Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Programs Additional IRC: Thursday March 22nd @ 9pm IST(Open House) (#wikimedia-office)
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Just a question. Is it possible to ever schedule a session in the afternoon/evening? Happy to schedule at whatever time works best to most - but I suspect that the 9pm slot is the one that will probably be the most convenient (for working folks and many students.) We used to have it at 8pm earlier and I got a bunch of requests to move it to 9pm. 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
One can also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Readers#Why_do_I_see_commercial_ads_at_Wikipedia.3F for clarification. Swaroop Rao (MikeLynch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch) On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 23:09, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Business Insider gave a $5bn valuation to Wikipedia in 2010. So yeah, that's a big market for spammers. anirudh On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote: I was really amazed on the discussion on the ads on the wikipedia. Looking at the snapshot, it could really some virus or adware. Even this should not be the way the ads come to Wikipedia, though I personally never will support this. I strongly recommend the user to scan the PC for a virus, change browser and check. Also seen some discussion where multiple people has reported this issue. This means that Wikipedia being targeted by Viruses now! User:Rameshng On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:44 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Could be, but it wouldn't hurt to do a scan of your system and find out if anything is wrong with it. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:25 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not the techie here, but I don't think its a malware on a system per se. Reason being being, two different people have experienced it, same ad also from different IP's, different locations though. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Definitely Adware/Malware/Spyware/etc. Notice in the Screenshot, it says Ads Not By This Site. It should've been a clue. Do scan your system with a good antivirus [Free or paid doesn't matter]. If your system is infected by anything, your data might be at risk. --Cheers, On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: I just saw that screenshot and remembered, even my friend said, it was by the same site, inkfruit. Some common issue?? On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:12 PM, Debanjan Bandyopadhyay debast...@gmail.com wrote: No, now that you mention him, even a friend of mine in Pune told me that Wikipedia had started ads, to which I dared him to show me and in fact made a bet. He failed to show me when I asked him to, so I took it as a singular even, perhaps, some sort of mistake he made. However, since other people have started seeing this, I though I'd tell you that he is not alone. I'll ask him further details about his net connection and get back to you guys on this. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting- a virus that injects ads directly into the DOM. On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 19:03, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: mostprobably adware in his machine. A smiliar report in portugese wikipedia is here: http://translate.google.co.in/translate?hl=ensl=ptu=http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%25C3%25A9dia:Esplanada/geral/Spam_na_Wikipedia,_problema_%2810mar2012%29ei=TqlcT9fyMs2rrAe468GlDAsa=Xoi=translatect=resultresnum=5ved=0CE4Q7gEwBAprev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522ads%2Bnot%2Bby%2Bthis%2Bsite%2522%2Binjection%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3D6zj%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26prmd%3Dimvns On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.com wrote: A friend got in touch with me about this. He is currently seeing advertisements on Wikipedia pages (on all pages except the home page). Here is a link to a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dhKyR.jpg These advertisements were not visible to him when I asked him to check through the secure WM server. These advertisements are also not visible to him on any other web page. To the bottom right of each ad, there is some text that says, ads not by this site. I've taken a quick look through the page source he forwarded, nothing looks untoward. His right-click menu does not appear when he right-clicks on the ad. He is based out of Mumbai and ISP is Tata Teleservices Maharashtra Ltd. His IP address is 114.143.88.193 (or was, while he accessed this page; I've since had him change his IP address since I'm sharing this one). I'm not sure if this issue is restricted to Mumbai; since the IP address shows up in Pune when I try to geolocate it (though I understand this is fairly common). The link he is directed to when he clicks the ad is this: http://www.inkfruit.com/combo-landing?utm_source=CMP1002Comboutm_medium=CPMutm_content=combobannerutm_campaign=Combo. I'm adding this here and copying the founder of Inkfruit since the campaign data in the URL parameters may help identify the problem (also, I'm not sure if Inkfruit is aware of this campaign). I've copied my friend here in case there are further questions he could help answer. Could this be a case of DPI by his ISP, or simply malware on his machine? If it were the former, what would be the legal status of the
[Wikimediaindia-l] Calling the Indian Diaspora
Dear Wikipedians outside India, I'm writing this specifically to reach out to NRIs / PIOs / Indic language wikipedians outside India who might be on this mailing list. It would be a great idea if we could encourage meet-ups and maybe even outreach sessions in the many cities where we have existing Indian wikipedians. We currently don't have a comprehensive list and I'm sharing this that was started a few months ago and a request to update it http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians It will help you folks to know about other Wikipedians in your cities and you can form Wiki-communities. We find this problem so much in India where sometimes Wikipedians live on the same street but don't know each other. I can imagine that it will be very similar abroad also. Many thanks Tinu Cherian P.S. Due to heavy spam attacks, editing on wiki.wikimedia.in is enabled only for email-confirmed users. Anyone is free to create a username on this public wiki of Wikimedia India. Creating of the usernamehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Special:UserLogintype=signupand confirming the email address should take less than 10 sec only :) ___ 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] Calling the Indian Diaspora
Hey Tinu, I've notified a few NRI Wikipedians I know about this. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Tinu Cherian ( Wikimedia India) tinucher...@wikimedia.in wrote: Dear Wikipedians outside India, I'm writing this specifically to reach out to NRIs / PIOs / Indic language wikipedians outside India who might be on this mailing list. It would be a great idea if we could encourage meet-ups and maybe even outreach sessions in the many cities where we have existing Indian wikipedians. We currently don't have a comprehensive list and I'm sharing this that was started a few months ago and a request to update it http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians It will help you folks to know about other Wikipedians in your cities and you can form Wiki-communities. We find this problem so much in India where sometimes Wikipedians live on the same street but don't know each other. I can imagine that it will be very similar abroad also. Many thanks Tinu Cherian P.S. Due to heavy spam attacks, editing on wiki.wikimedia.in is enabled only for email-confirmed users. Anyone is free to create a username on this public wiki of Wikimedia India. Creating of the usernamehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/index.php?title=Special:UserLogintype=signupand confirming the email address should take less than 10 sec only :) ___ 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, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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 Additional IRC: Thursday March 22nd @ 9pm IST(Open House) (#wikimedia-office)
We're starting in 15 minutes at 9pm IST. Speak soon. hisham On Mar 22, 2012, at 7:14 AM, Hisham wrote: Dear All Reminder that there's an IRC for the community with India Program on 22nd March at 9:00 pm IST in #wikimedia-office. This session is an open house with no specific topics to be discussed. (This was scheduled because we ran out of time in the previous IRC. To avoid spamming lists, I won't be sending this to any other lists apart from this one. Please do share this mail with whoever you know might be interested. (To join the IRC, all you have to do is go to: http://webchat.freenode.net/ and enter a nickname ( it does not require prior registration) and enter #wikimedia-office as the channel name.) I'll send a reminder 15 minutes before the session. hisham On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Hisham wrote: Here's the link that gives the log of this meeting - for those who couldn't attend. As planned, the major topic of discussion was the Indic Languages initiatives. We talked about the overall approach that Shiju has been following with several dozen community members. We walked through the Medical project - currently underway in Assamese, Telugu, Oriya (Odia) Malayalam. (This seeks to create vital articles in Indic wikis with the help of community members with medical/healthcare background, or users who are interested in healthcare articles.) During the IRC, Jayanta informed us that the Bengali community have also started it - which is great. We also discussed the Translated Articles Enhancement Project which has been started by the Kannada community. Thank you to every one but a special thank you to the new folks who came on today. It's always nice to see new faces! We ran out of time on this IRC. As discussed, I would like to suggest Thursday March 22nd @9pm IST for another IRC. (This is in addition to the IRC planned for March 29th.) The March 22nd IRCwill be an open house - and will not therefore have a predetermined agenda. As always, do visit the India Program page for more information on everything we do. Best hisham On Mar 15, 2012, at 8:45 PM, Hisham 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
