Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Pilot Designs

2012-03-29 Thread wheredevelsdare
A bigger question: On what basis did India Programs zero in on these topics for the pilots? Was the community asked whether this is what they want? I get the feeling that there is no community ownership whatsoever, which is what Pradeep was also talking of. On a larger scale, I suggest that

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

2012-03-29 Thread Vickram Crishna
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Hisham, you say you're conducted 22+ sessions. How would you rate the relative success of each of them? Four people editing on the day isn't good enough. Long term editors should be used to measure

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Pilot Designs

2012-03-29 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
Hi, I also think this idea of the community defining the framework must be extended to the Chapter as well. As long as Wikimedian organisations are not driven by what the community wants but sets the program themselves, there will be a disconnect. Pradeep Handheld On Mar 29, 2012 11:37 AM,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Pilot Designs

2012-03-29 Thread Hisham
On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: Hi Hisham, Could you also provide full links as reference like how Srikanth L suggested to Noopur yesterday? I cannot click through inline links when checking mails on my Nokia phone. Full links updated next to hyperlinks in the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Pilot Designs

2012-03-29 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Story-telling for Community Buildinghttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Storytelling is the work that Noopur just announced (and as illustrated by the profile on Netha) - where we want to celebrate

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Pilot Designs

2012-03-29 Thread wheredevelsdare
True, but that would probably have to be slightly different as the chapter is volunteer driven. During the AGM we could frame what the chapter should be doing in the next year and review it at the next AGM. We cant have an incentive/penalty as everyone is a volunteer, but it will keep the EC

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Pilot Designs

2012-03-29 Thread Hari Prasad Nadig
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:36 AM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: A bigger question: On what basis did India Programs zero in on these topics for the pilots? Was the community asked whether this is what they want? I get the feeling that there is no community ownership whatsoever, which is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Pilot Designs

2012-03-29 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:27, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.comwrote: The Story Telling and Wikipatrika initiatives that you list here as pilots were efforts undertaken by the Chapter. IIRC Shiju has been doing the Basic Community Building (covering all aspects of work detail

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Pilot Designs

2012-03-29 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
Hi, Both the members list and the AGM are venues open to members only. How will the community participate in this discussion? Not all community members are chapter members. I agree with wheredevelsdare, though in that the nAture of the incentives will change for Chapter. But the discussion

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

2012-03-29 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Vickram, what you said is an 'expanded' version of what I meant. I see no point in wasting time and efforts on such sessions if the net result is zero. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan

[Wikimediaindia-l] Support for the Bhojpuri language

2012-03-29 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, We have supported input methods and web fonts for the Bhojpuri language for quite some time at translatewiki.net. In essence it needs the same support as Hindi. We are happy with the results and intent to make them available on the bh.wikipedia.org. Have a look at translatewiki and let us

[Wikimediaindia-l] Request for not sending so many mails

2012-03-29 Thread RKS Rathore
Sir, nbsp;I had herpes a months back and it is still troubling me. hence I am not able to go through the wikimails. Kindly stop sending me these re- letters at your earliest convenience. R K S Rathore 10, Govind Nagar Shahganj AGRA 282 010 ___

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-I]Wiki Workshop at JIIT, Noida

2012-03-29 Thread Piyush Aggarwal
Greetings Everyone, Wikipedia has been invited by Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noidahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaypee_Institute_of_Information_Technology (JIIT, Noida) to conduct a workshop during their annual fest Impressionshttp://impressions12.com/index.html. There will be a

[Wikimediaindia-l] Open letter to the Indian Wikimedia community

2012-03-29 Thread Ravishankar
Hey, I have been watching the list silently for last few months, have discussed with some of the active members in the community and here is what I feel: *To the community:* * There is simply too much noise and politics in this list. I got so fed up that I chose to receive no mails for some

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] PRESS: New search tool to unlock Wikipedia

2012-03-29 Thread Noopur
A very interesting idea to extract specific information out of Wikipedia. Do have a look. -- Forwarded message -- From: Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:12 PM Subject: [Wmfcc-l] PRESS: New search tool to unlock Wikipedia To:

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

2012-03-29 Thread Nitika Tandon
Hey, Just a reminder. We are starting in 10 mins. Do join in! Thanks Nitika On 29-Mar-2012, at 8:54 AM, Hisham wrote: Hi Folks Reminder about the IRC later today (9pm IST on March 29th.) Join in using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. As I had

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] PRESS: New search tool to unlock Wikipedia

2012-03-29 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Sounds exciting. I really hope this works out. It'd make online work so much simpler. Although it reminds me of an unrelated computational search engine called Wolfram Alpha. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for not sending so many mails

2012-03-29 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
There's a link to unsubscribe at the bottom of this mail. Click on it, and follow the instructions and you won't recieve any more mails. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Additional IRC: Thursday March 22nd @ 9pm IST(Open House) (#wikimedia-office)

2012-03-29 Thread Aditya Sengupta
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 11:41, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Here you go: Maybe this is just with me, I don't have a great audience on Twitter, and I doubt it if anyone else has tried this: Take the case of Actor Siddharth. His article on enwiki used to say

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Additional IRC: Thursday March 22nd @ 9pm IST(Open House) (#wikimedia-office)

2012-03-29 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
While I don't know about the Foundation folks, several editors have already contacted me on this matter and have taken notes. Who knows, we may just have to change our approach. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-del] [Wikimedia-I]Wiki Workshop at JIIT, Noida

2012-03-29 Thread Piyush Aggarwal
Great, do join us there, it'll be really great if you can come. Thanks, Piyush On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Kinshuk Sunil kinshuksu...@gmail.comwrote: Aweomse! I'd like to help with anything that needs doing. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Piyush Aggarwal me.piyushaggar...@gmail.com