Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Hii All, Sorry for not been able to write in detail about the event yesterday. On 28th Morning, the participants arrived exactly at 8am. Few, who could not arrive on time made it a point to inform one of us, about it. We spoke to them about their preference of places to click which went on Good. There after, around 8.45am people dispersed on respective routes. I along with three others covered the extreme north of churchgate( Jogeshwari, Borivali and Dahisar ). While Karthik covered the Chatrapati Shivaji Vastu Sangrahalay interiors besides other places and headed to HBCSE for keeping the lab ready for participants with the tool installed. Not many could make it to HBCSE though, owing to the distance. In all there were 10 of us who reached there by 2.30pm. The major technical challenge started here while uploading the images. The system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and only one person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr. Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time. We tried calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then. After this, we waited for sometime for the one person's upload to get over and till then the others filled the data for the images. Two people successfully uploaded images using 'Commonist' tool for mass upload. The participants were comfortable with the process absolutely but the problem was when they pressed 'UPLOAD'. It said, There is an 'unknown error'. In order to overcome this, we tried to upload using the basic 5 steps of upload in commons, but it showed the message, 'The files are empty' !!! no idea How and Why this happened..! After trying this, Nagarjuna Sir sat with us for trying Python. And the rest as he mentioned earlier in this thread: while running the script, it cribbed about 'missing module poster'. I have installed it using pip. then another missing dependency was python-pyexiv2. apt-get install python-pyexiv2 took care of this. after that the script ran successfully. Took lot of time in getting the script working though. However we could not run Python on other PCs since by the time it was post 8pm. We could only upload images of 4 people successfully. However this is something to discuss as why the tools did not work as they should have been. Partcipants left the campus by 7.30pm after copying the images on desktop. Big Thanks to Nargarjun Sir for being there with us for the entire time till 9pm in HBCSE and his efforts in upload procedure !! Besides, there are many people who helped in particular stages of the event. Starting Noopur , Pranav, Moksh, Netra, Vickram uncle, Dr.Nagarjuna, Kundan Sir, Aditya and Krutika for attending the event. Also would like to make mention of Ajit Sahu who created the logo for the event with just little briefing. Thanks to ALL ! Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 1:21 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: We seem to be called in to the cop station a bit too often - visit #2 for Wikipedia (1st was for WCI 11), this time it got better, taken in a Police Van to MRA Marg. The worst part, they dont drop you back, you need to make your own way :( The guards at Bombay House were pretty clear, we have orders not to allow photography on Homy Mody Street in front of the building for security reasons. Its odd that such orders are given in the first place, as public roads are not under their purview and we were certainly not trespassing their property. Aditya offered to delete the pics if they could show that its illegal, obviously they could not. Just because they are scared of terror threats, whoever gave the order seems to think they have the right to deny the public of their rights and curtail freedom. Talk about misuse of power. -- From: apsengu...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:52:17 +0530 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-in-mum] [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II Harriet, On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 05:32, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like a fun time was had by all. A question: Is there anyway of finding out in advance what buildings are considered to have have Security fears? Yes- if there is a yellow board that declares the building as a Prohibited Area, you are not allowed to photograph such buildings. We saw quite a few of these buildings- such as the RBI building. These boards are required to be registered with the police/government, so it isn't like anyone can put them up. Everything else is fair game- as long as you are not trespassing on their property (which we weren't) or harassing them (we were super nice and polite with the Bombay House folks as well as the police- so this wasn't a problem either). Warm regards Harriet Still in NYC. Harriet
[Wikimediaindia-l] A webfonts discussion
For those who interested : http://aharoni.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/web-fonts-and-web-browsers-why-firefox-is-the-best-choice-for-most-people-who-dont-read-in-the-latin-alphabet/ -- With love Praveen http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Praveenp:talkhttp://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Praveenp ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
On Monday 30 January 2012 11:56 AM, Vickram Crishna wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 30 January 2012 03:28 AM, Theo10011 wrote: Looks great Anshuman! My best wishes to you and the Mumbai community! I wish we could figure out an easier way to upload, possibly direct mobile uploads to common for events like this. I know it would be a gold-mine for participation when it comes to events like this. For anyone who'd like to send images to commons directly from your android camera phone, there is an app that does exactly this - I've used it to send images directly from my phone to commons; it's simple, easy-to-use and extremely useful: https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.michiel1972.main Achal, this is great! It will help such events enormously, as many of the users will be able to perform 'instant uploads' - Photowalks can be organised with regular breaks to allow successive images to be populated with metadata. The app is rather good actually; very clean, and uses minute amounts of data for the actual upload - I have a 5 MP camera, and to upload one image took up some 0.5 MB of data. (Other than this android app, there appears to be an IPhone app under development: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WikiSnaps) Regards Theo On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Anshuman Fotedar anshuman.fote...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The landmarks that were photographed included theBabulnath Temple,Nehru Science Centre, Opera House, St Thomas Cathedral, INS Vikrant and Yazdani Bakery. After the photos had been clicked many of the participants proceeded toHomi BhabhaCentre for Science Education, TIFR where they were shown how to upload to Commons using both the usual upload process and by using the mediawiki-uploader mass upload script. Nikita Belavate and Karthik Nadar put in a lot of work into the event. They helped many people contribute to the Commons while having a good time, and they deserve praise for making all of this happen. Our heartfelt gratitude to Pranav Curumsey, Vickram Crishna, Dr Nagarjuna,Noopur Raval andMoksh Juneja for all the help and mentoring. Thanks to Shrinivasan T for mediawiki-uploader :) And apologies if I missed anyone out. Do visit our maintenance category WTM, specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. Sincerely Anshuman Fotedar PS: 1. During the photowalk, some of the participants who were taking pictures of Bombay House were interrupted by private security personnel and asked to handover their cameras so that the pictures could be removed.Pranav andAditya Sengupta, who were among them, peacefully put forth the fact that they were not not breaking any laws by photographing the structure from the outside since it was not a legally protected one. They were
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Results of EU public consultation on scientific information in the digital age
hi, There had been some discussion here about what happened to publicly funded instruments. Here's from Europe. Pradeep Handheld -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Results of EU public consultation on scientific information in the digital age
hi, There had been some discussion here about what happened to publicly funded instruments. Here's from Europe. Pradeep Handheld -- Forwarded message -- From: Andrea Zanni zanni.andre...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:07:36 +0100 Subject: [cultural-partners] Results of EU public consultation on scientific information in the digital age To: Wikimedia Libraries librar...@lists.wikimedia.org, Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination cultural-partn...@wikimedia.ch, openacc...@wikimedia.it Dear all, few months ago th EU proposed a public consultation on scientific information in the digital age. Many Wikimedia chapters did reply to this survey, and results are available: http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/survey-on-scientific-information-digital-age_en.pdf Let me quote just the first results: *Access to digital scientific information: scientific publications* Respondents were asked if there is no access problem to scientific publications in Europe: 84 % disagreed or disagreed strongly with the statement. The high prices of journals/subscriptions (89 %) and limited library budgets (85 %) were signalled as the most important barriers to accessing scientific publications. More than 1 000 respondents (90 %) supported the idea that publications resulting from publicly funded research should, as a matter of principle, be in open access (OA) mode. An even higher number of respondents (91 %) agreed or agreed strongly that OA increased access to and dissemination of scientific publications. Self-archiving (‘green OA’) or a combination of self-archiving and OA publishing (‘gold OA’) were identified as the preferred ways that public research policy should facilitate in order to increase the number and share of scientific publications available in OA. Respondents were asked, in the case of self-archiving (‘green OA’), what the desirable embargo period is (period of time during which publication is not yet open access): a six-month period was favoured by 56 % of respondents (although 25 % disagree with this option). *Access to digital scientific information: research data* As for the question of access to research data, the vast majority of respondents (87 %) disagreed or disagreed strongly with the statement that there is no access problem for research data in Europe. The barriers to access research data considered very important or important by respondents were: lack of funding to develop and maintain the necessary infrastructures (80 %); the insufficient credit given to researchers for making research data available (80 %); and insufficient national/regional strategies/policies (79 %). There was strong support (90 % of responses) for research data that is publicly available and results from public funding to be, as a matter of principle, available for reuse and free of charge on the Internet. Lower support (72 % of responses) was given for data resulting from partly publicly and partly privately funded research. *Preservation of digital scientific information *Responding to the question asking whether preservation of scientific information is at present sufficiently addressed, 64 % of the respondents disagreed or disagreed strongly. The main barriers signalled in this area were: uncertainty as to who is responsible for preserving scientific information (80 %); the quality and interoperability of repositories (78 %); and the lack of a harmonised approach to legal deposit (69 %). Regards, Aubrey -- Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM proposal for National Crafts Museum
Thanks Noopur to share that. On 1/26/12, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, In Delhi we have been working on a collaboration with the National Crafts Museum and the director has been helpful enough to accept our draft and forward it to the Ministry of Culture. This is a copy of the final proposal we sent her and may be used if you want to make your own proposals for the future. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crafts_Museum-Wikipedia_-_Proposal.pdf This may specially help Pranav and others trying to write one for MSA. Thank you, Warmly Noopur -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Introductory Session held in Jamia Millia Islamia on 30th Jan, 2012
JMILUG organized Wikipedia Introductory session with the help of CSIJMIhttp://www.csijmi.com/and Wikimedia-India-Delhi group. The session was informative as well as interactive. Nitika Tondon Subhashish working as consultanst in Wikimedia were speaker in the session. In upcoming days JMILUG would be planning to have a *Wikipedia Editing session* in JMI. Hope in future JMILUG would be successful in making *Wiki Club in Jamia Millia Islamia*. To see Photo Gallery Click Herehttp://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.356725394340437type=1 Here is the source link: http://www.jmilug.org/cms/?q=node/30 -- -* *Sheel Sindhu Manohar ( शील सिंधु मनोहर ) Manager JMILUG *www.jmilug.org * Founder Linux Adda *www.linuxadda.org* - ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Timeline for Wiki loves Monuments!
Dear all, If you remember, we had a few discussions about whether India wants to participate in Wiki Loves Monuments happening globally. Here is the timeline for the global movement: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline Here is a link to the dedicated mailing list for WLM-IN. You can subscribe here: http://lists.wmnederland.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wlm-in Since this is a community decision and will definitely require the Chapter's guidance and help, it would be great if we can get some discussion going. Recently, we have organized many a successful photo walks and meetups. Our participation levels have also gone up. Would it be useful to participate and sustain this enthusiasm? I am in for it and I hope all the GLAM guys also are up for it. Would love to hear what you all have to say. :) Thank you, Warmly Noopur -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II
Hii, Thanks for your response. We tried at Wikimedia-in Channel ( wikimedia India). Thank you for the information you mentioned. It will be very helpful to have volunteer system administrations. How can i help? Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 01/30/2012 07:00 AM, wikimediaindia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.orgwrote: nikita belavate niki8...@gmail.com wrote: The major technical challenge started here while uploading the images. The system would not allow upload from many people simultaneously and only one person's images were uploaded at a time ! On informing this to Dr. Nagarjuna, he mentioned about asking help from the IRC center but unfortunately, none of the wikipedians were online at that time. We tried calling few , but for some reason they cwere not available then. My sympathies and condolences on this problem! Quick question -- which IRC channels did you go into? If I know more about that, I can help encourage better 24/7 coverage. In the long run, it'll be helpful for Wikimedia to have volunteer system administrators around the world, to increase the chances that someone is online and available and can help you. And maybe you can become a sysadmin yourself! Wikimedia Labs https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Wikimedia_Labs is an effort to help grow the Wikimedia system administration community. Check it out. It's in closed beta right now and it is still under construction, but if you ask on the Talk/Discuss page for an invite, you can get one. -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
