[Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs IRC : Thursday June 2nd 2011 @ 9pm IST (GMT + 5:30) : #wikimedia-office
Hi Folks We conduct a monthly IRC on India Programs on the first Thursday of every month. I'm writing to invite you to attend tomorrow's IRC. I've scheduled it for 9pm IST - based on feedback I've gotten from the community when discussing this at the various meet-ups I've been attending that this time slot might be more convenient. Something different that I thought we would do in the IRC tomorrow is to have some guests. Specifically, I wanted to invite Frank, Annie, PJ Srikeit - all of who are supporting the Wikipedia India Education Program's Pune Pilot. Frank Annie are with the Foundation. PJ is from the Campus Ambassador program in the US - and has offered to come down to Pune to support this initiative for just under the next 3 months. Srikeit is an existing Wikipedia and has offered to support the program for the next 1 year. I thought it would be a great way of getting to know them and for you to interact with them and to discuss the (very early) signals that we would have on the program (given that we are starting formal outreach today.) We'd love to hear your views as well. As always, we will also give a quick summary of India Programs and discuss any other issues you'd like to. Do join us! Best Hisham Mundol Wikimedia India Programs skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter : @mundol ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Vote for picture of the year
Users can vote for picture of the year on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Finalists/Large Round 2 of voting is going on. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs IRC : Thursday June 2nd 2011 @ 9pm IST (GMT + 5:30) : #wikimedia-office
Hi Hisham Mundol Can you make it in-advance? instead of 9 PM, can yo make it 8 PM ? If you can easily finish it, think about it. Otherwise ignore this message. *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 11:04, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks We conduct a monthly IRC on India Programs on the first Thursday of every month. I'm writing to invite you to attend tomorrow's IRC. I've scheduled it for 9pm IST - based on feedback I've gotten from the community when discussing this at the various meet-ups I've been attending that this time slot might be more convenient. Something different that I thought we would do in the IRC tomorrow is to have some guests. Specifically, I wanted to invite Frank, Annie, PJ Srikeit - all of who are supporting the Wikipedia India Education Program's Pune Pilot. Frank Annie are with the Foundation. PJ is from the Campus Ambassador program in the US - and has offered to come down to Pune to support this initiative for just under the next 3 months. Srikeit is an existing Wikipedia and has offered to support the program for the next 1 year. I thought it would be a great way of getting to know them and for you to interact with them and to discuss the (very early) signals that we would have on the program (given that we are starting formal outreach today.) We'd love to hear your views as well. As always, we will also give a quick summary of India Programs and discuss any other issues you'd like to. Do join us! Best *Hisham Mundol* * * *** Wikimedia http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home India Programshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs * * skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org ** twitter : @mundo *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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs IRC : Thursday June 2nd 2011 @ 9pm IST (GMT + 5:30) : #wikimedia-office
Surya, There is no such thing as best time :) Some might feel convenient at 7 , others at 8 and some others at 9 PM . -Tinu Cheian On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Hisham Mundol Can you make it in-advance? instead of 9 PM, can yo make it 8 PM ? If you can easily finish it, think about it. Otherwise ignore this message. *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 11:04, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks We conduct a monthly IRC on India Programs on the first Thursday of every month. I'm writing to invite you to attend tomorrow's IRC. I've scheduled it for 9pm IST - based on feedback I've gotten from the community when discussing this at the various meet-ups I've been attending that this time slot might be more convenient. Something different that I thought we would do in the IRC tomorrow is to have some guests. Specifically, I wanted to invite Frank, Annie, PJ Srikeit - all of who are supporting the Wikipedia India Education Program's Pune Pilot. Frank Annie are with the Foundation. PJ is from the Campus Ambassador program in the US - and has offered to come down to Pune to support this initiative for just under the next 3 months. Srikeit is an existing Wikipedia and has offered to support the program for the next 1 year. I thought it would be a great way of getting to know them and for you to interact with them and to discuss the (very early) signals that we would have on the program (given that we are starting formal outreach today.) We'd love to hear your views as well. As always, we will also give a quick summary of India Programs and discuss any other issues you'd like to. Do join us! Best *Hisham Mundol* * * *** Wikimedia http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home India Programshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs * * skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org ** twitter : @mundo *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 mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Google shutting down translate and transliterate APIS
In case anybody missed out. Transliteration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keymanweb/Keymanweb Enjoy. Cheers. On 1 June 2011 12:41, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:58 AM, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Anivar Aravind anivar.arav...@gmail.com wrote: There is major problem in depending upon Non-FOSS solutions. There is. However, the line that comes immediately next might just need to be couched as a personal opinion in the absence of cited facts around it :) It seems google used api's for collecting crowd sourced input for improving their database now shutting it down. We have seen its evolution improvement of service with wide adoption over time. One curious factor i used to notice always is the formation of words with chillu characters in transliteration API . Since there is a standard difference between Unicode 5.0 and 5.1 Chillu Characters it is easy to identify. Google is officially following most recent unicode version, but since most of the malayalam users uses chillu letters in unicode 5.0 specifications, it is periodically changed in that way . Input methods such as Transliteration does not need online services . It can be easily done without google or microsoft. And popularise extensions such as Narayam existing on mediawiki is the best way to move forward. In addition, it will be good if Indic wikipedian's can develop a stylebook for correct usage and link it with extensions such as narayam. Then the possibility of typing errors can also be reduced. I am more interested in the line in Sudhanwa's mail which seems to suggest that WMF should be providing APIs (and, hosting a service therefore ?) around this aspect. Yes, it is an interesting possibility And, I am afraid I also do not comprehend the usage of the term 'stylebook' - what does it mean in this context ? In google transliterate , it took a lot of time to correct spellings in word formations Since wikipedia have a large DB , and editors , who are aware about correct usage , a style book of correct indic language spellings for transliterated inputs can help input tools like narayam to auto correct common spelling errors . It was a major feature of google transliterate . This can be also implemented in API level as well In my opinion Translation Service its api of google for indic is not that great anyway , and usable for wikimedia projects . So i believe it will not make much issues in wikimedia indic projects The usage of the Google Translate API has been, for a while, discussed under the umbrella of whether the translated content can be 'freely' (as in libre-ly) used across domains. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- 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] India Programs IRC : Thursday June 2nd 2011 @ 9pm IST (GMT + 5:30) : #wikimedia-office
Heya, I think 9PM IST is convenient as most working peolpe would've returned [hopefully] home by that time. Will try and catch up this time. --Regards, On 1 June 2011 12:37, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Surya, There is no such thing as best time :) Some might feel convenient at 7 , others at 8 and some others at 9 PM . -Tinu Cheian On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Hisham Mundol Can you make it in-advance? instead of 9 PM, can yo make it 8 PM ? If you can easily finish it, think about it. Otherwise ignore this message. *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 11:04, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks We conduct a monthly IRC on India Programs on the first Thursday of every month. I'm writing to invite you to attend tomorrow's IRC. I've scheduled it for 9pm IST - based on feedback I've gotten from the community when discussing this at the various meet-ups I've been attending that this time slot might be more convenient. Something different that I thought we would do in the IRC tomorrow is to have some guests. Specifically, I wanted to invite Frank, Annie, PJ Srikeit - all of who are supporting the Wikipedia India Education Program's Pune Pilot. Frank Annie are with the Foundation. PJ is from the Campus Ambassador program in the US - and has offered to come down to Pune to support this initiative for just under the next 3 months. Srikeit is an existing Wikipedia and has offered to support the program for the next 1 year. I thought it would be a great way of getting to know them and for you to interact with them and to discuss the (very early) signals that we would have on the program (given that we are starting formal outreach today.) We'd love to hear your views as well. As always, we will also give a quick summary of India Programs and discuss any other issues you'd like to. Do join us! Best *Hisham Mundol* * * *** Wikimedia http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home India Programshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs * * skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org ** twitter : @mundo *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 mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- 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] Vote for picture of the year
Sorry Theo10011, I have some problems in my eyes. That's why had my fonts bigger. Now reduced the sizes. Sorry for the inconvenience. I think now you feel comfort. *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 12:49, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Can you please use a smaller font? Thanks Theo10011 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Voters Please remember, YOU CAN VOTE FOR ONLY ONE IMAGE. Please keep it in mind. *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 12:26, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: Users can vote for picture of the year on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Finalists/Large Round 2 of voting is going on. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Vote for picture of the year
Thanks. It didn't render well on my mobile, so I had trouble reading your comments. Theo10011 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry Theo10011, I have some problems in my eyes. That's why had my fonts bigger. Now reduced the sizes. Sorry for the inconvenience. I think now you feel comfort. *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 12:49, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Can you please use a smaller font? Thanks Theo10011 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Voters Please remember, YOU CAN VOTE FOR ONLY ONE IMAGE. Please keep it in mind. *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 12:26, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: Users can vote for picture of the year on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Finalists/Large Round 2 of voting is going on. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Vote for picture of the year
@Theo10011, Can you read now well? *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 13:18, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. It didn't render well on my mobile, so I had trouble reading your comments. Theo10011 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry Theo10011, I have some problems in my eyes. That's why had my fonts bigger. Now reduced the sizes. Sorry for the inconvenience. I think now you feel comfort. *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 12:49, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Can you please use a smaller font? Thanks Theo10011 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.com wrote: Voters Please remember, YOU CAN VOTE FOR ONLY ONE IMAGE. Please keep it in mind. *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 12:26, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: Users can vote for picture of the year on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Finalists/Large Round 2 of voting is going on. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ 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 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Vote for picture of the year
Yup, now I can. Theo10011 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: @Theo10011, Can you read now well? *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 13:18, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks. It didn't render well on my mobile, so I had trouble reading your comments. Theo10011 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry Theo10011, I have some problems in my eyes. That's why had my fonts bigger. Now reduced the sizes. Sorry for the inconvenience. I think now you feel comfort. *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 12:49, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Can you please use a smaller font? Thanks Theo10011 On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Surya Prakash suryasalem2...@gmail.com wrote: Voters Please remember, YOU CAN VOTE FOR ONLY ONE IMAGE. Please keep it in mind. *$**U**∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com On 1 June 2011 12:26, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: Users can vote for picture of the year on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2010/Finalists/Large Round 2 of voting is going on. -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ 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 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 mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Sunday Indian : Internet Hooliganism
Mr. PonyTail is at it again, yaay! On a serious note, despite everything he has ever said and done, the article in his name doesn't carry anything slanderous or unacceptable. That is the true achievement of Wikipedia and its user. I just skimmed through the article: it is semi protected and the list of citations is as long the article itself. It's surprising he believes internet users are anonymous and unidentifiable. On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikanth05@ gmail.com wrote: As an editor and a member of the counter vandalism group, I personally find this ignoramus statement by IIPM insulting. Clearly, he has absolutely NO idea, how hard we work on keeping Wikipedia clean. Tell him to go thru the edits made by any Indian editor using Huggle or Lupins Anti Vandal tool. Offtopic matter: Everybody says IIPM is a fraud. Do they even have the moral right to blame us wikipedians? Regards, Rsrikanth05 Sent from my Motorola L9. Please excuse spelling errors. On May 30, 2011 10:11 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: The Sunday Indian magazine on its recent cover story heavily bashes Wikipedia, Google etc. The article also features an interview with Jay Walsh, Wikimedia Foundation’s Head of Communications. *Some background : * The publication is supported by Arindam Chaudhuri , Head of IIPM, who was heavily criticized by bloggers for alleged misrepresentations and false advertisements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Planning_and_Management_advertising_and_blogging_controversy You can read more about the article here : *The Sunday Indian : Internet Hooliganism* http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/internet-hooliganism/15181/ ( The article is very huge and hence only few relevant extracts copied here) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Planning_and_Management_advertising_and_blogging_controversy Why internet vandals and slander supporting entities like Google must be criminally prosecuted and made to pay for promoting defamatory links and suggestions, and how the new IT act is a step in the right direction and gives Indians the right to get justice against such vandalism. ...First, as I mentioned earlier, is the wicked anonymity that the web provides to Internet posters, which gives them protection from being identified and prosecuted. Second is the hand-in-hand conspiratorial connivance of Internet companies like search engines, social networking sites, blog site hosts and even ISPs (intermediaries, in summary) that refuse to delete or block out the execrable comments and links and also refuse to confirm the identities of the anon-posters. Google, Wikipedia, Twitter... all of them fall within the same indecent category of companies. Third has been the unfortunate legal protection given till now to such intermediaries, who apparently could not be held responsible for material that others were posting on their websites (for example, in the US, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has protected intermediaries from liability for defamatory content posted on their sites, even if they allowed the content to remain despite having been notified about the same). ...But Google is only one side of the story. There are others in the same league and perhaps as worse. One of the infamously notable ones is Wikipedia, which touts itself as the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit – a metaphor for allowing any anonymous author to post details about any and every topic. And as the Wikipedia link almost always comes on the first page of any search engine's results, the nuisance value Wikipedia and its army of unidentifiable contributors command is immense and as dangerous. Stories of even Wikipedia being taken to court are well known. Recent years have seen temporary bans on Wiki pages from various governments, including the Dutch and German ones. UK’s largest internet service provider banned Wikipedia pages containing child pornography a few months ago. The Australian government has blacklisted Wikipedia pages permanently along with “child porn sites.” University of California professors refuse references to Wikipedia. BusinessWeek has called Wikipedia “awash in controversy.” New York Times, US government’s patents office and various other highly credible entities have official policy documents against Wikipedia. US Senators like Ted Stevens in Alaska have introduced bills to pull Wikipedia out of schools and libraries. The US Appeals Court now has an official ruling against Wikipedia sources being quoted. On April 4, 2009, Financial Times certified Wikipedia as “hilariously unreliable free-for-all.” USA Today’s founding editorial director John Seigenthaler Sr went to the courts when his Wiki biography concocted up that he was connected with the assassinations of both John F. Kennedy and his brother Bobby Kennedy. While Wharton writers confess, “It's
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : The Sunday Indian : Internet Hooliganism
Rohini, We have to remain neutral right? We can't help it if he or his organisation indulges in hooliganism or fraud? Then in that case yes, I personally will add such data, with refs from ToI, Hindu et all. But we have to be neutral. If you notice, several of the refs from the IIPM article are from IIPM ka website itself, so someone might want to help me out. I repeat, we need to be neutral. I hope you get my point. I'm being funny as usual. --Regards, Srikanth R. On 30 May 2011 23:10, Rohini L rohini.laksh...@gmail.com wrote: Mr. PonyTail is at it again, yaay! On a serious note, despite everything he has ever said and done, the article in his name doesn't carry anything slanderous or unacceptable. That is the true achievement of Wikipedia and its user. I just skimmed through the article: it is semi protected and the list of citations is as long the article itself. It's surprising he believes internet users are anonymous and unidentifiable. On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:55 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikanth05@ gmail.com wrote: As an editor and a member of the counter vandalism group, I personally find this ignoramus statement by IIPM insulting. Clearly, he has absolutely NO idea, how hard we work on keeping Wikipedia clean. Tell him to go thru the edits made by any Indian editor using Huggle or Lupins Anti Vandal tool. Offtopic matter: Everybody says IIPM is a fraud. Do they even have the moral right to blame us wikipedians? Regards, Rsrikanth05 Sent from my Motorola L9. Please excuse spelling errors. On May 30, 2011 10:11 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: The Sunday Indian magazine on its recent cover story heavily bashes Wikipedia, Google etc. The article also features an interview with Jay Walsh, Wikimedia Foundation’s Head of Communications. *Some background : * The publication is supported by Arindam Chaudhuri , Head of IIPM, who was heavily criticized by bloggers for alleged misrepresentations and false advertisements. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Planning_and_Management_advertising_and_blogging_controversy You can read more about the article here : *The Sunday Indian : Internet Hooliganism* http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/internet-hooliganism/15181/ ( The article is very huge and hence only few relevant extracts copied here) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Planning_and_Management_advertising_and_blogging_controversy Why internet vandals and slander supporting entities like Google must be criminally prosecuted and made to pay for promoting defamatory links and suggestions, and how the new IT act is a step in the right direction and gives Indians the right to get justice against such vandalism. ...First, as I mentioned earlier, is the wicked anonymity that the web provides to Internet posters, which gives them protection from being identified and prosecuted. Second is the hand-in-hand conspiratorial connivance of Internet companies like search engines, social networking sites, blog site hosts and even ISPs (intermediaries, in summary) that refuse to delete or block out the execrable comments and links and also refuse to confirm the identities of the anon-posters. Google, Wikipedia, Twitter... all of them fall within the same indecent category of companies. Third has been the unfortunate legal protection given till now to such intermediaries, who apparently could not be held responsible for material that others were posting on their websites (for example, in the US, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has protected intermediaries from liability for defamatory content posted on their sites, even if they allowed the content to remain despite having been notified about the same). ...But Google is only one side of the story. There are others in the same league and perhaps as worse. One of the infamously notable ones is Wikipedia, which touts itself as the free encyclopaedia that anyone can edit – a metaphor for allowing any anonymous author to post details about any and every topic. And as the Wikipedia link almost always comes on the first page of any search engine's results, the nuisance value Wikipedia and its army of unidentifiable contributors command is immense and as dangerous. Stories of even Wikipedia being taken to court are well known. Recent years have seen temporary bans on Wiki pages from various governments, including the Dutch and German ones. UK’s largest internet service provider banned Wikipedia pages containing child pornography a few months ago. The Australian government has blacklisted Wikipedia pages permanently along with “child porn sites.” University of California professors refuse references to Wikipedia. BusinessWeek has called Wikipedia “awash in controversy.” New York Times, US government’s patents office and various other highly credible entities have official policy documents against Wikipedia. US
[Wikimediaindia-l] Media Contacts: Pune
Hi All Do any of you have contacts with local media in Pune? Would love to get name of correspondents, name of publication / radio or TV channel as well as email IDs or phone numbers. Could you share these with me and Moka offline? We are looking at providing a diverse mix of media with the opportunity to cover the Wikipedia India Education Program - and the Campus Ambassadors who are associated with this. I'm particularly keen on getting local publications (especially Marathi) and local radio channels. Many thanks Hisham Mundol Wikimedia India Programs skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter : @mundol ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Transliteration add-on on Kannada Wiki projects
Dear all, Transliteration js add-on has been added to Kannada Wiktionary, Kannada WikiQuotes and Kannada WikiSource. Now users can type in Kannada on these projects easily. Cheers, Suma Krishna Addoor ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs IRC : Thursday June 2nd 2011 @ 9pm IST (GMT + 5:30) : #wikimedia-office
Hisham Mundol Wikimedia India Programs skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter : @mundol On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Surya Prakash wrote: Hi Hisham Mundol Can you make it in-advance? instead of 9 PM, can yo make it 8 PM ? Hi Surya Can I request that we keep it at 9pm because I have got feedback from multiple people requesting this? Many thanks! If you can easily finish it, think about it. Otherwise ignore this message. $U∩ http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Media Contacts: Pune
Hey Hisham, there is this senior reporter with Sakaal times, a local newspaper. Her name is Akshata and she has given her email address to contact: akshata.she...@gmail.sakaaltimes.com. She's promised to help. Will scout for more! Cheers N On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi All Do any of you have contacts with local media in Pune? Would love to get name of correspondents, name of publication / radio or TV channel as well as email IDs or phone numbers. Could you share these with me and Moka offline? We are looking at providing a diverse mix of media with the opportunity to cover the Wikipedia India Education Program - and the Campus Ambassadors who are associated with this. I'm particularly keen on getting local publications (especially Marathi) and local radio channels. Many thanks *Hisham Mundol* * * *** Wikimedia http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home India Programshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs * * skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org ** twitter : @mundo *l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Media Contacts: Pune
Thanks for this everyone! This is really helpful! Just so you know: we're hoping to schedule all press interviews for Sunday after the training. We're trying to keep the number of journalists small and organized so that the focus stays on the community events and training the Ambassadors. We'll reach out to the contacts you've sent us, but if you receive interest, please feel free to send their contact info to me, Hisham and Tinu so we can work with media directly and make sure they have some time to interview the team. Tinu will be managing all of the press interviews during the weekend. Thanks again! Moka On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Hisham, there is this senior reporter with Sakaal times, a local newspaper. Her name is Akshata and she has given her email address to contact: akshata.she...@gmail.sakaaltimes.com. She's promised to help. Will scout for more! Cheers N On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi All Do any of you have contacts with local media in Pune? Would love to get name of correspondents, name of publication / radio or TV channel as well as email IDs or phone numbers. Could you share these with me and Moka offline? We are looking at providing a diverse mix of media with the opportunity to cover the Wikipedia India Education Program - and the Campus Ambassadors who are associated with this. I'm particularly keen on getting local publications (especially Marathi) and local radio channels. Many thanks Hisham Mundol Wikimedia India Programs skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter : @mundo l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Cheers, Moka Moka Pantages 415.839.6885 x 635 @moka ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Update on Meetings
We have a couple of interesting meetings yesterday with 2 Symbiosis institutes (SIMC SIBM) I know I had said we would write daily updates this week - but I'd like to change that to a weekly summary because that is probably going to be a better way of providing a comprehensive picture. Trust that's ok! Best Hisham Mundol Wikimedia India Programs skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org twitter : @mundol ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
