Thanks for sharing this. Coverage of the article was good.
regards
Arun
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On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:54 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
tinucher...@gmail.comwrote:
Thank Srikanth, for sharing this.
The article can be viewed on epaper :
Hi Folks
(Some) students in the Pune pilot have copy-pasted copyright material onto
their articles. We are taking these copyvios extremely seriously and here's a
summary of the action that we have taken.
a) Conducted classroom sessions in all 3 colleges where the program is running
and
There are another way (who works fine in Brazilian program): Treat then as
adults they are and the articles as projects. If I cheat in a project in any
college in Brazil my professor would give me a zero. In some brazilians
college I may be expelled for do that (without count the fact that is also
hisham
On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Béria Lima wrote:
There are another way (who works fine in Brazilian program): Treat then as
adults they are and the articles as projects. If I cheat in a project in any
college in Brazil my professor would give me a zero. In some brazilians
college I
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 15:48, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
I said that the current actions were overblown.
No second thoughts on the issue and actions being taken. But I guess Gautam
has a point here. This set of copyvios were detected very early(majorly ~50
students' edits
hisham
On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:11 PM, Gautam John wrote:
On 12 September 2011 13:16, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote:
(Some) students in the Pune pilot have copy-pasted copyright material onto
their articles. We are taking these copyvios extremely seriously and here's
a summary
hisham
On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
Hisham,
Nice to hear the comprehensive way in which the copy violation issue is being
addressed. Its better to nip this in the bud otherwise it could grow beyond
control and also sully the good work being done by hundreds of
On 12 September 2011 16:00, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote:
and how to write good quality articles - all in the context and spirit of
better learning, more fun, intellectual honesty and the need to avoid
academic plagiarism - so I'm with you on that.
You know, at the session we
Hisham
Thank you for taking this seriously and for the prompt action . This had the
potential to become a serious PR disaster for India in general and
thankfully the actions taken seem to have stemmed the copyvio issues for
now.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com
On 12 September 2011 16:47, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
Copyright violations aren't only important from an academic plagiarism point
of view but also legal and ethical, you seem to be only focusing on text
based violation in Academia maybe. Commons users and admins spend the better
Hi Hisham,
Can you please inform the people who are regularly editing Indian Articles
about the Online Ambassador program before closing the dates for the same ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/New_articles (only
new article alert system I know)
Thanks,
Naveen Francis
You know, this is pretty awesome. It's an idea I hadn't even thought
of till I read it here.
Would love to see the data - particular sitenotices to spikes in contributions.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html
On 12 September 2011 16:38,
Would love to see the data - particular sitenotices to spikes in
contributions.
Gah! we haven't done a systematic recording as we werent prepared for it (we
werent sure how this thing would turn out). If you would accept
eyewitness/anecdotal impressions, the following happened: (Take with many
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:
Hello all,
Untill July, Site notice in Tamil Wikpedia used to give only prominent
links to Fonts / typing tutorial / Village pump. Occasionally when
meet-ups/workshops happen, we would announce them. We thought to
On 12 September 2011 17:19, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote:
Gah! we haven't done a systematic recording as we werent prepared for it (we
werent sure how this thing would turn out). If you would accept
eyewitness/anecdotal impressions, the following happened: (Take with many
pinches
I agree with Gautam in that just copyvio is not the issue. It is the issue
of copyright violation, plagiarism and intellectual dishonesty. It needs
to be tackled by teaching the skills of citation, paraphrasing and the many
acceptable and unacceptable ways to reflect copied text and ideas in
On Sep 12, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
I am not sure if Intellectual honesty means ethics in this context but I
would disagree if that is what WMF and other Wikipedians would be concerned
about, it's really the legal liability that they expose WMF and projects to.
Maybe Hisham
On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:33 PM, Theo10011 wrote:
I beg to differ Gautum. Since, it was made part of the curriculum this almost
constitutes as cheating. I am not sure about lofty first world standards but
I would be failed for cheating just about anywhere in the world.
It's taking a while for
On Sep 12, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Naveen Francis wrote:
Hi Hisham,
Can you please inform the people who are regularly editing Indian Articles
about the Online Ambassador program before closing the dates for the same ?
Sure, Navin. The application form is at
Bow to beautiful mind behind this.
Can you we do the same thing in Social media (facebook page) ? Will it be
helpful for Indic Languages ?
http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia
Thanks,
Naveen Francis
On 12 September 2011 18:07, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote:
On 12 September 2011
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks Jessie,
Great tools. And I am happy to inform you that translation for Odia (Oriya)
for Kiwix is over, Srikant from odia Wiki community is trying to revive
Ubuntu again by spreading the message to
Hi All,
Here is a abridged summary of the 37th Bangalore Wiki Meetup Summary
on 11thSeptember 2011 at CIS, Bangalore
*Talk: Technology related issues in Wiki projects and their solutions (By
Santhosh Thottingal)*
*
*
This Skype session was presented by the foundation member Santhosh
hi,
Just saw this update from Vivek Cherian, a former Mumbai community member
who is now working in Chennai, on Facebook:
Just back from a meeting with the IT Secretary Department of Information
Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu. The happy news is that a FOSS OS will
be used in the Laptops
Eeks! Vivek is still a Mumbai community member, :) we're not going to let
him go so easily :)
Pradeep
On 12 September 2011 22:58, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.comwrote:
hi,
Just saw this update from Vivek Cherian, a former Mumbai community member
who is now working in Chennai, on
Hi Subhashish:
As always, thank you so much for putting this together.
Is it possible to also post these reports here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore37
please? (For this and previous ones that you have so wonderfully
recorded, please?)
Thank you.
Best,
Hello Hisham, Everyone,
Both these articles will go a long way in generating more awareness and
interest in Wikipedia and its Programs. The Telegraph article is on an fully
open-access website, while the Times Crest site requires sign-up. I do not know
if Times Crest is widely known or is
Hoi,
I am really happy that Narayam, the extension that provides you with input
methods for your languages is live for some of them on some of the projects.
Have a look and let us know how you like it.
Thanks,
GerardM
'wmgUseNarayam' =
array(
'default' =
false,
Thanks for the excellent summary.
Regards
Arun
On 12-Sep-2011, at 10:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Here is a abridged summary of the 37th Bangalore Wiki Meetup Summary on 11th
September 2011 at CIS, Bangalore
Talk: Technology related issues
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 23:46, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi,
I am really happy that Narayam, the extension that provides you with input
methods for your languages is live for some of them on some of the projects.
Have a look and let us know how you like it.
Thanks
Dear all,
The Wikimedia Localisation team and volunteer Junaidp have taken an
important hurdle towards better support for Indic languages. After a rocky
start with the Narayam[1] extension on the Tamil language Wikipedia, today a
new version of Narayam was deployed on several wikis in Indic
Great news, I hope this will be implemented in other Wikipedia as well.
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:25 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 23:46, Gerard Meijssen
gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi,
I am really happy that Narayam, the extension that
On Sep 12, 2011, at 11:29 PM, Vivek Murarka wrote:
Hello Hisham, Everyone,
Could the Times Group be requested to also carry the Times Crest article on
an open site. Respecting copyrights and then given the title/headline of the
article, I would not like to copy-paste the text from
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