Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Do not donate to Wikipedia
Asaf, GAC isn't for Participation grants, I don't know why you throwing that in the people who disagree. And you said yourself you needed to consult with WMIN, they are telling a big NO, why you don't refuse the grant? _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 9 July 2012 03:00, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello, everyone. I have responded on the grant talk page. Let's keep this conversation in one place, there: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation_talk:AbhiSuryawanshi/NASA_LARSS_program#Chapter_consultation.3F Thanks, Asaf On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: *John:* Is a presentation not an internship for what I read. *Gautan*: The Grants team in this case is Asaf only. The GAC didn't review participation grants. *Ravishankar*: If you want to make your concern visible, post on Wikimedia mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 8 July 2012 11:51, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I hope I am wrong, but this doesnt look like it fits within the participation assistance scheme. Instead it looks like the assistance is to cover travel to USA for an internship at NASA-related organisation. The grant request page is quite confusing. On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 8 July 2012 16:49, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: I plan to run this campaign across all Social media networks if I continue to see any such grant. Something by way of explanation would be nice as well? As far as I can read, the WMF/Grants Team believes it fits one or more of the goals and did fund the grant. Why are you holding out such a threat? 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 -- John Vandenberg ___ 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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ 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] Experimenting with Virtual Outreach
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks, I was thinking of experimenting conducting online outreach. I want to try out if we can do an effective outreach event using a google+ (video) hangout. Virtual outreach has a number of advantages: * No investment of time/effort/cost in travel * Personal attention to each participant (because of individual video/screenshare facilities.) * No complications of no laptops available at the venue or a limit on creating user names from a single IP address during the event * Lower dependency on institutions/college fests to organize an event for us. * Not limited by physical presence. Sitting in Kanyakumari, one can conduct outreach for interested folks in Kashmir! This is just a trial to test if online outreach is effective, doable and manageable. This could be one of the ways forward! (Potentially, we could have more community members doing more events with a more diverse audience.) Hello all, Adding to the list of advantages, the entire session gets automatically recorded and is available on Youtube. (So 1 good session will reach much more people than participants) I recently participated on one such hangout and happened to talk about Tamil Wiki projects, Translatewiki etc(though as stop gap arrangement) and can be watched here[1]. It would be great if this mode of outreach can be tried again. IIRC the first one did not go all well due to connectivity issues, but we can always try again! [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=1uwmGhQFgH4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwmGhQFgH4 -- 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] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages
I'm not too sure. I assume that if one language has a keyboard then all of them should have. But seeing that this is Google, I have a feeling this is the same Indic Input that they have for Desktops. -- 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] Fwd: Announcing 17th Wikipedia Mumbai Community Meetup.
Hii All, As discussed earlier, we have planned a meetup on the coming Saturday i.e on 14th in Bandra,Mumbai at the Flarepath's office. We are planning to have an Editing session too this time. The following is the Wiki page for the meetup.The details of venue, address, time etc. are mentioned there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai17http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai17#Facebook and the Facebook event page link: https://www.facebook.com/events/383347728392090/ Would be great to have suggestions with regards to any tips about your experience of conducting editing sessions in the past, so that we can be more careful. Warm Regards, Nikita Belavate. ___ 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] [Wikimedia-in-del] 4 community meet-ups; 40 participants; 15 new editors; 10 articles; ONE WEEKEND!
This is really amazing Happy to see people of Delhi working on so many languages :) On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi su...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hi All, I wanted to share an update of a fantastic weekend in Delhi. Saturday morning, 8 community members (3 existing and 5 new editors) on Hindi Wikipedia met up at Crafts Museum to meet each other and collaborate on Crafts GLAM project. The meeting started with a round of introductions, including short talks from the existing editors of how they got introduced to Wikipedia and what keeps them motivated to edit and what kind of articles they edit. There's a separate blog post about the Crafts Museum GLAM project that's coming out shortly - but a quick summary of the meet up. 4 of the 5 new editors edited. They improved the articles on a type of sari, a kind of metal handicraft, a class of textile and added content to the Crafts museum page on Hindi Wikipedia! Pictures are uploaded herehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:GLAM_Crafts_Museum,_New_Delhi_7_July_2012. User: अनिरुद्ध, User:Siddhartha_Ghai and User:Roboture inspired and guided the new editors. User:Anilbhardwajnoida, a Museum staff member, was specially congratulated for his really good contributions (after starting to edit only a couple of months ago.) Saturday afternoon, 17 community members (2 existing and 15 new editors) on English Wikipedia met up at the British Council. This was the meeting of the British Council Wikipedia Club members and this was a follow-up session to the initial Wikipedia introduction sessions conducted a little while earlier. 10 of the new editors edited - including creating a new article of a locality in Delhi and Indian chewing gum brand, improving the articles of a famous Delhi landmark and a Delhi school as well as building on the articles of an Indian architectural element and a kind of darshan dating back to Akbar's time! They also added content on a couple of local food items and a couple of pictures on Commons! User:Theo10011 User:Hisham helped new editors on a whole host of queries they had. Sunday morning, 5 community members (2 existing and 3 new editors) on Odia Wikipedia met up at Hauz Khas. A WikiWorkship was conducted. A journalist who attended covered it in the The Political and Business Daily. Additional WikiWorkshops and press coverage were planned in Delhi. Pictures are uploaded herehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delhi_Odia_Workshop_2012Jan29. A new editor created an article about a traditional Odia food. User:Rashmirparida and User:Psubhashish conducted the session. Sunday afternoon, 14 community members (2 existing and 12 new editors) on Malayalam Wikipedia met up at Hauz Khas. A WikiWorkshop was conducted for the participants who included 3 women, 1 school student and 1 retired person. They also discussed a potential partnership with the Malayalam Mission in New Delhi, as well as follow-up outreach session. This meet-up was covered in the leading Malayalam newspapers, Malayalam Manorama and Mathrubhumi. Pictures are uploaded herehttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Delhi_Malayalam_Workshop_2012July08. User:Subeesh Balan and User:Shijualex conducted the workshop. I hope there are more meet-ups in more languages in Delhi and other cities. -- *Subha* *Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!* ___ Wikimedia-in-del mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-del -- -* *Sheel Sindhu Manohar ( शील सिंधु मनोहर )http://c41db53236a3d5181bca7b9b2a79046a *www.jmilug.org * Founder Linux Adda *www.linuxadda.org* - ___ 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] Do not donate to Wikipedia
On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:54 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: Asaf, GAC isn't for Participation grants, I don't know why you throwing that in the people who disagree. Yes, Béria, and I have acknowledged this not once but *twice* in the response that first mentioned the GAC. I was pointing out that the GAC is an opportunity to affect (other) grantmaking of the Foundation, and that we're accepting candidates right now. It seemed a good opportunity to recruit volunteers who evidently care about effective use of movement funds, wouldn't you say? I certainly did not imply, and I think no careful reader of my comment could have been led to believe, that the GAC is involved with the Participation Support program. Re consulting with WMIN, as I said on the talk page, it was an oversight, but the request is now approved, commitments have been made vis-a-vis the host, and we will not reverse the decision at this point. I have certainly been in the wrong here, and am taking steps to ensure it doesn't happen again (specifically, I've created a checklist to go through before future approvals, like the (more complex) checklist we have already had in place for Wikimedia Grants). Asaf And you said yourself you needed to consult with WMIN, they are telling a big NO, why you don't refuse the grant? _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 9 July 2012 03:00, Asaf Bartov abar...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hello, everyone. I have responded on the grant talk page. Let's keep this conversation in one place, there: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation_talk:AbhiSuryawanshi/NASA_LARSS_program#Chapter_consultation.3F Thanks, Asaf On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Béria Lima berial...@gmail.com wrote: *John:* Is a presentation not an internship for what I read. *Gautan*: The Grants team in this case is Asaf only. The GAC didn't review participation grants. *Ravishankar*: If you want to make your concern visible, post on Wikimedia mailing list wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org _ *Béria Lima* *Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a construir esse sonho. http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos* On 8 July 2012 11:51, John Vandenberg jay...@gmail.com wrote: I hope I am wrong, but this doesnt look like it fits within the participation assistance scheme. Instead it looks like the assistance is to cover travel to USA for an internship at NASA-related organisation. The grant request page is quite confusing. On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 8 July 2012 16:49, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: I plan to run this campaign across all Social media networks if I continue to see any such grant. Something by way of explanation would be nice as well? As far as I can read, the WMF/Grants Team believes it fits one or more of the goals and did fund the grant. Why are you holding out such a threat? 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 -- John Vandenberg ___ 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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org ___ 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 -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation http://www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of
