Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
Hi Gautam, I have uploaded eight India impressions 2011 images correctly tagged in flickr to commons. The related category is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:India_Impressions_2011 Will upload the rest, once the licences change to CC regards Bala On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:07 AM,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Gautam John
On 28 August 2011 11:30, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: I have uploaded eight India impressions 2011 images correctly tagged in flickr to commons. The related  category is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:India_Impressions_2011 Thank you Bala. I'm really hoping that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011-08-28 Thread Yann Forget
Hello, 2011/8/28 Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org: Hi Yann: I was wondering if you could send us some details on what it would take to maintain Wikilivres please? Technology and costs. Wikilivres is currently hosted on a small dedicated server in Montreal, Canada. It follows the Canadian

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011-08-28 Thread Gautam John
On 28 August 2011 11:50, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote: Wikilivres is currently hosted on a small dedicated server in Montreal, Canada. It follows the Canadian copyright law, in which a work is in the public domain 50 years after the author's death. Thanks. It costs 74 US$ monthly,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011-08-28 Thread Yann Forget
2011/8/28 Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org: On 28 August 2011 11:50, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote: Wikilivres is currently hosted on a small dedicated server in Montreal, Canada. It follows the Canadian copyright law, in which a work is in the public domain 50 years after the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011-08-28 Thread Gautam John
On 28 August 2011 12:08, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote: I see several possibilities: Thank you. Will get back soon on this. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011-08-28 Thread Nagarjuna G
Wikimedia India chapter may consider writing to HBCSE, TIFR in Mumbai or TISS in Mumbai to host a facility explaining why and how they can do this.  gnowledge lab of HBCSE will be glad to maintain the archive once an understanding between the chapter and HBCSE is worked out. bandwidth, disk space

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Aadarsh Gupta
Hi! I'm interested to take part in this and want to be a volunteer, can you pl. forward me the link like where I need to apply and need to fill all the related data! Thanks! On 28 August 2011 08:50, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: This is relevant to all those who have written

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hi Adarsh, What i your user name/ Have you uploaded to Commons before? Can you kindly show that you have the skills, if you dont mind. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Aadarsh Gupta

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Aadarsh Gupta
No I haven't yet.. yeah sure, can you pl. make it more clear, skills in what regards you are looking forward to ?? On 28 August 2011 12:58, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Adarsh, What i your user name/ Have you uploaded to Commons before? Can you kindly show that you have

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Sreejith K.
I can be a volunteer. I am an active Commons user with over 20,000 edits and is a license-reviewer in commons. Thanks, Sreejith K. On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Aadarsh Gupta aadarshgupta...@gmail.comwrote: No I haven't yet.. yeah sure, can you pl. make it more clear, skills in what

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Adarsh, Just read the bottom of this email to which you replied! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Aadarsh Gupta aadarshgupta...@gmail.comwrote: No I haven't yet.. yeah sure, can you pl. make it more clear,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Welcome Srijith! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Sreejith K. sreejithk2...@gmail.comwrote: I can be a volunteer. I am an active Commons user with over 20,000 edits and is a license-reviewer in commons.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi, I just hit across a treasure of ~200 black and white pictures[1] (in CC) of India in 1978/79. Looks like someone had pictures of a traveller and uploaded into flickr set. Downside being not all pictures have description, so we dont know where they fit in. But am sure collectively we can guess

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Sreejith K.
Photos taken in 1978 is not in public domain yet. So these pictures cannot be uploaded to commons unless we get explicit permission from the photographer. - Sreejith K. On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I just hit across a treasure of ~200

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Sreejith K.
oh, forgot to add. This is only if the flickr user is not the original photographer. Thats not quite evident here. May be we should ask the flickr user about this first. On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Sreejith K. sreejithk2...@gmail.comwrote: Photos taken in 1978 is not in public domain

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 13:31, Sreejith K. sreejithk2...@gmail.com wrote: Photos taken in 1978 is not in public domain yet. So these pictures cannot be uploaded to commons unless we get explicit permission from the photographer. I just hit across a treasure of ~200 black and white

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Sreejith K.
My commons id is Sreejithk2000http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sreejithk2000 On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Sreejith, what is your commons user id please? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Béria Lima
Just one question: Anyone is checking for license fraud? We have a LONG history of users who upload copyrighted pictures in Flickr under free licenses to be send to Commons. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011-08-28 Thread Vickram Crishna
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: By hosting a WikiSource outside of the US and in the jurisdiction of the country. This is not limited to Wikisource. Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011-08-28 Thread Nagarjuna G
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: The advantage of separately hosted Wikisource is that the artefacts are self contained and can be used readily. Photographic media will be mainly useful, when they are embedded in an article. May be non WMF

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On creating an Indian Wikisource

2011-08-28 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: The advantage of separately hosted Wikisource is that the artefacts are self contained and can be used readily. Photographic media will

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach

2011-08-28 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hi, I wrote to nicksarabi through Flickrmail about whose collection Srikanth wrote about below. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- From: *ashwin_baindur* To: *nicksarebi* Nick Preview your message *Subject:* About India photostream Hi