Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Santhosh Thottingal wins the President's Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for 2019

Kudos to Santosh and Dr. Rajeev for this amazing honour!!! Regards Arun On Thu, 15 Aug, 2019, 22:27 manoj k, wrote: > Santhosh Thottingal > > has won the Maharshi Badrayan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Women India Results

Thank wonderful news. Thank you for the update. Regards Arun On Mon, 1 Apr, 2019, 17:40 Rupika Sharma, wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Wiki Loves Women India 2019 has ended officially! And the results are > out!. The contest was organized organically without any offline > edit-a-thon! 12 language

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Featured Wikimedian of the Month - April 2019

Kudos k. Murthy on the recognition! Nice to take note of your excellent contributions. regards Arun On Tue, 2 Apr 2019 at 00:15, Sanket Oswal wrote: > Greetings from Wikimedia India! > > I am glad to introduce you to the featured Wikimedian for April 2019, K > Murthy from Tamil Community. > >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tulu WIkipedia 2nd anniversary

Congratulations on the milestone Yuku Wikipedia s. Wish you many more amazing successes. Regards Arun On Mon 6 Aug, 2018, 08:56 , wrote: > Greetings on 2nd anniversary of Tulu Wikipedia becoming live. Tulu > Wikipedia URL - tcy.wikipedia.org Thanks to all > volunteers

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Featured Wikimedian] April 2018

Wow, 4 100wikidays challenges is amazing. Kudos to Wikipedian Sangram. Keep going, you are quite an inspiration. And thanks to Subashish and User MKar for support and guidance during Santa's formative years. Clearly it has made a difference. Best wishes Arun On Wed, 4 Apr 2018, 09:31 Krishna

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Content donation

Kudos to all Wikimedians behind this excellent initiative. And thanks to Dr. Bhattacharjee. Regards Arun On 21 Mar 2018 9:24 am, "Ashwin Baindur" wrote: This is a great step. Its wonderful when an author opens his work to humanity at large and that too in a licence

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] First anniversary of Bhubaneswar WikiTungi

Congrats this is a great to note. regards Arun On 13 February 2017 at 00:40, Sailesh Patnaik wrote: > Dear Friends, > On 9th February 2017, Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar celebrated the first > anniversary of Bhubaneswar WikiTungi. > > WikiTungi [1] is a city based

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Ravishankar Ayyakkannu as Manager, Strategic Partnerships - Asia

Congrats Ravi!!! Best wishes and regards Arun On 22 December 2016 at 04:17, Adele Vrana wrote: > Dear Wikimedia India community, > > I am thrilled to announce that Ravishankar Ayyakkannu is joining the > Global Reach team as a Partnerships Manager Contractor for Asia for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-l] Editors not understanding the context?

I checked, the article seems to have been restored. regards Arun On 13 September 2016 at 22:46, Tito Dutta wrote: > > On 13 September 2016 at 22:43, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या > *فريدريك نورونيا wrote: > >> Hi Frederick - >> >> I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - March 2016 Monthly Report

rs volunteered for Advisory Committee including Dhaval, > Sripathy, Yann, Bodhisattwa Mandal, Satdeep Gill, Adethya, Karthik Nadar. > The long discussion on the appointment process, views and opinions from > various community members and Mr. Arun Ramarathnam made it a worth for > input

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Setting Up of the Advisory Council at Wikimedia India

Dear Abhinav and EC, Good to see the chapter reach out and put together a formal document outlining the Advisory panel they need. I went through it. My view is that the exercise would be effective for you if the EC calls out what skills they are short on and the kind of advise they need? Are

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2016

Great to see spirited support for a wiki conference India and a future Wikimedia bid. Thanks for the note Satdeep. Regards Arun On 06-Aug-2015 3:36 pm, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It is overwhelming to see that almost 50+ contributors (more through Google form registrations)

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Phase 1 of Wiki Loves Food

I also concur that the prize money should be token for a pilot with 50 participants. Also I have also suggested on the wiki that this is not related to language but states. Please do take into account wider feedback from this email trail into account. Good luck for the pilot. Regards Arun

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] [WMIN Elections2014] Draft Slate of Candidates and Withdrawal Deadline

Thanks for the update Anivar and Elecom team. regards Arun On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 7:35 PM, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Members and supporters We are happy to see the raising interest in WMIN functioning and election process. We have received 14 Nominations for 6

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindustani Music resource donation event - Mumbai

Dear Vishnu, This is indeed a great initiative and an invaluable contribution to wiki source. Kudos! Best wishes for the event. regards Arun On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians, We are glad to invite you to join us for an event in Mumbai on

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia affiliate in Pakistan

Congratulations Saqib on the affiliation. All the very best for the upcoming initiatives. Kudos to Karthik, the chapter and others involved towards this initiative. We should encourage other SAARC countries to form similar groups or affiliations. I would be happy to support these initiatives

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Membership

Dear Yann, It was not a restriction the founding EC members put in did but a limitation required by the authorities (as advised by our consultant) to get the registration of the society through. We do know there are indophiles around the world who may want to sign up. Unfortunately we didn't

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM activity at the National Museum, New Delhi

Subha and Wikimedians, We will sharing a detailed note (blog post) and pictures. It was an incredible experience over 4 days given the interest reciprocated by the Museum leadership, staff and volunteers. We had set the stage for a few exciting projects to follow. Some links from the event:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN meet at Lal Bagh Bangalore- Schedule (Sowmyan Tirumurti)

Thanks for the update. Looks like it accomplished its objectives. Nice to see interest from the Director of the horticulture dept. Kudos to all involved. best Arun On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Sowmyan Tirumurti tsowm...@wikimedia.inwrote: This event happened today. A total of 15 members

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM project at National Museum New Delhi

Dear Sowmyan, Thanks for the update. It is a good project with a great institution. All the very best to the team. regards Arun On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Sowmyan Tirumurti tsowm...@wikimedia.inwrote: Wikimedia India Chapter will be organizing a GLAM pilot at the National Museum,

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedians in Nagaland

Dear Wikimedians, I wanted to know if any of you were aware of any active Wikimedians in the state of Nagaland (North East of India). Do you anyone of you have any contacts? Have any outreach programs been held there so far? Please mail me off list if you have any contacts with Wikimedians or

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikipedia.in

This is great to hear. Thanks to everyone who made this happen. regards Arun On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Pranav Curumsey pra...@wikimedia.inwrote: As announced on the chapter members mailing list a few days ago, the domain Wikipedia.in has been procured by WMF for us after many

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Board(EC) Elections-2013 - Results

Firstly. Kudos to Sudhanwa Jogalekar, Anirudh Bhati and Bala Jeyaraman for their voluntary time, contributions and effort as EC members. I was hoping to see Bala stay on in the EC Congratulations to Jayanta and Moksh for getting elected to the EC of the Wikimedia India!!! Great to see a new

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian profile on Wikimedia India Chapter wiki

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Netha Hussain nethahuss...@gmail.comwrote: Dear all, Yay, we have a featured Wikimedian couple this month! Pavanaja and Omsivaprakash are Wikimedians based in Bangalore. Read about them on Wikimedia India Chapter wiki here :

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for an announcement mailing list

Me thinks we have a small community that is active. I feel it is not a good idea to keep forking lists. We already have a problem with many community members not being aware of the India list. Now another one? I already struggle to keep track and manage membership of multiple lists. That is my

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM initiative... need some pointers

Dear Frederick and wikimedians involved in this Goa initiative, Kudos on this wonderful step forward. Great team work, My comments and suggestions inline: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا fredericknoro...@gmail.com wrote: I heard of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikipedia Blog on DNA

Congrats on this. Good see a blog on wikipedia on newspaper site. best wishes Arun On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Rohini Lakshané rohini.laksh...@gmail.comwrote: WikipeDNA, a community blog on topics pertaining to Wikipedia and other projects, is now live on DNA Blogs.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

Welcome Pavanaja! Good to have someone like you join the wikimedia movement. regards Arun On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, noopur noo...@cis-india.org wrote: ** Dear all, I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

good read and truly written. Regards, Swetapadma On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for sharing this Tejaswini. Made interesting read. Good to see wikipedians mentioned in the article. Interesting to note the article mention the following

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

Dear Vishnu, Is there any further hiring planned for the A2K team? regards Arun On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Pradeep Mohandas prad2...@yahoo.comwrote: hi Vishnu, Was this sent to ANY Wikipedia list, at all, out of curiosity? warm regards, Pradeep Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

Thanks for sharing this Tejaswini. Made interesting read. Good to see wikipedians mentioned in the article. Interesting to note the article mention the following... *When at the workshop, the girls began to create articles on Wiki, male editors were quick to pull them down. “This can be

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: The Access to Knowledge - Bulletin - January '13

Theo ad WIkimedians, As a member of the interview committee and as a chapter nominee on the panel a response is due from me. I have been part of the interview process post shortlist of applications by CIS. Sunil and the CIS team have extended all due process and courtesies since then till the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] How to set up a SIG?

On Feb 2, 2013 7:22 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: Why there is 18 age limit to become member of Wikimedia India Chapter? Dear Abhishek, I can take that query as one of the folks involved in preparing and debating the original MOA clauses of the chapter. The

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Wikimedia India needs your support: Our First Fundraiser

Arun, I suggest the FAQ only talk about the what the contributions would be used for I think that should be adequate. regards Arun On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Karthik, could you add relevant links on what the budget and plan is to the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal for India's First MediaWiki Group Ahmedabad

Dear Harsh, First of all thanks to you and the volunteers in Ahmendabad who are keen to contribute to Mediawiki. it is evident from your contributions to Gujarati (around Mediawiki) that you and others are very interested to do your bit. Please continue to do this with the passion and the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter Anniversary

Thanks Anirudh for all your contributions to the chapter in its formative years. More specifically your inputs on legal matters was very helpful. Bringing in the pro bono legal counsel was something you made happen. regards Arun On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Anirudh Bhati

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Featured Wikimedian profile on Wikimedia India Chapter wiki

I concur with Dhaval's suggestion. regards Arun On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:01 AM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Netha, Very good initiative. I would suggest we have profiles of all the Indian language wikimedians who were recognised as Noteworthy Wikimedian Contributors during

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Official launch of Wikivoyage

Pradeep, Please stay in touch with Ravikiran Rao from Hyderabad. He is one of the earlier contributors to Wikivoyage and an admin as well. We had invited him to speak at a recent Bangalore meetup. regards Arun On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons turns 10

Thanks for sharing this Pradeep. This is perhaps a good time to do Commons focused events in various cities regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Pradeep Nair prad2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Creative

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Academy in Goa in Dec

To everyone involved in this passionate push, thank you! regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Outofindia outofin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Nitika The person who deserves all the credit and has really

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Day Celebrations 2013

Dear Srikanth and EC, Thank you for the heads up. The Bangalore community will make a formal request. regards Arun . Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi all

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India wins at globally in Wiki Loves Monuments

Great stuff, though unfortunate they couldnt locate the winner! That's rather unfortunate. regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: Dear all, It is immense

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bharuch First meetup - A second hand report

Thanks for the update Pradeep. It would be interesting to know what the library staff thought about Wikipedia and the potential of collaboration with Wikipedia. Regards Arun On Dec 8, 2012 9:37 AM, Pradeep Nair prad2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, An important assignment kept me away from the

[Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore meetup #51

Dear Wikimedians, The next Bangalore Wikipedia community meetup is this weekeend (*Meetup #51* ).. The primary focus of the meeting is a Wikivoyage talk and discussions around new initiatives of Wiki Project Karnataka. We would also like to take this opportunity to welcome Ravikiran Rao, an

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Live streaming of Erik Moeller's talk

Its over. It was over by 1 PM IST. regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com/arunram On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Sheel Sindhu Manohar tuxophi...@gmail.comwrote: Is that over or going to start? On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Harsh Kothari

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India

These are great pictures. Congratulations to the contest participants, all the Wikipedian volunteers and the Jury for the incredible efforts over the last few months! Commons in incredibly richer after this! regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India www.arunram.net | www.twitter.com

[Wikimediaindia-l] New blog post: Overcoming a generation gap

Dear Wikimedians, A new post is on the Wikimedia blog featuring Sucheta Ghoshal and new Bengali wikipedia contributor SohojKotha (meaning simple words). Makes for an excellent read. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/10/26/editing-wikipedia-and-overcoming-a-generation-gap/ Kudos Sucheta for

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] FDC members

Dear Wikimedians, The initial composition of the Funds Dissemination Committee has been announced. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/2012_FDC_members Nice to note that Arjuna is now a member of this committee. Congrats Arjuna. This is great to hear! Best wishes.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell

Dear Hisham,, This note from you did come as a surprise. It is sad to see anyone leave the movement. Sorry to hear you are leaving. Thanks for your efforts for the movement thus far. And best wishes for all your future endeavours. And do stay in touch. Regards Arun On 30-Jul-2012, at 4:11

[Wikimediaindia-l] Participation in Fifth elephant conference

Dear all, We are participating in the 5th elephant event in Bangalore focused on big data, analytics and visualization. http://fifthelephant.in/2012/ http://fifthelephant.in/2012/#partners The organisers have given us a fee stall and space to participate as a community partner. Team of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

Congratulations to all Gujarati wikisource contributors! This is great to hear. It would be great if you could share some insight into the type of content covered by the 1000 articles. And the active contributors and their key contributions. best regards Arun On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:02 PM,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Wikipedia-gu] Gujarati Source completes 1000 articles

Thanks Konarak for the response..It is great effort that has gone in from the contributors. Located Gujarati wikisource at http://wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AA%AE%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%96%E0%AA%AA%E0%AB%83%E0%AA%B7%E0%AB%8D%E0%AA%A0:%E0%AA%97%E0%AB%81%E0%AA%9C%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%A4%E0%AB%80 Is the gu

[Wikimediaindia-l] Popular pages bot - adding project

Hi, I would like to trigger Popular pages bot list for the Wiki Project Karnataka.[1] The tools server page [2] that allows one to register a project for this is no longer accepting requests. Any suggestions here to get this enabled? Would much appreciate inputs. [1]

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Implementation of QR Pedia in India

Srikanth, I would concur with Ashwin and Pradeep. Go for it with all your heart, the potential for QRpedia is immense. You ideas on making an impact on the Bangalore Metro are great. In the last Bangalore meetup I spoke about about the opportunity Wikipedia in an Indian context, including some

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am overwhelmed by the warm welcome :) I sincerely hope to be able to meet all your expectations. Please do not hesitate to guide, correct and suggest things to me. Looking forward to helping the community! Warm

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, I am happy to share the news that User:Sreejithk2000 is now an administrator on Wikimedia Commons. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Administrators/Requests/Sreejithk2000 Congrats

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Wikimedia India IRC meetup

Thanks Tinu. Regards Arun On Jan 8, 2012 9:32 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The chat logs of the previous IRC sessions are updated. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats#Past_sessions Thanks all for attending. Regards Tinu Cherian. On Sat,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking Flickr contributors for donating images to Commons (Was: Bangaloreans, help convince ....)

Thanks for sharing this Ashwin. Regards Arun On Jan 1, 2012 7:09 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, (long post, bear with me) In response to the message given below, I also sent a message to Vinu Thomas on the lines of messages I write such as the example

[Wikimediaindia-l] Call for volunteers - GLAM / Museum initiative

Dear Wikipedians. Wish you all a great and joyous 2012. The new year is probably a good time to kick off a new initiative around GLAM (Museums). Initiative Context Museums are important cultural institutions for GLAM initiatives. There is no complete and reliable list Museums across India. This

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Season greetings: Boat Club donation!

Thanks for sharing. That was a very nice gesture from them. cheers Arun On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, As we count down to the end of the year, this personal appeal to donate to Wikipedia, made by the Boat club was something very genuine and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Any Wikipedians in Bharuch?

Pradeep, You may want to connect with D S Vyas. He is familiar with the Gujarati wkimedians. regards Arun On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, In between the conference preparations, I got a job offer and moved to Bharuch, a town

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia related projects.

Ashwin, Request that matters related to glam and offline be discussed on india list as they are not language specific. Regards Arun On Dec 3, 2011 2:58 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Dear friends, A new list has been born.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian recognition and Jury mention

Thanks for you feedback Srikanth. It was quite a task for the Jury. With multiple Wikimedia projects, nominations from 12 languages, multiple contribution types and gender we had quite a few things to cover and represent in the eventual list. You point is a good one. On large wikipedias/projects

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Noteworthy Wikimedian recognition and Jury mention

of more people. Open to community consensus on this. Thanks Ravi for your detailed note. Much appreciated. Glad you found the final mentions deserving, Best regards Arun Ravi On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Wikimedians, On behalf of the jury

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Comment regarding JImbo's Speech Registration

Pranav, Ashwin, From past experience of similar events we would need to start registration at 7 am and have 5 to 6 counters for registration. There will be a huge rush between 8 and 8 30 am. mailers will need to be sent to participants hat they will need to be seated by 8:15 and that reign

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition

the corner. The Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee (EC) and the Conference organising team thought it is appropriate to recognize the most noteworthy contributors to Indian language projects and Indian content in English during the conference. Arun Ramarathnam and Naveen Francis from the EC

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] Telegraph : It’s a Wiki Wiki world!

Thanks for sharing this. Coverage of the article was good. regards Arun . On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:54 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Thank Srikanth, for sharing this. The article can be viewed on epaper :

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] 37th Bangalore Wiki Meetup Summary

Thanks for the excellent summary. Regards Arun On 12-Sep-2011, at 10:22 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Here is a abridged summary of the 37th Bangalore Wiki Meetup Summary on 11th September 2011 at CIS, Bangalore Talk: Technology related issues

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Act Now to Protect the Public Domain

This is truly a worrying development. regards Arun On 03-Sep-2011, at 12:15 AM, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.org wrote: On Sep 2, 2011 3:41 PM, Pranesh Prakash the.solips...@gmail.com wrote: The Berne Convention and the TRIPS Agreement (which incorporates the Berne Convention), which

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] 3rd Bangalore Odia Wiki Meetup- Odia Wikipedia reaches 1500 articles

Subashish, thank you for the detailed repor. Kudos to all wikipedians. Regards arun On 29-Aug-2011, at 2:41 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, Good morning from Odia Wiki Community. Yesterday we had a small meetup to celebrate the 1500 articles

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika

This is great news. A warm welcome and best wishes to Shiju and Nitika in their new roles. Regards Arun On Jul 29, 2011 1:42 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations to Shiju and Nitika. It has been great working along with Shiju, closely for years now and I don't

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released

Congratulations and Kudos! Another really great effort! Excellent collection all in one CD. And thanks for continuing to raise the bar. Best regards Arun On 11-Jun-2011, at 10:31 PM, Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com wrote: Dear fellow Wikimedians, With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Delhi Chapter

Vibhi, It is great to hear about traction from New Delhi. Please use the momentum to get some regular Wikipedia meet ups going in New Delhi like Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore and Kerala. Meetups in each city are a great way to serve the needs of the local wikipedians and community. Membership to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia for World Heritage Online Petition

http://wikipedia.de/wke/Special:PetitionList It is nice to see a few Indians already signed up in support. They didn't seem like some of the known wikipedians. Which probably means a lot more people are beginning to support it from India, which is great. regards Arun On Sun, May 29, 2011 at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New NH numbers.

Thanks for the update Srikanth. And great work by all you guys. regards Arun On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Just wanted to inform you all that work is in progress in sorting this out. As Arun says, it will take time. A big Thank You to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quantity Vs Quality: Hindi Wikipedia story

Mayur, Thanks for sharing these links. I do think Shiju's primary emphasis is that building a vibrant community of editors contributing content is very key to eventual success of wikipedias. His point is that that area needs focus for all wikipedias. I am sure you would agree there is a need

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: The Hindu : India is No.6 in donating to Wikipedia

Ravi, I concur. That has been my view as well. Enabling payments through net banking will really see a lot more contributions. If the contribution level is where it is with just credit cards, things will only get better next year. We should explore ways of enabling net banking transfers for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Is it morally right for govts to support sanskrit wikipedia?

Basavaraj, First of all, welcome to the mailing list and thanks for you interest in wikipedia. On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Basavaraj Itnal basavarajit...@yahoo.comwrote: 1. Till the Britsh Raj, Brahmins kept a large part of Indian society out of bounds from knowledge which was in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ToI front page: Rs 1 cr for Sanskrit WP

A quick note to say yes, do know the people who moved this request. We will need to be validate this as is with all things government. We can discuss this in the evening meetup. I have requested the gentleman involved in this to come to the evening meetup. I am hoping he can make it. More when

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Liam/ Wikipedia GLAM discussion @ NGMA @ 3 pm, Feb 18 (Friday)

Yes, there are other events as well: There is a meeting with KALA - a society for Librarians. They have agreed for a session with Liam between 10:30AM-12PM on Saturday 19th Feb at IISc. Thanks to Arjuna for setting this up. He will share more details as they emerge. regards Arun On Tue, Feb

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-in-mum] Liam Wyatt's visit to Mumbai and GLAM meetup - a summary

Update on Liam's Mumbai visit by Pradeep. Regards Arun Begin forwarded message: From: Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com Date: 13 February 2011 11:19:14 PM GMT+05:30 To: Mumbai List Wikimedia wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com,

[Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore meetup #27 today - Invited speaker - Lodewijk Gelauff

Dear all: This is a gentle reminder to all wikimedians to attend the Bangalore monthly meetup #27. The highlight of today's session is a invited talk by Lodewijk Gelauff from Wikimedia Nederlands. The talk will be sharing experiences from the recent project *Wiki loves Monuments.* The Project

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikimediaIndia-l list description

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: Dear admins of WikimediaIndia-l and others connected to it, I only noticed recently that the list description for WikimediaIndia-l reads Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. Personally, I find that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] Photos from Wikipedia meetup, Mangalore - Jan 29, 2011

Thanks for sharing this. I didn't realize there were such a large Catholic institution at Mangalore. Excellent pictures. regards Arun On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.comwrote: Wikipedia Meetup, Mangalore #1 at St. Aloysius, Mangalore. I had been invited to

[Wikimediaindia-l] Liam Wyatt's visit to India

Dear Wikimedians, It's a pleasure to inform you all that Liam Wyatthttp://www.wittylama.com/will be visiting India between 12th and 19th Feb to focus on GLAM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAM_(industry_sector)related initiatives here. Liam's visit to India is intended to support wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam wikipedia crossed the 10 Lakh/1 million edits milestone

Hi Shiju, Thanks for sharing this. Congratulations to the vibrant Malayalam wikipedia community! This is great to hear! regards Arun 2011/1/25 Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com Dear All, I am happy to announce that Malayalam wikipedia has crossed the *10 Lakh (1 million) edits*

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Photos from WP10 Celebrations in Bangalore and Mysore

Great pictures Hari and Tinu. We need to get the pictures from Royson uploaded as well. Any videos anyone? Did anyone record parts of the keynote, panel and Jimmy's talk? regards Arun On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:23 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Whew, I have finally

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Wikipedia 10th anniversary celebrations, Kannur, Kerala - Photos

Hey Anoop, Kudos on a great event. Great to see from the pictures - a cakehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WikiCake.JPGwith malayalam messaging, younghttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_10_Celebrations-_Kannur-_Youngest_Wikipedian.JPGpeople, lady

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

Achal, Congratulations. This is great news!! Look forward to discussing this further when we meet again! Regards Arun Sent from my iPad On 17-Jan-2011, at 10:32 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Prothom-Alo published article on 10 Years of Wikipedia

Kudos Belayet for the week long celebrations in Bangladesh. regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Belayet Hossain bella...@gmail.com wrote: Leading Bangladeshi daily news paper Prothom-Alo published article on 10 Years of Wikipedia, http

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WP X at Indore

Congratulations Srinivas!!! We saw pictures from the event on Commons. Looks like there were a lot of participants in the auditorium. regards Arun On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:49 AM, guru brahma wiki...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Dear all, just a short note to let you know that WP X events at Indore

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Anniversary event in Hyderabad

Suprised that there is no Hyderabad event by the volunteers yet. Is there none on the list who can put together one? regards Arun On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:58 AM, theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Anirudh its only one right now, the other one is a redirect.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: IIIT-B PGDSD Wikipedia Week

-- Forwarded message -- From: Srikanta P p.srika...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:37 PM Subject: IIIT-B PGDSD Wikipedia Week To: Mailing list for Wikimedians / Wikipedians in from Bangalore, India wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Arun Ramarathnam arunra

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia stall at World Samskrit Book exhibition - Call for volunteers

Dear all: We have just heard from the organisers of the World Sanskrit Book Fair in Bangalore a few hours back, that they are willing to offer us a free stall for wikipedia. As you may be aware we have a wikipedia in Sanskrit and this presents a good opportunity to spread awareness amongs folks

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Come celebrate Wikipedia's 10th anniversary

Congratlations on this initiative to put together the celebration event at Kolkata Jayantha. Good luck for the vent. Have a great event and celebrate the occasion. regards Arun . Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India 2011/1/3 jayanta nath jayanta...@gmail.com Dear Wikipedia/Wikimedia Friends

[Wikimediaindia-l] Happy New Year, 2010 in retrospective and more cities celebrating Tenth anniversary

://wikimedia.in/wiki/Ten .* * * We have another 19 states where we could potentially have celebrations! Send an email if you know a volunteer in any of those states. * *Regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam On behalf of the Wikimedia India chapter ny2011.JPG___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia at FOSS / College Events

Hi Srikanth, Good initiative on securing presence at Carte Blanche. Agree, we need to participate in as many outreach events as possible. You may want to consider requesting some Wikimedia promotional material to be shipped for the event from the foundation office. Please also list this on the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Some photos from Pune visit of Wikimedia dignitaries

Sudhanwa, Great pictures from the event. Good to see a good turnout. Could you please post these pictures or at least a sub set of these on commons and post the link back? How are these preparations for the Jan 15th event coming up? Regards Arun Arun Ramarathnam Bangalore, India On Sat, Dec

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Clarification Regarding Kiruba Shankar's Involvement

Praveen, Please refer the MOA document published in Meta for details requested: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-ChapComVer I would also suggest you refer the India page for background information: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crossed the 15, 000 article mark

Great stuff Malayalam Wikipedians! Crossing yet another milestone!! Kudos. How long did it take for the first 3 five thousands? By the current pace when might the 20K milestone be achieved? regards Arun On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Malayalam

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