Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiSangamolsavam - Annual WikiConference of Malayalam Wikicommunity

2012-04-10 Thread Hisham
Dear All This is a sweet invite from the Malayalam community - and I thought I would add a few points about why it might be useful for non-Malayalam Wikimedians to attend. The Malayalam community is one of India's largest Indic communities (with nearly 100 active editors.) It also has a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-10 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.comwrote: *Where and how else can your voice be heard thousands of times round the world by different people?* Posing such a question in the context of image and file uploads may be fine. However, if we attempt at recruiting

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-10 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have tried this method. Bala and I during the Coimbatore meetup in December, just said that the session would be more indepth compared to the previous one. This is a nice example of separating the

[Wikimediaindia-l] How I told them: Answer about the outreach session

2012-04-10 Thread Mrutyunjaya Kar
I simply told them : All the discussions and exercises of this particular session will be very boring, if you are not really interested to know more details about WP editing. Even if you don't attend, you can learn all these details later, gradually through experience or with a little help from an

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
There were never T-shirts involved in this session. Never. Not in Coimbatore for sure. An alternative way of saying it is: This isn't a class. I don't want it to be a boring lecture. I'm talking here because I'm passionate about what I do. You don't have to be here if you don't want to. This is

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-10 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya, I have a small question. This is particularly aimed at Hisham, Nitika and Noopur. How do you guys handle these question. I infer that you guys have conducted nearly 22 odd outreach sessions. How do you answer the Question: Do you get paid to do this? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. The

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia to be free on mobiles in Africa, Middle East (SciDev.net)

2012-04-10 Thread Ashwin Baindur
I'd much rather see India Programs arrange such deals than waste time doing things that normal editors can do themselves. Ashwin 2012/4/11 Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoro...@gmail.com Wikipedia to be free on mobiles in Africa, Middle East Maina Waruru

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Youths come forward to fill up Odia Wikipedia

2012-04-10 Thread Noopur Raval
http://expressbuzz.com/states/orissa/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/380548.htmlDear all, Here http://expressbuzz.com/states/orissa/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/380548.htmlis a news report from The New Indian Express on the Odia Wikipedia's outreach activities which