Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF, India Office and Chapter - Update

[Bishakha Datta]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Gautam John wrote:

> Dear All:
>
> We have instituted a monthly call between the India Chapter and the
> Wikimedia Foundation.  Members of the Chapter EC, Hisham and Asaf Bartov
> (who heads up Global South Relationships at the Foundation) will participate
> in this call.  The objective of the call is to share information and improve
> collaboration between the Chapter and the Foundation on various Wikimedia
> projects of relevance to India.  We had the first one on Aug 24, 2011, and
> here's a quick update.
>
> Thanks for the update, Gautam.

This monthly chapter-Foundation call sounds like a really good idea.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Want to Help Newbie Editor Students of the India Education Program?: Inviting Online Ambassadors!

[Bishakha Datta]

Hey Nitika,

Would it be worth sending this out to other lists (eg foundation etc) - or
are you'll looking for Indian online ambassadors only?

Cheers (and the leaderboard was great too.)
Bishakha

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:59 PM, Nitika Tandon  wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> As many of you are aware, the Wikipedia India Education Program works with
> teachers and students to encourage Wikipedia in the classroom.  The basic
> idea is that teachers ask their students to edit Wikipedia articles instead
> of submitting traditional reports, assignments, etc.  Students and teachers
> are trained and supported and motivated by Wikipedia Campus Ambassadors -
> who are volunteers.  We currently have 1,000 students in the pilot we are
> running in Pune; the response has been amazing!
>
> There are huge challenges also.  Most of the students have already been
> taught the basics of Wikipedia by their Campus Ambassadors. However, they
> need more help.  The workload on Campus Ambassadors is already massive (as
> there are hardly 20 Campus Ambassadors for 1,000 students).  It is going to
> keep increasing as more and more of the students start editing as we are now
> in the 2nd half of their semesters - and therefore closer to the last dates
> for their articles.  We are already increasing Campus Ambassadors numbers by
> 15 in the next few days - but that still won't be enough.
>
> ** **
>
> We're separately building a team of passionate and helpful folks - with
> good mentoring and teaching skills - to be Wikipedia Online Ambassadors.
> Online Ambassadors will help these students by providing online support and
> hand-holding so that the students can make high-quality contributions.
>  Online Ambassadors can be based anywhere in India (or indeed the world)
> since their interaction with students will be over the internet.
>
> ** **
>
> I am reaching out to you to see whether you would be interested in helping
> students and teachers and becoming a Wikipedia Online Ambassador.
>
> We have two different Online Ambassador roles: Level 1 and Level 2.
> • Level 1 is open to everyone - including people who have never edited
> Wikipedia before - and will support students on really basic Wikipedia
> questions.  (They will be given specific training on this.)
> • Level 2 is open to experienced Wikipedians and will support students on
> more advanced Wikipedia questions.
>
> Both Level 1 and Level 2 roles will be provided orientation sessions.
>
> ** **
>
> Currently, all the students are working on English wikipedia.  
>
> ** **
>
> Passion for helping others and the ability to help newbies are the most
> essential qualities for both levels. For more information about these roles
> and what is expected of them, please see this page:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Online_Ambassadors/Description
> .  The time commitment is 3-5 hours per week on average throughout the
> semester (or academic term.)
>
> I warmly invite and highly encourage you to apply to become a Wikipedia
> Online Ambassador! To apply, please go to:
> https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEdtdG5ObU9mMm5oZno3MExDc3lEZHc6MA
>  -
> by Monday, September 12th (earlier is better), and we will be in touch very
> soon about next steps. If you have any questions, please do reach out to me
> either on this mailing list or offlist.
>
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the
> sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality!
>
> Thank you so very much! I look forward to your application.
>
> Sincerely,
> Nitika Tandon
>
> 
>
> ** **
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India - AGM and Election Results

[Bishakha Datta]

Congratulations to all the new chapter board members - Tinu, Naveen and
Sudhanwa...nice to see the EC expanding to other parts of the country in an
organic way.

And read your report with great interest, Gautam. It is really heartening to
see the chapter progressing from a registered entity at the start of this
year to a 'real' entity. Looking forward to the year ahead.

I'm sure everyone has thought of this already, but the WikiConference would
be a good time to recruit  chapter members in bulk.

Cheers to all,
Bishakha

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Gautam John wrote:

> On 25 September 2011 09:55, CherianTinu Abraham 
> wrote:
>
> > For those you couldn't make it to the committee, this does mean that your
> > valuable contributions are going unappreciated or undermined. What more
> was
>
> I think you meant "does not". :)
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best,
>
> Gautam
> 
> http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Pune intro to wikipedia workshop: a short report

[Bishakha Datta]

Dear all,

Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as
part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at
the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20
participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English
speakers.

The 4 CAs who conducted the session were: Abhishek Suryawanshi, Devanshi
Tripathi, Arnav Sonara and Nikita Agarwal - between them they too
represented a good mix of genders and languages. I had earlier invited
Ashwin Baindur from the Pune community to conduct the workshop; the timing
didn't work for him.

The participants were introduced to both English and Marathi wikipedias,
where they tried to locate Sharmila Rege, dalit feminist and sociologist,
who heads the department. Since she didn't have a page on English wikipedia,
one was created - and this process of creation was used as an opportunity to
demonstrate key principles: references, citations, NPOV, verifiability, as
well as how to edit. Larger conversations around reliability and
authenticity were had, and the CAs cited their own experiences to answer the
question: Why edit?

I was particularly impressed by the way the CAs shared the workload among
themselves and by the way they pitched wikipedia to a bunch of newcomers:
inside out (from a newbie perspective) rather than outside in, anticipating
what a newcomer needs to know at each step - to be motivated and to progress
to the next step. They also suggested easy ways to edit at the start.
Judging by the last question from participants: "How can we contact you'll
if we need help?" it worked.

This was the first time undergrads had taught postgrads in this department -
a nice role reversal. And this was the first time the CAs had stepped
outside the India Education Program to do a non-program workshop. The
student-to-student thing really worked.

So many thanks Abhishek, Arnav, Devanshi and Nikita. It was great!

And thanks a ton, Hisham, for putting so much together at such short notice.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune intro to wikipedia workshop: a short report

[Bishakha Datta]

btw, nikita, the campus ambassador in pune, is not nitika, who has joined
the foundation office in new delhi.

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
> Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as
> part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at
> the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20
> participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English
> speakers.
>
> The 4 CAs who conducted the session were: Abhishek Suryawanshi, Devanshi
> Tripathi, Arnav Sonara and Nikita Agarwal - between them they too
> represented a good mix of genders and languages. I had earlier invited
> Ashwin Baindur from the Pune community to conduct the workshop; the timing
> didn't work for him.
>
> The participants were introduced to both English and Marathi wikipedias,
> where they tried to locate Sharmila Rege, dalit feminist and sociologist,
> who heads the department. Since she didn't have a page on English wikipedia,
> one was created - and this process of creation was used as an opportunity to
> demonstrate key principles: references, citations, NPOV, verifiability, as
> well as how to edit. Larger conversations around reliability and
> authenticity were had, and the CAs cited their own experiences to answer the
> question: Why edit?
>
> I was particularly impressed by the way the CAs shared the workload among
> themselves and by the way they pitched wikipedia to a bunch of newcomers:
> inside out (from a newbie perspective) rather than outside in, anticipating
> what a newcomer needs to know at each step - to be motivated and to progress
> to the next step. They also suggested easy ways to edit at the start.
> Judging by the last question from participants: "How can we contact you'll
> if we need help?" it worked.
>
> This was the first time undergrads had taught postgrads in this department
> - a nice role reversal. And this was the first time the CAs had stepped
> outside the India Education Program to do a non-program workshop. The
> student-to-student thing really worked.
>
> So many thanks Abhishek, Arnav, Devanshi and Nikita. It was great!
>
> And thanks a ton, Hisham, for putting so much together at such short
> notice.
>
> Cheers
> Bishakha
>
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune intro to wikipedia workshop: a short report

[Bishakha Datta]

Some of you asked me offlist for links to the pages created. Here's the link
to the page on English
wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharmila_Rege>and the link to
the page on Marathi
wikipedia<http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B6%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B2%E0%A4%BE_%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%87>(older
page - not created yesterday).

Sorry, I wrote the email on my way back from Pune to Mumbai, so tried to do
the bare minimum.

We're hoping that students at the Dept of Women's Studies will 'adopt' and
improve both, as a starting point.

No photos were taken - we should have.

And thank you, Ram.

Cheers
Bishakha

On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 2:20 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote:

> Bishakha,
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Bishakha Datta 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Four campus ambassadors conducted a 2-hour intro to wikipedia session as
>> part of an all-day workshop I was facilitating on Gender and Technology at
>> the Dept of Women's Studies, University of Pune. We had about 20
>> participants - more women than men, and an even mix of Marathi and English
>> speakers.
>>
>> --cut--
>
> Thanks for the update.
> I am glad to see CAs stepping beyond their campuses and doing a great job.
>
> Best wishes
> Arjun
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Chapter & Foundation : Sep 2011 : Meeting Update

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Hisham  wrote:

>
>

> Arjun explained that FCRA application will be initiated now that the AGM is
> done and EC elections are completed.
>
> Do the May 2011 amendments to FCRA allow new non-profits to apply for
registration under the Act? (Earlier, a non-profit had to be atleast 3 years
old before applying.)

Curious, since this would apply both to the chapter and to the public trust.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Gautam John steps down from Wikimedia India board and Secretary's position

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Gautam John  wrote:

> On 1 October 2011 15:35, Arjuna Rao Chavala  wrote:
>
> > We wish him all the best in his future endeavours.
>
> Thank you very much Arjuna. It has been a pleasure being associated
> with the Wikimedia community in India, learning much over the last
> three years and in building new friendships. I do hope I was able to
> provide something of value to the community and am happy that I had
> the privilege of knowing and working for all of you.
>
> Thanks for all you've done, Gautam - in one of the toughest phases of any
entity, from seed to legal to fledgling. And of course, you dealt with a lot
of the nightmarish paperwork etc needed to get the chapter registered.

I assume and hope we will stay in touch, and that your exit from the EC does
not also mean an exit from the wikimedia community.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting "The India Chronicles"

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 4:39 PM, BalaSundaraRaman wrote:

> > I agree Sundar. What I meant was that this particular narrative is now
> > the only one committed to paper (as it were) and will be crawled and
> > indexed and searched and read and referenced and since it is the only
> > narrative that is discoverable, outside the Community that is, it will
> > tend towards being the default one in my opinion.
>
>
> Which is what I'm concerned about as well, Gautam.
>
> - Sundar
>
>
I think Tory did a great job and had her finger on the pulse, and I do see
your larger point too.

So I think one good way forward in general - and this doesn't hold only for
wikipedia, but for history making in general - is for others to start
documenting and writing histories too. Either of individual indic language
wikipedias, or alternate views of the same thing.

It's always good to have multiple accounts of the same period/s or
phenomenon/s, seen through different eyes and lenses, if only to ensure that
there is no one official history.

In that spirit, I do think the first edition of the community newsletter
(published in 2010), subsequent editions of the newsletter, and Gautam's
article in Critical Point of View are also vital narratives of wikipedia in
India, that tell parts of the story. Hopefully, these are easily accessible,
online atleast.

Which is my way of saying that I don't see Tory's narrative as the official
one, and the others as unofficial. For me, they all tell parts of the story
through their own lenses.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Presenting "The India Chronicles"

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Gautam John wrote:

>
> It isn't so much about official and unofficial narratives - it's about
> dominance and if this is the only one then it is the dominant one. And
> dominance is about more than just the existence of a single narrative.
>
> I think it's about all of these: what's considered official and unofficial
and what dominates - and maybe what's seen as definitive too.

While one narrative may dominate in the short run, in the medium and long
terms the existence of multiple
narratives usually does ensure that no single POV can rule. (look at all the
voices and multiple perspectives around Steve Jobs' passing).

Agree that power is also part of the equation: whose voice? whose narrative?
who puts it out?

And I think part of it is how we choose to see it and who/what we choose to
hear - if I choose to see Tory's piece as dominant because it was
commissioned by the Foundation, then that determines how much power I give
it. If I decide it is an interesting chronicle of a moment in time, then it
becomes 'a' version, not 'the' version.

Also: want to second Hisham in suggesting that people add their comments on
Tory's piece, since that too is the intention.

And I'm bowing out of this now, since I'm on a flight with lots of time to
spare and could go on and on and on. :)

Cheers
Bishakha
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Bangladesh

[Bishakha Datta]

Cross-posting since it may be of interest to this list.

Cheers
Bishakha

-- Forwarded message --
From: phoebe ayers 
Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:16 PM
Subject: [Internal-l] Recognition of Wikimedia Bangladesh
To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)"



Dear friends,

Congratulations to Wikimedia Bangladesh, our newest chapter!
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_Bangladesh

-- Phoebe
Board Secretary, 2011-12
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

[Bishakha Datta]

A 
reviewof
Aakash.

Best
Bishakha


On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Vickram Crishna wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Gautam John wrote:
>
>> On 6 October 2011 12:04, Nagarjuna G  wrote:
>>
>> > This by itself may not be a problem, as long as it is copyrighted with
>> an
>> > appropriate CC clause.
>> > Let us send a representation.
>>
>> Will the Chapter consider doing this? And the India Office too? Maybe
>> we can ask CC-India as well and CIS too?
>>
>
> I'm a a little confused: the wording says IP will reside with MoHRD if the
> project is funded by this Mission, whereas afaik, no MHRD funding at all,
> never mind this mission, has come to any part of the Wikimedia community in
> India. There is no question, therefore, of copyright being 'vested' with
> them, and we only need make this clear in the representation.
>
> It should in addition be made clear, therefore, that any content taken from
> any Wikimedia project, including Wikipedia, comes with the appropriate CC
> copyright.
>
> --
> Vickram
> Fool On The Hill 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

[Bishakha Datta]

That's great, Naveen and chapter board. Am so happy to see this happen. This
is the first Wikimedia India chapter public IRC, right?

Will be travelling, but will join in on a future one.

Good luck and hope it goes well,
Bishakha

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Naveen Francis  wrote:

> Hi friends,
>
> We will have our IRC meetup on Oct 29, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm
>
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/Oct_29,2011
>
> We from Wikimedia India Chapter invites you all to take part in the IRC
> meetup.
>
>
> On behalf of Wikimedia India Chapter
> Thanks,
> Naveen Francis
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition

[Bishakha Datta]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Ravishankar  wrote:

>
> 2. Having a jury to pick this seems so Un-Wikipediac. Only in extreme
> cases, we have a jury in Wikimedia projects. Usually, the nomination
> and approval is done by the community itself.
>
> Not sure a jury is so un-wikipediac. Juries usually pick the venue for
each wikimania, on clear and transparent criteria.

Another way to think of a jury is as a committee - or a smaller group of
people, who convene to make something specific happen. And there are many
of these: ChapCom (Chapters Committee), NomCom (Nominations Committee),
CommCom (Communications Committee), to name a few.

And, of course, there are more than 11 committees that are part of
WikiConference India 2011.

Also, in this specific case, the jury is charged to pick noteworthy
wikipedians from among those nominated by different communities. So it is
not like the jury is separately nominating and deciding on its own, but
from a pool nominated by a larger community. (So it's a smaller subset of
the former, in a sense).

Best,
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Noteworthy Wikimedian Recognition

[Bishakha Datta]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Ravishankar  wrote:

>
> I would recommend requesting each language community and project to
> suggest noteworthy contributions with a mini profile and make a audio
> / visual out of it. These people can be interviewed and the content
> can be used in the conference venue and future outreach activities.
> This will be a powerful way to motivate and recognize a lot of people.
>
> I think this is a fantastic idea - these could be used in many different
ways going forward.

In case the time is too short to do this before the last date for
nominations, this could still be done later - it is an idea that stands on
its own.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] INR in 2011 Fundraising!! -- Finally

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Béria Lima  wrote:

> Already possible to see Indian people in the banners (they at least were
> doing test with)
>
> Achal:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=B_FRDRILL6_1012_ACHAL
>
> Srikeit Tadepalli:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:NoticeTemplate/view&template=B_Srikeit_BaseBanner
>

Clicked the link but couldn't read the appeals though. Have others read
them?

Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Shiju Alex wrote:

> Another strategy that we can adopt while doing this program in India is,
> about the selection of articles for editing. We can ask students to
> contribute to articles that they are interested in, rather than of all of
> them editing the articles on the same topic.
>
> This is related to something I've been thinking about.

As conceived, the IEP and its parent the PPP (pardon the acronyms), were
about contributing to wikipedia, about learning how to contribute, and
about having fun while learning.

In practice, did it remain like that? Going by what I read, it sounded like
many of the students were under high stress to turn in these wikipedia
assignments to their teachers - and used every possible shortcut in the
book. (Exactly what I would have done in my student days).

I may be totally off-base on this, but am curious, so would appreciate some
info.

My question is: if this becomes a high stress exam type situ, is the
student likely to a)either see it as fun b)go back to it later for fun? In
which case, is this student likely to become a prospective wikipedia
editor, or is this student going to treat this as a one-time thing and
never want to do this ever again? (Given relationship with stress, exams,
teachers, marks)?

Also - larger related qs: is the aim of the India Ed program to increase
article content on wp (which can be done short-term) or to increase the
number of editors? Or both?

Cheers,
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot -- #DelayedMail

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Arnav Sonara wrote:

>
>
>
> hi,
>>
>> It was a pilot and hence I guess was meant to die at some point.
>>
>> First up, to the Campus Ambassadors, you guys showed a lot of courage in
>> taking up and then following through on your commitment of being Campus
>> Ambassadors through the length of this Pilot. I hope the team will also
>> speak to the  Ambassadors whilst doing the post-mortem so future programs
>> have the benefit of their "experience". The same also goes to the India
>> Programs team that initiated this project.
>>
>
> Thanks to all of you, yes this was a Pilot, but at no point I see it
> dying.  Its just that we have taken a pause right now to learn from the
> findings and ll come back all prepared and with the help of you all we ll
> try to gain new heights again.
>
> Arnav,

Good to hear back from one of the campus ambassadors. I think it would be
great if we could hear back from many more of you - as those who were on
the front lines of this program, what are your views on it? What did you
think worked? What would you change? What gave you a feeling of pride? What
made you worried?

By "you", I don't mean just you, but all the campus ambassadors who are on
this list. Hope you'll will write in and share your thoughts on these or
other aspects.

And in the midst of all the flak, congratulations, all CAs. With the huge
number of students overwhelming the program, each of you probably ended up
doing way more than you had signed up for. I hope you continue to take and
feel pride in that very sincere effort, regardless of the outcome of this.

Also - I would love to hear from Nitika, who was dealing with this program
on the ground. (What did you make of this, Nitika? Pros and cons?)

Please don't feel pressured by my request; we've already heard back from
en:wp editors - those comments are totally valid and must be taken into
account in any future iteration of the program. At the same time, I feel we
also need to hear the perspectives and voices of those who worked on the
program in any capacity.

Cheers
Bishakha





>
> --
> Thanks
> Arnav (ricku).
> (User:Rangilo_Gujarati)
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Sue Gardner  wrote:

> On 13 November 2011 08:46, Bishakha Datta  wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > As conceived, the IEP and its parent the PPP (pardon the acronyms), were
> > about contributing to wikipedia, about learning how to contribute, and
> about
> > having fun while learning.
>
>
> Hi Bishakha,
>
> This is a bit of a derail from your e-mail, but I wanted to clarify
> your use of the past tense (they *were* about contributing). I think
> the thread title here may be creating some confusion about what has
> actually happened. That, or else I may be confused myself :-)
>
>
Hey Sue,

I used 'were' not because I think IEP and yes, thanks, GEP :) are dead -
but to point out how they 'were' conceived.

Anyway, it's great that you clarified this, given the thread's title.


> The IEP as I understand it is not over:
> contrary to the subjectline of this thread, it hasn't "died." A number
> of schools have participated in the pilot phase of the IEP. My
> understanding is that the project has been mostly successful, except
> for one school, or set of schools, at which there were serious
> problems with plagiarism that, despite repeated efforts, the team
> couldn't get resolved.
>
> I'm hoping we'll hear more about the successes of the project, and
eventually come to a balanced understanding of what worked and what didn't.

At this stage, we're hearing much more about what didn't work, so it's hard
to assess the pilot meaningfully.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Education Program

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Hisham  wrote:

> I thought I'd share with you a couple of links that are of relevance to
> the India Education Program.  As you are aware, we are running a pilot of
> the education program in Pune.  We are collating hard numbers to evaluate
> the pilot - and we'll share a full evaluation as soon as it is ready.
>  However, it is clear that there are a number of mistakes that have been
> made - some of which ought to have been avoided (especially with regards to
> communicating stronger with the global wikipedia community, not agreeing to
> so many students signing up, anticipating the copy-pasting issue, etc.)
>
> There've been many learnings that we're taking from it and Nitika has been
> collating these at
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Education_Program
> Please do note that this page is a draft and is very much work-in-progress.
>  In addition, do also check out the discussion page - which we are trying
> to have as a focal point for all discussion regarding the education
> program.
>
> In addition, Signpost covered the education program on
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-11-07/Interview
>  and
> there are some very nuanced and insightful comments on it.
>
> Many thanks for sharing these links, Hisham. I spent the last couple of
hours poring over all of them before my eyes started glazing.

I read this talk page [1] from top to bottom - it was particularly useful
in seeing how the whole copyvio issue started, then grew bigger and bigger.

Apart from the content, I was struck by:
*the helpful, purposive and constructive suggestions and analysis from
editors
*a general absence of combativeness or baiting
*an overall openness to feedback and responsiveness on the part of the
India Education Program team

The statistical discussion on this talk page [2] was very useful to get a
sense of the magnitude of the problem.

It looks like many of the suggestions made on these pages have directly
been incorporated into the learnings page at [3] - this is an excellent
step.

There are so many good points on all these pages, such a willingness to
help strengthen the program, and so much openness to doing so, that I now
feel more hopeful for the future.

Best
Bishakha

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:India_Education_Program
[2]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Education_Program#Serious_issues_with_this_program
[3]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Education_Program
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

[Bishakha Datta]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Theo10011  wrote:

>
> As for "the highs and lows, ups and downs, failures and successes", allow
> us to decide on the holistic view. I don't think someone involved in a
> project can have a holistic view, things like observer bias and
> subject-expectancy effect might interfere.
>
> Who's us, Theo? And surely those involved in the project are allowed to
have - and share - their own views, regardless of whether or not others
agree with them?


> As for starting "Wiki editing" you might want to start yourself. I suggest
> your userpage on Meta, which if I recall I told you to create a month ago.
>
>
Ooooh! Can we please cut out these sort of unconstructive, personal
comments. They don't help anyone or anything.

Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot

[Bishakha Datta]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Theo10011  wrote:

>
>
>> As for starting "Wiki editing" you might want to start yourself. I
>>> suggest your userpage on Meta, which if I recall I told you to create a
>>> month ago.
>>>
>>>
>> Ooooh! Can we please cut out these sort of unconstructive, personal
>> comments. They don't help anyone or anything.
>>
>
> I assure you this was not a personal comment. You might want to look at
> the Meta talk page for IEP here [1] where admins who first dealt with the
> issue played a game charades to find out who was actually in-charge of IEP.
> It has editors from enwp, trying to deduce who Nitika.t is
>
>
> And with all due respect back, Theo, this thread is about the IEP - not
about Nitika's editing prowess. So your comment strikes me as irrelevant -
and I'm sorry, but even if I'm in a minority of one, it did come across as
personal to me.

I also feel that comments like these have a strong effect on those whom
they name thus - they silence them. Specially when they are relatively new
to this culture, and even more so, when they are participating in a very
difficult and somewhat hostile thread. And they silence others who may have
spoken out.

So while applauding Nitika for sharing her views in this space, I also want
to urge that you and I not get into a slanging match on this point. Let's
agree to disagree, since I doubt we will agree on this.

At the same time, I very much appreciate your efforts to help and nurture
Nitika, which did come through in the earlier email too.

Best
Bishakha


>
> [1]
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Education_Program#Transparency_about_who.27s_in_charge_of_what
> [2]
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Nitika.t&oldid=2960704
>
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 7, Issue 46 -- 14 November 2011

[Bishakha Datta]

has two articles on India:

-- Forwarded message --
From: Wikipedia Signpost 
Date: Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 3:18 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 7, Issue 46 -- 14
November 2011
To: wikimediaannounce-l 

In the news: Fundraising vs ads redux, WikiConference India nigh, a world
lit up with articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-11-14/In_the_news

WikiProject report: Having a Conference with WikiProject India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-11-14/WikiProject_report
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Drugs

[Bishakha Datta]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 3:58 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally <
> radhakrishna.arvapa...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes Subhashish,
>>
>> It is not legal they using wikipedia logo (They are also using wikimedia
>> projects style of domain name).
>>
>>
> RK: Can you send a email to legal...@wikimedia.org about the above issue.
>
>
I've been in touch with WMF's legal team and they've confirmed they're
looking into and taking action on this.

Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Telugu

[Bishakha Datta]

Much appreciate the effort to treat - and talk to - each indic language
community separately, rather than lumping them all into the same box.

Congratulations on this nuanced approach.

Cheers
Bishakha

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Shiju Alex  wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> As part of the India Programs of 
> WMF
>  I
> am having discussions with wikipedians across various Indic languages.  I
> already shared the summary of the discussions I had with the 
> Assamese
> , 
> Hindi,
> Sanskrit
>  and
> Tamilwikimedians.
>  Thank you all for continuing the discussions in meta wiki and
> in mailing lists.
>
> Today I am sharing the summary of the discussions I had with Telugu wiki
> community members. It is available here.
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Telugu/Discussions/2011
>
> Among Indian language wikipedias, Telugu wikipedia is the first Indian
> language wikipedia that caught the attention of other Indic language
> wikipedians in 2006 itself.  I remember reading about Telugu Wikipedia and
> the activities of Telugu wikipedians in many online forums during
> 2006-2007. Following are some of the blogposts published that time.
>
>
>-
>
> http://telugutanam.blogspot.com/2006/09/telugu-wikipedia-crosses-1.html(News
>  about Telugu wikipedia crossing 10,000 articles - 2006 September)
>-
>
> http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/06/26/telugu-wikipedia-reaches-3-articles/(News
>  about Telugu wikipedia crossing 30,000 articles - 2007 June)
>-
>
> http://crossroads.veeven.com/2007/09/10/3000-members-in-telugu-wikipedia/(News
>  about Telugu Wikipedia having 3000 registered users - 2007 September)
>
> In technical front also Telugu wikipedia was showing the way for other
> Indic language wikipedias. Telugu wikipedia is one of the first Indic
> language wikipedia to integrate a typing solution into wikipedia. Even
> though much activism happened during 2006-2008, the community was not able
> to keep that tempo and increase the community size.
>
> Also among Indian language wiki communities, the concept of *Community
> Newsletter * came
> out first from the Telugu wiki community. Community already published 5 or
> 6 editions of Telugu wiki Newsletter. Remember still no other Indic
> language wiki community has a community newsletter.
>
> Soon Telugu wikipedia will cross 50,000 articles, the third Indic language
> wikipedia to cross that milestone. l  Hope Telugu wikipedians will make use
> of that opportunity to add more members to its community. Telugu wikipedia
> has roughly 30 active editors now.
>
>
> Regards
> Shiju
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] People of stature unhappy with own articles

[Bishakha Datta]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Bala Jeyaraman wrote:

> Yes there is. direct them to
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:AUTOPROB#Problems_in_an_article_about_you
>
> But they shouldn't be expecting wikipedia to do a whitewashing / PR fluff
> job on it.


Totally agree with you, Bala.

I've been cc-d on a couple of these emails and unfortunately, people who
are famous in their fields, do seem to feel they are above examination. The
attitude that sometimes comes across is this: "How dare anyone write
negatively about me!" (Regardless of the facts of the situ).

So if we whitewash negative information in these situations, knowledge and
neutrality are the first casualties.

Best
Bishakha
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Women & Wikimedia

[Bishakha Datta]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Sarah Stierch 
Date: Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:35 AM
Subject: [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] Women & Wikimedia
To: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org


Hi everyone!

I wanted to let you know about a survey that I am running for female
contributors to any Wikimedia project. It is being ran by me as an
independent volunteer, *not* on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dDR3a3JfaTd0aVBiMW1xd2phNXE2R3c6MQ#gid=0

If you are a female contributor and you are comfortable working in English,
please participate, and if you know any female contributors, please share
it with them.

Thanks so much!

Sarah Stierch
[[User:SarahStierch]]


-- 
GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia 
Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American
Art
and
Sarah Stierch Consulting
*Historical, cultural & artistic research & advising.*
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India

[Bishakha Datta]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:

>
> The one thing I have come to understand is that many native speakers of
> Indic languages are effectively illiterate in their own language. The
> combination of highly educated people being functionally illiterate had me
> talking with many people. Given the structure of the Indic scripts, it is
> possible for me to learn to read the text; it will get me as far as
> pronouncing something I do not know the meaning of. For native speakers it
> must be not that hard at all when they surmounted the challenge of learning
> to read and write English already.
>

Dear Gerard,

I am intrigued by this, yet struggling to understand what you mean here.

Do you mean that many educated people can speak their own language, but not
read or write it? (because they communicate in English instead). If so,
that is probably true - but is that what you mean?

For example, my mother tongue is Bengali - I speak it much more than I read
or write it (even though I can read and write in Bengali), since I usually
read and write in English. However, there are many people in India who have
the opposite experience eg who not just speak, but also read and write in
indic languages.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting the languages of India

[Bishakha Datta]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Shiju Alex wrote:

> Ravi shankar said:
>
>> If your ambition is to teach the mother tongues for the convent educated
>> minority English speaking Indians through a Wiki project and then make them
>> contribute in Indic language Wikipedias, it may never happen. I am not even
>> sure if it fits inside Wikipedia's mission.
>>
>
>
> Yes. that is true.  I do not forsee such a thing happening for Indic
> wikis. :)
>
>
> Is Gerard is trying to convey the idea of *Mother Language illiteracy? 
> *Remember
> by illiteracy of a language, we mean the inability *to read or write*(rather 
> than speaking) that specific language. I must say Mother Language
> illiteracy is rising in Indian cities and in some states (for example,
> Kerala).
>
> In fact if you go through the discussions that I am sharing with you
> (about different language wiki communities), many Indic language
> wikipedians are also raising the same concern.
>
> I guess my point is to distinguish between illiteracy and non-use or low
use (in reading and writing), which is more my personal situ on Bengali,
Hindi, Marathi.

So I feel like there may be three or more categories of persons for each
language:

-Speakers who read and write in that lang
-Speakers who don't read and write in that lang (non or low users)
-Speakers who don't know how to read and write in that lang (illiterate,
although I don't like the word)

And agree with Ravi that it would be hard to get both those who are not
literate in a language or low users of it to contribute in that language.
For example, I would be reluctant to contribute in the languages I speak,
but don't write or read in everyday, even though I am technically literate
in them.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?

[Bishakha Datta]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Gautam John wrote:

> Worth checking out for the Chapter? And the Trust? Maybe both together?
>
> "Datawind, the inventor of world's cheapest tablet computer – UbiSlate
> – has joined hands with NASSCOM Foundation to help bridge the digital
> divide in India.
> Partnership focuses to announce a contest targeting the non-profit
> network across India, wherein 10 of them will stand an opportunity to
> win 20 Aakash tablets/UbiSlates each, to improve their operations and
> programme implementation, said a press release.
> The contest will open between December 2011 and January 2012.
> How will the winning streak be decided? Each of the participating
> organizations will have to showcase how best the UbiSlate will be used
> for socio-economic challenges such as education, health and
> livelihoods.
> NASSCOM Foundation definitely sees potential for the information and
> communication technologies sector playing a crucial role in the
> process of social change."
>
>
> http://www.ciol.com/News/News/News-Reports/NASSCOM-contest-winners-to-get-Aakash-tabs/157101/0/
>
>
Suneet Singh Tuli, the founder of Datawind, spoke about this at TEDxGateway
in Mumbai on Sunday, and expressed a personal interested in providing free
Aakash tablets for 'developmental' purposes. (He's verbally committed 500
free tablets to another Indian non-profit I know).

He lives in Canada; it may be worth talking to him too.
http://tedxgateway.com/speaker-section.aspx?strid=MTc=

Also, seconding Gautam's idea: can the chapter and trust speak to each
other and figure out who has the drive, inclination, ability and capacity
to take this forward? (Working together never a bad idea, imho).

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Kovai Ahoy !!!

[Bishakha Datta]

Cool! And good luck,
Bishakha

On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:

> All the best for this man, wish you a BIG success!!!
>
> On 3 December 2011 02:01, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:
>
>> Heya,
>> With just EIGHT days remaining for our Kovai meetup, I thought I'd send
>> across this mail.
>> Here is the main meetup page, hosted on Meta.
>> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
>> With each passing meetup, the lead section will be updated to show the
>> next meetup.
>>
>> The venue is KG Information systems Limited, Thudiyalur Road,
>> Saravanampatti, Kovai-35.
>> Here is the Foursquare check in page: Do check in. We can earn badges. : )
>> https://foursquare.com/v/wikipedia-coimbatore/4ed7447f00391b6e35d1a0fc
>>
>> The location inside KGISL and timings should be confirmed in a day or two.
>>
>> Another interesting method I've found to promote this meetup is:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/21232862@N00/6441297319/
>> Thanks to twitter user @aagan86 for informing me about this, and
>> Wikipedia admin User:Phantomsteve who helped me with the barcode, and
>> Subhashish from the Odia community for helping me out with this..
>>
>> All those who have a barcode scanner:
>> Go ahead.
>>
>> Hoping to see you all there.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
>> Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers Gang.
>>
>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012

[Bishakha Datta]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Josh Lim 
Date: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 2:29 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia-asia-chapters] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012
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Hi guys,

The 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments competition will become global next year, and
I'd like to ask how many countries in Asia intend to participate in Wiki
Loves Monuments.  During Wikimania last August, a pan-Asian Wiki Loves
Monuments-style contest was proposed as a common project of the Asian
communities, and with the global competition, I think we can focus our
efforts on the global competition instead.  However, we can have something
like an "Asia's Best Picture" award or something like that.

Wikimedia Philippines had expressed interest in organizing a local Wiki
Loves Monuments competition next year during GLAMcamp Amsterdam, and I hope
other Asian chapters and communities will likewise be interested in doing
the same thing.  Information on next year's competition may be found at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012.

Regards,

Josh

JAMES JOSHUA G. LIM
Block I1, AB Political Science
Major in Global Politics, Minor in Chinese Studies
Class of 2013, Ateneo de Manila University
Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Vice-President (2011-2012), Wikimedia Philippines
Member, Ateneo Debate Society
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Summary and perspectives from Discussions with Indic language wikimedians - 2011

[Bishakha Datta]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Excellent Shiju, very well written.


+1. Excellent analysis, very meticulous.

Particularly like the way you broke down community building into the
various sub-parts (below) and detailed what each entails, and the
understanding that now that confirmed readership exists, the need is to
build the communities/projects to ensure readers keep coming back.

Good luck with the next pilot phase,
Bishakha

> When I consider community building, I think of 5 broad aspects:
>

> >1. Editor retention
> >2. Attracting newbies
> >3. Community communication
> >4. Community collaboration and
> >5. Community celebration
>
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pre-announcement for Wikiwomen camp/conference in Argentina

[Bishakha Datta]

Congratulations to all organizers - this sounds most exciting and I'm
planning to attend.

Hope there will be some more representation from India, even though
Argentina is far away.

Cheers
Bishakha

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Béria Lima  wrote:

> More info can be found here: 
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiWomenCamp(feel free to ask the organizers 
> any question - the  mails are in the page)
> _
> *Béria Lima*
> (351) 925 171 484
>
> *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. *
>
>
>
> On 19 December 2011 16:36, Theo10011  wrote:
>
>> Congrats. It seems like a great initiative, Noopur. :)
>>
>> I saw Beria was working on the pages for this on Meta. Good luck!
>>
>> Regards
>> Theo
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Noopur  wrote:
>>
>>>  Dear all,
>>> Just keeping you posted if you haven't seen the IRC log yet. A couple of
>>> women Wikipedians from Australia and Argentina chapters have been planning
>>> a Wikiwomen camp and conference in Argentina sometime in May, 2012. I know
>>> it's far away and probably the official announcement will happen sometime
>>> end of this month but I thought it's wise to keep you posted so that you
>>> can keep your respective Indic language women editors in loop.
>>> Those who might be interested in participating will have to apply for a
>>> WMF participation grant I guess and they might want to join the discussion
>>> on the other list to add Indian inputs. One part of the event (Camp)
>>> encourages women's participation only while the other invites all to
>>> contribute. Please do spread the word and encourage our Wikichix to
>>> participate too :) Drop me a mail if you want to join that mailing list.
>>> Warmly
>>> Noopur
>>>
>>> --
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>>> Student
>>> Arts and Aesthetics
>>> Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
>>> Ph: 9650567690
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help needed for Wiki Academy in Kolkata

[Bishakha Datta]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:44 PM, Sucheta Ghoshal
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are having a Wiki Academy for the first time in Kolkata at Netaji
> Subhash Engineering College . We would appreciate to have any kind of help
> to make this Wiki Academy a successful event, as of now We are looking for
> person who is willing to speak on the technical aspects of Wikipedia ( More
> specifically "How a developer can contribute to the Meta-Wiki Source Code).
> Since it is an engineering college,and we are hosting it as a college event
> only so Technical part is necessary according to the students concerned.
> Please help us.
>
>
Hi Sucheta,

Am sure others will help - I just wanted to congratulate you for putting
this together. Am happy you feel part of the 'family' after attending the
WikiConference in Mumbai.

Cheers (and I will see you at the meetup in Kolkata on 15 Jan),
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiProject Offline Wikipedia for Indian Schools: Status Board

[Bishakha Datta]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Nitika  wrote:


> Thanks
> User:AshLin & Nitika
>
> Nice to see a joint email from both of you - assume that means this is a
collaborative project between some editors and trust office, in some way or
the other. (Don't have any clear idea, just saw the joint signature and
felt happy about it).

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Backup for Wikipedians

[Bishakha Datta]

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree with you completely. While I've never been dragged to a Police
> station, the Coimbatore Police made me delete ALL my photos on the camera,
> and the Bangalore Police took away my memory card.
>

This is really a shame. Did they specify under what law they were doing
this?

Since these situations are cropping up on photo walks, here are some
ground-level suggestions for individual volunteers or groups embarking on
these:

1)Familiarize yourself with 'photo restrictions' in your city/state: These
may differ, and none of us know all the restrictions in each state - maybe
a news photographer or someone could be asked in advance, since we seem to
have good media contacts in India in general? (Tinu or anyone else: do you
think there is someone who could help provide this info? We are all
ignorant here. Individuals would feel more confident if they knew whether
or not what they are doing is illegal.)

2)Stand your ground to the extent possible: Keep asking which law is being
applied if any police action - charging with a case, arrest, confiscation -
is brought up. I know this is very very hard to do when faced with police
personnel, but still. The police are less likely to bully someone who can
firmly ask questions - and who does not get intimidated by the law.

3)Create a chain of 'help': Call another wikipedian for help - if there are
2-3 or more wikipedians present, divide up tasks, so that one-two people
can engage the cops while another makes phone calls. When Pranav called me,
I in turn called lawyer friends who clarified that P&Co were not breaking
the law. I then felt more confident to ask them to 'stand their ground'.

4)Cultivate contacts with media, including photographers, who may have this
information or lawyers in your city who can help with this information
(including legal students).

This is not meant to imply that no larger help is needed - it's not an
either/or, and institutional support may be needed in some cases. These are
just small suggestions to empower individual on the spot.

Best
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] "Introduction to Wikipedia" session during "Kurukshetra2012", 4Feb2012 at CEG, Chennai

[Bishakha Datta]

I am just amazed by the number of wiki workshops and academies taking place
all over India since January.

Nice going, everyone!

Best
Bishakha

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi wrote:

> *Details of this event could be accessed at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai4*
>
> *
> __
> *
>
> Dear all,
>
> An introductory session about "Introduction to Wikipedia" at
> "Kurukshetra2012", an international tech fest at College of Engineering
> Guindy, Anna University, Chennai was attended by 2 wikipedians Subhashish
> and Surya and 45 students. This event was intended to bring awareness among
> students attending this fest about writing articles in the Wikipedia.
> Subhashish took the audience through a 
> presentationexplaining
>  basics of Wikipedia, how they can edit Wikipedia, what they can
> edit in Wikipedia. Later on the students questioned about authenticity of
> articles edited by multiple editors and there was a discussion regarding
> that. Students also questioned if Wikipedia editing will help them to gain
> some qualities and certifications which will help them during their campus
> placements. There were also questions regarding Technical projects and
> questions regarding jobs at Wikimedia. There were curious folks who
> questioned abut the cause of blackout against SOPA and PIPA!
>
> The questions asked by students had lot of valid points regarding
> notability and authenticity of Wikipedia articles, there is need for
> documentation of them in the form of FAQs, So, majority of the important
> questions and answers to them would be documented in the meta page of Outreach
> Program Handbook 
> FAQ
> .
>
> After the discussion Surya spoke about Tamil 
> Wikipediaand the on going Tamil
> Media 
> Contest
> .
>
> Attendees socialized and had a group photo session after the event.
> regards
> Subha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Formation of Communications, PR & Media Relations Team

[Bishakha Datta]

The scope of work looks extremely comprehensive and impressive -
congratulations on the formation of this team. And if past experience is
anything to go by, may it continue to go from strength to strength.

Best
Bishakha

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) <
tinucher...@wikimedia.in> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>  We are pleased to announce the first batch of our team for
> Communications, PR & Media Relations of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
>
>- Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications
>- Arun Ramaratnam, Official Spokesperson
>- Anirudh Bhati
>- Srikeit Tadepalli
>- Noopur Raval
>- Srikanth Lakshmanan
>- Naveen Francis
>- Pranav Curumsey
>- Ram Shankar Yadav
>- Mitra Sharma
>- Anivar Aravind
>
>
> We are still discussing with lots of potential people who are interested
> and have the necessary skills. We will be adding them as we progress.
>
> *Scope of Work*
>
> Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to
> the following:
>
> *General :*
>
>- Development of a comprehensive multi-language Communications
>Plan for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the Chapter's strategic
>objectives. This plan must include social media, digital outreach, Public
>Relations (PR) and supporting community and chapter outreach.
>- Implementation of the Communications Plan - including
>measuring of results focused on growth in participation and readership
>within India and continuous improvement as required.
>- Identification, selection and onboarding of specialised
>agencies as required.
>- Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia
>Foundation India Programs to support communications and media outreach.
>- Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee
>and subscribed to its mailing list: wmfc...@mail.wikimedia.org
>
>
>   *  Communications :*
>
>- Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia
>community which includes Chapter members, general public and media.
>- Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that is
>send to the members and the community.
>- Providing ad hoc support to the Chapter & Community on all
>aspects of communications as may be deemed necessary.
>
>
> *Public/ Media Relations :*
>
>- Coordinating communications with the press, including press
>releases, interviews, and inquiries.
>- Handling press enquiries and answering them.
>- Build a close partnership and working relation with a
>network of journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
>- Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted &
>interviewed by the media.
>- Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting them
>published into the mass media.
>- Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press
>coverage to request that corrections be published as needed.
>- Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships with
>media and drive messaging that promotes participation.
>- Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media
>coverage, both negative and positive.
>- will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR
>campaigns on behalf of the chapter.
>- Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian local
>languages.
>- Supporting the media coverage of Chapter , Wikimedia
>Foundation and Community led events and initiatives in India like
>Wikiconference, wikimeeetups, wikiacademies, workshops etc
>
>
>  *   Digital Properties/Social Media :*
>
>- Digital outreach comprises how to drive awareness and
>education and movitation to participate in various projects from within the
>existing readership base.
>- Social media includes managing and driving social media
>vehicles to drive participation (i.e., building awareness and driving
>traffic to Indic language editions, raising awareness of how content is
>created on various projects and motivating and enabling participation.)
>- Maintain the official IRC channel on freenode: #wikimedia-in
>and regularly conduct planned IRC sessions.
>- Maintain the social media properties including the ones on
>facebook & twitter and Youtube channels, and all Public facing Digital
>resources like the wiki, blog and website.
>- Keeping the Wikimedia India Press kit and In the News
>sections on the public wiki up to date.
>- Interacting with the Chapter OTRS team.
>- Help and co-ordinate the Community Newsletter, WikiPatrika
>
>
> * Team Structure*
>
>
>- The team is led by Head of Communications, PR & Media Relations,
>Wikimedia Chapter. 

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Formation of Communications, PR & Media Relations Team

[Bishakha Datta]

And congratulations, Naveen, on all the portals. Lots of work!

Cheers
Bishakha

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Naveen Francis wrote:

>
> All the best for the communication team !!!
>
> Hi Bishakha,
>
> We will be rolling out Administration and Fundraising teams very soon.
>
> Thanks,
> naveenpf
>
>
>  On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Bishakha Datta  > wrote:
>
>> The scope of work looks extremely comprehensive and impressive -
>> congratulations on the formation of this team. And if past experience is
>> anything to go by, may it continue to go from strength to strength.
>>
>> Best
>> Bishakha
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) <
>> tinucher...@wikimedia.in> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi all,
>>>  We are pleased to announce the first batch of our team for
>>> Communications, PR & Media Relations of the Wikimedia India Chapter.
>>>
>>>- Tinu Cherian, Head, Communications
>>>- Arun Ramaratnam, Official Spokesperson
>>>- Anirudh Bhati
>>>- Srikeit Tadepalli
>>>- Noopur Raval
>>>- Srikanth Lakshmanan
>>>- Naveen Francis
>>>- Pranav Curumsey
>>>- Ram Shankar Yadav
>>>- Mitra Sharma
>>>- Anivar Aravind
>>>
>>>
>>> We are still discussing with lots of potential people who are interested
>>> and have the necessary skills. We will be adding them as we progress.
>>>
>>> *Scope of Work*
>>>
>>> Duties and Responsibilities of the team include, but are not limited to
>>> the following:
>>>
>>> *General :*
>>>
>>>- Development of a comprehensive multi-language
>>>Communications Plan for Wikimedia Movement in India to support the
>>>Chapter's strategic objectives. This plan must include social media,
>>>digital outreach, Public Relations (PR) and supporting community and
>>>chapter outreach.
>>>- Implementation of the Communications Plan - including
>>>measuring of results focused on growth in participation and readership
>>>within India and continuous improvement as required.
>>>- Identification, selection and onboarding of specialised
>>>agencies as required.
>>>- Build a close partnership with the Community and Wikimedia
>>>Foundation India Programs to support communications and media outreach.
>>>- Participating in Global Wikimedia Communications committee
>>>and subscribed to its mailing list: wmfc...@mail.wikimedia.org
>>>
>>>
>>>   *  Communications :*
>>>
>>>- Supporting and overseeing communication with Wikimedia
>>>community which includes Chapter members, general public and media.
>>>- Helping the Chapter Secretary in the monthly report that
>>>is send to the members and the community.
>>>- Providing ad hoc support to the Chapter & Community on all
>>>aspects of communications as may be deemed necessary.
>>>
>>>
>>> *Public/ Media Relations :*
>>>
>>>- Coordinating communications with the press, including
>>>press releases, interviews, and inquiries.
>>>- Handling press enquiries and answering them.
>>>- Build a close partnership and working relation with a
>>>network of journalists and news editors all over India and abroad.
>>>- Maintaining a list of people willing to be contacted &
>>>interviewed by the media.
>>>- Identify potential "media worthy" stories and getting them
>>>published into the mass media.
>>>- Contacting editors and publishers of Wikipedia press
>>>coverage to request that corrections be published as needed.
>>>- Public Relations (PR) to build and manage relationships
>>>with media and drive messaging that promotes participation.
>>>- Researching press lists, monitoring and analyzing media
>>>coverage, both negative and positive.
>>>- will be responsible for executing and carrying out PR
>>>campaigns on behalf of the chapter.
>>>- Improve Wikimedia media coverage especially on Indian
>>>local languages.
>>>- Supporting the media coverage of Chapter , W

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter receives FCRA Prior Permission

[Bishakha Datta]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Anivar Aravind
wrote:

> Congrats Arjuna & team . This seems to be a Record in usual time neeed
> for FCRA process
>
> Yes, congratulations to all those who worked on this. Amazingly swift by
FCRA standards!

Best
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiWomen's History Month

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Ashwin Baindur
wrote:

> We had created the gender task force to give women editors a platform and
> I sent out messages to women editors. Sadly, nothing came up though
> Bishakha did some footwork and outreach for the recruitment of a new set of
> women editors, but I think that's yet to happen


Did propose an editing workshop for women in March at Akshara in Mumbai
(women's library), after Pranav and I met with them in late Feb - but dates
not working out. That will probably now spill to April, am on top of it.

Ok, will take the bait and write offlist to all the women editors I know in
India, past and present, including those who were there at the gender gap
session at the wikiconference, and see if we can come up with something
doable for March that also meets this need - online or offline.

More soon, hopefully :)
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Bangalore WikiMeetup 45 - A report !

[Bishakha Datta]

Thanks for both the report and these tips for meet-ups; they're very
practical and make a lot of sense. I think they could help us energize and
focus meetups in other cities too...we laugh a lot in Mumbai meetups too :)

Cheers
Bishakha



On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 9:55 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally <
arkris...@wikimedia.in> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>
> We had a very successful Bangalore Meetup 45 on 29th April (
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiMeetups/Bangalore/Bangalore45). Yes, it is
> the FORTY-FIFTH meetup in the city - which is quite extraordinary by any
> standards anywhere in the world!!!
>
> As is unique and special about Bangalore meetups, we had participation
> from multiple communities - in this case Kannada, Telugu, English, Sanskrit
> and Tamil.
>
> In total, we had 13 people attending, including Barry from WMF.
>
> We wanted to share some tips on how we conducted the meet-up this time -
> which you might find useful as you conduct various meetups.
>
> a) We invited folks one-on-one, in addition to the posts on the mailing
> lists.
> b) At the start of the meet-up, after the introductions, we asked people
> why they have come to the meet-up - and aligned the meet up accordingly to
> address the question "What do you want to gain from today"
> c) We made sure that EVERY single person talks.  Near the 3/4 mark of the
> meetup,  we stopped everything and reached out to the quiet folks and got
> them to talk - and they had SO MUCH to say!!!  Don't let any one person or
> any one topic monopolise the discussion.
> d) Discuss specific next steps.  Folks get energised when you talk about
> specific next steps.  The ideas we got were so inspiring: wiki summer camps
> for students, Kannada GLAM, Telugu digital outreach model, Sanskrit
> education program!
> e) Make it fun!  We laughed throughout the meetup!!!
>
> Coming now to the specific things we discussed, here’s a summary of the
> various discussions
>
> a) Kannada Wikipedia spoke about the Translation Enhancement project - and
> the challenges they were facing getting new users.  It was discussed on how
> we can try and use the Kannada wikipedia facebook group - which now has
> nearly 1800 followers - to see if we can attract new or retired users to
> Kannada Wikipedia project.  This will also require a basic FAQ to be
> updated for Kannada and maybe even an outreach presentation.
> b) Another discussion was to explore GLAM or a school project in Kannada.
>  It was also suggested that we can explore a Wikipedia summer camp - as so
> many students are now on summer holidays.  (This is an idea that will have
> relevance across the country and across communities.)
> c) Wiktionary continues to have potential in Kannada - and indeed other
> languages - and we should explore ways of promoting participation.  This is
> an area where we did not have any specific ideas and we welcome all
> community members who might have some insights to share them for us - and
> for other communities.  Wiktionary (and Wikisource) are great ways for
> folks to get introduced to our communities and projects (because they are
> relatively easy to contribute to.)
> d) A school project was also discussed in Sanskrit - involving 11th-12th
> standard - and we should have some discussions around this.  There are many
> students studying the subject in these years and we must try and explore
> how we can encourage them (and their teachers) to incorporate Sanskrit
> Wikipedia as part of their teaching programs.  It will help energise the
> Sanskrit community and projects - and will make Sanskrit learning so much
> more fun.  Wikisource was discussed as a high-potential project.  Nitika
> and Shiju from India Program will be in touch with the Sanskrit community
> to see how this can be done
> d) All of us discussed with the Telugu community members about their
> ambitions to get newbies into their community and the challenges they are
> facing and it was suggested that an exploration should be done if we can
> try a digital outreach pilot can be done for Telugu.  The basic idea would
> be to have a notice on Telugu Wikipedia that progressively invited those
> interested in learning about Telugu to click through to pages which would
> have a basic outreach presentation as well as FAQs (all in Telugu) and
> encourage them to edit.
> e) Shiju, Nitika & Noopur will be in touch with Kannada, Sanskrit and
> Telugu communities to help out on these initiatives.
>
> The meeting concluded with a group picture - which is available at this
> link:
>
> http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/WikiMediaBangaloreMonthlyMeetup45_2012April29.jpg
>
>
> See you in next month’s meetup.
>
> --
>
>
> Thanks & Regards,
> RadhaKrishna
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna
> Next Wikimedia Bangalore Meetup on 13th May
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WP:MBL46
>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikipatrika]: Announcing the third issue of Wikipatrika!

[Bishakha Datta]

I've now read this from top to toe, or at least gone through everything I
had not read before - congratulations to all those who were involved. It's
brilliant!

I found it interesting, useful, timely - and the layout is easy to navigate
(specially the community news section, with each language community as a
separate tab). And of course, it's only when you see it all in the same
place that you realize the huge amount of work that is happening in India.

Cheers and may wikipatrika go from strength to strength!
Bishakha

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:03 PM, Noopur Raval  wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I am very happy to tell you all that the third issue of Wikipatrika - the
> community newsletter is finally out! You can check it here:
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05
>
> First things first, a humble acknowledgement to all the editors who helped
> out with this issue of the newsletter. A special thanks to Gitartha (as),
> Debanjan (bn), Karthik (en and mr), Pratik (en), DS Vyas and Sushant (gu),
> Siddhartha (hi), Omshivaprakash (kn), Anoop, Kannan, Sreejith, Viswaprabha
> and Shiju (ml), Abhishek (mr), Rajesh and Saroj (ne), Mkar and Srikant
> Kedia (or), Abhiram (sa), Logicwiki and Shanmugam (ta), Arjuna and
> Rahimanuddin (te). In other contributions, thanks to Srikanth R for
> Commons, Logic, Santhosh, Achal for Free culture news and Tinu for Press
> news.
> This entire venture could not have been possible without Tanvir's constant
> support with templates and tweaks. Forgive me if I have missed someone.
>
> So, what has changed from last time? Since all the Wikimeetups are listed
> on Wikipedia here and on the respective community pages, we've omitted the
> section on events and meetups. Instead, we've added a section on*Featured 
> Interviews
> * which has a GLAM interview this time and the *EPOV* column (Editor's
> point of view: INCOTM report).
>
> The idea is to make Wikipatrika a supplement to the mailing lists and
> village pumps and not replicate the same information in all places.
> Hopefully, by the next issue, with more featured interviews, insightful
> pieces from editors and free culture persons we will be able to achieve
> that.
>
> *The way forward: *
>
> It's a proud moment to see the amount of activity that all our language
> communities are involved in. We should definitely strive to make
> Wikipatrika regular and hopefully get more editors to contribute. This is
> one space where editors can express the dreams, visions and challenges that
> their Wikipedia community faces. If you have projects you want to publicize
> or successful projects that could be started in other communities, this is
> the space to express your opinion! From next time onward, we will
> coordinate Patrika on
> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-newsletter *mailing
> list*. I welcome you all to join right away and we can discuss ideas for
> features, changing the format and more! :)
>
> Regards,
> Noopur
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing 2 Community Fellows

[Bishakha Datta]

Forwarding to this list, since one of the fellowships relates to
Bangla/Bengali wikipedia.

And congratulations, Tanvir! Am very interested in seeing how this develops.

Cheers
Bishakha

-- Forwarded message --
From: Siko Bouterse 
Date: Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:02 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] Announcing 2 Community Fellows
To: wikimediaannounc...@lists.wikimedia.org


It is my great pleasure to introduce two new Community Fellows in the
Wikimedia Fellows Program: Tanvir Rahman and Steven Zhang.

Tanvir Rahman is a Wikimedian who serves the movement locally and
globally, both on- and off-wiki. Tanvir has been an active editor of
Bengali Wikipedia since 2009, he holds administrator rights on
multiple projects and he was elected a steward in 2011. He also
volunteers on the Small Wiki Monitoring Team, the Countervandalism
Network, as an OTRS agent, and is a translator for translatewiki.
Tanvir helped found Wikimedia Bangladesh and organizes local outreach
activities to raise awareness for Wikimedia and bring new editors to
the projects.

In his fellowship project, Tanvir will be experimenting with on-wiki
strategies to encourage and grow the editing community on small
language versions of Wikipedia, with specific focus on the Bengali
Wikipedia. Smaller projects have different needs and challenges than
the large language communities and may require different approaches to
engage with editors. By focusing on a community like Bengali
Wikipedia, which has about 50 active editors per month and sees 10 new
editors per month, Tanvir hopes to learn more about the basic editing
infrastructure needed to encourage new editors in new or small-scale
projects.

Steven Zhang is a Wikipedian with a passion for resolving on-wiki
disputes and helping others do the same. He has been contributing to
the English Wikipedia since 2008 and has been particularly active in
dispute resolution forums, including the Wikipedia Mediation Cabal.
Steven is studying a Certificate IV in Mediation at Open Colleges, and
over the past year he has made it his mission as a volunteer to
recruit more editors to join dispute resolution efforts. In 2011, he
helped create the dispute resolution notice board, an entry point for
mediating disputes on the English Wikipedia. Steven has noted that
there aren’t enough active participants to resolve all of the disputes
that arise on Wikipedia each day, and he believes that dispute
resolution processes could be streamlined to make them more accessible
and efficient to all editors who need them.

For his fellowship project, Steven will be analyzing community
feedback and dispute resolution activity in order to build a deeper
understanding of what is effective and what needs improvement in the
current systems. He will also be developing a guide for new editors
who want to get involved in resolving on-wiki disputes.

Steven and Tanvir will be documenting their work on-wiki and on the
Foundation blog. You can learn more about their projects and how to
get involved by visiting:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Fellowships/Fellows

Welcome, Tanvir and Steven!

--
Siko Bouterse
Head of Community Fellowships
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

sboute...@wikimedia.org

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] on WCI, the report, and more

[Bishakha Datta]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Achal Prabhala wrote:

> Pradeep maintains a personal blog and wrote up his thoughts on the WCI
> report earlier shared with this list:
>
> http://pradx.me/2012/05/22/**wikiconference-india-2011-**
> report-more-personal-thoughts/
>
>
Pradeep's post brought up some immediate and broader questions for me,
which I've put up on his blog.

Also reproducing them here, simply because I don't think we should
under-estimate what his post means. That someone who was such an integral
part of the Mumbai and India community and the wikimedia movement feels
despairing enough to retire - over the 'politicking' - is not a good sign.

*Reporting*
*How can we ensure that such reports are based on consensus, so that those
who've been vital parts of such community events do not later feel
alienated by the reporting?

*How can we ensure that such reports represent the perspectives of many of
those involved in such events, rather than a singular perspective? One way
to do so is to involve all 'teams' in writing their parts of the report -
eg Scholarships, Programs etc, getting internal consensus within each team,
and then providing it to the core team.

*How can we ensure that such reports are constructive, rather than
destructive, in their criticism, and steer clear of name calling or
singling out individuals?

*How can we ensure that such reports 'look forward' to helping future
community teams that organize such conferences, rather than backwards at
pinpointing perceived errors of omission and commission?

*How can we ensure that such reports have a helpful problem-solution
approach, eg "this was the problem, this was how we fixed it" to supplement
the documentation of processes leading up to an event? That would really
help future teams.

*Broader*
*How can we retain the sense of fun that is so much part of - and integral
to - a volunteer movement?

*How can we create a sense of togetherness, a sense that we're all working
towards the same shared goals?

*How can we ask the tough questions that are needed to make constituents
accountable to a larger community while ensuring that we are not unduly
politicking or undermining trust in the process? And how do we know when
enough is enough, that it's time to stop?

Many other questions, but I'll stop here for now. I forgot to put some of
these up on the blog, they occurred to me while I was writing this.

Best
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiWomenCamp and WikiGenero-Buenos Aires, Participation

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Netha Hussain wrote:

> Hola!
>
>   Greetings from Buenos Aires!
>
> I am User: Netha Hussain (1), writing from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I was
> lucky to represent India  in the WikiWomenCamp (2) and WikiGenero held here
> from 23-26 May 2012. My travel and accommodation were sponsored by
> Wikimedia Germany and Wikimedia Austria. The past four days had been
> fabulous, and I enjoyed being in the company of amazing women from
> different parts of the world.
>
> Am so glad you could be there - after seeing the photos, I'm even more
regretful I couldn't attend!

I would very much like to hear in greater detail the ideas that came up at
the camp.

Do get in touch when you're back - let's see how we can seriously take this
forward in India.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] on WCI, the report, and more

[Bishakha Datta]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Theo10011  wrote:
>
>
> Hi Bishakha
>
> I am not sure if you are intentionally leaving out Pranav or if that was
> an oversight.
>

Not sure what you mean - could you clarify?


>
> I don't know how you can think reporting itself was the problem, I'm
> really confused how you formed that impression. We can of course, start
> lying, avoid any cautionary tales and keep repeating "all is great", or you
> can actually confront the situation.
>

Hey, I'm never in favour of whitewashing, ignoring or turning a blind eye
to shortcomings - but it is important to be constructive in giving feedback
and to take personal responsibility as well. I'm totally in favour of all
that, as is evident from my questions. Certainly not advocating 'no
reporting'; I'm in favour of strengthening the reporting.

If, as Srikanth suggests, others who worked on WCI 2011 write in with their
comments and suggestions, this would help greatly in analysing what worked,
what didn't, and what we can carry with us to the next conf.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Farewell

[Bishakha Datta]

Dear Hisham,



I’m thinking back on your time here and want to thank you for so much that
you’ve done and built in these one and a half years. For setting up things
from scratch when there was neither a team nor an office and you were on
your own. For building and motivating a small team to venture into unknown
terrain (and for even daring to step into this terrain) without any
surefire guarantee of success. For tirelessly and successfully supporting
many Indic language wikipedias and the first-ever community-led
WikiConference India. For keeping up team morale in the difficult days
following the India Education program. For reaching out to hundreds of
people in India through any means necessary to create new editors. And,
yes, for being bold.



One of the things that makes this kind of work difficult is not just its
newness or its experimental unsure nature, but also its publicness.
Brickbats pour in much faster than bouquets in public fora, creating a
narrative of their own that is hard to buck. I want to thank you for being
able to smell the roses, for having a tough enough hide to survive the
brickbats while continuing to steer India programs and motivating your team
to do its best. I also want to urge the Wikimedia India community to be
constructive and rigorous in holding India programs accountable in its next
avatar - without being destructive or personal.



You’ve laid a very solid foundation for India programs that I expect the
team will continue to build on. I hope you enjoy your remaining time here
and leave with many more good memories than bad.



Will miss you, my friend!

Bishakha

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Hisham  wrote:

> Dear India Community
>
>
> I'm writing to inform you that I plan to leave my current role supporting
> Wikimedia in India.  I am going to be exploring opportunities and
> evaluating options that are closer to my career aspirations and my personal
> circumstances.  I will be working through to ensure that there is a smooth
> transition - and this is likely to take 2-3 months.  I am writing now
> because I felt it appropriate and opportune to inform you as early as
> possible.
>
> I want to start off by thanking the Wikimedia community and movement for
> giving me this extraordinary opportunity.  Working on something like India
> Program has been something that has been professionally enriching and
> personally fulfilling. Over the past 1 1/2 years, I have been supported by
> so many of you - and I want to thank you for everything you have done!  The
> passion and intellectual firepower of our community has been my constant
> source of drive and guidance.  There are so many examples of powerful
> stories from all over the country: the incredible efforts put in by the IEP
> Campus Ambassadors in Pune; the army of volunteers that drove the outreach
> push across the country in the first few months of this year; the beautiful
> stories of fantastic community initiatives from far and wide across the
> country and sub-continent, and indeed the world; the remarkable stories
> from so many communities - large, small and tiny ones!
>
> I want to thank the team that I have had the pleasure and privilege of
> working with - Nitika, Noopur, Shiju & Subha.  You guys have been
> wonderful.  The work that we are doing is experimental and we have been
> innovating every day, and I know the circumstances have not always been
> easy.  Take strength and inspiration from the large number of community
> members who have been touched by you and appreciate your efforts and value
> your work.
>
> I will send an actual "over and out" message later.  In the meantime, I
> will continue to work on everything that needs working on.
>
> Happy Editing!
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> *hisham*
> *
> *
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team

[Bishakha Datta]

Cool!

Congratulations and more power to the localization team,
Bishakha

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Subhashish Panigrahi  wrote:

> Congrats Logic,
>
> It is so nice to see you in i18n team!
>
> It is a promise from a old Bangalore friend, I will be disturbing you more
> than anyone else!
>
> you have been helpful always and I wish all the Indic language communities
> take more help from you.
>
> Best
>
>
> On 2 August 2012 10:03, Nasir Khan  wrote:
>
>> Congratulations Logic
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Gautam John wrote:
>>
>>> Congratulation, Logic! Super news and always great to see the
>>> communities strongest supporters as part of the core team!
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>> Gautam
>>> 
>>> http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Leaving the Wikimedia Foundation

[Bishakha Datta]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Barry Newstead wrote:

>
> It is difficult for me to leave Wikimedia and particularly leave the
> Global Development team, which I’ve had the pleasure of building and
> leading over the past two years. I am proud of what we have accomplished in
> raising the priority of much of the globe within the Wikimedia movement,
> strengthening our mobile strategy and education program, globalizing
> communications, and tackling the difficult movement roles issues that I
> hope can be put in the past. It hasn’t been easy or uncontroversial, but I
> truly believe that we are heading in the right direction.
>
>
> Dear Barry,

A huge thanks and a big salute for all you've done for global development,
movement roles, the strategy plan and all else.

I will retain many wonderful memories of working together. My favourite:
kicking off the first Mumbai meet-up in September 2010, expecting a handful
to show up, bemused surprise turning to delight as a handful grows to 45
people.

Cheers and I'm delighted that you will continue to be a part of the
movement,
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia's gender gap

[Bishakha Datta]

As discussed on the phone, I'm up for organizing something in Mumbai this
Oct.

More later,
Bishakha

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It would be great to know if the women wikipedians in India have gotten
> together and are doing something on this issue. I had expressed last year
> an intention of doing a Wikipedia Women's Workshop in Mumbai, but this
> became part of the WikiConference India program. Has there been any
> specific actions taken beyond that?
>
> warm regards,
> Pradeep Mohandas
>
> --
> Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 21:23:28 +0530
> From: nethahuss...@gmail.com
> To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia's gender gap
>
>
> Interesting.
>
> *Only 9% of Wikipedia editors are females* - The number could be a bit
> more or a bit less, as this conclusion is based on the gender preferences
> given by the user in their account. [1] I am pretty sure that the figures
> in most Indian language Wikipedias would be even lesser, considering that
> women in our country have lesser access to the internet than those of the
> West.
>
> We are yet to tap the potential of the millions of e-literate women of our
> country who are have the basic skills to contribute to Wikipedia.
> Considering that women can create more impact on other women, we need to
> have more women from the community be active in outreach activities. I am
> still hopeful that a day will come when the gender ratio in all Indic
> Wikipedias would be close to 1:1!
>
> I'd request all Indian women Wikimedians on this list to add their names
> to 
> this[2]
>  page so that we could plan for online and offline activities for
> increasing the participation of women in Wikiprojects.
>
>
> [1] http://grouplens.org/system/files/wp-gender-wikisym2011.pdf
> [2]
> http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers
>
> Netha Hussain
> [[User: Netha Hussain]]
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या
> *فريدريك نورونيا  wrote:
>
> http://visual.ly/wikipedias-gender-gap
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost: Bangla-language survey

[Bishakha Datta]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Wikipedia Signpost 
Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:28 PM
Subject: [Wikimedia Announcements] The Signpost -- Volume 8, Issue 33 -- 13
August 2012
To: wikimediaannounce-l 


News and notes: Bangla-language survey suggests the challenges for small
Wikipedias
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-08-13/News_and_notes
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Progress in WLM India

[Bishakha Datta]

On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Karthik Nadar  wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote:
>
>>
>>- With just a day completed, while second day is going on, India
>>ranks second behind Spain in number of photos uploaded.
>>- Happily, India ranks number in number of Uploaders with 194
>>contributors so far. 847 Images has been uploaded so far :)
>>
>> Sorry, India ranks number *ONE* in number of uploaders.
>
>>
>>
>>
Good show! Congratulations to all involved in this,
Bishakha
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Meeting to plan wiki workshop for women - Sunday 16 Sept

[Bishakha Datta]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Bishakha Datta 
Date: Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:29 PM
Subject: Meeting to plan wiki workshop for women - Sunday 16 Sept
To: Mumbai List Wikimedia 



Dear all,

Sorry for the short notice, but was trying to get enough women editors from
Mumbai involved and find a venue - both are on track now, so this can
happen.

Am writing to invite the Mumbai wp community to an informal meeting Sunday
16 Sept to plan a wiki academy or workshop for women in Mumbai.

Here is where I am coming from: In my day job, I run a non-profit called Point
of View <http://www.pointofview.org>, which promotes the points of view of
women through media, art and culture. In this capacity and others, I
routinely come across women, including other NGOs working with women, and
with women bloggers and others active on social media. Many of them have
expressed a tentative interest in editing wikipedia, but are stuck at this
place. Pranav and I visited one such org in Mumbai earlier this year, but
it's too time-consuming going org by org.

Instead, I propose that we start with an introductory workshop for
interested individuals/organizations and then perhaps follow up with those
who are more interested...hoping to do the introductory workshop sometime
in November. And hoping that each of you can similarly invite interested
women to the Nov workshop.

This is a working meeting devoted to planning this workshop. If you would
like to be part of it and help reduce the gender gap at wikipedia, please
do come!

The meeting will be held at 4 pm on Sunday 16 Sept at Pinstorm's office
(many thanks, Netra for offering us this facility).
*Pinstorm, Swati Bldg,
North Avenue,
Santa Cruz (W)
Bombay 400 054
Phone: +91 22 6739 3888*

There is a map here <http://www.pinstorm.com/contact_us.htm>.

Cheers
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Meeting to plan wiki workshop for women - Sunday 16 Sept

[Bishakha Datta]

Thanks, both - we need all the encouragement we can get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai18

Do sign up here, and the meetup is open to all genders, not just to women.

Cheers and more after we meet,
Bishakha

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Netha Hussain wrote:

> +1 Srikanth.
>
>  Great initiative, Bishakha! All the best!
>
> --
> User: Netha Hussain
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> All the very best Bishakha. I hope the number of women editors increases
>> by a considerable margin!
>> --
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] FDC members

[Bishakha Datta]

Congratulations, Arjuna!
Bishakha

On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Arun Ramarathnam wrote:

> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> The  initial composition of the Funds Dissemination Committee has been
> announced.
>
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/2012_FDC_members
>
> Nice to note that Arjuna is now a member of this committee.
>
> Congrats Arjuna. This is great to hear!
> Best wishes.
>
> regards
> Arun
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Patricio Lorente 
> Date: Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 7:24 AM
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] FDC members
> To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org
>
>
> Dear friends:
>
> I just posted the initial composition of the Funds Dissemination
> Committee in
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Funds_Dissemination_Committee/2012_FDC_members
> as resolved today by the Board of Trustees. The resolution will be
> published as soon as possible.
>
> I would like to thank all the nominees, on behalf of the Board of
> Trustees. Many committed and valuable wikimedians nominated themselves
> to serve in this Committe. For those who were not appointed, we will
> ask you to help us in other ways. For those who were appointed,
> welcome aboard!
>
> Best,
>
>   Patricio.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-hyd] Odia Wikipedia meet up- Hyderabad Chapter

[Bishakha Datta]

Thanks for this wonderful report, and congrats to all of you for
surmounting the hurdles and pulling off the workshop.

Best
Bishakha
On Oct 6, 2012 1:04 PM, "swetapadma d. satpathy" 
wrote:

>
>
> Greetings!!
>
>
> I am Swetapadma Satpathy working as a programme Manager in RD department,
> Govt. of AP. I am staying in Hyderbad since 1.6 yrs.  Though I knew about
> Wikipedia, but since last 6 months I started writing articles for Wikipedia
> thanks to the motivation of Subhashish Panigrahi, one of the Odia
> Wikipedian working in Wikipedia foundation. In Hyderabad city large
> population of Odias reside and work in various sector.  We have several
> Odia friends who write very  good articles in Odia language too. This led
> us to plan for a Wikipedia workshop for the Odias staying in Hyderabad.
> With the help and guidance of Subhashish, we planned to organize the Odia
> Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad. The date was finalized, so  was the venue.
> But it came as a matter of concern, when I came to know that roads would be
> blocked due to Ganesh idol immersion followed up by Telangana Bandh.  But
> Shree  Ganesh, being considered as the  destroyer of evils and all
> obstacles , how could He  create problem for  our workshop ? To our utter
> surprise11 people turned up for the workshop. (yeah!! It was no less number
> as per the wikipedian  Subhashis) . The workshop though scheduled at 4.00
> PM started at 4.30 PM as several participants got late due to road blocks
> and continued up to 7.00 PM
>
>
> Another Odia Wikipedian  Amaresh also supported for the event. We started
> the workshop around 4.30 pm. We both introduced ourselves and asked our
> participants to introduce themselves.  We started the programme by
> explaining the basic question” WHAT IS THE OBJECTIVE OF THE WORKSHOP?”
>
> Then a  ppt was presented and print out of the ppt was also distributed to
> the participants for future reference.(
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Outreach_Document_or.pdf) the
> History and current status of Odia Wikipedia and how it evolved. During the
> course of presentations participants were encouraged to ask various
> questions e. g.  If there is any Admin from Wikipedia group for approving
> the article etc.
>
>
>
> To create more enthusiasm among the participants, we asked them to come
> forward and create their user account. We wanted the programme to be more
> participatory rather a preaching session. Then we started demonstrating
> them editing Odia wikipedia. 6 of the participants created their accounts
> and started editing various articles from their home town to eminent
> personalities such as P. Gopichand.  This session continued  for 2.30 hrs.
> After the end of the session it was  demonstrated how they can ask
> questions in Chatasabha (http://or.wikipedia.org/s/3h), a newbie support
> desk on Odia Wikipedia after they go back home.
>
> All of them were invited to join  facebook group (
> https://www.facebook.com/groups/OdiaWiki) and share their ideas and take
> help. For this emails and contacts were exchanged among the participants.
>
>
>
>
>
> And of course, at the end we shared hot* samosas* with hot tea cuppas
> available in *Lamakaan*
>
> This was the first Wikipedia workshop we  have conducted and it was just
> so fulfilling. We hope to conduct a bigger event in near future with more
> number of volunteers joining the Odia Wikipedia group.
>
>
>
> Wishing you peace and love,
>
>
>
> Swetapadma Satpathy
>
> Hyderabad
>
> Reference
> OdiaWikipedia presentation:
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Outreach_Document_or.pdf
> Chatasabha,HelpdeskonOdiaWikipedia: http://or.wikipedia.org/s/3h
> Odia Wikipedia on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/OdiaWiki
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [A2K]: Access to Knowledge Bulletin – October 2012

[Bishakha Datta]

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:36 PM, noopur  wrote:

> **
>
>
>
> Shiju Alex , Programme
> Manager, Access to Knowledge is leaving the organisation. November 16, 2012
> will be his last working day. We wish him success in all his future
> endeavours.
>

Extremely sorry to hear this - from everything I've heard, read and seen
over the last 1.5 years, Shiju's departure will be a huge loss for the
program.

Shiju, needless to say I wish you a good transition and hope we will stay
in touch.

And of course I very much hope that someone with as much passion for indic
languages and skills in working supportively with language communities will
join the team.

Best
Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome Bishakha!

[Bishakha Datta]

Hi Srikanth, Arun, Achal and all on the list,

Totally excited about this opportunity. Look forward to collectively 
getting Wikipedia into even higher gear in India, among other things.


And to meeting up soon.

Cheers
Bishakha


On 05-04-2010 15:33, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:

Dear Bisakha, Congratulations!! Feels great to have another on board!!
Regards,
Srikanth

On 5 April 2010 13:04, Arun Ram <mailto:arunra...@gmail.com>> wrote:


Dear Bisakha,

Warm welcome from all of us in India!

Congratulations on your new appointment to the board of trustees
of Wikimedia foundation.

Warm regards
Arun


On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Achal Prabhala
mailto:aprabh...@gmail.com>> wrote:

In case you haven't seen the posting on Foundation-l, here is
Michael
Snow's message welcoming Bishakha Datta from India on to the
board of
trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation.

A warm welcome to you on the Wikimedia India mailing list,
Bishakha -
great to have you here.

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2010-April/057537.html

Text of message from Foundation-l:

As many of you know, we have had one vacant seat left on the
Wikimedia
Foundation Board of Trustees for the board to appoint. We have now
filled that seat by appointing Bishakha Datta, a journalist,
filmmaker,
and nonprofit leader from India. In the course of finding
Bishakha, we
met with a number of great people and had a lot of support
going through
the process, and I want to thank everyone who participated.

I hope everyone will warmly welcome Bishakha as part of our
community.
By way of background, Bishakha runs a nonprofit based in
Mumbai that
focuses on conveying women's perspectives in culture and the
media. She
also has been involved in other international nonprofit work,
and her
knowledge of India should be a great help to us as we move
forward with
the strategic plan. In general, her experience will be a
wonderful asset
and I think she is an ideal fit for the remaining board seat.

In a bit of an ironic twist, Bishakha's organization is called
Point of
View, but rest assured that she understands and endorses the
neutral
point of view approach for Wikimedia projects. Her journalistic
background means she appreciates the value of an objective
presentation,
and throughout our conversations with her it was clear that
she supports
our mission and values.

We will have an official press release in the next day or so
with some
more information. I'm excited to be able to work with
Bishakha, and I
know that she is looking forward to being involved as well.

--Michael Snow


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] (no subject)

[Bishakha Datta]

Congrats! This is great,
Bishakha

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:35 PM, guru brahma  wrote:

> Dear Fellow India Wikimedians,
>
> I take great pleasure in informing you all that with the submission of a
> draft of MoA to the Chapters Committee for their final ratification and
> approval, the objective of establishing Wikimedia India is closer to
> fruition. This latest draft of MoA has taken all (y)our discussions so far
> into consideration and has been given its final shape after due
> deliberations with legal experts. A copy of the latest draft can be accessed
> at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-ChapComVer. I also
> take this opportunity for thanking one and all in making this a reality.
>
> Cheers,
> Srinivas.
> Unified login across all Wikimedia projects: Gurubrahma
>
>
>  The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage.
> http://in.yahoo.com/
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Living Person Task Force: Phase Two

[Bishakha Datta]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Keegan Peterzell 
Date: Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:52 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Living Person Task Force: Phase Two
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List 


Hello, Wikimedians.

This weekend I plan on finalizing the timeline for phase two of the Living
Person Task Force: a community findings recommendation.

What we are interested in is people from all size wikis participating in
discussing common interests and problems on interpersonal and intrapersonal
interaction relating to Wikimedia projects.  This includes statistics
gathering, examination of how projects handle OTRS complaints/issues, image
use, quotation use, and sourcing.  It is very important that we get
participation in these areas, if anything just to received feedback on the
wiki.  I have subpages set up for these discussion on the Strategy site, <
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Task_force/Living_People>.

In six to eight weeks we'd like to develop recommendations from the Task
Force that are more in-depth than the proposed recommendations to be passed
by the Board this month, to assist in developing projects identify and set
up structures for the issues that come with societies.

If you have experience dealing with living people on any of our wikis, or if
you have ideas on how policies can be established/improved, please
participate in the discussions so that we can adequately asses the projects
as a whole.

Thanks for your time, see you on the wiki!

--
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010

[Bishakha Datta]

Great meeting all. The TOI report, unfortunately, misquotes both me and
Achal. Last para particularly badly mangled.

And of course the melodramatic headline "Wikipedia cries" could do with some
NPOV.:)

Bishakha

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:36 AM, CherianTinu Abraham  wrote:

> Thanq Nadig for uploading the images with CC By SA license, I will "copy"
> them to our commons too..
>
> Btw there was a news column today on"Times of India" newspaper regarding
> this meetup and Bishakha Datta.
>
> E-editions can found below.
>
>
> http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOIBG/2010/04/12&PageLabel=6&EntityId=Ar00602&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T
>
>
> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Wikipedia-cries-for-desi-content/articleshow/5785692.cms
>
> Waiting for the new articles from The Hindu , DNA and Bangalore Mirror who
> have covered the event.
>
> Bishakha,
> It was nice meeting you and having your presence at our Wikimeetup
> @Bangalore.
>
> Thanks
> Tinu Cherian
>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:
>
>> People,
>>
>> Some photos from today's Bangalore meet-up:
>> http://is.gd/bowby
>>
>> (FlickR)
>> --
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>> http://flickr.com/hpnadig
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010

[Bishakha Datta]

You are more generous than me in forgiving the DNA reporter for saying
dictionary for what the whole world knows is an encyclopedia.:)

I feel the following misquotes/inaccuracies are somewhat damaging:
*para 2 - which make it sound as if I am claiming leadership in India,
setting up the office and the chapter, when I'm doing neither - and said so
repeatedly.
*last para - the fictional quote on 'Malayalam articles having more depth.'
I don't recall anyone saying this, let alone me.

Media coverage will only intensify with each step: the formation of the
chapter, etc etc. The problem with this kind of misreporting is that it
makes others wary, and wrongly credits an individual (that too the wrong
individual) for a collective effort. Just want to flag this to ensure there
is no ill-feeling among us.

For now, media attention is focused on me for obvious reasons. But in due
course, it would be good for more and more Wikipedians - including those who
are active on the proposed chapter formation - to start talking more and
more to media, so that many voices represent wikipedia in India. I tried to
do this to some extent at the Sun meeting by redirecting questions to Achal,
Arun, and others...but they still attributed the stuff to me.

There's only so many times I can apologize for what is not my error...if
anybody has any thoughts on how this coverage can be improved (apart from
letters to editor, which can only be done once so often), do share.

Best
Bishakha


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
wrote:

> Related news on DNA newspaper, Bangalore Ed, today
>
>
> http://www.dnaindia.com/bangalore/report_wikipedia-now-has-an-indian-face_1370778
> http://epaper.dnaindia.com/dnabangalore/epapermain.aspx Page 8 "
> wikipedia-now-has-an-indian-face"
>
> Forgive the reporter for the artcile saying "online collaborative
> dictionary" instead of "online collaborative encyclopedia" . Blame the
> copyeditor :)
>
> Thanks
> Tinu Cherian
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 11:36 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <
> tinucher...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanq Nadig for uploading the images with CC By SA license, I will "copy"
>> them to our commons too..
>>
>> Btw there was a news column today on"Times of India" newspaper regarding
>> this meetup and Bishakha Datta.
>>
>> E-editions can found below.
>>
>>
>> http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOINEW&BaseHref=TOIBG/2010/04/12&PageLabel=6&EntityId=Ar00602&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=T
>>
>>
>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Wikipedia-cries-for-desi-content/articleshow/5785692.cms
>>
>> Waiting for the new articles from The Hindu , DNA and Bangalore Mirror who
>> have covered the event.
>>
>> Bishakha,
>> It was nice meeting you and having your presence at our Wikimeetup
>> @Bangalore.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Tinu Cherian
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote:
>>
>>> People,
>>>
>>> Some photos from today's Bangalore meet-up:
>>> http://is.gd/bowby
>>>
>>> (FlickR)
>>> --
>>> Hari Prasad Nadig
>>> http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig
>>> http://flickr.com/hpnadig
>>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Bangalore Meet-up April 11, 2010

[Bishakha Datta]

Seems worthwhile to do both these - the most accurate bits in all the recent
reports are from the Foundation's press release, which I forwarded them
after the Sunday meet.
Bishakha

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 1:22 AM, Ravishankar  wrote:

> Srikanth,
>
> 1. Whether they take or not, this will be a professional way for us to do.
> This will also be a good way to document our activities.
>
> 2. And if they take, it is a good chance for us to convey the exact message
> as it is. During the press conference on Tamil Wiki contest, while many
> magazines misreported, the ones we sent a press release published it
> exactly. When all they want is news and not views, the press release will
> help. If we can send a press release, even the magazines who didn't send
> their reporters personally will cover the event.
>
> 3. It will be good idea to elect / select and announce Spokespersons who
> can speak on behalf on Wiki in India (both language wise and on behalf of
> chapter when it is formed). This way media will be aware of the right people
> to contact if they want to clarify any thing.
>
> Ravi
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
> rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Ravi,
>> while that is a good point, do you think the press still will take it? I
>> mean, it's not what they get, but what they put into the final print.
>> Regards,
>>
>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Some information for Bangalore Mirror

[Bishakha Datta]

FYI

-- Forwarded message --
From: Renuka Phadnis 
Date: Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:06 AM
Subject: Some information for Bangalore Mirror
To: arunra...@gmail.com, hpna...@gmail.com, bishakhada...@gmail.com
Cc: Renuka Phadnis 


Dear All
I am Renuka Phadnis from the Bangalore Mirror in Bangalore.
I got your email IDs from Bangapedian Tinu Cherian.
I wish to write about your roles in Wikipedia. So please would you mind
replying to some queries:
 i
For Arunram and Nadig:
1. What work do you do in Bangalore?
2. How did you get interested in Wikipedia, how long have you been writing
for it, and what do you write on?
3. What takes you to Berlin? What will your agenda there? How are you
supposed to use your learnings from the Berlin meet?

For Bishakha:
1. What do you, what do you write on in Wikipedia and how long have you been
writing for Wikipedia?
2. What does it take to be a trustee member? How did you get selected for
the role? How long will you be in this role?
3. What will you be doing in this new role?
4. How do you see the Bangalore Wikipedia group?

Please do send photos of yourselves.

Thank you

Best wishes
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Principal Correspondent
Bangalore Mirror
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikimedians meetup - 2010 April 17 - Kalamasseri, Ernakulam

[Bishakha Datta]

Sounds great!
Bishakha

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Anoop  wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:02 AM, BalaSundaraRaman 
> wrote:
>
>> Wonderful. My best wishes to all Malayalam Wiki participants.
>>
>> We had earlier faced some issues with PediaPress to generate PDF versions
>> of Tamil Wiki articles. Was following up with the developers, but somehow
>> left it in the limbo. Given this state, do you think the software that you
>> people have developed can be used to create printable books also? If so,
>> that would be great. Please share the technical details and open source the
>> software as much as possible.
>>
>> Yes we are focusing all Malayalam Wiki projects like Wiktionary,
> Wikibooks, Wikisource and Wikiquotes
>
>
>> Does this meetup also focus on other Malayalam Wiki projects like
>> Wiktionary?
>>
>>  - 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:* Shiju Alex 
>> *To:* wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
>> *Sent:* Sat, April 17, 2010 9:25:36 AM
>> *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikimedians meetup - 2010 April
>> 17 - Kalamasseri, Ernakulam
>>
>> Hello WikiMedians,
>>
>> With great pleasure let me inform you about the *Malayalam Wikimedia
>> users meetup*. Today *(2010  April 17)  Malayalam Wikimedians* are coming
>> together for the 3rd wikimeetup at RajaGiri College of Social Sciences,
>> Kalamassery, Ernakulam . The first malayalam
>> wikimeetup was happened in 2007 Decemver 31, and the second meetup was in
>> 2008 October 31.
>>
>>
>> We are extremely happy to inform you about some of the major things
>> happening as a part of this meetup.
>>
>> 1. *We are releasing a Malayalam Wikipedia CD* that contain 500 articles
>> selected from the 12,000 articles that were available in Malayalam Wikipedia
>> during 2010 March.
>>
>> Please note that we are not releasing an offline version of malayalam wiki
>> articles. It is a customized version of articles very much similar to the
>> English Wikipedia on CD
>> (http://wikipediaondvd.com/).  We have provided many other additional
>> facilities/addons  that are applicable to Malayalam language on this CD. I
>> will provide you the link to download this CD after we release the CD at 3
>> PM Indian standard time.
>>
>> With the release of this CD, we have become the first Indian language
>> WikiMdedia foundation Wiki releasing such a CD. Also, I assume that no other
>> non-latin languages tried this due to the number of technical hurdles that
>> need to over come while working with non-latin languages.
>>
>> *We have developed a dedicated application (in GNU/Linux) for creating
>> this CD. *I will share you the details of this software as soon as it is
>> available for community development. I will write a separate mail regarding
>> the efforts that went behind the creation of this CD.
>>
>>
>> 2.* We are setting up a new website for coordinating  the various
>> activities of Malayalam Wikimedians.* I will share the link soon. The CD
>> version of Malayalam Wikipedia will be avilable for download from this site
>> later today.
>>
>>
>> 3. *We are releasing a printed book (in Malayalam language) that contain
>> 25 frequently asked questions about Wiki, Wikipedia, and Malayalam
>> Wikipedia. *I think if this docuemnt is translated to English, many other
>> Indian languages can reuse it. Requeting the help of wikimedians to
>> translate it to English and available it to all. I will provide you the link
>> to download this book later today.
>>
>>
>> The production cost of CD and the book is sponsored by 
>> i...@schooland the meetup is sponsored by 
>> number of NGO's including
>> SPACE .
>>
>>
>> *We are trying for the live streaming of this event.* The link will be
>> provided as soon as it is available.
>>
>>
>> I will share more details about the meetup later today.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Shiju Alex
>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Re: [Board-l] Fwd: Fwd: Philosophical view on Google translated articles

[Bishakha Datta]

Forwarded this to the board list, and got two more personal opinions
from members. Was waiting to get permission from them to post on this
list before doing so.

Also, please keep in mind that these are personal opinions, no more or less.
Best
Bishakha

>> On 21-04-2010 21:44, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>>> On 4/21/10 12:45 PM, Ting Chen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Generally I would prefer such questions solved inside of the community

>>>> and not by the foundation. The foundation cannot and should not solve
>>>> every problem in every project. Meta or foundation-l are also places to
>>>> search for advices and ask for experiences.

>>>>
>>> This is my view as well.  And I don't think the Foundation should be
>>> seen as encouraging such projects using machine language against the
>>> interests of the community.  If they find some good way to work with

>>> google on this, that's great, but if not, that's also great.




 Subject: Re: [Board-l] Fwd: Fwd: [Wikimediaindia-l] Philosophical view on
Google translated articles  Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:20:53 +0200  From: Jimmy
WalesReply-To:
boar...@lists.wikimedia.org  To: boar...@lists.wikimedia.org
 I am quite concerned about the kinds of issues that Ravi raises, and
believe that machine translation is, on net, more likely to be harmful than
helpful to most communities. Bishakha, you may want to wait before posting
back to the Listserv, to get a broader view from other board members. --
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On 4/20/10 8:02 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote: > Hi all, > > This just popped up
on the Wikimedia India listserve - with a question > in caps for the
Foundation. Sue, or anyone on the board, any thoughts on > this? (specially
the question in caps). > > I just checked out
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Paid_editing. > > Best > Bishakha > >
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ravidre...@gmail.com <mailto:ravidre...@gmail.com> > >
Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:19 PM > Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l]
Philosophical view on Google translated articles > To:
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation is there!

[Bishakha Datta]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Marcin Cieslak 
Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:13 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Wikimania 2010: Call for Participation is there!
To: foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org


Wikimania is an annual global event devoted to Wikimedia projects
around the globe (including Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikinews,
Wiktionary, Wikispecies, Wikimedia Commons, and MediaWiki). The
conference is a community gathering, giving the editors, users
and developers of Wikimedia projects an opportunity to meet each
other, exchange ideas, report on research and projects, and
collaborate on the future of the projects. The conference is open
to the public, and is a chance for educators, researchers,
programmers and free culture activists who are interested in the
Wikimedia projects to learn more and share ideas about the
Wikimedia projects.

This year's conference will be held JULY 9-11, 2010 in Gdansk,
Poland at Polish Baltic Philharmonic. For more information, please
visit the official Wikimania 2010 site:

http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/

Wikimania 2010 will be a mix of submitted talks, open space
meetings, birds of a feather groups, and lightning talks.
Submissions will be discussed and selected in an informal process
on the wiki. If your submission is not added to the schedule, you
will still have many opportunities to bring topics forward
on-site.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Deadline for submitting workshop, tutorial, panel and
  presentation proposals: May 20
* Notification of acceptance: May 25 (workshops), May 31
  (panels, tutorials, presentations)
* All proposals and presentations will be welcome in the
  Open Space track of the conference, whether or not they
  are accepted in this initial process.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Submissions will be reviewed informally by a team of volunteers.

TRACKS

This year Wikimania will offer three tracks for submissions for
members of wiki communities and interested observers to share
their own experiences and thoughts and to present new ideas:

People and Community

The People and Community track provides a unique forum for
discussing topics related to people using/building wikis.
Relevant topics include, but are not restricted to, the
following:

* Wiki Community: Conflict resolution and community dynamics;
  reputation and identity;
* Wiki Outreach: Promotion of wikis and Wikimedia projects among
  the general public;
* North meets south, east meets west: How can people of a
  different cultural background create an encyclopedia according
  to common rules? Same subject in the eye of different cultures.
* Special: Wikipedia in Central/Eastern Europe: this theme will
  provide a forum to present and discuss the latest progress of
  Wikis in the central/eastern European community.

Knowledge and Collaboration

The Knowledge and Collaboration track aims to promote research
and find exciting ideas related to knowledge...

* Wiki Content: New ways to improve content quality, credibility;
  legal issues and copyrights (is free knowledge free?); use of
  the content in education, journalism, research;
* Semantic Wikis: The use of semantic web technologies, linked
  data; semantic annotation and metadata (in particular manual
  vs. automated approaches).

Infrastructure Track

The Infrastructure track at Wikimania will provide a forum where
both researchers and practitioners can share new approaches,
applications, and explore how to make Wiki access ever more
ubiquitous:

* MediaWiki development: issues related to MediaWiki development
  and extensions;
* Moving beyond MediaWiki: what other Wiki-like platforms exist;
  what tools and features do we need for collaboration on
  different types of knowledge?
* Mobile Wikis: The Web is moving off the desktop and into mobile
  phones, how we use wikis on mobile devices?; wiki-based
  Augmented Reality (AR) applications, location based services
* User Interface Design: Usability and user experience;
  accessibility, adaptive interfaces and personalization; novel
  UI designs.

WIKISYM 2010

Please note that Wikimania 2010 is co-located with WikiSym, The
International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. More
information about WikiSym can be found on the conference website:

http://www.wikisym.org/

SUBMIT A PROPOSAL

To submit a proposal for a presentation, workshop, panel or
tutorial, please visit:

http://bit.ly/Submit2010

Thank you for helping make Wikimania 2010 a successful event. :-)
See you in Gdansk, July 9-11!



--
Marcin Cieslak
Wikimania 2010 Gdansk

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Approval of Wikimedia India

[Bishakha Datta]

Congratulations, all. Exciting!

Hope the India registration stuff happens speedily...look forward to hearing
plans and possibilities for the future.

Cheers
Bishakha

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Samuel J Klein  wrote:

> As a Board member, I will say that we are excited to see Wikimedia
> India taking shape.  I hope you will keep pages on the Meta-wiki
> updated with details about the organization, plans and projects for
> the coming year, &c.
>
> Warmly,
> Samuel.
>
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Arun Ram  wrote:
> > Dear all:
> > Yes we also got to hear about the board resolution which is good news and
> a
> > great step forward in the process.
> > As you may be aware, the chapter comes into effect formally only when
> > Wikimedia India is formally registered and approved in India under
> Societies
> > Act.  That is when the organisation becomes operational.  At that point a
> > formal announcement will be made. We have some distance to go in the
> > process.
> > Till then there is a lot of background work needs to be done, including
> the
> > following:
> >
> > Expert advise is being sought to take the formal registration forward.
> > The chapter registration will take place in Karnataka under societies
> act.
> > The MOA needs to be translated into Kannada.
> > Documents will need to be filed with the registrar and will go through
> due
> > approval process.
> >
> > We believe that the entire process from filing to approval would take at
> > least 60 days.
> > When the chapter get formally operational, an announcement will be made
> on
> > this list. We request the active participation of all wikipedians for
> > activities when our chapter chapter get formally operational.
> > Best regards
> > Arun
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Utkarshraj Atmaram  >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >>
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Approval_of_Wikimedia_India
> >>
> >> Any details on this? (When do the registrations start? etc.)
> >> Utkarshraj Atmaram
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Utcursch
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Urgently need to reach Salmaan Haroon

[Bishakha Datta]

If anyone on this list can contact Salmaan Haroon and let him know he has a
visa appointment with the Poland consulate at 1 pm today, I would be most
grateful. This is for his visa to attend Wikimania.

See below.

If you do manage this, please let us know.

Thanks
Bishakha

-- Forwarded message --
From: Janusz "Ency" Dorożyński 
Date: 2010/7/5
Subject: Re: Follow-up requested from local team - summary of visa issues
To: James Owen 
Cc: wizy , Austin Hair , Cary Bass
, Corissa Hausknecht ,
Kristin Powell , Sara Crouse ,
bishakhadatta 


- Oryginalna wiadomość -
| Od: "Janusz \"Ency\" Dorożyński" 
/
| Wysłane: niedziela, 4 lipiec 2010 23:49:23

| - Oryginalna wiadomość -
| | Od: "James Owen" 
| /
| | Wysłane: sobota, 3 lipiec 2010 18:50:44
| /
| | I also need someone to look into the delay with Salmaan Haroon
|
| I will send a fax to the consulate in New Delhi, which will announce
| my call to clarification visa process of Salmaan Haroon

I talked to the consulate in New Delhi.
Consulate appointed Salmaan interview today at 13.00 hours (1 pm) local
time. He must be notified immediately, preferably by telephone, but I do not
have direct contact to him.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Urgently need to reach Salmaan Haroon

[Bishakha Datta]

Really no clue...please ask Bellayet if he knows him. Janusz may know?

2010/7/5 BalaSundaraRaman 

> Bishaka,
>
> Where is Salmaan from? India, Bangladesh? If Dhaka, Bellayet can help. He
> seems to be online.
>
> - 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:* Bishakha Datta 
> *To:* wikimediaindia...@googlegroups.com;
> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> *Cc:* Janusz Dorożyński ; Achal Prabhala <
> aprabh...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Mon, July 5, 2010 10:50:17 AM
> *Subject:* [Wikimediaindia-l] Urgently need to reach Salmaan Haroon
>
> If anyone on this list can contact Salmaan Haroon and let him know he has a
> visa appointment with the Poland consulate at 1 pm today, I would be most
> grateful. This is for his visa to attend Wikimania.
>
> See below.
>
> If you do manage this, please let us know.
>
> Thanks
> Bishakha
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Janusz "Ency" Dorożyński 
> Date: 2010/7/5
> Subject: Re: Follow-up requested from local team - summary of visa issues
> To: James Owen 
> Cc: wizy , Austin Hair , Cary
> Bass , Corissa Hausknecht <
> wikimaniatra...@wikimedia.org>, Kristin Powell ,
> Sara Crouse , bishakhadatta <
> bishakhada...@gmail.com>
>
>
> - Oryginalna wiadomość -
> | Od: "Janusz \"Ency\" Dorożyński" 
> /
> | Wysłane: niedziela, 4 lipiec 2010 23:49:23
>
> | - Oryginalna wiadomość -
> | | Od: "James Owen" 
> | /
> | | Wysłane: sobota, 3 lipiec 2010 18:50:44
> | /
> | | I also need someone to look into the delay with Salmaan Haroon
> |
> | I will send a fax to the consulate in New Delhi, which will announce
> | my call to clarification visa process of Salmaan Haroon
>
> I talked to the consulate in New Delhi.
> Consulate appointed Salmaan interview today at 13.00 hours (1 pm) local
> time. He must be notified immediately, preferably by telephone, but I do not
> have direct contact to him.
>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikimedia's community department is hiring

[Bishakha Datta]

http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Special:CommunityHiring


*Deadline for first round of submissions: 9:00 PDT (17:00 GMT), August 2.*
(Another round will begin immediately with a new deadline.)

Go to the Job openings
page for positions
in other departments.

The Wikimedia Foundation's Community Department collaborates with and serves
the broad Wikimedia community -- including readers, donors and
editors/contributors -- to encourage the health and growth of Wikimedia
communities and the projects they create and manage.

This year, the Community Department will be hiring for a series of important
senior and entry level positions. All positions will involve collaborating
and communicating with Wikimedia project contributors and users intensively
and publicly, grappling with many problems that no one has ever solved
before, navigating technological and social challenges and opportunities,
and dealing with a high level of complexity and uncertainty. Candidates
should have extremely high levels of skill and comfort in communication
(especially writing), qualitative and quantitative analysis, management and
self-management. Candidates who are not already deeply immersed in online
collaborative communities will have to show an aptitude for quickly gaining
a deep understanding of our communities' technologies, practices, traditions
and culture -- and to become trusted and productive members of the Wikimedia
community and movement.

We are looking for candidates from all over the world. Wikimedia Foundation
has a policy of hiring without regard to locale. If eventually accepted for
a position, Wikimedia Foundation will assist with work visas and relocation
costs.

Read more about what we're looking for below. If you think you'd be a good
match for the Community Department, use the form below to tell us about
yourself. This is not a formal application, it is the first step in an
outreach process designed to identify some great candidates for Wikimedia
Foundation positions.

Your information will be kept completely confidential and will only be
viewed by hiring managers, human resources staff and possibly assisting
consultants who are covered by confidentiality agreements. Because we have
such a small staff, we cannot guarantee a response. Submitted data will not
be retained for longer than a year. Besides the data below, we are also
recording the timestamp and your IP address at the time of submission.

*Who we're looking for*

We are especially looking for:

   - Current Wikimedia community contributors and leaders,
   - Insightful observers of Wikimedia and other collaborative communities,
   - People with specialty skill sets (e.g. statistics, ethnography, and
   probably a lot other things we've never thought of),
   - People belonging to language communities of new and growing Wikipedias
   and other Wikimedia projects,
   - People with insight into reaching groups currently underrepresented in
   Wikimedia contributor communities.

Ideal candidates for positions at Wikimedia Foundation's Community
Department:

   - Have a passion for online communities, self-organizing systems, open
   and collaborative enterprises, democratic and consensus based societies, and
   emergent and participatory governance structures -- and desperately want to
   see them succeed and prove the cynics wrong.
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   - Are knowledgeable about software development processes and with
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   - Are creative non-linear thinkers who will sometimes fight for seemingly
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   - Are systems-thinkers who love to think about workflow and technology
   systems inside organizations.
   - Are multilingual, especially in major world languages and languages
   with large or growing Wikipedias.
   - Have insights and experience reaching groups currently underrepresented
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wikipedia Malayalam Academy , Palakkad , Kerala

[Bishakha Datta]

Congrats - the pic looked most promising. Happy to see some women in the
audience too. :)

Bishakha

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 3:09 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
wrote:

>  http://twitpic.com/285kmd
>
> Photo of Wikipedia Malayalam Academy , currently happening in Palakkad ,
> Kerala.
>
> Heard there were over 140 attendees. More detailed report later.
>
> Thanks to Habeeb for the photo.
>
> Kudos to Habeeb, Abhishek and other organizers !
>
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Habeeb | ഹബീബ് 
> Date: 2010/7/24
> Subject: [Wikiml-l] പാലക്കാട്ടെ വിക്കി പഠനശിബിരം
> To: Malayalam Wikimedia Project Mailing list  >
>
>
> തൽക്കാലം ഫോട്ടോ നോക്കിക്കോളൂ,
> ഞങ്ങൾ എണ്ണം എടുത്തുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കുകയാണ്...
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser

[Bishakha Datta]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Philippe Beaudette 
Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:57 AM
Subject: [Foundation-l] Kicking off the 2010-2011 fundraiser
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List ,
English Wikipedia ,
wikinew...@lists.wikimedia.org, wiktionar...@lists.wikimedia.org, Mailing
list for Wikiversity ,
wikiquot...@lists.wikimedia.org, wikibook...@lists.wikimedia.org, the free
library discussion list for Wikisource 



[[Please distribute widely to various language communities, projects,
and chapters]]

Hi All,

I'd like to begin a conversation about the 2010-2011 Fundraiser, which
isn't slated to launch for a few months, but for which we'd like to
get community involvement early and often.  As you no doubt are aware,
the strategic plan calls for the "many small gifts" model to be the
centerpiece of our funding strategy, so our community fundraiser is
one of the key methods by which we finance and underwrite the
operations of the projects.  The fundraiser this year will probably,
as in earlier years, be primarily banner driven.  We're going to have
a strong emphasis on testing and iterating ideas, with a defined
methodological testing plan.

But the most important part of what we - all of us - are going to need
to do is what this community has always been good at: thinking,
researching, and iterating.

With that in mind, it's important to identify people who want to
help.  Of course, anyone's welcome to join in and help at any time,
but there's a definite need for people who are willing to be deeply
involved from now to the wrap up... people who want to be creative but
rigorous, innovative but willing to learn from the past, and most of
all, to serve as an active part of the team working on this
fundraiser.  There will, of course, be Foundation staff deeply
involved in this, but there's a real need for people from the
community to step up and help us design this thing.

If you're willing to help, would you add your name to
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Committee
 ?  We'll be in contact - soon - to get things started.

Thanks,
Philippe



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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A request for an Angika Wikipedia

[Bishakha Datta]

Wow! Despite living in India, I'd never heard of this language till I saw
your email, then checked it out on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angika_language.

Cheers
Bishakha

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Gerard Meijssen
wrote:

> Hoi,
> I blogged about the process of getting a new Wikipedia for the Angika
> language..
> Thanks,
>   GerardM
>
>
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2010/08/angika-language-from-india-supported-at.html
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Media coverage

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http://www.livemint.com/2010/09/01212801/Wikimedia-to-open-office-in-In.html?atype=tp
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Newsletter?

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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Gautam John  wrote:

> Just my 2 paise/cents/pence on the issue:
>
> Though it would be nice if someone
> from the Foundation could chime in and let us know if Wikimedia is
> fine to use.
>

Mike Godwin has clarified that as a noncommercial community effort this is
fine. See http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Trademark_Policy

Look forward to seeing the newsletter soon. Lovely idea.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia in Kannada crosses 9000 mark

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On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Hari Prasad Nadig  wrote:

> However, what seems to be more definitive is the increase in number of
> people using Kannada on the Internet. In a community (dedicated to Kannada
> literature) that I personally manage, the jump in incoming users (in dialy
> sign-ups and activity) has been around 40% - 50% which to me seems quite
> substantial having been familiar with Kannada populace on the Internet.
>
> Great news about Kannada wikipedia and wiktionary. Congrats to all!

Any thoughts on why the Kannada community you manage has shown such a
significant increase in incoming users? Media articles alone? Just
wondering.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Media coverage

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http://www.timeoutmumbai.net/mumbailocal/mumbailocal_details.asp?code=253&source=1
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Malayalam Wikipedia CD- mentioned in NewYork State University Blog

[Bishakha Datta]

A superb effort - curious about the media controversy in Kerala and how that
undermined this?
Bishakha

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:01 PM, CherianTinu Abraham  wrote:

> The efforts behind the Malayalam offline Wikipedia CD is really
> appreciable. It required a hardwork of 20+ Wikipedians for more than 2-3
> months to make it a success. They also faced several technical / software
> hurdles which they successfully overcame later. Atleast 2 other Indian
> languages are now re-using this software to make their Wikipedia CDs..
>
> But unfortunately media in Kerala state created a silly controversy about
> it and thereby undermining the efforts of these self-less people. Glad to
> know that atleast the rest of the world recognizes the true value of their
> efforts.
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa <
> kwad...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I meant Shiju not Shinju. ;)
>>
>> On 9/12/10 8:57 PM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa wrote:
>> > This is a great post by Martin, who's been an advocate for offline
>> > Wikipedia for many years. I also like the link to Shinju's post. I'll
>> > work on getting more offline related posts to the Foundation blog as
>> > well to highlight the great work by the Malayalam Wikipedians.
>> >
>> > --Kul
>> >
>> > On 9/12/10 7:42 PM, Arun Ram wrote:
>> >> Thanks for sharing Tinu.
>> >>
>> >> This good work by the Malayalam wikipedians requires all the visibility
>> >> it deserves. There surely would be other wikipedias that would be keen
>> >> to replicate this.
>> >>
>> >> regards
>> >> Arun
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:08 PM, CherianTinu Abraham
>> >> mailto:tinucher...@gmail.com>>  wrote:
>> >>
>> >>  Malayalam Wikipedia CD- mentioned in NewYork State University Blog
>> >>
>> >>
>> http://blogs.potsdam.edu/wikipediaoffline/2010/09/08/malayalam-wikipedia/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  Regards
>> >>  Tinu Cherian
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki meetup at Mumbai - 2010 September 20

[Bishakha Datta]

There's a bunch of photos here too
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/album.php?aid=217876&id=614521156

Bishakha

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:17 PM, CherianTinu Abraham  wrote:

> Uploaded some of the Mumbai Wikimeetup photos to
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mumbai_Meetup_Sep10
>
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:22 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <
> tinucher...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Some of the photos can be seen here
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/pradx/sets/72157624997707420/
>> The uploader has licensed to "CC by SA ", so i will uploading some of them
>> to Wikimedia commons too.
>>
>> Regards
>> Tinu Cherian
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:31 PM, CherianTinu Abraham <
>> tinucher...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> .. And I am nagging Anirudh , for uploading the photos asap :)
>>>
>>> Wikipedians , please upload to commons and use this category
>>> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mumbai_Meetup_Sep10
>>>
>>> - Tinu Cherian
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:25 PM,  wrote:
>>>
 ...And Anirudh of course, who shared the vision of an Indian chapter and
 fielded questions from attendees and the media.

 Thanks Anirudh for traveling to Mumbai for this.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] More News articles on Barry's visit and Wikimedia

[Bishakha Datta]

Great job on media coverage, guys!
Bishakha

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 9:50 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
wrote:

> 1 more :
>  IndiaTechOnline
> http://www.indiatechonline.com/wikipedia-sets-up-india-chapter-328.php
>
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 7:50 AM, CherianTinu Abraham <
> tinucher...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> More News articles on Barry's visit and Wikimedia
>>
>> DNA
>> http://epaper.dnaindia.com/dnabangalore/newsview.aspx?eddate=9/24/2010&pageno=3&edition=9&prntid=19385&bxid=28049060&pgno=3
>>
>> Business Standard
>> http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/wikimedia-adds-india-chapter/408933/
>>
>> Daink Bhaskar
>> http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/bangalore-is-in-fray-to-become-wikipedias-india-capital-1395618.html
>> Silcon India
>> http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Bangalore_leads_the_race_to_be_countrys_Wikicapital-nid-71887-cid-1.html
>>
>> IndiaInfoline
>> http://news.indiainfo.com/bangalore-is-in-fray-to-become-wikipedias-india-capital-1653971.html
>>
>> Desabhimani newspaper (#malayalam
>> ) http://twitpic.com/2r3nfq
>> I saw the article on Times of India , Bangalore too, today. Page 16
>> "Wikipedia for more local language content" .
>> I couldn't find the web link yet.
>>
>> I am expecting more articles from The Hindu, Mybangalore.com  , Economic
>> Times and Indiatechonline.com , who had also attended yesterday's press
>> meet.
>>
>> Regards
>> Tinu Cherian
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Delhi Meetup

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Sounds great - it's really a big step, holding the first meet-up in a city.

Congratulations!
Bishakha

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:28 PM, theo10011  wrote:

> Hi all
>
> The first Wikipedia Delhi Meet was organized yesterday, despite a constant
> downpour and some Venue issues 14 Delhi-hites braved the monsoon to reach
> the meetup. We had to shift the venue to another location across the
> street because of some scheduling issues at the last minute. We
> only received half the people we were expecting from the meetup page due to
> the heaviest monsoon rains in Delhi in over a hundred years, that along with
> traffic and water lodging because of the constant rains for over a month
> were real obstacles.
>
> The turn-up had a healthy mix of bloggers, Wikipedians, supporters and
> press representatives. There were almost the same number of women present as
> men, almost everyone was generally interested in Wikipedia.
>
> We discussed Wikipedia policy and structures, some political issues and the
> foundation's plan for India. There was a genuine interest in some supporters
> in joining and contributing to the Wikimedia movement, someone suggested an
> informal workshop to teach interested users on how to edit Wikipedia. Barry
> fielded a barrage of questions from press members and other attendants
> alike, there was curiosity on every level.
>
> The first meet served as an introductory get-together, something we hope to
> build on in future.
>
> Also, pictures are already available on twitter through  *#WPMDH1 *hashtag
> *. *More would be uploaded on the commons in the coming days.
>
> Regards
>
> Salmaan
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] who is the director of wikimedia india

[Bishakha Datta]

Just clarifying that the search for the National Program Director, India is
still on - the last date for receiving applications is Friday 8 October at
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/National_Program_Director,_India

Best
Bishakha

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Kiruba @ Kiruba.com wrote:

> Hi Bharath,
>
> Just to dispel any confusion, the hunt for Wikimedia India Foundation
> Director is still on.
>
> The information you pointed out is old and has been duly removed.  I have
> sent out a clarification email to the group that I'm in no way related to
> the Wikimedia Board.
>
> Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> Regards,
>
> Kiruba Shankar
> CEO, Business Blogging Pvt Ltd
> Cell: +91-98415 97744
> Email: kir...@kiruba.com
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/kiruba
> Event: http://TEDxChennai.com on 10/10/10
>
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Bharat Nedungadi  > wrote:
>
>> hi, on the last page of this book (released last week) it says "Kiruba
>> Shankar is CEO of Business Blogging and a Director at Wikimedia India which
>> runs Wikipedia"
>>
>> http://www.krithya.in/rabbit/
>>
>> has the wikimedia foundation already hired a national country director? i
>> feel we as community should know about these things before they are
>> announced generally. the announcement has been made publicly it seems:
>>
>>
>> http://www.yourstory.in/expert-talk/guest-column/2902-kiruba-shankarbrain-behind-tedx-chennai?format=pdf
>>
>> http://www.businessblogging.org/facebookgarage/team
>>
>> http://ria-lize.blogspot.com/2009/10/ria-lization.html
>>
>> lots more as well. i am little confused.
>>
>>
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wikipedia crosses the 25, 000 article mark

[Bishakha Datta]

Really great news,
Bishakha

2010/10/6 സുനിൽ (Sunil) 

>
> Hearty congrats to all tamil wikipedia members.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Barry Newstead wrote:
>
>>  Congratulations!
>>
>>
>> On 10/06/2010 02:16 AM, Rajesh Pandey wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Shiju Alex wrote:
>>
>>> Congrats to Tamil wiki community for their hard work.
>>>
>>> And Tamil Wikipedia happens to be the 4th Indian language Wikipedia to
>>> cross the 25,000 article milestone.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:41 AM, BalaSundaraRaman 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 I'm pleased to inform you all that Tamil Wikipedia has crossed the
 25,000
 article milestone now. :-)


>> Wow Congratulations :)
>>
>>- Sundar

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] who is the director of wikimedia india

[Bishakha Datta]

Oops! Just noticed the deadline for applications is October 15 - in case
anybody would like to spread the word.
Bishakha

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote:

> Just clarifying that the search for the National Program Director, India is
> still on - the last date for receiving applications is Friday 8 October at
> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/National_Program_Director,_India
>
> Best
> Bishakha
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:28 PM, Kiruba @ Kiruba.com wrote:
>
>> Hi Bharath,
>>
>> Just to dispel any confusion, the hunt for Wikimedia India Foundation
>> Director is still on.
>>
>> The information you pointed out is old and has been duly removed.  I have
>> sent out a clarification email to the group that I'm in no way related to
>> the Wikimedia Board.
>>
>> Thanks for pointing this out.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kiruba Shankar
>> CEO, Business Blogging Pvt Ltd
>> Cell: +91-98415 97744
>> Email: kir...@kiruba.com
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com/kiruba
>> Event: http://TEDxChennai.com on 10/10/10
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Bharat Nedungadi <
>> bharatnedung...@yahoo.in> wrote:
>>
>>> hi, on the last page of this book (released last week) it says "Kiruba
>>> Shankar is CEO of Business Blogging and a Director at Wikimedia India which
>>> runs Wikipedia"
>>>
>>> http://www.krithya.in/rabbit/
>>>
>>> has the wikimedia foundation already hired a national country director? i
>>> feel we as community should know about these things before they are
>>> announced generally. the announcement has been made publicly it seems:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.yourstory.in/expert-talk/guest-column/2902-kiruba-shankarbrain-behind-tedx-chennai?format=pdf
>>>
>>> http://www.businessblogging.org/facebookgarage/team
>>>
>>> http://ria-lize.blogspot.com/2009/10/ria-lization.html
>>>
>>> lots more as well. i am little confused.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Media coverage

[Bishakha Datta]

from yesterday's Times of India at
http://lite.epaper.timesofindia.com/mobile.aspx?article=yes&pageid=6&edlabel=TOIM&mydateHid=10-10-2010&pubname=&edname=&articleid=Ar00602&format=&publabel=TOI

Which reminds me: can we create a space on http://wikimedia.in to collect
all these media links on the same page?

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] WMF Staff Addition: Mani Pande as Senior Research Analyst, Global Development

[Bishakha Datta]

Welcome, Mani - always thrilled to see more women in the fold. :)

Look forward to meeting up,
Bishakha

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 8:08 AM, CherianTinu Abraham
wrote:

> Hi Mani Pande,
> Welcome to the Wikimedia family. Don't forget to attend
> one of our Wikimeetups , when in India :)
>
> Regards
> Tinu Cherian
>
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Barry Newstead 
> wrote:
>
>>  It is my pleasure to welcome Mani Pande to the Wikimedia team.
>>
>> Mani joins as the Senior Research Analyst, Global Development.  In this
>> role, Mani will work across the Global Development team and the organization
>> as a whole to design and lead research work that helps us make good
>> strategic decisions and evaluate the results of the work that we do (to make
>> even better decisions).  In addition, Mani will help to design and deploy
>> metrics for key Global Development areas so that we can monitor our
>> performance against the strategic plan.
>>
>> A native of New Delhi, Mani brings a global perspective to our work. Her
>> passion lies in understanding how consumers use technology to map
>> opportunity spaces for new product strategies and industry growth. She has a
>> special interest in the transformative technology experiences brought about
>> through the use of mobile devices by emerging market consumers. She has also
>> extensively studied the growth of open source movement.
>>
>> Mani is an accomplished quantitative researcher & has conducted surveys
>> studying technology usage, sustainability and health in US, India and China.
>> Mani is an experienced ethnographer having conducted work in India, Brazil,
>> Russia and China on technology usage and studying women in the software
>> industry.  Mani worked for the Institute for the Future, a forecasting
>> research organization based in Palo Alto,  for over 5 years. She has a PhD
>> in Sociology from Kansas State University and an MA and MPhil in Sociology
>> from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.  Before moving to the US to
>> pursue her PhD, Mani worked as a reporter-cum-sub-editor for The Times of
>> India. Her  beats were media (favorite assignments covering a Cindy Crawford
>> press conference & Yanni's show at the Taj Mahal) & crime (no favorites
>> here, just saw a lot of gross stuff).
>>
>> Mani loves to cook. Her specialties, Thai red curry, enchiladas in mole
>> sauce (from scratch) & chicken biryani. She posts pics of food that she
>> cooks on Twitter. You can see some of the pics (@manipande on Twitter).
>>
>> Welcome Mani!
>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Aapka Apna Wikipedia

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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:47:43 -0600 (MDT)
From: "Fred Bauder" 
Subject: [Foundation-l] Aapka Apna Wikipedia
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Delightful piece about the Tamil Wikipedia:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Aapka-Apna-Wikipedia/698406

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai Meet up in the attendance of Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia

[Bishakha Datta]

Theo/Salmaan suggested this and helped make the banner happen - visible only
to those from India. Thanks very much.
Bishakha

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Arun Ram  wrote:

> Good suggestion Srikanth. We should implement that.
>
> regards
> Arun
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I see a banner on en.wiki about this meetup.Nice! Is this done through
>> some geo-ip stuff? If so I would like banners for all wiki activities like
>> meetups / academies etc.
>>
>> Regards
>> Srikanth.L
>> Google Profile 
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:38, Kundan Amitabh wrote:
>>
>>> Hi !
>>>
>>> A Meet up has been organised on 31st Oct., 2010 at Mumbai.
>>>
>>> Alongwith others Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia will be attending
>>> the meet up.
>>>
>>> For details please visit:
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai3
>>>
>>> All are invited to attend.
>>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: FYI, Please pass on...

[Bishakha Datta]

Apologies if spamming - in case anyone would like to circulate this to
non-English speaking journalists they know.
Bishakha

-- Forwarded message --
From: Veena Gokhale 
Date: Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:09 PM
Subject: FYI, Please pass on...
To: Bishakha Datta , Ammu Joseph ,
Hutokshi Doctor , Shripad Dharmadhikary <
shrip...@gmail.com>


Internews and The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting has started the
fellowship for journalists in honour of the late Persephone Miel.  They are
now accepting applications for its first fellow from across the globe.

“The Persephone Miel Fellowship for Crisis Reporting is intended to give
non-native English speaking media professionals the opportunity to reach
audiences beyond their home countries on critical under-reported issues.”

Eligibility: The Persephone Miel fellowships are open to all journalists,
writers, photographers, radio producers or filmmakers; staff journalists as
well as freelancers who are *non-native English speaking media professionals
*seeking to report from their home country

For more information, visit:
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Media coverage

[Bishakha Datta]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11653349
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Hindustan Times on yesterday's Mumbai event

[Bishakha Datta]

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Wikipedia-woos-Indians-wants-them-to-be-more-active/Article1-620556.aspx

Cheers
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindustan Times on yesterday's Mumbai event

[Bishakha Datta]

Many more articles at
http://news.google.co.in/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=in&hl=en&topic=t&ncl=dN9VlXCIasI3AnMIC37S71FvwHZoM
Bishakha


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan <
rsrikant...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the photographs, Srikanth.
> Regards,
> Srikanth
>
> On 1 November 2010 22:11, Srikanth Lakshmanan  wrote:
>
>> Some videos of Jimmy's talk here
>>
>> http://ishare.rediff.com/tags/Wikipedia
>>
>> Regards
>> Srikanth.L
>> Google Profile <http://j.mp/SrikanthL>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:00, Bishakha Datta wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> http://www.hindustantimes.com/Wikipedia-woos-Indians-wants-them-to-be-more-active/Article1-620556.aspx
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Bishakha
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] SHODH MARATHICHA

[Bishakha Datta]

Please do be in touch directly with Prof Vijay Chitnis (
simplystrate...@gmail.com) if anyone would like to follow up on this. He is
not a member of this list.

Prof Chitnis: as discussed, I am forwarding this to the India list. Will
also send separately to the Marathi wikipedia list and connect you with some
Marathi editors.

Cheers
Bishakha



> -- Forwarded message --
> From: vijay chitnis 
> Date: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:41 AM
> Subject: SHODH MARATHICHA
> To: bishakhada...@gmail.com
>
>
>
>
>
> [image: LOGO Shodh.JPG]
>
>
> Dear Madam,
> Thanks for all your telecourtesy.Hope you must have seen the coverage in
> Maharashtra Times of your event.
>
>  At the very outset we extend our appreciations and best wishes for WIKI'S
> socio-information endeavor in India.
>
>
>
> As a part of our contribution in enhancing excellence in language
> research,Shodh Marathicha, a research organisation has made Marathi and
> Hindi fonts freely availble on their website,www.shodhmarathicha.com.
>
>
>
> All the users , readers and contributers of WIKIPADIA can avail this typing
> tool free of charge.
>
>
>
> Hereafter any devnagri font of any company can be used very easily through
> our this specially standardised phonetic keyboard. We are also giving this
> this special key board with the layout free of cost for Wikipedia.
>
>
>
> It will be a pleasure for us to support through our this tool, the
> wonderful soci-informative cause undertaken by Wikipaedia.
>
>
> The detailed plan of action in this regard can be worked in our personal
> meeting at your convinient time.
>
> *Is it possible to meet you this afternoon at your office, so that I can
> accordingly request M.Gangal, Cheif Mentor of Shodh Marathicha to join us
> *
>
> With Regards,
>
>
>
> Yours Sincerely,
>
> For 'Shodh Marathicha' Research
>
> --
> आपला,
> विजय चिटणीस
> 9503445518
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam Wikipedia crossed the 15, 000 article mark

[Bishakha Datta]

Lovely!
Bishakha

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Belayet Hossain wrote:

> Congrats!
>
> Belayet
>
> On 10 November 2010 23:28, Naveen Francis  wrote:
>
>> Malayalam Wikipedia has crossed the 15,000 article milestone today.
>> Congrats Malayalam wiki community !!!
>>
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Speaking at CSI annual convention

[Bishakha Datta]

Dear all,

I am speaking at the Computer Society of India's annual convention on Friday
in Mumbai in the ienterprise track. The programme is at:
http://www.csi-2010.org/cnvntnprog.html

My presentation is tentatively titled:
Edit by Edit: Wikipedia, Indic Languages and Free Knowledge Creation

I am working on this presentation this week, using WMF's decks which board
members often use - and a pile of material from the newsletter (thanks
again, all who worked on this - very very useful) and many emails that I've
saved from this list.

If anyone has any thoughts that you feel it is important for me to include
in my presentation, do email me offlist.

Cheers
Bishakha
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Your session at Filmi Chashma Workshop

[Bishakha Datta]

Speaking at this tomorrow; came up suddenly. Apart from all else it does,
Comet Media Foundation is developing GNUKhata, a free and flexible software
for accounting and inventory management. See
http://www.cometmedia.org/gnukhata

I am in touch with a couple of Pune wikipedians to see if they could do the
Dec workshop in Pune referred to below.
Bishakha

-- Forwarded message --
From: Comet Media Foundation 
Date: Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:01 PM
Subject: Your session at Filmi Chashma Workshop
To: Bishakha Datta 


Dear Bishakha

This is further to our  telephone talk on Saturday regarding the Filmi
Chashma Workshop for school teachers. Please have a look at
www.filmichashma.org for an overview of the project

To go over the workshop requirements:

Your session, scheduled 2.00 to 3.30pm on Thursday 25 Nov, will be on
" Intro to the phenomenon of the wiki world, finding what you need in
the wiki world and contributing what you know back to it." Beyond the
utility of it please bring out the philosophy, the altruism and
self-correcting mechanisms and all the things that make it an
authentic upto-the-moment encyclopedia. Please also encourage them and
their students to contribute to it, particularly in Indian languages.
A visit to teh Hindi and Marathi wikipedias would be good.

Plus we want you to please address another similar meeting in Pune on
17 Dec at 11.45 to 1.15. Please tell me if you are free to make a
trip.

The venue as you know, is in the conference room on 6th floor of the
Times of India Building opposite VT station.

Thank you and looking forward to an exciting time!

Chandita
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup in Ahmedabad - 21 November 2010

[Bishakha Datta]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Anirudh Bhati  wrote:

>
> Kartik Mistry, who was formerly associated with Gujarati Lexicon,
> informed me that he had met the representatives of Wikimedia India at
> the last Mumbai meetup and expressed that his former associates would
> be interested in transferring content to the Gujarati Wiktionary.
>

Yes - Kartik had then suggested that Wikimedia India meet with Ratilal
Chandaria of http://www.gujaratilexicon.com/ who is based in Mumbai to
discuss this further.

Also, discussed possible next steps to advocate with the Maharashtra and
Karnataka governments about digitizing the 19-volume Marathi vishwakosh or
encyclopedia and the Kannada encyclopedia under open licences. (Hari talked
about efforts that have been taken so far with the Kannada encyclopedia.)

In this context, am also forwarding to the list a voluminous email from the
Observer Research Foundation, which is interested in collaborating on
boosting Marathi wikipedia.

Bishakha
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