[Wikimediaindia-l] WPMBL8 / Translations
Hi all, Wiki meetup Bangalore / WPMBL8 went on well last sunday with good number of people attending it and also had some very good sessions. We also had good media coverage this time.[1][2]. If some of us were impressed by what google guys have shown us on translate[3], here is more news about something which is being worked by one premier institution in the country[4]. Lets hope translation becomes easier with more machine help :) [1] Times of India / Bangalore Mirror -- http://mobilepaper.timesofindia.com/web/mobile.aspx?article=yespageid=4edlabel=BGMIRmydateHid=21-12-2009pubname=Mirror+-+Bangaloreedname=Bangalorearticleid=Ar00402format=publabel=MM [2] The Hindu - Bangalore Edition http://www.hindu.com/2009/12/22/stories/2009122250740200.htm [3] http://translate.google.com/toolkit [4] http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/1/55756-automated-translation-of-indian-languages/fulltext -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Shahid Akhtar mohd.shahid_akh...@rediffmail.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:37 PM, Praveen Prakash me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: K. Then who is Kiruba Shankar? What was the election process criteria? How many people involved in that? Why all these process were hidden? Why even Hindi not informed? This is what I'm wondering about too! I think this process should be more inclusive and transparent! I'm all for a Wikimedia India chapter, but it should be a group of all the people who are actually part of the Wikipedia community! It should not be a bunch of politicians that want to be face of Wikipedia to the Indian media without having made any substantial contributions to Wikipedia. Wikimedia India will receive thousands of rupees in donations. We need trusted people who are representative of the pan-India Wikipedia community to handle it. If this is a group of people who are meeting in Bangalore for wining and dining, this should be named Wikimedia Bangalore chapter, not Wikipedia INDIA chapter! *My Few paisas.* As to my understanding after reading the MoA, there are no special privileges to founding members apart from not requiring to apply for membership.[Authors can clarify if my understanding is not right] I suppose there would be an election after the formation and only the elected persons will have additional privileges than a normal member. So in that sense, who starts it really doesn't matter. I dont know why people are cribbing its secret / closed group when meta was up all the while. Did anyone make a point to edit any of the meta pages and was it left undiscussed / discarded? No one stopped anyone from doing that. Trust is not measured in terms of edit count.Showing up on the day and commitment in real world is also required and I guess the people who signed the MoA did that. I agree with pan-India comment but again elections would happen I guess and as i already mentioned founding members dont get any extra privileges. Probably some clause can be added to include regional / linugual EC members.I would add that right away to discussion page. Sorry i take the wine and dine comment too seriously. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:MBL is not about wine and dine. Please go through the pages to see what was going on the meetings. -- Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Integration with OpenStreetMap
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, I would love to know more. How do GaneshK and Tinucherian create their articles, do they use maps, do they have maps with all the Indian places on them.. do they have maps with all of them on it.. do they have maps with the names in many countries.. including English.. Do they have maps with articles and or pictures on them. How does this process of translation work for the other Indian languages? Is there a plan to translate to English as well ?? Thanks, GerardM-- Hi, Few related points below. 1. As mentioned above by RSrikanth / Sundar, articles for cities / towns were created by GaneshBot based on census data. Most of them are geocoded i guess. Recently http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kumar_Appaiah_Bot was created to fix coord-missing-articles. Someone can take it up and run regularly to make coord missing articles count to 0. This is very essential and acts as a input to Google maps-Wikipedia layer 2. AFAIK very few Indian articles have a map in the article (Ex:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Salai Urdu version of Tirumalahttp://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%BE%D8%AA%DB%8C[I uploaded into English, but then someone seems to have removed from English, but looks like a bot translated before that].).This is where OSM-Wikipedia integration could come very handy.City / Town / even Locality articles can have an free map from OSM.I have seen this being case with quite a few articles related to UK. 3. Wikipedia-OSM has a huge scope with WikiProject Indian Roadshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:INR. I was trying to get some OSM tiles generated and add to articles for it sometime back but dropped it due to lack of time and also thought it would be a redundant effort if the OSM-Wikipedia integration comes through. 4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coimbatore_Golf_Club has an image of the golf course map from openstreetmap. Great usage of free maps beyond navigation which can only be possible with OSM ! 5. While any little progress helps us, India still has a huge way to go when it comes to OpenGeoData. Awareness of Openstreetmap has to increase and we need atleast some decent data available for India(which is sadly available only for few sq.kms(?) ) before we can actually use OSM data into Indian articles. 6. For folks interested OSM-India community put up this India specific OSM rendering at http://openstreetmap.org.in -- Where else in the world we can metered / unmetered / prepaid autos :P Gerard, I am not clear on what you are referring as a translation work in the context of OSM-Wikipedia. Are you referring to the need of the localized maps OR need of maps of OSM to be on Indic wikis OR localization of OSM tools like Potalach / JOSM. Thanks. Regards Srikanth.L http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian DYK (trivia) from Wikipedia on twitter.
Hi, I have created a shared document from where hooks will be read by the script. Currently it has 574 hooks, i would relook the scrapper script and would keep adding more to the hook preparation area. The spreadsheet is open to edit and please feel free to help. GDocs Link :- http://j.mp/a4ayc3 Repository :- http://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Srik, I thought it was 140? Or are you deducting 20 for the link? Yes 20 chars is for link. As you see above j.mp (bit.ly's brother) takes 18 chars and add 2 spaces. On 7 August 2010 18:53, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Excellent idea, Srikanth! Some twitter handles I could think: IndiaFacts, KnowIndia, DYKIndia. Thanks for the suggestions. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Please help test geolocation
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Ravi, Good idea. It identifies Bangalore and Karnataka correctly. Can you click on the link and verify whether it shows Kovai correctly? Sundar from mobile While all works well with fixed line broadband connections. IPs from mobile just provide the country. I have tried 3 providers' GPRS and all of them only give country level info. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimeetup Aug 2010 WPMBL16
Have it elsewhere ? Probably an openspace without a projector ? Domlur park / Lalbagh / CIS lawn? or like the UK meetups go to coffee shops where WiFi is there. Unless there are any presentations i dont think we require a hall setup which CIS provides. Lets not move the date as it will be too early to meet up for the next meet. On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 7:26 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Folks, CIS has informed me that they have anathor event ( their board meetings) on the same day of our meetup ( Aug 15) . So what do we do ? Postpone for next weekend? Thoughts urgent replies requested. Regards Tinu Cherian N.B. I may be out of station, next weekend. ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian DYK (trivia) from Wikipedia on twitter.
Hi all, We launched this one in #WPMBL17. The twitter account is @DYKIndia. Thanks Sundar for the handle suggestion, this seems short and crisp :) Twitter :- http://twitter.com/DYKIndia GDocs Tweet Queue :- http://j.mp/a4ayc3 Repository :- http://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter Both of the code and tweet queue are open, and please feel free to contribute to them. We had discussions on topics surrounding this at the meetup and I will summarize them below. 1. This can be on any subject and can be used by many projects like History, Medicine, Countries, etc if there are people to manage the tweet queue. 2. It would make more successful if the manual tweet queue maintenance process is done away with and ask WP:DYK to provide short version of hooks as well going forward. -- Need to go through a proposal i guess. Will be working on this in sometime after gauging the success of this. But counter arguments also came for this and sometimes its better if its manual. 3. Similar app can also used to tweet daily DYKs on a hourly basis and can be face of Whats new on Wikipedia in social media. 4. Possibility of exploring usage of this into Indian languages,challanges like char limit, availability. Need to work on this as well. 5. Possibility of tie-up with mobile operator and making it as a VAS, where in operator gets money, we get outreach / publicity -- Can be taken as a chapter outreach activity once that is formed. Special thanks to twitter mass hero Tinucherian, we already have 88(and counting) followers and from stats i could see 20 have visited the article(best thing about bitly). We need to observe how the stats go, whats the best time to tweet etc. Code has some TODOs yet to make it more generic and comprehensive which i would be working on over next weekend.Python folks feel free to review since its my first python code. Thanks for your support and expecting few RTs from you ;) Regards, Srikanth L On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I have created a shared document from where hooks will be read by the script. Currently it has 574 hooks, i would relook the scrapper script and would keep adding more to the hook preparation area. The spreadsheet is open to edit and please feel free to help. GDocs Link :- http://j.mp/a4ayc3 Repository :- http://github.com/srikanthlogic/WikipediaDYKTweeter On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote: Srik, I thought it was 140? Or are you deducting 20 for the link? Yes 20 chars is for link. As you see above j.mp (bit.ly's brother) takes 18 chars and add 2 spaces. On 7 August 2010 18:53, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.com wrote: Excellent idea, Srikanth! Some twitter handles I could think: IndiaFacts, KnowIndia, DYKIndia. Thanks for the suggestions. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian DYK (trivia) from Wikipedia on twitter.
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, guru brahma wiki...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Dear Srikanth, good to see this initiative. I used to be among the most active Indian contributors to DYK in 2005-06. Hi Srinivas, This is possible only because of efforts of DYK contributors like you. I know how tough it is since i struggled to add one DYK last year. On a related note, number of Indian DYKs created are coming down these days and we need more awareness among contributors to increase this count. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Open IRC meeting with Wikimedia Trustees: Saturday, 1600 UTC
Chat log can be found here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2010-08-31 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2010-08-31 There were points touching about WMF India office / chapter etc which i think Barry would also be talking to us on the meetups. Regards, Srikanth L On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 02:27, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: FYI. Yours sincerely, Anirudh Singh Bhati B.Com, LL.B. (Hons.), Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, India. Handphone: +919328712208 Skype: anirudhsbh If this email were legal advice, it would be followed by a bill. -- Forwarded message -- From: Samuel J Klein s...@wikimedia.org Date: Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 1:59 AM Subject: [WikiEN-l] Open IRC meeting with Wikimedia Trustees: Saturday, 1600 UTC To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org, English Wikipedia wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello, In an annual effort to welcome new Board members with an informal chat, the newest Wikimedia Trustees (Phoebe and Bishakha) are taking part in an open meeting on IRC this Saturday. This is a forum to discuss Wikimedia issues and anything else that's on your mind. Where : #wikimedia on irc.freenode.net When : Saturday September 11, 1600-1700 UTC (That's 0900 PST / 1200 EST / 1800 CEST / 2130 IST) All are welcome - please join the meeting with ideas or questions about Wikimedia and the Projects, or simply with good cheer! If you have a topic to add to the agenda, please add it on Meta: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_meetings#September_2010 We will keep the meeting to an hour, and will cover the agenda before moving to an open discussion. Summary minutes will be published. I hope to see many of you there, Sam ___ WikiEN-l mailing list wikie...@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 07:35, arjuna rao chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: I am happy to share a tiny web application to help people get started with using Indian languages on Computers in public places, using wiki sites. Check it out http://gyanpad.appspot.com/ Cheers Arjun Hi Arjuna, Great stuff. One more suggestion i could think of is to support google transliteration in addition to phonetic input. Just to qoute an example in the difference, phonetic gives டமில் for tamil where the same in google transliterate gives the correct word தமிழ். Google i think has a memory on its transliteration labs as well. Pardon my ignorance of not knowing any other indic language other than tamil. Is the code open somewhere? -- Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] CWG Cost : Govt cites Wikipedia as source
Hi all, Came across this link Ministry of Tourism, Govt of India cites Wikipedia as the source for CWG cost. http://www.deccanherald.com/content/97131/govt-draws-blank-cwg-cost.html . We probably need more focus on articles related to govt projects with a closer eye. Probably a work group would help. -- Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] community, chapter and foundation: who is who and who does what
Achal, Thanks a lot for the detailed clarification. I was wondering how I could clearly differentiate these things and explain to people outside our list/community. I felt the media coverage (some / most) recently after Barry's meet up also did not convey the differences between the Chapter and Foundation office properly. I also felt one other point which Barry told us about motive of foundation office that did not reach well to the media / general public well. Barry mentioned to us the common misconception of press when some global org is setting up office, it brings jobs,money etc which he had come across during the meetups.Sadly the misconception seems to have been carried forward. Random sample (unscientific) of what reached out:- http://www.quoteurl.com/kmh92 . I think we gave out too much to the press to digest at the same time. Information about chapter, office, wikicapital etc. Only few articles I read clearly expressed them as different things and drew the line. My 2 paisa Regards, Srikanth L On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 20:35, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: To add to the recent discussion on this list, perhaps a few clarifications are in order. All of you are familiar with yourselves - i.e. us - the community; people who edit, organise and otherwise help Wikimedia projects move ahead in interesting and productive ways. Many of those interesting and productive things happening here are captured in this first edition of the Wikimedia India Community Newsletter: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_India_Community_Newsletter_2010_September.pdf Then there is the chapter. Chapters are independent organizations founded to support and promote the Wikimedia projects within a specified country. (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters). Chapters are approved by the Chapters Committee, constituted by folks whose mission is to further Wikimedia, and while affiliated to and recognised by the Wikimedia Foundation, are yet independent entities which plot their own course. Chapter efforts in India started up as early as 2004 and critical momentum was achieved from 2008 onwards, the result of which is that we now have an approved Wikimedia India chapter - awaiting registration in India as a non-profit organisation (for more see: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India). The Wikimedia India chapter is currently being registered as a 'society' in Karnataka and will function as a national organisation. As a 'society' it is required to have founding 'members' - and in our case, those members are Arun (President), Sundar (Secretary), Hari (Treasurer), Gautam, Srinivas and Arjuna. (See: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-PostChapComVer). Once the chapter is recognised as a legal entity within India, these members will serve as the Executive Committee of the organisation. Contrary to earlier discussions, the Wikimedia India chapter has never had 'Directors' or 'Directors (designate)' - it's a society, and societies have members. On operation, it will, of course, extend membership widely to anyone who wishes to join. Chapters have a wide variety of functions, all of which are evolving - for now, a crude summary of their purpose would be that they allow individuals from within the community to do more than they could normally do alone, besides providing the benefits of a formal, organisational setup to utilise when necessary. Then we have the Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation based in San Francisco that is the legal home of all Wikimedia projects. Over the last few years, the Wikimedia Foundation has grown in staff strength and capacity, and works to facilitate everything we do as volunteers from around the world. In the last few months, and on the basis of a strategic planning exercise (http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy) the Wikimedia Foundation decided to actively help a few geographies grow, one of which is India. The National Country Director job that Barry Newstead (Chief Global Development Officer) talked about on this list ( http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-August/000850.html ) is a position that will report to him, which is to say, the staff employed at the Wikimedia Foundation office in India are exactly that, and not to be confused with the India chapter - they are a separate entity, an off-shoot of the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, though they will obviously be working closely with both the community and the chapter. Further clarifications on the Wikimedia Foundation's office plans in India are available in this email from Barry ( http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2010-August/000849.html ). I trust this helps somewhat in understanding the landscape. Cheers, Achal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] community, chapter and foundation: who is who and who does what
Thanks Achal. We now have a basic press-kit(?) with us. Hope this will help a bit in getting more clear reports from the media and give a basic understanding of who-are-these-bunch-of-people to anyone in general public. When did we have http://wikimedia.in with us? (Or was I sleeping :( :O ) . Anyways nice to have the domain :) I have moved it to http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Presskit On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:17, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Srikanth: I have substantially added to the page. Please take a look. And I hope some others might be interested in adding to/refining this information too? Once done, I'd suggest we put it out as a standard reference to anyone interested in us, especially from the media. The current page is: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/Wikimedia101 Shiju's suggestion is to move this page (and any other public non-internal information) to http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Main_Page and it makes a lot of sense. If you agree, can you just move the whole thing over - and then send it out for others to use/add to and see? I think this will be quite useful going forward. Cheers, Achal ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] community, chapter and foundation: who is who and who does what
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 13:18, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: Great. I've cleaned it up further - now anyone who wants to add to this or help, please go to http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Presskit Nice, can this also be translated to Indian languages. Atleast by the Indic wiki communities which interact with press often. Might also help during outreach programs. -- Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiBhasha Mediawiki extension
Hi all, Just read Microsoft India research team open sources WikiBhasha - http://goo.gl/sKlA . From the README file, I understand WikiBhasha is a media wiki extension aimed at enabling user communities in creating multilingual content in Wikipedia. Can someone who know more explain about this extension. Does any Indic wiki use this at the moment? Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mobile editing reading of Wikipedia
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:34, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: Arjuna makes a good point on language support. As for the data costs, don't some providers (I know MTS does) provide access to Wikipedia for free? Have you used MTS free Wikipedia? I overheard they are falsely advertising but actually it costs something. (like only en.wiki is free and data charges apply for images on the article from commons). I am not very sure on this, anyone who uses MTS can confirm. But i have to disagree with Arjuna and feel data charges have come down significantly over a period of time now though may still not be affordable to a common man on the street when compared to the dead low voice tariff. More and more alternate ways of consuming Wikipedia on mobile needs to be developed. I particularly find the Wikipedia layer on Google maps for mobile useful while exploring unknown territories. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal: Wiki Marathon
Hi, I have created a page where we could co-ordinate activities for en.wiki and also link pages in other wikis.Please feel free to expand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India/Marathon1 Regards Srikanth.L On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 13:39, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, 20+ users have already signed up for the Wiki Marathon during the November 14, 2010 week end. Expecting more users when we pep up the campaign. Some of us will participate in this from the Chennai Wiki meetup in planning. How about the progress in other Wikis, cities ? Ravi On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote: We have started a project page in Tamil Wikipedia for the proposed Wikithon (guess we have consensus on this name ) and people are already signing up. If all interested Indic language Wiki communities can discuss this in their village pumps, then we can coordinate the info in Wikimedia.in ravi ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai Meet up in the attendance of Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia
Hi, I see a banner on en.wiki about this meetup.Nice! Is this done through some geo-ip stuff? If so I would like banners for all wiki activities like meetups / academies etc. Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:38, Kundan Amitabh kundanamit...@gmail.comwrote: Hi ! A Meet up has been organised on 31st Oct., 2010 at Mumbai. Alongwith others Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia will be attending the meet up. For details please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai3 All are invited to attend. *Please ignore the link of preceding email.* -- Best Regards. Kundan Amitabh Ang India Technologies, www.angindia.org CH-2/52, Kendriya Vihar, Sector-11, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai-410210, INDIA == 9320255450 / 9869478444 == Let's Keep Our World Green for Our Children's Future! Please don't print this email unless it's really necessary ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai Meet up in the attendance of Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia
Great! Need to get a banner for 1st WikiMarathon after this get over. There is a strong need to improve the Indian community in en.wiki . Infact ta / ml have better community than what English has i guess. PS:- Community is not just about numbers Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:01, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: Theo/Salmaan suggested this and helped make the banner happen - visible only to those from India. Thanks very much. Bishakha On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Arun Ram arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Good suggestion Srikanth. We should implement that. regards Arun On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I see a banner on en.wiki about this meetup.Nice! Is this done through some geo-ip stuff? If so I would like banners for all wiki activities like meetups / academies etc. Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 11:38, Kundan Amitabh kundanamit...@gmail.comwrote: Hi ! A Meet up has been organised on 31st Oct., 2010 at Mumbai. Alongwith others Jimmy Wales, Co-founder of Wikipedia will be attending the meet up. For details please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Mumbai/Mumbai3 All are invited to attend. *Please ignore the link of preceding email.* -- Best Regards. Kundan Amitabh Ang India Technologies, www.angindia.org CH-2/52, Kendriya Vihar, Sector-11, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai, Mumbai-410210, INDIA == 9320255450 / 9869478444 == Let's Keep Our World Green for Our Children's Future! Please don't print this email unless it's really necessary ___ 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 ___ 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Hindustan Times on yesterday's Mumbai event
Some videos of Jimmy's talk here http://ishare.rediff.com/tags/Wikipedia http://ishare.rediff.com/tags/Wikipedia Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:00, Bishakha Datta bishakhada...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.hindustantimes.com/Wikipedia-woos-Indians-wants-them-to-be-more-active/Article1-620556.aspx Cheers Bishakha ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Times of India on Chennai Nov 14 meetup
Diwali wishes to all. I heard that NDTV-Hindu channel is also scrolling details of the meetup on the channel. I guess media picks up news and is interested in wikipedia these days i guess.(I dont know any of us reaching out to them) Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 16:56, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, Greeting and wish you all very Happy Deepavali. Coverage in the Times of India of the planned Nov 14th meeting. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Wiki-enthusiasts-to-meet-on-Nov-14/articleshow/6873609.cms http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Wiki-enthusiasts-to-meet-on-Nov-14/articleshow/6873609.cms cheers Arun ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia.in being spammed
Hi, Admins of wikimedia.in , please disable IP edits / put a better spam filter. Main page itself was spammed several times in last few days. Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Chennai /Bangalore Nov 14
Provided a small meetup summary at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai2#Summary_2 Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 15:05, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: I have uploaded the remaining photos to http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chennai_Meetup_Nov2010 Thanks to all who organised helped in making this meetup a success. Efforts of Srikanth ( logicwiki) , Ravidreams Mahir needs special mention. There were more than 45 participants in total. Regards Tinu Cherian On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 12:57 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Photos of the Wikimarathon : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chennai_Meetup_Nov2010 On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 11:57 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Wikipedia Wikimarathon @ Chennai happening right now.. You can see the updates on twitter by searching #WPMCH2 OR #wikimarathon http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23WPMCH2%20OR%20%23wikimarathonhttp://twitter.com/#%21/search/%23WPMCH2%20OR%20%23wikimarathon The Wikimeetup @ Chennai starts at 2 PM and @Bangalore at 3 PM today Regards TinuCherian On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:52 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Just a reminder of the upcoming Wikimeetups in Chennai and Bangalore on Nov 14 , this weekend http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore21 Please do sign up if you are planning to attend. Regards Tinu Cherian On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:25 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: A wikimeetup @ Chennai is planned for Nov 14 , 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Chennai/Chennai2 The venue agenda is currently under discussion . We need some more local help from Wikimedians in Chennai in organizing it.. It will be great if you can drop me a personal mail at the earliest , if you are willing to lend a hand. Thanks in advance. Regards Tinu Cherian On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: It has been a long time since Wikicamp 2007 Chennai... Planning for a Wikipedia Wikimeetup @ Chennai , possibly next month. Need volunteers. If you are interested , please send a personal mail to me . Regards Tinu Cherian ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Cultural differences with Indian newcomers
Hi all, While we are all working on reaching out to more and more people to join wiki community in India, I see an area we need to focus before it becomes a problem.Few days back there was a thread posting a link to article[1] in which a user claimed Foreigners deleting Wikipedias India content. In the Chennai meetup that happened last week too, there was a person claimed new users are being BITE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BITEN by admins among other things which indicated his lack of understanding in wiki policies / guidelines. I just came across another ANI incident[2] involving an Indian editor and 3 admins. Without going to details / commenting on it, am quoting part of this comment about[3] cultural gap that exists from being an Indian editor editing from India in an English Wikipedia dominated by Anglophone people. He needs to know when to persist, when to back off and needs to learn the general etiquette of the Western world There are few common patterns / misconceptions among a set of new Indian editors most of whom never come back to wikipedia. 1. Admins have superpowers, remove content and BITE. 2. Lack of understanding of wiki policies. Neutrality and Copyrights seem to be problem areas.POV Pushing happens quite a lot and there is general lack of awareness about copyright. 3. Then this cultural differences. While the examples are from English wikipedia, these issues might be common to Indic as well as they grow. If we could address these, we could avoid newcomers leaving wikipedia. [1] http://www.ciol.com/News/News/News-Reports/Are-foreigners-deleting-Wikipedias-India-content/142555/0/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Yogesh_Khandke_and_Three_Admins [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidentsaction=historysubmitdiff=397820910oldid=397820751 Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Sharing Presentations
Hi all, More and more presentations are being made at meetups which have become frequent in various parts of the country and talks at other places. It would be great to reuse them / prepare from them. I have created a page[1] with links to presentations made. Please add more to the page if you know any. Thanks. [1] http://wikimedia.in/wiki/Presentations Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Best of Indian Wikipedia / Wikimedia
Hi all, We are planning for Wikipedia X Celebrations at Bangalore[1]. As part of the event, we want to showcase / recognize best of Indian wikipedia/wikimedia content, best efforts by communities, people behind the scenes and outstanding individual contributions. I have created a page[2] and listed a few that i knew. Please feel free to add to the page to make a complete list including updates from as much communities as possible. Please post this message in various language communities. Thank you [1] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore/ [2] http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore/BestofIndianWP Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Commemorative Postmark
Hi, I had posted this tweet [1] and got a positive response by DM. Dear Srikath, forwarded yr proposal to concerned Division (i.e. Philately). You can follow-up with them directly, if send yr postal address. [1] http://twitter.com/logic/status/14179393165336576 Lets keep our fingers crossed :) Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:44, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Fantastic !!! Great !! Fandu :-) When such things can happen in India? On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:55 AM, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote: hi, Some good news from Israel. warm regards, Pradeep User:prad2609 -- Forwarded message -- From: Itzik Edri it...@infra.co.il Date: 13 December 2010 00:51 Subject: [WikiX-l] Fwd: [Internal-l] Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Commemorative Postmark To: wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com -- Forwarded message -- From: Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com Date: Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:16 PM Subject: [Internal-l] Wikipedia 10th Anniversary Commemorative Postmark To: Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription) interna...@lists.wikimedia.org Hello, everyone. I am pleased to announce, on behalf of Wikimedia Israel, that Israel Post (the Israeli monopoly postal service) will be stamping all items passing through several major post offices in Tel Aviv and in Haifa with a special *Wikipedia 10th Anniversary postmark*. You can get an idea of what it might look like (Hebrew Wikipedians are still working on the design) here: http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94:%D7%A2%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%AA_%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%93%D7%99%D7%94_%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C/%D7%97%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%9E%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A2_%D7%A2%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A8 In addition to the anniversary, a _second_ special postmark will be stamped on all through Wikimania 2011, in August! To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time Wikipedia is featured on postal materials. Is that correct? Dedicated philatelists and stamp-collectors among you (and your respective communities) may want to make arrangements to have something postmarked. In addition, we'll try to have some stamped items to give away. This cool way of marking the anniversary is the work of Wikimedia Israel member Liron Dorfman, who's done excellent outreach work with Israel Post. Cheers, and happy holidays, Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Israel -- Asaf Bartov asaf.bar...@gmail.com ___ Internal-l mailing list interna...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l ___ WikiX-l mailing list wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! www.projects4students.com ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Bangalore Wiki-meetup 23
Enable the Slideshow gadget in commons preferences. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 22:55, Anoop anoop@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to see the commons image as a slide show? It is very tedious to view all images one by one :( Anoop On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 5:52 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Please find the photos of the Wikimeetup Bangalore 23 @ http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bangalore_Meetup_18Dec2010 Regards Tinu Cherian Correction: Please read as B. G. Mahesh ( oneindia.in ) below On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:55 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Blog post by BGMahesh ( one india) on the 23rd meetup. http://www.mahesh.com/2010/12/18/wikimedia-meetup-in-bangalore-my-first-one Regards Tinu Cherian On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 11:18 AM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: Just a gentle reminder regarding the Bangalore Wikimeetup23 today @ 3 PM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Bangalore/Bangalore23 Danese Cooper, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita Sharma, Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation will be attending this meetup. Unfortunately, Erik Moeller is unable to attend due to an early flight out of the country. However, he will be available at the venue at around 1:30 PM. Please note the change in the venue this time. It is TERI auditorium , but very close to CIS office. logicwiki Me will be at the venue by 1-1:30 PM , so if you would like to help with setting up things, feel free to join us :) Regards Tinu Cherian ___ Wikimedia-in-blr mailing list wikimedia-in-...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-blr -- With Regards, Anoop P ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia at FOSS / College Events
Hi all, I suppose Wikipedia stall at FOSS.IN was a great start in reaching out to FOSS / Student community in India.We must attempt to be present in a stall at all such similar events which give space for us. I have got a confirmation from Carte Blanche[1] for a stall and working with Wikipedians in Chennai for manning the stall on Feb 6. There is also a fossmeet at NIT Calicut[2] happening around the same time. Any Kerala / Malayalam wikipedians willing to take it up? We must also keep a watch on huge technical events at prominent colleges where we would be getting students from the particular region and having a stall there would give a reach to about 500-1000 Students(and/or general public). [1] http://cb.csmit.org/ [2] http://fossmeet.in/2011/ Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Banner designers required
Hi, We are planning to have banner printed for the Wikipedia X Bangalore event. We need people with design interests to help with the banner. Also if any of you have prior experience in banner creation, please ping me off list. The banners created can be reused by all the cities with minimal changes. These banners will also help in future outreach events. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikiX-l] Take pictures and record WP10 history!
Lets make sure there are enough pictures and even some videos of the event available in commons :) Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me -- Forwarded message -- From: Jay Walsh jwa...@wikimedia.org Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 13:16 Subject: [WikiX-l] Take pictures and record WP10 history! To: Planning for WP 10th anniversary wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi folks, Earlier today I created a page on ten.wikipedia.org to encourage everyone participating in Wikipedia 10 events to take great pictures and video. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organize/Record_our_history I can't over-emphasize how important it is for everyone hosting an event -any event- to make sure you collect great images and video, and of course share those images. Wikipedia 10 is a particularly good time to hone your skills and get in the habit of documenting every single meeting and occasion - and documenting them very well. It's easy to overlook this step with all other planning, but please, please don't. If you're part of a new or established Wikimedia chapter or organization, I absolutely promise you that having very good images on hand will be critical at some point in the future. Whether it's for presentations, media, reports or other documents, or just to archive and document your roots: take pictures! Remember that we're documenting images for future generations, and creating a lasting historical record of the people behind this movement. You are all pioneers! And these images will shape the historic record for future generations. It's also something that we at the Foundation very much benefit from. Whether it's putting your pictures up on the walls, showing them to donors or stakeholders, or just putting a name to a face: these images have incredible value for us. I also know that the chapters and other global pieces of our movement rely on these images to build their own global understanding of our collective work. No event is too small! No event is too big! Ensure someone at your event will focus their efforts on taking the best possible efforts. Please make sure you don't forget to take, post, share, and detail your images. Plan ahead! Thank you! jay -- Jay Walsh Head of Communications WikimediaFoundation.org blog.wikimedia.org +1 (415) 839 6885 x 609, @jansonw ___ WikiX-l mailing list wiki...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikix-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] OneIndia.in : Wikipedia 10th ann iversary in Chennai : சென்னை யில் விக்கிப்ப ீடியா பத்தாம் ஆ ண்டு விழா ( Tamil )
http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2011/01/10/celebrating-10th-anniversary-wikipedia-in-chennai.html Thanks Ravi for making this article come :) http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2011/01/10/celebrating-10th-anniversary-wikipedia-in-chennai.html Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikita-l] OneIndia.in : Wi kipedia 10th anniversary in Chennai : ச ென்னையில் விக் கிப்பீடியா பத் தாம் ஆண்டு விழா ( Tamil )
It was a notice about the event, with venue and agenda. http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai#Agenda http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chennai#Agenda Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me 2011/1/10 CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com Need a brief translation of the article into English, for the understanding of the rest of the people. Volunteers? Regards Tinu Cherian 2011/1/10 Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2011/01/10/celebrating-10th-anniversary-wikipedia-in-chennai.html Thanks Ravi for making this article come :) http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2011/01/10/celebrating-10th-anniversary-wikipedia-in-chennai.html Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l ___ Wikita-l mailing list wikit...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikita-l ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] India specific Designs / Artwork for Wikipedia 10
Hi all, I am sharing the artwork for Wikipedia 10[1] which can be used in case you are printing banners etc.I would add more to this album. Thanks a lot Swapnil / Tony for getting these ready , great if we get some more :) Others interested please feel free to reuse and remix. PS : I have shared it under CC, I am just lazy to upload to commons, will do so in the night. [1] http://picasaweb.google.com/srik.lak/WikipediaXLogosAndBanners?authkey=Gv1sRgCIbx9MjK9Y3_9gE# Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [press] : IBNLive : In pics: Indians behind Wikipedia
Lets not forget its IBN, the people who thought Wikipedia and Wikileaks are same. Probably we need to organise a serious media - tutoring session going forward. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 00:30, Hari Prasad Nadig hpna...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:41 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote: And they missed you , Alolitha and Achal Prabhala too :) Regards Tinu Cherian Well, isn't the title of this feature itself a bit misleading? There are hundreds of Indians behind Wikipedia. They should have actually titled this particular feature Indians in Wikimedia Foundation or such. Wikipedia is what it is today because of the community, the volunteers. It is rather unfair towards all the fine community members, editors from India who spend hours of their daily time editing Wikipedia when they are not included in what is titled Indians behind Wikipedia. :P -- Hari Prasad Nadig http://hpnadig.net | http://twitter.com/hpnadig http://flickr.com/hpnadig ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] A Wikimedia Foundation Fellow from India
Congrats Achal, While you focus on Indic languages about sources, I would also request you to consider including lack of English sources available online on various subjects concerning these geographies too due to slower internet adoption by publishing companies and even lack of literature itself in first place.(Ex:- Huge edit warring happens on en.wiki esp on caste related articles where literature is very sparsely available). Looking forward to more discussions. Regards Srikanth.L On 17-Jan-11, at 1:02 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote: Dear all, As part of the continuing spate of good news, I'd like to congratulate Achal Prabhala for becoming the latest Wikimedia Foundation Fellow. For those of you who don't know him, Achal is a writer and researcher in Bangalore who has participated as a volunteer in the Wikimedia movement in India and globally for years, and as a member of the Foundation’s advisory board. Achal will be conducting field research in India and rural South Africa with Wikipedians and non-Wikipedians across three languages to explore ways to compensate for the gap in published/printed sources in many local languages. More details at http://blog.wikimedia.org/blog/2011/01/12/new-wikimedia-fellow/ Cheers Bishakha ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiX-l] [Wikimedia-IN-Exec] [Wikimedia-in-blr] Photos from WP10 Celebrations in Bangalore and Mysore
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:53, Arun Ramarathnam arunra...@gmail.com wrote: Great pictures Hari and Tinu. We need to get the pictures from Royson uploaded as well. Any videos anyone? Did anyone record parts of the keynote, panel and Jimmy's talk? Entire day is recorded(but for parallel tracks in afternoon). I will get the videos from Royson when its available. Would also get pics from him. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Uses your designs are put to!
Hi Ashwin, I should have clarified in the comments at Picasa. The credit must goto from Tony / Swapnil. I just put it on my album to share the images i got on email. Regards Srikanth.L On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 16:30, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Srikanth, Just thought you'd like to see this? Hows that for a Creative Commons use. We told everybody its your design and we ate a slice in your honour too. Come to Pune and we'll get you more cake. :-) For the rest of us, our Pune cake was based on Srikanth's design from here : http://picasaweb.google.com/srik.lak/WikipediaXLogosAndBanners?authkey=Gv1sRgCIbx9MjK9Y3_9gE# Warm regards, Ashwin Baindur -- ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Communication from the Executive Committee regarding first meeting
Hearty congratulations to the newly elected office bearers. Tinu, The MoA Article[1] VII (7) (12) would answer some of your questions related to election of office bearers and to me it seems perfectly within the frame of things. I think the general members get to vote only after the current term ends for this team.(Correct me if am wrong). Well, I do share some of the concerns raised by Tinu on transparency. It is even more ironical how come such a major change was never communicated, especially a thread was running on the mailing on the very same subject of *Chapter* from Jan 30 and no one bothered to update. I feel the role of chapter has probably not reached well among the community [questions around edit counts becoming criteria reflect that] and in such a situation the chapter should communicate more often and more clearly,openly.However these sort of issues would only further widen the gap between chapter and community in the negative direction. While i continue to appreciate the efforts of the folks behind chapter for spending their valuable time, I would request the EC to add communicating to the community in a regular and timely fashion to the code of conduct[Article VII (8)] so that members do spend some time in communicating with the community. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_India/MoA-ChapComVer Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 19:23, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Dear all, Following the registration of the Wikimedia Chapter, the first meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) was held on the 22nd January 2011 at 2 PM at 194, 2nd C Cross, Domlur 2nd Phase, Bangalore 560071. As mandated by the MoA, the office bearers were elected. The executive committee now constitutes of: - Arjuna Rao Chavala, *President* - Hari Prasad HS, *Secretary* - Anirudh Singh Bhati, *Treasurer* - Arun Ramarathnam, Member - BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Member - Gautam K John, Member - Srinivas Gunta, Member We would like to take the opportunity to thank the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore for allowing generous use of their office facility for the conduct of chapter meetings and helping with registration formalities with services of a Consultant. We take this opportunity to thank the following people: (in alphabetical order) Achal Prabhala, Barry Newstead, Bence Damokos, Bishakha Datta, Delphine Meynard, M Narasimha Rao, Ray Saintonge, Sunil Abraham, and Ting Chen. We thank the Wikimedia Community for their help and encouragement and patience with the registration process. For brief biographies and photos of the EC members, please see:Wikimedia India Chapter Executive Committee Membershttp://wikimedia.in/wiki/Wikimedia_India_Chapter_Executive_Committee_Members On behalf of Wikimedia Chapter BalaSundaraRaman Lakshmanan, Member, Wikimedia Chapter That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] Please be CIVIL-- Ok Thanks Bye
I think the only option for me next is to unsubscribe due to recent decrease in Signal to Noise ratio.Please be CIVIL. No, am not asking you to assume good faith(you are free to raise questions, But just asking you to be CIVIL).I expect some support from senior members in taking a pledging to be CIVIL. Let me start, I will be CIVIL. #KThxBai Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] PDF rendering of Indian language wiki pages
Hi Santhosh, Cool!. Just have some feedback on the generated PDF (Same article ilangai on tamil wikipedia). I see line spacing is not uniform and some characters from adjacent lines overlap, but a slightly more important issue is spacing within the words for certain characters[Am not sure if its a repeatable pattern for a particular charater], but certainly it takes a toll on readability since it gives space with in a word. I am not sure if its a tamil specific issue too. Tested on Windows XP with Firefox where tamil wikipedia reads fine. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 22:36, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We are working on a Complex script PDF rendering library named PyPDFLib(https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pypdflib/). One of its test case (or use case) is to render a wiki page in complex script(any Indian Language) to PDF. Currently PDF export feature is not available(not working) for Indian language wiki projects because of technical incapability of Python Reportlab library. Just wanted to give an early preview of this software library through an online interface : http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render You can try with a Wikipedia page in your language and verify the generated PDF. You can also access this using this URL http://silpa.smc.org.in/Render?wiki=http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/இலங்கை (replace that wiki URL with other page addresses too - any Ianguage - not limited to Indian languages) There are lot of items not implemented, but your feedback is requested on the current version. The library uses Pango for text rendering and Cairo for graphics and PDF features. ps: Don't get surprised if you get a 500 Error page for the random page you are trying. Just try another wiki page ;) Thanks Santhosh Thottingal http://thottingal.in ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Flickr alternative to Photowalks
Some of the Initial meetups in Bangalore had just same number of people. Its not the number that matter, as long as you meet the purpose (click and upload to commons in this case) its successfull :), Persistent efforts will get more people / pictures :) Regards Srikanth.L On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 19:40, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote: RE: Srikant/Hari, Iv got no idea how successful photowalks have been in other cities, for Wikipedia Takes Mumbai 1 we had 4 of us (1 of the 4 being a visiting American Wikipedian). For the second, we dint seem to get a good response and it was delayed indefinitely. This is why I got thinking and came up with the Flickr alternative. In case we get a better response, yes Photowalks should continue. Regards, ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Moderation policy on WikimediaIndia-l
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 17:14, Achal Prabhala aprabh...@gmail.com wrote: As moderators of WikimediaIndia-l, could you describe the policy you normally adopt towards moderation? This is not a primer, but one thing I changed today was increasing message size from 40 KB to 240 KB. Ideally mailing lists dont encourage attachments / huge mails, but sometimes like today Bala had to attach since he couldnt upload to commons.If any of you feel the limit of 240 KB is high / low, please comment. Also remember under current setting anything above 240 KB will not come instantly, patience appreciated :) I think its better to mail a list ettiqute every month annoucing list guidelines since there will be lot of newbies to mailing list (like it will prevent invitations to join blah blah etc). I will put a wiki page on this soon. This will also help people aware of general mailing list ettiqute (lets not call it policy :) ) Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India !
While legal counsel might be important, I think the blowing the facebook comments out of proportion IMHO is WP:UNDUE. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 09:31, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: Hi Tinu: Thanks for posting this - yes, legal counsel and a risk assessment is something we are actively looking at doing - a question, would the community know if this has ever happened or threatened to happen earlier or is this the first example? Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 26 February 2011 08:44, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Here you go ! The first legal threaten against Wikipedia India ! To set the context to those who were not reading the thread of WikimediaIndia facebook page, Basavaraj Itnal [1] is a senior journalist from Bangalore. He is in a campaign against an alleged land-grabbing and scam by a popular mall owner in Bangalore. He did write articles on this in the publications he is associated with. He even added information earlier to Wikipedia article of Garuda Mall [2] and apparently was blocked once ( by an Indian admin with a pseudo name ? ) . He also attended one of the Bangalore Wiki-meetups recently. After that he shifted to focus to fight his POV to Wikimedia India Facebook recently. [3] and also pushing it on the article [4] . Of late he is threatening to sue Wikipedia and Wikimedia admins. Knowing his aggressiveness, i don't think he can be taken lightly. I am not sure whether he is intending to sue against the Wikimedia Foundation, ( office in India ) or India chapter or individuals from India who are admins ( OMG, that includes me :) ) Time for a legal contact in India ? Thoughts? Regards Tinu Cherian P.S.I couldn't find the contact mail id of Geoffrey Brigham, the new legal counsel of the Foundation. [1] http://twitter.com/#!/basavarajitnal http://www.linkedin.com/pub/basavaraj-itnal/23/a9b/4b9 http://www.facebook.com/people/Basavaraj-Itnal/10540087375 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda_Mall [3] http://www.facebook.com/WikimediaIndia?sk=wallfilter=12 [4] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garuda_Mallaction=historysubmitdiff=410530901oldid=410529958 On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Facebook update+mh17p...@facebookmail.com wrote: facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/n/?WikimediaIndia%2Fposts%2F184893818213619mid=3d1f826G29075287G520915G37bcode=Qp9JFn_m=tinucherian%40gmail.com Hi Cherian, Basavaraj Itnal commented on WikimediaIndia's wall post. Basavaraj wrote: anyways, while i respect what you guys are doing, i am actively looking for a legal recourse to make wiki admins accountable and available to legal action. as for Garuda issue is concerned after doubting the veracity of my documents without verifying them and without again cross checking with the govt, they just made a small correction saying Garuda Mall land is owned by bruhat bengaluru mahanagar palike. :) See the comment threadhttp://www.facebook.com/n/?WikimediaIndia%2Fposts%2F184893818213619mid=3d1f826G29075287G520915G37bcode=Qp9JFn_m=tinucherian%40gmail.com Reply to this email to comment on this post. Thanks, The Facebook Team See Commenthttp://www.facebook.com/n/?WikimediaIndia%2Fposts%2F184893818213619mid=3d1f826G29075287G520915G37bcode=Qp9JFn_m=tinucherian%40gmail.com The message was sent to tinucher...@gmail.com. If you don't want to receive these emails from Facebook in the future, you can unsubscribehttp://www.facebook.com/o.php?k=4dddafu=688345735mid=3d1f826G29075287G520915G37. Facebook, Inc. P.O. Box 10005, Palo Alto, CA 94303 ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Releasing Wikipedia CD – few concerns
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 00:50, Nikhil Sheth nikhil...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I had a great time reading the blogpost. Very amusing. But had to clarify some things before we all pick up our pitch-forks and torches, so.. http://nikhilsheth.blogspot.com/2011/03/clarification-about-wfsoe-and-english.html I think you took it a bit personal. Shiju's blogpost IMHO is a good guide especially for Indian languages CD creation project. Giving ZIM format dumps has some adverse effects which was what Shiju tried to share as a best practice. I think they are valid concerns. Let me explain. I think he clearly mentioned about the http://schools-wikipedia.org/ project for English wiki and there is no problem in such approaches. I think the blog post was mainly addressing the impact of giving whole dumps of Indian language wikipedia's, all [except English(Yes, English is also an Indian langugage)] of which are in their early stages. Sometime back i proposed a similar CD creation project on tamil wikipedia and thought given that Santhosh's software is available, we could get a CD in couple of month's time. My timeline was rightfully mocked at by the community, with valid concerns on quality and we have just started collecting articles, which will then be peer reviewed, copy edited etc before we could use the software and create a CD. Along with Shiju's points, I am sharing some important viewpoints(which i learnt from tamil community), why i think the whole exercise of fact checking and releasing is very important instead of just dumping them in the case of Indian language wikipedia's. ** Who had checked the validity of the content provided in the CD? Once the CD is created, the content is frozen for ever. We never know in what ways the content in CD is going to get duplicated. This is very important. Imagine students using it to write answers for exams using this and if there is a factual error and teacher fails to give marks, the students will never ever turn back to Wikipedia again.We are loosing young buds here. While you might say Wikipedia is not reliable for information source, but you can use it, for a school kid, its always binary.Indian language wikipedia's are bound to have more spelling mistakes(since most of us use a non native keyboard / translation and we are human), the error rate will be even higher. Its not just about schools, anyone who is find such errors in a published form(CD is a published form you cant change) will find it annoying and may arrive at a prejudice which we wouldnt want. **How we are going to handle the copyright violation of text and images included in the CD? Can we always point our fingers to WMF? This is very serious issue, its a different thing that we as individuals might not respect copyright because of the climate in India, but as a project Wikipedia holds copyright as one of the 5 pillars(Do I need to tell this list about this, sorry *runs away* :D). **Who will answer the queries related to the explicit images contained in many articles. The inclusion of explicit images, controversial articles, and factual errors in the CD supplied to the school children are not small issues. Not many know, Shiju may be sharing this because malayalam community actually burnt their fingers here. There was a (politically motivated?) article in leading malayalam daily/magazine criticizing the effort regarding inclusion criteria / some factual erroneous information.This may not have been shared widely to avoid multiplication of negative publicity. While at personal level it hurts the people who worked hard for this after spending weeks for the project, at project level it creates a negative publicity / impact for language wikipedia which none of us would want. On the content side as well, Indian wikipedia's arent that great(barring few). The Stub ratio may be high which will give a wrong impression of language wikipedia's to people using the offline ZIM dumps that language wikipedia's will only have templated content stubs. While its good to have stubs online, since they help in improvement of articles, i dont fancy stubs on an offline wikipedia. While giving ZIM format dumps might be useful for people without connectivity, IMHO its definitely not suitable for mass consumption without a bunch of disclaimers (which might not even be understood by well educated) While the intentions may be good, that shouldnt cause a negative impact to the language wikipedia is the bottom line.I hope you understand.(This was probably missing in Shiju's blog post which made you think it was a pointing fingers, but I am sure Shiju's intention was to share his bottom line) Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Logo updated on Tamil Wikipedia
Hi all, Tamil Wikipedia is updated with the new logo now. Special thanks to the community behind the same. There are lot of language Wikipedia's needing the same update.Please refer this mail[1]. Thanks [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-January/001916.html http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-January/001916.html Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] First Odia Workshop, Bengaluru,06March2011 (ପ୍ରଥମ ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକି ମେଳଣ)
2011/3/13 Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com Dear All, The first Odia Wikipedia Workshop was conducted in CIS, Bangalore on *2011 March 06*. Here is a brief report about it. Great! Idea of using articles from Odia Encyclopedia (‘Gyanamandala’ by Binoda Kanungo), using Maps, Manuals, Books could be used for developing Wikipedia, Wikimapia, WikIBooks and WikiSource, etc were dicussed. Wikimapia is not a project by Wikimedia foundation. Its a commercial project which takes data in and locks it out (Much similar to google mapmaker). Openstreetmaps[1] is a free(as in speech and beer) mapping project. [1] http://www.openstreetmap.org Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] Broadband growth in India
OffTopic Just thought will share this Summary table[1], detailed TRAI report[2] which might be of interest to many of us. [1] http://www.medianama.com/2011/03/223-statewise-broadband-subscribers-in-india-31st-november-2010/ http://www.medianama.com/2011/03/223-statewise-broadband-subscribers-in-india-31st-november-2010/ [2] http://www.beknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/e4da3Broadband%20usrers.pdf Doing a detailed comparative analysis of this data and Indian Wikistats might give some insight on how Wikipedia access is correlated to infrastructure. Observation:- South India has more rural connections, so its obvious to assume they are accessing more. North pretty much minus Punjab and Gujarat are far behind in terms of rural connections.I feel growth of rural users will have a direct impact on consumption of Indic content. Note i have a prejudice that urban people dont use / consume regional content. I am certainly not 100% correct. Any other things you could see? Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] Broadband growth in India
Oops, forget about the second link. Its outdated. But still good as it has data across operators. First link's data is BSNL only. Regards Srikanth.L On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 08:04, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.comwrote: OffTopic Just thought will share this Summary table[1], detailed TRAI report[2] which might be of interest to many of us. [1] http://www.medianama.com/2011/03/223-statewise-broadband-subscribers-in-india-31st-november-2010/ http://www.medianama.com/2011/03/223-statewise-broadband-subscribers-in-india-31st-november-2010/ [2] http://www.beknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/e4da3Broadband%20usrers.pdf Doing a detailed comparative analysis of this data and Indian Wikistats might give some insight on how Wikipedia access is correlated to infrastructure. Observation:- South India has more rural connections, so its obvious to assume they are accessing more. North pretty much minus Punjab and Gujarat are far behind in terms of rural connections.I feel growth of rural users will have a direct impact on consumption of Indic content. Note i have a prejudice that urban people dont use / consume regional content. I am certainly not 100% correct. Any other things you could see? Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter Report, 03 January 2011 - 16 March 2011
Thanks a lot Anirudh / others behind it for a detailed report. IMHO Posting a page on wikimedia.in and mailing the link is better and talk pages can serve better for discussions instead of lists alone. Probably can be done from next time. Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] A history of the world in 100 seconds -- From Wikipedia
Interesting Viz. Hack using Wikipedia http://www.ragtag.info/2011/feb/2/history-world-100-seconds/ http://www.ragtag.info/2011/feb/2/history-world-100-seconds/ Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: Angry with Wikileaks, Indian Union minister for law and justice Veerappa Moily lashes against Wikipedia
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 14:10, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 30 March 2011 11:49, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Getting sick of this popular urban legand. Why dont we run a site notice banner for atleast India alone for 2 months. Please Note :- Wikipedia and Wikileaks are 2 different things and link to a detailed note. Srikanth, to be fair, I think he does see it as two different things or so the quote implies. What he might incorrectly allude to is a linkage between the two but his criticism of Wikipedia is the model of knowledge creation. At best it could have been the usual misqouting / edit cuts and he might have told about Wikipedia at all. Here is what I think would have happened. He would have got some points to speak from one of his under secretaries who would have sourced it from his/her junior[who might have given what Wikipedia is rightly and might have given it for context due common wiki in the name, but might have been lost in grapevine] and hence the miinster would have got it wrong. Though what the minister was being quoted is a valid criticism against Wikipedia, in all possibilities Wikipedia was never his target. I mentioned this confusion as Urban legand since even few of Software Engineers I met dont know the differences. A banner campaign will not only clarify Wikipedia is not associated with Wikileaks, but would also create a larger awareness(includes media and people from all walks of life) on Wikimedia movement(which is lacking to a large extent even among regular readers of Wikipedia in India). Banner campaign is very effective in India and we could see that in Wiki 10 celebrations. Regards, Srikanth L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia
Hi all, Happy to announce that Short URLs are now available in every page of Tamil Wikipedia. Sharing Indic URLs with unicode characters are never fun since one will get an ugly looking URL like http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE:%E0%AE%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%9F%E0%AE%BF . (Forget about twitter, even mails are tough).Now its easier http://tawp.in/r/262 !! The short url is visible on top right of every page, extreme right of the article title. For the technically inclined, the shortening happens by encoding the page id of a mediawiki page to base36 (No database for shorturls here!) and hence doesnt depend on any other server. I would like to thank User:Mountain[1] for the shortify project[2] which powers this. (Gerard, this is already localized in tamil,malayalam :) ). It would be great if this could be extensionized in mediawiki as its a feature must for wiki's running in non latin languages.I would also like to thank YuviPanda for setting this up on his server and doing some customization for Tamil wiki. (YuviPanda is an ubergeek looking to do some serious work for mediawiki in GSoC), Kishore for some quick css help in making this happen. It would be great if this can be supported by Wikimedia itself. Even if the fancy twitter friendly short domain name is not there,if just the redirection part is hosted for all projects on wikimedia servers(existing domain names will do), it will be of great use, especially for non latin languages. I understand Malayalam wikipedia has a redirect mechanism based on the english interwiki title for sometime now.Even we would want to do this, but am thinking if redirects are an optimal, search engine friendly solution or are there better ways of doing it.Can someone please educate me. Also IMHO URLs with transliterated text will help Indic languages. But making them search friendly is a key thing and if we could do this, am sure the readership would bound to increase a few times.(Not everyone knows to type in regional language and many use transliterated text for search and then consume vernacular content). Wikipedia is missing them! [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mountain [2] https://github.com/mountain/shortify Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 22:42, jayanta nath jayanta...@gmail.com wrote: Great work! How do we add same feature in other Indic wikipedia like Bengali/Odia ? To host it yourself like tawp.in follow the steps 1. Get a domain name. 2. Install node.js[1] and shortify[2] in your server. 3. Do minor changes in redirect.js in the shortify code to get suitable url pattern. 4. Add the shortify userscript in Mediawiki:vector.js (If you want to make it global to Wiki) or your vector skin while testing. 5. Modify the shortify userscript[3] to change the location where the short link comes, by default it comes below username (display breaks for anon users with the Narayam extn on, so change it to somewhere else on the page) The above is hard way. Easy way is to localize shortify so that User:Mountain will host it for you under defn.me domain name. It supports tamil, malayalam now since they were localized already. Do check your language page http://defn.me/s/or OR http://defn.me/s/ http://defn.me/s/orLangCode for instructions. Its 10 min job :) (If you got problems here, send me across the localized file, i can commit in github if thats your problem) Anoopan, It works in ml since it was already localized :) Jayanta nath / Subhasish, You can also consider PrettyURL[4] from ml wiki. Pesture Shiju / other ml friends :). Its just a template, but the problem is one needs to run a bot for all existing articles to add the template with a fancy name.But ml wiki is primarily using english names, transliterated text to form pretty urls. Just as i type, Santhosh replied. More on another reply. [1] http://nodejs.org [2] https://github.com/mountain/shortify [3] http://tawp.in/r/1ygr -- Modified shorturl.js for position on right of article title. [4] http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%AB%E0%B4%B2%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%82:Prettyurl -- Its funny, prettyurl template extension url isnt pretty :P Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Search Engine Optimization in Indic Wiki
Starting a new thread for SEO On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 23:31, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: Srikanth mentioned a valid issue related to search engine optimization with Indian wikis. I dont get any result for this query: Malayalam + Mango to take me to Mango article in Malayalam wiki. Because there is no way a search engine can index the word Mango in english to the Malayalam wiki page of Mango. Having Mango in URL does not help search engines. I know some SEO tricks used by Malayalam news portals to address this. They use Meta tag efficiently and put english and malayalam keywords associated with the article. For eg: a news article about Mullapperiyar Dam will contain a meta tag with keywords മുല്ലപ്പെരിയാര് ഡാം, mullapperiyar dam, Some of the news portals even integrated this trick their news publishing workflow with custom plugins to CMS systems(like Drupal). If we want to get people searching in English to our wiki articles, we can think about a Meta tag solution - some extension that injects keywords to meta tag. Don't we need to point show ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kochi if one search for Kochi? atleast within first 10 results? Completely agree with you Santhosh. SEO is as important as outreach (its online outreach after all). Ravi,Sundar,myself were discussing this on a dinner after a meetup. But manually adding Meta tags is an additional overhead on content creators IMHO. If there is some automatic tagging with interwiki english page category etc(Bot idea ?), its worth a try. Ravi, can you please add more since you are an expert :) Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia
On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 07:14, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: After talking with Srikanth for a bit more, I was able to quickly hackup this mediawiki extension[1] that does exactly the same thing tawp.in does now, but in the same domain. So you'll have URLs like http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ShortUrl/262. While definitely longer than http://tawp.in/r/262, it can be made much shorter via a simple apache mod_rewrite so http://ta.wikipedia.org/r/262 also works. The advantage of having it as an extension is, ofcourse, that the wikipedia is no longer dependent on code run on a 3rd party server (in this case, tawp.in). [1]: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ShortUrl Now that is *really quick*. It would definitely be useful for not just wikipedia, any non latin mediawiki can use this.There was a request on tamil wikipedia for tamil wikinews as well. I think polishing this and making it available on all non latin wiki will help :) Feedback welcome :) Feedback from mediawiki extn perspective : Options to set the ShortURL to be displayed on client side will help. For instance I could install this on mediawiki server, but for shortname sake I may still want the short domain name to be used (I might use mod_rewrite in the short domain). Also base 36 will not be able to cater larger wiki's like en.wiki. This should be made configurable. Probably the simplest way to display in client side is to add a line to Toolbox page. (This will make it standardized) and also makes it load faster since there wont be an additional js download and will work even when non js browsers. ( #facepalm to me for having spent a long time trying to bring it on right spot on the UI [and still its buggy on FA pages]) Please post to Wikitech-I to get more technical feedback :) P.S. My first ever mediawiki extension. I've verified it works, but testing would be welcome too :) Welcome to Mediawiki. We need more love from geeks like you :) especially for a lot of indic solutions. Feel free to mail this list with any ideas you may have. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Feedback] or [What was I upto?]
Good idea Srikanth, Well someone is working / want to work on similar lines. Check out the GSoC proposal here:- http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Zhenya http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:ZhenyaHope the project gets accepted and delivered :) Regards Srikanth.L On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 19:41, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.comwrote: Heya again. I thought of this idea today. I figured it might help.Hope How about we [on a regular basis], list out our major contributions on various Wikimedia projects on a periodic basis? The advantages of this stupidity are: * Editors might find someone else who edits articles of similar nature and this will lead to more collaboration and team work. * People can get feedback on their edits and can help other users improve OR improve themselves. * This results in cross-editing, the overall quality of articles will go up. Examples are: * I edit something related to a certain National Highway. Users like Naveenpf or SBC-YPR might have some photographs or references, and might add it. * I create an article in Hindi, somebody sees it and translates it to Tamil. Advantages are aplenty, do let me know what you think of this. -- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq ___ 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
[Wikimediaindia-l] URLs in 7 Indian languages
Hi all, Just when we were having discussions on urls, here comes http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_urls-in-7-regional-languages-soon_1528401 Experts say companies will try to race to book their names under all seven languages to prevent the misuse of their names and trademarks. Can the foundation / chapter block Wikipedia domain names in all these languages as soon as they come to prevent misuse? Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] URL Shortener in Tamil Wikipedia + URLs for Indic Wikipedia
Thanks much Yuvi. Great work. Looking forward for more hacks. I would post about this in Wikitech list and ask for suggestions / using the extension across Indic / non latin wikimedia projects. Probably we can rename as TidyURL since its not really short and short is not we care about,tidy is important(its a nice to have). Some more support for using the extension on all projects will do good in seeing this in real :) Regardis Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 02:01, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Short Update. As requested by Srikanth, I've implemented the user configurable URL Prefix so any domain with proper forwarding can be used. I've also added a link by default to Toolbox. Will add base64 encoding soon. The Extension is live at http://wiki.busroutes.in. Example 'short' url is http://wiki.busroutes.in/wiki/Special:ShortUrl/18q. We could implement mod_rewrite rule and get it much shorter. Is there interest in getting this out to tawiki? We could have URLs like, http://ta.wikipedia.org/r/1d2 or similiar. -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension)
Great!! What more, this comes on Tamil New year !! Agree with Sundar that Google must push this from server side. Instead of spending huge money on translations etc, these efforts actually help Indic / regional language Wikipedia's Regards Srikanth.L On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:58, BalaSundaraRaman sundarbe...@yahoo.comwrote: Great, Yuvi. Let's all use this feature ourselves and hopefully Google will take not of it and promote the other language wiki pages in their search results themselves. - Sundar That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. - George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture --- On *Thu, 4/14/11, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic Language Wiki Results in Google (With a Chrome Extension) To: Discussion list on Indian language projects of Wikimedia. wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 12:31 AM Update: I've now added ability to change language. Just go to 'Options' (from the extensions page) and enter your language code (hi for hindi, etc). Needs a big UX liftup though. On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:21 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working for a few hours on a Chrome extension to add links to Indic Language Wiki pages when searching in Google. It hooks into Google's search results, and if it finds an enwiki article (to which a tawiki interwiki link also exists), it'll display it side by side. Screenshot here: http://min.us/mbmIeeUOb8y00p#1 You can test the extension by installing it from here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gpoogepkjnjfmpijnpaocncdjbedaeeo/ It is open source, and the code is available here: https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/. You can file issues here https://github.com/yuvipanda/yenWikipedia/issues/. Known issues: 1. Doesn't work when Google Instant is turned on (turn it off) 2. Doesn't work for some country specific subdomains (which don't have /search url part. Current solution: use google.com :P) 3. Currently hardcoded to display links to tawiki only (Will have to build an options dialog to support other languages) 4. Needs a better logo (Help in this department would be highly appreciated :) ) I think this is one step forward in fixing the search issue - discovering content in Indic Language wikis is now easier. Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan for alpha testing. Feedback welcome :) P.S. I'm also working on a Firefox version of this addon. Stay tuned :) -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog -- Yuvi Panda T http://yuvi.in/blog ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.orghttp://mc/compose?to=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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011
Congrats guys! Looking forward to your work especially these which interest me. 1) Ajaxification of Everything 2) Extension for offline access (Much discussed here offlate) 3) SocialProfile extension. Feel free to drop by here for feedback at anytime. Regards Srikanth.L On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 08:40, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Congrats guys !!! Good to see the your project pages. On 26 April 2011 08:21, Santhosh Thottingal santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2011/04/mediawiki-selects-8-students-gsoc-2011/ * Akshay Agarwal‘s “Account Creation, Login Screens and AJAX-ification of everything” (mentor: Brandon Harris) * Kevin Brown’s “Working Archival for Web References/Citations,” “to facilitate the archival of external links used as references in the English Wikipedia” (mentor: Neil Kandalgaonkar) * Devayon Das‘s “Improving Semantic Search/Semantic Query usability issues in SMW” (mentor: Markus Krötzsch) * Ankit Garg‘s “Semantic Schemas extension” (mentor: Yaron Koren) Salvatore Ingala‘s “AMICUS: Awesome Monolithic Infrastructure for Customization of User Scripts” (mentors: Brion Vibber and Max Semenik) * Aigerim Karabekova‘s “Extension Release Management” (mentors: Sam Reed, Priyanka Dhanda, and Chad Horohoe) * Yuvi Panda‘s “Making Offline Wikipedia Article Selection Easier with Mediawiki Extensions” (mentor: Arthur Richards) * Zhenya Vlasyenko‘s “MediaWiki Extension: SocialProfile – UserStatus feature” (mentor: Jack Phoenix) Out of 8, 4 students are from India!. Congrats and best wishes to Akshay Agarwal , Yuvi Panda, Devayon Das and Ankit Garg. Thanks Santhosh ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l -- Naveen Francis ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ‘Kanaja’ now accessible for the blind too.. How about wikipedia?
During the chennai meetup, one gentlemen had told us people from blind-user-group do access Tamil Wikipedia through a screen reading software they have and it was pleasant news to us. Regards Srikanth.L On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:05, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@googlemail.com wrote: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/156361/kanaja-now-accessible-blind-too.html Kannada encyclopaedic website is accessible for blind. How about our Wikipedias? Has any attempts been made in the past? Cheers Arjun ___ 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
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] MediaWiki selects eight students for Google Summer of Code 2011
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 23:25, Akshay Agarwal akshay.leadin...@gmail.comwrote: I was wondering if we could organize a meetup for us, four GSoC students Wikimedia India community so that we get a real sense of bonding we newbies can learn a lot of things from the community! Why dont you guys hang out at #wikimedia-in on freenode whenever online. As of now its kind of dead with only yannf and bernard_x logging in. If you 4 guys join in, many more might also hang out. This is also a request to community members to join in IRC when they are free and IRC is not just for monthly open office with programs! -Akshay Agarwal On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:17 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks everyone :) Special Thanks to Srikanth Lakshmanan and Arun Ganesh for pulling me into Wikipedia related stuff :) Thanks for coming in, community needs lot many enthusiast folks like you. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Meetup 4 at Hyderabad
Hi all, Wikimeetup 4 @ Hyderabad is scheduled to be held on May 15, 5 pm - 7 pm at Lamakaan,Banjara Hills.Plans to increase Wiki activities[read monthly meetups], outreach programs,increasing contributor base in the city will be discussed. As usual there will be an introductory session for all new comers. Hisham might be joining us to provide an update on India programs.Agenda will be updated in the coming days. Please refer meetup page for more details and sign up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:MHB4 . Would also be great if you could spread the word around. Looking forward to meeting as many Cyberabad folks at the meetup. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Global Fund raising Support to Indian Currency
Aww, bureaucracy! I think 80G is nice to have, but shouldnt stop us. Also we are not probably looking at large scale(We would love if they come), but typically my equivalents to 5 10 20 dollors would 250 500 1000 INR for which most would not take trouble of getting receipts and eventually getting the benefit(Atleast the folks who do online donations) since the tax benefit would be negligible. So my next question is without which are we eligible to collect donations online, would just like to know the bureaucracy around it? I now know the chapter can receive donations through NEFT[1].If we are good to go then the next thing to work out would be a payment gateway / payments partner helping us in giving options to various bank netbanking / credit/debit cards, ofcourse a decent API. The more the merrier. Also if we could get some sponsorship/deal from them in terms of the cut they take for transaction cost. People who have experience with online payment solutions can add their inputs. [1] http://wiki.wikimedia.in/images/9/92/Wikimedia_Donation_Form.pdf Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 22:21, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: Hey Srikanth: Timely reminder - but as always, bureaucracy is a stumbling block. 80G registration takes a long time - we can only apply around 6 months after registration and so this is going to take a while longer. =( Thank you. Best, Gautam http://social.prathambooks.org/ On 13 June 2011 21:28, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am writing this mail to ask Chapter folks / Wikimedians experienced in Global Fundraising as to get some information on our preparedness to support INR currency in the Global Fundraising initiative which would be up later this year. I am under impression, Chapter is one of the pre-requisite. Now that we have a Chapter and that it has a bank account, I would like to know what else would it take to support INR this year. I would appreciate if Chapter takes this up as a key project(I dont see this listed currently) and helps in this since it is largely in legal / administration thing. I hope the community would always do its part, be it translating the banners, things which can be done by individual contributors. * Providing support to donations in INR is 1st priority * Optionally providing tax rebate under donations, would attract more donors. Regards Srikanth.L ___ 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 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Global Fund raising Support to Indian Currency
And http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2011/Chapter_Fundraising_Agreement also needs to be looked at in detail. Regards Srikanth.L On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 22:21, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: Hey Srikanth: Timely reminder - but as always, bureaucracy is a stumbling block. 80G registration takes a long time - we can only apply around 6 months after registration and so this is going to take a while longer. ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 36, Issue 92 (Action Required)
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 01:58, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.comwrote: Can somebody please set the mailing list to block such messages? Done, will update moderation for more spam as they come. Thanks Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Boxbe and mailing lists.
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 14:38, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, We have recently noticed that many of the subscribers to various Wikimedia are using Boxbe services. This creates lots of problem for the mailing lists since unwanted notifications are sent to the list from your id. We would appreciate if we could put mails from *@lists.wikimedia.org to some kind of white list. Thanks Tinu for the guideline. I have added BoxBe to list spam filter, linkedIn invitations are still a problem as i havent figured out the way to handle. Ideally it can come from top down from lists perspective. I have raised a bug here[1]. But then best thing always, may better sense prevail in first place! [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29526 Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] About description of of Wikipedia
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 21:25, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, We are amid of an ongoing description of changing the current description of Odia Wikipedia. The present description is as below- ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ (Odia Wikipedia) ଗୋଟିଏ ଖୋଲା ଭାଷାକୋଷ (Eka khola bhasakosa meaning An Open Encyclopedia) Before we would go to encyclopedia, I would like to correct about Open. It must be free encyclopedia[Free is a word play in English, meaning both free in beer and speach] but free as in freedom must be used instead of open. Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki love to encourage users.
Hi all, English Wikipedia is expected to get this gadget enabled for all users to encourage Users pat on each other to motivate editors. Translating the initiative to Indic Wikipedia's will encourage new users motivated when people give these awards. Tamil Wikipedia already has the older version of WikiLove in use and might soon be using the newer version. Customizing the culture is also a key, Not sure if people would love Beer here. http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/06/24/wikilove-an-experiment-in-appreciation/ Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Please change it - Indian Maps on Wikipedia
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 14:10, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.comwrote: My only intention was to ask the community on how to handle such mails or request. -TC Point such people to appropriate places like discussion pages , notice board (oops, it cant handle more NOW,but yes ideally). IMO bringing content disputes to mailing list, chapter is slightly Off Topic ish / doesnt serve purpose, simply because they are not governing any content. Its totally different thing if a Wikipedian asks for opinion / comes out of a media post, even then list isnt the ideal place,it only calls for more trolling since people arent obliged to stick to values which when broken can get a block on wiki.[Refer Socio Cultural relevance of Sanskrit Wikipedia blah blah some months back]. [[On a seperate note, we havent framed a block policy for the list, but I presume day is not far when we may be in need of it]] The audience of the list is so spread over that it might be spammy even to discuss a largely relevant issue like this, since its still just another English Wikipedia POV dispute and thats it where as list is for Discussion of Wikimedia Projects in India. My 2 paisa. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Top indic Administrators
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:25, praveenp me.prav...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know why, but I feel that he is requesting almost every (just exaggerating :)) extension available for mediawiki to Hindi Wikipedia and using Wikipedia as his test wiki. Almost every extension, lol.[1] for those curious. To be fair it was not just mayur, it was hindi community[2]. However i havent seen an en masse voting like that, it resembled our Indian state assemblies and how they pass resolutions. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29823 [2] http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/विकिपीडिया:New_Extensions -- Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [OT] Request to the list administrators
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 17:10, sankarshan foss.mailingli...@gmail.comwrote: and, perhaps this also goes out to the listadmins of the -pune and -westbengal lists. Will you consider a request to ensure that these lists are available via gmane.org as well ? It allows one to use a conventional newreader to go through the lists. Something that has been in discussion recently[1]. [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25105 -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Impressions, an online international photography competition
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:08, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: More info here: http://takshashila.org.in/ And here: http://takshashila.org.in/events/india-impressions-photography-competition/india-impressions-photography-competition-rules/ What makes it interesting for us is that it is a CC-BY-SA license. And, I think, the first time the Government of India is participating in something that is CC-BY-SA licensed. Err, Its CC-BY-NC-SA. We cant use the pictures. :( A letterhead from Chapter to remove NC clause might help? Since the aim of the initiative is to portray high quality pictures about India and anyone who scouts for pictures come to Wikipedia, hence the probability of usage will be high if its on Wikipedia and hence request you to change.. of sorts letter. It can be even dual licensed by CC-BY-SA and private agreement(?) so the photographers dont loose their share of money? But glad govt is atleast thinking of CC licenses even if its NC. Arun, Just curious how do you get into special arrangements with your picture? It is a form of dual licensing, and is it supported by Commons ? -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] BECOME AN AUTHOR: O.B.Publication's Invitation
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 14:00, Dr. Krishna N. Sharma (PT) dr.krisha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am happy to inform you that the *O.B. Publication*http://www.onlinebooks.shop.ms/is inviting yousnip Please let me know why you shouldnt be banned for posting advertisements repeatedly. It is totally irrelevant to Wikimedia and you did not even had the courtesy to put an Off Topic on subject. Using this forum for advertisement is highly condemned. Please refrain from using the list for the same. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF, India Office and Chapter - Update
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:57, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: On 26 August 2011 11:50, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: If it is English, WikiProject Education in India will give a try, we are 40 in numbers now .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:INEI Oh! Thanks Naveen. We'll definitely keep you guys involved with this. Err, both of you are totally disconnected. Naveen, Education program is about interacting with colleges about use of Wikipedia included in teaching learning process, like Campus Ambassador program where people edit as part of curriculum. Gautam, WP:INEI is a WikiProject aiming improvement of articles in English wikipedia related to education in India and has goals like improving coverage of Indian education related articles. Ofcourse, if one student who participates from each college on education program writes / improves his/her own college article, WP:INEI can also improve ! -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Wiki Academy @ College -- Template
Forwarding since it may be relavent. All, I had recently mailed my contact about arranging a Wiki academy, I have just modified few words to templatize it. Please feel free to modify / use for your needs. http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wiki_Academy_Proposal_Template -- Regards Srikanth.L -- Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach
Hi, I just hit across a treasure of ~200 black and white pictures[1] (in CC) of India in 1978/79. Looks like someone had pictures of a traveller and uploaded into flickr set. Downside being not all pictures have description, so we dont know where they fit in. But am sure collectively we can guess them, so request all interested to leave a comment on each photo, if you know what it could be about / where it is. The other thing being, does anyone have flickrripper bot access on the list and can help? I intend to hunt more like these and get more sets which can be bulk uploaded. http://www.flickr.com/photos/34517490@N00/sets/72157614503720184/ -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Online Volunteers needed for India Loves Wikipedia - Outreach
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 13:31, Sreejith K. sreejithk2...@gmail.com wrote: Photos taken in 1978 is not in public domain yet. So these pictures cannot be uploaded to commons unless we get explicit permission from the photographer. I just hit across a treasure of ~200 black and white pictures[1] (*in CC*) of India in 1978/79. Looks like someone had pictures of a You had missed what i had put inside brackets. :) -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Call for Participation
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 13:56, Surinder Rinku becomeaw...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking/presentation is not a pre-requisite for attending the conference? Is it not? I would just want to be there. Is there a procedure/form I need to fill to get an ID or an entry pass of sort? Can you please revert back Yes, you could attend the event without speaking. Registrations will open soon, please register. Note :- Selected Speakers should also register. Talk selection does not give free registration / access to event, it just gives a talk slot. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Call for Participation
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:04, Surinder Rinku becomeaw...@gmail.com wrote: How much will be the registration charges? Please stay tuned for announcements. We are in the process of finalizing details. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 - Call for Participation
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 15:08, Adethya Sudarsanan adethyas...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, can we edit our submission ? I made a submission and now I want to add some more points to it ? Is it possible? Thanks in advance, Adethya Sure, Anything before 23:59:59 tonight IST -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Arthapedia - Indian Gov Site on the lines of Wikipedia
On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 22:20, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: Not really a Wikipedia model, what? Crying shame about the license. Only valid concern is about license, but then if its about bridging the gap between policymakers and general public, I feel it will be yet another tam-tam site from govt and will have no encyclopedia content. We could still use the content as RS since it comes from govt. Wondering if the Chapter and the Office can do anything? FYI: Arthapedia is available at arthapedia.in I dont think there is a room for involvement since the goals are not even intersecting except that they use Mediawiki. Looking at the site, an academy about how to put Wiki texts(syntax), making successful Interlinked content can be given a shot, but then it will help only their project and public over all and may be a fraction of them editing Wikipedia. Currently they are just copy pasting documents without interlinking. Some Mediawiki help(tips/advice) too can be given. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
Good article on the INDIAEDU programs. :) On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 14:05, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: You can't copy-paste this homework Well, but some reality check, quite a few have been found copying[1], the drive is on to educate more about copyrights and inform them copying is wrong. But this is a big cultural issue, we have to expect and work on it as more and more of the 1000 start to edit. If you wish to help, please sign up for online ambassadors and help the INDIAEDU program participants. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Fluffernutter/checks -- Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 08:18, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: I personally think we should encourage and use the free software alternatives like identi.ca, diaspora so that the event takes an opportunity to promote these media which protects user's freedom. By linking your account to other facebook or twitter followers to identi.ca account you will help tell the world that microblogging can be done with free software as well and your event supports/sponsors identi.ca. I do hope the mediawiki conference supports free social media and uses this occasion to spread this message among the wikimedians. I think its best not to confuse / group free knowledge and free software always. The primary intent of engaging in social media is to promote / reach out about the mission, not free social media. If you wish to promote Wiki Conference / Wikimedia in any of the free social media you mentioned, please come forward. Other social media will anyways link to it since it will have the content. :) -- Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] You can't copy-paste this homework
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 16:23, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: A question - how hard is it to write a bot that runs contributions through Google and flags it based on the degree of match and whether a footnote exists or not? One such bot existed called corensearchbot which used yahoo to flag copyvios. But yahoo changed its terms of service and it had be to stopped. Infact, we need not go all automatic way, the kind of copying here is very elementary. 1500+ chars without wiki syntax means something suspicious.None of us write paragraphs at one shot. I guess Huggle might already flag those(not sure). I just added watchlist to all course pages[1], so that ambassadors could monitor them and check manually. It will be great if some common template is applied on all talk pages where students edit so we could get one consolidated watchlist with some template. Will work over sometime during next week. On the other hand, if the teachers could monitor individual watch-list for content getting added as and when it will be good. Instead of doing one review at end, spotting diffs would mean lesser rework for students,shorter the duration junk stays(Some of the topics chosen by the program have very few watchers). But it cant be done by ambassadors without subject knowledge. I definitely cant review Artificial Intelligence topics :D [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:India_Education_Program/Courses -- Regards Srikanth.L http://srik.me ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] Telegraph : It’s a Wiki Wiki world!
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110911/jsp/7days/story_14492284.jsp -- Regards Srikanth.L http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news#Sep_2011 ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Copyright Violations by (some) Students: Wikipedia India Education Program
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 15:48, Gautam John gau...@prathambooks.org wrote: I said that the current actions were overblown. No second thoughts on the issue and actions being taken. But I guess Gautam has a point here. This set of copyvios were detected very early(majorly ~50 students' edits were monitored and reported), others are not yet on editing mode still. 50 / 1000 is not some, but I would say few. But its key we take this seriously before it explodes to a scale we cant handle since Indian editors / newbies are already infamous for copyvios and we dont want to add more such folks. Apart from copyvios which can be detected since they are from online sources, quite a few students write bookishly (which makes me wonder if they are copying from local texts). I kind of feel(personal opinion) that *deadlines* , *marks* are making quite a few of them to treat this as yet another homework and in turn have the done and dusted attitude. Of course there have been some good contributions, but it has been rare for the population. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Narayam is live
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 23:46, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijs...@gmail.comwrote: Hoi, I am really happy that Narayam, the extension that provides you with input methods for your languages is live for some of them on some of the projects. Have a look and let us know how you like it. Thanks much Gerard for pushing this awesome effort of Santhosh / team into live on projects. More UX improvements, the typing tool just got better, Kudos. 'wmgUseNarayam' = array( 'default' = false, 'testwiki' = true, 'mlwikiquote' = true, 'mlwikibooks' = true, 'mlwiktionary' = true, 'mlwikisource' = true, 'mlwiki' = true, 'tawikibooks' = true, 'tawikisource' = true, Yes, 'tawiktionary' = true, No, probably you got some other version,Tamil Wiktionary is not yet live. Its next big thing after Wikipedia, so we would enable after testing on Wikibooks / Wikisource. First impressions on testing, no issues found, however we would do a thorough testing this time, since we would like to have Narayam on all Tamil wiki projects. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] social media to use
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 16:48, Nagarjuna G nagar...@gnowgi.org wrote: There are technical ways to push messages to the popular proprietary social media like facebook and twitter. Therefore you do not loose anyone, but at the same time we can also push a message about free social media, which is in the larger interest of free knowledge community. Agree with you that tecnical solutions exist, but then we are not the only one to use proprietary social media. So its not bad using it. Everyone uses it, be it Jimmy or events like Wikimania. The primary intent is to reach out and in a simple way. Well as i mentioned before, If you want help out spreading the word by using free media, you are more than welcome. Lets not also get paranoid about Free stuff, which case the conference needs to have a hotel which only uses Free stuff (right from bubble top water,everything is proprietary) and so on. Lets get real, while we support free culture, we need not always be living for it. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fuel hike - Facebook hoax
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 01:02, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote: Why did Wikipedia have to figure in this? :-) http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/tathagatabhattacharya/2947/62714/facebook-petrol-price-hoax-think-before-you-like.html Outreach issue. It shows that even educated urban mass need awareness about what Wikipedia is and how it works, most of them know its just a website anyone can edit and hence has a view its not reliable at all(though it does for a small amount of time until eventual consistency is reached). Quoting a meta It is the users' responsibility to verify the authenticity of any information circulated through Facebook posts or Wikipedia articles. Otherwise, fiction will continue to pass off as fact and emotions will continue to be stirred for wrong reasons. That person who has written it hasnt verified what Wikipedia is and just posting fiction to pass off as fact and stirring emotions for wrong reasons! :P -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Withdrawal of Pune community - Re : Pune community
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 22:30, Shekhar Krishnan shek...@mit.edu wrote: Why can't we work together? Please explain and discuss. Best, Shekhar, Can we take this discussion out of India list, Some have already protested against the use of India list for Conference related discussions unless its an announcement. This can still be discussed within Mumbai / Pune mailing lists, if need be the Conference list. All, Whoever is replying to the email by Shekhar, please please remove India list from it. Lets not spam people out. General notice, Unless the reply to any mail which is crossposted across lists is relevant to people on any of the crossposted list, Can we please take a extra second in removing them off instead of just doing a reply-to-all blindly. This will make life of so many people better :) Thanks for your understanding. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Withdrawal of Pune community - Re : Pune community
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 11:25, Mandar Kulkarni mvkulkarn...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Dear Pradeep, Thank you very much for your email and appreciating that Pune Community has done some work for the wiki-conference in last 2-3 months. We have not stopped people to participate individually in the conference activities. Please Please Read the mails posted on the list before. STOP on this thread. Next time some one discusses Conference topics on India list, I am going to put them on moderation. This thread is closed. STOP replying. -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 13:51, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote: Can mailman not be configured to automatically reject such mails? There has to be someone somewhere on the wikimedia tech team who can fix this. Yes, this problem exists across lists, the solution given was list owners to contact the folks and get the ID removed from profiles. I did first time, this is second time, I dont know how many more folks have it Linkedin uses the primary email if invitee in header so may by pass. I think this will happen only if the invitee is also a member of list. Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 15:09, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.comwrote: Hi, Filters can be added in mailman so that mails with some keywords like invite can be blocked. This is done in many Free/Open source mailing lists. This list uses Invite widely for meetups etc. I have added Linked*in into the list :) -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on ILUGC wikipedia stall
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:51, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.comwrote: hi, Do you have any pics of the stall? It would be nice to see it. Might give others idea on how to do such a thing themselves? https://picasaweb.google.com/102129583091345389661/SoftwareFreedomDay2011#5653960474753392882 -- Surya receiving the book as prize. Couldnt find any pics of Wikipedia stall. SFD was organized in a very short time this year i guess, when i have been few years back, there were proper stalls. Nonetheless its more of a learning experience for students / improve presentation / public speaking. Art of pitching in a stall is unique and will only improve by experience, marketing guys will know it better -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2011 -- Call for Participation Results
Hi all, Call for Participation results for WikiConference India are out. Of the 550+ total submissions and 190+ relevant submissions, we are happy to announce the results. Selected Submissions :- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Selected_Submissions Review of Submissions :- http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiConference_India_2011/Submissions_Review Talks : 57 Posters : 23 Others : 2 The response has been overwhelming with quality proposals and rating by the team was tough in some cases. We never had the concept of posters when we started the review! Program team will get in touch with selected speakers individually shortly on the way forward. We hope to have a conference with quality content attracting community members across levels to have an wonderful conference which will enrich their knowledge on participation on Wikimedia projects. Please contact conference at wikimedia dot in with [Programs] on the subject line in case you have any queries. -- Regards Srikanth.L (On behalf of WCI Program Team) ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia in TN text books
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 20:27, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, English wikipedia articles are listed in the Further reading sections of lessons in science text books of the recently implemented Samacheer Kalvi (uniform education) syllabus in Tamil Nadu. A few examples are : Standard 7 science (lesson 11) Standard 8 science (lessons 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 11 and 13). The text books can be downloaded from http://www.textbooksonline.tn.nic.in/Std8.htm. (Hattip: Ta. wikipedian Theni Subramani who discovered this and posted in ta wiki VP) Inspite of some error in printing leading to non-existant pages, this at least gives visibility to each and every student of the state (Std 7 / 8). I really wish there were some Tamil wiki articles included in Tamil edition given that we have some nice articles on Biology,Maths etc. Realistically speaking, when have school students read further reading. At least i don't recollect me doing it :D -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
[Wikimediaindia-l] Spamming India list with Conference Discussion -- Moderation notice
Hi, Apologies to India list members on failing to act on spammers for sometime. I have put members who violated the warnings [1][2] . People who have been put on moderation are in bcc of this mail and list is available here for anyone to search and find[3]. These members will be removed from moderation post conference on requesting wikimediaindia-l-owner@lists.wikimedia.orgthat they will abide by notices by list admins on spamming etc. On a serious note, let me work on some list guidelines on put them soon, I know this again was pending on me and I thought all of us are mature doing without one, but then its better to have one. [1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004482.html [2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/004484.html [3] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2011-September/date.html#start -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] WCI 2011 : Scholarship
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 00:10, Naveen Francis navee...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Wikimedians who have received scholarship please accept(reject) your scholarship by senting a mail to wikiconferencein...@gmail.com asap. So that we can work on the second round scholarship list. This needs to be sent to recipients and not this list, since they are 2 different set with minimal union. Btw, use confere...@wikimedia.in sounds professional :) -- Regards Srikanth.L ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe / mailing option visit https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l
