[Wikimediaindia-l] Visit from Bangladeshi Wikipedians

Dear all, Last week, Nurunnaby, Zaid and Jewel, three Bangladeshi Wikipedians were in New Delhi and happened to visit India Program team. It was awesome to meet all three of them and hear what they were doing for Wikipedia in Bangladesh. We discussed how they could engage many active OSN members (

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Club @ British Council

On 19-Jun-2012, at 7:33 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Nitika Tandon wrote: > Indeed participants will be editing articles relating to Indian context like > Indian culture, history, arts etc > > I just hope you meant to say participants will be editing articl

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Education Pilot

Hi Ravi, Please find my answers in line. Though I'd highly encourage everyone to post any comments on the talk page itself to make sure that there are no disparate communications and we maintain only one central page. Thanks Nitika On 19-Jun-2012, at 6:49 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi IEP, >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimapia switches to CC-BY-SA

The short reply is, if you dont like google and their terms of service, dont use it! Its a little unfair to use someone's service and then call them villain if you did not read or like the fine print. The primary issue with wikimapia is that google derived data is mixed with direct user contributi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimapia switches to CC-BY-SA

With even OSM map layer being available, who's to tell from where were the vectors derived? What if one knew, through use of handheld GPS device, the exact latitude-longitude co-ordinates of the 4 corners of one's school campus and used that to map one's school on wikimapia? How can Google convinci

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Education Pilot

IEP will be moving things to Simple Wiki I see, I wonder who suggested this, in March - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_Program/Analysis/Independent_Report_from_Tory_Read#Simple_english_wiki Or else, this could be the result of exhaustive internal quantitative, qualita

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Club @ British Council

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Nitika Tandon wrote: > Indeed participants will be editing articles relating to Indian context > like Indian culture, history, arts etc I just hope you meant to say participants will be editing articles *they are interested in* and which may / may not happen to b

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Education Pilot

Hi IEP, I don't understand the involvement of "India programs" in developing "Simple Wikipedia". I have never seen Simple Wikipedia coming up in search results or anyone using it from India. (Please let me know the visitor stats for the project from India if this could be considered an Indian lan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Club @ British Council

So good to hear that Yann. Indeed participants will be editing articles relating to Indian context like Indian culture, history, arts etc - something that interests you, I hear! It will be great if you could join us. :-) Thanks Nitika On 19-Jun-2012, at 3:46 PM, Yann Forget wrote: > Hi, I m

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimapia switches to CC-BY-SA

> > I don't understand the interpretation that longitude-latitude co-ordinates > of the placemarks cannot be stored / used with the places. These do not > belong to Google. > Wikimapia is a tool for geocoding - allowing someone to derive coordinate values from some source, in this case, copyright

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Club @ British Council

Hi, I may be able to come, but I am not sure yet. Yann 2012/6/19 Srikanth Ramakrishnan : > Just a question. > Are any proper, experienced community members part of this? > > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Nitika Tandon > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> We are trying to build partnerships with some of

[Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Education Pilot

Hey Everyone, Just wanted to inform you that we have put up a post about the India Education Program here [1]. Please fell free to initiate, advance or follow the conversation on the same page. Thanks Nitika [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_Program#Update_on_In

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimapia switches to CC-BY-SA

Last time I checked, wikimapia was a 2-D vector drawing drawn collaboratively on top of a map layer. And in wikimapia you can choose to use a map layer other than Google. OpenStreetMap is there in the options. Even on selecting that, the "Google" icon stays in the bottom left next to the scale, bu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Club @ British Council

Just a question. Are any proper, experienced community members part of this? On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Nitika Tandon wrote: > Hi, > > We are trying to build partnerships with some of the organisations to set > up Wikipedia > Clubs