[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] Professional Video Production Village Pump Proposal
Dear all, *message attached below* FYI. I do recollect there being a thread where many of us gave suggestions on what videos we should have, especially for outreach in Indian languages. It would be great if we could propose them here and someone can pick them up to make a video. Best, Noopur Original Message Subject: [Wmfcc-l] Professional Video Production Village Pump Proposal Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:35:25 -0800 From: Victor Grigas vgri...@wikimedia.org To: Communications Committee wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org Reply-To: Communications Committee wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello everyone on ComCom, Last year (2012) along with the fundraising team and a few contractors we interviewed 100 Wikipedians at Wikimania which resulted in an awareness campaign launched in US, UK, NZ, AU CA: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Thank_You_Allhttp://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Thank_You_Main Almost all the feedback was positive, and we learned alot. (thank you again to those on this list who were in it) This year (2013) I'm aiming to make (and help others to make) a 2 minute video that hopefully 'goes viral' and makes the world laugh, cry and learn all about Wikipedia. In order to do that I'm going to be engaging and collaborating with professional producers from all around the world and producing many videos that cover a wide range of content and style. Here is an example: Right now we have a small test running for the Valentine's Day holiday which went out in an email to several thousand U.S.-only donors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLHZUIVdPU0 Sadly, we have only so much of a budget to work with. Videos can be expensive to produce and I am but one lone dude and I don't scale. Solution!: So I'm looking for professional film/video/creative volunteers to help: If you know any video agencies or individual producers, camera operators, motion graphics artists, et cetera who like Wikipedia enough to be willing to donate their services to promote and inform the world about Wikipedia, please connect me with them. Also, since Wikipedia is open and collaborative, I thought that video collaboration should also be left open to the community, so I just wrote this on the Village Pump Idea Lab: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Community-Driven_Video_Production_PortalIt is a proposal to create a forum where anyone can propose ideas that should be made into video. Those ideas can be polished and then a producer who is willing to volunteer (Wikipedian or otherwise) can read through scripts and produce the content they want to. This forum would serve video production on Wikipedia generally, not just for the work that i'm doing.Thanks for reading I'd be happy to know your thoughts.Victor -- Victor GrigasStoryteller Wikimedia Foundation vgri...@wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773149 New Montgomery Street 6th floorSan Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wmfcc-l mailing list wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wmfcc-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] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap (Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain)
Well done Netha. By seeing you contributing, I am sure many woman will come forward. :-) Ansuman On 15 February 2013 14:35, noopur noo...@cis-india.org wrote: ** Dear all, I am not sure if this was forwarded to the India list but Huffington post has a guest blog post from Netha this week. Congratulations Netha! :) Best, Noopur -- Forwarded message -- From: Sarah Stierch sstie...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:54 PM Subject: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap (Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain) To: wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/wikipedia-towards-closing-gender-gap_b_2654019.html WikiWoman Netha Hussain wrote a guest blog for Huffington Post UK - Login with Facebook to see what your friends are reading - Enable Social Reading - i [image: Netha Hussain] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain Netha Hussain http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain A medical student, blogger and Wikipedian GET UPDATES FROM NETHA HUSSAIN Like 1 Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap Posted: 09/02/2013 21:49 Follow Wikipedia http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/wikipedia, Gender Gap http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/gender-gap , Wikipedia Editors http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/wikipedia-editors , Ada Lovelace http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/ada-lovelace, Equality http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/equality, Open Knowledge http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/open-knowledge ,Women http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/women, UK Tech Newshttp://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/uk-tech Submit this story Most of us know Wikipedia as the free online encyclopedia, written collaboratively by millions of volunteers from around the world. I am onehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain of those writers for the last 3 years. It was by writing articles about medical sciences that I started contributing to Wikipedia. Later, I was intrigued by the enormous volume of information available on Wikipedia, and was curious to find out who actually write them - which made me delve into the editor demographics. It really made me upset when I figured out that only around 9%http://grouplens.org/system/files/wp-gender-wikisym2011.pdf of the contributors to Wikipedia are women. In fact, I knew that so few women write on Wikipedia, but I hadn't expected the figure to be as low as 9 percent. Diversity of opinion is the essence of any encyclopedia. Having equal representation from women will bring in wider perspectives, and increase the neutrality of the articles on Wikipedia. With men creating most of the content for Wikipedia, certain subjects might be covered more than a subject that may be of interest to women. Women not writing on Wikipedia mean that certain subjects may not be receiving the attention they rightfully deserve. The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia, had recognized this problem sooner than I did. The Wikimedia Foundation has launched various programs to bridge the gender gap, and the latest addition to the list is the WikiWomen's Collaborativehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative . The WikiWomen's Collaborative was created in September 2012 by women around the world who edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and want to encourage others to do the same. The project was aimed at helping women and transwomen to support one another and engage in programs that help the Wikimedian community to bring in new women editors. A variety of eventshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative/Final_report, like edit-a-thons, interviews and wikiwomen parties were conducted as a part of the collaborative. In May 2012, a WikiWomenCamphttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp was organized for women in the Wikimedia movement to get together and discuss about the various issues related to being women involved in the Wikimedia community with like-minded women. Over 20 women from different countries participated in the camp to brainstorm solutions for existing problems that concern women, and suggest future plans to collaborate with one another. It is customary to conduct a WikiWomen's luncheonhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiChix_2011_Lunch at Wikimania https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/, the global gathering of Wikimedians, exclusively for the women participants. Organizations like the Ada Initiative http://adainitiative.org/, named for the world's first programmer Countess Ada Lovelace, support women working with open knowledge projects like Wikipedia by creating resources for women in open stuff, conducting conferences and advising organizations on supporting women. Many outreach programs were conducted in women's universities all over the world to
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap (Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain)
Really interesting and nice to know. Thanks. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:48 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: Well done Netha. By seeing you contributing, I am sure many woman will come forward. :-) Ansuman On 15 February 2013 14:35, noopur noo...@cis-india.org wrote: ** Dear all, I am not sure if this was forwarded to the India list but Huffington post has a guest blog post from Netha this week. Congratulations Netha! :) Best, Noopur -- Forwarded message -- From: Sarah Stierch sstie...@wikimedia.org Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:54 PM Subject: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap (Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain) To: wmfc...@lists.wikimedia.org http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/wikipedia-towards-closing-gender-gap_b_2654019.html WikiWoman Netha Hussain wrote a guest blog for Huffington Post UK - Login with Facebook to see what your friends are reading - Enable Social Reading - i [image: Netha Hussain] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain Netha Hussain http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain A medical student, blogger and Wikipedian GET UPDATES FROM NETHA HUSSAIN Like 1 Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap Posted: 09/02/2013 21:49 Follow Wikipedia http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/wikipedia, Gender Gap http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/gender-gap , Wikipedia Editors http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/wikipedia-editors , Ada Lovelace http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/ada-lovelace, Equality http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/equality, Open Knowledge http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/open-knowledge,Women http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/women , UK Tech News http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/uk-tech Submit this story Most of us know Wikipedia as the free online encyclopedia, written collaboratively by millions of volunteers from around the world. I am onehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain of those writers for the last 3 years. It was by writing articles about medical sciences that I started contributing to Wikipedia. Later, I was intrigued by the enormous volume of information available on Wikipedia, and was curious to find out who actually write them - which made me delve into the editor demographics. It really made me upset when I figured out that only around 9%http://grouplens.org/system/files/wp-gender-wikisym2011.pdf of the contributors to Wikipedia are women. In fact, I knew that so few women write on Wikipedia, but I hadn't expected the figure to be as low as 9 percent. Diversity of opinion is the essence of any encyclopedia. Having equal representation from women will bring in wider perspectives, and increase the neutrality of the articles on Wikipedia. With men creating most of the content for Wikipedia, certain subjects might be covered more than a subject that may be of interest to women. Women not writing on Wikipedia mean that certain subjects may not be receiving the attention they rightfully deserve. The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia, had recognized this problem sooner than I did. The Wikimedia Foundation has launched various programs to bridge the gender gap, and the latest addition to the list is the WikiWomen's Collaborativehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative . The WikiWomen's Collaborative was created in September 2012 by women around the world who edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and want to encourage others to do the same. The project was aimed at helping women and transwomen to support one another and engage in programs that help the Wikimedian community to bring in new women editors. A variety of eventshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative/Final_report, like edit-a-thons, interviews and wikiwomen parties were conducted as a part of the collaborative. In May 2012, a WikiWomenCamphttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp was organized for women in the Wikimedia movement to get together and discuss about the various issues related to being women involved in the Wikimedia community with like-minded women. Over 20 women from different countries participated in the camp to brainstorm solutions for existing problems that concern women, and suggest future plans to collaborate with one another. It is customary to conduct a WikiWomen's luncheonhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiChix_2011_Lunch at Wikimania https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/, the global gathering of Wikimedians, exclusively for the women participants. Organizations like the Ada Initiative http://adainitiative.org/, named for the world's first programmer Countess Ada Lovelace, support women working with open knowledge projects like Wikipedia by creating resources for women in open stuff, conducting conferences and advising
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Hyderabad Meetup with CIS A2K Programme Director Mr. Vishnu : Minutes of Meeting
Hi All, The following are the minutes of the meeting: *In Attendance: * Mr. Vishnu - CIS A2K Programme Director Mr. Abhijith Jayanthi Mr. Rahimanuddin Shaik Dr. Rajasekhar Mr. Tausif Mr. Sai Anudeep Ms. Akhila Thumma Mr. Veera Venkata Chowdary (User: Veevan) *Minutes of Meeting:* (1) The meeting opened with a round of introductions about self and then Mr. Vishnu introduced CIS and A2K Programme - little history and his proposed ideas for shaping up the future course of the Programme and open up for discussions. The summary of the presentation and comments/suggestions that followed as indicated below: *Summary* (1) Greater Coordination is envisaged between CIS/ India Chapter + SIGs and the Wiki Community at large (2) Volunteering efforts of Wiki Community (snow balls) and the engagement needs to be better utilized with the support of CIS (positioning the start point for the snow ball to start rolling) so that impact is better captured. *Suggestions/Comments* Two approaches to volunteer engagement were suggested - merits/demerits need to be evaluated and are indicated below (a) Recognition in terms of participation certificates/ appreciation letters and setting an hierarchy of achievement will motivate the volunteers and engage them better. (b) Wiki Volunteering should stem out of passion for knowledge and should be structured on a ''No - Expectations-in-Return Model (3) Mr. Vishnu gave an update on the institutions in Hyderabad that he is trying to connect with (initial level) (4) Few proposals were discussed as part of the initiative: (a) Engaging on a Mobile Model for Wiki Academies: With volunteers and SIGs taking active role in engaging on a small-groups/local setup structures - making Wiki Academy a more sustained dialogue rather than touch and go activity (one day engagements); move towards a longer engagement pattern (b) WikiRTI#: A platform/initiative was discussed and received support from everyone present - to create a repository for anyone to upload RTI responses and thus move towards a general archive/knowledge bank schematic. # Mr. Tausif and Mr. Abhijith will be coordinating on creating a template design for this platform - anyone who is interested and wants to be part of this activity may contact Mr. Abhijith at abhij...@wikimedia.in (5) Mr. Vishnu proposed a tentative plan to engage a staff member based out of Hyderabad to roll-out activities in Hyderabad and around the state of Andhra Pradesh; proposal for which is expected to be discussed before taking forward. Mr. Abhijith expressed interest to make a necessary donation for the same post finalization The meeting concluded with all the participants seeking to have a greater engagement with A2K Team in Hyderabad involving various languages. regards Abhijith ___ 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] Fwd: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap (Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain)
Well firstly Congrats! We here at Pune are looking forward to the same and this adds up to the energy as well. 8th March is the date on our radar! Regards Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi http://www.facebook.com/niraj12 Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Punehttps://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Abhijeet Safai [via Wikimedia] ml-node+s7n499651...@n6.nabble.com wrote: Really interesting and nice to know. Thanks. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:48 PM, ansuman [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996513i=0 wrote: Well done Netha. By seeing you contributing, I am sure many woman will come forward. :-) Ansuman On 15 February 2013 14:35, noopur [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996513i=1 wrote: ** Dear all, I am not sure if this was forwarded to the India list but Huffington post has a guest blog post from Netha this week. Congratulations Netha! :) Best, Noopur -- Forwarded message -- From: Sarah Stierch [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996513i=2 Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 11:54 PM Subject: [Wmfcc-l] [PRESS] Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap (Huffington Post UK - guest blog by Wikipedian Netha Hussain) To: [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996513i=3 http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain/wikipedia-towards-closing-gender-gap_b_2654019.html WikiWoman Netha Hussain wrote a guest blog for Huffington Post UK - Login with Facebook to see what your friends are reading - Enable Social Reading - i [image: Netha Hussain]http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain Netha Hussain http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/netha-hussain A medical student, blogger and Wikipedian GET UPDATES FROM NETHA HUSSAIN Like 1 Wikipedia: Towards Closing the Gender Gap Posted: 09/02/2013 21:49 Follow Wikipedia http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/wikipedia, Gender Gap http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/gender-gap, Wikipedia Editors http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/wikipedia-editors , Ada Lovelace http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/ada-lovelace, Equality http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/equality, Open Knowledge http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/open-knowledge,Women http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/women , UK Tech News http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/uk-tech Submit this story Most of us know Wikipedia as the free online encyclopedia, written collaboratively by millions of volunteers from around the world. I am one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain of those writers for the last 3 years. It was by writing articles about medical sciences that I started contributing to Wikipedia. Later, I was intrigued by the enormous volume of information available on Wikipedia, and was curious to find out who actually write them - which made me delve into the editor demographics. It really made me upset when I figured out that only around 9% http://grouplens.org/system/files/wp-gender-wikisym2011.pdf of the contributors to Wikipedia are women. In fact, I knew that so few women write on Wikipedia, but I hadn't expected the figure to be as low as 9 percent. Diversity of opinion is the essence of any encyclopedia. Having equal representation from women will bring in wider perspectives, and increase the neutrality of the articles on Wikipedia. With men creating most of the content for Wikipedia, certain subjects might be covered more than a subject that may be of interest to women. Women not writing on Wikipedia mean that certain subjects may not be receiving the attention they rightfully deserve. The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organization that hosts Wikipedia, had recognized this problem sooner than I did. The Wikimedia Foundation has launched various programs to bridge the gender gap, and the latest addition to the list is the WikiWomen's Collaborativehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative . The WikiWomen's Collaborative was created in September 2012 by women around the world who edit Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, and want to encourage others to do the same. The project was aimed at helping women and transwomen to support one another and engage in programs that help the Wikimedian community to bring in new women editors. A variety of eventshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:WikiWomen%27s_Collaborative/Final_report, like edit-a-thons, interviews and wikiwomen parties were conducted as a part of the collaborative. In May 2012, a WikiWomenCamphttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp was organized for women in the Wikimedia movement to get together and discuss about the various issues related to being women involved in the Wikimedia community with like-minded women. Over 20 women from different countries participated in
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wmfcc-l] Professional Video Production Village Pump Proposal
Me in Pune, India would be glad to help with the camera Handlings. :) Regards Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi http://www.facebook.com/niraj12 Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Punehttps://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:34 PM, noopur [via Wikimedia] ml-node+s7n4996510...@n6.nabble.com wrote: Dear all, *message attached below* FYI. I do recollect there being a thread where many of us gave suggestions on what videos we should have, especially for outreach in Indian languages. It would be great if we could propose them here and someone can pick them up to make a video. Best, Noopur Original Message Subject: [Wmfcc-l] Professional Video Production Village Pump Proposal Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 17:35:25 -0800 From: Victor Grigas [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996510i=0 To: Communications Committee [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996510i=1 Reply-To: Communications Committee [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996510i=2 Hello everyone on ComCom, Last year (2012) along with the fundraising team and a few contractors we interviewed 100 Wikipedians at Wikimania which resulted in an awareness campaign launched in US, UK, NZ, AU CA: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Thank_You_All http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Thank_You_Main Almost all the feedback was positive, and we learned alot. (thank you again to those on this list who were in it) This year (2013) I'm aiming to make (and help others to make) a 2 minute video that hopefully 'goes viral' and makes the world laugh, cry and *learn all about Wikipedia*. In order to do that I'm going to be engaging and collaborating with professional producers from all around the world and producing many videos that cover a wide range of content and style. Here is an example: Right now we have a small test running for the Valentine's Day holiday which went out in an email to several thousand U.S.-only donors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLHZUIVdPU0 Sadly, we have only so much of a budget to work with. Videos can be expensive to produce and I am but one lone dude and I don't scale. Solution!: So I'm looking for professional film/video/creative volunteers to help: *If you know any video agencies or individual producers, camera operators, motion graphics artists, et cetera who like Wikipedia enough to be willing to donate their services to promote and inform the world about Wikipedia, please connect me with them.* Also, since Wikipedia is open and collaborative, I thought that video collaboration should also be left open to the community, so I just wrote this on the Village Pump Idea Lab: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_lab)#Community-Driven_Video_Production_Portal It is a proposal to create a forum where anyone can propose ideas that should be made into video. Those ideas can be polished and then a producer who is willing to volunteer (Wikipedian or otherwise) can read through scripts and produce the content they want to. This forum would serve video production on Wikipedia generally, not just for the work that i'm doing. Thanks for reading I'd be happy to know your thoughts. Victor -- *Victor Grigas* Storyteller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Knv6D6Thi0 Wikimedia Foundation [hidden email] http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996510i=3 +1 (415) 839-6885 x 6773 149 New Montgomery Street 6th floor San Francisco, CA 94105 https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [hidden email] http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996510i=4 To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l *Part_2.plain* (204 bytes) Download Attachmenthttp://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/attachment/4996510/1/Part_2.plain -- If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Fwd-Wmfcc-l-Professional-Video-Production-Village-Pump-Proposal-tp4996510.html To start a new topic under WikiMedia India, email ml-node+s7n1399899...@n6.nabble.com To unsubscribe from WikiMedia India, click herehttp://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_codenode=1399899code=bmlyYWouc3VyeWF3YW5zaGlAZ21haWwuY29tfDEzOTk4OTl8LTE3NDQ0MzE3NTk= . NAMLhttp://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewerid=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.namlbase=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespacebreadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml - Regards Thanks, Niraj N. Suryawanshi Pune
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia related activities in GNUnify 2013
Great Start to GNUnify! Congrats gnunify 2013 team! keep it up!! Regards Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi http://www.facebook.com/niraj12 Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Punehttps://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar [via Wikimedia] ml-node+s7n4996504...@n6.nabble.com wrote: Hi, Gnunify 2013 online webcasting is available on this url: http://202.71.141.150:8042/gnunify You can login with username/password user1/user1 or user2/user2. We will be streaming from 2 different rooms.Checkout the program schedule and select whatever you want. There might be some technical problem once in a while. Regards -Sudhanwa ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list [hidden email] http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996504i=0 To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Wikipedia-related-activities-in-GNUnify-2013-tp4996327p4996504.html To start a new topic under WikiMedia India, email ml-node+s7n1399899...@n6.nabble.com To unsubscribe from WikiMedia India, click herehttp://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_codenode=1399899code=bmlyYWouc3VyeWF3YW5zaGlAZ21haWwuY29tfDEzOTk4OTl8LTE3NDQ0MzE3NTk= . NAMLhttp://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewerid=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.namlbase=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespacebreadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml - Regards Thanks, Niraj N. Suryawanshi Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Pune +91 814 992 0120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com -- View this message in context: http://wikimedia.7.n6.nabble.com/Wikipedia-related-activities-in-GNUnify-2013-tp4996327p4996538.html Sent from the WikiMedia India mailing list archive at Nabble.com.___ 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] Fwd: [Chapters] Wiki Loves Earth
It is inspiring that such events will be carried out and executed successfully also their impact on highlighting the problems on natural heritage protection is one major step in preserving the countries heritage and maintaining them. every chapter should carry the tradition forward what Wikimedia Ukraine is looking forward to. btw Instead of discussing on cash, the red nose reindeer should check out thishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Pune ! and there are PEOPLE (not hotmail reindeers) who work for a CAUSE not for CASH! oh wait does the red nosed reindeer know how to click the link check it out and off course READ it??! Regards Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi http://www.facebook.com/niraj12 Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Punehttps://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Noise. Troll. Cease and desist, unless you have something positive to contribute. fyi, since you don't seem to have the time to regularly follow Wikimedia activities in India, many Wikimedians took part in the global Wikimedia Loves Monuments event, without any funding offers, with terrific results (that's a bonus, the participation was the prize). If you have ideas for some other kind of event, without necessarily copycatting Ukraine, please do come forward. PS what is a rd nose? Don't bother to reply, unless it is in abbrvtns, I don't need to hit the delete button so often. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Rudolph the Rd Nosed Reindeer rednosedr...@hotmail.com wrote: India Chapter should organize one like this. Oh wait, you need cash first. Sorry. -- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:58:43 +0400 From: srik.r...@wikimedia.in To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Wiki Loves Earth For your information: -- Forwarded message -- From: *Євген Букет* bu...@wikimediaukraine.org.ua Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:54 AM Subject: [Chapters] Wiki Loves Earth To: Dimce Grozdanoski dimce.grozdano...@gmail.com, tomasz.kozlow...@wikimedia.pl, i...@wikibilim.kz, gyo...@wikimedia.org, bu...@wikimedia.org.ph, s...@wikimedia.ru, mede...@wikimedia.ru, abar...@wikimedia.org, chapt...@wikimedia.ch, jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk, johannes.r...@wikimedia.de, le...@wikimedia.no, Yuri Perohanych direc...@wikimediaukraine.org.ua FYI, Wikimedia Ukraine is initiating a new photo contest – “Wiki Loves Earth”, its goal being collecting pictures of Ukraine Natural Heritage sites and Landscape and Ornamental Gardening objects for illustrating articles in the worldwide free Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. Everybody can take part in the competition. A registration on Wikimedia Commons (one of many Wikipedia sister projects) is required. You are to find in the list of natural heritage objects the ones you know of, take a picture of them yourself (it could be done anytime, previously or starting now) and upload them to Commons (during April 15 – May 15, 2013). The authors of the best pictures will be awarded with prizes. The results announcement and the awarding ceremony will be held in Kyiv, on June 5, 2013, on the World Environment Day. The Organizational Committee has already started preparation work on the competition list, and almost 8 000 of entries are to be included there. Nature reserves, landscape parks, protected areas, natural heritage sites, botanical (dendrological), zoological gardens and parks, and ornamenting gardening objects will be in the list. Yuri Perohanych, Wikimedia Ukraine Executive Director, said that this photo contest will draw the society’s attention to the existing problems of Ukraine natural heritage protection, and the contest itself is to show the perspectives of green/eco tourism in Ukraine. As Yevhen Buket, the contest coordinator, pointed out, the idea to initiate such a competition has arisen after conducting a successful international photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine this September. The goal of the contest was collecting pictures of cultural heritage monuments of Ukraine. Wikimedia Ukraine invited Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, environmental organizations, as well as donors and sponsors, to help with the organization of the competition and contribute to the contest prize fund. More information in Ukrainian: http://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/ВЛЗ - Best regards, Yevhen Buket, WM UA ___ Chapters mailing list chapt...@wikimedia.ch https://intern.wikimedia.ch/lists/listinfo/chapters -- Srikanth Ramakrishnan Member of the Executive Committee Wikimedia Chapter [India] Donate to the Wikimedia India Chapter todayhttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Donations ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question
Tejaswini Mam, I do agree. Yes Brahui it is. had a reference in The Dravidian Languages - Bhadriraju Krishnamurtihttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam041/2003282070.pdf Pg: 3 Para: 5/ Pg:4/ Pg:18 but we need to explore and research how much it is being used lately. and yes the north eastern languages need to be taken care of! maybe we could find out a way to club and generalize all the languages. Subhashish, it is painfull! Regards Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi http://www.facebook.com/niraj12 Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Punehttps://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi-4 [via Wikimedia] ml-node+s7n4996419...@n6.nabble.com wrote: I completely agree with the points Tejaswini and Sundar and all others. I'm only worried about the technical problems. If someone could show some light on how the keyword Indic would redirect someone to content having South Asian. If that's not possible South Asian (Indic) could be used alternatively (which is painful!). On 14-Feb-2013, at 5:24 PM, BalaSundaraRaman [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996419i=0 wrote: I just notice that Tejaswini's original email addresses these points. Sorry for coming late to the party and posting on this thread. Excuse me as I'm unable to follow the discussions here regularly. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture -- *From:* BalaSundaraRaman [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996419i=1 *To:* Wikimedia India Community list [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996419i=2 *Sent:* Thursday, February 14, 2013 3:56 PM *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question I don't know the actual history of the term 'Indic'. However, I know pieces of it and why it's a bad idea to use the term. 1. The languages spoken in India are from very diverse language families with very different origins. The biggest group as of now is the Indo-Aryan subfamily of Indo-European. Dravidian languages are the next most spoken family of languages. Other languages belong to Austro-asiatic and Tibeto-Burman families. Some languages are language isolates. 2. The reasons why the term Indic would have been applied are the following (I speculate here): a) due to a number of cognates that exist due to centuries of substratum and ad stratum influence or false cognates that exist in any two languages, people mistakenly think of them as one family. b) there's a prevalent mistaken belief about Sanskrit as a mother language of all languages (in India and elsewhere!). Saying Bengali came from Sanskrit is like saying chicken came out of crocodiles. Saying Konkani came out of Sanskrit is like saying whales evolved from sharks. c) there's one genuine reason, which is that, aside from the evolution of the languages themselves, scripts evolved in a more convergent fashion (not 100%). 3. Why is it not good to refer to all languages spoken in India as Indic languages? a) The term Indic specifically referred to a certain sub family of languages. b) People then tend lump together tools. The biggest casualty so far is the way unicode inherited inscript and messed up Tamil and Malayalam scripts for once. 4) Wherever possible, the accurate and unambiguous phrase languages spoken in India shall be used. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture -- *From:* Vishnu t [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996419i=3 *To:* Wikimedia India Community list [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996419i=4 *Sent:* Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:14 PM *Subject:* Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] additions - Indian Languages question Dear Tejaswini and Friends, It is an interesting and pertinent issue. I do completely concur with Tejaswini on the problem of 'using philological classifications and terminology'. However, it will be interesting to track the history of how we have ended up with the term 'Indic', in the computing context. Do friends on the list know of any history of computing terms and how 'Indic' has come to be used? Would be useful if any body can shed light on this and let us also put this up on Wikipedia. The Wiktionary entry for 'Indic' is here https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Indic Look forward to more conversations on this. Regards, Vishnu On 14 February 2013 09:34, Tejaswini Niranjana [hidden email]http://user/SendEmail.jtp?type=nodenode=4996419i=5 wrote: Correction: by Dravidian
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Wiki Loves Earth
Niraj, there are many Wikipedians who work for cause. While you are saying that you having been working for cause, I or the Wikimedia community have never seen you active. Though you may have done something great, but that doesn't means that you'll always put this up infront of everyone. A passionate Wikipedian is a person who will never pinpoint his achievements, thus it seems that you are only interested to gain some attention. Hope things changes soon.[1] 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiGnome PS: Don't tell me you are brother of Abhishek Suryawanshi. Regards, Anonymous. (who believes there is too much of gain attention game than politics). On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:50 PM, Niraj Suryawanshi niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: It is inspiring that such events will be carried out and executed successfully also their impact on highlighting the problems on natural heritage protection is one major step in preserving the countries heritage and maintaining them. every chapter should carry the tradition forward what Wikimedia Ukraine is looking forward to. btw Instead of discussing on cash, the red nose reindeer should check out thishttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Takes_Pune ! and there are PEOPLE (not hotmail reindeers) who work for a CAUSE not for CASH! oh wait does the red nosed reindeer know how to click the link check it out and off course READ it??! Regards Thanks, Niraj Suryawanshi http://www.facebook.com/niraj12 Pune Institute of Computer Technology | Wikipedia Club Punehttps://www.facebook.com/WikipediaClubPune 8149920120 | niraj.suryawan...@gmail.com On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: Noise. Troll. Cease and desist, unless you have something positive to contribute. fyi, since you don't seem to have the time to regularly follow Wikimedia activities in India, many Wikimedians took part in the global Wikimedia Loves Monuments event, without any funding offers, with terrific results (that's a bonus, the participation was the prize). If you have ideas for some other kind of event, without necessarily copycatting Ukraine, please do come forward. PS what is a rd nose? Don't bother to reply, unless it is in abbrvtns, I don't need to hit the delete button so often. On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Rudolph the Rd Nosed Reindeer rednosedr...@hotmail.com wrote: India Chapter should organize one like this. Oh wait, you need cash first. Sorry. -- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 16:58:43 +0400 From: srik.r...@wikimedia.in To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Wiki Loves Earth For your information: -- Forwarded message -- From: *Євген Букет* bu...@wikimediaukraine.org.ua Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 1:54 AM Subject: [Chapters] Wiki Loves Earth To: Dimce Grozdanoski dimce.grozdano...@gmail.com, tomasz.kozlow...@wikimedia.pl, i...@wikibilim.kz, gyo...@wikimedia.org, bu...@wikimedia.org.ph, s...@wikimedia.ru, mede...@wikimedia.ru, abar...@wikimedia.org, chapt...@wikimedia.ch, jon.dav...@wikimedia.org.uk, johannes.r...@wikimedia.de, le...@wikimedia.no, Yuri Perohanych direc...@wikimediaukraine.org.ua FYI, Wikimedia Ukraine is initiating a new photo contest – “Wiki Loves Earth”, its goal being collecting pictures of Ukraine Natural Heritage sites and Landscape and Ornamental Gardening objects for illustrating articles in the worldwide free Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia. Everybody can take part in the competition. A registration on Wikimedia Commons (one of many Wikipedia sister projects) is required. You are to find in the list of natural heritage objects the ones you know of, take a picture of them yourself (it could be done anytime, previously or starting now) and upload them to Commons (during April 15 – May 15, 2013). The authors of the best pictures will be awarded with prizes. The results announcement and the awarding ceremony will be held in Kyiv, on June 5, 2013, on the World Environment Day. The Organizational Committee has already started preparation work on the competition list, and almost 8 000 of entries are to be included there. Nature reserves, landscape parks, protected areas, natural heritage sites, botanical (dendrological), zoological gardens and parks, and ornamenting gardening objects will be in the list. Yuri Perohanych, Wikimedia Ukraine Executive Director, said that this photo contest will draw the society’s attention to the existing problems of Ukraine natural heritage protection, and the contest itself is to show the perspectives of green/eco tourism in Ukraine. As Yevhen Buket, the contest coordinator, pointed out, the idea to initiate such a competition has arisen after conducting a successful international photo contest Wiki Loves Monuments in Ukraine this September. The goal of the contest was collecting pictures of
[Wikimediaindia-l] Posts to list by new subscribers
Hi all, from now on, all emails sent by new subscribers to this mailing list will be held for moderator approval. thanks, Anirudh ___ 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] Wiki academy at BVRIT regard
Hi All, There is a wiki academy planned on 19th February, 2013 at BVRIT. The wikiacademy will be essentially an awareness session about wikipedia and other wikimedia sister projects, with an editing session on wikipedia. More details on wikiacademy can be had from : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy I would like to invite people to help me in making this wiki academy a good event to increase contributor strength to wikipedia and increase awareness of wikimedia. Please contact me if you are interested in co organising this event with me. -- Rahimanuddin Shaik నాని A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com *తెలుగువారికి సాంకేతిక సహాయం - http://techsetu.com* ___ 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] Chapter Misleading Community!
I agree with my friend Niranjan Patel. Wont it be better if the *EC directly clarifies all doubts * settle this debate once for all. A concerned Wikimedian Yohann Thomas On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Niranjan Patel patel.nieran...@gmail.comwrote: Looks like Manmohan Singh maintaining silence and Kapil Sibbal giving his best to censor media to keep image clean. *The members of the Executive Committee of Wikimedia India and Sunil@CIS have already responded to your questions.* I am also unable to find responce/clarification from EC. I can see just you and Sunil@CIS explaining scenario. Please care enough to redirect people to same? Regards, Niranjan Patel Long Live Democracy! On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:17 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote: Abhishek, The chapter's response has been to ask you to stop making unsubstantiated allegations. Sunil has clarified that that the WMF sponsored A2K programme is funding travel and accommodation of some members of the Wikimedia India Executive Committee for the purpose of a training session in Bangalore organized for the benefit of the new employee(s) of CIS/A2K. This is the sole purpose of funding travel and accommodation from CIS/A2K perspective and nothing else. What the members of the WMIN board decide to do in their spare time while they are available in the same city is up to them. If they use this time to organize a face to face board meeting, all the more better, since this way they save some precious chapter funds. Your accusation that the chapter is misleading the community is a falsification. Since you have chosen to ignore my previous warning and continued to post on the same topic on this mailing list, I have put your account on moderation. If you wish to discuss this matter further, please feel free to send an email to the chapter directly. Thanks, Anirudh On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Abhishek Suryawanshi i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Anirudh, Please direct me to the response/clarification from Wikimedia India Executive Committee. Only Sunil has made the whole thing clear and now its only You who is saying - It is clear to us all that some members of the Executive committee will be travelling to Bangalore in order to train the new employees of CIS on matters pertaining to their new assignments. The Executive Committee has decided to utilize this time when all the members of the board are in the same city together to have a face to face meeting. There is nothing that has been said that goes to prove that CIS regularly funds chapter activities. Regards, Abhishek Suryawanshi, On Behalf of Wikipedia Club Pune On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Abhishek, I noticed that you have been repetitively raising the same issues over and over again. The members of the Executive Committee of Wikimedia India and Sunil@CIS have already responded to your questions. It is clear to us all that some members of the Executive committee will be travelling to Bangalore in order to train the new employees of CIS on matters pertaining to their new assignments. The Executive Committee has decided to utilize this time when all the members of the board are in the same city together to have a face to face meeting. There is nothing that has been said that goes to prove that CIS regularly funds chapter activities. I have to ask you to please refrain from sending further emails on this topic. If you ignore this warning, I will have to put your account on moderation. Thanks, Anirudh On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:16 AM, Abhishek Suryawanshi i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Executive Committee, Wikimedia India Chapter. Could you be please be kind enough to clarify, Why EC was/is interested in misguiding mailing list and Indian community? When asked about CIS funding - Executive Committee member wrote : The Chapter has alwaya made things public and will xontinue to do so. If the CIS funds us, it will be madw public. Then why weren't they made public by you? CIS clearly stated - they are funding Chapter, and in past (also) they have supported in-kind. Why is the hesitation for acknowledging this? On the contrary - there is strong rejection of even having any kind of connection with CIS from Chapter representatives. (On the other hand CIS is graciously open/alright to acknowledge links with the Chapter) On A Query about CIS funding Chapter Flight Tickets : Response from Secretary was- .making unsubstantiated claims on a public mailing list, Which part was unsubstantiated? Its the reality that this time Chapter Board Member's Flight tickets ARE covered by CIS even if it includes training the A2K team. (CIS has already made it
[Wikimediaindia-l] Deadlines for some upcoming opportunities (GSoC, Wikimania other conferences)
Abhijith, I'm sorry. I was under the impression that someone else had already posted about new grant opportunities to this list back when the IEG opened for applications; it did get announced in the monthly WMF blog post, wikimedia-l, the Wikipedia Signpost, and similar places. So I must have filed something in the wrong place in my memory. :( I apologize. So let me spread the word now about some other upcoming deadlines: The scholarship deadline for Wikimania 2013 (Hong Kong, 7-11 August) is in one week: 22 February 2013 23:59 UTC https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Scholarships. The talk proposal deadline is 30 April https://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions. I also want to draw your attention to Open Source Bridge, Allied Media Conference, and the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. These are conferences that are interested in empowering everyone, using technology, and have a focus on diversity and social justice. If you lead a session at one of these conferences, you are eligible to apply for Wikimedia Foundation's Participation Support subsidies for travel https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Participation:Support. Last year, the open source and Wikipedia sessions at Grace Hopper and Open Source Bridge were very well-attended. Allied Media Conference: 20-23 June, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Call for proposals deadline: 8 March. http://alliedmedia.org/news/2013/02/01/its-time-propose-session-amc2013-ready-steady-go Open Source Bridge: 18-21 June, Portland, Oregon, USA. Call for proposals deadline: 9 March. http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2013/01/2013-call-for-proposals-now-open/ Grace Hopper: 2-5 October, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Call for proposals deadline: 15 March. http://gracehopper.org/2013/participate/call-for-participation/ Go ahead and submit stuff! And remember, it's okay to submit multiple proposals per conference. MediaWiki is going to apply to participate in Google Summer of Code again this year as a mentoring organization. Students aiming to participate should look at this timeline: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2013 and remember that their applications will be due on 3 May. In GSoC, college and graduate students work on open source projects remotely, mentored by skilled developers. Students who successfully complete the program receive USD5000 in total. And finally, if you're interested in attending AdaCamp in San Francisco 8-9 June 2013 (to work on supporting women in open technology and open culture), please fill out http://adainitiative.org/2013/01/interested-in-attending-an-adacamp-in-san-francisco/ and indicate whether you would need travel assistance. ...this is not a full application to attend AdaCamp San Francisco, just a way to gauge interest. We will contact you with application details when applications open. Please feel free to forward! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia Foundation Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:29:18 -0800 (PST) From: Abhijith Jayanthi abhijithsince1...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Individual Engagement Grant: deadline for current round, 15 Feb Hi, I sense we will have to make announcements a tad bit earlier - so that we see sensible, fully mature proposals. regards Abhijith - Original Message - From: Sumana Harihareswara suma...@wikimedia.org To: Wikimedia India Community list wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Sent: Friday, 15 February 2013 3:51 AM Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Individual Engagement Grant: deadline for current round, 15 Feb https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-applying Individual Engagement Grants support Wikimedians to complete projects that benefit the Wikimedia movement, lead to online impact, or otherwise serve our mission, community, and strategic priorities. We fund individuals or small teams to build, organize, pilot, create, improve, research or facilitate something that enhances the work of Wikimedia's volunteers and helps us achieve our vision of a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. The deadline for the current round is Feb 15 24:00 UTC, which is about 26 hours from when I send this. Proposals for the next round will open in August. Please also consider helping discuss current proposals between now and 22 February: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-reviewing Open discussion and evaluation of proposals is intended to encourage diversity and innovation in the grants made, by bringing multiple perspectives to the selection process. Funding limits the amount of Individual Engagement Grants we are able to make in each round, and proposals are carefully evaluated and selected according to pre-determined criteria https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG#ieg-criteria. Hope this is of interest! -- Sumana Harihareswara Engineering Community Manager Wikimedia
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki academy at BVRIT regard
Hi, You can add me for this event, P.Krupal Kasyap 9396533666 2013/2/16 Rahmanuddin Shaik nani1o...@gmail.com Hi All, There is a wiki academy planned on 19th February, 2013 at BVRIT. The wikiacademy will be essentially an awareness session about wikipedia and other wikimedia sister projects, with an editing session on wikipedia. More details on wikiacademy can be had from : http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy I would like to invite people to help me in making this wiki academy a good event to increase contributor strength to wikipedia and increase awareness of wikimedia. Please contact me if you are interested in co organising this event with me. -- Rahimanuddin Shaik నాని A new address for ebooks : http://kinige.com *తెలుగువారికి సాంకేతిక సహాయం - http://techsetu.com* ___ 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 -- మీ శ్రేయోభిలాషి కశ్యప్ 9396533666 kaburlu.wordpress.com ___ 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
