[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

[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: 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: 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: 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: 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

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 '

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

[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

[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

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

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] 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] 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] 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] India community mailing list admins

Hi, Recently, there was a major subscription attack to all the mailing lists. Email ids from aol and yahoo were used to subscribe in bulk. Probably, during the corrective measures, this kind of problem might have occurred. In case of any posting issues, raising them to the list admins usually so

[Wikimediaindia-l] Just a gentle reminder about Gnunify 2018 !!

Just a gentle reminder about Gnunify 2018 !! Just a few days remaining for the conference now !! Delegate registration is already open !! Check out http://gnunify.in/ for tracks, talks, schedule etc. Regards -Sudhanwa ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~! web: www.sudhanwa.com blog

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] New Wikimedia India Executive Committee is Inducted

Congratulations !! That is a nice mix of new and old members !! All the best wishes to the team !!! Regrds -Sudhanwa On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Yohann Thomas wrote: > Dear One & all > > As you are aware, Wikimedia India (WMIN) recently in April had its > election for all its 7 Executi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Verification and approval of candidates.

Dear Vishwa, >From whatever you have mentioned, my name should also be there. (Especially considering that shantanu Mahajan's name is included . We send our money, docs together). Many more questions arise further. How elections can happen for previous year with this year's voters? At least the v

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Verification and approval of candidates.

Hi, I am not sure how the voter list is prepared. If the elections are for 2016, i feel that eligibility should be as per that year and not current year. Can elecom, EC give explanation on this. Regards Sudhanwa On Mar 29, 2017 12:57 PM, "Abhijeet Safai" wrote: > Dear All, > > Greetings! > >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Announcing the Hardware donation program

On Mar 21, 2017 4:36 AM, "Abhishek Suryawanshi" < i.abhishek.suryawan...@gmail.com> wrote: Great initiative! Is there any way to contribute to this initiative? ex - I have additional devices and I would like to donate. You can donate your pocket projector to me ;-) Regards Sudhanwa Best, A

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: First IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2016

Thanks. will check out. Regards -Sudhanwa On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:26 PM, Yohann Thomas wrote: > Dear Sudhanwaji > > As mentioned in my original email > > The link to the IRC is as below: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Internet_Relay_Chats/March_19,_2017 >>> > You can find

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: First IRC for Wikimedia Chapter Executive Committee Elections-2016

Please update us on the happenings there. Any IRC log available? On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 8:53 PM, Yohann Thomas wrote: > IRC will be starting in 10 minutes. > Request all potential candidates & members to join & clear all doubts > > Regards, > Yohann > > Yohann Thomas > yohan...@gmail.com > > O

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] does anybody have any of the kiwix CD/DVD images

Apart from Kiwix, you can check out this wikitaxi. Not sure if it is older than kiwix. https://www.yunqa.de/delphi/products/wikitaxi/index Their facebook page is from 2015. No activity further there. Regards -Sudhanwa On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Naveen Francis wrote: > Hope this link wil

[Wikimediaindia-l] "Marathi Bhasha Din" celebrated on 27 February

Every year, Marathi Bhasha Din is celebrated on 27 February. This year also it was celebrated across Maharashtra and also within the Marathi community across the world. Maharashtra Government took a great initiative this year to promote Marathi Wikipedia. Government published many advertisements f

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Final draft of Conflict of Interest policy for Wikimedia India

Hi, Any updates on WMIN activities? Especially considering the recent stopping of NGO operations related to FCRA. Regards -Sudhanwa On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Yohann Thomas wrote: > Dear Community > > Wikimedia India has made a final draft for the Conflict of Interest > policy(attached)

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Nibhish Technologies :: Offline, Online and Form filling Data Processing

Congratulations for becoming a spammer in your first introductory mail !!! That IS some achievement !!! On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:07 PM, arun vm wrote: > This is a spam mail otherhand i dont want to recive such mails > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Sunil papaiah568 < > sunilpapaiah...@gmail

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Chapters] Public Domain Day coming: action needed

FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: "Romaine Wiki" Date: Dec 12, 2016 7:29 AM Subject: [Chapters] Public Domain Day coming: action needed To: "Affiliates discussion list" , "Wikimedia Chapters general discussions" Cc: "Wikimedia & GLAM collaboration" Hi all, Every year on the fir

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1194, Issue 1

Hi, Usually, wikipedians start off with great enthusiasm but then get disoriented and off target quickly. Volunteers could be great editors but creating a conference requires altogether different skills. Doing some activitiy online and running a conference or even an organisation is a completely d

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Media of the day, 14 Oct 2016

o improve Wikipedia. Regards -Sudhanwa > > > Regards, > Jayanta Nath > > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 11:25 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar < > sudhanwa@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> With due respect to the videographer and his intentions, but then

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Media of the day, 14 Oct 2016

Hi, With due respect to the videographer and his intentions, but then what is that video about? What is so great about the video to become video of the day? It shows some people moving around across some pavilions, some dirty roads and stray dogs. Are there any guidelines for a good video. Rather

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] seeking help with Hindi projects in Wikisource...

Hi, Google OCR for Devnagari (Languages like Hindi, Marathi etc) is used by many. Accuracy is about 85-90% which is pretty good. There is a paid OCR software available that gives better results. Can share the name if you are interested. I doubt if there is in-wikisource support for OCR in Indic l

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Scholarship decision for WCI 2016 participation has been finalized

Hi, Congrats to the scholarship recipients !! Is there any regret mail sent to other applicants? Regards -Sudhanwa On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi, > > Scholarship decision for WCI 2016 participation has been finalized. > > We have offered 103 scholarships covering 20

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gujarati Wikisource completed - "Saraswatichandra".

Congrats to the Gujarati Wikisource volunteers. Please also mention the book details like author, publisher etc. Remember cc-BY license ? Regards Sudhanwa On May 31, 2016 7:34 AM, "sushant savla" wrote: > Dear Friends, > > We are pleased to announce that Gujarati Wikisource has uploaded one of

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - March 2016 Monthly Report

re many people like Ashwin, Arun, Arjuna, myself and many more across the country who want to help out WMIN and take it further. If nobody speaks up and tells us the current situation, their experience and energies are not utilised at all. Regards -Sudhanwa > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - March 2016 Monthly Report

Hi, Except for "Wikimedian for the month", there is hardly anything on the activities of WMIN. What is the current status of EC members, what is the fiancial situation, what are the projects being worked out?? Absolutely nothing is coming out from EC for the last few months.. rather for an year

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Setting Up of the Advisory Council at Wikimedia India

Gill > > On 01-Apr-2016, at 11:09 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar > wrote: > > Dear Bodhisattwa, > > > > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < > bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Hi all, >> >> Thanks Satdeep for the nomination

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1079, Issue 1

Hi, [snip] On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:13 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > > I have gone through the nomination page and questions asked to the > candidates. My choice would be* Nataliia Tymkiv* and *Kunal Mehta. * > Other candidates, except few, are also

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Re: Setting Up of the Advisory Council at Wikimedia India

Dear Bodhisattwa, On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Thanks Satdeep for the nomination. I am really honored. > > But I am very sorry that I cannot accept the nomination, as I am being > provided infrastructure support from W

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Setting Up of the Advisory Council at Wikimedia India

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:20 PM, Abhinav Srivastava < abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > Hi Sankarshan, > > Please be assured, although your concerns are genuine but they do not hold > any weight. The only people who are somewhat intimately associated with the > Chapter are its founder memb

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Affiliate Board Selection

I will prefer Siska. No idea about others. -Sudhanwa On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Abhinav Srivastava < abhinav.srivast...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > > > > Dear All, > > > The Wikimedia chapters and thematic organizations select two members for > the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. We, as

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - February 2016 Monthly Report

Thanks for the report Priyanka. Can the EC reply to my previous mails. Regards -Sudhanwa On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 12:18 AM, Priyanka Tiwari wrote: > Greetings from Wikimedia India! > > Wikimedia India would like to share the monthly report of February 2016. > Looking forward for your valuable

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Signing off as WMIN Program Director

Hi, On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Only today I realised that Ravi is leaving WMIN as staff permanently. I > had a feeling that after the crisis is over, he will resume his post, but > looks like I was wrong. > Can you plea

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikimedia India Chapter - January 2016 Monthly Report

You are missing out many more things. I had replied earlier to Yohan's mail. He has not replied to it. -Sudhanwa On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Priyanka wrote: > Apologies for missing out a key news. > > Our Program Director Mr. Ravishankar Ayyakkannu resigned. We all > appreciate his ende

[Wikimediaindia-l] GNUnify 2016 on 12,13 Feb.... Join us there...

GNUnify 2016 is very close by. Just a day left now Join us to gain more knowledge on IOT. Do some hands on on devices !! Understand what Unicode is. Create fonts in lab !!! Understand your web presence using Drupal !! Dont miss the BIG DATA !!! All this is happening at GNUnify !!! And its all

[Wikimediaindia-l] GNUnify 2016 delegate registraton

Hi friends, You must be aware of our annual FOSS conerence GNUnify. This year, it is happening on 12,13 February. Delegate registration is already open. Schedule will be published soon. Please register on the website www.gnunify.in. See you at the conference. Regards -Sudhanwa -- ~!~!~!~!~!

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Fwd: Open letter to the community

Hi Yohann, I am confused by your mail. Not able to understand whether a. you are trying to defend (/give their perspective of) EC or you are blaming/bashing EC b. talking about current office bearers and/or talking about previous office bearers who left abruptly. c. What is the paid employees ro

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Requesting meetup at Pune and Mumbai -Dec 2015

Dear Pavanja, In Pune, am available on 25 afternoon (and possibly on 24 evening) Do let me know about your schedule so that we can meet. Regards Sudhanwa On Dec 20, 2015 11:39 AM, "Dr. U.B. Pavanaja" wrote: > I will be in Mumbai on 22 & 23, 2015 and at Pune on 24 & 25, 2015. I would > like to

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-IN-PUN] English Wikipedia has 5 million articles!

WOW !! Wish all the Indian language Wikipedia also grow equally fast. Logo is also nice !! -Sudhanwa On Nov 1, 2015 9:17 PM, "Ashwin Baindur" wrote: > English Wikipedia has 5 million articles! Yippee! > > 5,000,354 at this moment :) > > Kudos to the community of English Wikipedia editors for

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Phase 1 of Wiki Loves Food contest extended till May 7, 2015

Looks like the pictures in this phase a slightly better. I am still not convinced about the whole contest process and the prizes. Just have a look at the food pictures here: http://finedinelove.com/art-of-food-loving-food-through-photographs/?utm_source=outbrain&utm_medium=discovery&utm_campaign=F

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Phase 1 of Wiki Loves Food contest extended till May 7, 2015

Hi, Looks like extending the date has not much impact on the number and quality of pictures. There are about 440 pictures uploaded and many of them are just fruit, vegetable pictures. Could not understand what is "aesthetic" in those pictures. Considering the quantity as well as quality of pictu

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Hi

Hi, I got this message in my spam folder. Talks about paid wikipedia. Anyone knows about this or any similar things? /me curious... -Sudhanwa -- Forwarded message -- From: Svart Magikern Date: Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 8:35 PM Subject: Hi To: smagik...@hotmail.com Good afternoon!

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Announcing Phase 1 of Wiki Loves Food

Dear Yohann, After going through the links and the logs etc, I am having serious doubts about this whole project. This is what I feel: 1. Is this really a competition? Or just a photo upload event? How come there are community nominations for a competition? Moreover, how language is related to p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Call for Volunteers for the Pilot Project Wiki Loves Food

han...@gmail.com > > On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar > wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> The page says it is a contest. >> I could not see any details like rules, prizes, time frame etc. of the >> contest on that site. If it is a contest,

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Call for Volunteers for the Pilot Project Wiki Loves Food

Hi, The page says it is a contest. I could not see any details like rules, prizes, time frame etc. of the contest on that site. If it is a contest, these details should be announced from the beginning. I want to forward this to some photography associations and magazines but without those details

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia Train the Trainer Program

Hi, Nice to see the participants across various language wikis. We will now have good trainers available for languages and places. All the best wishes for the program. Regards -Sudhanwa On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Vishnu wrote: > Dear Wikimedians, > > The Wikipedia TTT-2015, a four day r

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter Announcements:Executive Committee for 2014-15 takes charge

Hi, I am sure the induction program must have given a good knowledge transfer for the new EC. Congrats and best wishes to the new EC and the new office bearers. Regards -Sudhanwa On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Jayanta Nath wrote: > Dear Wikimedia India Chapter members and other interested

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Induction Workshop of Wikimedia India chapter

All the best wishes to the new EC and for a fruitful induction program. Sudhanwa On Dec 13, 2014 7:05 PM, "Jayanta Nath" wrote: > Dear members and other concerned friends, > > > As you all know, we recently completed the election process for Wikimedia > India Chapter Executive Committee (EC) Ele

[Wikimediaindia-l] Participation in CMDA expo.

Hi, PLUG (www.plug.org.in), Mozilla (mozilla.org) and Wikimedia India(www.wikimedia.in) are participating in CMDA IT expo in Pune on 11-14 Dec 2014. Do visit the expo and our stall. We also need volunteers. Please let us know if you are interested. Check out http://www.cmdaitexpo.com for details.

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Updated Aksharyogini font release in Open Font License

. http://evimarsh.vmou.ac.in/hi) We encourage you to freely use/share/distribute the same on your websites. Thanks again, -Sudhanwa Jogalekar On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Dear friends, > > You may be aware that we (my family) have released a font family earlie

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] default time zones for projects in languages of India

ojects, I do know >> that on the English Wikipedia, we have (or atleast used to) a standard date >> format of -MM-DD. This is a reversed order which I assume would be >> relatively easy to follow since even machines understand it. >> Cheerio. >> On 09-Oct-201

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] default time zones for projects in languages of India

Hi, Apart from this, the date formats also needs to be standardised. In India, we use dd/mm/yy as default. Whereas most editors outside India (but editing Indian languages wiki) use mm/dd/yy format. This cause huge confusions. eg. 09/10/14 is 09 Oct 14 or 10 Sep 14. A simpler and better way could

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IMPORTANT: Future of work in India -- a community consultation in Bangalore

Hi, For Marathi, things are not much changed since WCI 2011. You can check out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5dpA2LUTDU If possible, lets discuss on those points in the meeting. (More or less, similar situation is likely to be there for some other Indian language Wikipedias too.) Regard

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IMPORTANT: Future of work in India -- a community consultation in Bangalore

Hi, The communiyt consultation is just a few days from now. Can we have an agenda published now so that people can think on it, interact with others in the community and then come up with their views at the meeting. It is not clear if we want to discuss on on-wiki topics(copy-pasted material, rul

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia Community Meet & Lunch Bangalore 21/Sep/2014 Sunday 1.00 PM

Dear Jayanta, Can you please update us about the board meeting and other activities that happened in Banglore. Regards -Sudhanwa On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Jayanta Nath wrote: > Dear all, > > The Executive Committee of Wikimedia India Chapter is holding its Q2 Board > Meeting and a two-d

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN EC in minority

ad and act on it. Regards -Sudhanwa > > > With regards, > Viswanathan Prabhakaran > Treasurer, > (On behalf of the Executive Committee) > Wikimedia India Chapter > > viswapra...@wikimedia.in > Wikimedia user:viswaprabha > > > > > On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:39

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [Wikimedia-l] Board Meeting Update

+ 1 On Aug 18, 2014 9:04 PM, "Ashwin Baindur" wrote: > Bishakha, as one who benefitted from your advice and friendship, let me > also add my word of thanks especially during the difficult days of > WikiConference 2011. We trust we will find things to do in common so that > we remain in touch! :)

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN EC in minority

Dear Srikanth, Looks like people are really having thorough knowledge of the MOA. I wish if they could spend more time in actual working instead of studying the MOA. From what ever you have said and considering the resignations of 3 members including the President in the recent past, on the face

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] IMPORTANT: Future of work in India -- a community consultation in Bangalore

Hi, On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Viswanathan Prabhakaran wrote: > Dear all, > > For your information, > > (As recorded here: http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Announcements/2014-2015) > > Wikimedia India Chapter Announcement > > > The Board meeting conducted via telecon on 10th September night has dec

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter: Current state of affairs

Hi, Any further updates on the activities? Looks like I am the only person asking questions to WMIN. Somehow, I am getting more and more inputs and more questions from people from the community. Raising one such query that needs some serious answers. It is understood that during the year, some

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN shutdown ?

On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Anivar Aravind wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Samuel Klein wrote: >> >> I am also surprised to see no reply. Arjuna, do you have any further >> information? > > > Update on Election commitee process on WMIN Elections is here > http://wiki.wikimedia.i

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Many user groups instead of One Chapter?

Hi, On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen wrote: > Hoi, > Ok.. so explain to me why the chapter is not able to provide funding for > viable projects. Do remember that the qualifiers for funding are essentially > the same; they have to pass the requirements of the WMF. When the chapter >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Farewell

Hi, Now that my name is already put up in the mail, this is just for some clarification. At the time of the telephonic interview, I was not aware of the salary structure to be offered to the person. Also, I was not aware that the offer was for probation period only. My recommendations/comments we

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Fwd: That's all folks!

on this topic on this list > since you insist on putting words in my mouth. Your choice. Respected. (I have seen many such responses from you in the past including leaving the chapter, leaving mailing lists etc etc. This one is an addition to it) Regards -Sudhanwa > > Thanks, > >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [WMIN-Members] Fwd: That's all folks!

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > The community deserves an explanation as to why the somnolence of recent > months and a sudden unexplained resignation. You may have resigned but its > definitely your & Moksh's responsibility to actively cooperate and hand over > the baton

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] My resignation as President and EC member of Wikimedia India chapter

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Ashwin Baindur wrote: > Sorry to hear that, Moksh. Please ensure a smooth transition to whomever is > to take up the reins of this organisation. Wishing you all the very best in > your private and professional life! +1 I hope Moksh will not leave without closing

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter affairs

If I may add, current EC should stop making any major decisions like hiring people. Just focus on the regulatory matters and the pending deadlines like FDC etc. -Sudhanwa On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Dear Jayanta, > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:32

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Wikimedia India Chapter affairs

Dear Jayanta, On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:32 PM, Jayanta Nath wrote: > As you may be aware, two members of the Executive Committee of Wikimedia > Chapter India have submitted their resignations with immediate effect. > However, there has been not any internal action or response or a call notice >

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN shutdown ?

om EC. All others are also welcome to help getting replies from EC. Regards -Sudhanwa On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Adding email ids of EC members in the mail. > Anybody from the EC, please respond. > > At least inform us about the renewals. > Should

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Spoken Tutorials moved into CC-BY-SA 4.0 License

Hi, All projects under NME are supposed to be under FOSS license. (Some open source/open knowledge license) If you have contacts with the right people, please get them all released under such license and make the source code available. Apart from others, I am interested to know specifically about

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Facilitating attending of Wikimania by Wikimedians from India

Nice to know that some activity is happening in the EC. Now that Karthik and Pranav are posting on the list, I believe they can also answer some concerns that I raised on the members list and later on on the India list. Arjuna also seeks some response to the same. For quick reference of the EC, t

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN shutdown ?

respond to the points related to the same. I can see at least some EC members posting on social networks. Can not understand the reasons for not responding here. If noone is interested in listening to the community, better shutdown WMIN. -Sudhanwa On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Sudhanwa

[Wikimediaindia-l] WMIN shutdown ?

Hi, I had sent following mail to the WMIN members list about 10 days back. As there was no reply for 5 days, I sent the same again adding individual ids of EC members. There is not a single line of reply to the mail. Not even any acknowledgment of receiving the mail. I am wondering if my email id

[Wikimediaindia-l] Gnunify 2014

Hi, Gnunify, a major Free/Open Source conference in India is being held this week on 14-15 Feb. This time, we will be having sessions about Wikipedia related activities on both the days. On 14th, there will be a talk on Wikipedia and sister projects. On 15th, There will be a hands on editing ses

[Wikimediaindia-l] Updated Aksharyogini font release in Open Font License

Dear friends, You may be aware that we (my family) have released a font family earlier. Here is some background if you are not aware of it. On the first death Anniversary of Yogini Joglekar(my aunt), our family released AksharYogini (Normal) Font on 1st Nov. 2006. This font is primarily for Marat

[Wikimediaindia-l] Requests for comment/Activity levels of advanced administrative rights holders

Have you read this ? Could be more relevant to Indian language Wikipedia. ~~ Requests for comment/Activity levels of advanced administrative rights holders http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Activity_levels_of_advanced_administrativ

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Fwd: 10th Anniversary Marathi Wikipedia will be available in (free) DVD Format, Aimed to reach 10, 000 schools.

I have asked for details of the project. Will update you once I get it. -Sudhanwa On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Arjuna Rao Chavala wrote: > {{Only to Wikimediaindia list}} > > Sudhanwa, > > > 2013/5/1 Sudhanwa Jogalekar >> >> FYI >> >> Media coverag

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: "दशकपूर्ती " मराठी विकिपीडियाची - सकाळ वृत्तसेवा (सुधारित)

There is a media coverage in Marathi newspaper "Sakal", Mumbai edition about 10 years of Marathi Wikipedia. Please check out. -Sudhanwa ~~ Date: 2013/3/31 Subject: "दशकपूर्ती " मराठी विकिपीडियाची - सकाळ वृत्तसेवा (सुधारित) To: मराठी विकिपिडीयाच्या १० वर्षाच्या वाटचालीचा सकाळ ने

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Status of membership applcation to Wikimedia India Chapter

Hi Niraj, I received membership forms along with the money (cash) through a student in Symbiosis who got them from someone else and I believe Abhishek collected all the forms and money originally and passed it to be given to me. After I came back from Banglore, I carried 200 Rs. back for the 2 f

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] [WMIN-Members] Appointment of new SIG chair

Congrats Rohini!! All the best wishes to you!! Regards -Sudhanwa On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 7:34 PM, Rohini Lakshané wrote: > Thank you everyone for giving me this opportunity -- those who voted for me, > Krutikaa and Netha who nominated me, and the members of the EC who conducted > the election p

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

with tentative budgets within 2-3 days to the EC so that we can incorporate them in the Chapter budgets. Thanks and regards -Sudhanwa Jogalekar On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote: > Dear Abhishek, > > On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] why to donate

Dear Abhishek, On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Abhishek Suryawanshi wrote: > > It will be unfair to call it cheating, however - Writing something baseless is completely unfair. That too you are hinting as cheating which is absolutely wrong and offending. > > 1)Chapter is having 1.5 Lack+ Rup

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wiki Loves Monuments Winners from India

Hi, WLM news is published in India's leading Photography magazine "Smart Photography". Check out January 2013 issue now available on stands. Their Website: http://www.smartphotography.in -Sudhanwa ___ Wikimediaindia-l mailing list Wikimediaindia-l@lis

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Number of Admin users in Indic Wikipedias

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:34 PM, Ravishankar wrote: > Hi, > > I was browsing through http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias and > found the number of admin users across Indic Wikipedias very low. > > Hindi has only 4, followed by Bengali and Marathi with 10 and Telugu and > Malayalam wi

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