[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

[Hisham]

and this is where I feel a little stupid because Arnav has been hounding me for 
answers to these very same questions for a while now, and I have been lax.  
Arnav, apologies and please see inline...

hisham

On Dec 3, 2011, at 3:02 PM, Arnav Sonara wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in Pune, am 
> planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS University Baroda, 
> Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival Footprints. Also am the 
> Campus Ambassador for India Education Program too, I need some input from you 
> guys.
> 
> The organizers of this event have basically no idea about what a community is 
> or how WP works, since I ll be targeting newbies I am planning to start from 
> Introduction to WP, then an editing session and main motto behind this would 
> be to start an active community in Baroda or Gujarat and get the contributors 
> to EN and GU WP and commons too.
> 
> Now the organizers are asking few questions like "Why anyone should attend 
> it?",


> Wikipedia is (arguably) the worlds most popular source of knowledge.  It is 
> entirely free to use.  Globally 450+ million read Wikipedia articles every 
> month - and in India, betwen 15-17 million people read it every month.  Few 
> people however know about how content actually reaches Wikipedia.  Folks 
> attending will get an insight and introduction into how content gets onto 
> Wikipedia as well as basic introductions on how they can contribute content 
> and links with local community members who can support them if they choose to 
> edit.
> People attending will get an opportunity to learn a little bit about 
> participating in this fascinating free knowledge project and join tens of 
> thousands of committed, learned and high-minded community members all over 
> the world in their quest to spread spread free knowledge to every single 
> human being on the planet.
> Folks who edit wikipedia gain tremendous pride and satisfaction from their 
> contributions.  Folks who start to edit Wikipedia learn amazing things as 
> they start their editing journey - including better writing ability, richer 
> critical thinking and stronger research skills.  These are all incredibly 
> useful in their academic and professional and indeed personal lives.
> "What would be the exclusivity of the workshop?",

I'd play this a little differently.  If they are really keen on exclusivity, 
one can always say that while we conduct workshops and academies and meetups, 
the numbers are relatively small.  (My guess on workshops and academies is that 
we might have conducted <50 in the last year.)  In a country like India, <50 is 
hugely exclusive!

> Given it is a festival, and there are likely to be students from other 
> colleges, not sure we can (or want to make it exclusive for that college.)
> "How can we (university and attendees) be benefited from this?".

Please see the last point on the question, "Why should anyone attend?"  ...For 
the University, you can rattle of the list of the kind of colleges that have 
worked with us globally.  Some of them are really well known and are available 
at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:United_States_Education_Program/Courses/Fall_2011
 and include Columbia, Georgetown, George Washington, New York, 
California-Berkely, Yale, etc. etc. etc.

> They are worried too much about "exclusivity", how to convince them that 
> these type of sessions are some thing more than "exclusively in Footprints", 
> "first time in gujarat" ??
> 

Sometimes, the questions they are raising are best answered in person or on the 
phone.  If you need me to speak to them, or even come down in person, happy to 
do that.  Just let me know.  I shall reach out to you and sort out the letter 
from.  (...and yes, I know I have delayed the letter to you.)


> Since I have no experience in conducting an outreach workshop independently I 
> want your feedback on it, and what possibly should I answer them?.
> 
> Please do reply with your valuable suggestions/critics.
> 

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

[Hisham]

responding to both Pradeep & Noopur.

On Dec 3, 2011, at 11:10 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote:

> hi Noopur,
> 
> Hope you're enjoying your time in Amsterdam. We expect a longer report on 
> list after you return to India on GLAMcamp. :)
> 
> I totally agree with you that we need to reach-out more at college fests and 
> events.

+1

> I think an email was sent around on the list about participating in the 
> Calcutta (still not used to writing Kolkata) Book Fair as well. I think it is 
> best to let community members learn about, inform and participate in the 
> events. If and when an organisational affiliation is required, I''m sure that 
> the Chapter will be able to provide the same.

+1

> 
> Hope some of the members in the Bombay community will take you up on your 
> Mood Indigo offer. :) 

+1.  Let me know if you need any help from us and I'd be delighted to support.

> 
> User:Prad2609
> 
> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 13:30:18 +0100
> From: noopur.ra...@gmail.com
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat
> 
> Hello! Sorry for inbox spamming :) Sitting in the GLAMcamp, I cannot stop 
> thinking how our community is doing so much and not getting highlighted, 
> especially all you Indic editors out there. Though I don't really "belong" to 
> the Wiki-geeks group, I think an excellent way of outreach is GLAM events. 
> They are simple to understand, easier to participate and fun things :)
> In response to Arnav's mail, I thought I'll put this idea on the table. I 
> think fests like Footprints, or bigger fests such as Mood Indigo are 
> excellent places to set a booth and do some outreach.

+1

> We could have a photography event (which we call Wiki loves monuments) and 
> get students to get us images. We already have rules for the event and we can 
> arrange a small prize or swags. That way, you don't have to specially call 
> people to places or events and same time we start smaller and have sure 
> results. What we essentially need is a wiki-geek (or an experienced editor as 
> you call it) and someone who can communicate the idea well.

I think you have touched on a really important point and I've been reflecting 
on it.  I think a pairing of experienced editors and reasonably informed 
newbies would be a very powerful combination.  

Caveat to my follow sentences is that I run the risk of gross generalisations - 
but bear them out as reflective of one perspective out of others.  One common 
refrain I hear from experienced community members is that the results from 
outreach efforts are sub-optimal.  The numbers that one gets from outreach are 
always going to be low (after all, globally, ~90k people edit out of 450+m 
readers so the ratios are always going to be low.  Informally, you will also 
hear that (some) attendees on sessions conducted by experienced wikipedians 
find the sessions passionate but too daunting and they find those conducted by 
newbies to be clear but somewhat inadequate.   Can we arrive at a best of 
breed?  However, there must be ways that we can work out how volunteer time in 
outreach and academies and workshops can get better results.  I intend to share 
my thoughts on this in the next few days - but thank you for catalysing 
something in my head.

> What do you guys think? I have friends at Mood Indigo and if Bombay people 
> are willing to take me up on it, we can have a stall there too!

as above, +1!

> Warmly
> Noopur

Thanks for this, Noopur. 

hisham 


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

[Hisham]

On Dec 4, 2011, at 10:58 AM,  
 wrote:

> If I remember correct, Karthik was one of the Campus Ambassador applicants 
> from Mumbai. 

Yes, I think Karthik was one of the Campus Ambassadors applicants.  fyi for the 
rest of the community, what we had done was to pass on the names of the CA 
applicants to local community members and they were invited to community 
meet-ups.  This was done for Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai (around May 
2011.)  

For Pune, for example, we invited those had been selected and those we couldn't 
select as CAs were invited.  This had resulted in 2 community meetups in Pune 
with >50 of these folks attending.  (For other cities, we informed them the 
pilot would not be running, but invited them nevertheless.)

Best

hisham

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:17,  wrote:

>  I thought this is similar to a photowalk, where people instead of meeting
> in a room go around and take pics. I stand corrected.
>

Even for a photowalk, customizing the uploadwizard will be good. Generally
people upload elsewhere, never upload since people dont return to a room
and sit / upload (unless there is a conscious meetup happening).  There was
a Chennai photowalk which failed on this part, and people met, clicked
pics, but many never came online(30 pics came from 15 people for a whole
day of hunt). HPN did some photowalks in Bangalore / Mysore, he had a
better upload rate, though am not sure if everyone had uploaded every pic
they clicked.

-- 
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Srikanth.L
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

[Bala Jeyaraman]

>*>I thought this is similar to a photowalk, where people instead of
meeting in a room go around and take pics. I stand corrected.

*The execution would be simple but needs a bit of spade work before and
after, especially with copyvio detection. New editors usually misunderstand
copyright policies and upload stuff that isnt their own work and it results
in commons being overloaded.

Similarly if you a customised upload wizard, categorising and tagging with
templates can be done automatically and will lower the burden on
uploaders.  Customisation of the upload wizard is easy but can be done only
by an admin in commons. Tanvir did it for us (go Tanvir!), so knowing a
commons admin eases things..


On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:53,  wrote:
>
>>  Changing the topic since I felt Arnavs idea might be applicable on a
>> national level. Wikipedia completes 11 years in January 2012 (January 15th
>> if my memory serves me right). Last year there were 97 meetups nationwide
>> to celebrate Wikipedia 10. How about having a National Wikimedia Photo
>> Scavenger Hunt in India to celebrate Wikipedia 11?
>>
>> Im hoping something like this can tremendously increase photos from India
>> to Commons.
>>
>
> There were 97 events on paper. I cannot recollect reading more than 10
> reports. Practically we could say the number would have been around 20.Lets
> leave that aside.On the scavenger hunt, Tamil community already has one for
> 3 month long duration[1], we are also planning for Central Sitenotice for
> Indian IPs for 3-4 days in January. You could replicate the same, but be
> sure to add volunteer support based on the scale, otherwise it cant
> sustain,will have difficulties (Hey, didnt you learn that from
> WikiConference! :D)
>
> Steps required for photo scavenger hunt.
>
> 1. Customize Upload Wizard, test it.
> 2. Create help documents, FAQs / videos. [2][3]
> 3. Create PR using media / social media.
> 4. Monitor for copyvios, tag them manually post verification.
>
>  -- We are still on process to learn more -- :D
>
> The above activities took us around 30-45 days by a small community.
>
> [1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest
> [2] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_tutorial_twmc1.ogv
> [3] http://tawp.in/r/2rvn
>
> --
> Regards
> Srikanth.L
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

[wheredevelsdare]

I thought this is similar to a photowalk, where people instead of meeting in a 
room go around and take pics. I stand corrected.

From: srik@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 11:12:42 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:53,   wrote:








Changing the topic since I felt Arnavs idea might be applicable on a national 
level. Wikipedia completes 11 years in January 2012 (January 15th if my memory 
serves me right). Last year there were 97 meetups nationwide to celebrate 
Wikipedia 10. How about having a National Wikimedia Photo Scavenger Hunt in 
India to celebrate Wikipedia 11? 




Im hoping something like this can tremendously increase photos from India to 
Commons.

There were 97 events on paper. I cannot recollect reading more than 10 reports. 
Practically we could say the number would have been around 20.Lets leave that 
aside.On the scavenger hunt, Tamil community already has one for 3 month long 
duration[1], we are also planning for Central Sitenotice for Indian IPs for 3-4 
days in January. You could replicate the same, but be sure to add volunteer 
support based on the scale, otherwise it cant sustain,will have difficulties 
(Hey, didnt you learn that from WikiConference! :D)



Steps required for photo scavenger hunt.
1. Customize Upload Wizard, test it.2. Create help documents, FAQs / videos. 
[2][3]3. Create PR using media / social media.


4. Monitor for copyvios, tag them manually post verification.
 -- We are still on process to learn more -- :D
The above activities took us around 30-45 days by a small community.



[1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest[2] 
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_tutorial_twmc1.ogv


[3] http://tawp.in/r/2rvn
-- 
Regards
Srikanth.L


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 10:53,  wrote:

>  Changing the topic since I felt Arnavs idea might be applicable on a
> national level. Wikipedia completes 11 years in January 2012 (January 15th
> if my memory serves me right). Last year there were 97 meetups nationwide
> to celebrate Wikipedia 10. How about having a National Wikimedia Photo
> Scavenger Hunt in India to celebrate Wikipedia 11?
>
> Im hoping something like this can tremendously increase photos from India
> to Commons.
>

There were 97 events on paper. I cannot recollect reading more than 10
reports. Practically we could say the number would have been around 20.Lets
leave that aside.On the scavenger hunt, Tamil community already has one for
3 month long duration[1], we are also planning for Central Sitenotice for
Indian IPs for 3-4 days in January. You could replicate the same, but be
sure to add volunteer support based on the scale, otherwise it cant
sustain,will have difficulties (Hey, didnt you learn that from
WikiConference! :D)

Steps required for photo scavenger hunt.

1. Customize Upload Wizard, test it.
2. Create help documents, FAQs / videos. [2][3]
3. Create PR using media / social media.
4. Monitor for copyvios, tag them manually post verification.

 -- We are still on process to learn more -- :D

The above activities took us around 30-45 days by a small community.

[1] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contest
[2] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Upload_tutorial_twmc1.ogv
[3] http://tawp.in/r/2rvn

-- 
Regards
Srikanth.L
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

[wheredevelsdare]

If I remember correct, Karthik was one of the Campus Ambassador applicants from 
Mumbai. 

From: tinucher...@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 07:52:33 +0530
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr Hope this helps.
I guess Karthik came to Wiki-conference Mumbai too 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/India_storytelling#WikiConference_India_-_Mumbai.2C_November_17-20
 


Reports on Karthik's appeal. 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#Karthik_Nadar.27s_Appeal_December_3.2C_2011
 


The beauty of Wikimedia movement is that there are lots of "silent" 
contributors that "get discovered" by the larger community one day..
Mumbai community should invite him to the next Wikimeetup @ Mumbai. 



-TC

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Theo10011  wrote:


Just out of curiosity, Who is Karthik?
Anyone from Mumbai community aware? a username perhaps?
Regards
Theo

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Sue Gardner  wrote:



Hey folks,



I just saw that Indian editor Karthik Nadar is in the banners today,

with a beautiful appeal. Go, India!



https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1202_KN/en/US&utm_source=B11_1202_Karthik2&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1202_DayvMat_US&language=en&uselang=en&country=US&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page






Thanks,

Sue



Here's the text:



From Wikipedia author Karthik Nadar



On the day a terrorist attack ripped through the heart of my city,

Wikipedia changed my life.



The 2011 bombings in Mumbai made international headlines, but at the

moment the crisis struck, there was no straightforward information

about what had happened.



I knew I couldn’t be the only one looking for answers. So I went out

to take photos, uploaded a map I pasted together, and made sure the

Wikipedia article on the incident would help people make sense of the

chaos.



Since then, I’ve made thousands of edits to Wikipedia articles. My

experience that day on Wikipedia made my passion for photojournalism

clear, and I’ve followed that path ever since.



I felt so grateful for Wikipedia, and when I learned how it stays

online, I donated 250 rupees to do my part. Will you make a donation

to keep this valuable resource available around the world?



Wikipedia enables us to share the world. With 470 million different

visitors every month, it’s revolutionized the way we consume and

spread information -- sometimes even down to the moment it happens.



And it does it all for free -- with zero ads, under 1,000 servers and

fewer than 100 staff.



That’s amazing. Just look at Google or Facebook. They have hundreds of

thousands of servers and tens of thousands of staff.



It’s no wonder Wikipedia is the 5th most popular and most visited site

online. And it’s also no wonder why they need support every year from

people like me and you.



Will you pitch in $5, $20, $50 or whatever you think Wikipedia is worth to you?



Thanks,



Karthik Nadar

Wikipedia author









--



Sue Gardner

Executive Director

Wikimedia Foundation



415 839 6885 office

415 816 9967 cell



Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in

the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it a reality!



http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate



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[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia XI 2012

[wheredevelsdare]

Changing the topic since I felt Arnavs idea might be applicable on a national 
level. Wikipedia completes 11 years in January 2012 (January 15th if my memory 
serves me right). Last year there were 97 meetups nationwide to celebrate 
Wikipedia 10. How about having a National Wikimedia Photo Scavenger Hunt in 
India to celebrate Wikipedia 11? 

Im hoping something like this can tremendously increase photos from India to 
Commons.





Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 00:44:43 +0530
From: sonara.ar...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

Hey Noopur and Pradeep,
How does Wikimedia Photo Scavenger Hunt sounds ?? Do have a look at the 
following link and tell if this would be possible or not. 
http://toolserver.org/~contests/startahunt.php


On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Pradeep Mohandas 
 wrote:






hi Noopur,

Hope you're enjoying your time in Amsterdam. We expect a longer report on list 
after you return to India on GLAMcamp. :)

I totally agree with you that we need to reach-out more at college fests and 
events. I think an email was sent around on the list about participating in the 
Calcutta (still not used to writing Kolkata) Book Fair as well. I think it is 
best to let community members learn about, inform and participate in the 
events. If and when an organisational affiliation is required, I''m sure that 
the Chapter will be able to provide the same.


Hope some of the members in the Bombay community will take you up on your Mood 
Indigo offer. :) 

User:Prad2609

Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 13:30:18 +0100
From: noopur.ra...@gmail.com

To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat


Hello! Sorry for inbox spamming :) Sitting in the GLAMcamp, I cannot stop 
thinking how our community is doing so much and not getting highlighted, 
especially all you Indic editors out there. Though I don't really "belong" to 
the Wiki-geeks group, I think an excellent way of outreach is GLAM events. They 
are simple to understand, easier to participate and fun things :)

In response to Arnav's mail, I thought I'll put this idea on the table. I think 
fests like Footprints, or bigger fests such as Mood Indigo are excellent places 
to set a booth and do some outreach. We could have a photography event (which 
we call Wiki loves monuments) and get students to get us images. We already 
have rules for the event and we can arrange a small prize or swags. That way, 
you don't have to specially call people to places or events and same time we 
start smaller and have sure results. What we essentially need is a wiki-geek 
(or an experienced editor as you call it) and someone who can communicate the 
idea well. What do you guys think? I have friends at Mood Indigo and if Bombay 
people are willing to take me up on it, we can have a stall there too!

WarmlyNoopur

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Arnav Sonara  wrote:


Hey Noopur,
Thanks, the event is on 24, 25, 26 February 2012.
I just need answer of above questions to convince them to allow me to come 
there and conduct a workshop. Would love to have around there at that time if 
possible.




On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Noopur  wrote:



Hey Arnav,I'll be in Gujarat post 12th Dec. I helped organize the 10th meetup 
in Delhi. If you need my help, I'd love to :) WarmlyNoopur



On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Arnav Sonara  wrote:

Hello,
This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in Pune, am 
planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS University Baroda, 
Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival Footprints. Also am the 
Campus Ambassador for India Education Program too, I need some input from you 
guys.





The organizers of this event have basically no idea about what a community is 
or how WP works, since I ll be targeting newbies I am planning to start from 
Introduction to WP, then an editing session and main motto behind this would be 
to start an active community in Baroda or Gujarat and get the contributors to 
EN and GU WP and commons too.





Now the organizers are asking few questions like "Why anyone should attend 
it?", "What would be the exclusivity of the workshop?", "How can we (university 
and attendees) be benefited from this?". They are worried too much about 
"exclusivity", how to convince them that these type of sessions are some thing 
more than "exclusively in Footprints", "first time in gujarat" ??





Since I have no experience in conducting an outreach workshop independently I 
want your feedback on it, and what possibly should I answer them?.
Please do reply with your valuable suggestions/critics.






-- 
Thanks
Arnav (ricku).
(User:Rangilo_Gujarati)









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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

[Santhosh Thottingal]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Swaroop Rao  wrote:
> BTW, I forgot to update; Patricia (from the fundraising team I suppose) just
> told me that they're working on Debit card and other means of payment for
> INR this year.

Debit card payments are possible now, see
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/L11_1202_KN/en/US
But the amount is shown in USD and not in INR.

-Santhosh

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

[CherianTinu Abraham]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr
Hope this helps.

I guess Karthik came to Wiki-conference Mumbai too
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/India_storytelling#WikiConference_India_-_Mumbai.2C_November_17-20


Reports on Karthik's appeal.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011#Karthik_Nadar.27s_Appeal_December_3.2C_2011


The beauty of Wikimedia movement is that there are lots of "silent"
contributors that "get discovered" by the larger community one day..

Mumbai community should invite him to the next Wikimeetup @ Mumbai.


-TC

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 1:22 AM, Theo10011  wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, Who is Karthik?
>
> Anyone from Mumbai community aware? a username perhaps?
>
> Regards
> Theo
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I just saw that Indian editor Karthik Nadar is in the banners today,
>> with a beautiful appeal. Go, India!
>>
>>
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1202_KN/en/US&utm_source=B11_1202_Karthik2&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1202_DayvMat_US&language=en&uselang=en&country=US&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sue
>>
>> Here's the text:
>>
>> From Wikipedia author Karthik Nadar
>>
>> On the day a terrorist attack ripped through the heart of my city,
>> Wikipedia changed my life.
>>
>> The 2011 bombings in Mumbai made international headlines, but at the
>> moment the crisis struck, there was no straightforward information
>> about what had happened.
>>
>> I knew I couldn’t be the only one looking for answers. So I went out
>> to take photos, uploaded a map I pasted together, and made sure the
>> Wikipedia article on the incident would help people make sense of the
>> chaos.
>>
>> Since then, I’ve made thousands of edits to Wikipedia articles. My
>> experience that day on Wikipedia made my passion for photojournalism
>> clear, and I’ve followed that path ever since.
>>
>> I felt so grateful for Wikipedia, and when I learned how it stays
>> online, I donated 250 rupees to do my part. Will you make a donation
>> to keep this valuable resource available around the world?
>>
>> Wikipedia enables us to share the world. With 470 million different
>> visitors every month, it’s revolutionized the way we consume and
>> spread information -- sometimes even down to the moment it happens.
>>
>> And it does it all for free -- with zero ads, under 1,000 servers and
>> fewer than 100 staff.
>>
>> That’s amazing. Just look at Google or Facebook. They have hundreds of
>> thousands of servers and tens of thousands of staff.
>>
>> It’s no wonder Wikipedia is the 5th most popular and most visited site
>> online. And it’s also no wonder why they need support every year from
>> people like me and you.
>>
>> Will you pitch in $5, $20, $50 or whatever you think Wikipedia is worth
>> to you?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Karthik Nadar
>> Wikipedia author
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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>> Executive Director
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> 415 839 6885 office
>> 415 816 9967 cell
>>
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>> the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it a reality!
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

[Swaroop Rao]

He's User:Karthikndr on enwiki.


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On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 01:22, Theo10011  wrote:

> Just out of curiosity, Who is Karthik?
>
> Anyone from Mumbai community aware? a username perhaps?
>
> Regards
> Theo
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Sue Gardner wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> I just saw that Indian editor Karthik Nadar is in the banners today,
>> with a beautiful appeal. Go, India!
>>
>>
>> https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1202_KN/en/US&utm_source=B11_1202_Karthik2&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1202_DayvMat_US&language=en&uselang=en&country=US&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sue
>>
>> Here's the text:
>>
>> From Wikipedia author Karthik Nadar
>>
>> On the day a terrorist attack ripped through the heart of my city,
>> Wikipedia changed my life.
>>
>> The 2011 bombings in Mumbai made international headlines, but at the
>> moment the crisis struck, there was no straightforward information
>> about what had happened.
>>
>> I knew I couldn’t be the only one looking for answers. So I went out
>> to take photos, uploaded a map I pasted together, and made sure the
>> Wikipedia article on the incident would help people make sense of the
>> chaos.
>>
>> Since then, I’ve made thousands of edits to Wikipedia articles. My
>> experience that day on Wikipedia made my passion for photojournalism
>> clear, and I’ve followed that path ever since.
>>
>> I felt so grateful for Wikipedia, and when I learned how it stays
>> online, I donated 250 rupees to do my part. Will you make a donation
>> to keep this valuable resource available around the world?
>>
>> Wikipedia enables us to share the world. With 470 million different
>> visitors every month, it’s revolutionized the way we consume and
>> spread information -- sometimes even down to the moment it happens.
>>
>> And it does it all for free -- with zero ads, under 1,000 servers and
>> fewer than 100 staff.
>>
>> That’s amazing. Just look at Google or Facebook. They have hundreds of
>> thousands of servers and tens of thousands of staff.
>>
>> It’s no wonder Wikipedia is the 5th most popular and most visited site
>> online. And it’s also no wonder why they need support every year from
>> people like me and you.
>>
>> Will you pitch in $5, $20, $50 or whatever you think Wikipedia is worth
>> to you?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Karthik Nadar
>> Wikipedia author
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Sue Gardner
>> Executive Director
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>>
>> 415 839 6885 office
>> 415 816 9967 cell
>>
>> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
>> the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it a reality!
>>
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Karthik Nadar is in the banners!

[Theo10011]

Just out of curiosity, Who is Karthik?

Anyone from Mumbai community aware? a username perhaps?

Regards
Theo

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Sue Gardner  wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I just saw that Indian editor Karthik Nadar is in the banners today,
> with a beautiful appeal. Go, India!
>
>
> https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=L11_1202_KN/en/US&utm_source=B11_1202_Karthik2&utm_medium=sitenotice&utm_campaign=C11_1202_DayvMat_US&language=en&uselang=en&country=US&referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FMain_Page
>
> Thanks,
> Sue
>
> Here's the text:
>
> From Wikipedia author Karthik Nadar
>
> On the day a terrorist attack ripped through the heart of my city,
> Wikipedia changed my life.
>
> The 2011 bombings in Mumbai made international headlines, but at the
> moment the crisis struck, there was no straightforward information
> about what had happened.
>
> I knew I couldn’t be the only one looking for answers. So I went out
> to take photos, uploaded a map I pasted together, and made sure the
> Wikipedia article on the incident would help people make sense of the
> chaos.
>
> Since then, I’ve made thousands of edits to Wikipedia articles. My
> experience that day on Wikipedia made my passion for photojournalism
> clear, and I’ve followed that path ever since.
>
> I felt so grateful for Wikipedia, and when I learned how it stays
> online, I donated 250 rupees to do my part. Will you make a donation
> to keep this valuable resource available around the world?
>
> Wikipedia enables us to share the world. With 470 million different
> visitors every month, it’s revolutionized the way we consume and
> spread information -- sometimes even down to the moment it happens.
>
> And it does it all for free -- with zero ads, under 1,000 servers and
> fewer than 100 staff.
>
> That’s amazing. Just look at Google or Facebook. They have hundreds of
> thousands of servers and tens of thousands of staff.
>
> It’s no wonder Wikipedia is the 5th most popular and most visited site
> online. And it’s also no wonder why they need support every year from
> people like me and you.
>
> Will you pitch in $5, $20, $50 or whatever you think Wikipedia is worth to
> you?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Karthik Nadar
> Wikipedia author
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Sue Gardner
> Executive Director
> Wikimedia Foundation
>
> 415 839 6885 office
> 415 816 9967 cell
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
> the sum of all knowledge.  Help us make it a reality!
>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

[Arnav Sonara]

Hey Noopur and Pradeep,

How does Wikimedia Photo Scavenger Hunt sounds ?? Do have a look at the
following link and tell if this would be possible or not.

http://toolserver.org/~contests/startahunt.php

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Pradeep Mohandas <
pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>  hi Noopur,
>
> Hope you're enjoying your time in Amsterdam. We expect a longer report on
> list after you return to India on GLAMcamp. :)
>
> I totally agree with you that we need to reach-out more at college fests
> and events. I think an email was sent around on the list about
> participating in the Calcutta (still not used to writing Kolkata) Book Fair
> as well. I think it is best to let community members learn about, inform
> and participate in the events. If and when an organisational affiliation is
> required, I''m sure that the Chapter will be able to provide the same.
>
> Hope some of the members in the Bombay community will take you up on your
> Mood Indigo offer. :)
>
> User:Prad2609
>
> --
> Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 13:30:18 +0100
> From: noopur.ra...@gmail.com
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat
>
>
> Hello! Sorry for inbox spamming :) Sitting in the GLAMcamp, I cannot stop
> thinking how our community is doing so much and not getting highlighted,
> especially all you Indic editors out there. Though I don't really "belong"
> to the Wiki-geeks group, I think an excellent way of outreach is GLAM
> events. They are simple to understand, easier to participate and fun things
> :)
> In response to Arnav's mail, I thought I'll put this idea on the table. I
> think fests like Footprints, or bigger fests such as Mood Indigo are
> excellent places to set a booth and do some outreach. We could have a
> photography event (which we call Wiki loves monuments) and get students to
> get us images. We already have rules for the event and we can arrange a
> small prize or swags. That way, you don't have to specially call people to
> places or events and same time we start smaller and have sure results. What
> we essentially need is a wiki-geek (or an experienced editor as you call
> it) and someone who can communicate the idea well. What do you guys think?
> I have friends at Mood Indigo and if Bombay people are willing to take me
> up on it, we can have a stall there too!
> Warmly
> Noopur
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Arnav Sonara wrote:
>
> Hey Noopur,
>
> Thanks, the event is on 24, 25, 26 February 2012.
>
> I just need answer of above questions to convince them to allow me to come
> there and conduct a workshop. Would love to have around there at that time
> if possible.
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Noopur  wrote:
>
> Hey Arnav,
> I'll be in Gujarat post 12th Dec. I helped organize the 10th meetup in
> Delhi. If you need my help, I'd love to :)
> Warmly
> Noopur
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Arnav Sonara wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in Pune,
> am planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS University
> Baroda, Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival 
> Footprints.
> Also am the Campus Ambassador for India Education Program too, I need some
> input from you guys.
>
> The organizers of this event have basically no idea about what a community
> is or how WP works, since I ll be targeting newbies I am planning to start
> from Introduction to WP, then an editing session and main motto behind this
> would be to start an active community in Baroda or Gujarat and get the
> contributors to EN and GU WP and commons too.
>
> Now the organizers are asking few questions like "Why anyone should attend
> it?", "What would be the exclusivity of the workshop?", "How can we
> (university and attendees) be benefited from this?". They are worried too
> much about "exclusivity", how to convince them that these type of sessions
> are some thing more than "exclusively in Footprints", "first time in
> gujarat" ??
>
> Since I have no experience in conducting an outreach workshop
> independently I want your feedback on it, and what possibly should I answer
> them?.
>
> Please do reply with your valuable suggestions/critics.
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks
> Arnav (ricku).
> (User:Rangilo_Gujarati)
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Fw: [Astronomy_Activities_2009] Kutch Rann Utsav 2011 plus Total Lunar Eclipse!

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi,

Thought some on this list might be interested.

warm regards,
Pradeep


 As every year we the members of Kutch Amateur Astronomers' Club are taking
part in the Rann Utsav 2011 which organizes at the Kala Dungar (The Black
Hills) and the white salty desert of Dhorado village in the northern Kutch
(80kms from Bhuj city). This year the event will bring more fun and
excitement because the total lunar eclipse is on the same day (10th
December) and the view of the copper moon above the white salty flats of
the desert will be undoubtedly breathtaking! There will be more interaction
with the people who will be coming from outside the country.

The local timing for the eclipse is as below:

Moonrise: 6:00pm (IST)

Moon enters Penumbra: 5:06pm

Moon enters Umbra: 6:18pm

Greatest: 8:05pm

Moon leaves Umbra: 9:45pm

Moon leaves Penumbra: 10:58pm

Rahul Zota
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www.comethunting.blogspot.com

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?

[Yuvi Panda]

If only Ace supports it, I'm assuming they would have to release the
code for that. 
https://opensource.samsung.com/index.jsp;jsessionid=8C92D0B55573A09D0D7EFC4EB7976034
is where all the source drops are, and I see that the code for the Ace
has been made available. Can someone who understands enough about
Android to check the diffs check?

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi Noopur,

Hope you're enjoying your time in Amsterdam. We expect a longer report on list 
after you return to India on GLAMcamp. :)

I totally agree with you that we need to reach-out more at college fests and 
events. I think an email was sent around on the list about participating in the 
Calcutta (still not used to writing Kolkata) Book Fair as well. I think it is 
best to let community members learn about, inform and participate in the 
events. If and when an organisational affiliation is required, I''m sure that 
the Chapter will be able to provide the same.

Hope some of the members in the Bombay community will take you up on your Mood 
Indigo offer. :) 

User:Prad2609

Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2011 13:30:18 +0100
From: noopur.ra...@gmail.com
To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

Hello! Sorry for inbox spamming :) Sitting in the GLAMcamp, I cannot stop 
thinking how our community is doing so much and not getting highlighted, 
especially all you Indic editors out there. Though I don't really "belong" to 
the Wiki-geeks group, I think an excellent way of outreach is GLAM events. They 
are simple to understand, easier to participate and fun things :)
In response to Arnav's mail, I thought I'll put this idea on the table. I think 
fests like Footprints, or bigger fests such as Mood Indigo are excellent places 
to set a booth and do some outreach. We could have a photography event (which 
we call Wiki loves monuments) and get students to get us images. We already 
have rules for the event and we can arrange a small prize or swags. That way, 
you don't have to specially call people to places or events and same time we 
start smaller and have sure results. What we essentially need is a wiki-geek 
(or an experienced editor as you call it) and someone who can communicate the 
idea well. What do you guys think? I have friends at Mood Indigo and if Bombay 
people are willing to take me up on it, we can have a stall there too!
WarmlyNoopur

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Arnav Sonara  wrote:

Hey Noopur,
Thanks, the event is on 24, 25, 26 February 2012.
I just need answer of above questions to convince them to allow me to come 
there and conduct a workshop. Would love to have around there at that time if 
possible.



On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Noopur  wrote:


Hey Arnav,I'll be in Gujarat post 12th Dec. I helped organize the 10th meetup 
in Delhi. If you need my help, I'd love to :) WarmlyNoopur



On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Arnav Sonara  wrote:

Hello,
This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in Pune, am 
planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS University Baroda, 
Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival Footprints. Also am the 
Campus Ambassador for India Education Program too, I need some input from you 
guys.




The organizers of this event have basically no idea about what a community is 
or how WP works, since I ll be targeting newbies I am planning to start from 
Introduction to WP, then an editing session and main motto behind this would be 
to start an active community in Baroda or Gujarat and get the contributors to 
EN and GU WP and commons too.




Now the organizers are asking few questions like "Why anyone should attend 
it?", "What would be the exclusivity of the workshop?", "How can we (university 
and attendees) be benefited from this?". They are worried too much about 
"exclusivity", how to convince them that these type of sessions are some thing 
more than "exclusively in Footprints", "first time in gujarat" ??




Since I have no experience in conducting an outreach workshop independently I 
want your feedback on it, and what possibly should I answer them?.
Please do reply with your valuable suggestions/critics.





-- 
Thanks
Arnav (ricku).
(User:Rangilo_Gujarati)








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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

[Pradeep Mohandas]

hi Arnav,

I would say a Wikipedia editing workshop or a chapter backed WikiAcademy would 
be a nice first step. The only thing that one can say to someone is that we 
will teach them how to edit Wikipedia and contribute to various Wikimedia 
projects. You can start by making this event exclusively with the college - 
that is, only members from the college (staff or students) can attend. 

My personal take on this, is that we should do a couple of community meetups in 
Baroda and/or Surat and clue them into what's happening. I was in touch with 
Shiju to see if there are any Gujarati Wikipedia community members in the area. 
He's sent out a general email to them off-list. I will ping them again on email 
and see if we can do a community meetup in December or January. Perhaps you 
should try writing to the Gujarati mailing list as well.

Thank you for taking this initiative, Arnav!

warm regards,
Pradeep

User:Prad2609


On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Arnav Sonara  wrote:

Hey Noopur,
Thanks, the event is on 24, 25, 26 February 2012.
I just need answer of above questions to convince them to allow me to come 
there and conduct a workshop. Would love to have around there at that time if 
possible.



On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Noopur  wrote:


Hey Arnav,I'll be in Gujarat post 12th Dec. I helped organize the 10th meetup 
in Delhi. If you need my help, I'd love to :) WarmlyNoopur



On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Arnav Sonara  wrote:

Hello,
This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in Pune, am 
planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS University Baroda, 
Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival Footprints. Also am the 
Campus Ambassador for India Education Program too, I need some input from you 
guys.




The organizers of this event have basically no idea about what a community is 
or how WP works, since I ll be targeting newbies I am planning to start from 
Introduction to WP, then an editing session and main motto behind this would be 
to start an active community in Baroda or Gujarat and get the contributors to 
EN and GU WP and commons too.




Now the organizers are asking few questions like "Why anyone should attend 
it?", "What would be the exclusivity of the workshop?", "How can we (university 
and attendees) be benefited from this?". They are worried too much about 
"exclusivity", how to convince them that these type of sessions are some thing 
more than "exclusively in Footprints", "first time in gujarat" ??




Since I have no experience in conducting an outreach workshop independently I 
want your feedback on it, and what possibly should I answer them?.
Please do reply with your valuable suggestions/critics.





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Thanks
Arnav (ricku).
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia & related projects.

[Ramesh N G]

Thanks..
At least now those discussions (talk) related to articles even will not
come to india mailing list, which is supposed to be in the talk page of the
article.

User:Rameshng




On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> A new list has been born.
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en
>
> Now, English Wikipedians editing on India-related subjects can debate,
> discourse and discuss to their heart's content without anyone disturbing
> the Wikimedia-I list. We hope this will give rise to much more discourse on
> subjects relevant to cntent to English Wikipedia. This is also the place
> where discussions on Wikimedia Commons, and other English Wikimedia
> Projects such as WikiQuote, Wiktionary, WikiSource etc can be discussed.
>
> Besides this, discussions on Offline Wikipedia, GLAM or other English
> language events are also welcome.
>
> A lot of action will come away from Wikimedia-l into this list besides
> the hot new topics we shall be discussing. So if you are an editor who
> edits on English Wikipedia on matters India, besides others, or if you want
> to feel the pulse on whats happening on the main wikipedia as relates to
> our country be sure to click the link above & subscribe.
>
> Lets make new and great things happen!
>
> Warm regards,
>
> User:AshLin
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

[Yuvi Panda]

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:04 AM, Jessie Wild  wrote:
> Thanks for sharing this link, Yuvi! As someone completely unfamiliar with
> the topic, I am wondering if you all consider the issues discussed in that
> paper still an accurate depiction of the state in education in 2011.
>

Pretty much the same. The specifics differ (Facebook has 'replaced'
hanging out at the beach/local-place-of-choice), but the overall
picture is still scarily accurate. Nobody really cares much.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Odia (Oriya)

[ansuman]

+1 to all comments :) Thanks to all :)

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:

> Thanks a lot Shiju, Ramesh and Ashwin, applauds for Gyana for his recent
> hard work in a span of even less than a month.
>
> We would like to take help from the existing communities to set up the
> Gramapanchayat in Odia Wikipedia, please help us with the set up and
> documentation.
>
> Kind regards
> Subha
>
>
> On 29 November 2011 21:40, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
>
>> +1 to Ramesh's comment. Heartiest congratulations to Odia community on
>> the enormous effort, intensity and passion they have shown, Well done &
>> please keep up the great work. :)
>>
>> Warm regards,
>>
>> Ashwin Baindur
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Ramesh N G  wrote:
>>
>>> Odia wikipedia is one of the shining example of how really active
>>> wikipedians can make the the growth of wikipedia.
>>> The outreach programs which they have conducted has shown the results in
>>> the last 15 months.
>>>
>>> User:Rameshng
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Shiju Alex wrote:
>>>
 Dear All,

 Today I am sharing you the summary of discussions I had with Odia wiki (
 http://or.wikipedia.org/) community. It is available here:
 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Odia/Discussions/2011

 Odia is a shining example of how a wiki project can be revived and
 build a community around it, if few wonderful users with a vision for
 building free knowledge in their mother language arrive in their mother
 language wiki.

 Odia wikipedia was started in 2002. In fact it is one of the first
 Indic language wikipedia. Nothing much had happened in Odia wiki till 2010
 December. But the progress made by Odia wiki project (
 http://or.wikipedia.org/) during the past one year is note worthy and
 it is an example that can be replicated in some of the inactive Indic
 language wikipedias. Odia was having just 600 articles (which were created
 over the past 8 years) and no active users at the start of this year. Now
 10 months later, it has close to 1600 articles and 10 active users. The
 online and offline outreach initiatives took by Odia wiki community for
 building the community is showing positive result.

 I was actively involved in the community building for Odia wikipedia. I
 still remember the day (2011 January 15) when I introducted Odia wikipedia
 and Odia tying tool (developed by Junaid) to an Odia speaker (Ashuthosh
 Kar) during Wiki X celebration at Bangalore. Through him very soon we got a
 wonderful wikipedian (Subhashish) who is leading the efforts for Odia wiki
 now. Initially Subhasish and I used to meet at my home and work on the
 basic things for Odia wiki. I remember us working on the Odia wikipedia
 logo, FAQ booklet, Translate wiki, and so on. Soon Odia got more members to
 the team through the few Odia wiki workshops happened at Bangalore. Along
 with workshops, Odia wikipedians translated the FAQ booklet to Odia and
 took efforts to integrate the Odia typing solution to Odia wikipedia. Later
 with the support of Dhanada Mishra (the chairman of Human Development
 Foundation (http://www.hdf.org.in/)) and a young student Odia
 wikipedian Srikanth Kedia a wiki workshop is conducted at Bhubaneshwar.
 Odia wikipedians from Bangalore are doing an excellent job and now many of
 them are participating in Wikimedia India chapter activities also.

 Odia wiki community is effectively making use of various social
 networking sites to reach out to Odia speakers.

 Odia wiki project picked up not because Odia has got huge speaker base,
 high literacy among Odia speakers, access to computers, or any thing else;
 it become active only because it has receieved the right volunteers who
 have passion and vision of developing a wikipedia in their mother language.
 We need similar volunteers for each Indic language wikipedia.


 Requesting you to place your comments on the talk 
 page
 .


 Regards
 Shiju


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia

[ansuman]

+1 Ashwin

I wikifyed 72 articles in october wikify drive, More than 60 articles are
related to India. I will try to cleanup/wikify 3/4 articles every week. So
join me :)

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:

> True, Pranav. Vast though the information on web & limited/full preview
> Google Books may be, it is a fraction of the information locked up in a
> single library like Pune University. Some topics are too well referenced
> while others are scarce.
>
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Ashwin Baindur
> --
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Achal Prabhala wrote:
>
>> Ahem .
>>
>> On Tuesday 29 November 2011 03:20 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> > There seems to be a little bit of misunderstanding. I was talking of
>> > English Wikipedia and livability of English references.
>> >
>> > I have helped a couple of articles attain GA status. We conducted a PR
>> > for FA status and realised some of the refs need to be changed. At GA
>> > level they were accepted due to YES:POV, however to attain FA they
>> > need to be changed to better refs. We have had to give a break and
>> > wait for such refs to come up before we can proceed.
>> >
>> > 
>> > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:17:21 +0530
>> > From: ashwin.bain...@gmail.com
>> > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English Wikipedia
>> >
>> > I agree partially with you, Pranav. Yes, finding reliable sources in
>> > Indic languages can be quite a challenge.
>> >
>> > My own personal view is this - But while a source may be in a language
>> > but its utility as a reference is basically language neutral. That
>> > means a source in any language can be used providing you can read it
>> > and cite it. I dont see so many places where sources are not available
>> > in English but are available in indic languages. For vast majority of
>> > article subjects, english language web can provide all the sources you
>> > can possibly need. What is needed is NOT to have an attitude where
>> > anything English is painted as a villain.
>> >
>> > Warm regards,
>> >
>> > Ashwin Baindur
>> > --
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:09 PM, > > > wrote:
>> >
>> > Bigno, Ashwin - you hit the nail on the head.
>> >
>> > One other point I dont see mention is availability of reliable
>> > sources. For Indian articles, that is something that can be
>> > difficult to find at times.
>> >
>> >
>> 
>> > Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:01:57 +0530
>> > From: ashwin.bain...@gmail.com 
>> > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>> > 
>> > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Quality Issues with English
>> Wikipedia
>> >
>> >
>> > Srikanth, I find it a bit difficult to believe that the reason you
>> > said is the only reason why English editting stopped. It must be a
>> > combination of many things-
>> >
>> > * Retirement and reduction of editting by long term editors
>> > * For some reason, the same pleasure no longer felt in editting.
>> > * Hostile atmosphere, lots of rules & edit-warring.
>> > * Switching part of effort to Indic,  Commons, GLAM, Outreach etc.
>> > * Lesser recruitment of newbies.
>> > etc
>> >
>> > Anyway, whatever be the causes, I think you and I  and all of us
>> > agree that we need to make WikiProject India a happening place
>> again.
>> >
>> > Warm regards,
>> >
>> > Ashwin Baindur
>> > --
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
>> > mailto:parakara.gh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hisham,
>> > Do note, we had ALL that till two years ago.
>> > Since the offline meetups have begun, a lot of English editors
>> > have now reduced editint to concentrate on outreach activities
>> > and all.
>> > --Re,
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 2:19 PM, Hisham > > > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On Nov 28, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:
>> >
>> > This is a letter to all Indian editors of the English
>> > Wikipedia requesting discussion, cooperation and help.
>> >
>> > Recently I was asked to give a three to four minute
>> > presentation on the state of WikiProject India on
>> > English Wikipedia for the session on state of Indic
>> > Wikipedias at the recently concluded WikiConference in
>> > Mumbai. At 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New site for easy navigation of Wikipedia

[Ashwin Baindur]

Nice work & really good to see Deepanshu a student make this tool.
Extremely well done Deepanshu!

The next area of improvement is making the links be chosen semantically. As
of now, most of the links are of little value. Needs more development by
Deepanshu to improve the usability of the tool.

All the best Deepanshu, hope you can improve its selection mechanism! Keep
up the good work.

Warm regards,

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On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Anoop  wrote:

> Nice tool. But currently it is implemented only for English :( . It would
> have been great if it is implemented for language Wikipedia too!
>
> Thanks
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Deepon Saha wrote:
>
>> Just saw it!! Awsum, quite easy & handy!! congrats & cheers to
>> Deepanshu..:)
>>
>>
>> Deepon
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
>> psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>  A new prototype site http://wikilive.in/ has been developed by an
>>> Indian student Deepanshu Mehndiratta, a second year engineering student
>>> at BITS-Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus has come up with a real time live search
>>> srvice for Wikipedia. As of now it works only for English Wikipedia
>>> (Probably the team might not be aware of the other language Wikipedias, esp
>>> Indic Wikipedias), but it has potentials to be a useful tool, especially
>>> live preview of multiple pages from Wikipedia at a time without opening
>>> them in multiple windows. In fact if you are logged in to Wikipedia then
>>> it'll be just like opening any Wikipedia page under one header. My personal
>>> opinion about this site is good overall though there are many more features
>>> could be added. First of all, the no of article names it shows is just 5/6
>>> (which is very less). Hope, the developers get some feedback from
>>> Wikipedians to enhance their site.
>>>
>>> regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

[Noopur]

Hello! Sorry for inbox spamming :) Sitting in the GLAMcamp, I cannot stop
thinking how our community is doing so much and not getting highlighted,
especially all you Indic editors out there. Though I don't really "belong"
to the Wiki-geeks group, I think an excellent way of outreach is GLAM
events. They are simple to understand, easier to participate and fun things
:)
In response to Arnav's mail, I thought I'll put this idea on the table. I
think fests like Footprints, or bigger fests such as Mood Indigo are
excellent places to set a booth and do some outreach. We could have a
photography event (which we call Wiki loves monuments) and get students to
get us images. We already have rules for the event and we can arrange a
small prize or swags. That way, you don't have to specially call people to
places or events and same time we start smaller and have sure results. What
we essentially need is a wiki-geek (or an experienced editor as you call
it) and someone who can communicate the idea well. What do you guys think?
I have friends at Mood Indigo and if Bombay people are willing to take me
up on it, we can have a stall there too!
Warmly
Noopur

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Arnav Sonara wrote:

> Hey Noopur,
>
> Thanks, the event is on 24, 25, 26 February 2012.
>
> I just need answer of above questions to convince them to allow me to come
> there and conduct a workshop. Would love to have around there at that time
> if possible.
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Noopur  wrote:
>
>> Hey Arnav,
>> I'll be in Gujarat post 12th Dec. I helped organize the 10th meetup in
>> Delhi. If you need my help, I'd love to :)
>> Warmly
>> Noopur
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Arnav Sonara wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in
>>> Pune, am planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS
>>> University Baroda, Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival
>>> Footprints . Also am the Campus
>>> Ambassador for India Education Program too, I need some input from you guys.
>>>
>>> The organizers of this event have basically no idea about what a
>>> community is or how WP works, since I ll be targeting newbies I am planning
>>> to start from Introduction to WP, then an editing session and main motto
>>> behind this would be to start an active community in Baroda or Gujarat and
>>> get the contributors to EN and GU WP and commons too.
>>>
>>> Now the organizers are asking few questions like "Why anyone should
>>> attend it?", "What would be the exclusivity of the workshop?", "How can we
>>> (university and attendees) be benefited from this?". They are worried too
>>> much about "exclusivity", how to convince them that these type of sessions
>>> are some thing more than "exclusively in Footprints", "first time in
>>> gujarat" ??
>>>
>>> Since I have no experience in conducting an outreach workshop
>>> independently I want your feedback on it, and what possibly should I answer
>>> them?.
>>>
>>> Please do reply with your valuable suggestions/critics.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Arnav (ricku).
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kovai Ahoy !!!

[ansuman]

Best of luck :) I am ( We are ) with you lad :)

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Bishakha Datta wrote:

> Cool! And good luck,
> Bishakha
>
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
> psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> All the best for this man, wish you a BIG success!!!
>>
>> On 3 December 2011 02:01, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
>>
>>> Heya,
>>> With just EIGHT days remaining for our Kovai meetup, I thought I'd send
>>> across this mail.
>>> Here is the main meetup page, hosted on Meta.
>>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>>> With each passing meetup, the lead section will be updated to show the
>>> next meetup.
>>>
>>> The venue is KG Information systems Limited, Thudiyalur Road,
>>> Saravanampatti, Kovai-35.
>>> Here is the Foursquare check in page: Do check in. We can earn badges. :
>>> )
>>> https://foursquare.com/v/wikipedia-coimbatore/4ed7447f00391b6e35d1a0fc
>>>
>>> The location inside KGISL and timings should be confirmed in a day or
>>> two.
>>>
>>> Another interesting method I've found to promote this meetup is:
>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/21232862@N00/6441297319/
>>> Thanks to twitter user @aagan86 for informing me about this, and
>>> Wikipedia admin User:Phantomsteve who helped me with the barcode, and
>>> Subhashish from the Odia community for helping me out with this..
>>>
>>> All those who have a barcode scanner:
>>> Go ahead.
>>>
>>> Hoping to see you all there.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
>>> Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers Gang.
>>>
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New site for easy navigation of Wikipedia

[Anoop]

Nice tool. But currently it is implemented only for English :( . It would
have been great if it is implemented for language Wikipedia too!

Thanks

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Deepon Saha  wrote:

> Just saw it!! Awsum, quite easy & handy!! congrats & cheers to
> Deepanshu..:)
>
>
> Deepon
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi <
> psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>  A new prototype site http://wikilive.in/ has been developed by an
>> Indian student Deepanshu Mehndiratta, a second year engineering student
>> at BITS-Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus has come up with a real time live search
>> srvice for Wikipedia. As of now it works only for English Wikipedia
>> (Probably the team might not be aware of the other language Wikipedias, esp
>> Indic Wikipedias), but it has potentials to be a useful tool, especially
>> live preview of multiple pages from Wikipedia at a time without opening
>> them in multiple windows. In fact if you are logged in to Wikipedia then
>> it'll be just like opening any Wikipedia page under one header. My personal
>> opinion about this site is good overall though there are many more features
>> could be added. First of all, the no of article names it shows is just 5/6
>> (which is very less). Hope, the developers get some feedback from
>> Wikipedians to enhance their site.
>>
>> regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia & related projects.

[Srikanth Lakshmanan]

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 16:02, Arun Ramarathnam  wrote:

> Ashwin,
>
> Request that matters related to glam and offline be discussed on india
> list as they are not language specific.
>
GLAM / Offline are broad terms. Any discussion specific to content creation
on English must go into new list. Any discussion which is generic and needs
coordination outside content can come to this list. To put it, the India
list will be akin to meta discussing projects, outreach, (everything else
apart from a thing which happens onwiki) and the new list will complement
the talk page / WP:INDIA Project page discussions.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] New site for easy navigation of Wikipedia

[Deepon Saha]

Just saw it!! Awsum, quite easy & handy!! congrats & cheers to Deepanshu..:)


Deepon

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> A new prototype site http://wikilive.in/ has been developed by an Indian
> student Deepanshu Mehndiratta, a second year engineering student at
> BITS-Pilani KK Birla Goa Campus has come up with a real time live search
> srvice for Wikipedia. As of now it works only for English Wikipedia
> (Probably the team might not be aware of the other language Wikipedias, esp
> Indic Wikipedias), but it has potentials to be a useful tool, especially
> live preview of multiple pages from Wikipedia at a time without opening
> them in multiple windows. In fact if you are logged in to Wikipedia then
> it'll be just like opening any Wikipedia page under one header. My personal
> opinion about this site is good overall though there are many more features
> could be added. First of all, the no of article names it shows is just 5/6
> (which is very less). Hope, the developers get some feedback from
> Wikipedians to enhance their site.
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia & related projects.

[Arun Ramarathnam]

Ashwin,

Request that matters related to glam and offline be discussed on india list
as they are not language specific.

Regards
Arun
 On Dec 3, 2011 2:58 PM, "Ashwin Baindur"  wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> A new list has been born.
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en
>
> Now, English Wikipedians editing on India-related subjects can debate,
> discourse and discuss to their heart's content without anyone disturbing
> the Wikimedia-I list. We hope this will give rise to much more discourse on
> subjects relevant to cntent to English Wikipedia. This is also the place
> where discussions on Wikimedia Commons, and other English Wikimedia
> Projects such as WikiQuote, Wiktionary, WikiSource etc can be discussed.
>
> Besides this, discussions on Offline Wikipedia, GLAM or other English
> language events are also welcome.
>
> A lot of action will come away from Wikimedia-l into this list besides
> the hot new topics we shall be discussing. So if you are an editor who
> edits on English Wikipedia on matters India, besides others, or if you want
> to feel the pulse on whats happening on the main wikipedia as relates to
> our country be sure to click the link above & subscribe.
>
> Lets make new and great things happen!
>
> Warm regards,
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

[Arnav Sonara]

Hey Noopur,

Thanks, the event is on 24, 25, 26 February 2012.

I just need answer of above questions to convince them to allow me to come
there and conduct a workshop. Would love to have around there at that time
if possible.

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Noopur  wrote:

> Hey Arnav,
> I'll be in Gujarat post 12th Dec. I helped organize the 10th meetup in
> Delhi. If you need my help, I'd love to :)
> Warmly
> Noopur
>
> On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Arnav Sonara wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in
>> Pune, am planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS
>> University Baroda, Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival
>> Footprints . Also am the Campus
>> Ambassador for India Education Program too, I need some input from you guys.
>>
>> The organizers of this event have basically no idea about what a
>> community is or how WP works, since I ll be targeting newbies I am planning
>> to start from Introduction to WP, then an editing session and main motto
>> behind this would be to start an active community in Baroda or Gujarat and
>> get the contributors to EN and GU WP and commons too.
>>
>> Now the organizers are asking few questions like "Why anyone should
>> attend it?", "What would be the exclusivity of the workshop?", "How can we
>> (university and attendees) be benefited from this?". They are worried too
>> much about "exclusivity", how to convince them that these type of sessions
>> are some thing more than "exclusively in Footprints", "first time in
>> gujarat" ??
>>
>> Since I have no experience in conducting an outreach workshop
>> independently I want your feedback on it, and what possibly should I answer
>> them?.
>>
>> Please do reply with your valuable suggestions/critics.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Arnav (ricku).
>> (User:Rangilo_Gujarati)
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

[Noopur]

Hey Arnav,
I'll be in Gujarat post 12th Dec. I helped organize the 10th meetup in
Delhi. If you need my help, I'd love to :)
Warmly
Noopur

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Arnav Sonara wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in Pune,
> am planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS University
> Baroda, Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival 
> Footprints.
> Also am the Campus Ambassador for India Education Program too, I need some
> input from you guys.
>
> The organizers of this event have basically no idea about what a community
> is or how WP works, since I ll be targeting newbies I am planning to start
> from Introduction to WP, then an editing session and main motto behind this
> would be to start an active community in Baroda or Gujarat and get the
> contributors to EN and GU WP and commons too.
>
> Now the organizers are asking few questions like "Why anyone should attend
> it?", "What would be the exclusivity of the workshop?", "How can we
> (university and attendees) be benefited from this?". They are worried too
> much about "exclusivity", how to convince them that these type of sessions
> are some thing more than "exclusively in Footprints", "first time in
> gujarat" ??
>
> Since I have no experience in conducting an outreach workshop
> independently I want your feedback on it, and what possibly should I answer
> them?.
>
> Please do reply with your valuable suggestions/critics.
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks
> Arnav (ricku).
> (User:Rangilo_Gujarati)
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia & related projects.

[Subhashish Panigrahi]

Great to hear this, hope just like wiki categories this mailing list will
be quite specific rather than being too vast to cover all different aspects.

regards
Subha

> Dear friends,
>
> A new list has been born.
>
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en
>
> Now, English Wikipedians editing on India-related subjects can debate,
> discourse and discuss to their heart's content without anyone disturbing
> the Wikimedia-I list. We hope this will give rise to much more discourse on
> subjects relevant to cntent to English Wikipedia. This is also the place
> where discussions on Wikimedia Commons, and other English Wikimedia
> Projects such as WikiQuote, Wiktionary, WikiSource etc can be discussed.
>
> Besides this, discussions on Offline Wikipedia, GLAM or other English
> language events are also welcome.
>
> A lot of action will come away from Wikimedia-l into this list besides
> the hot new topics we shall be discussing. So if you are an editor who
> edits on English Wikipedia on matters India, besides others, or if you want
> to feel the pulse on whats happening on the main wikipedia as relates to
> our country be sure to click the link above & subscribe.
>
> Lets make new and great things happen!
>
> Warm regards,
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Help with an WP outreach event in Gujarat

[Arnav Sonara]

Hello,

This is User:Rangilo_Gujarati here basically from Gujarat and now in Pune,
am planning an outreach event most probably a workshop in MS University
Baroda, Gujarat during their forthcoming technical festival
Footprints.
Also am the Campus Ambassador for India Education Program too, I need some
input from you guys.

The organizers of this event have basically no idea about what a community
is or how WP works, since I ll be targeting newbies I am planning to start
from Introduction to WP, then an editing session and main motto behind this
would be to start an active community in Baroda or Gujarat and get the
contributors to EN and GU WP and commons too.

Now the organizers are asking few questions like "Why anyone should attend
it?", "What would be the exclusivity of the workshop?", "How can we
(university and attendees) be benefited from this?". They are worried too
much about "exclusivity", how to convince them that these type of sessions
are some thing more than "exclusively in Footprints", "first time in
gujarat" ??

Since I have no experience in conducting an outreach workshop independently
I want your feedback on it, and what possibly should I answer them?.

Please do reply with your valuable suggestions/critics.



-- 
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Arnav (ricku).
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[Wikimediaindia-l] A new mailing list for Wikipedians working on India related content on English Wikipedia & related projects.

[Ashwin Baindur]

Dear friends,

A new list has been born.

https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-en

Now, English Wikipedians editing on India-related subjects can debate,
discourse and discuss to their heart's content without anyone disturbing
the Wikimedia-I list. We hope this will give rise to much more discourse on
subjects relevant to cntent to English Wikipedia. This is also the place
where discussions on Wikimedia Commons, and other English Wikimedia
Projects such as WikiQuote, Wiktionary, WikiSource etc can be discussed.

Besides this, discussions on Offline Wikipedia, GLAM or other English
language events are also welcome.

A lot of action will come away from Wikimedia-l into this list besides  the
hot new topics we shall be discussing. So if you are an editor who edits on
English Wikipedia on matters India, besides others, or if you want to feel
the pulse on whats happening on the main wikipedia as relates to our
country be sure to click the link above & subscribe.

Lets make new and great things happen!

Warm regards,

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

[Tory Read]

Dear Sudhanwa,

My sincerest appologies. In my effort to be transparent, I made a mistake. In 
the report, attribution by name will not occur. 

Thank you for answering the chapter question. 

OSM = open source movement. Thanks for your clarification.

Best,

Tory Read

Sent from my mobile

On Dec 3, 2011, at 12:23 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar  wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Tory Read  wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> My apologies for not replying sooner. I am on the ground in India, doing in 
>> person interviews, while juggling communication on email, talk pages, skype, 
>> etc.
>> 
>> Here is a summary of what I have been up to:
>> 20 hours in US reviewing talk pages and email list communication regarding 
>> IEP
>> Interviews so far, in order in which they were done (in person, unless 
>> otherwise noted):
>> - Barry Newstead, WMF SF
>> - Frank Schulenburg, WMF SF
>> - Annie Lin, WMF SF
>> - LiAnna Davis, WMF SF
>> - Hisham Mundol, WMF India
>> - Nitika Tandon, WMF India
>> - Shiju Alex, WMF India
>> - Ram Shankar Yadav, CA Pune
>> - Ishita Ghosh, professor, SSE, Pune
>> - informal conversation with 2 SSE students and 2 CAs over lunch in Pune
>> - Rashmi Barua, SSE student
>> - Devanchi Tripathi, SSE student and CA
> 
> 
> 
>> - Ashwin Baindur, Mandar Kulkarni (Pune WP community members) and Sudhanwa 
>> Jogalekar (OSM friend of WP, Pune), group interview over dinner
> 
> Dear Tory,
> It was really nice to meet you again and have some discussions.
> 
> I am not sure what is the context you are referring in those lines in
> the mail. I am very much part of Pune community. and no way related to
> OSM (open street maps)
> All of us mentioned are India chapter members. Ashwin is the first
> member of the chapter !!! and I also happen to be on the India chapter
> EC. (apart from WMF GAC where I am not so active)
> 
> One of the members wanted anonymity that you maintained during last
> visit and was expected this time also. Somehow, that has not happened.
> 
> Anyways,
> Keep up the good work. Will like to see your report soon.
> 
> Best regards,
> -Sudhanwa
> 
> 
> 
> [snip]

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