from:"Srikanth Ramakrishnan"

Aah, well. Will the Hackathon be India specific.

On 12/14/11, Siebrand Mazeland (WMF) smazel...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 Hi Srikanth,

 On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:37 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Forgive me for this silly question, but will there be any session on
 adapting WebFonts on the mobile site?


 Why would that be a silly question?

 We have only just announced the event, as soon as possible, without have a
 detailed schedule or topic overview. Nothing potentially relevant is off
 the table beforehand, though, so please stay tuned! In about an hour we
 have the WMF internal kickoff, and I hope we will be able to communicate
 some topics before the year ends. No guarantees though, because I'll
 probably not be the project manager of the hackathon ;).

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

Thanks a lot Arjuna. I think February will be good as exams won't be
there then. Meanwhile, I do hope that the Academy in Jan will help up
increase the active community members in Coimbatore for further
meetups to happen.

On 12/14/11, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:
 Srikanth R,

 My previous discussion is about wiki academy for journalism students of
 Amrita institution in Coimbatore for Jan 2012. No such event happened in
 2011.

 Getting regular meetups happen is a big challenge even in places like
 Bangalore. You can plan for once in two months or so to start with
 encourage people to edit, participate in nearby meetups, wiki academies,
 encourage membership in chapter to grow the movement on a sustainable basis.

 Cheers
 Arjuna Rao Chavala
 -
 Sent via mobile
 On Dec 14, 2011 11:10 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com
 wrote:

 Heya, this just struck me. Arjuna mentioned to me that there was an
 Academy held in Coimbatore back in April 2011. Maybe, we could get
 guys from there to attend the next meetup, provided some experienced
 community member attends it.

 On 12/13/11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
  Thanks for the positive response guys. I'll try and arrange a meetup
  in the second week of January. Since the only two Wikipedians are out
  of town and it also will be Wikipedia Day, presence of a member of
  chapter or foundation would be welcome.
 
  On 12/13/11, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:
  Very nice report. I hope to see more active wikipedians. And hope the
  community grows. You rock, Keep it up.
 
  Regards
  ansu
  *
  ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ
  *
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ansumang
 
  On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
  rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Heya all,
  This should've come in elaier but didn't as my lab was shut.
  To Pradeep, who's been asking for two days,
  And Noopur, the only other Wikipedian who asked about this meet.
 
  Our meetup was held at the KG Inst. of Tech [KITE] who offered us an
  A/C presentation hall for this event.
  KITE, is a part of KG Information Systems Ltd, one of the city's most
  respected IT establishments.
  The meetup space was offered by Mr. Ashok Bkathavatsalam himself, the
  MD of KGISL, who in turn was told about this meet by Gautam John and
  Venkat Mangudi. Thanks you two.
 
  The meetup started at 11am.
 
  We had ~14-15 attendees, out of which 8 or 9 were part of ILUGC Pondy
  [Indian Linux User Group Puducherry].
  One Wikipedian saw the link to the meetup on my signature on an online
  forum SkyScraperCity and came from Chennai.
  Bala Jeyaraman, aka Sodabottle joined me a few minutes into the meetup
  and it was him who spoke for the rest of the day.
  Pre lunch, we basically spoke on how and why the Wikipedia model
  worked, the principles of the project, with Bala using the age old
  debate of whether Coimbatore or Madurai was the second largest city in
  Tamil Nadu as an example for verifiability.
 
  Bala explained the ease of typing in Tamil, etc.
 
  Post lunch, we were joined by two faculty members of KITE, while Mr.
  Ashok himself stepped in. Interestingly, he himself has an account on
  the English Wikipedia and contributes too.
 
  The meetup ended at around 4, we took a few photos. I shall ask
  Prasanna to upload them soon.
 
  It was a success, there were three existing Wikipedians, and the rest
  were interested newcomers. I wouldn't call it an academy though.
 
  We've not scheduled a meetup for January yet, as the most probable
  date is 15th Jan [Wikipedia Day] because both Bala and I won't be in
  town. If anyone from the chapter/foundation can help lead it, I can
  get people to attend and myself attend virtually thru Skype or so from
  Kakinada.
 
  Comments, suggestions most welcome.
 
  All brickbats my way, bouquets to Bala please.
 
  --
 
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  Regards,
  Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
  Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers
  My Commons uploads, now exceeding 75.
  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Rsrikanth05
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

Arnav, brilliant, though I think you should first introduce
photographers to the Commons and explain the benefits. Let me know
your thoughts, if need be privately, as I'm planning to go forward
with a special meet aimed at the photography community myself, in
Coimbatore.

On 12/14/11, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hey everyone,

 As Noopur said GLAM and outreach cannot be seperated, +1 to it.

 Also wanted to share with you guys that the outreach event and
 workshop I am organising in February in MS University Baroda, the
 organizers from the city were amazed to know what Commons is and how
 wikipedia and other project get images and media from it.

 So they have asked me to come up with an event specially targeting
 photographers. Thus am planning for Wikipedia takes Baroda though at
 much smaller scale than scavenger hunt which has happened in other
 countries till now.

 Please give your inputs on it. And Noopur I ll get in touch with you
 offline regarding it.

 Thanks.

 On 12/14/11, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:
 hi,

 Well, L could reach WikiSource (old books?), WikiQuotes, Wikictionary
 (difficult, tho). Better to keep all options open. Also, all the Indic
 stuff would go on the Indic version of the respective projects. So, a
 Malayalam wikisource or a Marathi Wikisource other than just English.

 Pradeep
 Handheld

 On 14/12/2011, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
 Pradeep, thanks. I forgot that the L stood for Libraries. Thanks.
 According to me. G- Commons, Wikipedia. L- Wikisource. A- Commons,
 Wikipedia, Wikisource. M- Commons, Wikipedia. Am I right? These are
 just indicative as to what element of GLAM joins which project.

 On 12/14/11, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:
 hi,

 Stuff from libraries and archives go onto WikiSource. I read/heard/saw
 somewhere that they're having a hard time monitoring docs uploaded
 there. Not sure if it needs monitoring for copyvio etc. So, a
 WikiSource person or encouraging a WikiSource person to do and learn
 more would be a welcome addition.
 warm regards,
 Pradeep
 Handheld

 On 14/12/2011, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
 Pradeep, my thoughts exactly. The Commons would be the most utilised
 project due to GLAM, and I think we should ask Yann, who is an admin.
 Also, I'm curious to what role WikiSource would play here, especially
 in India.

 On 12/14/11, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:
 hi,

 GLAM contributions will impact contributions to Wikipedia sister
 projects like Commons and WikiSource. Would love if people active on
 these projects would come forward and share how such uploads from GLAM
 would need to be moderated, etc. Would love to hear more from someone
 who's onto WikiSource, especially.

 warm regards,
 Pradeep
 Handheld

 On 14/12/2011, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
 @ashwin thanks :) I plan to get one for Jan hopefully or at least
 figure
 things out by then. Am already designing a new logo and trying to see
 what
 sections can cover Indic reports+GLAM+outreach and more. If you have
 categories in mind, post on talk page or let's take this on private
 mail.
 I
 will need help editing maybe and i suck at using templates etc. Would
 be
 glad if you could help with it. :)

 On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Ashwin, I fail to understand what this has to do with GLAM. Unless
 ofcourse, Noopur can run a section on GLAM on WikiPatrika ...

 On 12/14/11, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  * I can volunteer to make a newsletter! *
  Warmly
  Noopur
 
 
  Dear Noopur,
 
  This project was well begun but came to a dead halt! No one to
  blame.
 With
  a versatile person like Tinu handling so much, something was bound
  to
 come
  to a stop.
 
  http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika
 
  The next issue is of November but going nowhere -
 
  http://wiki.wikimedia.in/WikiPatrika/2011-11
 
  I suggest you try to get one out in Feb and two months after that
  and
  so
  forth. Please rest assured on my support for  -
  * op-ed
  * tips 'n tricks
  * English Wikipedia report
 
  Warm regards,
 
  Ashwin Baindur
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

If you want to test something new, either make it opt in, or don't do
it live. Not on Tamil, not on Hindi, not on any Wikipedia for that
matter.

On 12/14/11, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan
 srik@gmail.comwrote:

 I dont think its appropriate to be a bit more experimental. You are seeing
 the scale in absolute sense, we are seeing it in relative sense. Tamil
 Wikipedia is 7th most-viewed Tamil site.


 +1. Similar stats can be observed for most of the Indic language Wiki
 projects with sizable content as they are the only / major source of
 reference online for the respective languages.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Insights from GLAMcamp Amsterdam

Great Noopur.
Good luck with your venture.
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:14 AM, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear Arnav,
 This is awesome! I was speaking to Hisham about compiling a repository of
 presentations and Simple English guides, keeping them in PDF versions so
 that people can use them whenever. I have some presentations on GLAM and
 commons, if you want I can send them over and you don't have to go through
 the trouble of making them again.


 On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Arnav Sonara sonara.ar...@gmail.comwrote:

 Yeah, I mean since most of the photographers there would not be
 knowing what commons is, I ll first give them presentation about
 commons and explain them public domain licensing in detail.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

Heya,
I logged into Facebook after a week to find out that Prasanna has psoted a
detailed report on the meetup facebook event page.
The link to the page is on the meetup page on Meta.
Perhaps, Bala, Subha or Ansuman could copy it here
It would explain things from a newcomers point of view.
--

On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 12:41 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks a lot Arjuna. I think February will be good as exams won't be
 there then. Meanwhile, I do hope that the Academy in Jan will help up
 increase the active community members in Coimbatore for further
 meetups to happen.

 On 12/14/11, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:
  Srikanth R,
 
  My previous discussion is about wiki academy for journalism students of
  Amrita institution in Coimbatore for Jan 2012. No such event happened in
  2011.
 
  Getting regular meetups happen is a big challenge even in places like
  Bangalore. You can plan for once in two months or so to start with
  encourage people to edit, participate in nearby meetups, wiki academies,
  encourage membership in chapter to grow the movement on a sustainable
 basis.
 
  Cheers
  Arjuna Rao Chavala
  -
  Sent via mobile
  On Dec 14, 2011 11:10 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Heya, this just struck me. Arjuna mentioned to me that there was an
  Academy held in Coimbatore back in April 2011. Maybe, we could get
  guys from there to attend the next meetup, provided some experienced
  community member attends it.
 
  On 12/13/11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
   Thanks for the positive response guys. I'll try and arrange a meetup
   in the second week of January. Since the only two Wikipedians are out
   of town and it also will be Wikipedia Day, presence of a member of
   chapter or foundation would be welcome.
  
   On 12/13/11, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:
   Very nice report. I hope to see more active wikipedians. And hope the
   community grows. You rock, Keep it up.
  
   Regards
   ansu
   *
   ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ
   *
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ansumang
  
   On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
   rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:
  
   Heya all,
   This should've come in elaier but didn't as my lab was shut.
   To Pradeep, who's been asking for two days,
   And Noopur, the only other Wikipedian who asked about this meet.
  
   Our meetup was held at the KG Inst. of Tech [KITE] who offered us an
   A/C presentation hall for this event.
   KITE, is a part of KG Information Systems Ltd, one of the city's
 most
   respected IT establishments.
   The meetup space was offered by Mr. Ashok Bkathavatsalam himself,
 the
   MD of KGISL, who in turn was told about this meet by Gautam John and
   Venkat Mangudi. Thanks you two.
  
   The meetup started at 11am.
  
   We had ~14-15 attendees, out of which 8 or 9 were part of ILUGC
 Pondy
   [Indian Linux User Group Puducherry].
   One Wikipedian saw the link to the meetup on my signature on an
 online
   forum SkyScraperCity and came from Chennai.
   Bala Jeyaraman, aka Sodabottle joined me a few minutes into the
 meetup
   and it was him who spoke for the rest of the day.
   Pre lunch, we basically spoke on how and why the Wikipedia model
   worked, the principles of the project, with Bala using the age old
   debate of whether Coimbatore or Madurai was the second largest city
 in
   Tamil Nadu as an example for verifiability.
  
   Bala explained the ease of typing in Tamil, etc.
  
   Post lunch, we were joined by two faculty members of KITE, while Mr.
   Ashok himself stepped in. Interestingly, he himself has an account
 on
   the English Wikipedia and contributes too.
  
   The meetup ended at around 4, we took a few photos. I shall ask
   Prasanna to upload them soon.
  
   It was a success, there were three existing Wikipedians, and the
 rest
   were interested newcomers. I wouldn't call it an academy though.
  
   We've not scheduled a meetup for January yet, as the most probable
   date is 15th Jan [Wikipedia Day] because both Bala and I won't be in
   town. If anyone from the chapter/foundation can help lead it, I can
   get people to attend and myself attend virtually thru Skype or so
 from
   Kakinada.
  
   Comments, suggestions most welcome.
  
   All brickbats my way, bouquets to Bala please.
  
   --
  
   --
   Regards,
   Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
   Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers
   My Commons uploads, now exceeding 75.
   http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Rsrikanth05
  
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on WikiKovai meet 1.

Thanks for posting this here Bala. :-)
Maybe we should print a few flyers with the Contest details, maybe
even a QR Code about the contest and hand it over to whoever we see in
public with a camera. ;-P

On 12/15/11, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.com wrote:
 Per Srikanth's request: here is the report from Prasanna Venkatesh one of
 the attendees of the meetup as posted on the event's facebook page (
 http://www.facebook.com/events/192614487481512/)
 Here i share what happened in Wikipedia meet up held at coimbatore:

 We arrived there at coimbatore by early morning and joined with new friends
 at coimbatore, Karthikeyan
 Savithrihttp://www.facebook.com/kalakkumkarthikeyanwho received us
 there with warm welcome and we entered into KGiSL campus
 around 11 am and the event started only after we arrived there.

 1. Srikanth Ramakrishnan
 http://www.facebook.com/srikanth.ramakrishnanwho was the first
 speaker to start with meet up, shared his
 experience with us and to tell about him, he is editing wikipedia articles
 right from the age of 13 (8th standard) and now he has got around 10,000
 articles being edited in the span of 6.5 years.

 2. Arrived Mr. Bala, Admin and an active wikipedian especially handling
 Tamil section of wikipedia and he was an programmer in an MNC and now he is
 self-employed. Mr. Bala started with the basics of wikipedia and covered
 the following:
 i. What is wikipedia?
 ii. Wikipeida - by the people, of the people and for the people.
 iii. Advantage of wikipedia being let open for public editing.
 iv. Demo on how to become a user, contributor to wikipedia.
 v. General and basic rules for starting and writing an article with proper
 reference.
 vi. Tamizh wiki oodaga(media) poati - any one can participate and submit
 your own photography regarding Tamizh and its culture, people ect. and you
 have the chance to win US. 200$
 vii. Tools like wikimedia (Mediawiki, wiki source, etc.) are discussed.
 viii. Technical part of wikipedia is discussed.

 Finally we had a Photo-session and greeted each other and it was good time
 together and we gained knowledge over how to contribute the above things
 and soon after at the evening we created a account for us in wikipedia..
 and now roaming around with camera in hand :p


 On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Thanks a lot Arjuna. I think February will be good as exams won't be
 there then. Meanwhile, I do hope that the Academy in Jan will help up
 increase the active community members in Coimbatore for further
 meetups to happen.

 On 12/14/11, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:
  Srikanth R,
 
  My previous discussion is about wiki academy for journalism students of
  Amrita institution in Coimbatore for Jan 2012. No such event happened in
  2011.
 
  Getting regular meetups happen is a big challenge even in places like
  Bangalore. You can plan for once in two months or so to start with
  encourage people to edit, participate in nearby meetups, wiki academies,
  encourage membership in chapter to grow the movement on a sustainable
 basis.
 
  Cheers
  Arjuna Rao Chavala
  -
  Sent via mobile
  On Dec 14, 2011 11:10 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Heya, this just struck me. Arjuna mentioned to me that there was an
  Academy held in Coimbatore back in April 2011. Maybe, we could get
  guys from there to attend the next meetup, provided some experienced
  community member attends it.
 
  On 12/13/11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
   Thanks for the positive response guys. I'll try and arrange a meetup
   in the second week of January. Since the only two Wikipedians are out
   of town and it also will be Wikipedia Day, presence of a member of
   chapter or foundation would be welcome.
  
   On 12/13/11, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:
   Very nice report. I hope to see more active wikipedians. And hope
   the
   community grows. You rock, Keep it up.
  
   Regards
   ansu
   *
   ଓଡ଼ିଆ ଉଇକିପିଡ଼ିଆ
   *
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ansumang
  
   On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
   rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:
  
   Heya all,
   This should've come in elaier but didn't as my lab was shut.
   To Pradeep, who's been asking for two days,
   And Noopur, the only other Wikipedian who asked about this meet.
  
   Our meetup was held at the KG Inst. of Tech [KITE] who offered us
   an
   A/C presentation hall for this event.
   KITE, is a part of KG Information Systems Ltd, one of the city's
 most
   respected IT establishments.
   The meetup space was offered by Mr. Ashok Bkathavatsalam himself,
 the
   MD of KGISL, who in turn was told about this meet by Gautam John
   and
   Venkat Mangudi. Thanks you two.
  
   The meetup started at 11am.
  
   We had ~14-15 attendees, out of which 8 or 9 were part of ILUGC
 Pondy
   [Indian Linux User Group Puducherry].
   One Wikipedian saw

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-chn] mediawiki-uploader

Prad, thanks for sharing that with us. Let's hope this piece of code
results in tons of freely licenced content pouring into the Commons.

On 12/15/11, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:
 hi Shrinivasan,

 Sumana has forwarded this email to the cultural/GLAM list as well where
 there was need felt on batch uploads and people there might also benefit
 from what you've coded.

 Thank you.

 warm regards,
 Pradeep
 User:Prad2609

 On 15 December 2011 20:25, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
 parakara.gh...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hey Shrinivasan, this is brilliant. Bala had mentioned last week at
 our Coimbatore meetup that this fellow from ILUGC had uploaded 10 high
 definition shots before being dissatisfied with the upload tool and
 then went off to code his own. Congrats on your heroic efforts. Now, I
 can use this to tell photography friends who haven't contributed to
 the contest yet and say It's easier and that they have no excuse to
 not upload. Brilliant! Kudos on your amazing work.

 On 12/15/11, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
  Hello Shrini,
 
  We never imagined someone developing tool/script for participating in
  the
  contest. Good work #WIN :)
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Summary and perspectives from Discussions with Indic language wikimedians - 2011

2011-12-16 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan

increase, we will
get even more Indic readers. We don't need to do anything to attract
readers. However, we need to do *everything* to keep them coming back by
increasing article count while religiously maintaining and increasing
article quality and size of community.

I would love to hear your thoughts and views on these suggestions.

The next stage of my work is going to be to speak directly with various
communities in village pumps itself. I will try and make these as relevant
and specific to individual communities - and also to share some ideas which
have relevance across similar communities. For instance, some ideas will
be similar to all communities with less than 25 active editors. I also
want to try and identify potential areas of support that India Programs
could work closely with communities on. The idea is to support community
across languages. We would like to identify a very limited (1 or 2) pilots
of a very controlled nature (in terms of scale) that we would like to
collaboratively design with respective communities. Given the efforts that
will be required in any pilot (even if it is of a relatively small scale),
we believe that there needs to be a certain basic level of community size
and collaboration to be able handle such pilots.

I will be sharing this mail on the various local language / local town
mailing lists as well as the respective language village pumps. I look
forward to hearing your views.

I placed the content of this mail in metawiki also. It is here:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_-_India_Programs/Indic_Languages/Summary_of_initial_discussions_-_2011

Regards

Shiju Alex
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[Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

2011-12-16 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan

Heya all. I just wanted to share this quick mail with you and get your
feedback. Over the past two years, I've actively been part of Wiki
outreach efforts. Thru meetups, volunteering for the Bangalore
Samskrit academy, trying to convince friends, classmates etc. I've had
a lot of negative experiences with people askin me- What's in it for
me? Mere liye kya hai? Ennaku enna kadaka porthu? I get laughed at
when I say I'm doing gu voluntarily. Infact recently, when I tried to
get a friend to contribute to our


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

2011-12-16 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan

Sorry guys, looks like Google chopped off the bottom of my mail again.
What I said was, when I asked my friend to contribute to the Tamil
Media Contest, he told me- when I'm not getting paid for all my
photos, why should I upload? Anyone who's gone thru similar
experiences and can help me out?

On 12/16/11, Srikanth Ramakrishnan rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:
 Heya all. I just wanted to share this quick mail with you and get your
 feedback. Over the past two years, I've actively been part of Wiki
 outreach efforts. Thru meetups, volunteering for the Bangalore
 Samskrit academy, trying to convince friends, classmates etc. I've had
 a lot of negative experiences with people askin me- What's in it for
 me? Mere liye kya hai? Ennaku enna kadaka porthu? I get laughed at
 when I say I'm doing gu voluntarily. Infact recently, when I tried to
 get a friend to contribute to our


 --
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 Srikanth Ramakrishnan,
 Sathyamangalam-Gobichettipalayam Star Gazers Gang, Ukkadam, Coimbatore.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

Prad, Noopur, I'm with you on this one. I think what we need to do is,
create a category on the Commons, customise the Upload Wizard if
needed, set up a committee to check for copyright violations, create a
page on Meta, translate it into every language, get your cameras,
phones ready, stock up on film rolls and Memory Cards, batteries, etc.
See, it's that simple. Let's not wait for Chapter or Foundation, and
start NOW!

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

Noopur, I strongly suggest that you create a page on Meta instead.
People who have an account on any Wikipedia or Wikimedia project can
sign in without having to register for again.
Mitra, sure Social Media is exactly what Bala, Logic and I use for
spreading word on anything Wiki related.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

Noopur, sorry, I don't have a computer at all here. Hence the WikiBreak ...
Others, whoever creates the page, a something like Wiki Loves
Monuments (2012), India should do. If it is incorrect, don't worry, an
admin would move and redirect.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Wiki Loves Monuments 2012 -- global?

We need to have the documentation translated too.

On 12/18/11, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:
 hi,

 Also suggest spreading it to the various language lists by people in the
 languages?

 warm regards,
 Pradeep Mohandas

 On 19 December 2011 09:15, Pradeep Mohandas
 pradeep.mohan...@gmail.comwrote:

 Done. Created the page and linked to it.

 Pradeep


 On 19 December 2011 02:25, Lodewijk lodew...@effeietsanders.org wrote:

 May I suggest to then at least use Commons for that? That is where all
 the rest of the documentation is also located. I suggest to link it from
 here:
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012and
 create
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_India.

 Best,
 Lodewijk

 No dia 18 de Dezembro de 2011 21:07, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com escreveu:

 Noopur, sorry, I don't have a computer at all here. Hence the WikiBreak
 ...
 Others, whoever creates the page, a something like Wiki Loves
 Monuments (2012), India should do. If it is incorrect, don't worry, an
 admin would move and redirect.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian Max Semink

Congrats Yuvi. Keep up the good work.

On 12/19/11, CherianTinu Abraham tinucher...@gmail.com wrote:
 Congrats and Bestwishes to Yuvipanda :)

 -Tinu Cherian

 On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Santhosh Thottingal 
 santhosh.thottin...@gmail.com wrote:

 Congrats Yuvaraj Pandian!

 -santhosh


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 Date: Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:58 PM
 Subject: [Wikitech-l] Please Welcome Yuvaraj Pandian  Max Semink
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 Greetings all,

 The Mobile and Special Projects department is pleased to announce the
 addition of two new contractors to the team: Yuvaraj Pandian and Max
 Seminik.

 Yuvaraj Pandian or Yuvi as we gotten to know him was one of our 2011
 Google Summer of Code students. During GSoC he worked with Arthur
 Richards on porting the Wikipedia 1.0 bot to a PHP extension named
 Selection Sifter. This was in important offline project as it allowed
 us to better support and extend our offline tool chains. Previous to
 this he had been active in the busroutes.in community where users
 @logic and @planemad motivated him to come on and help the Wikimedia
 community. One of his early Wikimedia project memories includes the
 tawiki community discussing the ShortUrl extension. He found the
 entire channel so lively and helpful that he applied for GSoC.

 Yuvi will be working for us remotely while on a six month sabbatical
 from KCG College of Technology, India. He'll be extending the Android
 app, enhancing MobileFrontend, and working with our various offline
 efforts to further the reach of the projects. You can find him on irc
 under the nick 'yuviapanda' .

 Max Semink has been an active MediaWiki contributor since 2009. He's
 recently been most involved in developing the API Sandbox for
 MediaWiki. An extension that allows any user to easily create complex
 API queries through a visual interface. When not hacking on MediaWiki,
 Max has been busy developing C++ software for embedded systems in the
 railroad industry. While train switching has captured the majority of
 his recent developer cycles, he's super eager to change direction and
 focus his full time efforts on MediaWiki.

 Max will be continuing his interest in the API by helping us improve
 and extend its use within mobile. He'll be adding a proper API to
 MobileFrontend, extending support for GPS, and in general moving the
 API forward for our mobile clients. Max will be working for us
 remotely and can be found under the nick 'MaxSem' .

 It's great to be able to see two active community members be able to
 join us full time.

 Please join me in (re)-welcoming Yuvi and Max!

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic has arrived! -- on devices !!

Srikanth,
This is brilliant. Great news. Now if only my phone could support
Indic languages. I'd've said Supera Irukke. But still, an important
milestone. I only hope however, that translations are appropriate. I
hope it's not a simply transliterated interface or extremely technical
at the same time.

On 12/19/11, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,

It was a almost a unimaginable surprise when I heard a Samsung camera has a
Tamil interface! See pic[1]. It is important milestone when Indic is
starting to reach beyond computers, mobiles. While this also reinforces the
Indic growth theory(not just wikimedia in non-profit space, even for
business in for-profit space), it also means more work for those who are
working on Indic space (translation, content creation,technology). Their
work will directly or indirectly reach more people outside wikimedia
projects. Projects like wiktionary will be source for many languages which
might not have any other largest source of vocabulary elsewhere. I would
not be surprised if in future translations for real world things are done
openly through projects like translatewiki :)

[1]
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil_interface_camera-suya_prakash-salem_Wiki_DEC2011-Tamil_Nadu626.JPG

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

 be
 any number from the 500 million who read wikipedia every month!  You can
 show your article to you mother and grandfather and friends!  If you upload
 pictures to Wikimedia Commons, you will have an audience so much bigger than
 the 500 friends on Facebook who will see it.  So many more can see your
 talents and appreciate your work!
 It'll boost your chances in admissions or scholarships or placements.
 Imagine if you are a mechanical engineer and you are one of 100 students in
 your batch applying for jobs with the best engineering companies who come to
 campus.  Everyone is likely to submit a resume saying they are the greatest
 engineer ever born - but it's difficult for any one to stand out and shine.
 If you were to put a line in your resume that you have edited 5 articles on
 heating and cooling systems, there is a very high probability that this
 would jump out at the recruitment team of the companies and the will
 actually read your article (if they haven't already.)
 It can be so much fun!  You can make new friends - from all over the world..
 You can write about subjects that you are interested in (whether it is
 movies or your hometown or sarees or mythology  or cricket or whatever!) It
 think it is really important that we drive this message as passionately as
 we can because this is something that can resonate so loud and for so long!

 Academia - Faculty  Education Institutions

 Students with all the above result in much more motivated classes.  One
 thing that teachers constantly say is that they one thing they want is
 engaged students.  I've had teachers tell me that if they are in a class and
 they see their students involved and trying to learn and active, it is the
 best thing that can happen to them - and the rest of their day goes well!
 It improves your individual and college's academic reputation.  In the
 Indian context where there is relatively lower emphasis on academic research
 papers by faculty members, supporting your students on Wikipedia articles
 helps you (rightfully) claim that you contributed to these articles.  That
 increases your academic standing and helps attract better students and
 faculty and partnerships and recruiting companies.
 It supports the advancement of education - for students in your class and
 colleges and around the world.  You have devoted your lives to education and
 this is a great way of promoting it.

 I wanted to share my perspectives because I really believe that the why
 needs to be addressed.

 Thanks for starting a great message thread, Srikanth.

 Nitika

 On 18-Dec-2011, at 1:37 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote:

 Subha, most of those bullies are editors with zero constructive edits
 or IP based vandals. Sadly.
 Erik, yes, I consider Giving to Wiki as giving back to Society. Thanks
 for the links. Time to read during my month long Wiki break.
 Ravi, Bala told me that physical outreach programs had very poor
 success rates. I concur with him.
 Prad, I agree. That's how Manish and I became friends. But still
 doesn't explain how to get new guys.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indic has arrived! -- on devices !!

True that. While Hindi and Tamil have always been at an advantage due
to them being the first two Indic languages to be embraced by the tech
industry, AFAIK, the sms typed on these phones don't conform to
Unicode standards. Atleast not on Nokia models.

On 12/19/11, Sudhanwa Jogalekar sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,

As I understand, many vendors do support Indic languages (at least one
of them like Hindi/Tamil). What we require is to find out the right
device that supports Indic and suits our needs.

My 2.5 year old dual SIM phone from FLY has Hindi support. Can show
all the menus in Hindi, can send/receive SMS in Hindi.

My earlier Nokia phone (purchased about 6 years back) also had Hindi
support.

Some of the low cost printers-inkjet, laser ones also have Indic
language support in their software as well as manuals.

Regards
-Sudhanwa

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,

It was a almost a unimaginable surprise when I heard a Samsung camera has
a
Tamil interface! See pic[1]. It is important milestone when Indic is
starting to reach beyond computers, mobiles. While this also reinforces
the
Indic growth theory(not just wikimedia in non-profit space, even for
business in for-profit space), it also means more work for those who are
working on Indic space (translation, content creation,technology). Their
work will directly or indirectly reach more people outside wikimedia
projects. Projects like wiktionary will be source for many languages which
might not have any other largest source of vocabulary elsewhere. I would
not
be surprised if in future translations for real world things are done
openly
through projects like translatewiki :)

[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tamil_interface_camera-suya_prakash-salem_Wiki_DEC2011-Tamil_Nadu626.JPG

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] mediawiki-uploader

Agreed. This tool is definitely an asset. I hope somebody has
forwarded this to the Commons mailing list as well as the Tech and
Foundation lists to show the dedication that Shrini has shown here.

On 12/19/11, Arjuna Rao Chavala arjunar...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Shrinivasan T
 tshriniva...@gmail.comwrote:

 hi arjuna,

 thanks for the wishes.

 I am also very new to wikipedia.
 please give some more details on categories.

 Please see Wiki Conference India  as a sample category
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_India_2011

 The listing  sees around 537 out of which I came to know around 300 or so
 were contributed by User:RameshNG. I am sure the contributor would have
 spent a lot of time adding categories to all such images.

 shall we give any text as category or some pre defined text are there to
 pick up from?

 use gthumb to add some meta data.
 we can parse it and use them as categories.

 Yes, Looks like a good idea.

 Cheers
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] What's in it for me?

Nitika, while you're at it, also try and look into what may get us
more women editors. I have a bunch of reasons and ideas which may
someday, come out.

On 12/19/11, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote:

 On 19-Dec-2011, at 4:05 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote:

 Nitika, the plus points you gave are really well thought out 
 well-expressed. Wikipedians can use these in outreach. Great work, keep it
 up!

 Stay tuned to this channel.  I'm working on something that i'd love to have
 your (and everyone else's) help and inputs on.

 Thanks
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

A good idea no doubt, but I think the detecting which state the user
comes from part is a small road block. While Google Mail has been
showing which state the IP is from in the logins section, I think the
browser or system language should also be taken into consideration,
though it may seem obvious at first that a person who is using his or
her computer in their own language would know Wikipedia exists in that
language.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

A small extension of my previous post.
Logic, geolocation within India is very much possible. Atleast I know
Google can do it. The only hitch is that it doesn't work well with
Wireless connections.
For instance, I frequently use a Reliance Wireless modem, which is
registered in K'taka but even in Bangalore, Coimbatore, Pune, Hubli it
says it's a TN based IP. Ditto for Tata Docomo.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

Ravi, I agree. The rotation system, if implemented works best. However
do note, this is best suited for the desktop version only, not
Mobiles. I'd like to point out that - People who use Opera Mini on
their mobiles, get routed thru a European server while all BlackBerry
users get routed thru a server in London, Hungary or Canada.

On 12/19/11, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
 A single line like Wikipedia is also available in Bengali, Hind,
 Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil  at the top and to the left of Login/create
 account link will be fine. The line can be as what you see in
 http://www.google.co.in/ . If we feel showing too many languages is
 clutter, show random and limited number of links for Indic languages.



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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

Nitika, thanks for starting a new thread. I'd like to make a single
point first about this matter. Do think about it. No matter how
excellet facilities are provided, how yuai enthusiasm is shown,
physical outreach programs actually have very little or zero impact on
getting new people on board. This is an observation that I have made,
as well as a few others have made.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

Theo, last time I checked, Indic languages are no longer listed in the
side of the English Main Page. A limited number of languages is there
with a link to More Languages.

On 12/19/11, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:
 Also, we already have that in the left side of every page, the sidebar on
 every article lists the version of that article available in different
 languages.

 Regards
 Theo

 On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 6:45 PM, Theo10011 de10...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,

 Today, I went to download WordPress and it told me it is also available
 in Tamil. Very neatly done as it somehow detected that I am from
 Tamilnadu.

 See the screenshot at: http://ravidreams.com/ta-wordpress.png

 A similar announcement in English Wiki projects is sure to double or
 triple traffic to Indic Wiki projects.

 We have been requesting this feature for years.

 Curious when it will be implemented.

 Ravi

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 I tried that. twice.

 Back in 2010, we had banners pointing to Indic wikis, with messages like,
 there is a wiki in your language you can edit. Then it lead to landing
 pages with lists of indic language wikis.

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/IN/Welcome

 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_language_projects

 This banner ran for close to 2 months in late 2010 and early 2011. I think
 WMF staff might have tried it again during the year.

 Conclusion, it did not make a dent. Most people dismissed the banners, and
 never clicked, those that did, never followed to edit. It made little to
 no
 difference in the visitor or editor stats for the period.

 Regards
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Event on online free speech on Wednesday

Gautam, I was wondering if you could get in touch with the CIS and try
and organise such events in other tech based cities in India like
Mysore, Hyderabad, Chennai and of course Coimbatore?

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Webfonts deployment on Indic Wikiprojects

2011-12-20 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan

I heard the Tamil font story. Can we try and get some official person
to send out a request to font vendors?

On 12/20/11, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 07:33, Subhashish Panigrahi
 psubhash...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hi All,

 While testing both Lohit and Utkal has hinting problems in or wp, is that
 possible to keep them optional? As of now automatically the default font
 changes to Lohit when you open or wp, instead of that is that possible to
 make it optional which someone can choose the dropdown?


 Welcome to the world finally! Go read the bug[1] for a start. In summary
 i18n team feels the purpose of extension gets defeated if its not set as
 default. I tried convincing them for days it wont get defeated, but this is
 a PoV debate and solution remains at heart :). If you feel having the
 default fonts with hinting issue will affect many more people than it would
 benefit(In case of Tamil it was over 10x), then file a bug for removing
 WebFonts for or wp. But what next? 2 options.

 1. If fonts are bad and have hinting issues, {{SOFIXIT}} . Suggest to
 Santhosh what are the issues, where it could get better, he will try his
 best and do as much as he can do. We did the same for Tamil, Lohit-Tamil is
 improved than what upstream gave, but there is a limitation here as to how
 much Santhosh can help since he is not a professional typographer and you
 may not be satisfied very much with font even after the exercise (like we
 are). There is also delivery issue which needs to be sorted if we are going
 to go this way since Win 7, most linux OS dont have hinting issue but win
 xp has it.

 2. Get more free fonts. Look out for other free(ly licensed) fonts,
 convince people to release fonts under free license.Create a new
 font(Easier said than done,but its not Impossible). Beg,Borrow (no Steal
 doesnt apply here :D, Acquire probably applies in case money is only thing
 stopping, then a reasonable grant request might help). In short get
 alternative fonts which can be used.

 [1] https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31936#c2

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] ONE simple step to double or triple visits to Indic Wikipedias

2011-12-20 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan

Rather than replacing, I suggest reorganising the order. Indic ones on
top and others below. Who knows, an Indian may try and access European
or African languages too.

On 12/20/11, Shiju Alex shijualexonl...@gmail.com wrote:

 Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects
 to
 wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects.  Apart from the
 English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
 most of us in this country.  Replacing the foreign language projects (for
 Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.



 I think this is a very good suggestion. I remember  seeing many of friends
 using wikipedia.org to reach English wikipedia. Replacing the current
 non-english wikipedias with Indic wikipedias (for Indian IPs) can also be
 one of the solution. It will definitely catch the attention of a few
 percentage of Indian readers.

 Shiju





 On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.comwrote:

 Most of the visitors on Wikipedia end up there through search engines.
  But there is another group which attempts to access Wikipedia directly by
 typing in www.wikipedia.com or www.wikipedia.org in the address bar of
 their browsers.

 Currently, the landing page for www.wikipedia.org (wikipedia.comredirects
 to
 wikipedia.org) lists the ten largest Wikipedia projects.  Apart from the
 English Wikipedia, the rest of the projects are practically useless for
 most of us in this country.  Replacing the foreign language projects (for
 Indian IPs) with Indic language projects will help drive more traffic.

 Yours sincerely,

 Anirudh Bhati

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 Skype: anirudhsbh



 On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 I agree with Ravi.

 On 12/20/11, Ravishankar ravidre...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  This is a really useful discussion and there's a powerful idea.  I
 agree
  with Ravi that there is an opportunity to build awareness and traffic
 to
  Indic language sites.  While we are already seeing considerable
 readership
  of Indic languages, there's clearly a lot more that can be done to
 support
  this and also to help build Indic language communities.  I also hear
  Theo's
  point that it didn't work last time, or maybe wasn't adequately
 measured.
 
  I'd like to suggest that - even as the technical challenges are
 resolved -
  to explore this.  The first step would be finalise what the objectives
 are
  (e.g., is it basic awareness building of the existence of Indic
 language
  projects or to is it to drive readership of these projects or is it
  encourage more active participation in these proejcts?)  The next
  stage
  would be to test different banner/notice/page design options and
  figure
  out
  the most appropriate solution (in the same systematic way that the WMF
  fundraising team tests banners and optimises the ones that work best.)
  If
  you see value and you think we need resources for this, I'm happy to
 see
  what we can do about it.  (Maybe see if any of the fundraising team's
  people are free after the fundraiser to help with the analytics for
  determining what might work best?)
 
  What say?
 
  hisham
 
 
  +1.
 
  Instead of saying it won't work, we have to think how to make it work
  as
  the ultimate goal of increasing awareness about Indic projects should
 not
  be neglected !
 
  Ravi
 


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Is there a code4lib in India?

2011-12-20 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan

I believe the FOSS guys will have an answer to your question.

On 12/20/11, Pradeep Mohandas pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:
 hi,

 From another list -
 Code4Lib is having their 2012 conference in Feb. in Seattle. Might be
 something of interest if you're into tech-ness and how open source
 communities can work together. Here is how they describe their organization:

  code4lib isn't entirely about code or libraries. It is a volunteer-driven
 collective of hackers, designers, architects, curators, catalogers, artists
 and instigators from around the world, who largely work for and with
 libraries, archives and museums on technology stuff. It started in the
 fall of 2003 as a mailing
 listhttp://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/code4lib/when a group
 of library programmers decided to create an overarching
 community agnostic towards any particular language or technology.

 I'm unable to attend due to other obligations, but, it might be something
 others have interest in. Would be a great opportunity to combine our
 powers or see where we can work together.

 http://code4lib.org/

 Is there any such grouping in India? Exploring their website, they are
 geared towards GLAM as well. Wondering that if we're going to do GLAM stuff
 in India we might benefit from interacting with such a group in India as
 well.

 warm regards,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Article Feedback Tool v5 : Indian Perspective

2011-12-21 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan

Bala, Huggle has already turned into a FPS game. Arun and I were debating
on whether we could use that as an excuse to get gamers into Wikipedia.

Srikanth,
I agree with you. You may find some feedback from me too, though I haven't
seen any feedback myself. Where do editors see the feedback ???

--

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:36 AM, Bala Jeyaraman sodabot...@gmail.comwrote:

 rediff/TOI comment board in Wikipedia!!.

 If this is added in India articles, we would need a  huggle like first
 person shooter for feedback moderation to keep things sane.

 On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan 
 srik@gmail.comwrote:

 All,

 Some of you might have followed the recent improvement with Artcle
 Feedback Tool v5 (AFTv5) , for those who didnt please read[1]. Even before
 reading the entire page, something struck me. The design is
 strangely synonymous with Indian comment boards. I strongly feel, having
 this on India articles will generate more trash than any feedback and 100x
 load more on editors to cut the junk, moderate etc. If you are not familiar
 with Indian message boards, please read[2] (That was a very tough RS to
 catch which is self mocking given the site's reputation!). AFTv5 is looking
 for feedback, I hope this thread can give some constructive feedback given
 the list audience's familiarity with Indian message boards.

 PS : Am also poking Oliver Keyes to follow this thread.

 [1]
 http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/12/20/a-new-way-to-contribute-to-wikipedia/

 [2]  http://www.rediff.com/getahead/2007/oct/24sidin.htm

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

2011-12-21 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan

Alternatively, you could inform an Account Creator that you are going
to have a program between this and that time, and all go request
accounts. Simple.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

2011-12-21 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan

On 12/21/11, Subhashish Panigrahi psubhash...@gmail.com wrote:
 +1 Sudhanwa.

 A bot enabled system would be an ideal approach. Some of the members
 actively involved in Community outreach activities could be given
 authorization to request for an authorization on the day of/before the
 academy.

 Subha

 On 21 December 2011 15:50, Vickram Crishna vvcris...@radiophony.com wrote:



 On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar 
 sudhanwa@gmail.com wrote:

 Probably some bot mechanism will work better.
 People may not know the IP address from the venue before they start
 working.

 Just setup a page where such IPs can be put up and a bot checks them
 every 1-2 hours or so and enables IPs for 3-4 days. Authorisations for
 specific users who are co-ordinating the event can be given well in
 advance to add such IP entries.

 That will help reduce communication and delay due to time zone related
 things.


 This will be the best approach. Pradeep and Pranav (Kundan and I were
 present, among others) had faced exactly this problem at the first attempt
 to run the WikiAcademy in Mumbai. For a newbie academy, it is at least an
 hour or so before one gets around to talking about setting up new
 accounts.



 Regards
 -Sudhanwa


 On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Pradeep Mohandas
 pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:
  hi Phillipe,
 
  How much lead time would you need to enable this? Given that India and
  US are in opposite sides of the world - you guys maybe sleeping while
  we request an unblock.
  What venues can we request an unblock - en email to you? On wiki-tech
 IRC?
 
  Pradeep
  Handheld
 
  On 21/12/2011, Nitika ntan...@wikimedia.org wrote:
 
 
  but I wanted to be sure you know that I can lift the cap of 7 account
  creations per day, if you let me know what day you're doing
 something. :)
 
  That's an open offer to anyone doing outreach...
 
 
  Hey Phillipe,
 
  I am now aware that there is a possibility of releasing an IP from
  this
  rule. But I learnt this the hard way! I sat through an outreach
  session
  where we encountered blocking of IP and the participants were very
  disappointed because they could not create their usernames. There is
 another
  mail from Subhashish which echoes similar experience.
 
  By way of working on this document and putting together small tips
  like
  these will make sure that others don't go through this pain. I'd
 encourage
  everyone to put their thoughts/learnings here so that all of us can
 benefit
  out of it and make our outreach sessions more effective.
 
  Thanks
  Nitika
 
 
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages

Ravi, while this is a positive sign of development, it isn't all that
great news. Majority of India that uses Android uses v2.x which lacks
support. This includes the Aakash as well.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages

Srikanth, Android is not like Windows, where you get the latest
version and install. You can upgrade only if your device manufacturer
offers one. My dads Dell runs on 2.1 which cannot be upgraded. My
sister uses an Optimus which runs on 2.2 and can be upgraded to 2.3.
Also, Android is no longer ELITE. Android devices are available for as
low as 6k. The Dell, I mentioned earlier now retails for less than 6K.

On 12/22/11, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 16:23, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Majority of India that uses Android uses v2.x


 That Majority is elite enough to upgrade sooner IMHO.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi

Congrats Subha, I knew you'd make it big someday, but didn't expect it
this soon. I hope your editing doesn't take a backseat due to this.
You will very much be missed by the Bangalore Community. After all,
you're less than a year young here and you've been leading practically
more than half the meetups in the city. Congrats, and All the Very
Best in your new position.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages

ePandit,
Does this work on Android Eclaire, Froyo, and Gingerbread? These
three are used extensively in India.

On 12/22/11, ePandit | ई-पण्डित sharma.shr...@gmail.com wrote:
This is an exciting news. We were waiting for Indic languages support for
many years. This will make possible the reach of Indic support ready phones
and tablets to every Indian.

Text input is certainly not a problem, there are many apps which do this
perfectly. One of them is MultiLing Keyboard

Search *MultiLing Keyboard* in android market, install and select your
language in settings.

2011/12/23 Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com

+1. A lot of my classmates use Android, and they're definitely not 'elite'

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:
Srikanth, Android is not like Windows, where you get the latest
version and install. You can upgrade only if your device manufacturer
offers one. My dads Dell runs on 2.1 which cannot be upgraded. My
sister uses an Optimus which runs on 2.2 and can be upgraded to 2.3.
Also, Android is no longer ELITE. Android devices are available for as
low as 6k. The Dell, I mentioned earlier now retails for less than 6K.

On 12/22/11, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 16:23, Srikanth Ramakrishnan
parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

Majority of India that uses Android uses v2.x

That Majority is elite enough to upgrade sooner IMHO.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi

Subha, I hope as part of your new role, you can now join us in Coimbatore once.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on India Programs Team: Communications

Hisham, may I suggest that you make it mandatory that people you
employ have adequate exposure and experience with the Wiki ecosystem
like Shiju and Subha have?

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Android ICS support for Tamil and Indic languages

That would make everybody with a phone elite. Whether they have a
Nokia 1100 or Basic Music Java phone, irrespective of when they bought
it. Some people, stick to phones for years. Three, four, five too.
Difficutlt, but true.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] NDTV stealing photographs off the internet.

Heya, fellow photographer and Commons Illustrator Vinoth shared this
link on Facebook about Barkha Dutt and NDTV stealing images off the
internet. The image in the article was copyrighted. Imaging the
situation on Commons. Here's the link:
http://www.bangaloreaviation.com/2011/12/wall-of-shame-barkha-dutts-ndtv-steals.html

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Open Wiki GLAM of Serbia: Conference - Call for participation

Adethya, I assume that Vikimedija is the Serbian Wikimedia chapter.
Hence sending a mail to g...@wikimedia.org shouldn't work.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Summary and perspectives from Discussions with Indic language wikimedians - 2011

Ravi, while the idea of having English editors help out on Indic wikis
sounds good, it isn't feasible. Most Indic editors distrust us English
editors and remain aloof from us. This has happened with me on the
Hindi wiki and with community members of Tamil.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Christmas 2011 translatewiki.net Translation Rally

Heya, since I don't have internet access, I'll find a cyber cafe or
something where I'll work on this tomorrow. While I will in no way
reach 500 In Hindi, I shall do my best to reach atleast 50.

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Commons being blocked in most places.

Heya all,
Just wanted to pass this on:
Most colleges, I've seen 3, and 9/10 cyber cafes I've visited over the last
one month have blocked the Wikimedia Commons citing
commons.wikimedia.org/is blocked because it is currently categorized
as:Reference Open Image /
Media Search.

Now, how do we convince these people to unblock it?

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Commons being blocked in most places.

Tanvir, thanks for the tip:
Handy for now.
Yuvi, we will have to find an alternate workaround.
Anirudh, this be it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Coat_Systems

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Yuvi Panda yuvipa...@gmail.com wrote:

 Nice trick, but do note that the secure.* service will be going away
 at some point in the future. There is native https for every project
 now.

 On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Tanvir Rahman wikitan...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Just a trick that might be useful, use Wikimedia's secure server.
  Like https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Main_Page
 
  Regards,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Commons being blocked in most places.

2011-12-25 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan

So I spent the afternoon doing some research on this matter [on my
phone], and learnt that it isn't the network admin who has blocked the
site. The so called security software, Blue Coat, in this case, tags
the Commons as Media download site. So blocking sites in this
category, blocks Commons, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, MetaCafe, etc.
Similarily, there are some which categorise the Commons as
'Pornography' ...

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Pune hackathon scheduled 10-12 February 2012

2011-12-27 Thread Srikanth Ramakrishnan

If you look at it that way, Coimbatore deserves one too. Best, we
contact the foundation and suggest this.

On 12/28/11, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:
No such events in Bangaluuruu :(

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Sumana Harihareswara
suma...@wikimedia.org wrote:

On 12/14/2011 12:24 PM, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
You are invited to the Pune Wikimedia hackathon.

Date: 10-12 February 2012
Venue: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies Research (SICSR) at
Symbiosis International University, Pune
Extremely rough event page, soon to get more details:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Pune_Hackathon_Feb_2012

A Wikimedia hackathon is a chance to learn how to develop using
MediaWiki, Phonegap, and our other technologies, and to work alongside
experts. Software engineers, designers, and translators are welcome.
We're tentatively planning to focus on internationalisation and
localisation, mobile and offline Wikipedia access, and the gadgets
framework. I aim to get more details in the next two weeks.

If you're interested, please leave your name and your email address, or
a link to your user page, on that event page. (A real registration
system is coming soon.) Thanks!

And please feel free to publicize this elsewhere. I've heard that, when
marketing, you have to get the message to the recipient three times in
three different ways before you have a good chance they've noticed it.
So if you need something to help get the word out -- a sample
tweet/dent, a leaflet, etc. -- let me know.

Thanks!

The registration page (to request an invitation to attend) is now open.

Shortlink: http://is.gd/rjpNOA

Full link:

https://docs.google.com/a/wikimedia.org/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_USformkey=dEpiYTU3eTlaTkUxRUx1RlcwSFN2WFE6MQ#gid=0

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Small GLAM activity carried out personally.

Arnav,
I really appreciate the hard work and am hoping more users follow suit.
As for the copyright and professional guys issue, don't get tensed.
I see this kind of issue everyday, and I'm of the opinion that often it's
us Amateurs who can capture things better thru our lenses for Wikipedia.
It's what the picture conveys and NOT the picture itself that matters.
Not convinced?
Go thru Indian road network on English, you'll find two lousy, pathetic,
images of mine on the page. And I didn't add them. The community did. My
mediocre photography is appreciated by the Community The community
appreciates hard work, [as a part of the community, I do too], and will
continue to do so, because it is the net result of our efforts that the
rest of the world sees.
Cheerio.

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Ashwin Baindur ashwin.bain...@gmail.comwrote:

 Great job, Arnav. If another trip to the museum could result in published
 sources to write about it, or the Fort, then it can move from mention over
 here -

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamnagar#Places_of_interest
 to a stub of its own.

 Normally, museum directors keep copies of newspaper articles or magazines
 where their museums feature.

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 Hello everyone,

 While on vacations at my hometown Jamnagar, I thought of contributing
 something to Commons, thus I decided to start with Archaeological Museum
 Jamnagar. The Museum is superb with different variety of exhibits of
 Jamnagar like stone excavations, rifles, canons, different pictures to
 show. Thus I decided to capture those and put on commons, I am still in
 midst of processing many more images and upload them, meanwhile I have
 created a Galleryhttp://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lakhota_Museum_Jamnagar 
 on
 commons. Please do have a look at it and give your valuable
 suggestions/thoughts.
 I was charged Rs 100/- by the Museum authority and also have the receipt
 of it, thus they allow to take photographs.
 Also one interesting thing was going on in Museum, there was one other
 professional photographer taking close up shots with proper background and
 lighting of each and every artifact with the help of few other people of
 museum, on inquiring it, I came to know that Government has asked to
 digitize the whole museum, and thus he got one of the contracts to
 photograph them, but sadly all of them will be copyrighted.

 Once again the link to my gallery is
 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Lakhota_Museum_Jamnagar.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Commons being blocked in most places.

Pradeep, Arun, I tried.
Didn't work with my lab.
Lab admin refusing.
As for cyber cafes, I've managed to unblock it.
: )

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Pradeep Mohandas 
pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Also, this also gives a Wikimedian a needed excuse to talk about
 Wikipedia - a leg in the door, if you will. The Head of IT's interest
 did get piqued by being told about Commons but I'm not sure if she
 explored it much more. It was a situation that I could have positively
 exploited but I was just happy to get the restriction removed.

 Pradeep
 Handheld

 On 26/12/2011, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Pradeep Mohandas 
  pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  hi,
 
  Commons was blocked in my college too. All it took for me to get it
  unblocked was a 25 min conversation with Head of IT dept. She did the
  needful to unblock Commons. Suggest talking to the college's/cyber
  cafe's network administrator first to unblocking websites.
 
 
  This is the best way forward, the IT admin of colleges, cafes always have
  the option of overriding default filter lists. Students/colleges should
 be
  encouraged to get contact the admins and get commons/wikipedia unblocked
  and have free unrestricted access just like the local intranet. it will
  encourage using wikipedia as a reference and more students to contribute.
 
  I remember i needed to pay to browse the web at my engg college. i had
 made
  a request to make wikipedia free for access, but back at the time in
 2005,
  the admins did not take it seriously, times might have changed now.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Commons being blocked in most places.

Hey, sorry for this mail, but ionteresting thing:
Only http versions get blocked by SonicWall and BlueCoat.
https is not blocked and my friend says it cannot be blocked.
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On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
parakara.gh...@gmail.com wrote:

 Pradeep, Arun, I tried.
 Didn't work with my lab.
 Lab admin refusing.
 As for cyber cafes, I've managed to unblock it.
 : )


 On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:00 AM, Pradeep Mohandas 
 pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:

 Also, this also gives a Wikimedian a needed excuse to talk about
 Wikipedia - a leg in the door, if you will. The Head of IT's interest
 did get piqued by being told about Commons but I'm not sure if she
 explored it much more. It was a situation that I could have positively
 exploited but I was just happy to get the restriction removed.

 Pradeep
 Handheld

 On 26/12/2011, Arun Ganesh arun.plane...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Pradeep Mohandas 
  pradeep.mohan...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  hi,
 
  Commons was blocked in my college too. All it took for me to get it
  unblocked was a 25 min conversation with Head of IT dept. She did the
  needful to unblock Commons. Suggest talking to the college's/cyber
  cafe's network administrator first to unblocking websites.
 
 
  This is the best way forward, the IT admin of colleges, cafes always
 have
  the option of overriding default filter lists. Students/colleges should
 be
  encouraged to get contact the admins and get commons/wikipedia unblocked
  and have free unrestricted access just like the local intranet. it will
  encourage using wikipedia as a reference and more students to
 contribute.
 
  I remember i needed to pay to browse the web at my engg college. i had
 made
  a request to make wikipedia free for access, but back at the time in
 2005,
  the admins did not take it seriously, times might have changed now.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Season greetings: Boat Club donation!

Feels good to know that such people still exist. People who give back.
Now I shall go, try and open a Bank Account so that I may donate
something next year.

On 12/28/11, Noopur noopur.ra...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hello all,
 As we count down to the end of the year, this personal appeal to donate to
 Wikipedia, made by the Boat club was something very genuine and made me
 smile:
 http://notesandstones.blogspot.com/2011/12/v-for-wikipedia-2011.html

 I saw it thru a friend's FB page. The friend *actually* donated after he
 saw this :) I am not sure if you all have seen this already.

 Happy holidays!
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad!

The meaningful title is something people should ALWAYS follow. I've
come across this even back in 2009. You guys can create a Custom
Gujarati uploader similar to what Bala and Logic did for Tamil.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs

Write a letter, followed by a petition, get signatures, challenge the
government in Court. If it was easy, somebody would have done it
already. :-(

On 12/29/11, Shrinivasan T tshriniva...@gmail.com wrote:
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs

That was just an idea. I guess, Gautam, being a lawyer himself can
help you out on the matter.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press] : Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright curbs

Look at the United States. While agreed, NASA pics always get
featured, it's purely because they're public. Works done by Soldiers
on duty, including photographs of concerts automatically become public
domain. And we here have a government that can't even release Census
data into the Public Domain.

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*Financial Chronicle : Wikipedians say Indian govt should ease copyright
curbs*

http://www.mydigitalfc.com/knowledge/wikipedians-say-indian-govt-should-ease-copyright-curbs-992

*Wikipedia the online encyclopaedia is struggling to reproduce contents,
which are freely available in government websites.*
*
*
*Wikipedians say government copyrighting its content has hampered its
publication work in the world’s largest free online encyclopaedia. Gautam
John, a Wikipedian who is former board member and secretary of Wikimedia
India chapter, said, “There is a difference between contents of websites
being publicly accessible and contents in public domain. In India, contents
of government-funded websites are publicly accessible but they are
restricted to be in public domain.”*
*
*
*Gautam added, “In US, government websites are not only in publicly
accessible but are allowed to be in public domain that is reproduced and
publicised”. He can’t understand rationale behind government copyrighting
its websites contents, though it’s a practice inherited from colonial era.”*
*
*
*Wikipedians are asking for an open license for reproducing contents of
government websites. Gautam, said, “Its the tax payers money which was used
for generating such data. Data like census, healthcare, and others are
neither sensitive nor related to national security.*
*
*
*Wikipedians have also abandoned their project to update profiles of six
lakh Indian villages in Wikipedia. Wikipedia enables any person to
contribute matters of his or her interest on it. Tinu Cherian, a Bangalore
based Wikipedian and working in a MNC, had started the project, India
Villages, last year. Tinu, said, I completed about 1200 villages of
Karnataka and 1200 villages of Kerala. But for the time being I have
stopped the wok.” *
*
*

Regards
Tinu Cherian
pr...@wikimedia.in
http://wiki.wikimedia.in/In_the_news

Important Note : The publisher ( Financial Chronicle ) of the above news
article owns the copyrights of the article / content. Request to kindly not
reproduce or circulate the content further. The information is only shared
only with an internal community who have been featured on this article.
All copyrights are duly acknowledged.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Introducing... Maruti Suzuki's new car!

Nice. There are, however, people who pronounce Wikipedia as Whacky-pedia ... :-)

On 12/29/11, Anirudh Bhati anirudh...@gmail.com wrote:
 ... and it's called Wacky-pedia.

 Links to ads on Youtube:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcccjlpDn8M
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMLofhHCpZ8
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEKj8wkPi-U
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ-yp15rg0E

 Punchline: New definitions for a new generation

 Caught this while in cinema: http://i.imgur.com/EEZQm.jpg

 Best,
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Commons] Commons and the India relation

Thanks a lot Ansu. This is important, keeping in mind that the Commons
is virtually the backbone of EVERY Wikimedia project.

On 12/30/11, ansuman ansum...@gmail.com wrote:
 Good research Srikanth, Keep it up. We should spread awareness during
 Wikipedia Meetup/workshop/akademy. I will keep this in mind and will keep a
 small session in every wiki event I am going to conduct. Thanks :)

 On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan 
 rsrikant...@gmail.com wrote:

 Heya,

 so I went about doing some homework on the Commons and it's usage from
 both sides in India.

 Here is what I cam across.

 This isn't related at all to my previous mail

 For uploads, Commons is hardly used in India.

 Major reasons are:

 1 The ND/NC Conflict, or the I want my Picture on Wikipedia, but don't
 want it to be edited.

 Most people want their content on Wikipedia, [not Commons, but Wikipedia],
 but don't want it to be edited. I've come across numerous of these cases
 on
 Flickr and Picasa.

 2 Isn't Wikimedia a part of Wikipedia? How did you get your images out
 there?

 People are curious. They think that Wikimedia is part of Wikipedia and
 that only select stuff lands up there.

 Again, as Bala stated in Coimbatore, this myth needs to be explained. Wiki
 is for the people, of the people, by the people.

 3 No comments.

 A LOT of people want to contribute, but don't, simply because one can't
 comment on pictures on the Commons. I suggest that they upload to Flickr,
 release it under a Commons Compatible licence, and let FlickrBot take
 over.

 4 Photographs? What?

 Most people are unaware that the Commons can also host Audio and Video.
 Awareness is needed.

 5 My file isn't getting uploaded [Audio and Video]

 Most people end up using Propriety formats such as *.mp3, *.aac *.avi and
 *.mpg. They don't know or don't want to convert it to *.ogg and *.ogv.
 Again, awareness is the only solution.

 Around six months ago, F-Secure had stated that Facebook accounts for 4%
 of all uploaded images. My estimation is that atleast 10% of these images
 ALSO exists on the Commons.

 I've been trying to spread awareness about the Commons. Literally
 preaching about it in my lab, cyber cafes, and the likes.

 Alternatively, I've been trying to get people interested in the matter on
 Twitter [My test bed]. Those following me [and NOT too] would know about
 this.

 Others can look up http://t.co/lEwZkuWW

 The only things currently catalysing contributions to the Commons are:

 1 TamilWiki Media Contest.

 2 Wikipedia Takes Cities.

 3 Various Photowalks.

 4 The upcoming Wiki Loves Monuments [It will]

 Do let me know what your thoughts on this matter are.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Commons] Commons and the India relation

Thank you Arnav. I think it is good when you have 10 sources saying
that with 32 lanes, the Delhi-Gurgaon toll booth is the largest in
India, but better when you have a picture of it.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai - Is someone doing this already?

You know, I'm really surprised that this is happening only in 2012.
I'd've expected it sooner, like 2010 or so.
Offtopic note, after the runaway success of WP taketh Chennai, wy
back in 2009, I know, most of you would've forgotten, I tried
organising one in Bangalore, which never took place. I even created a
page for it. If anyone is interested, 15th Jan sounds brilliant for
it.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on ShortURL for Indic WikiProjects

Self? As in the community, right?

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on ShortURL for Indic WikiProjects

Sure. I got confused when you said, Go Buy a Domain. It sounded like
Go Buy a Tomato, not like those are cheap anyway. Tomorrow morning,
people will be wondering what the two Srikanths have been upto.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Update on ShortURL for Indic WikiProjects

Sure. I got confused when you said, Go Buy a Domain. It sounded like
Go Buy a Tomato, not like those are cheap anyway. Tomorrow morning,
people will be wondering what the two Srikanths have been upto.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Commons] Commons and the India relation

Prad, having a 2mp camera isn't an eligibility criteria here. My
initial set of junk came with one of those. I myself didn't like it.
But, I uploaded it as there were no other pics. A low per picture is
any day better than No Picture.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photos and videos from Victor (cell phones and Indian languages)

I like that first picture. It's too high a resolution for me though.
Curious- What's a Storyteller?

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photos and videos from Victor (cell phones and Indian languages)

Yes. The pictures which I upload come in the 2000 odd by 1000 odd
resolution. Which fits in snugly under 800 kb. There are exceptions
though.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] In-browser offline Wikipedia reader

Pretty interesting. I'd like to know how it works though.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Photos and videos from Victor (cell phones and Indian languages)

Thanks for the answer Amir ...

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai - Is someone doing this already?

I agree with Mr. Mohandas [not Pai] above. Incentives for Wiki takes
Cities is a big NO NO. And as for Flickr donation, I'm all for it.
During WP taketh Chennai, we had a ton of Flickr donations, which
Logic and Ganesh uploaded. Infact, we had a mini backlog which is why
I uploaded six. If we have Flickr or Picasa donations this time too, I
don't minding sitting and sorting before uploading, provided it
happens before Jan 17th.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai - Is someone doing this already?

It's not about not having tried. We all know what happens when Wiki
and money are involved. For those who don't, take a trip back to 2008
and find out what happened to Nichalp.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai - Is someone doing this already?

If it's done before and has been successful, then go ahead. I'm nobody
to force my viewpoint on others. But do remember, if one person gets
paid, others may ask. Older contributors may leave. Alternatively,
while content will increase, contributors will go down.
Cheers.

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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
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[Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

VInu THomas, was invited by Nokia for a Helicopter trip over Bangalore.
Here's the photoset of his pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinut/sets/72157628467032159/
Help convince him.
Another photographer is Vijay, aka @misgeek on Twitter.
Do help.

Hari, I think this is a good time to ask for a grant for a Kannada Media
contest.


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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

WDD,
thank you. I too sent him a message on Flickr.

I've been too busy requesting people to donate astro pics, first time I'm
looking at Roads
--

On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 1:25 PM, wheredevelsd...@hotmail.com wrote:

  As Pradeep mentioned, Iv been doing this for some time - some people are
 happy to oblige, some feel elated that their pic will be on wiki, some arnt
 willing, some dont bother to reply. I normally paste the following message
 in the comments section of the image Im interested in (Since this user has
 disabled comments, sent him a message):

 Could you please change your licensing to allow use on Wikipedia. Your
 pics are brilliant and would be of great use. Only Flickr images tagged as
 PD, BY (CC-BY) or BY SA (CC-BY-SA) are allowed on Wikipedia. Thanks!

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 Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2012 13:14:53 +0530
 From: parakara.gh...@gmail.com
 To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 Subject: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for
 some photographs.


 VInu THomas, was invited by Nokia for a Helicopter trip over Bangalore.
 Here's the photoset of his pics:
 http://www.flickr.com/photos/vinut/sets/72157628467032159/
 Help convince him.
 Another photographer is Vijay, aka @misgeek on Twitter.
 Do help.

 Hari, I think this is a good time to ask for a grant for a Kannada Media
 contest.


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 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
 Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Asking Flickr contributors for donating images to Commons (Was: Bangaloreans, help convince ....)

Just to point out that Ganeshk and KuwarOnline have been very
successful in this activity over the past 2+ years. I have been part
of it two, but not that successful. I'm useless at convincing people.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Wikipedia Takes Mumbai - Is someone doing this already?

Noopur, go for it. Write to the Chapter, write to the Foundation, if
needed, I guess Wikipedians who can may even donate to it.

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: DNA : Wikimedia Commons to feature more of Ahmedabad

All the best to all the Amdavadis out there. Make this a success, even
though it is on a working day. Good luck. Cheers,

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All the best to all the Amdavadis out there. Make this a success, even
though it is on a working day. Good luck. Cheers,

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[Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil FOSS magazine

Just thought I'd point this out. I believe it is due to the efforts of
Mr. Shrinivasan of the ILUG-C, who earlier coded the upload wizard for
Linux users. He's released a Tamil FOSS magazine. Link-
http://kaniyam.com/release-1/

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My Commons uploads, now exceeding 75.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles/Rsrikanth05

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Tamil FOSS magazine

Thanks for pointing that out Logic. I didn't open the link as my phone
takes ages to render Tamil, that too incorrectly.

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Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
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Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

Guys, Vinu has agreed to licence a few pics under a Commons Compliant
licence. Do select what you think is good and let me know. :-) cheers.

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Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Call for volunteers - GLAM / Museum initiative

Heya, while I personally may not be of much use on this project as I
can't seem to find anything in Coimbatore, I can give backend support
if required. I've been in constant touch with GLAM participants and
the UK Chapter over the last two weeks and have learned quite a lot in
the recent times.

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Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

If anyone is willing to upload, then please do so. I'm afraid I can
only do it on Saturday morning. Saturday too, I have a heavy backlog
of Commons and Wiki sorting to do in the morning followed by some
personal work in the evening. So I'll be flat out. Do help out.
Cheers.

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http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: DNA : Wikimedia Commons to feature more of Ahmedabad

Brilliant suggestion Shrini. You should get in touch with Noopur as
soon as possible as the Event is Tomorrow.

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Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Press]: DNA : Wikimedia Commons to feature more of Ahmedabad

Err, are there chances of Flickr donations?

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Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Foundation-l] Article Feedback Tool Office Hours - 6 January, 19:00 UTC, #wikimedia-office

Can someone request a separate session for East Asians? It's exactly
midnight and post for us otherwise.

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Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

Only 3.7% visiting EN? Makes my edits relating to India feel
insignificant and pointless now.  :-(

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Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

Bala, WDD, I didn't understand how. Do you mean to say that Indic
languages cater primarily to India related articles also, while
English caters to non Indian content too?
The figures might be misleading but they support my earlier theory
that wrt English, Indian students still prefer textbooks over Wiki ...

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Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Bangaloreans, help convince this fellow for some photographs.

Carry on Sir, you're doing a marvellous job. If you upload any
pictures of Hosur Road, Electronics City flyover, or so, do add Toll
Roads in India. Also post the image to the English article on Hosur
Road as currently all pictures on that article are my mediocry ...
Cheerio,

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Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

Yuvi, I agree with you. Back in 2005, when I joined Wikipedia, I
remember a teacher failing a classmate for submitting a physics
project with Citation Needed written all over it. I was smart enough
to rewrite it. I meant, use of Wikipedia for reference in everyday
study. Like for example, I studied Introduction to COBOL from the
Wikipedia article. Similarily, I studied my tenth standard history
from Wikipedia. The textbook is my natural enemy.

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Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Traffic Analysis Reports

Ashwin, I agree, but I was talking something similar to how Wiktionary
is used in Tamil. Engineering students use it a lot for everyday
studies. Bala and Surya can throw light on the matter. Anyway, it
proves that we have a long way to go in achieving Jimmy Wales' goal of
everybody having access to the sum of all knowledge but we're getting
there.

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Wikipedia Coimbatore Meetup on February 12th.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetup/Coimbatore
Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IVRCL-Vijayamangalam-Toll-Plaza.JPG

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Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian documents abroad on Wikisource?

Pradeep, from what I learnt from a fellow Wikipedian who is a law
student [Manish], if the work was originally Indian, then it should be
in the Public Domain after 60 years provided copyright isn't renewed
irrespective of which Country it is present in. Translations, however
may be copyrighted. You'll have to check individually for that.

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Aliens invaded Tamil Nadu, left their Spacship and now it is a Toll Plaza.
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