Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] [WMIN-Members] Comment regarding JImbo's Speech & Registration

That is no answer. Will those people who are not able to register be allowed to attend Jimbo's speech or not? Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Pranav Curumsey wrote: > Ashwin, > > You are aware that there is m

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Comment regarding JImbo's Speech & Registration

Ashwin, You are aware that there is more than one person in the OC. Please refrain from calling out to a particular person on a public email, if you wish to do so please send a private email to the person concerned. There is provision for 10 registration desks 7am onwards. We recommend peopl

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Update on City/language SIG

-- Forwarded message -- From: Arjuna Rao Chavala Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM Subject: Update on City/language SIG To: wmin-memb...@googlegroups.com Dear Members, I am glad to inform you that following requests from EC to strengthen the city/language SIGs< http://member

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

*On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:* *I would also request people not to fork any more new threads on this with same thoughts, * CAMPUS AMBASSADOR SETBACK - The Local Community Viewpoint The recent hiatus in the Campus Education program proved what the Pune Community kn

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Comment regarding JImbo's Speech & Registration

Pranav, Ashwin, From past experience of similar events we would need to start registration at 7 am and have 5 to 6 counters for registration. There will be a huge rush between 8 and 8 30 am. mailers will need to be sent to participants hat they will need to be seated by 8:15 and that reign will

[Wikimediaindia-l] The Finalised Program Schedule for WCI 2011

Hi all, The finalised program schedule for the Wiki Conference India 2011 has been put up in Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Programs ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe fr

[Wikimediaindia-l] Comment regarding JImbo's Speech & Registration

Personal attention:Pranav Curumsey If Jimbo is going to speak to everyone at 0830 hours, you probably want everybody seated by 0815hours. The registration team will not be able to handle 700 registrations in forty five minutes, assuming people turn up at 0730 hours. We need to make provision so th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Education Program

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Hisham wrote: > 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

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

Congrats Hisham ,it is another milestone our wikimedia movement in India. On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Swaroop Rao wrote: > Glad to hear that, will definitely help programs in India. > > Swaroop Rao > (MikeLynch ) > > Steering committee, United St

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian participation in GLAMcamp: a step forward!

Sure thing :) I cannot thank Hisham enough for guiding me through so that I could sustain my interest and communication with the GLAM community abroad. Kudos Hisham! :) On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Hi Noopur, > > Do bring takeaways (ideas, best practices,suggestions)

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian participation in GLAMcamp: a step forward!

Hi Noopur, Do bring takeaways (ideas, best practices,suggestions) from the GLAMCamp to India. There are a few of us who are really interested in GLAM and hopeful of doing more in the future. All the best & have a great time! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur --

[Wikimediaindia-l] Indian participation in GLAMcamp: a step forward!

Hello all! I am delighted to inform all of you that I will be attending the second Wiki GLAMcamp happening in Amsterdam in the first week of December. I am the only participant from the Indian subcontinent and will be attending the workshop to lea

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

I couldn't have said it better Bala. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch ) On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 16:39, Bala Jeyaraman wrote: > *>>That's one way of looking at it. Another way would be that an editor > (in this case who happened to be a student) contribut

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

*>>That's one way of looking at it. Another way would be that an editor (in this case who happened to be a student) contributed content to an article. It would (almost routinely) reviewed by other editors who coudl/would improve it or point out issues. One of the aspects that the better students

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

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 16:17, Arnav Sonara wrote: > The PPI (or PPP, LOL) is indeed over. It concluded with the completion >> of the Stanton grant requirements, and has now evolved into the GEP, >> the Global Education Program. The IEP as I understand it is not over: >> contrary to the subjectli

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

> > The PPI (or PPP, LOL) is indeed over. It concluded with the completion > of the Stanton grant requirements, and has now evolved into the GEP, > the Global Education Program. The IEP as I understand it is not over: > contrary to the subjectline of this thread, it hasn't "died." Thanks Sue, IEP

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

Sue, >>*A number of schools have participated in the pilot phase of the IEP. My understanding is that the project has been mostly successful, except for one school, or set of schools, at which there were serious problems with plagiarism that, despite repeated efforts, the team couldn't get resolve

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

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Sue Gardner wrote: > On 13 November 2011 08:46, Bishakha Datta wrote: > > > > > > > > As conceived, the IEP and its parent the PPP (pardon the acronyms), were > > about contributing to wikipedia, about learning how to contribute, and > about > > having fun while

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot -scope for more perspective

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

On 13 November 2011 08:46, Bishakha Datta wrote: > > > On Sun, 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

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

Did you guys try subject/stream specific article adoption? I was just thinking about how an average student who finishes bachelors and masters writes at least 20 essays and research papers that don't get published. They are just graded and forgotten. This means that all students are forced to go th

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

I second you bisakha.. I don't know what went wrong, whether extreme pressure caused the students to take those shortcuts & just copy paste or there was some kind of misscommunication. We OAs tried our best to edit the copyvios as far as possible. But things were even worse & the CAs who had higher

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : CIOL : "Mumbai to host national WikiConference"

*CIOL : "Mumbai to host national WikiConference"* http://www.ciol.com/Developer/Developer/News-Reports/Mumbai-to-host-national-WikiConference/156390/0/ *Jimmy Wales to deliver the Keynote on November 18 at University Convocation Hall* * * *The Mumbai Wikipedia Community and the Wikimedia Chapter,