[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog]: Postcard from the Tamil Community
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 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Tamil_Wikimedians/TamilWiki_Media_Contest/Report There's also a blog post that we've been working on that takes a peek at TWMC behind the scenes with inputs from the organizing team. It might be really useful to any community planning to conduct a similar events in future. You can read the post here: http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/17/postcard-from-the-tamil-community/. It's a great story of how an off-the-cuff conversation between 2 editors resulted in a massive community wide initiative - with participation of the Tamil community (and other communities) from across the world, the kind of intense efforts, the use of technology enablers and last - and most certainly not the least - some fantastic images (a sample of which can be seen at http://www.tawp.in/r/33zx) - which have now been used to create or improve articles (6122 on Tamil Wiktionary, 1659 on Tamil Wikipedia and more). Do go through the story and add comments. Please also share it with others. Don't forget to use the images to improve articles on your Wikipedia! (They are all available on Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TamilWiki_Media_Contest) I am thankful to Natkeeran for the wonderful story idea and to Sodabottle, Logicwiki and others for your inputs, insights and times! Regards Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Ashwin Baindur and Shyamal interviewed by the Signpost
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 mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ashwin Baindur and Shyamal interviewed by the Signpost
Excellent work! Congratulations. -- 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] [GLAM]: Update and Crafts Museum edit-a-thon!
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 out the project. In these meetings, we have explained what is Wikipedia, how it is used, how it can be useful to the Museum, how can staff members benefit if they edit and how can Indian handicrafts handlooms benefit by more and better content on Wikipedia. A few things became clear very early on. The language of the project needs to be primarily in Hindi because the staff members are most comfortable in Hindi. Another point is that since they are all starting from the very basics, we should set realistic targets like taking things 5 articles at a time to begin with. Two outreach workshops for the museum staff have now been conducted in Hindi. These covered approximately 8-9 staff members - out of which 6 have created usernames and started editing. It gives an immense sense of satisfaction and inspiration to see that so many of them are excited by this project and they edit voluntarily even after the workshop is over! (In fact, the clear message sent by the Director was that it was not a compulsory task - so all the folks editing are doing so out of choice!) Check out the article on Crafts Museum (शिल्प संग्रहालय,_दिल्ली) in Hindi Wikipediahttp://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%AF,_%E0%A4%A6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%80! [2] The Hindi aspect is an important point to note because English would have been the preferred language because it gives greatest audience and is the most convenient for other language community (Indic and beyond) to use as a foundation if they want to create / improve the respective articles on their respective Wikipedias. In this case, I visualize articles primarily starting off in Hindi, and then moving to English - and then onwards to other languages. In fact, the project page has now been created here on Hindi Wikipedia!http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%8B%E0%A4%9C%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AA_%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%B9%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%AF[3] The MoU has been signed with Wikimedia India Chapter - for which I'd like to thank Arun and the EC. The MoU was also important because it formalizes the taking of pictures of objects and their uploading to Commons. User:Yann has already done a wonderful job as you can see on the Crafts Museum project page here at the GLAM project page for Craft Museumhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/CM. [1] User:Arag0n also came in last week and took some wonderful images that we hope to see soon. I am currently working with the Director to see how Craft Museum can improve the infrastructure for its' staff and to figure out how best to free up time for the museum staff to support this initiative. There is an innovation that I have tried which I wanted to share because many community members might find it useful - and it's got nothing to do with GLAM! There have been a number of meetups and outreach sessions in Delhi - after a long time. One challenge I was facing was how to keep engaged with participants of meetups and outreach sessions - and to constantly encourage them to edit. What I did was shift the meetup up venue to Crafts Museum itself! Its fun to see new editors and museum staff get surprised that many people are editing one article at the same time. That's when they really experience the magic of Wikipedia. This is working well and I will continue to work on it. The next step is to invite existing Hindi community members to Crafts Museum - which should happen in the next couple of weeks. The next event that we are planning - which is also why I'm writing is to invite you to an *edit-a-thon on April 21st at 14:00 hrs (IST) (08:30 hrs GMT)*. This week, instead of the Delhi meetup, we plan to have an editing session at the Museum itself. You can sign up here. [4] You can be anywhere in India or the world(!) to join in - and you can choose to edit in any language - including Hindi, English, any other languages (Indic or otherwise!) We'll also be active on the *#wikimedia-in* IRC channel, tweet about it from @crafts_glam and have started a Facebook grouphttp://www.facebook.com/CraftsMuseumGlam. The museum staff and Delhi community members will be editing at the Museum - but the museum staff will also be available to help out giving insights and references for articles. Really hoping to see all of you participate and make this a big success across languages! :)
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [GLAM]: Update and Crafts Museum edit-a-thon!
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 can translate it to other languages. -- 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] [BCB] [X-post] Unofficial Bangalore Wikimedia Hackathon on May 19, 2012
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 is on the notice board. The WiFi is a mesh with multiple APs to ensure everyone gets connected. Best, Kiran -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in http://hasgeek.in On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: FYI, Registration is now open. Since space is limited, please register. As for the 'unofficial' tag, that means, no free lunch / tees :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:09 Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Unofficial Bangalore Wikimedia Hackathon on May 19, 2012 To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone! After the Unofficial Chennai Wikimedia Hackathon's success[1], me and Srikanth Lakshmanan are planning on having one in Bangalore. We've talked to CIS and they've graciously accepted to host us on the May 19th. Here's a draft page with details about the hackathon: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bangalore_Hackathon_May_2012 It definitely needs more work, so feel free to edit away! Also if you people have ideas on what would help, please add to http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Bangalore_Hackathon_May_2012/Ideas. Thanks! [1]: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2012-March/007766.html -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/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 -- Regards Srikanth.L [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] http://barcampbangalore.org/Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangalore_barcamp/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bangalore_barcamp/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: bangalore_barcamp-dig...@yahoogroups.com bangalore_barcamp-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: bangalore_barcamp-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ___ 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
