Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Net Neutrality and Wikipedia

2015-04-17 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hello everyone, As Wikipedians, I'm not sure how many support Net Neutrality, but as Netizens I'm sure most of them are supporting Net Neutrality. I'd certainly like to use {citation needed} here, but let's give it a pass for now ;) I do recollect how Wikipedia helped protest against SOPA and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell, Sowmyan !

2014-11-25 Thread Arnav Sonara
I have communicated with him over the years, had a chance to meet him once only. Very humble person, assisted the community in the need of hour. You'll be missed. Thank You Sowmyan. Thanks, Arnav http://arnavs.com/. (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati . On

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: WMIN Elections 2014 - Results

2014-11-23 Thread Arnav Sonara
Congrats to all ! Hope to see WMIN moving forward. Just a quick question, can someone please highlight the username of Dr Abhiraj Suryawanshi? The one used by him on any of the wikis other than WMIN. I'm sorry if I have missed it earlier. Thanks. Thanks, Arnav http://arnavs.com/.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] 2013-2014 Online Fundraising Report

2014-10-14 Thread Arnav Sonara
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Megan Hernandez mhernan...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 2:25 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] 2013-2014 Online Fundraising Report To: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, The 2013-2014 fiscal year fundraising

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Be part of the most epic data collection and analysis of Wikimedia programs!

2014-09-24 Thread Arnav Sonara
FYI This might be useful, pleases share in the community. Thanks, Arnav. (User:Rangilo_Gujarati). -- Forwarded message -- From: Anasuya Sengupta asengu...@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 7:29 PM Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Be part of the most epic data

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Recruitment Announcement : Program Director of Wikimedia India Chapter

2014-09-21 Thread Arnav Sonara
Welcome to the community, Ravishankar ! Is he by any chance, User:Ravidreams? Also few links about him or his work would have been helpful while introducing him to the list, including his email address. Jayanta, please look into it? Thanks. Thanks, Arnav. (User:Rangilo_Gujarati). On Sun, Sep

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell

2014-09-06 Thread Arnav Sonara
to know more about the Programme Director's position - https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2014-July/011434.html Warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas Sent from my iPhone On 03-Sep-2014, at 2:42, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.com wrote: Sad to hear that you're leaving EC

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell

2014-09-02 Thread Arnav Sonara
Sad to hear that you're leaving EC. Wishes for your life ahead! May we know, what do you (or EC) mean by Program Director? As per another thread on the list, Jayanta Nath is the new President of Wikimedia India Chapter, and he informed that any new hiring by WMIN is kept on hold for now. Could

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF sends cease and desist letter to WikiPR

2013-11-19 Thread Arnav Sonara
FYI, -- Forwarded message -- From: Matthew Roth mr...@wikimedia.org The Wikimedia Foundation has published a blog post announcing that we have sent a cease and desist letter to WikiPR. The letter demands the firm cease editing Wikipedia sites until it complies with the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] Fwd: A2K, its lies and irresponsibilities

2013-10-31 Thread Arnav Sonara
It shouldn't be like this. And let me tell you just one last thing, your attitude towards your work is not right. Well, let's just say this is little too harsh and out of context. As a community we shouldn't be the one deciding on his attitude towards his work. He is as enthusiastic as you are

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Crowdsourcing of new Creative Commons India Logo

2013-10-08 Thread Arnav Sonara
When does the voting start? Thanks, Arnav http://arnavs.com/. (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati . On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Pranav Curumsey pra...@wikimedia.inwrote: There are 14 entries so far, deadline for submission of entries is 7pm IST

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Mediawiki-i18n] translatewiki.net Android app is now available on google Play store!

2013-09-25 Thread Arnav Sonara
FYI, Anyone using Translatewiki may try this on their Android and or iOS Phone. Thanks, Arnav http://arnavs.com/. (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati . -- Forwarded message -- From: Or Sagi ors...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 10:40

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimania-l] From November, Indians to pay Rs. 2.7 lakh bond for UK Visa - Concern for Wikimania 2014

2013-06-24 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hey all, FYI http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/From-November-Indians-to-pay-Rs-2-7-lakh-bond-for-UK-visa/articleshow/20734427.cms *India is among the six nations that will have to pay £3,000 as fee from November 2013 to enter Britain. **The scheme will be applicable to visitors from

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [wlm-in] WLM India 2013

2013-06-17 Thread Arnav Sonara
Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.com Hey, After (virtually) helping Karthik in WLM 2012 and seeing other countries expressing their interest to participate in WLM '13, I request Indian Community interested in helping organize WLM '13 to start planning and discussions for the same. If anyone

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] above-and-beyond hospitality to newbies at an Indian open source event

2013-03-03 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hey, I did read Pradeepto's The Bardoli Incident and kudos to him for helping those students personally. This is a very common issue at least in Gujarat and Maharashtra where I have conducted plenty of Outreach activities. Students do not ask question, at least not in front of others just

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wiki Loves Monuments] Would you like to be part of the international jury for WLPA?

2013-02-20 Thread Arnav Sonara
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: FYI. For those interested and for those who contributed to WLM, this might be for you. Thanks for sharing this. Is India participating in WLPA too? Thanks. ___ Wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

2013-02-12 Thread Arnav Sonara
On Feb 13, 2013 12:08 AM, Abhishek Suryawanshi i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: I understand this might be a serious issue, but I trust all India mailing list is definitely not the platform for discussion. India Community deserves to know answers. At one end Chapter is criticizing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Takes Kolkata 2

2013-02-10 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hey, Fantastic job. Just take care about categorizing the images properly. To avoid confusion and complexities create one unique category like WP takes Kolkata. After photographing are you going to gather once again and upload the images at same time or individuals would later do it on their

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Results of the Programme Director hiring for CIS's A2K programme

2013-01-27 Thread Arnav Sonara
That's great, congrats to Mr Vardhan. Can we have a short introduction of him or did I miss that. Thanks, Rangilo Gujarati. On Jan 28, 2013 10:56 AM, Jadine Lannon jad...@cis-india.org wrote: Hello, We are pleased to announce the results of the hiring of Programme Director for CIS's A2K

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN Executive Committee for 2012-13 takes charge

2012-10-25 Thread Arnav Sonara
Great to see the combination of vivid age range Congratulations to all of you. Good luck ahead. On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Members and Community, At the outset, on behalf of Wikimedia India Executive Committee for 2011-12, I

[Wikimediaindia-l] PR, SEO and Wikipedia

2012-09-13 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hello everyone, In past couple of weeks somehow I came in touch with few guys (SEO, Application developers, Bloggers etc) who desperately wanted an article for themselves or their company on English Wikipedia. I understand their need for advertisement, but somehow few of them just can't be

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania 2012 scholarships

2012-05-13 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hey all, I have updated the Wikimania 2012 page and talk page too. Feel free to contact me if you need help. Thanks. On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: And all visa applications have to be made through VFS, not directly to consular office. On 13 May 2012

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania 2012 scholarships

2012-05-10 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hey everyone, I appeared for visa interview on 8th May at US Consulate Mumbai, and I successfully got one :) If anyone is interested in knowing about the process or anything, please feel free to get in touch with me, I would be more than happy to share my knowledge and Visa interview with you.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question about outreach sessions

2012-04-09 Thread Arnav Sonara
I do love to share, *Where and how else can your voice be heard thousands of times round the world by different people?*. I then show them few audio files I uploaded and placed as an audio pronunciation to the relevant articles, and show them the Page view statistics of that particular file. And

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The use of WebFonts for the Gujarati Wikisource

2012-03-11 Thread Arnav Sonara
Thanks a lot Gerard, I was just about to post a comment under the same bug :) But you took care of it. Thanks. :) On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: You're a legend! :) On 11 Mar 2012 14:53, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.com wrote: Hoi, I have

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-gu] Report on small meetup in Ahmedabad

2012-01-24 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hello everyone, On 24th January 2012, a small meetup was organized in L.D. College of Engineering Ahmedabad, I thank Kothari Harsh and Shah Smit from the college to organize this on such short notice (less than 24 hours). After the successful photo walk and a small Wiki 11 celebration, I thought

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-AMD] [Wikipedia-gu] Wikipedia Gujarati is quite active and not at all Dead

2012-01-17 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hello everyone, I think the issue has been solved. I request everyone to peace out. Please. Keep Editing ! Keep Inspiring ! On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Abhishek Joshi abhishek2...@gmail.comwrote: Dhaval, I am Abhishek Joshi the Organizer of Ahmedabad Meetup and first of the thing who

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

2012-01-03 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hello, 304+ images Thanks and congrats to you guys for organizing this. Also the participants were told about adding Category:Ahmedabad_1 to their images, there were quite a few who didn't add the categories. Thus a mess could have been created, but User:Me.aragorn and myself started

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Commons] Commons and the India relation

2011-12-30 Thread Arnav Sonara
Nice findings, if these things are included in our presentations during Outreach activities, lot of misconceptions would get clear, and people will definitely know more about it and love it. Thanks. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks

[Wikimediaindia-l] Small GLAM activity carried out personally.

2011-12-27 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hello everyone, While on vacations at my hometown Jamnagar, I thought of contributing something to Commons, thus I decided to start with Archaeological Museum Jamnagar. The Museum is superb with different variety of exhibits of Jamnagar like stone excavations, rifles, canons, different pictures

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-15 Thread Arnav Sonara
Yeah, I mean since most of the photographers there would not be knowing what commons is, I ll first give them presentation about commons and explain them public domain licensing in detail. -- Thanks Arnav (ricku). (User:Rangilo_Gujarati) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rangilo_Gujarati

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

2011-12-14 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hey everyone, As Noopur said GLAM and outreach cannot be seperated, +1 to it. Also wanted to share with you guys that the outreach event and workshop I am organising in February in MS University Baroda, the organizers from the city were amazed to know what Commons is and how wikipedia and other

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-04 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hisham, THANKS A LOT Headed towards home right now, ll get back to you all with more details as soon as I get them. Once again, thanks everyone. On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Dec 4, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: However, each

[Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hello, This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in Pune, am planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS University Baroda, Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival Footprintshttp://www.msu-footprints.org/. Also am the Campus Ambassador for India

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Arnav Sonara
: Hey Arnav, I'll be in Gujarat post 12th Dec. I helped organize the 10th meetup in Delhi. If you need my help, I'd love to :) Warmly Noopur On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

2011-12-03 Thread Arnav Sonara
, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Noopur, Thanks, the event is on 24, 25, 26 February 2012. I just need answer of above questions to convince them to allow me to come there and conduct a workshop. Would love to have around there at that time if possible. On Sat

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Let's *Talk*

2011-11-15 Thread Arnav Sonara
+1 Also enough of fault finding has been done I guess, lets move to Solution now. We ll definitely come back, and we ll come back with a greater impact in which everyone's participation is expected. So henceforth please give solutions rather than finding faults. Sincerely, A Wikipedian Campus

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-14 Thread Arnav Sonara
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote: *we never got the support which was required from an OA. Honestly speaking there was no interaction between OAs and CAs and without that coordination chances of success are quite low. * *My only point here is to all

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

2011-11-13 Thread Arnav Sonara
The PPI (or PPP, LOL) is indeed over. It concluded with the completion of the Stanton grant requirements, and has now evolved into the GEP, the Global Education Program. The IEP as I understand it is not over: contrary to the subjectline of this thread, it hasn't died. Thanks Sue, IEP

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot -- #DelayedMail

2011-11-12 Thread Arnav Sonara
hi, It was a pilot and hence I guess was meant to die at some point. First up, to the Campus Ambassadors, you guys showed a lot of courage in taking up and then following through on your commitment of being Campus Ambassadors through the length of this Pilot. I hope the team will also speak

[Wikimediaindia-l] Foundation Report and India Education Program

2011-09-10 Thread Arnav Sonara
Here's what Foundation Report August 2011 has to say for our India Education program http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/09/08/wikimedia-foundation-report-august-2011/ *India Programs* - Two new consultants selected – Nitika Tandon (Participation) and Shiju Alex (Indic Initiatives). Nitika has

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Outreach Activities in Gujarat

2011-06-09 Thread Arnav Sonara
Hello everyone, As the subject suggests, I am planning to carry out few outreach sessions in Gujarat since I will be there for my vacations starting in few days. These sessions are simply intended to let people over there know what exactly is wikipedia and how it is growing in other parts of