Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Wikisource own mailing list - the journey began

Very good news Jayanta, Thanks to all those who worked on setting it up. Regards, Dhaval Vyas On Wed, 29 Apr 2020, 09:52 Jayanta Nath, wrote: > Dear Indic Wikisource well-wishers, > > Indic Wikisource's own e-mail list [1] has launched Indic-Wikisource > today. Since 2015, the lots of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Update about TTT selection

Hi, I heard that from Gujarati community also there has been only one selected, while other languages have 2 or 3 participants. Selection criteria seem to have changed during the process as the criteria listed on the event page on meta do not include all that were shared in the latest

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] How to see if there is some content on the talk page of any wikipage?

Hi Shrinivasan, There is a visual indication of whether there is any content on talk page. When you are on the article page, if you see talk page link in blue, it means there is content on the page and if the talk page link is red, it indicates that the page doesn't exist. Unless you want to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2020: Initial conversations

Happy Gandhi Jayanti to you and all! Very pleased to see WCI being organised again, as they say, better late than never. Thanks Telugu wiki community for taking lead. I will love to help remotely as much as I can and will hope to be able to attend it as well. Kind Regards, Dhaval On Wed, 2 Oct

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India members

This raises a question in my mind whether Wikimedia India Chapter is still functional? There is a number of reasons to believe it is not, 1. we are still waiting a respinse from WMIN president on a separate concern raised, 2. Members list has not been updated for 2 years 3. No one from the

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2019 scholarship applications open

FYI! -- Forwarded message - From: DerHexer Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019, 19:16 Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2019 scholarship applications open To: Wikimania general list (open subscription) < wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org> Cc: Arild Vågen Hi all, We wanted to inform you that

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Rush to spend money (earlier:Project tiger consultation community 2019)

Thank you Jayanta, However, if you dig in that same mailing list, you will find that it was declared "cancelled" last week and no further official confirmation later on, except Tito's reply to my query. Regards, Dhaval Vyas On Sat, 23 Feb 2019, 09:59 Jayanta Nath, wrote: > The event was

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Rush to spend money (earlier:Project tiger consultation community 2019)

t we are really thankful for that. If you >> have suggestions or idea about conducting or improving this workshop please >> let us know either over the email thread or personally. We hope to get back >> soon with more information. >> (Sent using mobile, kindly excuse brevi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Rush to spend money (earlier:Project tiger consultation community 2019)

ome community members are working on this. > I need a little time to check. I'll check this and get back to you in next > 72 hours/3 days (maximum). > > I once again thank you for your email and suggestions. > > > > Thanks > Tito Dutta > Note: If I don't reply to your ema

[Wikimediaindia-l] Rush to spend money (earlier:Project tiger consultation community 2019)

Hi All, Don't know whether it is only me, does anybody else here also feels that there is a rush in somehow spend money, or should I say blow up money, or rather "meet the target spend"? For example this consultation is being planned, there is a Wikisource meet in Ahmedabad being planned, all at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for suggestions on scanning books from Tamilappan

Hi, It is a good news that there is someone willing to donate their books. Hope we find some good books in PD. Regarding scanning them, I am sure there must have been some recipient of Scanner under the Project Tiger within Tamil community, they should be able to help scanning. Regards, Dhaval

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [TWL Con - 2019 India] Call for Applications

The whole planning seems to be half cooked, e.g. on the conference homepage it reads: Venue & City: We're currently searching, let us know know if you have any good options; economical (free; library preferred), safe, well connected, easy of connecting with local library/librarian community. And

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiSource Ebooks Download Count

Hi Srinivasan, This seems to be a very useful tool, thanks for sharing and even greater thanks for creating it. How does it work? Do you need to index books first and then create a link or it will work by simply replacing the language code at the end of these urls? The reason I am asking this

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India community mailing list admins

Subhashish > > On Jul 30, 2018, at 6:55 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: > > I agree Krishna, > > At the same time, let us review the non-active admins as well, or any > admin who wants to step down. > > Regards, > Dhaval Vyas > > On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, 13:28 Krishna

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India community mailing list admins

I agree Krishna, At the same time, let us review the non-active admins as well, or any admin who wants to step down. Regards, Dhaval Vyas On Mon, 30 Jul 2018, 13:28 Krishna Chaitanya Velaga, wrote: > Dear all, > > The Indian community mailing list is arguably the most used mailing list > by

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

Hi Ravi, India wiki movement will surely miss you, you have made a great impact on the wikimedia within the subcontinent. Wish you all the very best in your next assignment. Regards, Dhaval Vyas On 2 Jul 2018 11:17 pm, "Ravishankar Ayyakkannu" wrote: *Hi, I am leaving the Wikimedia

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Maps for all Indic languages Wikimedia projects.

Good Sighting Ashwin, We must show correct borders as per GoI's recognition. Regards, Dhaval Sudhanva Vyas On Fri, 27 Apr 2018, 12:30 Ashwin Baindur, wrote: > Can we have maps which are reflective of the GOI's position of the border > of our nation, rather than

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Maps for all Indic languages Wikimedia projects.

Great work Naveen, Thanks for sharing. I see some English names on some of the Indic language maps, is this work in progress? How to have those names displayed in Indic languages as well? Thanks in advance, Dhaval Sudhanva Vyas On Thu, 26 Apr 2018, 06:56 Naveen Francis,

[Wikimediaindia-l] Project Tiger - Update

and email address. Feel free to reach out to any of us if you need help or clarification. Please follow https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Supporting_Indian_ Language_Wikipedias_Program/Support for more details and updates. Thanks, Dhaval S. Vyas Yohann Thomas Manavpreet Kaur

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wish You all Happy Holi

And vigilant to what is approved for the mailing list. On 12 Apr 2017 13:46, "Yohann Thomas" wrote: > The email is almost a month late... > Guess the moderator needs to be a little more active... > > Thanks for the wishes anyways Suyash :) > > > On 12 Apr 2017 3:22 p.m.,

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

Very good news, Congratulations Ravi, Kind Regards, Dhaval On 22 Dec 2016 5:14 am, "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

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Nibhish Technologies :: Offline, Online and Form filling Data Processing

H, What has this got to do with Wikimedia movement? Is this group moderated? Thanks, On 16 Dec 2016 08:17, "Sunil papaiah568" wrote: Hi, Hope all of you are doing well. I have started the New firm called Nibhish Technologies primarily focusing on Offline, Online

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Jimmy Wales travelling to India

Hi Satdeep, Meeting is with whom? Is this a personal meeting or an official one? Kind Regards, Dhaval On 14 Dec 2016 13:06, wrote: > Hi Abhinav, > > There is a meeting with Jimmy at the Taj Mahal Hotel on 17th December 4 PM > to 5 PM. > > Regards > Satdeep Gill > > > >

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

And you can add me as well. I have been associated with Indic wikipedia for last 8 years. On 23 Mar 2016 07:32, "sri pathy7" wrote: > Srivastava Abhinav > Executive Committee Member|Wikimedia India > > Dear Sir, > > Thanks for ur e-mail. U can include my name in advisory

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2016 scholarship applications open

FYI! -- Forwarded message -- From: "DerHexer" Date: 8 Dec 2015 20:22 Subject: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania 2016 scholarship applications open To: "Wikimania general list (open subscription)" < wikimani...@lists.wikimedia.org>, "Wikimedia Mailing List" <

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki loves expensive expeditions (Was: Re: Chapter public communication requirements)

Ver well said Lane Raspberry, You're right in saying that as funds are available, people from India should find projects that are otherwise not possible to undertake and apply for grants. Community should scrutinise the proposals as it did in this case but in all good faith. Thanks, Dhaval On 10

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania '15 social events

Are we planning a WIki India meetup at wikimania? I suppose there are a few wikimedians from India/Indic languages attending, so lets plan and advertise. -- Forwarded message -- From: Ivan Martínez gala...@gmail.com Date: 1 Jul 2015 15:40 Subject: Re: [Wikimania-l] Wikimania '15

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Net Neutrality and Wikipedia

+1 On 17 Apr 2015 07:11, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote: I thought of requesting a banner (with consent and support from the wide community) in all sites of Wikimedia projects expressing support for Net Neutrality. In the link, we can explain people why Net Neutrality is

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] User Research - sign-up to help out

FYI! -- Forwarded message -- From: Nick Wilson (Quiddity) nwil...@wikimedia.org Date: 6 Jan 2015 00:45 Subject: [Wikitech-ambassadors] User Research - sign-up to help out To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell, Sowmyan !

You will certainly be missed Sowmyan! I've witnessed your way of working and assisting communities and can endorse that hardly many people would do that. Regards, Dhaval On 25 Nov 2014 07:54, Ravishankar Ayyakkannu ravidre...@wikimedia.in wrote: Hi, Please join me in wishing a fond farewell

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

Congratulations to newly elected EC members. Kind Regards, Dhaval On 23 Nov 2014 18:34, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:02 AM Subject: WMIN Elections 2014

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Fwd: Grossly Obscene pornographic images on WIKIMEDIA.IN

This is little strange, I can understand that voting and nominations are members only regime but why the community is not allowed to participate even in QA is not clear to me. If it is so, there should be no wiki page or onwiki discussion, or login process on wikimedia.in should be membership

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Odia Wikisource goes live!

Congratulations to Odiya Wiki community! A great Diwali Gift to the community! On 23 Oct 2014 07:04, Subhashish Panigrahi subhash...@cis-india.org wrote: Dear all, Odia Wikisource went live yesterday and is available at: https://or.wikisource.org. It was in the main Wikisource for about 1.9

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

Hi Vishnu, Excellent news! Much more in this direction needs to be done, glad that you are working in getting content and that too of a different nature. Best Regards, Dhaval On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Vishnu visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Wikimedians, We are glad to invite you to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Release of 105 books by Govt of Karnataka under CC-BY-SA

Hi Mani, Digitised content would hold copyright for only that specific edition, layout and formatting as well as any graphics added in it which is not present in the original work. Content always remain free and in public domain after 60 years of death of the original author. Regards, Dhaval On

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikikn-l (kannada wikipedia)] Release of 105 books by Govt of Karnataka under CC-BY-SA

Hi Pavanaja, If the books that are released under CC license contain works of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, it is a blunder and we should not support that or publicise it. Editor of a book doesn't supersede. Copyrights of the original author, in fact edited versions come under copyright of both, the author

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

Hi All, So far as I am aware, dates were advertised quite long ago and well before some of the communities started discussing it (some communities don't seem to have discussed) on their village pumps. If the dates were known already and we all plan our holidays and festivals little bit in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New community nominations in place of absent invitees welcome

, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 September 2014 21:01, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, So far as I am aware, dates were advertised quite long ago and well before some of the communities started discussing it (some communities don't seem to have discussed

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

Congratulations Ravi, Wish you and the Chapter all success! BR, Dhaval On 22 Sep 2014 02:10, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jayanta, Chapter EC and members, Nkansah, Vishnu, Arnav, Ansuman, Sanket, Yohann and Rahim, Thank you all for your wishes. Yes, this is User:Ravidreams

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Future of Work in India: Bangalore it is

Which doesn't seem to be the case for Gujarati community anyways. On 15 Sep 2014 17:54, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: As I wrote originally, we'd ideally invite people nominated by their respective communities. Those communities that have not managed to have a discussion and come

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Future of Work in India: Bangalore it is

the other nominees. A. On Sep 15, 2014 10:01 AM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Which doesn't seem to be the case for Gujarati community anyways. On 15 Sep 2014 17:54, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: As I wrote originally, we'd ideally invite people nominated

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of affairs

I am a member of WMUK and have never seen board members or EC consulting community before they travel abroad. I don't think it is necessary for them to consult community on each and every matter. So far as I am aware WMIN's accounts are audited annually and these expenses must be audited. Also,

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

A question emerges from below: was there any news or indication of hiring anybody by WMIN? Regards, Dhaval On 29 Aug 2014 19:06, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote: If I may add, current EC should stop making any major decisions like hiring people. Just focus on the regulatory

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On CIS's grants request from Wikimedia Foundation

Talking about bad precedents, the CIS partnership is itself one such bad precedent which is evident from the fact that WMF won't be repeating this model of partnerships in future. +1+1+1+1000 The only way to gain the trust of the community is to make an exeption and share this contract with the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On CIS's grants request from Wikimedia Foundation

Hi Ravi, Will you consider rephrasing below? By keeping things confidential like this, both you and WMF risk losing the trust of the community without which you cannot guarantee successful completion of your goals. Especially risk losing... I have ALREADY LOST trust in the later at least and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] On CIS's grants request from Wikimedia Foundation

Dear Vishnu, There was nothing personal in my email and neither I demanded any justification. What I expressed was my feeling regarding the trust in the 2 entities. Re-reading the quote of Asaf has not changed and I don't think reading it over and over again is ever going to change my perception.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia affiliate in Pakistan

Great news Saqib, Congratulations to the Wiki movement in Pakistan that is culminating in user group! Also, thanks to Karthik and WMIN for supporting our neighbour. Regards, Dhaval On 3 May 2014 09:21, Saqib Qayyum saqib.qay...@hotmail.com wrote: My dear Indian fellows, Namaste and As-salamu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipedia-gu] Attn: Wikisource communities - Don't waste your time typing text. Get paid.

by Sushant Savla, a fellow admin on gu.wikisource. Dhaval On 2 May 2014 04:33, Kartik Mistry kartik.mis...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Please visit the link in below email, where Wikimedia Foundation (shortly known as WMF) is suggesting

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The story of great Indian WMF outsourcing, few blind people and an elephant

Hi Gerard, I hope you had noticed the subject of this email at least before you pushed the play button of your wikidata tape. I urge you to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stick to the topic of discussion, if has no time to read the email he/she can easily get the topic from looking at the subject, and not

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposed Wiki Data Marathon program by CIS-A2K

Hi Gerard, The discussion, if I am not mistaking, is on paid staffs from India involved with indic wiki, while you're replying with your experience of Netherland and also admit that you have no Idea of it in Indian context. Do you think that your reply here does help readers in getting the issue

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A campaign for stopping donations to Wikimedia

Hi Kevin, // Looking at the table, it looks like CIS-A2K's total staff budget is a little shy of $300k a year. The FDC is currently handing out what, $6m USD a year? Even if CIS was entirely funded out of the FDC (and it isn't, their APG request is for less than $300k,) that's pretty much a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Attn: Wikisource communities - Don't waste your time typing text. Get paid.

Thank you Ravi for making us aware that WMF is happily funding content generation (or in nicer term Content upload) as Asaf from WMF and User Blue Rasberry have suggested. This is a great news for my Gujarati wikisource community, whom I am including in this reply. Dear Gujarati Wiki Community,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Revitalising the Wikimedia India chapter

to gain more knowledge. Please bear with my second hand information until my time is paid. Thanks once again, Dhaval On 28 Apr 2014 20:18, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gerard, I know a chapter in Europe

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Revitalising the Wikimedia India chapter

Hi Gerard, I know a chapter in Europe, where probably you come from, which doesn't depend on WMF's grant or funds as it has raised a huge amount on its own. That chapter, WMUK, is still considered WMF chapter if I am not mistaking. Also, the need for WMIN to raise its own funds has arisen

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50, 000 mark

for such tasks? Gujarati wiki community will love to get paid for content generation. Thanks, Dhaval -- Forwarded message -- From: muzammil muzam...@cis-india.org Date: 25 Apr 2014 10:09 Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50,000 mark To: Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com Cc

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Wikipedia-gu] Urdu Wikipedia crosses the 50, 000 mark

see this announcement [1]. 1. http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2014-April/011040.html Thanks, Subha On 25/04/14 2:58 pm, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: Hi Asaf, Ravi, All, Please see below replies received from Muzammil on queries raised by you. I did not notice

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] CIS-A2K Work Plan for July 14-June 15

Hi Asaf, Let me put everything aside and ask a few simple questions to you, as I see you as a representative of WMF here. 1. Why was WMIN denied the large portion of the grant requested and why do we have separate grant to a private organisation? 2. WMF have seen the results of previous funding

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Gujarati Wikisource - completes 50 books

Hi Arjuna, Thank you for visiting gu.ws and browsing through. The community there work differently and we use templates instead of proofread extension. It is the way we, as a community, have adopted. Regards, Dhaval On 30 Mar 2014 05:27, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Sushant,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

As you doubt Gerard, though the month names are same or similar in different languages/cultures/calendars, months not always start and end at the same time. Mainly in soouthern calendars, including the Gujarati and Maharashtrian ones, months end on the New Moon day, while in Northern calendars,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Calendars in use in India

of this thread. May we even form up a small project group on this? On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: As you doubt Gerard, though the month names are same or similar in different languages/cultures/calendars, months not always start and end at the same time

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

Excellent Sowmyan, great team work. Thanks to Konarak, shyamal, Swapnil and Arun for being part of it. Can you please also share links or article names that are created part of this event and for which QRCodes are generated? I suppose it will be good idea to translate/create those articles in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] accommodation in Delhi - can some one help?

Gujarati Samaj in old delhi, is very affordable, not sure how far your venue is from there though. This place is conveniently located for Delhi Metro, 5 min walk from ISBT. But I think you need to have one Gujarati in your group. Regards, Dhaval On 24 Dec 2013 18:18, Sowmyan Tirumurti

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Winners of WLM India 2013

Congratulations to all the winners and kudos to the Jury members for their time spent and enormous efforts put in this task. Regards, Dhaval On 20 Nov 2013 18:57, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear all, This year, we received 11,000 images if monuments in Wiki Loves Monuments

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kerala School text books to be Licensed under Creativecommons, Printing using FOSS Tools

That is a great news Anivar, wish all the states follow in footsteps of Kerala. SCERT. Congratulations to you and the team who was working closely with them Kind Regards, Dhaval On 15 Nov 2013 13:03, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for the typos** earlier Dear all ,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing Beta Features (corrected)

+1 Ansuman. Also sharing such emails with regional language lists don't serve the purpose as they wish to receive as less as possible emails in non-native languages. Regards, Dhaval On 11 Nov 2013 17:51, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Pavanaja, just a link would have sufficed,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Short-term assignment at CIS-A2K

Dear All, Can we please stop this conversation now? It has been long since any more accusations are made, but lately we have seen rather far many advises here. If these words came in-time, they would have served the purpose. There is no point in keeping this conversation alive forever. Have a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright queries

Hi Shyamal, Can you please expand I believe that the definition of work in the Indian Copyright Act would leave many items ineligible for copyright and perhaps would make sense if experts could specify them. a bit more? I failed to understand it, as the object/work is same thing in nearly all

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic print material digitization workshop query

While saying cheaper are we considering recurring cost of human labour (for which future is uncertain) or just taking in account the initial one off cost of software development? Regards, Dhaval On 21 Aug 2013 08:01, Pavanaja U B pavan...@vishvakannada.com wrote: I second Tejaswini. Those who

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] NCERT portal goes CC-BY-SA

Congratulations WMIN Chapter! and thanks Pranav for making the minister do it. This is a great achivement, many more institutes and mechanisms would (hopefully) follow it. Regards, Dhaval S. Vyas On 13 Aug 2013 15:13, Srikanth Ramakrishnan srik.r...@wikimedia.in wrote: Pranav has been in touch

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] membership - additional requirement

, Sowmyan 96329 11650 Executive Manager, Wikimedia Chapter Bangalore Message: 3 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 18:28:00 +0100 From: Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] membership - additional

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] membership - additional requirement

Have you started accepting foreign nationals as members now? On Jun 7, 2013 5:02 PM, Sowmyan Tirumurti tsowm...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear friends, Some of you may not have renewed your membership yet. Kindly do this at the earliest. End of June will mark the expiry of the 3 month grace period.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Exceptional and inspiring Wikipedians from India

જયમ પટેલ and જયશ્રી could be considered as well Regards, Dhaval On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 7:27 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Shyamal NVV Char are exceptional Wikipedians. Ashwin On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 10:14 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

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

I echo Arun Regards, Dhaval On May 17, 2013 3:44 PM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: 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.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Need admin rights on a few Wikipedia(s)

Hi Priyanka, Feel free to approach me for any help in localising gadget. I am admin on gu.wp gu.ws and have localised/imported a few gadgets there. Tc, Dhaval On 19 Mar 2013 11:34, priyanka nag priy...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I had introduced myself sometime back in the same mailing list,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF Grant and FDC

That's great news, Congratulations WMIN! On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Pranav Curumsey pra...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hiya, This is to inform you that the WMF has approved our program grant request for the first quarter of 2013:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] decline in editors

I echo Amir. On 8 Mar 2013 06:42, Amir E. Aharoni amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il wrote: Hi Nikhil, and everyone else, I thought about writing a detailed reply about how that article is exaggerated (*Nobody* wants to edit anymore? Really, nobody?), and how the problems that you describe are

[Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource's First Anniversary

Hi All, As some of you might be aware that around this time last year, we had seen our gu.wikisource.org coming in existence. To Celebrate its first anniversary, we have planned an event[1] on 31st March. The event will be held at Rupayatan[2], which is a host institution for the reputed Narasinh

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati wikimedians at Science fair, Bharuch

-pollination of ideas, collaborations and projects. Any ideas and suggestions on this would be Welcome. Best, Vishnu On 11 February 2013 04:28, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I would like to share a news with you. Recently Narmadanagar Community Science Centre, Bharuch, Gujarat

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

On 11 Feb 2013 17:25, Abhishek Suryawanshi i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: It will be unfair to call it cheating, however - 1)Chapter is having 1.5 Lack+ Rupees in existing account. And what do you think could be done by that HUGE AMOUNT of 1.5+ Indian Rupees? I think chapter has

[Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati wikimedians at Science fair, Bharuch

Hi All, I would like to share a news with you. Recently Narmadanagar Community Science Centre, Bharuch, Gujarat organised a science fair for the schools of Bharuch District. Three of our active Gujarati Wiki community members participated in the science fair and demonstrate to the teachers and

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

Hi Ravi, I was silently watching this debate and didn't want to join it for many reasons, but some of your assumptions force me to jump in, On 9 Feb 2013 04:48, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, My best wishes for the new A2K team. A sincere request to all Indian Wikimedians:

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

Hi Bishakha, I am amazed to see how beautifully something is ignored to be answered. On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.comwrote: There are 2 separate issues here . Please

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

Thank you Bence for making this public, as it seems that even I missed to see that agreement announced here. Regards, Dhaval On 27 Jan 2013 17:04, Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Yuvi, An agreement was reached that the group would first seek recognition as a Wikimedia Chapter SIG

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Number of Admin users in Indic Wikipedias

Hi, Having bureaucrats is not easy, we had a consensus taken by community and don't have any active bureaucrats on gu.wiki but still the application for bureaucrats was rejected by meta. It is definitely necessary to have active local bureaucrat(s), but meta needs to change their rigid

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

That is exactly what I was wondering as well Konarak. On 4 Jan 2013 15:15, Konarak Ratnakar konarak...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, A local MediaWiki Group is a nice initiative be it in Ahmedabad or anywhere else as long as there are enthusiastic volunteers involved. It'll be nice to see this group

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

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 WCI last year. I haven't seen any significant credits being given to them, nor have seen any central announcement regarding

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Access to Knowledge Bulletin – October 2012

Hi Noopur/All, Festive greetings! Are these events/programs carried out by CIS? Or they include the ones organised by volunteers and attended by CIS staff as volunteers? Regards, Dhaval On 9 Nov 2012 09:03, noopur noo...@cis-india.org wrote: ** Greetings! Welcome to the October 2012

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] How to contribute to Hindi and Nepali Wikipedia

And we have below for Gujarati too... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gu.wiki_welcome_video.ogv Dhaval Vyas On 19 Sep 2012 06:53, Yann Forget yan...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I didn't see this here. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:How_to_contribute_to_Hindi_Wikipedia.ogv

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] An adieu to the Wikimedia India Movement

True, its shame that because of a bunch of people or concerns raised for a programme, Tinu had to take this decision. But, Tinu I hope you continue editing and supprting wiki in your own capacity without any tags associated. Dhaval On 25 Jul 2012 12:38, Saroj Dhakal lotusnagar...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting Chatasabha

Me too. The IEP must scale beyond and interact at levels beyond the reach of the community. Just a few success stories at that level, where the community cannot reach, are more than enough to justify IEP and its large budget but a lot of success in things that the community should/can/could

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] HT City, New Delhi : Wiki meet for Delhi tomorrow

Replicating this kind of project in an Indian city is possible, but may be difficult given the lack of coverage of minor topics in books and on the web. That's the major issue we face on India related topics, especially on places. ___

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] on the recent internet bans in india

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: I am writing this since this list is read by many folks outside India who might think Internet ban at varying levels and put to some facts for people to make some more sense on the banning. Its mostly on 2-3 ISPs in

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Social Media Pilot

Even these answers would be interesting for me. Hope we get them soon. On 2 Jun 2012 11:04, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: Noopur, thank you for posting the report. I have a few questions for the India

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania 2012 scholarships

And all visa applications have to be made through VFS, not directly to consular office. On 13 May 2012 09:05, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@gmail.comwrote: Was just been to Mahalakshmi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

:30, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Yes Mark, it is the one. Will really appreciate if it is fixed ASAP! On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 05/10/2012 04:07

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

it is already filed? On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Arun, Are you really in senses? If so, why don't you take my case? Mark/All, Please close this bug and don't do anything to resolve the issue, as someone in this world thinks its my personal problem

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

, Dhaval On 11 May 2012 11:44, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Arun, Are you really in senses? If so, why don't you take my case? Mark/All, Please close this bug and don't do anything to resolve the issue

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

and allegations recently and from the very first day of joining this list, that I could simply not think that someone mught even joke here. Regards, Dhaval On 11 May 2012 12:18, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas dsv...@gmail.com wrote: Yes

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

Hi All, Would like to bring an issue to your notice, associated with upgrade to mw1.20. It makes the edit tool strip (the one over edit box) and Narayam disappear if IE7 is used. There is already bug filed nearly a couple of weeks back, but no resolution till date. It might be worth considering

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mediawiki version upgrade

Yes Mark, it is the one. Will really appreciate if it is fixed ASAP! On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Mark A. Hershberger m...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On 05/10/2012 04:07 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas wrote: There is already bug filed nearly a couple of weeks back, but no resolution till date. It might

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