Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Results of the Programme Director hiring for CIS's A2K programme
to working with you all as the A2K project continues. Thank you, Jadine _ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.__wikimedia.org mailto:Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/__mailman/listinfo/__wikimediaindia-l https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- *Jessie Wild Learning Evaluation * *Wikimedia Foundation* * * Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! Donate to Wikimedia https://donate.wikimedia.org/ ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Kiwix-testing] [KIWIX] New version of Kiwix for Sugar
Forwarding this information about ZIM reader Kiwix, which is the reader commonly used for the Offline Wikipedia projects. Many of you on these lists I know have connections to both OLPC and/or Offline Wikipedia, so I thought that you might at a minimum interested in the update and hopefully also interested in helping test! Best wishes to all - Jessie -- Forwarded message -- From: Emmanuel Engelhart emman...@engelhart.org Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:17 AM Subject: [Kiwix-testing] [KIWIX] New version of Kiwix for Sugar To: kiwix-test...@lists.sourceforge.net kiwix-test...@lists.sourceforge.net, olpc-fra...@lists.laptop.org Dear testers, we finally have fixed the big bug impacting loading of ZIM files with 0.8x versions of the OLPC OS. So, Kiwix should work now and be able to load any ZIM file. No bug anymore concerning Kiwix on Sugar is still open on our side. Please test the last version and give us a feedback: http://activities.sugarlabs.org/fr/sugar/addon/4483 Build your own small custom ZIM file there: * https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp%C3%A9cial:Livre * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Book If everything still runs fine, we plan to introduce pre-packaged .xo files (Kiwix+content) during the summer. Regards Emmanuel -- Virtualization Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ ___ Kiwix-testing mailing list kiwix-test...@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kiwix-testing -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Experimenting with Virtual Outreach
Great idea, Nitika! Are you going to post some sort of evaluation on how it goes?? On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Ramesh N G rames...@gmail.com wrote: Great idea.. Wat abt making it for all indic language? On Mar 1, 2012 8:58 PM, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi Folks, I was thinking of experimenting conducting online outreach. I want to try out if we can do an effective outreach event using a google+ (video) hangout. Virtual outreach has a number of advantages: * No investment of time/effort/cost in travel * Personal attention to each participant (because of individual video/screenshare facilities.) * No complications of no laptops available at the venue or a limit on creating user names from a single IP address during the event * Lower dependency on institutions/college fests to organize an event for us. * Not limited by physical presence. Sitting in Kanyakumari, one can conduct outreach for interested folks in Kashmir! This is just a trial to test if online outreach is effective, doable and manageable. This could be one of the ways forward! (Potentially, we could have more community members doing more events with a more diverse audience.) I'm really excited. Fingers crossed! Thanks Nitika ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ 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] Sharing insights and experiences from Indian language wiki communities - Kannada
Thanks for sending this, Shiju! I just got off the phone with a wonderful woman who works for EDC India who was asking me how she could participate in Kannada Wikipedia editing. Obviously I can just direct her to the homepage of kn-wiki, but is there somewhere she could go to get some coaching to begin? She's never edited before, but is fluent in English too and wants to increase the educational content. Thanks for your help! Jessie On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear All, As part of my discussion with Indic language Wikipedians I spoke with few Kannada wikipedians. I have summarized the discussion in meta wiki. It is here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Kannada/Discussions/2011 Kannada with more than 4 crore speakers and is one of the 22 scheduled languages of india. Kannada is primarily spoken in the Indian state Karnataka. Kannada Wikipedia has a very interesting heritage. This is the community that started Wiki outreach programs in India. In fact, the first Indic wiki workshop that I am aware of was organized by HPN way back in 2004! A lot of interesting things happened for a while and there was a time when Kannda has a vibrant 40+ strong community. However, off late, things appear to have slowed down and the number of active editors is on a relative decline. Having said that, the seeds have already been sown in this community and I am confident that with a little nurturing, we can see activism in Kannada wikipedia coming back. I am basing my optimism on Kananda Wiktionary -where the community has taken it to the 2nd largest wiktionary in the country. There is much activism happening around kannada wiktionary. In Kannada wikipedia I got opportunity to interact with high prolific editors like User:Radhatanaya who is silently doing wonderful job. Kannada wikipedia has more than 11,000 articles now and kannada wiktionary has whopping 1,50,000 entries (making it the second biggest Wiktionary among Indic language wiktionaries). Kindly read the experience of Kannada Wikimedians at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Kannada/Discussions/2011 Regards Shiju ___ 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 -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ 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] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
The tablet we were shown in Mumbai by WishTel was running Android 2.2. On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: If only Ace supports it, I'm assuming they would have to release the code for that. https://opensource.samsung.com/index.jsp;jsessionid=8C92D0B55573A09D0D7EFC4EB7976034 is where all the source drops are, and I see that the code for the Ace has been made available. Can someone who understands enough about Android to check the diffs check? ___ 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 -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ 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] List of articles of the 500 article Malayalam Wikipedia CD
Awesome! Thanks, Santhosh for creating and Ashwin for forwarding. Next steps to make use of this list: 1. Compare list with the articles in Wikipedia for Schools version, to see which ones may be india-specific and good to include 2. Pull the ratings of these english articles and see which ones perhaps need to be improved prior to inclusion. Is there a way to automate #2? 2011/12/2 Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com The list of English equivalents of articles in Malayalam CD forwarded by Santhosh Thottingall. :) Thanks, Santhosh Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- -- Forwarded message -- From: Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com Date: 2011/12/2 Subject: Re: List of articles of the 500 article Malayalam Wikipedia CD To: Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com Cc: wikim...@lists.wikimedia.org, Shiju Alex sh...@wikimedia.org, Cherian Tinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com, Rahul Deshmukh rahuldeshmukh...@gmail.com, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@gmail.com, Jogalekar, Sudhanwa sudhanwa@gmail.com, Mahitgar From Marathi Wikipedia mahit...@gmail.com On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to request if someone could kindly provide me with a list of the English names of the 500 articles. Attached file contains all the mappings from Malayalam wiki article names to English articles. In case the article does not exist or not having interwiki links, it is given as UNKNOWN. List created using a small python script using pywikipedia. Thanks Santhosh ___ 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 -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ 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] An Offline Wikipedia for the Aakaash Tablet?
Hey Everyone! I am so excited about the content of this email chain! There have been huge advances in the offline work for India of late. Quick background: I know many of you know, and Hisham mentioned it earlier, but I am involved with the offline WIkipedia projects around the world for WMF, so I have an ok idea about what options are available and who uses our information (like OLPC or SOS Children's Village or Camara). For this work, I think it's _imperative_ to get a high-quality, Indic version available for mass-distribution. But while the full, all-encompassing offline version might take 6-7 months to develop, there are bite-sized pieces we can concretely work on so we can start at least pushing some information out. For example, if we focus on Geography first, we could perhaps get a really good Geography package set-up and ready to go by the next pilot, in order to at least get a package out there - something to have a presence within the distributions. The storage space on the Aakash tablet and other low-cost devices is minimal, so a limited content package is actually fine, in many ways. In the meantime, we can be working on more and more additions, which could be distributed in-mass as time unfolds. Then people could basically have a library of content available for their perusal. Thoughts on this? It helps prevent a complete gap in time for our execution: we have an AWESOME encyclopedia already available (that's why we have almost 500M people reading it every month!), and it would be really sad, I think, to sit on such a resource! One good place to start in terms of identifying content is to leverage the list of articles use for the Malayalam Offline edition - that probably would get us a good step of the way there in terms of which articles are India-relevant and worthy of inclusion. I have a lot more I can say about this, but will stop myself here for now :) Jessie On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Aditya Sengupta apsengu...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 20:17, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@hotmail.com wrote: Someone suggested OLPC folks. We might be interested in approaching such folks as well. I imagine this is happening too. I saw an OLPC being demoed at the WikiConference (by Harriet Vidyasagar, I think?). ___ 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 -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Android] Picture of the Day Wallpaper
I forwarded this to the mobile-l. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:46 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Heya all, I was searching the Android Market, when I stumbled upon this app: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.practicalapps.android.wallpaper.wikimedia ** *All images are credited to NASA (NASA.gov)* That last line worries me a bit. Are all photos credited to NASA, irrespective of who uploaded it? OR Are all photos of the Day by NASA, thereby giving others no chance for a front page visit? I think they mixed up the credits on this app and their NASA app: Image credit on the Picture of the Day webpage. Image updates are subject to the availability of the Wikimedia Commons' Image of the Day RSS feed and associated images. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.practicalapps.android.wallpaper.nasa I went ahead and emailed the address on the developer's website to ask for the correction. Good catch, Srikanth! Jessie -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ 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] Aakash UbiSlate 7
Is it possible to get one of these to test the Kiwix offline Wikipedia on? Would be interesting to do some usability testing during the India Hackathon. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:39 AM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Aakash is probably great value for money. But the question is, is it the best our students deserve. I think not. Some confusion, I think, about what constitutes value for money. A badly put together device that has every possibility of failing, and does not have sufficient battery life to get through the school day, is not value, it's a waste. Small comfort that it's a waste of 3k instead of 37k. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: A reviewhttp://ibnlive.in.com/news/review-worlds-cheapest-tablet-akash/192812-11.htmlof Aakash. Best Bishakha On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.orgwrote: On 6 October 2011 12:04, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowledge.org 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 http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ 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 -- Vickram Fool On The Hill http://communicall.wordpress.com ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ 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] [Offline-l] Arrangements for Wikimedia Offline Session today
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Jessie, Great tools. And I am happy to inform you that translation for Odia (Oriya) for Kiwix is over, Srikant from odia Wiki community is trying to revive Ubuntu again by spreading the message to bring out more active translating people. Fantastic news! -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Offline-l] Arrangements for Wikimedia Offline Session today
-XII in humanities, science and mathematics in English alone, it will be a great service for bridging the digital divide. We shall be glad to put such a content in our PC distribution program and make it operational by middle of September, 2011. Regards, Yours, MK Yadava --- Please exchange editable Office documents only in ODF Format. No other format is acceptable. Sending such information in other formats is at your own risk. Please be assured that non ODF formats will not be opened. To get a free editor supporting ODF, please visit http://www.openoffice.org/ --- Visit my blogs at http://letsbetteroursociety.blogspot.com/ Thanks Manuel! I think this will be a good group. I just put together a brief presentation with kind of the general overview of Offline and how all the pieces fit together, but I can go through it quickly and allow the different pieces to fill in the blanks throughout? I'm attaching it in case others want to take a look. I put it together quickly so if there are errors please forgive me (and correct me!) :) Jessie On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch wrote: Hi offline folks, we will have our Wikimedia Offline session today at 15:15 in room Tavor (in Beit Hecht, 1st floor) http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikimedia_Offline The session was planned as an interactive workshop for all people interested in the offline issues. This means that YOU are invited to present your project, your ideas and ask your questions. Interesting topics are selection of content, publishing, storage, reader applications... and what you think is. There will be at least three people talking today: * Jessie Wild from Wikimedia Foundation * Shiju Alex from Malayallam Wikipedia * me from openZIM See you there! If you have questions or want to coordinate in advance - please contact me. /Manuel -- Regards Manuel Schneider Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Wikimedia CH - Association for the advancement of free knowledge www.wikimedia.ch ___ Offline-l mailing list offlin...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Offline-l mailing list offlin...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l ___ Offline-l mailing list offlin...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Offline-l mailing list offlin...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/offline-l -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update, Examples Request: Wikipedia India Education Program
Congratulations on a great beginning to what I anticipate will be a high impact Indian program! Can you also highlight any significant differences between the strategy for the Education programme in the US and for the one in India? Thanks. I'll second what Srikeit wrote in response. Key differences: we're not limiting ourselves to any academic field, we're doing it focussed as a pilot in one city (Pune) and we had a full time Fellow. Just to be clear, the US program started last academic year (2010-11) as a pilot in various cities but in one academic discipline (Public Policy). Now it has expanded from the pilot phase and covers an array of academic disciplines! -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Offline-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Martin A. Walker walke...@potsdam.eduwrote: This is an excellent project! If there is anything that the English Wikipedia 1.0 team can do to help, please let us know. If you are looking for a list of important Indian topics to check through, I'd propose using a slightly amended toolserver list sorted by points rather than importance, available here: http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi??namespace=importance=score=sorta=Scorerun=yespagename=sortb=Qualityprojecta=IndiashowExternal=onlimit=250quality=offset=1 Good suggestion, Martin. Question about this: is there a way to hide those articles that are already included in the selection? That is, is there a way to filter OUT those articles which are included in the Wikipedia for Schools selection? I am not sure if that database is integrated into this selection tool or not, but it could be helpful in parsing out which articles would be additive. - Jessie -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Offline-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!
What a great opportunity! Thanks for spear-heading, Hisham. Some notes below, which I'd love thoughts on: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:54 AM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: I understand that Wikipedia for Schools http://schools-wikipedia.org/ is readying for release sometime in July 2011 - and the timing couldn't be better. July 2011 was the most recent update we heard from User:BozMo, who is the lead for SOS Children's Wikipedia for Schools (WPFS) project. It would be great to get an update from him on this timing! The list of current articles can be seen here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools The primary changes in the version pending release in July 2011 will be newer revisions of these articles. *Can you help us out with * *a) how you could help on adding the additional articles that this initiative would require?** (You could also sign up on the **Volunteer Page* http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Volunteer_Page*)* WPFS is geared to match the UK curriculum, which is very useful but undeniably lacking in its coverage of other geographically important topics, such as history geography of India. To that end, if we had a list of ~200 additional articles which *should* be included in an educational encyclopedia for India, we can add these to the updated version of WPFS. Kenya is also doing a similar thing (they are recording their list on the offline projects pages of metawikihttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools/Kenyan_Topics). * Would anyone be interested in spear-heading this for India-specific content? *I have some ideas for how this could be facilitated (namely, by leveraging the work done by the Wikipedia 1.0 team and the India WikiProject [1], so reach out to me directly!! [[1] Toolserver: http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yesprojecta=Indianamespace=pagename=quality=importance=score=showExternal=onlimit=100offset=1sorta=Scoresortb=QualityfilterRelease=onreviewFilter=0releaseFilter=0 -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Offline Opportunity: ~20k laptops to reach potentially 200k people: Need Help!
Yes - it would be great. Any further contacts on this, Arun? Based on this article, it sounds like they are keen to have educational content pre-downloaded onto the computer. We should definitely be bundled into this package. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:21 AM, Hisham Mundol hmun...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Yes, it would be great if we could support this as well. *Hisham Mundol* * * *** Wikimedia http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home India Programshttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs * * skype : hisham.wikimedia gtalk : hmun...@wikimedia.org ** twitter : @mundo *l On Jun 23, 2011, at 3:35 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: There's a slightly more nuttier scheme brewing in the south, where 900,000 laptops are going to be distributed to students next year [1]. Let me see if i can access someone in the TN govt regarding this. -Arun [1] http://ibnlive.in.com/news/free-laptops-will-have-tn-logo-burnt-on-chips/160602-60-118.html -- j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Offline article additions
Hi Everyone! I just wanted to circle back on the progress for the Indian version of the WIkipedia for Schools[1]. User:BevMo, who is putting together the English Wikipedia for Schools said they can create a customized version of the 2011 release for India! All we need is a list of the ~200-300 articles and the permalinks you would like to add which are specific to India. Would you all like to progress with this option? It seems like it could be very valuable and hopefully would not require too much additional work, as I know there is a list on User:AshLin's page with articles already[2]. I'd love and welcome your thoughts! Best, Jessie [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-April/002852.html [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AshLin/Work_list#Notes -- *Jessie Wild Global Development, Manager Wikimedia Foundation * ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Calling all students: student club IRC
cross-posting (as I've seen lots of university students on these mailing lists:)) Original Message Subject:[Wikimedia Education] Calling all students: student club IRC Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:33:55 -0700 From: Jessie Wild jw...@wikimedia.org Reply-To: educat...@lists.wikimedia.org To: educat...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello! If you are a student and want to become more involved with Wikimedia, be a leader and organizer on your university campus, and interact with a global network of like-minded students, starting a STUDENT CLUB could be a great opportunity for you! As many of you know, Wikipedia focused university outreach is begin to take more and more active forms.[1] I was hoping that you would all be the first to begin the conversations about how students clubs can effectively become part of the larger Wikimedia movement.[2] I would love to schedule a time on IRC for us to get together and brainstorm ways to move forward with the student movement of Wikip/media. Specific agenda items, time, and channel can be found on the talk page: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikipedia_student_clubs. Please spread the word! All are welcome – specifically current university college students :) Jessie [1] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_University_Program [2] http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_student_clubs -- Jessie Wild Special Projects Manager Global Development Wikimedia Foundation ___ Education mailing list educat...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Choosing topics for Wikipedia for Schools (Offline Ed) - Indian version : #1 Cities
On 4/7/2011 8:30 AM, Nikhil Sheth wrote: And I feel that there should be a full-fledged project (worldwide, not just pertaining to indian articles) going on for Wikipedia for Schools, with a well-structured list of ALL articles that are going in. Not being able to find anything. Can anyone help in how to go about getting one set up? I'm working on this with Andrew Cates (User:BozMo) - the driver behind the original Wikipedia for Schools. He gave a list of all the the articles in Excel so it's a little messy and doesn't have links. I tried to clean it up a bit, but it still needs some more work and definitely isn't as useful as it should be: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Offline_Projects/Content_Development/Schools As I think you all know, they are working on a 2011 edition of WPFS to be released soon. Andrew said we can send him a list of additional articles (up to 250) with permalinks that you (India) would like to have included in the next release. He says his team could then make a separate version specifically for India. My suggestion: once you have the list of articles you want included, put them in a table on this page as well. Note: obviously, it would be ideal if the tools were available for anyone to do this, without needing to go through an intermediary, but unfortunately such tools do not exist yet. HOWEVER - just so you know, the Foundation is setting aside resources to address this concern, and hopefully tools making it easy to extend and/or modify offline collections will be in place soon! Jessie -- Jessie Wild Special Projects Manager Global Development Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Cheat-Sheet for Fellowships: Campus Program Pilot in Pune
On 4/12/2011 6:53 AM, Anivar Aravind wrote: Some of my friends are involved in Designing Training a FOSS elective in COEP , Pune http://www.fosscommunity.in/wiki/Pune/COEP/FOSS_Devel_Elective May be we can use those networks for popularizing Campus Ambassadors programme through students in such networks to invite more quality applications Anivar Great idea! It would be great to collaborate with like-minded organizations wherever possible, and certainly low-hanging fruit in terms of targeted recruitment. -- Jessie Wild Special Projects Manager Global Development Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A tale of two workshops
Really interesting to read, Bala - thanks for taking the time to write this up! On 3/7/2011 11:05 PM, BalaSundaraRaman wrote: Let's please document such reports at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and/or wikimedia.in apart from emailing to the list. In terms of documentation, I wanted to direct you all to the draft University programming plan currently in development. The general plan describing the overall need and approach towards university program work can be found at the outreach wiki: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_University_Program Four different models are outlined as ways to reach universities: via classrooms, student groups, university staff, and outside constituents. The local Wikimedian Community/chapter falls into this last category, and the suggestions/activities you recorded here are great examples of involvement. There is a shell of page for this created on outreach as well: http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/External_approach_-_example_activities It would be great to capture some of these thoughts on this last page specifically! Thanks again - Jessie -- Jessie Wild Special Projects Manager Global Development Wikimedia Foundation ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
