[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India mailing lists

2012-01-20 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Hi all, Based on my conversations with many others, I realized that many people are not aware of the existence of different Wikimedia India/ India related mailing lists. A consolidated list of all known mailing lists ( India related) is made here. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Mailing_Lists

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Photowalk - Mysore

2012-01-20 Thread Kiran Ravikumar
Hello, This sunday we've 11th Mysore Photowalk. And thought of including Wiki 11th anniversary theme for the walk. For details please go through the following links https://www.facebook.com/events/287657154626534/ http://mysorephotowalk11.doattend.com/ Thank you -- Regards, Kiran Ravikumar

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India mailing lists

2012-01-20 Thread Subhashish Panigrahi
This is an amazing thing Tinu, thanks for creating this page which will help to communicate well. And could you consider linking this page from the main page wikimedia.in, and also as this page is not only the directory of mailing list, but also contains so many other channels like fb, twitter,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wiki Photowalk - Mysore

2012-01-20 Thread CherianTinu Abraham
Nice initiative, Kiran. All the best wishes ! Regards Tinu Cherian On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Kiran Ravikumar kiran...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, This sunday we've 11th Mysore Photowalk. And thought of including Wiki 11th anniversary theme for the walk. For details please go through

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests

2012-01-20 Thread Pratik Lahoti
Hey Gunit, Its not all about sponsorship. We got a stall for free at the CMDA IT Expo as well. Infact, I just had a chat yesterday with one of my friends from Cummins College of Engineering for Women regarding the outreach activities and she was asking me how much do they have to pay to us for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests

2012-01-20 Thread Aditya Sengupta
Bishakha and I did a short session at VJTI during the previous edition of the technical festival. Money never came up. The kinds of places that are going to ask for money for these specific activities are the kinds of places you do not want to do these workshops/sessions at in the first place- a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests

2012-01-20 Thread Gunit Kalada
Hi Pratik, It is nice to get that kind of response from people. Maybe the scenario in my college is exceptionally different. But if some colleges feel differently, then I guess we can really go ahead and do this. Regards, Gunit. On 20 January 2012 19:04, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.com

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests

2012-01-20 Thread Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
My two paise: Point 1: I myself am a student, and I kind of agree with Srikanth on this one. Students aren't really interested in learning to edit Wikipedia at a fest. If I was a newbie, I wouldn't even look at the stall for more than say once or twice. A better idea is to have a photo scavenger

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests

2012-01-20 Thread Noopur
My 100 bucks on this : Let's not make assumptions before we try it out. In the past we've done editing sessions, outreach and everything else in colleges. The success *drastically* depends on *who* is doing it. Don't get me wrong but, whether people agree or not, whether it is successful; ALL

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests

2012-01-20 Thread Debanjan Bandyopadhyay
I think in my rather long email, you mistook my main point. My main point was, lets not just restrict ourselves to tech fests. A re-read perhaps if your wagering a 100 bucks against my 2 paise?? :) On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: My 100 bucks on this :

[Wikimediaindia-l] Analysis of IEP: Quantitative Analysis Tory Read's Report

2012-01-20 Thread Hisham
Two reports have just been released as the analysis of IEP Pune Pilot. An quantitative analysis has been prepared and is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Analysis/Quantitative_Analysis Tory Read's report is available at

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Petition Response: Digitizing Federal Public Records

2012-01-20 Thread wheredevelsdare
FYI - since we are looking to start GLAM in India, I thought this would make an interesting read. Answer to a petition for digitalising all Public Records in the US by a Wikimedian. From: The White House i...@messages.whitehouse.gov Date: January 20, 2012 6:27:44 PM EST To:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Petition Response: Digitizing Federal Public Records

2012-01-20 Thread Kevin Gorman
As the petition response mentioned, the national archives do have a wikipedian in residence currently - dominic mcdevitt-parks (User:Dominic.) David Ferriero has also attended at least one Wikimedia related event himself - he spoke at the public policy initiative wrapup in boston this summer.

[Wikimediaindia-l] JMILUG Wiki academy

2012-01-20 Thread Noopur
Dear all, I am happy to inform you that a student who turned up at our 5th Delhi meetup volunteered to help organize a Wiki academy in Jamia Milia Islamia. We have an introductory meetup-academy on the 25th of January at 1:00 pm in their college. Here is the link to the event: