Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread Adethya Sudarsanan
Dear All, If you guys won't think I am repeating a similar incident like Deba and Sri, i had a similar experience too... After our WikiConference @ Mumbai, I traveled on Kingfisher flight back to my place (Chennai, I am from Chennai btw). I am usually a last minute guy.. so I went to the airport

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread Yuvi Panda
Something similar happened to me and PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh) in Mumbai. I was wearing Pune T shirt and him Mumbai T Shirt, and the person serving us food from the canteen was having fun reading the word 'Wikipedia' in the languages he could read (Kannada and Hindi, I believe?) - he could not read

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
2012/3/10 Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com: Something similar happened to me and PlaneMad (Arun Ganesh) in Mumbai. I was wearing Pune T shirt and him Mumbai T Shirt, and the person serving us food from the canteen was having fun reading the word 'Wikipedia' in the languages he could read

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread Amir E. Aharoni
I won't say it was very fruitful, or that I showed them any live demo or ppt. Rather I focused on a few crucial question which were on their minds: If you DIDN'T show them a ppt, the chance that it WAS fruitful is a lot HIGHER :) If you spoke about so much things to these people, then most

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Innovative Outreach effort

2012-03-10 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
Perhaps something like street theatre? Pradeep Handheld On Mar 10, 2012 4:35 PM, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: I won't say it was very fruitful, or that I showed them any live demo or ppt. Rather I focused on a few crucial question which were on their minds: If you

[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiWomen's History Month

2012-03-10 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Sad to see not even one event organised in India - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiWomen%27s_History_Month for this. The only event in Asia is in Dubai, so far. Hope that changes soon. Pradeep -- How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9

[Wikimediaindia-l] New version of Malayalam fonts released

2012-03-10 Thread Noopur
FYI. Just saw on Santhosh's site: Might interest the Indic guys if you've not seen it already! Do forward it to Malayalam list too! New Version of Malayalam fonts released http://thottingal.in/blog/2012/03/10/new-version-of-malayalam-fonts-released/ -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiWomen's History Month

2012-03-10 Thread Ashwin Baindur
We had created the gender task force to give women editors a platform and I sent out messages to women editors. Sadly, nothing came up though Bishakha did some footwork and outreach for the recruitment of a new set of women editors, but I think that's yet to happen . Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiWomen's History Month

2012-03-10 Thread Noopur
Speaking in personal capacity, for me it was a delightful moment to edit Dance in India as INCOTM last month. That was a celebratory moment as far as women's participation goes. Although I do understand that this is something more symbolic about March, it was a nice thing to do in Feb and maybe

[Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Unofficial Wikimedia Projects Hackathon on 17th March

2012-03-10 Thread Yuvi Panda
Hello everyone! Me and SrikanthLogic are conducting a small Unofficial Wikimedia Projects hackathon in Chennai on 17th March. You can find more details and register for it here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012 Also, I'd request the community to add ideas here:

[Wikimediaindia-l] Four more volunteers for coordinating WikiProject India

2012-03-10 Thread Ashwin Baindur
I would like to inform the broad community of glad tidings - we have a number of volunteers who have agreed to coordinate WikiProjects. These are: * Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism - Redtigerxyz. * Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian Cinema - Vensatry. * Wikipedia WikiProject Mumbai - Karthikndr. *

[Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)

2012-03-10 Thread Hisham
Hi Folks One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

2012-03-10 Thread Shiju Alex
Dear All, I would like to join Tinu in apologizing for any emotional comments that I made. I care for our movement. I want our movement to grow. I will do my very best for our movement. *NOTE*:My access to Internet is limited now due to the change in service provider. Sorry for not sending

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiWomen's History Month

2012-03-10 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: We had created the gender task force to give women editors a platform and I sent out messages to women editors. Sadly, nothing came up though Bishakha did some footwork and outreach for the recruitment of a new set