[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog]: Postcard from the Tamil Community

2012-04-17 Thread Noopur Raval
Hey folks, The Tamil Wikimedia Contest organized by User: Sodabottle and other members of the Tamil community recently got over. As you are all aware, it generated over 15,000 media files and got over 250 new contributors to Commons. A detailed report was published at

[Wikimediaindia-l] Ashwin Baindur and Shyamal interviewed by the Signpost

2012-04-17 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Congratulations Ashwin and Shyamal! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-04-16/WikiProject_report Best, anirdh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ashwin Baindur and Shyamal interviewed by the Signpost

2012-04-17 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Excellent work! Congratulations. -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit

[Wikimediaindia-l] [GLAM]: Update and Crafts Museum edit-a-thon!

2012-04-17 Thread Noopur
Dear all, Here's an update on the GLAM initiative at Crafts Museumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/CM [1] and an invite to an edit-a-thon. There have been a number of meetings and conversations with the Director of the Crafts Museum and the museum staff over the past few weeks to plan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [GLAM]: Update and Crafts Museum edit-a-thon!

2012-04-17 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan
Just to point out, English should never be assumed to be the prefered language for any entity, especially in the Indian context. I say this as an English editor myself. The prefered language of any entity should be the one attached to it; in this case Hindi. If needed, keep Hindi as primary, we

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [BCB] [X-post] Unofficial Bangalore Wikimedia Hackathon on May 19, 2012

2012-04-17 Thread Kiran Jonnalagadda
HasGeek will sponsor the internet connection for this event. If you have any experience pulling data from Wikipedia, you know that the internet connection makes all the difference. We recently got a blazing fast 20 Mbps line installed at CIS. To use it, connect to the HasGeek SSID. The password