Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Commons being blocked in most places.

2011-12-26 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
Also, this also gives a Wikimedian a needed excuse to talk about Wikipedia - a leg in the door, if you will. The Head of IT's interest did get piqued by being told about Commons but I'm not sure if she explored it much more. It was a situation that I could have positively exploited but I was just

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Summary and perspectives from Discussions with Indic language wikimedians - 2011

2011-12-26 Thread Shiju Alex
What I found one of the key factor behind active communities particularly Tamil and Malayalam, is the support of Government for the initiative. This could be a priority area for other Wikipedias as well. According to my knowledge, World Classical Tamil Conference

[Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo, 2011- (15 to 18 Dec. 2011)

2011-12-26 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Report on Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo, 2011- (15 to 18 Dec. 2011) About CMDA: CMDA, Pune is an association of Computer and Media dealers in Pune. It is a registered organisation and is ISO 9000 certified. Recently, it is declared as the best Computer dealers association across

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Summary and perspectives from Discussions with Indic language wikimedians - 2011

2011-12-26 Thread Arjuna Rao Chavala
On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: What I found one of the key factor behind active communities particularly Tamil and Malayalam, is the support of Government for the initiative. This could be a priority area for other Wikipedias as well. According to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Summary and perspectives from Discussions with Indic language wikimedians - 2011

2011-12-26 Thread Shiju Alex
Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for these great suggestions Ravi. *1. Active participation of Wikipedians having English Wikipedia experience. * Yes this is very important. Infact I already mentioned this in my second point (attracting newbies) This is what I wrote: We must

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo, 2011- (15 to 18 Dec. 2011)

2011-12-26 Thread Mitra sharma
Quite heart warming to hear about this... hope we have something like this in Delhi soon :) On 26 December 2011 14:01, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Report on Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo, 2011- (15 to 18 Dec. 2011) About CMDA: CMDA, Pune is an association of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo, 2011- (15 to 18 Dec. 2011)

2011-12-26 Thread Noopur
Dear Mitra, why don't you join the chapter and we can work something out for Delhi too :) Hope to catch up with you in Delhi! On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Mitra sharma mittyko...@gmail.com wrote: Quite heart warming to hear about this... hope we have something like this in Delhi soon :)

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo, 2011- (15 to 18 Dec. 2011)

2011-12-26 Thread Mitra sharma
Hey Noopur, Have figured out the procedure, will get it done at the earliest. Am looking forward to contributing and interacting with wiki members in Delhi :) On 26 December 2011 17:17, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Mitra, why don't you join the chapter and we can work something

[Wikimediaindia-l] StatisticsBot for closer look on Indic numbers

2011-12-26 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, ar:User:OsamaK had developed a pywikipedia based bot to collect daily stats[1] and has been running for over 2 years. I had just translated it and started running for Tamil wikipedia here[2]. I am now looking ApiSandbox[3][4] to build queries which will get more data(Bot activity, number

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] StatisticsBot for closer look on Indic numbers

2011-12-26 Thread Surya Prakash
PS : This entire thing was a by-product of Bala's Doha visit when he interacted with Osama in the Arabic wiki convention and got to know of this. Apparently Bala learnt this from Osama and he learnt about wmf grant process from Bala :) Mutual learning? :) Good tool/feature. :) Once again

[Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad!

2011-12-26 Thread Noopur
Dear all, I take great pride and joy in announcing Wikipedia takes Ahmedabad on January 3, 2012. As a great start to the event, we had a new volunteer join us and make our logo. He is very excited to have discovered Commons and has offered his help for all events in future. We are coordinating it

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] StatisticsBot for closer look on Indic numbers

2011-12-26 Thread Shiju Alex
Srikanth, Good work. And thanks for sharing. Since in this we are calculating edits per day, new users per day, new articles per day, and so on, I feel it will be good if those details are displayed instead of the current total edits/users/articles. In fact for daily analysis that data is more