Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos
Dear Tinu and Shiju, Thanks you both for images of Kolkata Meetup 3. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kolkata_Meetup_Dec2010 Warm regards, Jayanta Nath On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:03 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kolkata_Meetup_Dec2010 There were around 18+ attendees for the first Wikimeetup @Kolkata . I would like to express my sincere thanks to Jayanata Nath, Indranil Das Gupta Shiju Alex for all the efforts in putting things together for a successful meetup, at one of the ancient cities of India. Special thanks to Bishakha Datta Achal Prabhala for all the encouragement support in our efforts. One of us will be sending a detailed report on the meetup soon. Regards Tinu Cherian -- *Jayanta Nath* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos
Dear, We should not upload PDF any where, because we(wikipedia) are also concern about copyright and misuse material. We need online version of this article to share. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Suruchi Gupta suruchi.gupt...@gmail.comwrote: You can crop the portion of the article and the mast head if you wish to, and use it. The entire page's PDF should not be uploaded on any website because our editor says it can be misused (though I am not aware how). I shared the PDF as it is of a better quality than the scan, and gives the whole picture. :) Pls dont mind my request! On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: Can we upload it somewhere and share the link. WM-IN list doesn't allow attachments. Shiju On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Suruchi Gupta suruchi.gupt...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks so much Jayanta da. Attached is a cleaner copy of the same story page. Wish you luck! And do keep me updated of any further developments in the area too! Regards, Suruchi On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:46 AM, jayanta nath jayanta...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All, I am sharing with you todays Hindustan Times News article by Suruchi Gupta On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 8:32 PM, jayanta nath jayanta...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Tinu and Shiju, Thanks you both for images of Kolkata Meetup 3. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kolkata_Meetup_Dec2010 Warm regards, Jayanta Nath On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:03 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kolkata_Meetup_Dec2010 There were around 18+ attendees for the first Wikimeetup @Kolkata . I would like to express my sincere thanks to Jayanata Nath, Indranil Das Gupta Shiju Alex for all the efforts in putting things together for a successful meetup, at one of the ancient cities of India. Special thanks to Bishakha Datta Achal Prabhala for all the encouragement support in our efforts. One of us will be sending a detailed report on the meetup soon. Regards Tinu Cherian -- *Jayanta Nath* -- *Jayanta Nath* -- *Jayanta Nath* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos
Dear All, I am 100% support with Tinu Cherian opinion. And as per my knowledge this is first time where we meet. If truly any meet up organized in Kolkata that is our great news. I am strange I have been quite actives in both Bengali and English wikipedia about 3 year, I have never seen any wikipedia kolkata meet up page. Ok , number is not our main mission. Our mission is create a free online encyclopedia. On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:41 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Srinivas ( et all), If the mail was intended to me alone ( as per the salutation ), this below mail could have sent directly to me ( instead of india wide alias). To clarify your comments. There was no recorded history of any kolkata meetup, till then. That is why I took the liberty of calling the meetup as 1 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata1 ) . I have created the page announced it ( with link) on the India alias too, very long back. Nobody have informed me/ Shiju or the other organizers ( 2 of them from Kolkata only) about it when we created the Kolkata meetup page. I trust you also didn't know about it till then. Having said that, this wasn't intended to take away any credit of someone... When we thought of a Chennai meetup this year, I remembered the wikicamp , Chennai in 2007 and created a page for this Chennai1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai1( just to record the historical data) and called the Nov 2010 meetup as Chennai2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai2 . There may be even more meetups that actually happened between Chennai1 Chennai2. Bangalore 3rd meetup (held at my home and attended was by you also ) was called Meetup3 , as there were 2 pages for Bangalore and Bangalore2 already created. We are still not sure whether Blore2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore2had actually taken place, but still we created the new meetup page as Bangalore3 If you still have objections on numberings, please move Kolkata1 to Kolkata2 and create a page for Kolkata1. Please get in touch with your friend to get more details on that meetup. That will help us all in knowing more about it. Please understand these numberings are primarily for tracking purposes and creation of pages.. What matters more is not the numbering or the naming, but the efforts purpose behind organizing such meetups . Hope that explains it better. Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:47 PM, guru brahma wiki...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Dear Tinu, from what I understand, an earlier Wikimeetup happened at Kolkata more than a year ago in Joka. I was informed of this by a participant at that earlier event who had expressed inability in attending the current meetup on the relevant page. I met her at a conference in Bangalore recently and got to know this. We may want to exercise caution in branding events as the first meet-up etc., meet-up should suffice. Regards, Srinivas Gunta. -- *From:* CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com *To:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Tue, 14 December, 2010 7:03:13 PM *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos Wikipedia Wikimeetup1 @ Kolkata, Dec 2010 Photos http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kolkata_Meetup_Dec2010 There were around 18+ attendees for the first Wikimeetup @Kolkata . I would like to express my sincere thanks to Jayanata Nath, Indranil Das Gupta Shiju Alex for all the efforts in putting things together for a successful meetup, at one of the ancient cities of India. Special thanks to Bishakha Datta Achal Prabhala for all the encouragement support in our efforts. One of us will be sending a detailed report on the meetup soon. Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth Twitter : jayantanth ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Inbuilt typing solution for Bengali Wiki projects - Transliteration
Dear All, We have introduced three In-build Bengali Keyboard in Bengali Wikipediahttp://bn.wikipedia.orgfor Bengali typing without installation any software in your PC/laptop at any platform like Windows,Linux, Mac. Please type your any document with this tool, give us feed back for BUG. The three tools are 1. Avro Phonetic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Keyboard 2. Inscript Layout ( standardized by Government of India)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InScript_keyboard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InScript_keyboard 3. National Keyboard ( http://www.bcc.net.bd/Nkb/kb.htmstandardized by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InScript_keyboardGovernment of Bangladesh)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InScript_keyboard *Note:* You have to bypass your browser's cache to see the changes. *Internet Explorer:* hold down the Ctrl key and click the Refresh or Reload button. * Firefox:* hold down the Shift key while clicking Reload (or press Ctrl-Shift-R). *Konqueror* and *Safari* users can just click the Reload button. For details and instructions about other browsers, see Wikipedia:Bypass your cache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bypass_your_cache. *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth Twitter : jayantanth ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India specific banners in en wiki, meta
Dear all, I have create a banner for Kolkata Meet-Up/10th Anv/workshop http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bengali_Wikipedia_Meetup_Bannar-v1.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bengali_Wikipedia_Meetup_Bannar-v2.svg Please send comments/suggestion On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:26 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Today, I could see India specific promo banners in en wiki, meta wiki. Are these geo-targeted banners? It will be great then. Would like to know more details on creating more such banners. Thanks, Ravi ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth Twitter : jayantanth __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Anniversary event in Nutandih, kuilapal, West Bengal, India
Dear All, Another page create from West Bengal, but there insufficient description regarding meet. It may be misguided to other people.So I have left a note on the author's talk page get in touch on the official West Bengal, Kolkata event, if they are interested in supporting the official event. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutandih,_kuilapal,_West_Bengal,_India -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth Twitter : jayantanth __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiX-l] India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10
PNG version is not editable in Inkscape. If main creator create with Inkscape and share the same file , then it fine for editing. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Kolhapuri ppdixit+w...@gmail.comppdixit%2bw...@gmail.com wrote: You can use Inkscape on Ubuntu to edit files in SVG format. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Swapnil Narendra swapnilnaren...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, I use Ubuntu and thus I work on GIMP. So I dont know how to create .SVG files. How about if I send you after converting them into .PSD files and then you can convert them into .SVG. Or you can tell me how to make .SVG files and I will send all the files again after converting them. Thanks. :) Regards, Swapnil Narendra http://swapnilnarendra.daportfolio.com/ -- *From:* Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org *To:* Planning for WP 10th anniversary wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org *Cc:* Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Tony Thomas tony.tho...@oneindia.co.in; Swapnil Narendra swapnilnaren...@yahoo.com *Sent:* Wed, 12 January, 2011 11:28:58 AM *Subject:* Re: [WikiX-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10 Thanks for sharing - would definitely be appreciated if we had .SVG formats to use. We're encountering this problem with some of the really beautiful stuff people have uploaded on the Wikipedia 10 gallery on Commons - lots of great stuff, but it's all PNG, which means we can't print them off as big banners :( So if anyone has the ability, would be great if you could also upload SVG versions alongside PNGs. Even if we can't get it done in time, would be great to have these as part of the historical record. thanks! On Jan 11, 2011, at 8:35 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote: In-line :- On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:48, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am sharing the artwork for Wikipedia 10[1] which can be used in case you are printing banners etc.I would add more to this album. Thanks a lot Swapnil / Tony for getting these ready , great if we get some more :) Others interested please feel free to reuse and remix. Hi Srikanth, Just have to say Wow. We have been looking for banners and that's a pretty cool set. The only issue seems to be they are .jpg format. For instance http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/b490xQZPNdtvp8QM3MYIyQa6_cLq7Y_qUKXLZstmJ-I?full-exif=true It would be cool/better if you could put them as an .svg or something. Also if there is somebody who could perhaps put Wikipedia Turns or something with the same thing in Devanagri script. PS : I have shared it under CC, I am just lazy to upload to commons, will do so in the night. [1] http://picasaweb.google.com/srik.lak/WikipediaXLogosAndBanners?authkey=Gv1sRgCIbx9MjK9Y3_9gE# Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me just my 2 paise :) -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 ___ WikiX-l mailing list wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- regards, Pratik Dixit - http://mr.wikipedia.org - ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth Twitter : jayantanth __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiX-l] India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10
Dear Srikanth.L, Could please share with us source copy of all file? All files are low resolution, it cant be print as big banner for our Kolkata W10. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Swapnil Narendra swapnilnaren...@yahoo.com wrote: so does that mean that files created in GIMP cant be printed in big sizes ? Regards, Swapnil Narendra http://swapnilnarendra.daportfolio.com/ -- *From:* jayanta nath jayanta...@gmail.com *To:* Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Cc:* Tony Thomas tony.tho...@oneindia.co.in; Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org; Planning for WP 10th anniversary wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Thu, 13 January, 2011 10:36:53 AM *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiX-l] India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10 PNG version is not editable in Inkscape. If main creator create with Inkscape and share the same file , then it fine for editing. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Kolhapuri ppdixit+w...@gmail.comppdixit%2bw...@gmail.com wrote: You can use Inkscape on Ubuntu to edit files in SVG format. On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Swapnil Narendra swapnilnaren...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, I use Ubuntu and thus I work on GIMP. So I dont know how to create .SVG files. How about if I send you after converting them into .PSD files and then you can convert them into .SVG. Or you can tell me how to make .SVG files and I will send all the files again after converting them. Thanks. :) Regards, Swapnil Narendra http://swapnilnarendra.daportfolio.com/ -- *From:* Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org *To:* Planning for WP 10th anniversary wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org *Cc:* Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org; Tony Thomas tony.tho...@oneindia.co.in; Swapnil Narendra swapnilnaren...@yahoo.com *Sent:* Wed, 12 January, 2011 11:28:58 AM *Subject:* Re: [WikiX-l] [Wikimediaindia-l] India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10 Thanks for sharing - would definitely be appreciated if we had .SVG formats to use. We're encountering this problem with some of the really beautiful stuff people have uploaded on the Wikipedia 10 gallery on Commons - lots of great stuff, but it's all PNG, which means we can't print them off as big banners :( So if anyone has the ability, would be great if you could also upload SVG versions alongside PNGs. Even if we can't get it done in time, would be great to have these as part of the historical record. thanks! On Jan 11, 2011, at 8:35 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote: In-line :- On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:48, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am sharing the artwork for Wikipedia 10[1] which can be used in case you are printing banners etc.I would add more to this album. Thanks a lot Swapnil / Tony for getting these ready , great if we get some more :) Others interested please feel free to reuse and remix. Hi Srikanth, Just have to say Wow. We have been looking for banners and that's a pretty cool set. The only issue seems to be they are .jpg format. For instance http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/b490xQZPNdtvp8QM3MYIyQa6_cLq7Y_qUKXLZstmJ-I?full-exif=true It would be cool/better if you could put them as an .svg or something. Also if there is somebody who could perhaps put Wikipedia Turns or something with the same thing in Devanagri script. PS : I have shared it under CC, I am just lazy to upload to commons, will do so in the night. [1] http://picasaweb.google.com/srik.lak/WikipediaXLogosAndBanners?authkey=Gv1sRgCIbx9MjK9Y3_9gE# Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me just my 2 paise :) -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 ___ WikiX-l mailing list wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- regards, Pratik Dixit - http://mr.wikipedia.org - ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Liam Wyatt's visit to India
Dear All, What about Kolkata? We have already finalized a meet-up 12 Feb. We are more expecting him from Kolkata community. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata3 On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Wikimedians, It's a pleasure to inform you all that Liam Wyatthttp://www.wittylama.com/will be visiting India between 12th and 19th Feb to focus on GLAM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAM_%28industry_sector%29related initiatives here. Liam's visit to India is intended to support wikimedia communities to explore the possibilities of collaborating with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) in strengthening articles on wikipedia of mutual interest. Liam recently became a Wikimedia Fellow - http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/19/announcing-our-glam-fellow-liam-wyatt/ Liam was the wikipedian in residencehttp://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2010/07/10/the-royal-cup-bridges-wikipedia-and-the-british-museum/ at the British Museum last year. Liam has been focussed on GLAM and was the convener of the GLAM-WIKI http://www.wikimedia.org.au/wiki/GLAM-WIKIevent held in Australia in August 2009. It is great to have Liam visiting us. He will be visiting Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. We hope to make the most of Liam's visit to create more awareness for GLAM amongst wikipedians and connect with GLAM stakeholders wherever possible. Liam will also be speaking at the ICLAMhttp://www.nift.ac.in/ICLAM_2011/index.htmconference on the 15th. For coordinating events during his visit, I have create a GLAM project page on the India wiki, to help us all get started: http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Projects:GLAM_2011 There are city specific pages, each of which has a planning page. We look forward to all your support and active participation to organize events and meeting in various cities. Wikipedians are requested to join the discussions in the planning pages for each city. . regards Arun Bangalore, India www.twitter.com/arunram ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
I am from Kolkata West Bengal ( Bengali Wikipedia). I would like to know what kind of support want from me and vice versa regarding membership. On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: Thank you, Tinu. Praveen, we probably have been less than ideal in our communication and we still trying to find our feet here. Suggestions are welcome, please. As for membership, as soon as we have our bank account which should happen in four weeks or so. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 30 January 2011 07:57, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Changed the subject line again.. ( Subject deviation again :) ) Hi Praveen, May I ask , what is not really clear about the chapter ? Wikimedia India chapter is registered now as a legal entity in India [1] in Jan 2010 ; there is an Executive committee with 7 members , the office bearers are [2] Arun Ramarathnam, President ; BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Secretary ; Arjuna Rao Chavala, Treasurer etc May be it is time for the chapter to open up the membership to the community? or even making the agenda meeting minutes of the Wikimedia India chapter EC available to all like the Wikimedia Foundation Board [3] ( so that these confusions to common Wikimedians can be avoided) ? If there are still any misunderstandings/unclear things, the EC members must be happy to answer them. I'm all excited to see the Wikimedia India chapter getting more active and the chapter community working closely in the coming days. [1] http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Chapter_Registration_accomplished [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-PostChapComVer [3] http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings Regards Tinu Cherian N.B. I am not speaking on behalf of the chapter , neither am I a EC member/ordinary member. My understandings are based on various threads on the mailing lists. On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:40 AM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: I like that incidental fallout phrase. ;-) I can now understand why chapter and none of its activities are clear to common wikimedian. :) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
@Praveen,Chapter just now created. So in future there must be openness for all issue. Anyone can join our advocacy programme without edit wikimedia. Nos of edit is not criteria. The chapter created as society so there must be voting system. So not worry!! On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 30 January 2011 11:39, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, I think a concrete foundation is necessary to create a body. Well, that does exist in the aims and objective in the MoA that is up on Meta and while those are broad, direction-ary goals, it behooves upon us all to detail them. Fair, But I think not enough :( I respect your criticism. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter
yes we need to move ASAP to Wikimedia server to use commons images. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:00 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: That is an excellent idea, Sue. But I believe the site , as of now, doesn't allow file uploads. Time to move to Wikimedia servers, so that commons images can be reused directly? Will also help if we are hosting our future India newsletters on wikimedia.in ... I have also added the office positions, per MoA , to http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Executive_Committee_Members. How about a short bio like foundation website on Board members Adv Board members ? Regards Tinu Cherian On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:44 AM, Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 30 January 2011 03:04, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Following is a list of activities (compiled by ArunRam for an internal discussion) of the chapter prior to registration (which itself turned out to be a huge exercise): Hi Sundar, Thanks so much for sending that list, and thanks to ArunRam for creating it -- I found it really useful. I don't spend a lot of time on this mailing list, or on the Indian chapter wiki, and it helped me feel caught up :-) Here's a small suggestion, which you should ignore if you like. Personally, I'd love if the chapter would post photos of its Executive Committee members on the site here: http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Executive_Committee_Members. I think I've probably met half of the Executive Committee members over the years, but it'd be easier for me to mentally keep faces attached to names if there were images on the wiki. Feel free to ignore that, if it'd be a hassle. Thanks, Sue -- Sue Gardner Executive Director Wikimedia Foundation 415 839 6885 office 415 816 9967 cell Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google Translation on Indian language Wikipedias Paid editing
In Bengali Wikipedia is not like ban, but we thoroughly watch/check the quality of translated content. If translation quality is not standard Bengali, we not accept. Most of the times we faced junk translation from Google translator. If any one translate English Wikipedia content to Bengali Wikipedia with proper Bengali content we would accept. On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:31 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Yesterday I was asked some tricky questions by a journo. They were something like this : * Does the surge of number of Indian language Wikipedia articles has anything to do with paid translations by Google ?* * * *Why should regular Wikipedians be motivated to contribute when Google pays to do the same ?* I didn't answer them due to the sensitivity of the issue. But I am now curious on a statistical point of view. I am not referring to the philosophical question on whether paid editing is good or bad. But is there a way to find how many of the articles created in last year were created by normal editors/bots and Google translators in each of the Indian language Wikipedias? Somebody told me , the translators are supposed to leave the translate URLs of Google in the edit summaries to get paid? Which are the languages on which Google translations are happening ? I know it happens on Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu, at least. Any other ? I know it is banned to Bengali Malayalam. Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meet-up in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) - Kolkata
Thank you Shirish, It was mistake 2011/2/5 shirish शिरीष shirisha...@gmail.com In-line :- On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 13:17, jayanta nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, An Wikipedia Meet-up/Workshop arranged by Wikimedia India (West Bengal) and in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Kolkata Campus) has been held on Saturday,12th February 2011 3 PM at Saltlake, EP Block, Sector V,Kolkata, West Bengal,India. Mr. Jayant, Your attention please, should it be 'has been' or should it be 'is being held' From :- An Wikipedia Meet-up/Workshop arranged by Wikimedia India (West Bengal) and in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Kolkata Campus) has been held on Saturday,12th February 2011 3 PM at Saltlake, EP Block, Sector V,Kolkata, West Bengal,India. to An Wikipedia Meet-up/Workshop arranged by Wikimedia India (West Bengal) and in association with Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (Kolkata Campus) is being held on Saturday,12th February 2011 3 PM at Saltlake, EP Block, Sector V,Kolkata, West Bengal,India. For other details and register yourself add your name Attending section at wikipage below http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata3 The details tentative schedule 1500 Opening Speeches Wikipedia FOSS Culture Speaker 1(Mr Indranil Das Gupta) Crowdsourcing Speaker 2 (Rimi B Chatterjee) Wikimedia India chapter updates Mr. Jayanta Nath 1600 Panel Discussion World's Strongest Medium Sumit Roy TBD Ranjit Goswami (tentative) 1715 Open Floor Discussion 1730 Snack Break 1745 Wiki Workshop Mr. Jayanta Nath 1815 Closing lecture 1830 Wiki next Meetup discussion With Warm Regards, Jayanta Nath Wikimedia India,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Communication from the Executive Committee regarding first meeting
/Wikimedia_India_Chapter_Executive_Committee_Members On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Member, Wikimedia Chapter That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bengali wiki in Dec 2010
The Bot WikitanvirBot_I http://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/user:WikitanvirBot_I is redirected ( http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/editsummary/index.php?name=WikitanvirBot+Ilang=bnwiki=wikipedia) on December 2010. On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:14 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Indicates some heavy maintenance activity. One indicator is that there's 231% growth in the number of redirects. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture *From:* Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com *To:* Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org *Sent:* Thu, February 10, 2011 10:58:51 AM *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Bengali wiki in Dec 2010 I was going through the monthly statistics and found Bengali wiki has had 114k edits in December!. New articles number has remained steady but the edits have spiked 7 times in that month. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaBN.htm I am curious. Was there some sort of automated cleanup going on? Can Bengali wiki editors enlighten me. regards Bala ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia lesson in Maharashtra class 7 textbook
Thats great by Maharastra Govt. On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote: Great to see! On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:32, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: This is awesome :) On Wednesday 16 February 2011 10:25 AM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: hi, Was very surprised to see a lesson on Wikipedia in my brother's 7th std text book today. Picture - http://twitpic.com/40b7oj The content is concerning Wikipedia - compares it with an encyclopedia, details about volunteers contributing to Wikipedia, talks about the presence of Indic language Wikipedia, talks about vandalism. It has the following sub-topics: 1. Introduction 2. What is an encyclopedia? 3. What is Wikipedia? 4. How is Wikipedia created? 5. sidebar: general info on Wikipedia wef September 2009 6. sidebar: How is Wikipedia different from an encyclopedia printed on paper? 7. vandalism 8. Wikipedia policy 9. Request an article warm regards, Pradeep ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Kolkata Wikipedia Meetup/Workshop at IIFT- Short Report
Dear Wikimedians, Here is my a short report of the Kolkata Wikipedia meet up workshop for wikipedia projects that was held on 2011 February 12 at *Indian Institute of Foreign Trade*(Kolkata Campus)* *Saltlake, EP Block, Sector V,Kolkata,West Bengal. The Meet up and workshop was attended by more than 25 participants. The workshop was divided into two sessions. The first session was an introductory presentation about Wikipedia, and wikiprojects. In the second session we introduced Wikipedia editing to the participants. The participants asked many questions about wiki, Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia, sister projects and so on. They also asked some queries regarding directorial board, why pages are protected, policies, and so on. The participants are introduced to wikipedia editing with wikimarkup in a simple way. Kolkata wiki community is planning to organize many more workshops in the near future. For details http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata3 Meetup images http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kolkata_Feb2011 With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] How to add a logo for WIkipedia Odia
Hi Subhashish, I am from Bengali wiki, 1. Create logo from (base http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0 ) in svg format and upload commons. 2. Export in PNG and upload commons. 3.submit bug in Bugzilla regarding apply your logo. I can help you if you translate Wikipedia the free Encyclopedia in Odiya in Odira scrip. all logos can found at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_logo_in_each_language On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am Subhashish [[User:Psubhashish]] , want to upload a logo for Odia (Oriya) Wikipedia, http://or.wikipedia.org , please guide me the procedure or that. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] (OT) On the importance of Unicode
In West Bengal there are no Govt announcement regarding Unicode and KB layout.Our Govt are still in the ASCII era in all department. But they adopted Unicode by *Society for Natural Language Technology Research* (NLTR) (http://www.nltr.org/) and released Baishakhi Linux 2.0http://www.nltr.org/SNLTR/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=118Itemid=119(inbuilt unicode supported all Indic Language as like other Linux distro) .The society has been seeded by the Govt. of West Bengal (Dept. of Information Technology) with initial funding and support. NLTR promote Bengali computing through Unicode and Baishakhi KB which is more similear as Inscript Bengali. But my personal experience is not very good, when I go any govt office in West Bengal( Writers' Buildinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers%27_Building), they use Windows OS (pirated?), ASCII Bengali interface like i-leap and Bijoy etc. I dont know why they funded for Baishakhi Linux 2.0http://www.nltr.org/SNLTR/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=118Itemid=119? On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 24 February 2011 10:12, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: Even though Central Government has adopted Unicode as the encoding standard, the case is not the same with most State Governments. As far as I know only few state goverments (Tamil Nadu, Punjab, Kerala,...) had adopted Unicode standard. Many are still in the ASCII era. Thank you, Shiju. A question - what are the hesitancies for Governments to move to Unicode as the encoding standards? Is it the tools they use? The workflow? A legacy issue - we'll never be able to open our old files? I'm trying to map this space out - it's just that I am coming to see it as being really really important and want to try and do something here. Also, the GoI is slowly making some noises about standards and openness etc. and I am hoping this are small points that can add up. For example, the TAGUP report: http://finmin.nic.in/reports/TAGUP_Report.pdf From the Executive Summary: Chapter 6 points out some key design considerations for the solution architecture. The solution architecture should be designed to be flexible, reusable, extensible by stakeholders, and free of vendor lock-in. Given that many Government projects touch end-users such as citizens and firms, the Government should also play an active role in promoting banking and accessibility for all. This can form the basis of a platform for delivery of services. Chapter 7 addresses openness in implementation of Government IT projects. It describes the relevance of open standards, open data, and open source. The Government should not only be a consumer, but also strive to produce and facilitate open standards, open data, and open source. It also suggests the creation of an open source foundation for open sourcing software from Government projects. Give me a little hope. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] How to add a logo for WIkipedia Odia
Thanks Asutosh. Thats fine . On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 8:11 PM, asutosh kar kar.asut...@gmail.com wrote: logo created, uploaded in commons and wikipedia 2.0 page and also bug raised on bugzilla http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia-logo-V2-or.png hope will be done in a days or two thanks all for help and pointers. regards On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Thanks for your quick response, here is what I have made, I think I need to change it a little bit and which format and what size Wikipedia supports. Subhashish Panigrahi* ସୁଭ ପା* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal +91 9836294438 Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wbhttps://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Women's Wiki Workshop Announce
This is to invite you to a collaborative initiative of Sanhita, Gender Resource Centre and Wikimedia Foundation on the issue of Women, Information Technology. The initiative aims at exploring the use Bangla Wiki to make information on women's rights issues easily accessible to existing potential users. Sanhita is inviting representatives from various education institutes to a brainstorming session to develop strategies of involving institutes and young women students with this process. Sanhita also looks forward to motivating reasearchers, academicians, women rights activists to contribute to Bangla Wiki thereby creating resources on gender issues in the Bengali language! This workshop will be held on March 18, 2011 at the Seagull Art Media Resource Centre located at Bhawanipur, Calcutta. We are looking forward to your participation cooperation to make the initiative a success! *Date:* March 18, 2011 *Time:* 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm * * *Venue:* The Seagull Arts Media Resource Cente. 36 C, S P Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700 025 Nearest Metro stop: Jatin Das Park (Rupchand Mukerjee Lane Between Bharati and Bijoli Cinema Hall) Other details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata4 Join us on Facebook and follow the updates at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=151389684922080 Thanking you With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-bn ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Discussion about deletion of a photo
Dear sankarrukku Sir, Hello sir how are you? Regarding your comments *we can not upload the photograph of any old Indian painting or sculpture to Wiki Commons*. I am just clarifying you that can do that. You you have to prove that those images are *old Indian painting or sculpture* by proper source and painter and *sculpture name.* Just I want to mention that According to The Indian Copyright Act, 1957http://www.education.nic.in/CprAct.pdf(Chapter V Section 25), Anonymous works, photographs, cinematographic works, sound recordings, government works, and works of corporate authorship or of international organizations enter the public domain 60 years after the date on which they were first published, counted from the beginning of the following calendar year (ie. as of 2011, works published prior to 1 January 1951 are considered public domain). Posthumous works (other than those above) enter the public domain after 60 years from publication date. Any other kind of work enters the public domain 60 years after the author's death. Text of laws, judicial opinions, and other government reports are free from copyright. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: The follow-up mail to the previous one. Again please cc him on replies. Bishakha -- Forwarded message -- From: Sankar Viswanathan sankarru...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:36 PM Subject: Re: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mahasaraswati.jpg To: Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com Thank you, Bishaka. Posting to the India list would be ideal. But I do not know how to do it. Sankar Service to Humanity is Service to God On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Sankar Viswanathan sankarru...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Bishaka, Thank you for your response to my mail. The discussion is still going on. But the dice is loaded in favor of deletion. There are certain points which were raised in the discussion. Wikipedia is paranoid about Copyright. Of course this is a result of the U.S law and any number of cases. There was a time when any image available on the web was accptable to Wikippedia. I think they had some problems then. Of course there are some people who take delight in Deletion. Kind of a sadism. So to keep such images in Commons, either Indian government or Commons needs to have a policy addressing all pictures for which original authorship is unknown, or at the least about paintings of God which is widely available. Until then, we can either assume good faith and keep this image or start a new mass DR for all the images in the category Hindu deities. Indian government will not do anything. But Wiki Commons can do something. Another thing which is surprising is there is no assumption of Good faith. I am a volunteer. How do I benefit by the uploading of the image? Actually most volunteers like me do end up by spending money, because my internet connection is not free. I do not use an internet connection provided by any organization. This atitude of there is no assumption of Good faith will put off many people. I can not imagine anybody from India suing Wikipedia over an obscure painting in a temple. Now they are quoting the U.K law on which the Indian law is modelled to say that Wall paintings are not covered. This would effectively stop upload of many of the paintings in temples. But in India in a public temple, the installed idol itself is held to be the temple’s legal owner, and the beneficiaries—those to whom the endowment is dedicated --—are the general public. Does this change the position? I wonder. I have posted this. I am having another problem with this image. There is one person called Pebble101 who is bent on deleting this image from the article.He deleteds it time and again for no reason. He could be the author of the last unsigned remark on the deletion page. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saraswatiaction=history The problem is there is nothing I can do. When I had such problems earlier I was asked to go for Arbitration. I thought I had to share my concerns with some one. Thank you. Sankar Service to Humanity is Service to God ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Discussion about deletion of a photo
I am sharing you some old painting and photographs category at commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Indian_paintings_in_the_Los_Angeles_County_Museum_of_Art http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Historical_images_of_Kolkata On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:17 AM, jayanta nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Dear sankarrukku Sir, Hello sir how are you? Regarding your comments *we can not upload the photograph of any old Indian painting or sculpture to Wiki Commons*. I am just clarifying you that can do that. You you have to prove that those images are *old Indian painting or sculpture* by proper source and painter and *sculpture name.* Just I want to mention that According to The Indian Copyright Act, 1957http://www.education.nic.in/CprAct.pdf(Chapter V Section 25), Anonymous works, photographs, cinematographic works, sound recordings, government works, and works of corporate authorship or of international organizations enter the public domain 60 years after the date on which they were first published, counted from the beginning of the following calendar year (ie. as of 2011, works published prior to 1 January 1951 are considered public domain). Posthumous works (other than those above) enter the public domain after 60 years from publication date. Any other kind of work enters the public domain 60 years after the author's death. Text of laws, judicial opinions, and other government reports are free from copyright. On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 11:50 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: The follow-up mail to the previous one. Again please cc him on replies. Bishakha -- Forwarded message -- From: Sankar Viswanathan sankarru...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 10:36 PM Subject: Re: Commons:Deletion requests/File:Mahasaraswati.jpg To: Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com Thank you, Bishaka. Posting to the India list would be ideal. But I do not know how to do it. Sankar Service to Humanity is Service to God On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Sankar Viswanathan sankarru...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Bishaka, Thank you for your response to my mail. The discussion is still going on. But the dice is loaded in favor of deletion. There are certain points which were raised in the discussion. Wikipedia is paranoid about Copyright. Of course this is a result of the U.S law and any number of cases. There was a time when any image available on the web was accptable to Wikippedia. I think they had some problems then. Of course there are some people who take delight in Deletion. Kind of a sadism. So to keep such images in Commons, either Indian government or Commons needs to have a policy addressing all pictures for which original authorship is unknown, or at the least about paintings of God which is widely available. Until then, we can either assume good faith and keep this image or start a new mass DR for all the images in the category Hindu deities. Indian government will not do anything. But Wiki Commons can do something. Another thing which is surprising is there is no assumption of Good faith. I am a volunteer. How do I benefit by the uploading of the image? Actually most volunteers like me do end up by spending money, because my internet connection is not free. I do not use an internet connection provided by any organization. This atitude of there is no assumption of Good faith will put off many people. I can not imagine anybody from India suing Wikipedia over an obscure painting in a temple. Now they are quoting the U.K law on which the Indian law is modelled to say that Wall paintings are not covered. This would effectively stop upload of many of the paintings in temples. But in India in a public temple, the installed idol itself is held to be the temple’s legal owner, and the beneficiaries—those to whom the endowment is dedicated --—are the general public. Does this change the position? I wonder. I have posted this. I am having another problem with this image. There is one person called Pebble101 who is bent on deleting this image from the article.He deleteds it time and again for no reason. He could be the author of the last unsigned remark on the deletion page. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saraswatiaction=history The problem is there is nothing I can do. When I had such problems earlier I was asked to go for Arbitration. I thought I had to share my concerns with some one. Thank you. Sankar Service to Humanity is Service to God ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia
Great work! How do we add same feature in other Indic wikipedia like Bengali/Odia ? With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-OR] Wish you a happy Odisha Dibasa, the foundation day of Odisha
Congratulation Subhashish. And we need to finish basic core article in Odia Wikipedia, Orissa, India, Odissi, History of Orissa etc... And another reminder, don't rat-race with Other Indic Wikipedia about number of Article. Keep concentrate content/quality of article. If we have 700 article, we should have good content. -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Telegraph , Calcutta : Regional Wiki
Thanks Tinu for sharing. -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] Join Wikimedia Delhi chapter
Thanks Salmaan for sharing this information about Vibhijain. I am so far from East of India, where still WMF India Chapter is not so functioning.In spite of that I want to said that we have no need to another sub chapter. We need to get more work done only. Jayanta Nath Calcutta user:jayantanth ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Jimbo at WikiConference 2011
Congrats very very good news for us as well as Mumbai/Pune community. On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Congrats. Very happy to hear this. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com 2011/6/10 wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com Hi All, As Pradeep announced late last night, Jimmy Wales (aka Jimbo, Founder, Wikipedia and Member of Global Board of Trustees) was approached by the Mumbai/Pune Community along with other supporters from various parts of the country requesting him to attend the First National WikiConference in India later this year. *Late last night we received a response from Jimbo expressing availability on 18-19-20 November 2011.* There is consensus among the Mumbai/Pune Community that we reschedule the conference dates in order to facilitate Jimbo's presence. I am sure the entire Indian Community (and the Chapter) will be extremely pleased to host Jimbo for this event. This is a big push for us now to go ahead with this benchmark event and do conduct it in the best possible way. Kind Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released
Great work done by Malayalam Wiki Community. Keep it up!! -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia
*In Bengali * - মুক্ত বিশ্বকোষ *(Mukta Bishwakosh*), মুক্ত (Mukta) = means free and বিশ্বকোষ *(Bishwakosh*) means encycopedia ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India wiki re-design
I can try for re-design, but main issue is this website very unstable and bug. On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: I can help redesign the wiki main page. But would help if you people say what do you want (as if: I would like if the main page was like WM XX wiki main page) And I agree with Salmaan, there are no point in keep wikimedia.in and wiki.wikimedia.in separated. but I would do the oposite (ie: redirect wiki.wikimedia.in to wikimedia.in but with the actual content - like in wikimedia.de and wikimedia.pt. A diferent portal would only be useful if was like wikimedia.fr one (in their case the wiki is almost not used at all). And talking about that: Do you people have it wikipedia.in domain? Because if a chapter would give good use to that would be you (with the thousand languages in India). You could do something like in wikipedia.fr (WMPT has the code, we are updating to place in our wikipedia.pt (now a redirect to pt.wikipedia.org). And btw: Hello people. Salmaan invited me to be here, but if i shouldn't please say so and i will leave. _ *Béria Lima* Wikimedia Portugal http://wikimedia.pt/ *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* 2011/7/4 Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com Hi Anirudh I brought up the issue with wikimedia.in domain earlier, why not have it redirect to the wiki itself and add a section for blog/news on wiki. It would seem like there would be a lot of redundancy between the two, and it would only require more work to update both separately. Either way, I have experience with smaller wikis and new mediawiki installations. I can help with the wiki itself and better organize it. Salmaan On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, The Wikimedia India portal has been up and running for a while now. I request the attention of available volunteers to help us with the Wikimedia website redesign. We mainly need help with two issues: 1. Wikimedia India wiki: The Main Page of the wiki (wiki.wikimedia.in) requires a re-design to make it look better organized and attractive. I would appreciate if volunteers with designing and HTML skills please support us with this request. We welcome all contributions and inputs, and I request you to be bold and make changes as and how you see fit. 2. Wikimedia India landing page: The wikimedia.in domain lands at a static page and the plan is to have a wordpress or drupal based platform to support a few static pages and a blog. Would appreciate if some volunteers helped us with this as well. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati +855 975 529 803 Skype: anirudhsbh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] The world in Bangla -Telegraph
Dear All, Below one news about Bengali Wikipedia in Today's Telegraph http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110717/jsp/calcutta/story_14249545.jsp *Now you can log on to Wikipedia for help on your Bengali assignments as well. **Adda or **jonaki, Rabindranath or **nesha, you can find a range of subjects in the Bengali Wiki.* * * *“The Bengali Wikipedia was launched in January 2004. At present Wikipedia is available in 273 languages, out of which 20 are Indian. Bengali was the third Indian language in which Wikipedia was made available,” says Jayanta Nath, administrator of the Bengali Wikipedia. The archive boasts of both English articles translated into Bengali as well as articles written by the team just for the Bengali archives. To access Wikipedia in Bengali, the user has to type “bn.” instead of “en.” before Wikipedia in the address bar. * * * *Because it is not just translation and has its own group working on the content, the Bengali Wikipedia has an independent character and identity. But while the English Wikipedia has 3.6 million articles, the Bengali site has only 22,000 articles. “Our strengths are famous personalities from Bengal, Bengali literature and Hindu religion,” says Nath. The user base is also considerably lower compared with the original English online encyclopaedia — 0.1 million against 1,000 million. “There are about 150 active contributors to the site from places like Bangladesh, West Bengal, the US, UAE and other places,” says Nath. * * * *The users are not always impressed. “I have checked out the Bengali Wikipedia. I find the articles in English more detailed. Plus, Bengali Wikipedia follows a very bookish Bengali, not the way we speak it. It is difficult to follow,” says Saikat Bhattacharya. * * * *An entry on **Chokh (eye) in Bengali Wikipedia reads: “**Chokh pranir alok-songbedonsheel anga o darshanendriya. (The eye is a living being’s photo-sensitive component and visual organ.)”* -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation Help for WikiConference India
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika
Congratulations to Shiju and Nitika. -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindi Wiki crossed 1 lakh Article milestone
Congratulation to Mayur and all Hindi Wikipedian!!! With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India blog site is now ready
Hi , Thanks for sharing. The design of the blog is very nice and clean. and choosing the wordpress for creating the blog is the right description. But i think there is a chance to improve the looking, overall functionality and post writing style. I have found some weak points and i am mentioning this to help in improvement. - the wikimedia logo and the name of the languages at the banner are resized in a proportional manner. - the button Join and the link it points ( http://http//wiki.wikimedia.in/Membership-FAQ) does not work properly. - the post is written in a way that it look that someone is describing to us, but no name is mentioned as the author. - i think there is FAQ section is necessary - a favicon should be added. i am not sure who has made this blog site, but i think he is in this list. just keep exploring with the wordpress, it is specialized for creating blog as well as the other type of website. These are my personal opinions, I just checked it once and i think these improvements are necessary. There is a chance to add other functionality to improve the performance. If you think that I can help you then please let me know. With Warm Regards, *Nasir Khan Saikat http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891 * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India - AGM and Election Results
Heartiest Congratulations to the all new board members, they should enrich our wikimedia movement in India. -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Fw: [Internal-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Bangladesh
Congratulation to my all of my Bangladeshi friend!! -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary
Congratulations and Best wishes to Naveen. On 10/18/11, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Wonderful. Nice to have the community reaching out to you when you're far from home :-), more incentive to come back asap. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Hearty Congratulations and Best wishes, Naveen. Regards Tinu Cherian -- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:21 AM Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Cc: Wikimedia India EC wikimedia-in-e...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi, I am glad to announce that Naveen Francis is elected as Secretary of the Wikimedia Chapter. Please join me in congratulating Naveen. Thanks Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikmedia Chapter. ___ 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 -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Facebook :http://www.facebook.com/jayantanth Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth আসুন পাইরেসি মুক্ত ভারত গড়ি,সবাই মুক্ত সফ্টওয়ার ব্যবহার করি [image: O:-)],অন্যকে ব্যবহারে উৎসাহিত করি। __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ 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] [WikiConference-India 2011] Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition
Dear Wikimedians Please note that the link for submitting the nominations is here: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011 On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Wikimedians Please note that the link for submitting the nominations is here: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011 Shiju On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Wikimedians, Please submit your nominations at the following url: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/NWR_2011 Please send in your nominations. Thank you. regards Arun On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:46 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Wikimedians, The traction for Wikimedia projects and content in Indian languages (and Indian content in English) has been growing over the last decade thanks to the passion and tireless contributions of several Wikimedians. We are getting set for WikiConference India 2011 which is around the corner. The Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee (EC) and the Conference organising team thought it is appropriate to recognize the most noteworthy contributors to Indian language projects and Indian content in English during the conference. Arun Ramarathnam and Naveen Francis from the EC are leading this initiative. The process for the recognition has been prepared and a well diversified Jury is identified. Details of the process and the Jury are enclosed for your perusal. I would like to appeal to all of you to spare few minutes to think of fellow wikimedians who made a significant difference over the first decade of Wikimedia movement and nominate them for the recognition. Further communication on the wiki based nomination form would follow from the Jury. Please spread this communication across other relevant lists and participate enthusiastically and help make this initiative,the first collective effort to appreciate stellar contributions from the community a success. Cheers Arjuna Rao Chavala President, Wikimedia India *** Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition The Recognition Wikimedia projects have been active in India for a few years and the journey has been exciting (Wikimedia Chapter First Annual reporthttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/File:WMIN-AnnualReport2010-11.pdf, Gautam John's articlehttp://gkjohn.posterous.com/thoughts-on-wikipedia-in-indiaand Wikimedia Foundation articlehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_India_Chronicles_%28150dpi%29.pdf). This has been made possible by the contributions of hundreds of Wikimedians across various Wikimedia projects. WikiConference India 2011 is the first conference and largest congregation of Wikimedians in India across Wikimedia projects. The Wikimedia India chapter Executive committee believes it would be befitting to use this opportunity to recognize noteworthy contributions of some of the best contributors to our projects. The objective of this recognition is to appreciate Wikimedians (contributing to India focused projects) from across Wikimedia projects and languages for their contributions. The nomination process - Any Wikimedian can nominate any other wikimedian of their choice for the recognition (preferred). Self nominations are also allowed. - Nominees for the Recognition should have made significant contributions to Wikimedia India projects or the movement. Contributions include content, Outreach and contributions in any other form. - Nominations should be through a filled Nomination form on the Wikimedia India wiki http://wiki.wikimedia.in/. - Incomplete nominations will not be considered. - The jury's decision would be final. Eligibility Criterion Any wikimedian other than current Members of the Wikimedia India Executive committee, members of the Jury, Wiki Conference India Office bearers, staff/contractors of the Wikimedia foundation or anyone paid directly for their time/effort by Wikimedia organisations are eligible for these recognitions. The Jury Jury constitution The chapter has constituted a Jury with members from the Chapter Executive committee, Wikimedia Foundation India office, Conference organisers and Community and other key stakeholders. Jury composition 1. Achal Prabhala 2. Arun Ramarathnam 3. Ashwin Baindur 4. Bishaka Datta 5. Hisham Mundol 6. Jayanta Nath 7. Naveen Francis 8. Pradeep Mohandas 9. Shiju Alex Jury's role and responsibility The role of the jury will be to select Wikimedians for the recognition from the nominations made. Key dates - Announcement of call for nominations to community: 9th Nov 2011, Wednesday. - Last date for nomination submission:13th Nov 2011, Sunday - Finalisation of Jury decision:17th Nov 2011, Thursday The Recognition ceremony The Chapter Executive committee will conduct a formal recognition ceremony in the WikiConference 2011 to recognise
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust
Congrats Hisham ,it is another milestone our wikimedia movement in India. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.comwrote: Glad to hear that, will definitely help programs in India. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) Steering committee, United States Education Program On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:24, Deepon Saha hideeponh...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Hisham, Looking forward to the new programs... :) Deepon On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Hisham hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: Announcement of Wikimedia India Program Trust Congratulations, Hisham. I know this has been a lot of work for you and the team over the last few months. I look forward to seeing the programs that the trust and the chapter develop together. There's tons of work to do. :-) -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ 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] Upload the presentations
Done! With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ 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] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wikipedias - Assamese
Hi Shiju, Thank you for this initiative about Assamese Wikipedia. I am personal eager to work with this community because our are using same script (Bengali). As you know that my future plan is not only in Kolkata, I want to expand Wikimedia movement to rural Bengal (India), where most of the native speakers live. We are waiting for help each other between Bengali/Assamese/Manipuri community and Foundation/Chapter to future expansion our native language in Wikipedia. -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal Wikipedia :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jayantanth _ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ 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-WB] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012'
Hi, I had already talked with Hishum regarding *Kolkata Bookfair 2012 *would be held in end of January 2012 around 12 days. For Stall booking we have to booked space . I shall give your all the details after contact with organizer of book fair PUBLISHERS BOOKSELLERS GUILD within due course. Some of our on-ground Wikipedians eager to help this event. http://www.kolkatabookfaironline.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata_Book_Fair http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=236674796360135 http://www.kolkatabookfaironline.com/application_form.php On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: When is the book fair? And can someone please forward this to the chapter? Bishakha On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Kalyan Sarkar kalyan.sar...@gmail.com wrote: I support the proposal. I think Wikimedia India chapter should earnestly consider showcasing the success in the Indic language projects, the campus ambassador programs and Wiki Conference India 2011 at the Kolkata Book Fair 2012. This would be a major outreach program, that would boost the growth of Wikimedia projects in India, eastern India and the North East in particular. Thanks and regards, Kalyan Sarkar On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: +1 Even I agree. This will be a major outreach in terms of Wikimedia India Chapter and the Wikipedia Kolkata Community. Not necessary to promote only bengali Wikipedia but even english Wikipedia can be promoted. This is a major outreach and the Chapter really needs to look into it. -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Biswarup Ganguly gangulybiswa...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Sir, The 'Kolkata Book Fair' has been organized by the 'Publishers Booksellers Guild' is one of the most prestigious and active cultural event in India for last thirty five years. It is the world's largest non-trade book fair, Asia's largest book fair and the most attended book fair in the world. Other than books it houses television, radio and other multimedia companies as well. I think that, the presence of Wikipedia in physically to the coming 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012' will be a most valuable way to reach a very large number of well learned persons to increase it's user growth. It is learned from a verbal reliable source that in 2010 the stall charge was about Rs. 500/- per squire feet. The minimum space allotted of 100 sqft. Apart from the fair space there will be other costs (viz. decorations, lights, projector computers with mobile broadband etc) involved to have the exhibition successfully. I propose for consideration to make a twelve day show to the 'Wikimedia India Chapter' for the exhibition. The detail of the guild is placed below: *** GUILD HOUSE 2B Jhama Pukur Lane, Kolkata 700 009 West Bengal, India Telephone: +91-33-2360 4588, 2354 4417 Fax: +91-33-2360 4566 E-mail: gu...@cal2.vsnl.net.in,pbgu...@vsnl.net http://www.kolkatabookfaironline.com/index.php *** With regards. -- Biswarup Ganguly Phones: +919830022449 +919433005886 ___ Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/2023/47729e92/attachment.htm ___ Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/2024/c6d5c636/attachment.htm ___ Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/2024/2588a65f/attachment.htm ___ Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-l] Creation of new language - Ahirani
Oh! 779,000 (1997) speakers ! http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ahr http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/documentation.asp?id=ahr -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ 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-WB] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012'
Hi, Thanks for the initiative Hisham and Nitika! We need some following documents before submit the application 1. Apply on our own letterhead for participation 2. name address 3. required space : stall (sq. mt) / table 4. space allotted in the last two years 5. photocopy of current trade licence catalogue 6. latest issue of the journal 7. undertaking to abide by the rules and regulations So we need help from WMF/Chapter for Point 1 and 5. They want photocopy of society registration instead of *current trade licence catalogue** .* On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Completely support the idea. The book fair seems a very good idea to reach out to those who might be interested to edit English or Bengali Wikipedia. I was going through some of the best practices in setting up a Wikipedia booth I learnt that using eye-catchers is one of the successful ways to attract attention of the attendees. Maybe we could use this idea too: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Use_eye-catchers_to_attract_attention. Would be more than happy to discuss things over a call/Skype etc. Please let me know if I can help out in anyway. Nitika On 02-Dec-2011, at 12:43 PM, Biswarup Ganguly wrote: Dear Kalyan, Thank you for your detail proposal of hiring sound system and stickers and/or caps, T-shirts etc. You are right that we need broad band connection or data card whichever is available for running the live edits, teach and show throughout the exhibition. Regards. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:44 PM, Kalyan Sarkar kalyan.sar...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Biswarup da, We need the sound system to assist the promotional videos that we would run on the TV as well as promotional events like spot edit/quiz contests. The promotional videos could either be extracts from Jimmy's inspiring speeches, clips from Wiki Conference India or small video tutorials on how to make the first edit. We can also hold spot edit contests, where a random person is selected from the crowd to make an edit. If that is a fair edit, we hand him/her a prize. We can also hold spot quiz contests, where the correct answer gets the prize. The prize could be a T shirt. In order to organize such promotional events, we need a sound system. I also think, we need internet connection or data card whichever is applicable. For promotional purposes we can also think of stickers and/or paper caps (sun guards) with Wikipedia logo. We can also sell the surplus T shirts from the Wiki Conference India programme or other merchandise if any. Thanks and regards, Kalyan Sarkar On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Biswarup Ganguly gangulybiswa...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Jayanta, It seems to be fine as a starting point of the 'Budget' to me but how the sound system be used there? Regards. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am submitting tentative budget breakup for this event... *Item* * Cost in Rs * 1 Stall Booking @9 sqm Rs 60,000.00 2 Stall decoration Rs 15,000.00 3 Furniture Rent Rs 5,000.00 4 Plasma TV 44” With Stand With DVD Player Rs 15,000.00 5 Laptop rent Rs 6,000.00 6 Sound system Rs 10,000.00 7 Transportation Rs 5,000.00 8 Food@Rs1000/day Rs 12,000.00 9 Leaflet Bengali FAQ@1 Nos Rs 20,000.00 Bengali Promotion Rs 2,000.00 English Wikipedia Rs 2,000.00 10 Hire staff/bearer @ Rs 500@12 days Rs 6,000.00 11 Banner Rs 2,000.00 12 other incidentals Rs 10,000.00 Rs 170,000.00 $ 3,296.05 http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=1From=INRTo=USD Please I would request to every of Bengali/Kolkata community,add/modify or expand as requirement above Budget breakup. On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi. Perhaps you should correct Mr Tapas: we belong in the education/reference sector, not the IT sector. And we are non-profit. It is a good idea to remind our partners that although we're based on Internet projects, we are not at all *about* the Internet, but about free knowledge, and the creation and dissemination thereof. Cheers, Asaf On Nov 26, 2011 12:10 AM, Biswarup Ganguly gangulybiswa...@gmail.com wrote: As the types of our organisation the Wikipedia goes in IT category. They will provide only the space noting else! -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/2026/ac64d351/attachment.htm ___ Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list wikimedia
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the spot Chapter membership.
Hi, There are some free and open source minded/Linux group members around Kolkata,They have some knowledge about Wikipedia's philosophy. Some of our community member wants joint on spot payment method,as like we have at WCI2011 . They are not so comfortable with other method.Although On-spot India Chapter membership is not our main* *project scope. If India community/Wikimedia India chapter feels wrong, we can withdrawn this facility from this project. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 15:39, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: 1) On-spot *India Chapter membership* for visitors if they wish. Was : Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012' I think we are going for numbers game here. Whats the point of on-spot membership? Seriously, does having 50,000 chapter members do any great thing for Wikipedia? I seriously fail to understand (in the past, future), what can the chapter do with just so many members who do not have an idea about Wikipedia community and many of whom may not go beyond attending meetups and conferences. Sorry if am sound odd here, I just dont like this part of chapter, where the chapter instead of instilling confidence in community and making them members, chooses people who attend a meetup / conference / stall to become its members.(In many cases makes someone member of chapter without having a clue about it. I personally know this since my friend who happen to accompany me to a meetup, just because he had nothing else to spend time is a chapter member now) I do not mean any offense to any of those who sign up(they may be genuinely interested, good guys), but just fail to understand what we are trying to achieve with chapter membership numbers. -- Regards Srikanth.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 -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ 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-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie)
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie)
Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell what we cover -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ 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-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie)
Hi all the Commons Category http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_Takes_Kolkata On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a resounding success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under which your uploading these pictures? Would love to see them. -- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530 From: kalyan.sar...@gmail.com To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie) We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at the CSTC Canteen and began our walk. ROUTE We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the Writers Buildings. MONUMENTS We covered the following monuments. 1. Shahid Minar 2. Metropolitan Building 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque 4. Victoria House 5. Statesman House 6. Aaykar Bhawan 7. Great Eastern Hotel 8. Central Telegraph Office 9. National Assurance Building 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor 11. Raj Bhawan 12. St. John's Church 13. General Post Office 14. Kolkata Collectorate 15. Writers' Building 16. St. Andrews Chapel STATUES 1. Lenin 2. Asutosh Mookerjee 3. Prafulla Chaki 4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy 5. Binay Badal Dinesh Please correct me if I missed out something. Thanks and regards, Kalyan Sarkar On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.comwrote: Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell what we cover -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/20111218/83081d1d/attachment.htm ___ Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ 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 -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ 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-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie)
Hi Hisham , The said image took by our Biswarup Ganguly( Gangulybiswaruphttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Gangulybiswarup ), ( look at this image Biswarup Da teach his daughter Medha http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_(7).JPG ) On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Just went through the pictures. There are so many wonderful images from the firewood seller to the sugar cane juice machine to the road-side shave to the wonderful stained glass inside of St John to Kolkata's delightfully quaint trams! Thank you so much! I am guessing the thank you should be directed to everyone in this image http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_Photowalk_-_Kolkata_2011-12-18_0009.JPG(and the photographer who took it!) You all look like you had a wonderful time! There's something cooking in the West Bengal community and it tastes sweet as sandesh! Warm Regards, hisham On Dec 21, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Kalyan Sarkar wrote: I missed the following from my mention. 17. Metro Cinema 16. United Bank of India Building 18. Emerald House 19. Kolkata High Court 20. Town Hall 21. Hong Kong House (HSBC) Thanks and regards, Kalyan Sarkar On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Deepon Saha hideeponh...@gmail.com wrote: missed it..:( On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:05 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for the report Kalyan, the first Kolkata Photowalk was a resounding success from what I gather. What is the Commons Category under which your uploading these pictures? Would love to see them. Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:01:47 +0530 From: kalyan.sar...@gmail.com To: wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org CC: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade Dalhousie) We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at the CSTC Canteen and began our walk. ROUTE We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the Writers Buildings. MONUMENTS We covered the following monuments. 1. Shahid Minar 2. Metropolitan Building 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque 4. Victoria House 5. Statesman House 6. Aaykar Bhawan 7. Great Eastern Hotel 8. Central Telegraph Office 9. National Assurance Building 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor 11. Raj Bhawan 12. St. John's Church 13. General Post Office 14. Kolkata Collectorate 15. Writers' Building 16. St. Andrews Chapel STATUES 1. Lenin 2. Asutosh Mookerjee 3. Prafulla Chaki 4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy 5. Binay Badal Dinesh Please correct me if I missed out something. Thanks and regards, Kalyan Sarkar On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell what we cover -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/20111218/83081d1d/attachment.htm ___ Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Translation request - An Indic wikipedian's appeal
Bengali too!! ___ 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] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi
Welcome, Subha! With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ 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] Come celebrate Wikipedia's 11th anniversary on 15 Jan 2012 at Kolkata
Wikipedia, the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, turns 11 on 15 January 2012! Come celebrate this joyous occasion with us at: *Atmabikash Samiti* 77, Satish Mukherjee Road, Kolkata 700026 West Bengal, India Nearest Landmarks - Two minutes from *Kalighat Metro* - Beside *Deshbandhu College for Girls* - Behind *Patanjali Chikitsalaya* *Time: 1630-1830 hours, 15 Jan 2012* The Wikipedia community is made up of everyday people from all walks of life, and we’re all united by one common mission: a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Our birthday wish for our ten years is just this: We want more people from all backgrounds to get involved, contribute, edit and grow wikipedias in all the languages of the world in which we think, speak, and dream. For more details and registration http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata8 -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ 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] Assamese wikipedia crossed the 1000 article milestone
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata W11 Meetup report
Hi Everyone, *Update on Wiki11 Meet uphttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Kolkata/Kolkata8 :* We were about 28 people together in Kolkata celebrating Wikipedia's 11th Anniversary. :) We started the meeting with a general introductory round. There were students from Jadavpur Universityhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadavpur_University, IIFT, Neetaji Subhash Chandra Bose Engineering College, some people who had joined us for the Wiki Kolkata Photo walk, a reporter from Times of India, an editor,Neelanjan Dasgupta http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ne0Freedom,(User:Ne0Freedom) who has been contributing to Wikipedia since 2005 (but it was his first Wiki meet ever), a lot of newbies who wanted to know more about Wikipedia and our various projects amongst several others. It was great to see that about 50% of the people were new to Wikipedia family and joined us on this special day. Then Nitika (We are very proud where she have came first time in kolkata and motivate us) spoke about various programs that the Trust is currently involved in. Some of the new participants wanted to know more about Wiki Loves Monuments competition, Chapters initiatives on GLAM projects, Offline Project etc. Then Bishakha introduced herself and spoke about SOPA. The introductory talks were followed by me giving a small presentation about the various programs, Wikimedia India Chapter, Bengala Wikipedia, initiatives taken by the Bengali community members etc. There were some questions about using translation tools for Wikipedia articles. We then celebrated Wikipedia 11 by cutting a yummy cake. :) This was followed by Kalyanda giving a hands on training to newbies regarding how to upload pictures on Commons, how to use a picture from Commons on Wikipedia and basic Wikipedia editing. There were lots of questions about how to add a reference, how to edit and Kalyanda addressed all these questions. We have collected names and email addresses of all the participants so thats its easy for us to follow up with them and invite them to other Wiki activites that will take place in Kolkata. *Next Steps:* 1. We are planning to organise a Kolkata photothon on the Chinese New Year, 23rd January. As you know Kolkata has the biggest China Town in India where there will be lots of celebrations on this particuylar day. Hence we have decided to go down to China town and click pictures that can be uploaded on Commons. 2. We'll try and organise a full WikiAcademy for all the newbies who joined us for the celebrations to inform them more a about Wikipedia editing. 3. We'll soon organise a Kolkata Wiki meet up for Feb and invite all the participants as plan of every month wiki meetup/workshop at Kolkata. 4. We want to start with WP: Kolkata where we all will do collaborative editing and improve/add articles about the pictures/monuments/buildings we had clicked during the previous Kolkata photo walk. Just for information, we contributed over 450 pictures on Commons as a result of this photowalk. 5. Sucheta is organising a WikiAcademy in her college, Neetaji Subhash Chandra Bose Engineering College on the 25th Jan. Over 70 students have already registered for it. Jayantada and Kalyanda are supporting her for this event. 6. Deepon is also speaking with professors/Chairman at Jadavpur University to figure out the possibility of conducting a WikiAcademy there. -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ 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] Help needed for Wiki Academy in Kolkata
Thank you Sumana, Actually we are planning for Kolkata Wikimedia Hackathon. We are staring this wiki academy[1], After that we can organised for Hackathon. [1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy/Netaji_Subhash_Engineering_College With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ 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-WB] Proposal: Wikipedia participation at 'Kolkata Book Fair 2012'
Off-topic But two bug till date not fixed https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20403 https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19412 ___ 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-WB] Seminar at Jadavpur University, Kolkata
@Indra, You can attend at Jadavpur, but we need you at our next program * * Kolkata Wikimedia *Hackathon, *which planning is going on*.* ___ 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] Supreme Court Says Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works
hi all, May be re-post, Plz look the below link http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/scotus-re-copyright-decision/ -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ 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] Building the Assamese Wiki Community - Outreach programs during next week
Awesome Shiju, Great initiatives, If there any kind of help needed, please ping me. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] [Foundation-l] REMINDER: Wikimania 2013 - invitation to bid
+1 with Tinu -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal __ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ 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] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)
Congratulations Noopur!! from Calcutta community... ___ 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] Encyclopaedia Britannica stops the print version
Hi Sudhanwa You may know, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica is public domain... http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Just curious to know the copyright status of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Those URLs say that the first one was published in 1768 !!! And its 2010 edition will be the last in print -Sudhanwa On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/encyclopaedia-britannica-stops-the-never-ending-story-as-print-editions-bite-the-dust/story-fn5h1vlf-1226299200770 http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/pageviews/2012/03/britannica-no-more-wikipedia-wins Journalists already concluded it is due to Wikipedia --Shiju Alex ___ 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 -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ 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 -- With Warm Regards, *Jayanta Nath* Calcutta,West Bengal ___ 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] Outreach session at NIT, Agartala on 31st March
Apart from ppt , If need any kind of help, please let me know. And sorry for late. And try to promote Bengali wikipedia too! Best of Luck... Jayanta ___ 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] Outreach session at NIT Agartala
Oh, Dear Deepan, You have done great job for us. I should contact with all attendee who are interested to Bengali wikipedia. https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb ___ 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] upload guide for photographers
Find some information here http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Licensing_tutorial_en.pdf On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote: is there any upload guide for new photographers? what are the required categories to set for wlm event? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Need admin rights on a few Wikipedia(s)
I am working with her. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Kalyan Sarkar kalyan.sar...@gmail.comwrote: Priyanka, Jayanta da is an admin in the Bengali Wikipedia. He can help you out. Thanks and regards, Kalyan Sarkar On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:21 PM, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 19 March 2013 05:04 PM, priyanka nag wrote: It is the citation option which is present on the English Wikipedia but missing from most other Wikipedias (actually present in none of the Indic language Wikipedia(s)). http://ml.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mediawiki:RefToolbarLocal.jsaction=history? ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Digitization workshop for Indic WikiSource enthusiasts
Same question to Subha! On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Rohini Lakshané rohini.laksh...@gmail.comwrote: Are similar workshops likely to be held in other parts of the country? http://about.me/rohini On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Dear Wikimedians, Wikimedia India in collaboration with the Centre for Internet and Society is organizing a workshop on Digitization of books for Indic language WikiSource on 18th August 2013, Sunday at the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore at 2:30 pm. Malayalam Wikimedian Viswanathan Prabhakaran is going to conduct this workshop. Anyone interested in learning about the process of digitizing old manuscripts, books and creating text based documents could join this workshop. Please log in and register in the event page to take part in this event.[1] 1. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Bangalore/Digitization_workshop_18August2013#Interested_participants -- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @psubhashish ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic print material digitization workshop query
@Sumana Harihareswara Please look the Bengali OCR https://code.google.com/p/banglaocr/ and its need to developed. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: On 08/19/2013 02:52 AM, L. Shyamal wrote: Re-posting a now outdated query from meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Bangalore/Digitization_workshop_18August2013 now that the workshop has already been conducted I think those that have attended the workshop could comment if this cover Indic language OCR-ing - if it did it would be worthwhile if the OCR software used can be documented on the meta pages or elsewhere such as Wikisource. Most of the more experienced editors here will be fairly familiar with the use of scanners for creating PDF documents and uploading them to places like the Internet Archive but the experience or knowledge of OCRs and their success rates is a bit wanting for Indic languages (fonts). best wishes Shyamal en:User:Shyamal I looked at the talk page on Meta - thank you, Shyamal! For those who do not know: OCR means Optical Character Recognition. When we want to get archival documents onto the web, it's nice to have photos of them, but it's even better to OCR them so that people can clearly read, copy, excerpt, translate, and remix the text. Is there a central list of the problems that OCR software (especially open source OCR software) has with text written in Indic languages? If so, I could help encourage people to fix those problems, as volunteers, via a Google Summer of Code/Outreach Program for Women internship, via a grant-funded project (such as https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG ), or via some other method. People who would like to make Wikisource more easily useful for Indic languages might want to contribute to the Wikisource vision development project that's going on right now: https://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource_vision_development The ProofreadPage extension (part of the Wikisource technology stack) is being worked on right now in Aarti K. Dwivedi's Google Summer of Code internship. http://aartindi.blogspot.in/ She might be interested in knowing about these issues, so I am cc'ing her. Also - just because people on this list might be interested! - if you have an old historical map that you'd like to vectorize to get it onto OpenStreetMap, try out the new Map polygon and feature extractor tool: https://github.com/NYPL/map-vectorizer -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Announcement: CIS-A2K's Train The Trainer Program
Expecting answer of question of Ashwin from CIS-A2K team !! On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Who's training, what's the syllabus? On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Nitika Tandon nit...@cis-india.orgwrote: Dear All, CIS-A2K is organising a 4 day Train the Trainer (TTT) program in Bangalore during 1st week of October 2013. The idea of the program is to build capacity and enable community members to conduct outreach sessions independently or with minimal support to introduce Wikipedia to prospective editors in their respective Indian languages. By way of this program, CIS-A2K wants to support and enable community members who might be interested to conduct Wikipedia outreach sessions in their own cities/languages. The event is open to all Wikimedia volunteers from India who can and want to support outreach events in the coming year. CIS-A2K is calling for applicants for it's Train the Trainer Program. If you'd like to be part of this program please make sure that you meet the selection criterion [1] and submit Train the Trainer Program Application From [2] by 13th September, 2013. To know more about the program, rationale, overview, timeline etc. please check the attached document or visit the Meta page.[3] We look forward to hearing from you soon. For any further queries please mail at a...@cis-india.org Thanks Nitika Tandon Program Manager Access to Knowledgehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge The Centre for Internet Society [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/TTT#Selection_Criterion [2] http://bit.ly/A2Kttt [3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/TTT ___ Wikimedia-in-en mailing list wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Kolkata Bookfair 2014-Application submitted
Dear All, Today, 11 September 2013, the application was submitted by Mr Biswarup Ganguly Me. The application is contained with; 1. The cover letter. 2. Print out registration certificate. 3. en copy of the certificate. 3. Main page of Wikimedia Foundation site. 4. Main page of en. wikipedia 5. Main page of bn. wikipedia. 6. Main page of hi. wikipedia 7. Main page of Wikimedia Chapter. It is known that the will call a meeting for finalizing the contract at late October, 2013. With regards. Jayanta Nath ___ 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-en] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities
+1 ViswaPrabha On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 2:07 AM, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.com wrote: +1 Arnav Sonara Request we all close this thread for now. Thanks. Smile everyone! On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 12:55 AM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.comwrote: It shouldn't be like this. And let me tell you just one last thing, your attitude towards your work is not right. Well, let's just say this is little too harsh and out of context. As a community we shouldn't be the one deciding on his attitude towards his work. He is as enthusiastic as you are for the movement. And I don't want you guys to respond just because I'm asking for it. Thanks for your time. We should thank you that you pointed out some discrepancies to which CIS - A2K acted (or will act). PS: I don't intend to continue this, so feel free to ignore. Ansuman ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Dec 7-8 in Delhi for articles on violence against women
Great Rohini!! Keep it up!! On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:40 AM, Niraj Suryawanshi niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: Rohini, Great job! As Vishnu said a much needed one!! Will be unable to join you, but can do my part here from Pune. Is there any possibility that we can coordinate edit remotely? Regards Thanks *Niraj Suryawanshi* +91 8149 920 120 On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Rohini Lakshané roh...@wikimedia.inwrote: Breakthrough, a global human rights organisation that runs campaigns such as Bell Bajao, and Wikimedia Chapter (India) are conducting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Delhi on December 7 and 8 for editing articles pertaining to violence against women. Facebook page of the event: http://www.facebook.com/events/181325168737101 *Basic idea behind this session*: A crucial problem with several Wikipedia articles on sexual violence, especially in the Indian context, is that often there are no articles or that articles have been deleted). It would be a knowledge advocacy session to increase gender sensitive editing in Wikipedia. The session will involve editing of articles pertaining to various aspects of violence against women in India. A list of about 10 Wikipedia articles has been drawn up for editing. The session will be live-blogged. Remote participation will be enabled through IRC channels. The edit-a-thon is a part of the 16 days of activism against gender based violence starting 25th November (International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women) to 10 December (International Human Rights Day). This is a global campaign that aims at raising awareness about gender-based violence as a human rights issue. This hackathon will be mainly focussed towards data visualisation and several organisations are providing us with statistical datasets and other kinds of data including audio and video. -- Chairperson (Special Interest Group), Gender gap, Wikimedia Chapter (India) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Kolkata Bookfair 2014
Dear All my Wikimedia friends, As you know all about that, we are participating space a stall at Kolkata Book Fair 2014 ( 29 January (Tuesday) to 9 February (Sunday) 2014. We have some thoughts of our activities below 1) On-spot India Chapter membership for visitors if they wish. 2) Distribute Chapter Brochures, Welcome to Wikipedia Brochure. 3) Distribute Bengali Wikipedia Brochures. 4) Need 3/4 dedicated volunteers for 12 days 1PM-8PM 5) Continuous running videos regarding Wikipedia ( Jimmy speech, Wikimania/WCI event images, and many more) 6) Display all banner and etc 7) Short Quiz contest for visitors. 8) QA for visitor. 9) Everyday one hour Small Workshop Anything new thought/feedback/suggestions are welcome. Jayanta Nath On behalf of Kolkata Wikimedia Team ___ 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] Kolkata Bookfair report
Dear all, Now another wrong report http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Wikipedia-stall-at-book-fair-next-year/articleshow/27695829.cms Jayanta ___ 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] Kolkata Bookfair report
KOLKATA: In an effort to enthuse people to become regular contributors to its site, Wikipedia will launch a campaign at the Kolkata Book Fairhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kolkata-Book-Fairnext year. It has already booked a stall and lined up an awareness programme to sign up volunteers. Incidentally, Kolkata fares poorly when it comes to contribute to the world's biggest online encyclopedia. At present, the city has only five contributors. Wikipedia needs people from Kolkata to contribute voluntarily not only to the mother website but also to its Bengali link, Banglapedia. We would hold workshops where we would give presentations about how to edit existing material on Wiki/Banglapedia. The biggest incentive for any contributor is that, the moment he/she writes a piece or edits something, it gets updated and is published for the world to see, explained Jayanta Nath, chief of Banglapedia. The Book Fair authorities have already sealed the deal and are looking forward to this heavyweight participant. Wikipedia's participation will add glamour to the fair, said Tridib Chatterjee, general secretary of the Publishers and Booksellers Guildhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Publishers-and-Booksellers-Guild . On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Now another wrong report http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Wikipedia-stall-at-book-fair-next-year/articleshow/27695829.cms Jayanta ___ 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] Kolkata Bookfair report
Dear Vishnu, We should published Press-Note ASAP. Jayanta On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Jayanta, It's difficult to work with journalists who may be rushing to meet submission deadlines and end up mis-quoting the facts or give wrong details :) Probably, it may help if you could do a Press-Note and send it to all the Media agencies. At least they will have the correct details in hand. All the best!! Vishnu On Saturday 21 December 2013 11:44 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote: KOLKATA: In an effort to enthuse people to become regular contributors to its site, Wikipedia will launch a campaign at the Kolkata Book Fairhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kolkata-Book-Fairnext year. It has already booked a stall and lined up an awareness programme to sign up volunteers. Incidentally, Kolkata fares poorly when it comes to contribute to the world's biggest online encyclopedia. At present, the city has only five contributors. Wikipedia needs people from Kolkata to contribute voluntarily not only to the mother website but also to its Bengali link, Banglapedia. We would hold workshops where we would give presentations about how to edit existing material on Wiki/Banglapedia. The biggest incentive for any contributor is that, the moment he/she writes a piece or edits something, it gets updated and is published for the world to see, explained Jayanta Nath, chief of Banglapedia. The Book Fair authorities have already sealed the deal and are looking forward to this heavyweight participant. Wikipedia's participation will add glamour to the fair, said Tridib Chatterjee, general secretary of the Publishers and Booksellers Guildhttp://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Publishers-and-Booksellers-Guild . On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Jayanta Nath jayanta...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, Now another wrong report http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kolkata/Wikipedia-stall-at-book-fair-next-year/articleshow/27695829.cms Jayanta ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing listwikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikisource-l] Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014
Keep it up Manoj , it's a great initiatives. We shall try the same for
Bengali wiki source .
Jayanta
On Thursday, January 2, 2014, manoj k wrote:
Dear friends,
New year wishes to all.
Wikisource project, a project of Wikimedia foundation is celebrating its
tenth anniversary. As a part of the decennary celebrations, the
Wikisource projects in various languages all over the world are conducting
competitions that enrich their contents including but not limited to proof
-reading and digitization. Being a part of it, Wikisource's Malayalam
version - Wiki Grandhasala community, a voluntary unit engaged in
collecting and digitizing valuable Malayalam books of yesteryears, is
organizing a digitization (Typing Proofreading) competition, along with
various Government as well as Non-Government establishments and other
voluntary organisations with similar interests like Kerala Sahithya
Academy, IT@ school Project, Swathanthra Malayalam Computing and Center
for Internet and Society (CIS-A2K) under the banner of Malayalam Wiki
community.. This digitisation competition is being conducted as a part of
an effort that collects Malayalam Books whose copyright date has expired in
digital form (in unicode format) preserving the content and makig them more
accessible and popular. The competition lasts for a month, starting on
January 1, 2014 and ending on Jan 31, 2014. The competition focuses
especially individuals and schools and includes some attractive prizes
including E-book readers, Tablets and selected books for those who lead
the scoreboard. In this competition, books that was recently released by
Kerala Sahithya Academy to its public collection will be digitised.
Details of the competition;There are two specific competitions
*Competition for individuals:-*
This competition is for the general public. It includes typing and
proofreading of selected books. The main aim is to attract people who are
active in social media into Wiki Grandhasala activities. Those who wish
to participate in this competition should register before January 31st
2014. Here are the pages which are to be typed in as part of this
competition.
*Competition for schools:-*
Presently many student groups, through the IT Cell of their respective
schools, participate actively in the Wiki Grandhasala effort. This
version of the competition aims to increase the participation of such
student groups. The idea is to inculcate more love for their mother tongue
among the students. The process also aims at providing awareness out aboutsuch
collaborative activities, getting them interested in computer related
areas, specifically Language Computing. Scanned copies of books that are
in public domain will be made available to the respective schools. Under
the supervision of IT@school coordinators of each school, students have
to type them and proof read, which will be added to Wiki Grandhasala.
The prizes (like E-book readers, Portable scanners) are sponsored by
Center for Internet and Society, Kerala Sahithya Academy and Swathanthra
Malayalam Computing. Also, certificates will be awarded to all students
who participate in the school level competition and IT@school coordinators
, for their coordination activities.
Those who wish to sponsor more prizes, and those who wish to makescanned/hard
copiesbooks in
the public domain availale to Wiki Grandhasala can contact
mlwikisou...@gmail.com javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
'mlwikisou...@gmail.com');.
Project Page: https://ml.wikisource.org/wiki/WS:DC2014
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/265018530322640/
Score Bord : http://balasankarc.in/ProofreadingContest/index.html
For Malayalam Wikisource Community
Manoj.K/മനോജ്.കെ
General Convener, Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The Egg
Dear All, Please have a look Today's main page in English Wikipedia at Featured pictures, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, The egg [1] which uploaded by our Our active contributor, Biswarup Gamguly. 1)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chicken_Egg_without_Eggshell_5859.jpg Jayanta ___ 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] Kolkata Bookfair wikipedia stall PTI report
Dear all, Please find the below link of PTI report about our Kolkata Bookfair wikipedia stall. http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/kolkata-book-fair-wikipedia-puts-stall-find-bengali-editors-217297.html Regards, Jayanta Nath ___ 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] CIS-A2K Work Plan for July 14-June 15
+ Ravi On Monday, April 14, 2014, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: (copy of this comment placed at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015. We can continue discussing there) Hi, Thanks for the elaborate work plan. 1. The way the budget is presented at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015#Budget is misleading. A good percent of this budget will be spent on staff salary, travel logisitics and other things which will not be there if the work is done by the community. So, this is not the actual cost needed for the desired output but the cost arising because of the involvement of paid professionals. So besides this way of presenting the budget, there should also be a regular way of presenting budget like how the chapters are asked to submit during FDC application. It can be noted that during the last round of FDC funding application, WMIN faced very strict criterion regarding infrastructure cost, staff salary cost. 2. I have an eerie feeling that the community development work in India is getting outsourced to NGOs like CIS at the cost of crippling budding local chapters like WMIN. The way Hindi Wikipedia seeks help for content management (fixing Google articles) confirms my concern. 3. Where can I find WMF's open assessment of the work done by CIS-A2K in the previous year? How is the cost for the work done justified? If the cost if justified, then the actual communities and the content they have developed on their on own are worth many crores of Indian rupees. But, we face strict guidelines when applying for grants whereas NGOs like CIS don't have that strict criterion. Ravi ___ 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] CIS-A2K Work Plan for July 14-June 15
Hi Dhaval, Lets hope ! May be WMF will answer the you questions specific. Regards, Jayanta Nath On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Asaf, Let me put everything aside and ask a few simple questions to you, as I see you as a representative of WMF here. 1. Why was WMIN denied the large portion of the grant requested and why do we have separate grant to a private organisation? 2. WMF have seen the results of previous funding to IP, which was a total disaster, why CIS was chosen and is still considered to carry out activities, even after refusing the grant for many of those tasks proposed by them (WMIN)? 3. When are you (WMF) going to stop funding CIS and any other private organisation (other than WMIN)? I will appreciate straight, short and simple answers. If they could not be answered in length of less than double of the length of question, please do not attempt. Thanks, Dhaval On 18 Apr 2014 02:20, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: I will be responding to Ravi's further questions as time permits, probably only tomorrow. In the meantime, I protest against your behavior, Ansuman. It is unacceptable. Despite multiple past recurrences of this pattern as well as past apologies, here we are again -- you lash out with wild and inflated accusations, generalizations, and hearsay; when challenged to provide details and references, you gradually back down and often admit your original allegations were entirely unfounded; nevertheless, you do not apologize or retract your original statements (alternatively, you somehow manage to apologize (as you do below) even as you attack indisciminately). This is precisely the behavior that had cost you my respect before, as you mentioned. I am interested in having good faith conversations with any community member about our India strategy. As you have seen, I have responded openly and honestly to Ravi's questions about our strategy, and those of you who have had some conversations with me before can attest I speak my mind and do not keep you guessing. I had done the same in response to your own questions previously (contrary to your assertion that I did not), but it quickly became clear you were far too bitter to be interested in actually discussing constructive ways forward. For whatever reason (perhaps a personal stake? is there some personal background you'd like to share with the community? I think so.), you are far more interested in attacking CIS and/or WMF than you are in promoting the Wikimedia mission in India and in your region and community. I will continue to engage with those members of the community interested in having a civil and fact-based conversation. (I thank Pradeep, for example, for his calm contribution to the discussion (on-wiki, where I shall respond), even as he expresses strong crticism and skepticism of the entire engagement model.) I encourage the rest of you reading this to take Ansuman's ranting with a large grain of salt. Get the facts (as distinct from empty assertions) and judge for yourselves, by all means, or reserve judgment until you do. Again, I will engage further on-wiki as soon as I'm able, but probably only tomorrow. Asaf On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:10 AM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Asaf. There are some more questionshttp://bl-1.com/click/load/BzMJPwdmWmdWMQNnCTg-b0231by Ravi, I'd like to see them answered. Thanks Ravi for the detail analysis and questions. Few questions I've asked before but nobody cared to answer till now, now being answered. :-) Which these paid employess didn't care to put up in two years is now being out! I'm extremely dissppointed, nobody (not even WMF staffs) cared to tell the community these important things, which should have been disclosed much earlier in 2012. I've asked, raised my concerns several times at meta; cisa2k talk pages, vishnu's talk page, on this mailing list. But these paid employees didn't feel the necessity to answer them!! One time someone even gone out of context and talked about costing his respect but didn't feel the necessity to respond further and tell these things.. If only WMF's intent has been clear to us and there has been transparency in this project, I wouldn't have felt the necessity to blame cisa2k for their terrible mistakes and incometencies. If only i had known that WMF doesn't expect any real outcome but just want to see how it goes, then i would not have asked those questions being rude. You have wasted so much of my time!! Even now I see no attempts to bring transparency. Clearly nobody cares!! WMF is also responsible for this lack of transparecy but they don't seem to care much. So far as per the ongoing discussion at proposal talk page, *there is no transparency, it's not been disclosed yet who was involved when this project was approved!* Few facts yet to be confirmed and questions
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50,000 mark
Till no one answer the basic question raised by Asaf, //Can you tell us a little more about this increase? Urdu Wikipedia had ~27.5k articles in February. Much bot-generated content// within a two month 27+ to 50+ ___ 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] [Wikipedia-gu] Attn: Wikisource communities - Don't waste your time typing text. Get paid.
Thank you Dhaval for confirming that , I was assuming that Gujarati
Wikisource project was coming from Gujarati wiki community. It is mean
that project is CIS own preparation So why they are not proposed for
others Indic Wikisource project like Bengali, Tamil Telugu, Marathi,
Malayalam?
Regards,
Jayanta Nath
EC WMIN
Bengali Wikisource
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Dhaval,
I am sharing the link on the Meta where this has been discussed
Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form#Questions_about_this_form_and_the_relationship_between_CIS_and_Wikimedia
Best,
Vishnu
On Friday 02 May 2014 12:38 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote:
Dear Kartikbhai,
That is not the proposal by Gujarati wiki community, it is from CIS. Also,
if you notice, in that proposal, there is no payment to the community, who
will really be putting pain in digitising/uploading/typing/correcting the
content. And on the contrary, CIS staff will be paid a reasonable share
from the grant.
I have my name mentioned in that proposal, for which I have to had provide
declaration on a discussion page of CIS's grant application. I am on my
mobile at the moment so can't find the link to it to share. If anyone wants
to see my comment, let me know and I will share the link.
Yes, of course, the idea on which CIS has built the proposal was from me,
but I had only spoken once soon after wikimenia and then came to know about
proposal just when it was ready. I have had no more involvement in that
proposal apart from initial idea, which was jointly shared by Sushant
Savla, a fellow admin on gu.wikisource.
Dhaval
On 2 May 2014 04:33, Kartik Mistry kartik.mis...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote:
Please visit the link in below email, where Wikimedia Foundation
(shortly
known as WMF) is suggesting that they are funding (in simpler term
paying)
for content upload. This is the task that we all are doing free of cost
so
far. Because you have uploaded hundreds (may be thousands) of pages so
far
as we have created 50+ books on gu.wikisource, all our efforts will be
paid
now by WMF (in fact should have been paid so far as well). If you have
any
doubt, reach out to User:Bluerasberry and User:Ijon on meta
(meta.wikimedia.org). Asaf (User:Ijon) clearly suggests that Bots are
under
the paid activity considered by WMF.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Proposal_form#Q2c
Already in progress:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Draft_Work_plan_July_2014_-_June_2015/100_Books_on_Gujarati_Wikisource
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [MediaWiki-India] Discussion about Wikimedia Hackathons / Devcamps in India / Asia
All the best Harsh. Jayanta Bangla Wikipedia On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: Good luck Harsh. Will try and be there to help figure out to help you! :-) On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:11 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the link Harsh! All the best with the Hackathon. On 9 May 2014 23:18, Harsh Kothari harshkothari...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All As everyone know that currently Wikimedia Hackathon 2014 is going on at Zurich. Tomorrow at 9:30 AM (Zurich) and (1:00 PM IST) we are going to discuss about Wikimedia Hackathons / Devcamps in India / Asia. So everyone is welcome to join this discussion. Here is the link of Hangout : https://plus.google.com/b/103470172168784626509/events/cpur8pufnpqcdecitg7bj55fuk8 Thanks Harsh -- Harsh Kothari Intern at Google Summer of Code, Wikimedia Foundation Follow Me : harshkothari410 https://twitter.com/harshkothari410/ ___ 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 -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, What goes around, may not necessarily come around, it may simply bounce back. Please sign this petition for Volvo buses in Coimbatore: https://www.change.org/en-IN/petitions/the-transport-minister-tamil-nadu-introduction-of-volvo-city-buses-in-the-city-of-coimbatore ___ 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 -- Regards from Mumbai, Karthik Nadar. (+91) 977-360-8862 Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. Bangalore, India. http://wiki.wikimedia.in ___ MediaWiki-India mailing list mediawiki-in...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-india ___ 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] Staff assessment and comments of the CIS-A2K proposal
well said just a formality On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 9:38 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Pradeep for sharing this, obviously such links of information don't get shared by WMF and CISA2K!! The node to the proposal clearly says, this proposal and review process have been just a formality as many of us stated earlier.. *hard to believe* Ansuman On 10 May 2014 20:30, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, WMF staff have posted their assessment of the CIS-A2K proposal to the FDC - http://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/Proposals/2013-2014_round2/The_Centre_for_Internet_and_Society/Staff_proposal_assessment. Also, comments can be seen on the talk page there. Warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas -- Sent from Gmail Mobile for iPhone ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter affairs
As you may be aware, two members of the Executive Committee of Wikimedia Chapter India have submitted their resignations with immediate effect. However, there has been not any internal action or response or a call notice for an urgent Teleconference for further discussion on possible actions from the remaining office bearers namely the Secretary and Treasurer. Wikimedia India Chapter is going through a critical phase with several important and crucial decisions and deadlines pending. The surprising resignations from two board members at this juncture has made this a complex affair. We have very important timelines and deadlines to be complied with, in the coming few days. Due to the above critical situation, a resolution has been put forth within the official Internal Wiki (board members' wiki) on whether to accept or reject the resignations. One of us from the EC will be informing you of the decision output of this resolution duly. This is for your general information. Regards, Jayanta Nath EC Member Wikimedia India ___ 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] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter affairs
Hi Dhaval, This is for your information https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2014-July/011434.html Jayanta Nath On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: A question emerges from below: was there any news or indication of hiring anybody by WMIN? Regards, Dhaval On 29 Aug 2014 19:06, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: If I may add, current EC should stop making any major decisions like hiring people. Just focus on the regulatory matters and the pending deadlines like FDC etc. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: Dear Jayanta, On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Jayanta Nath jaya...@wikimedia.in wrote: As you may be aware, two members of the Executive Committee of Wikimedia Chapter India have submitted their resignations with immediate effect. However, there has been not any internal action or response or a call notice for an urgent Teleconference for further discussion on possible actions from the remaining office bearers namely the Secretary and Treasurer. There is hardly any activity by EC in the last few months. Being EC member, you may be knowing this better and the reasons for it. At least I am not expecting anything to happen from the secretary or treasurer. As an EC member, you can take up initiative. Wikimedia India Chapter is going through a critical phase with several important and crucial decisions and deadlines pending. The surprising resignations from two board members at this juncture has made this a complex affair. We have very important timelines and deadlines to be complied with, in the coming few days. The timelines and deadlines are known to EC for quite some time. Why no action has been taken so far? Due to the above critical situation, a resolution has been put forth within the official Internal Wiki (board members' wiki) on whether to accept or reject the resignations. One of us from the EC will be informing you of the decision output of this resolution duly. Nothing much can be done about resignations. Moksh has some good reasons to quit. Pranav's resignation is a joke. In any case, he was going to be out of EC after the elections that are supposed to happen in just a few weeks. As such, his resignation does not make any sense. Probably, just an excuse to get away from the accountability and responsibilities. In any case, the current EC has the responsibility to face the members and give them a complete and clear picture. Regards -Sudhanwa This is for your general information. Regards, Jayanta Nath EC Member Wikimedia India -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups wmin-members group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to wmin-members+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check on FB, Linkedin for more. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of affairs
Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested stakeholders in the list, Dear members, The Executive committee of Wikimedia India has held an emergency teleconference on their official DSNL channel on 31 Aug 2014. As salient items on the agenda, the following topics were discussed and decided upon: 1. Earlier, Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior chapter member and former Chair of Bangalore SIG, was co-opted by an emergency resolution. The resolution was passed unanimously. The resolution had also proposed another senior member. However, due to heavy personal engagements, the second nominee requested the EC to exempt from such considerations. Radhakrishna was invited to the telecon and was officially welcomed to be part of the EC. 2. Jayanta Nath, a senior Wikipedian from Kolkata and EC member, was unanimously elected as the new President of the Wikimedia India Chapter. Also, Radhakrishna Arvapally and Viswanathan Prabhakaran were elected as the new Secretary and Treasurer of the chapter respectively. 3. Any decision about hiring is kept on hold for now. The current EC agreed together that the opinion of the new EC (emerging through the upcoming general elections) should also be taken on-board for a major decision like this, since they are the ones to deal with the newly hired candidate(s)for a longer term. 4. Another extra ordinary EC Telecon was scheduled to be conducted tentatively on 02 September 2014, 9.00 PM to take up other urgent matters pending for decisions. This is for the general information for all chapter members and other interested stakeholders. Thank You, Jayanta Nath President Wikimedia India Chapter ___ 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] Farewell
Dear all Member, I have accepted the resignation of Mr. Srikanth Ramakrishnan. I thank him for all his hard work that he have done while serving on the board Treasurer and I am sure that he will continue to support the movement. Regards, Jayanta Nath President, Wikimedia India Chapter On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear EC, Members of the Chapter, I am not pleased with the way things are working out right now. The EC passed a resolution to appoint a senior Indic language Wikipedian as the Program Director on the recommendation of a four member committee consisting of Jayanta, Sudhanwa, Moksh, and Naveen for a probation period of three months, starting on the 1st of September 2014. Subsequently, the newly reorganised EC has done every bit to prevent the appointment of said person. It is with extreme displeasure that I have to state that this kind of nepotism at the hands of vested interests prevents me from working well. Due to this, I am resigning as an member of the Executive Committee with immediate effect. -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Treasurer, Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter today http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] fyi: chapter wiki getting spammed
Thanks Asaf! We are looking into that issues including all web service ! Hope we can resolved it ! Regards , Jayanta On Saturday, September 6, 2014, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: AFAIK, viswa was handling such technical stuff earlier. On 05-Sep-2014 11:34 pm, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','abar...@wikimedia.org'); wrote: Hi. FYI (I'm not sure who admins the wiki, hence e-mailing the list), the chapter wiki seems to be getting actively spammed with fake new user accounts and commercial content on the user pages: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Special:RecentChangeslimit=500days=30 Not urgent, but someone should probably take some steps along the lines set out in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Combating_spam Cheers, A. -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org'); To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Many user groups instead of One Chapter?
+Viswapraba, if we works under one umbrella instead of creating thousand user group, we can flourish better way! Although WMI chapter users group , both are necessary ! But I can say that users group may be die after inactive of main initiator , WMI chapter will not. Regards, Jayanta Nath President Wikimedia India Chapter On Tuesday, September 9, 2014, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Do I need permission from the chapter to start a Wikipedia editors club in my neighbourhood? To answer just this simple, technical question: no, there is no restriction, and any group is welcome to seek recognition independently of the chapter, and does not need its permission. See here: https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Step-by-step_user_group_creation_guide Thanks Asaf, that was helpful. -- Arun Ganesh (planemad) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ 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] Wikimedia Community Meet Lunch Bangalore 21/Sep/2014 Sunday 1.00 PM
Dear all, The Executive Committee of Wikimedia India Chapter is holding its Q2 Board Meeting and a two-day Board Camp on 20th (Saturday) and 21st(Sunday) of September at Bangalore. As part of the board's induction and outreach, the EC is also arranging an informal *Wikimedia Community Meet* of all Wikimedians around Bangalore. The community meet is meant for general interaction and feedback among themselves as well as with the EC members and the A2K team of CIS. There will be no formal presentations or other formalities, perhaps for a short self-introduction session by each participant. Vishnu and his team from A2K has kindly agreed to join us for this meet. They are also helping us in conducting the board Camp efficiently. This is arranged along with a buffet lunch. You are encouraged to bring your spouse and/or children along with you. *Event:* *Wikimedia Bangalore Community Lunch Meet *with *Chapter EC and A2K(CIS)* *Venue: CIS Office Premises, Indira Nagar, Bangalore* *Time: 1.00 PM * *Date: Sunday, 21/09/2014* Any Wikimedians in and around Bangalore, (any Wikimedia contributor, not necessarily a chapter member) are welcome. You are also spread the word around to such among your friends. *[However, to have a rough count of attendees, we request you to RSVP (inform us of your intention to participate in advance), preferably by Friday Night (19/9/2014) or at least by Saturday afternoon by way of email, SMS or phone or Chapter's wiki.]* *Contact RSVP:* Email: Jayanta@ / Nikita @ wikimedia.in + Vishnu @ cis Phone / SMS: Jayanta (+91 9836294438) Thank you and regards, Jayanta Nath President Wikimedia India Chapter ___ 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] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter
Dear Members of Wikimedia India Chapter, It is my pleasure to announce Ravishankar Ayyakkannu as the Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter. He was involved in various projects of the movement that dealt with the State Government of Tamilnadu and multinational firms like Google. His experiences working for the movement have been featured in media including The New York Times and BBC. He has served as the General Council member of the International Forum for Information Technology in Tamil. He is also actively involved in promoting Free and Open Source projects and Free Culture movements in Tamil. Ravishankar completed his graduation from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore and Technical University of Munich, Germany and later worked as a researcher for the Leiden University in The Netherlands.He has been working as an independent Web development consultant. The Interview committee consisting of Sudhanwa Jogalekar (Past president) , Navin Francis ( Past Secretory), Moksh Juneja (President) and myself were honored to be part of this efficient, effective, and enlightening process. Ravishankar joined Wikimedia India on 20th September 2014 as Program Director. He will be based in Bangalore. His primary roles are supporting community members in organizing and executing the various chapter programs, strategic planning for the chapter, mentoring interns and devise success measurement metrics for community projects. Please join me in officially welcoming Ravishankar Ayyakkannu to Wikimedia India Chapter! Jayanta Nath President Wikimedia India Chapter ___ 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] Report of the Board Camp conducted at Bangalore on 20, 21 22 September 2014
: Subsequently, as per the instructions by the registrar of societies, a formal request has been submitted to the registrar which shall comply with the necessary legal requirements for conducting the AGM and elections anytime before 31st of December 2014.] 6. The EC also decided to make the membership application process easier and user-friendly by adapting to better technical means. This may include the ability for a new applicant to fill up the form online and then create a print-out. The membership-renewal process may totally bypass the need of any physical forms. Instead, members should be able to update any changes in their data via online forms and submit the same along with electronic fund transfer. The EC also corroborated the possibilities for multiple-year memberships up to 3 to 5 years. 7. The EC also decided to accelerate the process for establishing standard documentations on Conflict of Interest, Terms conditions for staff, Code of conduct for various positions, travel and incidental allowances policy etc. The EC initiated the basic steps to form a framework for the Advisory Committee. These tasks will be pursued upon so that the upcoming Annual General Body can ratify the same and put them into regular practice. Regards, Jayanta Nath President Wikimedia India Chapter The PDF copy you could found at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/images/a/ab/Report_of_the_Board_Camp_conducted_at_Bangalore_on_20%2C_21_%26_22_September_2014.pdf ___ 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] Extraordinary Circular-Wikimedia India Chapter
Extraordinary Circular Dated: 03/10/2014 During the past several weeks, there has been significant developments and major changes in the team of governance of Wikimedia India Chapter (WMIN). The Executive Committee (EC) effective as of now, would like to clarify the sequence of events that unfolded and the remedial steps the EC took as and when necessary. - On August 27th, Moksh at 8:03pm tendered his resignation as the President of WMIN Chapter as well as a member of the Executive Committee. Within minutes, Pranav Curumsey too sent in his resignation from the position as an EC member. - With this, the number of remaining EC members became 5 (Five). - On 30th August, the remaining EC members immediately put up and passed an emergency Resolution accepting the resignation of both Moksh Juneja and Pranav Curumsey. This resolution was signed for by Jayanta, ViswaPrabha and Nikita. Srikanth signed against this. Karthik did not participate in this resolution. - Further, on the same day, another Emergency Resolution was passed to co-opt two new members to fill those two vacancies. By consensus, two senior Chapter members were selected to be the new EC members. All the then existing EC members viz. Jayanta Nath, ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita and Karthik unanimously voted for both these candidates. Radhakrishna Arvapally, a senior Chapter member and former Chairperson of Bangalore SIG was one among them. Due to severe personal engagements, the other person gracefully refused to be an EC Member. Due to privacy concerns, we prefer to conceal his identity. - With this, the number of effective EC members became 6. - On 31st August, an Emergency Telecon was held. Jayanta Nath was elected as the new President as well as Radhakrishna as the new Secretary and ViswaPrabha as the Treasurer. All the existing EC members (viz. Jayanta, Radhakrishna, ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita and Karthik) attended this telecon and all of them had voted for the new office bearers unanimously. - On 2nd September 2014, there was another Telecon mainly to discuss about the urgent pending matters such as elections, AGM, formation of an advisory committee etc. All the Six EC members (viz. Jayanta, Radhakrishna, ViswaPrabha, Srikanth, Nikita and Karthik) had attended this meeting. - Soon after this meeting was over, Srikant submitted his resignation. With this, the number of effective EC members fell back to 5 (five). This necessitated the co-opting of two more members to the board of directors. - During the next EC telecom, which was held on 5th September, Dr. Ekbal Bappukunju was co-opted in. This was supported by all attendees (viz. Jayanta, Radhakrishna, ViswaPrabha, Nikita and Karthik) unanimously. The EC was now back with a strength of Six members. There was still one more vacancy in the board to be filled up. EC decided to seek out and absorb one more potential candidate from the list of chapter members. - Finally, on 10th September, during yet another Telecon, Nikhil Kawale was co-opted to the remaining one position. This meeting was attended by Jayanta, ViswaPrabha, Dr. Ekbal, Nikita and Karthik) all of them unanimously voted in favour of Nikhil. - As is evident from the above, Wikimedia India Chapter would like to state explicitly and assure everybody who may be concerned that at no point of time during this period, there was a decision or deliberation that took place without sufficient quorum or majority as stipulated by its Memorandum of Association. Further, the Executive Committee itself was never in minority as suggested by certain messages appeared in open mail lists. The above circular is signed by the following members of the Executive Committee of Wikimedia India Chapter effective as on date: President: Jayanta Nath Secretary: Radhakrishna Arvapally Treasurer: ViswaPrabha Karthik Nadar Nikita Belavate Dr. Ekbal Bappukunju Nikhil Kawale Regards, Jayanta Nath President Wikimedia India Chapter The PDF copy of the the same you could found at http://wiki.wikimedia.in/images/8/80/Extraordinarycircular.pdf ___ 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] Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration Conference
Dear all, As many of you may know Bengali Wikipedia completed 10 Years on March 2014. To celebrate this historic milestone the Bengali Wikimedia Community has planned to meet over for two days Bengali Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Celebration Conference during January 9 and 10, 2015 in Kolkata. We have also undertaken a series of On-Wiki and Off-Wiki activities. It will the gathering of users of two nation ( India Bangladesh) and well wishers of Bengali Wikimedia projects. Please click here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/BN10 to go to the official page to see more details. . This conference is our first attempt to invite and host selected members from other Indian Wikipedia communities. We are planning to invite our friends and well-wishers from most of all active Indic language wiki communities in India to this most auspicious occasion hosted by Bengali Wikimedia community! We are also planning to arrange few 30 scholarships for non-Bengali Indic Wikimedians who are interested in participating in this event. With all these, we expect coming year’s conference shall become the largest outreach program any Indian wiki community have ever attempted. As a part of Conference, we are organizing edit-a-thons, a conference of students interested in Wikimedia projects, a meetup of youth interested in Wikimedia projects, photography contest and Workshop/Hackathon. We cordially invite you to participate in Conference to share your experiences, to connect with your peers and create partnerships thereby strengthening the Indian Wikimedia community. To participate in Conference, please register here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bengali%20Wikipedia%2010th%20Anniversary%20Celebration%20Kolkata/Registration To participate in Conference as a speaker please submit your paper here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bengali_Wikipedia_10th_Anniversary_Celebration_Kolkata/Call_for_Participation . To participate Photography Contest , click here https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Bangla_Wikipedia_Photography_Contest_%28India%29 Looking forward to meeting you in Kolkata from 9-10 January, 2015! On behalf of Bengali Wikimedia Community, Jayanta Nath User: jayantanth on Wikimedia projects ___ 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] [Wikipedia-OR] [CIS-A2K] Introducing our new Programme Officer Tanveer Hasan A.K.
Congratulation Tanveer! On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:26 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Tanveer, whats your user id, that I may welcome you online? On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:08 PM, omshivaprak...@gmail.com omshivaprak...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Tanveer! On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote: Thanks Subhashish for sharing. Congratulations Tanveer, looking forward for prolonged relationships between the community and organisations serving the movement. Feel free to write if any assistance required. Regards from Mumbai, Karthik Nadar. On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Dear all, We are excited to share that Tanveer Hasan A.K. has joined CIS-A2K as the Programme Officer (Institutional Partnerships). We thank all the Wikimedians from various Indian language communities and Wikimedia India Chapter EC for taking part in the hiring process. [1] Tanveer, has been working in the Higher Education sector for the past 3 years and is interested in analyzing the policy framework and its impacts with particular emphasis on linguistic policies. He is committed to the cause of spreading and cultivating the Free and Open Knowledge movement in Indian Languages. He is also interested in the questions of language, competence and social justice and would like to understand them through his present engagement at CIS-A2K. Please join us in congratulating him and wishing him success in his new role. Note: 1. http://cis-india.org/jobs/programme-officer-institutional-partnership -- Best! Subhashish Panigrahi Programme Officer, Access To Knowledge Centre for Internet and Society @psubhashish ___ Wikipedia-OR mailing list wikipedia...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-or ___ 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 -- -- With Best Regards, Omshivaprakash.H.L | ಓಂ ಶಿವಪ್ರಕಾಶ್ ಎಚ್. ಎಲ್ | ॐ शिवप्रकाश् एच्. एल् http://platonic.techfiz.info http://blog.shivu.in Phone: 91- 9902026518 linuxaayana.net | kindarajogi.com | sanchaya.net ___ 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 -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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
