[Wikimediaindia-l] Online Translators required in Indian Languages
Dear all International Centre for Free and Open Source Software (ICFOSS), an autonomous institution under the Government of Kerala that is mandated with the promotion of FOSS, seeks online translators in different Indian languages to help with localization of user interfaces of different Free and Open Source Software, with the end objective of making available online tools to communities around the country, to create and maintain online knowledge repositories, digital libraries, scholarly journals and other information artifacts in their own languages. Kindly see http://icfoss.org/translators.html for more details. Thank you, for ICFOSS Director ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to Community Meet-Up: Hyderabad (Friday 16th March) Outreach Session: ISB Hyderabad (Saturday March 17th 11am)
Hello Hyderabad, Sorry for the short notice on this one. Few invites requests: a) I am traveling to Hyderabad on work and thought it would be really sweet to catch up for tea/coffee or dinner on Friday March 16th. Maybe we could have a community meet-up to celebrate Telugu's 50k articles! (We are trying to fix up a venue; I will tell those interested asap.) b) I'm combining my trip with an outreach session at ISB Hyderabad on Saturday March 17th at the ISB Campus. The initial plan was to have a general intro to Wikipedia but they have agreed to have a wiki workshop instead. They have specifically told me that there is interest in both Indic and English language. If anyone's interested, would love your help! The page is here. c) Also, if there is anyone who is interested in conducting outreach sessions but isn't sure how it's done, do join me for the ISB session. The team has been working really hard at improving outreach effectiveness and I'd love to give you a sense of what it looks like. d) Lastly, if you know anyone else who might be interested in attending the wiki workshop as a newbie , I will try and work something out. If you're interested in either the meet up on Friday evening or getting you or your friends to the session on Saturday morning, would you drop me a line offlist (his...@wikimedia.org) Best hisham ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] NSEB tech fest Avenir
Hello all, I am currently in Kolkata, and upon reaching here two days ago, a fellow community member, Sucheta, had informed me that her college, Netaji Subhash Engineer College, Garia was organizing a tech fest, Avenir 2012http://www.avenir.net.infrom 16th of March to the 18th of March. As such I got in touch with her college organizers and with Sucheta's help we were able to procure a stall for free. We might even get a hall if possible. I really wanted the lab for an edit-o-thon but that is very hard to procure. I also relayed the message to both Jayanta da as well as WMF office in Delhi as they had organized an academy in the same college. We really need volunteers for the event, so anyone who can give their precious time please do join us. It would be awesome if all you guys came. I'd really love to meet the Kolkata community also. What I was planning was that, we concentrate more on uploading pics on commons, pronunciation drive (i.e. easier ways to contribute than writing articles) because young people in fests will hopefully respond better to such stuff. Also wanted to spread the word about WP:India and Indic languages. I need a lot of help so would really appreciate any volunteers. Can reward with cupcakes (virtual of course). :) Please guys, whoever, can, do attend, this will be Kolkata's first outreach in a fest, if I am not wrong, if its not, then doesn't matter, it will be an outreach in Kolkata and all of us really need to know what's the right formula and practice makes you perfect they say. :) Will create a page about this in en:Wiki and WM-IN soon. See you tomorrow guys, sharp at 10 am (hopefully). :) -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* ___ 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] NSEB tech fest Avenir
Excellent! This is indeed brilliant. I suggest you get in touch with the Chapter soon. The chapter is your one stop place for all Wikipedia related support. If you need any help on wiki, let me know. More than willing to help. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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] Invitation to Community Meet-Up: Hyderabad (Friday 16th March) Outreach Session: ISB Hyderabad (Saturday March 17th 11am)
Hisham, I think you forgot to link to the page in question. I don't see a link anywhere. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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] Report on online outreach event
Hi, Can we have a place where we can request certain ttopics of outreach events on google+, orc etc? Eg. Sessions on doing DYK, tagging, wikifying or editing Wikipedia in Indic languages, etc? These don't get time at regular meetups and are of interest to small groups best served by above apps. More targeted sessions. Pradeep Handheld On Mar 14, 2012 9:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: excellent Swaroop! The only thing that I find odd is suggestion to overbook. Creating a waitlist seems to be making it an exclusivity. While I can say this is bad, as it is against Wikipedia principles, I can also say that Exclusivity builds interest. I know this sounds crazy, but do let me know what you think. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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 ___ 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] India Programs-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
Reminder that we are starting in 15 minutes. Do join in! Details below. hisham On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Hisham wrote: Gentle reminder. Do join in. hisham On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Hisham wrote: Hi Folks One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on specific village pump / talk page discussion or involved in particular activities (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects. We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program. (For those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system similar to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can join in by clicking on the following link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office.) I have been remiss in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to make amends by restarting, with a couple of modifications. a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly. (I was wary of doing it any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if there would be enough on the plate to discuss. I have changed my mind now - because there is too much to discuss to cover in a single monthly session.) I'd like to propose that we do it in the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH - BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE. Just for March, we will do it on March 15th and March 29th (both at 9pm IST which is GMT + 0530) b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams instead of general. The reason I say this is that - as with many community meet-ups, folks will give time to attend a meet-up or participate in an IRC only if there is a topic of relevance to them. To that extent, we could do one IRC on Indic languages and one on Outreach Communications. I'd start both the IRCs with a re-cap of India Programs activities for the fortnight (or so) prior to the IRC and forward from the IRC - and then we could talk about either Indic langauges or Outreach Communications. The March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages and the one on March 29th will be on Outreach Communications. ___ 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] India Programs-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
hi, I hope some of the IRC-veterans can pitch in here. Not everyone is comfortable with IRC. I think these sessions will be more helpful for all involved if we had a statement put up on a wiki or on the mailing list by individuals who want to make these statements and then have a round of questions around the topics (as an example: community and outreach) which were meant to be discussed at the meeting. Then, perhaps throw the floor open for general questions that members of the community want to raise. I think this will make it interactive and not be percieved as a narrative or a one-sided discussion. These may not have been intentional and should have been raised earlier. I hope the Office continues this practice and tries to improve its effectiveness as they move forward. warm regards, User:Prad2609 On 15 March 2012 20:45, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Reminder that we are starting in 15 minutes. Do join in! Details below. *hisham* On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Hisham wrote: Gentle reminder. Do join in. *hisham* On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Hisham wrote: Hi Folks One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on specific village pump / talk page discussion or involved in particular activities (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects. We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program. (For those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system similar to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can join in by clicking on the following link:* http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office*.) I have been remiss in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to make amends by restarting, with a couple of modifications. a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly. (I was wary of doing it any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if there would be enough on the plate to discuss. I have changed my mind now - because there is too much to discuss to cover in a single monthly session.) I'd like to propose that we do it in the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH - BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE. Just for March, we will do it on *March 15th* and March 29th (both at *9pm IST* which is GMT + 0530) b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams instead of general. The reason I say this is that - as with many community meet-ups, folks will give time to attend a meet-up or participate in an IRC only if there is a topic of relevance to them. To that extent, we could do one IRC on Indic languages and one on Outreach Communications. I'd start both the IRCs with a re-cap of India Programs activities for the fortnight (or so) prior to the IRC and forward from the IRC - and then we could talk about either Indic langauges or Outreach Communications. The *March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages* and the one on March 29th will be on Outreach Communications. ___ 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 -- How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ 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] NSEB tech fest Avenir
Reminder that there is an outreach event tomorrow. Hope few people from the Kolkata community will show up at least. It will be nearly impossible for me to manage the stall alone. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: I have gotten in touch with the chapter. I am infact a chapter member myself (IN-135). I have also informed and asked the Kolkata community for help and support. Jayanta da has told me that he will bring the banner that we have in Kolkata. I am currently trying to make a basic info guide which I can xerox and distribute. I need help with that if anyone is interested. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent! This is indeed brilliant. I suggest you get in touch with the Chapter soon. The chapter is your one stop place for all Wikipedia related support. If you need any help on wiki, let me know. More than willing to help. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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 -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* -- Regards, Debanjan* - Lets make this world a better and more informative place* ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Please re-start Chapter-Community IRC
hi, I hope that the Chapter-India community IRCs also re-start after the brief lull in discussions. Pradeep -- How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 ___ 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] [Wikimedia-I][Report] Wiki Workshop at BVCOE
Excellent work guys! I do have an odd question. Why do you always take food articles? Chole Bhature, Tunde Kabab, Pav Bhaji, et al? Also, was this English only? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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] Report on online outreach event
Good suggestion. I guess you could go ahead and create a page in your local wiki on this. That way, we can involve each community independently and still have such sessions. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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] Fwd: Please help makes our grants program more accessible!
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com wrote: Can people now submit grant proposals in their own language? I think they could, but the people who will eventually decide about the grant may not know the language. Although I see GAC members cover some languages. In my personal opinion, to help everyone in this matter maybe it is better to keep things in English. But the information pages on grants and its process should be translated to other languages so people from different languages can understand the procedure very well. The answer is *yes*, people can submit grant proposals in their own language, because we don't want a language barrier to prevent us from supporting a community that could do valuable work. For practical reasons, the grant evaluation and discussion _would_ need to be in English, however, so if the applicants are not able to communicate effectively in English, the WMF will support the discussion with a two-way translator -- a contractor if a volunteer is not readily available. As Tanvir says, if at all possible to use English (don't worry about minor mistakes!), it would be easier for all involved, as it is the closest thing to a global lingua franca, but again, it is _not_ a requirement. Asaf -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog] The making of live.wikimedia.in
Hi all, Blog :- The making of live.wikimedia.in Link :- http://blog.wikimedia.in/?p=188 Thanks Shrey for blog. This will definitely help other developers to improve the website. Few suggestions has been implemented. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Chapter_website_team#Live_Search_Tasks Thanks, naveenpf ___ 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] [Foundation-l] Deadline for Wikimania submissions is Sunday
reminder _ * * *[image: Inline images 1]* *Béria Lima* * * * Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano.* *Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho.* http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos** * ** http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 15 March 2012 23:26, aude aude.w...@gmail.com wrote: Reminder to get your Wikimania program submissions in soon! The deadline for submissions is Sunday, March 18 at 11:59 (San Francisco) Pacific Daylight Time (or 06:59 UTC on 19 March 2012). We seek submissions for presentations, workshops, panels, and other types of sessions. Topics may include anything related to Wikipedia, MediaWiki tech (e.g. mobile), Wikisource, Wikimedia Commons and other sister projects, OpenStreetMap, third-party wikis (e.g. WikiHow), wikis in business, government, etc., civic local wikis, GLAM-wiki and other cultural outreach initiatives, education outreach, research into wikis and collaboration, and more. These topics are just suggestions. You can view the call for participation and make submissions here: http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions Cheers, Katie -- President, Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org @wikimediadc / @wikimania2012 ___ foundation-l mailing list foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ___ 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] India Programs-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
Just to chime in with some observations (empirical, possibly OT) about means of communication. IRC is one of those elegant solutions that just aren't everyone's cup of tea, but sometimes because they haven't tried. Actually, it is the nearest thing to a physical meeting, with the same rules of conduct. It requires only a minimal bandwidth connection, and (afaik) has no limitation of people participating. In this sense it competes headon with Hangout and so on, but, because it has somewhat of an 'insider' perspective (entirely unearned) not many people feel that comfortable using it. It is text only, and nobody cares if you type slowly or badly. It is not useful for file transfers and so on, so one cannot 'show' how something works or should work, or what the problem is. This is usually not the purpose to which it is put, either. The only prerequisite is that you should have something (hopefully relevant) to say. The person choosing (or chosen) to summarise the meeting can do as Pradeep suggested, and do so on an open wikipage which can then be used to discuss wider, including those people who could not attend, but feel they have not conceded the right or duty to contribute by not doing so (maybe their mother-in-law was visiting, or something equally critical). On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I hope some of the IRC-veterans can pitch in here. Not everyone is comfortable with IRC. I think these sessions will be more helpful for all involved if we had a statement put up on a wiki or on the mailing list by individuals who want to make these statements and then have a round of questions around the topics (as an example: community and outreach) which were meant to be discussed at the meeting. Then, perhaps throw the floor open for general questions that members of the community want to raise. I think this will make it interactive and not be percieved as a narrative or a one-sided discussion. These may not have been intentional and should have been raised earlier. I hope the Office continues this practice and tries to improve its effectiveness as they move forward. warm regards, User:Prad2609 On 15 March 2012 20:45, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Reminder that we are starting in 15 minutes. Do join in! Details below. *hisham* On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Hisham wrote: Gentle reminder. Do join in. *hisham* On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Hisham wrote: Hi Folks One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on specific village pump / talk page discussion or involved in particular activities (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects. We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program. (For those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system similar to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can join in by clicking on the following link:* http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office*.) I have been remiss in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to make amends by restarting, with a couple of modifications. a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly. (I was wary of doing it any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if there would be enough on the plate to discuss. I have changed my mind now - because there is too much to discuss to cover in a single monthly session.) I'd like to propose that we do it in the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH - BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE. Just for March, we will do it on *March 15th* and March 29th (both at *9pm IST* which is GMT + 0530) b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams instead of general. The reason I say this is that - as with many community meet-ups, folks will give time to attend a meet-up or participate in an IRC only if there is a topic of relevance to them. To that extent, we could do one IRC on Indic languages and one on Outreach Communications. I'd start both the IRCs with a re-cap of India Programs activities for the fortnight (or so) prior to the IRC and forward from the IRC - and then we could talk about either Indic langauges or Outreach Communications. The *March 15th one will be focussed on Indic Languages* and the one on March 29th will be on Outreach Communications. ___ 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 -- How Pradeep uses email - http://goo.gl/6v1I9
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-I][Report] Wiki Workshop at BVCOE
It's important that 6 newbies edited the article rather than which article was chosen, but Srikanth, you should come and taste the food here and understand why food articles are often chosen :-) On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent work guys! I do have an odd question. Why do you always take food articles? Chole Bhature, Tunde Kabab, Pav Bhaji, et al? Also, was this English only? -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG ___ 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 -- *Subha* ___ 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] India Programs-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
hi, I agree, Vickram. The more we use it the more we'll learn. My intention of stating our discomfort with IRC was that the meeting on it becomes more complicated if many people are not used to the platform. It then becomes the question of both following a discussion and understanding and learning about IRC. That would involve learning about too many things at the same time. Pradeep On 16 March 2012 10:04, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Just to chime in with some observations (empirical, possibly OT) about means of communication. IRC is one of those elegant solutions that just aren't everyone's cup of tea, but sometimes because they haven't tried. Actually, it is the nearest thing to a physical meeting, with the same rules of conduct. It requires only a minimal bandwidth connection, and (afaik) has no limitation of people participating. In this sense it competes headon with Hangout and so on, but, because it has somewhat of an 'insider' perspective (entirely unearned) not many people feel that comfortable using it. It is text only, and nobody cares if you type slowly or badly. It is not useful for file transfers and so on, so one cannot 'show' how something works or should work, or what the problem is. This is usually not the purpose to which it is put, either. The only prerequisite is that you should have something (hopefully relevant) to say. The person choosing (or chosen) to summarise the meeting can do as Pradeep suggested, and do so on an open wikipage which can then be used to discuss wider, including those people who could not attend, but feel they have not conceded the right or duty to contribute by not doing so (maybe their mother-in-law was visiting, or something equally critical). On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:17 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, I hope some of the IRC-veterans can pitch in here. Not everyone is comfortable with IRC. I think these sessions will be more helpful for all involved if we had a statement put up on a wiki or on the mailing list by individuals who want to make these statements and then have a round of questions around the topics (as an example: community and outreach) which were meant to be discussed at the meeting. Then, perhaps throw the floor open for general questions that members of the community want to raise. I think this will make it interactive and not be percieved as a narrative or a one-sided discussion. These may not have been intentional and should have been raised earlier. I hope the Office continues this practice and tries to improve its effectiveness as they move forward. warm regards, User:Prad2609 On 15 March 2012 20:45, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Reminder that we are starting in 15 minutes. Do join in! Details below. *hisham* On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:38 AM, Hisham wrote: Gentle reminder. Do join in. *hisham* On Mar 11, 2012, at 6:41 AM, Hisham wrote: Hi Folks One of the essential things that India Program needs to constantly work out is keeping the community informed of the work that we are doing - so that this work is clearer but also to help cross-pollinate ideas amongst a wider set of community members who might not have been engaged on specific village pump / talk page discussion or involved in particular activities (e.g. outreach events) or wikiprojects. We used to have a monthly IRC with the community and India Program. (For those who are not familiar with IRC, it is an Internet messaging system similar to a regular chat room. It's very simple to use and you can join in by clicking on the following link:* http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office*.) I have been remiss in conducting these for the past few months - and I'd like to make amends by restarting, with a couple of modifications. a) I'd like to propose fortnightly instead of monthly. (I was wary of doing it any more frequently than monthly earlier because I didn't know if there would be enough on the plate to discuss. I have changed my mind now - because there is too much to discuss to cover in a single monthly session.) I'd like to propose that we do it in the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month at 9pm IST (which is GMT + 0530) - THOUGH NOT THIS MONTH - BECAUSE I HAVE MISSED THE TIMELINE. Just for March, we will do it on *March 15th* and March 29th (both at *9pm IST* which is GMT + 0530) b) I'd like to propose that we do it focussed on specific work streams instead of general. The reason I say this is that - as with many community meet-ups, folks will give time to attend a meet-up or participate in an IRC only if there is a topic of relevance to them. To that extent, we could do one IRC on Indic languages and one on Outreach Communications. I'd start both the IRCs with a re-cap of India Programs activities for the fortnight (or so) prior to the IRC and forward from the IRC - and then we could talk about either
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mobile sites of Indic Wikipedias
I can read articles from Indian language Wikipedias, but there is no option to type in the search box, is that possible to enable Narayam in mobile sites with little simplification and as the default tool for typing in case of mobile Indic sites? On 29 February 2012 22:24, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 21:21, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: but the instructions given is so much techie to be digestible for me :-) So please fix it, update the page with whats missing that would help another person like you, after all its a wiki :) -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ 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 Subha ___ 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] Wikipedia Telugu article count crosses 50, 000
Congrats :-) On 14 March 2012 18:53, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Congratulations, Telugu Wikipedians! This is an important milestone and you deserve all the warmest best wishes. May I suggest a community meetup to celebrate this? A landmark like this can provide acceleration to your community - and could be the catalyst for more collaboration (WikiProjects, etc.) and outreach. A meetup must celebrate but can also look forward and initiate increased community building. It can also be an opportunity to attract Telugu media coverage which will get new users and recognise existing editors. As always, do reach out if you need any support on any of this. Many thanks for sharing this, Rahimanuddin. Best *hisham* On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:03 AM, రహ్మానుద్దీన్ షేక్ wrote: Hi all Wikipedia Telugu's article count has crossed 50,000 mark. On this occasion, I congratulate everyone who was directly and indirectly involved. Now I request every tewiki user to concentrate on articles' quality improvement. తెవికీ సభ్యులందరి కృషి వలన తెవికీ ౫ వ్యాసాల మైలురాయిని దాట గలిగింది. అందరికీ శుభాకాంక్షలు. ఇకపై ప్రత్యేక వ్యాసం యొక్క నాణ్యతను మెరుగుపరుద్దాం. -- Rahimanuddin Shaik నాని ॥రామానుజార్య దివ్యాజ్ఞాం వర్ధతామభివర్ధతాం॥ Telugu Wikipedia : http://te.wikipedia.org A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com ___ 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 ___ 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 -- Kind Regards Ansuman smileyansu http://twitter.com/smileyansu *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ http://or.wikipedia.org/* ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 4:27 AM Subject: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate? To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, we're well on our way getting started with Wiki Loves Monuments 2012! (feel free to forward) For those that don't know what Wiki Loves Monuments is all about, please read this blog post [http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/10/02/165000-photos-submitted-during-second-annual-wiki-love-monuments-photography-contest/] on the WMF blog and this page about how the concept works [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Documentation#Concept]; here's also a small introduction to the main idea of the contest and what's awaiting us this year. == Wiki Loves Monuments in a nutshell == The photo competition around physical cultural heritage (buildings, bridges, etc.) is running in September, organized in numerous countries around the world. The contest is being organized in each country separately, allowing to play to the local needs and wishes, but is joined by an umbrella contest for the whole world making it all a bit more exciting. Last year the contest was organized in 18 countries, and brought in 165.000 images by 5000 uploaders. More importantly, 4000 of these uploaders never uploaded anything before! == Is your country participating? Helping hands are needed! == For 2012 already 24 countries [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Participating_countries] indicated that they will definitely participate, and 16 more say they possibly will participate. Please take a look at the list, and see whether your country is already there. If you would like to help organize this contest in your country, please join the team that signed up for it (often through a chapter or a local group) or start your own organizing group if there is none yet! Interested countries for example include India, United States, Chile, Sweden and Italy. == So, why would you want to organize a WLM in your country? == Well, of course there are the images – it is great to have good images available of your country. But more importantly perhaps is the amount of individuals that might participate! Hundreds, maybe thousands of people who never contributed before can now help out with what they are best at: making photos. They often find it fun, and might hang around a bit longer if we receive them well. It also is a good opportunity to get in touch with local cultural heritage institutions. Finally, it is a good way to try and forge a local community to organize events together. It is an existing framework you can use, and although there are no guarantees, working in an international context like this (the largest collaboration between chapters and other Wikimedia organizations so far!) helps a lot to keep people motivated and close to each other. An international group will be helping interested groups with the basic infrastructure and other things, and on a national level, you can focus on the organizing of your own contest, lists and communications. == Join the team and get started! == If you want to know more, feel free to leave a message[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012] or send us an email. But make sure to get started now if you're interested - because some parts of the work just require quite some time since external parties are involved. We would be delighted to help you out in any way possible to pull off this event. Best, Lodewijk (on behalf of the international coordinating team) ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l ___ 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
