[Wikimedia-PK] WLM Pakistan 2014

2014-04-22 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Dear Pakistani Wikimedians, We're considering of organising Wiki Loves Monuments, a photography competition focused on cultural heritage monuments in Pakistan this year. Wiki Loves Monuments is the largest international photographic competition in the world and thus, we are looking forward to ex

[Wikimedia-PK] FW: [Wikimediaindia-l] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50, 000 mark

2014-04-24 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:05:43 +0530 From: muzam...@cis-india.org To: wikimediaindi...@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50,000 mark Dear friends, I am pleased to inform you that today the Urdu Wikipedia has crossed the 5

[Wikimedia-PK] Wikimedians in Karachi

2014-04-27 Thread Saqib Qayyum
How many Wikimedians do we have on this mailing list from Karachi? Karachiites, please reply. regardsSaqib ___ Wikimedia-PK mailing list Wikimedia-PK@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/w

[Wikimedia-PK] Wikimania scholarship for Pakistani Wikimedians

2014-05-02 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Dear fellow Wikimedians, We've been told that there were 29 scholarship applications from Pakistan this year for the Wikimania 2014 in London. Of those, eight were allowed forward into phase two. In the final results, only one applicant from Pakistan received a scholarship, zero were wait-listed

[Wikimedia-PK] Resolution passed by the Affcom — Pakistan affiliate

2014-05-06 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Resolution passed by the Affiliations Committee. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee/Resolutions/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Pakistan_-_April_2014 regards Saqib ___ Wikimedia-PK mailing list Wiki

[Wikimedia-PK] Wikimedia Pakistan on Facebook

2014-05-07 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Dear all Pakistani Wikimedians, I'm just finished with creating our user group page on popular social networking site Facebook. Here's the link to our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/WCUGP Please click on the 'Like' button at the top of the page and promote it in within your network, I ho

[Wikimedia-PK] WLM in Pakistan

2014-05-14 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Dear all, World's largest photo contest — Wiki Loves Monuments — is being organised in Pakistan this year in September. Are you interested in helping the organising team?Many of sites to be photographed missing information such as addresses and co-ordinates. Are you willing to take the task ?

[Wikimedia-PK] A blog post on Urdu Wikipedia

2014-05-16 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Muzammil, Urdu Wikipedian from India wrote an blog post on Urdu Wikipediahttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/05/15/unleashing-the-latent-potential/ ___ Wikimedia-PK mailing list Wikimedia-PK@lists.wikimedia.org https

Re: [Wikimedia-PK] A blog post on Urdu Wikipedia

2014-05-16 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Karthik, I'm really delighted to see Urdu Wikipedians from India are making big efforts to improve the Urdu WP.Recently, a workshop was organised in India by CIS A2K and now they're planning on a edit-a-thon. Awesome! From: saqib.qay...@hotmail.com To: wikimedia-pk@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Fri

[Wikimedia-PK] Pakistani Cultural Heritage Edit Drive

2014-06-30 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Dear fellow Wikipedians, Pakistan Wikimedia User Group is organizing an edit drive in the month of July on the topic Pakistani Cultural Heritage. The aim of this drive is to create and expand articles about the cultural heritage sites of Pakistan which include various monuments, archaeological

[Wikimedia-PK] WMF blog post

2014-07-04 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Hi, WMF has wrote a blog post about WLM Pakistan. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/03/wiki-loves-monuments-pakistan-for-the-first-time/ best, S.___ Wikimedia-PK mailing list Wikimedia-PK@lists.wikimedia.org https:/

[Wikimedia-PK] 2014 WMF Scholarship Recipients

2014-07-26 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Congratulations to Khalid Mahmood from Pakistan (User:Khalid Mahmood) for getting Wikimania scholarship to attend the annual Wikimania 2014 conference in London.. S.___ Wikimedia-PK mailing list Wikimedia-PK@list

[Wikimedia-PK] wiki love monuments

2014-08-04 Thread Saqib Qayyum
if anyone on the mailing list have contact with a journalist, media organisation or a blogger, please forward them WLM Pakistan press release.. help will be appreciated. http://wikilovesmonuments.pk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/WLMP-PR.pdf _

[Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia article on Dawn

2014-10-14 Thread Saqib Qayyum
This mailing list is like a ghost town.. too much silence.. anyways .. read an article >>> calling all Pakistanis : Wikipedia needs you. http://www.dawn.com/news/1137919/wiki-in-pakistan-filling-in-the-missing-jigsaw-pieces _

Re: [Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia article on Dawn

2014-10-15 Thread Saqib Qayyum
I agree Tahir.. either we're making too much progress or making too much excuses.. Saqib From: tahir...@hotmail.com To: wikimedia-pk@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 10:31:19 +0500 Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia article on Dawn Dear Saqib, Silence on this mailing list.

Re: [Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia article on Dawn

2014-10-15 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Tahir..Well I am actually planning to do a Wikipedia workshop in January (hopefully) in a major Pakistani institution in Murree > Lawrence College. They're interested to host the event .. I will soon begin working on it.. And yes, we can do similar workshops in major unis across Pakistan but you

Re: [Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia article on Dawn

2014-10-15 Thread Saqib Qayyum
ia-pk@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia article on Dawn Dear Saqib Thanks for the much needed piece. I hope things will start catching up soon. Best,Rafi On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Saqib Qayyum wrote: This mailing list is like a ghost town.. too much silence.. anyways ..

Re: [Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia article on Dawn

2014-10-16 Thread Saqib Qayyum
So good to hear from you Nabil :) Well as long we able to convince a local institution , we dont need funds. but yes, anyone can always ask WMF for funds if they need some … BTW. did i forget to tell you guys that Wiki loves Monuments Pakistan was a success. more than 700 people participated fro

Re: [Wikimedia-PK] Top ten photos from wiki loves monuments in Pakistan

2014-10-26 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Thanks Rafi.. you didn't provided the link so here it is > http://www.dawn.com/news/1140308/wiki-loves-monuments-top-10-pictures-from-pakistan-are-here Soon I will be back with a very interesting WP article on Dawn and i am pretty sure you guys will enjoy that too. Until thenS. Date: Sun, 26 Oct

Re: [Wikimedia-PK] Top ten photos from wiki loves monuments in Pakistan

2014-10-26 Thread Saqib Qayyum
tan Sorry forgot to put the link. Looking forward to reading your article. On Oct 26, 2014 9:39 AM, "Saqib Qayyum" wrote: Thanks Rafi.. you didn't provided the link so here it is > http://www.dawn.com/news/1140308/wiki-loves-monuments-top-10-pictures-from-pakistan-are-here Soo

[Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia Pakistan Survey

2014-11-09 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Hello everyone. WMF is conducting first ever Wikipedia readers survey for Pakistan this week.. The survey is UP now. Please take a few minutes to complete it and help us improve Wikipedia.. https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6Ax9xFhm4QhKU17 Saqib __

Re: [Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia Pakistan Survey

2014-11-09 Thread Saqib Qayyum
t: Re: [Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia Pakistan Survey ​Completed.​Kind Regards, Sajid Amjad Sajid Doha, Qatar Cell: +974 7788 6648 On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Saqib Qayyum wrote: Hello everyone. WMF is conducting first ever Wikipedia readers survey for Pakistan this week.. The survey is U

Re: [Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia Pakistan Survey

2014-11-09 Thread Saqib Qayyum
would directly reply you. At least don't include me in the emails like this. I hate it whenever anyone replies my phone buzz to inform me I've got mail instead its a reply from someone else I don't even wanna know. Thanx On Nov 9, 2014 4:03 PM, "Saqib Qayyum" wrote:

[Wikimedia-PK] Wikimedia Pakistan Facebook page

2014-11-15 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Hello all, Due to lack of time and interest, I'm not being to regularly make posts on our Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/WikipediaLovesPakistan I'm looking for a dedicated volunteer who would be interested to make posts related to Wiki focussing on Pakistan and keep the page active..

[Wikimedia-PK] Wikimania Brasil

2015-01-22 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Everyone. Travel scholorships are now available for Wikimania conference in Brasil. Please apply if anyone wants to. https://scholarships.wikimedia.org/apply If any one need assistance , let me know Saqib ___ Wikimedi

[Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia survey Pakistan

2015-02-28 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Sharing with you the Wikipedia readers survey Pakistan https://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/02/20/pakistani-readers-survey/ ___ Wikimedia-PK mailing list Wikimedia-PK@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/m

[Wikimedia-PK] Wikipedia a thon in Islamabad

2016-12-01 Thread Saqib Qayyum
Hi all, BBC will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon for the first time in Pakistan on December 8th in Islamabad - to raise awareness of the gender gap on Wikipedia, improve Wikipedia's coverage on women and encourage women to edit the encyclopedia. Everyone is invited to join the event. RS