Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
This is indeed a great success, First India chapter registration, then first office outside US in Delhi, 1st India WikiConference and then this. Hopng for the best success. On 12 November 2011 10:24, Deepon Saha hideeponh...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Hisham, Looking forward to the new

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust

2011-11-12 Thread Swaroop Rao
Glad to hear that, will definitely help programs in India. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) Steering committee, United States Education Program On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 10:24, Deepon Saha hideeponh...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Hisham, Looking forward to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Topics for my talk @wikiconference India

2011-11-12 Thread Naveen Francis
Hi Barry, Warm welcome to India !!! Thanks, naveenpf On 12 November 2011 00:10, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Barry, Greetings. Glad you are making your presence to India conference and delivering a talk. Cant wait to to hear your words. IMO, I think it would be

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Language wikipedia Statistics – 2011 September

2011-11-12 Thread Naveen Francis
Thanks Shiju for putting this together !!! Waiting for more statistics on other Wikimedia projects like Wiktionary, Wikisource Wikibooks ... :-) Wiktionary 1. Bengali http://bn.wiktionary.org/ 2. Divehi http://dv.wiktionary.org/ 3. Gujarati http://gu.wiktionary.org/ 4. Hindi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] Fw: WikiConference India 2011/Statistics

2011-11-12 Thread Naveen Francis
Hi Mandar, We want to make that automated for wikipedia and all wikimedia projects... dont know whom to contact. Thanks, Naveen Francis On 11 November 2011 13:57, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Can somebody correct the data in the 1st link pl. .. (

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] INR in 2011 Fundraising!! -- Finally

2011-11-12 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Already possible to see Indian people in the banners (they at least were doing test with) Achal: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/viewtemplate=B_FRDRILL6_1012_ACHAL Srikeit Tadepalli:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] INR in 2011 Fundraising!! -- Finally

2011-11-12 Thread Béria Lima
Achal appeal is here: https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_FRDRILL6_1012_ACHA The other one is a text for the banner (it seems) because has no appeal associate to it. _ *Béria Lima* http://wikimedia.pt/(351) 925 171 484 *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] INR in 2011 Fundraising!! -- Finally

2011-11-12 Thread Béria Lima
Sorry, wrong link. the right one is: https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_FRDRILL6_1012_ACHAL/en _ *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

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

2011-11-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, If you are not aware of it yet, India Education Program Pilot died around a week back[1] and a post mortem was done on Signpost[2]. I wonder if we Indians like to only rejoice success's and keep silence when we fail. One could have acknowledged the death on this list. It didnt happen.

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

2011-11-12 Thread Gautam John
On 12 November 2011 18:10, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: If you are not aware of it yet, India Education Program Pilot died around a week back[1] and a post mortem was done on Signpost[2]. I wonder if we Indians like to only rejoice success's and keep silence when we fail.

[Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Education Program

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
I thought I'd share with you a couple of links that are of relevance to the India Education Program. As you are aware, we are running a pilot of the education program in Pune. We are collating hard numbers to evaluate the pilot - and we'll share a full evaluation as soon as it is ready.

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
Our mails coincided, Srikanth, but my comments inline. hisham On Nov 12, 2011, at 6:10 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: Hi all, If you are not aware of it yet, India Education Program Pilot died around a week back[1] and a post mortem was done on Signpost[2]. I wonder if we Indians like

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

2011-11-12 Thread Gautam John
On 12 November 2011 18:55, Swaroop Rao raul.swar...@gmail.com wrote: It used to be easier to spot copyvios on English Wikipedia earlier, but due to some issues with Google, the bot which detected the copyvios (CorenBot) is no longer running, though I have come to understand that Jimmy and

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 12, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Gautam John wrote: Srikantha, thanks for posting this. I did not know about it till you posted it and I am sure there are many like me. It is worrying but at the same time offers us a chance to make things better for the future. Apologies, Gautam, Srikanth and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Topics for my talk @wikiconference India

2011-11-12 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
Warm welcome to India barry, hope this'd be like a homecoming for you as you have been closely associated with several programs in India. And about suggestions from Indian Wikipedians, i'd request you to put few words about your understanding and suggestions about regional communities in different

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 12, 2011, at 7:02 PM, Gautam John wrote: Fair enough. Just that at the scale the India program will run at, a technology solution might very well be a easier first step than human interventions. If we can't manage the scale (as we couldn't in this pilot), then we will reduce the

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

2011-11-12 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
Many of us went through college recently know its not *Some*, its *Most*. Anything called assignment and graded will be copy-pasted even by the brightest 5% of students in class who would have potential to do on their own. +1. with Srikanth This is the SINGLE MOST important thing to remember for

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

2011-11-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 18:56, Hisham hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: That's not accurate. The dates are as follows: It was concluded in all but 1 class of Symbiosis School of Economics a few weeks ago (because the assignements were concluded.) It continues in 1 class at this college and at 1

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

2011-11-12 Thread wheredevelsdare
Iv used turnitin during my MBA and can say that Iv seen people upload their projects there, note where the software catches them, change the language in that part and re-submit. People will go to any lengths .. Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:33:12 +0530 From: sodabot...@gmail.com To:

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

2011-11-12 Thread Swaroop Rao
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 19:33, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Many of us went through college recently know its not *Some*, its *Most*. Anything called assignment and graded will be copy-pasted even by the brightest 5% of students in class who would have potential to do on their

[Wikimediaindia-l] [WCI] Registrations Closed

2011-11-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
Hi all, We have closed the registrations for the conference. Thank you for your interest and looking forward to seeing you at conference. If you have missed registering, see you at next conference. :) -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing

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

2011-11-12 Thread Swaroop Rao
Also, it seems that CoEP has most of the problems; I think that CoEP being an engineering college, is more rigid in its working than other science/commerce/liberal arts colleges. What we could do is branch out into other streams (other than engineering I mean); Law for example: Why not have law

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

2011-11-12 Thread Surya Prakash
From Bala's words... //Online Ambassadors/mentors are not handholders and error correctors. I signed up to be an online ambassador. But stopped reading the IEP mails that were sent to me after i realised, that the IEP program essentially wanted to me to do the students' work. // Sure. We can

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mails getting queued

2011-11-12 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 15:15, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: For some reasons, lot of mails are getting queued for Message has a suspicious header and needs manual approval since yesterday(which is why you might have noted emails coming in bulk). Please note there will be delay

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mails getting queued

2011-11-12 Thread Béria Lima
Mark the senders as whitelisted - worked with WMPT mailing list when we had this _ *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. Ajude-nos a construir esse

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

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

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

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

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

2011-11-12 Thread Arjun mangol
Hey all, I refuse to believe it dead as of yet. There's yet a lot of avenues that haven't been explored. My personal suggestion was that let IEP establish a Wikipedia Club in every college in Pune to begin with, that would inculcate new, interested members who have a genuine passion for the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Topics for my talk @wikiconference India

2011-11-12 Thread Ravishankar
Barry, In last Wikimania, Jimmy Wales gave a Global Wikipedian of the year award for the phenomenal work done in Khazak Wiki. http://en.tengrinews.kz/internet/3813/ But, we couldn't learn in detail about their work. Similarly, there will be many growing global Wikipedia communities that face

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

2011-11-12 Thread Shiju Alex
Another strategy that we can adopt while doing this program in India is, about the selection of articles for editing. We can ask students to contribute to articles that they are interested in, rather than of all of them editing the articles on the same topic. The reason I am telling this is, In

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 12, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: Many of us went through college recently know its not *Some*, its *Most*. Anything called assignment and graded will be copy-pasted even by the brightest 5% of students in class who would have potential to do on their own. +1. with

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 12, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 18:56, Hisham hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: That's not accurate. The dates are as follows: It was concluded in all but 1 class of Symbiosis School of Economics a few weeks ago (because the assignements were

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 12, 2011, at 7:37 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Iv used turnitin during my MBA and can say that Iv seen people upload their projects there, note where the software catches them, change the language in that part and re-submit. People will go to

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 12, 2011, at 8:04 PM, Swaroop Rao wrote: Also, it seems that CoEP has most of the problems; I think that CoEP being an engineering college, is more rigid in its working than other science/commerce/liberal arts colleges. What we could do is branch out into other streams (other than

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

2011-11-12 Thread Anivar Aravind
Thanks Shiju. I raised same points yesterday , in Malayalam wikimedia list , in a related thread. Thanks for bringing this discussion here Anivar On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: Another strategy that we can adopt while doing this program in India

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 12, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Surya Prakash wrote: From Bala's words... //Online Ambassadors/mentors are not handholders and error correctors. I signed up to be an online ambassador. But stopped reading the IEP mails that were sent to me after i realised, that the IEP program essentially

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 12, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: hi, It was a pilot and hence I guess was meant to die at some point. First up, to the Campus Ambassadors, you guys showed a lot of courage in taking up and then following through on your commitment of being Campus Ambassadors

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 12, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Arnav Sonara wrote: Thanks to all of you, yes this was a Pilot, but at no point I see it dying. Its just that we have taken a pause right now to learn from the findings and ll come back all prepared and with the help of you all we ll try to gain new

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 13, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Shiju Alex wrote: Another strategy that we can adopt while doing this program in India is, about the selection of articles for editing. We can ask students to contribute to articles that they are interested in, rather than of all of them editing the articles

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 12, 2011, at 11:36 PM, Arjun mangol wrote: Hey all, I refuse to believe it dead as of yet. There's yet a lot of avenues that haven't been explored. My personal suggestion was that let IEP establish a Wikipedia Club in every college in Pune to begin with, that would inculcate

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

2011-11-12 Thread Hisham
On Nov 13, 2011, at 12:07 AM, Swaroop Rao wrote: That's true Arjun, there is a lot of interest in this program in many colleges, and this is going untapped. No, its not dead for sure. It was a pilot, and it didn't come out pretty; no issues, that's how we learn. I think that one thing we

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition

2011-11-12 Thread Ravishankar
Hi all, Thanks for sharing your views. I will share my response after the Wiki conference is over. For now, all the best for the event. Ravi On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ravi, Thanks for your email. Tinu's response has captured some

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

2011-11-12 Thread Bishakha Datta
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.comwrote: hi, It was a pilot and hence I guess was meant to die at some point. First up, to the Campus Ambassadors, you guys showed a lot of courage in taking up and then following through on your commitment of being