Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?
We've got an advisory up now: https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/05/14/ads-on-wikipedia-your-computer-infected-malware/ Please don't hesitate to respond to tweets complaining about ads with a link to this blog post. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] In-browser offline Wikipedia reader
This is a pretty exciting project for those of you who care about offline content distribution. It's text only for now, but very cool: http://offline-wiki.googlecode.com/git/app.html In modern browsers, this gives you access to the most popular WParticles offline without any additional software. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Article Feedback Tool v5 : Indian Perspective
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Some of you might have followed the recent improvement with Artcle Feedback Tool v5 (AFTv5) , for those who didnt please read[1]. Even before reading the entire page, something struck me. The design is strangely synonymous with Indian comment boards. I strongly feel, having this on India articles will generate more trash than any feedback and 100x load more on editors to cut the junk, moderate etc. If Hi Srikanth, determining the signal/noise ratio on different types of articles is exactly part of the current evaluation. Please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Feedback_Tool/Version_5/Feedback_evaluation http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Article_feedback/Data_and_metrics Importantly, * these free text comments aren't yet visible through the site; we're collecting them for the initial analysis; * if we find that we get a reasonable amount of actionable, useful free text suggestions this way, building scalable systems for filtering/managing those comments is precisely the next item on the agenda. Some ideas on how that could work (very preliminary) are here, and more are welcome: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article_feedback/Version_5/Feature_Requirements#Feedback_page Your participation is much appreciated and Oliver can give you and anyone additional pointers to get involved. I do personally believe this could be a really, really important step for getting many more people involved, but it's also - for sure - very important to get this right. Nobody has any interest in re-inventing YouTube comments or similar crap. -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: So stating the truth is being unconstructive?. You could have rolled this out in phases or as a dark launch as you are contemplating now, done more testing and saved us all this bitterness and trouble. Instead you decided to go live on a massive scale without adequate testing in live environment being accessed by millions of people everyday. Although, the largest of the Indic language Wikipedias gets about 1/900th the traffic of English Wikipedia in traffic. [1] I think it's appropriate to be a bit more experimental at that scale. It remains to be seen whether we can get sufficient testing done via opt-in methods and dark launches, although I'm certainly strongly encouraging experimentation with both. Your comparison with top web properties is flawed alongside another dimension: no other top web property has to solve the kinds of problems we're trying to solve here with a staff of three internationalization developers, one product manager and no QA team (!). Although we're larger now than a year ago and the year before, and we're still adding engineers and support resources, we have lots of big problems to solve in parallel. We don't have the luxury of being able to do just one thing extremely well, much as we might want to. On the other hand, what makes Wikimedia unique is precisely the fact that we're all working together to continually improve and fix things. In the best case scenario, that's a happy partnership. And as you well know, folks like Santhosh, Siebrand, Gerard, Niklas and Amir have made tremendous contributions as volunteers, well before being on staff. So we should strive for being collegial and forgiving. I have a feeling that we'll all be doing this for a long time, so we might as well try to like each other. :-) I applaud the i18n team for being bold and pushing things forward, while also reflecting on the process at this opportune time. I'm also grateful to you, to Srikanth and others for being both supportive and critical voices along the process, and getting very involved to fix things. Improving language support is a huge, daunting undertaking. WMF is only one player in this and it'll require continued, joint effort from all fronts. All best, Erik [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN_India/ReportCardIndia.htm -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] Input methods extension Narayam enabled on Wikimedia Commons and more on input methods and web fonts
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Agree with Srikanth on WebFonts. We at the Tamil Wiki projects have already tried the webfonts out and found the Lohit Tamil - the font available via webFonts extension has serious readability/rendering issues in most operating systems (most except Redhat Linux). It is a big step backwards in usability for those who have better system fonts (which in Tamil is like 85-90% of the reading public). So, if I'm understanding the issue correctly, the open source font in Tamil is inferior to the proprietary font that many users have installed, correct? I recall brief discussion about this at the hackathon, but I don't remember the answer: Is it possible to implement the font delivery in such a way that the superior proprietary fonts are specified as preferred, and the inferior open source fonts are specified as fallback, so that users who have the superior fonts installed will not see any change? If so, is there a reason not to resolve the issue that way until we have better open source fonts? (NB - as Siebrand noted, the i18n folks are traveling right now, so it may take a few days to continue this conversation with everyone involved.) Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil Wiki Media Contest
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Tamil Wiki Community is currently organizing a 3 month long media contest[1][2] with the aim of increasing media files related to Tamil / Tamilians / Tamil culture to be used in Tamil Wiki Projects and encouraging non-text contributions from users who could contribute easily through pictures, sounds, videos. This is wonderful, good luck. Please let us know about your experience with Upload Wizard. I noticed that Upload Wizard isn't fully localized into Tamil yet. Any Tamil speaker can help localize it on translatewiki.net. These are the missing translations: http://translatewiki.net/w/i.php?title=Special%3ATranslatetask=untranslatedgroup=ext-uploadwizardlanguage=talimit=100 Cheers, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Updates from Mumbai hackathon
The Mumbai hackathon was awesome and really productive, with lots of improvements to internationalization, mobile (including SMS delivery) and offline content distribution. Thanks to everyone on this list who came out. If you did, please add links to your work product here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011/Schedule_notes Here are a couple of blog posts by Gerard Meijssen about the hackathon: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/11/21/the-mumbai-hackathon-was-sweet/ http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2011/11/hackathon-india-day-one.html And here are tweets that happened during the event: http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%23IndiaMWHack11 Pictures: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hackathon_Mumbai_2011 Thanks to everyone who helped make this event a success -- especially WikiConference India team for partnering on this project and helping with the logistics. The success of the event exceeded my already high expectations; India really has an amazing community (and fantastic food). The internationalization team will still be here for a few days, meeting with the community and potential partners in Pune. I'm now heading to Germany for a few days vacation, but I look forward to my next visit to India. All the best, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Mobile Photo Uploads: Android uploader and more
Thought some of you might be interested in these developments :-) We'll be doing lots of additional mobile hacking at the India Hackathon this week: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011 -- Forwarded message -- From: Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 11:58 AM Subject: Mobile Photo Uploads: Android uploader and more To: common...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi folks, as you may or may not know, we ran a coding competition in October which included mobile photo upload as one of the challenges. You can see the submissions here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/October_2011_Coding_Challenge/Submissions The submissions include a Share with Commons application for Android. It can be installed through the Android market and the source code is available on GitHub. https://market.android.com/details?id=nl.michiel1972.main https://github.com/michiel1972/shareWithCommons The application adds a Share with Wikimedia Commons option to the Share with menu that's available in the Android Gallery app. That is, when you're viewing a picture on your phone, you can easily upload that particular picture to Commons through the same process that's used for Picasa and other websites. I've tested it, and it works. It doesn't prompt for categories and the license selection is basically just a template field, but it gets the job done. Images uploaded using the app are added to this category: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_uploaded_by_Android_app We'll reach out to the author to see if they're interested in continuing to develop it and host it in Wikimedia's SVN. There are some other submissions as well: * An effort to build uploading functionality into the official Wikipedia Android app by User:Tpt * Three iOS / Objective C implementations of varying degrees of completeness. I haven't tested those yet, but we'll review them as well and share notes. The full list of submissions can be found here -- please add your own comments on the talk page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/October_2011_Coding_Challenge/Submissions Thanks :) Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Death and Post-mortem of Indian Education Program pilot
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: This sums up the problem of the IEP - designed by people clueless about how en wiki works and run by campus ambassadors who view wikipedia as a giant sandbox to play with students. Speaking of playing in sandboxes, just for you, a nice shallow blog post that applies: http://www.smallact.com/blog/3-keys-to-playing-nicely-in-the-social-media-sandbox/ Enjoy the sand, Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Let's *Talk*
Well said, Hisham, Srikeit at al. Nobody's asking for rah-rah excitement. Being dispassionate and critical is the goal. Being hostile and dickish is unhelpful -- there's no possible useful end that could serve. So: If you're adding more heat than light to a conversation, please don't join the conversation. If you're attacking others and calling into question their legitimacy in being here, without them having violated any of the ground rules of good faith behavior, you begin violating those norms yourself. Calm down, have a tea, and read some good poetry (or write it, if you're truly suffering :-). At WMF, we'd be completely happy to abandon the Global Education Program model altogether if it turned out to be a failure, and we'd be happy to abandon it for India or other countries if it turned out to be a failure there. Nobody wants to spend $$$ and blood/sweat equity (the only type that exists in nonprofits) on stuff that isn't achieving its intended impact. So far, however, what I've seen is a very successful US initiative followed by an India pilot which has encountered very serious, deep challenges with contribution quality. The analysis that I've seen so far really suggests that what it comes down to is abject contribution quality by lots of the participating students and a routine pattern of copyright infringement (and I would label it plagiarism if they're not identifying the source). Let me know if I got that wrong. That sucks, but if so, that's a problem that needs to be named to be tackled in a serious fashion. No amount of tweaking the program parameters would have solved the issues of the scale and type that have been pointed out. This goes to the fundamentals. And - to stay with the sandbox metaphor from another thread - if the majority of contributors to a university-based program in India can reach won't be able to contribute at an acceptable quality in WP proper, then perhaps it's also time to think about more aggressive sandboxing of contributions early in the game, at least when we're dealing with a course where we either don't know what to expect, or we _do_ based on experiences like the one to date. Possibly even using an external sandbox. Lastly, let's not forget that we haven't made any determination as to what the best methods are to gain, and keep, great new contributors in India (or elsewhere, for that matter). We can, and should, continue to experiment with many different approaches, including some of the suggestions that have been made in previous threads. All the energy, including the occasional flamewar, that I'm seeing here really speaks tons to the strengths of the India community as a whole. Energy, creativity, intelligence and healthy tension are the ingredients of success, not failure. Srikeit, I'll unfortunately miss your talk on Saturday as I'll be at the hackathon. But I look forward to hearing about it and hopefully catching up on Friday. :-) -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikimedia India Program Trust
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Hisham hmun...@wikimedia.org wrote: Announcement of Wikimedia India Program Trust Congratulations, Hisham. I know this has been a lot of work for you and the team over the last few months. I look forward to seeing the programs that the trust and the chapter develop together. There's tons of work to do. :-) -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Hackathon registration is open!
On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Akshay Agarwal akshay.leadin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Erik, Thanks for putting up the form. I am having a problem with the last field 'Are you attending WikiConference India 2011 on Friday 18 November? * Silly form! Should be fixed now, thanks for the report :) -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Feedback please: Logo concepts for India Hackathon
As GerardM noted the other day, we're planning a hackathon adjacent to the WikiConference in Mumbai. We'd love feedback on some logo ideas that one of our designers put together, particularly with an eye to picking a design that resonates with the largest number of people without triggering any particular sensibilities. As noted, ignore the script -- these are just concepts, and we're looking for feedback on the visuals at this stage: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/India_Hackathon_2011/Logo_concepts Any comments are welcome -- there's a comments section below each logo concept. (If you'd like to add your own suggestion, please do so!) Thanks! Erik -- Erik Möller VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcome to the India Team! : Shiju Nitika
Fantastic news - a warm welcome to both of you. :-) A small team, with the help of our vast community of volunteers, can make a huge difference. Really excited to see what you will come up with. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Hisham Mundol as WMF consultant for National Programs, India
A very warm welcome to the movement, Hisham. :-) I really enjoyed our first conversations and am looking forward to doing what I can to help you succeed. The India community is amazing and I think you will greatly enjoy the passion, energy and intellect that are there. I can't wait to see how much more we can collectively accomplish. All the best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikibasha and code signature
2011/2/7 A Kumaran a.kuma...@microsoft.com But let me just clarify the reasons for adding the comment snippet so we could track the articles that were changed by contributors using the tool, and to track if any of the changes made by the tool actually were reverted ultimately. As has been suggested, adding a tool wikilink (ideally a shortcut like [[WP:WBH]] or something like that, pointing to a landing page) to the edit summary is the commonly accepted way for doing this. You can then use the toolserver or the dumps to check usage. Adding HTML comments to the article content is .. hackish. :-) I would strongly suggest turning that off until a better method is implemented. -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiPuneri - people coming together in Pune
Awesome project! Good luck with the first uploads. Let us know if you need help working with the Wikimedia Commons community to make this a successful project, I'm sure the experienced Wikimedians on this list as well as the community dept. at WMF would be happy to help in case there are any problems. All best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Bangalore Meetup on Saturday- leaving at 2:30
Hi folks, Unfortunately my flight out of Bangalore leaves at 520 on Saturday, so I am planning to leave the city around 230. The meetup on Saturday is currently scheduled for 3PM. I'd hate to miss all of it, so I hope some folks can make it early. I will plan to be there at 130 or so. This only affects me. Danese and Alolita will leave the next day. Hope to see you there, Erik ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Media : Mid-day: Loads of potential in India: Wikipedia
LOL - note that we're not giving any interviews during this trip. This is cobbled together from a conversation at a meetup yesterday, and only bears some remote resemblance to anything I actually said :-). But it's not too bad, except for the staff checking things round the clock part ;-) Erik 2010/12/13 CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com: Mid-day: Loads of potential in India: Wikipedia http://www.mid-day.com/news/2010/dec/131210-Erik-Moller-Wikipedia-Pune.htm Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] 10th anniversary merchandise is ready to ship!
Hello India Wikimedians! Time is getting short for organizing Wikipedia 10th anniversary events. January 15, 2011 will not come again - it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be there as Wikipedia marks this big milestone. :-). If you manage to put together an event, you may still be able to get one of the 10th anniversary kits that Steven is talking about below. They include t-shirts and other goodies. See more at: http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page So far, there are pages up for Bangalore, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Would be awesome to see even more India events :-) Erik -- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org Date: 2010/12/14 Subject: [WikiX-l] 10th anniversary merchandise is ready to ship! To: Planning for WP 10th anniversary wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi everyone, So with little more than a month to go before Wikipedia's anniversary, I'm pleased to say that the kits of special Wikipedia 10 merchandise we've talked about previously (on this list and at ten.wikipedia.org) are ready to be shipped. To reiterate: * This merchandise is free. The WMF is paying all shipping and production costs. * It's available to anyone that has confirmed publicly that they're holding an event that will celebrate Wikipedia's 10th anniversary. You don't have to be holding a particular size or type of event (we have conferences, film screenings, parties, plain old meet-ups etc.). * Everyone is getting the same kit. * Each box includes 50 t-shirts with a balance of sizes for men and women, as well as a mixed assortment of stickers and buttons. You can see mockups of the designs at Design/Merchandise on tenwiki. I'm going to get pictures of it all on Commons soon, under Category:Wikipedia 10. This means that if you're organizing one of the more than 60 events currently in the works, I need two things to be able to ship to you: 1. A public listing for your event on tenwiki. Just to be clear, this is merely a description and links to wherever you're organizing. If your wiki page exists but doesn't tell people the basics of who/what/when then please enrich it a little, so that logistically we can feel comfortable shipping a couple hundred dollars worth of merchandise to you. The New York City and Brasília events are good examples of the level of detail I'm talking about. 2. Contact information and your shipping address, plus an estimate of the size of your event so that we know how many boxes to send you. You can email this to me privately. The shipping takes roughly a week depending on location (of course), so the sooner you can send me your event information the better. We're hoping to get as many kits as possible sent before January 1. For those of you who've already done all of the above, thank you. I will contact you this week before we ship anything to you. -- Steven Walling Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org ___ WikiX-l mailing list wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia tech fact-finding visit to India
Hi all, this is just to update you all on an upcoming visit to India by Danese Cooper, Alolita Sharma, and myself. Danese is our Chief Technical Officer, and Alolita program-manages the features development team. I'm the Deputy Director and also responsible for our product strategy. The purpose of our visit is fact-finding and outreach to India's engineering and open source community. The key questions we're hoping to explore include: localization issues concerning Indic languages, other MediaWiki improvements that would make our sites more useful in India, improvements to our mobile gateway, potential partners in developing and deploying offline versions of Wikimedia content. We will, of course, also seek to meet with Wikimedians in the different cities we're visiting, including the chapter. We have a very packed schedule of community meetups, presentations, and one-on-ones, but don't hesitate to let us know about people we should meet. Our itinerary is currently as follows: Arrival in Delhi 12/6 Mumbai 12/9 Pune 12/12 Bangalore 12/14 Hope to see some of you in December :-) All best, Erik -- Erik Möller Deputy Director, Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing the Wikimedia India Community Newsletter - Edition 1
Achal, congratulations - this is an amazing debut! When you're ready to officially disseminate it, can I ask you to send a note to WikimediaAnnounce-l (at) lists (dot) wikimedia (dot) org? Thanks! Erik 2010/9/24 Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com: Greetings, On behalf of Shiju Alex, here is... the first ever edition of the Wikimedia India Community Newsletter. It's an incredible effort, and we're really glad to have something like this - congrats to all who helped with it. Going forward, Shiju (and all of us) would appreciate help and participation. If you are a member of a Wikimedia language, or geography, or project that you feel isn't adequately represented, or if you'd like to help with design, proofreading and turning it into something that works like the Signpost - we'd appreciate hearing from you at: wminewslet...@gmail.com or Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com At the moment, we're circulating the file in two pdf versions (one for viewing, one for printing) and this is the link to the file on Commons: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf Shiju will shortly find a way to design it in html, making it easier for everyone. Cheers, Achal Original Message Subject: Releasing first edition of Wikimedia India Community Newsletter - 2010 September Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 17:56:06 +0530 From: Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com To: Belayet Hossain bella...@gmail.com, Ragib Hasan ragibha...@gmail.com, jayanta...@gmail.com, Naveen (Naveenpf-wiki) Francis navee...@gmail.com, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com, tinucher...@gmail.com, mayur kumar mayur...@gmail.com, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com, Raziman T V razima...@gmail.com, Francis Simi Nazereth simynazar...@gmail.com, makan so thachan thachan.ma...@gmail.com, Jacob Jose jacob.j...@gmail.com, Rajesh Varma rajes...@hotmail.com, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia mahit...@yahoo.co.in, Abhay Natu an...@yahoo.com, Sankalp Dravid sankalp.dra...@gmail.com, Mayooranathan Ratnavelupillai rmayooranat...@gmail.com, C.R. Selvakumar c.r.selvaku...@gmail.com, Ravishankar ravidre...@googlemail.com, balasun...@gmail.com, arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com, Junaid P V junu...@gmail.com, Rajesh K rajeshodayanc...@gmail.com CC: Barry Newstead bnewst...@wikimedia.org, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.com, Arun Ram arunra...@gmail.com Dear All, Our hard work for the past 2 months to release the first version of Wikimedia India newsletter is coming to an end today. Please find attached the Print Quality PDF of the finalized version of Wikimedia India Newsletter for your reference. We are officially releasing the newsletter at 7:00 PM in the Bangalore Wikimeetup. This newsletter is the result of the ideas, suggestions, and feedback that you had been provided by you during the last 2 months. Finally Indian wikipedia community has come together for a common purpose. This is just a starting. We have a long way to go. Each language community (8 communities as of now) has helped by providing content about the respective language community. Some communities could not join as their communities are not strong enough to provide news to the newsletter. Hope they will join soon. Let me introduce again the Indian Language Wikipedians involved in this effort (All are included in this mail thread). Here are they: Bengali: * Belayet Hossain * Jayantanth * Ragib Hasan *English* * Naveen PF * Srikanth Lakshmanan * Tinu Cherian *Hindi:* * Mayur Kumar *Kannada:* * Hari Prasad Nadig Malayalam: * * Praveen P . * * Raziman T.V . * * Simy Nazareth * * Shiju Alex * * Junaid P.V . * * Thachan makan * * Jacob Jose * * Rajesh V arma *Marathi:* * * Mahitgar * * Abhay Natu * * Sankalp Dravid *Tamil:* * * Mayoora Nathan * * C.R. Selva Kumar * * Ravi Dreams * * Sundar *Telugu:* * * Arjuna Rao C . * * Ravi Vyzasatya * * Veeven * * Sujatha Thummapud i * * Bhaskara Rao Chimakurthy * * Ravi Chandra Enagant *Technical team* * * Typesetting, template design, other tecnical support: Junaid P.V. * * Front and back cover page design: Rajesh Odayanchal I know that not everybody knows each other. But you will be excited to be introduced to wikimedians working for other language wiki communities of India. Let this be a new begining. Sharing experience from different language wiki communities will surely help us (it is already helping us) to replicate the success stories and best practices in other wikis. So we are done with the first release. So what next?
