harm when the main contest starts as the pilot ends.


Yohann Thomas
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hi,

 I'm kinda confused; that the main contest starts from the next day the
 planned pilot contest ends. So whats the use of running a pilot contest
 without spending time in understanding what went good and what went bad.

 Is it because the chapter is in deadline to do something as a big project
 within next quarter or is there any other reason?


 On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Really, token prices can be understood, but in thousands of Rs? The
 money can be spent on better things imho.

 On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:45 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  You can find all the details related to the event here
 
  The link at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food
 
  states ...we will be handing out bigger prizes to entice people to
  participate and donate their photos to Commons.  Are prizes being
  handed out as an incentive to increase contribution and participation
  or, as an enticement?
 
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Phase 1 of Wiki Loves Food

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Ashwin

There was an IRC on the 12th April which was informed about 6 days in
advance on WLF discussion page.
In this IRC, the prizes were discussed. Also when compared to other Wiki
Loves competitions which were also organized all over the world, they also
had similar Prizes.

Best example is Wiki Loves Africa which included Prizes like
Smartphone-Galaxy note 4, US$200 Amazon gift etc.

Obviously our competition is not on a grand scale as Wiki Loves Africa, but
we are trying to create an environment which facilitates maximum
participation within all walks of the Wikimedia community.

Yohann Thomas
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Really, token prices can be understood, but in thousands of Rs? The
 money can be spent on better things imho.

 On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:45 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  You can find all the details related to the event here
 
  The link at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food
  states ...we will be handing out bigger prizes to entice people to
  participate and donate their photos to Commons.  Are prizes being
  handed out as an incentive to increase contribution and participation
  or, as an enticement?
 
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Phase 1 of Wiki Loves Food

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Sankarshan

I would stick to the original statement of the text. It is not an improper
usage.

Thanks :) !!

Yohann Thomas
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On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:45 PM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com
wrote:

 On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 9:37 PM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote:
  So you can interpret it as an incentive to increase contribution and
  participation or , as an enticement.

 I am unable to comprehend why it should be based on my interpretation.
 I visited the link provided in your original email, and quoted a line
 which uses the specific word . The general usage of the word is in
 context of offering something to gain advantage. In relation to the
 broader intent of this outreach program, it felt out of place. My
 question was largely limited to whether it was an improper usage of a
 word, or, conscious choice to impart that specific meaning to this
 program.


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Call for Volunteers for the Pilot Project Wiki Loves Food

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Sudhanwa

I do agree that discussions are still going on but we have an IRC on the
12th April by when all the dates,Judges  Prizes will be fixed.
In the previous IRC, *we have already confirmed the Rules and Regulations*.
The rules put up on our WLF Planning page here
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food/Planning are
considered final.

Regarding dates, phase 1 has already been confirmed.
Regarding the point about you forwarding details about WLF to some
photography associations and magazines as you mentioned, you can surely do
that after April 12th.

Also do remember , we have a phase 2, which is for the larger audience 
other non-wikipedian.
When you are forwarding details to other agencies, we can highlight Phase 2
of WLF!!



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On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com
wrote:

 Dear Yohann,

 My point is very simple.
 If things are still in planning, it should not be announced as a
 contest. It can be a nice community drive for uploading photos for a
 specific domain. No issues with that.
 However, if it is announced as a contest, rules and regulations are
 necessary for a contest. And they should be published well in advance
 before the contest begins.

 Ultimately, it is your call being the project co-ordinator.
 I was just trying to go out and reach to the photographers community
 beyond Wikimedia.

 Regards
 -Sudhanwa



 On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote:
  Hi Sudhanwa
 
  Actually, there was a discussion on Rules going on the WLF discussion
 page.
  But since there were so many suggestions coming in, I thought of moving
 it
  to a new page which will only consist of discussion on Rules, Jury, Dates
  and Prizes. Please find this page here - WLF Planning .
  I had already mentioned about creation of this new page in the discussion
  page .
 
  So all important decisions regarding WLF will be discussed on the WLF
  planning page.
 
  Thanks for your Support to this event !!!
 
  Yohann Thomas
  yohan...@gmail.com
 
  On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar 
 sudhanwa@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Hi,
 
  The page says it is a contest.
  I could not see any details like rules, prizes, time frame etc. of the
  contest on that site. If it is a contest, these details should be
  announced from the beginning.
 
  I want to forward this to some photography associations and magazines
  but without those details, there is no point sending it.
 
  Can someone please update those details.
  Regards
  -Sudhanwa
 
 
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 wrote:
   Hello one  all
  
   I am Proud to announce that Wikimedia India will be starting a new
   Project
   called Wiki Loves Food (WLF).
  
   WLF is a Public Photo competition on Wikimedia Commons. The main idea
   behind
   starting this is to improve the quality of Pictures of different
 Indian
   Cuisines.
  
   This will be a Community run initiative supported by WMIN.
  
   Currently we need Volunteers to help run this Project. I invite all
 the
   community members who are interested to volunteer, to sign up at this
   page
  
   https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food
  
   The above link also contains necessary information related to the
   competition.
  
   Thank you
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Call for Volunteers for the Pilot Project Wiki Loves Food

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Suma

Thanks for your interest!!
Please feel free to sign up here
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food

Thanks

Yohann Thomas
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:16 AM, Suma K Addoor sumaadd...@gmail.com wrote:

 I would be interested to volunteer as well.

 Thank you,
 Suma K A
 On 2 Apr 2015 19:59, sibi kanagaraj civil.si...@gmail.com wrote:

 Would like to add to it .

 Please information about the pain and suffering of Plants and  animals
 that were confined, raped, tortured and killed and whose carcasses or body
 fluids will be dressed to look pretty and photogenic.

 On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 7:53 PM, 'Yogesh Khandke' via wmin-members 
 wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com wrote:

 Please information about the pain and suffering of animals that were
 confined, raped, tortured and killed and whose carcasses or body fluids
 will be dressed to look pretty and photogenic.

 Sent from my iPhone

 On 02-Apr-2015, at 4:51 pm, Kaśyap కశ్యప్ kasya...@gmail.com wrote:

 I am in because I love Food :)   eager to see  famous Hyderabadi
 biryani,  spicy Andhra cuisine and Telangana flavors food pictures  with CC
 BY-SA !

 On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Tito Dutta trulyt...@gmail.com wrote:

 Good initiative.
 I am in and will add my two cents.  :)

 On 1 April 2015 at 21:26, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello one  all

 I am Proud to announce that Wikimedia India will be starting a new
 Project called Wiki Loves Food (WLF).

 WLF is a Public Photo competition on Wikimedia Commons. The main idea
 behind starting this is to improve the quality of Pictures of different
 Indian Cuisines.

 This will be a Community run initiative supported by WMIN.

 Currently we need Volunteers to help run this Project. I invite all
 the community members who are interested to volunteer, to sign up at this
 page

 https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food

 The above link also contains necessary information related to the
 competition.

 Thank you
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Call for Volunteers for the Pilot Project Wiki Loves Food

[Yohann Thomas]

Hello one  all

I am Proud to announce that Wikimedia India will be starting a new Project
called Wiki Loves Food (WLF).

WLF is a Public Photo competition on Wikimedia Commons. The main idea
behind starting this is to improve the quality of Pictures of different
Indian Cuisines.

This will be a Community run initiative supported by WMIN.

Currently we need Volunteers to help run this Project. I invite all the
community members who are interested to volunteer, to sign up at this page

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Food

The above link also contains necessary information related to the
competition.

Thank you
Yohann Thomas
yohan...@gmail.com
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[Wikimediaindia-l] A Joint statement on collaboration between WMIN and CIS-A2K

[Yohann Thomas]

Bengaluru

March 4, 2015

A Joint statement on collaboration between WMIN and CIS-A2K

Representatives from WMIN and CIS-A2K met during the Train the Trainer
Workshop that was held in Bengaluru on February 28, 2015.

The meeting was productive and paves the way for a long lasting partnership
between the two organizations. It was decided in the meeting that WMIN and
CIS-A2K teams shall work closely and contribute to each other’s activities
and growth. Following are the points towards collaborative engagement that
WMIN and CIS-A2K will work towards:


   -

   CIS-A2K and WMIN will revive quarterly team hangouts to enable better
   communication and coordination between them. The meeting that happened on
   February 28th, 2015 is the first in this series of regular meetings planned.
   -

   As a first step to signal the collaborative nature of WMIN and CIS-A2K,
   we will sign a joint MoU with a leading academic institution that will
   provide access to many language computing tools including OCR. We are
   already at an advanced stage of discussion.
   -

   WMIN will work together with CIS-A2K for conducting the proposed MediaWiki
   TTT in May 2015.
   -

   Setting up a public calendar to keep all communities, CIS-A2K and WMIN
   informed about various movement related activities and events.
   -

   A strategy will be put in place to revive the Bengaluru Wiki Community
   meetups which were very active in the past. This will be a community led
   initiative facilitated by CIS-A2K and WMIN.
   -

   The synergy between the two organizations will also extend beyond
   Wikimedia domain. For example, close coordination will be seen in Creative
   Commons India related activities.
   -

   CIS-A2K team will be working closely with the WMIN team towards
   developing its next round of FDC proposal.
   -

   Both CIS-A2K and WMIN acknowledge the role of India Community
   Consultation 2014 facilitated by WMF that paved the way for better
   understanding between the organizations.


We plan to keep the community updated about the progress on these
agreements. We will also inform when new activities are planned.

We kindly request the community to extend their support for these
initiatives.

Thanks.

Released on behalf of Wikimedia India and CIS-A2K.


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Yohann Thomas
Executive Committee Member
Wikimedia India
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Train-the-Trainer Programme - 2015 (Announcement)

[Yohann Thomas]

+1 Srikanth

Yohann Thomas
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On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 8:10 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 Vishnu,
 I'm very glad to hear of this years edition of the TTT Program.
 Will it be centered around Bangalore again or are there any plans to take
 it to other cities which would be more beneficial in the long run?
 On 14-Jan-2015 7:02 pm, Tito Dutta trulyt...@gmail.com wrote:

 That is a fantastic news. Thank you a lot.
 Regards

 On 14 January 2015 at 18:59, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote:

  Dear Wikimedians,

 As most of you are aware, CIS-A2K conducted the first Wikipedia
 Train-the-Trainer (TTT) programme[1] in 2013 with an aim to support and
 groom leadership skills in the community members. We are extremely thankful
 to all the senior Wikimedians who acted as Resource Persons for the 2013
 event. Achal, Arjuna, Hari, Shymal, Tinu and Viswa thank you once again!
 Without your help we could not have conducted it so successfully.

 This email is to let you all know that we have scheduled to conduct the
 second iteration of this program at the end of February 2015. We are
 inviting applications from interested Indian Wikimedians. Please see this
 page on Meta for more details [2].

 Some important dates:
 January 27, 2015 - Last date for registration.
 January 30, 2015 - Confirmation of selected participants
 February 26 to March 1, 2015 - TTT-2015 workshop

 We are working on the schedule and other details. You are welcome to
 leave your suggestions and inputs here [3]. Please write to us at
 tanv...@cis-india.org and vis...@cis-india.org if you have any further
 queries.

 Best,
 Vishnu

 [1]
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program
 [2]
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2015
 [3]
 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Train_the_Trainer_Program/2015


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Formation of Advisory Committee Board

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Srikanth

The EC has gone through all the past minutes of board meetings, EC list
archives  suggestions made by previous EC members in many Conference
calls. We would like more such inputs from the Community, regarding the
Committee's role, tenure, strength etc.
This is a step taken by the EC to be more interactive with the Community.

Yohann Thomas
yohan...@gmail.com

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 Please check thru the minutes of board meetings and EC list archives over
 the last two years.
 The Advisory Board plan was thought of earlier but never materialised.
 On 12-Jan-2015 1:22 pm, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote:

 It looks like this was message was posted only on the members list  not
 on the India mailing list.

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 Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:33 AM
 Subject: [WMIN-Members] Formation of Advisory Committee Board
 To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org,
 wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com


 In an effort to form a stable WMIN working environment and utilize the
 community’s experience in terms of guidance, the EC, has decided to form an 
 *Advisory
 Committee Board*. Since the past EC was already working on it, as a new
 EC, it’s our duty to take it forward.

 Since, we want to include all the domains of work that are associated
 with the working of WMIN, we propose different verticals under which the
 advisory committee would advise the EC -

- Law,
- Organizational Development,
- Technology,
- Policy making,
- Outreach and
- Others (Open to suggestions from the community)

 The function of the Advisory committee board will be to advise the
 Wikimedia India chapter EC in its strategic decision-making process. They
 will be providing the EC with appropriate suggestions and solutions towards
 queries and solicitations specifically asked for.

 It shall not be a part of the final decisions and resolutions adopted by
 the Board. In general, the Advisory Committee members may remain for an
 indefinite term.



 Since we want to take the inputs from the community, we would want the
 community to suggest inputs on the following functions of this Advisory
 Committee -

- Role of Advisory committee
- Strength of the Advisory Committee
- Code of Conduct to Advisory committee
- Code of Conduct to Advisory committee



 Apart from this, we would also like suggestions from the community on the
 Possible inclusion to this Important Committee.

 The new EC looks forward to full support from the Community.



 Thanks.

 Regards,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Formation of Advisory Committee Board

[Yohann Thomas]

Hi Adethya

We would want experienced Community members to be part of this Advisory
Committee who would advice the EC on issues related to Law, Organizational
development, technology, Policy making, Outreach etc.
Regarding who all should be part of this committee, i would like the
community to suggest people who they feel would fulfill this role.


Yohann Thomas
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:42 PM, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.com
wrote:

 Hi, thanks for sharing this information. Out of curiosity, who will be a
 part of the advisory board?

 Can general public be a part ? If yes, can you help us with that
 information also?

 Cheers,
 Ade S

 On Monday, 12 January 2015, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Please check thru the minutes of board meetings and EC list archives over
 the last two years.
 The Advisory Board plan was thought of earlier but never materialised.
 On 12-Jan-2015 1:22 pm, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.com wrote:

 It looks like this was message was posted only on the members list  not
 on the India mailing list.

 -- Forwarded message --
 From: Priyanka Tiwari priyankatw...@gmail.com
 Date: Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:33 AM
 Subject: [WMIN-Members] Formation of Advisory Committee Board
 To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org,
 wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com


 In an effort to form a stable WMIN working environment and utilize the
 community’s experience in terms of guidance, the EC, has decided to form an 
 *Advisory
 Committee Board*. Since the past EC was already working on it, as a new
 EC, it’s our duty to take it forward.

 Since, we want to include all the domains of work that are associated
 with the working of WMIN, we propose different verticals under which the
 advisory committee would advise the EC -

- Law,
- Organizational Development,
- Technology,
- Policy making,
- Outreach and
- Others (Open to suggestions from the community)

 The function of the Advisory committee board will be to advise the
 Wikimedia India chapter EC in its strategic decision-making process. They
 will be providing the EC with appropriate suggestions and solutions towards
 queries and solicitations specifically asked for.

 It shall not be a part of the final decisions and resolutions adopted by
 the Board. In general, the Advisory Committee members may remain for an
 indefinite term.



 Since we want to take the inputs from the community, we would want the
 community to suggest inputs on the following functions of this Advisory
 Committee -

- Role of Advisory committee
- Strength of the Advisory Committee
- Code of Conduct to Advisory committee
- Code of Conduct to Advisory committee



 Apart from this, we would also like suggestions from the community on
 the Possible inclusion to this Important Committee.

 The new EC looks forward to full support from the Community.



 Thanks.

 Regards,
 Priyanka Tiwari


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