[Wikimediaindia-l] wikipediawehaveaproblem

personal attacks are leveraged by experienced editors and admins. It is suggested by this study that this may be a symptom of an increasingly shrinking and increasingly insular community who may be blind to its own toxicity to its core principle of neutrality. -- Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583

[Wikimediaindia-l] decline in editors

, made anyone happy? Why does wikipedia today look more like it is ruled by fear than by love? -- Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Udaipur/Pune, India Self-designed learner at Swaraj University http://www.swarajuniversity.org http://www.nikhilsheth.tk http://www.facebook.com/nikjs

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

-BY-SA license then has merit. And if there's any hurdle that blocks this from happening, then, duh again, the hurdle needs to be fought and removed. Latitude and longitude are universal commons - they are as much anyone's private property as planet Earth is. Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250

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

the developing world is going to give a damn. If a rule goes against common sense, would you ditch the rule or ditch your common sense? Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India http://www.nikhilsheth.tk http://www.facebook.com/nikjs On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Arun Ganesh

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] OT: Open Content and Open Educational Resources in India

. They have an open platform for volunteers to contribute audio dubbing or subtitling, need people to pitch in. Currently the Indian participation is very low. Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India http://www.nikhilsheth.tk http://www.facebook.com/nikjs On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:47 AM

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Pune Mirror : Will Google Maps lead people astray, the Wikipedia way?

*In 2009, it was forced to recruit 20,000 editors to stop falsification of entries * Lol, as if they have that kind of money... ;) So it didn't have any editors at all prior to 2009, h, interesting!! So all those edits were put there by aliens it seems! :P Nikhil On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference

the web and bridging the distances that divide us. (I'm going to be out on coming weekends else I would have pitched for a particular date for a pilot conference! And apologies for completely missing the Pune meetup, guys!) Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

pertaining to indian articles) going on for Wikipedia for Schools, with a well-structured list of ALL articles that are going in. Not being able to find anything. Can anyone help in how to go about getting one set up? Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities

! Nikhilshethhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nikhilsheth( talk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nikhilsheth#top) Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow, 2011-13 www.nikhilsheth.tk Find me on: Twitter http://twitter.com/nikhiljs

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

in the Wikimedia fold. We shouldn't be driving away people that desperately want to contribute. - Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow, 2011-13 www.nikhilsheth.tk Find me on: Twitter http://twitter.com/nikhiljs

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Deletion (aka genocide) of articles

. The talk page of the article is the perfect place for such a dialog. This consensus-less deleting business seems a little too creepy to be comfortable with in what is supposed to be a consensus-based platform. Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http

[Wikimediaindia-l] Deletion (aka genocide) of articles

, guys? Don't take it personally! :P) Yeah, that's about it. Peace, May you all Live and Let Live and not commit bloody genocide in the name of quality. PS: The baby analogy will DEFINITELY bring more female editors in. Try it! Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Government plans to regulate blogs and user generated content.

@Arun, in that case the Indian Government itself will be guilty of threatening the unity, integrity, etc etc of the nation by terrorizing its citizens! Let's remember that a Government is not a Nation, we must take care to see where our ultimate loyalties lie and not confuse the two. By the way,

[Wikimediaindia-l] more clarification on WFSOE

Hi GN, Thanks for elaborating. I'd wanted to convey that sense of potential. One clarification that it seems is not getting through to our concerned friends : There is no ANY material being distributed. Neither are the full Indian language versions being shown or given to anyone under 18 years

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Government plans to regulate blogs and user generated content.

. Wikipedia's existence in itself is a proof that it pays to not give in to any authority. It has actually helped bring about social change at many places, please watch this TED Talk for the corelation: http://www.ted.com/talks/wael_ghonim_inside_the_egyptian_revolution.html Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Releasing Wikipedia CD – few concerns

Hi All, I had a great time reading the blogpost. Very amusing. But had to clarify some things before we all pick up our pitch-forks and torches, so.. http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.com/2011/03/clarification-about-wfsoe-and-english.html I can fully understand the knee-jerk mechanism of reading one

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] (OT) On the importance of Unicode

for the sake of getting their work done on time. (Disclaimer : Only little offense meant with the hope to give a kick and create a demand for real open source solutions that can rival the private ones) Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.IN the news - Mumbai Hindustan Times, 13th Feb 2011

http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/PUBLICATIONS/HT/HM/2011/02/13/ArticleHtmls/BEHIND-THE-SCENES-AT-WIKIPEDIAIN-13022011018002.shtml?Mode=1 Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow, 2011-13 www.nikhilsheth.tk Find me on: Twitter http

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India map and indian laws

all the maps of our country from Wikipedia that come under question and make it known to all that we will rather go map-less than lie to our fellow citizens or to the world. Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow, 2011-13

[Wikimediaindia-l] get your copy of Wikipedia for Schools +more at at GNUnify 2011, SICSR Pune, today and tomorrow

be downloaded online from http://tmp.kiwix.org/zim/0.9/ (Due thanks to Emmanuel and Kiwix team for speedy creation of the Indian language dumps!) So see you there, and let's bridge the internet divide, using the Largest Ebooks ever Created ! (sorry, couldn't resist using that!) Cheers, Nikhil Sheth

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] [Offline-l] Fwd: troubleshooting Wikipedia for schools offline project

Hi Ashwin, Thanks, but with all due respect, I have a few doubts and concerns. I've shared them on the talk page. http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_for_Schools_-_Indian_version Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow, 2011-13

[Wikimediaindia-l] troubleshooting Wikipedia for schools offline project

double-clicks on a Wikipedia for schools shortcut or .bat or .exe then that opens; if someone double-clicks a Hindi Wikipedia then that opens, and so forth. Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org/ Fellow, 2011-13 www.nikhilsheth.tk Find me

[Wikimediaindia-l] Can we aggregate news related to wikipedia / wikimedia in India in one place

example, I've setup something similar in a mindmap, now a wiki-map, for Teach For India and have got a very good response for it. You can see there how various useful links are now collected in one place. http://www.mindmeister.com/maps/show/76500874 Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India

[Wikimediaindia-l] troubleshooting Wikipedia for schools offline project

links and let me know if it's all working properly or not. Do let me know if I'm doing anything wrong here. Cheers, Nikhil Sheth +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Teach For India http://www.teachforindia.org Fellow, 2011-13 www.nikhilsheth.tk Find me on: Twitter http://twitter.com/nikhiljs | Facebookhttp

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: troubleshooting Wikipedia for schools offline project

-- Forwarded message -- From: Nikhil Sheth nikhil...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:21 AM Subject: troubleshooting Wikipedia for schools project To: i...@soschildren.org Cc: wikimedia-in-mum wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org HI, I'm trying to spread wikipedia