[Wikimediaindia-l] INCINE COTY
The year 2013 would be observed as the centenary year of Indian Cinema. Members of INCINE are expecting some celebrations or events to happen on this occasion. We, in a collaborative manner could work towards the improvement of articles relating to INCINE and thereby achieving our goals. Members of the community have planned to get a few articles appear in the main page on that day. Go through this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Film/Indian_cinema_task_force to know what exactly is happening in the task force and post your suggestions. -- Regards, Venkatesh S ___ 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] [IRC]: India Program: Community Building Pilot (7th June - 9:30 p.m)
Hey folks, Hisham https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham had posted an update on the community buildinghttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Buildingpilot Shiju https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju ran as part of India Program. This pilot was run in Assam but there are tips and pointers and suggestions from this pilot that are relevant for all Indic communities. As part of the India Programs IRCs, we propose the first monthly IRC of June to be on this topic. We'd like to discuss how to build and support communities by increasing the number of editors, assessing progress on Wikiprojects as well as fostering possibilities of new collaborations. Please join us on *7th June* at *09:30 p.m* IST using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. Thank you, Best, Noopur On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All I wanted to share with you an update on the work that Shijuhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju[1] is doing on Indic languageshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages[2] as part of India Program http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program.[3] A guiding principle for the thinking and efforts of our team is that community building should be the most essential aspect of all the work that we do. In the context of small Indic communities, Shiju has been working to try and identify the various elements that need to come together to foster community building. This update is about the Community Building pilothttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building[4] that was run for the Assamese community. For context, community building means different things to different people and in fact there was a very interesting posthttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005813.html[5] that Shiju put out that articulated his thinking on this and, hence, our priorities. The results of these efforts have been outstanding - number of editors on Assamese Wikipedia has increased to 31 in April 2012 (from 18 in December 2011 and just 10 in November 2011.) - number of Wikiprojects increased to 6 (from a situation where there were no reasonably active ones in December 2011- and including 5 Wikiprojects independently conceptualised and managed by the community) - average monthly edits on Assamese Wikipedia increased to about 5000 in April 2012 from around 3000 in November 2011 There are 5 key factors that are responsible for this remarkable growth 1. *Strong communication*. This started with Shiju building personal connections with Assamese editors and then encouraging them to communicate with each other on-wiki, online and in meet--ups and outreach sessions. 2. *Initial push*. Shiju visited Assam in January where he spent time in 2 towns with 7 of the most active community members, who also conducted 2 outreach sessions. This visit has proved to be really useful because it helped to energise the community and also helped to establish a personal relationship between Shiju and these editors (and also, amongst the editors themselves.) 3. *Encouraging collaboration*. Wikiprojects and outreach are really useful to galvanise a community and helped build personal equations. It's wonderful to see the increase in Wikiprojects and 4. *Building capacity confidence*. In all the work that has been done for the Assamese community, the endeavour has been to build capacity. For instance, support was given to get basic outreach material including FAQs prepared and outreach sessions were guided by Shiju. It's inspiring to see the Assamese community now take things to a whole new level and plan out an ambitious 10th anniversaryhttp://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/ .[6] 5. *Healthy environment*. This is the last - but probably the most essential point - and it is something I want to call out because it is what will help or severely hinder the abilities of individual communities realise their dreams and potential. The reason why the Assamese community is making such wonderful steps forward is because there is - a set of editors with the right level of initiative and motivation - a strong sense of co-operation and good spirit amongst the editors - an extremely welcoming approach to new editors None of this would have been possible without the efforts of every single Assamese community members. In the early days when Shiju started off, he was interacting with Bishnu, Dipankar, Gitartha, Jyoti Prabhakar - who helped organise the first meet-ups and outreach sessions. Thanks to their efforts, a list of thank-yous would now be 31 strong! Thank you and congratulations to all of you! To the
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] TOI:Urdu Wikipedia to be up and running in June
Seeing the recent state of affairs wrt Internet and information, I think the Government of India WOULD want to create a 'new' Urdu project where they CAN have control over what goes on and what doesn't. -- Srikanth On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 5 June 2012 14:50, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org wrote: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/to-counter-pak-india-to-launch-its-own-urdu-wiki/957849/ In Wikipedia, information contributed is vetted for authenticity by experts; we will do the same to ensure that information provided to the public is a rich database free of prejudice and misinformation Say what? Why don't they just fork the existing Urdu Wikipedia and fix it? Makes no sense to throw it *all* out. Then again, the Government oh so does love reinventing the wheel. Thank you. Best, Gautam http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html ___ 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] [IRC]: India Program: Community Building Pilot (7th June - 9:30 p.m)
A one day notice was too short. Perhaps, you could've given atleast a weeks notice. When will the log be up for thi? On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hey folks, Hisham https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham had posted an update on the community buildinghttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Buildingpilot Shiju https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju ran as part of India Program. This pilot was run in Assam but there are tips and pointers and suggestions from this pilot that are relevant for all Indic communities. As part of the India Programs IRCs, we propose the first monthly IRC of June to be on this topic. We'd like to discuss how to build and support communities by increasing the number of editors, assessing progress on Wikiprojects as well as fostering possibilities of new collaborations. Please join us on *7th June* at *09:30 p.m* IST using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. Thank you, Best, Noopur On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Hisham his...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All I wanted to share with you an update on the work that Shijuhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju[1] is doing on Indic languageshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages[2] as part of India Program http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program.[3] A guiding principle for the thinking and efforts of our team is that community building should be the most essential aspect of all the work that we do. In the context of small Indic communities, Shiju has been working to try and identify the various elements that need to come together to foster community building. This update is about the Community Building pilothttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building[4] that was run for the Assamese community. For context, community building means different things to different people and in fact there was a very interesting posthttp://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005813.html[5] that Shiju put out that articulated his thinking on this and, hence, our priorities. The results of these efforts have been outstanding - number of editors on Assamese Wikipedia has increased to 31 in April 2012 (from 18 in December 2011 and just 10 in November 2011.) - number of Wikiprojects increased to 6 (from a situation where there were no reasonably active ones in December 2011- and including 5 Wikiprojects independently conceptualised and managed by the community) - average monthly edits on Assamese Wikipedia increased to about 5000 in April 2012 from around 3000 in November 2011 There are 5 key factors that are responsible for this remarkable growth 1. *Strong communication*. This started with Shiju building personal connections with Assamese editors and then encouraging them to communicate with each other on-wiki, online and in meet--ups and outreach sessions. 2. *Initial push*. Shiju visited Assam in January where he spent time in 2 towns with 7 of the most active community members, who also conducted 2 outreach sessions. This visit has proved to be really useful because it helped to energise the community and also helped to establish a personal relationship between Shiju and these editors (and also, amongst the editors themselves.) 3. *Encouraging collaboration*. Wikiprojects and outreach are really useful to galvanise a community and helped build personal equations. It's wonderful to see the increase in Wikiprojects and 4. *Building capacity confidence*. In all the work that has been done for the Assamese community, the endeavour has been to build capacity. For instance, support was given to get basic outreach material including FAQs prepared and outreach sessions were guided by Shiju. It's inspiring to see the Assamese community now take things to a whole new level and plan out an ambitious 10th anniversaryhttp://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/ .[6] 5. *Healthy environment*. This is the last - but probably the most essential point - and it is something I want to call out because it is what will help or severely hinder the abilities of individual communities realise their dreams and potential. The reason why the Assamese community is making such wonderful steps forward is because there is - a set of editors with the right level of initiative and motivation - a strong sense of co-operation and good spirit amongst the editors - an extremely welcoming approach to new editors None of this would have been possible without the efforts of every single Assamese community members. In the early days when Shiju started off, he was interacting
