Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

2013-03-10 Thread ansuman
Having read this, I think you girls should start a RFC on English Wikipedia highlighting this issue, and may be many would agree to have a point added to WP:Deletion Policy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy) or at least at Wikipedia:NPP#Be nice to the newbies (

[Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread noopur
Dear all, I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has joined the Access to Knowledge team at CIS as a consultant from March 4 onward. Those associated with Indian language computing and especially that in Kannada may know

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread sankarshan
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, noopur noo...@cis-india.org wrote: I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has joined the Access to Knowledge team at CIS as a consultant from March 4 onward. This is good news. What would be

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi, Welcome Pavanaja. All the best in your endeavours! I was just curious to know if there was an ad for recruitment for this post on the list for this position or not. I could not find the ad herein. If someone who has a link to that post, please share. warm regards, Pradeep Mohandas  

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Welcome Pavanaja! Good to have someone like you join the wikimedia movement. regards Arun On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:08 PM, noopur noo...@cis-india.org wrote: ** Dear all, I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Vishnu t
Dear Sankarshan, Thank you for your wishes. Pavanaja has joined the CIS-A2K team as the Programme Officer, which was left vacant by Shiju Alex few months ago. He will be a key point of contact for the expansion and growth of Kannada Wikipedia within the team. We are glad to have his huge network

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread sankarshan
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote: • Design assist in the roll-out PR / digital outreach plan(s) to promote Indic language readers readership • Design roll-out PR/on-ground outreach plan(s) to promote Indic language

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Vishnu t
Dear Pradeep, Thank you for your wishes. We are indeed happy to have Pavanaja join the CIS-A2K team. I was just curious to know if there was an ad for recruitment for this post on the list for this position or not. I could not find the ad herein. If someone who has a link to that post,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Pradeep Mohandas
hi Vishnu, Was this sent to ANY Wikipedia list, at all, out of curiosity? warm regards, Pradeep   Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses email? - http://goo.gl/6v1I9 From: Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com To: Pradeep Mohandas prad2...@yahoo.com; Wikimedia India

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

2013-03-10 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Dear Ansuman, On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 2:39 PM, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote: snip Also you may raise this issue at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gender_gap. It's a possibility others may have been raised this issue already, and you can join the discussion. Just a thought. The

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Arun Ramarathnam
Dear Vishnu, Is there any further hiring planned for the A2K team? regards Arun On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Pradeep Mohandas prad2...@yahoo.comwrote: hi Vishnu, Was this sent to ANY Wikipedia list, at all, out of curiosity? warm regards, Pradeep Pradeep Mohandas How Pradeep uses

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

2013-03-10 Thread Tejaswini Niranjana
Hi Arun, Re: The para in italics in your mail. I agree with you that the dynamics probably had to do with experienced editors vs. newbies, but if the former were perceived as 'males' that tells me something about who the experienced editors are! To put a positive spin on it, maybe there are lots

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

2013-03-10 Thread Tejaswini Niranjana
Hi Ansuman, The gender gap link provides useful information about the kinds of projects people are working on. Thanks for pointing it out. Not sure about the need to identify female editors. Increasing relevant and gender-sensitive content whether in the Indian languages or in English could be a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Wiki meetup 5

2013-03-10 Thread Bala Jeyaraman
Hi all, The event went well. Around 25 wikimedians and non-wikimedians attended the meetup. The meetup opened with an Introdcution to Openstack by Yogesh Ghttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Eternaltyroaction=editredlink=1. The Wiki part was next. Surya Prakash. S. A gave a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Appointment of new SIG chair

2013-03-10 Thread Omshivaprakash | Wikimedia
Congratulations Rohini :) On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations, Rohini! Best, Vishnu On 9 March 2013 11:45, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com wrote: Nice! Congratulations, Rohini, and look forward to more wiki women workshops and

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

2013-03-10 Thread ansuman
Hi, I am sorry. I din't mean to make it a gender bias. I totally understand your point and I think you are right. I just thought, that way it could help. Still I think as per Gender Gap Campaign, if we discuss and make it a point on the guidelines that as we are trying to have more female

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Chennai Wiki meetup 5

2013-03-10 Thread ansuman
Glad to know, thanks for sharing. :-) Regards, Ansuman http://twitter.com/an5um *ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ http://or.wikipedia.org/* On 10 March 2013 20:07, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, The event went well. Around 25 wikimedians and non-wikimedians attended the meetup. The

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Adethya Sudarsanan
Congrats, Dr. Pavan . . . Wish you the best, always. Regards, Ade. S On 10 March 2013 15:08, noopur noo...@cis-india.org wrote: ** Dear all, I take immense pleasure in (re)introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja to the entire Wikimedia community! Dr. Pavanaja has joined the Access to Knowledge team

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

2013-03-10 Thread Anirudh Bhati
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.comwrote: When at the workshop, the girls began to create articles on Wiki, *male editors were quick to pull them down*. “This can be intimidating for anyone, and more so for girls.” Instead of spending the time creating a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Anirudh Bhati
Hello all, I haven't seen a job announcement related to the relevant position either on the Wikimedia India (WMI?) mailing list or on any of the local mailing lists. Thanks, Anirudh On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Pradeep, Thank you for your wishes.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Appointment of new SIG chair

2013-03-10 Thread Rohini Lakshane
Thank you everyone for your wishes. :) On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Omshivaprakash | Wikimedia omshivaprak...@wikimedia.in wrote: Congratulations Rohini :) On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations, Rohini! Best, Vishnu On 9 March 2013

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] women and technology

2013-03-10 Thread Rohini Lakshane
Dear Nikita, The article suggests that male Wikipedia editors put down newbie female editors. Your comments, placed in conjunction with examples that speak of misogyny and sexism, show Wikipedia editors in poor light. Can you clarify if the newspaper has misquoted you? Regards, Rohini --

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Vishnu t
Dear Sankarshan, On 10 March 2013 17:41, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote: • Assist WMF in rolling out and training the Online Ambassadors for Indic language Wikipedia. Can I impose

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Vishnu t
Dear Pradeep, Only the A2K Newsletter goes to the WMI and various other mailing lists and not the overall CIS Newsletter (in which this was announced). As mentioned earlier, there was an oversight on our part to not have included this in the January Bulletin. Apologies again. We will ensure not

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Vishnu t
Dear Arun, On 10 March 2013 18:10, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Vishnu, Is there any further hiring planned for the A2K team? Right now all the positions are filled as per the the contract CIS has with WMF. Unless and until any one of us leaves the A2K team, we will not

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Introducing Dr. U.B Pavanaja, Consultant - Indian languages

2013-03-10 Thread Vishnu t
Dear Anirudh, This announcement was sent out in the CIS main Newsletter in January. Due to oversight it was not included in the A2K Newsletter, which gets posted to WMI mailing list along with few other language and city mailing lists. We are deeply apologetic for this slip-up and will ensure

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-10 Thread Santhosh Thottingal
On Monday, March 11, 2013, Tejaswini Niranjana wrote: Dear Frederick, It's nice to see your signature in several Indian languages! Wanted to know which script Konkani wikipedia is planning to use, Devanagari or Kannada or both? It would be good if you could throw some light on comparative

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-10 Thread വിശ്വപ്രഭ
Konkani belongs to somewhat a unique class of Wikimedia languages where many scripts may be used for the same content. Not exclusive, this list includes at least English, Devanagari, Kannada and Malayalam. The ideal goal in the case of a Konkani Wikimedia project is to have an input system in any

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-10 Thread Vishnu t
Dear Santhosh, Thank you for sharing this very useful link. Will touch base with you, offline, for more help on this. Thanks. Warmly, Vishnu On 11 March 2013 10:05, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.comwrote: On Monday, March 11, 2013, Tejaswini Niranjana wrote: Dear

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-10 Thread Tejaswini Niranjana
That last utopian comment needs to be made a reality. Thanks for putting the issue so well. Tejaswini On 11 March 2013 12:35, ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) viswapra...@gmail.comwrote: Konkani belongs to somewhat a unique class of Wikimedia languages where many scripts may be used for the same

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-10 Thread sankarshan
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Tejaswini Niranjana t...@cscs.res.in wrote: That last utopian comment needs to be made a reality. I wouldn't call it utopian, but it would be long-haul. One way of ensuring that work on that gets done is to frame a project idea and put it up as a project under

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-10 Thread Vishnu t
How long a haul this could be? Asking out of curiosity. On 11 March 2013 10:17, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Tejaswini Niranjana t...@cscs.res.in wrote: That last utopian comment needs to be made a reality. I wouldn't call it utopian, but

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Getting a new language Wikipedia going...

2013-03-10 Thread വിശ്വപ്രഭ
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Vishnu t visdav...@gmail.com wrote: How long a haul this could be? Asking out of curiosity. Of course, this depends upon the amount of synergy we put in. In terms of computing technology, this should not be a problem at all. But someone will have to conceive