Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] BECOME AN AUTHOR: O.B.Publication's Invitation

Don't bother Srikanth, They have already achieved some bad publicity by posting such mails. :-) For sure, people will never use/refer O.B. Publication's material anywhere. -Sudhanwa On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 14:00, Dr. Krishna N.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] (no subject)

Hmmm See the lines at the end of the mail you receive from the list. Check those urls and help yourself. On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 5:39 PM, hah brother wrote: > Dear sir, > Plz Unsubscribe > > ___ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@list

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

Hi, Filters can be added in mailman so that mails with some keywords like "invite" can be blocked. This is done in many Free/Open source mailing lists. Regards -sudhanwa On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan > wrote: >>

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Wikimedia India - AGM and Election Results

>> Hello Everyone: >> >> Just to say that the AGM is over as are the EC Elections. The results >> are as below: >> >> Naveen Francis >> Sudhanwa Jogalekar >> Tinu Cherian >> >> More here along with the reports presented: >> h

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WikiConference-India 2011] [Wikimedia-in-mum] Vote for the Conference Logo

+1 for Logo2.svg. -Sudhanwa On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:15 PM, J T Dsouza wrote: > Logo2.svg. > +1 > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:06 AM, ganesh gajre > wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:19 AM, Shekhar Krishnan wrote: >>> >>> I changed the logo on the main site today, but this was rolle

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Aakash UbiSlate 7

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Vickram Crishna wrote: > "Aakash is probably great value for money. But the question is, is it the > best our students deserve. I think not." > > Some confusion, I think, about what constitutes value for money. A badly put > together device that has every possibili

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Indian Language wikipedia Statistics – 2011 September

Hi, If you can put this on some wiki page on wikipedia english or else on wikimedia India, that will give some official status and authenticity. Please consider the same alongwith keeping the article on your own blog. Regards -Sudhanwa On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Shiju Alex wrote: > Dea

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Upload the presentations

Hi, And what about photos? Where to upload them? Do we have to get permission of the people in the photographs? -Sudhanwa On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Ramesh N G wrote: > hi All > those who presented during WCI 2011, please upload their presentations to > the below category in commons, >

[Wikimediaindia-l] Translation sprint on 26th November in Pune

Hi, We are happy to announce a Translation sprint on 26th November 2011 at SICSR between 10 am to 5 pm. These are the activities in the sprint: To work on the translation of MediaWiki and MediaWiki extensions used by Wikimedia for a few hours. (and have some nice chats while doing that :-) ) Th

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mumbai hackathon followup

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > hi Sumana, > > Thanks for that update and also thanks to the Engineering team at WMF for > the Hackathon. Any possibilities on developers meeting each other and > newbies attending these? Also, any possibilities to catch up for those who >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WikimediaMobile] Let's applaud the India Hackathon

The translation sprint in Pune on 26th also went very well. Some photos and report coming up soon. Regards, -Sudhanwa On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Kul Wadhwa wrote: > Hi Arjuna, > > We were really happy with the turnout and super excited that there was > so much interest from the dev comm

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia's participation in Google Summer of Code

The paper says it so well !! +1000 to that !!! I have been doing FOSS promotion for about 11 years now (www.plug.org.in) and faced same issues all the time. Except that they now know there is something called Linux and open source, nothing much has changed in all these years. You can at least tea

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IEP Pilot - Preliminary Analysis

ripathi, SSE student and CA > - Ashwin Baindur, Mandar Kulkarni (Pune WP community members) and Sudhanwa > Jogalekar (OSM friend of WP, Pune), group interview over dinner Dear Tory, It was really nice to meet you again and have some discussions. I am not sure what is the context y

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Dr. Sengai Podhuvan 's Appeal to Fund raising banners

Hi, During WCI, some of the Pune Wikipedians and Dr. Sengai Podhuvan were staying in the same hotel. We had a nice discussion with him while going to the conference. Great energy and huge experience he has!!. We are really privileged to have met him and interact with him. Nice to see him in the

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India chapter IRC meetup

Hi, I don't think I will be able to attend any meeting this week. We will be busy in the event. Regards -Sudhanwa On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Naveen Francis wrote: > Hi friends, > > We will have our IRC meetup on Dec 17, 2011, from 9:00 pm to 10:00 pm > > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_R

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

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/recei

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Supporting Outreach

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-ordinatin

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Welcoming Subhashish Panigrahi

All the very best wishes Subha, Do drop in sometime to Pune. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Subhashish Panigrahi < psubhash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Ansuman, Ashwin and RK for the wishes, there is lot more to do with > the support of you all and I am very much glad that I wou

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

This is some gray area about fair use and some benefit of doubt can be given to media. But what the Attribution required clause? Almost all of the media violate the "Attribution required" clause all the time. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:09 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > I dug up the Indian

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

Dear Gerard, When can we expect a report about the Sprint in Pune on 26th Nov? How many translations done. languages used, no of people in the sprint etc etc. Most importantly, when can we expect the translation work to reflect on the live systems. >From my side, I have yet to upload the pictur

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

Is it possible to talk to "Blue Coat" and remove commons from their blacklist. btw, there are pictures on commons that can easily go in the porn category. Some serious admin work is needed there. -Sudhanwa On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote:

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

o somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a > construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>* > > > > On 25 December 2011 17:16, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > >> Is it possible to talk to "Blue Coat" and remove commons from their >> black

[Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo, 2011- (15 to 18 Dec. 2011)

Report on Wikipedians participation in CMDA IT Expo, 2011- (15 to 18 Dec. 2011) About CMDA: CMDA, Pune is an association of Computer and Media dealers in Pune. It is a registered organisation and is ISO 9000 certified. Recently, it is declared as the best Computer dealers association across India

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

If there is some other official photographer taking pictures, is it possible to take a similar pic after he takes a picture of whatever exhibits. That way, he can get official pictures and you can get similar but your own pictures that you can share. You can requst him to use his lighting and other

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

This is some great work!!! Nice to know that our good old FOSS friend "Kart" is also involved in Wikipedia activities!! Regards -Sudhanwa On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Looks like someone beat Gerard in blogging about it eh --> > http:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

Hmmm I don't know why people are so touchy about FOSS. If I mention "photographer" or "security" or "Media" or "engineer" instead of "FOSS", will the reaction be same? On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can we stop dragging FOSS into every

[Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia Fundraiser Concludes with Record Breaking Donations

Just in case you missed this. Wikimedia Fundraiser Concludes with Record Breaking Donations Posted by Jay Walsh on January 2nd, 2012 Our annual fundraising campaign reached a successful conclusion today having raised a record-breaking USD 20 million from more than one millio

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India: Wikipedia Takes Ahmedabad, January 2012

cs of the station. This is strange since people take pics of CST, > Mumbai without any restriction - even inside it. Strange, that! > > Pradeep > User:Prad2609 > > On 04/01/2012, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: >> Hmmm >> I don't know why people are so touchy about FOSS. &

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Mailing list Guidelines

Hi, Another guidelines page here: http://www.plug.org.in/mailing-list And (supposed to be) the master of them all is here: http://www.gweep.ca/~edmonds/usenet/ml-etiquette.html I am afraid that these are from the FOSS world and with FOSS context. Take it or leave it. -Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Design for Wikipdia India sites

Hi, The design looks nice. The photo mentions the person as a singer. Actually, it is a photograph of a person smoking a Hukka and a covered sword on the lap. Nothing to do with any musician. I also liked the current design of wikimedia.in. Rather simple but clean. If your last visit was a few da

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests

Hi, Rahul Deshmukh from Marathi Wikiedia and his team in IITB had a stall in Techfest for the promotion. (just like the CMDA stall in Pune) Some flex banners were also put up at some main positions at different venues. Total footfall count was around 1L for the Techfest. The response for Wikipedi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Outreach opportunities: Wikipedia workshops at tech fests

Some pictures of the stall at Techfest available here: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Marathi_Wikipedia_IIT_Bombay_Techfest -Sudhanwa On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Hi, > > Rahul Deshmukh from Marathi Wikiedia and his team in IITB had a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Swarooprao (MikeLynch) is our newest admin on English Wikipedia

WOW !! Congrats Swaroop Rao !!! -Sudhanwa On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Congratulations, mate! > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:MikeLynch#Congratulations > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > -- > > __

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Petition Response: Digitizing Federal Public Records

I think amendments for the current copyeight act are coming soon. However, there is hardly any chance that Govt. work will be released copyright free. Regards -Sudhanwa On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Thanks for this post, wheredevelsdare. > > Its high time someone in

[Wikimediaindia-l] W11 Pune Meet up.

Group) followed by Chapter briefing by EC Member Sudhanwa Jogalekar. Pune SIG lead Mandar Kulkarni shared a presentation of Marathi Wikipedia which included the history and the journey of Marathi Wikipedia. The presentation also explained the common mistakes made by users during editing. The details

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] W11 Pune Meet up.

_Prabodhini Regards -Sudhanwa On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > *Update on Wiki11 Pune Meet up:* > > > On behalf of Pune Community and Pune chapter, we celebrated the 11th > Anniversary of Wikipedia and the 1st Anniversary of Indi

[Wikimediaindia-l] Article on Marathi Wikipedia in the second edition of Marathi e-Sahitya_Sammelan

Hi, Article on Marathi wikipedia is published in the second edition of Marathi e-Sahitya_Sammelan. Marathi e-Sahitya_Sammelan.was inaugurated by the famous Marathi poet "Grace" ( http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B8) on 28 Jan 2012. Please read it here: http:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Article on Marathi Wikipedia in the second edition of Marathi e-Sahitya_Sammelan

-inaugurated/905061/ Regards -Sudhanwa On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Hi, > > Article on Marathi wikipedia is published in the second edition of Marathi > e-Sahitya_Sammelan. > Marathi e-Sahitya_Sammelan.was inaugurated by the famous Marathi poet >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Report on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II

Hi, On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Anshuman Fotedar < anshuman.fote...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings! This is a short note on Wikipedia Takes Mumbai II. Forty > people turned up near the Oval Maidan at Churchgate at 8 am yesterday. The > landmarks that were photographed included the Babulnat

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Did you know

Hi, Thanks Gerard and the team in background to make this happen quickly. We are already ready with some scanned books and even more are coming up in Unicode !! Best regards -Sudhanwa On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > The Marathi Wikisource now exists as a Wiki. I

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Urgent help required! Wikipedia Academy at GNUNIFY techfest, SICSR, Model Colony, Pune on 11th Feb 2012 from 10AM to 1 PM

Dear Ashwin, I have talked to Alolita and she will be releasing some people from hackathon to help you in your session. Arnav, Pratik and Debanjan* *have also offered help already. Dexter, Harshad will be there for any other technical, logistics help. Best wishes for the academy. Sorry, could

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] GLAM-India: Wikipedia and NHHM collaboration

Congrats !!! May I suggest to create QR entries also alongwith the regular GLAM work for the museum. The could be a great start for this GLAM project and will also give real value addition to the museum. Don't know how much efforts and technical resources will be required for the same. Regards -

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-in-en] WikiProject India Report for January 2012

Hi, On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Barry Newstead wrote: > +1 and add my thanks to AshLin.  I was just discussing the question Anirudh > raises with the India Programs team 12 hours ago.  There are different > discussions to be had wrt helping young/new editors integrate into the en:wp > commun

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Wikimania 2012 - scholarship applications, Deadline : 16 Feb 2012

I have already applied. What about others? -Sudhanwa On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Tinu Cherian (Wikimedia India) wrote: > A gentle reminder of the Deadline of TODAY for the application of Wikimania > Scholarships ! > > Regards > Tinu Cherian > Wikimedia India > > > On 1/25/2012 5:19 PM, Ch

[Wikimediaindia-l] Invitation for Wikipedia seminar and Marathi Wikisrot Launch program on 25th Feb

Dear All, A symposium on "Wikipedia" is planned on 25th Feb. on the occasion of "Marathi Bhasha Divas” which is on 27th Feb. The program includes seminar on Wikipedia and launching of "Marathi Wikisrot" which we were waiting to release for a long time. Well-known theatre and film personality "Amo

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Announcing Noopur Raval as Consultant, Wikimedia Foundation (India Program, Communications)

Congratulations Noopur!! Do come to Pune for some meetups and academies. -Sudhanwa On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:19 PM, Hisham wrote: > Dear All, > > I am pleased to announce that Noopur Raval ([User:Noopur28] has been > selected as Consultant to the Wikimedia Foundation, and will support > Communi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Sreejithk2000 is now an admin on Commons

Congrats Sreejith !! Please help us in clearing the confusion for copyrights and licensing of images/AV files and also their formats. Congrats again!! -Sudhanwa On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Hi all, >     I am happy to share the news  that  User:Sreejithk2000

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

Hi, Let me take the focus of discussions back to the report/s where it all started. On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Hisham wrote: > > > On Mar 7, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Pradeep Mohandas wrote: > > > In retrospect, I also understand the need for seperating the Foundation > activities as well. I think

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

e some former IEP > participants but also lots of new faces and myself :). > > > Warm regards, > > Ashwin Baindur > -- > > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar > wrote: >> >> Hi, >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > I would like to add here that Nitika's & Subashish's presentation was a > great one for me to customise with my slides. I strongly recommend that > rather than recreate the wheel their presentation be used by all those > planning English lang

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] India Program: Community Monthly Report: Feb 2012

Dear Shiju, On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Shiju Alex wrote: >> IEP volunteers The discussion started off with the India Program report and I believe that IEP is completely part of IP. Moreover, they are Wikipedia volunteers from IEP as it is their reference/starting point, just like you refer

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Encyclopaedia Britannica stops the print version

Just curious to know the copyright status of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Those URLs say that the first one was published in 1768 !!! And its 2010 edition will be the last in print -Sudhanwa On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Shiju Alex wrote: > http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/technology/encyclop

[Wikimediaindia-l] Report on a Symposium on Wikipedia and also on the launch of Marathi Wikisource

rogram started at about 2:15 pm and ended at about 5:30 pm. The program started with the welcome message by Dr. Ujjwala Barve who is the Head of the department. Initial session on “Introduction to Wikipedia” was done by Sudhanwa Jogalekar. He gave an overview of Wikipedia, related projects and

[Wikimediaindia-l] (OT ?) 8, 200+ Strong, Researchers Band Together To Force Science Journals To Open Access

8,200+ Strong, Researchers Band Together To Force Science Journals To Open Access Read more here: http://singularityhub.com/2012/03/18/8200-strong-researchers-band-together-to-force-science-journals-to-open-access/ -- Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.c

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My post to User:Prad2609

Don't worry Srikeit , That is a temporary phase. IIRC, he was out of the mailing list/s also some weeks/months back. :-) Let him take some wikiholidays and come back afresh. Regards -Sudhanwa On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Srikeit wrote: > [Something I posted as a message to Pradeep's talk

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipatrika: Next Issue

Dear Hisham, As far as understand, there is no such thing on Marathi mailing list. All the usual mailing list guidelines apply there. If you face any problems, have you raised it to any list administrators? Please be careful when writing such statements. Regards -Sudhanwa On Wed, Mar 28, 2012

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Ads Injected into Wikipedia?

Hi, Next time when anyone gets such ad, please take a screenshot and also view the source of the page and save it. That source will help find the source of the ads. HTH -Sudhanwa On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan wrote: > The ads don't show up on https, ONLY on http. > It d

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Download as ODT in Indic Wikipedia's

Fantastic !! +100 :-) -Sudhanwa On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Srikanth Lakshmanan wrote: > Hello all, > > Most of know the "Download as PDF" feature is not usable on Indic wikis > with Collection Extension due to issues in PDF generation with complex > scripts. While we hope this gets fixed, i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Download as ODT in Indic Wikipedia's

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:51 PM, sankarshan wrote: > On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Gautam John > wrote: > > > Oh man. This, apart from solving a current problem with Indic > > languages and PDFs, is such an awesome way to drive adoption of > > OpenDocument Formats and Open/Libre Office in India.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] OT: Open Content and Open Educational Resources in India

Hi, I am sure you must have seen the resources from UNESCO. If not, here are some links that can help. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/resources/news-and-in-focus-articles/all-news/news/launch_of_the_unesco_open_educational_resources_platform/ That could be a more of p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS.in - call for proposals open till 8 July

If we can do some plans for talks/technical seminars/hands on etc, I can talk to my organiser friends there. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < parakara.gh...@gmail.com> wrote: > So FOSS.IN is back I see. We were supposed to have had a slot back in > 2009, but n

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] FOSS.in - call for proposals open till 8 July

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Arun Ganesh wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar < > sudhanwa@gmail.com> wrote: > >> If we can do some plans for talks/technical seminars/hands on etc, I can >> talk to my organiser friends there.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Server error

Well, If you want to use IRC on the web itself, such errors can not be avoided. In such scenerio, use the irc client on your PC. I think MIRC is the usual IRC client on windows and xchat and many others available on linux. If the irc server itself is having problems and giving errors , none of th

[Wikimediaindia-l] Media coverage on Ahirani wikipedia

Hi, There is a coverage in Daily Divyamarathi in the Jalgaon edition. Please check out here: http://epaperdivyamarathi.bhaskar.com/jalgaon/253/06072012/0/1/ Regards -Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog: www.sudhanwa.in Twitter: sudhanwa Check

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki-Women Conference India

Dear Nikita, Nice to know about the initiative and the event in Pune. Wikipedians in/around Pune will be very happy to conduct the event. We do have women editors in SNDT, Ranade institute, Jnanaprabodhini school and some other places who will be really interested in the event. Please let us kn

[Wikimediaindia-l] Meetup in Pune on 18th August

Dear Wikipedians, We have a meetup on 18th August 2012 at SICSR. Do join us. Abhishek has already posted this. Agenda : -Introductions of new members. -Background of Wikipedia and Pune Activities for newbies. -Discussions about future programs and events in Pune (Wik

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Help needed for WLM

Hi, On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Karthik Nadar wrote: > Hi all, > > just to update you all that Wiki Loves Monuments is starting from 1st of > September (this Saturday). > > There are certain things where we are lagging behind, and need big help > from the community. > >1. We need some (

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Women Workshop Report

Great work !! And a nice report too!! Is it possible to have some followup events for this activity. Some women meetup every 2-3 months will be a good way to keep everyone in touch and to have better interaction. Congrats to all the volunteers, co-ordinators and participants for a successful even

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

Hi, In spite of so many mails, if he(Rahul) is not responding, It is obvious that he is not on this mailing list. I found Bodhisattwa's initial query was in the right spirit but later on tones got changed on the thread and it has almost become scrutiny/interrogation !! I completely understand/res

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimania tour of Rahul Desmukh

On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 3:47 PM Subhashish Panigrahi wrote: > Just a technical clarification - Asaf copied Rahul in his first emai so he > must have received the email. I have copied Rahul again. In worst case > scenario (if he is not there in the mailing list), others from the chapter > board wou

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] South India Wikimedia Copyright workshop on 20-21 October 2018

Hi, Even though I am very much interested, I wont be able to join there. Can you please record this whole event and release it publicly so that interested people like me can watch and gain some knowledge out of it. Thanks and regards -Sudhanwa On Tue, Oct 2, 2018 at 2:21 PM Tito Dutta wrote:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikisource OCR tool

Many thanks Jay for your work. Will check out the code. What is the Google terms and conditions for using their OCR services? A link to that will also help. Regards Sudhanwa On Tue, Nov 27, 2018, 9:05 PM Jay prakash <0freerunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > @Shrinivasan T, You can find the source at

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikidata] Structured data on Commons: Multilingual captions beta testing

Hi, Good initiative !! Not sure if the categories are translated in various languages and/or cross linked across languages. I suppose that will help more than putting multilingual captions. Regards Sudhanwa On Tue, Dec 18, 2018, 3:22 AM Tito Dutta wrote: > > Might be of great interest. > > T

[Wikimediaindia-l] WMF complying to court orders.

Hi, Please check out this news from WMF. https://wikimediafoundation.org/2019/04/11/a-german-court-forced-us-to-remove-part-of-a-wikipedia-articles-history-heres-what-that-means/ This means WMF accepts court rulings across the world and take action accordingly. What can happen in the case of Ind

[Wikimediaindia-l] WMF complying to court orders.

Dear Indian Wikimedians, I had sent this mail earlier also and was expecting some comments on it. Somehow not a single person has replied to this mail. We talk so much on the list on many insignificant things. Many times WMF people also add their comments/views in it. But for such an important top

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMF complying to court orders.

tories? >> >> This is why I see a kind of conflict between law and the way technology >> (Wikis, in this case) seem to be evolving >> >> In some cases at least, the Wikipedia should challenge the rulings of the >> courts. (This one seemed to offer little time to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Co-option of New Executive Committee member to Wikimedia India

Hi, There are many people like Ashwin (and myself) who were members right from the beginning of WMIN. However, later on they dropped out due to various reasons (like tedious renewal process etc.). We wish to continue further again. I suppose reconnecting the old members could be a good initiativ

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Support for our communities across India

Hi, I have replied on the thread on meta. Copying that content here for reference: Anirudh has already mentioned most of the points I also wanted to say. (Check here: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/2019-July/014215.html) I will add a few more things here. WMF is very very ke

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Santhosh Thottingal wins the President's Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman for 2019

That's a great news !! Santosh really deserves this !! Congratulations !! On Thu, Aug 15, 2019, 10:27 PM manoj k wrote: > Santhosh Thottingal > > has won the Maharshi Badrayan

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WikiConference India 2020: Initial conversations

IRC date mentioned is 20 August. It should be October I suppose. On Mon, Oct 14, 2019, 10:32 PM pavan santhosh wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We have a few updates regarding the WikiConference India 2020 proposal for > Hyderabad. Firstly, we are happy to share the news that there has been a > very

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Making of a ScanBox - DIY Scanner

Hi, Thats a nice design. Reminded me of another one shared long time back by a senior wikipedian Shymal. Here it is: https://www.instructables.com/id/Copy-Stand-Cheap-and-easy-to-build/ That has a SLR camera. That can be easily replaced with a mobile phone. Worth trying out. Regards -Sudhanwa O

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Netha wins 2020 RedHat Women in Open Source Award!

Congratulations Dr. Netha !! And thanks Subha for the update !! On Wed, Apr 29, 2020, 8:48 PM Subhashish wrote: > Hope everyone is keeping safe and well in a difficult time like now. There > is a good news - Netha Hussain has won the 2020 RedHat Women in Open Source > Award. [1][2] > > Congratu

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fundraising in India - Launched

Hi, Here is some note by Amit Abhyankar on Facebook. There are similar comments on this post. - I guess most of us have received this message when accessing Wikipedia. While there is nothing wrong in asking for donations, I didn't like the tone of this appeal. The way it says '

[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: We are looking for Trainers to Conduct pre training sessions for Wikimedia Hackathon

Hi, All the tools/applications mentioned are free/open source softwares. However, there is no mention of Foss concepts. I suppose it is very much essential as there is lot of confusion in the concepts. I can take up a session on Foss fundamentals, licensing etc. Regards Sudhanwa On Wed, Jul 6

[Wikimediaindia-l] Re: Wikiconference India 2023 -what's happening?

WOW!! I completely agree with Pavanja !! Looks like this conference is some kind of secret mission!! There is hardly any activity about it on the mailing list or even on wiki. For no reason, secrecy is seen everywhere eg. Check the team page. Asaf says, ad hoc attendance is discouraged. But w

[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: Invitation for Wiki contests and fellowship by The Heritage Lab

I am wondering what kind of heritage these people are building in heritage labs!! Even the theme says post colonial India!! Looks like they have nothing to do with our history, culture, heritage of thousands of years. Probably, they still want to remain in the colonial India heritage. That can't

[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: Announcing Wiki Loves Muslim Academia 2024

On Sat, Jan 13, 2024, 3:35 PM Arvind Menon wrote: Religion Work on Wiki? > You might be considering this in this context. Deoband Community is funded by CIS https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deoband_Community_Wikimedia :-( > On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 at 15:25, The Aafi wrote: > >> Greetings e

[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: Court Verdict on Wikipedia

Hi, It seems that you have some information about the court case. Please share the same with us. eg. who is representing WMF in the case. Looks like you have a bias about the news site already !! Very much contradictory to a normal Wiki editor !! If the court has accepted the case and asked for d

[WikimediaIndia-l] Re: Court Verdict on Wikipedia

Dear Subhashish, Good to see your declaration about writing in personal capacity and not as any wmf person. Earlier, that disclaimer used to the first line in any mail by any wmf person. I have just one line about you in my earlier message and that too about the unusual contradictory behaviour a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki meetup at Mumbai - 2010 September 20

On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Bishakha Datta wrote: > There's a bunch of photos here too > http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/album.php?aid=217876&id=614521156 > > Bishakha H. I am not on FB. Any publicly available URLs? -Sudhanwa [snip] -- ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [mr-wiki] Minutes of Pune Wikipedia Meetup 18th Sept. 2010

Some photos were taken at the end of the Pune meeting. Can someone post those pictures please. Regards -Sudhanwa On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 12:01 PM, Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia < mahit...@yahoo.co.in> wrote: > > > Dear Wikimedians , > > Thank you all for the overwhelming response to the 2010

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Question for Hindi Wikipedians

I think locationwise analysis will also be interesting to see in this case. My guess is Hindi users will be primarily from India and US/CA/UK whereas Tamil users will be from India, SriLanka, Singapore, Malasia etc. -Sudhanwa On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Frank Schulenburg wrote: > Hi All,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Renumbering of National Highways of India

FYI Train numbers are also going to be changed now. 4 digit nos to be changed to 5 digits. That is going to be a comparatively easy task as "1" to be added before the current number. So, be prepared to change that information also. -Sudhanwa On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Shiju Alex wrote: >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] More News articles on Barry's visit and Wikimedia

One more here in Daily Sakal (Marathi newspaper) http://72.78.249.124/esakal/20100927/5062091741478980427.htm -Sudhanwa On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 7:40 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > + more : > PTI / The Hindu > : http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/internet/article797083.ece > The Hindu : http://

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] More News articles on Barry's visit and Wikimedia

Yet another media coverage in Marathi here. It is from Maharashtra Times newspaper. http://maharashtratimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/6628008.cms -Sudhanwa On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > One more here in Daily Sakal (Marathi newspaper) > > http://72.7

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Proposal: Wiki Marathon

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:21 PM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > How will we quantify the efforts on the same day without a theme ? Blind > editing on anything can be "done on any day". If we can stick to a theme ( > any) , we can see the results by the end of the day. > > Commenwealth was just a su

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Malayalam WIkipedia /Wikimedia Academy - Madurai , Tamil Nadu- 21 Sep 2010

Hi, I will be travelling to Madurai, Erode from 1-4 Dec. and would like to meet wikipedians there. I am expected to have some free time in the evenings in Madurai on 1st. and on the other days in Erode. If anyone is interested, please send me a mail offlist so that we can exchange our contacts a

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] indiawikipedia ?

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 8:03 AM, CherianTinu Abraham wrote: > Please see this website http://www.indiawikipedia.com/ > Do you think the website violates Wikipedia / WMF copyrights ? The site has > nothing to do with Wikipedia or its cause too. > Just bringing into the attention of all. > Now that

[Wikimediaindia-l] Confirmation: Wikipedia:Meetup /Pune3 on Monday Dec. 13, 2010 6:30 pm @ SICSR

Hi ! A Meet up has been organised on 13th December, 2010 at Pune. This is third wikimeetup in Pune. Erik Möller,Deputy Director,Wikimedia Foundation, Danese Cooper , Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation, Alolita Sharma , Engineering Programs Manager, Wikimedia Foundation will be attend

[Wikimediaindia-l] Talk by Abhay Natu on Wikipedia in CMDA IT Expo Pune

Hi, We will have a talk on Wikipedia by Abhay Natu in the CMDA IT expo in Pune. Date: 10 Dec. time 5-6 pm. Venue: CMDA ITExpo, Mariott hotel and convention centre, Senapati Bapat road, Pune. This talk is arranged at the last minute. We got this opportunity due to un-availability of their origin

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