[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiAcademy @ Jaya Engineering College

Hi all, We are conducting Wiki Academy at Jaya Engineering College on Dec 2, 2011, Saturday. We request you to join the academy if you are located in and around Chennai. General information on Wiki Academy is available @ http://wik

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

Vickram, while I agree with you my point was something else. What I meant to say was that if you add a source, you make your point, you're being neutral, and thus what you're doing is factually correct. On 07/12/2011, Vickram Crishna wrote: > Exactly my point. I suspect that the addition of a lin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

Exactly my point. I suspect that the addition of a line referring to the current controversy, where the hashtag #IdiotKapilSibal has been trending, and to quote some of the numbers over time during this crisis, would not be out of place. On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 5:29 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

re is restriction) >> > >> > 19. St Andrew's Church >> > >> > 20. Lal Bazar >> > >> > 21. Beth el Synagogue >> > >> > 22. Magen David Synagogue >> > >> > 23. Portuguese Church >&g

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

Adding Kapil Sibal is an idiot is definitely vandalism, but saying 1000s of Twitter users and internet activists described him as an idiot with a citation to back it up is not. ;-) On 07/12/2011, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Adding "Kapil Sibal is an idiot" on the Wikipedia article is vandalism >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-WB] Kolkata Photo Walk (Esplanade & Dalhousie)

t; > 22. Magen David Synagogue > > > > 23. Portuguese Church > > > > 24. Armenian Church > > > > > > The ones marked with * are best photographed in the afternoon. > > > > This list is not exhaustive, > > > > > > Some relate

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

Adding "Kapil Sibal is an idiot" on the Wikipedia article is vandalism http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kapil_Sibal&action=historysubmit&diff=464355055&oldid=464353638 Addling "verifiable facts" is acceptable ( including controversies and criticism" http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 17:20, Vickram Crishna wrote: > Oh, the mention of 'idiot' on that page is vandalism (no, I haven't done > it - yet)? I thought we had a very interesting discussion about current > affairs at WikiConf where there seemed to be a consensus that presenting > every side of the p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

Oh, the mention of 'idiot' on that page is vandalism (no, I haven't done it - yet)? I thought we had a very interesting discussion about current affairs at WikiConf where there seemed to be a consensus that presenting every side of the picture is important. Is reporting the fact that major website

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

+ 1 *Times of India : Twitter, Facebook users target Sibal* http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/social-media/Twitter-Facebook-users-target-Sibal/articleshow/11018300.cms "*Sibal's Wikipedia profile was edited 21 times by web users and activists on Tuesday . His profile was locked later in th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

On a related note, this has appeared on *The Economic Times* : " Five reasons why India can't censor the Internet" http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/five-reasons-why-india-cant-censor-the-internet/articleshow/11018330.cms "*Yes, Internet content has the permanence and public-impa

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

How will it hurt WP most than FB or TWIT? *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com http://about.me/suryaceg On 7 December 2011 16:04, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > This is basically restriction of freedom of expression and it will > hurt Wikipedia much more than it

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Foundation-l] Indian Minister Kapil Sibal wants to censor social media

This is basically restriction of freedom of expression and it will hurt Wikipedia much more than it hurts Twitter or Facebook. On 07/12/2011, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 12:06, Achal Prabhala wrote: > >> fyi >> >> Original Message >> Subject:Re:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FW: [Foundation-l] WP being edited by lobbying firm

High time people realised that Marketing and Wikimedia don't go together. On 06/12/2011, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: > > I believe Srikanth R mentioned this a few days ago on the India list. > >> From: bodnot...@gmail.com >> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:14:26 + >> To: foundatio...@lists.wi

[Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Malayalam

Dear All, As part of my discussions with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with few Malayalam wikimedians also. Malayalam wikimedians spoke about their editing experiences, their vision about ml wiki projects, and other related topics. I have summarized the discussions in meta wiki. http://meta.