Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Administrative maps of India and states.
For SVG translation, use this tool: http://toolserver.org/~jarry/svgtranslate/ My suggestion would be, let the respective language community do the translation. Transliteration may not work work all the time. On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:17 AM, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have done a plain google transliteration for India and Kerala maps to hi,kn,sa which is created by Rajesh Odayanchal( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rajeshodayanchal) using a tool http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.5.1/editor/svg-editor.html This maps were created as a part of Malayalam mapping project. If it needs some correction; can you please help ? Thanks, Naveen Francis On 15 June 2011 16:30, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 15 June 2011 03:38, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: In this light, the copyright disclaimer on the Census webpage seems completely invalid. Vickram - good catch but even the lack of a copyright notice does not, per se, mean there is no copyright. Copyright is presumed to be granted the moment it has been created. Of course, and I am completely in agreement with the sentiments of the commons group, who evidently do not want to see Wikipedia get caught up in a series of fruitless litigations across the world. I was drawing the attention of the list to the fact that the government people, who claim copyright for everything the government publishes, despite the fact that some of it is commons, are also ether slipshod in the manner in which they claim the copyright, or being forthright about the fact that some of it, possibly the data itself, is not intended to be copyrighted. Now, the disclaimer wording brought to our attention by Abhilash also mentions that not everything in the site is copyright, one must look at individual listings within in order to see if copyright is claimed therein. Naveen would do well to check that the information he wants to scrape in order to create his maps is specifically copyrighted, as otherwise it is clearly free-to-use, and the copyright disclaimer is very specific about this freedom. -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Naveen Francis ___ 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] Request for a new list
Hi, I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to request for a list for that event; a request which you may have already received informally from Shiju Alex. The event will definitely be taking place on 18-20 November 2011 at Mumbai and we have already requested Jimbo's presence at the event (as an example of the event's firming up). This is a joint venture between the Indian Chapter and the Indian Wikimedia community and will henceforth be an annual feature. We were about to start communications of the Working Group on a Google Group but community members have asked if our email group can be hosted by the Foundation and be a mailman list. If provided, it is planned to use this list for planning and organising all national wikiconferences in India henceforth. The advantages, we feel, are that the list and its archives will be preserved and secure while the Foundation exists, ease of use interface as all of us are used to mailman lists for community communication to date and that the future of the group will not be dependent upon Google policies. We request that the list be named WikiConference India, to distinguish it from other types of WikiConferences such as the Wikimania series. Should other countries decide to have annual national conferences, perhaps their lists could be named WikiConference (where is name of the country) similarly. Looking forward to a positive and early response so that we can begin our organising activities. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs
Yes - we could. Pranesh - is there a form letter you have or can we create one so that we can send it individually? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 18 June 2011 23:38, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Pranesh, Gautham, By any chance, can we create a Petition about this ? --Regards, On 18 June 2011 23:23, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: Pranesh: Do you have a form letter we could use, please? Something that we could each sign, individually, and send? To whom? By when? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 18 June 2011 23:05, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.org wrote: Dear all, I am well aware that there are other issues such as that of copyright over works by the government and public undertakings. We have raised this issue in our analysis[1] as well as our formal submission to the Parliamentary Standing Committee.[2] However, it is one thing to get something that is good (broad exception for government works / or even better: making government works public domain) which is not even on the table, and preventing an impending harm: decrease of the public domain in terms of Indian photographs. The first is a longer term goal than the second. Copyright term of photographs is going to increase if folks don't stand up against it. Regards, Pranesh [1]: Analysis: http://goo.gl/Iv69r [2]: Civil Society submission: http://goo.gl/9Ws3E / Analysis of Standing Committee's report: http://goo.gl/Fs5WM On Saturday 18 June 2011 06:40 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: Very contentious issue Pranesh. The issue is not only this - but also to insure that any Indian government works be in public domain as well as that of a Public Servant when on duty (like in the US - after all it is OUR govenment and OUR money spent hiring that Public Servant!). Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 18:04:07 +0200 From: pran...@cis-india.org To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org CC: aprabh...@gmail.com; su...@cis-india.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs Dear all, It seems clear that through a new amendment to the Copyright Act, the term of copyright of photographs is going to be increased from 25 years (which is the minimum required by international copyright law) to 60 years *after the death of the photographer* (i.e., copyright term = life of the photographer + 60 years). So say a photographer aged 25 clicks a photograph and dies at the age of 75 (in 2061): Under current law the copyright on that photo expires on January 1, 2037. Under proposed law, copyright on that photo expires on January 1, 2122. The difference: 85 years! (I hope I've done the math correctly.) So only your great-grandchildren will be able to upload that photograph to Wikipedia. As far as I can understand, there has been no positive lobbying on this front by any photographers. No one has really asked for it. We, from the Centre for Internet and Society submitted a 'civil society submission' (with the backing of 22 organizations) which criticised this to the Standing Committee that was examining the amendment. But the chairman of that committee did not take notice. In effect, the Standing Committee heard only rightsholders (and groups, including ours, working on the exception for persons with disabilities). Are people on this list concerned about this? If yes, then we all need to try to get this particular amendment targetted and struck off when the amendment gets presented before Parliament in the Monsoon session. Regards, Pranesh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Pranesh Prakash Programme Manager Centre for Internet and Society W: http://cis-india.org | T: +91 80 40926283 ___ 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list
I believe you need to file a bug for this Ashwin. If you want, I can file it for you and get someone to close the request. Are you sure about the title? I would suggest something like WikiIndia-events or Wikimediaindia-events list. So that it doesn't become useless after the event and can be re-used for coordinating future events. The naming convention for the list also depends on country codes and previous naming convention, Wikimediaindia-events would be a sub-list of Wikimediaindia-l. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to request for a list for that event; a request which you may have already received informally from Shiju Alex. The event will definitely be taking place on 18-20 November 2011 at Mumbai and we have already requested Jimbo's presence at the event (as an example of the event's firming up). This is a joint venture between the Indian Chapter and the Indian Wikimedia community and will henceforth be an annual feature. We were about to start communications of the Working Group on a Google Group but community members have asked if our email group can be hosted by the Foundation and be a mailman list. If provided, it is planned to use this list for planning and organising all national wikiconferences in India henceforth. The advantages, we feel, are that the list and its archives will be preserved and secure while the Foundation exists, ease of use interface as all of us are used to mailman lists for community communication to date and that the future of the group will not be dependent upon Google policies. We request that the list be named WikiConference India, to distinguish it from other types of WikiConferences such as the Wikimania series. Should other countries decide to have annual national conferences, perhaps their lists could be named WikiConference (where is name of the country) similarly. Looking forward to a positive and early response so that we can begin our organising activities. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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] Request for a new list
Hi Salmaan, Thanks for the offer! Shiju is just waiting for a reply from Casey Browne before we file the bug. Since we have formally asked, it would be appropriate to wait for a while for the response. As regards the name, there are now a large amount of activities, lists etc communities, meet-ups etc coming up in India. We now need a finer level of grading between Foundation, chapter and community driven ventures - hence we are a little chary of appending media unless it is directly driven by or associated with Chapter or Foundation. Secondly, events are of many types, whereas we want a list specifically for the annual national conference and perhaps other conferences in India, hence the need felt for the word conference. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you need to file a bug for this Ashwin. If you want, I can file it for you and get someone to close the request. Are you sure about the title? I would suggest something like WikiIndia-events or Wikimediaindia-events list. So that it doesn't become useless after the event and can be re-used for coordinating future events. The naming convention for the list also depends on country codes and previous naming convention, Wikimediaindia-events would be a sub-list of Wikimediaindia-l. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to request for a list for that event; a request which you may have already received informally from Shiju Alex. The event will definitely be taking place on 18-20 November 2011 at Mumbai and we have already requested Jimbo's presence at the event (as an example of the event's firming up). This is a joint venture between the Indian Chapter and the Indian Wikimedia community and will henceforth be an annual feature. We were about to start communications of the Working Group on a Google Group but community members have asked if our email group can be hosted by the Foundation and be a mailman list. If provided, it is planned to use this list for planning and organising all national wikiconferences in India henceforth. The advantages, we feel, are that the list and its archives will be preserved and secure while the Foundation exists, ease of use interface as all of us are used to mailman lists for community communication to date and that the future of the group will not be dependent upon Google policies. We request that the list be named WikiConference India, to distinguish it from other types of WikiConferences such as the Wikimania series. Should other countries decide to have annual national conferences, perhaps their lists could be named WikiConference (where is name of the country) similarly. Looking forward to a positive and early response so that we can begin our organising activities. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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] Request for a new list
Thanks Ashwin. I understand, let me know if you need my help. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Salmaan, Thanks for the offer! Shiju is just waiting for a reply from Casey Browne before we file the bug. Since we have formally asked, it would be appropriate to wait for a while for the response. As regards the name, there are now a large amount of activities, lists etc communities, meet-ups etc coming up in India. We now need a finer level of grading between Foundation, chapter and community driven ventures - hence we are a little chary of appending media unless it is directly driven by or associated with Chapter or Foundation. Secondly, events are of many types, whereas we want a list specifically for the annual national conference and perhaps other conferences in India, hence the need felt for the word conference. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you need to file a bug for this Ashwin. If you want, I can file it for you and get someone to close the request. Are you sure about the title? I would suggest something like WikiIndia-events or Wikimediaindia-events list. So that it doesn't become useless after the event and can be re-used for coordinating future events. The naming convention for the list also depends on country codes and previous naming convention, Wikimediaindia-events would be a sub-list of Wikimediaindia-l. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to request for a list for that event; a request which you may have already received informally from Shiju Alex. The event will definitely be taking place on 18-20 November 2011 at Mumbai and we have already requested Jimbo's presence at the event (as an example of the event's firming up). This is a joint venture between the Indian Chapter and the Indian Wikimedia community and will henceforth be an annual feature. We were about to start communications of the Working Group on a Google Group but community members have asked if our email group can be hosted by the Foundation and be a mailman list. If provided, it is planned to use this list for planning and organising all national wikiconferences in India henceforth. The advantages, we feel, are that the list and its archives will be preserved and secure while the Foundation exists, ease of use interface as all of us are used to mailman lists for community communication to date and that the future of the group will not be dependent upon Google policies. We request that the list be named WikiConference India, to distinguish it from other types of WikiConferences such as the Wikimania series. Should other countries decide to have annual national conferences, perhaps their lists could be named WikiConference (where is name of the country) similarly. Looking forward to a positive and early response so that we can begin our organising activities. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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] Request for a new list
I agree with Ashwin, I doubt it would make sense to form a list for only this year/event. it's the same way for other activities, those lists have to be used again. Salmaan On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: No, since we shall know which Conference we are planning for! :) Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Abhilash S Unni abhilashu...@gmail.comwrote: So are we going to use the same list name for every year? That would lead to a bit of confusion isn't, when the same list name is used year after year. Different list for each year would also make it easy in archiving isn't? Abhi On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: On the contrary, it is meant to be used tear after year :)! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Abhilash S Unni abhilashu...@gmail.com wrote: Ashwin, How about when the conference get arranged next year. You cannot still use the same list name, as that would not help in distinctiveness. May be we should think about adding the year as well (in full eg:2011 instead of 11). Abhi On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ashwin. I understand, let me know if you need my help. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Salmaan, Thanks for the offer! Shiju is just waiting for a reply from Casey Browne before we file the bug. Since we have formally asked, it would be appropriate to wait for a while for the response. As regards the name, there are now a large amount of activities, lists etc communities, meet-ups etc coming up in India. We now need a finer level of grading between Foundation, chapter and community driven ventures - hence we are a little chary of appending media unless it is directly driven by or associated with Chapter or Foundation. Secondly, events are of many types, whereas we want a list specifically for the annual national conference and perhaps other conferences in India, hence the need felt for the word conference. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you need to file a bug for this Ashwin. If you want, I can file it for you and get someone to close the request. Are you sure about the title? I would suggest something like WikiIndia-events or Wikimediaindia-events list. So that it doesn't become useless after the event and can be re-used for coordinating future events. The naming convention for the list also depends on country codes and previous naming convention, Wikimediaindia-events would be a sub-list of Wikimediaindia-l. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to request for a list for that event; a request which you may have already received informally from Shiju Alex. The event will definitely be taking place on 18-20 November 2011 at Mumbai and we have already requested Jimbo's presence at the event (as an example of the event's firming up). This is a joint venture between the Indian Chapter and the Indian Wikimedia community and will henceforth be an annual feature. We were about to start communications of the Working Group on a Google Group but community members have asked if our email group can be hosted by the Foundation and be a mailman list. If provided, it is planned to use this list for planning and organising all national wikiconferences in India henceforth. The advantages, we feel, are that the list and its archives will be preserved and secure while the Foundation exists, ease of use interface as all of us are used to mailman lists for community communication to date and that the future of the group will not be dependent upon Google policies. We request that the list be named WikiConference India, to distinguish it from other types of WikiConferences such as the Wikimania series. Should other countries decide to have annual national conferences, perhaps their lists could be named WikiConference (where is name of the country) similarly. Looking forward to a positive and early response so that we can begin our organising activities. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list
So are we going to use the same list name for every year? That would lead to a bit of confusion isn't, when the same list name is used year after year. Different list for each year would also make it easy in archiving isn't? Abhi On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: On the contrary, it is meant to be used tear after year :)! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Abhilash S Unni abhilashu...@gmail.comwrote: Ashwin, How about when the conference get arranged next year. You cannot still use the same list name, as that would not help in distinctiveness. May be we should think about adding the year as well (in full eg:2011 instead of 11). Abhi On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ashwin. I understand, let me know if you need my help. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Salmaan, Thanks for the offer! Shiju is just waiting for a reply from Casey Browne before we file the bug. Since we have formally asked, it would be appropriate to wait for a while for the response. As regards the name, there are now a large amount of activities, lists etc communities, meet-ups etc coming up in India. We now need a finer level of grading between Foundation, chapter and community driven ventures - hence we are a little chary of appending media unless it is directly driven by or associated with Chapter or Foundation. Secondly, events are of many types, whereas we want a list specifically for the annual national conference and perhaps other conferences in India, hence the need felt for the word conference. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you need to file a bug for this Ashwin. If you want, I can file it for you and get someone to close the request. Are you sure about the title? I would suggest something like WikiIndia-events or Wikimediaindia-events list. So that it doesn't become useless after the event and can be re-used for coordinating future events. The naming convention for the list also depends on country codes and previous naming convention, Wikimediaindia-events would be a sub-list of Wikimediaindia-l. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to request for a list for that event; a request which you may have already received informally from Shiju Alex. The event will definitely be taking place on 18-20 November 2011 at Mumbai and we have already requested Jimbo's presence at the event (as an example of the event's firming up). This is a joint venture between the Indian Chapter and the Indian Wikimedia community and will henceforth be an annual feature. We were about to start communications of the Working Group on a Google Group but community members have asked if our email group can be hosted by the Foundation and be a mailman list. If provided, it is planned to use this list for planning and organising all national wikiconferences in India henceforth. The advantages, we feel, are that the list and its archives will be preserved and secure while the Foundation exists, ease of use interface as all of us are used to mailman lists for community communication to date and that the future of the group will not be dependent upon Google policies. We request that the list be named WikiConference India, to distinguish it from other types of WikiConferences such as the Wikimania series. Should other countries decide to have annual national conferences, perhaps their lists could be named WikiConference (where is name of the country) similarly. Looking forward to a positive and early response so that we can begin our organising activities. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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] Request for a new list
On the contrary, it is meant to be used tear after year :)! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Abhilash S Unni abhilashu...@gmail.comwrote: Ashwin, How about when the conference get arranged next year. You cannot still use the same list name, as that would not help in distinctiveness. May be we should think about adding the year as well (in full eg:2011 instead of 11). Abhi On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ashwin. I understand, let me know if you need my help. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Salmaan, Thanks for the offer! Shiju is just waiting for a reply from Casey Browne before we file the bug. Since we have formally asked, it would be appropriate to wait for a while for the response. As regards the name, there are now a large amount of activities, lists etc communities, meet-ups etc coming up in India. We now need a finer level of grading between Foundation, chapter and community driven ventures - hence we are a little chary of appending media unless it is directly driven by or associated with Chapter or Foundation. Secondly, events are of many types, whereas we want a list specifically for the annual national conference and perhaps other conferences in India, hence the need felt for the word conference. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you need to file a bug for this Ashwin. If you want, I can file it for you and get someone to close the request. Are you sure about the title? I would suggest something like WikiIndia-events or Wikimediaindia-events list. So that it doesn't become useless after the event and can be re-used for coordinating future events. The naming convention for the list also depends on country codes and previous naming convention, Wikimediaindia-events would be a sub-list of Wikimediaindia-l. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to request for a list for that event; a request which you may have already received informally from Shiju Alex. The event will definitely be taking place on 18-20 November 2011 at Mumbai and we have already requested Jimbo's presence at the event (as an example of the event's firming up). This is a joint venture between the Indian Chapter and the Indian Wikimedia community and will henceforth be an annual feature. We were about to start communications of the Working Group on a Google Group but community members have asked if our email group can be hosted by the Foundation and be a mailman list. If provided, it is planned to use this list for planning and organising all national wikiconferences in India henceforth. The advantages, we feel, are that the list and its archives will be preserved and secure while the Foundation exists, ease of use interface as all of us are used to mailman lists for community communication to date and that the future of the group will not be dependent upon Google policies. We request that the list be named WikiConference India, to distinguish it from other types of WikiConferences such as the Wikimania series. Should other countries decide to have annual national conferences, perhaps their lists could be named WikiConference (where is name of the country) similarly. Looking forward to a positive and early response so that we can begin our organising activities. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released
Dear All, We completed one week of Malayalam Wikisource offline releasehttp://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/creating-malayalam-wikisource-cd/. Here is some statistics that we have: (Thanks to Jyothis for compiling this) Hits to the ISO image : *46,922* (this is just number of hits. This does not mean that all 46,922 hits lead to complete/successful downloads. We assume at least 70-80% of those hits would be complete downloads. - 3,15,274 hits for mlwiki.in- the site hosting iso image and online version of Offline(Yes! :) ) on *June 12.* - 4,30,959 on *June 13*th - 2,30,985 on *June **14*th - 1,04,280 on *June **15*th Yesterday we have started a torrent link also for the ISO image ( http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6477957). So downloads are happening in that way also now. Here are the links by which you can access Malayalam wikisource offline release. - iso Image http://www.mlwiki.in/cdimage/mlwikisource.iso - Torrent link http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6477957 - Online browsing http://www.mlwiki.in/wikisrccd/index.html Remember, last year the download count of Malayalam wikipedia offline version 1.0 one week after the release was around 5000. We found that the interest in Malayalam Wikisource offline is more than that of Malayalam Wikipedia offline. Shiju Alex On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com wrote: Dear fellow Wikimedians, With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD project Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0 at the 4th annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. --cut-- Congratulations! I am happy at the level of engagement in Malayalam community, which contributes to these kind of firsts in off-line access year after year. Best wishes 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list
The subject headers added in every mail by mailman can be changed as per need to reflect the relevant year/conference name. Creating a new list everytime will be a pain. -Sudhanwa On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Abhilash S Unni abhilashu...@gmail.com wrote: So are we going to use the same list name for every year? That would lead to a bit of confusion isn't, when the same list name is used year after year. Different list for each year would also make it easy in archiving isn't? Abhi On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: On the contrary, it is meant to be used tear after year :)! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Abhilash S Unni abhilashu...@gmail.com wrote: Ashwin, How about when the conference get arranged next year. You cannot still use the same list name, as that would not help in distinctiveness. May be we should think about adding the year as well (in full eg:2011 instead of 11). Abhi On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Ashwin. I understand, let me know if you need my help. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Salmaan, Thanks for the offer! Shiju is just waiting for a reply from Casey Browne before we file the bug. Since we have formally asked, it would be appropriate to wait for a while for the response. As regards the name, there are now a large amount of activities, lists etc communities, meet-ups etc coming up in India. We now need a finer level of grading between Foundation, chapter and community driven ventures - hence we are a little chary of appending media unless it is directly driven by or associated with Chapter or Foundation. Secondly, events are of many types, whereas we want a list specifically for the annual national conference and perhaps other conferences in India, hence the need felt for the word conference. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you need to file a bug for this Ashwin. If you want, I can file it for you and get someone to close the request. Are you sure about the title? I would suggest something like WikiIndia-events or Wikimediaindia-events list. So that it doesn't become useless after the event and can be re-used for coordinating future events. The naming convention for the list also depends on country codes and previous naming convention, Wikimediaindia-events would be a sub-list of Wikimediaindia-l. Salmaan User:Theo10011 On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to request for a list for that event; a request which you may have already received informally from Shiju Alex. The event will definitely be taking place on 18-20 November 2011 at Mumbai and we have already requested Jimbo's presence at the event (as an example of the event's firming up). This is a joint venture between the Indian Chapter and the Indian Wikimedia community and will henceforth be an annual feature. We were about to start communications of the Working Group on a Google Group but community members have asked if our email group can be hosted by the Foundation and be a mailman list. If provided, it is planned to use this list for planning and organising all national wikiconferences in India henceforth. The advantages, we feel, are that the list and its archives will be preserved and secure while the Foundation exists, ease of use interface as all of us are used to mailman lists for community communication to date and that the future of the group will not be dependent upon Google policies. We request that the list be named WikiConference India, to distinguish it from other types of WikiConferences such as the Wikimania series. Should other countries decide to have annual national conferences, perhaps their lists could be named WikiConference (where is name of the country) similarly. Looking forward to a positive and early response so that we can begin our organising activities. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Announcement: Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD released
This is so fantastic - my eyes are popping out. Congrats, congrats to all those involved. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.comwrote: Dear All, We completed one week of Malayalam Wikisource offline releasehttp://shijualex.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/creating-malayalam-wikisource-cd/. Here is some statistics that we have: (Thanks to Jyothis for compiling this) Hits to the ISO image : *46,922* (this is just number of hits. This does not mean that all 46,922 hits lead to complete/successful downloads. We assume at least 70-80% of those hits would be complete downloads. - 3,15,274 hits for mlwiki.in- the site hosting iso image and online version of Offline(Yes! :) ) on *June 12.* - 4,30,959 on *June 13*th - 2,30,985 on *June **14*th - 1,04,280 on *June **15*th Yesterday we have started a torrent link also for the ISO image ( http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6477957). So downloads are happening in that way also now. Here are the links by which you can access Malayalam wikisource offline release. - iso Image http://www.mlwiki.in/cdimage/mlwikisource.iso - Torrent link http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6477957 - Online browsing http://www.mlwiki.in/wikisrccd/index.html Remember, last year the download count of Malayalam wikipedia offline version 1.0 one week after the release was around 5000. We found that the interest in Malayalam Wikisource offline is more than that of Malayalam Wikipedia offline. Shiju Alex On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Jyothis E jyothi...@gmail.com wrote: Dear fellow Wikimedians, With great pleasure, Malayalam Wikimedia Community announced its 2011 CD project Selected Books from Malayalam Wikisource on CD - 1.0 at the 4th annual Wiki Meetup in Kannur, Kerala. --cut-- Congratulations! I am happy at the level of engagement in Malayalam community, which contributes to these kind of firsts in off-line access year after year. Best wishes 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Request for a new list
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I'm user:AshLin, co-chair of the Working Group for a forthcoming Wiki-conference in India in November 2011. I'm writing formally to you to request for a list for that event; a request which you may have already received informally from Shiju Alex. Has the feasibility of hosting the list by Wikimedia.in domain been discussed.? As the event relates to India, I feel it may be better to host it as part of wikimedia.in. Thanks Arjun ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [cultural-partners] Hurtigruta - another strange video project from Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
hi, I spoke to the GM, Western Railway for whom User:AroundtheGlobe provided me the number and spoke to him. He said he'd need a proper proposal before he could comment on the possibility of giving us permission. He also said that the request was strange and that he'd have to consult the legal department. But, he's willing to do that only after we submit a proposal for this project. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Creative Commons talk - Shishir Jha - June 18, 2011
Just to add that it was a most excellent session over three hours and it was really nice to see a varied and very engaged audience as well. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 19 June 2011 08:15, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Just a small little note to let everyone know that the Mumbai community hosted the Creative Commons workshop yesterday. We had with us IIT-B Associate Professor and Creative Commons Project Lead (India), Shishir Jha. We had a nice mix of audience - people interested and active in copyright issues, film makers, librarians, publishers, etc. of up to 30 people. Shishir Jha began his talk with an explanation of the digital economy and then showed a 10 min intro (to give you an idea - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BESbnMJg9M; if you know where a copy exists outside of YouTube, please do share!) to Creative Commons after talking about the various Creative Commons licenses. Ashwin Baindur was present from the Pune community and gave us an insight into Wikimedia Commons. He also explained why Wikimedia used the CC licenses it did and illustrated it with an example. Gautam John, from the Wikimedia Chapter was also present at the meeting. He presented a brief about the Wikimedia chapter and invited members to join the chapter. He also spoke about Pratham Books' experiment with the use of Creative Commons. We had a fine and diverse audience who were people who had worked on the ground. They had faced some of the problems related to copyrights and raised good questions. The project (pad.ma - you can find them at http://pad.ma/) have taken video of the talk which will be released to Wikimedia Commons. We will also upload slides from Shishir's talk if he sends it to us - we have made a request. The Mumbai community has sponsored the membership for Shishir Jha to the Wikimedia Chapter as a token of our appreciation. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas ___ 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] Massive increase in copyright term for photographs
On 19 June 2011 21:57, Pranesh Prakash pran...@cis-india.org wrote: If one of you could help me draft the letter (I'm looking at you, Gautam), that would be appreciated. For sure. Will work on this offline and post it here for further action. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India - Minutes 18-6-2011
*Minutes of the Planning Meet which took place on 18-6-2011 (Saturday) in Mumbai* **Cross posted on India/Mumbai/Pune lists - please forward to other City or Language lists that you may be a part of** 1. Name of conference - there were 3 suggestions. There was an idea that these could be put up for a week on Meta - asking people to vote for their choice (or make other suggestions): a. '''Wikimela''' Advantage: English/Hindi Fusion Possible issue: Mela has different meanings (could be miscontrued for a carnival!) b. '''Wiki Conference India''' Advantage: Simplicity Possible Issue: A bit to generic. c. '''WikiMania India''' Advantage: Global image of the name Possible Issue: Could be confused with the global meet 2. All Documents to be posted on meta where a dedicated page will be made on meta. 3. Coordination among OC - Mail, Sabse bolo (Telepone) - minutes to be taken and calls to be moderated to ensure everyone has their say. 4. Master list - cross postings! A seperate mailing list to be made for the OC 5. Logo for the event - request for design to be posted on India list. 6. 3 office bearers. Chairperson/President of the event from Mumbai , Secretary in Pune and Tresurer from Mumbai. These 3 will be on the ground and will have visiting cards and letterheads made specifically for this event only. 7. Advisory committee - Hisham, Bishaka, Arjun, Achal 8. Working groups and functional team: Everyone to choose sub-committees they want to be part of - Based on functionality. The OC as it stands at the moment will be redone - everyone part of sub-committees except office bearers and advisors who will be part of everything/advise everyone. 9. Venue - University of Mumbai (South Campus) was the unanimous choice. Again, will be put up on the India list - with a 72 hour deadline for people to respond (Similarly all other major decisions to be put on mailing list before execution). 10. Accommodation: 4 on the table thus far. YWCA, Astoria, Chateau Windsor and Sea Green - all within 5-15 minutes walking of the venue, Ensuite, Airconditioned rooms. YWCA, Chateau Windor, Sea Green all on par so can be offered to people with 100% scholarships. Astoria is equivalent to a 3 star so can be offered to those with 75% or 90% scholarship. Another few hotels are due to be checked out this week. 11. Teams: Finance / Audit Sponsorship Scholarship Media and pr Volunteer Speaker management Program Community communication Venue Logistics IT team Conference planning Party plans 12. Finance: Joint accounts to be created 4 signatories (2 from Mumbai, 2 from Chapter). New A/c will be in Chapter name and will be for Conference purpose. At the end of the year Mumbai reps will be replaced with reps from next host and money rolled over for next conference (any overflow). Everyone to pitch in with Sponsors. Sponsors could be in cash or kind. Eg. Looking for airline sponsor to get people to Mumbai or just cash which can be used for the conference. 13. Party: Royal Bombay Yatch Club to be asked for a quote as well as Bombay Presidency Radio Club 14. Decisions to be made on Consensus or by Simple Majority if consensus not possible. 15. Time limits: Time limits to be set for everything so that everything goes on time. Kind Regards, ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India, 2011 - Proposed Venue (Any responses to be made within 72 hours of this email being sent)
**Cross posted on India/Mumbai/Pune lists - kindly forward to other Language/City lists you may be a part of** Dear All, Bishakha, Moksh, Pradeep and myself visited the Unviersity of Mumbai (Fort Campus) last week to consider it as a venue for the upcoming WikiConference in November 2011. We had a look at the facilites they had to offer and we were impressed. They are offering us use of: 1. Convocation Hall - A standalone building within the Campus a. Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Convocational Hall b. Viewing Gallery c. 1st floor balcony on both sides of the Viewing Gallery overlooking the lawns d. A small terrace over the porch and the lawns 2. 2 seminar sooms - A/c with capacity of 100 persons each (between 10am and 3.30pm on Friday - for the weekend we can get it upto 6pm if there are no classes scheduled). These are in the adjoining building and are literally 2 minutes walking from the Convocation Hall. 3. Use of Lawns 4. Parking for 20-25 cars within the premises Costs: Rs. 94,000/- for the 3 days for the Convocation Hall (discount possible if we complete certain paperwork) Rs. 3500/- for each Seminar room on weekdays and Rs.4500/- on weekends. Pictures (Picture Quality not the best - there was an event with Maharashtra CM as Chief Guest the same day so the place was being decked up): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seminar_Room_28,_Ground_Floor_(1).jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seminar_Room_28,_Ground_Floor_(2).jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seminar_Room_144,_First_Floor_(1).jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seminar_Room_144,_First_Floor_(1).jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Seminar_Room_144,_First_Floor_(3).jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Balcony_next_to_viewing_gallery,_Convocation_Hall.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MU_Convocation_Hall_1.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MU_Convocation_Hall_2.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MU_Convocation_Hall_3.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MU_Convocation_Hall_4.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zodiac_Signs_in_Stained_Glass_at_Convocation_Hall.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Convocation_Hall_view_from_viewing_gallery.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MU_Lawns_1.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MU_Lawns_2.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MU_Lawns_3_(Behind_statue_of_Sir_Cowasjee_Jehangir).jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Porch_of_Convocation_Hall_Building.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staircase_at_University_of_Mumbai.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rajabai_Clock_Tower_from_Convocation_Hall.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Staricase_to_Viewing_Gallery.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Terrace_atop_porch_of_Convocation_Hall_Building.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Viewing_Gallery_at_the_Convocation_Hall.jpg The Organising Team proposes to finalise the University of Mumbai (Fort Campus) as the event venue. Kindly revert with your thoughts - supporting (or objecting) to this choice of venue within 72 hours of this email being sent. If anyone has any other suggestions, kindly revert with the same, again within 72 hours of this email being sent. Kind Regards, ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
