Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Event Support Request
Hi I can help with the following •Press and Media coordination Deciding on a path for media promotion of event, giving interviews, inviting media and taking care of them during the event •Promotion and Advertisement There will be a promotion budget which will have to be judiciously used for maximum benefit - again person with experience or qualification preferred. -- Moksh Juneja Social Media Catalyst Avignyata Inc. http://www.facebook.com/mokshjuneja http://www.linkedin.com/in/mokshjuneja http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja http://mokshjuneja.blogspot.com Mobile: +91 9322121170 Blackberry PIN 21922C20 On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 22:28, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Cross posting on India/Mumbai/Pune mailing lists Just to follow up on the minutes of Mumbai X - we would like to invite members of the national wikicommunity to come and support WikiConference 2011, Mumbai/Pune. It was felt important that to move forward we need an Event Organising Committee (OC) for the WikiConference and sub-committee members. Kindly note we are not looking for people who just lend their names but people who will actually come forward and put in time and effort in the entire 6 month preceding period. Sub-Committees suggested: •Conference Programming (Includes Themes, Tracks, Keynote Speakers and Scheduling) Deciding the direction this meet should take. •Finance (Includes both budgeting, raising finances and scholarships) People who are either qualified or have experience preferred. Handling finance of such an event •Conference Venue and Catering Coordination of venue and catering booking to helping things move on the floor during the event •Major Events (Attendee Party/Mega Event) Undertaking responsibility of any major events other than actual conference •Press and Media coordination Deciding on a path for media promotion of event, giving interviews, inviting media and taking care of them during the event •Accommodation and Registration Reserving the accommodation, picking people up and making sure they find their accommodation, registering people on the event day. •Promotion and Advertisement There will be a promotion budget which will have to be judiciously used for maximum benefit - again person with experience or qualification preferred. •Technical and IT Running the event site, setting up wifi and other electronic goods, webcast of the event online for those who cannot make it in person •Volunteer On ground. Running around during the event Whoever is interested in being on the OC or any of the sub-committees, kindly write to the Mumbai list (*wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org*). 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Community-Chapter Relations
Dear All, Since the past behind, lets all of us move forward with the single objective in mind to roll out the Mumbai-Pune hosted WikiConference in November 2011. Lets not fret over the lost time, lets make the best of all the resources that we can pool in together. Let the enthusiasm prevail and contagious!! Moksh Juneja Social Media Catalyst Avignyata Inc. avignyata.com Mobile: +91 93221 21170 My profiles: [image: Facebook] http://www.facebook.com/mokshjuneja [image: LinkedIn] http://www.linkedin.com/in/mokshjuneja [image: Flickr]http://www.flickr.com/photos/mokshjuneja [image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja [image: foursquare]http://foursquare.com/mokshjuneja [image: SlideShare] http://www.slideshare.net/mokshjuneja [image: YouTube]http://www.youtube.com/mokshjuneja Contact me: [image: Google Talk] mokshjuneja [image: Skype] mokshjuneja [image: BlackBerry] 21922c20 [image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja Latest tweet: @_PWN yes, exactly. With the rains setting all my exercise schedule has gone for a toss!! Follow @mokshjuneja http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja http://twitter.com/?status=@mokshjuneja%20in_reply_to_status_id=80140750964269060in_reply_to=mokshjuneja Replyhttp://twitter.com/?status=@mokshjuneja%20in_reply_to_status_id=80140750964269060in_reply_to=mokshjuneja http://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40mokshjuneja%3A%20%40_PWN%20yes%2C%20exactly.%20With%20the%20rains%20setting%20all%20my%20exercise%20schedule%20has%20gone%20for%20a%20toss%21%21 Retweethttp://twitter.com/?status=RT%20%40mokshjuneja%3A%20%40_PWN%20yes%2C%20exactly.%20With%20the%20rains%20setting%20all%20my%20exercise%20schedule%20has%20gone%20for%20a%20toss%21%21 10:43 Jun-13 http://twitter.com/mokshjuneja/statuses/80140750964269060 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 10:45, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Open Response to Members and office bearers of the Executive Committee, Wikimedia Chapter (India), Thank you for your letter of unconditional support for the Mumbai-Pune hosted WikiConference in November 2011. We highly appreciate and are humbled by this support from the chapter as well as vocal public support from all communities across India for for us hosting this event. We now look forward to a new dawn by putting the past behind us and hosting a benchmark conference. We request communities across the country to continue supporting us the way they have and come forward with proposals for the event program/theme etc. We welcome to Gautam K John and Arun Ramanathan onto our Event Organising Committee. On behalf of the Mumbai and Pune Community, Thanks and Regards, User:AroundTheGlobe -- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:46:31 +0530 From: arjunar...@googlemail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Community-Chapter Relations Hi Wikimedians We wholeheartedly supported the Mumbai-Pune bid for organising the conference. It has received widespread community support from Wikipedians across the country on the mailing list. We also take note of the fact that there is no visible active intent to make a bid to host the event from other cities. The previous note from Executive Committee (EC) clearly indicates the intent and commitment to run an annual event, year on year, with the support of other stakeholders in the movement. To that end we request that the organising team of this year's event keep this an important objective. EC had previously made a proposal for such an event many in early 2011 but it was then deferred to September due to other procedural hurdles in getting all aspects of a formal entity up and running - A bank account being a prerequisite to execute the plan. EC regrets the communication gaps and discomfort caused in some quarters due to misunderstandings of intent which our earlier email clearly and directly addresses. The Wikimedia movement is community driven and we reiterate that involving the community is and will be a key priority for your Chapter and Executive Committee. We request everyone's support for the Mumbai-Pune efforts to organise the 2011 WikiConference. Please consider this note a full and complete support of the India Chapter for the event. We thank the Mumbai and Pune Wikimedians again for the passion and leadership in working towards organising the first edition of this event. We will engage and work with the Mumbai team and other Wikipedians on the specific aspects of the frame work. As indicated in the earlier email, it was meant to be a draft seeking comments from other stakeholders. There were a few other aspects that were highlighted to which we would like to provide the following: *Feedback #1: Treat us like equals and stakeholders. Amongst us, chapter will then be first among equals.* The Chapter is only a part of the Community and should be reflective of it. If the impression was otherwise, we apologise
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use
Hi, Respect your views on using open platforms. At the same time, I feel strongly we need to use platforms where there users and specially indian users. One small correction, we have not created any Twitter account. We are tracking and encouraging users to use #wci11 as the hashtag for conversations on WikiConference 2011. Moksh from BB -Original Message- From: Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org Sender: wikimediaindia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:18:50 To: Wikimedia India listwikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Announcement to offer sponsorship to WikiConference India 2011
Dear Kundan, This is awesome news. Thank you very much to be the first sponsor for the WikiConference India. Please do send us the logos of both Ang India Technologies and Sarkarinaukari.com Moksh On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 23:07, Kundan Amitabh kundanamit...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, It is with great pleasure that I am able to extend offers of sponsorship from *Ang India Technologies http://www.angindia.co/* and * SarkariNaukri.com http://www.sarkarinaukri.com/*, a flagship non-profit sister organisation of *Ang India Technologies http://www.angindia.co/ *for WikiConference India 2011http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011 * *being organized in Mumbai, India, on 18-20 November 2011. Here at *Ang India Technologies http://www.angindia.co/* we are dedicated to fostering the use of Hindi, Marathi, Angika and other Indic Languages on the Web, Computers and Mobile Phones. At *Sarkarinaukri.comhttp://www.sarkarinaukri.com/ * we make available the information freely to general public for their employment in government sectors. We believe that WikiConference India 2011 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011* *has what it takes to make a huge impact in using Indic languages on the web and mobile phones and in sharing the information free of cost. To help Wikipeidia, Wikimedia in general and WikiConference India 2011http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011 in particular we would like to offer the following; 1.On behalf of *Ang India Technologies http://www.angindia.co/* a donation of Rs. One Lakh and one full scholarship to WikiConference India 2011 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011 to bear the travelling costs for the persons coming from U.K. to attend the conference as external speakers. 2.On behalf of *SarkariNaukri.com http://www.sarkarinaukri.com/* a donation of Rs. One Lakh and full scholarship to WikiConference India 2011http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011 to bear the train travelling costs for 8 persons coming from rural areas of Jharkhand / Bihar/West Bengal / Maharashtra as participants. In return we request that organizers of WikiConference India 2011http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011 display *Ang India Technologies http://www.angindia.co/*'s and * SarkariNaukri.com http://www.sarkarinaukri.com/ *‘s promotional signs and literature throughout . I look forward to hearing from you soon so that we can move forward with this wonderful opportunity for *Ang India Technologieshttp://www.angindia.co/ * , *SarkariNaukri.com http://www.sarkarinaukri.com/ *and WikiConference India 2011 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011*.* -- Best Regards. Kundan Amitabh Managing Director, Ang India Technologies, www.angindia.co CH-2/52, Kendriya Vihar, Sector-11, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai-410210, INDIA == 976888 / 9869478444 == Let's Keep Our World Green for Our Children's Future! Please don't print this email unless it's really necessary ___ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum ___ 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] Let's *Talk*
+1
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 09:52, Hisham hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi Folks
I'm deliberately opening a new mail chain on this. This is at the risk of
me being told off for doing so - but I believe that email protocol is one
thing - but communication philosophy is (arguably) even more critical.
I (and personally upsetting to me, others at India Programs - namely
Nitika the Campus Ambassadors) have taken some beating over the past few
days. Some has been personal and not been circumspect or constructive;
not pretty. I have been touched by the offlist messages of comfort and
support that I and the others have got.
I am exceedingly worried about the impact it has had on team morale. To
all those who have criticised the India Education Program, spare a thought
for the volunteers who have helped out on this. I want to tell the Campus
Ambassadors to be strong and keep your chins up. You guys have been
incredible. Hand on heart, you have given your hearts and souls and have
conducted probably the single biggest Wikipedia outreach program in the
world. (btw, I really don't care if someone wants to tag this as {citation
required.}) You have taken time out of your working lives and college
days. I know how tough it's been - conducting more than 100 in-class
sessions, working with so many students and faculty, reaching out on email
and talk pages and SMS and mobile calls and social networks and in
canteens, poring over student entries, learning Wikipedia policies,
figuring out new tools to help your work, building relationships with
other editors across the globe, doing the back-breaking documentation
that's been required on project course pages, and I can go on and on and
on. I know that sustaining this level of motivation and energy over months
has been hard on you. I also know some of you faltered. I know some of
you wanted to scream and kick someone some times, maybe even many people
many times! Keep the faith, guys.
I am sorry for the personal attack on Nitika. To her, I want to publicly
apologise. I know her to be hard-working, diligent, honest, competent and
an all-round professional. She's new and she's learning and has and will
make mistakes - like all of us do. It is fantastic to have her on the
team. Period.
The program is a pilot - and we made a ton of mistakes. Sorry, let me
rephrase that. I led the initiative so all responsibility should be mine.
I made a ton of mistakes. I promise the following. We will have a
thorough, honest and fact based evaluation. We will be open to make all
the changes that are required. We will not let the events of the past few
days force us into a bunker mentality. We will be open and we will be
intellectually rigorous. We will learn and we will improve. The India
opportunity is massive - and our ambitions are huge. It is also fraught
with challenges. Unless we try and do things - new and tough and complex
things - we will never be able to realise our true potential.
I know that some who have participated in these exchanges are driven by an
awe-inspiring love and passion for Wikipedia. I urge you to continue to
come forward and work with others and us. Come forward early though - and
stay engaged through the journey. It will have ups and downs.
On communication, I urge everyone to maintain WP:CIVILITY and WP:NPOV in
all our interactions. On this - and to be fair - quite a few other
interactions recently on totally unrelated topics (and involving a whole
host of others), I daresay we have drifted from core Wikipedia principles.
These should apply to us to all our community's interactions as
religiously as we apply them to our projects.
I would urge folks who agree with me to write back. Even a +1 will do.
Let's hear the voices of the quieter folks. Let's hear from the folks who
don't always get involved in mailing list exchanges out of either
apprehension or apathy. Let's move forward.
Warm Regards,
hisham
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Few concerns
A question came up on this list about some employer-employee relationships within the chapter board. This is to clarify that the stated relationships between the said persons have ended/in the process of ending with notice being served prior to this issue being brought up (certainly not because of this email and prior to it). This is not to brag but to state background. I would like to further state in particular have been extremely generous in supporting Wikipedia activities in Mumbai for several years now, organising local events, offering my office for meetups and official purposes, bearing expenses in some cases, offering pro-bono services through my company and even offering jobs to several Wikipedians. Pranav and I were two people instrumental in ensuring the success of our first national conference 2 years ago. This is something that is yet to be replicated. Pranav was recently instrumental in our first victory with the government recently, a major win for the chapter in India to have them apply a Wikipedia complaint license to open knowledge resources for the first time ever. Karthik has been one of the lead organisers of the chapters biggest photo contest, our biggest success of the last financial year. All of us have been an integral part of several chapter activities during the last year. In the recent weeks, both Pranav and Karthik have been involved in preparing our FDC application, spending several hours a week, into the wee hours of the night on a regular basis apart from juggling their professional commitments during the day. All of us have been actively involved in the Wikimedia Conference bid. All of us were Wikipedians first before anything else, meeting each other through Wikipedia, having our own independent thinking which remains unaffected and one common goal as unpaid volunteers working out of love for the movement as a cause. We assure everyone that there is no COI that may affect any of our functioning in the EC and performing our duties at the chapter. One thing we have learnt from this is that there is a need for a formal public document that details what COI is and when disclosures need to be made. We will push for such a document to be created within the EC. At the same time, we humbly appeal that the community assume good faith towards our efforts and help/support the chapter and movement in India. We are working towards building greater synergies, understanding and team-building within the EC leadership, SIG Chairs and key members of the chapter and volunteers in India in an effort to strengthen our very foundations with a long term view and we cannot do this without your help and support. Moksh On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.comwrote: Shyamal, You reminded me of the good old days of Wikipedia - the movement that wasn't centered around money, but driven by interest and volunteering. I hope that what you've written about Wikiculture shall be read by many here and if that is understood by more people in coming days, the Indian 'community' can get a wee bit healthier. Of late, whenever I switch over to read the conversations on this list, it is not just intrigue but profound disgust that emerges. On 25 September 2013 10:03, Shyamal L. lshya...@gmail.com wrote: Apologies for the rant that follows and can be conveniently skipped by the busy folks here. I am quite intrigued by the kinds of discussion on this list and indeed intrigued by most of the characters that seem to be involved in the Wikimedia movement in India and how it stands out in contrast to the spirit of Wikipedia and its sister projects. Whereas the project is more a culture of giving, most of what we see here seems to be more about merely getting things for oneself and getting ahead of each other which I suppose is inspiration drawn from street traffic. Having observed the movement from the outside, it is my hope that the best values of Wikipedia culture are imbibed rather than the worst of Indian culture. * Wikiculture - Deal with issues not the persons raising them - what matters more than who. Those who actually interact with the *community* (an earlier thread gave the suggestion that people would get an opportunity to interact with the *community* only by attending Wikimania) on Wikipedia will know this aspect. This is a symptom of the fact that hardly anyone out here is really editing substantially. * Wikiculture - Think independently and question everything - Wikipedia achieved a lot and is interesting because it questions(or questioned) paradigms that are (or were) taken for granted. It uses direct interaction, direct democracy, rather than representatives. So voting people into committees / positions that work in private is not the way things are done here, it is by discussing ideas. Independence requires that you question any sense of group identity. * Wikiculture - Forsake cliques, identity traps and recognize
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia user group in Pakistan
Dear Saqib, Thank you for the mail informing us. This is a great step :-) On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Saqib Qayyum saqib.qay...@hotmail.comwrote: Dear Indian Wikimedians, Although Wikimedia chapter for Pakistan is still in the discussion phase, we've working on creating of an official Wikimedia User Group, since the numbers of our community members at the moment are not sufficient for the creation of a chapter. The main objective of this user group will be to act as a voice and representative for the Pakistani Wikimedian community and to promote Wikipedia and various Pakistani language Wikimedia Foundation projects throughout Pakistan and further strengthen the community. The initial goals our user group will be: - Organise regular meetings and meetups in major cities of Pakistan for discussions etc and planning of a Wikipedia workshop and Wikipedia Takes The City photo contest in 2014 - To empower and engage Pakistani Wikimedians in both on-wiki and off-wiki activities - Growth of the Wikimedian community in Pakistan - Creation of Wikimedia Pakistan chapter in the long run Some ideas and suggestions from Indian chapter members will be welcomed and highly appreciated. regards Saqib Admin, English Wikivoyage ___ 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] Winners of WLM India 2013
Some of them are really amazing photographs. Congrats to the winners. Great initiative. On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Rahmanuddin Shaik nani1o...@gmail.comwrote: Congrats to winners. Hope this sets a trend to display photographs over commons for Indian photographers. 2013/11/21 Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com Congratulations to all the winners and kudos to the Jury members for their time spent and enormous efforts put in this task. Regards, Dhaval On 20 Nov 2013 18:57, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear all, This year, we received 11,000 images if monuments in Wiki Loves Monuments India 2013. Over a month, the jury team has been working on to select and nominate best images for the WLM international contest and thus also selecting the winning images of India contest. Here are they: http://www.wikilovesmonuments.in/here-are-the-winners-of-the-wiki-loves-monuments-2013-india-contest/ I would like to take a moment to thank all those who helped to make this happen. Thank you Naveen and Kiran Ravikumar for sharing your shoulders. Thanks to jury http://www.wikilovesmonuments.in/jury/ for sending their valuable time in reviewing images. Also thanks to Pavithra, Arun Ganesh and Manoranjan for been part of special jury. Never to forget the international team for their kind help at all the times! Thanks to Wikimedia India for funding the contest, to INTACH for partnering it for the first time. Apologies if I have missed anyone, but you shall also owe a thousand of thanks from the WLM team. *PS: *Could you help us spread the work through media, get in touch with me or Naveen or Kiran!! Regards, Karthik Nadar. On behalf of WLM India team. ___ 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 thanks regards *Rahimanuddin Shaik* నాని [image: File:Wikimedia India logo.svg] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/ reachout ఒక విశ్వాన్ని ఊహించండి, ఎక్కడయితే ప్రతి మనిషి ఒక సంపూర్ణ విజ్ఞానభాండారాన్ని అందరితో పంచుకోగలడో, ఆ విశ్వాన్ని ఊహించండి. *అటువంటి విశ్వాన్ని నెలకొల్పడమే మా సంకల్పం.* తెలుగు వికీపీడియా : http://te.wikipedia.org A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com *తెలుగువారికి సాంకేతిక సహాయం - http://techsetu.com http://techsetu.com/* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l 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] Tamil Wikipedia crosses 1000 total contributors milestone
Congratulations to the community!! This is awesome growth news! On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, October 2013 stats for Tamil Wikipedia is out. We have crossed many milestones in one jump coinciding with our Tenth Anniversary Celebrations! * 1017 Total contributors . We have crossed the 1000 milestone after Malayalam Wikipedia. Next in line is Hindi Wikipedia with 988 total contributors. * 118 active editors who edit 5 times a month. Highest in ten years and the first time we crossed 100. * 27 new editors joined this month. This is the second highest enrollment in ten years after the 2010 June state wide essay contest time. * 25 very active editors who edit 100 times a month. Highest in ten years. * We went from 1 to 2 contributors for every one million Tamil speaking population now. * Registered 8.5m million page views. That is 2,83,000 per day. Highest in ten years. We hope to sustain this activity through various initiatives. Thanks, Ravi References: 1. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm 2. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryTA.htm 3. http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesPageViewsMonthlyCombined.htm ___ 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
Good initiative, wishing all success to your event. Hoping it spreads it wings to other cities. On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Rohini Lakshané roh...@wikimedia.in wrote: 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN meet at Lal Bagh Bangalore- Schedule (Sowmyan Tirumurti)
This is a brilliant initiative and thanks for spearheading. QR Code only help people learn more about the flora of Bangalore. On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Sanket Oswal sankos...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats and Best Wishes. Regards, Sanket. On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 10:56 PM, Yohann Thomas yohan...@gmail.comwrote: Congrats on having this event successfully hoping fr many such successful events in the future. Yohann Thomas Wikipedia Club Pune yohan...@gmail.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l 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] Malayalam Wikisource Digitization Contest 2014
Dear Manoj, this is a great initiative and others language communities should try emulate the same to encourage more contributors and content. Moksh Juneja On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 11:37 PM, manoj k manojkmohanme03...@gmail.comwrote: 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. 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 ___ 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] Women Scientists edit-a-thon: March 15-16
Congrats, this is very encouraging and motivating! Hoping to see more of these articles. On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Tejaswini Niranjana t...@cscs.res.inwrote: These are excellent criteria sent by Dr Mani - carefully thought out. It might be good to adopt them while deciding on notability. All best to the women in science editathon. Tejaswini On 16 March 2014 00:37, A. Mani a.mani@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Parul sri.pa...@gmail.com wrote: India has a lot of successful women scientists who have made a mark in their respective fields. However, it is unfortunate that these women still do not have an existence on Wikipedia. Read this blog post to know a little more. We are organizing a Women Scientists edit-a-thon tomorrow and day after. Join us by editing as many articles as possible during these the two days. Apart from creating articles, you could also help us by correcting or expanding existing ones. Adding names to the existing list of scientists would go a long way too. What criteria (relative academic accomplishments) is being used for qualifying as a women scientist? Some days ago, I saw some entries for fresh people with a couple of publications (it was part of an earlier round of editing). One cannot really go by the few awards (politicized) and such. If that is the criteria, then I know at least 95 women who would fit in. If I set the cut off point at 5 years in research, then the number would be 60 - 72+ (I am not sure ). If the criteria is 100pp of publication in refereed international journals or 10 years in research or some high impact work (requires peer review), then the number would be much less. ps. I don't want an article on myself as I have enough publicity :) Best A. Mani A. Mani [Last_Name. First_Name Format] CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in Blog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/ ___ 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 -- Tejaswini Niranjana, PhD Lead Researcher - Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA) Senior Fellow - Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) Visiting Professor - Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Humanities, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Advisor, Access to Knowledge Programme, Centre for Internet and Society Visiting Faculty - Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science (CCS-IISc) t: 91-80-41202302 http://heira.in www.cscs.res.in ___ 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] Fwd: Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thons
Parul Abhirami, Connecting you to Rohini, Netha. It would be a great idea We should to do a online Edit-a-thon and probably focus on improving articles on Indian prominent women. Rohini is SIG for Gender Gap and Netha is already collaborating on http://wikiwomen.in/ All the best wishes! Moksh Juneja On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Abhirami G abhirami...@gmail.com wrote: Same here. If not an edit-a-thon, then certainly an online event. Best regards, Abhirami. On 24 April 2014 19:57, Parul sri.pa...@gmail.com wrote: I too would love to join this! Thanks! Parul On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:10 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This may be of interest. I hope we can do this in India in May? Warm regards, Pradeep -- Forwarded message -- From: *Sarah Stierch* sarah.stie...@gmail.com Date: Saturday, 19 April 2014 Subject: Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thons Hi everyone, I have created the event page for the Adrianne Wadewitz Tribute Edit-a-thons that will be taking place around the world in May. This event is a coordinated project of HASTAC and FemTech. We hope you'll plan an event - no matter how big or small - and participate. Please spread the word and add your event listing here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wadewitz_Tribute_Edit-a-thons Thank you, Sarah -- Sarah Stierch - Diverse and engaging consulting for your organization. www.sarahstierch.com -- 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 -- Thanks! Parul # 80951 15924 http://in.linkedin.com/in/parulthakur http://happinessandfood.wordpress.com/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. --Richard P. Feynman a.k.a. Clockery Fairfeld https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/User:Clockeryon WMF projects Sent from a computer. Yep, a computer. ___ 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] Declining contributions across Indian Wikipedias
In my suggestion/ recommendation we need to create vertical projects within wiki-projects. It could be Indian space Environment, local destinations in your city, etc. With this we should tap into colleges, schools and the senior editors can look into inspiring the new and junior editors. I am saying this in my personal capacity as a contributor to Wikipedia. -- Moksh Juneja Wikimedia India On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:52 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, rightly said..here money is not solving one but creating many... And only the community can save itself...not paid organizations... :) On 29-Jul-2014 10:00 pm, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Ansuman, Money can't solve all problems and it can bring new problems too :) Irrespective of availablilty or lack of funds, communities can really manage things themselves. If the communities don't plan and take initiatives, nothing can save the projects. 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 ___ 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] My resignation as President and EC member of Wikimedia India chapter
Dear all, It's with a heavy heart that I would like to announce my resignation from as the President and Executive Committee of the Wikimedia India Chapter with immediate effect. With this, my respect for all of your contributions to the Movement has only increased, knowing about all the sweat and blood that goes into the creation of the community that defines the Movement as we know it, today. The reasons for my silence on the public list are for the same reasons that I am quitting today. They are personal. As a Person grows, the responsibility also grows and a point comes where the personal becomes more important than the public. I've had a hard time balancing work, life and my interests. In the balancing act, it is my family that has missed out the most, especially now that I have become a father of a 3 month old girl. The demands on me have grown and I find that I can no longer contribute usefully to the Movement or that someone else can do more justice to the role. I thank you all for your love, help and support. I hope to keep contributing to the Movement when I can. -- Moksh Juneja 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
