[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] Telegraph : It’s a Wiki Wiki world!
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/7days/story_14492284.jsp -- Regards Srikanth.L http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Sep_2011 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Err ... Stuff that exists, citations, and problems that seem a few but are slowly cropping up in number ...
Dear All, I have had this problem for over two years and I belive that this problem is unseen in most cases and will remain so untill addressed. There are many cases where incorrect facts are shown with references. This is purely due to lack of sources. I noticed this back in 2009 when I found that according to all available sources, the only concrete trunk road in India is the Mumbai Pune Expressway. This I know is not true. The East Coast Arm of the Golden Quadrilateral has a few concrete sections, confirmed with photographs on the websites of the National Highways Authority of India and the Nagarjuna Construction Company. Apart from this, I personally have seen that the Hubli Belgaum Toll Road Private Limited, Pune Satara Toll Road are also made of concrete. Now since I couldn't use these pictures as sources, mainly due to copyright issues and that I wasn't into photographs at that time, I ignored it. Recently I thought I could try and use the Oral Citations on this little issue and see, but after a chat with Achal yesterday I dropped the idea as it would need to be authoritative or in short I'd need a government official to talk. This as I've experienced earlier, isn't an easy task. Therefore, I place a request here for people to suggest something, as this problem is rising unchecked ... -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Err ... Stuff that exists, citations, and problems that seem a few but are slowly cropping up in number ...
Srikanth - if I can enlarge the scope of this problem: 1. Wikipedia has errors 2. These errors are because of the sources cited 3. The sources cited are factually wrong 4. There are no sources online to offer a counter or have a limitation of copyright. Does that some it up? Assuming there are pictures that hold a differing view, why can't those be linked to to get around the issue of copyright? Similarly, if there are articles online, why can't they be linked to? Of course, if there are no references online, then we do have a problem but has that ever been the case? Where there are *no* references online? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html On 11 September 2011 14:52, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, I have had this problem for over two years and I belive that this problem is unseen in most cases and will remain so untill addressed. There are many cases where incorrect facts are shown with references. This is purely due to lack of sources. I noticed this back in 2009 when I found that according to all available sources, the only concrete trunk road in India is the Mumbai Pune Expressway. This I know is not true. The East Coast Arm of the Golden Quadrilateral has a few concrete sections, confirmed with photographs on the websites of the National Highways Authority of India and the Nagarjuna Construction Company. Apart from this, I personally have seen that the Hubli Belgaum Toll Road Private Limited, Pune Satara Toll Road are also made of concrete. Now since I couldn't use these pictures as sources, mainly due to copyright issues and that I wasn't into photographs at that time, I ignored it. Recently I thought I could try and use the Oral Citations on this little issue and see, but after a chat with Achal yesterday I dropped the idea as it would need to be authoritative or in short I'd need a government official to talk. This as I've experienced earlier, isn't an easy task. Therefore, I place a request here for people to suggest something, as this problem is rising unchecked ... -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Err ... Stuff that exists, citations, and problems that seem a few but are slowly cropping up in number ...
+1. Iv found the press getting many facts wrong as well. Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 14:52:22 +0530 From: rsrikant...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Err ... Stuff that exists, citations, and problems that seem a few but are slowly cropping up in number ... Dear All, I have had this problem for over two years and I belive that this problem is unseen in most cases and will remain so untill addressed. There are many cases where incorrect facts are shown with references. This is purely due to lack of sources. I noticed this back in 2009 when I found that according to all available sources, the only concrete trunk road in India is the Mumbai Pune Expressway. This I know is not true. The East Coast Arm of the Golden Quadrilateral has a few concrete sections, confirmed with photographs on the websites of the National Highways Authority of India and the Nagarjuna Construction Company. Apart from this, I personally have seen that the Hubli Belgaum Toll Road Private Limited, Pune Satara Toll Road are also made of concrete. Now since I couldn't use these pictures as sources, mainly due to copyright issues and that I wasn't into photographs at that time, I ignored it. Recently I thought I could try and use the Oral Citations on this little issue and see, but after a chat with Achal yesterday I dropped the idea as it would need to be authoritative or in short I'd need a government official to talk. This as I've experienced earlier, isn't an easy task. Therefore, I place a request here for people to suggest something, as this problem is rising unchecked ... -- Sent from my mobile device Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] Telegraph : It’s a Wiki Wiki world!
I think this is good encouragement for the very young Vaibhav Jain. Good going! Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 13:06, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/7days/story_14492284.jsp -- Regards Srikanth.L http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Sep_2011 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia in India:Past Present and the Future
Hi, Please visit the following url and download the document for several articles on Wikipedia research including the one titled Wikipedia in India:Past Present and the Future by Gautam K John. http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/lang/de/2011/05/10/critical-point-of-view-a-wikipedia-reader/ Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] Telegraph : It’s a Wiki Wiki world!
really great!! :) proud to be apart of it... On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is good encouragement for the very young Vaibhav Jain. Good going! Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 13:06, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/7days/story_14492284.jsp -- Regards Srikanth.L http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Sep_2011 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Call for Translations - Registration Banner
Hi people (sorry for the cross posting) We need to have the Registration bannerhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/viewtemplate=WCI_Registrationtranslated into as many languages as possible. Any of you who can help please list your translations in http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Beria/WCI_banner_translation. Is just a 2 min translation! Thanks in advance for your help :) _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. É isso o que estamos a fazer http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Nossos_projetos.* ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] Telegraph : It’s a Wiki Wiki world!
Thank Srikanth, for sharing this. The article can be viewed on epaper : http://epaper.telegraphindia.com/PUBLICATIONS/TT/TT/2011/09/11/index.shtml ( Nice to see Vibhi's photo and huge heading Wiki Warriors:on the main page ) Don't forget to full article on page 13 too. The full text of the article : *Wikipedia, the world’s largest online encyclopaedia, has a vibrant community of editors and contributors in India. And on its 10th anniversary it is looking to enlarge its base in the country, says T.V. Jayan * * * *Vaibhav Jain, 13, looks like any other child. The Delhi resident is crazy about animated characters Pokémon and Shin-chan, and cheers for the Delhi Daredevils whenever his home team is playing at the IPL. But looks, as they say, can be deceptive. Vaibhav assumes a completely different persona when he is on the Web — that of a vigilant cop waging a war against vandalism. * *Vaibhav is one of the 4,200-odd “rollbackers” of Wikipedia — the world’s largest free and open online encyclopaedia. When he is not studying or playing, he scours Wikipedia articles for recent editorial changes that are suspect and reverts them to the original. Vaibhav, who set up his Wikipedia account earlier this year because he “got bored with social networking sites and online games”, has a Wiki user page that says it all: “This user reverts vandalism faster than Rajinikanth…” * * * *Seventy-three-year old G. Balachandran from Paravur, Kerala, has a different story to tell. Paralysed for nearly two decades, this retired junior commissioned officer of the Indian Army got a new lease of life, thanks to Wikipedia. When his son presented him with a laptop, Balachandran started contributing to Wikipedia in Malayalam. “Wikipedia not only helped me rediscover myself, but also gave me the strength to fight my condition,” says Balachandran, who has contributed nearly 100 articles to the Malayalam Wikipedia since 2008 and has more than 2,000 edits to his credit. * *Vaibhav and Balachandran belong to a vibrant global community of Wikipedians who contribute to the resource in one way or another. And there is a growing number of Indians among them — those who have taken it upon themselves to add, edit and improve Wikipedia in their spare time. * * INDIAN MOVERS: (From top) Vaibhav Jain, K. Ravichandar and G. Balachandran are part of the global community of Wikipedians * * From a little known resource on the Web 10 years ago, Wikipedia has grown into a mammoth, ever-expanding encyclopaedia with more than 19 million articles in 282 languages at last count. The English Wikipedia alone has 3.73 million articles, followed by German (1.28 million) and French (1.14 million). According to Alexa.com, an Internet information company that tracks traffic to websites, wikipedia.org ranks fifth in terms of traffic. More than 14 per cent of global Internet users visit Wikipedia at least once a day. * *India too has been part of the phenomenon, so much so that Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit body which manages Wikipedia’s affairs, has decided to set up its first office outside the US in New Delhi later this year. “India is our new focus area,” says Bishakha Datta, one of the global trustees of Wikimedia Foundation. “The experience that we gain from India will provide us with a blueprint to expand Wiki activities in other countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.” * *Right now, Wikipedia is available in 20 Indian languages and 20 other language versions are under incubation. * * * *What sets Wikipedia apart from other encyclopaedia, which are written by renowned subject experts, is not just that it is free and accessible to everyone, but also its dynamic nature. Anybody can contribute a Wikipedia article. “You don’t even need to register to be able to edit 99 per cent of the pages on Wikipedia,” says Tinu Cherian Abraham, a software engineer with a Bangalore-based firm, who has been associated with Wikimedia activities since 2006. Abraham has so far contributed more than 2,000 Wiki articles and done more than 53,000 edits on the English Wikipedia. * * * *However, because of its free and open character, Wikipedia is also liable to abuse and misinformation being fed into it. And that is where feisty rollbackers like Vaibhav come into play. Recently, a Wiki article on Team Anna member Arvind Kejriwal was ambushed by a miscreant and his name was changed to Neelabh Kaushik. However, the watchful Vaibhav caught the fraud in no time and rolled it back. * * * *Developing events find their way to Wikipedia almost instantaneously, thanks to more than 1,40,000 registered editors around the world who contribute and edit Wiki articles free of charge. “Everyone can be an editor on Wikipedia,” quips Hisham Mundol, a consultant with Wikimedia Foundation, who is slated to head its India operations. “We genuinely feel that with inputs from various quarters, Wiki articles can be more rounded,” adds Datta. * * * *The policy has paid off, with a growing number
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia in India:Past Present and the Future
Thanks Arjun, there needs to be a level of intellectual analysis of Wikipedia for and by the educated Wikipedian. Then then alone can we see how to make things better for Wikipedia so that we make things better for the world. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Please visit the following url and download the document for several articles on Wikipedia research including the one titled Wikipedia in India:Past Present and the Future by Gautam K John. http://networkcultures.org/wpmu/cpov/lang/de/2011/05/10/critical-point-of-view-a-wikipedia-reader/ Cheers Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
