Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Praiseworthy actions by our own Pradeep

2012-01-01 Thread wheredevelsdare
One word: WOW! Salute to Pradeeps commitment, I understand he was in Ahmedabad just for a day! > Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 21:52:35 +0530 > From: parakara.gh...@gmail.com > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Praiseworthy actions by our own Pradeep > > Heya, whil

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

2012-01-01 Thread wheredevelsdare
Oops, I missed this message earlier. Srikanth - please use to Flickrbot to transfer all the images to Commons, then they can be used as required. > Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 02:18:00 +0530 > From: parakara.gh...@gmail.com > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] B

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

2012-01-01 Thread wheredevelsdare
Iv just got a response from Vinu, who has agreed to change the licensing on the said images :) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:45:44 +0530 From: parakara.gh...@gmail.com To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photograph

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: DNA : "Wikimedia Commons to feature more of Ahmedabad"

2012-01-01 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, I really hope everyone who RSVPd attends and this can very easily be the largest Wikipedia Takes event in the world. Congratulations to the organisers for getting the numbers. Be bold, have fun and click! Pradeep Handheld User:Prad2609 On 02/01/2012, Shrinivasan T wrote: > Will be happy to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

2012-01-01 Thread Ashwin Baindur
May we request Srikanth Ramakrishnan to upload the images to Commons as he convinced Vinu to license his images? I think this privelege should be his. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Vin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

2012-01-01 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Vinu's reply to me is to the same effect - *Hi Ashwin, Thanks for getting in touch with me. I've changed the licence of the snaps in this set to the required CC license for inclusion. Regards, Vinu * Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Mon, J

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: DNA : "Wikimedia Commons to feature more of Ahmedabad"

2012-01-01 Thread Shrinivasan T
Will be happy to modify the tool mediawiki-uploader to help on uploading the huge amount of photos from this event. please give the requirements. thanks. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil FOSS magazine

2012-01-01 Thread Shrinivasan T
thanks sodabottle for the nice article. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for volunteers - GLAM / Museum initiative

2012-01-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya, while I personally may not be of much use on this project as I can't seem to find anything in Coimbatore, I can give backend support if required. I've been in constant touch with GLAM participants and the UK Chapter over the last two weeks and have learned quite a lot in the recent times. --

[Wikimediaindia-l] Call for volunteers - GLAM / Museum initiative

2012-01-01 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Dear Wikipedians. Wish you all a great and joyous 2012. The new year is probably a good time to kick off a new initiative around GLAM (Museums). Initiative Context Museums are important cultural institutions for GLAM initiatives. There is no complete and reliable list Museums across India. This

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

2012-01-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Guys, Vinu has agreed to licence a few pics under a Commons Compliant licence. Do select what you think is good and let me know. :-) cheers. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil FOSS magazine

2012-01-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Thanks for pointing that out Logic. I didn't open the link as my phone takes ages to render Tamil, that too incorrectly. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil FOSS magazine

2012-01-01 Thread Srikanth Lakshmanan
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 02:05, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > http://kaniyam.com/release-1/ > The more relevant information to this list would be, it contains 1. Article on Tamil Wikipedia 2. Article on Tamil Wiki Media Contest 3. Wikipedia Fundraiser appeals in Tamil and a link to donate. -- R

[Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil FOSS magazine

2012-01-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Just thought I'd point this out. I believe it is due to the efforts of Mr. Shrinivasan of the ILUG-C, who earlier coded the upload wizard for Linux users. He's released a Tamil FOSS magazine. Link- http://kaniyam.com/release-1/ -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan, Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam S

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: DNA : "Wikimedia Commons to feature more of Ahmedabad"

2012-01-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
All the best to all the Amdavadis out there. Make this a success, even though it is on a working day. Good luck. Cheers, -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: DNA : "Wikimedia Commons to feature more of Ahmedabad"

2012-01-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
All the best to all the Amdavadis out there. Make this a success, even though it is on a working day. Good luck. Cheers, -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship

[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: DNA : "Wikimedia Commons to feature more of Ahmedabad"

2012-01-01 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
*DNA : "Wikimedia Commons to feature more of Ahmedabad"* http://epaper.dnaindia.com/epapermain.aspx?pgNo=4&edcode=1310005&eddate=2012-1-01 http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_wikimedia-commons-to-feature-more-of-ahmedabad_1632194 *Members of Wikipedia's Wikimedia Commons (a repository of free i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] "Wikipedia Takes Mumbai" - Is someone doing this already?

2012-01-01 Thread Anshuman Fotedar
Thank you everyone for all the support. There is a lot of useful info in here that I am going through right now [having been AWOL for the better part of two days. Hope that's alright ;-) ] Back on the case now. -Anshuman On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Noopur wrote: > Anshuman I think you sho

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] "Wikipedia Takes Mumbai" - Is someone doing this already?

2012-01-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Noopur, go for it. Write to the Chapter, write to the Foundation, if needed, I guess Wikipedians who can may even donate to it. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their S

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] "Wikipedia Takes Mumbai" - Is someone doing this already?

2012-01-01 Thread Noopur
I think this sums up what I was trying to convey: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2010/post_mortem#Awards Again, it is just for perspective. On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > If it's done before and has bee

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking Flickr contributors for donating images to Commons (Was: Bangaloreans, help convince ....)

2012-01-01 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Thanks for sharing this Ashwin. Regards Arun On Jan 1, 2012 7:09 PM, "Ashwin Baindur" wrote: > Hi everybody, (long post, bear with me) > > In response to the message given below, I also sent a message to Vinu > Thomas on the lines of messages I write such as the example below. I > usually ask F

[Wikimediaindia-l] Praiseworthy actions by our own Pradeep

2012-01-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Heya, while most of up were busy celebrating New Year [not me , I had University work, though the trip There was to a Hill Station], our dear Pradeep was busy promoting Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia takes A'bad on the streets of A'bad. Infact, he was even ready to give demonstrations to people wi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking Flickr contributors for donating images to Commons (Was: Bangaloreans, help convince ....)

2012-01-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Just to point out that Ganeshk and KuwarOnline have been very successful in this activity over the past 2+ years. I have been part of it two, but not that successful. I'm useless at convincing people. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wik

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking Flickr contributors for donating images to Commons (Was: Bangaloreans, help convince ....)

2012-01-01 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Brilliant work, Ashwin! I have observed that many flickr contributors have obliged to requests from Wikimedia contributors when asked politely. Cheers, anirudh On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Hi everybody, (long post, bear with me) > > In response to the message given b

[Wikimediaindia-l] Asking Flickr contributors for donating images to Commons (Was: Bangaloreans, help convince ....)

2012-01-01 Thread Ashwin Baindur
Hi everybody, (long post, bear with me) In response to the message given below, I also sent a message to Vinu Thomas on the lines of messages I write such as the example below. I usually ask Flickr natural history photographers for permission to use their images. I use the following arguments as

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

2012-01-01 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
WDD, thank you. I too sent him a message on Flickr. I've been too busy requesting people to donate astro pics, first time I'm looking at Roads -- On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 1:25 PM, wrote: > As Pradeep mentioned, Iv been doing this for some time - some people are > happy to oblige, some feel e