Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
Dear Anirudh, We have already forwarded this to our relevant Wiki loves monuments list just to avoid flooding this one. Here is the list address: wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl. Just passing it for your information so that we can have more focused discussions there. Thanks! Noopur On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: 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 -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
Noopur, This is a major development and should be of interest to those who are outside of the wlm-in mailing list. Thanks. anirudh On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Anirudh, We have already forwarded this to our relevant Wiki loves monuments list just to avoid flooding this one. Here is the list address: wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl. Just passing it for your information so that we can have more focused discussions there. Thanks! Noopur On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: 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 -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:33, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: We have already forwarded this to our relevant Wiki loves monuments list just to avoid flooding this one. Here is the list address: wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl. Is there a reason the archives should to be private? -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
hi, Re: WLM-In The status of the archives has not been discussed yet. In fact, we're yet to move on this at all. So, not much has happened in terms of discussion on this list. As of now, I see no point in keeping the archives private. In the future, it might be depending on how comfortable people are with discussions there. The GLAM taskforce within the Chapter has been sought advice on this. I, personally, would like this to be discussed on the members list (the part relating to the chapter's involvement) since the taskforce is still finding its feet. The rest of the community is also invivted. warm regards, Pradeep On 16 March 2012 11:57, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:33, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: We have already forwarded this to our relevant Wiki loves monuments list just to avoid flooding this one. Here is the list address: wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl. Is there a reason the archives should to be private? -- 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 -- 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] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
Not really but when Lodewijk offered to create this list, we had a couple of concerns like communicating with organizations and exploring possibilities of partnership (because WLM participants have done that in the past). So, I wasn't sure if these conversations should be public. However, now that we have substantial number of people on the list, we could just take a vote and figure out the best combination. Regards Noopur On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:33, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: We have already forwarded this to our relevant Wiki loves monuments list just to avoid flooding this one. Here is the list address: wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl. Is there a reason the archives should to be private? -- 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 -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
hi, Going off on a tangent - the main concern now vis-a-vis the Indian Wiki Loves Monuments is that we don't have a good list of Monuments in India as of now. Any help pointing to a list of monuments would be great. warm regards, User:Prad2609 ___ 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] Mobile sites of Indic Wikipedias
This is very important and it is definitely in our plan. Narayam as it is is more suited for desktop and laptop environments. It is more likely that we shall push the development and distribution of proper on-screen keyboard for mobile devices. 2012/3/16 Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com: 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 ___ 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: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
Dear Pradeep, I think you suggested INTACH, so I followed it up. Have sent them a mail and was searching thru their listings. A few cities do have comprehensive listing so we can expand our own list. Could I suggest that we start a list on our Wiki somewhere? That way we can draw upon sources and make our own big list. On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: Heya all, glad to see this discussion happening! It means people care, and caring people is good! The list is there of course for your needs. We just set it up as a copy of the Dutch list, but you can make any adjustments to it that mailman will allow. Also, right now I'm admin, and I would also be happy to expand that to someone else - but maybe that is for later. The list is mainly intended to make your life easier. In NL we indeed chose to keep private archives but open subscription - that way keeping it out of google, but anyone who wanted to join discussion could just do so and see the archive. That was like Noopur explained indeed mainly to avoid that discussions about partners end up on a private mail with many people in cc. So yeah, there are reasons - but it is up to you as a team to decide whether you want to maintain the status quo :) Best, Lodewijk No dia 16 de Março de 2012 07:48, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.comescreveu: Not really but when Lodewijk offered to create this list, we had a couple of concerns like communicating with organizations and exploring possibilities of partnership (because WLM participants have done that in the past). So, I wasn't sure if these conversations should be public. However, now that we have substantial number of people on the list, we could just take a vote and figure out the best combination. Regards Noopur On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:33, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: We have already forwarded this to our relevant Wiki loves monuments list just to avoid flooding this one. Here is the list address: wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl. Is there a reason the archives should to be private? -- 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 -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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 -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
hi, Going through the Timeline for Wiki Loves Monuments 2012[1], I sent a mail to Lodewijk for what they meant by start a heritage project on your local wikipedia and analyse if the community wants to join your project. To which he sent these two WikiProjects as examples[2][3]. I went to search for similar WikiProjects in India and since User:AshLin was around on chat, I asked him for help. He provided me this list of helpful projects under WikiProject India[4]. Since this was a picture related project, User:AshLin did not want to burden them on any of the pure article based departments. This is the condition so far. The only group that has the closest connection to the Wiki Loves Monuments is the Indian history workgroup[5]. As a hack for User:AshLin's concern, I suggested that the Photography department[6] of WP:India be given the role and that it work with the Indian history workgroup in this particular case. This work was supposed to be done in February, but hopefully we can do it now. Going back to Noopur's email, once the Indian history workgroup is okay, we can seek their help in putting together the list of Monuments. I also wonder if INTACH can be involved as an institutional partner, but that comes much later, I guess. Wikipedia first. I would love to hear any alternatives to this idea of taking Wiki Loves Monuments or would love to see a discussion on the talk pages of this group to their perception on Wiki Loves Monuments and if they'll be interested in being involved. Any help is welcome! warm regards, User:Prad2609 [1] - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Register_of_Historic_Places [3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Historic_sites [4] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WikiProject_India [5] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_history [6] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Photography On 16 March 2012 13:12, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Pradeep, I think you suggested INTACH, so I followed it up. Have sent them a mail and was searching thru their listings. A few cities do have comprehensive listing so we can expand our own list. Could I suggest that we start a list on our Wiki somewhere? That way we can draw upon sources and make our own big list. On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: Heya all, glad to see this discussion happening! It means people care, and caring people is good! The list is there of course for your needs. We just set it up as a copy of the Dutch list, but you can make any adjustments to it that mailman will allow. Also, right now I'm admin, and I would also be happy to expand that to someone else - but maybe that is for later. The list is mainly intended to make your life easier. In NL we indeed chose to keep private archives but open subscription - that way keeping it out of google, but anyone who wanted to join discussion could just do so and see the archive. That was like Noopur explained indeed mainly to avoid that discussions about partners end up on a private mail with many people in cc. So yeah, there are reasons - but it is up to you as a team to decide whether you want to maintain the status quo :) Best, Lodewijk No dia 16 de Março de 2012 07:48, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.comescreveu: Not really but when Lodewijk offered to create this list, we had a couple of concerns like communicating with organizations and exploring possibilities of partnership (because WLM participants have done that in the past). So, I wasn't sure if these conversations should be public. However, now that we have substantial number of people on the list, we could just take a vote and figure out the best combination. Regards Noopur On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:33, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: We have already forwarded this to our relevant Wiki loves monuments list just to avoid flooding this one. Here is the list address: wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl. Is there a reason the archives should to be private? -- 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 -- Noopur Raval Student Arts and Aesthetics Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Ph: 9650567690 ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
Accurately put, Pradeep. I would like to add that chances are there is no authoritative and complete list of monuments outside the Archaeological Survey of India which has its HQ in New Delhi. We may need to co-opt them to get details of what they list as monuments and heritage buildings throughout the country. We should be prepared to hack our own state/district/city lists in the meantime and keep updating them as we come across new information. Reliable information on this issue is scarce. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Going through the Timeline for Wiki Loves Monuments 2012[1], I sent a mail to Lodewijk for what they meant by start a heritage project on your local wikipedia and analyse if the community wants to join your project. To which he sent these two WikiProjects as examples[2][3]. I went to search for similar WikiProjects in India and since User:AshLin was around on chat, I asked him for help. He provided me this list of helpful projects under WikiProject India[4]. Since this was a picture related project, User:AshLin did not want to burden them on any of the pure article based departments. This is the condition so far. The only group that has the closest connection to the Wiki Loves Monuments is the Indian history workgroup[5]. As a hack for User:AshLin's concern, I suggested that the Photography department[6] of WP:India be given the role and that it work with the Indian history workgroup in this particular case. This work was supposed to be done in February, but hopefully we can do it now. Going back to Noopur's email, once the Indian history workgroup is okay, we can seek their help in putting together the list of Monuments. I also wonder if INTACH can be involved as an institutional partner, but that comes much later, I guess. Wikipedia first. I would love to hear any alternatives to this idea of taking Wiki Loves Monuments or would love to see a discussion on the talk pages of this group to their perception on Wiki Loves Monuments and if they'll be interested in being involved. Any help is welcome! warm regards, User:Prad2609 [1] - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Register_of_Historic_Places [3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Historic_sites [4] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WikiProject_India [5] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_history [6] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Photography On 16 March 2012 13:12, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Pradeep, I think you suggested INTACH, so I followed it up. Have sent them a mail and was searching thru their listings. A few cities do have comprehensive listing so we can expand our own list. Could I suggest that we start a list on our Wiki somewhere? That way we can draw upon sources and make our own big list. On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: Heya all, glad to see this discussion happening! It means people care, and caring people is good! The list is there of course for your needs. We just set it up as a copy of the Dutch list, but you can make any adjustments to it that mailman will allow. Also, right now I'm admin, and I would also be happy to expand that to someone else - but maybe that is for later. The list is mainly intended to make your life easier. In NL we indeed chose to keep private archives but open subscription - that way keeping it out of google, but anyone who wanted to join discussion could just do so and see the archive. That was like Noopur explained indeed mainly to avoid that discussions about partners end up on a private mail with many people in cc. So yeah, there are reasons - but it is up to you as a team to decide whether you want to maintain the status quo :) Best, Lodewijk No dia 16 de Março de 2012 07:48, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.comescreveu: Not really but when Lodewijk offered to create this list, we had a couple of concerns like communicating with organizations and exploring possibilities of partnership (because WLM participants have done that in the past). So, I wasn't sure if these conversations should be public. However, now that we have substantial number of people on the list, we could just take a vote and figure out the best combination. Regards Noopur On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:33, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: We have already forwarded this to our relevant Wiki loves monuments list just to avoid flooding this one. Here is the list address: wlm...@lists.wmnederland.nl. Is there a reason the archives should to be private? --
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wiki Loves Monuments - will your country participate?
Hi Also hope the Indic languages will also participate and improve articles on the monument of their states and those of national importance. User:prad2609 Handheld On Mar 16, 2012 2:00 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: Accurately put, Pradeep. I would like to add that chances are there is no authoritative and complete list of monuments outside the Archaeological Survey of India which has its HQ in New Delhi. We may need to co-opt them to get details of what they list as monuments and heritage buildings throughout the country. We should be prepared to hack our own state/district/city lists in the meantime and keep updating them as we come across new information. Reliable information on this issue is scarce. Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Going through the Timeline for Wiki Loves Monuments 2012[1], I sent a mail to Lodewijk for what they meant by start a heritage project on your local wikipedia and analyse if the community wants to join your project. To which he sent these two WikiProjects as examples[2][3]. I went to search for similar WikiProjects in India and since User:AshLin was around on chat, I asked him for help. He provided me this list of helpful projects under WikiProject India[4]. Since this was a picture related project, User:AshLin did not want to burden them on any of the pure article based departments. This is the condition so far. The only group that has the closest connection to the Wiki Loves Monuments is the Indian history workgroup[5]. As a hack for User:AshLin's concern, I suggested that the Photography department[6] of WP:India be given the role and that it work with the Indian history workgroup in this particular case. This work was supposed to be done in February, but hopefully we can do it now. Going back to Noopur's email, once the Indian history workgroup is okay, we can seek their help in putting together the list of Monuments. I also wonder if INTACH can be involved as an institutional partner, but that comes much later, I guess. Wikipedia first. I would love to hear any alternatives to this idea of taking Wiki Loves Monuments or would love to see a discussion on the talk pages of this group to their perception on Wiki Loves Monuments and if they'll be interested in being involved. Any help is welcome! warm regards, User:Prad2609 [1] - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012/Timeline [2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_National_Register_of_Historic_Places [3] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Historic_sites [4] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WikiProject_India [5] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_history [6] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_India/Photography On 16 March 2012 13:12, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Pradeep, I think you suggested INTACH, so I followed it up. Have sent them a mail and was searching thru their listings. A few cities do have comprehensive listing so we can expand our own list. Could I suggest that we start a list on our Wiki somewhere? That way we can draw upon sources and make our own big list. On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.orgwrote: Heya all, glad to see this discussion happening! It means people care, and caring people is good! The list is there of course for your needs. We just set it up as a copy of the Dutch list, but you can make any adjustments to it that mailman will allow. Also, right now I'm admin, and I would also be happy to expand that to someone else - but maybe that is for later. The list is mainly intended to make your life easier. In NL we indeed chose to keep private archives but open subscription - that way keeping it out of google, but anyone who wanted to join discussion could just do so and see the archive. That was like Noopur explained indeed mainly to avoid that discussions about partners end up on a private mail with many people in cc. So yeah, there are reasons - but it is up to you as a team to decide whether you want to maintain the status quo :) Best, Lodewijk No dia 16 de Março de 2012 07:48, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.comescreveu: Not really but when Lodewijk offered to create this list, we had a couple of concerns like communicating with organizations and exploring possibilities of partnership (because WLM participants have done that in the past). So, I wasn't sure if these conversations should be public. However, now that we have substantial number of people on the list, we could just take a vote and figure out the best combination. Regards Noopur On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:33, Noopur
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mobile sites of Indic Wikipedias
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 13:03, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.comwrote: And can one of you guys write a blog in the blog.wikimedia.org which is short and explains how people using A) Java based OS, B) Symbian, C) Android can browse Indic WPs (All in one blog which a non-tech savvy guy can understand :D ) There is only one way for all those people. Use Opera mini. Read this blogpost[1] which explains in terms. There is also a huge growth in mobile stats this month, 100% (estimated) almost for all Indic projects, which might be happening due to Mobile apps + mobile front page update which many wikipedia's did a few days back. It would be interested to see the source of traffic for these and I guess we would have more stats would be made available by the Mobile team soon. Having an input method on mobile will help a lot since many people can search and explore more pages on mobile as opposed to just following links. Android phones already have apps for Indic input. Even symbian has some, but having an on-site typing solution will help a lot just as did for the desktop site. [1] http://veerasundar.com/blog/2010/08/regional-font-support-in-opera-mini/ [2] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/TablesPageViewsMonthlyMobile.htm -- 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] main pages for Mobile Wikipedias in Punjabi, Gujarati and Bhojpuri
Hello, The majority of Wikipedias in languages of India now have a main page for mobile devices. Great job! Several languages remain without a mobile main page and they only have a search box: * Gujarati - https://gu.m.wikipedia.org/ * Punjabi - https://pa.m.wikipedia.org/ * Bhojpuri - https://bh.m.wikipedia.org/ The instructions for creating a mobile page are here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Projects/Mobile_Gateway#Mobile_homepage If you are experienced with editing Wikipedia, it should take no more than ten minutes, but if you run into any problems, please ask me. Bhojpuri also needs translation of the interface (just 59 short messages): http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslatetaction=translategroup=ext-mobilefrontendlanguage=bho -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore ___ 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] Mobile sites of Indic Wikipedias
Hey guys, just to let you know, Quillpad.in has an application to type in Indic scripts, on Basic Java phones, though it isn't free. Also, there is an app called MatruBhasha which offers pretty much the same functionality. I got it from Tata Docomo's server. -- 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] India Programs-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
Pradeep, while I haven't used Google Hangout, or done videocalls with Skype, I'd just like to state that, IRC is nothing but a text chat. Like using an Instant Messenger. True, sharing files isn't easy, but you could use a workaround. I'm now tempted to attempt a Virtual Workshop over IRC. -- 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] Tool to aid creating list based articles into Indic Wikipedias
Hi all, There is a tool[1] which can help you create list based articles faster by replacing existing interwiki links. Just copy the list syntax from source wiki and get names converted in your language with existing links. Please ensure to translate the remaining part of article which did not get auto translated. This is not a machine translation, its just a search/replace of wiki links. Thanks to Mahir (Tamil Wikipedia) for this tool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_cricket_centuries_by_Sachin_Tendulkar exists only in Malayalam, Please do the needful :D Hope this helps. [1] http://toolserver.org/~mahir/ -- 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tool to aid creating list based articles into Indic Wikipedias
Wow! Nice. Thank you for bringing this to the public eye. -- 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] Wikipedia Telugu article count crosses 50, 000
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
To clarify: I have nothing against IRC. Just the way it was conducted on IRC. Please share best practices on how to do an IRC chat well! User:prad2609 Handheld On Mar 16, 2012 5:00 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Pradeep, while I haven't used Google Hangout, or done videocalls with Skype, I'd just like to state that, IRC is nothing but a text chat. Like using an Instant Messenger. True, sharing files isn't easy, but you could use a workaround. I'm now tempted to attempt a Virtual Workshop over IRC. -- 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)
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: To clarify: I have nothing against IRC. Just the way it was conducted on IRC. Please share best practices on how to do an IRC chat well! Some of the projects use http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot to help stick to the agenda as well as ensure notes being taken for the meeting. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_communicate_using_IRC is a simple set of guidelines that the Fedora project uses (I'm sure that other projects have their specific 'good things to do' list as well) and, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Schedule/MeetingGuidelines is for a specific group within the Fedora project. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog ___ 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] Chennai hackathon on 17 March
One last-minute reminder: Srikanthlogic and Yuvipanda are leading a hackathon in Chennai tomorrow. More details: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012 Sample tweet/dent to help publicize: Chennai hackathon tomorrow http://ur1.ca/82v84 - register now! #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #MediaWiki #wikihackchennai -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ 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] [OT]Court Orders SOPA-style Blackout of 100+ Music Sites
It probably makes no sense writing to them. Most of these are written by inexperienced guys who just write whatever will attract attention. Remember the Wikipedia condemnation instead of Wikileaks last year? -- 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] India Programs-Fortnightly IRC: Thursday March 15th @ 9pm IST (Indic Languages) Thursday March 29th @9pm IST (Outreach Communication) (#wikimedia-office)
Pradeep, do remember it's a multiway chat system. If you feel it is one sided, all you need to do is ask a question. A simple question can lead to an interactive session leaving everyone satisfied. Sankarshanan, thanks for the links. I guess we could implement something like that. -- 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] Chennai hackathon on 17 March
We are all looking forward to its outcome. Go for it tech-champs! Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org wrote: One last-minute reminder: Srikanthlogic and Yuvipanda are leading a hackathon in Chennai tomorrow. More details: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Chennai_Hackathon_March_2012 Sample tweet/dent to help publicize: Chennai hackathon tomorrow http://ur1.ca/82v84 - register now! #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #MediaWiki #wikihackchennai -- Sumana Harihareswara Volunteer Development Coordinator Wikimedia Foundation ___ 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
