Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Cheat-Sheet for Fellowships: Campus Program Pilot in Pune

2011-04-12 Thread Anivar Aravind
Send contacts to you in off list mail On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Hisham Mundol wrote: > Absolutely. > Hisham Mundol > > Wikimedia Foundation > > India Programs > > skype: hisham.wikimedia > gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org > twitter: @mundol > On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:23 PM, Anivar Aravind wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Women's Wiki Workshop report

2011-04-12 Thread gokul das
Dear Bishakha, Are you not defeating the fundamentals of Wiki movement by your view point:Quote"There were questions about how to take this knowledge to colleges in the state without access to the internet or to computers."Defend. Gokul On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:27 AM, ja

[Wikimediaindia-l] Women's Wiki Workshop report

2011-04-12 Thread jayanta nath
Dear all, Apologies for this big delay in reporting - between work, travel and the rest of my life, I've been in a spin. As previously announced on this list, Sanhita, a gender resource centre in Kolkata had offered to host a half-day session on 'Gender, Information and Technology' to explore, un

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Campus Program - Pune Pilot: Update

2011-04-12 Thread Hisham Mundol
I've updated the India Programs page (towards the end of the Campus Program section) with the wording/design of the banner as well as the landing page. As always, do share any comments on the Talk Page, or on this mailing list or directly with me. Many thanks. Hisham Mundol Wikimedia Foundatio

[Wikimediaindia-l] India Campus Program - Pune Pilot: Update

2011-04-12 Thread Hisham Mundol
Hi Folks Just thought I'd let you know that the goe-targetted banners we are planning for Campus Ambassador recruitments are going live tonight (India time.) Thanks Hisham Mundol Wikimedia Foundation India Programs skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol ___

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012 Awarded to Washington, DC

2011-04-12 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Wikimania 2012 is in Washington D.C. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Bhati 00 91 9328712208 Skype: anirudhsbh -- Forwarded message -- From: James Owen Date: Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 6:04 AM Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2012 Awarded to Washington, DC To: "Wikimania general list (open

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Cheat-Sheet for Fellowships: Campus Program Pilot in Pune

2011-04-12 Thread Jessie Wild
On 4/12/2011 6:53 AM, Anivar Aravind wrote: > Some of my friends are involved in Designing& Training a FOSS > elective in COEP , Pune > http://www.fosscommunity.in/wiki/Pune/COEP/FOSS_Devel_Elective > > May be we can use those networks for popularizing Campus Ambassadors > programme through stud

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Young Wikipedians of India.

2011-04-12 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Wonderful, short yet sweet forever, Srikant Kedia has contributing Templates to the extent which any normal user can not even think of, adorable and appeaciable work. Being part of the Odia Wikipedia I really feel proud he's in Odia Wikipedia which is going to be add so much of value to this, apart

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Cheat-Sheet for Fellowships: Campus Program Pilot in Pune

2011-04-12 Thread Hisham Mundol
Absolutely. Hisham Mundol Wikimedia Foundation India Programs skype: hisham.wikimedia gtalk: hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter: @mundol On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:23 PM, Anivar Aravind wrote: > Some of my friends are involved in Designing & Training a FOSS > elective in COEP , Pune > http://www.fosscom

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia

2011-04-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Thanks much Yuvi. Great work. Looking forward for more hacks. I would post about this in Wikitech list and ask for suggestions / using the extension across Indic / non latin wikimedia projects. Probably we can rename as TidyURL since its not really short and short is not we care about,tidy is impor

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-12 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Tinu, I told you I wasn't young. : ) Unlike others, I'm active only on English, sporadically on Hindi, and even less on the Commons. Also, unlike Abhi Jacob, I'm not an admin either, nor do I have 20,000+ edit. I have less than half of that, and am just a Rollbacker. Anyway, I request all to plea

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Cheat-Sheet for Fellowships: Campus Program Pilot in Pune

2011-04-12 Thread Anivar Aravind
Some of my friends are involved in Designing & Training a FOSS elective in COEP , Pune http://www.fosscommunity.in/wiki/Pune/COEP/FOSS_Devel_Elective May be we can use those networks for popularizing Campus Ambassadors programme through students in such networks to invite more quality application

[Wikimediaindia-l] Cheat-Sheet for Fellowships: Campus Program Pilot in Pune

2011-04-12 Thread Hisham Mundol
Hi Folks It's probably slightly ill-adivised to use the word "cheat-sheet" in connection with a campus activity - but this comes dangerously close to that! :-) I've received a bunch of queries regarding Fellowships (and Campus Ambassadors) for the upcoming Pune pilot of the Campus Program. Th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Young Wikipedians of India.

2011-04-12 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Not to forget Srikant Kedia (User:wikiodisha1), an now active Wikipedian in Odia. Here is an interesting story ( sharing with his permission) about his involvement. He started "using Wikipedia" in 2003/04 for "mischievous work"..like adding his name to articles etc.. And his many many accounts w

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Uploads to Commons] Geocoding and Multilingual descriptions

2011-04-12 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Achal, I would like to steal your youngest Wikipedian tag from Srikanth (rsrikanth05) to this kid (Bvajresh) whom we met in Trichy :) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trichy_Wikimeetup1_2060.jpg He has been editing for more than 2 years , he claims...He edits mostly anonymously thou

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report-32nd Bangalore WikiMeetup

2011-04-12 Thread Hisham Mundol
Hey Subhashish I wanted to acknowledge and appreciate your efforts in organising and documenting this meeting. It sounds like a very informative and engaging meetup. Thank you and and thanks too to everyone else who participated. Hisham Mundol India Programs - Wikimedia Foundation India Pr