Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

2012-01-03 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Another interesting site for WP article/edits/user growth analysis ( thanks Naveenpf for sharing this) http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/ml http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/ml/articles/full Edits http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/ml/edits/365 Users :

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

2012-01-03 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
awesome tool!! On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:59 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Another interesting site for WP article/edits/user growth analysis ( thanks Naveenpf for sharing this) http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/ml http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/ml/articles/full

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

2012-01-03 Thread Mandar Kulkarni
This is abosolutly amazing data and statistics I ever seen on Wikipedia except on English pages.   I immd. tried with marathi language and could see some very interesting things. http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/mr    Thanks for sharing With Regards, Mandar V. Kulkarni

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

2012-01-03 Thread Surya Prakash
Tamil is well doing on all of these reports. :) Very happy to be a Tamil Wikimedian. :) *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 3 January 2012 15:37, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: This is abosolutly amazing data and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
WDD, If you look thru your mail to a month back, you'll find a link I had sent called Why Wikipedia needs marketers. This would be useful. Also the Bell Pottinger issue and Jimmy Wales' reply to the issue. All of them are in the mailing list December 2011 archives. -- Regards, Srikanth

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Thanks for the link Tinu. Also, Surya, from what I've seen Tamil has a closely knit community that has strict standards and monitors each article. Hence article quality is never compromised thus resulting in returning visitors. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

2012-01-03 Thread Aditya Sengupta
Controversial perhaps- but I think it's pretty important they learn the principles here. I am aware of quite a few PR and SMM agencies that edit Wikipedia and they are generally quite unaware about the principles- and end up being a bigger burden than they would otherwise have been had they known

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:11, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.com wrote: I have three suggestions for inclusion here, based on recent experiences: copyrights/copyvio, notability; and some emphasis on verifiability. CoI is much much more important in this context. -- Regards Srikanth.L

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

2012-01-03 Thread Aditya Sengupta
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:15, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:11, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: I have three suggestions for inclusion here, based on recent experiences: copyrights/copyvio, notability; and some emphasis on verifiability.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Greetings! This is a short update on the January edition of Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad. From where I stand, the event has been a resounding success! Over seventy-five people turned up, both old and young, this morning, which is no mean feat since it was very cold as well as a working day.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Whoops! Link to category: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ahmedabad_1 On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short update on the January edition of Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad. From where I stand, the event has been a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread nikita belavate
Thats Amaazziingg Indeedd ! Congraats to All of you :) !! Warm Regards, Nikita. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short update on the January edition of Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad. From where I stand, the event has been a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hey, This is great news! Congratulations to the organizers for pulling this off. Pradeep User:Prad2609 Handheld On 03/01/2012, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings! This is a short update on the January edition of Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad. From where I stand, the event has

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hello, 304+ images Thanks and congrats to you guys for organizing this. Also the participants were told about adding Category:Ahmedabad_1 to their images, there were quite a few who didn't add the categories. Thus a mess could have been created, but User:Me.aragorn and myself started

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Anshuman Fotedar
There are lovely pictures in there! 'Tis brilliant! :) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jama_Masjid_Ahmedabad_.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Step_Well.JPG http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adalaj_Vav_(2)_Ahmedabad_.JPG On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Pradeep Mohandas

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
238 images for a Single Day event, not contest is splendid indeed. And if the figure is still increasing, then you guys deserve a round of applause. Congrats, especially Noopur. Your enthusiasm seems to have infected everyone. Also to Pradeep, who on New Years day was busy campaigning for this

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Guys, sorry for this unwanted bit of SPAM, but anyone uploading pictures of an toll expressway labelled as NICE/Nandi/Nice Road/BMIC/Mysore Expressway, please add the category Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor. Hopefully then, the Marathi and Kannada articles will replace my two year old

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Hisham
Thanks for sharing this, Anirudh. Thank you all - Noopur, Anirudh, Srikeit, Aviral, Khayal, Yash, Konarak, Smit, Karthik, Chirag, Arnav and the other members of the 75 gang (75??? WOW!!!). This is amazing. There's a treasure trove of stuff here from the pictures of Gandhi's room to Chaniya

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Hisham, thank you for reminding me. Talking about the Dhokla, about a month back Noopur was looking for a free image of Dabeli. I hope you guys got it. :-) -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Noopur
Hello all :) I have finally summoned the courage to go and check what my volunteers have done. It's delightful to see that they've followed our instructions and given their best. You guys should have seen how motivated they were and how much fun we had! I wish there was someone permanently

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Anirudh Bhati
કાર્તિકભાઈ, ટ્રાન્સલટે કરો ને? On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like someone beat Gerard in blogging about it eh -- http://kartikm.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/wtabd/ ... Do note it's in Gujarati. Request someone to post it in English

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
That translates as, 'Kartik, please do translate'. :) Pradeep Handheld On 04/01/2012, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: કાર્તિકભાઈ, ટ્રાન્સલટે કરો ને? On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like someone beat Gerard in blogging

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
A blogpost can only indicate Success if it comes up so early. If it was criticism or cribbing, it would come after a week or so. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
This is some great work!!! Nice to know that our good old FOSS friend Kart is also involved in Wikipedia activities!! Regards -Sudhanwa On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Looks like someone beat Gerard in blogging about it eh --

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Can we stop dragging FOSS into every mail unless absolutely necessary? just to clarify. - Roads aren't designed with FOSS. - Camera firmware isn't FOSS. - Our brain doesn't have FOSS. - Bus ticketing isn't FOSS. No offence intended. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Arun Ganesh
Wow, great job guys! I feel bad I could not make it despite being in ahmedabad due to some other commitments. i managed to do my small bit by giving a talk to nid students encouraging them to upload their work to commons :) -- j.mp/ArunGanesh ___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please suggest/vote for Collaboration of the Month for January 2012 on English Wikipedia

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Thank you for the reminder Ashwin, I had completely forgotten about this. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Hmmm I don't know why people are so touchy about FOSS. If I mention photographer or security or Media or engineer instead of FOSS, will the reaction be same? On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Can we stop dragging FOSS into every mail unless

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Fundraiser Concludes with Record Breaking Donations

2012-01-03 Thread Sudhanwa Jogalekar
Just in case you missed this. Wikimedia Fundraiser Concludes with Record Breaking Donations Posted by Jay Walsh on January 2nd, 2012 Our annual fundraising campaign reached a successful conclusion today having raised a record-breaking USD 20 million from more than one

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: કાર્તિકભાઈ, ટ્રાન્સલટે કરો ને? On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: Looks like someone beat Gerard in blogging about it eh -- http://kartikm.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/wtabd/ ... Do note it's in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Sudhanwa, Frankly, it is because these professionals do not bandy their professions/work around unnecessarily when not needed and not central to the conversation. Thanks Kartik, for the translation. I see you had some trouble getting pics of the station. This is strange since people take

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Vickram Crishna
And, just to nitpick: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Hmmm I don't know why people are so touchy about FOSS. If I mention photographer or security or Media or engineer instead of FOSS, will the reaction be same? On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:49

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:46, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.comwrote: hi Vickram, Pradeep/Vickram/Srikanth R, Please spare the list on debates which are not even tangential to the aim of the list. We are not here to discuss about FOSS People (Discussing about FOSS which might be