[Wikimediaindia-l] Live streaming of Erik Moeller's talk
Dear all, The talk by Erik Moeller on the state of tech in Wikipedia at CIS office in Bangalore will be live streamed here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hasgeek Thank you, Noopur ___ 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: The Sunday meet-up
Please do attend the Hyderabad meet up if you are in the city on 30th! -- Forwarded message -- From: Tausif Rahmathullah s.taus...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:01 PM Subject: The Sunday meet-up To: wikimedia-in-hyd wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org Folks, A mild reminder of the our *meet-up* on *Sunday 30th September*. Amidst a few confusions about postponing and things, we have all agreed upon moving forward with the event without any change. Incidentally, our meet-up has been mention in The Hindu and The Times of India. http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/drumming-session/article3943855.ece *Where* LaMakaan, In lane Adjacent to CBay, Opposite GVKOne Road No 1, Banjara Hills Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh *When* Sunday 30th September,2012 11 AM to 1 PM For any info, you can call Tausif at 9885474156 Abhijit at 9866898311 See you all this Sunday! Regards, *Tausif* -- Noopur Raval ___ 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: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad
Odia Wikipedians meeting up in Hyderabad tomorrow (29th). This news has also been covered by The Hindu and TOI today. Do come if you are around :) -- Forwarded message -- From: swetapadma d. satpathy swetapadm...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 3:32 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-in-hyd] 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad To: wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi All, I am happy to inform you that the 1st Odia Wikipedia workshop in Hyderabad is being scheduled on 29th October,12 at 4PM in Lamakaan, Banjara Hill. The objective of the workshop is to learn and know more about Odia Wikipedia. Till now there are 3000 Odia articles available in Odia Wikipedia. In a view to consolidate the knowledge and in depth experience of participants /fellow wikipedians through discussion and live demonstration of searching, writing and editing an article in Odia language, the workshop has been planned. This shall definitely encourage participants to create and develop articles for Odia wikipedia.This is an open event for all who can read and write Odia. Best Wishes, Swetapadma Satpathy ___ Wikimedia-in-hyd mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-hyd -- Noopur Raval ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Welcoming Srikanth Lakshmanan to the i18n engineering team
Sweet! Welcome aboard Logic :-) Look forward to working with you! Congratulations. Best, Noopur On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Thank you Sir! On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Arun, right on! Srikanth, welcome to your new hunting ground! Ashwin On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Thank you all for you wishes. I look forward to working with you and making your language wikipedia experience better. Please feel free to poke me on any bugs you file for your wiki projects. To avoid people complaining of bombing inbox, please send your wishes sent to me excluding the list. :) Nonsense! complaints are an integral part of these lists. Welcome to the localisation team :D On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:59 PM, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats Srikanth! -- Forwarded message -- From: Alolita Sharma asha...@wikimedia.org Check out some of his work on Tamil scripts and consonants at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_Script#Consonants_of_Modern_Tamil Correction, my blogposts were based on it :) On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Congratulations Logic. I hope, now the Tamil wikipedia will not have any glitches. Cheers All languages have quite some distance to reach that milestone, am sure together we can reach there soon :) -- Regards Srikanth.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 -- j.mp/ArunGanesh http://j.mp/ArunGanesh ___ 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 -- Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ 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 -- Regards Srikanth.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 -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Blog]: Tag and assess drive 2012: the largest collaboration of WP:India on English Wikipedia!
Dear all, I am delighted to give you a small summary of the Tag and assess drive that was conducted by members of WP:India by means of a blog post. Herehttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/20/english-wikipedias-biggest-ever-india-collaboration/it is. As you can read in it, organizers and participants alike, unequivocally agree it is an unprecedented achievement for members of our community! Thanks to all of you for sparing precious time to give your inputs. Personally, it was also inspiring getting to know editors outside the mailing list. May I take this opportunity to propose a bigger project or a new collaboration like this one? Just starting a conversation :) Thank you, Best, Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Malayalam Wikipedia education programme
Dear Indic community members, I am writing to share to share with you an update from the Malayalam Wiki community. The Malayalam Wikipedia Education Programme[1] - a partnership between the Malayalam Wiki Community and the Government of Kerala's IT@School Project was inaugurated on June 4th in Anchal, Kollam. There are inspiring pictures of the function on Commons.[2] This has already been covered in a very nice way by the press in this article.[3] Shiju has posted a blog about this Programme.[4] There are some useful tips for all Indic communities who might be interested in education programmes. These include a focus on importance of local content as well as the crucial involvement of community members who are teachers and students as new editors. There is also an example of how to build strong partnerships with education authorities with support from community members involved in education. Do join me in congratulating the Malayalam community, in wishing this project the very best of success, in welcoming the students as new editors and in looking forward to fantastic content from the beautiful Kollam region of Kerala. Noopur [1] http://goo.gl/gpFuQ [2] commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Malayalam_wiki_-It@school_education_project [3] newindianexpress.com/cities/thiruvananthapuram/article558969.ece [4] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/06/wikipedia-education-a-model-from-malayalam-wikipedia/ -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Mumbai meetup
Dear Mumbai Wikipedians, A friend has offered a place in Bandra near Indigo Deli. It can accommodate around 15 people and it has wifi as well! Please do let me know if you want to conduct your meetup in Bandra on Sunday. I'll pass on his contact information to you. Let's make this happen! :) Regards Noopur On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Krutikaa Jawanjal krutika...@gmail.comwrote: Bandra is good. I'll try and talk to TSCE guys if they could help. On 7/2/12, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org wrote: How about a place in Bandra? Would that be convenient to you guys? On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote: Karthik, Nikita good to hear you taking such an initiative. I will forward this to others and see if anyone can help out. Cheers, Srikanth. Sent from my iPad. On Friday, June 29, 2012, Karthik Nadar wrote: Hi all, this is in reference to an upcoming meetup in Mumbai, which is yet to be announced. Applause's to Nikita Belavate, who wanted the forthcoming meetup to be much more productive one. She wanted to do an editing session, to motivate and explain other non-editing volunteers to edit Wikipedia articles. We have few volunteers who haven't yet involved themselves in editing ever, whereas we believe that the promary and best way of contributing to Wikipedia is by editing and helping the article grow both in quantity and quality. I'm sure its been much gap, since an editing session in Mumbai, and the plan sounded great. +n for it! :) However, we do always face venue problem, and yeah an editing session will involve a couple of internet connected computers. Will be great if anyone knows any place in Mumbai, where we can use their systems probably for *two hours* for the meetup. Just an attempt to enhance the Mumbai community in absence of some senior volunteers. *Do please let us know*! Thanks in advance! -- Thanks and regards, (User:Karthikndr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr) *Karthik Nadar.* -- Regards, Srikanth Ramakrishnan. ___ 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 -- Noopur Raval ___ 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 -- Noopur Raval ___ 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-mum] Mumbai meetup
Dear Nikita and all, This place is Flarepath's office. Flarepath is a digital agency. So, it's not a cafe and you don't have to worry about paying anyone. They are also willing to get everyone coffee :) Just let me know a little in advance so that I can connect you with them. Thanks Regards Noopur On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:18 PM, nikita belavate niki8...@gmail.com wrote: Hello ! Noopur, we have had past meetups in Bandra with good turnout, so that will be great! Only thing we felt was that some cafes are bit noisy, so this time we were thinking of a quieter place. We prefer a Saturday over Sunday in Mum owing to Mega blocks. Could that be possible? May be myself or Karthik can also go there and check out before meetup then. Also, there are more people coming up voluntarily and trying for the venue. The Mumbai community is responding both on the Mum-mailing list and direct mails to us.We will surely check out all the options. Will keep everyone updated. Thanks to all. Regards, Nikita Belavate. On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Vikram Vincent vincentvik...@gmail.comwrote: Hello! Really happy to see the initiative and good work being done by our young volunteers. Keep it up. With warm wishes, -- Vikram Vincent 09969249984 (Mumbai) 09448810822 (Bangalore) ___ 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 ___ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum -- Noopur Raval ___ 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-mum] Mumbai meetup
Dear Karthik, Can you just mail me the exact details of your meet up - time, agenda, how many people, what you will need etc, like a small paragraph? I will forward that to the Bandra guys and connect you with them. Then, you can coordinate and fix it. Best, Noopur On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Karthik Nadar karthik...@wikimedia.inwrote: Hi Noopur, can you forward us their details so that we can get in touch with them. We also have few other volunteers, who are trying their level best to find some better places with all facilities available. Hence, we would be considering all, and then select the best one. I wanted to add that Sunday wont be preferable to all due to Mega blocks in Mumbai suburban railway, which would make it difficult to people travelling from far away places. So can you ask them if it is fine for Saturday? Thanks! On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Dear Nikita and all, This place is Flarepath's office. Flarepath is a digital agency. So, it's not a cafe and you don't have to worry about paying anyone. They are also willing to get everyone coffee :) Just let me know a little in advance so that I can connect you with them. Thanks Regards Noopur On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 12:18 PM, nikita belavate niki8...@gmail.comwrote: Hello ! Noopur, we have had past meetups in Bandra with good turnout, so that will be great! Only thing we felt was that some cafes are bit noisy, so this time we were thinking of a quieter place. We prefer a Saturday over Sunday in Mum owing to Mega blocks. Could that be possible? May be myself or Karthik can also go there and check out before meetup then. Also, there are more people coming up voluntarily and trying for the venue. The Mumbai community is responding both on the Mum-mailing list and direct mails to us.We will surely check out all the options. Will keep everyone updated. Thanks to all. Regards, Nikita Belavate. On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Vikram Vincent vincentvik...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! Really happy to see the initiative and good work being done by our young volunteers. Keep it up. With warm wishes, -- Vikram Vincent 09969249984 (Mumbai) 09448810822 (Bangalore) ___ 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 ___ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum -- Noopur Raval ___ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum -- Thanks and regards, (User:Karthikndr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr) *Karthik Nadar.* (Ph- 9773608862) -- Thanks and regards, (User:Karthikndr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Karthikndr) *Karthik Nadar.* (Ph- 9773608862) ___ Wikimedia-in-mum mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-mum -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] IRC: Social Media pilot
Dear all, Here's a link to yesterday's IRC logs on Social Media pilot for those who missed it: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-06-22 Just to summarize, we had a wonderful discussion with English and Indic Wikipedians (from 6 Indic languages - as, bn, ml, ne,or and ta) regarding the different ways in which they have been using social media platforms so far to spread awareness about their Wiki projects. We also spoke about how one can engage new editors, how language on Facebook groups differs, the challenges people have been facing so far. The real challenge would be to retain these editors and motivate them to edit based on their interest. Will keep you updated as we try more things. Let's keep this conversation going and discuss more regularly on how each group is progressing. I'd be happy to help. Please don't hesitate to email me. Thanks, Best, Noopur On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Once you log in to the webchat server on freenode, type /join #wikimedia-office On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Arjun Mangol Kanoth arjun.man...@gmail.com wrote: Erm, I think ive got in in the wrong channel? I don't see anyone there :S On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear all, IRC on social media pilot starting in 5 minutes. Please join us at webchat.freenode.net/?channels and enter your nickname and join the channel #wikimedia-office. See you all there! Best Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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 -- - Arjun ___ 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 -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [India Program]: Monthly reports for May-June and IRC announcement
Dear all, *Monthly reports/plans: *Here's a link to the monthly report for May: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Reports/Community_Monthly_Reports/May_2012 Here's a link to the monthly plan for June: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Reports/Community_Monthly_Reports/June_2012 There was an IRC meeting to discuss community building for Indic languages. Here is a link to the logs: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-06-07 *IRC on 21st June: *We plan to have an IRC meeting on June 21st at 8:00 p.m on Communications. The focus will be on the Social media pilot currently running in Assamese, English and Odia. Do join us using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/? on the #wikimedia-office channel. Apologies for the delay in sending this out. I should have sent this last week but, unfortunately some things came up. Going forward will ensure the monthly reports come out by the 10th . Please do respond with your questions and suggestions. Thank you, Best, -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [IRC]: India Program: Community Building Pilot (7th June - 9:30 p.m)
! To the Assamese community, I wish you the very best for your 10th anniversaryhttp://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/.[6] There are exciting plans including your photo contest and your article contest and the meet-up and the outreach session. I know that you are doing most of the event largely independently (with Noopurhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28[7] providing media assistance for the 10th anniversary and an India Chapterhttp://wikimedia.in/ [8] granthttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Photo_and_Article_Competition_and_Wiki_Workshop_on_10-th_Anniversary_of_Assamese_Wikipedia[9] supporting you.) This is the true signs of a community that is coming of age. There are tremendous opportunities in outreach to get new editors, initiatives like your article photo contests to improve content and in proposed projects like offline to make transformational changes in the community. With regard to the way forward for India Program, the pilot design pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building [4] on meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program[3] has now been updated. The next steps are going to be to see how we can adapt or build on these experiences with other communities, and as we move to other communities, do them in a more scaleable manner. To all community members - across languages across India - if you did want any help in any aspect of community building, please feel free to reach out to Shiju http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju[1] at sh...@wikimedia.org. Please also do add comments or ideas or suggestions you might have to the Community Building Pilot's talk pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building .[10] *hisham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham[11] * Notes [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building [5] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005813.html [6] http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/ [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28 [8] http://wikimedia.in/ [9] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Photo_and_Article_Competition_and_Wiki_Workshop_on_10-th_Anniversary_of_Assamese_Wikipedia [10] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building [11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham ___ 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 -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [IRC]: India Program: Community Building Pilot (7th June - 9:30 p.m)
of you! To the Assamese community, I wish you the very best for your 10th anniversaryhttp://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/.[6] There are exciting plans including your photo contest and your article contest and the meet-up and the outreach session. I know that you are doing most of the event largely independently (with Noopurhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28[7] providing media assistance for the 10th anniversary and an India Chapterhttp://wikimedia.in/ [8] granthttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Photo_and_Article_Competition_and_Wiki_Workshop_on_10-th_Anniversary_of_Assamese_Wikipedia[9] supporting you.) This is the true signs of a community that is coming of age. There are tremendous opportunities in outreach to get new editors, initiatives like your article photo contests to improve content and in proposed projects like offline to make transformational changes in the community. With regard to the way forward for India Program, the pilot design pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building [4] on meta http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program[3] has now been updated. The next steps are going to be to see how we can adapt or build on these experiences with other communities, and as we move to other communities, do them in a more scaleable manner. To all community members - across languages across India - if you did want any help in any aspect of community building, please feel free to reach out to Shiju http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju[1] at sh...@wikimedia.org. Please also do add comments or ideas or suggestions you might have to the Community Building Pilot's talk pagehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building .[10] *hisham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham[11] * Notes [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Shiju [2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building [5] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-December/005813.html [6] http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/05/16/ten-glorious-years-of-assamese-wikipedia-celebrate-with-clicks-and-words/ [7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Noopur28 [8] http://wikimedia.in/ [9] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Grants/Photo_and_Article_Competition_and_Wiki_Workshop_on_10-th_Anniversary_of_Assamese_Wikipedia [10] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Basic_Community_Building [11] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Hisham ___ 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 -- Noopur Raval -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] TOI:Urdu Wikipedia to be up and running in June
Hey folks, Here's another similar story in today's Indian Express: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/to-counter-pak-india-to-launch-its-own-urdu-wiki/957849/ There was supposed to be a meeting on Monday with the director concerned, but it had to be rescheduled. We'll keep you posted on the developments after the meeting. Best, Noopur On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:18 AM, Philippe Beaudette phili...@wikimedia.orgwrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: This makes it clear that this is an independent encyclopaedia initiative. Wikipedia, Wiki have long become common names to indicate anything like encyclopaedia. Point of order: Wiki is a generic name. Wikipedia is not. It is a registered trademark. Using it as a common/genericized term would be incorrect,and is something that we fight regularly, legally. :) pb ___ Philippe Beaudette Director, Community Advocacy Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 415-839-6885, x 6643 phili...@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 -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Update on Social Media Pilot
://www.medianama.com/2012/05/223-wikipedians-digitizing-out-of-copyright-text-in-eight-indian-languages/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=twitterutm_campaign=Feed:+medianama+%28Medianama:+Digital+Media+In+India%29in general), a profile of Nethahttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/, press for Wiki Pune club AND worked on social mediahttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media. Of course, needless to mention that I also work on the monthly reports, press updates, twitter/FB updates, build press contacts for English and Indic languages in various states and solicit press partnerships. I am not sure if you know but, Harsh has been trying to get a series of outreach sessions going in Ahmedabad and I've been trying to get him school/college participation and even proposed starting a Wiki club in Ahmedabad. Similar for Hindi, a few Hindi editors have written to me offlist to see how they could utilize social media platforms more effectively too. To Hisham and the rest of the India Program team: I am still waiting for answers to these questions. They were asked with seriousness, and they deserve your serious consideration. Just a little something that I happened to read yesterday: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-31/the-future-of-facebook-is-in-india Best, Noopur ___ 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 -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Press]: Medianma - Wikipedians Digitizing Out-Of-Copyright Texts In Eight Indian Languages
Dear all, Here's an article by Medianama on Wikisource in Indic languages ( http://www.medianama.com/2012/05/223-wikipedians-digitizing-out-of-copyright-text-in-eight-indian-languageshttp://www.medianama.com/2012/05/223-wikipedians-digitizing-out-of-copyright-text-in-eight-indian-languages/?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium=twitterutm_campaign=Feed%3A+medianama+%28Medianama%3A+Digital+Media+In+India%29). There are a couple of minor misses on the article - but it does refer to two important aspects about Wikisource: a) It is a door through which many have entered our projects and communities (i.e., they start with Wikisource, and indeed Wiktionary, because it's relatively easier to contribute to, and then they move on to contribute to other projects too, such as Wikipedia) - especially in Indic languages. b) The initiative run by Malayalam community (written about in the article) to encourage school children to contribute to Wikisource is something that could be of interest to many other communities. If anyone wants any help to start conversations with schools in their states, Nitika and I would be happy to help out. Please reach out to us at noo...@wikimedia.org or nit...@wikimedia.org -- *Wikipedians Digitizing Out-Of-Copyright Texts In Eight Indian Languages**-Nikhil Pahwa In what is a painstaking process, Wikipedians are digitizing Indian language, out-of-copyright texts online, trying to address the comparative paucity of Indic language texts online. Wikisource is a repository of documents and archived material that serves as a reference source for Wikipedia, and a means of improving access to information sources. Of the 64 languages Wikisource is available in, 8 are Indian: Tamilhttp://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesWikipediaTA.htm( stats http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryTA.htm), Malayalamhttp://ml.wikisource.org/( stats http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryML.htm), Teluguhttp://te.wikisource.org/( stats http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryTE.htm), Kannadahttp://kn.wikisource.org/( stats http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryKN.htm), Sanskrithttp://sa.wikisource.org/( stats http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummarySA.htm), Marathihttp://mr.wikisource.org/( stats http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryMR.htm), Bengalihttp://bn.wikisource.org/( stats http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryBN.htm) and Gujaratihttp://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/TablesWikipediaGU.htm( stats http://stats.wikimedia.org/wikisource/EN/SummaryGU.htm). What’s particularly notable about this digitization is that the texts are being typed out by volunteers on their own time, one word at a time.* *How It Began* *Users were adding bhajans of Mirabai to Wikipedia, but according to Wikipedia’s policies, recipes, poems and song lyrics belong to Wikibooks or Wikisource, Noopur Raval, Communications Consultant (India Program) at the Wikimedia Foundation told MediaNama. One user raised this issue, and following discussions, it was decided to create a Wikisource for Gujarati. The first text to be digitized, though, was Rachnatmak Karyakram, a book by Mahatma Gandhi. The project, involving the digitization of 60 pages, took six volunteers a week. This was followed by another project, the digitization of Gandhi’s autobiography, with a group of 13 people typing out the book over a month.* *Identification Prioritization Of Texts For Digitization* *Selection of text for digitization is entirely community driven: they decide what is important. Editors put up a notice for the project, and user participation is sought. For example, the Gujarati Wikisource editors chose a text by Mahatma Gandhi. The community has an intensive process for checking if a book is out of copyright, either using the publication date, and there are mailing lists which discuss when books go out of copyright. “It’s not as if there is a shortage of texts that are out of copyright,” Hisham Mundol, Consultant (India Program) at the Wikimedia Foundation said, adding that “The kind of projects that the community is undertaking (at present) involves iconic books, where you know the author and the publisher.”* *Overcoming Technological Challenges* *Mundol points out that the process of digitization is brutal, compounded by the fact that there is no reasonably functional OCR (Optical Character Recognition) in Indic languages. Texts are thus manually typed out, followed by a phase of correction and proofreading. In comparison, English texts can be scanned and uploaded and OCR’ed. The lack of tools points towards an issue which Wikipedia faces with Indic languages. “If a MediaWiki tool comes to an English language project, the possibility of implementing it, the kind of people using it, all of that happens very quickly, because most of this is written English. It takes time to localize it. For a bug to be filed for a local language project takes a lot more time. That gap makes
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog post]: Numerals in Indic languages
Hey folks, Shiju has published an interesting post on numerals in an Indic context. It's a really fascinating overview - including how numerals are depicted across Indic languages, their use across languages, the policies adopted by the various Indic communities, the need for some community decisions to take things forward, a bit of Shiju's personal grumble on the fact that Hindi film posters are no longer in Hindi :-) and a picture of a Northern Railways bed sheet! Intrigued? Read more on either on metahttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Numerals_in_Indic_Languages__Indic_language_Wikipedias and or the Chapter bloghttp://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/06/01/numerals-in-indic-languages-indic-wikipedias-2/ . [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Indic_Languages/Numerals_in_Indic_Languages_%26_Indic_language_Wikipedias [2] http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/06/01/numerals-in-indic-languages-indic-wikipedias-2/ Regards, Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Update on Social Media Pilot
beyond existing Wikipedians and encourage new editors to participate. Once when an article on Handia https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handia (a local beverage) was posted, a new User:Swetapadmahttps://or.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Swetapadma07action=editredlink=1came forward to contribute images. Since then, she has been contributing to articles on Odia cuisine and adding images to articles on Tribes of Odisha. User:Hellohappyhttps://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AC%AC%E0%AD%8D%E0%AD%9F%E0%AC%AC%E0%AC%B9%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AC%95%E0%AC%BE%E0%AC%B0%E0%AD%80:Hellohappyedited the article on Capital High School, Bhubaneswarhttps://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_High_School,_Bhubaneswar . So far almost 10 new users have joined in and made their first few edits in the past month. Given the small size of Indic communities, this could be a very effective way of encouraging newbies. This also helps because it means that it filters in those who have Internet connectivity, are passionate about the language and (in most cases) are familiar with typing in Indic languages). Again, this was done with the help of existing Odia Wikipedians like Gorvachove, Mrutyunjay Kar, Gyanranjan Sahu, Suratha Parhi, Diptiman and others. *Challenges*: Now that we've figured out a way of engaging so many new editors and getting them to make their first 5 edits, the challenge is to integrate them into our community and make sure they continue editing. Also, it would be ideal to expand this initiative to other Indic and Wikipedia user groups. (I am already working with the Kannada community and I know that Wikipedia Club Pune has already been trying something similar). I would like to invite all community members interested to write to me ( noo...@wikimedia.org) and then we can have a brief skype call and figure how to implement it for your group. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media [2] https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediasupport/ [3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media#Process [4] https://www.facebook.com/groups/wikipediasupport/doc/353268748054711/ [5] https://www.facebook.com/groups/OdiaWiki/ Regards, Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Wikipatrika]: Announcing the third issue of Wikipatrika!
Thank you, Bishakha, on behalf of all the members who contributed. :) You are welcome to contribute to the next issue! Best, Noopur On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: 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 nra...@wikimedia.orgwrote: 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 -- Noopur Raval ___ 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 -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Wikipatrika]: Announcing the third issue of Wikipatrika!
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 -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Wikipatrika]: A quick update
Dear all, A quick update on Wikipatrika. Here's the current draft of the next issue http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News As you can see, most of the sections have been updated with information on events, meetups and Wikipedia news of our various language communities. This time, we've also added an interview of a community member (Bpositive's report on INCOTM) and an external interview (interview with a GLAM Director) to make Patrika more informative and interesting. Quite a few of you may already have contributed to this draft. The pages for as, bn, gu, hi, en, kn, ne, or, sa, te and ta have already been translated from the respective languages. There is also a Commons tab where we can add information on various photo walks. The reason why I'm sharing this update is for everyone else to add material that may have been left out or any other details. Do remember that we are planning to release this on May 10th so please do add your edits / sections by May 9th. Also, going forward, we hope to coordinate the issue on the Wikipatrika mailing list. So, I invite all those interested to join the Wikipatrika mailing list here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-newsletter Regards Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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 Program: Fortnightly IRC: Thursday April 19 at 9pm IST: Indic Outreach Communications
Dear all, Here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19are the logs for the IRC that happened on 19th April, 2012. This IRC was centered around Outreach in Indic languages and Communications updates. In Indic language outreach, we discussed translating documents that support outreach in different languages. Another important point discussed was the need to have more Indic langauge outreach sessions. Some members from the Hindi, Telugu, Bengali and http:%20//tiny.cc/odiaOdiahttp://tiny.cc/odia%20community have already translated these documents. In communications, we discussed Wikipatrikahttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_Newsand the social media planhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Mediafor Odia community. 6 communities have created pages for Wikipatrika in their respective Wikipedias so far and the social media pilot will begin in the next week. If you were unable to attend the IRC and have any inputs or feedback, please do reach out to Nitika (for outreach) and Noopur (for communications). Here are our email ids: ntan...@wikimedia.org and noo...@wikimedia.org. Thanks Noopur [1]https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19 [2]http://tiny.cc/odiahttp://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftiny.cc%2Fodiah=BAQECsOhBAQEu9u91dyqGvLzp4TyxuE4Pn0c0OnskmGvIGw [3]http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News [4]http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, just a reminder. IRC starts in 15 minutes. Regards Noopur On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.orgwrote: Hey folks The next India Program IRC (2nd for April) is scheduled for Thursday 19th April at 9 p.m. IST. Do join us using this link: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wikimedia-office. We'll be discussing Outreach, Communications and Education in this one. Here is what we plan to discuss this time: *Outreach* Over the past few months we have conducted several outreach sessions and have been able to curate outreach standard presentation decks, best practices and tips. Now we want to assist community members in adopting/adapting these to conduct effective outreach sessions in their respective cities/languages. We'll be soon working on 2 aspects for increasing the number of outreach sessions we are doing on Indic languages but we need your help on this: 1. Start translating outreach supporting documents to Indic languages - To start with we want Indic language community members to help us translate outreach documents and presentations to Indic languages. 2. Create opportunities for Indic outreach - We have been mailing/calling a lot of institutes to organize a Wikipedia session (see list herehttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Outreach_Programs/Correspondence)[1] in their regional language but we have not able to get as many outreach sessions as we'd like since they feel more comfortable corresponding in their own regional language. We want help from Indic langauge editors who are interested to do more outreach in their regional languages/cities to help us reach out to these institutes. I'd request all the Indic language editors who want to help us out on either of the two points mentioned above to show up on the IRC or write to us offlist since we'll be discussing ways of doing effective outreach in regional languages. *Communications:* *Wikipatrika:* 6 communities (Assamese, Gujarati, Marathi, Nepali,Odia, Telugu ) have already created Wikipatrika pages on their respective Wikipedias. The new template for Wikipatrika is up herehttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2012-05/Community_News.[2] In tomorrow's outreach, we could discuss ideas and suggestions to make Wikipatrika more useful. We could also discuss any problems that community members maybe facing. *Communications:* *Odia Social Media pilot:* As proposed earlier, here'shttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/Pilot_Designs/Social_Media[3] the social media pilot to support the Odia community members. The end result of this pilot is to attract more newbies and introduce them to the Wikiverse. This pilot is to try out effective messaging strategies to use a platform like Facebook optimally and try to recruit more editors to the Odia Wikipedia. The most important nuance is that we have built a draft social media messaging strategy and plan to work closely with the Odia community to implement it - through the community members. We hope to discuss this plan and get your inputs on it. As always, the first 45 minutes will be focused on these and the last 15 minutes will be open to any other topic. Hope you all can join us. (For those who can't join, the logs will be put up the next morning at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Program/IRC_meeting_2012-04-19
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Blog]: Postcard from the Tamil Community
Hey folks, The Tamil Wikimedia Contest organized by User: Sodabottle and other members of the Tamil community recently got over. As you are all aware, it generated over 15,000 media files and got over 250 new contributors to Commons. A detailed report was published at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Tamil_Wikimedians/TamilWiki_Media_Contest/Report There's also a blog post that we've been working on that takes a peek at TWMC behind the scenes with inputs from the organizing team. It might be really useful to any community planning to conduct a similar events in future. You can read the post here: http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/17/postcard-from-the-tamil-community/. It's a great story of how an off-the-cuff conversation between 2 editors resulted in a massive community wide initiative - with participation of the Tamil community (and other communities) from across the world, the kind of intense efforts, the use of technology enablers and last - and most certainly not the least - some fantastic images (a sample of which can be seen at http://www.tawp.in/r/33zx) - which have now been used to create or improve articles (6122 on Tamil Wiktionary, 1659 on Tamil Wikipedia and more). Do go through the story and add comments. Please also share it with others. Don't forget to use the images to improve articles on your Wikipedia! (They are all available on Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:TamilWiki_Media_Contest) I am thankful to Natkeeran for the wonderful story idea and to Sodabottle, Logicwiki and others for your inputs, insights and times! Regards Noopur -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Press]: Youths come forward to fill up Odia Wikipedia
http://expressbuzz.com/states/orissa/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/380548.htmlDear all, Here http://expressbuzz.com/states/orissa/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/380548.htmlis a news report from The New Indian Express on the Odia Wikipedia's outreach activities which was then republishedhttp://ibnlive.in.com/news/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/247114-60-117.htmlby IBNLive. Thanks Tinu for sharing them on twitter. Hopefully, going forward with every meetup or event that community members conduct, we can try for more media coverage and also simultaneously try for more social media outreach to support each event. Great work guys! :) [1] http://expressbuzz.com/states/orissa/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/380548.html [2] http://ibnlive.in.com/news/youths-come-forward-to-fill-up-odia-wikipedia/247114-60-117.html Thank you, Regards -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Blog]: The source of Gujarati Wikisource
Dear all, As you might have read earlier, the Gujarati Wikisource was launched recently on March 27th and is now active with 1000 articles and 1 book already. As part of the story telling series, here is the wonderful storyhttp://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/04/realizing-the-dreams-of-communities-3-years-6-users-1000-articles-counting-the-source-of-gujarati-wikisource/of a a journey that started with one member who filed the request to create Wikisource, 2 members who joined in for their love of Bhajans, and gradually a group of 6 members who helped reach the 1000 article mark. The passion and enthusiasm of the Gujarati community members for their language is very motivating, especially to all Indic Wikipedians who strive for the same cause. This story will also interest those communities interested in starting a Wikisource of their own. Most importantly, it shows the power of individual community members and how community collaboration is so magical and constructive! Thank you, Regards Noopur [1] http://blog.wikimedia.in/2012/04/04/realizing-the-dreams-of-communities-3-years-6-users-1000-articles-counting-the-source-of-gujarati-wikisource/ -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] [Blog]: Post on Aniruddha Kumar - Hindi Wikipedian
Dear all, Forwarding a link to the blog post on Aniruddha Kumar, a Hindi Wikipedian. Many of us had the pleasure of meeting him in person at the Wikiconference and some of us may also have seen him appear on the banners. Herehttp://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/30/the-right-to-information-on-wikipedia/is his Wiki story covered by Jordan Hu. A very inspiring story indeed! [1] http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/30/the-right-to-information-on-wikipedia/ Thank you, Regards -- Noopur Raval ___ 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] Blog post on Netha Hussain/ Introduction to Storytelling
Dear all, To celebrate Women's History Month, I thought it would be really nice to celebrate an Indian woman editor's story. A short story on User: Netha Hussain was posted on the WMF bloghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/ . (Netha is an editor on Malayalam Wikipedia, has been involved in women topics and recently coordinated the first women's edit-a-thonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon in India.) While I was preparing this, I was wondering if we could make story-telling of this nature a regular feature, and see how it can support community building. We could do a series of short profiles of editors - in the form of stories - covering your life as well as your wiki journey. The intent is to reflect the diversity of our community - language, age, profession, projects. I am going to try and bring out at least one such story every month - but we can always try and work on as many more as we can get. I am already looking for new story ideas and would love to hear from interested community folks. Here is how it works. I prepare a short set of questions and points for the story and send it across to you. Once you reply, I draft out a story and send it back for your approval. After we make necessary changes to the draft, I can publish it. If you are ok, we can also look at forwarding these stories to the local media as well. Please do write to me at nra...@wikimedia.org and let's start working on your story! Don't forget to go through the Netha's storyhttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/; it's really inspiring! Regards, Noopur Raval ___ 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] Wikipatrika: Next Issue
Dear all, I'm writing with regard to Wikipatrika. For the folks who don't know, this is the community newsletter which has come out twice (in September 2010http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf June 2011 http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06) It's a really wonderful way documenting and celebrating the amazing work done by so many community members across so many communities in the various projects. It helps share ideas with and helps pick up ideas from other communities. I think Wikipatrika is something that could be more frequent - given the range of activities across communities - and I'd like to support it. In this regard, I approached all the editors who were involved in the previous 2 issues to ask their interest in bringing out the next one in end April covering Jan - Mar 2012, and to see if we can make it more regular (potentially every quarter.) 5 community members from different languages have already offered to help. Another community member will setup a template that all languages can use (on wiki.wikimedia.in) I have also started reaching out to editors who might not have been involved before, and hence this mail. The template for Wikipatrika will be ready only by April 2nd week. In the meantime, can I ask whoever is interested to create a page on their respective languages wikipedias and start sharing stories and updates on this page. I'd encourage everyone to write these in whatever language they are comfortable in to begin with. (Once the template is set up on wiki.wikimedia.in, these individual pages could then be posted there.) To start off, you could start with the following sections (which I'm illustrating using the Bengalihttp://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-06/Community_News/bn page from a previous Wikipatrika), and just start adding content. 1. General overview 2. Bengali Wikipedia 3. Bengali Wikisource 4. Bengali Wiktionary 5. Bengali Wikibooks 6. News reports 7. Any other section(s) you want to add Please do add as much as you want on - Updates on the various projects - Landmarks, birthdays, celebrations, events, conferences, etc between Jan-Mar 2012 - Reports on outreach sessions conducted - Links to meetups and where to find the next ones - Please feel free to add sections that you think would be nice. I could suggest Featured Wikimedians and Featured Newbies as examples. Here
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue
Dear Srikanth, Surely, Will add the links at the end of the mail. The link to Nepali Wikipedia's page is herehttp://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:Wikimedia_India_Newsletter/2011_Juneagain. Regarding Marathi and Urdu, I wasn't subscribed there yet. But, have forwarded the mails there and posted on village pump as you suggested. Look forward to sharing Tamil Wikipedia stories. [1]http://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE:Wikimedia_India_Newsletter/2011_June Thanks Regards Noopur On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 14:44, Noopur Raval nra...@wikimedia.org wrote: Dear all, I'm writing with regard to Wikipatrika. Great to hear about the revival, shall pitch in some bytes for tamil now and then. Got some requests for you. Here http://This%20should%20go%20on%20India%20and%20Indic%20mailing%20lists%20%28except%20for%20Marathi%20%20Urdu%29%20and%20the%20respective%20village%20pumps%20%28except%20for%20Marathi%20%20Urdu%29%2E%20%20In%20addition,%20the%20mail%20can%20then%20be%20forwarded%20by%20Noopur%20to%20as%20many%20editors%20as%20possible%20%28and%20by%20Shiju%20too%2E%29%20%20I%27m%20writing%20with%20regard%20to%20Wikipatrika%2E%20%20For%20the%20folks%20who%20don%27t%20know,%20this%20is%20the%20community%20newsletter%20which%20has%20come%20out%20twice%20%28in%20September%202010%20%20%20June%202011%29%20%20It%27s%20a%20really%20wonderful%20way%20documenting%20and%20celebrating%20the%20amazing%20work%20done%20by%20so%20many%20community%20members%20across%20so%20many%20communities%20in%20the%20various%20projects%2E%20%20It%20helps%20share%20ideas%20with%20and%20helps%20pick%20up%20ideas%20from%20other%20communities%2E%20%20%20%20I%20think%20Wikipatrika%20is%20something%20that%20could%20be%20more%20frequent%20-%20given%20the%20range%20of%20activities%20across%20communities%20-%20and%20I%27d%20like%20to%20support%20it%2E%20%20In%20this%20regard,%20I%20approached%20all%20the%20editors%20who%20were%20involved%20in%20the%20previous%202%20issues%20to%20ask%20their%20interest%20in%20bringing%20out%20the%20next%20one%20in%20end%20April%20or%20early%20May%20covering%20Jan%20-%20Mar%202012,%20and%20to%20see%20if%20we%20can%20make%20it%20more%20regular%20%28potentially%20every%20quarter%2E%29%20%205%20community%20members%20from%20different%20languages%20have%20already%20offered%20to%20help%2E%20%20Anther%20community%20member%20will%20setup%20a%20template%20that%20all%20languages%20can%20use%20%28on%20the%20chapter%20wiki%29%20%20I%20have%20also%20started%20reaching%20out%20to%20editors%20who%20might%20not%20have%20been%20involved%20before,%20and%20hence%20this%20mail%2E%20%20The%20template%20for%20Wikipatrika%20will%20be%20ready%20only%20by%20April%202nd%20week%2E%20%20In%20the%20meantime,%20can%20I%20ask%20whoever%20is%20interested%20to%20create%20a%20page%20on%20their%20respective%20languages%20wikipedias%20and%20start%20sharing%20stories%20and%20updates%20on%20this%20page%2E%20%20I%27d%20encourage%20everyone%20to%20write%20these%20in%20whatever%20language%20they%20are%20comfortable%20in%20to%20begin%20with%2E%20%20%20%28Once%20the%20template%20is%20set%20up%20on%20Chapter%20Wiki,%20these%20individual%20pages%20could%20then%20be%20posted%20there%2E%29%20%20To%20start%20off,%20you%20could%20start%20with%20the%20following%20sections%20%28which%20I%27m%20illustrating%20using%20the%20Bengali%20page%20from%20a%20previous%20Wikipatrika%29,%20and%20just%20start%20adding%20content%2E%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20General%20overview%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikipedia%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikisource%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wiktionary%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Bengali%20Wikibooks%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20News%20reports%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Any%20other%20section%28s%29%20you%20want%20to%20add%20%20Please%20do%20add%20as%20much%20as%20you%20want%20on%20%20%20%20%20%20%20Updates%20on%20the%20various%20projects%20%20%20%20%20Landmarks,%20birthdays,%20celebrations,%20events,%20conferences,%20%20etc%20between%20Jan-Mar%202012%20%20%20%20%20Reports%20on%20outreach%20sessions%20conducted%20%20%20%20%20Links%20to%20meetups%20and%20where%20to%20find%20the%20next%20ones%20%20%20%20%20Please%20feel%20free%20to%20add%20sections%20that%20you%20think%20would%20be%20nice%2E%20%20I%20could%20suggest%20%22Featured%20Wikimedians%22%20and%20%22Featured%20Newbies%22%20as%20examples%2E%20%20After%20you%20set%20up%20the%20page,%20please%20do%20post%20this%20on%20your%20respective%20village%20pumps%20or%20mailing%20lists%20and%20any%20other%20forums%20so%20that%20all%20community%20members%20know%2E%20%20Please%20do%20share%20the%20page%20with%20me%20%28offlist%29%20so%20I%20can%20help%20out%20too%2E%20%20If%20you%20are%20facing%20any%20difficulties,%20please%20do%20not
