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

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 > S

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2012 - Bootstrap Team

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 14:53, wrote: > 1. Report - Pradeep has covered that. Lets not link this to wci 12. > Or perhaps there could be a rain check on WCI-12 till the report is out? So that whoever is working on WCI-12 can learn from past mistakes? And get stuff correct right at the conceptio

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

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 15:14, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'd send it privately as a mil to you alone. > I did it as a volunteer. > Remember, the WMF has hired someone to do the same. They may have more > 'working' ideas. > Of course. Of course. But perhaps an exp

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

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 14:37, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Also, let us NOT mix Social Media with Wikipedia. I don't want people > posing 'Wl u be mai frnd' on my Talk page. > Social Media and Wikipedia, is a big NONO. > I realised this back in 2010 when I was tryi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

t;> even, perhaps, some sort of mistake he made. However, since other people >> have started seeing this, I though I'd tell you that he is not alone. >> >> I'll ask him further details about his net connection and get back to you >> guys on this. >> >>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

nt%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns > > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta wrote: > >> A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing >> advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the ho

[Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server.

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

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 15:51, Achal Prabhala wrote: > > > On Wednesday 07 March 2012 03:47 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 15:43, Achal Prabhala > aprabh...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >>In keeping with this spirit :) and the difficulty of >>distinguishing between all

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Backup for Wikipedians

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 23:25, Bishakha Datta wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < > parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I agree with you completely. While I've never been dragged to a Police >> station, the Coimbatore Police made me delete ALL my photos on the cam

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II

gt; WTM<http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:WTM>, >> specially created for the event. 313 pictures have been uploaded so far. >> >> Sincerely >> Anshuman Fotedar >> >> PS: >> >> 1. >> During the photowalk, some of the pa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests

Bishakha and I did a short session at VJTI during the previous edition of the technical festival. Money never came up. The kinds of places that are going to ask for money for these specific activities are the kinds of places you do not want to do these workshops/sessions at in the first place- a v

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests

IITB's Techfest just got over. VJTI's (Mumbai) festival (Technovanza) is from Feb 3rd to 5th (I can connect here- ping me offline). UDCT's festival (Exergy) is going on (Jan 19 to 22). Thadomal Sahani has something on 4th Feb, but this seems to be limited to biomed. Most other major college tech f

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:15, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 17:11, Aditya Sengupta wrote: > >> I have three suggestions for inclusion here, based on recent experiences: >> copyrights/copyvio, notability; and some emphasis on verifiability. >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Workshop Mumbai 2

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] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 20:17, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > > Someone suggested OLPC folks. We might be interested in approaching such > folks as well. > I imagine this is happening too. I saw an OLPC being demoed at the WikiConference (by Harriet Vidyasagar, I think?).

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:28, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Aakash is basically an Android tablet. So if we create an offline version > of Wikipedia for all Android devices, [India specific], I guess that should > do? Right? This version of Aakash uses Android- the o

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the issue of the maps...

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 13:09, Achal Prabhala wrote: > The number (and the total inconsistency with how many people actually > protested) comes from here: > > > http://www.indianexpress.com/news/protest-against-wrong-map-mars-countrys-first-wiki-conference/877826/0 > > in which it simultaneously

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On the issue of the maps...

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:11, Shiju Alex wrote: > And there is an en wikipedia article also on this topic: > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BJP_youth_wing_protest_against_Wikipedia%27s_map_of_India > > "Over 100 protesters were present on the opening day of the first Wiki Conference India

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:10, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > This is indeed a great success, First India chapter registration, then > first office outside US in Delhi, 1st India WikiConference and then this. > Hopng for the best success. > > Just curious- How do the activities and operations of t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 16:27, Gautam John wrote: > On 10 September 2011 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > > > last week in a conversation in jimbowales talk page in en wiki, jimmy > said > > he and coren were talking to google to allow this free of charge or > > something and something good is to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 15:01, Aditya Sengupta wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:30, Nagarjuna G wrote: > >> >> >> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas < >> pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> hi, >>>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:30, Nagarjuna G wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Pradeep Mohandas < > pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> hi, >> >> Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you share where you have >> spotted this? We're not planning to have a twitter account, ju

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India

here one can follow your work in this area? Aditya Sengupta ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Globalocal - Presentation

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 13:29, Gautam John wrote: > Hello! > > Achal and I spoke at a publishing conference in Delhi last month - I > had forgotten to send the presentation. I spoke about my experience > from a publishing and Pratham Books experience while Achal spoke about > Wikimedia, Wikipedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Kolkata

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 22:36, Anirudh Bhati wrote: > On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Aditya Sengupta > wrote: > > > Bombay has had 3 meetups already. More on the latest one here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MMU3 > > > > That was last month. C

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Kolkata

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 17:28, Gautam John wrote: > What about Bombay? > > Bombay has had 3 meetups already. More on the latest one here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MMU3 (You can also see a list of all the meetups at the bottom of the page) ___